Honours and Awards
- Knight of the Order of the Thistle - 26 April 1971
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath - 12 June 1947 (KCB - 4 March 1941, CB - 11 July 1940)
- Distinguished Service Order - 16 August 1917 and Bar - 1918
- Military Cross - 18 February 1915
- Mentioned in Despatches (13 times) - 17 February 1915, 1 January 1916, 4 January 1917, 15 May 1917, 18 December 1917, 30 May 1918, 4 December 1918, 6 January 1919, 5 June 1919, 15 September 1939, 1 April 1941, 27 January 1944, 22 March 1945
- Legion of Honour, Commander
- Croix de Guerre with palm
- Silver Medal of Honour (Italy) - 1918
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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)