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Military service
Service number:
18742V
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
South African Air Force
Division:
31 Sqdn.
Birth:
October 12, 1919
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
June 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 17, Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Major (retired) Arthur Samuel Mills, DSO, 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry and Dorothy L. Mills whom he met and married in England. Lieutenant Mills' older brothers Donald and Ian were born in England during the First World War. Upon dembobilization from service in the First World War, Major Mills and his family returned to Canada, where Lieutenant Mills and his sister Majorie Joan were born. Major Mills was employed with Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. In 1931, he was appointed manager of the Company in their Cape Town Office, South Africa. The family relocated to Kenliworth, Cape Town, South Africa, where Lieutenant Mills joined the South Africa Air Force. Today his brother Ian Mills resides in Heriot Bay, British Columbia and his brother Donald and sister Marjorie Joan still reside in Cape Town, South Africa.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, The Africa Star, The Italy Star, The Victory Medal, The South African Service Medal.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills
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Photo of Gordon Bruce Mills
Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills, South African Air Force. -
Rondesbosch Boys High School Memorial Record
Rondesbosch Boys High School Memorial Record of Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills, Killed in Action while serving with the South Africa Air Force, 29 June 1944. -
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Rondesbosch Boys High School Memorial Record of Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills, Killed in Action while serving with the South Africa Air Force, 29 June 1944.
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Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 616 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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