C/Sgt Donald 'Spud' Murphy
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Some time ago I contacted your site via Joe Eastwood to ask if anyone knew of my late father Donald Murphy and to ask for my fathers name to be included in the L..F.'s at rest "Book". I noticed at the time that Joe Gidmans name was also in the Column. Joe was my fathers best mate and a useful boxer I think he may have represented the Bn. I said at the time that I my mother had a picture of my father and Joe and that his family might like to see it.
(Also included is one of my mother Anne) and father on their wedding day. After the 2/5th Bn. disbanded my father found his way, via the H.L I. into the Blackwatch this fact nearly led to his undoing because whilst my mum and dad were on honeymoon in Ireland, my mother being Irish and from Cork (Despite his surname this was the first time my dad had been to Ireland) Proudly announced that my father had served in the Black and Tans whilst they were in the local pub my dad told me it was the closest he ever came to spilling a pint.
There is also a scan of my fathers last will in which her leaves his worldly things to his mother a grim thing to have to do for someone who had turned eighteen two months earlier
C/Sgt Donald Murphy is 3rd row back, tenth man from the right, next to an officer (highlighted).
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Sent in by John Murphy
The Sgt Mess Rule Book, 1948
