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Military service
Service number:
16969
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 8, 1889
Sarnia, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 29, 1915
Boulogne, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 13.
Additional information
Son of Frederick and Bertha Mitchell, of Toronto, Ontario.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for 2 February 1915. -
Newspaper Clipping
Gordon Ashford Mitchell enlisted in the First Canadian Contingent at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, on September 23rd, 1914. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario. -
Photo of Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell (Courtesy of 'So Far From Home, Armstrong's Fallen of the Great War', Leonard J. Gamble, Author) -
Grave marker
Grave marker of Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell. (Courtesy of 'So Far From Home, Armstrong's Fallen of the Great War', Leonard J. Gamble, Author) -
Wimmereux Communal Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave Marker
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Photo of GORDON ASHFORD MITCHELL
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Ashford Mitchell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 29 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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