Birthday Honours 1940
Major-General Henry Royds Pownall KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1940 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) · 1940
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was awarded 5 times in the Birthday Honours List 1940 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Birthday Honours 1940
Henry Ralph Crooke
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Major-General Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell
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Major-General Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell
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Vice-Admiral Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 1940
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1940 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1940.
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