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Eric Marshall | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Marshall in 1908 | |
| Born | (1879-05-29)29 May 1879 |
| Died | 26 February 1963(1963-02-26) (aged 83) |
| Education | Monkton Combe School Emmanuel College, Cambridge St Bartholomew's Hospital |
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| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | British Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Unit | Royal Army Medical Corps British North Russian Expeditionary Force |
| Battles / wars | First World War Second World War |
| Awards | CBE Order of St Stanislaus Mentioned in dispatches |
Lieutenant ColonelEric MarshallCBE MC (29 May 1879 – 26 February 1963) was a BritishArmy doctor andAntarctic explorer with theNimrod Expedition led byErnest Shackleton in 1907–09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton,Jameson Adams andFrank Wild) who reached Furthest South at88°23′S162°00′E / 88.383°S 162.000°E /-88.383; 162.000 on 9 January 1909.
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Born inHampstead,Surrey, on 29 May 1879, he was educated atMonkton Combe School,Bath and atEmmanuel College, Cambridge, before qualifying as a surgeon fromSt Bartholomew's Hospital. Marshall met Shackleton in 1906 at a house party in London. Shackleton told him about the proposed expedition to the South Pole and suggested Marshall go on a training course on surveying and then he could become theexpedition's surgeon, surveyor and cartographer as well as the principalphotographer.[1]
According toLeif Mills, who has written about the two men inPolar Friction: the relationship between Marshall and Shackleton, 2012, Marshall was "an indispensable member of Shackleton's expedition; yet on the voyage down from New Zealand to Antarctica, during the long Antarctic winter at their base at Cape Royds and on the actualsouthern journey, Marshall constantly criticised Shackleton in his diary, sometimes in almost vitriolic language, and seemed to have nothing but contempt for him." Marshall maintained his criticism of Shackleton throughout his life, referring to him as 'the biggest mountebank of the century' in one letter held at theRoyal Geographical Society dated 30 August 1956.
Marshall joined theRoyal Army Medical Corps and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1915. He was mentioned in despatches by SirDouglas Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Armies in France and Flanders in April 1916 for service at Ypres and for service at the Somme in May 1917. He was awarded theMilitary Cross in January 1918. By the end of theFirst World War he had attained the rank of acting major.
In autumn 1918, Marshall was posted to Archangel in northern Russia as a member of theBritish North Russian Expeditionary Force, serving as a senior medical officer atArchangel. For his services there he was appointed Commander of theOrder of the British Empire[2] and awarded the RussianOrder of St Stanislaus.[3]
Marshall married Enid in 1922. In the 1930s the family moved to Kenya, where he practised farming for a few years before returning to England. During theSecond World War, Marshall rejoined the Royal Army Medical Corps and achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
After the War ended, Marshall joined the Ministry of Pensions as a medical officer. When he retired he and his wife moved toYarmouth in theIsle of Wight. He died on 26 February 1963.
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