Walter Scott Murray

First Lieutenant

Royal Air Force Number 4 Training Depot Station

Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: May 27, 1918
Buried at: Grave D.7,
                 St. Mary’s Churchyard,
                 Eastham, Cheshire, United Kingdom

First Lieutenant Walter Scott Murray was born in Baltimore MD. He resided at Park and Sylvan Avenues, Oaklyn, and was killed in an aeroplane accident at Hooten Park, Cheshire, England, on May 27, 1918, when the wings of his machine collapsed while making a vertical dive. Lieutenant Murray was 20 years old and the son of Lieutenant James W. Murray, USN and his wife Anna. Lieutenant Walter Murray enlisted in the 2nd Pennsylvania Field Artillery during the Mexican border trouble in 1916 and was ordered to the border. He served in the cavalry as a machine gunner also while on the border and finally passed examinations to enter West Point but was rejected because of his eyesight. When America entered the World War he tried to enlist in the United States Aerial Service but was rejected because of his sight. He finally enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps and trained in Canada and Texas, and went to England for final training, when he was killed.

Walter Scott Murray was buried at The Eastham Churchyard in Cheshire, England, one of fifteen servicemen from World War I and World War II interred there.

Walter Scott Murray was survived by his parents, who later moved to 208 Bergen Street, Brooklawn NJ.