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Trooper George Mitchell

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: George Douglas Featherstone Mitchell

Ancestor's date of birth: 29/12/1883

Ancestor's date of death: 16/02/1978

Cause of Death: Bowel Cancer

Service Number: 4026

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: South Africa (was from NSW, joined in South Africa.

Unit: 3rd NSW Imperial Bushman

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On Enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.

Murray Page: 158

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Travelled privately to South Africa

Other Boer War Service: Travelled to South Africa to join his father WO2 James Mitchell and joined the 3rd NSW Imperial Bushman in South Africa.

Memorial details: War Memorial Tenterfield NSW

Decorations: QSA with 3 clasps, Transvaal, SA1901 and SA1902.

Personal Characteristics: Adventurous.

Reasons to go and fight: Wanted to be with his father. His father didn't know he was there in South Africa, and as he wrote in a letter to his eldest son Albert, 'It was good George wasn't here as the Buglar has a hard time of it'.

Details of service in war: May 1901 - May 1902 in west then east Transvaal then west Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Sadly no details of his long post Boer War life were provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Elva Perrin, Lane Cove NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Daughter

Name of Descendant: Lorene Hare, Deniliquin NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Gr Grand Daughter

Name of Descendant: Martyn Ross Mitchell, Oatley NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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