Three: Surgeon-Major R. Murphy, Army Medical Department

Abyssinia 1867 (Staff Asst. Surgn., Medl. Staff); South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (Surgn. Maj., A.M. Dept.); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. Major, H/1st Bde. R.A.) minor edge bruising, good very fine and better (3) £750-850

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Robert Murphy was born in Galway on 16 November 1863. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon in April 1867, he attained the rank of Surgeon-Major in April 1879. He died in Lahore on 1 September 1881.