Ref ID: 3442
Name
William Andrew Murdock.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Lance Corporal William Andrew Murdock.
Life Story
Name: William Andrew Murdock.
Service Number: 15656.
Rank: Lance Corporal.
Battalion: 15th Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born: 25th March 1895, Shankill Road, Belfast, County Antrim.
Died: 20th July 1918.
Address: 6 Canmore Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
.
William Andrew Murdock, Son of the late William and Charlotte Murdock, lived at 6 Canmore Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
.
The 1901 Ireland Census has Andrew living at 1 Canmore Street, Shankill Road, Belfast with his mother, occupation Wet Spinner, and father, a General Labourer. A Sarah McMurray is shown as a Boarder within the house also
.
The 1911 Ireland Census has William living at 75 Canmore Street, Shankill Road, Belfast with his mother, occupation, Linen Yarn Spinner, and brother Wellington, aged 5 years. Two Boarders also live in the house, a Sarah Rice, 52 years, Linen Yarn Spinner, and a Mary Ann Bready, Linen Yarn Spinner. Williams occupation at this time is given as Labourer At Spinning Mill
.
William signed the Ulster Covenant on the 28th of September 1912, Ulster Day
.
William joined the Royal Irish Rifles.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 5th of October 1915.
William was a Lance Corporal in 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he Died While a Prisoner of War in Germany on the 20th July 1918 aged 23 years
.
A local newspaper from 1916 states.
Rifleman William A Murdock, West Belfast Volunteers, wounded, resided with his mother at 6 Canmore Street. In peace times he worked at Messrs Combe Barbour's
.
Another from 1918 states.
MURDOCK - Lance-Corporal W A Murdock, Royal Irish Rifles (attached T.M.B) is a prisoner of war. His mother lives at 6 Canmore Street, Belfast.
Another later in the year states.
MURDOCK - Lce-Cpl William A Murdock, R.I.R, has died in Germany while a prisoner of war. He was a son of Mrs Murdock 6 Canmore St, Belfast
.
International Committee of the Red Cross 1914-1918 Prisoner Of War Archive documents show contact between them and Williams family. They also shows us that he was captured on the 21st March 1918 at Saint Quentin and kept at Cassel. He was then transferred on the 18th of June 1918 to Sagan POW Camp before moving on to Frankfurt on Oder POW Camp on the 26th of June 1918
.
Williams Soldiers Effects were also left to his mother.
His signed Will left his Property and Effects to his mother.
A Pension Application Form shows his mother Charlotte, born 1870, as claimant also
.
William received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1915 Star
.
He is Remembered at Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1918
Classification
Newspaper, Photograph, Photograph - Belfast Telegraph
