BORN HULL 1891. SON OF TOM MITCHELL & MARIE LOUISA WALTON – 7 QUEENS TERRACE, ST PAULS STREET AND 135 FRANCIS STREET. SON OF A SCHO0L TEACHER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER. EMPLOYED AS A SHIPPING OFFICE CLERK. ENLISTED HULL. COMMISSION TO THE LEWIS GUN SECTION. DIED OF WOUNDS AT ETAPLES HOSPITAL ON 04/11/1918, AGED 27. HIS WIFE LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HE IS BURIED AT ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, SERGEANT, LAURIE MITCHELL, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WAS KILLEDAT YPRES, ON 03/05/1915 AGED 22 YEARS.
First name:
TOM
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Date Died
04/11/1918
Place died:
Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
27
