Description
-1914-15 Star, War & Victory Medal 12491 Pte. G. Mitchell S. GDS.
Copy documentation, Commonwealth War graves, medal index card, regimental history and from the local newspaper, 2 modern photographs of Dunfermline War memorial.
Killed in action 27th September 1915 aged 30. Son of Elizabeth Arnott 101 Nethertown, Dunfermline. Commemorated at Philosphe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe. 1 of 106 Scots Guardsmen killed in action that day during the Battle of Loos. Newspaper cutting states that he was serving in the 2nd battalion. Before the war, he was serving an apprenticeship with Messrs Henry Reid & Son and was a member of the Young Scots Society. In letter from a fellow guardsman, it states ‘I am very sorry to state that our Corporal (Mitchell) was killed on the first morning of the engagement when we were laying back in the reserve trenches. A stray shell came over our way and a splinter struck poor Mitchell.’ He enlisted in November 1914 and had been in France since 22nd May 1915.
Condition as shown in photographs
