Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Memorial – Pilot Officer Mervin Edwin Millar is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of MERVIN EDWIN MILLAR – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of MERVIN EDWIN MILLAR – 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.

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.

Document – 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.

Newspaper Clipping – From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me