There is a website covering British boxing history HERE. Their page for military boxers is still under construction, but their "find a boxing ancestor" page lists 4 Charlie Mitchells, one of whom can be eliminated as he didn't start until 1975. The others may be worth checking on. Your guy may be missing as his records are among the military ones waiting for upload, but he might have continued as a civilian and appear on the civillian records after his military boxing career.
You could always contact the site owners. There is a "contact us" page.
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Thread: WW1 Medal- Hit a brickwall.
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09-02-2019, 11:54 AM #21
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Hi Pam
I have 4 official sources for my great grandfather.
His death certificate states his Date of Birth as 19th March 1902.
His DOB on his first military Attestation for the Sherwood Foresters is 16th March 1901
His DOB on his second military Attestation for the Warwickshire Regiment is 20th March 1902.
In the 1939 census he lists his DOB as 20th March 1904.
His marriage certificate to my great nan lists his Dad as Henry Mitchell who is a builder.
Evidently he was a bit of a liar. Hence my attempt to find his brother- assuming he isn't a liar as well. If i find his brother, i find I'm, was my logic haha but he is proving just as difficult.
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10-02-2019, 3:04 PM #24
To be fair, he might have been guessing rather than lying. They weren’t as obsessed with age as we are, and there are examples of someone making something up when faced with officialdom and a form. I routinely search everyone +/- 2 years, in case. Did he give places?
My own great uncle gave the wrong name for his mother on his father’s death certificate- she had died young and he presumably only ever called her by some variation of “mother”.
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