Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The 1914-15 Star awarded to Captain M. C. Browne, D.S.C., Royal Marines, who was killed in action on the Ancre on 13 November 1916

1914-15 Star (Lieut. M. C. Browne. R.M.) very fine £80-£100

D.S.C. London Gazette 7 November 1915.
The original recommendation states: ‘For special gallantry on the 12th and 13th July 1915, during Operations on the Gallipoli Peninsular. He was sent out at night on the 12th across the Achi Baba Nullah, and found himself cut off. He took an advanced trench, and held it throughout the following day without food or water, and by his personal courage and example maintained the morale and courage of his men.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 28 January 1916.
Murdoch Campbell Browne was born in 1888 and joined the Plymouth Battalion, Royal Marines, at the outbreak of hostilities. Killed in action, his obituary as published in the Gloucestershire Echo on 24 November 1916 states:
‘Captain Murdoch Campbell Browne, D.S.C., R.M., killed, was 28 years of age, and was the son of Mr. Sam Browne, M.D., formerly of the R.N., of Esher. Educated at Cheltenham College (1901-04) and Heidelberg, he joined the Royal Marines from the Public Schools Training Corps in November, 1914. He served on the Suez Canal, and took part in the landing at Gallipoli in April, 1915. In May of that year he was wounded (gun shot wound to the right shoulder), and returned to the front in July following. Captain Browne held on for nearly two days without food or water half a trench, and only four men, all wounded, and himself were left out of the platoon. For his gallantry he received promotion and the D.S.C. In the evacuation of Gallipoli he was the last in his trench, and, having cut the telephone wires, swam off to a ship under a heavy fire. In June of this year he went to another front, and fell in action on November 13th.’