Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- H M Mellor -

Name

Harry Manners Mellor, son of Salusbury Manners Mellor and Daisy Mellor; husband of Diana Marian Mellor, of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
 
Service details

Wing Commander 16097 H M Mellor, MVO, Royal Air Force

CWGC record ...

His name is recorded on the St Helens War Memorial and the Bembridge War Memorial.

Date of Death :	Died 26 May 1940 aged 37
Where buried or commemorated :	Runnymede Memorial
Aircraft :	Bristol Beaufort Mk.I L4450 OA-F of 22 Sqn.
Crew
:	Flying Officer F R Jamieson	CWGC record ...
:	Pilot Officer H J Cook	CWGC record ...
:	LAC A D Mackenzie	CWGC record ...

The squadron, based at North Coates, was engaged in mine-laying activities. The aircraft in which Wing Cdr Mellor was flying was lost without trace while laying mines in Schiling Road north of Wilhelmshaven. Mellor was commissioned in the Royal Air Force prior to World War II and had attended course at the RAF Staff College, and in the operation of torpedoes.

Wing Cdr Mellor had lived in either Bembridge or St Helens, Isle of Wight.

Information provided by : John Bloodworth