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MR CHURCHILL’S LIST. LONDON, August 13. The King has approved the following honours 'and awards arising from Mr Churchill’s resignation:— POLITICAL LIST. Viscounts. —Baron Keinsley (Chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Limited); Baron Marchwood (Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party since 1938). Barons. —Sir . George Broadbridge, Sir William Davison, Sir Leonard Lyle and the former Food Minister, Colonel Liewellin.' Privy Councillor.—Sir Cuthbert Headlam. Baronets.—The former Commoners .Ralph Assheton. Harold Mitchell, Sir Walter Womersley and A. S. Young M.P. Kniahts. —Messrs R. Carz, A. P. Herbert, M.P., D. Robertson, M.P., B. Nevenspence, M.P., and Brigadier E. P. Riddell, M.P. Companion of Honour.—Messrs L. Amery and Brown (former Cabinet Ministers). PRIVATE OFFICE LIST. Baronets. —Mr George Steven, M.P., Mr Harvie Watt, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr Churchill, 1941-45, for political services. C.B. — Mr John Miller Martin (Principal Private Secretary to Mr Churchill 1941-45),’ C.M.G.—Commander Charles Ralfe Thompson (personal assistant to Mr Churchill, 1940-45). C.B.E. —■ George Donald Alastair MacDougall (Chief Assistant of Prime Minister’s Statistical Branch throughout the war). MILITARY LIST. Barons. —Field Marshal Sir _A. Brooke, Admiral Sir Andrew Cumngham, Marshal of R.A.F., Sir Charles Portal. Companion of Honour. — General Sir Hastings Ismay. Mr Churchill submitted the above military with Mr Attlee’s approval. _ K C.B. —Major-General Willis Rowland Jefferies,' for original work in the development of special war weapons. C.B. —Colonel Kenneth Grant Post, for work against V-weapons. K.B.E.—Captain Richard Pike Pirn (lately supervisor of the Prime Minister’s defence map room, and head of the upper war room, Admiralty).
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Grey River Argus, 15 August 1945, Page 6
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