Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private T. Marshall, Manchester Regiment

1914-15 Star (17159 Pte., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (17159 Pte., Manch. R.), good very fine or better (3) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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Marshall enlisted in the Manchester Regiment in November 1914, together with 41 workmates from Ashton Brothers’ Cotton Mill, Newton Street, Hyde, which body of men went on to form a platoon the 20th (5th Pals) Battalion. Embarked with his unit for France in November 1915, he would have served on the Somme and at Ypres, prior to the unit’s departure for Italy at the end of 1917 (see R. Pacey’s article on the Ashton Brothers Mates Platoon in the O.M.R.S. Journal, Winter 1987, for further details, and a group photograph including Marshall).