1950 New Year Honours

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The 1950 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 2 January 1950 for the United Kingdom, [1] New Zealand, [2] India, [3] and Ceylon. [4]

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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 Colonies

Viscounts

Barons

Privy Counsellors

Knights Bachelor

State of South Australia
State of Victoria
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc.

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Civil Division

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
  • Colonel Douglas Stephenson Branson, DSO, MC, TD, chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Reuben Kelf-Cohen, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Francis Alfred Enever, MC, LLD, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
  • George Herbert Fretwell, MICE, Director-General of Works, Air Ministry.
  • Alexander Glen, MC, Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Arthur Hulin Gosling, Director-General, Forestry Commission.
  • William Graham, MBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
  • Robert Lowe Hall, Director, Economic Section, Cabinet Office.
  • Stewart Scott Hall, MSc, FRAeS, Director-General of Technical Development (Air), Ministry of Supply.
  • Laurence Norman Helsby, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
  • Owen Haddon Wansbrough-Jones, OBE, PhD, Scientific Adviser to the Army Council.
  • Eric Denyer Marris, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education.
  • Edward Francis Muir, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works.
  • Alfred John Newling, CBE, MVO, TD, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
  • Victor George Shepheard, MINA, deputy director of Naval Construction, Admiralty.
  • Stephen Shipley Wilson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
  • Alfred John Digby Winnifrith, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • John Ernest Yates, CBE, DCM, Director of Postal Services, General Post Office.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

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

  • Brigadier John Ashworth Barraclough, DSO, OBE, MC, Deputy Regional Commissioner, Land North Rhine, Westphalia, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Robert Birley, lately Educational Adviser to the Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Victor Spencer Butler, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, PhD, lately Economic Adviser, Board of Trade.
  • Allan Christelow, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury Delegation to Washington.
  • Major John Ronald McGrindle, OBE, MC, Member of the Board of British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Philip Eric Millbourn, MIMechE, Adviser on Shipping in Port, Ministry of Transport.
  • Alec Stephen Warren, Director of Canned Fish, Fruit and Vegetables, and Wholesale Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food.
  • Edward Betham Beetham, CVO, OBE Resident Commissioner of Swaziland.
  • Russell John Dumas, MEng, MInstCE, Director of Works, State of Western Australia.
  • William Aitken Brown Hamilton, an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Alderman Richard Olver Harris, JP, Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart, State of Tasmania.
  • Arthur Vincent Aston, MC, Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, Penang, Federation of Malaya.
  • Kenneth William Blaxter, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • Emanuel Camilleri, OBE, Secretary to the Maltese Imperial Government.
  • Charles Young Carstairs, Administrative Secretary, Office of the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies.
  • James Cheyne, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for African Affairs, Tanganyika.
  • William Johnston, Colonial Customs Service, Commissioner of Customs and Excise, East Africa High Commission.
  • Anthony Bernard Killick, Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Uganda.
  • Clement John Pleass, Colonial Administrative Service, Development Secretary, Nigeria.
  • Patrick Muir Renison, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Trinidad.
  • John Montague Stow, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator of Saint Lucia, Windward Islands.
  • Brewster Joseph Surridge, OBE, Adviser on Co-operation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Cecil James Thomas, Financial Secretary, Cyprus.
  • Neil Archibald Campbell Weir, OBE, ED, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Commissioner, Gambia.
  • Alexander Thomas Williams, MBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Secretary, Northern Rhodesia.
  • William Denis Allen, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Geoffrey Herbert Barter, Director of Establishments, Sudan Government.
  • Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows, Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office.
  • Walter Fergusson Crawford, OBE, Head of the Development Division, British Middle East Office, Cairo.
  • George Edmond Crombie, lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Rangoon.
  • David John Footman, MC, attached to the Foreign Office.
  • William Murray Graham, CBE, lately Judge of the Mixed Court of Appeal, Egypt.
  • John Henry Keswick, a British subject resident in China.
  • Laurence Brouncker Southey Larkins, OBE, Counsellor (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy at The Hague.
  • Francis Ralph Hay Murray, Head of the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office.
  • William John Sullivan, CBE, British Political Adviser to the Commander, British-United States Zone, Free Territory of Trieste.

Royal Victorian Order

Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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

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

  • William Anthony Beck, MBE.
  • John Stuart Bordewich.
  • Arthur Edward Pottinger.

