New Year Honours 1947
William Valentine Wood KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
• London Midland and Scottish Railway Company
Organisation: London Midland and Scottish Railway Company
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1947 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) · 1947
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New Year Honours 1947- Role at the time
- London Midland and Scottish Railway Company
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 12 times in the New Year Honours List 1947 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1947
— Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson
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Ak Vice-MarshalCharles Wanburton Meredith
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Charles Robert Smith
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Ferdinand Michael KROYER-KiEUteRG
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George Ismay
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Henry Drummond Hancock
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Herbert Broadley
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Lancelot Herman Keay
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Major-General {local) Herbert Covington Cole
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Raja Shrimant Shankarrao Parashr^mrao
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Stanley Gordon Ieving
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Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1947
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1947 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1946.
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