Photo: Geordie at War Project
G.M. McKinlay
Pilot
Royal Air Force
12th July 1944 age 23
For none that knew him
Need be told
A warmer heart
Death ne’er made cold
F/Off. McKinlay was serving with 610 Squadron. He was the pilot of Spitfire XIV RB142 on diver patrol. The aircraft crashed near Newhaven after a V1 explosion.
Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.3: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1945 (incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF); Norman L.R. Franks; 2000; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 093 1
George Mercer McKinlay is remembered at Gateshead on G39.015 and in a RAF Roll of Honour page 74
