Wallace Mills

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Wallace Mills
Personal information
Full name	Wallace Hickford Mills
Date of birth	(1915-01-07)7 January 1915
Place of birth	Middle Park, Victoria
Date of death	24 November 1943(1943-11-24) (aged 28)
Place of death	Gordonvale, Queensland
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1937	St Kilda	1 (0)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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 St Kilda: 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

• List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service

Notes

1. Holmesby & Main (2007).
2. Deaths: Mills, The Age, (Tuesday, 26 July 1966), p.18.
3. Deaths: Mills, The Age, (Tuesday, 22 March 1949), p.2.
4. Roll of Honour Circular, collection of the Australian War Memorial.
5. Warne-Smith, I., "Aims at Surprising St. Kilda", The Argus, (Saturday, 24 July 1937), p.24.
6. Teams Chosen: St. Kilda v. Footscray, The Argus, (Friday, 23 July 1937), p.17.
7. League Seconds, The Argus, (Friday, 30 July 1937), p.18.
8. Service Record.
9. "Service and Casualty Form". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
10. "Roll of Honour: Wallace Hickford Mills". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
11. "St Kilda players who died at war". bigfooty.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
12. Deaths: Mills, The Age, (Saturday, 11 December 1943), p.9.
13. Warrant Officer Class II Wallace Hickford Mills (VX2998), Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

References

• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
• World War Two Nominal Roll: Warrant Officer Class II Wallace Hickford Mills (VX2998), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
• World War Two Service Record: Warrant Officer Class II Wallace Hickford Mills (VX2998), National Archives of Australia.

External links

• Wallace Mills's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Wallace Mills at AustralianFootball.com