OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR C. F. MITCHELL The dehth has occurred at Hove, Sussex, of Mr Cecil Fenwick Mitchell, at one time a well-known resident of Dunedin. Mr Mitchell was a son of Mr John Mitchell, one of the founders of Messrs Ferguson and Mitchell, and a brother of the late Mr Frank W Mitchell. He was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School, and later he became manager of the New Zealand Paper Mills, a firm with which his father had been associated. He occupied the position for a number of years. Mr Mitchell did not take any prominent part in civic affairs, but he was a member of the Otago Harbour Board in 1918-19. His sister, Miss Grace Lilian Mitchell, left a considerable sum of money to be devoted to the interests of the local R.S.A., and Mr Mitchell supplemented that amount by £BOOO. He was a member for some years of the Commercial Travellers’ Club and had been a prominent member of the Masonic craft. He travelled in many lands and wrote interesting accounts of his journeyings for the Otago Witness. He is survived bv his widow. The remaining member of the Mitchell family is an engineer in the North Island.

captain l. t. McMillan Mrs J. McMillan, of Haig street, Mornington, has received advice that the death has been officially presumed of Captain L. T. McMillan, who was reported missing while engaged on a mission to Balikpapan on March 20, 1945.

Captain McMillan was born at Invercargill on May 5, 1915, and was educated at the Gore, High Street, and Otago Boys’ High Schools, and at Otago University. He represented his school and the province at Association football. Before he was 21 he had completed his examinations in accountancy and was admitted, with the status of A.R.A.N.Z., to the New Zealand Society of Accountants. He went to Fiji as a mining accountant for two years, and from' there to Malaya and Thailand for a further two years. While in Malaya he was a member of the Penang Flying Club and held a pilot’s A licence. He returned to New Zealand to enlist and sailed for Fiji in 1941, being posted to the 30th Battalion. He gained a commission in 1942, was posted to the 35th Battalion in New Caledonia, and was area officer •at Nepoui, and also intelligence officer for the battalion. He returned to New Zealand on furlough and then left for Australia on a special mission. A few months later he left there as second in command of a party who travelled by submarine to the scene of operations on the island of Balikpapan.