Photo: James Pasby
V.D. Merrow
Air bomber
Royal Air Force
1st February 1945
In some brighter clime
Bid me good morning.
F/Sgt. Merrow was serving with 61 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I NF912 QR- which took off from Skellingthorpe on a mission to Siegen. However, the port outer engine cut on take-off. The pilot managed to do a circuit and touched down, but there was an explosion, killing six men with one injured.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X
He is remembered at Monkwearmouth in M46.02 page 78
