New Year Honours 1985
James Canning
Distinguished Service Order
Principal Officer • Department of Health and Social Services
Organisation: Department of Health and Social Services
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1985 with the Distinguished Service Order.
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Distinguished Service Order · 1985
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How common is this award?
The Distinguished Service Order was awarded 25 times in the New Year Honours List 1985 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Principal Officer, Department of Health and Social Services.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the New Year Honours 1985
Andrew Galbraith Briggs
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Arthur Bowden
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Principal
Bryan Hugh Waterhouse
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Clifford Diamond
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Principal
Dudley Russom
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
George Arthur Salt
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Gordon James Laing
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Graham John Osborne
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Harry Geoffrey Thomas Pio Rissone
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Helen Simpson Milne
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Henry Bryan Spear
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Chief Inspector
John Dennis Cantwell
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
John Duncan Lodder
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
John Harold Stanley Baker
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Principal
Leslie Artingstall
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Lydia Cheung Chi-ming
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Maurice Derek Sargant
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Secretary General
Raymond John Allwood
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Robert Anderson
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Roy Kilvert
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
Thomas Philip Ball
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
William Alfred Davy
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
William Howard
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
William John Rhind Bower
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1985
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Where this record comes from
Distinguished Service Order · 1985
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1985 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1984.
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