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Mitchell, Donald James

Identification

Regimental number: 2382817
Battalion / unit at enlistment: 1st Depot Bn MB
U of S affiliation at enlistment: student
Birth: 15 Feb 1895, Dundalk, ON, Canada
College Building memorial: Second floor, southeast
Slide number(s): HR-2013

U of S attendance

Entry date College Left - date Left - reason Degree Degree - date Notes
1913 Arts        
1914 Law        

Military service - attestation

Volunteer/drafted: drafted
Attestation place: Weyburn
Attestation date: 18 Oct 1917
Present address: Weyburn, SK
Occupation: student
Religion: Presbyterian
Age: 23 years, 3 months
Height (inches): 67.50
Chest expansion (inches): 39.00
Amount of expansion (inches): 5.00

Military service - assignments

Group Type Location First known date Last known date Reason for end of assignment Notes
1st Depot Bn MB      18 Oct 1917    
RAF           

Family

Father: Mitchell, Robert Menzies
Father's Address: 309 2nd St., Weyburn, SK, Canada (1917)

Non-military addresses

Address Occupation Earliest date Latest date Source Notes
Weyburn  student 1913 1915 U of S Calendar
Weyburn    1928   1928 list
1928 list = "List of Students who enlisted during the Great War," U of S Archives. The list was completed after F. Underhill went to the University of Toronto in 1927; probably in conjunction with the Memorial Gates. Some of the addresses may be from an earlier date.

Sources

National Archives reference: RG 150 Box 6249 - 28
College Building list #: 199
Roll of Honour list #:
Roll of Service (1928) #: 233
Long List #: 246

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