• Sir Collingwood Schreiber played a key role in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and now has a township named after him?

Facts on topics related to Order of St Michael and St George

Royal Victorian Order

• British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987?

Order of the Bath

• Frederick Arthur Whitaker, Civil Engineer-in-Chief to The Admiralty, was also a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the French Legion of Honor?

Order of the British Empire

• US physicist Gaylord Harnwell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh?
• Allah Bux Soomro, Premier of Sindh, renounced his OBE and the title of Khan Bahadur and resigned his membership in the National Defence Council of India during the Quit India Movement?
• Christopher Maude Chavasse was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Bishop of Rochester, and an Olympic athlete?
• Ella Anker, decorated with the Order of the British Empire, founded a Norway-based version of the Anglo-Norse Society?
• Ernest Dynes, best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE?
• Jane Couch MBE, nicknamed The Fleetwood Assassin, became the first female boxer to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control?
• Mary Perkins was the first female optician to be made a Dame Commander of the British Empire?
• Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet was awarded the MBE (Military Division) for his many escape attempts while a prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders?
• after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
• oarsman and 1932 Olympic Champion Rowland George was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Distinguished Service Order for his service during World War II?

Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom

• Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
• Neville McNamara (pictured) was only the second RAAF officer to be promoted Air Chief Marshal, and the last Chief of the Air Staff to be knighted before Australia abandoned imperial honours?