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MARRABLE E<br />
Lieutenant Edmund MARRABLE. 42 nd Training Squadron, Royal Air Force. Formerly<br />
Royal Field Artillery (RFA). Died Flying Accident near Golden Ball Public House Thursday<br />
25 th April 1918 aged 25 years. Son of Douglas and Laura Maria Marrable of 6 Gloucester<br />
Road, Paddington, London. Buried locally in the St Mary’s Churchyard, Kennington, Ashford,<br />
<strong>Kent</strong>. Also Commemorated on the Dorchester, Dorset civic war memorial.<br />
His father Douglas was a solicitor in Dorchester who came from Scotland. His mother Laura<br />
Maria came from Australia. Edmund’s CWGC headstone records his unit as the Royal<br />
Artillery. In fact when killed he was serving as an Observer in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC).<br />
Edmund was killed in a flying accident whilst stationed at the nearby <strong>Wye</strong> aerodrome,<br />
Bramble Lane, <strong>Wye</strong>. On 25 th April 1918 Edmund was the passenger in a Avro Trainer flown<br />
by Lieutenant Cyril WHELAN. The machine was involved in a mid air collision with another<br />
machine (Sopwith Pup) being flown by Second Lieutenant Alwyne Gordon LEVY. Both<br />
machines came down near the Golden Ball Public House, Kennington. All three officers were<br />
killed outright. Edmund was buried close by to where his machine fell out the sky. The other<br />
two officers bodies were returned to their parents and both were buried in London. All officers<br />
involved in this flying accident appear here as Ashford men. It seems inconcievable that none<br />
were included on any local war memorial.<br />
It is quite remarkable that Edmund’s name was not placed on the Kennington War Memorial.<br />
His headstone is a stones throw from it! Even if Edmund was not strictly speaking a local man<br />
at the time of his death, he certainly is now having remained in the area for over 80 years…
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