HONOURS AND GRANTS

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 186, 7 August 1919, Page 5

HONOURS AND GRANTS

BRITAIN'S WAR LEADERS. TWO EARLDOMS CONFERRED. BARONIES FOR CORPS COMMANDERS. BIBDWOOD A BARONET. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 6. The following war honours and grants are announced: — EARLDOMS AND £100,000. Admiral Sir Dilvid Beatty. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. VISCOUNTY AND £50,000. Field-Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby. BARONIES AND £30,000. Field-Marshal Sir Herbert Plumcr. General Sir Henry Rawlinson. General Sir Julian Byng. General Sir Henry Hornc. BARONETCIES AND £10,000. Admiral Sir Charles Madden. Rear-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes Vice-Admiral Sir John De Robcck. Roar-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt. Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. General Sir William Robertson. General Sir William Birdwood. General Sir Hugh Trenchard. G.C.B. and £2500. Sir Maurice Hankej'. Additional grants include: — NAVY. • Admiral Lord Jellicoe, £50,000. Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdec, £10,000. ARMY. Fiejd-Marshal Lord French, £50,000. — (A. and" N.Z.) DOMINIONS THANKED. (Received 10.35 a.m.) , LONDON, August 6. Parliament's vote of thanks to the forces included thanks to the gallant troops of the Dominions, India, and the ccjonies for the promplitudc of their response to the call of justice and freedom, and the noble pr.rt played with their British comrades in securing the triumph of right over wrong. and NZ. Cable.)