1st /8th Battalion
Lancashire Fusiliers
1914

Lance Corporal Frank Mills, of the 1/8th, Lancashire Fusiliers, who resided at 63, Cross Street, Rhodes, and was 27 years of age, was killed in action at the Dardanelles on September 12th, 1915. This soldier who was employed at Rhodes Works, enlisted on September 1st, 1914, and went to the front on September 10th of the same year.
He left a widow and one boy. Mills was connected with the Rhodes Church, and was a member of the Oddfellows.

Lance Corporal Mills, has no known grave, and his name is on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli along with over 21,000 others who were denied a named burial.

Private Mills widow remarried and was living next door at 65 as Mrs Hulse.
Another casualty from Cross Street, Rhodes, I don't think another street in Middleton suffered more heartache in the Great War