My thanks to Louisa Alderson for bringing the following report from the Birmingham Mail newspaper archives to my attention.

William Alfred Mitchinson, the younger brother of Louisa’s grandfather was mortally wounded during an air raid over Birmingham in 1940.

Police Constable E123 William Alfred Mitchinson came from a police family, both his father and brother were police officers.

William’s great grandmother was Ann Lasbury, born 1831 in Stroud and a younger sister to my great great grandfather, John William Lasbury.