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Mills, D.K., Sgt, 1940
In Finningley (Holy Trinity & St. Oswald) Churchyard Extension, South Yorkshire, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 525767 Sergeant (Pilot) David Kinnaird Mills, serving with the Royal Air Force, who died 07/08/1940.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt Mills was the pilot of Handley Page Hampden I L4187 of 102 Squadron, which crashed on a NAVEX (Navigational Exercise) at Owston Ferry, 8 miles south west of Scunthorpe with the loss of the four crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1939-1940; W.R. Chorley; 1992; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 85 7

He is remembered in Ashington on A17.43 and in Hirst on H62.02


The CWGC entry for Sergeant Mills

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