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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 571

The campaign group of three attributed to Private J. G. Mitchell, 1st (Perak) Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, who was captured by the Japanese following the Fall of Singapore in February 1942

A member of the Malayan Civil Service, Mitchell was employed as an Inspector of Mines in Perak and died on the Burma-Thai Railway on 6 August 1942

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, sold together with an original receipt from the Imperial War Graves Commission issued to his mother 'Mrs M Z Mitchell', very fine and better (3)

James Gordon Mitchell was born at Penzance, Cornwall on 14 October 1905. Graduating from the Camborne School of Mines as a mining engineer he emigrated initially to Australia in 1926, followed by a stint in South Africa, before eventually settling in Malaya where he was employed as an Inspector of Mines in the state of Perak. Enlisting in the 1st (Perak) Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force he would have been involved in the fighting during the defence of Malaya and later Singapore.

Mitchell became a prisoner of war following the garrison's surrender and was one of the unfortunates despatched to work on the Burma-Thai railway where he died in captivity on 6 August 1942 at Ban Pong, Thailand. He is buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.

Sold together with an original receipt from the Imperial War Graves Commission for his grave registration details, copied research and a photograph of his grave.

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£60