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Military service
Service number:
R/143734
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
15 R.A.F. Sqdn
Death:
June 13, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
12. C. 5.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Roderick McMillan
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Photo of Roderick McMillan
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.February 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of RODERICK MCMILLAN
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
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
Warrant Officer Class II Roderick McMillan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Roderick McMillan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, Putten, The Netherlands<P> Lancaster LM-465 took part in the following Key Raids: Berlin 24/25mar44; Nuremberg 30/31Mar44. Airborne 2315 12 Jun 44 from Mildenhall. Intercepted and shot down by a night-fighter, crashing 2 km SW of Meerlo in the Dutch Province of Limburg. Those killed were buried at Venlo, and subsequently re-interred in Jonkerbos War Cemetery. They were 3 members of the RCAF: P/O (P) C.S.Thompson, WO2 (BA) R. G. Lemky and WO2 (N) R. McMiillan and 3 members of the RAF: Sgt M.B.Pelham, Sgt T.E.Stubbs, and Sgt R.S.Mobbs. One RAF, F/S J.M.Trend, survived and was listed as an evader. (Source: //lostbombers.co.uk)
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 390 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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