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Identity
Person No.
18091
Service No.
2144
Last Name
First Name
Richard Barry
Initials
R B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Military Service
Rank
Lance Corporal
Secondary Unit
"A" Coy.
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Killed in action. On 5 July the 3rd SAI were in support of the front in the old British and German front-line trenches immediately to the north-west of Maricourt. The next day there was great shelling and the South African regiments suffered some twenty casualties
Grave Reference
Additional Information
Notes

Son of Patrick and Ellen Murphy, of 125, Bezuidenhout St., Troyeville, Johannesburg. Born at Liverpool, England.

Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project

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