Name: Edward Edmund Murree Regimental Number: 41567 Rank Gunner Regiment: Canadian Field Artillery; 6th Battery, 2nd Brigade. Date of Birth: June 6, 1890 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, N.S. Date of Enlistment: September 26, 1914 Place of Enlistment: Valcartier, Quebec Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, N.S. Age at Enlistment: 24 Prior Military Exp: 3 years 29th Battery CFA Yarmouth, N.S. Height: 5 feet, 8 inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Black Marital Status: Single Trade: Longshoreman Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Mrs. John O’Connor (Sister) South Quincey, Mass. USA Date of Death: July 8, 1915 Age at Death: 25 Cemetery: Kensal Green (All Souls') Cemetery, London, England (Plot: 173.12) Grave Reference: 173.12 Commemorated on Page 30 of the First World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on January 28th Listed on the Yarmouth War Memorial Edward was the son of George Murree (1852-1909) and Frances (White) Murree (1861-1908), the brother of Stephen Augustus Murree (1884-1904), George Murree (1886-1950), Mary Elizabeth Murree (1888-1958), Amanda Belle Murree (b. 1894), and Clifford Stanley Murree (1900-1950), Edward’s brother Stephen served with the 6th Regiment of the Canadian Mounted Rifles and travelled to South Africa for the service in the Boer War but was not on active service due to the close of the War. His brother George Murree served in the Canadian Merchant Navy in WWI, and the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, and his brother Clifford served in WWI enlisting with the 219th and serving with the 47th Battalion in France; discharged June 15, 1919. Edward enlisted at Valcartier, Quebec on September 26, 1914, with the 6th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. He went overseas on October 3, 1914. In England he became ill and was eventually hospitalized at Salisbury Infirmary, London, on April 18, 1915. It was determined he was suffering from tuberculosis and sinus infection aggravated by his military service of exposure to cold and wet. It was recommended that he be returned to Canada; however, while a patient at Brompton Hospital he died on July 8, 1915. Edward was buried at the Kensal Green (St. Mary's) Roman Catholic Cemetery in London, England. A second man from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Gabriel (John) Bishara is also interred at the Kensal Green.

Edward Edmund Murree