Name
Frederick Mills
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/04/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/33029
Rifle Brigade
21st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MIKRA MEMORIAL
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born in 1895 in Ware, Hertfordshire son of Henry and Mary Ann Mills and was living in 70 Kibes Lane in 1911. He was a bricklayer’s labourer.
He married Florence Abbey (later Mrs. Hitch of 45 Kibes Lane, Ware) in 1916 in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Ware formerly 25337, Bedford Regiment. He drowned at sea when the troop ship Arcadian sank. On 15 Apr 1917 the Arcadian, an armed troop ship en route from Salonika to Alexandria carrying 1,335 troops and crew, was hit by a single torpedo from German submarine UC-74 about 26 miles north-east of Milos and sank with the loss of about 395 lives.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
