LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Bruce English MILLER
Service No: 420232
Born: Broadmeadow NSW, 16 March 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 October 1941
Unit: No. 157 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Swannington
Died: Air Operations: (No. 157 Squadron Mosquito aircraft MM650), Germany, 15 March 1945, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John English Miller and Dulcie Kathleen Miller, of Mount Hutton, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Newcastle NSW
Remembered: Panel 127, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Charlestown Community Roll of Honour, Charleston NSW
Remembered: Newcastle Boys High School Memorial Entrance World War II, Waratah NSW
At 1930 hours on 15 March 1945 Mosquito MM650 took off from Swannington , detailed to carry out a bomber support patrol and escort bombers to their target at Lutzendorf, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. A Missing Research and Enquiry team later reported: “The aircraft crashed two miles from Kralingen, which is 32 miles from Koblenz, Germany.” The crew members were killed.
The crew members of MM650 were:
Pilot Officer Raymond Gavin Crisford (421576) (Navigator/Radio)
Pilot Officer Bruce English Miller (420232) (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, 166/8/916
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line