New Year Honours 1955
William Ghailes Wright MVO
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1955 with the Member of the Royal Victorian Order.
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Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) · 1955
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The Member of the Royal Victorian Order was awarded 9 times in the New Year Honours List 1955 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year Honours 1955
Charles David Heriot
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Lieutenant-Commander Reginald Woodford
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Royal Navy
Patrick Terence William Span
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Philip Graham Bell
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Thomas Henry Glasse
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William Frederick Stewart Moran
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William James Phillips
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William Quincey Roberts
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Member of the Royal Victorian Order · 1955
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1955 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1954.
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