Donald Mills (footballer) explained

Donald Mills
Fullname:	Donald Ian Grainger Mills
Birth Date:	28 August 1909
Birth Place:	Saint Saviour, Jersey
Death Place:	Port Franklin, Victoria
Height:	182 cm
Weight:	79 kg
Originalteam:	Clayton^[1]
Statsend:	1931
Years1:	1929, 1931
Games Goals1:	15 (0)

Donald Ian Grainger Mills (28 August 1909 – 5 January 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

Family

The son of Donald Albert Grainger Mills (181–1951), and Isabel Jane Mills (1885–1942), née Le Brun, Donald Ivas Grainger Mills was born at Saint Saviour, Jersey, in the Channel Islands on 28 August 1909.

He married Jean Mary Thomson (1915–2000) on 15 October 1940.^{[3] [4]}

Death

He died in early 1945 when, with his brother-in-law, Mark Johns, he was aboard the shark-fishing vessel Moonbi that failed to return from a fishing trip from Port Franklin.^{[5] [6]}

References

• Book: Holmesby, Russell. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 . Main. Jim . 2014 . 10th . 978-1-921496-32-5 . BAS Publishing . Seaford, Victoria.

Notes and References

1. News: Young and Ambitious Side . The Herald . 16,199 . Victoria, Australia . 19 April 1929 . 15.
2. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.612.
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244460832 Bride from Brisbane, The Herald, (Tuesday, 15 October 1940), p.12.
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article186271123 Mills—Thompson Wedding Solemnised in Melbourne, The (Brisbane) Telegraph, (Wednesday, 16 October 1940), p.8.
5. News: Search Continues for Missing Fishermen . The Herald . 21108 . Victoria, Australia . 11 January 1945 . 3.
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22433847 Law Notices: Donald Ian Mills, The Argus, (Wednesday, 18 June 1947), p.13.