New Year Honours 1972
Lieutenant-General Frank Douglas King KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1972 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) · 1972
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Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) · 1971
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) · 1953
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Military service
Ministry of Defence- Division
- Military Division
- Service number
- 138204
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Member of the Order of the British Empire
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New Year Honours 1972
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was awarded 8 times in the New Year Honours List 1972 — about 1% of the list.
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 Bath in the New Year Honours 1972
Alan Derrett Neale
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James Duncan Jones
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John Charles Young Roxburgh
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Lieutenant-General John Hugh Sherlock Read
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Marshall Thomas Neville Stack
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Peter William Beckwith Ashmore
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Roland Christopher Gibbs
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Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 1972
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1972 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1971.
Companion of the Order of the Bath · 1971
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1971 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1970.
Member of the Order of the British Empire · 1953
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1953 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1953.
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