At the time of the 1911 Census, he was the eldest son of George Millsom, an agent for the Royal London insurance company, and his wife Elizabeth.
[7] He remained in the same line of work: in the late 1950s, he was manager of the South Western Electricity Board's Paignton service centre, and he spent 13 years as branch secretary of his trade union, NALGO.
Against Nottingham Forest Reserves last Saturday, he did well with a number of shots, but he made one mistake which deprived the Millmoor team of a Midland Combination point they had played well enough to merit.
"[12] He made an unexpected Football League debut on 27 December 1924, replacing the regular goalkeeper, George Hopkins, for the home game against Accrington Stanley.
On what the Sports Special described as "a sea of mud" – a rainstorm had forced the postponement or abandonment of many games that day – Millsom conceded one goal to "a cross drive which he had little chance to stop", and played well.
[16][17][18] During a training match ahead of the coming season, Bayes suffered a cut to his finger which went septic, so Millsom took his place for Torquay's first ever Football League fixture, at home to Exeter City,[19] and "came out of the test creditably" with a 1-1 draw.