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Peter Mills (RAF Officer)
Peter Watson Mills, CB (born 1955) is a British minister of the Church of Scotland and a retired senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF and head of its Chaplains Branch from 2006''Thanks giving service.'' The Times (London, England), Monday, September 17, 2007; pg. 60; Issue 69119 to 2009. Early life Mills was born in 1955. He was educated at Arbroath High School, a grammar school in Arbroath, Scotland. Career In 1974, Mills joined Aberdeen City Police, which became Grampian Police a year later, as a police constable. He served for 4 years. In 1978, he began the steps to become a religious minister by starting a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree at the University of Aberdeen. He graduated in 1982. In 1983, he studied for a Certificate in Pastoral Studies (CPS). He then served for a year as an assistant minister in Montrose, Angus. Military career Mills was commissioned into the Chaplains Branch, Royal Air Force, on 13 May 1984. He was gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I of Great Britain, George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved Bathing#Medieval and early-modern Europe, bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Order (honour), Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of Statute, statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred. The Order consists of the Sovereign (currently Charles III, King Charles III), the :Great Masters of the Order of the Bath, Great Master (currently vacant) and three Classes of members: *Knight Grand Cross (:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
