Wallace Mills

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Wallace Mills
Personal information
Full name Wallace Hickford Mills
Date of birth (1915-01-07)7 January 1915
Place of birth South Melbourne, Victoria[1]
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

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).[2] He was killed in a motor accident in Far North Queensland during World War II.[3][4] On 24 November 1943, Mills was fatally wounded 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.[5]

See also[]

  • List of Victorian Football League players who died in active service

References[]

  1. ^ "World War Two Nominal Roll". Government of Australia. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
  3. ^ "Service and Casualty Form". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Roll of Honour: Wallace Hickford Mills". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. ^ "St Kilda players who died at war". bigfooty.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

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