John Robert Mills

• Comment: This page is pretty much copied from here, a page under Crown Copyright. I'm not a licensing expert, so I'll leave this draft to someone who knows what they are doing, but I'm pretty sure some attribution is required. jcc (tea and biscuits) 15:54, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

• Comment: I've moved the comments to the Talk page. I also made various copy-edits, generally to conform the article to the Manual of Style and common practice here on Wikipedia (including the removal of the "Acknowledgements" section). Also removed an in-article external link (it is now a red-linked item). Finally, for what it's worth, I think there are too many pictures here and that the "gallery in the center of the section" approach is distracting. And while I'm on the subject, that infobox image seems a tad large. NewYorkActuary (talk) 10:12, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

• Comment: Please do not put the name of the subject in bold face or other emphasis. Please do not refer to him by initials. He may be referred to by his surname after introduction. Robert McClenon (talk) 08:45, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Please note that text has been added at the bottom of the page on http://cayley.co.uk/john-robert-mills/ giving permission for the use of text within that page. There is therefore no copyright violation.

There is no such statement there. The statement in the "Acknowledgment" section of that page, regarding the Crown copyright, applies only to the pictures. As for the text, there is only a statement thanking an author for writing an article that was published elsewhere. This is not even close to being a statement that the original author has released his work into the public domain. The only thing that I do see is the statement at the very bottom of that page, in which Cayley Chemicals claim copyright in the contents of the entire web site, including the section on the subject here. If in fact the material here has been copied from that source, a copyright violation does exist. NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:28, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Follow-up I just noticed the posting on the Talk page, regarding the licensing statement appearing on the web page. But I don't see that statement on the web page (I just checked a minute ago). Besides, if the text had been written by the author who is identified on that page, I fail to see how Cayleigh Chemicals could be granting licenses for that other author's work. NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:37, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Sorry that the statement wasn't showing in the public domain on the website. The cache has been cleared and the statement is now available to be viewed Moonbouncer54 (talk) 09:31, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

"Response I don't think there is any copyright infringement for the following reasons:

• John Robert Mills died in 1998. Shortly after his death an article was put together as the basis of an obituary and for publication in the IEE magazine. The article was a combined effort between John Mills's two sons and a work colleague, Ken Slater. Ken slater has since died.
• John Mills's two sons are directors of CCC Trading Ltd (http://cayley.co.uk) and as such have re-published the article on their website
• The almost identical text has been used on all published material (Obituary, IEE article, Website and Wikipedia draft) because all have been written by the same team, albeit one has since died.
• There is, on the website (http://cayley.co.uk/john-robert-mills/), a permission statement at the bottom of the page that reads: "The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). In particular, CCC Trading Ltd gives permission for the use of text contained on this page to be used by Moonbouncer54 on the Wikipedia page relating to John Robert Mills. For verification please contact the site owner of CCC Trading Ltd (T/a Cayley Chemicals), Philip Mills by email: cayley@btinternet.com" This over-rides the footer copyright.
• So far as pictures are concerned, these are reproduced under the Open Govenment Licence V3 (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

We are of course willing to make any changes necessary to satisfy your requirements to approve the Wikipedia article but would appreciate any advice as to what we should do. Or, in light of the above, may we re-submit for consideration without further modification. Thanks. Moonbouncer54 (talk) 09:26, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Great work there, but the copyright statement cannot be "CC-BY-SA 3.0 for Wikipedia", it has to be this text is "CC-BY-SA 3.0 for every use, full stop". Almost there :) jcc (tea and biscuits) 09:40, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

John Mills
John Mills aged 60 in 1976
Born	(1916-11-12)12 November 1916 Barnes, Surrey, England
Died	6 May 1998(1998-05-06) (aged 81) Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Alma mater	Kings College London
Spouse	Pauline Phelps ​ (m. 1950)​
Children	Two sons
Awards	1971 Fellow IEE (Now IET since 2006 )
Scientific career
Fields	Defence Scientist Specialist in: Radar, Military Communications and Navigation Systems
Institutions	AMRE, Dundee RAE, Farnbourough TRE, RRE, Malvern Min Tech, London SRDE, Christchurch RSRE, Malvern

John Robert Mills (, FIEE), born November 12^th 1916 and died May 6^th 1998, was a British physicist and scientific expert who played an important role in the development of Radar and the defence of Britain in World War II. After the war he continued his career working for various British government research establishments on a variety of projects until his retirement in 1977.

In addition to many achievements and contributions to military technological development, Mills was the first British scientist to receive radio-wave signals bounced off the moon

Education & Early Career

Following his education at the Kingston-upon-Thames Grammar School he gained a BSc in physics at Kings College London in 1939 (The start of WW2) and later the same year he joined the Air Ministry Research Establishment in Dundee. In 1940 he moved to the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough and in 1942 moved to the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Malvern which later became the Radar Research Establishment (RRE) and later still the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) where he stayed until 1960.

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  John Mills
  aged 24 in 1940
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  John Mills
  aged 28 in 1944

Mills was part of the pioneering team during the second World War that developed Radar. His early work in support of the emerging radar technology and its applications including air navigation systems and later as Superintendent of the (Offensive) Airborne Radar Division at RRE he was responsible for the development of infra-red radar targeting and reconnaissance systems for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

His team also developed equipment for navigation, targeting and reconnaissance for aircraft of the RAF and RN. This included equipment for the V bomber force and the projected TSR2 as well as the development of the first successful sideways looking reconnaissance radar which was further developed by the USA and led, inter alia, to today’s satellite radar systems.

1960-1967

Mills spent about a year in London followed by five years at RAE as head of Radio Department where his responsibilities included:

• Electronic warfare systems,
• Very Low Frequency (VLF) navigation which led to the Omega system
• Radio propagation studies.

During this period his team received the first message bounced off the Moon from the USA, work which eventually led to modern satellite communications. He also worked in the development of the first automatic aircraft landing system.

Mills was appointed Scientific Advisor to Tony Wedgewood-Benn (Minister of Technology) in 1966.

1967–1976

From 1967 to 1976 Mills was the director of the Signals Research and Development Establishment (SRDE) in Christchurch, Dorset. During this period he was responsible for progress in three major technical areas:

1. Night vision devices, mainly for the Army in which image intensifier technology was exploited in equipment’s from rifle sights to systems for tanks and other vehicles.
2. Tactical and strategic radio and communication network systems some of which are still in use by the British Army
3. Military satellite communication systems with emphasis on light weight ground terminals for mobile use.

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  John Mills
  aged 54 in 1970
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  John Mills
  with SRDE team in 1974

In 1971, Mills was appointed a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), the highest grade of IEE membership.

1976–1977

The final chapter in Mills's career in defence was a return to Malvern in 1976 as Deputy Director of the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) formed by moving SRDE to Malvern as part of the programme to rationalise the defence establishments. His team worked on advanced military and satellite communications. Mills held this post until his retirement in 1977.

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  John Mills
  aged 60 in 1976
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  John Mills with HM The Queen and
  HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at RSRE in 1976

Publications

Mills contributed to an article on radar published in the Encyclopedia Britannica

Mills published "Radio Techniques for Automatic Systems in the Air" in the Journal of Navigation in 1960

Mills joint published "The Long-range Navigation of Civil Aircraft" in the Journal of Navigation in 1964

Personal life

Mills married Pauline Phelps during his first spell at Malvern in 1950. He was very much a family man with keen interests in music and gardening, He was survived by his wife and two sons.

References

Category:Radar pioneers Category:English physicists Category:British military engineers Category:Military communications of the United Kingdom‎ Category:British people of World War II