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Personal data

• Name MITCHELL
• Initials WL
• First name WILLIAM LYLE
• Place of birth Camaru
• Country New Zealand
• Family Son of William Wilkie Mitchell and Florence Mitchell, of 68, Wharfe St., Oamaru, New Zealand.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Perth, Western Australia on 27 May 1916
• Service number 5894
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 27th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 7th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Fremantle on 30 October 1916; to France on 9 February 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on knee, fractured in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 6 October 1917
• Died at the age of 30
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - E - 1

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