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Military service
Service number:
R/157293
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
June 28, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot I/2. Grave 12.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Archibald and Grace Leslie Mitchell; husband of Kathrine Loyd Mitchell, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
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Photo of William Mitchell
Bill Mitchell was killed June 28th 1943 while serving with #22 Operational Training Unit in Wellesbourne England. The Wellington Bomber he was crewing on crashed while making an emergency downwind landing. On the same day he died his wife Katherine gave birth to a a baby boy in Canada. His son did not survive and also died on June 28 1943. -
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Photo donated by The Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project. -
Photo of WILLIAM GEORGE MITCHELL
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell 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
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William George Mitchell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 195 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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