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His training complete, P/O Marson was posted early in April 1943 to No. 156 (Bomber) Squadron at Warboys in Huntingdonshire. He made his first operational flight on April 16 as second pilot of a Lancaster. He shortly afterwards became captain of his own aircraft and during the next two months successfully carried out a number of raids on enemy targets, including the port of Speyia in Italy and Essen, Stetten, Dortmund and Duisburg in Germany. He was promoted to Flight Sergeant on May 15, 1943, and commissioned in the rank of Pilot Officer on June 6.

On June 21, on his 11th operational flight, P/O Marson was captain of a Lancaster bomber that took off on a raide on Koefeld in Germany and failed to return to its base. P/O Marson was posted as missing and was later presumed to have lost his life.

5/3/17717 A.S.2.
hrs. as pilot.

Mrs. E.T. Marson (M) (right aligned)
"Balmain", (right aligned)
124 Williamson Avenue, (right aligned)
Grey Lynn, AUCKLAND. (right aligned & city underlined)