Honours and Awards
'Weary' Dunlop received many honours and awards throughout his life, including:
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1947)
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1965)
- Knight Bachelor (1969)
- named Australian of the Year 1976
- Companion of the Order of Australia (1987)
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (1992)
- Knight Grand Cross (1st Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Royal Crown of Thailand (1993)
- Honorary Fellow of the Imperial College London
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Honorary Life Member of the Returned and Services League of Australia
- Life Governor of the Royal Women's Hospital and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.
In 1988 'Weary' Dunlop was named one of '200 Great Australians'. In June 2008, he was honoured in the third set of inductees into the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame.
He received the posthumous honour of having the Canberra suburb of Dunlop named after him shortly after his death in 1993. His image is on the 1995 issue Australian fifty cent piece with the words "They Served Their Country in World War II, 1939 - 1945". The fifty cent piece is part of a set including the one dollar coin and the twenty cent piece. He has a platoon named after him in the Army Recruit Training Centre, Blamey Barracks, Kapooka. Weary Dunlop Platoon is a holding platoon to recruits that want to leave recruit training.
He was on one of 1995 Australia Remembers 45c stamps.
He was a Freemason.
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