Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of the late Charles Samuel and Jane Elizabeth Marriott of Loughborough, Leics. The War Diary for today records. The officers of the 2nd ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS visited the trenches. This Battalion will take over the trenches. The trenches were heavily shelled during the afternoon, forty 5.9 and twenty 4.2 shells and many smaller shells fell near the top of SHELL STREET, a little damage being done. 2nd Lt’s. HIND and THORNTON joined the Battalion and posted to D and B Companies.