Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Somme’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private G. Marshall, 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, later Machine Gun Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (3589 Pte. G. Marshall. 1/1Cambs: R. - T.F.); 1914-15 Star (3589 Pte. G. Marshall. Camb. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3539 Pte. G. Marshall. Camb. R.) mounted for display, polished, therefore good fine or better (4) £500-£600

M.M. London Gazette 19 February 1917.

George Marshall resided at 13 Stafford Street, Walsoken. He served during the Great War with the 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment in the French theatre of war from 2 September 1915. Marshall was awarded the M.M. for an action at St. Pierre Divion, Somme, 13 November 1916, when the Battalion attacked down the Schwaben Redoubt under the cover of early morning mist and linked up with the 63rd Royal Naval Division. He subsequently served with the Machine Gun Corps.