Graham Mills
Major-General William Graham Stead Mills, CBE (23 June 1917 – 1 January 1992) was a British Army officer.
Graham Mills | |
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| Born | 23 June 1917 |
| Died | 1 January 1992 |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/ | British Army |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Commands held | 17th Battalion, Parachute Regiment 128th Infantry Brigade West Midlands District |
| Battles/wars | Second World War Aden Emergency |
| Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Military career
Educated at Merchiston Castle School, Mills was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 10 October 1936.[1] He served in India and Burma during the Second World War.[2] He became commanding officer of the 17th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (TA) at Gateshead in 1958, Commander of 128th Infantry Brigade in March 1963 and Brigadier on the general staff at Headquarters, Arabian Peninsula in 1965 during the Aden Emergency.[2] He went on to be General Officer Commanding West Midlands District in April 1968 before retiring in October 1970.[3]
In retirement he was warden at the Le Court Cheshire Home near Liss in Hampshire.[2]
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gollark: Isn't it just flooding-based? Really inefficient. You'd burn all their battery power.
gollark: They would then submit their data to central servers which would hold all of it and provide it on demand to the shipping drones.
gollark: Most would do shipping but some would be optimised to fly around as scanners.
gollark: If I entirely ignored software complexity issues I'd give all my drones linked cards or maybe wireless and make them operate as a mesh network.
References
- "No. 34330". The London Gazette. 9 October 1936. p. 6434.
- "Major-General William Graham Stead Mills CBE". Paradata. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 7 June 2020.
| Military offices | ||
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| Preceded by Peter Gillett |
GOC West Midlands District 1968–1970 |
Succeeded by James Majury |
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