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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
Also of his elder son
John Coke McMurdo
Captain 1st Essex Regt
Killed in action in the
Gallipoli peninsula
Bravely leading his men
Sunday 25th April 1915
Aged 30 years
And of his younger son
Robert McMurdo
Canadian Contingent
Killed in action in Ypres Salient
When helping a wounded colleague
14th June 1916 Aged 24
Requiscat in Pace
Place of Inscription
St Michael and All Angels Lyonshall
Herefordshire
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Robert
McMurdo
31st January 1892
Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
14th June 1916
Wounded by a bullet in the head whilst attending shell-wounded comrades near Zillebeke in Belgium, he died the following day at No 1 Canadian Field Ambulance
24
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ypres, Belgium
First World War
Private
4th Battalion Canadian Infantry Canadian Expeditionary Force
His older brother John Coke was also killed in the war and is listed on the same memorial panel
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First World War
Robert
McMurdo
4th Battalion Canadian Infantry Canadian Expeditionary Force
Second World War
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Hutton
1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
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First World War
Charles Henry
Collard
4th Battalion Canadian Infantry Canadian Expeditionary Force