| Regimental number | 1702 |
| Place of birth | Sunning Hill England |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Farmer |
| Address | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 23 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Amelia Marriott, Sunninghill, Berkshire, England |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 52nd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/69/3 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board SS Hawkes Bay on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 52nd Battalion |
| Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Medal Recommendation date: |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 24 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 155 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Edward and Amelia MARRIOTT, Glencairn, Sunninghill, Berks, England |
| Medals |
Military Medal 'During progress of attack on NOREUIL 2nd April, 1917 it was essential to obtain touch between the left of Line occupied by 52nd Battalion and the Right 50th Battalion, regarding the whereabouts of which considerable doubt existed. This Lance Corporal volunteered for the work, and after crossing open country under shell, rifle and machine gun fire (during which he located an enemy machine gun position) he found the right of the 50th Battalion, and so enabled a dangerous gap in the line to be closed.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 174 Date: |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal |