Birthday Honours 1940
Charles Edward Gowran Shearman CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1940 with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 1940
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 21 times in the Birthday Honours List 1940 — about 2% 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1940
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Catherine Murray Roy
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Charles Joseph Dane Lanktree
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Colonal Ian Cameron Grant
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Douglas McArthur Hogg
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Edmund Frank Lind
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Edwin Ernest Enever Todd
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Frederick George Darby Hards
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Geoffrey Selby Church
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Harold George Howson
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John Scott Crawford
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Leonard Arthur Hawes
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Maurice Denham Jephson
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Noel Galway Holmes
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Owen Herbert Mead
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Reginald John Cash
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Robert Victor Goddard
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Royal Air Force
Walter Thorne
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Royal Air Force
William Thomson Sheppard
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 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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