James Thomas (Jim) MILLS

MILLS, James Thomas

Service Number: VX41769
Enlisted: 3 July 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/1st HQ Guard Battalion
Born: Hoddle Range, Victoria, Australia, 14 December 1904
Home Town: Ferntree Gully, Knox, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
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World War 2 Service

3 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, VX41769, 2nd/1st HQ Guard Battalion
3 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX41769
28 Sep 1945: Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, VX41769, 2nd/1st HQ Guard Battalion
28 Sep 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX41769
Date unknown: Involvement Private, VX41769, 2nd/1st HQ Guard Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

 James was the midlle child of three sons of Archibald Mills (born 1877 in Scarsdale, Victoria) and Jane Ann Simms (born 1879 in Scarsdale, Victoria) Archibald, a Sawyer and Jane lived in Ferntree Gully, Sassafrass, Victoria and raised their three sons there.

James was a Labourer when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1940, and following his Discharge in 1945 he returned there to live and work with wife Christina Emily Webster, whom he married in 1944 in Melbourne, Victoria. Christina served as a Private (Service no: WF98106) with the Australian Women's Army Service from 1942 to 1944.

James and Christina lived and worked in Ferntree Gully - James as a Labourer and Christina as a Machinist. James died in 1995.

Younger brother Robert John served from 1940 to 1945 as a Private (Service No: VX9128) in the Australian Army with 7th Reinforcements 2/7 Battalion

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