Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal H. J. Mitchell, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. late Dufferin & Haldimand Rifles of Canada

Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, silver, with its card box of issue, together with his Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘B. 43148 L-Cpl. H. J. Mitchell’, ring suspension, in case of issue, good very fine and better (3) £50-70

Herbert John Mitchell was born in Ashland, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on 29 July 1899. Living in Bloor Street, Toronto, Ontario, and employed as an Importer, he attested for the Canadian Army at Toronto in August 1940. Having then served in the Dufferin & Haldimand Rifles of Canada, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps and was discharged in March 1944 as being ‘unable to meet the required military physical standards’. He died of a brain tumour on 31 January 1946 and was buried in the Toronto (S.James’s) Cemetery. He was the son of Emma Mitchell, of Vancouver; and husband of Elizabeth Mitchell, of Toronto; sold with copied service papers.