A former Dover school boy has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for service to the Crown in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Roger King
Roger King, who will be 63 this month, has served as a household attendant at Government House in Canberra, Australia, for 43 years after emigrating from Dover. He previously lived at Dickson Road and attended Astor School, before he went to Australia with the British Boys movement in 1973, a scheme for helping boys and young men travel to Australia to seek new careers.
Starting as a junior footman, he went on to become valet to the Governor General, and has served 10 Governors-General all of which he can list from memory.
Roger has also waited on visiting heads of state, including Queen Elizabeth II, and says he has thoroughly enjoyed it.
He has two sisters still living in Dover, Valerie Bowes and Margaret Tutthill, and his brother John, who worked on the cross-Channel ferries, died in 2009.
Updated 13/06/17 
