b'99593 Rupertswood half-battery of Horse Artillery, and the new corps LAURENCE GEORGE HATTON MARSHALL (1884 - 1966) have already undergone a fair amount of drill.Victorian Imperial Bushmens Regiment Trooper No.100. Colonel Tom Price, the commanding officer of the Victorian Awarded the Queens South Africa Medal with clasps for CapeMounted Rifles, has been appointed to the command also of the Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State & Transvaal, and the theMelbourne Cavalry Corps.Kings South Africa Medal, with clasps for 1901 & 1902. PioneerThe uniform of the new corps consists of a blue tunic with Aviator and Politician. yellow braid, blue riding pants with a yellow stripe, black boots, An archive comprising of: steel spurs, and white helmet, with a gilt spike. The troops will 1: Marshalls Victorian Bushmens Regiment tunic with originalbe armed with the cavalry sabre and carbine.brass buttons and chain-mail epualettes. Nottages family conducted business as Nottages Wholesale & 2: A pocket-size Book of Common Prayer with the writtenRetail Clothing Store at 220 - 222 Smith Street Collingwood. The dedication To My dear Son Laurence on his Leaving for Southbusiness had been established at the height of the gold-rush, in Africa. April 28, 1900 E. Marshall. 1852. At the time he joined the Melbourne Cavalry he was living in a home he built in Heidelberg Road, Clifton Hill. He worked in 3: An original photograph (10 x 14.5cm) of Marshall together withthe business until he retired, in 1916, and also present in this lot, another Victorian Bushman and a native tracker (in jacket & tie!). is the tray he received on April 11, 1916 from his colleagues in 3: Two letters home to his sweetheart; one from S.S.Victoria (21the Travellers & Warehousemens Association.May 1900), the other from Hillside Camp (13/3/01). $2,0003,0004: Marshalls travelling writing slope containing his cigar cutter, a few coins, wooden souvenirs from South Africa, his595Description Card for Active Service, a cinema advertising slideHERMANUS WILLEM KOEKKOEK (Dutch), framed monotone recommending Marshall for the Victorian Legislative Council andpainting of a Boer War scene showing Scots Guards on patrol, several original photographs. signed at lower right, 40 x 55cm.5: Marshalls South Africa Medals with ribbons and clasps. $200300 6: 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.7: An original albumen photograph of the scene outside Flinders Street Station on the return of the Victorian Contingent. 14.5 x 20.5cm.8: 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 printers block of the image.9: Councillor L.G.H Marshalls CITY OF COLLINGWOOD9ct gold fob, engraved with his name and ELECTED 23.8.24 and MAYOR 1936-37.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.$2,0003,000 594ASKAM RICHARD NOTTAGE (1861 - 1918)Member of the Melbourne CavalryNottages Melbourne Cavalry tunic with six original Victorian Pro deo et Patria brass buttons (and a Police Force Victoria button under the left epualette); accompanied by the white helmet (by R.Z. Bloomfield Ltd, London) with gilt spike issued to the members of this small force, which numbered only 45 men at its inception in 1901. Also present is a horse-hair plume (in red) which appears to have been used on ceremonial occasions.With reproduction photos of Nottage in uniform on horseback and some associated photocopies.The Argus newspaper of 23 April 1901 reported:THE MELBOURNE CAVALRY. A NEW CORPS.The Melbourne Cavalry Corps, which was recently founded as a volunteer arm of the Victorian militia force, will be represented prominently in the forthcoming celebrations, a strong body of the cavalrymen being now available. Therein a considerable percentage of trained soldiers in this corps, which includes several members of the old 594'