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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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David House (section Honours and decorations)
on 8 February 1945 "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy". On 22 June 1965, he was Mentioned in Despatches "in recognition of...
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Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (category Burials in Hertfordshire)
Mentioned in Despatches 8 May 1936: Mentioned in Despatches 20 December 1940: Mentioned in Despatches 28 October 1942: Mentioned in Despatches 1945 Freedom...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Neil Ritchie (category 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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Fleet in May 1944 and survived a kamikazi attack in April 1945. He was three times mentioned in despatches, and was also awarded the American Legion of Merit...
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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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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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Wight, with the acting rank of captain. He earned a second mention in despatches for his role in Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, during...
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Frank Hassett (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
having an operational command. For his services in the Pacific, Hassett was again Mentioned in Despatches and awarded an Officer of the Order of the British...
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Dan Davin (category All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English)
evacuated from Greece and wounded on Crete. He was mentioned in despatches three times, and in December 1945 he was appointed an additional Member of the Military...
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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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