To commemorate Remembrance Day, this week’s photo is of my great-grandfather Thomas Edward Mills.
He was born on August 1, 1872 in Liverpool, England (his birth name was actually Albert), the son of Frederick Mills and Alice Lyon. The family lived at 17 Summer Seat.
In the 1890s he immigrated to Nova Scotia and settled in the Shubenacadie/Gays River area where he met my great-grandmother Arabella (Mitchell) Greenough, who was teaching in the area at the time. They married in 1902 and had six children.
My grandad Alan Mills was the youngest and was born in September 1915. At the time of his birth, his father was in Valcartier, Quebec having joined the 40th Batallion (Nova Scotia) Canadian Expeditionary Force earlier that year.
On September 5, 1916, Thomas Edward Mills died in battle in France at the age of 44, having never met my grandad. He is buried at the Courcelette British Cemetery.
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