"Nash was probably influenced in this work by CRW Nevinson's handling of a similar subject matter in his war work, 'Column on the March' (c.1914). There are also similarities with Nash in Nevinson's empty war-desecrated landscapes like 'A Flooded Trench on the Yser' (1916). Nash certainly admired Nevinson, and recorded in a letter to Edward Marsh on 7 July 1917 that they had just met." image: a view along a straight road lined with tall trees. The trees stand uniformly glowing in a ghostly light, looming over a column of British soldiers marching down the road. The rain drives across the composition from the left, and the soldiers huddle beneath cloaks whilst marching.