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
Civil Division

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

Military Division
Civil Division

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

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

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Hubert Percival Chapman, OBE.
  • Surgeon Captain Thomas Norman D'Arcy, LRCP&S, DOMS.
  • Superintendent Anne McNeil, OBE, Women's Royal Naval Service.
  • Captain Thomas Davys Manning, VRD, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Captain (E) John Herbert Percival Southsy, (Retired).
  • Major-General Humphrey Thomas Tollemache, Royal Marines.
Army
  • Brigadier (temporary) Charles James George Dalton, OBE, (18839), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier (temporary) John Robert Crosse Hamilton, DSO, (34438), Corps of Royal, Engineers.
  • Controller (acting) Catherine Elizabeth Hammond (196073), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Controller Lilian May Hunnings, RRC, (206197), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Colonel Walter Henry Victor Jones, MBE, (15164), late Infantry.
  • Colonel (acting) Charles Eric Lightfoot, OBE, (275931), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List, Army Cadet Force.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Harold William Perryer, OBE, MIMechE, AMIEE, (14334), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • The Reverend Victor Joseph Pike, OBE, MA, (53409), Chaplain to the Forces, First Class, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • Brigadier (local) Lawrence George Robertson, OBE, ARICS, (36328), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel Roger Hierom Gerard Ogilvy Spence (39494), late Infantry.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Dennis Charles Tarrant Swan (432), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Ronald Ernest Wood (14311), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) James Richard Glencoe André, DSO, (17888), late Infantry, Commandant, The Malay Regiment.
Royal Air Force
  • Acting Air Commodore John Marson.
  • Acting Air Commodore Herbert Martin Massey, DSO, MC.
  • Acting Air Commodore John William Moncur, MICE.
  • Acting Air Commodore Walter Philip George Pretty, OBE.
  • Group Captain Bernard Leslie Blofeld.
  • Group Captain Edward Hugh Markham David, OBE.
  • Group Captain Andrew Harvey, MB, BCh, DPH.
  • Group Captain Richard Rupert Nash.
  • Acting Group Captain Frank Henry Bedford, OBE, MC, MM.
  • Group Captain Ronald Joseph Cohen, AFC, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Civil Division
Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order
  • Louis Arnold Abraham, Principal Clerk, Private Bill Office, House of Commons.
  • Janet Kerr Aitken, MD, FRCP, Consulting Physician, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians.
  • John Anderson, OBE, MIEE, Chief Scientist, HM Underwater Detection Establishment, Portland.
  • Frank Colin Bagnall, chairman, Wales Business Training Committee.
  • Leslie James Banks, Actor.
  • Major Maurice Edward Barclay, TD, chairman, Hertfordshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • James Robert Beard, MSc, MICE, MIEE, Senior Partner, Merz and McLellan Consulting Engineers.
  • John William Blower, JP, FCIS, Chairman of the Co-operative Union, Ltd.
  • Charles William Boyce, FCA, Joint Director of Finance, Wool Control, Board of Trade.
  • Robert Vivian Bradlaw, FRCS, MDS, FDSRCS, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Professor of Oral Pathology, University of Durham.
  • Alexander Calder, Convener of Orkney County Council.
  • John Graham-Campbell, Yr. of Shirvan, chairman, Argyll Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Oswald John Buxton Cole, OBE, Chief Constable of Leicester.
  • Frank Collindridge, JP, MP, Member of Parliament for Barnsley since 1938. Comptroller of HM Household since 1946.
  • Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, FBA, FSA (Scot.), Archaeologist.
  • Kenneth Curtis, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Wilfred Harry Curtis, Assistant Secretary, War Office.
  • George Daniel, MINA, Chief Ship Surveyor, Ministry of Transport.
  • Evan Thomas Davis, Chief Education Officer, West Sussex.
  • Howard Winnington Dawes, FRCVS, President, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 1946–1949.
  • Commander Sir Hugh Trevor Dawson, Bt., Royal Navy (Retired), chairman, Sea Cadet Corps Sports Council.
  • Josiah Eccles, MM, MIEE, MICE, MIMechE, chairman, Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board.
  • Harold Fearnley Farrar, managing director, Farrar Brothers, Ltd., Worsted Spinners, Halifax.
  • The Honourable Henrietta Franklin, Honorary Secretary of the Parents' National Educational Union.
  • Duncan Fraser, Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen.
  • Alfred Henry Garrett, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Charles James Gibbons, Assistant Secretary, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
  • Isaac Charles Ginner, ARA, Painter.
  • James Alexander Glen, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland.
  • William Glennie, MM, Controller, Scotland, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Léon Jean Goossens, ARAM, ARCM. Oboist. For services to Music.
  • The Reverend Harold Myers Grace, Secretary for Africa, Conference of British Missionary Societies.
  • James Johnstone Gracie, MIEE, chairman, Greater Birmingham Local Employment Committee.
  • Mary Hermione Hichens, ARRC, JP, Member of the Catering Wages Commission.
  • George Edward Holden, OBE, MSc, FRIC, Controller, Dyestuffs Control, Board of Trade.
  • Sir Ernest William Elsmie Holderness, Bt., Assistant Secretary, Home Office.
  • Captain John Murray Rymer-Jones, OBE, MC, Commander, Metropolitan Police.
  • Norman Harry Jones, HM Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Kenneth Ivor Julian, chairman, South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
  • Eric Philipps Keely, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food.
  • Alderman Charles Robert Keene, JP. For political and public services in Leicestershire.
  • Clifford Roy Kerwood, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
  • Franklin Kidd, DSc, FRS, Director of Food Investigation, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • Cecil John Kirk, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
  • Alfred John Knowlden, FSAA, lately Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department.
  • Arthur Richard Knowles, OBE, FCIS, Secretary-General, Association of British Chambers of Commerce.
  • Joseph Latham, ACA, Director-General of Finance, National Coal Board.
  • Henry Lesser, OBE, chairman, London Executive Council, National Health Service.
  • Ernest Clifford Lloyd, MRCVS, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Major George Michael Long, OBE, DL, Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Durham.
  • Maurice Henry Lovell, Director, Overseas Press Services, Central Office of Information.
  • Alderman Alfred Browning Lyne, JP, Vice-chairman, Cornwall County Council.
  • James McCaig, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Patrick McCarthy, Director, Paper Makers Association.
  • James McFadyen McNeill, MC, LLD, FRS, managing director, John Brown and Company, Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Ida Caroline Mann, MB, BS, DSc, FRCS, (Mrs. Gye), Senior Surgeon, Royal London Ophthalmic (Moorfields) Hospital.
  • Cecil James Miles, MBE, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office.
  • Charles Archer Morrison, OBE, FRICS, Chief Surveyor, Ministry of Works.
  • John Morrison, OBE, Director and Shipyard Manager, Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast.
  • James Watson Munro, DSc, Professor of Zoology and Applied Entomology at the Imperial college of Science and Technology, University of London.
  • Ernest Alexander Nicoll, MDS, ChB, FRCS, Surgeon-in-Charge, Berry Hill Hall Miners' Rehabilitation Centre and Consulting Surgeon to the Miners' Welfare Commission.
  • Percy George Norman, OBE, Joint Honorary Treasurer, National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations.
  • Frank Morgan Owner, MSc, FRAeS, Chief Engineer, Engine Division, Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.
  • Alexander Wilfrid Oyler, OBE, JP, lately, Chairman of the London Youth Committee, London County Council.
  • Henry Michael Denne Parker, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Basil Eric Payne, lately Director of Canned Fruit and Vegetables, Ministry of Food.
  • Herbert Quin, FCA, chairman, Belfast Hospital Management Committee.
  • Frederick Tavinor Rees, MC, TD, MRCS, LRCP, Director-General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Alfred Road, Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Alfred Roberts, OBE, JP, Secretary, Amalgamated Association of Card, Blowing and Ringroom Operatives.
  • Henry Russell, lately Director of Aluminium House Production, Ministry of Supply.
  • Leslie George Semple, MIEE, lately Controller-General, Posts and Telecommunications, Control Commission for Germany, British Element, (now Regional Director, North Eastern Region, General Post Office).
  • Donald McIntyre Sinclair, MIMechE, MInstT, General Manager, Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, Ltd.
  • Franklin Marwood Sleeman, Director, M.T. Sleeman and Sons, Ltd., Building Contractors, Exeter.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Benson Somerville, OBE, MIEE, Regional Director, Northern Ireland Region, General Post Office.
  • Kelvin Tallent Spencer, MC, FRAeS, AMICE, deputy director, Aircraft Research and Development (Technical) Ministry of Supply.
  • Stanley Spencer, Painter.
  • William Henry Stokes, chairman, Midland Regional Board for Industry.
  • Alderman Reginald James Stranger, MC. For public services in Southampton.
  • Lionel Tertis, FRAM. For services to Music, particularly in relation to the viola.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Thomas, TD, chairman, E. J. and J. Pearson, Ltd., Stourbridge.
  • Hubert Charles Meysey-Thompson, Lord Chancellor's Legal Visitor in Lunacy.
