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From: Anne Chambers <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] First World War Murphy
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:32:43 +0930
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Medal card image sent
Anne
South Australia

Stuart Oakes wrote:
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>> From various certificates I have discovered that my Granddad was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers and he was an electrical engineer as was his father.
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> My Granddads name was John Joseph Murphy and I suspect that he had been wounded during the First World War as his address was given as the Military Hospital Colchester.
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> My Nan a Nurse must have fallen in love for they married in June 1916.
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> His Dad Francis Murphy attended the wedding and he was recorded as an electrician.
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> In April 1917 at the birth of my Uncle Francis Joseph Murphy, my Granddad is recorded as a Private in the Royal Auxiliary Medical Corp.
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> This far and now it's my wall, as there is no army number to relate too I am at a loss on what or where to look now.
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> If any kind person could advise me I would be very grateful.
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> Stuart
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