New Year Honours 1939
William Burns CMG
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
• Agricultural Expert to the Government of India in the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research Depart- ment
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1939 with the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) · 1939
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
New Year Honours 1939- Role at the time
- Agricultural Expert to the Government of India in the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research Depart- ment
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How common is this award?
The Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George was awarded 38 times in the New Year Honours List 1939 — about 6% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Agricultural Expert to the Government of India in the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research Depart- ment.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year Honours 1939
— James Drummond Anderson
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Anthony Lockhart Binney
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Arthur Clifford Hiley
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
David Norman Strathie
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Eric Rawlinson Wood
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Ernest Frederick Steell Dawson
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Fazal Ibrahim Rahimtoola
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Ferdinand Blyth Wace
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Francis Dudley Rugman
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Francis Hugh William Stonehewer-Bird
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Frank D'Souza
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Frank Victor Gordon Scholes
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
“for Foreign Affairs.”
Gerald Snowden Butler
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Horace Barratt Dunnicliff
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
John Frederick Gennings
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
“for Workmen's Compensation and Director of Information, Bombay.”
John Monro Troutbeck
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
John Wardle Houlton
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Joseph Charles Westhoven
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest William O'Gorman Kirwan
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Covell
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Lieutenant-Colonel James Bennett Hance
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Lieutenant-Colonel Mathew George Platts
PersonCompanion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George · 1939
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George · 1939
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1939 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1938.
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