Warboys, Huntindonshire, F J Mills

[The Majors Batman]

This image shows a family memorial stone at Warboys Hunts to Frederick John Mills who D.o.W. 30th March 1918 age 22 with parents whose names are James and Elizabeth Mills as of yet I have been unable to locate him on the Debt of Honour. He is on the Warboys Memorial as John Mills.

There is no indication he is buried there, I presuming this is a family commemoration as he may be on a CWGC Memorial with no known grave but DoW tends to indicate there is a known grave.

[IPT]

I think it's this man, who died 3/5/1918 - http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/555729/MILLS,%20F%20J

Ancestry SDGW shows born Abbots Ripton, resident Warboys- http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=MIL_CASUALTIES&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&gskw=%22bedfordshire+regiment%22+%2243067%22&gskw_x=1&cpxt=1&uidh=000&cp=11&so=2

[KevinBattle]

A possible explanation might be that he was reported as wounded/missing/captured on 30 March 1918 and not until after the headstone had been engraved was his actual date of death (presumably as a PoW in May) known.

The family may have used the initial information rather than the true date of his death (if that's him, of course!).

The inconsistency is that if Frederick was captured on 30th March, I would expect he would have been moved further back behind German lines before dying of his wounds. He seems to have remained quite close to the Front for over a month, which seems a bit unusual to me.

From the CWGC Historical Information about Premont, it states:

Premont village was captured by the 30th American Division on the 8th October 1918. Premont British Cemetery was made and used by four Casualty Clearing Stations (the 20th, 50th, 55th and 61st), which came to Bohain in October 1918, and it was closed in the following December. Some years later 165 graves were added to it from the following sites:-

BOHAIN STATION MILITARY CEMETERY, which was on the West side of the cross-road immediately West of Bohain railway station. It was made by the Germans, but one plot of 47 graves was added by the 11th Essex and other British units in October 1918. It contained in all 806 German graves, 155 British, 14 Russian, twelve French, one Italian and one Rumanian.

SEBONCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of six soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy in January, March and April 1918.

Four from a site near Honnechy.

Best guess is that he was buried by the Germans at Bohain Cemetery.

The inscriptions seem to date from 1924, so quite some time after WW1.

Another curiosity is that the father, James Mills, died at the age of 92 in 1924, so born about 1832, and his son Frederick died aged 22 in 1918, with a DoB about 1896, so James was 64 at the time Frederick was born.... Elizabeth died aged 64 in 1926, so 34 in 1896, which tends to suggest she was his second wife....

At least Frederick was remembered by his family.

[The Majors Batman]

A possible explanation might be that he was reported as wounded/missing/captured on 30 March 1918 and not until after the headstone had been engraved was his actual date of death (presumably as a PoW in May) known.

The family may have used the initial information rather than the true date of his death (if that's him, of course!).

The inconsistency is that if Frederick was captured on 30th March, I would expect he would have been moved further back behind German lines before dying of his wounds. He seems to have remained quite close to the Front for over a month, which seems a bit unusual to me.

From the CWGC Historical Information about Premont, it states:

Premont village was captured by the 30th American Division on the 8th October 1918. Premont British Cemetery was made and used by four Casualty Clearing Stations (the 20th, 50th, 55th and 61st), which came to Bohain in October 1918, and it was closed in the following December. Some years later 165 graves were added to it from the following sites:-

BOHAIN STATION MILITARY CEMETERY, which was on the West side of the cross-road immediately West of Bohain railway station. It was made by the Germans, but one plot of 47 graves was added by the 11th Essex and other British units in October 1918. It contained in all 806 German graves, 155 British, 14 Russian, twelve French, one Italian and one Rumanian.

SEBONCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of six soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy in January, March and April 1918.

Four from a site near Honnechy.

Best guess is that he was buried by the Germans at Bohain Cemetery.

The inscriptions seem to date from 1924, so quite some time after WW1.

Another curiosity is that the father, James Mills, died at the age of 92 in 1924, so born about 1832, and his son Frederick died aged 22 in 1918, with a DoB about 1896, so James was 64 at the time Frederick was born.... Elizabeth died aged 64 in 1926, so 34 in 1896, which tends to suggest she was his second wife....

At least Frederick was remembered by his family.

I did fail to mention it also states he died in Germany so that gives more weight to your theory