MILLS, Stanley Roland
Service Number: | 195 |
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Enlisted: | 4 January 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 1st Divisional Signal Company |
Born: | Camberwell, Victoria, 1896 |
Home Town: | Surrey Hills, Boroondara, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Natural Causes, 1979, place of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | The Shrine |
Biography
"Lance Corporal Stanley 'Roley' Mills joined up early at the age of 18. He was on Gallipoli as a signaller, and saw extensive service on the Western Front. He was seriously gassed at Passchendaele in 1917. In letters to his mother, he expressed a longing for home, but it was not until March 1919 that he finally sailed from England. His technical drawing set (on display at the AWM) was a part of his re-training for civilian life. In 1922 he completed a Department of Repatriation Vocational Traing course in carpentry..." - (from an Australian War Memorial static display)