Part 130

=MARSHALL, EVELYN SAFFREY=, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., 6th _s._ of the Rev. Edward Thory Marshall, M.A., Vicar of Sutton-in-the-Isle, Hon. Canon of Ely, by his wife, Lucy Charlotte Emma, dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Charles Henry Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire; _b._ Manea, Isle of Ely, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stancliffe Hall School and Repton; and Camborne School of Mines; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Empire Battn. Royal Fusiliers, Sept. 1914, as a Motor-cycle Despatch Rider; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. Royal Warwickshire Regt. 25 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 7 Aug. 1915; left for Gallipoli, 19 June, 1915, and took part in both evacuations at the end of the year; was specially mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, in Gen. Monro’s Despatches from the Dardanelles; joined Mesopotamian Relief Force, March, 1916, and died in Hospital on 6 April of wounds received the previous day at Falahiyeh (El Hannel); _unm._ In reporting his death, Col. Gordon wrote: “We are all most deeply grieved. He led his company most gallantly at Falahiyeh, and in no small measure contributed to the brilliant success and capture of the Turkish trenches. He was one of the noblest men I have ever known, brave to a fault, modest, warmhearted, cheerful when everyone else was depressed, enduring and the most capable leader of men. His company was devoted to him, and all wanted to stay by him on his stretcher.” A brother officer wrote: “At Suvla, when most people fell sick, he was one of the mainstays of the battn., and kept things going when most others were ready to give in. I can remember how at one time he hung on with great grit against an overcoming sickness which would have sent others down to the hospital ship.” Another letter said: “All his men worshipped him, and would have followed him anywhere.” An officer wounded in Gallipoli told how Capt. Marshall practically saved his life by ripping the fleecy lining out of his coat and sending him down to the hospital in it. His brother, Capt. J. E. Marshall, was also killed in action (see his notice).

=MARSHALL, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11469, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd _s._ of John William Marshall, by his wife, Isabella (41, Curzon Street, Birmingham), dau. of William Hoare; _b._ Birmingham, 30 May, 1890; educ. Cowper Street Council School there; was a Brass Polisher; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 5 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 9 July, 1915, by a rifle grenade while on sentry duty; _unm._ An officer of his battn. wrote to his brother: “He was killed by a rifle grenade which fell into the trench close by him, but as he was shot through the heart death must have been instantaneous and quite painless.... Ever since I have known him, some three months, your brother did well in everything, being one of the first to volunteer for a patrol about five weeks ago, and, which is a more difficult thing than any momentary act of bravery, whether in the trenches or in billets, he invariably did his duty cheerfully and willingly, an excellent example to all. He will be buried in Cambrin Churchyard, a village close to Bethune.”

=MARSHALL, GEORGE GARTH=, Lieut., 11th Hussars, 2nd _s._ of Victor Alexander Ernest Garth Marshall, of Monk Coniston, co. Lancaster, by his wife, Victoria Alberta Alexandrina, eldest dau. of Gen. the Hon. Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, K.C.B., M.P., and granddau. of George, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., P.C., Prime Minister (1852–55); _b._ South Kensington, 6 Dec. 1884; educ. Marlborough; joined the Lancashire R.F.A. (Militia) in 1904, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 11th Hussars, 20 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 16 Sept. 1909. He was stationed in Dublin, and afterwards at Shorncliffe and Aldershot, and was appointed A.D.C. to Gen. Sir E. H. Allenby, K.C.B., commanding Cavalry Corps just before the outbreak of war. He went to France in Aug. 1914, served in the retreat from Mons, the advance to the Aisne, and the movement to the Calais front, and was killed in Ypres by a shell while carrying a despatch to Gen. Haig, commanding 1st Army Corps, on 6 Nov. 1914. Gen. Allenby wrote: “He was a devoted A.D.C., indefatigable and capable.” A brother officer wrote: “If there is a consolation it is in the memory of his example, which will always live with us who knew him,” and Gen. Hamilton Gordon, commanding at Aldershot, said: “We all loved him.” He was _unm._

