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Pte. George R.S. Marchant
British Army Suffolk Regiment
L/Cpl. George Frederick Marchant
British Army Worcestershire Regiment
from:Battersea, London
George Marchant was a professional soldier from 1902 - 1912 serving in India with the Gurka regiment. He joined the Worcestershire Regiment in 1914 and served until seriously wounded at Ypres and returned to Great Britain. He refused to have his arm amputated and eventually recovered from his wounds. He re-enlisted in 1916 in The Labour Corps again serving on the Front. He was eventually badly wounded again on The Somme and returned to Great Britain. I would dearly love to find out which Company of the Labour Corps he served with. He did talk of the Chinese soldiers to my Grandmother and Father.
CSM. George Thomas Marchant
British Army 2nd Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:St Pancras
(d.19th May 1917)
Rfm Joseph John Marchant
British Army 16th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:London
(d.24th Aug 1916)
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, I want to share with you a letter received by my great-grandparents in October 1916. It was from a complete stranger who had buried their son's body. My great-uncle Joe was 20 years old when he died on the Somme on August 24th 1916. His sister (my lovely Nan - Violet Eames nee Marchant) was 5 years old the day the telegram arrived and, all her life, she told me how she could still remember her mother's screams coming from the kitchen. He was S/15523 Rifleman Joseph John Marchant of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was one of 419, 654 British soldiers to die during the long battle. God bless every one of them. I'm so proud of him. The two letters found on him were to his parents and to his fiancee, Gracie Pennington. She grieved for him for over 20 years before she finally asked permission, of my great-grandparents, to marry.
From 1st Southern General Hospital, Kings Heath, Birmingham on 22/10/1916 P2078 Lance Corporal Ernest Norris of the Mounted Military Police writes "Dear Friends, Just a few lines to tell you that on the 9th inst whilst I was crossing the battle field in France I saw a dead comrade laid some distance from the firing lines and he had been missed by the burying party. I looked in his pockets for his pay book to find out what he belonged to and found he was 15523 Joseph Marchant 16 KRR 9 Platoon. There was also two letters which he had wrote ready to be posted. One was to Mr & Mrs Marchant 59 Cowper Road Stoke Newington London and one to Miss Pennington 145 West Green Road Seven Sisters Road Tottenham London. I thought I had better write to you as you may not know what had become of your son. I may say that I buried him at night and made him a good grave. He had some photographs but I considered to put them in the poor lads grave as they had been spoilt with the rain. He must have been killed about six weeks or two months ago by his appearance and the dates on the letters he had written in his pay book. I didn't bury him in a cemetary as there was not one near and it was a risky job as the Germans had a clear view but the nearest village to his grave is Flers on the Somme district. I got a bullet wound the next morning at 8am and have been sent to this hospital. Friends I trust I have not brought any bad memories back to you but thought it was best to write to you as you would be wondering what had become of the poor boy. You have my deepest sympathy at your great loss. I remain yours respectfully Cpl E Norris PS I will furnish you with more information if you require it"
What a wonderfully generous act of humanity and bravery to risk his own life to bury a stranger and then to take the trouble to write to his family. I wish with all my heart I could thank him. I have tried, many times over the years, to trace his family but to no avail. I would love them to know what he did for my great-uncle.
Pte. William Marchant
British Army 29th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Brighouse, West Riding
(d.10th Apr 1918)
William Marchant born 23rd of Jan 1898 in Bradford, West Yorkshire was the oldest son of Charles James Marchant and Sarah Ann Bourne. He died in France and Flanders, killed in Action with 2 officers and another soldier on 10th of April 1918
Originally he signed up to the West Riding Regiment, the Duke of Wellingtons and transferred to Machine Gun Corps on 28th of December 1916. His British War Victory Medal was accepted by his father in Brighouse on 26th of April 1922.
He is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. He was the eldest brother to my maternal grandmother Lily Watson nee Marchant.
Pte. Robert Bruce Marchbank
British Army 12th Btn, C Coy. Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.19th Aug 1918)
Pte. Arthur Ernest Marchbanks
British Army 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.27th Oct 1917)
Arthur Ernest Marchbanks served with the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. He was aged 26 when he died on 27th October 1917. Born in Jarrow in 1891, he was the son of James and Elizabeth Marchbanks (nee Scot), he lived and enlisted Jarrow.
Arthur is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow, on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow and he was also commemorated on the Triptych (right panel) in St. Mark's Church Jarrow (it is no longer a Church)
Pte. Thomas Diedrich Marcussen
New Zealand Army New Zealand Mounted Machine Gun Squadron
from:Musselburgh, Dunedin
(d.4th Dec 1918)
Thomas Marcussen was the son of Mrs. Agnes Marcussen of 5 Prince's St., Musselburgh, Dunedin. Born at Bluff, Southland. He served on the Western Front in 1917. He was 22 when he died and is buried in the Bluff Cemetery, Southland District, New Zealand.
Sgt. Charles Marden
British Army B Coy., 11th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
Stokr1. Edwin James Marden
Royal Navy Drake Battalion
from:Portsmouth
Edwin Marden served with Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division.
