Major-General Sir Horace de Courcy Martelli (17 July 1877 – 11 March 1959) was a

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officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Military career

Educated at the Haileybury (1887-1891),

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(1891-1895), and at the

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, Martelli won the

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's Bronze Medal when aged twenty for rescuing a boy from drowning at Southsea on 2 August 1897. He was commissioned into the

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in 1912, and served in

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as deputy director of Railway Transport for the British Expeditionary Force, as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force and then as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for 25th Division before becoming Assistant Quartermaster General for 9th Army Corps in

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in 1916. He continued his war service as Temporary Assistant Adjutant General at the

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from 1917 and than as Assistant Director Mobilisation at the War Office from 1918. He went on to be Assistant Director Quartering at the War Office in 1920, Assistant Quartermaster General at Eastern Command in 1921 and Commander, Royal Artillery for

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in 1925. He was appointed Base Commandant for the

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in 1927 before reverting to the role of Commander, Royal Artillery for 42nd (East Lancashire) Division again in 1928. His last appointments were as Major-General in charge of Administration at Southern Command in

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in 1930 and as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1934 before he retired in 1939. In retirement he commanded 8th Bn Wiltshire Home Guard.

Family

In 1904 he married Ethel Mary Douglas.''Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain'' by Peter Beauclerk Dewar
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martelli, Horace 1877 births 1959 deaths British Army personnel of World War I British Home Guard soldiers British Army major generals Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Royal Artillery officers Governors of Jersey Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst People educated at Bedford School