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I am going to use this page to thank some of the people who have helped me and my family find out all the information we now have about Joseph Marsh.

I will also use it to show some of the amazing forum's and web site's that are out there to help people find loved ones who fought for their country.

WW2Talk: On the 5th of March 2011 I posted on this forum knowing only the details that are held on CWGC web site. It had never dawned on me that there might be others out there with more information. I posted the request for a photo of the Runneymede memorial to Joseph, and went shopping to Lidl, by the time we got back, the photo was there.. posted by a user CL1(Clive). I rung my mum thinking this was amazing.. and whilst we were actually speaking on the phone others started to post... Ramacal (Rob), Peter, Kevin and Owen..
I really start to well up when I think of the time some of these guys, ESPECIALLY Rob put into helping us. When you talk to them they say things like, 'I was looking at stuff anyway, it's no big deal'.. and of course the first part might be true, but the second most assuridly isn't. Some how Rob managed to find the sole survivor's obituary, and from there tracked down his surviving relatives. I have spoken to Dave Wisson on the phone, and without Rob I doubt that would have been possible. God bless you all on WW2Talk, you are forever our friends.

Dave Wisson:

I don't think Dave wants me to make too big a deal of all this, so I'll try not too. I do have say thanks to him though. He sent everything he could find of his grand fathers hard drive to us, including the photo that you see at the top of every page of this web site, the crew of HR819.

My biggest regret is not doing this sooner and not ever meeting Ronald Wisson (photo to the right). I must take just a moment though to thank Mr Wisson for spending so many hours trying to track down his fellow crew members.
He was obviously very passionate about the whole thing, and at least now we have some idea of what happened to Joe and the rest of the crew.

Bill Leyland and Tom Wingham DFC

I've not had the pleasure of meeting these two men yet, something I hope to put right in the coming weeks and months. However both of them have given me a lot of their time over the phone and have made me feel as if I have an ally, a friend in what I am doing here.

There is enough information about on the web on Tom, he even wrote a book, 'Haliifax Down' which I plan to get and read. On July 23rd of this year, God willing I will get to meet Tom at the 102 Squadron reunion, I can promise you there will be a photo.. with Tom's permission of course.

Bill Leyland lost his uncle Robert Leyland in 1994, this is his CWGC page, he was 20 years old!
LL552 went down on the 24th July 1944 on a bombing raid to Stuttgart, this is the 'lost bombers' web page about the loss. Bill has been a wonderful help to me and the story of him going to France to see his uncle's grave... BIG deep breath .... very, very moving....