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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…

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'.

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

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.

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

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'.

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'.

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

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'.

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

School badge for Hull grammar school junior.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

Four young woman and three young men sitting on grass dune with sea in the background.

Three young men wearing jackets sitting on rocks with sea in the background.

A man wearing jacket and tie and a woman wearing jacket and waving, both sitting in a open topped Jowett car with houses in the background. Captioned 'Arthur and Molly Crewe were parents of Ron Crewe a friend of Mervyn and Alex. No wonder Ron was a…

A large group of airmen wearing tunics and side caps sitting and standing in four rows. An officer wearing peaked cap seated in centre of second row. Captioned '7th Flight, B Squadron, A.C.R.C. London, April 1942'.

Half length image of three airmen wearing tunics and side caps. Captioned 'This photograph was taken on 23 November 1942. Mervyn recorded it in his diary. "Wrote home sent parcel - took special bus into Wolves with Jonny and Ron - had photos taken.…

Concerns a letter to family but not included in collection. Mentions nice time with fiancé Mary.

Letter and explanatory note. Catches up with news of father's activities. Mentions he had done quite a few operations recently including Augsburg, Schweinfurt and Stuttgart. Writes that they had to divert to a fighter base on the south coast and had…

Five airmen wearing battledress or tunics with brevet and side caps standing arm in arm in a line in front of a Lancaster. Captioned 'Gerard "Jerry" Bomb Aimer, Ron "Jonnie" W.O.P., Arthur pilot, Self, Dennis flight engineer', March 1943 Winthorpe'.