View source for Murray - Shireff Bruce Godwen Major 169214

{{Personnel
|id=2369
|Surname and forenames=Murray-Shireff Bruce Godwen (or possibly Godwin)
|Army number=3242 and 169214
|Rank=Major.
|Date of birth=1/7/1898.
|Age=49 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Commissioned as 2/Lt - unattached list Indian Army 29/6/1916.  Posted Indian Army 17/7/1916.  Retired 28/7/1922.  Captain - Reserve of Officers General List 18/8/1934.  Employed (embodiment day) - DLI 24/8/1939.  Posted to 30th I.T.C. Blandford.  Durham Light Infantry - Captain 23/9/1940.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 24/9/1940.  Served Iceland.  Posted to No 6 Primary Training Centre 4/8/1942.  Unemployed list as Hon Major 1945.  Relinquished Commission on age grounds 1/7/1948 as Honorary Major.
|Source table=11DLI
|Company/Battery=Battalion HQ.
|Task or role=Battalion 2 i/c until 4/8/1942.
|Joined Brigade=24-Sep-40.
|Promotions=Lt Indian Army 29/7/1917, A/Captain and Adjutant 8/8/1918, Captain 29/6/1920, T/Major 20/8/1940, A/Major 3/3/1943.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 12/12/1947.  Probate granted in London on 2/3/1948.
|Home address=In the 1901 Census he is shown aged 2 as living with his parents, Murray and A.B.E.M. Shireff in Whitley, Melksham, Wiltshire.  Married, firstly, Margaret Jane Philip in July 1920 at Bath and, apparently, secondly, Enid Murray Clarke at Marylebone in January 1947 (this latter information needs to be confirmed).  A Baptism was recorded in Charlcombe which was probably of the daughter of Bruce and Margaret.
}}