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Acting Squadron Leader Roy Edgar Millichap DFC
Royal Air Force 630 Squadron
Roy Millichap served with 630 Squadron in 1944 and completed a tour of 33 missions. He went on to join BOAC and operated the first ever east-west jet passenger service across the Atlantic in Comet G-APDC on October 4, 1958. He was also a co-pilot on the Royal Flights in which Princess Elizabeth flew out to Kenya and returned as Queen. Later he commanded the Comet service that took the Quuen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada to open the St Lawrence Seaway in 1959.