A Boer War D.C.M. five medal group awarded to: 6399 Quartermaster Sergeant F. S. Marsland, Royal Arm

A Boer War D.C.M. five medal group awarded to: 6399 Quarterm...

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A Boer War D.C.M. five medal group awarded to: 6399 Quartermaster Sergeant F. S. Marsland, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Comprising: Distinguished Conduct Medal Edward VII (6399 2nd. Cl: S. Sjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.); Queen's South Africa medal with 3 clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal (6399 1/S. Sgt. F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.); a King's South Africa medal with 2 clasps South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6399 S.Serjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.); a Coronation 1911, silver medal (Qr. Mr. Sgt. F. S. Marsland. Late R.A.M.C.) contemporarily engraved naming; and an Army Long Service & Good Conduct Edward VII (6399 1st. Cl: S. Serjt: F. S. Marsland. R.A.M.C.).

Provenance: Christie’s, July 1983.

DCM London Gazette 27th September 1901; AO 15/02; MID LG 10.9.01, P.5958; ML 211; MEDAL TO HOSPITAL SHIP NUBIA

Note: Frederick Stanley Marshland was born in Malta in 1865 and attested for the Medical Staff Corps at Aldershot on 20 February 1885, having previously served as a Chemist and Druggist. Promoted Corporal on 2 October 1889, and Sergeant on 13 July 1892, he was advanced to Staff Sergeant 2nd Class, Royal Army Medical Corps, on 30 June 1899, and served with the Corps in South Africa from 2 November 1899 until 6 April 1903. For his services in South Africa he was promoted Staff Sergeant on 30 August 1900, was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 September 1901). Returning home, he was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 75 of April 1904. He was discharged on 29 July 1908, after 23 years and 161 days’ service, the last four years of which were spent in the Nursing Section.

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