Newcastle Chronicle Tuesday 7th August 1945
Joseph Martin Mitchinson was the son of Mr and Mrs J. Mitchinson of Salop House, Morpeth. He had been previously reported missing.
Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Mitchinson was a crew member of Avro Lancaster III PA999 PM-S of 103 Squadron, which was lost on a mission to bomb railway targets at Revigny. The Lancaster was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter, and crashed near Veel with the loss of six of the seven crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944;W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1, page 327.
Also killed in the same incident was P/Off. J.A. Harrison.
Joseph Martin Mitchinson is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01
