Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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Date Information
05/03/2020
05/03/2020
05/03/2020 Sergeant Mervyn Frederick McCREA (979398)
05/03/2020 Flight Sergeant Raymond HARVEY (937456)
05/03/2020 Flying Officer John Henry Parry FOSTER (63470)
05/03/2020 Sergeant Eric William CRAGG (1496562)
05/03/2020 The CWGC record Sergeant Mervyn Frederick McCrea as the son of John F and Caroline E McCrea of Clogher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
05/03/2020 Sergeant Mervyn McCrea is commemorated locally on Clogher War Memorial.
05/03/2020 Sergeant Mervyn Frederick McCrea has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 4 of the Malta Memorial.
05/03/2020 On 25th August 1942, Sergeant McCrea was part of a four man crew of a Baltimore aircraft (Serial No AG697), which took off and failed to return from a search for a Beaufort crew lost the previous day. The crew were:
05/03/2020 By August 1842, Sergeant Mervyn McCrea was with 69 Squadron.
05/03/2020 Sergeant Mervyn McCrea served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in World War Two.
05/03/2020 Mervyn Frederick McCrea was the son of John F and Caroline E McCrea. He was born about 1921.
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