Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major-General F. H. B. Marsh, Indian Army, who was twice wounded during the Umbeyla Campaign

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (Lieut. F. H. B. Marsh, 32nd Punjab Pions.); Abyssinia 1867 (Captain F. H. B. Marsh, 23rd Reg. N.I.) reverse centre engraved but not renamed, probably named in India, very fine and better (2) £1,000-£1,400

Buckland Dix & Wood, June 1991; Dix Noonan Webb, September 2010.

Frank Hale Berwick Marsh was born in Patna, bengal, on 26 July 1841, the son of Colonel Hippisley Marsh, Indian Staff Corps, late 18th Bengal Lancers. Commissioned Lieutenant on the General List on 4 November 1860, he served in the campaign on the North West Frontier of India in 1867 and was present at the capture of Lalu and Umbeyla, where he was twice wounded (despatches). He served in the Abyssinian War and was present with the 23rd Pioneers at the battle of Arogee where the regiment suffered approximately half the casualties of the entire campaign in Abyssinia. Promoted Captain on 1 November 1868, Major on 2 May 1878, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 10 June 1888, he transferred to the Unemployed List with the rank of Major-General on 12 November 1897. He died in Folkestone, Kent, on 25 January 1923