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Greece (Operation Manna)
One company of the 4th Para Battalion was dropped in high winds at Megara airfield 40 miles from Athens suffering numero...
Donald Carruthers Marsh was granted an emergency commission on 1 August 1942.He attended parachute course 111A, which ran at RAF Ringway in April 1944, for a refresher course.
Lt Donald Marsh was killed on 12 October 1944, while serving in the Mortar Platoon, 4th Parachute Battalion, after parachuting onto a drop zone at Megara, Greece, during high winds. He is now buried in Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.
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Service History
- Date not known The 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (4 PARA) (Lieutenant)
