Honours list
Birthday Honours List 1938
Published 14 June 1938. Celebrating exceptional achievements and distinguished service across the United Kingdom and overseas territories.
What was awarded
How the 792 Birthday Honours 1938 honours break down - from the British Empire Medal to knighthoods and damehoods. Select an award to see its recipients.
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- GCMGKnight or Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George6 · 1%
- KCMGKnight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George9 · 1%
- CMGCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George38 · 5%
- MVOMember of the Royal Victorian Order49 · 6%
- DBEDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire1 · 0%
- KBEKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire10 · 1%
- CBECommander of the Order of the British Empire61 · 8%
- OBEOfficer of the Order of the British Empire203 · 26%
- MBEMember of the Order of the British Empire345 · 44%
- Other70 · 9%
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790 people
Alfred Hardwicke Marsack
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
Flying Charles Harold Ervin Lyster
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
William Charles Billing
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
Eugene Jack Vivian
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
Wilfrid Harry Reed
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
Frederick Martin Weiss
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
Acland Central School
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
London
Cicely Ursula Tafe
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“for -Diseases of the Nervous.”
Katharina Margarita Finnane
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Matron
Mary Martin
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Matron
Khan Bahadur Sher Ali Khan
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
lately Head
Catherine Tyzack
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Matron
William Holden
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Royal Air Force
Kathleen Eva Roche
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Matron
Neville Oscar Callender
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Constable
Frederick George Charlesworth
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Constable
Hashem Selim Deifeh
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Sergeant
Yehya Yassin Faris
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Detective Constable
David Misselbrook Morgan
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Constable
Mohamed Ali El Ousta
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Detective Constable
Ernest Rainey
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Inspector
Theophilus Roberts
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Sergeant
Alan Samuel Lyle Smythe
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Constable
Rear-Admiral William Jock Whitworth
PersonMember Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1938