Private James Murphy (Langley)

Army Number: 9979

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Mrs Mary Ann Roe, of 4, Sacheverel Street, Derby. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and was killed in action, on 27th November 1914 aged 27. Served as Langley. One of three brothers all of whom fell.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

Le Touret Memorial, France.

His brother Lance Sergeant T. Murphy 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.