BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1907-1909 -- ERIC STEWART MARSHALL (1879-1963)
BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1907-1909 -- ERIC STEWART MARSHALL (1879-1963)

Eric Marshall's set of miniature medals, including his miniature Polar Medal

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BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1907-1909 -- ERIC STEWART MARSHALL (1879-1963)
Eric Marshall's set of miniature medals, including his miniature Polar Medal
the group comprising Marshall's miniature Polar Medal (one clasp, 'Antarctic 1907-0 9'), CBE, MC, 1914 Star, MRCS, Victory Medal (Mentioned in Dispatches) and LRCP
seven medals
Provenance
Eric Stewart Marshall (1879-1963), by whom given to his godson.

Lot Essay

Marshall was surgeon, cartographer and photographer on Shackleton's Nimrod expediton, as well as a member of the Southern Party. In the hut at Cape Royds he concocted 'forced march' tablets, a cocaine preparation that would help see Shackleton, Wild, Adams and Marshall through to their depots after they had exhausted their rations on the desperate march back from their Farthest South of latitude 88° 23' South, longitude 162° East in January 1909.

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