Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1885-7, clasps mounted in this order, as usual (189 Pte. W. Murray 2nd. Bn. Som L.I.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £180-£220

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

William Murray was born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1862 and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton, Somerset, on 14 October 1882. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from October 1886 to January 1889, and was discharged on 15 January 1889 due to paralysis of the right arm, the medical officer noting: ‘General health impaired from effects of climate. Possibly aggravated by intemperance.’.