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Flight Sergeant Marshall arrived at No. 12 R.N.Z.A.F. Personnel Despatch and Reception Centre, Brighton, on the 2nd July 1943. A few days later he commenced a navigation course at No. 9 (Observers) Advanced Flying Unit, Penrhos, Wales. On the completion of this he was posted to No. 11, Operational Training Unit, Westcott, Buckinghamshire, on the 9th August. Here he crewed up and completed his training as air bomber of Wellington bomber aircraft. During December he converted to Stirling bomber aircraft at No. 1651 Conversion Unit, Wratting Common, Cambridge, and on the 10th January 1944 was posted to No. 75, N.Z. Squadron at Mepal, Cambridge. With this squadron as air bomber of Stirling aircraft, he took part in twenty operational flights being eleven mine-laying sorties to Heligoland, Kiel and Baltic, Cherbourg, St. Malo and Lorient, France; seven supply dropping operations over enemy occupied France, and two bombing flights to Laon and Aulnoye both in France. Late in March 1944 the crew converted to Lancaster bomber aircraft. As air bomber of these aircraft, Flight Sergeant Marshall took part in a further nine operational flights being raids on Karlsruhe, Essen, Friedrickshaven, Duisberg and Dortmund, in Germany; marshalling yards at Paris, Courtrai, Louvain and Le Mans, in France.

Flight Sergeant Marshall was the air bomber of a Lancaster bomber aircraft engaged during the night of the 22/23rd May 1944, in an attack on Dortmund. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew, including Flight Sergeant Marshall, were classified as missing. Later, information received from an official German source through the International Red Cross Committee that Flight Sergeant Marshall had lost his life and was buried in the War Cemetery, Dortmund, Germany. In due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 23rd May 1944.

At a later date, the body of Flight Sergeant Marshall was re-interred n the Reichwald Forest, British Military Cemetery.

5/2/5791 A.S.2.
448 hours as Air Bomber.

Mrs. E.M. Marshall (M) (right aligned)
403, E, Southampton Street, (right aligned)
HASTINGS. (right aligned & underlined)