WINNING THEM

Grey River Argus, 11 June 1918, Page 3

WINNING THEM

•- \■» : HOW LIEUTENANT H MARSHALL i>ID IT. In a letter to his friend in ■•'•Wellington Lieutenant H Marshall gives some interesting details of. an affair in which he was engaged "on March 1." somewhere in Franco. ' '. It was a story of. strenuous endeavour in .which he gives a modest but convincing account of what he himself did with a rifle — a German rifle, too. Summing up the "stunt," as he calls it. Hp says: '* So -,th 6 result, -which stili puzzles me, was that the one platoon of thirty men- compelled -the enemy to evacuate half a niilo of trenches. You know, they speak . English, so I yelled, out when we were near them, bringr up another Lewis gun! ' Of course I did not have another, but thought it might help the bluff. Feel certain th V thought a fairly 'strong attack wad. on* We took two machine guns, smashed three trench guns, took two prisoners killed eleven, wounded 20 Weiiad^one man slightly wounded. . . . When I returned to reserve that night all hands were very decent about it The O.C. asked me to dine, and said the Brigadier was delighted. I had instructions} to recommend some of my men for decoration* anc: well they deserved..it.':' Perhaps, that was the ' 'stunt ' ? for which Lieutenant Marshall' was awarded .the cross. Lieutenant Marshall, who is a son of Captain J.T. Marshall, of Wellington was for many years custom clo*k in the firm of Messrs. E. W. Mills and Co. He /was president of the Karori Rifle Club,vpresideht bT the New Zealand jSifle Glubs; -union, ■ a member of the j executive of the 'Dominion* Bifle Asso vciati^n. a well kno^n jifle shot (no, to. presented New Zoaland]-a,t Bisley), ami was generally recognised as a mail who jhas ;done invaluable service for shoot jing 'in;, the ' Dominion. .-When the war broke out he received a commission as major from General .'Godley as head of the Wellington Rifle : Club's Reserve Corps many of the members of which have achieved distinction at the front Lieutenant Marshall's wife is at pre sent assistant matron at Walton on Thames Hospital hi England. She went "Home on active service in the transport as her husband.