Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major H. M. Marshall, Royal Fusiliers

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major) mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 17 February 1915; 11 December 1917.

Howard Murray Marshall was born on 11 July 1890, the son of G. Marshall of Liphook, Hampshire. Educated at Clifton College and Sandhurst. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 20 April 1910 and was advanced to Lieutenant in April 1912 and Captain in July 1915. Entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 September 1914, he was appointed a Temporary Major in February 1918. Marshall was appointed a Major in the Reserve of Officers in 1920. He died in 1944. With copied gazette extracts and m.i.c..