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20th Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment (British Army) |
Date Of Birth: |
08/12/1888
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Died: |
03/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
Age: |
27 |
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Joseph James Murphy was the youngest son of Samuel and Sarah Jane Murphy. He was born on 8th December 1888 in Ballyboy, Caledon. They were a farming family. Joseph James Murphy probably enlisted in England. Private Joseph James Murphy was serving with the 20th (Pals) Battalion of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment when he was killed in action on Monday 3rd July 1916. On the night of 3rd/4th July, the Germans shelled wood Bernafay Wood very heavily, causing many casualties, including over thirty of the 20th Battalion, which were still occupying the remains of the Briqueterie, the brick works at Montauban.
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The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
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