New Year Honours 1968
Reginald Burns OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
• J.P.
“For services to youth in Southampton.”
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“For services to youth in Southampton.”
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“For services to youth in Southampton.”
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 315 times in the New Year Honours List 1968 — about 22% of the list.
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How widely is this recognised?
3,643 people have been recognised for Children, Young People & Families.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
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Alice Annie Braybrook
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Allan Lawrie Mapham
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Andre Varga
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Andrew Anderson
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Anthony Owen Blishen
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Anthony Richard Newman
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Archibald Rae Cornock
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Neil Martin
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Stephen Greene
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“For services to Foster Care.”
Julia Downey
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Barbara Connell
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Louise Sutherland
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Leatherhead, Surrey
“For services to Early Years.”
Josef Taylor
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Warrington, Cheshire
“For services to Children and Young People.”
Claire Robinson
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Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
“For services to Foster Care in Birmingham.”
Alice Outten
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Llandudno, Clwyd
“For services to Young People.”
Katie Misselbrook
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Chester, Cheshire
“For services to Children and Young People.”
Steven Lowe
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
“For services to Foster Care in Wigan, Greater Manchester.”
Wendy Lowe
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
“For services to Foster Care in Wigan, Greater Manchester.”
Adam Joolia
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Brighton, East Sussex
“For services to Young People and to Music.”
Jamie Goddard
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Chepstow, Gwent
“For services to Education, to Charity and to Young People.”
Wendy Ford
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Shrewsbury, Shropshire
“For services to Charity and to Young People.”
Janet Cooper
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Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
“For services to Speech and Language Development for Children and Young People.”
Mary Boam
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“For services to Early Years Education.”
Roderick Wood
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Inverness, Inverness-shire
“For services to Youth, to Veterans and to the community in the Highlands.”
Christopher Turner
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Hockley, Essex
“For services to Young People in Essex.”
Neerasha Singh
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Greenhithe, Kent
“For services to Early Years Education.”
Karen Roberts
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Newtown, Powys
“For services to Young People.”
Pamela Pattinson
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Bradford, West Yorkshire
“For services to Foster Care.”
Leonard Pattinson
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Bradford, West Yorkshire
“For services to Foster Care.”
Jeremy Penn
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Sevenoaks, Kent
“For services to Young People.”
Michelle John
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Shrewsbury, Shropshire
“For services to Family Support and Advocacy.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1968
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1968 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1967.
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