Archive of Victorian Bushmen Trooper, Aviator, and Politician

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.