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Flight Sergeant David Matthew Murphy

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Military service

Service number: R/176578
Age: 20
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 619 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: February 25, 1924 Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: July 14, 1942 Nova Scotia
Death: July 25, 1944

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Son of James and Mary Murphy of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

Brother of Sapper Colin Stephen Murphy, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Engineers.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 401 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MONTOIR-DE-BRETAGNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Loire-Atlantique, France

Montoir-de-Bretagne is a village and commune 3.75 miles (6 kilometres) north-east of St. Nazaire. It is on the main St. Nazaire-Chateaubriant road and is easily reached from St. Nazaire. The cemetery is in the village, north of the main road to Savenay. The one war grave is south-east of the main entrance.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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