Archive of Victorian Bushmen Trooper, Aviator, and Politician

Laurence George Hatton Marshall (1884 - 1966), Victorian…
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Laurence George Hatton Marshall (1884 - 1966), Victorian Imperial Bushmens Regiment trooper No.100. Awarded the Queen's South Africa medal with clasps for cape Colony, Rhodesia, orange free state & Transvaal. Pioneer Aviator and Politician. An archive containing: 1: Marshall's Victorian Bushmens Regiment tunic with original brass buttons and chain-mail epaulettes. 2: a pocket-size 'Book of Common Prayer' with the written dedication 'To My dear Son Laurence on his leaving for South Africa. April 28, 1900, E. Marshall'. 3: an original photograph (10 x 14.5 cm) of Marshall together with another Victorian Bushman and a native tracker (in jacket & tie!). 4: two letters home to his sweetheart; one from S.S.Victoria (21 May 1900), the other from Hillside camp (13/3/01). 5: Marshall's travelling writing slope containing his cigar cutter, a few coins, wooden souvenirs from South Africa, his 'Description card for active, Service', a cinema advertising slide recommending Marshall for the, Victorian Legislative Council and several original photographs. 6: Marshall's South Africa medals with ribbons and clasps. 7: a souvenir handkerchief depicting a map of South Africa, the words and music to 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' by Arthur Sullivan and vignette, portraits of Queen Victoria and Lord Roberts. 8: an original albumen photograph of the scene outside Flinders Street, station on the return of the Victorian Contingent. 14.5 x 20.5 cm. 9: an original photograph of Marshall in the aircraft he constructed himself, preparing for a flight at Ivanhoe in February 1912. (see Brogden, Stanley, 'History of Australian Aviation' pp.26-27.) also, the original printer's block, of the image. 10: Councillor L.G.H Marshall's city of Collingwood 9ct gold fob, engraved with his name and 'Elected 23.8.24' and 'Mayor 1936-37'. 11: cabin trunk emblazoned 'W.E. Marshall'. 12: a framed portrait photograph in military uniform. 13: Replacement King's South Africa medal, with clasps for 1901 & 1902 not named!, from being the youngest 'Man' to enlist for service in the Victorian Contingents to the Boer war, to his attempts to win the Commonwealth Government prize of £10,000 for the 'Production of a flying machine' to his later career as a Collingwood city councillor and Labor candidate for the Legislative Council, Marshall had a full and active life. Actually a butcher by trade, he died in 1966, aged 82.

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  • Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

    The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.

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