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Cpl. Geoffrey Arthur Nevett Mitchell
Australian Imperial Force 4th Light Horse Regiment
from:Australia
Geoffrey Arthur Nevett Mitchell was born at Ballarat in 1894 and was a student at Melbourne University when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. Mitchell joined the 4th Light Horse Regiment on 24th August 1914 and departed Australia aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 19th October 1914. Geoffrey Mitchell's previous military experience came from his time as a senior cadet at Geelong College and a short period with the University of Melbourne Rifles.
Mitchell remained in Egypt with the 4th Light Horse until April 1915 when he was discharged from the AIF and proceeded to England to join the 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers, 29th Division in July 1915. He served with this unit at Gallipoli until being wounded in August 1915. After recovering from his wounds, Mitchell joined the Royal Flying Corps, quickly rising through the ranks to become a lieutenant in the 13th Balloon Company by late 1916. Mitchell's service with the Royal Flying Corps continued until mid-1918, when, as a major, he returned to England to take command of the Richmond Park Transport Depot.
After demobilising in 1919, Mitchell settled in Malaya, working on a rubber plantation until 1931. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War and remained in Victoria after the end of the war. Geoffrey Arthur Nevett Mitchell died at Lancefield, Victoria on 23rd July 1973.
Sgt. George Balderson Mitchell CdG.
British Army 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Wilford, Nottinghamshire
George Mitchell came from Wilford, Nottinghamshire. As a Lance-Corporal in the Leicestershire Regiment he entered the France and Flanders theatre of war on 30th of July 1915. As a Sergeant with the 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, he served as a member of the Special Intelligence Police of the Fourth Army. As a Lance-Corporal in the Royal Fusiliers he was awarded the French Medal of Honour, 2nd Class in Silver with swords (London Gazette 29th January 1919). His last rank and unit on the m.i.c. is given as Acting Company Sergeant Major with the Royal Fusiliers. After the war, still working for military intelligence, he was employed in Barcelona, Spain, possibly in operations to track down military deserters, many of whom ended up in that neutral country.
Pte. Herbert Stanley Mitchell
British Army Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Spennymoor
Pte. Herbert Henry Mitchell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. J. Mitchell
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. J. Mitchell
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. J. A. Mitchell
1st Btn. British West Indies Regiment
(d.22nd Dec 1917)
Pte. J.A. Mitchell served with the British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion. He was executed for murder on 22nd December 1917 and is buried in the Ramleh War Cemetery in Israel.
Dvr James Henry Mitchell
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Dormanstown
James Mitchell was my Grandfather, I would do much like to know more about his service.
Pte. James Mitchell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Bellingham
(d.1st July 1916)
James Mitchell is named on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. James Mitchell
British Army 1/5th Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Greenock
Pte. James Alexander Mitchell
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Battalion
from:Armidale
(d.23rd July 1917)
Pte. Jesse Reuben Mitchell
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Wokingham,
(d.9th May 1915)
Jesse Mitchell served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment during WW1 and was killed in action on the 9th May 1915, aged 24. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium. He was the son of Reuben and Mary Mitchell, of 1 London Rd., Wokingham.
L/Cpl. John Mitchell
British Army 1/5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
from:Letchwoth, Herts
(d.27th Jul 1918)
Any information or photos of my great grandfather would be much appreciated - not much chance I know 90 years on, but someone somewhere may have come across an old photo in a relatives album or posessions.
POS. John Alexander Mitchell
Royal Navy HMS Bulwark
(d.26th Nov 1914)
Pte. John Clifford Mitchell
British Army 20th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Colchester
Unfortunately my father John Mitchell never spoke about his time serving with the Royal Fusiliers, I am still doing research.
Pte John Thomas Mitchell
British Army 12th (Sheffield) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Sheffield
(d.28th December 1916)
Kenneth Ivan Mitchell
Canadian Expeditionary Force Princess Patricias Light Infantry
from:Guelph, Ontario, Canada
We have a diary written by my grandfather, Kenneth Mitchell during the war, where he describes the hospital and tells with great description, an air raid in Richmond Park. We also have an official photograph taken in the hospital of a ward and its patients at Christmas time. There was also a member of the aristrocracy (a Lord?) who would come to scribe and write letters for the patients to their families. As my grandfather had had his arm amputated (injured in Passchendale), there is a personal letter from this gentleman to my great-grandmother informing her that my grandfather had had his arm amputated. I believe that this letter is written on stationery with the official letterhead of the hospital. We have the original letter still. Several years ago, as the paper in the diary is disintegrating, my mother transcribed the diary and typed it out.
