William Marshall (British Army officer, born 1865)

Sir William Marshall
Lieutenant General Sir William Marshall
Born29 October 1865[1]
Stranton, near Hartlepool, County Durham, England
Died29 May 1939(1939-05-29) (aged 73)
Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, France
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1886--1925
RankLieutenant-General
UnitSherwood Foresters
Commands1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
87th Brigade
42nd (East Lancashire) Division
29th Division
53rd (Welsh) Division
27th Division
Southern Army, India
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of IndiaOrder of the White Eagle, 2nd Class (Serbia)[2]

Lieutenant-General Sir William Raine Marshall GCMG KCB KCSI (29 October 1865 – 29 May 1939) was a British Army officer who in November 1917 succeeded Sir Stanley Maude (upon the latter's death from cholera) as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Mesopotamia. He kept that position until the end of the First World War.

  1. ^ F. B. Maurice, Marshall, Sir William Raine (1865–1939), rev. Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 19 October 2016
  2. ^ "No. 29945". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 February 1917. p. 1606.