MILLS, Frederick Charles Markham
| Service Number: | 1532 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | 301st Company Mechancial Transport |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Influenza, 18 December 1918, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
City of Paris Cemetery, Pantin Plot 6, Row 19, Grave 12 Headstone Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN" |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement 1532, 301st Company Mechancial Transport, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked 1532, 301st Company Mechancial Transport, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
Frederic Charles Markham Mills
Frederic Charles Markham Mills was a lieutenant and his service number was 1532.
Frederic was born in Tuena, NSW and lived in the Wentworthville area before he enlisted.
Frederic's father and mother were Herbert and Mary Markham Mills. Frederic had two brothers, Gordon Wallace, who was also a soldier that died in action and Standish Wentworth who was discharged from the army.
Before Frederic joined the army he was an engineering student.
Frederic Charles Markham Mills enlisted in Sydney on the 13th September, 1914 at the age of 20. He embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic A40 on the 22nd December, 1914.
Frederic served in the army with the 12th Field Ambulance, Corps in Egypt and k supply column on the Western Front. Later he transferred to the 2nd Squadron Australian Flying Service Corps.
Frederic Charles Markham Mills unfortunately died after suffering from influenza during December, 1918, in France. He passed away on the 18th of December, 1918 in the station hospital, Paris, at the age of 24. He was buried in the city of Paris Cemetery, France.
Frederic shot down two German aeroplanes over the Western Front. Frederic Charles Markham Mills name is shown on the Blacktown war memorial NSW, Australia. He is remembered in honour on the Blacktown Soldiers' Memorial and Wentworthville School of Arts Roll of Honour.
by Mariam Ghannami
Submitted 8 December 2016 by Susan Hastings
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Herbert and Mary H. MARKHAM-MILLS, of "Hastings," Helen Street, Westmead, New South Wales.