Subfonds 2 - Papers of Francis Alleyne Marr

Officer of the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment; Brigade Major, 175 Infantry Brigade; Burmah Oil Company's geological staff 1919; Fellow of the Royal Society 1919. Son of Professor John Edward Marr (1957-1933) and Amy Birkett Stubbs (1873-1933). He matriculated into St John's College in 1913, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he received the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross. Following the war, he pursued a career in geology like his father. In 1924 he went to Assam where he spent most of his career at the Digboi oilfield. He also served in the Indian Defence Force. He married Margaret (Peggy) in 1931, and retired from the East in 1942. He tragically lost his life on the way back to Britain, when the SS City of Cairo was sunk by a German U-boat. His wife Peggy survived.