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MITCHELL, Thomas Findlay
(Service number 23/1118)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (right panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #02)

Aliases
First Rank	Rifleman	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Ayrshire, Scotland.

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	C/o Mr Cordner, Shearman Street, Waimate, NZ.
Occupation	Carpenter.
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Matthew Mitchell (father), Elmbank, Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	1st battalion, NZ Rifle Brigade, D Company.
Date	9 October 1915.
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo.
Embarked From	Wellington, NZ.	Destination	Suez, Egypt.

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion, 3rd.

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	22 September 1916	Age
Place of Death	Somme, France.
Cause	Killed in Action.
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (NZ) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval. Somme, France.
Memorial Reference	Caterpillar Valley (NZ) Memorial.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Matthew & Catherine Mitchell, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Sources

Cenotaph.

External Links

Researched and Written by

Lesley Tennent (SC branch NZSG)

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