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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 437

The mounted group of three miniature dress medals named to Lieutenant F. J. T. Murdoch, Manchester Regiment

1914-15 Star, the reverse engraved 'Lieut. F. J. T. Murdoch. 1/8 Bn. Manchester Regt.'; British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn, very fine (3)

Frederick James Templeton Murdoch was born in Mansourah, Egypt on 24 October 1891. As a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th (Ardwick) Battalion Manchester Regiment, he entered the Egypt theatre of war on 24 April 1915. Serving with them in Gallipoli, he was seriously wounded at the 3rd Battle of Krithia on 4 June 1915. Returning to England, no longer fit for war service, he was seconded for duty with the Ministry of Munitions in December 1915 and was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1916. He left the Army after the war and in 1920 his address was the British Consular Agency, Mansourah, Egypt. With the start of the Second World War, he obtained a Regular Army Emergency Commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in September 1939. On 24 October 1943 he relinquished his commission on account of ill-health and was granted the honorary rank of Captain; sold with copied MIC.

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