Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Flight Sergeant J. A. Marsden, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action piloting a Halifax of No. 102 Squadron in a raid on Wuppertal in June 1943

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original Air Ministry forwarding box addressed to ‘A. Marsden, Esq., 93, Poplar Grove, Great Horton, Bradford’, together with his Air Council condolence slip in the name of ‘Flight Sergeant J. A. Marsden’, extremely fine (3) £250-300

James Arthur Marsden was killed in action while serving as a pilot in No. 102 Squadron on the night of 24-25 June 1943, when his Halifax failed to return from a sortie against Wuppertal. The son of Arthur and Clarice Marsden of Great Horton, Yorkshire, he was 21 years of age and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.