Charles MILLS MBE

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MILLS, Charles

Service Number:	SX3781
Enlisted:	28 May 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Harrowgate, England, 27 July 1900
Home Town:	Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Police Constable
Died:	Natural Causes, South Australia, 15 August 1981, aged 81 years
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Cremation Only
Memorials:	South Australian Garden of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

28 May 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX3781, Adelaide, South Australia
28 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, SX3781, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
29 May 1940:	Involvement Private, SX3781, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
13 Mar 1946:	Discharged Warrant Officer Class 2, SX3781, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
13 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Warrant Officer Class 2, SX3781, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
6 Mar 1947:	Honoured Member of the Order of the British Empire

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Biography contributed by VWM Australia

I wish to tender my claim as being the youngest holder of the 1914-16 Star at present in Australia, also the youngest soldier to see active service in France and other countries.
Qualifications: — Born on July 27, 1900; enlisted in 2nd Batt. Northumberland -Fusiliers March 15, 1915, giving my age as 18 years and eight months; landed in France on July 2, 1915; spent' 15th birthday in the front line trenches at Ypres; wounded at Loos on September 26, 1915; sent to Salonica early in 1916, where I contracted malaria fever, and was sent to hospital in Malta; served in Egypt and Palestine.
These statements can be verified by the records at Police Headquarters, Adelaide, or by my birth certificate and discharge papers. — Charles Mills, Poice Station,- Port Adelaide, S.A. - Smith's Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1919 - 1950), 29 August, p. 16.

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