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Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January, 1958 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1 JANUARY, 1958 CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS Wing Commander Norman Arthur SMITH, OF KNIGHTHOOD. M.B.E. (43308), Royal Air Force (Retired). St. James's Palace, S.W.I. Acting Wing Commander Walter Morton COOKSON, M.B.E. (199176), Royal Ak Force. 1st January, 1958. Acting. Wing Commander Ernest Irving The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to ELLIOTT (500173), Royal Air Force give orders for the following promotions in, Regiment. and appointments to, the Most Excellent Acting Wing Commander Alfred George Order of the British Empire: — MASON (67876), Royal Ak Force Volunteer To be an Ordinary Knight Grand Cross of the Reserve (Training Branch). Squadron Leader Philip Edmund LINDSEY- Military Division of the said Most Excellent HALLS (45235), Royal Air Force. Order :— Squadron Leader Charles Theodore LYNAS Air Chief Marshal Sk Donald HARDMAN, (53151), Royal Ak Force. K.C.B., O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader William Laurence PRICE To be Ordinary Knights Commanders of the (130122), Royal Ak Force. Military Division of the said Most Excellent Squadron Leader William SMITH (55971), Order :— Royal. Ak Force. Squadron Leader Stanislaw WANDZILAK, Air Marshal Hugh Alex CONSTANTINE, C.B., D.F.C., A.F.C. (500039), Royal Ak Force. C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force. Acting Squadron Leader John ERNSTING, M.B., Air Marshal Patrick Brunton Lee POTTER, B.S. (503637), Royal Ak Force. C.B.E., MD., Ch.B., Q.H.S., Royal Ak Force. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Divi- sion of the said Most Excellent Order:— To be Ordinary Commanders of the Military Squadron Leader Henry Brian ALTY (49672), Division of the said Most Excellent Royal Air Force. Order :— Squadron Leader Harold ASHMAN (73069), Air Commodore Henry Gordon BLAIR, Royal Royal Air Force. Air Force. Squadron Leader Alec BARRELL (152797), Air Commodore Cecil Thomas WEIR, D.F.C., Royal Ak Force. Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader Francis George HARLEY Air Commodore George Holford WHITE, (51769), Royal Ak Force. O.B.E., Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader Raymond Stanley HARRIES Group Captain Reginald Henry Clifford (106273), Royal Air Force. BURWELL, O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Squadron Leader Vernon Thomas LAND Group Captain Harold John HOBBS, Royal Air (105794), Royal Air Force. Force. Squadron Leader Alec James Albert WOOD Group Captain Henry Egbert HOPKINS, D.F.C., (50505), Royal Air Force. A.F.C., Royal Ak Force. Acting Squadron Leader Leonard Sidney Group Captain Donald Henry LEE, D.F.C., William DURSTON (58179), Royal Ak Force. Royal Air Force. Acting Squadron Leader George GLEAVE Group Captain David Cecil McKiNLEY, (67854), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. (Training Branch). Group Captain Hugh Cuthbert Sutcliffe Flight Lieutenant John Arthur CANT (44174), PIMBLETT, M.D., B.S., Royal Air Force. Royal Air Force. Group Captain Peter Russell WALKER, D.S.O., Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Guy FLINTOFT D.F.C., Royal Air Force. (104366), Royal Air Force. Group Captain Freke William WISEMAN- Flight Lieutenant Christopher Culverwell CLARKE, M.B.E., Royal Air Force. HARVEY (56060), Royal Air Force. Flight Lieutenant Peter Robert HETHERINGTON To be Ordinary Officers of the Military (165939), Royal Ak Force. Division of the said Most Excellent Flight Lieutenant Harold Thomas Woodward Order :— HOUGHTON (200572), Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Eric BALDWIN, D.S.O., Flight Lieutenant Anthony Sidney JARVIS D..F.C., D.F.M. (47403), Royal Air Force. (502996), Royal Ak Force Regiment. Wing Commander Andrew Dent BALMAIN Flight Lieutenant Stanley Howard JENKINS (45923), Royal Ak Force. (109087), Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Douglas BOWER, M.B.E., Flight Lieutenant Adrian Brian McGuiRE A.F.C. (134060), Royal Ak Force. {2329184), Royal Air Force Regiment. Wing Commander Bernard Gordon DICKINSON Flight Lieutenant George Melville McNeiL (31216), Royal Air Force. (503128), Royal Ak Force. Wing Commander Edmund DONOVAN, D.F.C. Flight Lieutenant David Henry James MARTIN- (117677), Royal Ak Force. JONES (1826010), Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Denis William EDMONDS, Flight Lieutenant Gerald Anthony MORGAN- D.F.C., A.F.C. (39435), Royal Ak Force. SMITH (169049), Royal Air Force. Wing Commander Frank John. FRENCH, D.F.C., Flight Lieutenant Ronald Frederick REDDING A.F.C. (72120), Royal Ak Force. (166638), Royal Ak Force. Wing Commander David Abbott GREEN, Flight Lieutenant Leonard Alan ROBERTSON D.S.O., D.F.C. (82179), Royal Ak Force. (130231), Royal Air Force (Retired). Wing Commander Harry Graham HASTINGS, Flight Lieutenant William Maurice SHEVLIN A.F.C., A.F.M. (36226), Royal Ak Force. (502135), Royal Ak Force Regiment. Wing Commander Alec Richard HINDLEY, Flight Lieutenant William Moray Cumming A.F.C. (42837), Royal Ak Force. SKINNER (59949), Royal Air Force Regiment. Wing Commander Eric John PENTON-VOAK Flight Lieutenant Rickman SMYTH (187185), (47971), Royal Ak Force. Royal Ak Force..
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