Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Vernon Lindsay Miles
In memory of:
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
January 29, 1944
Kliplev Moor, Denmark
Military Service
J/22210
24
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
10 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Additional Information
July 8, 1919
Bentley, Alberta
January 1, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Son of Ray Clement and Bertha May Miles, of Bentley, Alberta. Brother of Elwood and Joan. Flying Officer Miles Attended school in Bentley and finished high school in Lacombe, Alberta. Attended Normal School in Calgary, Alberta in 1940. Taught in Lone Pine School, Brooks, Alberta in the autumn of 1940 to March 1941. Joined Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp in Ottawa in 1941, transferring to the Air Force Medical Corps the same year. In 1942, remustered to Air Crew, training as an air navigator and was arrived in England on November 6th, where he trained on Anson and Whitely at No. 10 O.T.V Abington. Trained on Halifax Bombers with 102 Squadron at 1562 C.U. in 1943. Final posting No. 10 Squadron, Melbourne, Derbyshire. Participated in operations flight from Flamboro Head, Yorkshire on 20 January 1944, returning safely. Participated in operations flight from Flamboro Head, Yorkshire in Halifax II, JD273 'Y' as navigator on 28 January. 29 January, reported missing and presumed dead. The bomber crash site was located in Denmark.
Commemorated on Page 394 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
AABENRAA CEMETERY
Denmark
Allied Military Plot. Row 5. 21.
Aabenra is in Jutland, on the main road from Germany into Denmark, about 24 kilometres north of the frontier. It is about 105 kilometres from the port of Esbjerg. AABENRAA CEMETERY is on the western side of the town. The 1939-45 Plot is on the left-hand side of the main path towards the rear of the cemetery.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Memorial – Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Photo of VERNON LINDSAY MILES – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of VERNON LINDSAY MILES – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Correspondence – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Correspondence – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of Vernon Lindsay Miles – F/O Miles, Vernon Lindsay -
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Newspaper clipping – From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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