Edward John Murray (SN 2209) was born in Ballarat and was a living in Fussell Street Ballarat East with his wife Sarah when, as a 34 year old labourer, he enlisted on July 19th 1915. He embarked from Melbourne aboard the ‘Hororata’ in September, first to Egypt and then to France in March 1916 to serve with the 21st Battalion. On August 1st 1916 he was wounded in action, sustaining a gunshot wound to his right leg. He was evacuated to hospital in England but, by February 1917, he was able to rejoin his unit in France. At the end of 1917 he enjoyed a period of leave in Paris and England, before rejoining his battalion in February 1918. He was wounded for a second time in April 1918 when he suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder. At the war's end he returned to Australia on the ‘Trasos Montes’, disembarking at Melbourne on May 22nd 1919. He died in Ballarat in 1949, aged 69.