Murray, Robert William Skinner
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps (Later Royal Air Force)
Biography: Son of John Murray, grocer ; born Aberdeen, 23 May 886 ; educated Kincardine O'Neil Public School and Gordon's College, Aberdeen ; graduated M.B., 1912 ; D.P.H., 1913. Murray joined the R.A.M.C. in October 1914, was sent to Millbank for a special course in sanitation, and then to Llandudno as a lecturer to troops. In May 1915 he went to France, was wounded soon after Loos and returned home, leaving again for Egypt in May 1916. He served in Egypt and Palestine with the R.A.M.C. and after the Armistice was transferred into the Air Force. He died of bronchial pneumonia whilst on service in Cairo, 6 May 1919.
Date of Death: 06 May 1919
Burial Details: Buried at Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Plot P, Grave 21.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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