MILLS, James Thomas
| Service Number: | VX41769 |
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| 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 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, VX41769, 2nd/1st HQ Guard Battalion | |
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| 3 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army 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 (Army WW2), Private, VX41769 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, VX41769, 2nd/1st HQ Guard Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography 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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