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Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Milliner

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Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Milliner Veteran

Birth
Brisbane, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Death
25 Jul 1944 (aged 22)
Strasbourg, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Burial
Cronenbourg, Departement du Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Add to Map
Plot
L. 9. Coll. grave 5-11.
Memorial ID
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Pilot Officer Royal Australian Air Force 426367 (Navigator)
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)
Pilot Officer Royal Australian Air Force 426367 (Navigator)
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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