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MILLS, Stanley Charles
(Service number 38973)

Mills family portrait, circa 1910? — The family of Hannah & Ellis Mills and children.

Pictured are (from left to right):
BACK ROW: Leonard, Lily, Stanley Charles, Jane, and Harry
FRONT ROW: Hannah (mother), Violet, and Ellis (father).

As well as losing Stanley Charles in World War One, the family also lost two other sons - Ellis John and James William Cecil -
in a boating accident at Timaru, reported in the Timaru Herald in December 1904. (Courtesy of M Johnson )

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal.	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	10/06/1897	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	4 October 1916	Age	20 Years.
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single.
Next of Kin	Mrs Hannah Mills (mother), 92 Church Street, Timaru, NZ.
Religion	Wesleyn
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	22nd Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	16 February 1917
Transport	Navua
Embarked From	Wellington, NZ	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion.

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	23 December 1917	Age	21 years
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Died of wounds.
Notices	Timaru Herald, 3 January 1918
Memorial or Cemetery	Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England
Memorial Reference	VIII.C.13
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Stanley Mills was the son of Ellis and Hannah Mills. Native of Timaru, NZ.

Mills, on enlistment in October 1916, was noted as being 5ft 11inches tall, of fair complexion, with grey eyes and brown hair. He was employed by the Post & Telegraph Department in Timaru, as a clerk.

Mills’ first known rank was Lance Corporal, in the NZEF 22nd Reinforcements of Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company. His personnel record tells us that on 2 Dec 1917 Stanley was admitted to hospital with a right thigh injury in France. Four days later he was listed as ‘dangerously ill’ for two days. On 13 Dec 1917 he embarked on a hospital ship for England, being admitted to London General Hospital in Chelsea on 19 Dec. There, Private Stanley Charles Mills died of wounds on 23 Dec. 1917.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (Oct 2014); CWGC; Rootsweb – ‘Lancashire Witch’ passengers; Ancestry – NZ WW1 Roll of Honour, Manchester, England Marriages & Banns (marriage 1858), NZ Electoral Rolls, 1861 Census, Australia Birth Index, Public Family Tree – ‘Judys Tree’; NZ BDM’s;Timaru District Council – Cemetery Database; Timaru Herald 7 Dec 1917 (Roll of Honour), 22 Dec 1917 (Roll of Honour), 3 Jan 1918 (Roll of Honour), and 22 Dec 1917 (Roll of Honour); ; NZ Defence Force – Personnel Record; CWGC; Rootsweb – ‘Lancashire Witch’ passengers; NZ Electoral Rolls; 1861 Census, Australia Birth Index; Public Family Tree – ‘Judys Tree’

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Lesly Tennent, SC branch NZSG

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