New Year Honours 1941
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1941 with the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) · 1941
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Royal Victorian Order was awarded 7 times in the New Year Honours List 1941 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year Honours 1941
Cecil George Lewis Syers
PersonCommander Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1941
Charles Craik Cunningham
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Edmund Claud Maiden
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Fitzroy Hubert Fyers
PersonCommander Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1941
Frank Benson
PersonCommander Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1941
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hyde Villiers
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order · 1941
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1941 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1940.
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