page_title: Honours of Winston Churchill
section_title: Other honours
hierarchical_section_title: Honours of Winston Churchill / Other honours
caption_attribution_description: Left to right: The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke Mr Winston Churchill, in his Trinity House uniform Commander of the 21st Army Group, General Sir Bernard Montgomery at Montgomery's mobile headquarters in Normandy.
context_page_description: The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA received numerous honours and awards throughout his career as a British Army officer, statesman and author.
  Perhaps the highest of these was the state funeral held at St Paul's Cathedral, after his body had lain in state for three days in Westminster Hall, an honour rarely granted to anyone other than a British monarch or consort. Queen Elizabeth also broke protocol by giving precedence to a subject, arriving at the cathedral ahead of Churchill's coffin. The funeral also saw one of the largest assemblages of statesmen in the world.
  Throughout his life, Churchill also accumulated other honours and awards. He was awarded 37 other orders and medals between 1885 and 1964. Of the orders, decorations and medals Churchill received, 20 were awarded by the United Kingdom, three by France, two each by Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and Spain, and one each by the Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Libya, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States. Ten were awarded for active service as a British Army officer in Cuba, India, Egypt, South Africa, the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium.
context_section_description: In 1913, Churchill was appointed an Elder Brother of Trinity House as result of his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty.
  In 1922 he was invested as a Companion of Honour and in 1946 he became a member of the Order of Merit.  In 1953 he was invested as a Knight of the Garter, the highest ranking British order of knighthood.
  On 4 April 1939, Churchill was made an Honorary Air Commodore of No. 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron ("Churchill's Own") in the Auxiliary Air Force. In March 1943, the Air Council awarded Churchill honorary wings.  He retained the appointment until 11 March 1957 when 615 Squadron was disbanded.  He did however continue to hold the rank of Honorary Air Commodore.  He frequently wore his uniform as an Air Commodore during World War II.
  He was the Colonel of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars (his old regiment) and after its amalgamation, the first Colonel Queen's Royal Irish Hussars which he held until his death in 1965. He was also Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.
  From 1941 to his death, he was the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a ceremonial office. In 1941 Canadian Governor General Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, swore him into the King's Privy Council for Canada. Although this allowed him to use the honorific title The Honourable and the post-nominal letters PC, both of these were trumped by his membership in the Imperial Privy Council which allowed him the use of The Right Honourable. He was also appointed Grand Seigneur of the Hudson's Bay Company in December 1955.
  In 1945, he was mentioned by Halvdan Koht among seven candidates that were qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. Actually he nominated Cordell Hull.
  On July 4, 1947 Churchill was admitted as an hereditary member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati.  He was presented with his insignia and diploma when he visited Washington, D.C. on January 16, 1952.
  Churchill held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Kent in 1949.
  In 1953, he was awarded two major honours: he was invested as a Knight of the Garter (becoming Sir Winston Churchill, KG) and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".
  He was Chancellor of the University of Bristol as well as in 1959, Father of the House, the MP with the longest continuous service.
  In 1956, Churchill received the Karlspreis (known in English as the Charlemagne Award), an award by the German city of Aachen to those who most contribute to the European idea, and European peace.
  In 1961 the Chartered Institute of Building named Churchill as an Honorary Fellow for his services and passion for the construction industry.
  In 1964, Civitan International presented Churchill its first World Citizenship Award for service to the world community.
  Churchill was also appointed a Kentucky Colonel.
  When Churchill was 88 he was asked by the Duke of Edinburgh how he would like to be remembered. He replied with a scholarship like the Rhodes scholarship but for the wider masses. After his death, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust was established in the United Kingdom and Australia. A Churchill Trust Memorial Day was held in Australia, raising $4.3 million. Since that time the Churchill Trust in Australia has supported over 3,000 scholarship recipients in a diverse variety of fields, where merit, either on the basis of past experience, or potential, and the propensity to contribute to the community have been the only criteria.
caption: Churchill in his Trinity House uniform with Field Marshal Alan Brooke (left) and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1944
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