In Memory Of

MARQUARD, JOHN MURRAY

Service Details
Age:
 27
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 13th Bn.
Regiment:
 Royal Fusiliers
Date of Death:
 1918-08-23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 IV. A. 17
Cemetery:
 ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Mrs. Margaret Marquard, of 137, Zastron St., Bloemfontein, South Africa, and the late Rev. J. J. T. Marquard. Graduate student at Teachers College, 1914-1915. John Marquard obtained his B.A. at Grey University, Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1907 and was afterwards a master in the Government School at Kromstad, South Africa. He went to England in the summer of 1915 to enter the Officers Training Corps and was commissioned First Lieutenant, 13th Royal Fusiliers of the British Expeditionary Force. At first he served as Transportation Officer but was later transferred to the line. On Columbia University Roll of Honour