Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major M. C. Marquis, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (Major M. C. Marquis. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Major M. C. Marquis.) good very fine

Three: Second Lieutenant A. L. Marshall, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. L. Marshall.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue Arthur L. Marshall) initials corrected on BWM, extremely fine (6) £100-£140

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Maurice Charles Marquis was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire on 1 November 1879 and was educated at Rossall School, Lancashire. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Cheshire Field Company, R.E. (Volunteer Force) in March 1901, he was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1904 and to Captain in May 1911. Having then assumed command of the 1/1st Cheshire Field Company, he took it to France in December 1914 and remained likewise employed until transferring as a Temporary Major to the Cheshire Field Company, Welsh Divisional Engineers, in July 1915. Later still, he served in the 22nd (Labour) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment and in No. 34 Group of the Labour Corps. Marquis relinquished his commission in April 1919 and died at Reading, Berkshire in September 1958.

Arthur Law Marshall was born in Sunderland on 18 September 1885 and was educated at Barnard Castle School, Co. Durham. Employed as a shipping broker on applying for a commission in the Inland Waterways and Docks Section of the Royal Engineers in December 1917, he was embarked for Mesopotamia in February 1918, where he was appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Basra Dockyard. But his posting was a short-lived one, for he was evacuated to India on account of poor health in June 1918. Demobilised on his return to the U.K., he is believed to have served in the Durham Special Constabulary. He died at Rothbury, Northumberland in April 1977.