Birthday Honours 1949
— Harold Cecil James Barker CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Colonial Administrative Service
Organisation: Colonial Administrative Service
“for the Colonies, and Director of Colonial Geological Survey.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
for the Colonies, and Director of Colonial Geological Survey.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 1949- Role at the time
- Colonial Administrative Service
“for the Colonies, and Director of Colonial Geological Survey.”
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— Harold Cecil James Barker
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“for the Colonies, and Director of Colonial Geological Survey.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 201 times in the Birthday Honours List 1949 — about 18% 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1949
— . John Harold Edmund Woods
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
— • ; Charles Norman Atkins
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
“for .Hobart, State of Tasmania.”
— Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
— Richard Loudon McCREERY
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
— Yahaya
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
) John Denys Percival Chapman
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
• George Percy Scott Pollard
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Acting; Henry Seidenberg- Seymour
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Royal Air Force
Albert Joyce
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
“For services to the Co-operative Movement.”
Alexander David Ross
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Alexander Fleming Wilkie Millar
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Alexander Knox until recently ordinary and . Budapest
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Alexander McDonald Bruce Hutt
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Alexander Thomas Kingdom Grant
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Alfred Horace Davis
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Alice Ida Seton
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Allan Gibb
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Andrew Gilmour
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
“for Economic Affairs, Singapore.”
Andrew Sutherland Williams
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Arthur Hilton Poynton
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Arthur Horace Penn
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Arthur James Edmunds
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Arthur Montague Holbein
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
Arthur Pearson
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1949
“for Pontypridd since 1938.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1949
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1949 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1949.
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