John Charles Oakes Marriott

Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott
Born 1895
Stowmarket
Died 11 September 1978
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1914–1950
Rank Major General
Commands held 2nd Battalion Scots Guards (1938–40)
21st Infantry Brigade (1940)
29th Indian Infantry Brigade (1940–41)
22nd Guards Brigade (1941–42)
200th Guards Brigade (1942)
200th Guards Motor Brigade Group (1942)
201st Guards Motor Brigade Group (1942)
32nd Infantry Brigade (1942–43)
Guards Division (1945–47)
Battles/wars

First World War
Second World War

Awards Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order[1]
Companion of the Order of the Bath[2]
Distinguished Service Order & Bar
Military Cross
Mentioned in Despatches
Croix de guerre (France)

Major General Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott KCVO, CB, DSO & Bar, MC (1895 – 11 September 1978) was a British Army officer who served during the World Wars.

Military career

Marriott was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1914.[3]

He served in the First World War as a Staff Captain with the 7th Infantry Brigade in France and then as a General Staff Officer with 66th Division.[3] Marriott won both the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Military Cross,[4][5] as well as the French Croix de guerre.

After the war he became a General Staff Officer to the Military Attaché in Washington D. C..[3] He transferred to the Scots Guards in 1920.[3] He was made Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General for London District in 1933.[3] Appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1935 and elevated to Commander in 1937,[6][7] Marriott was made Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Scots Guards in 1938.[3]

He served in the Second World War initially in the Middle East and from 1940 as Commander of 21st Infantry Brigade. From October 1940 he commanded 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, part of Indian 5th Infantry Division, in the East African Campaign for which he received a Bar to his DSO.[3][8] In October 1941 on return to the Western Desert he was placed in command of 22nd Guards Brigade which was renamed successively 200th Guards Brigade and 201st Guards Motor Brigade. He avoided capture when the brigade was forced to surrender when Tobruk was captured on 20 June 1942 by German and Italian forces. He returned to the United Kingdom and from September 1942 to December 1943 he commanded 32nd Guards Brigade. He was Deputy Director of Infantry at the War Office from 1943.[3]

After the war he became Commander of the Guards Division in Germany in 1945 and Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District in 1947; he retired in 1950.[3]

Family

In 1920 he married Maud (Momo) Emily Wolff Kahn, the daughter of Otto Hermann Kahn, investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. They had one child, John who never married.

Publications

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 38846. p. 921. 21 February 1950. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37835. p. 3. 31 December 1946. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30111. p. 5472. 4 June 1917. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29608. p. 5575. 3 June 1916. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 34166. p. 3600. 3 June 1935. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34420. p. 4734. 23 July 1937. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 35396. p. 7332. 26 December 1941. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
Military offices
Preceded by
Allan Adair
(As GOC Guards Armoured Division)		 GOC Guards Division
1945–1946 		Succeeded by
Post disbanded
Preceded by
Sir Charles Loyd		 GOC London District
1947–1950 		Succeeded by
Sir Julian Gascoigne
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