Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 685 x

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£300

China 1900, no clasp (Captn. J. G. P. Murray, I.M.S.) good very fine £160-200

John George Patrick Murray was born on 17 March 1875, the son of Surgeon G. B. Murray, R.N. He qualified as a M.B., C.M. (Honours) and gained the Freeland Barbour Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in 1896, and gained the M.D. and became a F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh) in 1910.

Entering the Indian Army, he was appointed a Surgeon Lieutenant on 28 July 1897; Captain in July 1900; Major in January 1909 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1917. Murray retired from the Indian Army on 21 March 1927.

With an extract from the
Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - which credits him with the award of a China Medal 1900 with clasp.