Queen elizabeth inspects a guard from the DCLI. At her side is Major J. Anthony Marsh, the commander of the DCLI detachment on garrison in Bermuda. Major Marsh had begun his military career as a subaltern volunteering for the new Special Air Service in the Western Desert in 1942. He served throughout the war with this unit, finishing as a Major and returning to his original regiment, the DCLI, with the disbandment of the original SAS at the War's end. Leaving the regular Army at the end of the DCLI posting to Bermuda, he remained in the colony, joining the Bermuda Militia Artillery. When this was amalgamated with the Bermuda Rifles in 1965, he became the first Second-in-Command of the new Bermuda Regiment, and then the second Commanding Officer. Colonel Marsh died in 1981, shortly before he was due to retire from his civil position as a Deputy director of the Bermuda Government's Department of Tourism, and he is buried at the Devonshire Church.