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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 816

(x) Pair: Rifleman G. H. Murray, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who died on 20 September 1917, the opening day of the Battle of the Menin Road

British War and Victory Medals (R-34272 Pte. G. Murray, K.R. Rif. C.), very fine (2)

George Henry Murray served with the 11th Battalion, K.R.R.C., and is commemorated upon the Tyne Cot Memorial. He died during the third general attack of the Battle of Passchendaele, where British, Australian and New Zealand troops proved the value of 'bite and hold' tactics. The consolidation of small victories blunted the German counter-attacks, enabling the British to hold the ground they had taken. Such small gains were not without criticism; the 1980s television sitcom 'Blackadder' would mock Field Marshal Haig for 'Yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet 6 inches closer to Berlin'.

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