Roy Marten in about 1910
Robert Humphrey Marten, known as Roy, was the oldest son of Tib Marten. He was born in Adelaide in 1891, where his father was a surgeon. He was educated back in England at Cheltenham College and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, matriculating in 1909.
In the 1911 census he is living with his Uncle Teddy and Aunt Nettie in Cheltenham and at this stage he is described as a Medical Student
He seems to have returned to England from Australia in 1915 to volunteer into the army and served in the Army Service Corps, apparently in the Middle East and the Balkans, rising to the rank of Major by the end of the war.
His brother Henry Humphrey Marten and his first cousin Wilmot Evans both lost their lives on the Western front.
Roy Marten in about 1904
His involvement with logistics in the war seems to have caused a career shift to the other family profession of engineering and spent his career immediately after the first World War, based in Cairo, working for the Staveley Iron Company, engaged on a number of infrastructure projects.
His stay at boarding school in Cheltenham had meant that he was close to his Aunt Nettie and Uncle Teddy. A number of photographs survive from this time. Roy is mentioned as writing to Wilmot Evans in the trenches on two occasions. When his Uncle Henry, another civil engineer, died in 1930 in Cheltenham, he was the sole executor granted probate.
After his foreign travels he clearly made England his home rather than Australia. He died on 3 Mar 1961 in Surrey.