Marshall Arthur Rowles

Marshall Rowles was born on 19 July 1895 in Oakridge. He was the son of Oliver Rowles and Elizabeth Pincott. Oliver Rowles was a farmer and lived at Iles Farm, Far Oakridge and then at Avenis Farm in Bournes Green. William enrolled in Oakridge School on 11 June 1900 and left on 16 July 1908. He went to work on his father's farm.

He enlisted in Stroud in 2/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He served as a private and was killed during fighting on 25 August 1917 in Belgium, aged 22.

He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, 9 kilometres north-east of Ypres.