New Year Honours 1946
Walter Cyril Plumb CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Indian Police
Organisation: Indian Police
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1946 with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 1946
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 445 times in the New Year Honours List 1946 — about 21% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1946
— Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns
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— Charles Seymour Wright
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— Gerald Hallen Creasy
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— Graham Linsel Vivian
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— Harold Beresford Butler
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— Khan Bahadur Maulavi Sayidur Rahman
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— Lieutenant-General Rob McGregor Macdonald Lockhart
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— Raymond Birchall
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— Shaikh Abdullah Bin Jabir As Sabah
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— Vice-Admiral Henry St. Clair Colson
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Abdus Samad Shah
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Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Oslo.
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Albert Parker
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Albert Thomas Robert Harris
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Alexander FitzMaurdce Gilchrist
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Alexander Gunn
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Alexander Nicoll
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Alfred Brown Ernest Blackburn
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Alfred Gilmer Lamplugh
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Alfred Harold Wilson
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Alfred John Edney
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Corps of Royal Engineers
Alfred William Gray
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1946
Royal Air Force
Algernon Percival Findlay
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“For services in connection with philanthropic and patriotic movements in the State of Tasmania.”
Almeric Hugh Seymour
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1946
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1946 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1945.
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