Hubert Murray

There should of course have been no excuse for the officers or the men.

The allegations of poor and possibly violent treatment of Melanesian prisoners captured in the autumn of 1914 didn't go away and an inquiry into this was completed under Judge Hubert Murray, the Lieutenant Governor of British New Guinea from 1908.

Murray was a big man who during his time in England from 1878 played rugby for Harlequins and won the English amateur heavyweight boxing title.

There's a stadium named after him in Port Moresby, now the capital city of Papua New Guinea.