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MITCHELL, Albert

Service Numbers:	321, Commissioned
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	4th Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Walhalla, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	St Kilda East, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Telegraphist
Died:	Wounds, France, 18 May 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme Plot II, Row B, Grave 24
Memorials:	Adamstown Methodist Church Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 321, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 321, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
11 Apr 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 15th Infantry Battalion
10 May 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant
3 Jun 1917:	Honoured Military Cross
15 May 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Captain, Commissioned, 4th Machine Gun Battalion, Wounded by a piece of high explosive shell in the right side, right arm and thorax penetrating the abdomen. He was quickly conveyed to the nearest dressing station and from there by Motor Ambulance to the 47th Casualty Clearing Station situated at Crouy (Somme). He lingered there for two days and succumbed to his wounds at that Dressing Station on the 18th May . His wound did not appear serious at first, but it was found out when he reached the Dressing Station that the piece of shell has penetrated his right lung. He died of Haemorrhage and Sepsis.

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of John and Doretta MITCHELL, of Walhalla, Victoria, Australia.