Second Lieutenant Charles Dwyer Marlow

Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Panel reference: Panel 144 to 145.
Date published: 28/12/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 17/08/1917
Cemetery: Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Second Lieutenant Charles Dwyer Marlow, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marlow, Gilson Schools, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, and was educated at Gilson Schools and King's Hospital, Dublin. He joined the Artists' Rifles in April, 1915, and went to France the following August. He obtained his commission in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in September, 1916, and did good work as a scout officer. On August 17th he was killed by the explosion of a shell on the edge of a shell-hole in which he was at the time; his friend, Father Doyle, the heroic chaplain, who was entering the shell-hole carrying a wounded man, being killed by the same shell.