Robert Lucas-Mills served in the Northumberland Fusiliers as Robert Mills and died in October 1917. He was born in Barwell, Leicestershire, the son of Robert Lucas-Mills and Sarah Ann Wood. He lived in Hinckley and worked in the shoe trade before moving to Greetham. Greetham and the Great War states a B Mills was mentioned in the Grantham Journal as one of the first Greetham men to enlist and serve King and Country. Robert is buried at Bucquoy Road Cemetery near Arras, grave II H 5 and is remembered on Greetham's war memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission originally recorded his date of death as 2 October 1917, but his headstone has 3 October.
We are grateful to Robert's great nephew Bob Nichols for information about him.
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