wearing his Légion d'honneur and other insignia in 2009. ;Grand Officer • General
Sir John Monash, (1919), appointed Grand Officier during
World War I ;Commander • Air Chief Marshal
Mark Binskin, (2017), Chief of the Defence Force, appointed Chevalier in 2015 •
Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston, (2007), former
Chief of the Defence Force •
Sir Ninian Stephen (1983),
Governor-General of Australia ;Officer • Major General
Sir John Gellibrand, (1919), Commander
3rd Australian Division, appointed Officier during
World War I • General Sir
Peter Cosgrove, ,
Governor General of Australia • General
David Hurley, (2012),
Governor of New South Wales • Vice Admiral
Ray Griggs, (25 March 2014),
Chief of Navy • Dame
Marie Bashir, (2014),
Governor of New South Wales. Was also appointed Chevalier in 2009 • Lieutenant General
David Morrison, (July 2014), Chief of Army. • Vice Admiral
Tim Barrett, (8 April 2017), Chief of Navy. • Vice Admiral
David Johnston, (16 November 2018), Vice Chief of the Defence Force. •
Nancy Wake, partisan of the
French Resistance in World War 2 ;Chevalier •
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Michael Bruxner, (1917), later to become a prominent NSW politician, was appointed as a Chevalier "in recognition of distinguished services" during the
Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War • Lieutenant General
Sir Leslie Morshead, (1919),
33rd Battalion,
AIF, appointed Officier during
World War I • Professor
Francis Patrick Donovan (1998), appointed Chevalier in recognition of services to the
International Court of Arbitration and the relationship between France and Australia. •
Charlie Mance (Age 98) travelled to France in 1998 to receive the medal for serving in France as an ally in World War One. •
Robert Cowper (2004), flying ace of the Second World War •
Tom Hughes, (2005), prominent barrister and Attorney-General in the
Gorton Government, appointed Chevalier for his contribution as an RAAF pilot in the D-Day landings •
Suzanne Cory, (2009), professor of medical research with the
Institut Pasteur •
Duncan Kerr, Judge of the
Federal Court of Australia (2011) • Professor
Kurt Lambeck , (2013), geoscientist who helped establish the
Centre national d'études spatiales (National Centre for Space Studies) •
John Spender KC (2013) •
Edmund Charles Spencer World War I veteran awarded the Légion d'Honneur on the 80th anniversary of the armistice. • Rear Admiral
Michael Noonan, (October 2017), Deputy Chief of Navy •
Gordon Victor Fells Powell (born 1925), Royal Navy, was appointed Chevalier in the Ordre National de la Légion D'honneur in May 2017 in recognition of his service in WWII as a Gunner during the liberation of France at the Normandy D-Day Landings, and the building of the Mulberry Docks. •
Leslie Eric Emmerson, British Army, 43rd Regiment, Bren Gunner, was appointed Chevalier in the Ordre National de la Légion D'honneur in May 2017 in recognition of his outstanding WWII service during the liberation of France both during the Normandy D-Day Landings, and throughout France. Flight Lieutenant Herbert George‘Bert’ Adams, RAAF Service No. 424504, Bomber Command WWII: 1939-45 star, with a Bomber Command clasp, DFC, National Order of the Legion of Honour. == Austria ==