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Name MARSHALL
First names Thomas Cedric Martin (known as 'Pinky')
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Service RAF
Crew position Navigator
Comments F/L Marshall passed away aged 65 years.
His final service status was an Air Traffic Controller.

All photographs and captions are credited, with thanks, to Shirley Shorter
and Ann Willis (daughters of F/L 'Pinkie' Marshall)

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
This would be 1952-53 (his pre moustache days).
My father had a crumpled right ear following a crash on take-off in 1942
at St Athan - his posed photos are always taken from the left.
I'm not 100% sure but I think the moustache appeared after the first trip to Kenya.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
Dad is 2nd from the left

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
My father with myself (Shirley) and Ann outside
the married quarters at Waddington

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
A photo of the family outside the old hospital which served as
married quarters at Alconbury. This one is dated 1954.
We lived in one half of the building and Jack Higginbottom
and family lived next door in the other half.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
My father is 10th from the left, front row (moustache),
Jack Higginbottom is on his left.
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Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
The reverse reads 'Changi Point S'pore.
Old Belsenites reunion. Sgt Thomas, Self, Digger.'
The 'Old Belsenites' presumably refers to the skinniness of the men.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
Boarding the aircraft - could be Jack Higginbottom on the ladder
judging by the ears. My father is behind, on the ground.
This could be anywhere between 1952 and 1955.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
My father and Jack Higginbottom in uniform with a group of
other aircrew (?), sometime between 1952 and 1955.
I have no way of telling if it is Upwood or Waddington.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
An undated photo, nothing on the back at all. My father is in the middle
and it looks like Jack Higginbottom on his right.
Unfortunately, I have no idea who the third man is.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
This photo has names on the back. I have always found my father's handwriting
a bit tricky to read, so I will tell you what I think it says:

Worrall, Freddy Faush, Frank Hogan, Self, the next one is a problem but it looks like Jonah, Wally Gill, Stein,

Taken at Eastleigh in early 1952.

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
This photograph appears to read Transit Hotel, Changi, Singapore.
(I think this could be on the way to Australia for the Canberra trials.
The Crew Flt Lt Marshall (navigator), Flt Lt Higginbottom (Captain),
F/Sgt Richardson (Radar Mech), Sgt Tutton (signaller), Sgt Thomas (Pilot),
F/O Hogan (observer), F/Sgt Street ?(nav), F/Sgt Morell (signaller),
F/Sgt Davey (engineer).

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
Dad's notification of transfer to a Direct Commission

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
Dad's MID from 1955

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis

An undated photograph annotated on the back "Momote, Manus I, Admiralty's.
The heap, Jack Higginbottom and native guard."

Courtesy of Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis

The postcard is not dated, the postmark is blurred and the month is
not clear but I think it is 11th Feb 1955.
It is from my father to his mother from RAF Khomaksar in Aden.
He says, "I am spending a day here for a bit of shopping and swimming".
I assume it was on a stop on the way to Kenya or a run to deliver/collect something. He was unlikely to go all that way for a day's leave I'd have thought.

The 49Sqn Association would like to thank Shirley Shorter and Ann Willis
for their permission to display this extensive selection of photographs.