Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A civil B.E.M. awarded to Samuel Murray, Underground Datal Worker, Hauxley Colliery, Durham

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Samuel Murray) in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £160-200

B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1966. ‘Samuel Murray, Underground Datal Worker, Hauxley Colliery, National Coal Board.’

Samuel Murray, of 25 King Edward Street, Amble, Northumberland, was awarded the B.E.M. in the New Years Honours List of 1966. He had served 43 years in the coal industry; and for the previous 8 years had been Secretary of the Hauxley Branch of the N.U.M. and in 1939 had been Chairman of the Chevington Drift Branch of the N.U.M.

With copied gazette extracts, newspaper report and copied photograph of Hauxley Colliery.