KILLED WHEN ATTENDING
THE WOUNDED ON THE FIELD

LIEUTENANT FRANCIS SIDNEY MITCHELL

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, ATTACHED ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT

15TH FEBRUARY 1916 AGE 26

BURIED: MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY, YPRES, BELGIUM


From his inscription, Lieutenant Mitchell must have been the Medical Officer at the Regimental Aid Post, which was usually situated in or very close to the front line. During their four days here in the trenches at Hooge, the Royal Sussex Regiment lost 7 officers and 134 men, including almost all the men of D Company who were buried alive on the 14th when the Germans exploded a mine under the trenches. Dr Francis Mitchell was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and the Royal City of Dublin Hospital.