Date of birth:

October 9th, 1924

Date of death:

April 25th, 1944

Service number:

1819564

Nationality:

British

Mervyn Harrison lived in Colwick/Nottinghamshire and joined the 1214 Squadron Air Training Corps from the age of sixteen, during which time he represented the football team being the goalkeeper. He was was greatly interested in he construction of model aircraft; a hobby which he started after joining the A.T.C. After graduating he left to join the RAF volunteering for aircrew duties and was trained as a Air Gunner.
On the night of 24/25 April 1944 he was on board of a Halifax III which was detailed to attack Karlsruhe, part of an attack force of 369 Lancasters, 259 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitoes. Strong winds over the target area made the attack only partly succesful.
Later as the mainforce recrossed the English coast, enemy intruder aircraft were patrolling over Eastern England. Harrison's Halifax was attacked by a Me410 flown by Leutnant Wolfgang Wenning. The Halifax crashed opposite Colony farm near Welney, Norfolk at 04.20 hrs. The only survivor was the rear gunner, Fl/Sgt John Anderson.

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