MARSHALL, Edward Colin

Edward was born 1913 in Newport to Ernest Edward & Mary (nee BROWN) MARSHALL. They lived at 43 Fairlee Road in Newport. He married Kathleen Mabel Ellen PACKER in 1940 at St Mary’s Church in Carisbrooke.

Edward was a wireless operator & took off at 2225 on the 3rd of July 1942 from RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire in a Lancaster bomber aircraft, to lay mines in the Danish Sound off Verbena (Nasturtium Region). They were attacked at 0246 by a German night fighter, piloted by Oberfeldwebel HAISCH, & crashed into the North Sea 30 kilometres north west of Esbjerg killing all 7 crew on board. Edwards body drifted ashore & was found at Fjaltring on the 10th of July, his official date of death being the 4th, aged 28.

Edward is buried in the Lemvig Cemetery in Denmark beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “BEAUTIFUL AND TREASURED MEMORIES OF MY DARLING HUSBAND. KATHLEEN”, & laid to rest alongside 38 of his comrades.

Edward is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.