During a melancholy period in the trenches, Marshall lists his mates who are no longer with him: ‘During the preceding months we had had some very dark periods and I now felt the loss of my old mates in earnest, although I had made many others. Arch Willman had gone, McSpedden, Reid killed, Stoney and Slade wounded, and Griff gone away with a very severe dose of malaria. How I got through it all without a scratch still seemed too good to be true.’
December 1916