MARSH, Walter James
| Service Number: | 16095 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 April 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
| Born: | Folkestone, England, 9 January 1906 |
| Home Town: | Maylands, Bayswater, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Pipe layer Metropolitan Water |
| Died: | Pinjarra, Western Austrlia, 22 July 1992, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia PLOT Lawn-B-0266 MEMORIAL ID 213727493 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Apr 1940: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 16095, At Pearce airbase for the duration Medical / Nursing Orderly | |
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| 4 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 16095, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots | |
| 6 Nov 1945: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 16095, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Rosemary Spark
Walter James Marsh was born Elham, Kent, England January 9 1901.
He married Beatrice Kathlleen Haub (nee Munday) 20 Jan 1922 WA Perth BMD 1/1922.
She already had been married and her husband murdered. She also had had a daughter.
He had seven more children. Tragically his daughter Margaret died in house fire in September 1932.
The army records show him swearing a stautory declaration saying his marriage was in 1925 In Barham, and lisiting only four of his children!! He left his two older sons and his deceased daughter off the list.
During the war he was a Nurse Orderly at the Pearce airbase.
He was discharged from the Air Force in November 1945, and under the care of the Repatriation Hospital.
In December 1947 he disappeared. He was divorced in absentia in April 1952.
He later reconciled with some of his family.
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