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G.H. Millar

 
Age at death: 29
Born:  
Full name:  
Service, Regiment,
Corps, etc:
Royal Air Force
Unit, ship, etc: HMS Furious
Enlisted: September 1914
Rank: Captain
Decorations:  
War (and theatre): WW1
Date of death: 29 April 1918
Manner of death: KWF
Family details:  
Residence:  
Home department: National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Cemetery or
memorial:
Dunfermline Cemetery, Fifeshire (ED 2638)

Additional information and photographs

G H Millar is commemorated on the NPL War Memorial outside Bushy House, Teddington, Middlesex, which takes the form of a plaque mounted on a roughly-hewn granite block standing on a concrete base.  

NPL records state that he joined NPL in 1910 as Assistant on the ship tank.  He joined the RNVR in September 1914, was taken prisoner at Antwerp in October 1914 but escaped a year later.  He was commissioned as Lieutenant RNVR and in April 1916 obtained a pilot's certificate.  He transferred to the RNAS in June 1917 and was attached to HMS Furious.  He was accidentally killed whilst flying on 29 April 1918.  

 

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