Arthur Marshall (c1909-1969)

Arthur Marshall (c1909-1969)

1969 Died. 'Mr. Arthur Marshall, of Jarawac, Trevarrick, St. Austell, died recently in the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, after a short Illness. Aged 60, Mr. Marahall was a Fellow of the Institute of Building, and was awarded the M.B.E. in June, 1944, for his services to wartime building. He also received a certificate of recognition of his services as Emergency Works Officer with the Emergency Services Organisation between 1940 and 1945. A native of London, Mr. Marshall came to the South West with the Ministry of Works, and during the war was engaged on building military hospitals and on blitz repair work in Plymouth. He was associated with Costains and then the Coal Industry Housing Association before coming to St. Austell as a director of Selleck Nicholls Ltd. (now Selleck Nicholls Williams Ltd.). In May 1961 Mr. Marshall went into business on his own account and founded the firm of Building Services Countrywide. Ltd. He was also a director, with his friend Mr. Ernest Hancock of Warmawall Ltd. a firm dealing with the cavity insulation of houses, and was Managing Director of Resiform (Bodmin) Ltd. which makes reinforced glass fibre industrial building components at Walker Lines, Bodmin. At the time of his death Mr. Marshall was Chairman of the East Cornwall Branch of the Federation of Master Builders. Mr. Marshall was a member of the Carlyon Bay Golf Club. He is survived by a widow and five children. The funeral at Penmount Crematorium was largely attended, and there were numerous floral tributes.'

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