234887 Capt. Alastair Allan Murray British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from:Stornaway, Scotland Alastair Murray was born in Stornaway on 6th September 1913, and grew up in Port of Ness. He attended Stornaway's Nicholson Institute and Edinburgh University, graduating from medical school in 1936. His early medical career was in the Hebrides and Yorkshire. It was at a Leeds hospital that he met and got engaged to his future wife Jessie. WW2 started prior to their wedding, and he joined the RAMC, and was shipped out in early December 1939.
He served initially in North Africa, then from late 1940 until 1943 he was stationed at a RAMC hospital in Malta. After the siege of Malta, he was sent to Sicily and Italy, before returning to England just prior to Christmas 1944. After a short leave and getting married, he was sent to Belgium, and was in the first Allied medical unit to go into the Belsen concentration camp.
After demobilization in 1945, he moved to Nottingham and then Kingston-on-Thames. In 1954, he and his family emigrated to Canada, and resided in Vancouver, B.C. Here, he practised surgery until 1978. He then went to work as a company doctor in the Northwest Territories until about 1986. He died 0n 29th May 2004.
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