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Letter from Mervyn Adder to his family
Letter and explanatory note. Thanks them for letters. States that he is browned off as they had decided he should be a navigator rather than a pilot and describes his feelings about this news and what he did about it. Comments on life in his location…
Tags: aircrew; navigator; pilot; RAF Heaton Park; training
Letter from Mervyn Adder to family
Reports that he was back at base after leave. Describes some recent activities and journey. Says he should have written earlier but he was flying on long trip.
Tags: RAF Dunholme Lodge
Wellington and two Spitfires
Artwork of a Wellington from below with two Spitfires behind over snow covered landscape. On the reverse 'Vickers Wellington bomber and Spitfires, after the original by Albert Kaye'.
Tags: arts and crafts; Spitfire; Wellington
Crew List
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…
Mervyn Adder crew
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…
"B" for Baker
Fourteen verse poem concerning Lancaster B for Baker. Individual verses for all aircrew
RAF Christmas card
On the front the RAF insignia and red silver and blue ribbon. Inside Christmas greetings Sergeants' Mess RAF Dunholme Lodge, 44 Squadron. Signed 'Mervyn'.
Tags: 44 Squadron; RAF Dunholme Lodge
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
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.
Tags: bombing; missing in action
Telegram to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Regrets to inform him that according to information from Red Cross, his son Pilot Officer Mervyn Adder was believed to have lost his life.
Tags: killed in action; Red Cross
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Red Cross
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…
Tags: killed in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Part of letter
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.
Tags: RAF Bridgnorth
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
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.
Tags: killed in action; Red Cross