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Military service
Service number:
J/87206
Age:
27
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
21 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
August 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
H. 129.
Additional information
Son of Edwin C. and Dora M. Millar. of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
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Memorial Service
Millar, Mervin Edwin P/O (P) J87206. From Lethbridge, Alberta. Killed August 24, 1944 age 27. No 21 Squadron (Viribus Vincimus). The crew of Wellington aircraft No. JA535 took off on an anti-submarine patrol and crashed just after take-off two miles from the Ras Karma Landing Ground on Socotra, Aden. (Very close to where the present airfield is - John Farrar) The crash was due to a suspected over speed of the aircrew's rotor gear. The pilot throttled back to prevent seizure of the engine, turned right through 170 degrees then stalled and crashed on a slight rise off the end of the runway. Warrant Officers D.C. Jones, J.K. Brown, P/O M.J. Leduc and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. Pilot Officer Millar was buried in the Military Cemetery, Socotra, exhumed and reburied in the Maala Cemetery, Aden. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Service
Millar, Mervin Edwin P/O (P) J87206. From Lethbridge, Alberta. Killed August 24, 1944 age 27. No 21 Squadron (Viribus Vincimus). The crew of Wellington aircraft No. JA535 took off on an anti-submarine patrol and crashed just after take-off two miles from the Ras Karma Landing Ground on Socotra, Aden. (Very close to where the present airfield is - John Farrar) The crash was due to a suspected over speed of the aircrew's rotor gear. The pilot throttled back to prevent seizure of the engine, turned right through 170 degrees then stalled and crashed on a slight rise off the end of the runway. Warrant Officers D.C. Jones, J.K. Brown, P/O M.J. Leduc and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. Pilot Officer Millar was buried in the Military Cemetery, Socotra, exhumed and reburied in the Maala Cemetery, Aden. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Service
Millar, Mervin Edwin P/O (P) J87206. From Lethbridge, Alberta. Killed August 24, 1944 age 27. No 21 Squadron (Viribus Vincimus). The crew of Wellington aircraft No. JA535 took off on an anti-submarine patrol and crashed just after take-off two miles from the Ras Karma Landing Ground on Socotra, Aden. (Very close to where the present airfield is - John Farrar) The crash was due to a suspected over speed of the aircrew's rotor gear. The pilot throttled back to prevent seizure of the engine, turned right through 170 degrees then stalled and crashed on a slight rise off the end of the runway. Warrant Officers D.C. Jones, J.K. Brown, P/O M.J. Leduc and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. Pilot Officer Millar was buried in the Military Cemetery, Socotra, exhumed and reburied in the Maala Cemetery, Aden. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Service
Millar, Mervin Edwin P/O (P) J87206. From Lethbridge, Alberta. Killed August 24, 1944 age 27. No 21 Squadron (Viribus Vincimus). The crew of Wellington aircraft No. JA535 took off on an anti-submarine patrol and crashed just after take-off two miles from the Ras Karma Landing Ground on Socotra, Aden. (Very close to where the present airfield is - John Farrar) The crash was due to a suspected over speed of the aircrew's rotor gear. The pilot throttled back to prevent seizure of the engine, turned right through 170 degrees then stalled and crashed on a slight rise off the end of the runway. Warrant Officers D.C. Jones, J.K. Brown, P/O M.J. Leduc and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. Pilot Officer Millar was buried in the Military Cemetery, Socotra, exhumed and reburied in the Maala Cemetery, Aden. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Service
Millar, Mervin Edwin P/O (P) J87206. From Lethbridge, Alberta. Killed August 24, 1944 age 27. No 21 Squadron (Viribus Vincimus). The crew of Wellington aircraft No. JA535 took off on an anti-submarine patrol and crashed just after take-off two miles from the Ras Karma Landing Ground on Socotra, Aden. (Very close to where the present airfield is - John Farrar) The crash was due to a suspected over speed of the aircrew's rotor gear. The pilot throttled back to prevent seizure of the engine, turned right through 170 degrees then stalled and crashed on a slight rise off the end of the runway. Warrant Officers D.C. Jones, J.K. Brown, P/O M.J. Leduc and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. Pilot Officer Millar was buried in the Military Cemetery, Socotra, exhumed and reburied in the Maala Cemetery, Aden. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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Millar, Mervin Edwin P/O (P) J87206. From Lethbridge, Alberta. Killed August 24, 1944 age 27. No 21 Squadron (Viribus Vincimus). The crew of Wellington aircraft No. JA535 took off on an anti-submarine patrol and crashed just after take-off two miles from the Ras Karma Landing Ground on Socotra, Aden. (Very close to where the present airfield is - John Farrar) The crash was due to a suspected over speed of the aircrew's rotor gear. The pilot throttled back to prevent seizure of the engine, turned right through 170 degrees then stalled and crashed on a slight rise off the end of the runway. Warrant Officers D.C. Jones, J.K. Brown, P/O M.J. Leduc and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed. Pilot Officer Millar was buried in the Military Cemetery, Socotra, exhumed and reburied in the Maala Cemetery, Aden. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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Photo of MERVIN EDWIN MILLAR
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar
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Commemorated on:
Page 394 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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