Frederick Charles Mills

FULL NAME Frederick Charles Mills

RANK LAST HELD Private

FORENAME(S) Frederick Charles

SURNAME Mills

WAR World War I, 1914-1918

SERIAL NO. 3/2625

GENDER Male

FIRST KNOWN RANK Private

OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT Hairdresser

NEXT OF KIN Mrs S. Avery (mother), 17 Summershays Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand

BODY ON EMBARKATION New Zealand Expeditionary Force

EMBARKATION UNIT 20th Reinforcements New Zealand Medical Corps

EMBARKATION DATE 7 December 1916

PLACE OF EMBARKATION Wellington, New Zealand

TRANSPORT HMNZT 71

VESSEL Port Lyttelton

DESTINATION Plymouth, England

NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER 47

PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL 13

LAST UNIT SERVED New Zealand Medical Corps, 4 Field Ambulance

PLACE OF DEATH Belgium

DATE OF DEATH 17 October 1917

AGE AT DEATH 28

YEAR OF DEATH 1917

CAUSE OF DEATH Died of wounds

CEMETERY NAME Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France

GRAVE REFERENCE IV. E. 53.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Frederick Mills was the son of Sarah Arm Avery (formerly Mills), of Palmerston North, Kairanga, New Zealand, and the late John Mills.

DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917

ARCHIVES NZ SOURCE Military personnel file

SOURCES USED Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1917

Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org

http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/10779.detail?Ordi...

Private in NZMC, file number 3/2625. Son of Sarah Arm Avery (formerly Mills), of Palmerston North, Kairanga, New Zealand, and the late John Mills.

Sources

1. New Zealand and World War One Roll of Honour: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sooty/genealogy/nzefrohMe.html / Ref 12.4.2021