Birthday Honours 1937
Charles William Reeve CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Chairman and Managing Director of the Associated Equip- ment Company
“For services to the Air Ministry.”
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Birthday Honours 1937- Role at the time
- Chairman and Managing Director of the Associated Equip- ment Company
“For services to the Air Ministry.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 709 times in the Birthday Honours List 1937 — about 58% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Chairman and Managing Director of the Associated Equip- ment Company.
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 1937
- Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall
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— . Major-General Horace de Courcy Martelli
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— Archibald Rice Cameron
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— Edith Muriel Anderson
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“For public and social welfare services in Newfoundland and the State of New South Wales.”
— Enid Muriel Lyons
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“For public services rendered in the Commonwealth of Australia.”
— Ernest John Strohmenger
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— Henry Herbert Couzens
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— James Sidney Barnes
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— John Richards Harris
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— Margaret
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“For philan- thropic services in Malta.”
— Mary Graham Browne
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“For services to the stage.”
— Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh Ii
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— Navroji Bapuji Saklatvala
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— Raja Abdul Aziz ibni al-marhum Raja Musa
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— Vice-Marshal Alfred William Iredell
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—- Vice-Admiral Henry John Studholme Brown- rigg
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"James Frederick Place
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Adrian Trevor Cole
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Alan Douglas Grindal
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Alan Filmer Rook
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Albert Edward Russell-Stuart
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Albert Ernest Sims
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Albert Fred Mann
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Albert Hilton
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“For political and public services in Middleton and Prest- wich.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1937
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1937 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1937.
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