1945 Birthday Honours

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The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire. [1]

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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.

United Kingdom and British Empire

Baron

Privy Councillor

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

Dominions
India
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

  • Anthony Lockhart Binney, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the Central Provinces & Berar.
  • Arthur Vivian Askwith, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Delhi.
  • John Dawson Tyson, CBE, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health & Lands.
  • Colonel Henry Wynter Wagstaff, MC, Member, Establishment, Railway Board, New Delhi.
  • Marmaduke Robert Coburn, CIE, OBE, Additional Financial Adviser, Military Finance.
  • Duncan MacLachlan, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Central Division, Poona, Bombay.
  • John Wardle Houlton, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar.
  • John Whitcombe Hearn, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Additional Financial Commissioner, Revenue, and Secretary to Government, Transport Department, Punjab.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

Honorary Companion

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Mohamad Ali, OBE, Indian Audit & Accounts Service. Financial Adviser, War & Supply.
  • Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Coles Alexander Osborne, Indian Army, Commander, Kohat District.
  • William Alan Wright, AFC, Indian Civil Service, lately Officiating Joint Secretary, War Department, Government of India.
  • The Honourable (Horace) Somerset Edmond Butler, Commerce Adviser, Department of Food, Government of India.
  • Ronald Stuart Symons, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Walter Lewery Harvey, OBE, MC, Resident for Kolhapur and Deccan States.
  • Brigadier Noel Robert Charles Cosby, MC, Indian Army, Inspector-General, Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Commodore Phillip Armitage Mare, Royal Indian Navy, Chief of Administration, Naval Headquarters, India.
  • Dennis George Watson, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Central Provinces and Berar.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Ross Cosens Howman, OBE, The Assam Regiment, Director of Security (India Command), General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Charles Henry Nicholas, 6th Rajputana Rifles, Commander, 152 L. of C. Sub-Area.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Frederick Hubert Vinden, The Suffolk Regiment, Director, Selection of Personnel, Adjutant-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India.
  • C. N. Chandra, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to Government, Finance Department, Punjab.
  • Motiram Khushiram Kirpalani, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Commerce, Labour & Industries Department, Bengal.
  • Satyendramohan Banerjee, Indian Civil Service, Secretary, Revenue, Forests & Excise Departments and Director of Civil Evacuation, Bengal.
  • Frederick Euson Cormack, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, Assam.
  • Thomas Arthur Wyness Foy, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Punjab, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.
  • Madhusudan Damodar Bhat, Indian Civil Service, Milk Commissioner, Bombay.
  • Captain (E.) Wilfred John Lifton, RIN, Chief Surveyor with the Government of India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Evelyn Siegfried MacLeod Prinsep, OBE, Probyn's Horse, Assistant Quartermaster-General, Lucknow District.
  • Alexander George Milne, Administrative Officer & Chief Engineer, Cochin.
  • Harold Hinton Cooper, Chief Mechanical Engineer, North-Western Railway, Lahore.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) (Local Brigadier) Herbert Dryden Home Yorke Nepean, DSO, Deputy Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian States Forces, New Delhi.
  • Prafulla Chandra Chaudhuri, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Accountant-General, Bengal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Frank William Edward Tydeman, Corps of Indian Engineers, Deputy Director of Transportation, Bombay Port War Reconstruction.
  • Herbert Cecil Stork, Indian Civil Service, Legal Remembrancer, Assam.
  • Walter Kirby, MIME, Chief Inspector of Mines in India, Department of Mines, Dhanbad.
  • Robert Hume, OBE, Indian Police, Commissioner of Police, Madras.
  • James Alexander Scott, OBE, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Lahore Range, Punjab.
  • Chandulal Chunilal Desai, Indian Civil Service, Controller-General of Civil Supplies.
  • Satyendru Nath Ray, Indian Civil Service, Financial Adviser, Department of Civil Supplies, Bengal.
  • Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Indian Political Service, lately Chief Minister, Rewa State.
  • Chintaman Govind Kale, Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer, Project Circle, Bombay.
  • John Curtis Wernher Eustace, Indian Civil Service, Director, War Information and Deputy Secretary to Government, Punjab, Home Department (War Front), and Provincial Organizer, National War Front, Punjab.
  • Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafoor Khan, MSc (Tech. MA.Ch.), MIEE (Lond.), MIE (India), Deputy Controller-General of Inspection (Civil Wing).
  • Bhadrasinhrao Anandrao Gaekwar, lately Dewan, Baroda State.
  • James Clark Molesworth Gardner, ARCS, DIC, FRES, Dip. For (Cantab.), Indian Forest Service, Forest Entomologist, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Kombar Ramaswami Krishnaswami Iyengar, OBE, Indian Medical Service (retired), Director, Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor, The Nilgiris, Madras.
  • Frank Aubrey Pope, lately Regional Port Director, Calcutta.
  • Rajkumar Ripjit Singh, Raja Kothi, Raja Nagar, Kheri District, United Provinces.
  • Anthony William Robertson, OBE, DFC, Indian Police (retired), Dewan, Bundi State.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • Captain Sidney Charles Herbert, Lord Herbert.
  • Charles Joseph Henry O'Hara Moore, MC.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Edward Packe, MVO, OBE.
  • Charles Cornwallis Anderson Pelham-Welby (dated 26 April 1945).

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

  • Vera Grenfell.
  • Mary Lilias Mackenzie.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Miles Weeer-Brown.
  • Captain Peter Booth Clarke, OBE, DSC, Master, Merchant Navy (dated 17 April 1945)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Louis William la Trobe Cockcraft, DSO.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)

  • Beatrice Sarah Louisa Witt.
  • Albert James Galpin.
  • James René Alexis Kennedy.
  • Vincent Joseph Law (dated 21 February 1945).
  • Edmond Eustace Lloyd.
  • William McIntosh.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

Civil Division

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

Civil Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
Honorary Knight Commander

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Acting Captain The Right Honourable John Hugo, Baron Ampthill (Retd.) (Bedford).
  • Captain Gerald Courtney Banister, OBE (Retd.).
  • Captain Claude Lindsay Bate, DSO (Retd.).
  • Acting Captain (S) Glendenning Blamey (Petersfield).
  • Agnes Jean Currie, Superintendent, WRNS.
  • Acting Captain Richard Charlie Donovan (Retd.).
  • Acting Surgeon Captain William Innes Gerrard, OBE, MD, FRCP, DPH (Retd.).
  • Acting Captain Harold Sinclair Hopkins.
  • Captain Hugh Meynell Cyril Ionides.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Major-General) Charles Robert Wharram Lamplough, DSC, Royal Marines.
  • Captain (E) The Honourable Denis Crichton Maxwell (London).
  • Captain Reginald Francis Morice (Retd.).
  • Engineer Rear-Admiral Harold Hepworth Perring, CB (Retd.).
  • Acting Captain (S) William Brian Canning Simpson, OBE.
  • Colonel Second Commandant (Acting Colonel Commandant) (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Nicholls Williams, OBE, Royal Marines.
  • Acting Captain Robert Bradshaw Wilmot-Sitwell (Retd.) (Winchester).
  • Commodore Charles Trevenen Wilson.
  • Commodore 2nd Class Henry Arthur Showers, Royal Australian Navy.
Army
  • Brigadier (temporary) Harold Henry Bateman, DSO, OBE, MC (4226), Reserve of Officers, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Brian Boyle (53519), Reserve of Officers, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
  • Colonel George Frederick Charles (15721), late Army Dental Corps.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Sydney Collingwood, MC (5411), late Royal Artillery.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Norman Richard Crockatt, DSO, MC (8225), retired pay, late The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
  • Brigadier Eric Rouviere Day, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces.
  • Colonel (acting) William Duff Gibbon, DSO, MC (119776), Army Cadet Force.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Charles Granville Barry Greaves, OBE (6885), late Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) James Wilfred Lang Stanley Hobart, DSO, MC (6927), late The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).
  • Chaplain to the Forces 1st Class The Reverend Levi Gethin Hughes, MBE, KHC (22776), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Charles Ardagh Langley, MC (13390), Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Roderick William McLeod (31581), Royal Artillery.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Forbes Lankester McNaughton, DSO (4914), late Royal Artillery.
  • Brigadier (temporary) George Murray, DSO, MC (8766), late The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's).
  • Brigadier (temporary) Cynric Puleston Prescot, MA, AMInstCE (20726), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Colonel (temporary) Cedric Rhys Price, OBE (33361), Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel (temporary) George William Raby (106194), Royal Engineers
  • Colonel (temporary) Arthur Eaton Richmond, OBE (9946), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Brigadier (temporary) John Howard Stafford, OBE, MC (6675), late Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) James Storar (152167), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Harrison Wand-Tetley, OBE (13963), late The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).
  • Colonel (temporary) Samuel Torton Wills (909 IA), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Cecil John Woolley, DSO, MC (23716), Royal Artillery.
  • Colonel (temporary) Ronald Ernest Stephen Yeldham (24451), The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment), Officer Commanding the Troops, Mauritius.
  • Brigadier Alfred Richard Baxter-Cox, ED, Australian Military Forces.
Royal Air Force
  • Air Vice-Marshal David Vaughan Carnegie, AFC.
  • Air Vice-Marshal John Whitworth-Jones, CB.
  • Acting Air Vice-Marshal Robert Stewart Blucke, DSO, AFC.
  • Acting Air Vice-Marshal Noel Lloyd Desoer.
  • Acting Air Vice-Marshal Thomas James Kelly, MC, MD, ChB.
  • Acting Air Vice-Marshal D'Arcy Power, MC, MRCS, LRCP.
  • Acting Air Vice-Marshal John René Whitley, DSO, AFC.
  • Air Commodore Gordon Arthur Ballantyne, DFC, LDS, RCS.
  • Air Commodore Kenneth Dowsett Gould Collier.
  • Air Commodore Harold Hunter Down, AFC.
  • Air Commodore Ralph Edward McBurney, RCAF.
  • Air Commodore Somerled Douglas Macdonald, DFC.
  • Air Commodore Alfred Randles Wardle, AFC.
  • Air Commodore Richard Whyte.
  • Acting Air Commodore Paul Sandland Blockey.
  • Acting Air Commodore Leslie William Cannon.
  • Acting Air Commodore William Daniel Disbrey, OBE, AFC.
  • Acting Air Commodore John Goodenough Elton, DFC, AFC.
  • Acting Air Commodore Theodore Neuman McEvoy, OBE.
  • Acting Air Commodore Hector Douglas McGregor, DSO.
  • Acting Air Commodore Thomas Bain Prickman, OBE.
  • Acting Air Commodore Barnabas Henry Cross Russell.
  • Acting Air Commodore Roland George Seymour.
  • Acting Air Commodore David John Waghorn, AFC, with effect from 31 March 1945 (since deceased).
  • Acting Air Commodore Geoffrey Luis Worthington.
  • Group Captain Francis Gerald Cator.
  • Group Captain Ralph Cleland.
  • Group Captain Henry James Gemmel.
  • Group Captain Arthur Pethick Revington, OBE.
  • Group Captain Cecil Stanley Riccard.
  • Group Captain Ronald Scott Sugden, AFC.
  • Group Captain Thomas Frederick Wailes Thompson, DFC.
  • Group Captain Wilfred Wynter Morgan, MC.
  • The Right Reverend Monsignor Henry Beauchamp, MC.
  • Colonel Alan Jack Marlden Mossop, SAAF.
  • Acting Group Captain David Samuel Jillings, MBE, MC, RAFVR.
  • Acting Group Captain Edward Albert Warfield, DFC, RAFO.
  • Acting Group Captain Lindsey Spence Weedon, RAFVR.
  • Group Officer Isobel Mary Campbell, WAAF.
  • Acting Air Commodore Ronald Burns Bannerman, DFC, RNZAF.
Civil Division
Honorary Commanders

