New Zealand Veterinary Corps
Reginald George MURPHY
Trooper
Died 16 August 1915 · Age uncertain
Age discrepancy: The Evening Post family notice of 21 August 1915 gives 35; the attested birth date implies 36. We have not been able to confirm which age is correct.
His story
Reginald George Murphy served as a trooper in the New Zealand Veterinary Corps, no. 17/147. His parents, George and Katharine Murphy, lived at Naseby in Otago.
A family notice in the Otago Witness reported that he died at Alexandria on 16 August 1915 from enteric fever. The notice gave his age as thirty-five, differing from the age implied by his attested birth date.
Before the war
- Nationality
- New Zealand service
- Family
- Parents: George and Katharine Murphy, Naseby
Military service
- Rank recorded
- Trooper
- Service number
- 17/147
- Corps or service
- New Zealand Veterinary Corps
Death and burial
- Date of death
- 16 August 1915
- Age
- Uncertain
- Place of death
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Recorded cause
- Enteric fever (service record and contemporary family notice)
Sources and further reading
- PAPERS PAST — EVENING POST CASUALTY REPORT
- Otago Witness, 25 August 1915, page 47, “For the Empire's Cause”
- Evening Post, 21 August 1915
- Maniototo community newsletter, August 2015
- CWGC war dead search
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Reginald George Murphy”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/reginald_george_murphy/.
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