Walter Mills (VC)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox military person Walter Mills VC (21 July 1894 – 11 December 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Mills was 23 years old and a private in C Company,<ref name=Gibbon/> the 1/10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in the British Army during the First World War when the following events occurred.
On 11 December 1917, while Private Mills was manning a position at Red Dragon Crater<ref name=Gibbon>Frederick P. Gibbon. The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914–1918. London: Country Life, 1920.</ref> near Givenchy, France.
Mills was buried at Gorre British & Indian Cemetery, Nr Bethune, Pas-De-Calais, France.<ref>CWGC entry</ref>
His VC Medal was buried with his daughter Ellen, who died in 1934. On 11 December 2017 a commemorative plaque was laid at Oldham parish church in memory of Walter Mills.
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- 1894 births
- 1917 deaths
- People from Oldham
- British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Manchester Regiment soldiers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Territorial Force soldiers
- Military personnel from the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham