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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 119

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel L. A. Mitchell, Royal Army Medical Corps

India General Service 1895-1908, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Surgn Captn L. A. Mitchell A.M. Staff); China 1900, no clasp (Capt: L. A. Mitchell. M.B. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star, clasp (Lt: Col: L. A. Mitchell. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. L. A. Mitchell.); United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, fitted with pagoda riband bar (Capt. Lionel A. Mitchell Royal Army Medical Corps No. 583.), mounted as worn, very fine (6)

M.I.D. London Gazette 19 October 1914.

Lionel Arthur Mitchell was born at Monaghan, Ireland on 11 April 1867 and qualified B.A. at Dublin in 1889 and M.B. in 1890. Made Surgeon Lieutenant in January 1892, he was advanced Surgeon Captain in January 1895. Mitchell served in the Operations on the Samana and in the Kurram Valley between August-September 1897. Thence on the Operations of the Flying Column in the Kurram Valley under Colonel Richardson between 20 August -1 October 1897. Mitchell shared in the capture of the Sampagha and Arbanga Passes and finally in the Bazar Valley from 25-30 December 1897. Promoted Major on 30 January 1904 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 14 July 1914, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 August 1914.

Living at Avenida, Alexandra Road, South Farnborough, Hampshire the good Colonel died in January 1939.

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Estimate
£3,000 to £5,000

Starting price
£2900