Lt Col Hugh Marshall Hole

Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Marshall_Hole

http://www.freewebs.com/dudleywall/intafsmen.htm

Marshall Hole was born in Tiverton in Devon, England. He was educated at Blundell's School and Balliol College (where he won the Newte exhibition).

Hugh Marshall Hole came to South Africa in 1889 and met the mine magnate and politician Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley. Rhodes offered him a job as the first clerk to the newly formed British South Africa Company. In 1901 Marshall Hole took up the position of private secretary to Sir Starr Jameson in Mashonaland (who was shortly to be appointed Administrator of the Company's territories).

Marshall Hole's other appointments included:

Secretary for Matabeleland; Civil Commissioner of Bulawayo; Chief Secretary of Southern Rhodesia; Chief Native Title Commissioner for Matabeleland; Administrator of North West Rhodesia.

Marshall Hole is best known for issuing "Marshall Hole currency" in Bulawayo in 1900. During the Anglo-Boer War there was a shortage of small change and circulating coinage in Rhodesia.

Cecil Rhodes took a great liking to Marshall Hole and in 1901 had sent him on missions to Arabia to devise means for the introduction of Arab labour to Southern Rhodesia. Marshall Hole also took charge of the arrangements for Rhodes' burial in the Matopo Hills in 1902.

Marshall Hole retired from Government service in 1913 and at the outbreak of World War I he joined The Norfolk Regiment, was mentioned in despatches and retired in 1919.

Hugh Marshall-Hole was invested as a Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.).