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Age-29

24, Sandover Road, Camberwell

Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France

The Royal Army Service Corps worked at every level during the First World War and by the end of the conflict it was responsible for keeping an army of over 4 million men supplied with all their needs. It was a colossal task and the RASC expanded its own ranks rapidly in order to fulfil this demand.By the end of the war their numbers had expanded to over 300,000. RASC personnel were to be found from the front line to the Channel ports and many of those in forward positions, delivering supplies of all kinds to the trenches, were liable to become casualties themselves. 

James Mitchell died from enteric fever on 9th March, 1915 after having been sent to a base hospital on the coast. 28th Division had arrived in France in January 1915 since when it had been holding part of the line to the south of Ypres in Belgium.