page_title: 1940 Birthday Honours
section_title: Military Medal (MM)
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 Birthday Honours / Military Medal (MM)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Military Medal, King 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: Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) William Freemantle Gittins, Royal Artillery.
  Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) Norman Sellix, Royal Artillery.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Harry Bird, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) James Thomson Skinner, The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  Warrant Officer Class III (Platoon Sergeant-Major) Joseph Wilson, Royal Ulster Rifles.
  Company Quartermaster Sergeant J. W. C. Cole, Royal Engineers.
  Company Quartermaster Sergeant Martin Lawrence Friar, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant F. E. Clarke, Royal Artillery.
  Sergeant William Arthur Hill, Royal Artillery.
  Sergeant A. Long, Royal Artillery.
  Sergeant Albert Lionel Cutler, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant Henry Hogie, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant Thomas William Winney, Royal Engineers.
  Sergeant Thomas Walter Goldsmith, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Sergeant George Snowden Osborn, Grenadier Guards.
  Sergeant James Noel Gordon Bennett, Coldstream Guards.
  Sergeant W. Wase, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  Sergeant Herbert Fenwick, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's. Own).
  Sergeant Robert Scott Roriston, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  Sergeant Thomas Pallas, The Durham Light Infantry.
  Sergeant William Henry Baudains, Royal Ulster Rifles.
  Sergeant Norman Victor Henderson, Royal Ulster Rifles.
  Sergeant John Kiely, Royal Ulster Rifles.
  Sergeant T. Cowan, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  Sergeant Charles Henry Port, Corps of Military Police.
  Lance-Sergeant Thomas G. Corradine, Royal Engineers.
  Lance-Sergeant Robert Cecil Kelsall, Royal Engineers.
  Lance-Sergeant Arthur Joseph Pegge, Royal Engineers.
  Lance-Sergeant Douglas Maxwell Watt, Royal Engineers.
  Lance-Sergeant A. Vodden, Royal Engineers.
  Lance-Sergeant Herbert Beevers, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Lance-Sergeant J. E. Coates, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
  Lance-Sergeant T. Cregan, The East Surrey Regiment.
  Lance-Sergeant Martin Jamieson, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
  Bombardier James Kelly Dalgleish, Royal Artillery.
  Bombardier John William Jennings, Royal Artillery.
  Corporal Stanley Goodrick Shotton, Royal Engineers.
  Corporal Andrew Alexander, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Corporal Luke Burnside, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Corporal E. Gilling, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Corporal George Lawson, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Corporal Arthur Cardwell, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
  Corporal Paul Breakspear Kirby, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
  Corporal Walter Hurst, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  Corporal Jack Lindley, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  Corporal H. Barratt, The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  Corporal Thomas Barry, The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  Corporal Henry Reid Dick, The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  Corporal E. Jackson, The East Surrey Regiment.
  Corporal W. Corfield, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  Corporal A. J. Smith, The East Lancashire Regiment.
  Corporal C. Pennington, The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers).
  Corporal Arthur Frank Jarvis, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  Corporal Bernard Watts, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  Corporal J. Cant, The Durham Light Infantry.
  Corporal Phillip McDaid, Royal Ulster Rifles.
  Corporal Graham Christopher Jones, Royal Army Service Corps.
  Corporal V. H. Clare, Corps of Military Police.
  Lance-Bombardier Clement Flavell, Royal Artillery.
  Lance-Bombardier Stephen Louis Manson, Royal Artillery.
  Lance-Bombardier Robert Walter Whellens, Royal Artillery.
  Lance-Bombardier Wilfred Walters, Royal Artillery.
  Lance-Corporal Harold Duckworth, Royal Engineers.
  Lance-Corporal Lionel Halford, Royal Corps of Signals.
  Lance-Corporal Albert Alfred Grove, Coldstream Guards.
  Lance-Corporal Albert Edward Parish, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  Lance-Corporal David Thomas William Reynolds, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  Lance-Corporal G. Golden, The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  Lance-Corporal Thomas Hill, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  Lance-Corporal William James Alexander, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princ
caption: Military Medal, George VI version
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