William Marshall (British Army officer)

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Sir William Raine Marshall (1865–1939) was a British military officer who in November 1917 succeeded Sir Frederick 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 World War One.

After the war he served in India at Southern Command until 1923.

He retired in 1924 and died in 1939.

[edit] External references

• Who's Who: Sir William Marshall
• For a synopsis of Sir William Marshall's career in WWI and a photograph of his, see Who's Who in the British High Command