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Son of Mary Marks, of Hillside, Mudgee, New South Wales, and the late Thomas Howard Marks.

Another Mudgee Hero
LIEUTENANT HORACE OWEN MARKS.
A painful sensation was created in Mudgee when it became known on Saturday morning that Lieut. Horace Owen Marks, son of Mrs., and the late Mr. T. H. Marks, had fallen in action in France. The heroic young soldier was a Mudgee boy, in the full sense that he was  born in the town and spent his boyhood and his early man in it. The young soldier fell on October, 25. but no news of the circumstances attending his death have, of course, yet been received. Lieut. Horace Owen Marks' was born, at Mudgee, on June 10,  1889. After some time spent at the Sydney University, he went to Edinburgh and entered himself as a medical student at the University  of that city.

At the outbreak of war he promptly joined the Officers' Training Corps of his University, and applied for a  commission in the Imperial Army. In September, 1914. he was gazetted as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, and there after spent a year training in England with his battery, which arrived in France in time to take part in the battle of Loos, in which Lieut.  Marks was slightly wounded. From the time of the battle of Loos to the time of his death, Lieut. Marks was in constant active service in  the most important of the operations on the Western front, and, in common with all his comrades, was very proud of the fact that his  battery was the chief artillery support of the Australians in their brilliantly successful attack on Pozieres.  On the Western front he was promoted to a full lieutenant, and looked forward to being Promoted to the rank of captain. His letters, to his mother came to hand with unfailing regularity. On Thursday Mrs. Marks received a very cheerful letter, which was the longest he had been able to write for  some time. On Friday she received from the Imperial War Office a cablegram announcing her son's death.

The deceased officer was a fine, smart young man, who had a most promising career opening before im. and was very popular in Mudgee and district, in which he had hosts of friends. The greatest sorrow was felt when it be came known that he, following the example of so many of his district companions, had paid the great price of his patriotism. The greatest sympathy, with which the 'Guardian' very, sincerely associates itself, is felt for the sorely bereaved mother and family. Mrs. Marks has another son at the front,  Lieut. F. H. Marks, who gave up a fine dentistry practice at Gulgong, to throw in his lot with those who arc fighting the battles of the Empire. He also is on active service some-where in France.'