Honours
(ribbon bar, as it would look today; UK decorations only)
- King George V Silver Jubilee Medal-1935
- King George VI Coronation Medal-1937
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)-1942
- 1939-1945 Star-1945
- Burma Star-1945
- Africa Star-1945
- Italy Star-1945
- British War Medal-1945
- India Service Medal-1945
- Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)-1946
- Indian Independence Medal-1947
- Grand Cross of the Romanian order
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy-1966
- Six other foreign honours
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Famous quotes containing the word honours:
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)