TURAKINA AIRMAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 180, 2 August 1941, Page 4

TURAKINA AIRMAN

DEATH ON AIR OPERATIONS FLYING-OFFICER MARSHALL News of the death killed on air operations, of tiv ir fifth son, FlyingOlfieer George Montgomery Marshall, has been received by Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Marshall, of * Greenbank,” Turai<imi. ~ , . The second son of the family to los' his life in the present war, and one of a family of eight sons, six of whom were on' active service, Fiying-Officer G. M. Marshall was 23 years of age. He was educated at Huntley Schoo! and the Wanganui Collegiate School, attending at Selwyn House between 1934 and 1937. A member of the first Rugby fifteen in 1936, he was also a prefect in 1937. A skilled amnteui mechanic, he assisted on his father's farm when he left school, and started to learn civil flying. Al the ou.ibreak of the war he entered the ;Royal New Zealand Air Force, undergoing training at Weraroa, Woodburne (Blenheim) and New Plymouth. He proceeded overseas as a pilot-officer, and for a time he was in a bombing squadron. At latest advices Flying-Officer Marshall was attached to a New Zealand Fighter Squadron, of which another old boy of the Collegiate School. Squadron-Leader M. w’ B. Knight, is commander, and

Sergeant-Pilot C. C. White, of Wanganui, is also a member. A brother, Corporal Hugh Marshall of the 2nd N.Z.E.F., was killed in action on the island of Crete, and another brother, Private Peter Marshall. is on active service in Egypt. A fourth son of the family, Mr. Alan Marshall, expects to enter the R.N.Z.A.F. shortly as a pilot. At the annual meeting of tin* New Zealand Farmers’ Fertiliser Company at Auckland yesterday, the chairman, Mr. S. I. Crookes. expressed the sympathy of members when apologising for the absence of a fellow director in Mr. G. L. Marshall, the meot-i-iT paying .silent tribute. At the committee meeting of the Marton District A. and P. Association last evening, the president, Mr. J. Caithness, made feeling reference to this second bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, members standing in silence as a mark of respect. The sympathy of the whole- Rnngitikei district. said Mr. Caithness, would be extended Flying-Officer Marshall’s parents and family.