BRITISH ARMY LIEUTENANT GENERAL CRIMEAN ANGLO-ZULU WAR COLONEL AUTOGRAPH SIGNED!

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SIR FREDERICK MARSHALL
(1829 - 1900)
BRITISH ARMY LIEUTENANT GENERAL and MAJ. GEN. COMMANDER WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE ANGLO-ZULU WAR IN 1879,
COLONEL OF THE 2
nd
REGIMENT OF LIFE GUARDS 1860-1870s,
COLONEL OF THE 1
st
(ROYAL) DRAGOONS 1890-1900
CRIMEAN WAR LIEUTENANT and CAPTAIN.
&
1
st
CLASS CRICKETER.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LT. GEN.
FREDERICK MARSHALL
Lieutenant-General
Sir Frederick Marshall
KCMG
(26 July 1829 – 8 June 1900) was a
British Army
officer.
Military career
Marshall was commissioned as a
cornet
in the
10th Hussars
on 18 September 1849. He was promoted to
lieutenant
on 16 September 1851 and, after transferring to the
1st Regiment of Dragoons
on 14 October 1851, he saw action in the
Crimean War
and was promoted to
captain
on 4 February 1859.
Marshall was promoted further to
major
on 6 March 1863. Promoted to
lieutenant colonel
on 8 March 1864, he was given command of the
2nd Regiment of Life Guards
. He was then promoted to full
colonel
on 6 March 1868 and to
major general
on 20 October 1877.
After taking part in the
Anglo-Zulu War
in spring 1879, Marshall was appointed a
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
on 19 December 1879. He was promoted to
lieutenant general
on his retirement on 5 September 1884 and advanced to
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
on 22 June 1897.
Marshall served as colonel of the
1st (Royal) Dragoons
from 1890 to 1900.
First-class cricket
Marshall played
first-class cricket
for several teams in the 1850s and 1860s, debuting for the
Marylebone Cricket Club
(MCC) against
Sussex
at
Horsham
in 1854. Playing first-class cricket until 1865, the played eight matches for the MCC, but also appeared five times for the
Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club
, four times for the
Gentlemen of England
, twice for the South in the
North v South
fixture, and once each for the
Gentlemen of the South
and the
Surrey Club
. Appearing in 21 first-class matches, he scored a total of 244 runs at an
average
of 7.87, with a highest score of 31. His brothers
Alexander
and
Henry
were also first-class cricketers.
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Born on 26 July 1829, Frederick Marshall was the third son of George Marshall of Broadwater, Godalming [Surrey] and Sarah née Alexander. He was baptised on 23 September 1829 at
St Peter and St Paul in Godalming.
According to Hart's
Army List
(1860), 'Captain Marshall served in the Crimea during Sept, 1855 as Aide de Camp to Sir James Scarlett (Medal and Clasp for Sebastopol).'
On 16 December 1861 at St Paul's in Knightsbridge Captain Frederick Marshall of the 2nd Life Guards married Adelaide Laura, youngest daughter of Edward Gyles Howard, Esq., and niece of the 12th Duke of Norfolk.
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Marshall died, aged 70, on 8 June 1900. He was buried at Brockwood Cemetery in Surrey. According to a lengthy obituary in the
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
(16 June 1900): 'Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Marshall died on Friday afternoon at his residence, 9, Eaton Place, S.W., from an attack of pneumonia. [...] He was educated at Eton and entered the Army as a cornet of horse in the 2nd Life Guards on September 18, 1849, and served in the Crimea as aide-de-camp to Sir James Scarlett, receiving the medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal. [...] During the Zulu war of 1879 Major-General Marshall was in command of the Cavalry Brigade, and after the dissolution of the brigade he was in command of the advanced posts on the lines of communications. For this service he received the medal, and on September 24, 1887, was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He had previously [...] been promoted to lieutenant-general on his retirement from the active list. On March 29, 1890, he was made colonel of the 1st Dragoons, of which regiment the German Emperor is the colonel-in-chief, and on June 22, 1897 [...] he was made KCMG. Sir Fredrick Marshall was master of the Chiddingford Foxhounds, a member of the Surrey County Council, a director of the London and South Western Railway Company and a magistrate for Surrey.' The article continues with a detailed description of his funeral.
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