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Auction: 1008 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 234

x Miniature Award: Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Ahmed Khel, contemporarily engraved in running script ´Surg. W.R. Murphy´, extremely fine, with top silver riband bar, in fitted leather case Estimate £ 40-60 Surgeon-Major William Reid Murphy, born October 1849; Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Medical Department, March 1872; Surgeon, July 1873; served during the Second Afghan War, and was present in the engagement at Saif-u-deen, at the occupation of Candahar, and in the engagements at Ahmed Khel, Urzoo near Ghuznee, and Padkao Shana (Mentioned in Despatches); Surgeon-Major, March 1884.

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