Wallace Mills

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]

For the community in the United States, see Wallace Mills, Ohio.

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 career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1937 St Kilda 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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

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
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