2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died:
21/07/1945 (Unknown)
Age:
24
Summary
John Joseph Mingle was the son of Daniel and Violet Mingle. He was born about 1921. He was the husband of Mary Josephine Mingle. John Mingle served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in World War Two. Fusilier John Joseph Mingle died on 21st July 1945, after the war had finished.
Further Information
John Joseph Mingle was the son of Daniel and Violet Mingle. He was born about 1921.
John Joseph Mingle was the husband of Mary Josephine Mingle.
John Mingle served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in World War Two.
Fusilier John Joseph Mingle died on 21st July 1945, after the war had finished.
Fusilier John Mingle was initially buried at Ref. 26GR/JPW/2390.
Fusilier John Mingle was reinterred in Klagenfurt War Cemetery in Austria on 31st January 1946. His inscription reads IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND. GOD REST HIS SOUL. HIS WIFE MARY JOSEPHINE.
Austria was annexed by Germany in March 1938, and many labour, prisoner-of-war and concentration camps were established there by the Germans. The principal POW camps were at Döllersheim, Gneixendorf, Kaisersteinbruch, Lienz, Spittal an der Drau, Wolfsberg and Graz. Commonwealth war dead buried in Austria were mainly servicemen who died in these camps in captivity, airmen who were shot down or crashed while flying over the country and those who died while serving with the army of occupation after the war. Klagenfurt, the only Commonwealth war cemetery in Austria, was begun in June 1945 by the British occupying forces, who moved graves into it from all over the country. It now contains 589 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. Between 1950 and 1954, eight First World War graves (three of them unidentified) were moved into the cemetery from small cemeteries at Innsbruck, Mauthausen, Muhldorf and Vienna.
The CWGC record Fusilier John Joseph Mingle as the son of Daniel and Violet Mingle. He is also recorded as the husband of Mary Josephine Mingle of Dungannon, County Tyrone.
