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17 September 2020

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№ 399

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17 September 2020

Hammer Price:
£3,200

Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Nepaul, Bhurtpoor (Capt. W. H. Marshall. 35th. N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming, with top silver riband buckle, minor edge bruising, good very fine £1,600-£2,000

William Henry Marshall was born in Calcutta on 12 May 1794, the son of William Hodney Marshall Esq., a member of the Accountant-General’s Office at Calcutta. Nominated as a Cadet for the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Infantry in 1810, he was admitted to the service on 27 August 1811, and was commissioned Ensign in the 1st/17th Bengal Native Infantry on 12 June 1813. He served with this battalion in the Second Division of the Army in the Nepaul War 1814-15, and was promoted Lieutenant on 1 September 1816. Appointed Acting Adjutant of the Battalion on 21 May 1820, he served as Acting Adjutant of five companies of the 17th Bengal Native Infantry in Rajputana from 29 December 1820.

In May 1824 the 1st/17th was re-numbered the 34th Bengal Native Infantry, and Marshall was appointed Interpreter and Quartermaster to the Regiment on 29 June 1824. He transferred to the 35th Bengal Native Infantry on 28 June 1825, and was promoted Captain on 10 October of that year. He served with his new Regiment at the siege and capture of Bhurtpoor, 10 December 1825 to 18 January 1826, and took a share in the prize money as a captain. He next saw service in the operations against the Garos in Singmari, Assam, in March 1834, and was promoted Major on 2 April of that year.

Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 4 January 1841, Marshall was posted to the 26th Bengal Native Infantry on 19 February of that year, and then to the 17th Bengal Native Infantry the following month. He transferred to the 32nd Bengal Native Infantry in August 1850, and was appointed Colonel of the Regiment on 15 March 1851. Returning to the U.K. on sick leave in February 1852, he was advanced Major-General on 28 November 1854, and Lieutenant-General in 1865, and died at Southport, Lancashire, on 29 January 1868.

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