Lieutenant-Colonel Karl Mitchell
North Nova Scotia Highlanders

If I have to work on this side of the Atlantic, I don’t know of any place I’d rather be than here (Brockville). O.T.C.’s have the most important mission in the army in Canada–preparing future officers who are going to lead the Canadian Army into battle.

(Kingston Whig-Standard, 31 Jul 1943, 2)

Born on 9 March 1894 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Karl Reginald Mitchell was a Truro pharmacist and First World War veteran. He had joined the Princess Louise Fusiliers in 1910 and went overseas on a reinforcement draft in 1916. He joined the 27th Battalion in France, where he was twice wounded. He ended the war as a corporal. By the Second World War, he served the North Nova Scotia Highlanders at the rank of major.

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