Arthur Marindin
Arthur Henry Marindin was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 35th Division.
Military career
After attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Marindin was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) on 7 November 1891, and was promoted to lieutenant on 16 February 1896.He served in South Africa during the early part of the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1900, as a special service officer. First employed in Base Commandant′s Office, he was then on Transport duty, then served as Staff Officer to Rest Camp, Bloemfontein, and subsequently to the Officer Commanding troops at Bloemfontein and Southern lines of communication. He was promoted to captain while in South Africa, on 21 October 1900.
Following the end of the war and his return to the United Kingdom, Marindin was in January 1903 appointed Instructor at Staff College, Camberley. He saw action during the First World War. He was appointed acting General Officer Commanding the 35th Division on a temporary basis on 27 March 1918: that division was involved in a series of fighting withdrawals since being committed to battle on 25 March 1918 near Cléry-sur-Somme, some east of Dernancourt. He was confirmed in that post on a substantive basis on 7 April 1918. Marindin went on to command 3rd Highland Brigade as part of British Army of the Rhine in March 1919.
He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in the 1918 New Year Honours and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1919 Birthday Honours.
In January 1932 he was made honorary colonel of the 6th/7th Battalion, Black Watch, a Territorial unit.