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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
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
January 29, 1944
Kliplev Moor, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Allied Military Plot. Row 5. 21.
Additional information
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.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
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Photo of Vernon Lindsay Miles
F/O Miles, Vernon Lindsay -
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Memorial
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of VERNON LINDSAY MILES
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of VERNON LINDSAY MILES
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Correspondence
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Vernon Lindsay Miles
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 394 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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