LEST WE FORGET 263 MURPHY, F. A. “Frank” KOREA Frank Murphy was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1929. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1950 and saw active service in the Korean War as Able Seaman aboard HMCS Cayuga which departed Esquimalt, BC in July 1950. The Cayuga was the first of three Canadian destroyers to serve in Korean waters. He also served aboard HCMS Athabaskan during the Korean conflict. Combined, the destroyers did six tours of duty in Korea of about one year each beginning in 1950 and ending December 1954. Upon his discharge in 1955, Frank was employed at the Imperial Oil Refinery in Regina. He subsequently moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where he continued to be employed by Imperial Oil, retiring in 1984 after thirty years of service. Frank passed away in Dartmouth in 1990. His ashes were interred at his father’s (Michael Patrick Murphy) gravesite at the Regina Riverside Memorial Park Veteran’s Cemetery. MURPHY, Michael Patrick “Mike” WWI &WWII Mike Murphy was born on August 2, 1898, to Rachel and Joseph Murphy in Hibbert Township, Perth County, Ontario. The Murphy family moved to a farm in the Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan district in 1909. Mike enlisted as Private/Gunner in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on March 12, 1918, assigned to the 77th Depot Battery. He was discharged upon demobilization in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on December 5, 1918, as a member of the No. 12 Artillery Depot. Mike answered the call to serve again in 1939 when he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Engineering Corp where he served overseas until demobilization in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1946. He was employed as a commissionaire at the Regina Imperial Oil refinery until his retirement. He was a long-time member of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1, Regina, Saskatchewan. Mike passed away in 1978 and is interred at the Soldier’s Plot, Regina Riverside Memorial Park Veteran’s cemetery. MURPHY, Joseph Edward “Joe” WWI Joseph Murphy was born March 6, 1897, in Hibbert Township, Perth County, Ontario to Rachel and Joseph Murphy. The Murphy family moved to a farm in the Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan district in 1909. Joe was the fourth son to enter the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in May 1918 into the 15th Canadian Reserve Battalion (Saskatchewan). He was mobilized to Britain in July 1918 and served at the Canadian Machine Gun Training Depot, Seaford, and the Combined Operations Centre, Ashford, until being discharged upon demobilization in July 1919. Joe passed away in 1985 and is buried in the Regina Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery.
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