Birthday Honours 1939
Bernard Dudley Frank Docker KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• Chairman of Westminster Hospital
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1939 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) · 1939
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 13 times in the Birthday Honours List 1939 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Chairman of Westminster Hospital.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1939
Albert Henry Self
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Alfred Theodore Vaughan Robinson
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Annesley Ashworth Somerville
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“for Windsor since 1922.”
Donald Petrie Simson
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Henry Fitzmaurice
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John Ritchie Richmond
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“For political and public services in Glasgow.”
M.A. of Philosophy and Psychology
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Maurice Charles Andrew Drummond
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“For public services.”
Thomas Alexander Hunter
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Vice-Admiral Cecil Ponsonby Talbot
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Vice-Marshal Albert Victor John Richardson
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William Blaxland Benham
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1939
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1939 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1939.
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