COMMAND OF HOSPITAL SHIP

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 61, 21 February 1941, Page 7

COMMAND OF HOSPITAL SHIP

Colonel Murray Appointed X■ , • The appointment of Colonel D. N. Murray, C.M.G., D. 5.0., M.D., Auckland, as officer commanding H.M. hospital ship Maunganui was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones. The Maunganui is to go into commission in .the near future. Colonel Murray has been deputy under the National Medical Committee for the Auckland district since the beginning of the war, and is responsible for the organization and control of civilian medical boards, whose function is the medical examination of soldiers for enlistment and discharge. He has had a long and distinguished military career, which began in 1900 when he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the South African War. Colonel Murray’s service in New Zealand dates from 1908, when, in. the volunteer days, he joined the N.Z.M.C. and was actively connected with the corps till the outbreak of the Great War. In 1914 he volunteer ed for service and was sent overseas as Officer Commanding No. 2 Field Ambulance. For service in the field ho was three times mentioned in dispatches, awarded the D. 5.0., and later had the C.M.G. conferred upon him. At the conclusion of the war he was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services for the New Zealand Division. On his return to New Zealand in 1919 he acted for some months' as Officer Commanding the military annex of the Auckland Hospital. Upon his relinquishing that appointment he still maintained his in forest in the N.Z.M.C., with whioh he was actively associated till posted o the Reserve of Officers in 1921.