Wallace Mills

Wallace Mills
Wallace Mills
Personal information
Full name	Wallace Hickford Mills
Date of birth	7 January 1915
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date of death	24 November 1943 (aged 28)
Place of death	Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1937	St Kilda
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1937.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Wallace Hickford Mills (7 January 1915 – 24 November 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2] He was killed in a motor accident in Far North Queensland during World War II.^[3]^[4] On 24 November 1943, Mills was fatally wounded when the army truck he was riding in collided with a Royal Australian Air Force truck on the Innisfail-Cairns road. He died later that day at a hospital in Gordonvale.^[5]

References

^ "World War Two Nominal Roll". Government of Australia. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
^ "Service and Casualty Form". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
^ "Roll of Honour: Wallace Hickford Mills". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
^ "St Kilda players who died at war". bigfooty.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

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