Vernon Lindsay Miles   Photo: Mogens Jeppesen    Updated: 06 OCT 2021
                                                                     
Airman: a113088.htm Surname: Miles Init: V L Rank: F/O Service: RCAF Sqdn: 10

P_link: p257.htm Plane: HAL JD273 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Kliplev

Crash_d: d290144 Buried_d: b030544 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 5-21

Den 29. januar 1944 kl. 02.34 styrtede HAL JD273 ned ved Kliplev (som er her) på bombetogt
til  Berlin. Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilde: p257MACR)

Mayes, O'Connor, Saxty, Twigge og Watters blev begravet i Aabenraa den 2. februar 1944.
Da man var klar over, at der måtte være flere dræbte besætningsmedlemmer, fortsatte CBU folk udgravningsarbejdet i foråret og sommeren.
Den 30. april 1944 blev liget af F/O Miles fundet. Han blev begravet den 3. maj 1944.
F/Sgt Dudley blev fundet sidst i august og begravet den 1. september 1944 i Aabenraa. (Kilde: FAF)

Flying Officer (Navigator) Vernon Lindsay Miles, 24 år, var søn af Ray Clement Miles og
Bertha May Miles, Bentley, Alberta, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)
Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på YAM 2019 * folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

On 29 January 1944 at 0234 hrs HAL JD273 crashed at Kliplev (which is here) on a bombing raid
on Berlin. All of the crew perished. (Source: p257MACR)

Mayes, O'Connor, Saxty, Twigge and Watters were buried in Aabenraa on 2 February 1944.
Knowing that there had to be more killed crew members the excavation work continued in the spring
and summer of 1944.
On 30 April 1944 the body of F/O Miles was found. He was buried on 3 May 1944.
F/Sgt Dudley was found in late August and buried in Aabenraa on 1 September 1944. (Source: FAF)

Flying Officer (Navigator) Vernon Lindsay Miles, 24, was the son of Ray Clement Miles and
Bertha May Miles, of Bentley, Alberta, Canada. (Source: CWGC)        We shall live again

The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 212.

See No. 10 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF 10 Squadron Association * Halifax * Halifax Print
Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum
Halifax II JD273 ZA-Y took off from RAF Melbourne  at 2359 hrs on 28 JAN 1944.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this) 7 airmen.