Casualty of WWII,William was a Radio Officer in Royal Air Force Ferry Command

The Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) 13 Aug 1941, Wed

Former Local
Radio Operator
Is Killed in O.C.
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W. K. "Bill" Marks Left
Here to Serve on Atlantic
Planes
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W. K. "Bill" Marks, whose mother lives at Stratford, Ont., and who was killed along with 21 others in the crash of an air force plane in the Old Country on Tuesday, is well known in South Alberta.
The deceased came to Lethbridge in 1938 from Kirkland Lake, where he had been a radio operator. He joined the staff of the government meteorological bureau at Kenyon Field and afterward served at the Cowley meteorological office. He resided at Pincher Creek at that time.
After the outbreak of war, Marks went east to become a radio operator on trans-Atlantic planes. Friends here were shocked to learn of his sudden death.
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Consolidated Liberator (LB-30A) AM261 of the Atlantic Return Ferry Organisation, flew into Mullach Buidhe north of Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran on 10th August 1941

The aircraft had take off from Heathfield (Ayr) to fly to Gander in eastern Canada with ferry crews on board with the intention of those crews ferrying new aircraft back across the Atlantic. Shortly after take off the aircraft entered cloud and flew into Mullach Buidhe near the head of Coire Lan. The flight crews onboard were from Royal Air Force Ferry Command, Air Transport Auxiliary and British Overseas Airways Corporation. All 22 of the crew and passengers perished in the crash making it the worst crash on Arran. This aircraft had been used less than two weeks earlier to fly the Duke of Kent across the Atlantic, the first such time a member of the royal family had crossed the Atlantic by air.

All of the crew and passengers were buried on Arran except Radio Officer Henry Green who was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.

Ernest Robert Bristow White Captain BOAC Pilot
Francis Delaforce Bradbrooke Captain ATA Co-pilot

Passengers
James Josiah Anderson Captain RAFFC
Ralph Bruce Brammer Radio Officer RAFFC
John Beatty Drake Radio Officer RAFFC
Daniel Joseph Duggan Captain RAFFC
Henry Samuel Green Radio Officer BOAC
George Thomas Harris Captain RAFFC
Hoyt Ralph Judy Captain RAFFC
Wilfrid Graves Kennedy Radio Officer RAFFC
Watt Miller King Captain RAFFC
Jack Wixen Captain RAFFC
George Laing Radio Officer RAFFC
William Kenneth Marks Radio Officer RAFFC
Hugh Cameron McIntosh Radio Officer RAFFC
Albert Alexander Oliver
George Herbert Powell Radio Officer ATA
John Evan Price Captain RAFFC
Herbert David Rees Radio Officer ATA
Ernest George Reeves Flight Engineer RAFFC
John James Rouleston First Officer RAFFC
Harold Clifford Wesley Smith Captain RAFFC