Private David Simpson McMurray and Captain John McMurray


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Reference WMO/274970

Address:

Wigtown Cemetery

Jubilee Terrace

Wigtown

DG8 9JF

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Addition to family gravestone. Though he died within three days of his brother, both at Passchendaele, John McMurray is not named on Wigtown War Memorial despite both spending some years living in the town. Wigtownshire Free Press (23/5/1918): Captain John McMurray, Royal Scots, who was reported missing in October 1917, and is now officially presumed dead, was the second son of the late Mr James McMurray, and of Mrs McMurray, 79 Crawford Avenue, Wavertree, Liverpool. He was educated at Ravenstone Public School, Glasserton, gained a bursary open to Dumfries and Galloway, was equal dux of Ewart High School, Newton Stewart and in the law classes at Edinburgh University, took honours in Scots Law and first prize in conveyancing. Previous to enlistment in December 1914, he was employed with Messrs Davidson and Syme, WS, Edinburgh. In the Army his promotion was rapid rising to sergeant within a month of enlistment, to company quarter master sergeant in February 1915 and to commissioned rank in May 1915. He held the volunteer long service medal having served in the Galloway Rifles for four years and in the 1st Battalion Queen's Edinburgh (afterwards the Royal Scots) for 16 years. Galloway Gazette (27/10/17): McMurray: Killed in action on the 9th inst Private DS McMurray, Australian Imperial Force, youngest son of Mrs McMurray, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, late of Wigtown. Wigtownshire Free Press (1/11/17): Information has been received in Wigtown that Private David McMurray, formerly of the County Buildings, has been killed in action. He went to Australia on leaving Wigtown a few years ago and joined on the outbreak of war. An elder brother (John) is reported missing. Note: Private McMurray's Attestation Papers with the AIF indicate 10 previous years' Imperial Service.
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..../AND OF JOHN MCMURRAY CAPTAIN/ROYAL SCOTS WHO WAS KILLED AT/PASSCHENDAELE ON 12TH OCTOBER/1917 AGED42/ALSO OF DAVID SIMPSON MCMURRAY/PRIVATE A.I.F./WHO WAS KILLED AT PASSCHENDAELE/ON 9TH OCTOBER 1917 AGED 32/THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/....

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