Possible Clues:

• Officer laid into a bounder with energy - there's public praise
• Complimentary review
• County youth held by expert gives tribute
• Honour officer infiltrating a rebel environment
• What makes lemon fizzy receives the cold fizzy drink award
• Praise or approval, accompanies awarding of knighthood
• Praise or approval - or elevation to knighthood
• Praise as in elevation to knighthood
• Such a blow at night, by the sound of it, would make one's day
• Touching award