Thomas James MILLS
Service
number: 170. Age:
23 years 4 months. Enlisted: 10 Sep 1914.
Occupation: Insurance agent. Next of kin: (mother) Mrs Maria Hill.
Address
on enlistment:
Eumundi.
Military
band of the 15 Battalion, 4 Infantry Brigade at Enoggera Camp, 19 Nov 1914.
In this photo is Thomas James Mills (170) and Francis Harold Storr (653).[1]
Service
Summary:
10 Sep 1914: 15 Battalion, A Company.
22 Dec 1914: Embarked from Melbourne on
Transport A40 Ceramic for the Middle
East.
17 Jul 1915: Diagnosed with rheumatism and
unfit.
29 Jul 1915: Returned to Australia.
15 Dec 1915: Discharged.
The
transports HMAT Ulysses and HMAT Ceramic conveying units of the
second Australian contingent to Egypt.[2]
Thomas James Mills and Harold Francis Storr were on HMAT Ceramic.
second Australian contingent to Egypt.[2]
Thomas James Mills and Harold Francis Storr were on HMAT Ceramic.
Life
Summary:
Thomas James Mills (1891-1926) was the second youngest son of
Walter James Mills (1858-1896) and Maria Hussey (1858-1949) and was born at
Caboolture on 25 Apr 1891. Thomas Mill’s elder brother Walter Mills and younger
brother John Mills also enlisted, though Thomas Mills was the first to enlist.
After his military service, Thomas Mills
married Alice Maud Smith and by 1921 they were living at Ashgrove with their
children where he worked as a clerk. Thomas Mills was just 35 years old when he
died 27 Oct 1926 and he was buried at Toowong Cemetery.
[1] State Library of Queensland digital image
#6163-0001-0002 http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/248754
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