Staff Sergeant

James Edward Ernest Murdoch

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: 
33
Conflict: 
WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery Reference: 
2. 18.
Cemetery Location: 
New Zealand
James Edward Ernest Murdoch
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