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[[Major-General]] '''Sir Arthur Mordaunt Mills''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|CB|DSO2}} (13 August 1879 – 8 October 1964) was a senior officer in the [[British Indian Army]].

== Early life and family ==
Arthur Mordaunt Mills was born on 13 August 1879, the son of [[Colonel]] Arthur McLeod Mills, an officer in the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]], and his wife Elizabeth Louisa Jane ''née'' Pughe.<ref name="WhWaWh">[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U49359 "Mills, Maj.-Gen. Sir Arthur Mordaunt"], ''Who Was Who'' (online edition), Oxford University Press, April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2016.</ref><ref>Riddick, John F. (1998), ''Who was who in British India'' (Greenwood Press), p. 254</ref> In 1908, he married Winifred Alice (died 1931), daughter of Colonel R. H. Carew, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|DSO}}; they had three sons and one daughter.<ref name="WhWaWh"/> The eldest son Arthur William, married Rosemary Anne, only daughter of [[Major]] Edmond Meacher of Enton Leys in Whitley;<ref>"Marriages", ''Times'' (London), 14 November 1951, p. 8</ref> the second son, Major John C. W. Mills, married Margaret M. S., daughter of Major J. M. Gill, of Portland Lodge in [[Exmouth]];<ref>"Marriages", ''Times'' (London) 14 November 1950, p. 6; "Marriages", ''Times'' (London), 25 January 1951, p. 1.</ref> the youngest son, A. David Mills, was a [[Captain (armed forces)|captain]] in the [[9th Gurkha Rifles]].<ref>"Marriages", ''Times'' (London), 18 August 1948, p. 7</ref> The daughter, Patricia Elizabeth, married the diplomat Sir [[Hugh Southern Stephenson]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|GBE|KCMG|CIE|CVO}}, son of Sir [[Hugh Lansdown Stephenson|Hugh Stephenson]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|GCIE|KCSI}}, who had served as [[Governor of Burma]].<ref>"Marriages", ''Times'' (London), 14 May 1936, p. 17; "Sir Hugh Stephenson", ''Times'' (London), 25 September 1972, p. 14</ref> In 1940, Mills married, secondly, Hilda Grace Shirley, younger daughter of Harry Gavin Young, an officer in the [[Madras Police]].<ref name="WhWaWh"/>

== Career ==
Following schooling at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]],<ref name="WhWaWh"/> Mills was commissioned into the [[Devonshire Regiment]] as a [[second lieutenant]] on 4 May 1901. He was commissioned into the Indian Army with the same rank on 10 October 1902, promoted to [[lieutenant]] the following August and became a captain on 29 March 1910. He was posted as Adjutant and Quarter Master at the Staff College in [[Quetta]] between April 1913 and September 1914. During [[World War I]], Mills was a staff captain in [[France]] between June and November 1915, after which he served as a temporary major with the 14th Battalion of the [[Gloucestershire Regiment]] until 28 March 1916. The following day, he was promoted to the full rank of major. Between 2 April 1916 and 5 July 1917, he was a temporary [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] in the 17th Battalion of the [[Lancashire Fusiliers]].<ref name="list">''[http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=88736368 The Half-Yearly Army List: January 1939]'', 1939 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office), p. 52–53</ref> Over the course of the conflict, he was wounded, [[Mentioned in dispatches|mentioned in despatches]] three times and received the [[Distinguished Service Order]] with two bars.<ref name="times">"Maj.-Gen. Sir Arthur Mills", ''Times'' (London), 10 October 1964, p. 10</ref>

Mills was promoted to the rank of [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] lieutenant-colonel on 3 June 1919; colonel followed on 3 June 1923. An appointment as an instructor at the Senior Officers' School in [[Woking]] (September 1921 to March 1924) was followed by a posting as an assistant adjutant general in India between July 1929 and July 1930. Mills was then appointed brigadier commander on 4 July 1930; serving until 3 July 1934,<ref name="list"/> he commanded forces on the North–West Frontier of India in 1930 and commanded the Razmak Brigade in [[Waziristan]].<ref name="WhWaWh"/> He then served as an [[aide-de-camp]] to the King between March 1933 to May 1935 and became military advisor in Chief to the Indian State Forces on 16 March 1935; having been a temporary brigadier from 4 July 1934 to 15 February 1935, Mills was promoted to the rank of [[Major general|major-general]] on 2 May 1935.<ref name="list"/> He retired in 1939, but remained colonel of the [[4 Gorkha Rifles|4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles]] until 1950, having held the post since 1935.<ref name="WhWaWh"/>

Mills was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1932 and a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1938.<ref name="WhWaWh"/> He died on 8 October 1964.<ref name="times"/>

== Likeness ==
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw87887/Sir-Arthur-Mordaunt-Mills?LinkID=mp72176&role=sit&rNo=0 ''Sir Arthur Mordaunt Mills''] by Bassano Ltd, 1 June 1961. Half-plate film negative. National Portrait Gallery, London (purchased, 2004; Photographs Collection NPG x170911).

== References ==
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