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F/O Thomas Roberts Millar

Royal Australian Air Force 104 Sqdn.

from:NSW

(d.12th October 1944)

Did anyone know my father during WW2? He was F/O T.R. Millar, RAAF of 104 Sqdn RAF, flying Wellingtons and 31 Sqdn SAAF flying Liberators - both based in the Foggia area, Italy 1944. (He had arrived from Sydney and trained in Britain in 1943.)

His 31 Sqdn SAAF Liberator KH158H, with eight crew, disappeared on a supply dropping mission to Italian partisans on 12th/13th October 1944 and was never found. The full crew were:

  • F/O T.R. Millar, RAAF, Navigator
  • Mjr S.S. Urry, SAAF, 1st Pilot
  • Lt. G.A. Collard, SAAF, Navigator
  • 2/Lt. P.J. Lordan, SAAF
  • WO(2) G.E. Hudspith, RAF, 2nd Pilot
  • Sgt. R.C. Fitzerald, RAFVR, Airgunner
  • WO(1) L.B. Bloch, SAAF, Airgunner
  • Lt. N.W. Armstrong, SAAF, Airgunner

    All are commemorated on the Malta Memorial.



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