Military Service
Pilot Officer / Service Number: J/88574
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Bomber Command
Squadron: No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire, England
Aircraft: Avro Lancaster Mk.III - PB402 / Marking: LQ-M
Trade: Air Bomber
Deceased: Age 34
Circumstances of Death: Lost in aircraft
Mission:
Took off 18:13 hrs 16 Jan 1945 to mark the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic-oil plant at Zeitz, Germany. While en route to their objective was involved in a mid-air collision with 434 Sqdn Lancaster - KB850 / WL-O resulting in both bombers crashing at Pfaffenhausen, Germany. Both aircrafts and aircrews were lost.
Perished with fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
RCAF Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe - Air Gunner
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Alfred Marshall - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay - Air Bomber
RCAF Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak - Navigator
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne - Pilot
RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavern Smith - Air Gunner
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s):
- Page 545 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 212 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of A. L. Miller and Ethel Miller. Husband of Margaret Jessie Miller, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Pilot Officer / Service Number: J/88574
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Bomber Command
Squadron: No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire, England
Aircraft: Avro Lancaster Mk.III - PB402 / Marking: LQ-M
Trade: Air Bomber
Deceased: Age 34
Circumstances of Death: Lost in aircraft
Mission:
Took off 18:13 hrs 16 Jan 1945 to mark the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic-oil plant at Zeitz, Germany. While en route to their objective was involved in a mid-air collision with 434 Sqdn Lancaster - KB850 / WL-O resulting in both bombers crashing at Pfaffenhausen, Germany. Both aircrafts and aircrews were lost.
Perished with fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
RCAF Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe - Air Gunner
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Alfred Marshall - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay - Air Bomber
RCAF Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak - Navigator
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne - Pilot
RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavern Smith - Air Gunner
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s):
- Page 545 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 212 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of A. L. Miller and Ethel Miller. Husband of Margaret Jessie Miller, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Military Service
Pilot Officer / Service Number: J/88574
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Bomber Command
Squadron: No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire, England
Aircraft: Avro Lancaster Mk.III - PB402 / Marking: LQ-M
Trade: Air Bomber
Deceased: Age 34
Circumstances of Death: Lost in aircraft
Mission:
Took off 18:13 hrs 16 Jan 1945 to mark the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic-oil plant at Zeitz, Germany. While en route to their objective was involved in a mid-air collision with 434 Sqdn Lancaster - KB850 / WL-O resulting in both bombers crashing at Pfaffenhausen, Germany. Both aircrafts and aircrews were lost.
Perished with fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
RCAF Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe - Air Gunner
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Alfred Marshall - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay - Air Bomber
RCAF Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak - Navigator
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne - Pilot
RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavern Smith - Air Gunner
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s):
- Page 545 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 212 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of A. L. Miller and Ethel Miller. Husband of Margaret Jessie Miller, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Pilot Officer / Service Number: J/88574
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Group: No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Bomber Command
Squadron: No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Sqdn. RCAF
Airfield: RAF Station Gransden Lodge, Bedfordshire, England
Aircraft: Avro Lancaster Mk.III - PB402 / Marking: LQ-M
Trade: Air Bomber
Deceased: Age 34
Circumstances of Death: Lost in aircraft
Mission:
Took off 18:13 hrs 16 Jan 1945 to mark the Braunkohle-Benzin synthetic-oil plant at Zeitz, Germany. While en route to their objective was involved in a mid-air collision with 434 Sqdn Lancaster - KB850 / WL-O resulting in both bombers crashing at Pfaffenhausen, Germany. Both aircrafts and aircrews were lost.
Perished with fellow crew members;
RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Aloysius Bruggeman - Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
RCAF Pilot Officer Benjamin Robert Cunliffe - Air Gunner
RAFVR Sergeant Harry Alfred Marshall - Flight Engineer
RCAF Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay - Air Bomber
RCAF Flying Officer Henry Eugene Novak - Navigator
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Harold Leslie Payne - Pilot
RCAF Pilot Officer Norman Lawrence Lavern Smith - Air Gunner
Honours/Citations:
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal (CVSM) with silver maple leaf emblem clasp and Bomber Command bar & War Medal 1939-1945
Commemoration(s):
- Page 545 Second World War Book of Remembrance, Memorial Chamber, Canadian Parliament Peace Tower, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Bomber Command Memorial Wall, Nanton, Alberta, Canada
- Phase 2 / Panel 212 International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) Canwick Ave, Lincoln LN4 2HQ, United Kingdom
Next of Kin: Son of A. L. Miller and Ethel Miller. Husband of Margaret Jessie Miller, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
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