Profile

MURPHY, Walter
(Service number 28938)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	23/04/1886	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Ettrick Bank, High Street, Timaru
Occupation	Commercial traveller
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Widower
Next of Kin	Mrs MURPHY (mother), Cordelia Street, Stratford, Taranaki
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	20th Reinforcements
Date	30 December 1916
Transport	Athenic
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Traveller

Death

Date	22 February 1959	Age	72 years
Place of Death	Auckland Hospital
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cremated Waikumete
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Walter Murphy was the youngest son of John and Grace (née Vickery) Murphy. He was educated at Christchurch East School. In 1910 he married Florence Elizabeth Raines. Walter and Florence had two stillborn infants. Florence died in 1915 and is buried in the Timaru Cemetery.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [22 March 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [22 March 2019].

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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