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L/Sgt. Charles Napier Mitchell MM & Bar.
British Army 13th Btn. Kings (Liverpool Regiment)
from:Seaforth
(d.21st Aug 1918)
Charles Mitchell was my great uncle - my grandmother's brother. His father was Thomas Mitchell, and he lived at 36 Caradoc Road, Liverpool before the War, and worked as an employee of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. He joined the 13th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment on November 12th 1914 and went to France with them in November 1915. My Uncle, Jack Knowles, remembers that he was a machine gunner. According to the Merseyside Roll of Honour, he was wounded 3 times and was killed in action on 21st of August 1918. He is buried in a small cemetery called Warry Le Copse, near Arras - and I understand from other sources that he was posthumously awarded the Military Medal and Bar. There is a second headstone in Liverpool, which serves as the final resting place for 3 of his younger brothers, William Henry, Robert Christian and Frederick Mitchell, who died of the Spanish Flu in October 1918 and January 1919.
