Wallace Mills

Wallace Hickford Mills (7 January 1915 – 24 November 1943) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family The son of Frederick Mills (1880–1966), and Emily Louisa "Emma" Mills (1866–1949), née Hickford, Wallace Hickford Mills was born in Middle Park, Victoria on 7 January 1915.

He married Edith Jane Edward (1915–2003) in 1939.

Football He played in one First XVIII match for : against Footscray, at the Junction Oval, on 24 July 1937. He was promoted from the Seconds, and replaced Ken Mackie. He was relegated to the Seconds for the next week's match.

Military service He enlisted for service in the Australian Military forces on 4 December 1939, and served overseas in the Middle East.

Death He was killed in a motor accident in Far North Queensland while serving with the 2/41st Light Aid Detachment, Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

On 24 November 1943, Mills was fatally injured when the army truck he was riding in collided with a Royal Australian Air Force truck on the Innisfail-Cairns road. He died later that day at a hospital in Gordonvale.

He was buried at the Atherton War Cemetery.