page_title: John Marlow
hierarchical_section_title: John Marlow
caption_attribution_description: English: Inspector John Marlow of the Native Police
context_page_description: John Bye Durnford Marlow was an officer in the paramilitary Native Police force in the British colony of Queensland. He served in this corps for fourteen years and was stationed at frontier sites such as the Maranoa Region, Port Denison and on the Burdekin River. He conducted many punitive expeditions against Indigenous Australians resulting in the indiscriminate deaths of hundreds of these people. Marlow, by leading armed escorts of troopers, was also intrinsically involved in the expeditions which led to the establishment of the towns of Cardwell and Townsville.
context_section_description: John Bye Durnford Marlow (1829 – 27 February 1903) was an officer in the paramilitary Native Police force in the British colony of Queensland. He served in this corps for fourteen years and was stationed at frontier sites such as the Maranoa Region, Port Denison and on the Burdekin River. He conducted many punitive expeditions against Indigenous Australians resulting in the indiscriminate deaths of hundreds of these people. Marlow, by leading armed escorts of troopers, was also intrinsically involved in the expeditions which led to the establishment of the towns of Cardwell and Townsville.
caption: John Marlow of the Native Police
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