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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 549

(x) Three: Private E. F. Mitchell, Coldstream Guards, killed in action on 15 September 1916

1914-15 Star (11503 Pte E. F. Mitchell. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (11503 Pte. E. F. Mitchell, C. Gds.), good very fine (3)

Ernest Fredrick Mitchell son of George and Elizabeth Mitchell of 7 Bridge St., York. Served with the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in France and was killed on 15 September 1916 during fighting around Ginchy as part of the Somme offensive. On the same day his commander, Lieutenant-Colonel John Vaughan Campbell, was awarded the Victoria Cross for rallying the survivors of his Battalion with a hunting horn. Mitchell is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

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Sold for
£130

Starting price
£30