Charles Edwin Mitchell was born in 1898 in Fifth Avenue, Queens Park, London, W10, a son of Harry Walter Mitchell (c.1876-1961) and Louisa Mitchell née Frey (1879-1956). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1898 in the Chelsea Registration District. On 29 June 1899 he was baptised at St Martin's Church, Kensal Rise, 132-4, Mortimer Road, London, NW10, where in the baptismal register his family were shown to be living at 58 Earlsmead Road, London, NW10 and that his father was a baker.
When his father completed the 1911 census return form he showed Charles Edward Mitchell as aged 13 years and living in three rooms in a tenement house at 30 Bravington Road, Paddington, London, with his parents and two siblings: William Arthur Mitchell (1904-1988) and Hilda Louisa Mitchell (1908-1986). He described himself a journeyman baker and that his wife had given birth to five children, but that only three were still alive.
He was serving as a Gunner in 'C' Battery, 117th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery when he was killed in action on 8 August 1917. His body was buried in Plot 5, Row F, Grave 37 in the Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Bellestraat, 8908 Ieper, Belgium.
He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal. On 9 November 1917 his army effects that totalled £7-19s-0d were sent to his father who was also sent his £9-0s-0d war gratuity on 7 November 1919.
He is shown as 'MITCHELL, C. E.' on the Western Postal District war memorial in Mount Pleasant, London, WC1. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First Word War website, on the A Street Near You website, on the London WW1 Memorial website, on the Royal British Legion's Every One Remembered website and on page 260 of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance's Book of Remembrance 1914-1920.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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