William Francis Millerd                                       Updated: 04 MAR 2021

Airman: a118001.htm Surname: Millerd Init: W F Rank: F/Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 408

P_link: p078.htm Plane: HAM AD803 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea S of Samsø

Crash_d: d160542 Buried_d: b150944 C_link: c118.htm At_Next: Århus

HAM AD803 var på en minelægningsoperation mod området Pumpkin (se Minelægningsområder).
Flyet styrtede i havet syd for Samsø, omkring her. Liget af radiotelegrafist, skytte
William Francis Millerd drev ind på kysten nær Odder. Han blev begravet på Århus Vestre Kirkegård
den 15/9 1942. Den tyske feltpræst forestod begravelsen, der var med fuld militær honnør.

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Francis Millerd, 24 år, var søn af Francis og Annie F. E. Millerd, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(Kilde: CWGC)

Fra HAM AD803 er 1 flyver begravet i Aarhus, 1 i Tranebjerg og 1 har ingen kendt grav. 1 blev krigsfange. 4 flyvere.

 HAM AD803 was on a minelaying operation targeting Pumpkin (see Minelaying areas).
HAM AD803 crashed, burning, into the sea south of Samsø, about here. The dead body of Wop/Air Gnr. Sgt William Francis Millerd drifted ashore near Odder
and was laid to rest in Aarhus West Cemetery on 15/9-1942. The German field Priest officiated at the graveside ceremony which was held with full military honours.

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) William Francis Millerd, 24, was the son of Francis and Annie F. E. Millerd, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Source: CWGC) His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 74.

1 airman from HAM AD803 is buried in Aarhus, 1 in Tranebjerg and 1 has no known grave. 1 became a Prisoner of War.
See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF * 408 "Goose" Squadron Association.
Hampden I AD803 EQ-L took off from RAF Balderton at 22.35 hrs on 15 MAY 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 4 airmen.