Mills Gordon Wilson Fusilier 4272872
Personnel Entry
Name Mills Gordon Wilson
Army number 4272872
Rank Fusilier
Decorations
Date of birth Date not yet known.
Age 23
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Posted to the 9th Battalion. DIED 29/8/1943 at Kando, Burma, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
Company/Battery Y Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions Extract from Regimental records suggests promotion to Lance Corporal.
Wounded
Prisoner of War Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore.
Died/Killed in action DIED of Malaria and Malnutrition 29/8/1943.
Home address Son of George Wilson Mills and Isabella Susan Mills of Alnwick, Northumberland. Father lived at 52, Clayport, Alnwick. No details available of initial interment. Re-interred in grave B6.J.4. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
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