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• Name MITCHELL
• Initials WJ
• First name WILLIAM JOHN
• Place of birth Cromwell
• Country New Zealand
• Family Son of William and Ellen Josephine Mitchell, of Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand.
• Profession Compositor

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 19 November 1915, Frenthan
• Service number 8/3952
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Otago Regiment
• Division - Brigade 2nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked Wellington, 4 March 1916

Death

• Wounded 30 June, Houplines
• Type of wounds Died of multiple gunshot wounds in the head and arm, in n°3 Can CCS (field service record: died in n°14 Ambulance Train)
• Date of death 1 July 1916
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VIII - B - 38

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