Obituary

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Carroll, Alan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2007
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Marr; Marchesi; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247407006390; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247407006390

Victor Aloysius Jean-Baptiste Marchesi was born in London on 25 January 1914 and was educated at St. Joseph's in Norwood before joining the Merchant Navy. He later served fifteen months as fourth mate on RRS Discovery in 1936–7. He returned to a country preparing for the possibility of war, and joined the Royal Navy as a Sub-Lieutenant specialising in hydrographic survey. While serving as First Lieutenant on HMS Franklin surveying waters off southeast England in 1943, he received a signal requesting him to report to Lieutenant Commander Jimmy Marr at the Admiralty.