Sgt Mervyn Williams - 61 Squadron

Sergeant Mervyn Williams - 61 Squadron

Sergeant Mervyn Stephen Williams - RAFVR

Sergeant Mervyn Williams was serving as Bomb Aimer on board Lancaster Mk.I DV344 coded QR-V for an operation to Berlin on January 1/2 1944. The aircraft departed Skellingthorpe at 0001hrs but was crashed near Wiesenhagen with the loss of all crew members.

The crew consisted of:

Name	Service	Trade	Hometown	Age
F/O Ronald Cunningham	RAFVR	Pilot	-	-
Sgt Arthur Gleadle	RAFVR	Flight Engineer	Hobson,Co.Durham	21
F/O John Storey	RAFVR	Navigator	Alnwick,Northumberland	22
Sgt Robert Barbour	RAFVR	W/Op/AG	Halfway, Lanarkshire	21
Sgt Edward Lunniss	RAFVR	Air Gunner	Little Gransden,Cambs.	21
F/Sgt William Butler	RAAF	Air Gunner	Coogee,N.S.W.	20
Sgt Mervyn Williams	RAFVR	Bomb Aimer	Pengam,Monmouthshire	22

Sergeant Mervyn Stephen Williams RAFVR was born on the 9^th April 1921 was the son of John Abraham & Jesiah Anne Williams and brother of Daniel, Sophia, Matthew, Mary, Tommy, John, Idris ,Albert and Gwyneth of Pengam, Monmouthshire. He came from a mining family and his father was a mining colliery official. He was a shy young man that was cherished by his family.

On January 4^th Sgt Lunniss was laid to rest at Wiesenhagen and Sergeants Gleadle & Barbour were buried the following day at Kliestow.The crew were later to be re interred and buried with their fellow crew in the Berlin war cemetery.