MILLIKEN, Roy Alistair
| Service Number: | 404637 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 May 1919, Enlisted at Brisbane |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 6 May 1919 |
| Home Town: | Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Accidental, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, 19 January 1942, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Dyce Old Churchyard Cemetery, Scotland Grave 17, Dyce Old Churchyard, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 6 May 1919: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 404637, Enlisted at Brisbane | |
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| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, 404637 | |
| 11 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 404637 | |
| 29 Nov 1940: | Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 404637, Embarked at Sydney for Canada and UK |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Murphy
Alistair was the adopted son of Scottish Migrants, Robert and Annie Milliken and husband of Mary Patricia Donahoe Overmyer previously Milliken of Des Plains, Illinois, USA. Roy and Mary were married on 23 June 1941
He enlisted in Brisbane with his Rocky friend, Beaumont Dickson and they managed to stay together right through training and were allocated together to the crew of a Wellington bomber.
They trained briefly in Australia, then shipped to Canada for lengthy training. When the course finished, Alistair married,had a brief honeymoon and then caught up with the rest of his crew in England for further training.
Eventually,they were stationed at Lossiemouth in north-east Scotland where they undertook realistic flights out over the North Sea to test their flying, navigation and teamwork under the eye of experienced instructors "recovering" after completing 25 bombing missions over Germany.
On their last flight before qualifying to go operational, they had a white-out while returning to base, overflew it and crashed into a snow covered mountain in the Cairngorms.
They were killed on impact.
Read in more detail here: http://www.archieraf.co.uk/scs/wellingtonr1646.html (www.archieraf.co.uk)
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