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Military service
Service number:
880820
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
February 5, 1898
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Jane E. Mitchell, of Birmingham, Michigan, U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Private Arthur Mitchell
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Circumstances of Death Registers
"Killed in Action" He was on duty in a trench near Passchendaele as batman to an Officer of the 4th Canadian Machine Gun Company. The position was being subjected to heavy enemy shell fire. During a lull in the firing Pte. Mitchell got up on the parados and was instantly killed by a shell that exploded near him. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ARTHUR MITCHELL
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Arthur Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Mitchell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 295 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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