The 1944 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 2 June 1944 for the United Kingdom and British Empire,[1][2] New Zealand,[3] and South Africa.[4]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Military Division
Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Commander Robert Edward Sanders, RNR.
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Alexander Dixon, RNVR. (Newcastle upon Tyne).
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander William James Muddock, RNVR. (Kingston).
Lieutenant-Commander Benjamin Whitcutt, Burma RNVR.
Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (A) Geoffrey Hamilton Bates, RNVR. (East Sheen).
Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (A) William Arthur Jevons Street, RNVR (Cheswerdine, Shropshire).
Lieutenant-Commander (E) Raymond Hadyn Tribe. (Compton, Berkshire).
Acting Engineer Lieutenant-Commander William McDonald, RNR (Retd).
Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (E) Bernard Seymour Tharp, RNR.
Acting Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Charles Joseph Richard Souhamy. (Plymouth).
Acting Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Peter White. (Amersham).
Acting Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Harry Watson, (Retd).
Captain (temporary Major) Lindsay Barclay (176047), South African Medical Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Henry David Hardington Bartlett (93379), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major (Quartermaster) Herbert Ralph Barton, MC, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.
Lieutenant (Assistant Inspector of Armourers) Charles William Beardall (282872), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) George Gordon Bell (70643), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
Lieutenant H. A. Bennet, Trinidad Home Guard.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Frank Albert Edmund Bjorseth (73259), South African Armoured Corps.
Major (Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Staff Paymaster 1st Class) Cecil Charles Blackwell (6240), Royal Army Pay Corps.
7591424 Warrant Officer Class II Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Sidney Bolton, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
No. 7603434 Warrant Officer Class I Sub-Conductor Laurence Antoine Edward Butler Bourlay, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Reginald Brandon, AMInstCE, (181572), Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (acting Captain) Henry Hill Brewer, MC, (46531), Reserve of Officers, General List.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Arthur Brookes (245894), Royal Army Service Corps.
No. 846872 Warrant Officer Class I Sergeant-Major Assistant Instructor Henry John Brown, Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Herbert Francis Granger-Brown (102540), The Devonshire Regiment.
Captain (Quartermaster) Thomas Alfred Brown (75986), Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant Gordon James Buck, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.
Major Arthur Clifford Howie Bull, Hertfordshire Home Guard.
Major (Commissary) Bernard Burke, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Captain (Quartermaster) Clifford Burton (144488), The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
No. 3241 Battery Sergeant Major Emanuel Buttigieg (3241), Royal Malta Artillery.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Harold Ernest Caldwell (99119), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
No. 7588402 Sub-Conductor James Caldwell, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Charles Calder (76219), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major (Quartermaster) Bertie Henry Capel, Indian Army.
Captain (temporary Major) James Carreras (160321), Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Eric Archibald Catesby (99688), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major Edmund Cawkell, Essex Home Guard.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Jack Howarthe Paul Chadburn (202411), Intelligence Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Randolph Coningsby Chapman, MC, (21423), Territorial Army, Reserve of Officers, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
Captain (Quartermaster) Frederick Charles Cheetham (92277), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army).
Major Samuel John Chesser (101280), Royal Army Medical Corps.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Guy Chignell (74560), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Captain (temporary Major) William Middleton Chrispin (127016), Royal Army Service Corps.
Major George Smith Christie, Aberdeen and Kincardine Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) Stanley William Clark (182533), Royal. Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Frederick Clare, DCM, (31070), Extra Regimentally Employed List.
Captain (Deputy Commissary) (temporary Major) Herbert Geoffrey Coates, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (Quartermaster) Henry James Ironside Coker (137699), The Durham Light Infantry.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Colin Richard James Connors (42192), Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Harry Edward Cook (181952), General List.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Eustace Haynes Peel Corbin (30019), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (Territorial Army).
Captain (temporary Major) John Bisp Cossens (89169), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) Territorial Army.
Second-Lieutenant James Cottam, late West Riding Home Guard.
Captain George Henry Cotton, Southern Railway Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) Thomas James Cowen (121118), The Border Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) Charles Burton Edward Cowie (161330), The East Surrey Regiment.
No. 5766720 Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant Major William Thomas Crisp, Royal Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant Andrew Basil Crosby, Surrey Home Guard.
Captain (Quartermaster) (temporary Major) William John Patrick Croft (147934), The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
Captain (temporary Major) Alexander William Thomas Cross (110599), Royal Engineers.
Captain (Brevet Major) (temporary Major) Francis George Crozier (6504), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
Major Aldington George Curphey, MC, Jamaica Medical Corps.
No. 1862515 Company Sergeant Major Herbert Thomas Cypher, Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) William James Damerell, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Major Walter William Scott-Davidson, Kinross Home Guard.
Captain Arthur William Davies, Surrey Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) James Runciman Denny (52948), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
No. 1652623 Warrant Officer Class II (acting Warrant Officer Class I) John Denton, Army Educational Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) John Henry Dirs (266333), Royal Corps of Signals.
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) William Arthur Dixon (199891), The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) Clifford Alfred Dove (108008), Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) George Greig Dow (147011), Royal Artillery.
Major Archibald James Macalpine-Downie (33678), late Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
Temporary Major William Douglas Draffan, The King's African Rifles.
No. 93654 Warrant Officer Class II Staff Quartermaster Sergeant (acting Warrant Officer Class I Staff Sergeant-Major) Norman Draper, Royal Army Service Corps.
No. 5719502 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant-Major Frederick George Drew, The Dorsetshire Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) Archibald Loraine Dunbar (224717), Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Albert James Ede (60719), Royal Artillery, retired, reemployed.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Samuel Arthur Edwards, Middlesex Home Guard.
Captain Frank Stokes Ellis, Sussex Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) Dennis Ewart Evans (151067), Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Fairhurst, MA, (275397), Army Cadet Force (Berkshire).
Captain (temporary Major) Robert Angus William Farmer, Indian Engineers, Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Bellwood Farrer (283443), Army Cadet Force (Ayrshire).
Major John Wilfred Joseph Faull, Glamorganshire Home Guard.
Lieutenant (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) (temporary Captain) James Arnold Hawley, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
No. 54414 Staff Sergeant Major Charles Edward Hayball, Royal Army Service Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) John Joseph Heath, MC, DCM, MM, (44569), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Major (Quartermaster) William Henry Heath (34699), The Cheshire Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) Gerald William Hedley (103453), General List.
Captain (temporary Major) James Robertson Hendry, TD, (16104), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
Captain (Quartermaster) Charles Henry David Henniker (102153), The Royal Ulster Rifles.
Captain (temporary Major) Thomas William Price Hexley, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) John Jephson Hilary (149651), Royal Army Service Corps.
No. 3710465 Warrant Officer Class I, Sub-Conductor Alfred Stanley Macnaughton Park-Hill, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
No. 2186832 Warrant Officer Class II, Quarter-master Sergeant Reginald Ernest Hodgkins, Pioneer Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Josiah John Honeybunn, 4th Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army.
Captain (temporary Major) Paul Hopkinson, 2nd Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
Major Sydney George Watson (45096), The Army Dental Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) William Henry Cecil Wayte (119697), Royal Army Service Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) John Westacott (118914), Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Leonard Wheeldon (106449), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Major Christopher Probart Whitaker, Norfolk Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) (Electrical & Mechanical Engineer 3rd Class) Henry George White (97571), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (Territorial Army).
Captain (Quartermaster) (temporary Major) William Albert White (123522), Royal Artillery.
Major Thomas MacFarlane Wilks, TD, (36338), Royal Corps of Signals (Territorial Army).
Lieutenant Victor Norman Willard, Indian Engineers, Indian Army.
Captain & Brevet Major (temporary Major) Frank Reuben Williams (19237), Reserve of Officers, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) Philip Denys Wilson (70886), The Manchester Regiment, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant Colonel William Wilson, Army Cadet Force (Middlesex).
No. 4012 Company Sergeant Major Anne May Wren, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
No. 6193751 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant Major Albert Francis Wright, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).
Major (Ordnance Executive Officer 1st Class) Edward Wyatt (40445), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) George John Arnold, Australian Imperial Forces.
Captain Everett William Bowden, Australian Military Forces.
Major Ronald Neale Herford, Australian Military Forces.
Temporary Lieutenant Stanley Toohey, Australian Military Forces.
Captain & Quartermaster William Charles Hastings, New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Reginald George Hayward, New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Ronald Kennedy, New Zealand Military Forces.
Second Lieutenant Frederick Douglas Sheppard, New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Alfred John Steele, New Zealand Military Forces.
Second Lieutenant Leonard Roy Taylor, New Zealand Military Forces, attached Fiji Labour Corps.
Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader George William Jordan (44582).
Acting Squadron Leader Horace Tilzey (48163).
Flight Lieutenant Thomas William Arthur Allen (47520).
Flight Lieutenant Sanford Baker (Can/C.6697), Royal Canadian Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Stanley Woolgrove Bryant (110866), RAFVR.
Bertha Wilkinson, Matron, Westwood Park Public Assistance Institution, Oldham.
Emily Matilda Williams, Higher Executive Officer, India Office.
William Frederick Willis, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy.
James Wilson, Technical Manager, Barclay Curie & Co. Ltd.
Swinburn Gibson Wilson. For public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Winifred Mary Wilson, Senior Organising Supervisor, British Broadcasting Corporation.
Gerald Owen Wiltshire, Honorary Organising Secretary and Treasurer, Bristol, Soldiers', Sailors', & Airmen's Help Society.
Albert Edward Wood, Manager of a branch of B.S.A. Guns Ltd.
Stanley Percival Woodley, Resident Manager, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.
Charles Edgar Woodward, MC, Manager, Thoresby Colliery of the Bolsover Colliery Co. Ltd.
Arthur John Woolcott, Deputy Managing Director, Wellworthy Piston Rings Ltd.
Ernest James Henry Wright, Newsreel Camera Operator, Paramount News.
Kathleen Wright, Head of the Welfare Comforts Department, East Lancashire.
James Young, Clerk in the General Manager's Office, Clyde Navigation Trust.
Leslie Claud Seton Barber, Commercial Secretary in His Majesty's Legation at Stockholm.
Henrietta Irene Barry, Shorthand-Typist in His Majesty's Embassy at Chungking.
Jeanie Bayne, British subject resident in Brazil.
Hardie Raoul Blair, British Pro-Consul at Adana.
James Arthur Brannen, British Vice-Consul at Boston.
The Reverend Harold Wilfred Cummin, Honorary Chaplain at Algiers.
Captain Henry Daniel, British subject resident in Uruguay.
Sophia Mary Denison, British subject resident in Morocco.
Athelstan John Garratt, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
Margaret Jebb Scott, British subject resident in Switzerland.
Arthur Lovelace, British Vice-Consul at Gijon.
William Edward Devereux Massey, Archivist of His Majesty's Legation at Stockholm.
Leonard Walter Nye, Chief Medical Supplies Officer, Sudan Medical Service.
Maud Emily Scoffield, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
Samuel Horatio Whyte, British subject resident in Panama.
John George William Baggott, a member of the staff of the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia in London, Welfare Officer for Southern Rhodesian service men in the United Kingdom.
William Coulthard, a Member of the District Council of Angaston, State of South Australia.
Daniel Scott Jackson Dunn, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, West of Scotland Branch, Empire Societies War Hospitality Committee.
Garnet William Fulton. For services in connection with patriotic movements in the State of Tasmania.
Pearl Hastwell. For voluntary services in connection with the Country Women's Canteen at Quorn under the auspices of the Country Women's Association of the State of South Australia.
Captain Arthur Selwyn Hickman, Chief Superintendent, British South Africa Police.
Marjorie Leaf, Secretary, Victoria League.
Eleanor Mary MacGillivray. For social welfare and charitable work in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Harry David Mildenhall, MM, Controller of Stores, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Frank Rixom. For voluntary work in connection with the Services' Club in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
Honora Burke Ryan. For public and charitable services in Newfoundland.
Horace Bertram White, Honorary Director of the Red Cross Bureau, State of Tasmania.
Christina Beatrice Winter. For services in connection with philanthropic movements at Burnie, State of Tasmania.
Margaret Mary Wyse, Assistant Organizing Secretary, Empire Rendezvous, Liverpool.
Susan de Mierre, Civilian Deputy Assistant Censor, Bombay Censor Station.
Helen Margaret Gebbett, Civilian Deputy Assistant Censor, Bombay Censor Station.
Mary Gilmour Henry (wife of Mr. H. A. Henry, Grahams Trading Co., Karachi), Sind. For public services in Karachi.
Alice Fenton, Lady Hood (wife of Sir Hugh Hood, KCIE, CSI, ICS, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Madras), Madras. For welfare services to the Forces.
