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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Melford Murphy
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Melford Murphy
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Private
Canadian Forestry Corps
November 19, 1898
Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS
April 12, 1917
Yarmouth NS
Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS
18
5 feet, 8 inches
light
dark brown
grey
Single
Baptist
Fisherman
Lilian Murphy (Mother), Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS
1971
Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery
Embarked Halifax (HMT F8261- SS Justicia) June 22, 1917
Disembarked Liverpool July 5, 1917
Taken on strength Sunningdale (Base Depot Canadian Forestry Corps) July 4, 1917
July 28, 1917 posted to No 60 Company, CFC
Arrived France July 30, 1917
Hospitalized in France October 10, 1917 (bronchitis)
Transferred to Hospital in England at Sunningdale November 13, 1917 (Tuberculosis)
Invalided to Canada for further medical treatment on February 16, 1918
Discharged (Medical) at Halifax June 22, 1918 (aged 19)
SS Justicia
