In 1958, the RNVR was absorbed into the Royal Naval Reserve and ceased to exist. RNVR: The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve was founded in 1903 by an Act of Parliament, allowing the Admiralty to raise a new reserve force to sit alongside the already formed Royal Navy Reserve. Where Bond is concerned, the order is a 'reward for services rendered to the Crown in relation to the foreign affairs of the Empire'.
However, it was subsequently extended to those in a similar position across the British Empire. A CMG was initially only awarded to officers holding commands in the Mediterranean territories secured during the Napoleonic War. In this book, and the subsequent 13 titles Fleming authored between then and his last published work in 1966 (which was posthumously released), the character was styled like this:Ĭommander: A senior rank of the Royal Navy and immediately junior to Captain.ĬMG: Order of St Michael and St George – a British order of chivalry founded by King George IV while Prince Regent in 1818. The British secret agent's debut in media came with the publication of Casino Royale in 1953.
