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Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles

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Military service

Service number: J/22210
Age: 24
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 10 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: July 8, 1919 Bentley, Alberta
Enlistment: January 1, 1941 Ontario
Death: January 29, 1944 Kliplev Moor, Denmark

Burial/memorial information

AABENRAA CEMETERY
Grave reference: Allied Military Plot. Row 5. 21.
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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.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 394 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AABENRAA CEMETERY Denmark

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.

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