=MARSHALL, ISAIAH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9597), S.S. 106977, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARSHALL, JENNER STEPHEN CHANCE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., only _s._ of the late Jenner Guest Marshall, of Westcott Barton Manor, co. Oxford, J.P., by his wife, Grace Eleanor (now wife of the Rev. George Miller, Rector of Teffont Ewyas, near Salisbury), dau. of A. de Peyster Chance, of Wheatfields, Worcester, J.P.; _b._ Hagley, co. Worcester, 1 June, 1895; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth Verites, Charterhouse, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Oxford and Bucks L.I., 17 Sept. 1913; went to France with his Battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, in Aug. 1914, and died on 23 Oct. following, of wounds received on the 21st. near Langemarck, Ypres. Buried in Ypres Cemetery; _unm._

=MARSHALL, JOHN EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 2nd _s._ of the Rev. Edward Thory Marshall, M.A., Vicar of Sutton-in-the-Isle, Hon. Canon of Ely, by his wife, Lucy Charlotte Emma, dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Charles Henry Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire; _b._ Coveney, Isle of Ely, 3 June, 1881; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School and Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Garrison Regt. from the Militia, 28 Jan. 1903; promoted Lieut. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 17 Oct. 1906, and Capt. 30 Aug. 1914; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901 to Feb. 1902, and in Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); with the West African Regt. from 29 Aug. 1908 to 2 April, 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 18 Dec. 1914 to 30 March, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Kemmel; _unm._ Buried there. Brig.-Gen. J. S. Maude, commanding 4th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I just wanted as General Commanding the Brigade to bear testimony to the splendid work which has been done by your gallant son since he has been with us. It was not my good fortune to know your son intimately, but I had noted him especially on several occasions for his quiet unassuming manner, a characteristic which is often associated with more sterling qualities. He was in every respect a thoroughly capable and efficient officer; he fell as a gallant soldier at the head of his men, a brilliant example of personal bravery and devotion to duty”; and Major H. T. Cantan: “He is a great loss to the regt., being a very smart officer, and one of my best company commanders, a man to whom I had hardly to express my wishes before the matter was done or placed in hand. He had always shown great bravery, and did not, I think, know fear. I only hope that my boys will grow up with the same pluck and endurance.” Capt. W. T. Brooks also wrote: “My regard for your son was sincere, and I admired greatly the way he handled his men under very trying circumstances. His loss to me is very great, and to our regt. of which we are so proud.... I must say again what a severe loss we have suffered, for your son was not only a fine officer, who looked well after his men and feared nothing, but when out of the trenches he kept people going.” A yr. brother, Capt. E. S. Marshall, 9th Royal Warwicks, died of wounds in Mesopotamia, 6 April, 1916.

=MARSHALL, PERCY STANLEY THOMAS=, Private, No. 7905, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of William Marshall, of 4, Lochinvar Street, Balham, S.W., late Trooper, Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, Lucy Jane, dau. of William Bartholomew Pestete, of Bacton. Norfolk; _b._ Southwark, S.E., 11 April, 1891; educ. Cavendish Road School, Balham; enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regt. in Jan. 1907; served seven years with the Colours, and then joined the Reserve; mobilised on 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and died at Jemappes, 11 Sept. following, of wounds received in action there, 23 or 24 Aug.; _unm._ Buried in the garden of the Institute of St. Ferdinand, Jemappes.

