Benvie Donald Mitchell Captain 268165
Personnel Entry
Name Benvie Donald Mitchell
Army number 268165
Rank Captain
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known - possibly 1924, Scotland.
Age 0
Unit Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt in the Black Watch 20/3/1943, Posted 1 TS 26/3/1943. Posted ITC Perth 26/2/1944. Posted 182 Brigade. Posted 2nd Bn Black Watch. Posted 14 Airlanding Brigade HQ.
Company/Battery D Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role 1 TS - Duty Officer. 70th Brigade HQ - Brigade Intelligence Officer
Joined Brigade 26/3/1943.
Promotions W/S Lt 20/9/43.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Died 21/8/1990. Buried 24/8/1990, Friockheim Cemetery, Angus.
Home address India Command, British Linen Bank House, Brechin, Angus. Telephone Directory listed Capt Benvie as a Farmer at Heughhead by Arbroath (previously Heughhead by Gowrie) between 1946 and 1979, with the latest giving a Friockheim number. No marriage yet traced.
Source table 1TS
