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Thomas Marden

British Army general (1866–1951)

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Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3990687 ↗
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Major-General Sir Thomas Owen Marden (15 September 1866 – 11 September 1951) was a British Army officer, active during the Second Boer War and World War I, where he commanded a battalion of the Welsh Regiment, a brigade, and finally the 6th Division. Following the war, he commanded a British occupying force in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis in the early 1920s.

Early military career

Born in Bath, Somerset, Marden attended Berkhamsted School and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned as a subaltern, with the rank of lieutenant, into the Cheshire Regiment on 25 August 1886. He saw service with his regiment in Burma from 1887 to 1889, during the colonial campaigns following the Third Anglo-Burmese War, and was promoted to captain on 15 May 1896.

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899, he was posted on special duty as district commandant in South Africa. Leaving London in February 1900, he was senior officer in command of reinforcements on board the SS Cheshire for the journey, and arrived in South Africa the following month. He was mentioned in dispatches for service during the war.

He returned to England to attend the Staff College, Camberley, graduating in 1902 and gaining his psc and being posted to staff duties in India as a deputy assistant adjutant general (DAAG). In 1904 he was posted to the directorate of training at the War Office in London. Whilst on staff duties, in December 1905, he had been promoted to a majority in the Northumberland Fusiliers (later the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers), and was appointed as a GSO2 at the War Office in July 1907.

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