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Captain Hugh Dynnerne Lathrop Murray enlisted in the AIF on 3 May 1916 and was attached to Australian Army Medical Corps - 5th Australian General Hospital. Captain Murray embarked from Melbourne on 4 May 1916 bound for Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt on board HMAT Surada A52. In July 1916 he embarked from Alexandria for England on board the Arcadian. According to his Obituary (British Medical Journal;1929) 'During the war he served as regimental medical officer with Australian battalions in Egypt, and in France with the 2nd Australian division, and in 1917 in England, where as captain AAMC, he organised and was in charge of the department of medical electricity at No 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital'. Captain Murray returned to Australia in May 1917 as Medical Officer on board HT Militades and his appointment was terminated on 16 July 1917. He was later commissioned as Temporary Captain (then Major and later Lieutenant Colonel) - Medical Officer in charge of the Physiotherapy Department at No 11 General Hospital Melbourne.

Born in 1869 in Ararat in Victoria, Hugh was fifth of nine children of Kynaston Noel Lathrop Murray (b1837 at Bellerive in Hobart, Tasmania) and Mary Sophia Lee Archer (b1838 in Longford, Tasmania). Kynaston (an Electrician) and Mary  married in 1861 in Melbourne, Victoria and settled in Ararat, Victoria where Kynaston was Post and Telegraph Master and later was appointed as a Commissioner of Victorian Railways.

Hugh attended Queen's College and Melbourne University in Victoria, and whilst an undergraduate , won championships at swimming and putting the weight, and played lacrosse for Victoria. He completed his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and in 1894 was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Edinburgh Provident Dispensary. Following his return to Melbourne in 1895, Hugh established a medical practice and was a pioneer in physical therapy. From 1898 to 1903 he was examining medical officer to the Victorian Railways and in 1901 was appointed Honorary Medical Electrician and Lecturer on medical electricity at Melbourne Hospital. In 1904 Hugh was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and was the founder of the Australian Massage Association and a member of the Massage Registration Board (Vic). Hugh 'was a really gifted singer, and was much in request in Edinburgh days at public concerts and private functions' (British Medical Journal; 1929)

In 1898 in Melbourne, Victoria Hugh married Mary Ann MacInnes (b1868 in Crower, South Australia). Following Mary's suicide in 1916, Hugh enlisted for service with the AAMC. In 1918 in Melbourne, Victoria he married Eila Isabel Calvert (b1883 in Bendigo, Victoria). Eila was a Nursing Sister at Melbourne Children's Hospital and served in WWI with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt and England.

Hugh and Eila settled in Melbourne, Victoria where Hugh died in 1929. Eila died in 1961.