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In memory of:

Corporal Gordon Mitchell

Military service

Service number: 219185
Age: 45
Rank: Corporal
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 444 Fighter Squadron
Birth: October 7, 1916 Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Enlistment: October 30, 1935 Aberdeen, Scotland
Death: January 23, 1962 Landstuhl, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 9, Row F, Plot 3
Additional information

Son of John and Christina Mitchell of Aberdeen, Scotland. Husband of Mary (née Klef)and father of John and Gary of Baden Soellingen, Germany. Brother of John, Allan, James, Ronald, Patrick, Dorothy and Christina Mitchell. Corporal Mitchell served with the British Army from 30 October 1935 to 22 April 1946. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force on 15 June 1953.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Forces Decoration.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 118 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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