BORN HULL 1888. SON OF TOM GALL MARSHALL (1868-1917) AND HENRIETTA MARGRAVE (1869-1944), OF 14, WELLS STREET, NEWINGTON, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 96, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS,
BEFORE THE WAR HAROLD WAS PAWNBROKER’S ASSISTANT (1911 CENSUS) AND THEN A LAWYER’S ASSISTANT. HE LIVED AT 11, STRICKLAND TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN FOOTBALL CIRCLES BEING A GOALKEEPER FOR RANGERS THURSDAY AFC.
HE ENLISTED IN NORWICH, NORFOLK. SERVED WITH THE 9TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. LEFT FOR THE DARDENELLES, ON 29TH AUGUST 1915. WOUNDED AT SULVA BAY. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 20/11/1915, AGED 27. HE IS BURIED AT HILL 10 CEMETERY, GALLIPOLI, TURKEY.
HE ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, HENRIETTA.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 25TH FEBRUARY 1916. *
HIS BROTHERS WERE SIGNALLER, HERBERT LESLIE MARSHALL (1897-1957), 4TH EYR, (WOUNDED IN FRANCE): SIGNALLER, THOMAS WILLIAM MARSHALL, HULL HEAVY RGA; DRIVER, SYDNEY MARSHALL (1898-1925), HULL ASC; TRUMPETER, ALFRED. MARSHALL, RFA. WILLIAM CAWOOD (ADOPTED SON) SERVED IN THE KOYLI.
TWO BROTHER IN LAWS, THOMAS AND WILLIAM CHEARMAN, BOTH SERVED ON MINESWEEPERS. A SON IN LAW, GEORGE COLLISON, SERVED IN THE 1ST HULL RGA. ELEVEN NEPHEWS ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR.
HIS FATHER, THOMAS GALL MARSHALL (1868-1917), WAS A PETTY OFFICER, SERVING ON A MINE SWEEPER TRAWLER IN THE CHANNEL.HE DIED ON 15TH MAY 1917,
FATHER AND SON ARE LISTED TOGETHER ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
