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Name
Walter Mitchell.
Description
Newspaper Photograph of Corporal Walter Mitchell.
Life Story
Name: Walter Mitchell.
Service Number: 11871.
Rank: Corporal.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Born: Belfast.
Died: 24th May 1915.
Address: 9 Israel Street, Belfast
.
Walter Mitchell, son of Thomas and Jane Mitchell, is connected through his brother William Mitchell to 9 Israel Street, Shankill, Belfast
.
Walter joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 23rd October 1914.
Walter was a Corporal in 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers when he was Killed In Action on the 24th May 1915 aged 32 years
.
Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Militia Attestation Papers, 1800-1915 documents show that Walter had joined the Royal Irish Rifles, Rifleman 3784, and served from the 3rd March 1889 to the 19th December 1899, when he then joined the Regular Army, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the 20th December 1899.
Walter had served in the South African Campaign, in India and Egypt
.
A local newspaper states.
Pte WALTER MITCHELL, Dublin Fusiliers, missing. Any information will be thankfully received by his brother, Mr Wm Mitchell, 9 Israel Street, Belfast
.
A follow up article reports.
Pte W Mitchell, Royal Dublin Fusiliers of 9 Israel Street, Belfast, formerly reported missing, now killed
.
Walters Soldiers Effects were left to his father Thomas.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show his father Thomas as clamant also
.
Walter received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star.
.
He is Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1916
Classification
Newspaper, Photograph, - Belfast Telegraph, Larne Times
