Honours and Awards
| Victoria Cross (VC) | 1943 | |
| Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and Bar (DSO & Bar) | 1942 | |
| Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar (DFC & Bar) | 1940 | |
| 1939–45 Star | ||
| Air Crew Europe Star with Clasp | ||
| War Medal 1939–1945 | ||
| Commander of the Legion of Merit | (United States) 1943 |
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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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