Birthday Honours 1940
Cecil William Haydon
Distinguished Service Order
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1940 with the Distinguished Service Order.
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Distinguished Service Order · 1940
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How common is this award?
The Distinguished Service Order was awarded 42 times in the Birthday Honours List 1940 — about 5% of the list.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the Birthday Honours 1940
Charles Dawson Moor- head Manchester Regiment.
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Colin Muir Barber Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
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Desmond Harrison
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Edwin Otway Herbert
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Fergus Y. Carson Knox Royal Ulster Rifles.
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Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson
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George Philip Clark Northampton- shire Regiment.
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Harold Edwin Collet-White
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Hayman John Hayman- Joyce Border Regiment.
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Henry Ayerst Young
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Henry Hastings Caven- dish Withers
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Henry Shakespear Thuillier
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Ivor Thomas Percival Hughes
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Jack Russell Carmichael Christopher
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James Stuart Steele
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John Atherton Churchill
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John Francis Hare King's Royal Rifle Corps.
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John Roddam Stanton
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John William Hinchcliffe Northamptonshire Regiment.
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Kenelm Horwood
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Kenneth McKenzie Cameron
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Lashmer Gordon Whistler Royal Sussex Regi- ment.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove
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Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Norman Littleboy
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Distinguished Service Order · 1940
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1940 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1940.
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