Thomas Marden 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.
11 Facts About Thomas Marden
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Thomas Marden was mentioned in dispatches for service during the war.
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Thomas Marden 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.
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At the outbreak of World War I, Thomas Marden's battalion was stationed in India; it was brought back to the United Kingdom and allocated to the 84th Infantry Brigade of the 28th Division, which was to be sent to the Mediterranean.
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Whilst passing through France, units of the division were used to support operations on the Western Front, and Thomas Marden was wounded by shrapnel whilst commanding his battalion at the Second Battle of Ypres.
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Thomas Marden commanded the brigade until mid-1917, during which time it fought at the Battle of the Somme in mid-1916, where it took heavy losses, and on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele a year later.
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Thomas Marden was made a substantive colonel in December 1916.
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In July 1921, Thomas Marden was given command of the British forces occupying Constantinople.
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Thomas Marden returned home in 1923 to become GOC of the 53rd Infantry Division, a Territorial Army formation, before retiring from the army in June 1927.
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Thomas Marden held the ceremonial colonelcy of the Welch Regiment from 1920 to January 1941.
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Thomas Marden died at Folkestone, Kent, in 1951 aged eighty-four and was buried St Martin's churchyard at nearby Cheriton.