Brigadier H.W. Murdock
North Nova Scotia Highlanders
18th Infantry Brigade

Lance-Corporal Horatio W. Murdock was in charge of a Lewis gun which he used with great skill and deadly execution. When his platoon was putting outposts on a railway embankment strongly held by the enemy, he advanced with his Lewis gun at close range, giving covering fire and holding the enemy back, inflicting heavy casualties on him. By his courage and skill he enabled the post to be established with small

(The 85th in France, 170)

Born on 4 April 1895 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Horatio Ward Murdock was former head of the Canadian Infantry Association and commanding officer of the Cumberland Highlanders from 1930 to 1936. He had enlisted with the 193rd Battalion in March 1916 and two years later reverted from sergeant to corporal to join the 85th Battalion in France. He earned the Good Conduct Badge and was training to be an officer when the war ended.

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