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Flight Lieutenant [Pilot]

Leonard Miller

Conflict: 
WW2
Additional Information: 

Son of Mathew and Leonora Miller.

References:
  • CWGC
  • Martyn (1999)
NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

During a cross country exercise, flying a Gloucester Meteor,  he made a low pass over Warmwell, Dorset, UK, followed by a climbing roll into cloud at 2000ft from which he emerged in a vertical dive to the ground. He was New Zealand's first WW2 casualty in a jet powered aircraft. Previously bought down over the Netherlands, he had spent 5 years as a POW.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Vol 2 p. 367]

 

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Casualty

Service Number: 
2451
Name:
Leonard Miller
Rank: 
Flight Lieutenant
Additional Rank:
Pilot
Date of Birth:
Not known
Date of Enlistment:
Not known
Unit:
Royal New Zealand Air Force, 74 (RAF) Squadron

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:
Air accident
Date of Death:
02 January 1946
Day of Death:
Wednesday
Age at Death: 
27
Conflict: 
WW2

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:
Royal New Zealand Air Force

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery: 
Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery
Cemetery Reference: 
Plot 39. Sec. H. Row F. Grave 245.
Cemetery Location: 
United Kingdom
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