Birthday Honours 1953
Ernest Cranfield Hicks OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
• Federation of Malaya
Organisation: Federation of Malaya
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1953 with the Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) · 1953
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Birthday Honours 1953- Role at the time
- Federation of Malaya
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How common is this award?
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 460 times in the Birthday Honours List 1953 — about 21% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1953
- Arthur Geoffrey Gascoyne Webb
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
“for Sailors.”
— Lieutenant-Colonel James Harry Allason
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Aaron Abensur
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alan Campbell McKAY
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
“For services to the United Kingdom com- munity in West Pakistan.”
Alan Edward Bray
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alan Gordon Mitchell
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alan Paul Francis Whitworth
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alan Richardson
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Royal Air Force
Alastair Campbell Blair
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Albert Edward Barton
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Albert Edward Chiverton
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Royal Navy
Albert Edward Davies
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Royal Air Force
Albert Ernest Tombs
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Albert James Galpest
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Albert Joseph Hawe
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alexander Anderson
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alexander Denis Burnett-Brown
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alexander Hamilton Thomson
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alexander Logan
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alexander Mercer
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alexander Morton Clark
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
Alfred Arthur Haylbs
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
“For services to.the United Kingdom community in South India.”
Alfred Cecil Smith
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
“For services to planting in the Federation of Malaya.”
Alfred Charles Best
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1953
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1953
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1953 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1953.
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