UNCONQUERABLE MURPH Y.
WON THI? V.C. EVERY DAY
SYDNEY, Sept. 3. An Australian killed at . Gallipoli, whose deeds will always he spoken of when the fierce fighting following the landing is mentioned, was an army medical man. Nobody on the Ilororata'knew his name. Some called him Paddy, others Murphy. The story told of him is one of wonderful heroism.
"He deserved a Victoria Cross every' day of his life," said one of the returned men- "Ho didn't know fear. The pity of it is he's dead. I. would like to shake hands <vith him along with a hundred- others. .
"Murphy had a little donkey m Egypt. It wa*s small and thin—so'thinyou wouldn't think it could carry a pound >Veight. Murphy got it aboardthe troopship, and' was nearly heartbroken when they told him it couldn't land at Gallipoli. Tie pint ;t ma. chaff bag and had it sent over the side, Tlie first thing we knew aboiut it was when we saw Murphy running alongs'-dc tile donkey up to the front line. Wherever h*?. saw a.-wounded man he put him on the donkey and took him down to the beach, He was taking down his 104 th man when a. bullet dropped him. Tie never moved— poor Murpli. I, for one, will never forget him."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13786, 11 September 1915, Page 3
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214UNCONQUERABLE MURPHY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13786, 11 September 1915, Page 3
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