New Year Honours 1957
“For services in the preparations for the Olympic Games 'in Melbourne.”
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For services in the preparations for the Olympic Games 'in Melbourne.
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Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
- New Year Honours 1957
- Role at the time
- State of Victoria
“For services in the preparations for the Olympic Games 'in Melbourne.”
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How common is this award?
The was awarded 29 times in the New Year Honours List 1957 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the same honour in the New Year Honours 1957
— John Harold Devine
Person1957
“For services as Director, Export Services Branch, Board of Trade.”
Amar Nath Maini
Person1957
“For public services in Uganda.”
Archibald James Dirom Crawford
Person1957
“For political services in the West of England.”
Basil Edward Nield
Person1957
“for the City of Chester, 1940-1956.”
Douglas Tremayne Waring
Person1957
Edward Baglietto Cottrell
Person1957
“For public services in Gibraltar.”
Edward George Warris Hulton
Person1957
“For services to journalism.”
Edward James Gregory Wilson
Person1957
“For public services in the State of Victoria.”
Egbert Cadbury
Person1957
Frank Guy Clavering Fison
Person1957
“For political and public services in Suffolk.”
Frederick John Pascoe
Person1957
“For political services.”
Henry Channon
Person1957
“for Southend-on-Sea, 1935-1950, and for Southend West since 1950.”
Howard F. Bertram
Person1957
“For services in 'the preparations for the Olympic Games in Melbourne.”
James Frederick Emery
Person1957
“For political and public services in Salford.”
James Mann Wordie
Person1957
“For services to Polar exploration.”
John Groom
Person1957
“For public services in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.”
Kenneth Wade Parkinson
Person1957
“For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.”
Lawrence Dundon
Person1957
“For services in the preparations for the Olympic Games in- Melbourne.”
Leonard Courtney Hannays
Person1957
“For public services in Trinidad.”
Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Vaughan Gwynne
Person1957
“For public services in Sussex.”
Robert John Birney
Person1957
“For services relating to 'the Olympic Games in Melbourne.”
Robert John Sinclair
Person1957
“For public services.”
Thomas William Shaw
Person1957
“For services to Boy's Clubs in Kingston-upon-Hull.”
Treasury and a Government Whip
Person1957
“For political and public services.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
· 1957
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1957 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1956.
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