A British soldier who delivered a 100-bed Ebola Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone will receive an MBE for his work.
Chilwell-based Staff Sergeant Adam Marshall is to be recognised with an MBE in the latest Operational Honours and Awards list for ‘demonstrating maturity and leadership far beyond his rank’.
The father of three, British soldier from the Corps of Royal Engineers, delivered a 100-bed Ebola Treatment Unit in eight weeks in Sierra Leone.
Staff Sergeant Adam Marshall took on the role that is normally filled by an experienced Captain.
Taking command, he rapidly built a close-knit team that was said to display the highest standards of discipline and military professionalism.
After hearing about his award Marshall said: “It’s slightly surreal to be honest.
It sounds like an old cliché but obviously I was doing my job in Sierra Leone and I don’t class it as anything other than that.
Staff Sergeant Adam Marshall.
His citation read: “Marshall’s enormous contribution in creating a 100-bed Ebola Treatment Unit in just eight weeks cannot be understated.”
The announcement of his MBE was made on July 2 with the release of the latest Operational Honours and Awards list.
Marshall and his team were deployed to Freetown at a moment’s notice because of the Ebola crisis. He said: “It was busy. My days were full, constantly, but I absolutely loved it.
I had a really, really great bunch of guys working with me at the FOB and working with me on site.
Staff Sergeant Adam Marshall.
“Handing the facility over to what was going encourage people to go and get Ebola treatment and to get their symptoms diagnoses early and their possible survival, and helping the district – it was a brilliant feeling.”
Staff Sergeant Marshall is already a recipient of the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service for his work in Afghanistan.
The awards are primarily for actions on Operation Gritrock, which is the military operation with regard to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, and Operation Herrick in Afghanistan over the period of July 1 to December 31 in 2014.