=MARSHALL, ROGER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham Light Infantry, yst. _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Marshall, of Annstead, Chathill, Northumberland, late 3rd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers; _b._ Annstead afsd., 25 Jan. 1891; educ. privately; joined the Special Reserve, R.F.A., 10 Aug. 1910; was granted Aviator’s Certificate of the Royal Aero Club. 30 April, 1913; passed Army Examination, March, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 2nd Durham L.I., 15 July, 1914, and joined 6 Aug. 1914; went with his battn. as part of the 6th Division to France in Sept., and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914, only four days after his arrival at the Front; _unm._

=BURT-MARSHALL, WILLIAM MARSHALL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, yst. _s._ of the late James Burt-Marshall, of Luncarty, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Katherine, dau. of the late David Bannerman, J.P.; _b._ Luncarty, 14 July, 1887; educ. at Rugby, where he was in the XI and XV (playing half-back), Steward of Athletics, and winner of the School Mile and passed into Sandhurst in 1906. He was in the XV of 1906–7, captaining the team of 1907 when they beat Woolwich by a score which was a record up to that period. He was also in the XI of 1908. On 19 Sept. 1908 he was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders then in South Africa, where they remained until Jan. 1910, when the regiment returned to Scotland. He was promoted Lieut., 10 Sept. 1910. On 9 Aug. 1914 the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders left Fort George for France, and from then onwards were in the thick of all the fighting. They were personally complimented by Sir John French on their performance in the Battle of Le Cateau. In Sept. Lieut. Burt-Marshall was in command of A Coy., which command he held, save for one short period, until he fell. Capt. H. Clark, writing of him, said “All through the retreat he was strong of heart and untiring in devotion to duty. All the way back towards Paris, and right up again to the Aisne, he was with his men, encouraging and influencing them, and gradually the company grew to its original strength again. On 8 Nov. a special duty in Ploegsteert Wood was detailed to us. The capture of an advanced German trench which had proved a veritable thorn in the British side was imperative, and the 93rd were asked to do what others had already tried to do and failed. All through the 9th the battn. lay in the wood shelled at intervals; the attack was ordered for that night, three companies were to advance from different points against the enemy trench, and while our guns were paving the way for the assault we silently moved forward to our allotted positions. When the shelling stopped the attack crept closer, but the German flare lights showed up our line and we rose and dashed for the trench. He was at the head of his men and led the charge. He ran right up to the German barbed wire, was hit and fell, but rose again and dashed on to the parapet where he fell again. No one could get up to him, and those who were able crawled back to reform with the remnants of the companies.” For some months it was hoped that news might come that he was a prisoner, but on 8 Feb. the War Office reported that Capt. Burt-Marshall had died of wounds in a German Field Hospital at Quesnoy on 17 Nov. 1914.

