Education
Born on 9 August 1875, William Marshall Fordham was educated at Bedford School, between 1887 and 1893, and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Born on 9 August 1875, William Marshall Fordham was educated at Bedford School, between 1887 and 1893, and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He served on the North West Frontier, between 1897 and 1898, in China during the Boxer Rebellion, in 1900, during the First World War, between 1914 and 1918, and in Waziristan, between 1922 and 1923. He was Aide-de-camp to King George V, between 1930 and 1932, and Commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, in Abbottabad, India, between 1928 and 1932. He retired from the British Indian Army in 1932.
He died in Felixstowe on 9 December 1959.