Educated at the
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Mills joined the
Royal Navy in 1932. Mills served in the
Second World War and briefly commanded in 1939. He worked at
Western Approaches Command in
Liverpool at the height of the
Battle of the Atlantic. He went on to be a signals officer at
Algiers before joining the planning staff for the
Normandy landings. He then became a signals officer based in
Ceylon. Mills also fought in the
Korean War as captain of the
destroyer , earning the
Distinguished Service Cross for his services. He was then made Second-in-Command of the signals school at
Portsmouth, and then from 1956, he became Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer Second-in-Command,
Mediterranean Fleet. He was appointed a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire for services during the
Suez Crisis. In 1959 he took command of the destroyer and the
2nd Destroyer Squadron and in 1963 he was made Director-General (Weapons). Mills was appointed
Flag Officer Second-in-Command Far East Fleet in 1966 and the final
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, in 1967. He retired in 1969 and became
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey. ==Family==