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1968 Birthday Honours
British government recognitions
The 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments to orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms to reward and highlight citizens' good works, on the occasion of the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 May 1968.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.[2]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
United Kingdom and Commonwealth
[edit]Life Peer
[edit]- Barons
- Dr. Thomas Balogh, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, since 1945, Economic Adviser to the Cabinet Office, 1964–67.
- Sir William Rushton Black, chairman, National Research Development Corporation. Lately Chairman, The Leyland Motor Corporation.
- Sir Geoffrey Crowther, chairman, The Economist Newspaper Ltd., chairman, Trust Houses Group Ltd.
- Professor William David Eva
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Army honors families during M10 Booker allegiance ceremony
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Our War Memorials
Surname First name Rank Regiment number Their age when died Regiment Allan Leslie Davy Private 9407 20 Honourable Artillery Company Allan Stephen Douglas Private 2872 Australian Imperial Force / Honourable Artillery Company Allsop Stanley Private 5838 King’s (Liverpool Regiment) Anderson Archibald College Lance Corporal 4249 23 Australian Imperial Force Anderson Albert Smith Private S/21422 19 Seaforth Highlanders Baker W Bargery Charles Hamilton Private B/19667 25 Royal Fusiliers Barr Thomas Louden Private 28184 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Bartlett Arthur Second Lieutenant 32 Royal Welsh Fusiliers Bate Arthur Sefton Sergeant 16542 24 Cheshire Regiment Beale James Arthur Sergeant 8966 Royal Warwickshire Regiment/Royal West Kent Regiment Beer Lewis Charles Second Lieutenant 32 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Bingham Herbert Barney Private 14915 22 Welsh Regiment Blackburn Arthur Private 3016 23 London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) Bowen W Private Australian Imperial Force Burton Stanley George Henry Edgar Second Lieutenant 34 Royal Air Force (Formerly London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)) Chapman William James P