Murray, Walter Stanley

Murray W S Pte 2221 4th East Yorkshire Regiment

BORN HULL 30/12/1877. SON OF RICHARD HENRY MURRAY & MARTHA WILLIAMS, OF 93 , ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)SON OF A RETIRED SHIPPING CLERK. EDUCATED AT BRIDLINGTON AND HULL. HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED AS A CLERK, WITH RECKITTS, SINCE JOINING THE COMPANY ON 14/04/1900.

HE ENLISTED IN THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 01/09/1914. TRAINED AT HULL AND NEWCASTLE. LEFT FOR FRANCE, ON 17/04/1915, AND WENT STRAIGHT UP TO THE TRENCHES. HE TOOK PART IN THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES, IN WHICH HIS BATTALION SUSTAINED HEAVY CASUALTIES, AND WAS COMPLIMENTED BY SIR JOHN FRENCH, FOR THE GALLANTRY DISPLAYED. HE WAS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY ONE OF HIS COMRADES IN THE TRENCHES WHEN THEIR RIFLE DISCHARGED. HE DIED NEAR YPRES, ON 11/06/1915, AGED 37. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, DESCRIBED HIM AS A “FEARLESS AND GALLANT SOLDIER.”
HE WAS UNMARRIED. LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS. BROTHER TO, ELEANOR, CHARLES, CLEMENT, CLARA AND ETHEL.
HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 1, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *

HE IS REMEMBERED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.


First name:
WALTER STANLEY
Military Number:
2221
Rank:
Private
Date Died
11/06/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
37
93 , ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK