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Investiture at Buckingham Palace

BUCKINGHAM PALACE News Release issued by The Government News Network on 8 November 2007

on Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 11 a.m.

THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

To be a Dame Commander:-
Civil Division:-
Dame Mary Keegan

KNIGHT BACHELOR

To receive the Honour of Knighthood:-
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly

THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH

To be a Companion:-
Civil Division:-
Mr. Stephen Jones

THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER

To be Commanders:-
Mr. George Marwick
Mr. Cameron Parker

THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

To be Commanders:-
Military Division:-
Air Commodore Gregory Bagwell, Royal Air Force
Civil Division:-
Felicity Everiss
Miss Clare Marx
Dr. Graham Beastall
Mr. Leslie Byrom
Mr. Michael Eavis Founder and Organiser, Glastonbury Festival. For services to Music.
Colonel Robert Groves
Professor Mayur Lakhani
Mr. Kenneth Monplaisir
Mr. David Pretty

THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER

To be Lieutenants:-
Air Vice-Marshal David Hawkins-Leth, Royal Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Conway Seymour

Mr. Keith de Bellefeuille Percy to receive the insignia conferred on his late wife, Mary, Mrs. de Bellefeuille Percy

THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

To be Officers:-
Military Division:-
Wing Commander Andrew Curtis, Royal Air Force

Civil Division:-
Parvin, Mrs. Ali Founder Director, Forum for Advocacy, Training and Information in a Multicultural Area. For services to Diversity.
Susan, Mrs. Devereux
Patricia Jamieson
Judith, Mrs. Mellor
Mr. William Anderson
Mr. John Beanland
Mr. Barry Day
Mr. David Green
Constable David Gregory, Hampshire Constabulary
Mr. Peter Hutchinson
Dr. Richard McMinn
Mr. James Nicholson
Mr. Peter Sheridan, Assistant Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland
Mr. Geoffrey Shindler
Mr. Richard Vickers

To be Members:-
Military Division:-
Warrant Officer 1st Class Simon Hancock, Royal Navy
Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Cullen, Royal Signals
Major Gary McGown, The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Major Ian Scattergood, The Royal Logistic Corps
Warrant Officer Class 1 Henry French, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment
Warrant Officer Class 2 Gordon Hobbs, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Flight Lieutenant David Stewart, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Mark Farrell, Royal Air Force

Civil Division:-
Kay, Mrs. Briggs
Janet, Mrs. Brooks
Susan, Mrs. Cox
Mary, Mrs. Crane
Alexandra Fontaine
Jeanette, Mrs. Harriman
Catherine, Mrs. Hopkins
Margaret, Mrs. Horrell
Olwyn, Mrs. Keogh
Jean, Mrs. Labaye
Wendy, Mrs. McLoughlin For services to Disabled Children in Hartlepool, Cleveland
61 yrs old (HARTLEPOOL, REDCAR AND CLEVELAND)
She has promoted specialist services for disabled children, and instigated a number of pioneering initiatives. She first became involved when her disabled daughter was born. Concerned at the lack of facilities for such children, she set up the Hartlepool Opportunity Playgroup, open to all children with disabilities and providing support and respite for their families. She joined Friends of Thornhill, a school for the physically handicapped, and became one of its main fundraisers, resulting in a specially adapted minibus and improvements to the school. She also became a Governor of Springwell School for those with learning difficulties and became a champion for the Opportunity Playgroup and children from both schools. She raised funds to initiate the Summer Playscheme for disabled children and their siblings, which is still operating almost 30 years later. She has put her vast skills to great use in developing a double decker playbus which travels to deprived areas giving play opportunities to children and advice to parents. As co-ordinator of Hartlepool Families First, she raises around £350,000 a year from a wide range of trusts and agencies to maintain 33 staff and seven volunteers. Hartlepool Families First was nominated for the GlaxoSmithKline Impact Awards 2006, and was chosen as the overall winner and awarded £30,000 to continue its excellent work.

Mary, Mrs. Newman
Evelyn, Mrs. Paterson
Georgina, Mrs. Scannell
Eirlys, Mrs. Thomas
Agnes, Mrs. Thompson
Barbara, Mrs. Towe
Judy, Mrs. Woolfenden
Mr. John Allen
Mr. Michael Uzebu-Asije Coach, Eastleigh Amateur Boxing Club. For services to Sport
72 yrs old (EASTLEIGH, HAMPSHIRE)
He has devoted himself on a voluntary basis to coaching local young people at Eastleigh Amateur Boxing Club Boxing Club for over 45 years. His service to amateur boxing is second to none and he has made a valuable and important contribution to his local community where he continues to guide, encourage and inspire. Born in Nigeria, he moved to Eastleigh at the age of 12. He joined the sports club and soon developed an interest in boxing. He became a keen and talented boxer, winning the British Rail Boxing Championships for five consecutive years. He also competed at a high level internationally. In 1961 he started coaching and gave up many hours of his time to provide free coaching for local youth clubs. He has achieved much at this grass-roots level of the sport - helping young people to achieve a sense of purpose, self confidence and self respect in a sporting context. He supports the boxers he coaches by travelling with them to shows - as well as supporting them when they have shows at their home venue. Eastleigh Boxing Club has a very good reputation and is growing fast - helped in no small way by his enthusiasm and dedication. He also coaches at other clubs in the area, including Southampton University, whose boxers have won six national titles under his guidance. An unassuming and hard-working man, he has devoted much of his life to supporting children from the area.

