Name
Percy Trevenen Mills
12 Feb 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/02/1915
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DRANOUTER CHURCHYARD
II. A. 11.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Golant Cornwall
Pre War
Percy Trevenen Mills was the son of William Grundy Mills, member of the stock exchange.
Born in London and educated at Aldenham School, Bonn University, Germany and Royal military College Sandhurst. He was married to Ruby Weddel in 1911 and they had a daughter Ruth.
He joined the Royal West Kent Militia in 1905 being gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in May 1905 and Lieutenant in Apr 1907. In 1908 he joined the 3rd (reserve) Battalion and the subsequently retired.
At some time he was involved in Motor Car Sales.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war He offered his services and was gazetted as Lieutenant again in his old Battalion and to Captain in Sep 1914 while serving at Chatham.
He had been wounded by shrapnel in His short time at the front and had also spent time in Boulogne Base hospital when shortly before his 28th birthday he was shot.
A major in the field said: ”I admired him enormously for the painstaking and conscientious way in which he tackled his duties, and his coolness and bravery gained the confidence of his men who were genuinely fond of him. He had not been at all fit for some weeks past, and his chief anxiety was to avoid falling into the hands of the doctor, which shows the stuff he was made of. He had earned the respect and admiration of all.”
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
