Donald Valsler Marshall was born in Netheravon, Wiltshire, on 21 August 1900 . His father, Edwin Marshall, was an officer for Customs and Excise. Donald studied medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1917-1922 and graduated with an MB ChB in November 1922 . After completing his terms as House Physician and House Surgeon at Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, he was appointed Senior Assistant Medical Officer at London Road Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme. He was then appointed Deputy Medical Superintendant of Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, circa 1927, and Senior Medical Officer at Kingston Hospital, Hull, in 1929. In 1941 he was appointed Medical Superintendant and Orthopaedic Surgeon at City Hospital, York, and in 1950, he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon of the York and Scarborough Hospital Group. He developed a new method of internal fixation for major fractures to hasten recovery time, which was subsequently used in a number of cases but never properly developed.
His publications include Fixation of Skeletal Traction Pins in The British Medical Journal (1941), The Treatment of Coxitis in The Journal of Bone and Joint Injury (1942), Pulsator Treatment of Crush Injury in The Lancet (1944), Differential Diagnoses of Limp in The Medical Press (1954) and Three Side Plate Fixation for Fractures of Femoral and Tibial Shafts in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (1958). He died in North Connel, Argyll, on 8 July 1979 .
From the guide to the Papers of Donald Valsler Marshall, 1900-1979, medical graduate, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1946-1979, (Glasgow University Archives Service)