Mr. Peter Askham
Mr. Alan Bradbury
Mr. John Braden
Mr. James Coyle
Professor Francis Duck
Mr. Peter Fordham
Mr. Duncan Frame Janitor, Larbert Village Primary School, Falkirk. For services to Education
64 yrs old (STENHOUSEMUIR, FALKIRK)
He has been the janitor at Larbert Village Primary School for many years. In that long and exemplary career he has been a significant factor in ensuring that both pupils and staff experience a welcoming, clean and safe learning environment. His attention to detail is well-known by all and he maintains school fabric and grounds very well indeed. He has given unstintingly of his own time to work directly with children, for example in coaching and organising the school football team for many years, and with considerable success. His relationships with staff, pupils and visitors to the school are first class and his sense of humour is appreciated by all with whom he engages. In addition, for 60 years he has been a loyal supporter of the local football team, Stenhousemuir - a strong and helpful link into community affairs which he uses to advantage in engaging with children and parents. He is very highly regarded by staff in the school and they are extremely concerned about how they can replace his many talents and personality.

Mr. Christopher Green
Mr. Thomas Harper
Mr. Clifford Harris
Mr. Douglas Holliday

Mr. Norman Holloway Chair, Pool Cancer Treatment Trust. For charitable services in Dorset.
78 yrs old (BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET)
He has been involved in the Poole Cancer Treatment Trust (formerly the Scanner Appeal) since its inception in 1972, and has been Chair for the last 19 years. Since then he has worked selflessly and tirelessly to raise money for the purchase of equipment associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The Trust has now donated over £5m to Poole Hospital, as a result of which the hospital has become established as a leading centre for cancer care. Most of this vital fundraising work has been organised single-handedly by him and he has fulfilled the tasks of fundraiser, treasurer, secretary and chair simultaneously, and with total dedication. His enthusiasm for the task is undiminished and there is no doubt that without his efforts the hospital would not be as well equipped as it is today, neither would the depth of experience and expertise amongst clinicians, particularly in radiology, be as great.

Mr. Stephen Johnson
Mr. David Johnston
Mr. Alexander King
Dr. David McKinlay
Mr. David McMullan
Mr. Kenneth Middleton Master Armourer, Firmin and Sons. For services to the Armed Forces
55 yrs old (BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS)
He joined Firmin and Sons as an apprentice in 1967 and has risen to the role of Master Armourer, providing a consistent, diligent service to the company and its customers for 40 years in a role he has fulfilled like his father and grandfather before him. The company is renowned for the manufacture and supply of uniforms and accoutrements for senior officers, Guards of Honour and Palace Guards, as suppliers of medals and medallions and as the world's leading manufacturer of horse furniture for Mounted Ceremonial Troops. Founded in 1677 the company's strength lies in its workforce of skilled craftsmen of which he is the prime example. He has a key role in the production of the helmets and cuirasses for the Household Cavalry Regiments, producing products of the highest quality and which are viewed by many as enduring icons of Great Britain. The splendour of his work is most widely seen on the occasion of The Queen's Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour). He was also heavily involved when ensuring that the officers of the Household Cavalry were all fully equipped when undertaking their duties connected with the Lying-in-State of The Queen Mother in 2002 when the urgent production of special measure helmets and cuirasses fell to his skills alone, requiring long hard hours of work to meet the requirement. His work and his careful tutoring of those who will carry forward the skills necessary to continue to equip the Armed Forces to such a high standard in future is essential, exemplary and continuing.

Mr. Claude Miller
Dr. Peter Nettleton
Warrant Officer Class 1 Roger Nicholas, The Rifles
Mr. Christopher Pittaway
Mr. Peter Saunders
Mr. James Shera
Mr. Stephen Stace
Mr. Michael Stanley
Mr. Ian Thompson
Mr. Dennis Troy
Dr. Paul Twomey
Mr. Stephen Wotton For services to Animal Welfare
50 yrs old (LANGFORD, BRISTOL)
As a lecturer in Food Animal Science at Bath University, he has been involved in research and training, for animal welfare at slaughter, particularly in relation to stunning, for over a quarter of a century. He has contributed to over 60 publications in the field of pain and welfare at slaughter of most domestically reared animals including chicken, turkey, duck, ostrich, cattle, sheep, pigs, trout, salmon and even eels. He has also contributed to research and work on the welfare of animals during transport. In addition to his impressive research background, he has played a key role in taking the outputs from his and colleagues' research on welfare at slaughter through to practical implementation, either through education or the development of new technologies. He has communicated and delivered these outputs through an internationally renowned welfare at slaughter training programme. The courses are excellent, the training delivered in a manner that is inclusive, accounts for the wide variety of educational backgrounds, and has achieved clear benefits in improving the knowledge and skills of those with responsibility for delivering welfare at slaughter. His dedication to taking those very important steps forward in both developing and disseminating slaughter research has touched the working lives of so many involved in the daily slaughter of animals and has certainly impacted on and benefited the welfare of many millions of animals across the world.
The Venerable Dr. Ian Young

THE QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL

To be Decorated:-

Commander Susan Akers, Metropolitan Police
Detective Chief Inspector Sharon Fielding, Humberside Police
Constable Anthony Pike, Lincolnshire Police

THE QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICE MEDAL

To be Decorated:-
Deputy Chief Fire Officer Mazen Khuri, Humberside Fire and Rescue Service

FOR SERVICES IN THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

To be a Member:-
Military Division:-
Major Michael Farrington, The Royal Logistic Corps

FOR SERVICES IN AFGHANISTAN
THE ROYAL RED CROSS

To be an Associate:-
Lieutenant Frank Kelly, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service

FOR SERVICES IN IRAQ
THE MILITARY CROSS

To be Decorated:-
Rifleman Jokini Sivoinauca, The Rifles

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