Flight Sergeant John Montague Miln

Flight Sergeant John Montague Miln

Notes describing that Lancaster ND989 of 61 Squadron had been shot down and John Miln died together with his crew, Flight Officer Ian Melville Campbell, Sergeant John Norman Hoad, Sergeant Samuel Vernon Wickland, Sergeant John McCabe and Sergeant Richard Derrick Cole. John Milne was buried in Lengerich cemetery.

One handwritten sheet

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Information touching the death of [underlined] F/Sgt Montague John Miln [/underlined] [deleted] 428 [/deleted] 427 508

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In his crew & who died with him were F/O I.M. Campbell (NZ)
Sgt Hoad
Sgt Wickland
Sgt McCabe
And one [underlined] other Sgt Cole [/underlined]

Shot down 23/9/44 in Lancaster ND 989 near WECHTE, 3 kilometers South of TECHRUENBERG
– buried in [underlined] LENGERICH cemetery [/underlined] [underlined] Field 4 [/underlined] [deleted] 29 [/deleted] 25/9/44

- 2 German P.O.W. officers informed a friend that Lengerich was [underlined] situated near ELBERFELD [/underlined] in the Dusseldorf region (Western Germany)

LINGERICH
JUST N [underlined] TH [/underlined] [north] OF COLOGNE
SLIGHT WEST OF
LINGERICH
[line drawing connecting two dots]
COLOGNE
ELBERFELD N [underlined] TH [/underlined] [north] DUSSELDORF
& E. [east] OF MUNCHEN GLADBACH