- First Name(s):CharlesHarry
- Surname:MARSH
- Service Number:957721
- Rank:
Sergeant/Flight Engineer
- Conflict:WW2
- Service:Air Force
- Air Force:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
- Air Force Unit:15 Squadron
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:21st February 1944
- Age At Death:27
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany, Grave 9. E. 10.
- Place of Birth:Unknown
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Joseph Frank and Edith Emma Marsh, of Wollaston, Stourbridge, Worcestershire
MARSH Charles Harry Is Named On These Memorials
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Appears on the Royal Air Force casualties list for Worcestershire.
A letter from H.J. Winnington, Honorary Secretary of PCC, St James Church, Wollaston dated 17th December 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Flight Sergeant C. Harry Marsh, RAF be added to the county roll of honour.
The following information has been researched and transcribed by The Black Country Society:
Harry Marsh enlisted in the Royal Air Force and was trained for air crew. At the start of 1944 he was stationed at 15 Squadron at Mildenhall, Suffolk, and flying in Lancasters as a Flight Engineer. For the night of 20th-21st February 1944 Bomber Command ordered a raid on Stuttgart of 598 aircraft. Lancaster III LM 456 took off just before midnight but the target was cloud covered. Diversionary operations were quite successful and only nine aircraft were lost. One, however, was the Lancaster of Harry Marsh which was brought down, probably through a combination of enemy flak and strikes from bombs falling in the target area. Two of the seven man crew survived to become prisoners of war, but Sergeant Harry Marsh died in the crash.
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