Service Details
Name:
MILLS
Given Name:
GORDON BRUCE
Initials:
G B
Service No:
18742V
Rank:
Lieutenant
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Regiment:
South African Air Force
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Unit:
31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1944-06-29
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Date of Birth:
1919-10-12
Age:
24
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KG839, 7 crew (2 RAFVR), shot down while attacking the oil storage tanks at Giurgiu, south of Bucharest, Romania
Additional
Information:
Son of Major (retired) Arthur Samuel, DSO, 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry and Dorothy L. Mills, of Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. Born Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lieutenant Mills' older brothers Donald and Ian were born in England during the First World War. Upon demobilization from service in the First World War, Major Mills and his family returned to Canada, where Lieutenant Mills and his sister Majorie Joan were born. Major Mills was employed with Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. In 1931, he was appointed manager of the Company in their Cape Town Office, South Africa. The family relocated to Kenliworth, Cape Town, South Africa, where Lieutenant Mills joined the South Africa Air Force. Today his brother Ian Mills resides in Heriot Bay, British Columbia and his brother Donald and sister Marjorie Joan still reside in Cape Town, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
Malta
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Cemetery:
MALTA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
Panel 17, Column 1.

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