Brigadier Norman Marshall

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Photograph A03080
Service number 562, QX6290
Ranks Held Corporal, Honorary Brigadier, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Sergeant Major
Birth Date 10/02/1888
Birth Place United Kingdom: Scotland, Stirlingshire, Callander
Death Date 12/09/1942
Death Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Toorak
Final Rank Brigadier
Service Australian Army
Units
  • 27th Australian Infantry Brigade
  • 54th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 56th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 57th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 5th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 60th Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Conflicts/Operations
  • First World War, 1914-1918
  • Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection items

    Media


    Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Norman Marshall DSO MC and Bar and Second Bar to DSO of the 56th ...

    Group portrait of the officers of the 60th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: ...

    The 60th Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) N. Marshall DSO MC, Officer Commanding, on ...

    The Right Honourable William Morris Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, addressing members of ...

    Images from the Phillip Schuler collection, both taken by and acquired by him.

    Document


    Correspondence from Keith McKeddie Doig to Lewis Maffra Grant, 1917

    Correspondence from Keith McKeddie Doig to Lewis Maffra Grant, and a letter from P. Sevray, 1918

Rolls

Timeline

Date of birth 10/02/1888
Date of embarkation 21/10/1914
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs) 17/08/1914 Enlisted as a private in the 5th Battalion.
Date promoted 30/11/1914 Sergeant.
Date promoted 29/09/1914 Lance Sergeant.
Date promoted 26/05/1915 Lieutenant.
Date commissioned 28/04/1915 Appointed 2nd lieutenant.
Date commissioned 28/04/1915
Date commissioned 28/04/1915 2nd lieutenant.
Date promoted 26/05/1915 Appointed lieutenant.
Date promoted 01/07/1916 Major.
Other 23/06/1916 Arrived France.
Date of recommendation honour or award 1916
Date promoted 02/04/1916 Appointed captain.
Date promoted 02/04/1916 Captain.
Date promoted 01/07/1916 Appointed major.
Other units 17/03/1916 57th Battalion.
Date of honour or award 08/02/1916 Military Cross.
Date promoted 10/04/1917 Appointed temporary lieutenant colonel.
Date of recommendation honour or award 30/09/1917
Other units 10/04/1917 Commanding officer 60th Battalion.
Date promoted 23/08/1917 Lieutenant colonel.
Other 1917-01-08 - 1917-03-17 Course - senior Officers School.
Date of honour or award 31/10/1917 Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
Date promoted 23/08/1917 Appointed lieutenant colonel.
Other 01/04/1917 Arrived France.
Date of honour or award 07/11/1917 Mention in Despatches.
Other units 10/04/1917 Commanding Officer 60th Battalion.
Other units 01/05/1918 Commanding Officer 54th Battalion.
Date of honour or award 18/06/1918 Bar to Distinguished Service Order.
Date of honour or award 08/11/1918 Mention in Despatches.
Date of recommendation honour or award 21/02/1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 08/09/1918
Other units 11/10/1918 Commanding Officer 56th Battalion.
Date of recommendation honour or award 17/10/1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 10/05/1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 07/09/1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 16/10/1918
Other units 12/10/1918 Commanding officer 56th Battalion.
Other units 01/05/1918 Commanding officer 54th Battalion.
Date returned to Australia 15/12/1919
Other units 15/05/1919 Attached to Sports Control Board London.
Date of honour or award 16/03/1919 Mention in Despatches.
Date of honour or award 27/06/1919 2nd Bar to Distinguished Service Order.
Date of recommendation honour or award 22/02/1919
Other units 01/11/1919 Officer Commanding Troops on board HMAS Nestor.
Other 1920-01-01 - 1928-12-20 Lieutenant colonel Reserve of Officers.
Other 14/02/1920 AIF appointment terminated.
Other 25/05/1939 Reserve of Officers.
Other units 10/07/1939 Commanding officer 11th Light Horse Regiment.
Other units 17/10/1940 Commanding Officer 27th Brigade.
Other units 1940-07-01 - 1940-10-17 2/25th Battalion.
Other units 01/05/1940 Command 1st Cavalry Brigade.
Other units 01/07/1940 Commanding officer 2/25th Battalion.
Other 01/01/1942 Honourary Brigadier Retired List.
Date of death 12/09/1942

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