Francis Marshall

Major-General Francis James Marshall (20 August 1876 – 22 May 1942) was a British Army officer.

Military career Group portrait of officers at the British Staff College at Camberley, England, 1906. Francis Marshall, then a captain, is in the third row, third on the left.

Marshall was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders on 28 September 1895.

In February 1914 he was appointed as a deputy assistant adjutant general.

Promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel in April 1915, while serving as an assistant adjutant and quartermaster general (AA&QMG), In June 1916 he was made a brevet lieutenant colonel. He became commander of the 150th (York and Durham) Brigade in June 1918 and was general officer commanding 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division in September 1918 on the Western Front during the First World War.

Marshall, promoted to brevet colonel on 1 January 1919, went on to be director of military training at the War Office in 1920, commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade in October 1923, and GOC of the Territorial Army's 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division in September 1930 before retiring from the army in September 1934.