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: 
Knight Commander Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Born: 
Saturday, June 14, 1924
Died : 
Thursday, January 8, 1998
Lieutenant Donald Murray served in 41RM Commando and the RM Holding Commando during WW2. 20 October 1944 North West Europe wounded (phosphorous burns face, throat, and hands). In 1946 he joined the Foreign Office.
  • 1962 Head of Chancery, Saigon.
  • 1973 Donald Murray, lately Counsellor, H.M. Embassy, Tehran, appointed C.M.G.
  • 1974 -1976 Ambassador to Libya.
  • 1977- 1980 Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  • 1980 - 1984 Ambassador to Sweden.
  • 1983 appointed K.C.V.O.
  • 1984 Retired from Foreign Service.
Sources
RN Casualty Logs 1939-45.
Navy Lists June 1944
CMG - London Gazette 45860, page 4.
Obituary in the Independent newspaper online.
 
Archive pages : 
41RM Commando

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