31 December 1944 – 53 OTU – RAF Kirton in Lindsey – Supermarine Spitfire VB EN861 – F/L G M Carmichael MBE RAF - Training
Location – Nettleton Top, Lincolnshire.
George M Carmichael MBE was a pre war regular airman having attended Cranwell in the late 1930s on the same course as his brother John.
He had been awarded an MBE gazetted 24th November 1944. However details of his RAF career are unknown at the time of writing.
He was killed in a training accident losing control and crashing at Nettleton Top near Caistor.
George M Carmichael MBE RAF - Pilot - 27 - 33339 - Son of Group Captain George Ivan Carmichael, D.S.O., A.F.C., R.A.F. and of Kathleen Mary Foxon Carmichael of Brook, Hampshire, England - Cambridge City Cemetery, England.
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The Carmichael family
George Carmichael came from a very distinguished RAF family. His father George Ivan Carmichael DSO AFC was a WW1 veteran.
His brother S/L John William Carmichael DFC MID was killed with 53 Squadron Coastal Command flying Liberators. His aircraft was shot down whilst attacking U270 14th June 1944 and he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. His other brother P/O Humphrey Rawstorne Carmichael flew Hurricanes in the Far East with 28 Squadron. He was shot down by ground fire whilst undertaking a low level reconnaissance over the Mayu valley and crashed into a river. He was wounded and captured but after several days he managed to escape and make his way back to India with the help of friendly natives. For this remarkable feat of escape and evasion he was awarded a very well deserved Military Cross. Whilst recovering in hospital in India he suffered from malaria. It was also discovered he had sustained a serious back injury and was placed in a plaster cast for 4 months. I believe he remained in the RAF post war but was never fit to fly again. He passed away in 1995
Compiled by David Fell with photo from my archive
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