Thomas Marden Major General Sir Thomas Owen Marden KBE , CB , CMG ( 15 September 1866 – 11 September 1951 ) was a British Army officer , active during the Boer War and the First World War , where he commanded a battalion of the Welch Regiment , a brigade , and finally 6th Division . Following the war , he commanded a British occupying force in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis in the early 1920s . Early career . Marden attended Berkhamsted School and the Royal Military College , Sandhurst , before joining the Cheshire Regiment in 1886 . He saw service with his regiment in Burma in 1887 to 1889 , during the colonial campaigns following the Third Anglo - Burmese War , and on special service during 1900 in the Boer War , where he was mentioned in despatches . He returned to England to attend the Staff College , Camberley , graduating in 1902 and posted to staff duties in India as a deputy assistant adjutant - general . In 1904 he was posted to the Directorate of Training at the War Office , moving to a staff posting in South Africa in 1910 . Whilst on staff duties , in 1905 , he had been promoted to a majority in the Northumberland Fusiliers , and in 1908 transferred into the Welch Regiment . In 1912 he was promoted to lieutenant - colonel , and left South Africa in order to take up command of the 1st Battalion , Welch Regiment . First World War . At the outbreak of the First World War , Marden ' s battalion was stationed in India ; it was brought back to the United Kingdom and allocated to 28th Division , which was to be sent to the Mediterranean . Whilst passing through France , units of the division were used to support operations on the Western Front , and Marden was wounded by shrapnel whilst commanding his battalion at the Second Battle of Ypres . Later in 1915 , he was promoted to command 114th Infantry Brigade in 38th ( Welsh ) Division . He commanded the brigade until mid - 1917 , during which time it fought at the Battle of the Somme , where it took heavy losses , and on the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres . In August 1917 he was again promoted to command 6th Division , which he commanded at the Battle of Cambrai and in the Hundred Days Offensive . Following the Armistice , he commanded a brigade in the occupying British Army of the Rhine . 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 take command of the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division in the Territorial Army 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 .