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1953 Additional Honours (Korea)

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The 1953 Additional Honours were appointments made by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to various orders and honours released on 4 December 1953,[1] in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in Korea.

Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

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Further information: Order of the British Empire
Ribbon bar of the Order of the British Empire (Military)
Ribbon bar of the Order of the British Empire (Civil)

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

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Military Division
  • Brigadier (temporary) Guy Patrick Gregson, D.S.O., M.C. (34436), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

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Military Division
  • Major Reginald Gordon Atkinson, M.C. (63627), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Major Arthur John Batten, D.C.M. (284001), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edward Cecil Richard Blaker (53657), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) Arthur Maurice Field, M.C. (47560), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Charles Hopkinson, D.S.O., M.C. (47586), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Richard Ralph George Gower Godson Noyes, M.B.E. (56667), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hamish Taite (52726), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

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Military Division
  • Captain Douglas William Arthur Ambidge, M.C. (304676), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Geoffrey John Athill (124793), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major Walter Bull (134778), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 2567260 Warrant Officer Class II George Alfred Calvert, The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Major James Sidney Duncan (279935), Royal Army Service Corps (Expeditionary Force Institutes).
  • Captain Graham Howell Edwards (364253), Royal Army Educational Corps.
  • Major John Antony Fletcher (74532), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 10673511 Warrant Officer Class II Charles Harold Joseph Gibbens, The Durham Light Infantry.
  • 4611264 Warrant Officer Class II John Stanley Hall, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • 5178368 Warrant Officer Class I Jack Hobbs, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • Captain Charles Howard Hodkinson (251259), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Major Derek Gordon Thomond Horsford, D.S.O. (380035), The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • 797469 Warrant Officer Class I Alfred Leonard Hunt, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major John Henry Peyton Jones (85547), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) John Alastair Kennedy (338800), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Robert King-Clark, M.C. (62647), The Manchester Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) Ian Aldan Poyntz-Gaynor Leigh (300503), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Robert Andrew Alexander Scarth Macrae (66173), Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's).
  • Captain James Anthony Massey (286773), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major (temporary) (now Major) Guy Level Newberry-Cobbett (113325), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • The Reverend Thomas James Trail Nicol, M.C. (160767), Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class, Royal Army Chaplains Department.
  • The Reverend James Patrick Petry (414458), Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • Major James Maxwell Sawers (95201), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • 2754502 Warrant Officer Class I William Scott, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
  • Major Kenneth Musgrave Sykes (75113), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • 2717701 Warrant Officer Class I Dennis William Thompson, The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • Captain (temporary) John Bryan Tonkinson (381263), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Captain Edward William Turner (342238), Corps of Royal Engineers.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

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Military Division
  • 14821977 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Charles Hutchison Anderson, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 5436972 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Alfred Burt, Army Catering Corps.
  • 22259436 Sergeant (acting) John Robert Coxon, The Durham Light Infantry.
  • 819880 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Ernest Frederick Albert Ellis, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.'
  • 3769322 Colour-Sergeant (acting) (now Colour-Sergeant) Robert Ernest Gee, the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
  • T/112705 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Robert Tullis Houston, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • 22538042 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Henry Albert Martin, Royal Army Service Corps (Expeditionary Forces Institutes).
  • 5182247 Warrant Officer Clajss II (acting) Albert Edward Morton, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 6845001 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Warrant Officer Class I (acting)) Alfred Parish, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • 6343388 Staff-Sergeant (provisional) Frank Rixon, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • 14462559 Sergeant William James Smyth, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 6203560 Sergeant (acting) Albert Sykes, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 22197930 Sergeant (acting) Kenneth Leslie Williams, Corps of Royal Military Police.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

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Third Bar to the Distinguished Service Order.
Second Bar Bar to the Distinguished Service Order.
Bar to the Distinguished Service Order.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Peter John Jeffreys, D.S.O., O.B.E. (44141), The Durham Light Infantry.
Distinguished Service Order.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Geoffrey Brennan, C.B.E. (50228), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Captain Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley, M.C. (251309), The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • Major Edgar Denis Harding (67136), The Gloucestershire Regiment.

