day of the Battle of Passchendaele. In August 1917 he was again promoted, this time to become General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 6th Division, which he commanded at the Battle of Cambrai and in the Hundred Days Offensive in the latter half of 1918. Following the Armistice with Germany, he commanded a brigade in the occupying British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). For his services during the war, he was mentioned in despatches eight times, and made a Companion of the Order of the Bath and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, as well as being made an officer of the French Légion d'Honneur and the Russian Order of St. Vladimir (fourth class, swords), and awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm. Later service In 1920, Marden was given command of the British division occupying Constantinople. During the Chanak Crisis of 1922 he played a key role in negotiating a peaceful settlement between British and Turkish forces, for which he later received a knighthood. He returned home in 1923 to become GOC of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, a Territorial Army (TA) formation, before retiring in June 1927. He held the ceremonial colonelcy of the Welch Regiment from 1920 to 1941. In 1920, he wrote a short history of 6th Division from 1914 to 1918, and in 1932 wrote a history of the Welch Regiment during the same period. He died at Folkestone, Kent, in 1951 aged eighty-four and was buried St Martin's churchyard at nearby Cheriton. References External links |- |- 1866 births 1951 deaths Burials in Kent British Army major generals Military personnel from Somerset British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army generals of World War I Cheshire Regiment officers Royal Northumberland Fusiliers officers Welch Regiment officers People educated at Berkhamsted School Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley People from Bath, Somerset Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Companions of the Order of the Bath