Auction Catalogue

5 & 6 December 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 874

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6 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£750

Three: Lieutenant L. M. Murdoch, Royal Marines, a Motor Owner Driver attached Royal Naval Division in 1914, mentioned in despatches for services with the Divisional Train in the Dardanelles 1915-16

1914 Star (Temp. 2nd Lieut. L. M. Murdoch, R.M. Attd. R.N. Div.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. M. Murdoch. R.M.) extremely fine and rare (3) £300-£400

Only 42 1914 Stars and 16 clasps issued to Motor Owner Drivers. Murdoch is entitled to the clasp which was sent to him on 29 April 1921.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 13 July 1916.

Lewis Malcolm Murdoch was a Motor Owner Driver appointed to a Temporary commission in the Royal Marines as 2nd Lieutenant on 26 September 1914. These Motor Owner Drivers were ‘gentlemen’ car owners who volunteered to take their cars to the war zone and drive them under military command. They were all given Temporary commissions in the Royal Marines. He is confirmed on the roll as being entitled to the 1914 Star and Clasp. He was posted for service in the Divisional Train with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 5 April 1915, and promoted to Lieutenant on 30 June 1915. Posted for service with the B.E.F. on 23 May 1916, he was admitted to 24th General Hospital at Etaples on 6 December with sciatica and returned to duty on 16 December 1916. Demobilised 11 February 1919.

Sold with copied record of service.