Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Gordon Bruce Mills
In memory of:
Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills
June 29, 1944
Military Service
18742V
24
Army
South African Air Force
31 Sqdn.
1939-45 Star, The Africa Star, The Italy Star, The Victory Medal, The South African Service Medal.
Additional Information
October 12, 1919
Vancouver, British Columbia
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.
Commemorated on Page 616 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
MALTA MEMORIAL
Malta
Panel 17, Column 1.
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.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Digital Collection
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Photo of Gordon Bruce Mills – Lieutenant Gordon Bruce Mills, South African Air Force. -
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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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Memorial Record Page 2 – 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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