LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Rogers Freeman Garland MILLER
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 42419 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 609 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 609 Squadron Spitfire I aircraft X4107), Dorset, 27 September 1940, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Radford Semele (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Warwickshire
CWGC Additional Information: No further information
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Brother of Pilot Officer John Garland Miller (42865) (RAF)
While on patrol on 27 September 1940, Spitfire X4107 collided with an Me 110 of ZG26 at 1145 hours near Kingcombe, Dorset, killing Spitfire pilot Pilot Officer Miller.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Franks, Norman L R Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World war Volume 1 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941, Midland Publishing Leicester UK, 1997
Newton, Dennis A Few of the Few: Australians and the Battle of Britain, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2600, 1990