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Name : Jesse Mills. Son of Jesse Matthew Mills and Janet Mills (née Horner) of 109 Collyer Ave., Bognor, Sussex. Born : 1889, Bognor. |
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Census Information :
1891 : Jesse Matthew and Janet Mills, with their children including Jesse aged 2, are at Bedford Mews, Bedford Street, South Bersted, Bognor, Sussex. Jesse Matthew Mills is a General carman. 1901 : Jesse Matthew and Janet Mills, with their children including Jesse aged 12, are at 11 Chapel Street, Bognor, Sussex. Jesse Matthew Mills is a General labourer. 1911 : Jesse Matthew and Janet Mills, with their children including Jesse aged 22, are at 11 Chapel Street, Bognor, Sussex. Jesse Matthew Mills is a General labourer; Jesse Mills is a Soldier. |
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Service details : Serjeant 7159 Jesse Mills, 4th Bn Coldstream Guards Enlisted in 1907; joined the Isle of Wight Constabulary in 1914; re-engaged in August 1914 on the outbreak of war. |
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Died : 16 November 1914 aged 26 Buried at : Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland. CWGC record ... |
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Commemorated on these Memorials :
Isle of Wight Constabulary War Memorial, Newport Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bognor Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour, St Wilfrid's Church, Bognor |
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Documents :
Isle of Wight County Press
3 October 1914 ISLAND CONSTABLES AT THE FRONT The following Constables from the I.W. County Constabulary are now serving in His Majesty's Forces, those marked by an asterisk being shown to be at the Front : * Bombr. Ed. B. Jackman, Freshwater, R.F.A. A.B. Jobe Woodford, Shanklin, H.M.S. Grafton Gnr. George Priddle, Cowes, R.H.A. Gnr. Fred Burton, Yarmouth, R.G.A. Bombr. Harold Luckett, E. Cowes, R.G.A. * Pte. Albert F. Turner, Ventnor, Grenadier Guards. * Pte. Thomas Hartnell, Oakfield, 9th Lancers. * Pte. George Homewood, Sandown, Coldstream Guards * Gnr. Alfred Martin, Newport, R.F.A. * Sergt. Jesse Mills, Ventnor, Coldstream Guards Lce-Corpl. Arthur Batley, Newport, Rifle Brigade * Pte. George Dobson, Newport, Grenadier Guards * Farrier Henry Matthews, Cowes, R.H.A. KITCHENER'S ARMY Farrier Stanley Sampson, Cowes, 6th Lancers Corpl. Herbert Page, Headquarters, Newport, 10th Hants Regt.
Isle of Wight County Press
14 November 1914 ISLAND POLICEMAN WOUNDED Sergt. Jesse Mills, of the Coldstream Guards, who was a constable in the Island Police at Ventnor, was wounded on October 25th, and is now in hospital at Dublin.
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, November 20, 1914 Page 3 The death is reported from wounds received in action of Pte. J. Mills, of the Coldstream Guards who was formerly a Police constable at Ventnor.
Isle of Wight County Press
21 November 1914 ISLAND POLICEMAN DIES OF BATTLE WOUND We regret to announce that Sergt. Jesse Mills, of the Coldstream Guards, who, as announced last week, was wounded whilst fighting at the Front on October 25th, died in hospital at Dublin on Monday night. Sergt. Mills was serving in the I.W. County Constabulary at Ventnor when the war broke out and was much respected by those in the Force and all who knew him. He was wounded in the left thigh. This is the first casualty reported to date among the 16 members of the Island Police who are serving in connection with the war. The funeral of the deceased took place with full military honours in Dublin on Thursday morning, when the Island Police were represented by a member of the Force, P.C. Sampson, who was stationed at Cowes, when he joined Kitchener's Army, and is now training at Dublin in the Lancers. The interment was in the Military Cemetery in Dublin and the band of the Royal Irish Constabulary attended.
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, November 27, 1914 Page 1 Sergt. Jesse Mills, of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, who was serving in the I.W. County Constabulary at Ventnor when the war broke out, and whose death from wounds we reported last week, went to the front on August 30th, and saw a great deal of fighting before being wounded on October 25th. He was in the thick of it on the Marne, and at the beginning of the operation around Ypres. He was well known and much respected while in Ventnor, and was a very promising young officer. He was only 25 years of age.
Isle of Wight County Press
28 November 1914 ANOTHER ISLAND POLICEMAN WOUNDED Official news has been received that Pte. George Dobson, of the Grenadier Guards, who until the outbreak of the war was a police-constable at Newport, has been wounded in the recent fighting at the Front. He is now in hospital at Kensington Palace Gardens with a bullet wound in the shoulder. He is the second member of the I.W. County Constabulary to be wounded. Pte. Dobson has since written from hospital to Insp. Sibbeck, [1] stating: "I am glad to say that my wound is not serious. It is a bullet in the left shoulder, which I got on Tuesday last (17th inst.) in the house-to-house fighting around Ypres. The bullet has gone right through, so I shall not have the pain of getting it out. As the bone has been fractured, it will be a week or two before it is right again. I am very sorry to hear about poor Mills - (Sergt. Mills (Coldstream Guards) who died of wounds) - He was in the same Brigade as myself, and I can tell you we have been properly through it. There are only 300 of my battalion left out of 1300, so I am very thankful to get off with as little as I have. I heard that Holmwood [2] was wounded and in hospital in France, but I have not heard of Hartnell or Martin." Another member of the Force, Br. Martin, R.F.A., has sent home a message, dated the 16th inst., stating that he is keeping well. At the funeral last Thursday at Dublin of Sergt. Jesse Mills (Coldstream Guards), the first Island policeman to fall in the war, full military honours were accorded, the band of the Royal Irish Rifles, as well as that of the Royal Irish Constabulary, being present. The coffin was borne on a gun-carriage through the main street into Phœnix Park and thence to the Military Cemetery. As already state, ex-P.C. Sampson, now in the Lancers, represented the Island Constabulary at the interment. That a brother [3] of the late Sergt. Mills has also lost his life at the Front, having been killed in action whilst serving with the Royal Field Artillery, adds pathos to the death of Sergt. Mills, who died from serious shell wounding in the thigh and back. His parents live at Bognor, Sussex, and much sympathy is felt for them. [1] Inspector Oliver Sibbick [2] George Henry Homewood [3] His brother was George Mills
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Further Information :
His brother George Mills (CWGC record) also died in the Great War. |
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Acknowledgements :
Janet Griffin for newspaper research |
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Page status :
Page last updated : 1 January 2014 (added further newspaper reports) |
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