New Year Honours 1944
Telegraphist Gerald Frank Clarke CVO
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1944 with the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) · 1944
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Royal Victorian Order was awarded 1,182 times in the New Year Honours List 1944 — about 54% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year Honours 1944
- Edward Sebastian Burke Gaffney<
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— Allan Powell
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— Commandant Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes
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— Cowasjee Jehangir
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— Douglas Newbold
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— Ernest Lucas Guest
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“For public services, especially in connection with the inaugura- tion of the Empire Air Training Scheme in the Colony.”
— Major-General Henry Guy Riley
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— Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
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— Richard Gardiner Casey
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— Vice-Admiral St. Aubyn Baldwin Wake
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— Vice-Marshal Robert Henry Magnus Spencer Saundby
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— William Robert Fraser
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. George Dunbar Moore
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. Ronald Alexander Denovan
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.' Henderson McDiarmid
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' Robert Edwin Soanes
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Coldstream Guards
(now
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(Temporary
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(temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
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• George Douglas Izzett
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•Leader Edward Charles Smith-Ross
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Abani Bhusan Chatterjee
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Abdel Qader Pasha el Jundi
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Abdy Henry Gough Ricketts Durham Light
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order · 1944
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1944 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1943.
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