Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer S. F. Marshall, Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.15519 S. F. Marshall. S.B.P.O. H.M.S. Ormonde.) name of ship officially corrected on last, light contact marks, very fine and better (5) £70-£90

Sidney Frederick Marshall was born in Torquay, Devon, on 3 April 1894, and joined the Royal Navy as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant on 27 September 1915. He was advanced to Sick Berth Attendant on 11 November 1916, and served for most of the Great War at the Naval Hospital at Plymouth, as well as a period in the cruiser H.M.S. Powerful (entitled to a British War Medal only).

Marshall joined the surveying ship H.M.S. Ormonde on 3 September 1929, was was advanced Sick Berth Petty Officer on 27 January 1930. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26 October 1930, and was promoted to Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer on 26 June 1934. Awarded the 1937 Coronation Medal, he was discharged to pension on 26 September 1937, but was mobilised for a week in September to October 1938 (at the time of the Munich crisis), and then called up again to serve during the Second World War. He served initially at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, before moving to the Armed Merchant Cruiser Asturias in January 1940, in which ship he served until November 1943. He then spent the rest of the War at the Royal Naval Hospital in Sherborne, and was finally invalided on 21 September 1945.

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