Alexander Murdoch Mitchell

Forenames

Alexander Murdoch AWMM

Surname

Mitchell AWMM

Also known as

Alex Murdoch Mitchell AWMM

Service number

WWI 23/1119 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 72 Oxford Street, South Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

John Q. Mitchell (father), Blue Spur, Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 23/1119 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 30 or HMNZT 31 or HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM D Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

Alexander Mitchell was the son of John Quick Mitchell and Elizabeth Jones Mitchell, of Blue Spur, Otago, New Zealand.

John Quick Mitchell, a miner, was born in Cornwall, England. He married Elizabeth Jones Wynn, of Staffordshire, in 1876. He died in 1924, aged 77. Elizabeth died in 1921, aged 65. They are both buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin. AWMM

Death

8 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II.I.8. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21376027
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/449353/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/449353
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 508
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 30 - The Periscope : unofficial mouthpiece of the 1st Battalion N.Z. Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own) and Divisional Ammunition Column -- At sea : Officers & men of the Reinforcement : 1915