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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: fb22 on Sunday 17 June 18 12:11 BST (UK)
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Hi looking for information/service record of Duncan Mitchell colour sergeant C company Black Watch regiment. Married Emily McKay in Limerick in 1910.
Thanking you in advance.
fb22
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It may help people willing to search to know that his father William was also a Colour Sergeant with Black Watch.
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You don't give a time frame?
A Sergeant Drummer Duncan Mitchell appears in the Black Watch Boer War medal roll (Colour sergeant would be the next step up) so serving around 1900 - possibility for father.
A medal card for a Company Sergeant Major D Mitchell (one up from C/Sgt) Black Watch for the Great War served in the 3rd and 8th Battalions which includes a DCM awarded 1916 - possible son?
MaxD
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I think this is his wife in 1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Limerick/Limerick_No__4_Urban/Richmond_Street/631459/
if correct this is likely Duncan, the first person on this return
aged 29 born Scotland
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002758515/
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Thank you for all the replies,
William Mitchell was also a colour sergeant in the Black Regiment.
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Sorry Black Watch regiment.
fb22
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My first post went awry a bit, I mis-read the older one's name.
William Mitchell - does the address Janitors House University Edinburgh in 1918 compute at all?
That is a C/Sgt William Mitchell whose service record does not survive but who was discharged to civilian employment in 1918. Just to note there were quite a number of William Mitchells in the Black Watch!
Duncan Mitchell - a birth date of 1882 makes it unlikely that D Mitchell in the Boer war is the same man as the D Mitchell in the Great War. However, the 1911 DM that Sinann IDs is certainly a starter for Duncan. Again no service record apparent but significant is the Distinguished Conduct Medal which the family would surely be aware of?
MaxD
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Thanks for that Max, I'll make some enquires in the families.
fb22