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Eric Percy Alexander, RNVR (Southampton).
  • Lieutenant-Commander Wilfrid Gordon Axworthy (Retd.).
  • Marjorie Gillespy Bois, Chief Officer, WRNS.
  • Acting Commander Thomas William Botley.
  • Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stuart Simken Bowman, Royal Marine Engineers.
  • Temporary Acting Commander Douglas Vivian Laurence Cheeseman, RNR (Cardiff).
  • Commander (S) Norman Thomas Porteous Cooper.
  • Temporary Acting Commander George Dale Copeland, MBE, RNR (Blackwater, Surrey).
  • Commander James Godfrey Wood Deneys, DSO (Retd.).
  • Commander (S) Norman Edgar Denning.
  • Acting Commander Frederick Charles Fellows-Gordon, DSC (Retd.).
  • Surgeon Commander James Martin Flattery, RAN.
  • Acting Temporary Commander (A) Richard Exton Gardner, DSC, RNVR (Warlingham, Surrey).
  • Acting Lieutenant-Commander Dennis John Stoncy Westropp George, RANR.
  • Commander Edgar William Grace (Retd.) (Edinburgh).
  • Captain (Temporary Major) Leslie Alban Harris, DSC, Royal Marines.
  • Acting Captain (E) Sydney Alick Harrison-Smith.
  • Acting Commander Henry Treby Heale, RNR (Retd.) (London).
  • Engineer Commander Henry Alan Higgs (Sunbury-on-Thames).
  • Commander Alexander Scrope Hutchinson (Retd.).
  • Lieutenant-Commander John Augustin Ievers (East Grinstead).
  • Commander Charles Vincent Jack (Retd.).
  • Commander (E) Walter Sydney Corfield Jenks.
  • Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) Edward Alfred Charles Kimpton, RNVR
  • Commander David Charles Kinloch, DSO.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Lancelot Charles Liddell.
  • Commander Richard Herbert Mack (Retd.) (Rothesay).
  • Commander Arthur Avalon Mackinnon (Retd.).
  • Commander (S) Morrice Alexander McMullen (Alverstoke).
  • Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (A) Anthony Horace Milward, RNVR
  • Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Edgar Philip Stuart Parr, RNVR (Cardiff).
  • Acting Temporary Surgeon-Commander Clarence Lucan Gray Pratt, MB, ChB, MD, RNVR (Alverstoke).
  • Captain (Retd.) (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Kenneth Edward Previté, Royal Marines.
  • Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) Gilbert Hammer George Stratford Rayer, RNVR (Feltham).
  • Major (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Cosmo La Roche Salter, Royal Marines.
  • Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) John MacDonald Scott.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (A) Mayre Glen Sedorski.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Thomas Charles Sherwin.
  • Acting Commander Eric Cardew Streatfield-James, Royal Indian Navy.
  • Commander Roger Henry George Talbot (Retd.) (Dunfermline).
  • Temporary Acting Commander Allan Patterson Wallace, RNR (Caithness).
  • Commander (S) George Arthur Patrick Webster, DSC (Retd.) (Westminster, Orange Free State).
  • Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) Cyril Wilson, RNVR (Huddersfield).
  • Commander Frederick Gordon Wynne.
  • Acting Captain (S) John Edward Hehir, RAN.
Army
Royal Air Force
  • Acting Air Commodore John George Bryans, RCAF.
  • Acting Air Commodore Bernard Albert Chacksfield.
  • Group Captain Desmond John Alvey.
  • Group Captain Thomas Bruce Cooper, DFC.
  • Group Captain Wilfred Reseigh Cox, MC, AFC.
  • Group Captain Charles William Gore.
  • Group Captain Charles Austin Horn.
  • Group Captain Samuel Patrick Aylmer Patmore.
  • Group Captain Reginald Horace Stanbridge.
  • Group Captain Charles Herbert Algernon Stevens.
  • Group Captain Ernest Hildebrand Stevens.
  • Group Captain Collin Murray Stewart.
  • Group Captain John Arthur Charles Stratton.
  • Group Captain Peter William Mellor Wright.
  • Acting Group Captain John Derek Bisdee, DFC, RAFVR.
  • Acting Group Captain John Patrick Cave.
  • Acting Group Captain Paul Yettvart Davoud, RCAF.
  • Acting Group Captain William Eccles.
  • Acting Group Captain Patrick Shaw Foss.
  • Acting Group Captain Sir Archibald Philip Hope, Bt. DFC, AAF.
  • Acting Group Captain Alan Stewart Jackson, AAF.
  • Acting Group Captain Richard Gostwycke James, RAFO.
  • Acting Group Captain John Enfield Kirk.
  • Acting Group Captain Guy Kempton Lawrence, DSO, DFC, RAFO.
  • Acting Group Captain George Lionel Spencer Lightfoot, RAFVR.
  • Acting Group Captain Robert Heath Mason.
  • Acting Group Captain Ernest Hutchison Glenn Moncrieff, RCAF.
  • Acting Group Captain Thomas Frederick Dalton Morgan, DSO, DFC, RAFO.
  • Acting Group Captain Thomas Charlie Penna.
  • Acting Group Captain Walter John Pickard.
  • Acting Group Captain Harold Percival Pleasance, DFC, RAFO.
  • Acting Group Captain Reginald Charles Vaughan, MC, RAFVR.
  • Acting Group Captain Sidney George Walker.
  • Acting Group Captain Douglas Warner Williams.
  • Acting Group Captain Edmund Noel Digby Worsley.
  • Wing Commander Robert Alexander Barton, DFC (37664), RAFO.
  • Wing Commander George Robert Brady (37932), RAFO.
  • Wing Commander Robert St. Hill Clarke, AFC (03185).
  • Wing Commander Archibald Ernest Clayson (35077).
  • Wing Commander Jack Davison, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.
  • Wing Commander William Henry Day (75178), RAFVR.
  • Wing Commander Keeley Ian Goodman (75850).
  • Wing Commander Donald Salisbury Green (19136), RAFO.
  • Wing Commander Charles Douglas Griffiths, DFC (90234), AAF.
  • Wing Commander Victor Henry Paul Lynham, DSO (34128), RAFO.
  • Wing Commander George Mair Mackie (35118).
  • Wing Commander Eric John Moule (08005), RAFVR.
  • Wing Commander Subroto Mukerjee (Ind.1551), Royal Indian Air Force.
  • Wing Commander William Farquhar Murray (24191).
  • Wing Commander John Alexander Robinson (05250).
  • Wing Commander Donald Garth Ross (32161).
  • Wing Commander Rudolph Tibbey (35284).
  • Wing Commander Brian Darville Stratford Tuke (03085), RAFVR.
  • Wing Commander Conrad Edward Howe Verity (63137), RAFVR.
  • Wing Commander John Brown Wallace (23269).
  • Wing Commander Harold Robert Withers (21163).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Newman McBlain, DFC (202984V), SAAF.
  • Acting Wing Commander Clifford Aldridge (44282).
  • Acting Wing Commander Donald Frederick Allen (21277).
  • Acting Wing Commander Cyril Edgar Beer (44345).
  • Acting Wing Commander Sydney James Berry (72123).
  • Acting Wing Commander William Bradshaw, DFC (43413).
  • Acting Wing Commander William Francis Bryanton (80057), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Russell Edwin Osboume Carey (115044), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Charles Albert Case (86265), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Mark Cohen (77138), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander George Cruickshank, MBE (79096), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Dennis William Dobson (81793), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander James Jervis Dutton (31268).
  • Acting Wing Commander Thomas Arthur Francis Elsdon, DFC (33308).
  • Acting Wing Commander Frederick Arthur Boucher Fawssett (70211).
  • Acting Wing Commander Peter Carteret Fletcher, DFC, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.
  • Acting Wing Commander William Cyril Joseph Foster (73189), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Walter Bennett Frampton (84143), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Peter Michael Arthur Green (81169), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Joseph Albert Hatton (84141), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander William George Henry Hedges (90878), AAF.
  • Acting Wing Commander Edward James Glynn Hill (43859).
  • Acting Wing Commander Marcus Michael Kaye (70355), RAFO.
  • Acting Wing Commander Ewart Newman Lohmeyer, DFC (78328), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Stewart Mackenzie (43397).
  • Acting Wing Commander Joseph Rodney Moore (78080), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Jonn Richard Morgan (73539), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Ian McNaughton Parsons (77881), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Cyril Wolrick Passy, DFC (72028), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Kenneth Wright Pell (27140), RAFO.
  • Acting Wing Commander Frederick James Powell, MC (74207), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Singleton Powell Richards, AFC (27112), RAFO.
  • Acting Wing Commander Hugh Herbert Rose (77739), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Leslie George Scarman (82352), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton (83143), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Harry Patrick Shallard (73393), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Hanbury Knolys Dawson-Shepherd (41353).
  • Acting Wing Commander Percival Niger Shone (75751) RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Dennis Gordon Singleton (29180), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Maurice Joy Smith (87633), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Ronald Noel Smith (37025), RAFO.
  • Acting Wing Commander William Denis Ashley Smith (75706), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Maurice John Thomas (140205), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Charles Geoffrey Tipper (85523), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Arthur Frederick Trinder (72959), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Ronald Christopher Udall (79254), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Thomas Muir Warden (76426), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander David Temple Way, MBE (44573), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Richard Williams (31300).
  • Acting Wing Commander Philip Harold Seymour Wood (35298), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader John Ernest Ann (43663).
  • Squadron Leader William Cunniffe (44341).
  • Squadron Leader William Dixon (86929), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader William Harold Herbert (104785), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader Ronald Henry Johnson (72221), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader Herbert Thomas Legg (47237).
  • Squadron Leader Percy John Macduff (89247), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader James Taylor Main (44297).
  • Major John Helperos Ritzema Eastwood (53337V), SAAF.
  • Major William Frank Veitch (84026V), SAAF.
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Bedwell Batchelor (85444), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Edward Warwick Bloxham (105663), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Stanley George Briden (43649).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Richard Keniston Browning (77785), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Robert Gibson Clarkson (108353), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Quentin Curtis Craig (79262), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Baldwin Aston Fleming (43531).
