T.+MURPHY

Murphy, Thomas, Lance Sergeant, 6388, 2nd Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment Born Derby Enlisted Derby Died of wounds France and Flanders 21st November 1914

Aged 31 Son of Mary Ann Roe (formerly Murphy), of 4, Sacheverel Street, Derby, and the late William Murphy Derby (Nottingham Road) Cemetery, 48600 (C)

Derby Daily Express, 23rd November 1914 and 3rd December, 1915 Thomas Murphy was well known in Derby, and his family home was at 49, Jackson Street. He joined the Sherwood Foresters fourteen years previously as a bugler, and was a member of the Sherwood Foresters football team, being captain for several years, including the 1911 – 1912 season in which the team won the Army Cup. He held over 30 medals for football, and was awarded a championship medal for running. He was also a 'very clever cricketer'. He died at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, of a bullet wound to the head and bayonet wounds received in action during the battle of the Aisne on the 20th October, 1914.