=MARSON, HERBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class K. 14685 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARSON, JOHN CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. The Welsh Regt. (13th Divisional Pioneers), only _s._ of the Rev. Charles Latimer Marson, Vicar of Hambridge, Somerset (died 3 March, 1914), by his wife, Clotilda (86, Oakwood Road, Golders Green, N.W.). dau. of Dr. Peter Bayne, author of “Chief Actors of the Puritan Revolution,” etc., and gdson. of the Rev. Charles Marson, Vicar of Clevedon; _b._ 62, Gower Street, London, 15 April, 1896; educ. Eastington, Clevedon; Honiton Grammar School; Sherborne (1910–13), and matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the latter year. As he, however, wished to become a naval architect, he changed to Glasgow University, and spent a year between there and Fairfield Shipbuilding Works. At Sherborne and Glasgow University he had belonged to the O.T.C.’s, and he was offered a commission the day war broke out, and at once signed on for foreign service. On 1 Sept. 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., and after a month’s training at Barry Camp, was drafted into the 6th Battn. of the Loyal North Lancashires. He was for some months in training at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth. Early in 1915 the officers of the 6th North Lancashires who had any engineering experience were invited to volunteer for the 13th Pioneer Division of the Welsh Regt. Marson at once responded and migrated to Tournay Barracks, Aldershot, where he stayed in training until his regt. left for the Dardanelles on Tuesday, 15 June, 1915. They were nearly five weeks at Lemnos before crossing to the Peninsula. On 7 Aug. he wrote to his mother from the trenches:--“To-night is a supreme test of the men of K.s Army. Numbers are bound to be killed. This may be the last letter. However, I have a conviction it will not be yet.” Early on the following morning (Sunday) he was killed in action with the Anzacs. He was shot through the forehead and killed instantaneously on the summit of Chunuk Bair. Capt. Gordon Williams, his commanding officer, wrote: “He was a great favourite with us all, and he made an excellent officer, always showing plenty of keenness and was never, if I may so say, without a cheery smile on his face. We had to hold a hill that day with the New Zealanders against terrific counter attacks, and your son, throughout the action, behaved magnificently, finally to be shot down, bayonet and rifle in hand, surrounded by Turks. His men brought him in, and Lieut. Gwyther had him placed on a stretcher during the fight, but he died at once, and could only be buried then and there, right in the midst of the fighting. We all feel his death awfully, and that of our brother officers who fell that day. The hill was lost next day by the regts. that relieved us, so there our dead officers and men lie buried by the Turks who are very chivalrous in this respect. The regt. earned a great name for itself that day, but suffered severely”; and Lieut. Evan B. Gwyther: “He died leading his men on, and yards in front of all; and he was last seen alive fighting 10 or 15 Turks all by himself. He did not know what fear was, and everybody admired his pluck, and was amazed at his courage. There wasn’t a man in his platoon that could speak too highly of his courage, pluck and determination. I am glad to tell you his sufferings were nil, as he died the moment he fell.” The Lieut.-Col. (J. A. Bald) also wrote: “I was unfortunately wounded myself that day before the regt. as a whole went into action, and so missed what I had been looking forward to so keenly, namely, to go into action with them all, and also could not see how all my brave officers led their men, but I did hear that the last seen of your son was, that he was gallantly leading his platoon in the face of what must have been a very severe fire, rifle in hand, more than ready to do his share. I always looked on him as absolutely without fear and knew, when it came to the point, he would show himself a good leader. The regt. lost many good officers it could ill spare, who will be a loss both to it and the Army at large. Your son before the fighting began showed himself a keen officer and did some very hard work for me when we were at Lemnos.” Major H. Lynn Stevens, Adjutant of the 8th Welsh, wrote: “It will be a source of never-ending pride to know that your son died fighting most gallantly in a hand-to-hand attack upon the enemy at the summit of Chunuk Bair. He would not suffer restraint, but charged forward outstripping everybody in his resolve to do his duty.”

=MARTIN, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 2107, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of John Martin, of Capel House Lodge, Turkey Street, Waltham Cross, Herts, Gardener, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John and (Ann) Savage; _b._ Romford, co. Essex, 11 Aug. 1895; educ. Forty Hill, Enfield and Ramsbury, Wilts; was employed in the garden at Capel House; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 6 March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and died at No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Merville, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May previous; _unm._ Buried in Merville Cemetery.

=MARTIN, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16124, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MARTIN, AYLMER RICHARD SANCTON=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., _s._ of the late Rev. H. Martin, Vicar of Thatcham, Newbury, Berkshire; _b._ Newbury, co. Berks, 19 Nov. 1870; educ. Bradfield College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the Royal Fusiliers, 4 March, 1891, and Lieut. 26 June, 1892 and later the same year transferred to the Royal Lancaster Regt.; became Capt. 25 Jan. 1900, Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900, Major 8 Sept. 1906, and Lieut.-Col. 13 Dec. 1912; served through the South African War, 1899–1901, including the relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz, Tugela Heights (14–22 Feb. 1900, wounded) and Laing’s Nek, and acted as Adjutant to the 2nd Battn., 2 Nov. 1899 to 8 Jan. 1900, and 25 Jan to 15 Sept. 1900 (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1910], Queen’s medal with six clasps, Brevet of Major). On his return to England, after passing through the Staff College he was attached to the General Staff at the War Office from 1904 to 1906 and from 1907 to 1912 was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Scottish Command. In 1912 he was given the command of the 2nd Battn. of the King’s Own, then in India. Col. Martin was killed in action at Frezenberg during the fighting around Ypres, 8 May, 1915. He _m._ at Surbiton, 21 July, 1896, Mary Beatrice, dau. of General Charles Terrington Aitchison, C.B., Indian Army, and had a dau., Eileen, _b._ 15 Oct. 1898.

