In Memory Of
MURPHY, RICHARD BARRY
Service Details
Age:
22
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
2144
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit:
3rd Regt.
Unit 2:
"A" Coy.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1916-07-06
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
I. A. 13.
Cemetery:
PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Patrick Barry and Ellen Murphy, of 125, Bezuidenhout St., Troyeville, Johannesburg. Born Liverpool, England.
