Colonel Francis William Bullock-Marsham (13 July 1883 – 22 December 1971) was a senior officer in the British Army and an English amateur

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(MCC), both in 1905.Lewis P ''For Kent and Country'', Brighton: Reveille Press Part of the Marsham family that were involved with

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until 1901. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 7th (

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on 26 August 1901, and promoted to a

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on 1 July 1902. Between 1932 and 1936 Bullock-Marsham commanded the 1st Cavalry Brigade with the temporary rank of Brigadier. He was an aide-de-camp to three British monarchs, George V, Edward VII and George VI from 1935 to 1938. He married on 19 April 1922 Finovola Marianne Eleanor Maclean, widow of Captain Roger Cordy-Simpson.

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