Birthday Honours 1956
Major-General Harold Williams KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Corps of Royal Engineers
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1956 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) · 1956
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 1953
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 1946
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 1946- Role at the time
- Corps of Royal Engineers
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 15 times in the Birthday Honours List 1956 — 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 British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1956
— Major-General Alexander Douglas Campbell
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— Vice-Admiral John Willson Musgrave Eaton
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Clifford George Jarrett
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Edmund George Harwood
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Edwin Savory Herbert
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“For public services.”
Fergus Graham
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“for North Cumberland, 1926-1935, and for Dar- lington since 1951.”
Gilbert Edward Nicholetts
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Hubert Nutcombe Hume
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“for other public services.”
Member of Scottish Agricultural Advisory Council.
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“for Scotland.”
Thomas Ralph Merton
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Vice-Admiral William Geoffrey Arthur Robson
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Vice-Marshal John Rene Whitley
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Victor Harry Raby
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Vyvyan Holt
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1956
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1956 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1956.
Commander 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 30 December 1952.
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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