Guidance

List of recipients of the Elizabeth Emblem - 4th July 2025

Updated 4 July 2025

His Majesty has approved the awarding of the Elizabeth Emblem to the next-of-kin of the public servants listed below. 

• Bernard Goodwin Bourdillon, HMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Died 22 July 1946.
• PC Jack Foster, HMG British Palestine Police Force. Died 29 December 1947.
• PC Robert Gilchrist Broadhead Martin, Metropolitan Police. Died 23 March 1950.
• Lieutenant Robert Watson MM, Malayan Police. Died 29 August 1951.
• PC Isaac Taylor, Lancashire County Police. Died 22 May 1956.
• PC Sidney Leslie Dodd, Essex Police. Died 24 February 1957.
• PC Peter Charles John Griffin, Newport Borough Police. Died 15 March 1960.
• William Oliver, Glasgow Salvage Corps. Died 28 March 1960.
• Ff Kenneth Gledhill, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue. Died 25 May 1963.
• PC Dennis Edward Cowell, Metropolitan Police. Died 22 November 1965.
• Stn-O Henry ‘Bert’ Kenna, Isle of Man Fire Service. Died 22 November 1965.
• DS Christopher Tippett Head, Metropolitan Police. Died 12 August 1966.
• DC David Stanley Bertram Wombwell, Metropolitan Police. Died 12 August 1966.
• PC Brian Armstrong, Gateshead Borough Police. Died 12 September 1966.
• PC Clive Blackburn, Staffordshire County Police. Died 24 February 1967.
• Sub-O Arthur Bertram Chadwick, Derbyshire Fire Service. Died 8 March 1967.
• PC Joseph Stewart Drake, Stirling and Clackmannan Constabulary. Died 11 August 1967.
• Lf John Liptrot, Lancashire Fire Brigade. Died 16 April 1968.
• PC John Robson Taylor, Hull City Police. Died 29 April 1968.
• Lff Ronald Brewer, Doncaster Fire Brigade. Died 25 June 1969.
• PC Douglas Frederick Beckerson, Metropolitan Police. Died 10 April 1971.
• Const Ernest McAllister, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 20 March 1972.
• Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC, HMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Died 10 March 1973.
• PC Royston Victor Jerred, Sussex Police. Died 4 April 1973.
• Const John Doherty, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 28 October 1973.
• Const Robert Megaw, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 1 December 1973.
• PC Dennis Smith, Devon and Cornwall Police. Died 21 December 1973.
• Ff Hamish Harry Pettit, London Fire Brigade. Died 13 January 1974.
• Const Cyril John Wilson, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 17 March 1974.
• Ff Keith Marshall, West Midlands Fire Service. Died 18 March 1974.
• Const John Harrison Forsythe, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 18 June 1974. 
• PC Ian Rodgers, Greater Manchester Police. Died 3 April 1975.
• Res Con Andrew Alexander Baird, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 14 October 1975.
• Res Con Margaret Cherry Campbell, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 21 November 1975.
• Sgt James Hunter, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 15 May 1976.
• Ff John Aloysius Nichol, Northern Ireland Fire Brigade. Died 27 August 1976.
• Sgt Albert Craig, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 18 September 1976.
• Sub-O George William Barrett, West Midlands Fire Service. Died 2 December 1976.
• Const Patrick Liam McNulty, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 27 January 1977.
• Const Kenneth William Sheehan, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 8 April 1977.
• Ff David Barnes, Royal Berkshire Fire Brigade. Died 15 September 1977.
• PC Paul Christopher Clout, Sussex Police. Died 27 September 1977.
• Res Con Robert Albert James Struthers, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 16 June 1978.
• Const William Herbert Turbitt, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 17 June 1978.
• Ff Terence Kenneth Albert Saunders, Avon Fire and Rescue. Died 6 November 1978.
• Sub-O Wesley Orr, Northern Ireland Fire Brigade. Died 16 November 1978.
• Sir Richard Adam Sykes KCMG MC, HMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Died 22 March 1979
• Const Richard Allen Baird, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 17 April 1979.
• Res Con Frederick John Eric Lutton, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 1 May 1979.
• PC Desmond Kellam, Wiltshire Constabulary. Died 3 October 1979.
• PC Glen Russe Corder, Durham Constabulary. Died 6 February 1980.
