BWM TO LIEUT.-COL. (DR) CM MURRAY (DSO) OF THE SA MEDICAL CORPS. DELVILLE WOOD/SOMME/GSWA.

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Original full size silver British War Medal to (dr.) lieutenamt-colonel C.M. Murray of the SA Medical Corps (DSO). Murray was a medical doctor, and was part of the Union Defence Force that fought against the Boer Rebels in the Union of SA. He also saw action in German South West Africa and France.  He received the DSO and was mentioned in dispatches. Original ribbon. 

"Following the rebellion, Charles Murray served in German South West Africa, and then in France, seeing action at Delville Wood, the Somme, and Ypres. He was awarded the DSO and was twice mentioned in despatches. After the war he returned to Kenilworth and, like his father before him, served as President of the Cape Western Branch of the Medical Association of South Africa. (His grandson, the editor of this diary, was President of the Border Branch. Is this a unique triple?) Dr Charles Murray was awarded the association's Bronze Medal in 1945 for meritorious services as Medical Secretary, and at the time of his sudden death in 1950, he was Honorary Secretary of the Head Office and Journal Committee."

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