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Born in Leicester, England in 1940, Murray was educated at Bedford School. As a teenager, he worked his
way to South America in the ship’s galley of a tramp steamer. Not long after a brief stint as a
trainee in an engineering company, his adventurous instinct led him to join the French Foreign Legion
in Algeria in 1960. The Algerian war was in full swing and Murray spent the next five years in Algeria
with the Legion Parachute regiment (2eme REP). During those five years he recorded in his diaries his
experience on a daily basis of the hard more...
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- Born in Perth, Scotland, 26 February 1962.
- His early childhood was spent in the company of the lady (Miss Wigley) who had been the nanny to Scott
of the Antarctic’s son, Peter (later Sir Peter Scott).
- Father - Nigel (deceased); mother – Anne; and brother – Henry.
- Wife – Mary; son – Wilf (5yrs); and daughter – Freya (1.5) yrs.
- The family live on the High Moor of central Dartmoor, SW England. more...
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