W. A. Mills
Service no. 30986
Private, Devonshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth
Died on 30 May 1918 aged 19
CWGC: “Son of William Hugh and Laura Ellen Mills, of 8, Tradescant Rd, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Chambrecy British Cemetery, France
Information from the 1911 census
William Arthur Alfred Mills was 12 in 1911. He lived with his parents and sisters at 8 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth, where they occupied four rooms. William Hugh Mills, 49, was a railway porter from Islington, north London. Laura Mills, 46, was from Bermondsey. They had three children: Maude Mills, 16, a book folder born in Bethnal Green; William Mills, 12, born in South Lambeth; Alice Mills, 7, born in South Lambeth.
