Studio portrait, taken prior to enlistment, of 656 Private (Pte) Thomas Paul Mitchell, 28th ...

Studio portrait, taken prior to enlistment, of 656 Private (Pte) Thomas Paul Mitchell, 28th Battalion, of Boulder, WA. A miner before enlisting on 11 March 1915, Pte Mitchell embarked from Fremantle on HMAT Ascanius on 29 June 1915 with D Company. On 22 September 1915 he was wounded on Gallipoli, rejoining his unit in Egypt from hospital on 6 March 1916. He was wounded a second time in France on 29 July 1916, and evacuated to England. He rejoined his unit in France on 17 January 1917. He was wounded for a third time on 20 September 1917, returning to the battalion again on 6 November 1917. On 8 February 1918 he was admitted to hospital. He was evacuated to England and initially treated for pleurisy, but on 30 June 1918 he was returned to Australia for discharge, having been diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. He died at Wooroloo sanatorium, WA, on 5 January 1920, at the age of 37.