Pte. Leonard Mitchell
British Army 8th Btn York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Rotherham, Yorks
(d.19th Sep 1917)
Leonard Mitchell was the son of George H. Mitchell, of 74, Rawmarsh Rd., Rotherham, Yorks. He served with the Yorks and Lancs Regiment 8th Battalion and was executed for desertion on 19th September 1917 He is buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery in Belgium. His brother, William Henry also died on service
Cpl. Maurice Mitchell
British Army 2nd Btn. C Coy. East Kent Regiment
from:Chatham, Kent
(d.3rd May 1915)
Maurice Mitchell served with the 2nd Battalion, East Kent Regiment in WW1. He died 3rd of May 1915 aged 22 years and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium. Son of William James and Clara Ann Mitchell of 47 Lowfield Street, Dartford, Kent.
Pte. Montague Arthur Mitchell
British Army 2/7th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
(d.14th October 1916)
Private Mitchell is buried in the Sabathu Cemetery in India, Grave 112.
Pte. Owen Mitchell
British Army 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment
(d.24th Dec 1916)
Owen Mitchell died of wounds on the 24th of December 1916
Pte. P. J Mitchell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
RSM. Richard James "Spokey" Mitchell
British army Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:Chacewater, Cornwall
Sjt. Robert Ernest Mitchell
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
from:Lundbreck, Alberta Canada
(d.9th Sep 1918)
Pte. Robert Mitchell
British Army Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle-on-Tyne
(d.1st July 1916)
The family story is that Robert Mitchell (my great grandfather) went out with his friends one night, got drunk and came back rather shamefaced the next day and confessed to his wife that he had enlisted. He went out to the front, and was killed within weeks, leaving a widow and 10 children.
Pte. Robert Mitchell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th DLI
Pte. Sidney Mitchell
British Army 6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Hull, Yorkshire
Private Sidney MitchellĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s six-digit regimental number falls within a group allocated to new recruits of the 1/6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry during the first week of March 1917. His birthday fell in late April, so it is fair to say he enlisted close to his birthday.
He was wounded in his upper right back by grenade and had lung damage because he was gassed. He also had a machine gun wound in his ankle and shrapnel in his abdomen. He was transferred to the Labour Corps in July 1918, as the date fits with when his additional regimental number (631581) was issued. He served his final war days out with the 12th Labour Corps in France until demobbed.
Pte. Sidney Mitchell
British Army 6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Sculcoates, Yorkshire
Sid Mitchell served with the 1/6th Battalion DLI. He was wounded (date not known) and after recovering, assigned to the 36th Labour Battalion Royal Fusiliers where he was wounded again. He finished his war service sometime after 1920.
L/Sgt. Sydney Mitchell
British Army 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment
from:Snettisham, Norfolk
(d.2nd Dec 1918)
Sydney Mitchell enlisted on 14th of December 1914 in Norwich, he was 19 years and 6 months old, occupation listed as footman. He served with 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment until 20th of October 1915 during which time he was promoted to the rank of Lance Serjeant. Wounded by a hand grenade to the face (denoted in service record). His wounds prompted evacuation to the UK on 30 July 1916, possibly Norfolk War Hospital (Norwich) but the record is incomplete. Wounds rendered him unfit for further duty and discharged from the service on 2 September 1917, granted the Kings Certificate allowing him to wear the pin denoting he had served and been invalided out of the Service.
He died on the 2nd of December 1918, and his remains were interred in the family grave in St Mary's Churchyard, Snettisham, Norfolk.
Pte. Thomas "Mitch" Mitchell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:West Hartlepool
My grandfather Private Thomas "Mitch" Mitchell was born in 1895 and enlisted on 3rd September 1914 when he was 18 years old. He served with the Durham Light Infantry as part of the Machine Gun Corps. He served for 4 years and 164 days followed by 1 year and 201 days with the Army Reserves. Something must have happened to him late in 1918 as he ended up at the Military Hospital at Colchester and was released from there in January 1919 having been sick and wounded. He was demobilised on 14th February 1919.
This information comes from documents found after the death of my Mother, his daughter.
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