Honours and Decorations
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire 7 June 1951 (KBE 5 July 1945, CBE 11 July 1940)
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath 12 June 1947 (CB 1 January 1944)
- Distinguished Service Order 25 August 1917
- Military Cross 15 February 1918
- Mentioned in Despatches 26 July 1940, 30 June 1942, 22 March 1945, 9 August 1945
- Virtuti Militari, 5th class (Poland) 15 May 1942
- Commander Legion of Honour (France)
- Croix de Guerre (France) 1945
- Knight Commander of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands) 1945
- Commander, Legion of Merit (United States) 1945
- Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem 2 July 1963 (Commander 2 August 1960)
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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.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)