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Order of the Star of Sarawak

Field	Value
title	Order of the Star of Sarawak
awarded_by	The Rajah of Sarawak
type	Order
motto	HARAPLAH SA-LAGI BERNAFAS (As long as i breathe,i hope)
for	to recognise exceptional services by the Sarawak subjects and Foreigners alike to the State of Sarawak
status	Not Awarded since 1946
Dormant order since 2006
head_title	Rajah	head=Charles Vyner Brooke
grades	Master (MSS)
Companion (CSS)
Officer (OSS)
date	1928 - 1946
first_induction	26 September 1928
last_induction	1946
image2	[[File:The_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_Star_of_Sarawak_ribbon.svg	100px]]
caption2	Ribbon of the Order

Dormant order since 2006 Companion (CSS) Officer (OSS)

The Most Excellent Order of the Star of Sarawak (Malay: Darjah Yang Amat Gemilang Bintang Sarawak) was established by Charles Vyner Brooke, The Rajah of Sarawak, on 26 September 1928 as the highest order of chivalry within the Raj of Sarawak. The motto of the Order was "Haraplah Sa-lagi Bernafas", the Sarawak state motto, a translation of the Latin phrase Dum Spiro Spero, which literally means "As long as I breathe, I hope".

When instituted, the Order held dual status as a dynastic order of knighthood as well as a state order, with the Rajah as its Sovereign. It had a bright yellow ribbon with a black line down the centre. When Sarawak became a British colony in 1946, the Rajah stopped making appointments, and in 2006 the Order became dormant upon the death of the last-known recipient, Elizabeth Choy.

In 1964, the post-independence government of Sarawak constituted The Most Illustrious Order of the Star of Sarawak (Darjah Yang Amat Mulia Bintang Sarawak), and in 1988, renamed it The Most Exalted Order of the Star of Sarawak (Darjah Utama Yang Amat Mulia Bintang Sarawak). This current Order has no connection whatsoever with the previous one except in name.

Composition

The Order consisted of:

Sovereign
Grand Master

The three ordinary ranks of members are:

Master (MSS)-consists of breast star, sash, and sash badge.
Companion (CSS)-a badge worn from a necklet.
Officer (OSS)-a badge worn from a medal ribbon on the left breast.

Rank	Appointed	Recipients Name
26-Jun-1929	Charles Vyner Brooke
21-Sep-1941	Sylvia Brooke
31-Mar-1941	Datu Patinggi Abang Haji Abdillah (1862–1946)	A Malay leader in Kuching, and also in Sarawak, renowned for his non-violent struggle against the cession of Sarawak to Britain.
John Beville Archer, CMG
21-Sep-1941	Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark	Chief Secretary of Sarawak
26-Sep-1928	Ong Tiang Swee, OBE (1864–1950)	A renowned Chinese leader in Kuching. His grandson, Late Tan Sri Datuk Amar Ong Kee Hui is a renowned politician.
31-Mar-1941	Abang Suleiman
Inche Haji Mohamed Zin
John Gordon Anderson
Thomas Corson
Cecil Pitt-Hardacre, OBE
Kenelm Hubert Digby
21-Sep-1941	Leonora Margaret Brooke	Daughter of Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke
20-Jun-1946	Thomas Edward Eastick, DSO, ED	Military Governor of Sarawak from 10 September 1945 to December 1945
Tan Bak Lim
Aloysius Hopfgartner	Former Principal of St. Joseph School Kuching (August 1931 – 1934)
27-Jun-1946	John Alfred Smith, OBE
Wee Kheng Chiang	Founder of United Overseas Bank (UOB)
22-Jul-1941	Gerald Trueman MacGill MacBryan	Private Secretary to Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke
31-Mar-1941	Barbara Pitt-Hardacre
20-Jun-1946	Khan Ah Chong, MBE
Lau Chai Lim
Mangu Ah Kui
Charles Stephen Were
Thomas Crocker
Thomas Attenborough
William Geikie
Ethel Annie Henderson, MBE	Nursing Sister, Kuching General Hospital 1935–1942; interned by Japanese
Murugasu Sockalingham
Dennis Charles White
John Coleraine Hanbury Barcroft
Kho Soon Ewe
Chin Shin Sen
George Edward Bacon
27-Jun-1946	Helen Chan
Elizabeth Choy (1910–2006)	North Borneo-born Singaporean war heroine. Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke presented her with the Order in recognition of her work of assisting the British POWs during the Japanese occupation.
Lim Song Kee
Edwin William Howell

References

Sarawak Government Almanac,Percetakan Nasional Malaysia Berhad (Cawangan Sarawak)
(September 2016). "The Most Illustrious Order of the Star of Sarawak". Emedals.com.
http://www.rarusnet.com/popup_image.php?pID=13900 Photo of the Companion medal,rarusnet.com
Sarawak. (1941). "The Sarawak Government Gazette".

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