In Newcastle upon Tyne (West Road) Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of;

1006295 Corporal
W. McKittrick
Royal Air Force
14th September 1944 age 36

Beloved husband
Of Winifred Elizabeth
Let perpetual light
Shine upon him

The son of William and Ellen Douglas McKittrick, of Newcastle upon Tyne and the husband of Winifred Elizabeth McKittrick, of Denton Burn, Newcastle upon Tyne.

William worked in the Grocery department at the Co-op in Newgate Street, Newcastle. He left a widow and three children. In 2016, his widow, then aged 104, attended the rededication of the memorial in the Co-op which had been converted into a Premier Inn.

William McKittrick is remembered in Newcastle on NUT153 and in a RAF Book of Remembrance  page 77.