Frederick Mills (1910 – 5 December 1944) was an English footballer who played at right-half for Port Vale and Leeds United throughout the 1930s.
He scored his first goal in professional football on 10 December 1932, in a 3–1 win over Bradford Park Avenue at The Old Recreation Ground.
[4] Mills joined the 6th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, a new unit formed in 1940, which was converted into 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1942.
On 5 December 1944, after the fighting for Blerick in the Netherlands, the regiment was in convoy and halted in a taped route through a minefield.
"[6] Recordedly aged 36, he left a widow, Lucy and 2 month year old daughter Pauline,[5] and is buried in Venray War Cemetery.