New Year Honours 1969
Robert Francis Innes KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1969 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) · 1969
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The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 59 times in the New Year Honours List 1969 — about 4% 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 1969
Alexander MacDOUGALL
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Alfred George Lewis
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Arthur Keith Ashby
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“For services to the com- munity.”
Bertram Thomas Tunley
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“For services to commerce and to the community.”
Cecil Stack
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Charles Antony des Noettes Harper
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Charles Henry Gurd
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Charles Robert Bunning
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“For services to the timber industry, and to the community.”
Claude Dominic Renshaw
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“For services to local government and to rural industry.”
Colin Keon-Cohen
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“For services to the com- munity, particularly to ex-servicemen.”
Colin Skelton Anderson
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“For services to the Arts.”
David Mortimer
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David Ramsay McNICOLL
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“For services to journalism.”
Donald Stapdeton Garden
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Dudley Keith House
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“For services to local government.”
Edgar John Rouse
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“For services to the ad- vancement of medical research and radiology.”
Edric Henry Peter Lassen
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Emeritus Leslie Wilkinson
PersonKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1969
“For services to architecture.”
Emily Marie Hinchsliff Speed
PersonKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1969
“For ser- vices to the community, especially to Country Wv omen.”
Ernest Russell Storey Wollen
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Francis Augustine Kirby
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“For services to in- dustry.”
Francis Joseph McAVOY
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“For services to the sugar industry.”
Frederick Earl Roberts
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Geoffrey Cadzow Hamilton
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1969
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1969 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1968.
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