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Final Rank:

Private

First Name/s (as per enlistment record)

Ernest

Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)

MITCHELL

Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1378
New Zealand Maori Pioneer Battalion, 4th Reinforcements

Also Known As

Harry MITCHELL

Date of Birth

08/10/1893

Place of Birth

Vava'u, Tonga

Date of Death

24/09/1916

Place of Death

Somme, Northern France

Death Registration Number

NZ1918/59607 (post war death registration)

Headstone/Grave Location

Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, Somme, France

Next of Kin

Mr Ernest Hamilton Mitchell, Rarotonga, Cook Islands (father)
Jane Smith (formerly Mele Matele Mitchell), Faleula, Samoa (wife)

Additional Information

Enlisted 23 December 1915. As he was of mixed race, he was directed to train at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Posted to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 9 September 1916. Killed in Action in France 24 September 1916. Field burial 50 yards east of McCormick's Post Cemetery, about 3/4 miles west of Flers and 3.5 miles north east of Combles. Final burial at Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, France.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/193894/ernest-mitchell/

Images and Documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image Credits and References

Headstone image source: https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ernest-mitchell

Portrait of E. Mitchell. Auckland Grammar School chronicle. 1917, v.5, n.1. Image has no known copyright. Source: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/search?n=ernest+mitchell

Commemorative certificate courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/193894/ernest-mitchell/

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