James Edward Ernest Murdoch

Staff Sergeant

Conflict:

WW2

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WAIWERA Two Army officers from Dunedin lost their lives as a result of being crushed by a military lorry against a post on a stone bridge near Waiwera on Saturday afternoon.

The men were: Second-lieutenant James Robert Hodgson, single; aged 22, of 241 Macandrew road, South Dunedin, and Staff-sergeant James Edward Murdoch, married, aged 33, of Dunedin. His district address was not available this morning. Both officers were standing on the bridge, when an Army convoy came along. One of the lorries suddenly swerved and crushed the men against a post. They were seriously injured and were removed to the Balclutha Hospital, where Sergeant Murdoch died yesterday afternoon and Lieutenant Hodgson last evening. They will be given military funerals. Lieutenant Hodgson's being set down for 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Anderson's Bay Cemetery. Arrangements in regard to Sergeant Murdoch's funeral had not been completed this morning.

A board of inquiry sat today to investigate the circumstances of the accident.

EVENING STAR, VOLUME 24393, ISSUE 24393, 4 JANUARY 1943, PAGE 2

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Casualty

Service Number:

600631

Name:

James Edward Ernest Murdoch

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Date of Birth:

01 January 1970

Place of Birth:

New Zealand

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Enlistment Address:

Wickliffe Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand

Occupation on Enlistment:

Soldier

Unit:

New Zealand Infantry

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Motor Vehicle Accident

Date of Death:

02 January 1943

Day of Death:

Saturday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Dunedin (Anderson's Bay) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

2. 18.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand