Jack Mills

Bank: District Bank

Place of work: London office

Died: 23 June 1944

Jack Mills was born on 14 April 1912, the son of Rose and Walter Mills. He joined the staff of Manchester & Liverpool County Bank as a junior at its Failsworth branch in May 1929. In July 1930 he was promoted to clerk at Oldham branch. In 1935 County Bank, as it was then known, was taken over by District Bank and Mills became an employee of that bank. In 1937 he moved to the bank's main London office. He moved to London Waterloo Place branch in February 1938 and to the foreign department of the London office in April 1938. 

In October 1940 Mills left the bank to go on war service, joining the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Leading Aircraftman Jack Mills was killed in an air raid on 23 June 1944, when a V1 rocket hit Forest Hill railway station in South London. He was 32 years old.