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Military service
Service number:
R/71725
Age:
22
Rank:
Observer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
July 6, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot A. (C. of E.). Joint grave 5640.
Additional information
Son of Edward Lancelot and Annie Edna Mittell, of Clinton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
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Newspaper Clipping
Globe and Mail. July 11, 1942 -
Cemetery
Observer F/Sgt. Ernest Mittell, age 22, was training on #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft was carrying practice bombs and reconnaissance flares when It flew into some low cloud and crashed a few feet from the summit of a Mountain at Cerric, Breconshire. He is buried in the Hereford Cemetery, Herefordshire, England. The other crew members were F.S. J. B. Kemp Sgt. J. P. Hayes Sgt. K. Yuill Sgt. H. C. Beatty. From They Shall Grow Not Old: Les Allison, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc. -
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Observer Ernest Edward Mittell is also commemorated on the Memorial in Clinton, ON … Second World War names … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell is also commemorated on the Memorial in Clinton, ON … Second World War names … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
Digital gallery of
Observer Ernest Edward Mittell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 100 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HEREFORD CEMETERY Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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