TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 10

TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER

GENERAL SIR W. R. MARSHALL

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph— CopyriEbt. (Received 20, 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 19. Lieut.-General Sir William and LadyMarshall have loft for New Zealand. Lieut.-Goncral Sir William Eaino Marshall has had a very distinguished military career.' Born in 1865, lie served on the North-Western Frontier of India in 1897-98 with the Malakand Force and the Tirah Expedition and in the South African War, 1900-1902, with mounted infantry and in commanding at mobile column, being wounded twice, mentioned in dispatches twice, and-coming out with the rank of Brevet Lieut.Colonel.

In the European War he commanded the Sherwood Foresters in France, 1914-15, the 87th Brigade of the 29th Division on Gallipoli, 1915, being present at. the original landing and the evacuation; at Salonika, 1916, in command of the 27th Division; in Mesopotamia, 1916-17, commanding the 3rd Indian Army Corps, and finally General Office Commanding the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 1917-19. He was G.0.C.-in-C. Southern Command after tho war, retiring in 1924. He wrote an account of his experiences in "Memories of Four Fronts," 1929. Lady Marshall was formerly Mrs. Stephen-Stephen, of Edinburgh and Elgin.