Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major C. J. Murray, Ross and Cromarty Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery Territorial Force

British War and Victory Medals (Major C. J. Murray.); France, Third Republic, Order of Agricultural Merit, Officer’s breast badge, 62mm including wreath suspension x 36mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband, minor enamel damage, generally good very fine (3) £120-£160

Charles James Murray was born in Cairo on 29 November 1851. He served during the Great War with the Ross and Cromarty Battalion, 4th (Highland) Mountain Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, and later took an active part in the Ross and Cromarty Territorial Force Association. The Association lists him as a Military Member and notes his residence as ‘Lochcarron’, and it was here that he died on 25 September 1929. He rests in Kishorn Burial Ground on a cliff overlooking the head of Loch Kishorn.