Cecily Elizabeth Arnold LaBouchardiere (wife of Mr. M. P. LaBouchardiere, Indian Police), Bombay. For services to European evacuees.
Srirajah Rajarajeswaramma, Zamindarni of Telaprole, Kistna District, Madras.
Mary Margaret Smith, Headmistress, British Army Children's School, Bangalore.
Dorothy Ashley Ward, Honorary Secretary, Joint War Charities Depot, Madras.
Phillip Francis Adams, Indian Civil Services, Sub-Divisional Officer, Mokokchung, Naga Hills, Assam.
Khan Bahadur Sardar Mir Ahmad Khan, Extra Assistant Commissioner (Retd), Baluchisstan.
Rai Bahadur Chaudhri Bans Gopal, Pleader, Karnal, Punjab.
Khan Sahib Mir Bashar Khan, Executive Engineer and Deputy Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, North-West Frontier Province.
Thomas George Brown, Officer Supervisor, Adjutant-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India.
Frank Carman, Indian Police, Officer-in-Charge, A.R.P. Training Service, Calcutta, Bengal.
James Dickson Condie, lately Supervising Engineer in charge of construction of the Polish Refugee Camp, Kolhapur.
Charles Thomas Cramphorn, Manager of the Lungla (Sylhet) Tea Estate, Karimpore, Assam.
Timothy Leland Crosthwait, Indian Civil Service, Assistant Collector, Satara, Bombay, and lately Assistant Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
Rajkumar Shri Ajitsinhrao Ramrao Dafle, Member of the Jath State Executive Council, Jath.
Arthur John Alexander Drake, DCM, Superintendent, Survey of India.
Captain Allen Lancelot Austin Dredge, Indian Political Service, Assistant Political Agent and Colonization Officer, Nasirabad, Sibi District, Baluchistan.
Jack Maurice Fenton, Executive Engineer, East Indian Railway, Lucknow.
Captain Upton Charles Norman Finglas, Officer-in-Charge, Airship Base, Karachi Air Port.
The Reverend Lowell Gatphoh, Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly, Jowai, Assam.
William James Dawson Graham, in charge Burmah-Shell's Benzine (Motor & Aviation Spirit, Lubricants), Keamari, Karachi, Sind.
Robert Hall Henry, Resident Engineer, Oudh & Tirhut Railway, Izatnagar.
Charles Colin Glenn Hoyle, Head Engineer, His Majesty's Mint, Lahore.
Edward Alfred Hughes, Superintendent Government Gardens, Lahore, Punjab.
Major (Commissary) Alexander Neville Jameson, Military Engineering Service (Retd), Civil Assistant Garrison Engineer, Headquarters, Central Command.
Major Albert John Jezzard, Accountant, Burma Refugee Organisation, Shillong, Assam.
Captain Balraj Krishna Kapur, Indian Political Service, Settlement Officer, Kurram, North-West Frontier Province.
Clarence Victor Kinsville, Deputy Controller of Supplies, United Provinces Circle, Department of Supply, Government of India.
Pandit Rajnath Kunzru, Landlord, Agra, United Provinces.
Raja Bahadur Kushal Pal Singh, Member of the Legislative Assembly (Central), Kotla, Agra District, United Provinces.
George Ledwich, Chief Engineer, Messrs. Shaw Wallace & Co., and Superintendent, Technical Training Centre, Chandameta, Chhindwara District, Central Provinces & Berar.
Charles Douglas Leitch, Manager, Gouripore Jute Mills, Naihati, 24-Parganas, Bengal.
John Lewis Lethbridge, lately Secretary, Kamaran Quarantine Station.
Komattil Govinda Menon, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Chief Controller of Exports, Government of India.
Rai Bahadur Santosh Kumar Mukerji, MB, MRCP, Lecturer in Medicine, King Edward Medical School, Indore, Central India.
Basanta Kumar Mukherjee, Magistrate and Collector, Pabna, Bengal.
Ganpat Rai Nangea, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Buildings & Roads Branch, Punjab.
Geoffrey Caton Ogilvie, Agent, India General Navigation & Railway Co. Ltd., Digha, Patna, Bihar.
Kumbakonam Rangaswami Padmanabha Aiyangar, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
Lingaraj Panigrahi, Pleader and Public Prosecutor, Berhampur, Ganjam District, Orissa.
Annepu Vasudeva Patro, Indian Police, District Superintendent of Police, Madras.
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