Jack Marriott (Royal Navy officer)

Captain John Peter Ralph Marriott CMG (28 November 1879 – 21 December 1938) was a British Royal Navy officer.

[2] As a junior officer he was posted to the sloop HMS Beagle on 1 July 1902,[3] serving on her in the South Atlantic.

In Gallipoli, he was attached to the staff of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and was mentioned in dispatches.

He then became Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord, Rosslyn Wemyss (whose flagship the Charybdis had been), at the Admiralty in London, with the rank of Acting Captain.

Representing Britain at the signing of the Armistice in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918, he was witness to the end of World War I and a marked victory for the Allies.

Photograph taken just after the signing of the Armistice with Germany in Compiègne, with at the forefront rear admiral Hope, French general Weygand, vice admiral Wemyss, French marshal Foch, captain of the Navy Marriott
On 11 November 1918, at dawn, [ 1 ] just after the signing of the Armistice with Germany in Compiègne (France), Marriott (first from right) is next to French marshal Foch .