Marsh, Edward Waters Harbin (1880-1915)
Sherborne School, UK, Book of Remembrance for former pupils who died in the First World War, 1914-1918.
Details: Edward Waters Harbin Marsh (1880-1915), born 14 April 1880 in Yeovil, Somerset, son of Lt. Col.William Marsh, C.B.E. V.D., D.L., and Agnes Elizabeth Marsh of Old Sarum House, Yeovil, Somerset.
Siblings: Kenneth Sidney Marsh (1889-1975).
Attended Crewkerne Grammar School.
Attended Sherborne School (Day boy) May 1893-December 1897.
Served as Lt. in the South African Campaign with Mountec Infantry of 60th Rifles; afterwards gazetted to the South Lancashire Regiment, and proceeded with them to India where he transferred to Indian Army.
WW1, Captain and Adjutant in the Indian Army; 13th Rajputs (The Skekhawati Regiment). Drowned on troopship "Persia" on 30 December 1915.
The Chatby Memorial www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1438875/MARSH,%20EDWA...
Yeovil Town War Memorial www.yeoviltown.com/warmemorial/worldwar1.aspx.
Sherborne School: War Memorial Staircase; Book of Remembrance.
The Western Gazette 7 January 1916: 'Amongst the passengers of the ill-fated Persia, torpedoed last week in the Mediterranean, was Captain E.W.H. Marsh, elder son of Colonel and Mrs Wm. Marsh, of Old Sarum House, and who had recently been in the town on sick leave following recovery from a wound received in Gallipoli. Captain Marsh was returning to India to rejoin his old regiment, the 13th Rajputs, in which he had obtained promotion. His name has not appeared amongst the published lists of survivors, and the great anxiety is felt as to his safety.'