Obituary

It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Lieut. K.N. Marriott, better known to the Battalion as 'Taters'.

Educated at Harlington College he joined the 25th on March 17th 1914, at the age of seventeen, and served with the Battalion up to May 1917 when he left us to take a commission; subsequently going to Mesopotamia with the R.A.F.

The circumstances of his death are peculiarly distressing. He was flying over the Turkish lines, when engine trouble caused him to descend, and the Turks, thinking that he was coming down to bomb them, fired on him with fatal results.

He was always willing to help in the ineterst of sport, and was a pioneer of Battalion hockey, doing much in our early days in India to popularise this sport. Of a cheerful and happy disposition, he will be missed by all who knew him, and we all join in offering our deepest sympathy to his parents who have lost four sons in the war.

He was twenty-two years of age.

[The Londoner magazine, Feb 1919 - V.III, No.2 pg.53.]
 

In Memory of
 
2Lt. Kenneth Melbourne Hugh MARRIOTT

Royal Air Force 144th Sqdn.
 
who died 20 September 1918

Remembered with honour  Jerusalem War Cemetery

Jerusalem War Cemetery

Location Information
Jerusalem War Cemetery is 4.5 kilometres north of the walled city and is situated on the neck of land at the north end of the Mount of Olives, to the west of Mount Scopus.
The cemetery is found on Churchill Blvd, sandwiched between Hadassah Hospital and the Hyatt Hotel. The Australian Memorial is opposite the cemetery entrance.

Historical Information
At the outbreak of the First World War, Palestine (now Israel) was part of the Turkish Empire and it was not entered by Allied forces until December 1916. The advance to Jerusalem took a further year, but from 1914 to December 1917, about 250 Commonwealth prisoners of war were buried in the German and Anglo-German cemeteries of the city.
By 21 November 1917, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force had gained a line about five kilometres west of Jerusalem, but the city was deliberately spared bombardment and direct attack. Very severe fighting followed, lasting until the evening of 8 December, when the 53rd (Welsh) Division on the south, and the 60th (London) and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions on the west, had captured all the city's prepared defences. Turkish forces left Jerusalem throughout that night and in the morning of 9 December, the Mayor came to the Allied lines with the Turkish Governor's letter of surrender. Jerusalem was occupied that day and on 11 December, General Allenby formally entered the city, followed by representatives of France and Italy.
Meanwhile, the 60th Division pushed across the road to Nablus, and the 53rd across the eastern road. From 26 to 30 December, severe fighting took place to the north and east of the city but it remained in Allied hands.

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY was begun after the occupation of the city, with 270 burials. It was later enlarged to take graves from the battlefields and smaller cemeteries in the neighbourhood.

[Courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission]