Name Leonard MARSH Rank Sgt
Number 968674 Date of Birth 2 Jan 1920
Squadron 7 Squadron, Bomber Command, RAF    
Aircraft Stirling Crew position Flight Engineer
Based at Oakington (near Cambridge), UK    
Target Munich, Germany Failed to return 8 Mar 1943
Escape Networks Possum Line Escape  
Arrival home Left Gibraltar 5 Feb 1944
UK - 6 Feb 1944		 Reference UKNA:SPG/1754 - Leonard Marsh

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Last updated on 10 June, 2009

SYNOPSIS

At the moment, not too much is known about Marsh's evasion:

8 Mar 1943
 Baled out & landed near Élan (~80kms NE of Reims). Walked to Élan & ....
9 Mar1943
 Knocked on a house at 1:30 am. Given a meal & directed on the road to Reims. Met a farmer in Poix-Terron (13kms W of Élan), who gave him civilian clothes. A girl & her father arranged his onward journey.
?
 There's a gap here.
6 Sep 1943
 Possibly staying in Ville-sur-Retourne (~16kms SE of Rethel).
Visited Harold Clarke (RAF) at a house in Rethel (~40 kms NE of Reims).
~15 Sep 1943
 Harold Clarke visited.
?
 There's a gap here.
22 Sep 1943
 While cycling to Ville-sur-Retourne (~40kms SSW of Poix-Terron), to collect some clothes, was arrested by two German officers & taken to Reims.
23 Sep 1943
 While waiting for a train to Châlons, managed to lose his guards & stole a bicycle. Abandoned it ~10 kms outside Reims & made his way to ...
25 Sep 1943
 Beine (~15kms E of Reims).
?
 There's a gap here.
~12 Oct 1943
 Raymonde Beuré moved Marsh & Clarke to a cabin, she owned, in woods near to Sillery.
Val Johnson (RAF) & Fred Murray (USAAF) arrived while they were there.
Oct 1943
 Germans begain searching the woods, so they were moved, possibly to Gaston Georgeton's house in Sillery.
?
 There's a gap here.
Nov 1943

Paul Quenot collected Marsh & Clarke from Cornelle(?) and drove them to Abbé Micho of Châtillon (possibly Cuisles-par-Châtillon).
Nov 1943
 Abbé Micho passed them onto Capt. Sarvagnac.
?
 Another gap here.
end Dec 1943?
 Crossed the Pyrenees, but don't know at which place.

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