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Corporal Gordon Mitchell

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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 Scotland
Death: January 23, 1962 Landstuhl, Germany

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 9, Row F, Plot 3
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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.

CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Choloy is a village and commune in the Department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle, 28 kilometres west of Nancy and some 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The village is south of the River Moselle on the minor road (D11B) from Toul to the neighbouring village of Foug. The CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.

The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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