LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Jack Thomas MILLINER
Service No: 426367
Born: Brisbane QLD, 14 July 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1942
Unit: No. 75 Squadron (RAF), RAF Mepal, Cambridgeshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 75 Squadron Lancaster aircraft HK 568), France, 24 July 1944, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Cronenbourg French National Cemetery, Bas-Rhin, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Thomas Milliner and Lily Milliner, of Buranda, Queensland, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the night of 24/25th July 1944, Lancaster HK 568 took off from RAF Nepal at 2151 hours, detailed to bomb Stuttgart, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. Later it was learned that all the crew had been killed.
The crew members of HK 568 were:
Sergeant Robert Charles Baker (1624103) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Warrant Officer Keat Dudding (415522) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Ray Steele Horsford (1387835) (RAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Bernard Leighton (2209941) (RAFVR) (Flight Sergeant)
Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Milliner (426367) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant George Alfred Badge Taverner (429835) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Keith Owen Whitehouse (428800) (RNZAF) (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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/27/526