Monday 16 July 2007

33. Pte J Murry, Pte BS Barker & Pte F Boland

In this view of Shrapnel Gully Cemetery the two individuals commemorated by the main cross are, in fact, Pte Jack Murry (correct spelling) 8/1810 and Pte Benjamin S Barker (not Parker) 8/1699, both of the Otago Regiment, NZEF and both killed in action on 13 July 1915.

On the cross behind, an inscription for another New Zealander can be made out: Pte Frank Boland 6/885 of the Canterbury Regiment, NZEF, killed in action on 31 July 1915, aged 38. He had been wounded the previous May but returned to the trenches in June.