Sergeant Charles Y Mitchell   279345

3^rd Battalion of the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
and late of the East Surrey Regiment

Came up to Bickerstaffe to be a gamekeeper for Lord Derby. For the previous six months he had been a ‘keeper’ on the King’s Sandringham estate at Norfolk. Whilst living in Bickerstaffe he met and married Miss Edith Rothwell from Barrow Nook before going to serve his King and Country, having enlisted in November 1915.

Sergeant Mitchell was killed by a sniper on 31^st August 1918 and according to his commanding officer suffered no pain.

In a letter to Mrs Mitchell, the officer stated that her husband had sterling qualities and was a soldier in the truest sense of the word.

He is interred in plot 1, row B, grave 17, of H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St Mein, France. This can be found about 5Km. North East, out of Bapaume, on the D956 (left hand side).