- Personnel have been granted state honours for his or her work within the Armed Forces.
- Serving personnel have been recognised for his or her contributions all through the pandemic and interesting with the broader armed forces communities.
Army personnel from throughout the three companies have been recognised for his or her dedication and commendable service within the Queen’s Birthday Honours Listing, revealed in the present day.
All recipients have gone above and past whereas on responsibility, displaying excellent fortitude and dedication to their roles, with many recipients recognised for his or her distinctive contribution to the Armed Forces over long-established careers.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace mentioned:
An enormous congratulations to the Service women and men who’ve been recognised in The Queen’s Birthday Honours Listing. The awards spotlight the expertise, dedication and dedication of our unbelievable Armed Forces.
Our Service personnel proceed to be a terrific supply of delight and inspiration for our nation. They’re the perfect of us, and it’s implausible to see so many recognised for his or her arduous work.
Listed under are examples of a few of the servicemen and ladies who’ve been listed on this 12 months’s Queen’s Birthday Honours Listing.
Captain Harpreet Kaur Chandi, awarded an MBE
Captain Chandi stepped onto the ice of Antarctica on 24 November 2021. In simply 40 days she coated 700 miles, making historical past to turn into the primary lady of color to finish a solo and unsupported trek to the South Pole. Below the identify ‘Polar Preet’, detailed planning and coaching for the expedition took a remarkably quick interval of simply two years. This expedition exemplifies the alternatives for journey and private growth which can be open to all troopers, irrespective of their background, gender or race. She is now the third quickest lady to trek throughout the continent.
Captain Harpreet Kaur Chandi mentioned:
It feels unbelievable. I didn’t assume somebody like me may get this. I’m honoured.
I needed to do one thing that not solely pushed my boundaries but additionally impressed others to do the identical.
Brigadier Karl Harris, awarded a CBE
Brigadier Harris’ exemplary and selfless management of the Army Multicultural Community has been the central think about constructing and sustaining belief between the Army chain of command and its officers and troopers. He commissioned from Sandhurst in 1994 and since then, he has constructed, mentored, and led an off-the-cuff community of multicultural troopers. He arrange the Community in 2015 and in 2020, inside the first weeks of the nationwide lockdown, he assembled a distant working group to know and supply options to mitigate the disproportionate impression of COVID19 on minority ethnic troopers, their households and their items.
Brigadier Harris mentioned:
My father got here to the UK amidst the Windrush Era and served a distinguished 22-year Army profession. It’s his legacy and people of hundreds of others that first impressed me to volunteer to create the Army Multicultural Community. This award is humbling and feels fairly extraordinary – a testomony to our forebears and their legacy.
I’ve a sense of immense gratitude to work with a cohort of phenomenal individuals who have dedicated large quantities of time, effort and emotion to bettering alternatives for all to thrive of their navy careers. They’ve usually shared fairly difficult private testimonies to make a greater future for troopers and their family members.
Air Vice Marshal (The Venerable) John Raymond ELLIS QHC, awarded a Promotion to the Army Division of the Most Honourable order of the Bathtub as a Companion
As Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF, his drive and dedication will depart a legacy based mostly upon management and powerful transformational instincts. He has been on the forefront of the Royal Air Drive’s modernisation {of professional} profession fields, resetting the chaplaincy construction, coaching and profession pathways, on the similar time re-energising chaplaincy recruiting. He additionally oversaw the chaplaincy throughout a very difficult interval the place he weathered the pandemic and turned it to benefit with an array of novel digital worship strategies and fashions which were broadly deployed and copied.
Air Vice Marshal John Ellis mentioned:
As my time as a chaplain within the Royal Air Drive involves a detailed, I replicate on the immense privilege I’ve had sharing within the hopes and journeys of so many unbelievable individuals. As chaplains, we frequently simply quietly get on with that which we really feel referred to as to do and as such, I discover myself completely delighted, however fully humbled to be honoured with such an award.
Commodore Melanie Robinson, awarded a CBE
Commodore Robinson has made an distinctive contribution to Defence from being the primary feminine commanding officer of a Royal Navy warship to being the senior Maritime Reservist and the primary lady to command a preventing arm supporting the Fleet. With a complete long-term imaginative and prescient of how the Maritime Reserves needs to be configured, she has led a generational change in its route and administration. The architect of the transformation of the Maritime Reserves at each degree, her management has fashioned a Reserve drive that may be a credible, related, efficient, and agile preventing arm of the Royal Navy delivering important Defence duties alongside Common colleagues.
Commodore Melanie Robinson mentioned:
I’m really humbled. Thanks to the Royal Naval Reservists and Royal Marines Reservists for embracing my urge for food for generational change. The award spotlights the credibility of the Maritime Reserves as a preventing arm; we exist to ship our individuals capabilities.
I belief I epitomise what could be achieved with the help of a loving household and a Service that’s completely dedicated to adapting its methods of working to unlock individuals’s potential for the betterment of our implausible organisation and for Defence.
Wing Commander Nina Rose, awarded an RRC
Wing Commander Rose is a real ambassador for the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Drive Nursing Service and Defence Medical Companies. Her empathic and genuine management mixed with an operational and tutorial mindset have notably shone within the final 2 years; Wing Commander Rose relentlessly and determinedly handled all that the COVID-19 disaster offered. Her function modelling behaviour and visual management noticed her ahead presence within the scientific areas inspiring the workforce and the place, by her innovation, she managed workforce deficiencies and re-purposed the wards to ship the required surge capability.
Wing Commander Nina Rose mentioned:
I’m honoured and really humbled to have been awarded the Royal Purple Cross. Having nursed for 33 years, I’ve had the privilege of serving inside the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Drive Nursing Service for many of my profession, main groups of exceptionally devoted nurses, ready to take care of our Service personnel all through the affected person care pathway.
Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Geddes, awarded an MBE
Lieutenant Commander Geddes led HMS Defender Marine Engineering Division in offering the very best degree of fabric availability in help of operations. Within the face of appreciable operational constraints, and beneath an acute political highlight, he performed a key function in making certain that the ship was capable of proceed in her important function in help of the strategically necessary United Kingdom Provider Strike Group deployment. His efforts have been notably evident within the profitable outmanoeuvre of hostile forces within the Black Sea.
Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Geddes mentioned:
I really feel overwhelmed to be recognised like this and I’m completely thrilled; to obtain this honour throughout the Jubilee 12 months makes it further particular. My household and associates will probably be so proud. They’ve sacrificed a lot.
I left dwelling at 16 to hitch the Royal Navy as an Artificer Apprentice and it’s been a tremendous journey. The help of my household, spouse Nicole and son all through has been unbelievable and I really feel extraordinarily fortunate to have them.
Wing Commander Manjeet Ghataora, awarded an OBE
Wing Commander Ghataora has been an inspiring advocate and function mannequin delivering excellent outreach work to unrepresented communities. Specifically he has been distinctive at selling STEM and engineering careers to numerous teams of younger individuals. He has additionally used his affect as essentially the most senior Sikh within the Armed Forces to selflessly have interaction with younger individuals and communities throughout the UK.
Wing Commander Manjeet Ghataora mentioned:
This has been such a shock, however I’m completely humbled to be recognised on this Platinum Jubilee 12 months. Having additionally served within the RAF, I need to dedicate this award to my late father, who instilled in me the virtues of humility, selfless service, and the significance of equality.