2AB. Frank Joseph Mareburger
U.S. Navy USS Lenape
from:Oklahoma City, OK
Frank Mareburger was assigned to the USS Lenape on 25th of July 1917.
L/Cpl. Frederick William John Marett
British Army 8th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:Weaste, Lancs
(d.15th July 1916)
Frederick Marett served with 8th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. I am researching Frederick for my grand daughters.
Pte. Frederick George Margrove
British Army 11th Battalion att. 54 Mortar Battery Royal Fusiliers
from:35, Sandford Avenue, Wood Green, London.
(d.2nd Nov1917)
Uncle Fred Margrove, who I never knew, volunteered for duty in September 1914, joining the 11th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and was later attached to 54th Mortar Battery. After training, at Muswell Hill and on Salisbury Plain, he proceeded to Folkestone and embarked for Boulogne.
Along with his Battalion he fought on the Somme battle front between 1914 and 1916. He then went to the Ypres Salient and was involved in the '3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendale) where he was mortally wounded near Poelcappelle. He subsequently died of his wounds and is buried at Dozinghem cemetery. He was one of thirteen children, of whom my mother was one. I have been researching him for two years now but, so far, have been unable to find a photograph of him.
Rflmn. William Mariner VC
British Army 2nd Btn. B Coy King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Lower Broughton, Manchester.
(d.1st July 1916)
William Mariner died on the 1st July 1916, aged 34 and is commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial in France. he was the son of Mrs. Alice Wignall, of 18, Fletcher St., Lower Broughton, Manchester.
An extract from The London Gazette dated 23rd June, 1915, records the following:-"During a violent thunderstorm on the night of 22nd May, 1915, he left his trench near Cambrin, and crept out through the German wire entanglements till he reached the emplacement of a German machine gun which had been damaging our parapets and hindering our working parties. After climbing on the top of the German parapet he threw a bomb in under the roof of the gun emplacement and heard some groaning and the enemy running away. After about a quarter of an hour he heard some of them coming back again, and climbed up on the other side of the emplacement and threw another bomb among them left-handed. He then lay still while the Germans opened a heavy fire on the wire entanglement behind him, and it was only after about an hour that he was able to crawl back to his own trench. Before starting out he had requested a serjeant to open fire on the enemy's trenches as soon as he had thrown his bombs. Rifleman Mariner was out alone for one and half hours carrying out this gallant work".
Pte. Nicolas Marino
British Army 2nd Btn. Scots Guards
from:Edinburgh
(d.19th Apr 1916)
Nicolas Marino was my great-grandfather, the son of Joseph Marino, a professional violinist from Italy. He was killed in action at the age of 19. He had one child, my grandmother, Helen Marino, who was born in June 1915. He is remembered at the Menin Gate in Ypres.
Bmdr. James Edward Mariutto
British Army 138th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Dowgate Wharf, London
James Mariutto was one of the sons of Giovanni Mariutto, an Italian from Cavasso Nuovo, Udine, who came to London to run the company Diespeker & Co., on behalf of Luigi Oderico - they were specialists in mosaics and terrazzo. His mother was Sarah Matilda Webb, who came from Littlebury, Essex, and was in service in London, where she met Giovanni. James was born in Holloway, on 10th November 1893. In the 1901 Census the family were living at 45 Queen's Head Street, Islington.
In the summer of 1915, he was a Customs Officer, but then enlisted with the 138th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery the Hampstead Heavies. He was allocated to the Sub B (right) section. After being in action around the area of Bethune, they were transferred to Ypres, and the Battery was located in what was left of the town, between the Cloth Hall and the Prison. As detailed in the War Diary, he received a bad shrapnel wound to the upper left leg over the night of 7th/8th June 1917, this was at the time that the Battle of Messines Ridge was in progress. After initial dressing, he was later repatriated via a casualty clearing station.
Following further treatment in the UK, he was sent to a Red Cross auxiliary facility, Adelaide Hospital, in Blackpool, Lancashire. This was a former small hotel, his wife-to-be, Gertrude Mary Daniel, was the daughter of the owner. They married in the second quarter of 1921 and had two daughters. The family name was changed to Marriott in the late 1920s.
James never fully recovered from his leg wound, but was initially able to gain employment with Blackpool Corporation, as a tram driver. After WW2, he was only able to work part-time, as an office cleaner. The couple moved to a sheltered ground-floor flat in 1974, from which time he was always in a wheelchair. He died at the end of 1980, in Rossall Hospital, Fleetwood.
Sgt. William John Mark MM.
British Army 9th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Glasgow, Scotland
William John Mark joined up in 1915 at the age of 17, a boy from Glasgow. He started in the Highland Light Infantry and served in France, Mesopotamia and stayed after the war in Germany. He was awarded the Military Medal for destroying a machine gun nest.
After the war he came out to Australia and eventually settled in Sydney where he had a farm. He served in the 2nd World War training cadets as a Warrant Officer. He died in the 1950's.
