{"id":567,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=567"},"modified":"2023-06-29T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T07:06:16","slug":"marcus-derek-julius","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/marcus-derek-julius\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus, Derek Julius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 15 OTU
Service number 1360363
Died 5 Dec 1941
Buried Kempston Cemetery, Bedford
Age 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘WITH A FULL HEART AND EAGER SPIRIT HE GAVE HIS ALL’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Derek was born on 6 August 1916 in Willesden, London to Rudolph, a stock broker, and Lottie May n\u00e9e Miller and had a younger brother Colin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Derek’s grandparents Julius and Ida nee Semple were born in Hamburg and soon after their marriage in 1875 they emigrated to England and lived in Paddington where Julius was a manager of a bullion depot. Julius and Ida had four children, Rudolph, Eveline, Gladys and Dudley. In 1916, Dudley was killed in action at the Somme serving as a rifleman in the 12th Battalion London Regiment. He is buried at Gommecourt British Cemetery, France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1939, Derek was listed as living with his mother at 41 Teignmouth Road, Willesden and was working as a bank clerk, he was also a volunteer stretcher bearer. In 1940, he enlisted into the RAF in Blackpool, and a year later married Regina Fooks in October 1941 two months before he was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Derek was the wireless operator\/air gunner on Wellington X9799 which departed RAF Harwell at 23.00 on a night cross country training exercise. The aircraft collided with Tiger Moth N6968 of 6 EFTS (based at Denton), between 800-1000 feet. Both aircraft crashed north east of Piddington Station, near Denton, Northamptonshire, and were completely burnt out. All crew in both aircraft were killed – eight in the Wellington and two in the Tiger Moth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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