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BEADNELL

Marshall, A.S.F., Amb.Dvr., 1918
In Beadnell Churchyard is the family grave of Anthony Marshall, serving with the French Ambulance Section, who died 25/07/1918.

Ian Sim has submitted the following:

(Anthony) Selby Francis Marshall was born at Alnwick on February 1st. 1879. He was the second son of Lt. Col. Anthony Marshall of Annstead. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and was admitted as a Pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge on October 1st 1897. He graduated in 1900 with a B.A. and entered Ridley Theological College, Cambridge in 1901 to train for the priesthood. He was ordained deacon in Southwark diocese in 1903 and then priest in 1905. He served in various parishes, including Eglingham, Hesledon in County Durham and Chesterfield. With his sister he visited New York in November 1907 and stayed in the United States until his return to the UK in May 1910.

At the beginning of the war, in common with many clergymen who did not wish to fight, but did want to serve their country, he joined the French Ambulance Service (Section Sanitaire) as an orderly. This was a particularly harrowing service as they attended the dying and the wounded around and in the front line trenches and death would be a daily companion. He returned to England late in the war and in 1918 was staying in Nettlebed near Henley on Thames, close to his sister and brother in law, the Revd. Philip Armitage. He died on the 25th July 1918 ‘from the effects of war’.

He is remembered in the Marshall family grave on the east wall of Beadnell Cemetery, on the memorial on the south wall of the Trinity College, Cambridge chapel, and in this church.

Anthony Selby Francis Marshall is remembered at Beadnell on B10.01 and B10.02

There does not appear to be a CWGC entry for Rev. Marshall.

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk