Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
ff
Date Information
01/05/2020 02231
06/04/2018 Private Mills had served throughout the South African campaign.
06/04/2018 William was born in Carrickmore and lived in Pomeroy.
06/04/2018 The 1901 census does not list William as living with the family at house 4 in Gortnagarn, Pomeroy, County Tyrone.
06/04/2018 His mother died on 18th July 1908 in the district of Cookstown. She was 53 years old.
06/04/2018 His father remarried later that year. Denis Mills and Mary McNally were married on 24th September 1908 in the district of Cookstown. They were both in their sixties.
06/04/2018 The 1911 census does not list William as living with the family at house 112 in Pomeroy town.
06/04/2018 William was living and working in Scotland at the outbreak of the First World War.
06/04/2018 William Mills enlisted in Ayr, Scotland with the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
06/04/2018 Private William Mills was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s) when he was killed in action on Tuesday 15th June 1915.
06/04/2018 William Mills was the son of Denis and Margaret Mills.
05/04/2018
12/06/2016 Private William Mills is buried in Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
12/06/2016 Mr Denis Mills, Pomeroy, County Tyrone, received official intimation yesterday that his son, Private William Mills, 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, had been killed in action. He served throughout the South African campaign and afterwards re-enlisted.
12/06/2016
12/06/2016 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 30th June 1915:
30/12/2015 From the Tyrone Courier dated 1 July 1915 : The Rank and File - Pomeroy Man Killed
30/12/2015 Mr Denis Mills, Pomeroy, received official intimation on Monday that his son, Private William Mills, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, had been killed in action. He served throughout the South African campaign.
30/12/2015
Read more