Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in London, on 24th April 1890. Son of Arthur Turnour Murray and Nora Alice Murray, of Red Towers, Melton, Suffolk. He was educated at the Reverend W. H. Wright’s Preparatory School, Gisburne House, Watford, and at Repton School, Derbyshire, from which he went to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He joined the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, as Second Lieutenant, on 18th September 1909, when he was posted to the 2nd Battalion and was appointed Assistant Adjutant, in April 1911, and promoted Lieutenant, on 18th August 1911. He went to France on 11th September 1914 and was killed in action, on 20th September 1914, aged 24, near Soissons during the First Battle of the Aisne, when directing the fire of his men after they had recaptured a trench lost to the Germans

Commemorated : La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

Lieutenant Patrick Maxwell Murray is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial Cross, Melton, Suffolk.
St. Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Melton, Suffolk.
Repton School War Memorial, Repton, Derbyshire.