Birthday Honours 1938
Samuel Hordern KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• State of New South Wales
Organisation: State of New South Wales
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1938 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) · 1938
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Birthday Honours 1938- Role at the time
- State of New South Wales
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 10 times in the Birthday Honours List 1938 — about 1% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 1938
— James Alan Noel Barlow
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Alfred Charles Davidson
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Brigadier-General Ernest Makins
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“for Knutsford since 1922.”
Cecil McAlpine Weir
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Frederick Carl Bovenschen
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Lately Second Secretary
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Lewa Thomas Wentworth Russell Pasha
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Robert Calder-Marshall
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Thomas Hill Easterfield
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Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1938
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1938 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1938.
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