Birthday Honours 1937
— For Meritorious Service. 328192 John Prestbury Scorgie MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
• for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April- October
Organisation: 1936:—
“for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April- October, 1936:— For Meritorious Service.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April- October, 1936:— For Meritorious Service.
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Birthday Honours 1937
— For Meritorious Service. 328192 John Prestbury Scorgie
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April- October, 1936:— For Meritorious Service.”
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— For Meritorious Service. 328192 John Prestbury Scorgie
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April- October, 1936:— For Meritorious Service.”
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Birthday Honours 1937
— For Meritorious Service. 328192 John Prestbury Scorgie
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April- October, 1936:— For Meritorious Service.”
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How common is this award?
The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 27 times in the Birthday Honours List 1937 — about 2% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1937
— For Meritorious Service:— Herbert Binnington
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
“for valuable services rendered in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April-October, 1936:— For Meritorious Service:— Herbert Binnington, Engine-room Artificer, Fourth Class, P/MX.5O993.”
— For Meritorious Service.
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
“for valuable services rendered in the field in connection with operations in Palestine during the period April-October, 1936: — For Meritorious Service.”
Alexander Underwood Mackenzie Lincolnshire Regiment
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Alistair Gordon Donald Whyte
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Royal Army Medical Corps
and Adjutant William Faithfull Anderson
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Clifford Hanson-Abbott
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Dennis John Edwin O'Flynn
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Dudley Wrangal Clarke
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Edwin Herbert Chatfield
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
George Guy Meager
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Royal Air Force
George James Bullard
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
John Patrick Domvile
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Royal Air Force
Mulazim Michael George Elissa
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Mulazim Murad Bek Ismail
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. 1/14792 Class I
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. 1070347 Bombardier Walter Joseph Aylett
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. 1854737 Lance-Corporal Leonard Morris
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. 2814092 Class Ii
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. 2927187 Douglas Reid
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. 3847671 Class Ii
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
No. T/16966 Class Ii
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Philip Anthony Clauson
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Robert Brooks McConnell
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Stuart Thomas James East Lan- cashire Regiment
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 1937
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Published 14 June 1937.
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