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James Cassie MURRAY (1889 - 1916)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	James Cassie MURRAY (1889 - 1916)	George MURRAY (1860 - 1923)	George MURRAY
			Christina CASSIE
		Margaret MCGREGOR (1853 - 1935)	Hugh MCGREGOR (1833 - 1910)	Donald MCGREGOR ( - 1873)
				Margaret SUTHERLAND ( - 1896)
			Margaret ROSS (1833 - 1896)

b. 1889 at Queensland, Australia

d. 1916 at Pozieres, France aged 27

Near Relatives of James Cassie MURRAY (1889 - 1916)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	George MURRAY
Grandmother	Christina CASSIE
Grandfather	Hugh MCGREGOR	abt 1833	Latheron, Caithness, Scotland	1910	Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland	77
Grandmother	Margaret ROSS	abt 1833	Latheron, Caithness, Scotland	29 Nov 1896	Swiney, Caithness, Scotland	63
Father	George MURRAY	abt 1860	Inverwire, Aberdeenshire, Scotland	1923	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	63
Mother	Margaret MCGREGOR	abt 1853		1935	Queensland, Australia	82
Self	James Cassie MURRAY	1889	Queensland, Australia	1916	Pozieres, France	27
Brother	George MURRAY	1887	Queensland, Australia	1887	Queensland, Australia	0
Brother	Murdock Ross MURRAY	1895	Queensland, Australia	1918	Hindenberg Line	23
Uncle	George MCGREGOR			1948	Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Uncle	Murdoch Ross MCGREGOR	1865		1910	Mirani, Queensland, Australia	45
Aunt	Catherine ANGUS	29 Jan 1867	Watten, Caithness, Scotland	22 Apr 1956	Mirani, Queensland, Australia	89
Aunt	Isabella MCGREGOR	1876
Cousin	Hugh MCGREGOR	1890	Queensland, Australia	1972	Queensland, Australia	82
Cousin	Donald Angus MCGREGOR	1891	Queensland, Australia	11 Dec 1904	Mirani, Queensland, Australia	13
Cousin	Murdoch Ross MCGREGOR	1893	Queensland, Australia	1981	Mirani, Queensland, Australia	88
Cousin	Catherine (Kate) Meiklejohn MCGREGOR	01 Nov 1894	Queensland, Australia	24 Aug 1947	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	52
Cousin	Margaret Ross Murray MCGREGOR	10 Sep 1896	Queensland, Australia	22 Apr 1976	Queensland, Australia	79
Cousin	David Angus MCGREGOR	1905	Queensland, Australia	1968	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	63
Cousin	Donaldina (Ena) MCGREGOR	1910	Queensland, Australia	1989	Mackay, Queensland, Australia	79

Events in James Cassie MURRAY (1889 - 1916)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1889		James Cassie MURRAY was born	Queensland, Australia	Note 1	52
1916	27	James Cassie MURRAY died	Pozieres, France	Note 2

Note 1: James Cassie Murray in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: James Cassie Murray Birth Date: 12 Dec 1889 Birth Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1890 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia Father: George Murray Mother: Margaret Macgregor Page Number: 18809 Registration Number: 011917

Note 2: James Cassie MURRAY Regimental number 447 Place of birth Townsville, Queensland School Central State School, Townsville, Queensland Religion Presbyterian Occupation Joiner Address Stanton Hill, Townsville, Queensland Marital status Single Age at embarkation 25 Next of kin Father, George Murray, Stanton Hill, Townsville, Queensland Previous military service Served in the Australian Garrison Artillery, QLD. Enlistment date 15 March 1915 Rank on enlistment Corporal Unit name 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Section AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/42/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 29 June 1915 Rank from Nominal Roll 2nd Lieutenant Unit from Nominal Roll 2nd Machine Gun Battalion Fate Killed in Action 4 August 1916 Place of death or wounding Pozieres, Somme Sector, France Age at death 26 Age at death from cemetery records 26 Place of burial No known grave Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy. The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra. On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours. After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 179 Miscellaneous information from cemetery records Parents: George and Margaret MURRAY, Stanton Hill, Townsville Family/military connections Brother of Pte M R Murray No 7734 15th Battn killed 18/9/18.

Source References:

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Birth)

- Notes: James Cassie Murray in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: James Cassie Murray Birth Date: 12 Dec 1889 Birth Place: Queensland Registration Year: 1890 Registration Place: Queensland, Australia Father: George Murray Mother: Margaret Macgregor Page Number: 18809 Registration Number: 011917

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