MITCHELL, Robert Gordon Melville
Service Number: | 4383 |
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Enlisted: | 14 September 1915 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Calcutta India, 21 May 1875 |
Home Town: | Deviot, West Tamar, Tasmania |
Schooling: | Brighton College UK |
Occupation: | Lawyer/Orchardist |
Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 10 October 1916, aged 41 years |
Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
14 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4383 | |
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29 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4383, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
29 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4383, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Deb Robinson
Husband to Marion and father to Rosalie.
Roberts sister Elsie was travelling on the SS Persia from the UK to Bombay. The Persia was torpedoed and sunk of the coast of Crete on 18 December 1915 by a German U boat. Elsie did not survive.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Robert Gordon Melville MITCHELL was born on 21st May, 1875 in Calcutta, India
His parents were Robert William Span & Rosalie Marianne MITCHELL
He married Marion Limond MASON at St Pauls Church of England in East Devonport Tasmania on 21st January, 1913