Private William McKee Murphy, North Irish Horse, Service No. 2073.

Murphy was born in Ballymoney, the son of Thomas Murphy, of Leslie Hill, an estate on the edge of Ballymoney, County Antrim. He enlisted in January 1916 at Antrim.

He arrived in France in early January 1917, was hospitalised at Rouen in early February and died there, of pneumonia, on 12 February 1917, aged 23.

Private Murphy is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Seine-Maritime, France, grave O.V.C.7.

The gravestone inscription reads:

2073 PRIVATE

W. MC K. MURPHY

NORTH IRISH HORSE

12TH FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 23

Images kindly provided by ponte fractus. Some of the above information sourced from Robert Thompson's Ballymoney Heroes 1914-1918