MARSHALL, Harry
| Service Number: | 205752 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 July 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | RAAF Overseas HQ |
| Born: | Seymour, Victoria, Australia, 17 June 1913 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 July 1993, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Jul 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 205752 | |
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| 21 Nov 1939: | Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 205752, No. 10 Squadron (RAAF), embarked Melbourne for Marseilles en route for UK on board Orontes | |
| 11 Jun 1946: | Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 205752, RAAF Overseas HQ, embarked UK for Melbourne on board HMS Indomitable | |
| 20 Jun 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 205752 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Flying Officer Harry Marshall (Service No:205752) enlisted in the RAAF on 1 July 1939 as an Aircraftman 1 - mustered as Clerk General, attached to 21 Squadron. Appointed to a Commission on 8 March 1944, F/O Marshall served in the UK (1939 - 1946) with 10 Squadron and Overseas HQ London until the termination of his appointment on 20 June 1946.
Harry was born in Seymour, Victoria in 1913, youngest of two sons of Robert Nesbit Marshall (b1865 in Durham, England) and Elsie May (aka May) Worral (b1892 in Seymour, Victoria). Robert served in the Merchant Navy and with the Liverpool White Star Line on the clippers (Castlehead, Esmerelda and Santiago) trading to the West Coast of South America. He was Captain of the SS Hellenes in 1909 when he arrived in Williamstown, Melbourne (his Uncle Joseph had arrived more than sixty years earlier on board the Martha). Robert and May married in 1911 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and Robert was a Mariner (Captain) and Hotelkeeper until his death in 1933.
Harry was working in Melbourne as a Clerk at the Queen Victoria Wholesale Fruit Market in 1939 when he enlisted in the RAAF. In Essex, England in 1944 he married Una Annette Fitzgerald (b1919 in London, England) - Una immigrated in 1946, arriving in Melbourne on board the Dominion Monarch (Harry had returned that year on board HMS Indomitable). Harry and Una settled in Melbourne, where they raised their daughter and Harry was a Driver until they divorced in the early 1950s. Harry died in 1993.
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