John Robert MILLS
Service
number: 2262. Age:
22 years. Enlisted: 5 Nov 1915.
Occupation: Labourer. Next of kin: (wife) Mrs Emily Mills.
Address
on enlistment:
Toorbul Point.
HMAT
Orontes, Aug 1916, Melbourne.[1]
Service
Summary:
5 Nov 1915: Squadron 8 Australian Remount
Unit 2.
10 Nov 1915: Embarked from Sydney on HMAT
RMS Orontes for Egypt.
Shortly after John Robert Mills arrived in Egypt and at Ghezirch, he developed
ear problems which led to deafness.
11 Apr 1916: Returned to Australia on HT Runic.
22 Jun 1916: Discharged.
Life
Summary:
John Robert Mills (1893-1941) was the youngest son of Walter
James Mills (1858-1896) and Maria Hussey (1858-1949) and was born at Caboolture
on 21 Sep 1893. The Mills family had
lived in the Toorbul area from the 1870s and his mother Maria Mills had been
the postmistress at Toorbul in 1903. Maria Mills father Henry Hussey had been a
timber getter on Bribie Island in the 1870s and her brother Tom Hussey had a
long association with the aboriginal people on Bribie Island.
John Mills married Emily Ruth Jones in Apr
1915 (prior to his enlistment). By 1921 John Mills, his wife and their family
had moved to Newstead where he worked as a carter. John Mills, aged 48, died 12
Oct 1941 and shares a memorial with his mother and wife at Toowong Cemetery.
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