  • Herbert Trevor Tracey, Chief Publicity Officer, Trades Union Congress.
  • Herbert Gordon Turner, FICS, Honorary Shipping Adviser to the Ministry of Food.
  • Professor Arthur Mannering Tyndall, DSc, FRS, chairman, National Physical Laboratory Executive Committee.
  • Henry Ernest Weston, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education.
  • Wilfrid Whiteley. For political and public services, in Yorkshire.
  • Herbert Oscar Wigg, OBE, Director of Accounts and Audit, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Alfred Wilson, General Secretary, Mercantile Marine Service Association.
  • Captain (S) Dennis Austin Wilson, OBE, Royal Navy (Retired), Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
  • John Wilson, Marine Superintendent, Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd.
  • Edgar Hugh Truman Wiltshire, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
  • Donald Wolfit, Actor-Manager.
  • Sidney Joseph Wood, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Eric Armar Vully de Candole, Chief Administrator, Cyrenaica.
  • John Eric Maclean Carvell, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Quito.
  • Alexander Narraway Duckham, OBE, Agricultural Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Graham Dudley Lampen, lately Governor, Darfur Province, Sudan.
  • Wilfred Pryor, British subject resident in China.
  • Donald Victor Staines, OBE, Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments.
  • Arthur Harry Tandy, Counsellor (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy hi Brussels.
  • Hector Hercules Bell, chairman, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, State of Victoria, 1936–1949.
  • Walter Gerard Brind, OBE, DFC, lately Director of Public Works, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Walter John Spafford, ISO, lately Director of Agriculture, State of South Australia.
  • Mehmed Aziz, MBE, ARSanI, Executive Officer, Anopheles Eradication Scheme, Cyprus.
  • Clifford Viney Braimbridge, MVO, MB, BChir, FRCS Ed., LRCP, Colonial Medical Service, Senior Surgical Specialist, Kenya.
  • Charles Ernest Donovan, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Sierra Leone.
  • Edmund Victor Fowler, Colonial Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Singapore.
  • Andrew Charles Hands, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Nigeria.
  • The Most Reverend William George Hardie, DD, Archbishop of the West Indies.
  • Professor Frederick Hardy, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad.
  • Cedric Harvey, Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Fiji.
  • Frederick Thomas Holden. For public services in Kenya.
  • William Arthur Orrett, Colonial Police Service, Commissioner of Police and Commandant of Local Forces, British Guiana.
  • Thomas Richmond Rowell, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Hong Kong.
  • Ernest Emmanuel Clough Thuraisingham. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • The Reverend Frederick Darrell Bunt, MA, Chaplain.
  • Commander (E) (Acting Captain (E)) Arthur Beauclerk Coventry, DSC.
  • Instructor Commander Edgar Ronald Dawson.
  • Surgeon Commander Alfred Edward Flannery, LRCP&S.
  • Commander (S) Arthur Alexander Loveridge.
  • Temporary Commander (Sp.) Clement Proctor Lowe, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Commander Geoffrey Wilson Mott, (Retired).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel James Louis Moulton, DSO, Royal Marines.
  • Commander John Pringle.
  • Engineer Commander Charles George Guy Sindery, MIMechE, (Retired).
  • Commander (L) Edward Walter Smith, DSC.
  • Commander John Valentine Waterhouse, DSO.
Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Allan Bateson (20768), The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur de Graves Best (12251), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lindsay Binney (31875), The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Eric George Boothroyd (69694), General List, Territorial Army, Queen Mary's Grammar School, Combined Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Desmond Cavendish Brownlow (52561), Grenadier Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) Donald Carmichael, MSc (Eng.), AMIMechE (63648), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Noblett Carter (40361), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roscoe Clayton (20470), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harold Percy Combe (20130), The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Rupert Crowdy Crowdy (51288), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Peter Davidson, MC, TD, (45010), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Edward Davison, MBE, (122584), Royal Pioneer Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John George Figgess (101881), Intelligence Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quarter-Master) Francis Henry Giles, MBE, (65938), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) Hugh Desmond Barre Goldie, MC, (35416), The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Ernest Green, DSO, (41130), The