Lieutenant John Marshall

Lieutenant John Marshall, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was lost at sea aboard the H. M.T”. Arcadian” on 15th April 1917, aged 29 and is commemorated on the Mikra Memorial, Greece. He was the son of Agnes and the late John of Tweedmouth Farm. Berwick-upon-Tweed. He was educated at Berwick Grammar School and then at Edinburgh University from 1903-1908 and graduated M.B. Ch.B ( Hons) in 1908.  From 1915-February 1917 he was House Surgeon at Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol until commissioned into the R.A.M.C. in March 1917. The ” Arcadian ” was on passage to Salonica when it was  torpedoed north off the Greek Island of Minos by UC 74 and went down in 6 minutes with a loss of 277 crew and passengers. The ” Arcadian ” had been built in 1899 by Vickers and operated as a passenger liner until 1915 when it was requisitioned by the Admiralty. In 1917 it was being used as a troopship and on the fatal day it was carrying 1,335 troops and crew as reinforcements for the Salonica campaign.