Dr Jim Mitchell is the son of Alan Mitchell, a Pioneer who saw action in Syria and Java and who was a POW on the Burma Railway.
Jim is an historian and author, formerly a Lecturer in the history department of the University of Melbourne and a Curator at the British Library in London.
Amongst several books, Jim has edited his father's letters home whilst in the Pioneers – The moon seems upside down: letters of love and war (Allen & Unwin, 1988).