Born in Bolton, Lancashire, c.1836.
Enlisted at London on the 5th of October 1854.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 5".
Trade: Servant.
Fair complexion. Grey eyes. Lt. brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea after the 1st of June 1855.
A man of this surname (the only details given) was shown on a nominal roll of men of the regiment at the Cavalry Depot, Scutari, made out on the 9th of November 1855, as being On Duty there from the 4th of November.
Discharged, "expiration of period of limited service", from Edinburgh on the 5th of October 1866.
Conduct and character: "a good soldier".
In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Seven times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial. (However, a "G. Marshall" is recorded as having been tried at Brighton by Court-martial on the 19th of February 1856 for "Desertion and losing his necessaries" and sentenced to 168 days' imprisonment, with hard labour.) It not yet been possible to establish if they were one and the same person.
Aged 30 years on discharge.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 11 months.
To live in Lotherick Terrace, Gloster Road, Regent's Park, London, after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean and Turkish medals.
He later served for 8 years and 10 months on the "A" Reserve, being discharged as "Worn out," with a pension of 11d. per day, from the 16th of May 1878. He was then 41 years of age, and living in the North London Pension District.
A Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and said to be with officially impressed naming to "Corp. G. Marshall. 4th L.D." was seen at an Arms Fayre at Bedford in May of 1991. (The medal rolls do not rank him as a Corporal.) This same medal was offered in a Gordon's list in June of 1991.
What was presumably the same medal was offered in a Christie's auction on the 10th of November 1992 as well as a Turkish Crimean medal (Sardinian type). A pre-auction check shows that the Crimean medal is impressed naming in small capitals to "Corporal G. Marshall. 4th Lt. Dragns." and the Turkish medal is un-named.
This same pair of medals were again offered in a Buckland, Dix and Wood auction on the 5th of December 1995.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.