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

Knight Grand Cross sau Dame Grand Cross (GCB)
Knight Commander (KCB) sau Dame Commander (DCB)
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