New Year Honours 1939
John Trimingham Trimingham KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• O.B.E.
Organisation: O.B.E
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1939 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) · 1939
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 20 times in the New Year Honours List 1939 — about 3% 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 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1939
Alexander Sym Small
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Chairman of Departmental Committee on Punishment
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“For political and public services.”
Deputy Secretary
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Edward Cecil George Cadogan
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“for Reading, 1922-23, and for Finchley, 1924-35.”
Edward Goldie Howarth
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Enroll Lionel Dos Santos
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George Sinclair Moss
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Khan Bahadur Nawab Liaqat Hyat Khan
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Leonard Twiston Davies
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Lieutenant-Colonel Vivian Dykes
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Lieutenant-Colonel William Kerr Fraser-Tytler
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Monmouthshire. Supplement Tothelondon Gazette
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“for the Special Areas in Scotland.”
Norman Henry Martin Bowden
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Reginald Marcus Clark
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“For public ser- vices in the Commonwealth of Australia.”
Reginald Popham Nicholson
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Richard McNeil Henderson
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Second Par- liamentary Counsel to Treasury.
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Walter Raymond Birchall
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William Atkinson Fell
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“For public ser- vices in Malaya.”
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Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1939
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1939 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1938.
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