Mitchell,+F+H

Worker, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Service No: 39581 Date of Death: 22nd February 1919 Grave/Memorial Reference: F. "C." 66. KEIGHLEY (UTLEY) CEMETERY
 * Frances Hildred Mitchell**



MITCHELL, Francis Wade Head Married M 46 1865 Farmer And Contractor Agent Yorkshire Keighley MITCHELL, Jane Ann Wife Married 12 years F 36 1875 Yorkshire Houlskye MITCHELL, Charles William Son Single M 21 1890 Carter Yorkshire Keighley MITCHELL, Margaret Daughter Single F 18 1893 Farm Service Dairy Work Yorkshire Keighley MITCHELL, Francis Robert Son M 11 1900 School Yorkshire Keighley.
 * 1911 Census records for Long Lee Keighley:**
 * //MITCHELL, Frances Hildred Daughter Single F 15 1896 Worsted Spinner Yorkshire Keighley//**

Lived at: Parkwood Top Farm (this is the next of kin address for her father). Died at: Queens Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Brocton Camp at Cannock Chase, a few miles South of Stafford. Church of England. Spinster. Aged 23 years.
 * Burial records at Utley Cemetery office:**

She applied for service in the Women's Royal Navy Service on 17th April 1918 as a 'Class C' worker, specifying that she could work in the following fields: "General domestic or Storekeeper, Garage worker or Motor driver (unskilled)." Other details of the application include: Born on 25th October 1896. Living at 25, Gordon Street, Keighley. Went to Long lee Council School and left aged 14 years. She worked for 15 months as a twister for Isaac Ingham who was a worsted manufacturer at West Lane Mills. Her salary was 30 shillings. Her two named references were: Miss Gertrude Stansfield, a teacher living at St Peter's Vicarage, and Dr J. Spencer of 1, Victoria Park View.
 * Service records:**

Frances was a munitions worker at Brocton Camp and whilst serving there she was in the camp hospital on two occasions with pneumonia, from 7th to 19th November 1918 and from 17th February to 22nd February 1919 when she died. The reason for her death was given as "Heart failure, effect of influenza and pneumonia."