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Auction: 24002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 133

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captn. J. B. Marshall. 4th Lt. Drgns.), officially impressed naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine

John Barry Marshall was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 24 April 1830, son of William S. Marshall, of 4 Hyde Park Square, London, and Plashwood, near Ipswich, Suffolk, a member of the London Stock Exchange and of the company Mannings and Marshall, Vera Cruz and Mexico City. Following an education at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford, he was appointed Ensign in the 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, becoming Lieutenant in May 1852, and Captain in December 1854. He served in the Crimea from 15 June 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol, but died of cholera at the Monastery of St George, some four miles from Balaklava, on 30 September 1855.

He was buried in the 13th Light Dragoons Cemetery on the road going towards Karani, and a memorial of either wood or stone was positioned over the grave in mid-1856, and was then inscribed: ‘In memory of Captain John Marshall, 4th Light Dragoons. Died 30th September 1855.’

A water-colour painting of him in uniform, painted by J. Gilbert in 1854, is in the possession of the Regimental Museum. He is further commemorated on the Old Etonians Memorial at Royal Garrison Church, Portsmouth and with a stone memorial at St Mary's Church, Wetherden.

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