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War Honours - COMPANIONS OF HONOUR

APPOINTMENTS TO THE NEW ORDER

Announced:- The Times | August 25, 1917, p. 7 & 8

The King has been pleased to make the following appointments:-

COMPANIONS OF HONOUR

LIEUT-GEN RIGHT HON. J. C. SMUTS
HENRY GOSLING, ESQ. President of the Transport Workers' Federation.
MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE. Member of the Council of the Red Cross. President of the Officers' Families' Fund.
MISS HALDANE (ELIZABETH). Vice-Chairman Advisory Council of the Territorial Force Nursing Association.
K. B. QUINAN, ESQ. Special work in connexion with the Explosives Supply Department of the Ministry of Munitions.
SIR H. BABINGTON SMITH, K.C.B. Chairman of several Government Committees.
LORD BURNHAM, President Empire Press Union.
SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM, G.C.M.G. Joint Director Official Press Bureau.
THE HON. EDWARD STRUTT. An agricultural advisor to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
LORD FARINGDON. Vice-Chairman of Shipping Control Committee.
GODFREY JOHN BOYLE VISCOUNT CHETWYND. Managing Director, Chilwell National Shell Filling Factory.
PROFESSOR RIPPER. Vice-Chairman of the Sheffield Munitions Committee.
MRS TENNANT. Formerly Director of the Women's Section National Service Department.
MRS CARRUTHERS (MISS VIOLET MARKHAM). Formerly Assistant Director, Women's Section, National Service Department.
WILLIAM JOHN DAVIES, ESQ, J.P. Brassworkers and Metal Mechanics. Special work in connexion with recruiting and labour.
ALEXANDER WILKIE, ESQ, M.P., J.P. Ship Constructor's and Shipwrights' Association. Special work in connexion with recruiting and labour.