Robert Nesbitt MARSHALL

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MARSHALL, Robert Nesbitt

Service Number:	401046
Enlisted:	8 December 1940
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 44 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 19 December 1911
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Purchasing Clerk (Shell Coy Australia
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 March 1999, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

8 Dec 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 401046
17 Jul 1941:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, No. 207 Squadron (RAF), embarked Sydney for UK
2 Oct 1943:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, No. 44 Squadron (RAF)
2 Apr 1944:	Promoted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, No. 44 Squadron (RAF)
27 Jun 1945:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 401046, embarked UK for Sydney
16 Sep 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 401046

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Eldest of two brothers who served in the RAAF in WWII, Flying Officer Robert Nesbitt Marshall (Service No:40106) enlisted in the RAAF on 8 December 1940 at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne as an Aircraftman II - mustered as Air Crew, remustered as Air Gunner. Flying Officer Marshall was detached to the RAF in England (17 July 1941 - 27 June 1945), and was appointed to a Commission on 2 October 1943. F/O Marshall served with 207 and 44 Squadrons, and was an Instructor attached to 11 Operational Training Unit (OTU) at Discharge on 16 September 1945.

Robert was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1911, eldest of two children of Robert Nesbitt Marshall Snr (b1865 in Durham, England) and Elsie May (aka May) Worrall (b1892 in Victoria). Robert Snr started work in the Merchant Navy in the 1880s, and served on clipper ships with the Liverpool White Star Line (Castlehead, Santiago and Esmerelda) trading to the West Coast of South America. He was Captain of the SS Hellene in 1909, when he arrived in Williamstown, Melbourne - and met for the first time his Uncle Joseph Marshall who had arrived sixty one years earlier on board the Martha (Trove; 1909). Robert Snr and May married in 1911, and settled in Williamstown, where they raised their family - Robert was a Hotelkeeper and Mariner until his death in 1933.

Robert worked in Melbourne as a Purchasing Clerk for Shell Coy Australia before enlisting in the RAAF in 1940. In 1942 in Dorset, England he married his first wife Elizabeth (Bobbie) Ursula Pannell (b1920 in Dorset, Engalnd) - Bobbie was a Domestic Servant. Following his Discharge in 1945, Robert returned to Australia - Bobbie remained in Dorset with their son - and both remarried (Bobbie in 1960). Robert settled in Melbourne where he worked as a Clerk, Postal Officer and Technician with the Postmaster General's Department. In 1958 in Melbourne, Robert remarried to Mary Ruby Lane (b1915 in Seymour, Victoria) - Mary worked in Melbourne as a Typist and Stenographer. Robert died in 1999 and Mary in 2010. (Robert's service history is featured in an episode of The Repair Shop on BBC TV).

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