Military Career
He served with the Territorial Army in a number of mounted units starting with the Oxford University Mounted Infantry and then the Fife Light Horse Volunteers prior to becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel.
He commanded the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in 1914. He was wounded at Gallipoli a year later. The Regiment was subsequently converted to infantry as a battalion of the 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion of The Black Watch sent to France in 1917.
Mitchell finished the war as Town Commandant of Duren in Germany after the Armistice. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1913.
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