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Flight Sergeant
Leslie Millis - RAFVR |
| Flight Sergeant
Leslie Millis was serving as Navigator on board Lancaster Mk. II
DS-824 coded JI-K during an
operation to Magdeburg on January 21/22, 1944.
The aircraft took off from Waterbeach at 1956hrs and crashed in
Ijsselmeer killing everyone on board.
The
crew consisted of:
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Name |
Service |
Hometown |
Age |
Memorial
Site |
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P/O John Williams |
RAFVR |
- |
- |
Staveren
General cemetery |
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Sgt James Keenan |
RAFVR |
- |
- |
Runnymede
Memorial |
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F/O Donald Henshaw |
RAFVR |
Hunstead,Surrey |
27 |
Runnymede
Memorial |
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F/Sgt Wilbur Chapman |
RAAF |
Dawson, S.Australia |
26 |
Hindeloopen
Protestant Churchyard |
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Sgt Arthur Pratt |
RAFVR |
- |
- |
Runnymede
Memorial |
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F/Sgt Ernest Lane |
RAFVR |
- |
- |
Wonseradeel
Protestant Churchyard |
Flight Sergeant
Leslie Noel Millis RAFVR was the son of William Noel and Margaret
Ethel Millis of Teddington, Middlesex. He was aged 22 at the time of
his death and is buried at Wonseradeel Protestant Churchyard. He is
believed to have trained at Belleville, Ontario as part of the
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. |
Photo courtesy of
Sarah Smith, special thanks to Marvin Millis, research by Ken Holmes.
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