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Capt. Matthew Murphy

British Army Royal Army Medical Corps

(d.10th October 1918)

Captain Murphy drowned in the Irish Sea. He was on board the Royal Mail Ship "Leinster" which was sunk on the morning of 10th October 1918, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Co. Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, after it had been hit by 2 torpedoes fired from a German Submarine.

He is buried east of the Cathedral in the Cloyne (St. Coleman) Cathedral Churchyard.



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