page_title: 1940 Birthday Honours
section_title: Distinguished Conduct Medal
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 Birthday Honours / Distinguished Conduct Medal
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of Distinguished Conduct Medal (George VI version)
context_page_description: The 1940 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published on 9 July 1940.
  The list was postponed from June 13, the official observance of the king's birthday, because of the Cabinet changes in May. There were no civilian awards or peerages granted because of the ongoing war; all honours were given in recognition of war service.
  The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes and then military divisions as appropriate.
context_section_description: Temp. Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Harold Light, Royal Artillery.
  Temp. Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) J. Shelton, Royal Artillery.
  Temp. Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) E. A, K. Martin, Royal Artillery.
  Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Percy William Philip, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) A. Hill, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) A. F. Sutton, The Essex Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) William Henry Godfrey Brancombe, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
  Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) C. Hutchinson, Royal Artillery.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Alfred Baldwin, Royal Engineers.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant) W. W. Page, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) George Edward Clark, The Suffolk Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) L. Mahoney, The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) T. Jackson, The East Lancashire Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) William Connell, The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Reginald Arthur Catchpole, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) William Davies, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
  Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Sidney Ray, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Arthur James Cassford, Grenadier Guards.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Samuel James, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Maurice Marriott, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own).
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) L. G. Warren, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) J. Watson, The East Surrey Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Sidney Lewis Usher, The Border Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Arthur Edward Chapman, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Albert Edwin Gilligan, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Arthur Frederick Slatter, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
  Company Quarter Master Sergeant Cecil Frederick White, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Staff Sergeant F. Prankish, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  Sergeant John Bowen, Royal Artillery.
  Sergeant John Thomas, Royal Artillery.
  Sergeant William Henry Bohlen, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant James Septimus Huskisson, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant Edward Joseph Powell, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant William Dearlove, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Sergeant Gordon Arthur Stanley, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Sergeant Frank Baker, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  Sergeant Reginald Wynn, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  Sergeant John Francis Thompson, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
  Sergeant John James Bruce, The East Lancashire Regiment.
  Sergeant D. Bollands, The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  Sergeant Arthur Cyril Knapp, The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  Sergeant John Wetheringham, The Durham Light Infantry.
  Sergeant John Carruthers, The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  Sergeant Stephen Naish, Corps of Military Police (Field Security Wing).
  Sergeant Anthony Bagot Corbett, Corps of Military Police (Field Security Wing).
  Lance-Sergeant Bertram Talbot Scott Ison, Royal Artillery.
  Corporal W. Strong, The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  Lance-Corporal Percy Meredith, Coldstream Guards.
  Trooper Edwin Glynn, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
caption: Distinguished Conduct Medal as awarded by King George VI
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