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SGT John Paul “Mert” Merton Veteran

Birth: 2 Nov 1918
Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Death: 16 Apr 1943 (aged 24)
At Sea
Burial: Buried or Lost at Sea Add to Map
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Son of Owen and Ruth Merton. Brother of Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk and author. He was an Airman in the R.A.F. His plane was shot down. His brother wrote a beautiful poem to commemorate him. His body was lost at sea

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Owen Heathcote Grierson Merton

1887–1931
Ruth Calvert Jenkins Merton

1887–1921

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Thomas "Father Louis" Merton

1915–1968

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John P. Merton receives his Canadian Air Force observer wing in May 1942.

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Operation: Mannheim
Date: 16/17th April 1943
Unit: No. 166 Squadron
Type: Wellington X
Serial: HE862
Code: AS-L
Base: RAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire.
Crash Location: Cayeux-sur-Mer, France

Pilot: Flight Officer Selwyn Jaques Lupton RAFVR Age 22. Killed
Navigator: Flight Officer Rodetick Alan Lord RAFVR. Survived
Air Bomber: Sgt. John Paul Merton RCAF Age 24. Died of Injury
Weap Op/Air Gunner: Sgt. William Forster Whitfield RAFVR Age. Killed
Air Gunner: Flight Officer Eric G. Hadingham RAFVR. Survived

Extract from letter to survivor F/O Hadingham from survivor F/O Lord:

“The fuselage must have split in two, for we soon heard the bombardier shouting for help in the darkness. so I presume he came up through the same hole as myself. We grabbed two pieces of wreckage and, guiding ourselves by his shouts, made our way slowly and erratically towards him. We found him holding on to the pilot, who was I think already dead. I took the pilot, and Hadingham struggled for five minutes to try and get Sgt Merton, the bombardier aboard. Merton was in the last stages of exhaustion, being severely injured about the forehead and unable to move from the waist downwards. I think probably that his back was broken. In addition, he sank in the water until the sea had entered his mouth every time he shouted, but it never occurred to him to let go of the pilot. He was an American, and if I ever hear anyone running down the Yankees in future, I shall have a word ready.”

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