=MARTIN, BASIL CUTHBERT DANVERS=, 2nd Lieut., 13th (Service), attd. 4th, Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. Henry Basil Martin, Rector of Pudleston, Leominster, co. Hereford, by his wife, Gertrude May, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Hannington Irving Child, formerly Rector of Stratton, co. Gloucester; _b._ Sunhill Ranch, Loomis, Placer Co., California, U.S.A., 6 Oct. 1896; educ. Wolborough Hill School, Newton Abbott, South Devon, and Lancing College, Sussex; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13th Worcesters, 14 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 20 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 4th Battn., and was killed in action there, 4 June following; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “I was not near him at the time, but those who were said that he showed perfect coolness and courage all the time. During the few days he was with us I especially noticed him for his keenness and desire to get on and feel very sure that if he had been spared he would have done well.” While at Lancing he was a keen member of the O.T.C., shooting twice at Bisley, where he helped to gain the Cadets’ Challenge Trophy in 1913, and the Public Schools Rapid in 1914, besides gaining several other medals at school, his first being Lord Roberts’s Miniature Rifle Clubs Society, which he won at Wolborough Hill School at the age of 13.

=MARTIN, CECIL TAYLOR=, Assistant Clerk, R.N., elder _s._ of George Martin, of 4, Park Terrace, Silloth, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I., by his wife, Margaret Emily, dau. of Robert Taylor; _b._ Silloth, co. Cumberland, 15 June, 1897; educ. Preparatory School there, Cherbourg, Malvern, and St. Bee’s School, Cumberland; joined the Navy as Assistant Clerk, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARTIN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 8758, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 30 Oct. 1914; _m._

=MARTIN, CHARLES EDWARD JOHN=, Private, No. 7974, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., _s._ of Charles Martin, of 41, Ashbrooke Road, Upper Holloway; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died, 4 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=MARTIN, CHARLES HERBERT GEORGE=, M.A., F.Z.S., Lieut., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late Edward Pritchard Martin, of The Hill, Abergavenny, Mining Engineer and Colliery Owner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of C. H. James, of Merthyr; _b._ Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 5 Oct. 1882, and was educ. at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a high standard of efficiency in biology and obtained his degrees. He was demonstrator in Zoology to the University of Glasgow, and Lecturer at Oxford, and was well-known at Cambridge and at Naples, and was a scientist of European reputation. At Glasgow he joined the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. (T.F.), 12 Oct. 1909, and posted to the 3rd Monmouths, 5 June, 1912. He was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914, being subsequently machine-gun officer. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was killed in action N.E. of Ypres, 2 May, 1915. He was buried between St. Julien and Freezenberg. He published several books on protozoology. When war broke out he was preparing papers for the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. He was also an ardent all-round sportsman, a keen follower of the Monmouthshire Hounds, and was Master of the Crickhowell Harriers. He _m._ at St. Mary’s Church, Abergavenny, 11 June, 1912, Beatrice Elise (The Hill, Abergavenny), only child of Ferdinand Packington John Hanbury, of Nantoer, Abergavenny, J.P., D.L., co. Monmouth, and had a son, Charles Edward Capel, _b._ 21 April, 1913.

=MARTIN, HERBERT EDWARD=, A.B., J. 11840, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=MARTIN, JOHN=, Private, No. 7875, 1st. Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., _s._ of John Martin, of 79, Mill Road, Lewisham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

=MARTIN, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7909, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chill, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MARTIN, JOSEPH EDWARD=, Chief Stoker, (R.F.R., A. 1793), 152383, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=MARTIN, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11808, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.