Leslie Marshall (cricketer)

Leslie Phillips Marshall MC MD TD (25 January 1894 – 28 February 1978) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset between 1913 and 1931.

[1] He was born at Chennai, India, then called Madras, and died at Taunton, Somerset.

Educated at Taunton School, Marshall played in three first-class matches for Somerset at the age of 19 in 1913, but a score of 26 against Derbyshire was his only success.

He was discharged at the end of the war after receiving shrapnel wounds to the leg and buttock.

He lived in Tan House in Blagdon Hill just outside Taunton from World War II until the end of his life.