Captain Edward Armfield Marrow, Adjutant,1st Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in action, aged 31, on the 25th April 1915. He was the son of the late Major Peter Marrow, husband of Constance M. Machin (formerly Marrow) of Belchester, Coldstream and is buried at Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. He had been born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire and had been educated at Harrow before attending Sandhurst and being commissioned into the K.O.S.B. in 1902 after which he served in India. 25th April saw the initial landings on Gallipoli and 1st K.O.S.B assaulted at “Y” Beach with the 29th Division. This was a diversion to draw Turkish defenders from the main landings at Helles and Anzac. After hard fighting a lodgement was secured but fierce Turkish attacks were only just repulsed with the aid of the 11 inch guns of the pre- dreadnought Battleship H.M.S. “Goliath” which was anchored offshore to support the landings. Captain Marrow was shot though the head as he went to speak to the C.O. Major McAlester and he fell dead over the C.O. His body was recovered by his comrade R.S.M. Douglas and he was buried by Padre Reid beside his friend Captain Antrobus who had fallen earlier in the day. His Headstone is inscribed ” Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out”.( he was the brother-in-law of the three Gough brothers named above ). The photo shows ” Goliath ” before the War.
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