This is a list of Mention in Despatches awarded in the 1945 Birthday Honours. Surgeon Captain Gordon Ernest Dormer Ellis (Westbury, Wilts.). Commander...
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The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British...
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The Queen's Birthday Honours 1957 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and...
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Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom (redirect from New Year and Official Birthday Honours)
In the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories, personal bravery, achievement, or service are rewarded with honours. The honours system consists...
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The 1946 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 13 June 1946 for the United Kingdom and British...
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The 1947 King's Birthday Honours were appointments by many of the Dominions of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good...
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Anthony Quayle (category Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners)
Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special, for: QB VII Honours Quayle was mentioned in despatches during the Second World War. He was...
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The 1948 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the Commonwealth...
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Max Horton (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
of the Bath (14 June 1945, King's Birthday Honours); KCB (2 January 1939, New Year Honours); CB (4 June 1934, Birthday Honours) Distinguished Service...
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The 1945 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were appointments made by the King to various orders...
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Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton (category UK MPs 1945–1950)
acting wing commander by June 1945. In 1944, Shackleton was mentioned in despatches. In the 1945 King's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of...
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Adrian Carton de Wiart (category British expatriates in Poland)
Croix de Guerre in March 1918, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the King's Birthday Honours List in June. On 8 November...
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Captain Kath Bonnin was mentioned in despatches and she was awarded an Associate Royal Red Cross in the 1945 King's Birthday Honours together with four others...
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Medal for Gallantry (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
vietnamroll.gov.au; National Medal, 10 Feb 1978, itsanhonour.gov.au; Mentioned in Despatches, 19 September 1969, awm.gov.au Medal for Gallantry - Australia...
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Michael Le Fanu (category Deaths from leukemia in England)
mentioned in despatches for his services during the Norwegian campaign in Spring 1940 and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in November...
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Thomas Blamey (section Honours and awards)
April 1915, and served as a staff officer in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was mentioned in despatches for a daring raid behind enemy lines. He later...
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Peter Scott (category Olympic medalists in sailing)
British Empire in the Military Division (MBE) in the 1942 Birthday Honours. Scott stood as a Conservative in the 1945 general election in Wembley North...
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and was mentioned in despatches again on 26 June 1931. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1934 Birthday Honours, he joined...
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Calgary Highlanders (category Military units and formations of Canada in World War I)
die in action when he was killed with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in April 1945. Sergeants Lyster and Pittaway were mentioned in despatches for...
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Philip Vian (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
in the 1952 New Year Honours. On 1 June 1952 he was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. Vian was mentioned in despatches five times, and received...
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Neil Ritchie (category British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
on 5 July 1945, and he was mentioned in despatches for "gallant and distinguished services", on 22 March and 9 August 1945. He also received several foreign...
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1 Field Regiment (India) (category Military units and formations established in 1935)
the war- Sena Medal- 1 Mentioned in Despatches- 4 COAS Commendation Card- 2 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 The regiment saw action in the western front. Equipped...
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John Hackett (British Army officer) (category British military personnel of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine)
Veronica Hackett (20 May 1945 – December 1992). He served in Palestine during the Arab revolt, where he was mentioned in despatches in 1936, and then with...
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officer of No. 56 Squadron RAF in December, the first to be equipped with the Hawker Typhoon. He was mentioned in despatches on 1 January 1943, and was promoted...
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the Great War Naylor served on the Western Front, where he was mentioned in despatches seven times, and awarded the Military Cross. He was promoted to...
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Alwyn Crow (section Honours)
commissioned in the East Surrey Regiment, was injured in 1916, and Mentioned in Despatches. In 1917, he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich...
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Command in June 1954; he took part in the closing stages of the response to the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya for which he was mentioned in despatches on 19...
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of the Order of the British Empire (4 June 1928) Military Cross Mention in Despatches (26 June 1940) Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British...
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seniority from 24 February 1941), on 17 January 1945. He was Mentioned in Despatches on 9 August 1945, and his MC was gazetted on 22 January 1946. He...
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Henry Wells (general) (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
distinguished services" during this time, Wells was additionally Mentioned in Despatches. Following Greece, the headquarters of I Corps returned to Palestine...
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