(Albert Elliot) 'Smiler' Marshall

(Albert Elliot) 'Smiler' Marshall, 15 March 1897, Elmstead Market, Essex - 16 May 2005, Ashtead

• First World War Veteran, lived at 12 Agates Lane Ashtead from 1940 until his death in 2005
• See also Beverley Nichols
• See also Albert Marshall - First World War cavalryman, died aged 108 on 16 May, remembered by military historian Max Arthur; The Observer, December 2005
• See also RIP Albert Marshall - First World War cavalryman and last survivor of the Battle of the Somme; British Army Rumour Service, ARRSE, May 2005
• See also Last of the horsemen - Incredible life of Great War cavalry hero 'Smiler' Marshall; The Mirror, May 2005
• See also The Essex Yeomanry Journal - p49-53: A Life Across Three Centuries; Essex Yeomanry, 2005

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• See also After 86 years, I can still see the faces of my fallen comrades - Telegraph, July 2002
• See also Albert Marshall - First World War cavalryman and last survivor of the Battle of the Somme - The Independent, May 2005
• See also BBC Shot at Dawn: Cowards, Traitors or Victims?: A soldier's story - BBC, March 2002
• See also War Horse: The Real Story - Channel4, March 2012 (also The Real War Horse and Testimony tells the real war horse story for C4

'Smiler' celebrating his 105th birthday at his home with his son - 15 March 2002

• He is buried at St Giles, in grave reference M48 FLORENCE CATHERINE MARSHALL 1897 – 1984 N. M. G. T. T. A. E. MARSHALL SMILER 1897 - 2005

  Note: N. M. G. T. T. stands for Nearer My God To Thee, one of Smiler's favourite hymns. Allegedly this was the final tune played on the Titanic before it sank.

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The Trench - Experiencing life on the front line, 1916 Richard Van Emden: Published 2002 by Bantam Press, 313 pages, hardback The book contains 4 reminiscences from 'Smiler'

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