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A young man wearing jacket sitting on a rock with breaking waves of sea in the background.

Full length image of four men wearing jackets standing in line with hands in pockets. A brick wall on the right and house in the background.

Twelve boys in football kit sitting and standing in two rows with wooden building in background. Captioned 'Mervyn Adder (front row. extreme right) in a Hull Grammar School football team c1934. The boy on the front row, second left is Bob Baxter a…

Group of twenty-one schoolboys with cups and shields prizes. Standing and sitting in five rows. Explanatory text on the right states photograph taken in 1936 of Hull grammar school prizegiving. Mervyn Adder was second row from the front, third from…

Group of twenty-one schoolboys with cups and shields prizes. Standing and sitting in five rows. Captioned 'Hull Grammar School prizegiving c1936. Mervyn is on the second row from the bottom above the small medal. Dad could remember the dark-haired…

School badge for Hull grammar school junior.

Reports from Kingston upon Hull Grammar School from autumn term 1934 to spring term 1939.

Four boys wearing jackets and shorts sitting on a wall with a female wearing dress on the right. In the background rocks and sea. Captioned 'A day at the seaside with friends c 1930. Mervyn is on the left next to big brother Alex'.

Two boys wearing shorts standing either side of a seated girl. Captioned 'Mervyn with older brother Alex and sister Edith c. 1927'.

Top - two young men sitting on a beach with a boat behind them. Sea wall on the left.
Bottom - two boys in school uniform with shorts and caps standing by a coach.
Captioned 'My Father Alexander Adder and younger brother Mervyn'.

Baby wearing white outfit lying on fur rug. Captioned 'Mervyn Adder as a baby - 1922'.

Baby wearing white outfit lying on fur rug. Captioned 'Mervyn Adder as a baby - 1922'.

Possible title page for album - Pilot Officer Mervyn Adder, 20 August 1922 - 15 March 1944.

Confirms information in telegram in which he was notified that his son had lost his life as a result of air operations on 15 March 1944. Information was from official German sources.

Last two pages, no salutation page. Writes of walking back to camp and arriving too late for supper. Mentions receipt of parcel with cake. Comments on other parcels and photographs as well as an upcoming birthday.

One page of letter with no first or last page. Reports arrival at new location and describes journey through Shrewsbury to Bridgnorth. Nice countryside after Manchester.

Reports that source of information that his son had lost his life along with Flying Officer J R Berrington and Sergeant C Clark was a German report to international Red Cross in Geneva. Report included information that Flying Officer T H Fynn was a…

Regrets to inform him that according to information from Red Cross, his son Pilot Officer Mervyn Adder was believed to have lost his life.

Informs him that his son Sergeant Mervyn Adder was missing as a result of air operations on night 15/16 March 1944. The Lancaster in which he was flying as navigator failed to return from operation to Stuttgart.

On the front the RAF insignia and red silver and blue ribbon. Inside Christmas greetings Sergeants' Mess RAF Dunholme Lodge, 44 Squadron. Signed 'Mervyn'.

Card from Mervyn Adder. On the front artwork of cottage and sun dial clock. Insides artwork fruit basket and birthday greetings. Signed a 'all the best. Mervyn'.

Fourteen verse poem concerning Lancaster B for Baker. Individual verses for all aircrew

Seven airmen wearing battledress with brevet sitting and standing in two rows. Captioned 'Photograph kept loose as my uncle has identified his colleagues on the back. Taken February 1944'. List of crew names with aircrew position and faith. On the…

Names and next of kin of crew. Flight Sergeant Ronald Johnson - WOP/Air Gunner, Flight Sergeant William Jack - air gunner, Flight Sergeant Joseph Sagar - air gunner, F/O John Berrington - pilot (Rhodesian), Acting F/L Laurence Flynn - pilot…

Head and shoulders portrait of a man wearing jacket and tie. Captioned 'Mervyn Adder'.