Donald Mills (footballer)

Donald Ian Grainger Mills (28 August 1909 – 5 January 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Donald Mills
Personal information
Full name Donald Ian Grainger Mills
Date of birth (1909-08-28)28 August 1909
Place of birth Saint Saviour, Jersey
Date of death 5 January 1945(1945-01-05) (aged 35)
Place of death Port Franklin, Victoria
Original team(s) Clayton[1]
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1929, 1931 Hawthorn 15 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1931.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of Donald Albert Grainger Mills (181-1951), and Isabel Jane Mills (1885-1942), née Le Brun, Donald Ivas Grainger Mills was born at Saint Saviour, Jersey, in the Channel Islands on 28 August 1909.

He married Jean Mary Thomson (1915-2000) on 15 October 1940.[3][4]

Death

He died in early 1945 when, with his brother-in-law, Mark Johns, he was aboard the shark-fishing vessel Moonbi that failed to return from a fishing trip from Port Franklin.[5][6]

Notes
  1. "Young and Ambitious Side". The Herald (16, 199). Victoria, Australia. 19 April 1929. p. 15.
  2. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.612.
  3. Bride from Brisbane, The Herald, (Tuesday, 15 October 1940), p.12.
  4. Mills—Thompson Wedding Solemnised in Melbourne, The (Brisbane) Telegraph, (Wednesday, 16 October 1940), p.8.
  5. "Search Continues for Missing Fishermen". The Herald (21108). Victoria, Australia. 11 January 1945. p. 3.
  6. Law Notices: Donald Ian Mills, The Argus, (Wednesday, 18 June 1947), p.13.

References
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
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