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Flight Sergeant

Hudson Eric Marshall

Service number R/60897
Military unit 408 Sqdn Royal Canadian Air Force
Address Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Date of birth 14 Jan 1918
Date of death 28 Nov 1941 (31 years old)
Place of birth Daysland, Alberta, Canada.
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

Son of William and Catherine Marshall, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (CWGC)

Military history

Served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 408 Squadron.

Hampden AE437 408 Sqn.
Take off from 16.40 RAF Syerston to bomb Dusseldorf. 22.29 requested bearings on return from Heston D/F station but crew misinterpreted
directions and were last plotted 270 miles off Brest and 300 off Lands End, 180 degrees off course.

Crew missing:
F/O James Caldwell
Sgt Hudson Marshall
Sgt Edwin Harry
Sgt Roland Cawley

Died 28 November 1941. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial (Panel 60).

408 (B) Squadron For Freedom (‘Goose’). Extract: 'The squadron was the second Canadian bomber squadron to be formed in WWII. It was formed at Lindholme, Yorkshire, UK in June of 1941 as part of Bomber Command No 5 Group, flying Handley Page Hampden Mk I bombers from Syerston, Nottinghamshire, Balderton, Newark and North Luffenham, Rutland. Its squadron code letters were EQ.’ (caspir.warplane.com/personnel/unit-search)

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