Mills Ronald Pte. 4456583
Personnel Entry
Name Mills Ronald
Army number 4456583
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age (At the time of his death). Not yet known.
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no exact enlistment date known, but his Regimental Number suggests Spring/Summer 1939. Posted ? 6th Battalion DLI. Posted 10th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Reported missing - an item to that effect appearing in the Auckland Chronicle of 8/8/1940. Taken Prisoner of War - notified 12/7/1940. Repatriated to the UK. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 1/4/1946.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War Yes - Camp 9C (Sondershausen Arbeit Komm 739 along with Harry Oliver - mentioned in Harry's book), P.o.W. Number 8920.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address Resident at Coundon.
Source table 10DLI
Ronald appears in a photo of DLI PoWs at Sondershausen which is featured in Harry Oliver's book "Seven Men to a Loaf".
