Marcus was a Lieutenant in the First Battallion, The Queens Royal Regiment. He died of "fever" in India whilst posted to Allahabad.
1st Queen's arrived at Quetta (Originally in Afghanistan, now in North Pakistan) from Tientsin in 1935 having left England in 1927 and served successively in Hong Kong, Malta and China. Quetta was a large garrison, 6,000 feet up in the hills and bitterlycold in winter. The Battalion moved to Allahabad in 1937 and in March 1938 one company was detached to Benares where there was Hindu-Moslem rioting. It is not known if Marcus went with them. During the summer of 1939 life went on much as usual with the normal sequence of hot weather routine, hill stations and leave until the beginning of September, still very hot in Allahabad, when the calm was broken with the declaration of war on Germany....
