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Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills

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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

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MALTA MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 17, Column 1.
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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.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 616 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MALTA MEMORIAL Malta

The MALTA MEMORIAL is situated in the area of Floriana and is easily identified by the Golden Eagle which surmounts the column. It stands outside the King's Gate, the main entrance to Valletta.

The Memorial takes the form of a column fifteen metres high of travertine marble from Tivoli in the Sabine Hills near Rome, incised with a a light reticulated pattern and surmounted by a gilded bronze eagle two metres high. The column stands on a circular base around which the names are commemorated on bronze panels.

The MALTA MEMORIAL, built on a site generously provided by the Government of Malta, commemorates those who lost their lives whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave.

The bravery of the people of the island of Malta between the years 1940 - 1942 was honoured with the unique award of the George Cross.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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