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CAPTAIN HORACE G MITCHELL
Horace Granville Mitchell (Resident 1934-1955)
Horace Mitchell was born in 1888 in Polmont, Stirlingshire.
He joined the Lanarkshire (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and
Lower Ward of Lanarkshire) Yeomanry in 1906 and rose to Captain before resigning his commission in 1912.
He joined the 3rd Hussars at the start of the war in 1914 and suffered gun shot wounds in 1918.
He joined the RAF in late 1918, but relinquished his commission in 1919 due to ill-health.
Horace lived in Ashton House from 1934 to 1955.
He died on the Isle of Man in 1956.
1935
Captain Horace G Mitchell: About
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