Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Quartermaster Sergeant F. S. Marsland, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (6399 2nd. Cl: S. Sjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6399 1/S. Sgt. F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6399 S.Serjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, silver (Qr. Mr. Sgt. F. S. Marsland. Late R.A.M.C.) contemporarily engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6399 1st. Cl: S. Serjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (5) £1200-1600

Provenance: Christie’s, July 1983.

D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901.

Frederick Stanley Marshland was born in Malta in 1865 and attested for the Medical Staff Corps at Aldershot on 20 February 1885, having previously served as a Chemist and Druggist. Promoted Corporal on 2 October 1889, and Sergeant on 13 July 1892, he was advanced to Staff Sergeant 2nd Class, Royal Army Medical Corps, on 30 June 1899, and served with the Corps in South Africa from 2 November 1899 until 6 April 1903. For his services in South Africa he was promoted Staff Sergeant on 30 August 1900, was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 September 1901). Returning home, he was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 75 of April 1904. He was discharged on 29 July 1908, after 23 years and 161 days’ service, the last four years of which were spent in the Nursing Section.