Honours and Decorations
- Order of the Nile (4th Class) (Egypt) - 16 January 1920
- Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)- 9 September 1942
- Distinguished Service Order (DSO) - 30 December 1941
- Bar to DSO - 20 April 1944
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) - 1945
- Knight Commander of the Star of India (KCSI) - 12 June 1947
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“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.”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)