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SIR WILLIAM MARSHALL. (Independent Cable Service.) PARIS, June 1. The death from heart failure is announced •of Lieutenant-General Sir William Raine Marshall, a war time commander in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. Si)' William Marshall. G.C.M.G., K.C.8., K.C.5.1., who was aged 74 years, served in many British military campaigns. Shortly after leaving Sandhurst he served on the'lndian North-West Frontier and later in the Boer War. There, in command of a mobile column, he was wounded twice and twice mentioned in dispatches. In the Great War he commanded the Ist Sherwood Foresters in 1914-15 and on Gallipoli as Major-General, commanding successively the 42nd. 29th and 53rd Divisions. He was present at the original landing and the final evacuation. Later he commanded forces in Salonika and Mesopotamia and became the G.O.C. in charge of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. He was wounded twice and mentioned in dispatches seven times. Before retiring in 1924 he was G.O.C. in charge of the Southern Command, India.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1939, Page 7
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