§ 23. Mr. BARKERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he has received a letter from Mrs. Laura Mitchell, of Alderney, Channel Islands, arising out of the death of her son, Thomas P. Mitchell, engine-room artificer, 4th Class, who was found shot in Barnton Wood, in January, 1921; will he state if an inquiry was held at Port. Edgar on the death of Mitchell; if so, what was the result; and will he see that a copy of the evidence given, and the finding of the Court, is supplied to the mother of the deceased?
§ Commander EYRES-MONSELLThe reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. A Naval Court of inquiry was held, but obtained no evidence to explain his death, which was apparently self-inflicted, as was confirmed by the subsequent inquiry by the Procurator Fiscal. A copy of the evidence and finding of the Naval Court will be supplied to Mrs. Mitchell.