PRIVATE WALTER MCCLEAN MURRAY
ROYAL IRISH FUSILERS
30TH SEPTEMBER 1918 AGE 21
BURIED: HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY, BELGIUM
From his inscription it can be no surprise that Walter Murray, who came from Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan, belonged to a battalion made up largely of men from the Ulster Volunteers, which had been formed in 1912 to resist Home Rule for Ireland. His inscription could stand for that of all Ulster Unionists who were fiercely loyal to the Protestant Church and to the British Crown and deeply opposed to an independent Ireland.