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Frederick Ginnett (82854), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Thomas Day Griffin (84468), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader William Thomas Harrington (47005).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Harold Edward Howard (45032).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Hugh Owen Hughes (89042), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Edward Mervyn John (68943), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Fred Jullion (79448), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Stanley Norman Kettle (123210), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Harold Lodge (45385).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Henry Herbert Loveday (87491), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Alistair Henry Wilson MacBean (87246), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader David Napier Matthews (102257), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Alexander Russell (84839), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Robert John Sills (46666).
  • Acting Squadron Leader William Sykes (49411).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Percy Francis Trotter (81511), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Robert Bruce Waller (61454), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Charles William Fuglar Wavell (101136), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Norman Wilson (45108).
  • Group Officer Elspeth Barrie (198), WAAF.
  • Squadron Officer Louise Hilliard Rankin (563), WAAF.
  • Wing Commander Charles Osborne Fairbairn, AFC, RAAF.
  • Wing Commander Archibald Brownlow MacArthur, RAAF.
  • Wing Commander Miles Aylmer Barnett, RNZAF.
Civil Division
  • Daniel Francis Horseman Brickell, MBE, His Majesty's Consul at Montevideo.
  • Eric Arthur Cleugh, MVO, His Majesty's Consul-General at Havana.
  • Charles Maxwell Davidson, British Consul at Medellín.
  • William Charles Gentry, British subject resident in Spain.
  • George Allan Hardy, British subject resident in Egypt.
  • Horace Walter Rigden, British subject resident in Persia.
  • Minnie Smaggasgale, British subject resident in Brazil.
  • Benjamin Crewdson Thomas, British Information Services, New York.
  • Cyril Edward Wiles, British subject resident in Iraq.
  • Percy Evan Williams, MC, British subject resident in the Sudan.
  • Major Jasper William George Wyld, District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.
  • William Clark, Mayor of the City of Launceston, State of Tasmania.
  • Huntley James Clarke, a Civil Engineer and Surveyor of Queenstown, State of Tasmania. For municipal services.
  • George Cobb, Superintendent, Western Division, Newfoundland Railway.
  • Alan Biddulph Cowen, MIEE, Chairman and Chief Engineer, Electricity Supply Commission, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Walter Edward Curtis, formerly Head of the Department of Supply, Newfoundland.
  • John Duggan, JP, Councillor, Shire of Kara Kara, State of Victoria, for many years, and President on several occasions.
  • Nutting Stuart Eraser, MD. CM, MRCS. Consultant, St. John's General Hospital, Newfoundland. For public services.
  • Floris Visser Johnstone, Provincial Native Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia.
  • The Reverend George Willis Kendrew, VD. For public services in the State of South Australia.
  • John Andrew Michelsen, JP, Councillor, City of Bendigo, State of Victoria, for many years, and Mayor on three occasions.
  • Captain John Mitchell Moubray, a Member of the Food Production Committee, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Robert Thompson, Superintendent of Dockyard Operations, St. John's, Newfoundland.
  • Louis David Waterhouse. For municipal and social welfare services in the State of South Australia.
  • Joseph Booth, Indian Civil Service, Director of Civil Supplies (Districts), Bombay.
  • David Barrington Brow, MC, Chief Engineer, Karachi Port Trust.
  • Birendra Narayan Chakravarty, Indian Civil Service, Acting Secretary, Finance Department, Government of Bengal.
  • Asoka Kumar Chanda, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Joint Financial Adviser, Supply Finance, Government of India.
  • Sadhu Ram Chaudhri, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Ferozepore, Punjab.
  • Raja Chittar Singh Ju Deo, Rampura Estate, Jalaun District, United Provinces.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Amar Nath Chopra, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Prisons and Director of Health, Orissa.
  • Edward Archibald Hickling Churchill, Indian Agricultural Service, Principal, Agricultural College, Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.
  • Reginald Alfred Collett, MBE, MInstCE, Public Health Engineer to the Government of Bombay.
  • Major George Humphrey Cooke, Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary, Political Department, India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Fenwick Craster, IRRO, Commandant, Deoli Internment Camp.
  • Panangattri Ananthanarayanaiyar Gopala-Krishnan, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to Government, United Provinces Supply Finance Branch.
  • John Davies Gulick, Electrical Engineer, New Delhi Municipal Committee.
  • Frederick John Abt Hart, Indian Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, in charge of the Utilisation and Research Circle, Darjeeling, Bengal.
  • Eric Hodson, Indian Police, Controller, Chief Pioneer Force, Bengal.
  • Rai Bahadur Jai Behari Lal, Deputy Director-General (War), Posts & Telegraphs Directorate, New Delhi.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Philip Bowen Janson, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Commandant, Tochi Scouts, North Waziristan, North-West Frontier Province.
  • John Warren Tait Leith, MC, CA, Secretary, War Risks Insurance Advisory Committee, Bombay.
  • Tinichendurai Muthukrishna Subra Mani, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Planning & Development.
  • Henry Idris Matthews, MC, Director of Ordnance Factories (General).
  • Rabindra Kumar Mitra, Indian Civil Service, Controller of Printing & Stationery, India.
  • Probhat Chandra Neogi, Indian Service of Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineer, Bengal, Communications & Buildings Branch.
  • Roderick Wallis Parkes, Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Resident for the Punjab and lately Secretary to the Resident for Kolhapur and the Deccan States.
  • Khan Bahadur Sheikh Habibur Rahman, Member, Legislative Assembly (Central), Delhi.
  • John Stuart Reid, Indian Service of Engineers, Officiating Superintending Engineer, Southern Sind Circle, Sind.
  • Vere Norman Rowsell, Traffic Superintendent, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Ajmer.
  • David Clark Russell, ARCS, Director of Ordnance Laboratories, Cawnpore.
  • Bhagwan Sahay, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health & Lands.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Moses Sendak, MD, BS, MRCS, DPH, Indian Medical Service, Superintendent, Special Prison, Ahmednagar Fort, Bombay.
  • Edward Bonham Sim, Superintendent, Jorehaut Tea Co. Ltd., Assam.
  • Balaram Sivaraman, Indian Civil Service, lately Magistrate and Collector of Purnea, Bihar.
  • Reginald Sloan, Technical Engineering Representative of General Motors (India) Ltd., for liaison with the Military Authorities in India.
  • John Lawrence Commerell Stubbs, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Gorakhpur, United Provinces.
  • Ramaswami Meenakshi Sundaram, Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary to the Government of Madras, Development Department.
  • James Stanley Tilley, Deputy Red Cross Commissioner, War Supplies Depot, Bombay.
  • Joseph Aloysius Donatus Victoria, Landlord and Contractor, Manapad, Tinnevelly District, Madras.
  • Niranjan Nath Wanchoo, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Food.
  • Francis Watson, Director, Counter Propaganda.
  • Captain Archibald Wilfrid Tisdall Webb, Principal Refugee Officer, Commonwealth Relations Department, Government of India.
  • Henry Wheatley, Director, Cinchona Department, Madras.
  • Alfred Arthur Williams, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.
  • John Lamb Leyden, Burma Frontier Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of Burma, Home Department.
  • Rai Bahadur Prithvi Chand, Superintendent of Police, Straits Settlements, seconded to Special Branch in India.
  • Rupert Thomas Chicken, District Commissioner, Copperbelt, Northern Rhodesia.
  • James Crook, Deputy Head of Stores Department, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Hampden Archibald Cuke. For public services in Barbados.
  • Judith De Cordova, MBE. For services in Jamaica during the War.
  • James Robert McDowell Elliot, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior District Officer, Uganda.
  • Laurence Wylie Fitzmaurice, MD, CM, Colonial Medical Service, Medical Officer and Bacteriologist, Bahamas.
  • Garnet Hamilton Gordon. For public services in the Windward Islands.
  • Gordon Hadow, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast.
  • Brian Joseph Hartley, MBE, Colonial Agricultural Service, Agricultural Adviser, Aden.
  • Henry Hastings, MB, BS, DTM&H. For medical and missionary services in Nigeria.
  • William Donald Havelock, Port Manager, Sierra Leone.
  • Robert Noel Henry, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Cyprus.
  • William Herbert Jackson, Assistant Director, Public Works Department, Nigeria.
  • Sydney Whitemore Dyer-Melville, Acting Director of Public Works, Zanzibar.
  • Thomas Henry Parsons, FLS, Curator, Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon.
  • Andrew Hamilton Pike, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Frederick John Pound, PhD, Colonial Agricultural Service, Senior Agricultural Officer, Trinidad.
  • Royden Ernscliffe Taylor, MBE, Treasurer, St. Kitts-Nevis, Leeward Islands.
  • Charles Douglas Todd, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Gibraltar.
  • Herbert Watt Torrance, MC, MD. For medical services in Palestine.
  • Tsibu Darku IX, Omanhene of Asin Atandasu. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • Frank Stanley Williams, Colonial Audit Service, Auditor, Nyasaland.
Honorary Officers
  • Jibrail Katul, MBE, Assistant Director of Education, Palestine.
  • Michael Moses, MBE. For public services in Uganda.
  • Khalil Touqan. For services in connection with the War Economic Advisory Council, Palestine.

Additional Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Acting Skipper Lieutenant Alexander Adamson, RNR.
  • Acting Wardmaster Lieutenant-Commander Ernest Walter Biddlecombe (Retd.).
  • Temporary Lieutenant-Commander John Grigor Brodie, RNVR.
  • Telegraphist Lieutenant Frederick George Bunker.
  • Elizabeth Mary Candy, Second Officer, WRNS.
  • Acting Lieutenant-Commander Hajee Mohammed Siddiq Choudri, Royal Indian Navy.
  • Mr. Sydney Cleburne, Temporary Warrant Telegraphist.
  • Temporary Lieutenant Donald Cole, RNVR (Leicester).
  • Nancie Margaret Conner, Second Officer, WRNS.
  • Temporary Lieutenant (A) James Robson Cowan, RNZNVR.
  • Temporary Lieutenant (E) Hilton Alfred Curnock, RNVR.
  • Esta Eldod, First Officer, WRNS.
  • Temporary Lieutenant Samuel James Norman Fenton, RNVR.
  • Mr. John Frazer, Temporary Warrant Writer Officer.
  • Mr. Arthur Crosby Gale, Temporary Warrant Writer Officer.
  • Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Gardner, RNVR
  • Mr. Douglas H. J. Hardy, Accredited Naval Correspondent, British Paramount News.
  • Mr. Frank Thomas Hatfield, Boatswain (Birmingham).
  • Temporary Lieutenant Douglas Valentine Hugonin, RNVR
  • Mr. Charles Edward John Jenner, Warrant Shipwright (Wimborne).
  • Mr. William Charles Judkins, Warrant Recruiter.
  • The Reverend Robert Kirkland, Temporary Chaplain.
  • Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) James Caldwell Kole Kortright, RNVR.
  • Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Robert Arthur Lochner, RNVR.
  • Mr. Oliver Henry Mantle, Warrant Telegraphist, Royal Indian Navy.
  • Mr. Charles Frederick William McCoy, Temporary Warrant Stores Officer.
  • Temporary Electrical Lieutenant William McKenzie, RNVR.
  • Temporary Lieutenant William James Middlemiss, RNVR
  • Acting Temporary Lieutenant Frederick Albert Parsons, RNVR
  • Temporary Lieutenant (Acting Temporary Captain) Sidney Michael Peretz, Royal Marines (St. Peter Port, Guernsey).
  • Mr. Percy William Price, Senior Chief Officer, Shore Wireless Service.
  • Mr. Albert Edward Reddy, Warrant Ordnance Officer (Downderry, Cornwall).
  • Temporary Lieutenant Joseph William Cyril Robinson, RNVR (Barry, Glam.).
  • Mr. William George Scott, DCM, Warrant Recruiter, Royal Marines.
  • Mr. William Scorey, Gunner (T).
  • Temporary Lieutenant Stanley Gordon Sheppard, RNVR (London).
  • Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Philip Smiles, RNVR (Belfast).
  • Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander James Frederick Somner, RNVR (Eton).
  • Mr. Albert Edward Spence, Commissioned Telegraphist, Royal Indian Navy.
  • Mr. John George Summers, Temporary Warrant Electrician (Herne Bay).
  • Mr. Kenneth Haseltine Summers, Warrant Writer Officer.
  • May Isobella Thomas, First Officer, WRNS.
  • Temporary Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (Acting Temporary Captain) Leslie Thomas Ludlow Tunnicliff, Royal Marines (Worthing).
  • Temporary Lieutenant Laurence Tuppen, RNVR (Shoreham).
  • Temporary Lieutenant William Peters Vannet, RNVR (Arbroath).
  • Lieutenant (E) Arthur Wallace Warner (Retd.).
  • Lieutenant-Commander (E) Robert Kerr Weir (Retd.).
  • Joan Mary Wiles, First Officer, WRNS.
  • Temporary Acting Commander (E) Guy Ernest Williamson, RNVR.
  • Lieutenant (A) Ronald Angus Wood, RNVR (Seven Kings).
  • Lieutenant John Albert Harte, RAN.
  • Temporary Lieutenant Frederick Johnston, RNZNVR.
Army
  • Major (temporary) Frederick Leonard Allan, MC (25826), Pioneer Corps.
  • Major (temporary) John Turner Allen (74717), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major Edward Ison Andrews (23231), The Cheshire Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) Arthur George Armstrong (63223), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) the Right Honourable Thomas Percy Henry Touchet, Baron Audley (193752), The Worcestershire Regiment.
  • Major Donald Creighton Balfour, Controller of Manpower, Gibraltar.
  • Major (temporary) Charles Bernard Ball (114826), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major Edward Arthur Bamblett (A.I.768), 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
  • Major (Commissary) James Barnett, Indian Engineers.
  • Captain (temporary) Bashir Nawaz Khan (I.E.C.551), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Leslie Hugh Bean (36290), The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • Captain (temporary) Christopher Archibald Beatty, Indian Army.
  • Major (temporary) Philip Beverly (238), East Africa Intelligence Corps.
  • No. 7611750 Warrant Officer Class I (temporary) Edward Eric Brindle, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Walter Hicham Brindle (92783), The Northamptonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • No. 1031198 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Stoker Brown, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • No. 227154 Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Alfred William Brown, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) John Money Brown (109335), General List.
  • Major (temporary) Denys Burton Buckley (118789), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Senior Commander (temporary) Helen Esme Burns (W.A.C.123), Women's Auxiliary Corps (India).
  • Major William Henry Burn Callander (6466), The Royal Scots Greys, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Duncan Campbell (143153), Royal Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) George Clement Cave (180621), The Worcestershire Regiment, attached Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Arthur Frederick Clark (E.C.5412), Intelligence Corps, Indian Army.
  • No. 227608 Warrant Officer Class I Hugh Cecil Clayton, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) James Menzies Clow (24779), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major (temporary) James Coates (O.S.153), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Alan Cooper (E.C.2690), Indian Engineers.
  • Major Frederick Walter Cooper (35274), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Major Stephen Hilary Cox (10579), Reserve of Officers, Royal Army Service Corps, Officer Commanding, Royal Army Service Corps, Bermuda.
  • Major (temporary) George Haskett Curry (99539), Royal Engineers.
  • No. 14701 Warrant Officer Class I Elizabeth Dagnall, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
  • Major (temporary) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Cajeton Sales De Andrade (R.O.2810), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Edward Eliseo Demarco (157975), The King's Own Malta Regiment.
  • Major Archibald Douglas, MC (20329), The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
  • Captain (temporary) John Gilbert Dowling (204115), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Brown Dryden (99608), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Thomas Gerrard Du Buisson, MC (10466), Royal Artillery.
  • No. 101309 Warrant Officer Class I Austin Christopher Duffield, Kenya Armoured Car Regiment.
  • Captain (temporary) William Burns Duthie (176103), Army Air Corps.
  • Major (temporary) William George Eaglen (75962), Royal Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Thomas Evers (235378), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
  • Major (temporary) Geoffrey Charles Fardell (178667), Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edward Martin Friend (99067), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Major (temporary) Frederick Edgar Amato-Gauci (115559), Royal Malta Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Patrick Somerset Gibbs (49152), The Welsh Guards.
  • Senior Commander Wendy Ellen Gibson (196228), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Thomas Travers Gilbert (244093), General List.
  • Major (temporary) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Hugh Golding (48449), The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) Cecil Frederick Gravett (EC 8321), Indian Army.
  • Major (temporary) Irvine Egerton Gray (101883), Intelligence Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Horatio William Gregory, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Brian Alexander Grieve (176126), The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  • Major (temporary) Eli Evans Griffiths (138087), The Welch Regiment.
  • Major (Quartermaster) John Groombridge (40996), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
  • Major (temporary) George Bernard Handley, TD (36969), The West Yorkshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Phineas John Hands (130522), Royal Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) Charles Robert Hardham (152395), Royal Engineers.
  • No. 6844658 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Edmond Albert Hanrahan, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
  • No. 9146 Warrant Officer Class I Ismail Hansi, King's African Rifles.
  • Major (temporary) Charles Norman Harding (245154), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Phillip Alexandra Harding (45330), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major Humphrey le Fleming Fairfax Harvey (22816), Royal Artillery.
  • No. 2315033 Warrant Officer Class I John Henry Harrison, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • No. 13019092 Warrant Officer Class I James Hennessey, Pioneer Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Peter Henry Hobbs (190792), Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Jack Hodgkiss (191047), Royal Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) Frederick Robert Hornby (115085), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major (temporary) Charles Leslie Howard (127021), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major Rupert Howard (11251), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • No. 7262376 Warrant Officer Class II Alexander Hunter, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • No. 3766211 Warrant Officer Class I William Baldwin Hudson, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • Yuzbashi Zein El Abdin Eff Ibrahim, Sudan Defence Force Medical Corps.
  • No. 17729 Warrant Officer Class I Mohamed Bin Indem, East Africa Corps of Military Police.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Alan Alfred Isaac (275929), Army Cadet Force.
  • Major (temporary) Eric Standish Jackson, MC (102355), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Ivan Ernest Jacques (120649), The East Lancashire Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) William Emrys Jones (149322), The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
  • Major (acting) Max Karo (283065), Army Cadet Force.
  • No. 4383993 Warrant Officer Class I Raymond Kirk, Coldstream Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cyril Denzil Milner Kitchin (109802), Royal Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Philip Harold Knighton (191374), Royal Engineers.
  • Captain (temporary) Peter Law (124515), Army Air Corps.
  • Captain Charles Robert Leach (31533), New Zealand Military Forces.
  • Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class The Reverend Donald Rathbone Lee (230883), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Sir Christopher Robert Lighton, Bt (98612), retired pay, late the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Lionel Popham Lock (139251), The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).
  • Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) Frederick Lowry (CC 114), Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
  • Major (Quartermaster) George Lucioni (104935), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) John William Lupton (107648), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Junior Commander Anne Dick Macdonald (192441), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
  • Major (temporary) John White MacGillivray, General List, East Africa Forces.
  • No. 7885194 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Lloyd Horace Mackintosh, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Subadar Major and Honorary Lieutenant Mahsud Gul Khan, Sardar Bahadur, OBI, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Frank Percy Malyon (137689), Royal Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Donald Frederick Marshall (EC 6985), Indian Army.
  • No. 1847805 Warrant Officer Class II Herbert Hector Mason, Royal Engineers.
  • Captain (acting) John Glassford McMillan (215155), Union Defence Force.
  • Major (temporary) William Percy Meldrum (65133), Army Educational Corps.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Archibald William Miller (131713), Royal Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) James King Miller (42178), Army Educational Corps.
  • Jemadar Mohd Khalid (24387-10), Indian Signal Corps, Indian Army.
  • Major (temporary) William Francis Morgan (185915), Royal Engineers.
  • No. 1694751 Warrant Officer Class II James Creed Morris, Intelligence Corps.
  • Major (temporary) David Kinnell Morrison (75310), Royal Engineers.
  • Captain Cyril Kaye Moseley, Superintendent of Police, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Major Edgar William Moyes, MC, ED (AF 1008), The Madras Guards, Auxiliary Force (India).
  • No. 17836 Warrant Officer Class I Charles George Murr, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Captain (temporary) Ghulam Nabi (IEC 4554), 6th Rajputana Rifles, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Patrick Hay Montgomery Nelson (EC 347), Royal Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • No. 2745398 Warrant Officer-Class II William Henry Oliver, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
  • Major George Evelyn Lucas Pardington, TD (7527), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  • Lieutenant Victor Robert Parker (236160), The Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Captain (temporary) Edwin John Pateman (EC 1651), Intelligence Corps, Indian Army.
