MILLS, George Arthur
Service Number: | 416 |
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Enlisted: | 26 August 1914, Broadmeadows, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Saint Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, 25 February 1877 |
Home Town: | St Arnaud, North Grampians, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 40 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coonooer Bridge War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
26 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 416, Broadmeadows, Victoria | |
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19 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
19 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
25 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW (neck/back - second wave landing) | |
25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
13 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
23 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
23 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
24 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , 2nd occasion - Bayonet wound (abdomen - accidental) | |
4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 416, 8th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 416 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"416 Corporal George Arthur Mills, 8th Battalion of St Arnaud, Victoria. A farmer prior to enlistment as a Private (Pte), aged 35, on 26 August 1914, Pte Mills embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Benalla (A24) on 19 October 1914. He suffered gunshot wounds at the landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Following convalescence in Egypt, he returned to duty at Gallipoli and was soon after promoted to Corporal in August 1915. He disembarked in France in March 1916 and was accidentally wounded by a bayonet in July of that year. He was Mentioned in Despatches "for participation in a very successful raid on enemy trenches on 30 September 1916". Cpl Mills was killed in action near Broodeseinde Ridge in Belgium on 4 October 1917 and has no known grave." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)