MURRAY, Donald Frederick
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Title:
Sir
Rank:
Lieutenant (later Sir)
Unit / Base:
41RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Saturday, June 14, 1924
Died :
Thursday, January 8, 1998
Lieutenant Donald Murray served in 41RM Commando and the RM Holding Commando during WW2. In 1946 he joined the Foreign Office.
- 1962 Head of Chancery, Saigon.
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1973 Donald Murray, lately Counsellor, H.M. Embassy, Tehran, appointed C.M.G.
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1974 -1976 Ambassador to Libya.
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1977- 1980 Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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1980 - 1984 Ambassador to Sweden.
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1983 appointed K.C.V.O.
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1984 Retired from Foreign Service.
Sources
Navy Lists June 1944
CMG - London Gazette 45860, page 4.
Obituary in the Independent newspaper online.
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