Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Laurence Herbert Marshall) good very fine £80-100

Laurence Herbert Marshall was born in Middlesborough, Yorkshire on 5 July 1885. He was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. In the 1911 Census he is listed as a Mining Engineer living in St. Austell, Cornwall. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers, he entered France on 6 May 1917. As a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Field Company, R.E., he died of wounds on 22 April 1918 and was buried in the St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen. He was the son of Frank Herbert and Lucy Harriet Marshall (nee Jordison), of ‘Sunnyside’, Prestbury, Cheltenham.