9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
31
Summary
Edward Murphy was the son of Thomas and Martha Murphy. He was born about 1886 in Clonfecle in county Tyrone. The 1911 census records Edward as 25 years old. He was working as an agricultural labourer. He was living with the family in Benburb Town. He was living in Benburb when he enlisted in Dungannon with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Private Edward Murphy was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was aged about 31.
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"
