WITH FULL HONOURS
NAVAL VETERAN'S FUNERAL
(Received July 11, 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, July 10
With full honours the urn containing the ashes of Surgeon Rear-Admiral J. R. Muir, 67 years of age, was committed to the sea from a destroyer. RearAdmiral Muir, whose body was recovered from the sea last weekend, had been serving as a lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. on his Majesty's yacht Campeador the Fifth, which was sunk by a mine on June 24. All hands were lost.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 12
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