Cuthbert Thomas Martin

Brigadier-General Cuthbert Thomas Martin, DSO* (December 1877 – 27 May 1918) was a British Army officer.

He was killed by a shell during the Third Battle of the Aisne while commanding the 151st (Durham Light Infantry) Brigade.

Brigadier-General Edward Riddell, who was with him, was wounded at the same time.

He joined the British Army when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry on 15 May 1897, and with the 1st Battalion of his regiment took part in the occupation of Crete in 1898.

[1] Serving in South Africa during the Second Boer War, he took part in the battles of Modder River (November 1899), Magersfontein (December 1899), Koodoosberg, Retief's Nek, and Witpoort (July 1900).