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MURPHY, Thomas

Service no: 683 [1]

Place of birth: Bathurst, 1890

Address: Googodery, via Cumnock

Occupation: Horse breaker

Next of kin: Mary Murphy (mother), Googodery, via Cumnock

Date of enlistment: 18 November 1914

Place of enlistment: Liverpool

Age at enlistment: 24

Fate: Embarked A29 Suevic, Sydney, 21 December 1914. Wounded 8 August 1915. Appointed Lance Corporal 12 September 1915. Promoted to Supernumerary Provisional Corporal 15 September 1915. Killed in action, Gallipoli, Turkey.

Date of death: 3 October 1915

Buried: Shell Green Cemetery No. 1, Gallipoli, Plot 1, Row F, Grave 14, about 1150 yards south of Anzac Cove


Thomas Murphy was born in Bathurst in 1890 to Daniel Thomas and his wife Mary. Thomas was living with his parents in Googodery near Cumnock where he worked as a horse breaker when he enlisted in November 1914.

Private Murphy was assigned to the 6th Light Horse Regiment, B Squadron, and embarked from Sydney in December 1914. Upon arrival at Gallipoli he was transferred to the 2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade and on 8 August 1915 was wounded. His injuries were slight and he did not require hospitalisation.

On 12 September 1915 Private Murphy was appointed Lance Corporal, and just three days later promoted to Supernumerary Provisional Corporal.

Corporal Murphy was killed in action on 3 October 1915; the first soldier from Cumnock to die in WWI. A requiem mass was held in his honour at the Catholic Church in Cumnock on Sunday 28 November 1915.

Corporal Murphy had nominated his mother as his next of kin, and on 7 August 1916 she received a parcel containing his personal effects: one wallet, three coins and one testament. His war medals were forwarded to his father, in accordance with Army protocol.


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