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DerekR
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Sec.Lt Matthew Marshall, Bouchoir New Brit Cem - Help Please |
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Visiting Bouchoir New British Cemetery in France on the 11th August 2008, a friend from Ulster found a newly laid bunch of red roses lying at the grave of a Scot - it was 90 years to the day of his death:
Name: MARSHALL, MATTHEW
Initials: M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Scots
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 11/08/1918
Additional information: Son of John and Crissie Marshall, of Dunard, Stirling.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. C. 60.
Cemetery: BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
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DerekR
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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My friend is hoping that through this forum that we may be able to find out who laid the flowers or who ordered the flowers to be laid there - 90 years to the date of death.
Can anyone help? _________________ There must be a place under the sun where hearts of Olden Glory grow young ..... |
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DerekR
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Adam Brown
Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 714 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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I was trying to find where Dunard was in Stirling but I can't find any references to it on the internet.
I tried Dunard in Geoff's Search Engine and although it came up with 15 names it only came up with Lt Marshall for Dunard, Stirling.
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Adam Brown
Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 714 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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He is one probably one of the five Marshall's on the Stirling War Memorial
MARSHALL, ALEXANDER
MARSHALL, GRAHAM B.
MARSHALL, JAMES
MARSHALL, MATTHEW
MARSHALL, ROBERT N.
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