{"id":254959,"date":"2025-12-28T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/254959\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:13:14","slug":"dr-frank-murray-son-of-catholic-doctor-and-world-war-two-hero-who-outwitted-japanese-captors-with-irish-tells-of-pride-at-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/254959\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Frank Murray: Son of Catholic doctor and World War Two hero who outwitted Japanese captors with Irish tells of pride at legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Remarkable story of Belfast medic who saved hundreds of lives in PoW camp revealed\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Frank Murray and inset with his fellow PoWs at Japanese camp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2f6d1702-81b3-4893-9125-172bab52014c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dr Frank Murray and inset with his fellow PoWs at Japanese camp<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The son of a Catholic doctor from Belfast who joined the British Army during the Second World War remains \u201cvery proud\u201d of his late father who \u201cdid the right thing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thirty five years ago, Carl Murray (70) began chronicling the remarkable story of how his father Frank saved hundreds of lives after being held as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp where he used Irish to outwit his captors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remarkable story of Belfast medic who saved hundreds of lives in PoW camp revealed Dr Frank Murray and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[663,9,10,118029,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-254959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-brett-campbell","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115794779493735009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}