Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Major T. A. P. Marsh, R.A.M.C.) extremely fine £250-300

Thomas Alfred Perry Marsh was born in Monmouthshire on 23 February 1856, and entered the Army in July 1882, being promoted Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1894. He served in the Burmese Expedition, 1885-87, in medical charge of a battery of mountain artillery, and was present at several engagements near Ningyan and Yemethen. He was in the latter place during its investment in February and March 1886. Major Marsh served in South Africa from November 1899, and died of enteric at Deelfontein on 22 May 1900.