Member of the Order of the British Empire M.B.E. (Civil); India Police Medal for Distinguished Conduct (H.C. MILLS. Dy. Supdt. Burma Police); British War Medal (LIEUT. H.C. MILLS); Victory Medal (LIEUT. H.C. MILLS); India General Service Medal clasp Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (LIEUT. H.C. MILLS. 141 LAB.CPS.); Jubilee Medal 1935 -unnamed as awarded.
Henry Charles Mills was born in Barnstaple, Devon on 28 February 1882. He left England in about 1907, joining the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry in India. In 1910 he joined the Burma Police as a European Sergeant being promoted to Inspector in 1914. He served for nearly two years in WWI as a Lieutenant in the IARO with the 12th Burma Gaol Porter Corps, the 148 Burma Gaol Labour Corps and with the 141 Ind Lab Corps. After the war, in 1919, he served with the North West Frontier Force for which he received the IGS with NWF 1919 clasp.
He returned to the Burma Police in 1919 and was promoted to Deputy Superintendent, taking charge of the Motor Vehicle Dept in 1931. He was one of the last to be evacuated from Burma when it was overrun by the Japanese in 1942. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner in Bangalore and was awarded a Certificate and the Sword of Honour in 1929, the Indian Police Medal in the New Years Honours of 1934, The Jubilee Medal 1935 and the M.B.E. in the New Years Honours of 1938.
He retired to England to live at Maidenhead. dying there in 1949.
Sold with a quantity of original correspondence including his passport,, letters of congratulation and the original parchment for the award of the M.B.E.
