Norm Marshall - a mate

In his letters Athol occasionally mentions his friend, Norm Marshall (for example, see blog-posts 27 May and 29 June). Like Athol, Norm enlisted as a private and they served together in the 5th Battalion. Quite accidentally I found this image of Norm when searching the AWM website.

Australian War Memorial image No: PS1526
Photographed by PFE Schuler, Gallipoli, 1915.

"An Australian soldier in a trench at Gallipoli. Charles Bean, the Australian Official Historian, suggested that the subject of this photograph might be Lieutenant (Lt) (later Brigadier) Norman 'Darkie' Marshall, 5th Battalion, later with 60th Battalion. Enlisting as a Private, Lt Marshall rose to become a battalion commander by early 1917. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) with two bars and Military Cross (MC). In the Second World War he commanded 2/25 Infantry Battalion and later the 27th Brigade."  

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PS1526/