Ref ID: 4935
Name
William Murray.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Rifleman William Murray.
Life Story
Name: William Murray.
Service Number: 7759.
Rank: Rifleman.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born: Belfast.
Died: 14th October 1914.
Address: Lived 76 Weir Street, Belfast
.
William Murray, son of Robert Murray, lived with his wife and child at 76 Weir Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
.
He had married Sarah Murray, Nee Miskimmon, on the 3rd of March 1913 within Trinity Church, Belfast, and they went on to have daughter Agnes on the eighteenth of April 1913
.
William was a member of the Orange Order, L.O.L Blue Banner 1942
.
William joined the Royal Irish Rifles.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 13th of August 1914.
William was a Rifleman in D Company 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he was Killed In Action near Le Cateau France on the 14th October 1914 aged 29 years
.
A local newspaper states.
Pte W. MURRAY, 2nd Batt R.I.R, of 76 Weir Street, Belfast, Killed In Action
.
Williams Soldiers Effects were left to his wife.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show both his widow Sarah and child Agnes as claimants. By this time Sarah, his wife has remarried Robert James Cunningham on the 29th of August 1918
.
William received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
.
He is Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, France.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1914
Classification
Newspaper, , Photograph - Belfast Telegraph
