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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 425

Essex Regiment

A Great War Palestine operations M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Corporal G. H. Marshall, Essex Regiment, attached 161st Company, Machine Gun Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (49335 Pte. G. H. Marshall, 161/Coy. M.G.C.); 1914-15 Star (2942 Pte. G. H. Marshall, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (2942 A. Cpl. G. H. Marshall, Essex R.), minor official correction to surname on first, contact marks and a little polished, nearly very fine or better (4)

M.M. London Gazette 2 April 1918.

George H. Marshall, a native of Stratford St. Mary, first saw action as a Private in the Essex Regiment in Gallipoli, where he landed on 9 August 1915; four of the regiment's Territorial Force battalions were engaged on the peninsula.

Having then transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, and been advanced to Acting Corporal, Marshall won his M.M. in the Palestine operations. The 161st Brigade Machine Gun Company sent four sections into action at the First Battle of Gaza, supporting the attack on Green Hill and Ali el Muntar. Still commanded by Major J. A. Walker, the Company was present at the Third Battle of Gaza in November; here the Brigade captured and held several key objectives to the south-west of the town, notably Rafa Redoubt and Sea Post. George Marshall's M.M. would likely have been for brave deeds during this last operation.


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