  • Major (temporary) Ernest Arthur Pearce (70259), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (Commissary) Robert Stanley Peverley (ST 26), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) George John Phillips (106767), Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Emanuel Sam Philpott (EC 7759), Indian Army.
  • Major (temporary) Frederick Thomas Pitt (103548), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Chief Commander Isobel Powell (192095), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
  • Major (temporary) James Arthur Ramsay (101400), Royal Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) the Right Honourable Robert John Farquharson, Baron Remnant (48289), Reserve of Officers, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
  • Major (temporary) Charles Vezey Edward Rooker, MM (89887), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Major Cyril Arthur Rowland (13240), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Herbert James Saunders (E.C.2412), 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
  • Captain Stanley Scudamore, Jamaica Home Guard.
  • Major (temporary) Gervase Bruce Seaton (E.C.3604), Indian Engineers.
  • No. 2066380 Warrant Officer Class II Vincent Havelock Sedgwick, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Lieutenant Harold Shacklady (154277), Royal Engineers.
  • Subadar Major Sher Sing Rana (I.O.5972), 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army.
  • Major (temporary) Denys Hunter Aubrey-Smith (99950), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).
  • Captain (temporary) Cecil Roland Heathcote-Smith (231598), Intelligence Corps.
  • Major (temporary) (Deputy Commissary) John Smith (M.E.S.678), Indian Engineers.
  • Captain J. Snee, MC, Commander of Trinidad Home Guard Unit.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Ralph Alfred Erskine Somerville, MC, MM (11975), Reserve of Officers, Royal Artillery.
  • Major Harold Cecil Soundy, MC, TD (7017), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major Frederick Albert Spencer, MC (4817), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • No. 159343 Warrant Officer Class I Alan Hewson Steel, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No. 103831 Warrant Officer Class I Reginald Tom Stocker, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain William George Stray (137631), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Major (temporary) John Henry Sturgeon (168576), Royal Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) George William Talbot, BEM (110057), General List.
  • Captain Hugh Cameron Temple, Superintendent of Police, Swaziland.
  • Major (temporary) Hugh Berners Thacker (101820), Royal Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thakar Jawahir Singh, Jodhpur State Forces, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) James William Thompson, DCM (275164), Army Cadet Force.
  • No. 2917 Warrant Officer Class I Walter Henry Thornborough, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No. 1859607 Warrant Officer Class I James Alfred Percival Tilsley, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Henry John Underhill (EC 1472), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) William Henry Vickers, AMICE, MIStructE (151501), Royal Engineers.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Francis Waddell Waddell (199757), The Essex Regiment.
  • No. 1059594 Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Walker, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
  • Major (temporary) Cecil Victor Wattenbach, MC (100057), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  • No. 725729 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick James West, Pioneer Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Wilfred Henry White (51780), Reserve of Officers, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  • Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Bertie St. Clair Wilks, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Gerald Wills (97617), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Peterkin Charnock-Wilson (62196), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
  • Captain (temporary) Michael Douglas Wimbush (161433), Royal Engineers.
  • No. 30588 Warrant Officer Glass I May Florence Wise, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
  • Captain (temporary) Maurice Lascelles Wood (269287), Royal Engineers.
  • Junior Commander (temporary) Rosamond Helen Woodburn (196346), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Commissary) Thomas Woodcock (O.S. 12), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • No. 34560 Warrant Officer Class I Stanley Woods, Indian Engineers.
  • Major Ernest Victor Cash, Australian Military Forces.
  • Captain Reginald Horace Eades, Australian Military Forces.
  • Major Henry Lawrence Foster, MC, Australian Military Forces.
  • Major John Channon Rishworth, Australian Military Forces.
  • Senior Commander Jean Neill Erwin, New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
  • Major John Robert Griffin, New Zealand Military Forces.
  • Warrant Officer Class I John Narbey, New Zealand Military Forces.
  • Major (temporary) Frank Leonard Rees, New Zealand Military Forces.
Royal Air Force
  • Wing Commander Thomas Sutherland Mackay (Can/C.6540), RCAF.
  • Wing Commander William Steele (35246).
  • Wing Commander Alfred Victor Tarlton (44234).
  • Wing Commander George Alfred Wells (74835), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Eric Shipworth Benson (81815), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Reginald Chadwick, MC, DCM (113708), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander David Lawrence Clackson (90087), AAF.
  • Acting Wing Commander John Hector Currie (73865).
  • Acting Wing Commander Robert Camille Samuel Levy (114363), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Alfred Harold Love (15153), RAFO.
  • Acting Wing Commander Claude Jess Metcalfe (81497), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander William Herbert Moyles (44240).
  • Acting Wing Commander Edward May Nicol, DSM (73469), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Cyril William North Raymond (73361), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander Norman Spencer Roupell (183691), RAFVR.
  • Acting Wing Commander William Osbert Whittick (75376), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader Derek Charles Loseby Chidell (83262), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader Charles Harold Dyson, DFC (40172).
  • Squadron Leader Frederic Hubert Finnis (115733), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader John Holt (23106).
  • Squadron Leader John Thompson Lean (74163), RAFVR.
  • Squadron Leader Albert Lionel Southey, Rhodesian Air Askari Corps.
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Carruthers Archibald (85438), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Reginald Wesson Ashford (101740), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Monty Morris Berman (101767), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Ernest Richard Bolton (46262).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Dennis Booth, DFC (117355), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Harold Sydney Clark (44960).
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Alan Cope (100753), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Reginald Maurice Cracknell (87177), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Maurice Henry Disney (62737), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Robert William Draper (83317), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Norman Cunningham Farries (46745).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Francis Edward Frayn (77203), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader William Goodridge (45267).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Higford Singer Griffiths, DFC (106846), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Samuel Herring, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Geoffrey Dirk Stewart Horsfall (77958).
  • Acting Squadron Leader John William Prince Kipps (105917), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader David Livingston (68304), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Hector Munro Louch (84685), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Ernest Arthur Luce (103335), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Robert Macgregor (89018), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Lawrence Malec (70442), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Cyril Henry Mathias (74533), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Jack Moore (46379).
  • Acting Squadron Leader William Richard Morgans (46752).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Leonard Pagram (47190).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Charles Henry Palmer (44244).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Francis Mervyn Panzetta (66412).
  • Acting Squadron Leader William Albert Redverse Pepper (60408), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Johnstone Bolton Robertson, DFM (44752).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Arnold Paul Robinson (Can/C.16013), RCAF.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Cyril William Roebuck (85320), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Herbert Thomas Rushton (64151), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Walter Savory (71865), RAFO.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Harry Shaw (102324), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Eric Montague Cooper Shipp (73396), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Eric Coupland Spencer (63161), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Robert Taylor (44389).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Oliver Stuart Todd (78125), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Claude Tokry (78489), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Thomas Ure (82099), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Edgar James Watts (45034).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Henry Wilson (136581), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant John Darral Ackerman (N.Z.404113), RNZAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant James William Archer (63876), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant George Rutherford Damant Atherstone (126840), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cumming Barclay, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Christopher Henry Brock (71109), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Charles Edward Brooks (178379), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Gilbert Hamilton Campbell (65433), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant George Douglas Cooper (47600).
  • Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Cyril Earl (129002), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Ieuan Lynn Richard Evans (109117), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Robert Logan Ewing (138360), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Wilson Gordon Fell (122815), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Vergil Leroy Fiksdal (Can/C.21681), RCAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant Alan Geoffrey Hardy (137263), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant John Bonar Hodgson (Can/C.9221), RCAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant James Hood (118125), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Stewart Lockie (85829).
  • Flight Lieutenant William Mathew Lower (Can/C.8042), RCAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant William McFaull (Can/C.8116), RCAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant Stanley Edward Malouf (Can/C.4994), RCAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant Edward William Merriman, DFM (137289), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant James Robert Mitchell (48859), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Francis William Morgan (86966), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Ross Emil Salvesen (87748), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant Willie Snowden (45611).
  • Flight Lieutenant Lionel Robert Traill Wasey (120368), RAFVR.
  • Flight Lieutenant John Whitaker (48998).
  • Flight Lieutenant Robert Hugh Finlay Whiteside (81531).
  • Captain Stanley Norman Brace (P.408V), SAAF.
  • Captain William Albert Gillham (P.763V), SAAF.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant William John Bell (Can/C.15953), RCAF.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Stephen Archbold Bergen (52437), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Jack Reginald Blackford (135851), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Alexander George Brand (124375), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Henry Lees Buckley (102949), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Eric Burchmore (49361).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles Henry Burder (138674), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Alfred James Cleasby (69032), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant William Edwin Collins (46362).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant William Friend (143525), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Anthony Fry (102636), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Alexander Morrison Hearn (120002), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Jack Edward Higgins (48574).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Roy George Huxtable (110381), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Douglas Samuel Jones (110236), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Robert Angus Kerr (112176), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Hugh McGilvray McBryde (108730), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant David William McEwEn (50087).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Joseph Bernard Mahony (51764).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant George Edward Marx (66097), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Frederick Norman Maskell (117270), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Edward Joseph Mason (49130).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Arnold Pounds Obank (143636), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant John Frederick Rae (50216).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Frederick Roman (48809).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant William Alfred Rumble (139766), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles Abbott Smith (68256), RAFVR.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Ronald Henry Ward (50 80).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Harry Haslam Woodglover (121755), RAFVR.
  • Acting Captain Vivian Voss (123307V), SAAF.
  • Flying Officer Roland Millhouse (134878), RAFVR.
  • Flying Officer David Colyer Nutting (102641), RAFVR.
  • Flying Officer John Clement Perkins (138579), RAFVR.
  • Flying Officer Theodore Grimmer Raynham (49523).
  • Lieutenant Johan Hendrik Dragt (P.449V), SAAF.
  • Lieutenant Denis Anthony Greyvensteyn (81978V), SAAF.
  • Warrant Officer William Bennett (366023).
  • Warrant Officer Eric George Bowden (514439).
  • Warrant Officer Brian de Burton (590997).
  • Warrant Officer Cecil James Butler (364478).
  • Warrant Officer Victor Cecil Carey (506729).
  • Warrant Officer Frank John Reed Clegg (343916).
  • Warrant Officer Arthur Leonard Cockerline (248608).
  • Warrant Officer John James Deslauriers (Can/C.2455), RCAF.
  • Warrant Officer John Frederick David Godden (560171).
  • Warrant Officer Norman William Howlett (330861).
  • Warrant Officer Robert Preston Nelson (364916).
  • Warrant Officer Edwin Roberts (365610).
  • Warrant Officer Stanley Frederick Smith (331121).
  • Warrant Officer James William Sutherland (350265).
  • Acting Warrant Officer Chriss Alan Higham (513319).
  • Acting Warrant Officer Ronald George Thomas (551182).
  • Wing Officer Frances Agnes Joynson Wreford (549), WAAF.
  • Squadron Officer Lady Dorothy Bowhill (392), WAAF.
  • Squadron Officer Norah Louise McNeil Warren (241), WAAF.
  • Flight Officer Agnes Emily Davies (2761), WAAF.
  • Flight Officer Stella Roy Taylor (1310), WAAF.
  • Flight Officer Anne Beatrice Walker (1465), WAAF.
  • Acting Flight Officer Joan Bradbury (4902), WAAF.
  • Acting Flight Officer Betty Rose Bradford (5570), WAAF.
  • Squadron Leader Gordon McLeod Andrews, RAAF.
  • Squadron Leader Robert Barbour, RAAF.
  • Squadron Leader William Charles Thompson, RAAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant Henry Charles Hudson, RNZAF.
  • Section Officer Mary Katrine Loughnan, Royal New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Civil Division
  • Helen Marion Arbuthnot, British Information Services, New York.
  • Harvey Donald Barlow, British subject resident in the Belgian Congo.
  • Eileen Daggett, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office.
  • Charles Joseph Devey, Head Staff Clerk, Sudan Government.
  • Violet Froom, British subject resident in Switzerland.
  • Frederick William John Gale, Managing Director, S.G. Brown Ltd, Watford.
  • Christos Nicholas Halkias, British Vice-Consul at Salonica.
  • Madge Hinds, Assistant Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
  • Philippa Creighton Levicky, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office.
  • Lewis Arthur Oates, British Vice-Consul at Miami.
  • Wilfred Winchester Puleston, British Vice-Consul at La Plata.
  • Ernest Edward Spurgeon, MVO, Head Chancery Servant at His Majesty's Embassy at Paris.
  • Estelle Thompson, Headmistress of the English Girls' School at Istanbul.
  • Francis Herbert Trethewey, British Vice-Consul at Horta.
  • Herbert William Whyman, British subject resident in Persia.
  • Richard Edward Wilkinson, British Vice-Consul at Smyrna.
  • Grace Jardine Balfour, President, Corner Brook Branch, Women's Patriotic Association, Newfoundland.
  • Margaret Ellen Brittan, Principal, St. Catherine's School, Maseru, Basutoland.
  • Alice Elizabeth Cheale, Assistant Secretary, Victoria League.
  • Captain Alfred George Cook. For services in connection with the Branch of the British Empire Service League in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Henry Burton Crawford, Foreman of Ship repairs, St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland, and formerly Chief Engineer of Coastal Steamers and Refrigerator Engineer, Newfoundland Railway.
  • Bevis George Gundry, Agricultural Engineer, Department of Agriculture, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Walter Hughes Halls. For services in connection with the British South Africa Police Regimental Association, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Lucy Hone, a Member of the Children's Welfare Board, State of South Australia.
  • Agnes Gait Houston. For services in connection with the work of the Empire Societies War Hospitality Committee in Scotland.
  • Mabel Charlotte White Jarvis, Honorary Secretary, Salisbury Branch, National War Fund, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Iris Evelyn McLaggan, of Mahalapye, Bechuanaland Protectorate. For voluntary services on behalf of war charities and women's organisations.
  • Doris Pemberton Methuen. For valuable work in connection with unofficial Service organisations in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Wilfred Wallace Osborne, JP. For public and philanthropic services in the City of Hobart, State of Tasmania.
  • Major Herbert Hubert Rochester, Officer Commanding, British South Africa Police Reserve.
  • Thomas Henry Woollacott. For municipal and patriotic services in the District of Burra, State of South Australia.
  • The Reverend Alexander Tulloch Robertson Yuille. For services in connection with the work of the Empire Societies War Hospitality Committee in Scotland.
  • Dev Priya Bali, LRCP, MRCS, DMRE, Women's Medical Service, Deputy Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals (Women), United Provinces.
  • Nella Bartlett (Wife of Mr. L. H. Bartlett, OBE, MLA, of the Central Provinces Manganese Ore Co. Ltd.), Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.
  • Homai Jal Batliwala (Wife of Mr. Jal J. Batliwala, Deputy Chief Accounts Officer (officiating), Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway), Madras.
  • May Wilson Cox, Queen's Army Schoolmistress, British Army Children's School, Bombay.
  • Marjorie Beatrice Elphinston (Wife of Mr. C. Elphinston, Messrs. Parry & Co. Ltd.), Madras.
  • Hope Lucas, Nursing Superintendent, Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospitals, Bangalore.
  • Deirdre Macfarlane (Wife of Lieutenant Colonel W. Macfarlane of the Seaforth Highlanders), Lady Commandant, Central Command Leave Hostel, Naini Tal, United Provinces.
  • Solomon David Aaron, Assistant Field Controller of Military Accounts.
  • John Baldwin, Deputy Superintendent of Police (retired), ARP Controller, Bombay.
  • Bibhuti Bhushan Banarji, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police (officiating), Orissa.
  • William Francis Bennett Beale, Superintendent, Special Jail, Berhampore, Murshidabad, Bengal.
  • William Berry, Professor, Punjab College of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Punjab.
  • Probhat Kumar Biswas, Civil Assistant Surgeon, Bengal.
  • William Carruthers, Works Manager, Barsi Light Railway, Kurduwadi, Sholapur District, Bombay.
  • Subramanian Chakravarthi, Indian Civil Service, Under-Secretary, to the Government of India in the War Transport Department.
  • Washeswar Nath Datta, Commandant, British Evacuee Camp, Coimbatore.
  • Frank Arthur Dignum, District Commandant, Hare Street Civic Guards, Bengal.
  • Captain Fateh Muhammad, Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly, Assistant Recruiting Officer, Gujrat, Punjab.
  • George Feakins, Officer Supervisor, Quartermaster-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India.
  • Major Charles Ernest Fox, Deputy Controller of Army Factory Accounts, Calcutta.
  • Babu Saroj Kumar Ghosh, Provincial Secretary, Boy Scouts Association, Bengal.
  • Sudhamoy Ghosh, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, Bengal.
  • Charles Hoyle, General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India.
  • Gordon Noel Jackson, Indian Political Service, lately Political Agent, Kuwait, Persian Gulf.
  • Thomas Kidd, Deputy Director, Railway Board, New Delhi.
  • Kunja Behari Mohan Lal, Indian Forest Service, Divisional Forest Officer, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Assam.
  • Reginald Albert Labern, Officer for War Services Work, Higher Executive Grade, Office of the High Commissioner for India, London.
  • Madandhari Singh, Zamindar, Village Dharahra, Dinapore Sub-division, Patna District, Bihar.
  • Ernest William Matthew, Director, Department of Food, Government of India.
  • Tribhovandas Bhagwandas Merchant, Deputy Controller of Purchase in the Office of the Chief Controller of Purchase (Munitions), Department of Supply, Government of India.
  • Mohammed Nazir Mirza, BSc. Divisional Engineer, Telephones, Delhi Division, Posts & Telegraphs, New Delhi.
  • Belmar Krishnamurthy Nanjunda Rao, Tata Air Lines.
  • Khan Sahib Maulvi Nur Bakhsh, Pleader, Administrator, Dera Ismail Khan Municipality, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Kenneth Parbery, General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India.
  • Khan Bahadur Rustomji Pestonji Patel, Merchant and Contractor, Jamshedpur, Bihar.
  • Captain Francis Fenwick Pearson, Indian Political Service, lately Under-Secretary, Political Department, India.
  • Beni Pershad, Advocate, Ambala City, Punjab.
  • Frank Harold Pomphrey, Director of Music, His Excellency the Governor's Band, Madras.
  • Vilhelm Schielderup Risoe, Director, Electrical Engineering, Department of Supply, Government of India.
  • Thomas Edward Rogers, Indian Political Service, His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Bushire, Persian Gulf.
  • Keith Cotton Roy, Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to the Finance Member.
  • Francis Randel Sanger, Assistant Secretary, Office of the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
  • Victor Alexander Newell Sausman, Deputy Conservator of Forests on Special Duty as Land Improvement Officer, South Circle, Bombay.
  • Robert William Scott, lately Assistant Commissioner, Nicobar Islands.
  • Lancelot George Sibley, Assistant Inspector of Guns, Cossipore, Bengal.
  • Rai Bahadur Nanda Lai Sinha, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector (retired), Elections Officer, Bihar.
  • Manohar Lail Sood, Indian Service of Engineers, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, United Provinces.
  • Captain John Amyot Steward, Indian Political Service, Deputy Commissioner, Mardan, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Arthur Cleveland Turner, Controller of Stores, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.
  • Badri Nath Uppal, PhD, Plant Pathologist to the Government of Bombay.
  • Harry Hutchings Waynforth, Acting District Engineer, Bengal Nagpur Railway, Khargpur.
  • Arthur Antony Whitley, Assistant Controller (Headquarters), Office of the Controller of Printing & Stationery, New Delhi.
  • William John Wood, Assistant Military Secretary, Military Secretary's Branch, General Headquarters, India.
  • Alva Adeline Daniell, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, DTM, Civil Assistant Surgeon, Civil Medical Department, Government of Burma.
  • Govindapuram Ramachandra Rajagopaul, Deputy Legal Adviser to the Government of Burma.
  • Amanfi III, Omanhene of Asebu. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • Vera Jean Anderson. For welfare services in Kenya.
  • Emanuel Calleja, Superintendent of Police, Malta.
  • Frederick Brian Coulson, Chief Clerk and Deputy Registrar of Lands Department, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Marjorie Darwent. For welfare services in Trinidad.
  • Joseph George Gardner, Mechanical Transport Superintendent, Public Works Department, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Helen Glover. For public services in Nyasaland.
  • Ethel Grace Jarrett. For public services in St. Helena.
  • Jehan Khan, Chief of Customs, Government of Mukalla, Aden.
  • Marjorie Kelly. For welfare services in Ceylon.
  • Emanuel Gittens Knight, Senior Magistrate, Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Eugenie Minnie Lee. For welfare services in Nigeria.
  • Agnes Leslie. For welfare services in Ceylon.
  • Atallah Jacob Mantoura, District Officer, Palestine.
  • Chandulal Kalidas Patel. For public services in Uganda.
  • Walter Charles Shankland. For public services in British Guiana.
  • May Thornton Jeffrey-Smith, Head Mistress, West Wood School, Jamaica.
  • Frank Lewis Stevens, Colonial Postal Service, Assistant Engineer, Posts & Telegraphs Department, Kenya.
  • May Dorothy Turnbull. For welfare services in Nigeria.
  • Adi Maraia Vosawale. For welfare services in Fiji.
  • John Edward Wriqht, FRCS, Colonial Medical Service, Surgeon Specialist, Holbarton Hospital, Antigua, Leeward Islands.
  • Jean Wynne. For welfare services in Barbados.
Honorary Members
  • Joseph Brookman Amissah Abadoo, late Assistant Secretary, Nigerian Secretariat.
  • Abraham Diskin, Assessing Officer, Income Tax Department, Tel Aviv, Palestine.
  • Madame Hajja Mukarram Abu Khadra. For social services in Palestine.
  • Abdel Halim Sakit, Captain in the Arab Legion.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Dominion Civil Services
Indian Civil Services
Colonial Service

