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VC401 Sir Percival Scrope Marling
BORN 6 March 1861
DIED 29 May 1936 AGE 75
VC Won 13 March 1884 AGE 23
Place VC Won Tamai, Sudan
War/Campaign Mahdi Rebellion
Name Sir Percival Scrope Marling No.
VC Issue No. 401 Awards VC CB
Regiment King's Royal Rifle Corps attached to the Mounted Infantry
Later Royal Green Jackets
Now 2nd and 4th Battalions the Rifles
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth King's Stanley, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death At his home, Stanley Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
Buried/Location Ashes All Saints Church, Pooles Lane, Selsley, near Stroud Gloucestershire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Vault/Headstone Plot/Grave no. South side of Chancel
Gazetted 21 May 1884
VC Presented July 1884, GOC Egypt, General Sir F C A Stephenson, Cairo, Egypt
Memorials
P Vault/headstone, All Saints Church, Pooles Lane, Selsley, near Stroud Gloucestershire
P Memorial plaques at All Saints Church, Selsley
P Oak pulpit at The Church of John the Baptist, Great Rissington, Gloucestershire
P Named on King's Royal Rifle Corps Memorial, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Memorial, the south aisle, School Chapel, Harrow School, Harrow, North London
By The Way…
Percy Marling was the third baronet, an hereditary title between a knight and a baron
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
