Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (A. P. Murdock, A.B., H.M.S. Dryad.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £100-£140

Alexander Patrick Murdock was born in Belfast on 22 December 1882, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 3 July 1898. He served in H.M.S. Dryad from 1 June 1901 to 4 February 1903, during the operations on and off the coast of Somaliland, and was discharged on 21 October 1910.

Murdock joined the Royal Fleet Reserve at Chatham the following day, and was recalled to the Service following the outbreak of the Great War. He was finally shore demobilised on 31 March 1919.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract.