Ordinul Bath

Ordinul Bath

Ordinul Bath (engl. "The Most Honourable Order of the Bath") este o distincție militară britanică care a fost acordată pentru prima oară în 1399 de regele Henric al IV-lea al Angliei. Ordinul are trei grade și se acordă mai ales militarilor sau funcționarilor înalți de stat pentru merite deosebite.

Gradele ordinului

1. Knight Grand Cross sau Dame Grand Cross (GCB)
2. Knight Commander (KCB) sau Dame Commander (DCB)
3. Companion (CB)

Personalități marcante decorate

• Harold Alexander, 1. Earl Alexander of Tunis, GCB
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1. Baron Baden-Powell, KCB
• David Beatty, 1. Earl Beatty, GCB
• Charles Beresford, 1. Baron Beresford, GCB
• Alan Brooke, 1. Viscount Alanbrooke, GCB
• George H. W. Bush, GCB (onorific)
• Nicolae Ceaușescu, GCB (onorific, ulterior retras)
• Hugh Dowding, 1. Baron Dowding, GCB
• John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1. Baron Fisher, GCB
• Bernard Freyberg, 1. Baron Freyberg, KCB
• Sir John Bagot Glubb („Glubb Pascha“), KCB
• Abdullah Gül, GCB (onorific)
• Douglas Haig, 1. Earl Haig, GCB
• Gustav Heinemann, GCB (onorific)
• Hirohito, GCB (onorific)
• Charles Henry Knowles, 2. Baronet of Banbury, GCB
• Sir Max Horton, GCB
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, GCB
• Sir Mike Jackson, GCB
• Herbert Kitchener, 1. Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, GCB
• T. E. Lawrence, CB
• Douglas MacArthur, GCB (onorific)
• Louis Mountbatten, 1. Marquess of Milford Haven, GCB
• Louis Mountbatten, 1. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, GCB
• Robert Mugabe, KCB (onorific, ulterior retras)
• Horatio Nelson, 1. Viscount Nelson
• George S. Patton, GCB
• Hugo von Pohl, CB (onorific)
• Colin Powell, KCB (onorific)
• Sir Neil Ritchie, KCB
• Georgi Konstantinowitsch Schukow, GCB (onorific)
• Guy Simonds, CB
• Timothy Laurence, CB
• Iosip Broz Tito, GCB (onorific)
• Sir Henry Hugh Tudor, KCB
• Charles Tupper, CB
• Lech Wałęsa, GCB (onorific)
• Fabian Ware, CB
• Garnet Wolseley, 1. Viscount Wolseley, GCB

Bibliografie

• Statutes of the most honourable Order of the Bath. - London: Harper, 1820