Wallace Mills | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Wallace Hickford Mills | ||
Date of birth | 7 January 1915 | ||
Place of birth | Middle Park, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 24 November 1943 | (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 |
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 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]
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]