Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

17/07/1915

Date of Discharge

15/11/1919

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Address (at enlistment)

Lidcombe NSW (previously Cotter Dam ACT)

Occupation

Teacher

Next of Kin

John Marshall (father), Graham Street, Lidcombe NSW

Service Number

1578

Final Rank

Trooper

Final Unit

4 Machine Gun Squadron AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW

Marshall was the teacher at the Cotter School from its opening on 6 April 1914 until his enlistment in July 1915. He embarked for Egypt on October 1915 with the 6th reinforcements to the 12th Light Horse Regiment but was hospitalised with dysentery in May 1916 at Tel-el-Kebir. After recovering he transferred to the 4th Brigade Machine Gun Squadron in February 1917 serving in Palestine. He accidentally injured his left knee in July 1919 before returning to Australia in August 1919 in Sydney. Marshall was discharged on 15 November 1919 in Sydney. He was living at Dee Why when he died on 9 May 1971.

Description - height 5 feet 5¼ inches, weight 136 pounds, chest 32-35 inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, dark hair, Church of England.

Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.3, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Lyall Gillespie, Early Education and Schools in the Canberra Region, 1999
NAA RecordSearch - G1915/1619 Public School - Cotter River, Federal Capital Territory
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'Postcards to the Cotter', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)