I’m working on a Wikipedia page for someone who received an MBE, and I would like to add an official citation for the MBE. Sadly, the official site is pretty much useless, having only the most recent honorees, and that only in PDF format. Andthe Wikipedia article doesn’t have a complete list either. I have plenty of book and magazine references, and a photo of the guy outside of Buckingham Palace wearing the medal, but something from a .gov.uk address would be most useful.
MBE is the lowest rank of the Order of the British Empire. This official page may be more useful:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/OrderoftheBritishEmpire.aspx
Yeaaaaaaah…I linked to that one in the OP. As I said, it had nothing.
It should also be noted that although OBE is alleged to stand for “Order of the British Empire”,
it is actually an acronym for “Other Buggers’ Efforts”.
No, you linked to a different, less informative, page. Same site though.
The article I’m working on it about someone who was not a citizen of the UK. Is there a limit to the highest honor a non-British can receive?
It’ll be in a London Gazette supplement from the day the honours list was published. The search isn’t the easiest to use, but if you find it, Wikipedia has a special template to use when citing it.
No more informative. Same video too.
Home\The Queen and the UK\Queen and Honours\Order of the British Empire
vs.
Home\The Queen and the UK\Queen and Honours
As I said, I’ve been groveling through the official site with no luck. Searches on the name produced no results.
And Queenie can shove each and every one of her shiny little badges where the sun never sets.
No luck. The problem is that he was awarded his MBE right after WWII, secretly. He received the physical medal and thanks from the Duke of Edinburgh in June of 1984, 40 years later after he had faked his own death.
That would be painful. They are very pointy.
Ah right, I see what you are looking for. Apologies. If it was an award in the Military Division then http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wo373.asp might be of use. For civilian awards, they’ll have all been published in the London Gazette http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/
A search on both sites yielded nothing. The article is on the Spanish double-agent Joan Pujol Garcia (also spelled Juan). Here he is wearing his PrettyVacant approved suppository.
GARBO! An interesting character, to say the least, heh. I’m sure you will have seen his page on the official MI5 site, but for others reading https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/agent-garbo.html
It’s one of my original sources. I just started reading his autobiography, and I have Thomas Harris’s version coming, followed by Thaddeus Holt’s The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War.
PrettyVacant, I know most Royal honors are bullshit, but this particular one was richly deserved for doing something that turned the tide of the war and ensured that Normandy was a success.
Sorry about being coy about his name earlier, but the Dope eats its own.
I first heard of him from reading Anthony Cave Brown’s Bodyguard of Lies, which is a bit of an eye-opener about how utterly sneaky the intelligence services were during WWII. Brown seems to have not been entirely accurate about the detail of things, but the general thrust is correct.
The more I learn about GARBO’s career and Operation Fortitude the more unbelievable it gets. What the hell did the folks in the factory making inflatable tanks think? I mean, this is something right out of Hogan’s Heroes.
Then I try to imagine what D-Day would have been like with Rommel’s tanks.
Indeed, Normandy was hard enough. The German High Command were convinced for an unfeasibly long time after the landings that they were only a feint, and the real thing was going to happen around Calais. Oops. I’d like to have been a fly on the wall when General Patton was told he was going to be in charge of a fictitious Army Group!
Well, it was not like he had met all the men under his command. What’s another twenty-five divisions between friends?
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PrettyVacant, political jabs are not permitted in General Questions. You’ve been around long enough to know the rules, so I’m making this a warning instead of a note. Don’t do this again.
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