New Year Honours 1960
Until recently KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1960 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) · 1960
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The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 11 times in the New Year Honours List 1960 — about 1% 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 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1960
Ambrose James Sherwill
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Cyril Berkeley Ormerod
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Henry Walter Houldsworth
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Instructor Rear-Admiral John Fleming
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James Robbie Farquharson
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Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Stuart Thompson
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Major-General Henry Haskins Clapham Sugden
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Robert James Paterson Harvey
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Vice-Admiral William Kaye Edden
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Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Luis Worthington
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1960
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1960 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1959.
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