IN FIVE LANDINGS
N.Z. TELEGRAPHIST (Special P.A. Correspondent.) LONDON, July 27. The distinction of being in all probability the only New Zealander to take part in five beach-head landings is held by Telegraphist R. N. Mitchell, aged 22, of Christchurch. He is in the Royal Naval Beach Signals, and has been with the first landing parties in the Dieppe raid, the attacks on Oran, Sicily, Italy, and now Normandy. He is part of a team whose job is to establish, shore-to-ship radio-telephone communication. Mitchell thinks that the worst of his five landings was the Dieppe raid, to which Normandy was rated second. The other three wer^ "easy." Mitchell used to work in the locomotive branch of the Railways Department in Dunedin before the war. He left New Zealand four years ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1944, Page 4
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