LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Keith John MILLER
Service No: 404348
Born: Moree NSW, 26 April 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1940 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 57 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Feltwell
Died: Air Operations: (No. 57 Squadron Wellington aircraft X9978), Netherlands, 15 October 1941, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Valentine Lee Miller and Elsie Jane Miller, of Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Lismore NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Lismore Cenotaph, Lismore NSW
At 1835 hours on the night of 15 October 1941Wellington X9978 took off from Feltwell detailed to bomb Cologne, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was later established that the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at
2117 hours at Grevenbicht (Limburg) on the east bank of the Maas River, 8 kms north west of Sittard, Netherlands. The crew of six members had been killed.
The crew members of X9978 were:
Sergeant Ernest Tastard Christie (1100680) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant George William Turner Jackson (1253256) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant David Walter Jennings (748740) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant Brynmor Samuel Jones (1061957) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Neville John Lewery (742554) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Pilot Officer Keith John Miller (404348) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/45/123
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line