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D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919.
M.C. London Gazette 23 June 1915.
M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915; 5 July 1919.
Thomas Bertram Joseph Mahar was born in Nova Scotia in 1882. During the Boer War he volunteered for service in the South African
Constabulary. On the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 he travelled to Britain and joined the Army as a Private in the King’s Royal
Rifle Corps. Entering France, he was appointed a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant on 27 January 1915, being advanced to Temporary
Lieutenant in August 1916, Temporary Captain in October 1916 and Temporary Major in April 1918. He served in France and
Flanders, November 1914-February 1916; October 1916-May 1917, and August 1917-November 1918. During the war he was
wounded in action. For his services during the war he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O and M.C. Major
Mahar was demobilised in September 1919. Post war he conducted a geological survey and performed other work for the Imperial
Government in Central Africa and was later employed in East Africa. Mahar returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1926. There he owned
and operated the Halifax Tyre and Rubber Goods Company for a number of years. During the inter-war years he commanded the
Strathcona Horse in Calgary for five years and held several staff appointments. In July 1940, then living at 9 College Street, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Major Mahar of the Royal Army Reserve, rejoined the Army, becoming a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army. He was
employed as Officer in Charge, Detention Buildings, Halifax, and was later District Intelligence Officer. In October 1943 he was
promoted to Major and appointed Security Officer, Atlantic Command H.Q. Later he was appointed Administration and Training
Officer to the No. 6 Reserve Fortress Signals. By 1947 he had become Staff Officer, No. 36 Brigade Group, Halifax. Post-W.W.2 he
served as Security Officer attached to H.M.C.S. Dockyard, Halifax, under naval authorities from 1947 until his retirement in 1951.
Major Mahar, D.S.O., M.C., whose military service encompassed three wars, died in 1964 and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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A rare Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Commander B. C. Marsh, Royal Indian Marine,
later Major, Royal Engineers
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, G.V.R.; AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Sub-Lieut. B. C. Marsh R.
I.M.S. Hardinge); NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Lieut. B. C. Marsh, R.I.M.S. Minto); 1914
-15 STAR (Lieut. B. C. Marsh R.I.M.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Major B. C. Marsh); CORONATION 1911 (Lieut. B. C.
Marsh, R.I.M.S. Dufferin) mounted as worn, obverse centre depressed on the first, otherwise generally good very fine (7)
£2000-2500
D.S.O. London Gazette 22 December 1916.
Bruce Cunliffe Marsh was born at Kasauli, India, on 8 September 1879, son of Major-General F. H. B. Marsh. He joined the Royal
Indian Marine in February 1901 and was promoted to Lieutenant in February 1905. He was Assistant Marine Transport Officer with
Force “D”, Mesopotamia, from August 1914 until September 1917, when he was seconded as a Temporary Major in the Royal
Engineers, along with many other R.I.M. officers, when the Inland Water Transport took over responsibility from the Royal Indian
Marine.
Marsh was mentioned in the despatch of 5 April 1916 from General Sir John Nixon on the operations in Mesopotamia from mid-April
to the end of September 1915, covering the operations around Amara, 30 May to 4 June. He was also mentioned in Nixon’s despatch
of 10 May 1916, covering the operations of October to December 1915, the battle of Ctesiphon and the withdrawal to Kut. He reverted
to the R.I.M. in April 1918 and was appointed Senior Marine Transport Officer at Rangoon. In December 1918 he had temporary rank
of Captain, R.N., aboard R.I.M.S. Dufferin. He was subsequently Port Officer at Bassein and retired on 30 May 1921. Sold with original
warrant for the D.S.O., dated 22 December 1916, and copy record of service which shows 4 ‘mentions’ during the war.
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