Service Details
Name:
 MURPHY
Given Name:
 RICHARD BARRY
Initials:
 R B
Service No:
 2144
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 3rd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-06
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. On 5 July the 3rd SAI were in support of the front in the old British and German front-line trenches immediately to the north-west of Maricourt. The next day there was great shelling and the South African regiments suffered some twenty casualties.
Additional
Information:
Son of Patrick Barry and Ellen Murphy, of 125, Bezuidenhout St., Troyeville, Johannesburg. Born Liverpool, England.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
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Grave Reference:
 I. A. 13.

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