New Year Honours 1941
Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• For public services in the Commonwealth of
“For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.”
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 1941- Role at the time
- For public services in the Commonwealth of
“For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.”
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
“For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 26 times in the New Year Honours List 1941 — about 3% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
For public services in the Commonwealth of.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1941
— Edwin Mortimer Drower
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— Homi Mehta
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— Maxwell MaoLagan Wedderburn
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— Vice-Admiral Richard Augustus Sandys Hill
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A11a.n Gorden Gordon-Smith
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Arthur Percival Newton
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Arthur Routley Hutson Morrell
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Arthur Wellington Jacoby
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Cecil Bertrand Davies
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Charles Richard Hersohell
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“For public ser- Richard James Meagher, Esq., F.F.I.A., Public vices in the State of Victoria.”
Charles Warrington Hutton
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“For cultural Percy Johnstone Baird, Esq., O.B.E., Secretary, and philanthropic services in Newfoundland.”
Cornelius Joseph Gregg
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Donald Edward Vandepeer
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Geoffrey Syme
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“For services to journalism John William Fletcher,.”
Guy Newton Moore
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John Smale Sutton
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Kenneth Oswald Peppiatt
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Lieutenant-Colonel Fraink William Frederick Johnson
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“For public services to the Colony.”
Marjorie Maxse
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Paymaster Hugh Malcolm Ramsay
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State of Victoria
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“for the Commonwealth of Alexander Mercer King, Esq., Mayor of Ballarat, Australia.”
Territory Medical Service
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“For services to Newfoundland.”
Thomas Herbert Goddard
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“For de- Empire Society.”
Vice-Admiral Clinton Francis Samuel Danby
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1941
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1941 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1940.
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