Posting on Death: 75 (NZ) Squadron, Mepal, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK568; Place - Strasbourg, Germany; Date - 25 July 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter Into the Robertsau Forest on the Northern Outskirts of Strasbourg During a Raid on Stuttgart.
The crew members of HK 568 were:
Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Milliner (426367) (Navigator)
Sergeant Robert Charles Baker (1624103) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Warrant Officer Keat Dudding (415522) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Ray Steele Horsford (1387835) (RAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Bernard Leighton (2209941) (RAFVR) (Flight Sergeant)
Flight Sergeant George Alfred Badge Taverner (429835) (RAAF) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Keith Owen Whitehouse (428800) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Brisbane Qld, also Jack Thomas Milliner's name is located at panel 127 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Father Harold Thomas Milliner (1891-1955)
Mother Lillian Docherty (1893-1938)
Posting on Death: 75 (NZ) Squadron, Mepal, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK568; Place - Strasbourg, Germany; Date - 25 July 1944.
Shot down by a Night Fighter Into the Robertsau Forest on the Northern Outskirts of Strasbourg During a Raid on Stuttgart.
The crew members of HK 568 were:
Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Milliner (426367) (Navigator)
Sergeant Robert Charles Baker (1624103) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Warrant Officer Keat Dudding (415522) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Ray Steele Horsford (1387835) (RAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Bernard Leighton (2209941) (RAFVR) (Flight Sergeant)
Flight Sergeant George Alfred Badge Taverner (429835) (RAAF) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Keith Owen Whitehouse (428800) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Brisbane Qld, also Jack Thomas Milliner's name is located at panel 127 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Father Harold Thomas Milliner (1891-1955)
Mother Lillian Docherty (1893-1938)
Inscription
HE GAVE HIS LIFE
FOR US TO LIVE
GREATER GIFT
NO MAN CAN GIVE
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