New Year Honours 1946
First Pauline Margaret Wrench. Frankland MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
• W.R.N.S
Organisation: W.R.N.S
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1946 with the Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) · 1946
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How common is this award?
The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 902 times in the New Year Honours List 1946 — about 43% 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 Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1946
- John Charnley
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
- Richard Walsh
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
- William James Knott
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
' Leslie George Robertson
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
'Ian Barnet Rodger
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Royal Corps of Signals
"Warrant Albert Derek Harvey
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Royal Air Force
* Herbert All- dridge Abbott
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Army Cadet Force
^Frederick James Crane
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Royal Air Force
Abdul Rashid Choudhri
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Abdul Wahid
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Accountant at His Majesty's Embassy at Moscow.
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Ada Madeline Bode
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
“For public ser- vices in Fiji.”
Adolph Demajo
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Agnes Chue Chung Luen
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
“For services during enemy occupation.”
Agnes Maude Jones
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Ajit Singhji
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Alan Bering Singer
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Corps of Royal Engineers
Alan Dudley Benham
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Alan Newstead Fradgley
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Corps of Royal Engineers
Alasdair Ramsay Tainsh
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Albert Edward Cooper
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Albert Edward Sturgess
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Albert Maurice Arbib
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Albert Reginald Menezes
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 1946
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1946 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1945.
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