"Lt. Col. Murphey Dies in Jap Prison
Lt. Col. William Wayne Murphey, native of Grayson and brother of the late Dr. J.W. Murphey of Monroe, died of acute colitis on January 31, 1945, while a prisoner of the Japanese on Honshu Island, according to information received from the War Department by members of his family.
The War Department said the information of Colonel Murphey's death was received through the Red Cross and that the long delay in notifying the family was occasioned solely by failure of the Japanese government to report the death until recently.
Lt. Colonel Murphey was reared at Grayson. He was a graduate of Louisiana State University, class of 1914, and he entered the army in 1917 and had served the armed forces continuously since that time as a member of the field artillery.
In 1939 he returned to the Philippines, having prevously served there from 1930 to 1932. At the outbreak of the recent war he was stationed at Fort Statsenburg, Pamapnya, Philippine Islands, and he became a prisoner of war of the Japanese at the fall of Bataan.
According to information received, he was held at Cabanatuan on Luzon until December 1944 and was then transferred to a prison camp on Honshu where his death occurred.
His wife, formerly of Alexandria, now resides in San Francisco. In addition to the late Mr. Murphey, he was also a brother of C.C. Murphey, Farmerville, and Mrs. Bell M. Leslie, Grayson."
He died of acute colitis in the Kokura Military Prison Hospital.
Lt. Col. William Wayne Murphey, native of Grayson and brother of the late Dr. J.W. Murphey of Monroe, died of acute colitis on January 31, 1945, while a prisoner of the Japanese on Honshu Island, according to information received from the War Department by members of his family.
The War Department said the information of Colonel Murphey's death was received through the Red Cross and that the long delay in notifying the family was occasioned solely by failure of the Japanese government to report the death until recently.
Lt. Colonel Murphey was reared at Grayson. He was a graduate of Louisiana State University, class of 1914, and he entered the army in 1917 and had served the armed forces continuously since that time as a member of the field artillery.
In 1939 he returned to the Philippines, having prevously served there from 1930 to 1932. At the outbreak of the recent war he was stationed at Fort Statsenburg, Pamapnya, Philippine Islands, and he became a prisoner of war of the Japanese at the fall of Bataan.
According to information received, he was held at Cabanatuan on Luzon until December 1944 and was then transferred to a prison camp on Honshu where his death occurred.
His wife, formerly of Alexandria, now resides in San Francisco. In addition to the late Mr. Murphey, he was also a brother of C.C. Murphey, Farmerville, and Mrs. Bell M. Leslie, Grayson."
He died of acute colitis in the Kokura Military Prison Hospital.
"Lt. Col. Murphey Dies in Jap Prison
Lt. Col. William Wayne Murphey, native of Grayson and brother of the late Dr. J.W. Murphey of Monroe, died of acute colitis on January 31, 1945, while a prisoner of the Japanese on Honshu Island, according to information received from the War Department by members of his family.
The War Department said the information of Colonel Murphey's death was received through the Red Cross and that the long delay in notifying the family was occasioned solely by failure of the Japanese government to report the death until recently.
Lt. Colonel Murphey was reared at Grayson. He was a graduate of Louisiana State University, class of 1914, and he entered the army in 1917 and had served the armed forces continuously since that time as a member of the field artillery.
In 1939 he returned to the Philippines, having prevously served there from 1930 to 1932. At the outbreak of the recent war he was stationed at Fort Statsenburg, Pamapnya, Philippine Islands, and he became a prisoner of war of the Japanese at the fall of Bataan.
According to information received, he was held at Cabanatuan on Luzon until December 1944 and was then transferred to a prison camp on Honshu where his death occurred.
His wife, formerly of Alexandria, now resides in San Francisco. In addition to the late Mr. Murphey, he was also a brother of C.C. Murphey, Farmerville, and Mrs. Bell M. Leslie, Grayson."
He died of acute colitis in the Kokura Military Prison Hospital.
Lt. Col. William Wayne Murphey, native of Grayson and brother of the late Dr. J.W. Murphey of Monroe, died of acute colitis on January 31, 1945, while a prisoner of the Japanese on Honshu Island, according to information received from the War Department by members of his family.
The War Department said the information of Colonel Murphey's death was received through the Red Cross and that the long delay in notifying the family was occasioned solely by failure of the Japanese government to report the death until recently.
Lt. Colonel Murphey was reared at Grayson. He was a graduate of Louisiana State University, class of 1914, and he entered the army in 1917 and had served the armed forces continuously since that time as a member of the field artillery.
In 1939 he returned to the Philippines, having prevously served there from 1930 to 1932. At the outbreak of the recent war he was stationed at Fort Statsenburg, Pamapnya, Philippine Islands, and he became a prisoner of war of the Japanese at the fall of Bataan.
According to information received, he was held at Cabanatuan on Luzon until December 1944 and was then transferred to a prison camp on Honshu where his death occurred.
His wife, formerly of Alexandria, now resides in San Francisco. In addition to the late Mr. Murphey, he was also a brother of C.C. Murphey, Farmerville, and Mrs. Bell M. Leslie, Grayson."
He died of acute colitis in the Kokura Military Prison Hospital.
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