Three: Captain R. L. Murray, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was wounded at Gallipoli, was...

Three: Captain R. L. Murray, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was wounded at Gallipoli, was Mentioned in Despatches, and was killed in action in Palestine on 19 April 1917 1914-15 Star, naming erased; British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. L. Murray.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 (Palestine). Robert Leslie Murray was born in Reigate, Surrey, on 28 October 1893, the son of the Reverend Arthur H. Murray, and was educated at St. Edmund’s School Canterbury, and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was the Senior Classical Scholar, and a Member of the 2nd VIII. Commissioned following the outbreak of the Great War into the Northamptonshire Regiment, he served with the 1/4th Battalion in Gallipoli from August 1915, and was wounded in action the same month. Promoted temporary Captain on 21 July 1916, he was killed in action in Palestine on 19 April 1917 - according to the Jesus College Society Annual Report on the day of his death ‘he was twice hit, each time rising to lead his men on, after which he was killed by machine gun fire.’ He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial. Sold with copied research, including various photographic image of the recipient from his undergraduate days.