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Military service
Service number:
FX97016
Age:
24
Rank:
Chief Petty Officer
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Navy
Division:
H.M.S. Indefatigable
Death:
January 24, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave. 6. J. 4 6. K. 3.
Additional information
Son of John Badham and Esther M. A. Mitchell, of Drummondville, Quebec.
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Chief Petty Officer (Pilot Officer) Herbert George Clark Mitchell was shot down during the Palembang bombing raid on the oil refineries supplying the Japanese forces around occupied Indonesia. He was piloting an Avenger and he and his crew members were thought to be injured by fighters attacking their flight while bombing the oil refineries. His crew consisted of observer Sub-Lt. Arthur Hemington RNVR (21) and telegraphist/air gunner Leading Airman Clifford Harris (20). Other members of the bombing mission said that Mitchells plane seemed to be having trouble keeping up with the others and fell back from the formation returning to their carrier HMS Indefatigable. The plane could have ditched in the ocean or on a beach but in any case the crew died either at the hands of their captors or in the crash.
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Chief Petty Officer Herbert George Clark Mitchell
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Commemorated on:
Page 616 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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