Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal W. A. Marsh, Royal Fusiliers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 22 February 1915

1914 Star, with clasp (14085 Cpl. W. Marsh, 4/R. Fus.) initial officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (L-14085 Cpl. A. W. [sic] Marsh. R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (William Alfred Marsh) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, very fine (4) £180-£220

William Alfred Marsh was born in Kensington, London, and attested for the Royal Fusiliers. He served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was therefore likely to have been present at the Battalion’s defence of the Nimy Railway Bridge at Mons on 23 August 1914, during which Lieutenant Maurice Dease and Private Sidney Godley, also of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, were awarded the first two Victoria Crosses of the Great War. Marsh died of wounds on 22 February 1915, and is buried in Ramparts Cemetery (Lille Gate), Ypres, Belgium.

Sold together with a Royal Fusiliers cap badge; and copied research.