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George M Mitchell
Stonehaven/Glasgow

George Miller Mitchell was born at 26 John Street, Govan, Glasgow on 5 December 1889 to George Mitchell, an iron driller (so probably employed in a Clyde shipyard) and Margaret Chalmers Mitchell née Duncan.

He began his career as assistant to John McAndrew at Cruden Bay in 1907. His first job as professional was at Cliftonville in Belfast in 1911.

He attested in Belfast on 24 October 1914 and was assigned to the 6th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. After a spell at the Depot he was posted on 14 March 1916 presumably for the assault on Gallipoli. On 12 May he was transferred to the 31st Machine Gun Corps and a couple of weeks later promoted to corporal.

He was wounded in the Dardanelles with a bullet going through his left thigh and lodging in the right and hospitalised in Cairo. He was then transferred to hospital in Malta and subsequently evacuated in the Hospital Ship Assaye on 12 October 1915. It seems he made a full recovery as he was classified as once again fit for active service. He was discharged ftom the army in March 1919.

In 1920 he moved with wife and baby son to Stonehaven where he stayed as professional until 1925.

In 1925 he took up the post of professional at Cathcart Castle GC in Glasgow and died here from tuberculosis in 1939.

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