Photo: Dorothy Hall
J. Mitchison
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
24th July 1944 Age 20
Sergeant Mitchison was a crew member of 1660 HCU Stirling EH978 which took off for a night exercise from R.A.F. Swinderby and crashed into an oak tree. All the crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Vol.8 Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-47; W.R. Chorley; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3
He is remembered at Penshaw on P29.02