Pte Joseph Marker
British Army Royal Devon
from:Budleigh Salterton
My Grandfather fought in World War I in the trenches. Before the War he lived and worked in Budleigh Salterton,Devon, where he was born. He was a Draper's Assistant in a smart Gentleman's Outfitters. And I do remember him always looking smart - with a gold watch and chain. He went to Exeter Barracks when he was called up - but in the latter years of his life we took him over towards Wareham where the tank regiment now is. He remembered training on the heathland. When I was a little girl he mentioned eating rats whilst he was serving in France! He was injured at the Battle of the Somme and came home on the King of Belgium's yacht - though not in style. He was 2 days in a shell hole in the winter and frost - and suffered desperately from frost bite. He was also deafened and had a leg wound. When he arrived back in England, he was sent to a Convalescent Home in Brighton - run by nuns - I have some p/cards of it with the servicemen lying in their beds in rows.Eventually he returned home to Budleigh to my grandmother and Dad.
Life was very hard - he got 10 shillings a week war pension (after a long fight - there was no British Legion then, it was just before they were formed). He and Grandma had an allotment and grew vegetables and had chickens (but only for eggs, as Granddad would not allow them to be killed, he was a very kind and generous man). Grandma took in lodgers and somehow or another they owned their own house. Granddad did work for the Rechabites and also became the local Secretary and Welfare Officer of the Royal British Legion. He had no transport, but walked miles on his crutches collecting peoples shillings. But more often than not, trying to open the orphans and widows living on next to nothing - he got them coal and food allowances. He served on the Parish Council for about 40 years. His son, my dad, Bill Marker, also served in the Devon Regiment in World War II before being transferred to the Royal Sussex and later volunteering for the Royal Navy (Signals). Dad died last year. I remember them both with great love and great pride.
Lt.Col. Raymond John Marker DSO, MID.
Coldstream Guards Coldstream Guards
from:Devon
(d.13th Nov 1914)
The 13th November 1914 saw the death of Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Marker DSO, who was the son in law of Sir Thomas and Lady Jackson of Stansted House and the brother in law of Claude Stewart Jackson.
Lord Kitchener has lost another of his trusted comrades by the death on November 13th 1914 from wounds received in action. Raymond Marker had been previously decorated with the Legion of Honour by the President of the French Republic, with the approval of the King for gallantry during the operations of the British Forces in the battles between August 21st and 30th 1914. The first news to arrive back home was that he had been seriously wounded. His left leg had been amputated, and his right arm broken. News filtered back from the front that he was going on as well as can be expected in a French Base Hospital at Boulogne, but he later succumbed to his wounds.
For his services in the Great War he was mentioned in Sir John French’s dispatches of the 8th October, 1914, and the 14th January 1915. His wounds were received when he was hit by a shell outside the reporting centre of the 1st Army Corps at Ypres on 4th November 1914. He married the daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Jackson in 1906 and left a son Richard Raymond born on 18th June, 1908. His details are as follows – Colonel Raymond John Marker, General Staff, Died of Wounds 13th November 1914 aged 47. He is buried at Gittasham Churchyard, Devon.
Pte. Charles Frederick Markham
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Yorkshire
(d.3rd Mar 1915)
My Great Uncle Charles Markham was killed in WW1 unfortunately his body was never found. His name is registered on Ploegsteert Memorial.
Pte. W. Markham
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Durham City
Cpl. Frank Augustus Markin MM
British Army 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:14 Bosworth Rd, Skewen
(d.28th July 1916)
Frank Markin served with the 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment.
Pte. Joseph Markland
British Army 1st/5th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:11 Branch Street, Ince, Wigan
(d.10th Aug 1915)
Joseph Markland served with the 1st/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment.
Lt.Col. George Frederick Handel Marks
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.3rd May 1915)
Lieutenant Colonel Marks is buried in the Dalhousie Civil Cemetery in India.
Lt. H. H. Marks MC.
Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Lt. J. Marks
Army 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Lt. James Ganly Marks
British Army 1/5th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Belfast City
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
Lieutenant James Ganly Marks of the 1/5th Seaforth Highlanders was killed in action on the 23rd of March 1918. The photo is of James Marks standing in front of his home in Belfast Ireland. His father was a linen merchant and had the same name as his son. The second photo is a photo of his grave cross photographed during the war.
Trpr. William Lynn Marks
Australian Imperial Force 2nd Light Horse
(d.11th April 1918)
Trooper William Lynn Marks, son of William & Mary Amelia Marks, Church Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Served with the 2nd Australian Light Horse (service no. 952).
He died on 11th April 1918 age 25 years and is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Dvr. Peter Marland
British Army B Battery, 89th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Higher Green Lane, Astley, Tyldesley
(d.25th May 1915)
Peter Marland was a driver in the Royal Field Artillery. When he was born in October 1886 in Astley, Lancashire, his father, Ebeneezer, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 22. He married Phoebe Emma on 3rd of February 1906 in Leigh, Lancashire. They had three children during their marriage. He died as a young father on 25th of May 1915 in Bulford, Wiltshire at the age of 28.
Capt. W. Marley
Army 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
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