Status Dormant order Grades Member (OB) | Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II Established 10 May 1940 | |
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Type Colonial orders of knighthood Awarded for Long, faithful and honourable service of members of certain armed forces in Burma; as well as gallantry and particularly meritorious service | ||
The Order of Burma was founded by Royal Warrant on 10 May 1940 conferred in a single class. Recipients were entitled to the post-nominal letters OB. Only 33 individuals were ever made members of the order.
The government of post-independence Burma created the Pyidaungsu Sithu Thingaha to replace the Order of Burma on 2 September 1948.
References
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