Photo: James Pasby
E. Mearis
Pilot
Royal Air Force
30th September 1943 Age 23.
"Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling."
P/Off. Mearis was serving with 619 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster III ED983 PG-W which took off from Woodhall Spa on Mission to Bochum. On the return it encountered low cloud and flew into high ground in Lincolnshire.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1943: W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3.