New Year Honours 1948
John Thorne Masey Bennett KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1948 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) · 1948
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The Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was awarded 5 times in the New Year Honours List 1948.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the New Year Honours 1948
— His Highness Maharao Bhim Singhji •bahadur
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Major-General •Treffry Owen Thompson
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Sir- David Taylor Monteath
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“for India.”
Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Jphn Audley Miles* K:C.B.
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Royal Navy
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 1948
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
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Published 30 December 1947.
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