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Sir Robert Menzies

Posted in 1976

  • Order of AustraliaAppointed a Knight in the General Division of the Order of Australia for "extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit in the field of government." The certificate of award reads:

John R Kerr
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Chancellor of the Order of Australia
To
Robert Gordon Menzies

Greeting
WHEREAS with the approval of Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Australia
and Sovereign of the Order of Australia,
I have been pleased to appoint you to be a
Knight in the General Division
of the Order of Australia.

I DO by these Presents appoint you to be a
Knight in the General Division of the said Order and authorise you to hold and enjoy the dignity of such appointment together with Membership in the said Order and all privileges thereunto appertaining.

GIVEN at Government House, Canberra,
under the Seal of the Order of Australia
this twelfth day of June 1976.

By His Excellency's Command
David Smith
Secretary of the Order of Australia