Murray Gordon MARSHALL

MARSHALL, Murray Gordon

Service Number: 418139
Enlisted: 25 April 1942
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Dandenong, Victoria Australia, 25 September 1923
Home Town: Dandenong, Greater Dandenong, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Ground Accident), West Africa, 24 December 1943, aged 20 years
Cemetery: Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra Leone
Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Noble Park Honour Roll
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 418139
25 Apr 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 418139

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Flight Sergeant Murray Gordon Marshall 418139 (Wireless Air Gunner) from RAF Station Waterloo in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa was in a lorry on an organised bathing run on the 19th of December 1943

He was critically injured when the vehicle overturned at Benjguema near Freetown (East) and he was admitted to Number 51 General hospital but he died of his injuries on the 24th of December 1943