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SUPPLEMENT to the LONDON GAZETTE, I JANUARY, 1945 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, i JANUARY, 1945 To be Additional Members of the Military Major^General Robert Harley Wordsworth, Division of the Third Class, or Companions, C.B.E., Indian Army. of the -said Most Honourable Order:— Colonel (temporary Major-General) Ernest Colonel (temporary Major-General) Alexander Wood, C.I.E., M.C., Indian Army. Vass Anderson, M.B.E. (17247), late Royal Colonel (temporary Major-General) Francis Engineers. Robert Roy Bucher, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Colonel (temporary Major-General) Gerald Army. Brunskill, M.C. (18511), late The Royal Ulster Rifles. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Alexander To be Additional Members of the Civil Division Maurice Cameron, M.C. (9292), late Royal of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Engineers. said Most Honourable Order:— Major-General John Scott Crawford, C.B.E., Colonel Frescheville Hubert Ballantine-Dykes, M.I.Mech.E. (11221), late Royal Army D.S.O., O.B.E., A.D.C., President, Terri- Ordnance Corps. torial Army Association of the County of Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) John Cumberland. Henry Bevan, M.C- (50751). Reserve of Brevet Colonel Charles Joseph Edmondstoune- Officers, General List, Territorial Army. Cranstoun, D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Colonel (temporary Major-General) David Territorial Army Association of the County Robertson Duguid, M.B.E., A.M.I.E.E., of Lanark. A.M.I.Mech.E. (34486), late -Royal Electrical Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Colonel) Ernest and Mechanical Engineers. Clive Atkins, D.L., Chairman, Territorial Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Charles Esmond Army Association of the County of Leicester. de Wolff, C.B.E. (15057), late Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Donald Rutherford Dacre Fisher, C.B.E., D.S.O. CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS (927), late Royal Artillery. OF KNIGHTHOOD. Colonel (honorary Major-General) Ian Cameron St. James's Palace, S.W.I. Grant, C.B.E., D.S.O. (19374), late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. ist January, 1945. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Reginald The KING has been graciously pleased to Kingscote Hewer, C.B.E., M.C. (9276), late give orders for the following promotions in, and Royal Armoured Corps. appointments to, the Most Honourable Order Colonel (temporary Major-General) John of the Bath: — Charles Francis Holland, D.F.C. (18665), late Royal Engineers. To be Additional Members of the Military Colonel (temporary Major-General) Harold Division of the Second Class, or Knights Reginald Kerr, O.B.E., M.C. (17076), late Commanders, of the said Most Honourable Royal Army Service Corps. Order: — Colonel '(temporary Major-General) Robert Air Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, K.B.E., Edward Laycock, D.S.O. (37258), Royal C.B., M.C., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Horse Guards. Air Marshal Sir Harold Edward Whittingham, Major-General Herbert Lumsden, D.S.O., M.C. K.B.E., LL.D., M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P. (11523), late Royal Armoured Corps. (Lon.), F.R.C.P.(E), F.R.F.P.S.(G), Colonel (temporary Major-General) William D.P.H., D.T.M. & H., K.H.P., Royal Air Godwin Michelmore, D.S.O., M.C., T.D. Force. (25379), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Air Vice-Marshal George Laing, C.B., C.B.E., Army, Aide-de-Camp to The King. Royal Air Force. Colonel (temporary Brigadier.) Arthur Penrice To be Additional Members of the Military Sayer, D.S.O. (4740), retired pay, Reserve of Division of the Third Class, or Companions, Officers,.late Royal Engineers. of the said Most Honourable Order; — Colonel (temporary Brigadier) William Ross Stewart, C.I.E., M.B., Ch.B. (Edinburgh), Air Vice-Marshal Leslie Oswald Brown, F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), K.H.P., V.H.S., C.B.E. D.S.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Indian Medical Service. Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Walker Elmhirst, Major-General David Turnbull Richardson, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. M.C., M.B., K.H.S. (3014), Royal Army Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Grant, C.B.E., Medical Corps. M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., K.H.S., Royal Air Colonel (honorary Major-General) Guy St. Force. George Robinson, D.S.O., M.C. (1909), Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Audley Langford- retired pay, Colonel, The Northamptonshire Sainsbury, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Regiment. _^ Air Force. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Gilbert Acting Air Vice-Marshal Edward Barker France Watson, D.S.O., O.B.E. (16422), late Addison, C.B.E., Royal Air Force. The Royal Welch Fusiliers. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Edward Derek Davis, Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) O.B.E., Royal Air Force. Alexander Craven Vicary, - D.S.O1., M.C. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Basil Edward Embry, (4144), Reserve of Officers, The Gloucester- D.S.O., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. shire Regiment. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Frank Linden Hopps, Colonel (honorary Major-General) John Edward C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Talbot Younger (15078), retired pay, late Acting Air Vice-Marshal Edmund Cuthbert Royal Artillery. Hudleston, C.B.E., Royal Air Force. JVIajor-General Cyril Maton Periam Durnford, Acting Air Vice-Marshal Clarence Edward C.I.E., Indian Army. William Lockyer, Royal Air Force..
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