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Two boys wearing shorts and jackets sitting side by side on top of a ridge. On the reverse 'Alex and Mervyn Adder (younger right)'.

Team chart for match with names in positions.

White cover

Notes on history of use of aircraft mentioning mail, locating shoals of herring, air surveys, air taxi services, air ambulance,. Mentions routes taken by cargo boats. Experiments with small planes in Iceland. Mentions strategic importance of Iceland,…

Artwork drawing and description of imperial war graves commission headstones. Stamped 'Specimen Olny'.

From officer detailed to supervise the collection of his son's personal belongings advising actions taken to safeguard effects. Effects dispatch to central depository RAF Colnbrook.

Five airmen wearing battledress or tunic with brevet and side caps, standing in line underneath a bomber.

Mentions tracing the crew who were all buried together. Did not find pilot, so assumed survived the war. Pilot survived because he happened to be wearing a parachute.

Head and shoulders portrait of a sergeant airman wearing tunic with navigator brevet.

Note about a poem written by Mervyn's fiancé Mary and a note written by Mervyn's sister Edith. Neither document in collection.

Top - head and shoulders portrait of a woman wearing dress and necklace. Captioned 'Mervyn's finaceé [sic], Mary Bootyman, later Pearce. She married but often wore Mervyn's ring.
Bottom - newspaper cutting announcing engagement between Mary and…

Head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic and side cap.

Seven aircrew in and around the door of a Lancaster. All are wearing flying clothing.

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'.

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…

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

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.…

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'.

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…

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

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

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…