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RAMC profile of:
William MURDOCH
[Service No:  7138]
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
St George, Midlothian

Service Number: 7138

TF Number:

Rank: Pte

Unit: 13th Field Ambulance

Attached To: 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders

Enlistment Location: Edinburgh

Also Served:

Outcome: Killed in action

Date Died: 25/09/1914
Age Died: 19

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: France - La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne

Awards:

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Other Information:

William had been a member of the Boy's Brigade and later the Boy Scouts. He held a position working in a shop in Edinburgh but had a strong desire to join the Army, and as a consequence enlisted into the R.A.M.C. in May 1913. According to the 1914 Medal Rolls, he entered the war in France on 13th August 1914 attached to the 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders. He was in a cave, used partly as headquarters of the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders and partly as a collecting base for the wounded, when a shell burst with great violence, killing him along with five Staff officers and about thirty men. Two of the men were also of the R.A.M.C. - they were 6987 Pte Harry Edward Sims and Lt John Crocket M.D. William was the son of James and Clementina Murdoch of 15 Royal Crescent, Edinburgh. [Portrait photograph kindly provided by John Fraser]


 
Additional Information: Date Added: Tuesday 09 September, 2014
 
William's name on the Le Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial to the missing. [Photograph of R.A.M.C. panel c...
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