Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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.