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I am trying to find a relatives of a member of my father Terry Ford's Lancaster bomber crew, I am searching for R Muller, known to his crew mates as Eddie. He was a flight engineer with 75 no squadron, based at Mepal airfield. His service number was 1880452, and he was from London and the son of a naturalised German.

Aprox what age would he have been

If he was born in London have you looked on freebmd for his birth and possible marriage

????? Possible

Births Sep 1902
Muller Robert Otto Poplar 1c. 541
Muller Raymond Theobald H Romford 4a 580

Births Sep 1905
Muller Richard Albert Edmonton 3a 604

Births Sep 1906
Muller Russell Adolph Edmonton 3a 468

????

Births Dec 1906
Muller Roul Frank Hendon 3a 297
Muller Rudolph Max H K Islington 1b 323
Muller Russell Hermann Edmonton 3a 438

Lots more off freebmd from then onwards

Think you need to know his actual birth name to identify the right man

Someone else (relative of Meryl, perhaps?) says he was from Purley, if that's any clue!

https://tinyurl.com/gumdscu

Doesn't mean he was born there, of course.


75 (NZ) Squadron:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandno75squadron.cfm

Probably a silly question, but have you tried contacting the squadron, Meryl?

They may have archives.

http://www.75squadron-raf-rnzaf.com/Contacts.php


Or the RAF?

http://www.raf.mod.uk/contact-us.cfm

Although, as you're not a relative, they likely wouldn't tell you anything


There's a lot of info about the squadron, including a forum, here:

https://75nzsquadron.wordpress.com/75nz-crews/.
But I expect you know that, too.

EDIT:
In fact, having read more of it now, I know that you do!


For helpers' ref:

R Muller's listed here (many times) as Flight Engineer in 1944:
https://75nzsquadron.wordpress.com/ford-crew-27-8-44/

Thank you for all your suggestions. The link to an Eddie from Purley was from my sister doing the same search. Unfortunately I have given all the info that I have. I am just hoping that someone recognises Eddie as a relative. I do have a photo but I can't work out how to add it to this page. :-(

As a very long shot, search "All Members Trees" under "Search" at the top right of this page.

If you search for Eddie Muller, you'll get 8 results.
Two are too young (1941 and 1961), but any of the others with DOB's might be worth contacting the tree owners about, just in case. Also the ones with no DOB or POB given.


Two are listed as born in Scotland, but no such births show on Scotlands People, so either the tree owner has the wrong POB, or the people weren't officially named Eddie or Edward.