| Picture No: | 5536 |
| Courtesy of: | Roddie Macpherson |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Graveyard | Rosskeen |
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G. J. A. Mitchell.
Sub-Lieutenant (A)/G.J.A. MITCHELL/Royal Navy Vol. Reserve/5th June 1945 age 22.
At the going down/of the sun/and in the morning/we will remember them.
Picture Added on 28 February 2009.
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I was so pleased to find this picture. He was my uncle and I have been trying to find information about his flying accident in June 1945. It seems he was one of several Barracuda pilots killed at or near Rattray Air Station around this time. I havent found any accident reports.He seems to have been written out of history.
Added by Robert Franklin,son of Olive Mitchell, Sister on 25 November 2014.
Added by Robert Franklin,son of Olive Mitchell, Sister on 25 November 2014.
Shortly after my previous note I found Iain Crosbie on a Cromarty Archive. He had
joined 817 Sqn. as a new Pilot. Whilst he and five other crews were doing dive bombing training over Nigg bay, a wing came off the Barracuda ahead of him and it fell into the sea. Geoffrey was retraining for war in the far east after VE day.
Added by Robert Franklin, Nephew on 11 June 2015.
joined 817 Sqn. as a new Pilot. Whilst he and five other crews were doing dive bombing training over Nigg bay, a wing came off the Barracuda ahead of him and it fell into the sea. Geoffrey was retraining for war in the far east after VE day.
Added by Robert Franklin, Nephew on 11 June 2015.
Added by Roddie on 04 March 2009.