Veterans Affairs Canada is the department within the Government of Canada with responsibility for pensions,benefits and services for war veterans,retired and still-serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),their families,as well as some civilians.
The British Consulate General Hong Kong (BCGHK),located at 1 Supreme Court Road,Admiralty,Hong Kong Island,is one of the largest British consulates general in the world and is bigger than many British embassies and high commissions. It is responsible for maintaining British ties with Hong Kong and Macau.
Robert Leigh Turner is a writer and British former diplomat. His final role was British Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from August 2016 to September 2021. As Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative he wrote a regular blog published in English and German.
Anthony John Abbott,CMG,OBE is a British diplomat,who served as Governor of Montserrat from 1997 to 2001.
Alastair David McPhail is a British diplomat who was the United Kingdom's first Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan,appointed in July 2011 when the country gained independence. He had served as consul-general from 16 March 2011. McPhail left South Sudan in March 2013 and was appointed to be British Consul-General in Jerusalem from January 2014. He was replaced in Jerusalem in 2017 and was appointed to be ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from January 2019. He took up the post on 28 January 2019.
The British Deputy High Commission,Chennai is the United Kingdom diplomatic mission with responsibility for southern India,namely,the states of Andhra Pradesh,Telangana,Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It was formed in 1947 with Sir Christopher Masterman,CSI,CIE, as its inaugural holder,who served as Deputy High Commissioner until the following year. The Deputy High Commissioner is equivalent to a Consul-General,and reports to the British High Commission. The current Deputy High Commissioner is Oliver Ballhatchet. He succeeds Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford.
John James Rankin,is a British diplomat and a former ambassador to Nepal. He is the current Governor of the British Virgin Islands. He was Governor of Bermuda from December 2016 to December 2020.
Sir Philip Robert Barton is a British diplomat,currently the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. He was previously British High Commissioner to India;he was High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2014 to 2016.
The New Year Honours 1923 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 29 December 1922.
The King's Birthday Honours 1950 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King,and were published in supplements to the London Gazette of 2 June 1950 for the British Empire,Australia,Ceylon and New Zealand.
The 1929 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 26 February 1929. The announcement of the list was delayed two months by the health of the king,who fell ill with septicaemia in November 1928. There were no recipients of the Royal Victorian Order and only two recipients in the military division of the Order of the British Empire.
Susan Jane le Jeune d'Allegeershecque is a British diplomat who,most recently,served as British High Commissioner to Canada from 2017 to 2021. She previously served as British Ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2016.
James Nicholas Geoffrey Bowden is a British diplomat who was ambassador to Chile from 2018 to 2020.
