Name: MITCHELL, WALTER DENNIS
Initials: W D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Secondary Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 19/11/1944
Service No: 1819631
Additional information: Son of John Henry and Annie Mitchell, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Gladys Mitchell, of Roundhay, Leeds.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. 67.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY

 
Photo of Walter Dennis Mitchell taken in 1943

1+2. Photo of Private Walter Dennis Mitchell original grave (simple wooden cross). Photo take in 1945

3. Photo of Private Walter Dennis Mitchell grave in 1948 when the cross was replaced

4. Photo of Walter Dennis Mitchell and his wife Gladys on their wedding day on the 2nd June 1943 (as you will see he is in army uniform)

Copy of a Newspaper report in his local home towns newspaper of the 4th December 1944

On the Worcestershire Regiment website you will find a copy of a booklet I wrote about the Battle for Tripsrath, which is where most of the men wher killed and were buried at Brunssum. The booklet can be downloaded in PDF Format by clicking on the link below:

http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/dnld/Battle_for_Tripsrath_Booklet_revised.pdf

The letters above,  did I found in the old archives of the Municipality Brunssum.

For further information see:  www.rijckheyt.nl

access number: T302, inventory number: 6119

Source-Bron: Louis Scully

www.WorcestershireRegiment.com