| Wallace Mills | |
| Fullname: | Wallace Hickford Mills |
| Birth Date: | 7 January 1915 |
| Birth Place: | Middle Park, Victoria |
| Death Place: | Gordonvale, Queensland |
| Height: | 187 cm |
| Weight: | 84 kg |
| Statsend: | 1937 |
| Years1: | 1937 |
| Games Goals1: | 1 (0) |
Wallace Hickford Mills (7 January 1915 – 24 November 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The son of Frederick Mills (1880–1966),[2] and Emily Louisa "Emma" Mills (1866–1949), née Hickford,[3] Wallace Hickford Mills was born in Middle Park, Victoria on 7 January 1915.[4]
He married Edith Jane Edward (1915–2003) in 1939.
He played in one First XVIII match for : against Footscray, at the Junction Oval, on 24 July 1937. He was promoted from the Seconds, and replaced Ken Mackie.[5] [6] He was relegated to the Seconds for the next week's match.[7]
He enlisted for service in the Australian Military forces on 4 December 1939, and served overseas in the Middle East.[8]
He was killed in a motor accident in Far North Queensland while serving with the 2/41st Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.[9] [10]
On 24 November 1943, Mills was fatally injured when the army truck he was riding in collided with a Royal Australian Air Force truck on the Innisfail-Cairns road. He died later that day at a hospital in Gordonvale.[11] [12]
He was buried at the Atherton War Cemetery.[13]