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
India
Burma
Colonial Empire

Imperial Service Medal

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Royal Navy

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

Royal Navy

Bar to the Distinguished Service Cross

Royal Navy
  • Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander George Clifford Fanner, DSC, RNVR.
  • Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) Frederick Charles William Lawson, DSC (Eastbourne).
  • Acting Lieutenant (E) Alexander Charles Grant, DSC (South Queensferry).

Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)

Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal

  • Chief Mechanician George Merrick Richard Hide, P/K.61051 (Hurstpierpoint).

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force

Bar to Royal Red Cross

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Royal Air Force

Acting Group Captain
  • Douglas Lloyd Amlot, DFC.
Acting Wing Commanders
Squadron Leaders
  • John Clayton (41256).
  • Jack Richard Goodman, DFC (126540), RAFVR.
Acting Squadron Leaders
  • Kenneth Sydney Booth (63478), RAFVR.
  • David Ingram Chapman (60339), RAFVR.
  • Walter Sidney Chubb (45894).
  • George Walter Couzens (44823).
  • Benjamin Richard Hall, DFC (43938).
  • Nicholas Leonard Haworth-Booth (80552), RAFVR.
  • Walter Sinclair Kennedy, DFC (84999), RAFVR.
  • Wallace Ivor Lashbrook, DFC, DFM (45895).
  • John Gordon Seymour Linacre, DFM (112188), RAFVR.
  • Robert Alfred Marsh (70869), RAFO.
  • Michael John Philip Martin, DFC (74335), RAFVR.
  • Albert Claud Bradish Morgan, DFC (102966), RAFVR.
  • William Richard Morris (47463), RAFVR.
  • William Albert Mostyn-Brown (42517).
  • Ian Cameron Murison (41799), RAFO.
  • Grenville Rees (43254).
  • Peter Henry Stembridge, DFC (118184), RAFVR.
  • Thomas Alexander Stewart, DFC (114955), RAFVR.
  • Douglas Hillyiard Stuart (42159), RAFO.
  • Francis Herbert Stubbs, DFM (43480).
Flight Lieutenants
  • Douglas Ames (118030), RAFVR.
  • John Edward Atkins, AFM (46163).
  • Eric Bates (60456), RAFVR.
  • John Campbell Blair, DFC (138194), RAFVR.
  • Frederick Roy Bolton-Smith (124448), RAFVR.
  • Alfred Denmark Burt (49994).
  • William Cummins (46775).
  • Frank William Dewell (43357).
  • William Alfred Doherty (52176).
  • George Frederick Roedel Duffy (44629).
  • Edmund Percival Eastment (45206).
  • Raymond Arthur Gifford (102069), RAFVR.
  • Henry Campbell Graham (126458), RAFVR.
  • Donald Findlay Greig (85222), RAFVR.
  • Trevor Arthur Hampton (42220), RAFO.
  • Frank Charles Heavery, DFM (145840), RAFVR.
  • Archibald Frederick Herbert (150173), RAFVR.
  • Alexander Johnstone (120327), RAFVR.
  • John Thornett Lawrence (104428), RAFVR.
  • Alfred Edgar Lomas (144467), RAFVR.
  • Lancelot Arthur Martin (60068), RAFVR.
  • Dennis John Mason (122158), RAFVR.
  • Samuel Roy Pemberton (61990), RAFVR.
  • Jim Procter (85636), RAFVR.
  • Alfred Louis Roberts (46776).
  • Harry Rogers, DFC (144649), RAFVR.
  • Thomas Muir Scott (89309), RAFVR.
  • Jack Shearsmith, AFM (43346).
  • Charles Falkinder Smith (49066).
  • Ronald Austin Hedgeland Smith (46120).
  • Lionel Edgar Tarplee (85252), RAFVR.
  • Graham Neville Taylor (61013), RAFVR.
  • Reginald Sidney Taylor (118439), RAFVR.
  • William Paul Tudor (67702), RAFVR.
  • George Williamson (115946), RAFVR.
Acting Flight Lieutenant
  • Richard Robinson Lord (173779), RAFVR.
Flying Officers
  • Arthur Edward Binham (161311), RAFVR.
  • John Stanley Birkett-Evans (145320), RAFVR.
  • Charles Leslie Boulding (161611), RAFVR.
  • Ronald William Henry Bray (173375), RAFVR.
  • Edward James Churchill (161317), RAFVR.
  • Frank Norton, DFC (172427), RAFVR.
  • Fred William Ruddle (160197), RAFVR.
  • Gordon Menzies Rutherford (179999), RAFVR.
  • George Adamson Stafford (158301), RAFVR.
  • Jack Stonier (53631).
  • John Whelan (52561).
Pilot Officer
  • Robert William Court (177574), RAFVR.
Warrant Officers
  • Frederick Thomas Henry Brewer (1313279), RAFVR.
  • Ernest Wilfred Kennett (1260640), RAFVR.
  • Hugh McMillan (748219), RAFVR.

Royal Australian Air Force

Wing Commander
  • Gordon Eyres (Aus.291967).
Acting Wing Commanders
  • Cuthbert Allan James Lum (Aus.281774).
  • Stephen Wallace Martin (Aus.251695).
Squadron Leaders
  • Allan Frank McSweyn (Aus.402005).
  • John Donefllan Balfe (Aus.272371).
  • Kenneth Selby Brown (Aus.260680).
Acting Squadron Leader
  • Edward John Elliott, DFC (Aus.415127).
Flight Lieutenants
  • Terence Gerard Denis Roberts (Aus.402807).
  • James Joseph Leahey (Aus.402511).
  • Wilfred John Renfisch (Aus.401150).
  • Harold Edwin Teede (Aus.406739).
Flying Officers
  • Colin William Dunn (Aus.408824).
  • Alan Lindsay White (Aus.407205).

Royal Canadian Air Force

Acting Wing Commander
  • James Gardner Stewart, DFC (Can/J.10959).
Squadron Leaders
  • John Arthur Cook (Can/J.9352).
  • William Frank Hales, DFC (Can/J.6498).
Acting Squadron Leader
  • Samuel Chester Tugwell (Can/J.6387).
Flight Lieutenants
  • Robert Austin Adams (Can/J.7340).
  • Charles Gaylon Harville (Can/C.2719).
  • Charles Francis Payne (Can/J.20212).
Acting Flight Lieutenant
  • Hubert Dudley Davy (Can/J.17185).
Flying Officer
  • Thomas Haughton Gordon (Can/J.18972).
Warrant Officer
  • Warren Jackson Wright (Can/R.131874).

