New Year Honours 1946
Major-General Eric Bertram Rowcroft KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1946 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) · 1946
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 37 times in the New Year Honours List 1946 — about 2% 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 British Empire in the New Year Honours 1946
— Andrew Grant
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— Giles Frederick Squire
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— Herbert Ralph Hone
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— John Wilson Edington Miller
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— Lieutenant-General Charles Walter Allfrey
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— Thomas James Cash
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— Vice-Admiral George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey
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• Vice-Marshal John Josias Conybeare
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Albert Durston
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Archibald Auldjo Jamieson
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Commandant
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Edwin Noel Plowden
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Eric Norman De Normann
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Geoffrey Stuart King
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Harold Parker
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Harry Chapman Sinderson
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Hugh William Bell Cairns
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John Claud Fortescue Fryer
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John Edward Lennard-Jones
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John Robertson Abercrombie
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Lieutenant-General James Stuart Steele
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Major-General Alexander Gordon Biggam
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Major-General Arthur Arnhold Bullick Dowler
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Major-General Edward Ian Claud Jacob
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1946
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1946 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1945.
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