Beverly Murdoch

Captain Beverly Murdoch was a physician in the British Army stationed in Norway in the winter of 1939-40. Jock went to him complaining of venereal disease contracted while marching through a small Norwegian village several days earlier. The regulations of His Majesty's Armed Forces required doctors who treated men complaining of STDs to report their patients for disciplinary action, and Murdoch, a haughty upper-class Englishman, was a stickler for regulations. However, Alistair Walsh convinced Murdoch to report Jock's case as a skin infection by allowing Murdoch to believe that Walsh would find ways of retaliating against the doctor without actually threatening to do so.