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Squadron Leader
  • Vincent David Gain.
Acting Squadron Leaders
  • Kenneth Godfrey King.
  • Allan Gerald Sievers.
Flight Lieutenants
  • Alfred Sydney Drew (N.Z.404560).
  • David Laurence Bade.
  • Lawrence Alan Lawton.
  • Robert Francis Watson.
Acting Flight Lieutenant
  • Sydney Harold Manning (N.Z.41921).
Flying Officers
  • Alexander Agnew Appleby (N.Z.41862).
  • George Willis Kidd (N.Z.417068).

South African Air Force

Lieutenant
  • Alfred Norman Mitchell Marsberg (103972V).

Bar to Air Force Cross

Royal Air Force
  • Acting Group Captain Douglas Henry Vincent Craig, AFC.

Air Force Medal (AFM)

Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeants
Sergeant
Leading Aircraftman

King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

Royal Air Force

Group Captain
  • J. F. X. McKenna, RAF (deceased).
Squadron Leader
  • J. R. Tobin, AFC (39909), RAF (deceased).
Acting Squadron Leader
  • J. H. V. Millington, DFC (44405).
Flight Lieutenants
  • B. E. Acton-Bond (123942), RAFVR.
  • R. B. Beavington (132333), RAFVR.
  • J. F. L. Bowes (122349), RAFVR.
  • R. T. Bromwich (107457), RAFVR.
  • J. H. Cheaney (66009), RAFVR.
  • H. R. Clarke (102587), RAFVR.
  • K. Cotton (131615), RAFVR.
  • G. W. Fairbank (85926), RAFVR.
  • J. P. Jamieson (83708), RAFVR.
  • A. O. Jones (126460), RAFVR.
  • J. McGill, DFC (64899), RAFVR.
  • H. J. Merchant (108856), RAFVR.
  • H. A. McK. Pascoe (116404), RAFVR.
  • T. I. Petersen, DFC (113495), RAFVR.
  • E. A. Southey, AFC (110344), RAFVR.
  • A. G. J. Taylor (131089), RAFVR.
  • L. G. Thorne (108559), RAFVR.
  • R. Towner (135743), RAFVR.
  • A. Williams (131621), RAFVR.
Flying Officers
  • M. E. Macdonald (173534), RAFVR.
  • R. J. Nixon (182192), RAFVR.
  • J. H. Raybould (158568), RAFVR.
  • D. A. Roberts (162827), RAFVR.
  • J. A. Robertson (162533), RAFVR.
  • L. J. Rose (178361), RAFVR.
  • B. G. T. Stanbridge (163507), RAFVR.
Warrant Officers
  • H. J. C. Heanes (656831).
  • A. H. Paver (1590949), RAFVR.
  • H. Webber (755350), RAFVR.
Sergeants
  • 971170 G. Hilton, RAFVR.
  • 653936 A. R. Sherman.
Corporals
  • 1122130 J. A. Devitt, RAFVR.
  • 1292356 R. S. Smith, RAFVR.

Royal Australian Air Force

Squadron Leader
  • L. C. Littler (Aus.402513).
Acting Squadron Leaders
  • 1. C. Anderson (Aus.406015).
  • J. F. Cotterell (Aus.400782).
  • R. M. Meares (Aus.262881).
Flight Lieutenants
  • R. W. Adsett (Aus.402194).
  • F. J. Castles (Aus. 408062).
  • J. Deacon (Aus.406713).
  • E. M. Hughes (Aus.408847).
  • I. W. Johnson (Aus.401797).
  • L. N. Keeler (Aus.403593).
  • R. C. Mason (Aus.416224).
  • R. H. Smith (Aus.416075).
  • W. H. Stephens (Aus.403964).
Acting Flight Lieutenant
  • P. V. Duffy (Aus.405727).
Flying Officer
  • O. E. K. Tink (Aus.401289).
  • E. J. Varney (Aus.428536).

Royal Canadian Air Force

Flight Lieutenant
  • W. G. Campbell (Can./J.7785).
Flying Officer
  • K. W. Warner (Can./J.27369).

Royal Indian Air Force

Flying Officers
  • J. D. Aquino (Ind.1777).
  • L. R. D. Blunt (Ind.1994)
  • E. D. Masillamana (Ind.1774).
  • R. Singh (Ind.2133).

King's Commendation for Brave Conduct

Royal Air Force

Flight Lieutenants
  • D. Crichton (61873), RAFVR.
  • J. A. Crossley (79594), RAFVR.
Flying Officer
  • T. A. Clarke (158975), RAFVR.
Warrant Officer
  • D. J. E. Hicks (616909).
Sergeants
  • 1605298 P. T. Ellis, RAFVR.
  • 551685 L. R. Shott, RAFVR.
Corporals
  • 1222819 W. J. Dance, RAFVR.
  • D. Musgrave.
Leading Aircraftman
  • 1564073 D. Clarke, RAFVR.
Section Officer
  • F. W. Buchanan (5698), WAAF.
Corporal
  • 2052387 E. P. Norman, WAAF.
Leading Aircraftwoman
  • 2119335 C. B. Morrison, WAAF.

Royal Australian Air Force

Leading Aircraftman
  • C. Larsen (Aus.123033) (deceased).

King's Police and Fire Services Medal (KPFSM)

For Gallantry

England & Wales
Police
  • Herbert George Mayger, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • Albert Edwin Enticknap, Constable, Surrey Joint Police Force.
  • Harold Poynton Withers, Inspector, Lincolnshire Constabulary.
  • Arthur Selby, Constable, Lincolnshire Constabulary.
Fire Services
  • Thomas Bertram Goodman, Assistant and Deputy Fire Force Commander, No. 30 (East Kent) Fire Force.

For Distinguished Service

England & Wales
Police
  • Commander William John Adlam Willis, MVO, OBE, CGM, Royal Navy, Chief Constable, Bedfordshire Constabulary.
  • Harry Barnes, Chief Constable, Blackpool Borough Police Force.
  • Raymond Hatherell Fooks, Chief Constable, Lincolnshire Constabulary.
  • Samuel Goodwin Buttress, Assistant Chief Constable, Staffordshire Constabulary.
  • Thomas Basil Thompson, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • William Francis Thomas, Superintendent, Cardiff City Police Force.
  • Reginald Arthur Abbiss, Superintendent, Leeds City Police Force.
Fire Services
  • Percy George Garon, MC, GM, formerly Fire Force Commander, No. 11 (Southend) Fire Force.
  • Edward Benjamin Eastland, Divisional Officer, No. 12 (Cambridge) Fire Force.
  • John Henry Farmer, Assistant Fire Force Commander, No. 17 (Bristol) Fire Force.
  • John Wilkins, Divisional Officer, No. 29 (Preston) Fire Force.
  • Harry Hicks, BEM, Divisional Officer, No. 14 (Portsmouth) Fire Force.
Scotland
Police
  • David Muir Robertson, Chief Constable, Clackmannanshire Constabulary.
  • Duncan McPhedran, Superintendent, Glasgow City Police Force.
Fire Services
  • Thomas Carson, Divisional Officer, No. 1 (Western) Area, Scotland.
Northern Ireland
Police
Southern Rhodesia
India
  • George Hubert Parke Bailey, Indian Police, District Superintendent of Police, Madras.
  • Babu Chandra Mohan Mukharji, InspectorGeneral of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bengal.
  • Khan Bahadur Nusserwanji Nowrosji Sadri, Inspector-General of Police, Kolhapur State.
  • Kasturi Lal, Sub-Inspector of Police, Punjab.
Colonies, Protectorates & Mandated Territories
  • Thomas Victor William Finlay, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria.
  • William John Howard Beard, Superintendent of Stores, Palestine Police & Prisons Service.
  • John Patrick Ilbert Fforde, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Palestine.
  • Richard Charles Catling, Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police, Palestine.
  • Albert Edward Conquest, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine.
  • Frederick Augustine Herbert, Inspector of Dockyard Police, Malta.
Occupied Territories Administration
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Henry Miller, Commissioner of Police & Prisons, Tripolitania.

Colonial Police Medal (CPM)

Southern Rhodesia
Colonies, Protectorates & Mandated Territories

Mention in Despatches

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1953 New Year Honours</span> British royal recognitions

The New Year Honours 1953 for the United Kingdom were announced on 30 December 1952, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1953. This was the first New Year Honours since the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. The Honours list is a list of people who have been awarded one of the various orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom. Honours are split into classes ("orders") and are graded to distinguish different degrees of achievement or service, most medals are not graded. The awards are presented to the recipient in one of several investiture ceremonies at Buckingham Palace throughout the year by the Sovereign or her designated representative.

The New Year Honours 1954 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1954 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1954.

The New Year Honours 1952 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire and Commonwealth. They were announced on 1 January 1952 for the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan to celebrate the past year and mark the beginning of 1952.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1954 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1957 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

The 1951 New Years Honours were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1951 for the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan.

The 1948 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1948 for the British Empire and New Zealand to celebrate the past year and mark the beginning of 1948. By coincidence it coincided with the nationalization of the Big Four railways into what is now known as British Railways.

The 1947 King's Birthday Honours were appointments by many of the Dominions of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's Birthday." They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 6 June 1947.

The 1947 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were published on 31 December 1946.

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. They were announced on 1 January 1946 for the United Kingdom, and Dominions, Canada, the Union of South Africa, and New Zealand.

The King's Birthday Honours 1942 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 5 June 1942 for the United Kingdom and Canada.

The 1944 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 31 December 1943.

The 1946 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 13 June 1946 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.

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, New Zealand, and South Africa.

The King's Birthday Honours 1943 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the British Empire. They were published on 2 June 1943 for the United Kingdom and Canada.

The 1940 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published on 9 July 1940.

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. They were announced on 1 January 1946 for the United Kingdom, and Dominions, Canada, the Union of South Africa, and New Zealand.

This is a list of MBEs awarded in the 1946 New Year Honours

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, New Zealand, and South Africa.

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, New Zealand, and South Africa.

References

  1. United Kingdom and British Empire: "No. 37119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1945. pp. 2933–3032.