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6534 Supplement to the London Gazette, Hth June 1966 6534 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, HTH JUNE 1966 Miss Doris Ellen PETT, M.B.E. O.B.E. Regimental Sergeant-Major Gerald STONE, M.B.E., Irish Guards. To be Ordinary Officers of the Military Division Miss Sheila Mary WELLS. of the said Most Excellent Order : Chief Officer Margery Rylance BAMMANT, Women's Royal Naval Service. THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on Surgeon Commander Alexander Fraser the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's DAVIDSON, M.B., Ch.B., Royal Navy. Birthday, to award the Royal Victorian Medal Commander Bernard John FARAGHER, V.R.D., (Silver) to the undermentioned: Royal Naval Reserve. Commander Ronald Bertram HORNER, Royal Royal Victorian Medal Navy. (Silver) Commander John Fielder HOUSE, D.S.C., Royal Chief Petty Officer Steward GEOFFREY Navy. CONNELL, P/LX 885349. Commander Owen George JENKINS, D.S.C., Jack CUTTS. Royal Navy. Mechanician 1st Class Alfred Ernest ELTON, Acting Captain Robert William KEGO, Royal P/KX 97773. Navy. Percy William GALE. Commander Peter Neville KING, Royal Navy. Yeoman Bed Goer Walter Edward HAWKINS, Commander William Turner LOCK, Royal Navy. M.B.E. Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Commander Dennis John LONG, Royal Navy. Yeomen of the Guard. Commander John Robert MANNING, Royal Percy John LAMING. Navy. Walter Gerald NICHOLSON. Lieutenant-Colonel Robin Jullian McGAREL- Percy Edward PLATT. GROVES, Royal Marines. Miss Elsie Constance SMITH. Acting Captain Timothy Capel MEYRICK, Miss Muriel Alice TATE. D.S.C., Royal Navy. Instructor Commander Michael MORELAND, Royal Navy. CENTRAL CHANCERY OF Commander Bryan John STRAKER, Royal Navy. THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD The Reverend Donald YOUNG, Royal Navy. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, LONDON s.w.i llth June 1966 M.B.E. THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the To be Ordinary Members of the Military occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Division of the sold Most Excellent Order : Birthday, to give orders for the following pro- motions in, and appointments to, the Most Excel- Miss Barbara Gordon BEAZLEY, A.R.R.C., lent Order of the British Empire: Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. Order of the British Empire Lieutenant Commander (S.C.C.) Archibald (Military Division) Walter CAMPBELL, Royal Naval Reserve. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (NAVY DEPARTMENT) Lieutenant Commander John Frederick COOKE, D.S.M., Nigerian Navy. G.B.E. Lieutenant Commander (S.C.C.) Osborne To be an Ordinary Knight Grand Cross of the Langley COSSENS, Royal Naval Reserve. Military Division of the said Most Excellent Lieutenant John Stanley DAY, Royal New Order: Zealand Navy (formerly on loan to the Admiral Sir John Graham HAMILTON, K.B.E., Malaysian Government). C.B. Lieutenant Commander (S.D.) (G) Samuel ERSKINE, Royal Navy. K.B.E. Lieutenant Commander (S.D.) (C) Gordon To be an Ordinary Knight Commander of the FROUD, D.S.M.*, Royal Navy (now Retired). Military Division of the said Most Excellent Electrical Lieutenant (A.L.) Francis Joseph Order : Patrick GALLAGHER, Royal Navy. Lieutenant Commander Cecil Edward GIBSON, Vice-Admiral Hugh Colenso MARTELL, C.B., Royal Navy. C.B.E. Electrical Lieutenant Commander (L) Claude C.B.E. HILLS, Royal Navy. Lieutenant (S.D.) (G) Bertie Charles HOWSON, To be Ordinary Commanders of the Military Royal Navy (for services with the British Joint Division of the said Most Excellent Order: Services Training Team, Ghana). Captain Robert Rowland Hill BODDY, Royal Instructor Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Navy. David Thomas JONES, Royal Navy. Commander John Guy BRISKER, O.B.E., R.D., Commander John Edmund MARSHALL, Royal Navy (now Retired). V.R.D., Royal Malaysian Naval Volunteer Instructor Captain Gordon Berry Cowley Reserve. BRITTON, A.D.C., Royal Navy. Lieutenant Commander Charles Donald Wilson Captain Hubert George CARKEET, Royal Fleet PUGH, Royal Navy. Auxiliary Service. Lieutenant Commander Michael Cecil Commodore Sir John Dutton CLERK, Bt, Mainwaring SMITH, Royal Navy. V.R.D.*, D.L., Royal Naval Reserve. Lieutenant (S.D.) (C) Peter Wellings SOCHALL, Captain John Rae McKAIG, Royal Navy. Royal Navy. Contents list on last page.
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