Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain M. Murphy, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (Lieut. M. Murphy, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. Murphy), together with a set of related miniature dress medals, mounted as worn, generally very fine and better (8) £700-900

M.C. London Gazette 7 November 1918:

‘During an attack he worked continuously for 36 hours attending the wounded under heavy fire and evacuated a large number of cases. It was due to his splendid energy that the evacuation of the wounded was so successfully carried out.’






Michael Murphy first entered the French theatre of war as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in early November 1914 and, according to his MIC entry, later served in the rank of Major in the Indian Medical Service.


Sold with original Army Order 219 dated 28 September 1918, announcing the award of his M.C., together with original Buckingham Palace telegram requesting his attendance at an investiture to be held on 20 February 1920.