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Pilot Officer

John Edward Millns

Service number 66601
Military unit 3 School of General Reconnaissance Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Willows Cottage, North Collingham, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Date of birth 19 Oct 1915
Date of death 17 Sep 1941 (26 years old)
Place of birth Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Employment, education or hobbies

Milling Representative (Flour)
1939 ARP Demolition Squad for Nottingham County Council and Newark Rural District Council.

Family history

Son of John Edward and Mary Millns of Collingham; husband of Florence Kathleen Millns (nee Healey), of North Collingham.

Military history

Enlisted June 1940
Commissioned 1941
Tiger Moth N5454 No 3 School of General Reconnaissance. Stalled and spun into ground, crashing at Grange over Sands, Morecambe Bay.
F/O Dudley Carleton
P/O John Millns - Both killed.

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