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David Murray
Carnoustie
I found no information in any of the golf reference books or periodicals, nor the Carnoustie post office directories, on David Murray. When I did track him down the reason for the paucity of information became clear. His time making clubs was very short as he was killed in the First World War at the age of 21.

Born in 1895, David Gibson Murray, the son of James Murray, a labourer, was listed as a golf cleekmaker at the age of 16 in the 1911 census. The only apparent golfing connection in the family was his elder brother, Francis, described as a caddy. They were both living with their parents and other siblings at Olive Cottage, 91 Barry Road.

Arbroath Roll of Honour and the War Memorial of the Erskine United Free Church, Carnoustie show him as being killed during the Somme advance on 3 September 1916, a Private in the Black Watch who had been 19 months at the front. ‘An officer writing of him said he was the cheeriest man in the company. No march was too long and nothing too fatiguing but that he finished the job whistling and singing and by his cheeriness he cheered those around him.’ He is buried in the Hamel Military Cemetery in Beaumont-Hamel.

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