Military Cross (MC)

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Bar to the Military Cross.
  • Major Aveling Barry Martin Kavanagh, M.C. (95620), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Major William Miller Mackay, D.S.O., M.C. (380040), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Military Cross.
  • Major Rudolf Edmund Austin (62586), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Lieutenant David Leslie Borwell (409760), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Captain (temporary) Peter Desmond Robin Childs (376220), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Captain George Leslie Conroy Cooper (357063), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant Geoffrey Tom Costello (379283), The Royal Hampshire Regiment.
  • Second-Lieutenant Neville Frederick Deaville (424839), The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • Major (temporary) Robert Keith Denniston (176941), Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's).
  • Major Anthony Denys Firth, M.B.E. (85646), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Second-Lieutenant (now Lieutenant) David Stuart Gilbert-Smith (419724), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Captain Noel Christopher Ogilvie Grant (296006), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Vivian Henry Spencer Hannay (125185), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Captain Jerrold Alexander Harrison (289691), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Captain Robert Patrick Hickey, M.B., B.S. (359331), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major Henry Hubert Hill (95246), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
  • Second-Lieutenant Patrick John Bogan Hobson (421516), The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • Second-Lieutenant Douglas John Hollands (423800), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Major John Douglas King-Martin (378783), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Anthony Onslow Laurence Lithgow (177766), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
  • Second-Lieutenant Robert Brian Macgregor-Oakford (421593), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Captain Douglas Robert Patchett (375425), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Second-Lieutenant Alec George Broome Salmon (423587), The South Wales Borderers.
  • Major (temporary) Robert Edmond Scott (326145), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Major Francis Scott Gordon Shore (71008), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Second-Lieutenant (now Lieutenant) Humphrey Adam John Stacpoole (418393), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).
  • Major John Aveline Waters Taylor (75264), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).
  • Lieutenant John Anthony Teague (408057), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
  • Lieutenant Guy Frederick Bertram Temple (400087), The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • Second-Lieutenant Anthony Brian Uwins (420941), The King's Regiment (Liverpool).

Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM)

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  • 5182071 Warrant Officer Class II Harry Gallagher, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 5949801 Sergeant (acting) Peter John Pugh, The Gloucestershire Regiment.

Military Medal (MM)

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  • 800936 Warrant Officer Class II George Eric Askew. Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 22526706 Corporal Robert William Beattie, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
  • 22305965 Gunner Thomas Bond, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 1779557 Sergeant (acting) Frederick James Brundish, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 21015022 Sergeant (acting) Thomas Fain Clayden, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 22612736 Fusilier (now Lance-Corporal (acting)) John Sidney Dalton, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), attached The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
  • 251663 Private Sidney Edwards. The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 22615533 Gunner William George Elcoat, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 22692390 Private Edward David Ellison, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers attached The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • 22549787 Corporal Michael Montague Garrett, The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  • 22637355 Lance-Corporal (acting) Ronald Henry Griffiths, Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • 22621410 Private (now Lance-Corporal) Derek Harvey, The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • 5348543 Staff-Sergeant (acting) (now Sergeant) Clifford Jackson, D.C.M., Intelligence Corps.
  • 2524254 Corporal (acting) Robert Lofthouse, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attached The Durham Light Infantry.
  • 14181341 Sergeant (acting) John Macfarlane, Royal Tank Regiment,. Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 2410094 Lance-Bombardier (acting) Geoffrey Machen, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 22795542 Corporal (acting) Henry McKenzie, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment).
  • 22530094 Private Robert Leslie Middleton, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 1151574 Bombardier Arthur Newbold, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 22249555 Sergeant (acting) Thomas Nowell, The York and Lancaster Regiment.
  • 7265709 Corporal Cyril James Papworth, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • 1444977 Sergeant (Acting) Sydney Robinson, The Gloucestershire Regiment (since died).
  • 6103948 Private James Arthur Walter Robson. The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 122208199 Sergeant (acting) John Boyle Simpson, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • 22773552 Lance-Corporal now Corporal (acting)) Robert James Stockton, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
  • 2530161 Private Douglas Michael Robertson Walker, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • 14051827 Sergeant (acting) Allan James George Wallace, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.

References

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  1. ^ "No. 40036". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 December 1953. pp. 6651–6654.
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