To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best A hundred years ago, on 23 October 1915, a young Irish­woman, Marie Martin, arrived in Malta aboard the hospital ship Oxfordshire. She had trained with the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross.Just after Christmas, Marie learned that her soldier brother, Charlie, was missing in Serbia. Six months later she heard the young lieutenant had died two days after his capture – just one week before his 21st birthday.By this time Marie was in France. It had been a long day on duty that 2 July 1916, as the first casualties arrived in Hardelot from the Battle of the Somme. Marie’s grief