Pte 25518 John Taylor Murray Kings Liverpool

[BrianR]

Looking for any info on this man.

[HeatherC]

His service record is on Ancestry

His service number has been mis-transcribed on TNA and Ancestry as 25578. Here is his MIC http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D4200537

[IPT]

His service papers survive. A brief summary;

Lived at 68 Ince Avenue, Anfield.

Occupation labourer

Married Lilian Lee Hunt 14/8/1913

Daughter Lilian Janet born 9/5/1916

Joined at Knowsley 15/1/1915, aged 35, 19th KLR

To France 7/11/1915

Gunshot wound left leg 11/7/1916

Transferred to various Labour Corps Home Service from 20/7/1917

Transferred to RAMC 15/11/1917

Discharged physically unfit for service 6/3/1919

Asylum in Maghull - general paralysis of the insane

There's a death registered in Prescot in 1920 for a John T Murray, aged 40 which may be him.

[Ellis1918]

His service records have his RAMC service number as 139203.

Medal index card shows Victory , BWM and 1915 Star

Entered theatre of war , France 7 Nov 1915

Medical report shows " general paralysis of the insane , 100% incapacity "