Ordinary Seaman Joseph Murray,
Hood Bn, RND, 1896-1995
Joe Murray came from the mining village of Burnopfield, Durham.
He left school at 12 to become a greaser and pony driver in the pit.
His brother, Tom, a regular in the Royal Navy , was killed in a naval battle off South America 1914.
He wrote two books on the Royal Naval Division in Blandford, Gallipoli and France.
He describes the Third Battle of Krithia in detail including the charge at the Turkish trenches, 50 yards behind William Denis Browne.
While making his way back to the British trenches, he fell in front of a trench full of Turkish soldiers and had to lie there till dusk while one fired his rifle through a loophole just above his head.
A recently restored film interview on Krithia has become available.
