Albert Marshall
Albert (“Smiler”) Marshall, the last British cavalryman of the first world war, died on May 16th, aged 108
WHEN Albert Marshall was asked about the first world war, he sometimes thought it odd that so much was made of the Somme. For him the worst moment came the next year, in 1917. He was 20, and serving with the Essex Yeomanry in his third year at the front. A new regiment, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, had just come out from England to join up with his. The men were mustard-keen, in fresh-pressed uniforms that had not yet seen a shell-hole or a trench.
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Obituary May 28th 2005
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