Orders, Decorations and Medals

A fine Great War ‘1914’ D.C.M. and Russian Cross of St George group of five awarded to Warrant Officer G. M. Marshall, Middlesex Regiment, later Royal Engineers

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8702 L. Cpl., 1/Middx. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (L-8702 Pte., 1/Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (178467 W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.); Russian Cross of St George, 4th class, reverse officially numbered ‘127200’, good very fine (5) £2000-2500

D.C.M. London Gazette 2 January 1915 ‘For gallant conduct on November 14 at La Boutillerie in bringing into cover a wounded man under machine-gun fire, and subsequently rescuing under fire another man who had been buried by a shell.’

Russian Cross of St George London Gazette 25 August 1915.

The group is sold with a quantity of original documentation, comprising letter of congratulation on award of D.C.M., written on ‘London County Council, Education Department’ headed paper; news cutting from The L.C.C. Staff Gazette, which states ‘To Lance Corporal G. M. Marshall, in times of peace a member of the Education Officer’s Department, but now serving in the 1st Middlesex Regiment, falls the honour of being the first of the Council’s servants to win (in this war) the Distinguished Conduct Medal...’; letter from Captain G. C. Bucknall which states ‘No. 178467 G. M. Marshall served under me from the beginning of hostilities until September 1915 when he was wounded at Loos. I found him always an honest and hard working soldier, thoroughly sober and reliable and a brave man...’; Discharge Certificate, which confirms entitlement to all five medals; Character Certificate; Commission document to rank of Warrant Officer Class II.