[1] He served as an officer in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and was awarded a Military Cross[2] fighting in the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917.

[3] After the war he returned to his studies and attended the Royal College of Art between 1919 and 1920 where Édouard Lantéri was one of his instructors.

[1] Marsden carried out the sculptural work for the war memorial at St Annes on Sea in Lancashire.

[4] One of the figures to the side of the central column is a soldier described as "with twisting body and clenched fist", and the second shows a seated woman holding a baby.

[5] "Tell ye your children / Our brothers died to win a better / World our part must be to strive/for truth goodwill and peace that / their sacrifice be not in vain / Lest we forget.

Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten / 1939–1945" "We owe more tears to these dead men than time shall see us pay"First exhibited in a private view at artist's stodio in 1920 (RA archive, full ref to follow) As part of the Art Workers Guild, Marsdon held numerous speaking engagements between 1933 and 1938.