New Year Honours 1953
Percy Gordon Bice KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
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Recognised in the New Year Honours 1953 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) · 1953
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 18 times in the New Year Honours List 1953 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1953
— : . Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho
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“for the County of Cornwall.”
— Alfred Clifford Sanderson
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— Duncan Ross McLARTY
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Arthur SydneyHUTCHINSON
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Bryan Evers Sharwood-Smith
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Frank Edward Hough
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George Herbert Fretwell
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Harold Charles Smith
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James Alexander Campbell-Wilson
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King's Regiment .
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Lieutenant-General Alfred Dudley Ward
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Patrick Ramsay'LAIRD
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“for South-East .”
Robert Henry Hadow
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Robert Macdonald Gould
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Thomas Chambers Windsor Roe
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Vice-Marshal Cecil Arthur Bouchier
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Vice-Marshal Denriot Alexander Boyle
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Knight 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.
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