Air Vice Marshal FGS Mitchell
Frederick George Stewart Mitchell
- Rank
- Air Vice Marshal
- Honours
- CB CBE OBE
- Born
- 1901
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1974
- In the book
- Pages 29, 167
From the book
Links of Long Standing
The first group of RAF airmen to enter Cranwell College in 1920 9 included two South Africans, CW Weedon and FGS Mitchell, a third, Pilot Officer Neville Vintcent commissioned after the First World War, apparently the first RAF Cranwell College graduate to be decorated was awarded the “Distinguished Flying Cross” in 1923. Traditions of exclusivity were well established by 1930 and at £100 a term, academically bright 17- to 19-year-old young men with leadership qualities and sporting talent, mostly from wealthy backgrounds and English Public Schools, were allocated unique Service No’s when they graduated from RAF Cranwell.
Links of Long Standing
FGS Mitchell born in 1901, a Group Captain by 1941, transferred to the RAF’s Technical Branch. Air Vice Marshal Frederick George Stewart Mitchell CB CBE OBE retired in 1958, thirty-eight years after entering Cranwell College.