BORN LOWESTOFT 1877. SON OF LATE WILLIAM ROBERT MILLS (1839-1883) & ESTHER PARKER (1845-1900), OF 93, ETON STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1904.
HUSBAND OF MAUD EDITH MILLS (1882-1971), OF 9, ENGLISH STREET, HULL AND 4, CHURCH STREET, SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S WALKER STREET MEMORIAL AND THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK.
Thank You to George Woolens who added the following family information on 30/09/2016:
Fred was the Chief Engineer of the trawler CONDOR. The exact circumstances surrounding the loss of the CONDOR were and never will be known. The vessel had been fishing near a designated British Minefield and she may have strayed into a prohibited area by accident, another theory is that she may have caught a drifting mine in her trawl which had exploded on the ships deck when the net’s cod end had been opened. Officially documented as being sunk due to a mine explosion on Saturday 25 May 1916, all the crew of the CONDOR with the exception of the Skipper are presumed drowned on the same day. However, the bodies of the other 8 men (which included Fred) have never been recovered (Information from the Scarborough seafaring casualties in WWI (Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre)). The CONDOR was lost 7 miles NE of Scarborough, 9 lives were lost, including the skipper. The Skipper’s body was later washed up at Speeton, Yorkshire. Fred’s death notice reads: MILLS, Ch. Engr. Frederick Nathan. Steam Trawler “CONDOR” (Scarborough). Presumed drowned 29th May, 1915. Age 38. Son of the late William Robert Mills; husband of Maud Edith Mills (nee Page), of 4, Church St.,Scarborough. Born at Lowestoft.
