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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Enlistment:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. G. 15.
Additional information
Son of John B. and Anna Mitchell, of St. John's, Newfoundland. He is also commemorated on page 82 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Captain John Brine Mitchell
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Photo of JOHN BRINE MITCHELL
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y264uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. Captain Mitchell's original regimental number in the C.E.F. is 2103. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 19, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y268uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain John Brine Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Captain John Brine Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Captain John Brine Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Captain John Brine Mitchell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 573 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY Somme, France
Longueval is a village approximately 13 kilometres east of Albert and10 kilometres south of Bapaume. Caterpillar Valley Cemetery lies a short distance west of Longueval on the south side of the road to Contalmaison. Within the cemetery is Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, which commemorates those officers and men of the New Zealand Division who fell in the Battles of the Somme, 1916, and whose graves are not know.
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