New Year Honours 1940
Reginald Harry Andrew Clark
Distinguished Service Order
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1940 with the Distinguished Service Order.
London Gazette page
Distinguished Service Order · 1940
View this issue on the London Gazette ↗ · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
In context
Each honour in context
Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
Distinguished Service Order
New Year Honours 1940
Mark the occasion
Commemorate Reginald's honour
Celebrate this recognition with a keepsake worthy of the achievement - free to share, beautifully made to keep.
New Year Honours 1940
Reginald Harry Andrew Clark
Distinguished Service Order
Free
Shareable card
A digital card to post or send. Free, with the Honoria mark.
New Year Honours 1940
Reginald Harry Andrew Clark
Distinguished Service Order
Keepsake · from £9.99
Digital download
Print-ready in every size (A5–A3 + US Letter), plus the official London Gazette notice and full issue PDFs. Add your own photo.
New Year Honours 1940
Reginald Harry Andrew Clark
Distinguished Service Order
Print · from £5.99
Printed keepsakes
Mounted fine-art prints, tea towels and greeting cards - printed and posted.
Commemorating yourself or someone you know. Honoria is an independent record - not an official or royal body.
In context
The bigger picture
How common is this award?
The Distinguished Service Order was awarded 14 times in the New Year Honours List 1940 — about 7% 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 Distinguished Service Order in the New Year Honours 1940
— George Frederick Stevens-Guille
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Alan George Luscombe Scale
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Bernard Moloney
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Charles Edward Hamond
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Cyril William Armstrong
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Donald Murdo MacLean
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Dudley Eric Wright
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
“for a courageous and skilful attack, in The above Appointment and Awards are which an enemy Cruiser was sunk.”
Engineer Samuel Reynolds Atwood
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Frank Gordon Emley
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
John Aldrich Micklethwait
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Lennox Albert Knox Boswell
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
“for faithful devotion to the hazardous duty of escorting .and protecting other shipi"from the violence of the enemy.”
Lieutenant-Commander George Chesterman Phillips
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Sub-Lieutenant Seely Phillips
PersonDistinguished Service Order · 1940
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Distinguished Service Order · 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 30 December 1939.
This page is compiled from public records and may contain errors. Report an error or request removal.