LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Alexander Stewart MILLER
Service No: 410130
Born: Lang Lang VIC, 26 March 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1941
Unit: No. 56 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No 56 Squadron Tempest aircraft EF718), Netherlands, 5 November 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Leslie Isaac and Emily May Miller, of Poowong, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Poowong VIC
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flying Officer Miller was reported missing on air operations on 5 November 1944 over the Netherlands. The aircraft encountered anti-aircraft fire and he was seen to bale out near Venlo.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Franks, Norman L R, Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945, Midland Publishing UK, 2000
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9300, MILLER A S