Person:Albert Rowland (5)

From CWGC: ROWLAND, ALBERT EDWARD MACKAY; Initials: A E M; Nationality: New Zealand; Rank: Second Lieutenant; Regiment: New Zealand Rifle Brigade; Unit Text: "H" Coy. 3rd; Secondary Regiment: New Zealand Cyclist Battalion; Secondary Unit Text: attd.; Age: 32; Date of Death: 23/07/1918; Service No: 32540; Additional information: Son of Edward Anthony and Anne Evlyn Rowland; husband of Agnes Ludlow Rowland, of Wellington, New Zealand. Born at Christchurch; Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead; Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 14; Cemetery: MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY.

Marfaux is a commune 18.5 kilometres from Reims and 16 kilometres from Epernay. Marfaux British Cemetery is about one kilometre south-east of the village along the RD386, on the north-east side of the road to Nanteuil-la-Foret and on the south-east side of the crossroad from Bois-de-Courton. The Marfaux (New Zealand) Memorial takes the forms of a panel stone erected in the shelter in Marfaux British Cemetery, and commemorates, by name, 10 casualties of the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion who fell in July 1918 and who have no known grave.