Wallace Mills Explained

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]

Family

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.

Football

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]

Military service

He enlisted for service in the Australian Military forces on 4 December 1939, and served overseas in the Middle East.[8]

Death

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]

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. Holmesby & Main (2007).
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gf9UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZZMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2507%2C4624378 Deaths: Mills, The Age, (Tuesday, 26 July 1966), p.18.
  3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205356764 Deaths: Mills, The Age, (Tuesday, 22 March 1949), p.2.
  4. https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1069233/large/5615919.JPG Roll of Honour Circular, collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11077452 Warne-Smith, I., "Aims at Surprising St. Kilda", The Argus, (Saturday, 24 July 1937), p.24.
  6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11113192 Teams Chosen: St. Kilda v. Footscray, The Argus, (Friday, 23 July 1937), p.17.
  7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11119131 League Seconds, The Argus, (Friday, 30 July 1937), p.18.
  8. Service Record.
  9. Web site: Service and Casualty Form. National Archives of Australia. 19 May 2015.
  10. Web site: Roll of Honour: Wallace Hickford Mills. Australian War Memorial. 19 May 2015.
  11. Web site: St Kilda players who died at war . bigfooty.com . 18 February 2020.
  12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206344628 Deaths: Mills, The Age, (Saturday, 11 December 1943), p.9.
  13. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2242813/wallace-hickford-mills Warrant Officer Class II Wallace Hickford Mills (VX2998), Commonwealth War Graves Commission.