• Res Con William Wallace Allen, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 31 August 1980.
• Res Con Lindsay Gardiner McDougall, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 14 January 1981.
• William Edward Ivan Toombs, HM Revenue and Customs. Died 16 January 1981.
• Const Gary Desmond Martin, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 27 April 1981.
• Const Andrew Alfred Woods, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 2 August 1981.
• Res Con Snowden Samuel Richard Corkey, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 16 November 1982.
• PC Leonard Coleman, St Helena Police. Died 2 December 1982.
• PC Geoffrey Ivor Ball, Bedfordshire Police. Died 16 February 1983.
• Sgt William Gordon Wilson, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 21 February 1983.
• Res Con James Ferguson, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 6 October 1983.
• Sgt Noel Lane, Metropolitan Police. Died 17 December 1983.
• PC Andrew Le Comte, West Midlands Police. Died 4 February 1984.
• Res Con Trevor George Elliot, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 18 May 1984.
• Insp Patrick Martin Vance, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 31 August 1985.
• PC Paul Richard North, Tayside Constabulary. Died 17 March 1987.
• Brian Samuel Armour, Northern Ireland Prison Service. Died 4 October 1988.
• Bernard Andrew Butt, Walsall Local Authority - Department of Education and Science. Died 21 October 1988.
• PC Mark Alastair Peers, Metropolitan Police. Died 15 February 1989.
• Ff Gerard Thomas Spencer Johnson, Falkland Islands Fire and Rescue. Died 20 May 1989.
• Const Gary Carl Meyer, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 30 June 1990.
• Insp William David Wesley Murphy, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 10 November 1990.
• Const John Spence McGarry, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 6 April 1991.
• PC Michael Frederick Hunns, Devon and Cornwall Police. Died 26 June 1991.
• DC James Morrison, Metropolitan Police. Died 13 December 1991.
• Const Michael John Ferguson, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Died 23 January 1993.
• Ff David Alan Morris, Hereford and Worcester Fire Service. Died 6 September 1993.
• Ff Michael David Hill, London Fire Brigade. Died 10 October 1993.
• PC Patrick Dunne, Metropolitan Police. Died 20 October 1993.
• PC Gina Rutherford, South Yorkshire Police. Died 7 February 1994.
• Ff Roderick Mackenzie Nicolson, Tayside Fire Service. Died 4 December 1995.
• Gwen Mayor, Central Region Scotland. Died 13 March 1996.
• Alastair Gordon Soutar, HM Revenue and Customs. Died 29 July 1996.
• PC Nina Alexandra Mackay, Metropolitan Police. Died 24 October 1997.
• PC Bryan Moore, Leicestershire Police. Died 15 August 2002.
• PC Andrew Munn, Leicestershire Police. Died 15 August 2002.
• Lisa Hallworth, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Died 20 November 2003.
• Ff Michael Liam Brady Miller, East Herts Fire and Rescue. Died 2 February 2005.
• Ali Abdul Hussain, HMG British Consulate, Basra. Died 18 June 2006.
• Ff Ashley Paul Stephens, Warwickshire Fire and Rescue. Died 2 November 2007.
• PC Glen Howe, South Yorkshire Police. Died 24 October 2008.
• Res Con Kenneth Thomas Irvine, Police Service of Northern Ireland. Died 23 November 2008.
• Ff Ewan Williamson, Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue. Died 12 July 2009.
• Const Philippa Reyonlds, Police Service of Northern Ireland. Died 9 February 2013.
• PC Andrew Duncan, Metropolitan Police. Died 22 September 2013.
• PC Gareth Anthony Browning, Thames Valley Police. Died 1 April 2017.
• Russell Michael Curwen, North West Blood Bikes. Died 5 May 2018.
• Tammy Claire Minshall, West Midlands Ambulance Service. Died 3 July 2019.
• Jane Pickett, National Health Service. Died 29 March 2020.
• Charles Goodwin, First 4 Care Ambulance Service. Died 20 April 2020.
• Dr Poornima Nair Balupuri, National Health Service. Died 12 May 2020.
• Ff Daniel Jones, South Wales Fire and Rescue. Died 4 August 2020.
• Rodney Moore, Scottish Ambulance Service. Died 21 November 2020.
• Julie Henderson, Mid and South Essex NHS Trust. Died 1 January 2021.
• David William Morgan, Wye Valley NHS Trust. Died 28 January 2021.
• Jeremy Allen Daw, West Midlands Ambulance Service. Died 24 April 2021.