Reginald Mills (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Reginald Percy Mills, CB, MC, AFC (7 December 1885 – 4 July 1968), was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force during the First World War and the early years of the Second World War.

His siblings included William Hobson Mills, an organic chemist and winner of the Davy Medal.

He was among the first RFC pilots to cross the English Channel at the beginning of the First World War and saw action at the Battle of Mons.

[2] Mills was awarded a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force as a lieutenant colonel in August 1919 (shortly afterwards redesignated as wing commander).

[2] In late 1928 and early 1929, he superintended the rescue of British embassy staff and others in the Kabul evacuation by air operation.