The son of Mr and Mrs EL Le Marquand of Highlands, St Lawrence was one Edward Le Marquand.

He had emigrated to Canada some years before the war and after joining the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards of Canada as a private he found him self in a composite battalion awaiting posting to a Guards Regiment when he was drowned by falling into a canal whilst on sentry duty. It was reported at the time that no injuries were ever found on his body, and no sounds of a struggle were heard that night. Therefore a verdict of accidental death was recorded, so we will probably never know weather Edward's death was accidental or if something more sinister.

He died on the 26th August, 1916 and is buried in Montreal (Mount Royal) Cemetery Canada.

Unique to Jersey the Parish of St Lawrence's Parish hall has to the left of it the Parish Church and to the right of it St Lawrence's School and Arsenal. The four buildings are located on your left hand side as you travel up Grande Route du St Lawrence from Mont Felard to St John.

No other Parish in Jersey has these important buildings laid out in this pattern, and I believe that no other Parish has an arsenal named after it.

Correct me if I'm wrong and I may well be, but I've seen a famous map of Jersey dating from about 1847 that shows the other arsenals called the North East (St Martin's), the South East (Grouville), the North West (St Mary's), the South West (St Peters) and the Town Arsenal now the Fire Station located at Rouge Bouillon.

With this in mind I believe St Lawrence's Memorial stands in one of the most historically important areas on Jersey.