Barton Mills and Lady Catherine Hobart-Hampden, sister of the seventh Earl of Buckinghamshire.

His grandfather, Arthur Mills, was a Tory Member of Parliament and an expert on colonial economies and governance.

Captain Mills (Wellington College, Berkshire, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) was gazetted into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1908 and served in China, India and Palestine.

B. Lippincott & Co.: Philadelphia, 1916) and Hospital Days (T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1916) under the pseudonym Platoon Commander.

[4] Despite favourable reviews, frequent impressions, and global translations of many of his earlier books (The Broadway Madonna, The Gold Cat), Mills eventually became known as a genre author of cheap crime and adventure novels.