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Mitchison, J., Sgt., 1944

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In All Saints' Churchyard is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

1595302 Sergeant
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


The CWGC entry for Sergeant Mitchison

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk