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Ernest Edward Mittell

In memory of:

Observer Ernest Edward Mittell

July 6, 1942

Military Service


Service Number:

R/71725

Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Additional Information


Son of Edward Lancelot and Annie Edna Mittell, of Clinton, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 100 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

HEREFORD CEMETERY
Herefordshire, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Plot A. (C. of E.). Joint grave 5640.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • 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
  • Newspaper Clipping– Globe and Mail.  July 11, 1942
  • 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 Memorial in Clinton, ON … Second World War names … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Inscription– Observer Ernest Edward Mittell is also commemorated on the Memorial in Clinton, ON … Second World War names … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • 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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