Honours list
New Year Honours List 1940
Published 30 December 1939. Celebrating exceptional achievements and distinguished service across the United Kingdom and overseas territories.
What was awarded
How the 201 New Year Honours 1940 honours break down - from the British Empire Medal to knighthoods and damehoods. Select an award to see its recipients.
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201 people
Member (MBE)
Commissioned Gunner William Christopher Hampton
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Op KNIGHTHOOD. ist January
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
— James G. Godwin
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
“for Meritorious Service:— James G.”
Joseph Reader
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Wilfred James Ninnis
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Cecil N. L. Wyborn
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Lieutenant-Commander George Antony 'Francis Norfolk
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Lieutenant-Commander Edward Hale
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Stanley Walford
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Lieutenant-Commander Adelbert William Cust John Nicholson
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Henry Arthur Kirby
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Raymond T. Cook
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Thomas H. Smith
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Horace A. Hart
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Officer (OBE)
William Corfield Jenks
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Maxwell Richmond
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Lieutenant-Commander Charles Wheatstone Sabine
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Douglas Hammersley Johnston
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Malcolm Andrew Graham- Yooll
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
James Ramsay Paterson
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Richard Jenner Fust
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Kenneth Graham Tucker
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
Henry Gordon Silvester
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
— George Arthur Thomas. Shipwright
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1940
“for Meritorious Service:— George Arthur Thomas.”