Middlesex Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) James Durham Haigh, MA, AMIEE, (42245), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Allan Winfred Henderson (15885), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Colin Charles Hillman (164084), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Huntley Hooper (37073), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major) Francis Fletcher Laugher, MC, (47616), The Dorsetshire Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Cecil Laurence, TD, (21085), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Richard Frank Desmond Legh (50813), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Charles Baillie Mackenzie, DSO, (44938), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Godfrey Otto Bernard Marc (153707), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald King McMichael, TD, (23725), The Northamptonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Edward Bertram Michaelis (2321), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List, Army Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Gerald Mill Oborn (49772), The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) Ralph Henry Lefroy Oulton (30694), The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Byng Pembroke (30910), Employed List, late Coldstream Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Postlethwaite (31591), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Lewellin Rhys, MC, (44951), The South Wales Borderers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Asheton Thomas Sladen (40411), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Chisholm Edward Hugh Sparrow, MC, BA, (39125), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John James Gordon Walkinton (28983), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List, Army Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major (Quarter-Master)) Arthur Edward White (125119), 4th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Humphrey Pigot Williams (38776), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald William Walls, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces.
  • Brigadier (local) Carol Ardern (15616), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Officer Commanding Troops, Bermuda.
Royal Air Force
  • Group Officer Mary Henrietta Barnett, Women's Royal Air Force.
  • Group Captain Joseph Cox, DFC.
  • Acting Group Captain Arnold Wall.
  • Wing Commander Otto Maxwell Berkeley (72319).
  • Wing Commander Reginald Henry Clifford Burwell, DFC, (40602).
  • Wing Commander Edward George Clarke (35345).
  • Wing Commander George Augustus Erskine Harkness, AFC, (27057).
  • Wing Commander Frederick Charles Hornsby-Smith (74901).
  • Wing Commander Walter Kerswell (44087).
  • Wing Commander James Lambie (21158).
  • Wing Commander Peter Alan McWhannell (34024).
  • Wing Commander Harold John Maguire, DSO, (34048).
  • Wing Commander Alastair Dyson Panton, DFC, (33331).
  • Wing Commander Thomas William Piper, AFC, (37913).
  • Wing Commander Bryan Samson (34249).
  • Wing Commander Cyril Victor Stammers, MBE, (44985).
  • Wing Commander Leopold Herbert Stewart (13230).
  • Acting Wing Commander Alan Hartley (64049), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • Acting Wing Commander William John Marshall, MBE, (43454).
  • Acting Wing Commander John Belmont Taylor (72177).
  • Principal Matron Margaret Ellen Garnett, RRC, (5019), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (Retired).
Civil Division
  • James William Acheson, ACIS, ACCA, Principal Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department, Northern Ireland.
  • Henry Richard Ahrens, Manager, Sociedad Anonima, Frigorifico Anglo, Buenos Aires.
  • Alexander Forbes Anderson, Headmaster, County Modern School, Stowmarket.
  • Percy Joseph Bacon, Chief Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Ernest Alfred Bates, MBE, Inspector of Rates, Rating of Government Property Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Forbes Batten, MC, Director, Overseas Service, Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.
  • Reginald Percy Batty, assistant director, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry.
  • Reginald Pridham Baulkwill, Chief Administrative Officer, Office of the Public Trustee.
  • Edward Stuart Augustus Baynes, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner, Dublin.
  • George Beardsworth, JP, Chief Organising Officer, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.
  • Ivon Christopher Beardwell, Member of the Board and lately chairman, National Egg Distributors Association, Ltd.
  • William Dawson Beatty, MICE, lately Assistant Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty.
  • Arnold Binns, Principal, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • George Frederick Boswell, Chief Engineer Officer, SS Adrastus, Alfred Holt and Company.
  • Edgar Scott Bowes, MRCS, LRCP, chairman, Poole Centre, St. John Ambulance Association.
  • Edward Gregorius Brown, MBE, Senior Control Officer, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Frank Halliwell Bygott, Chief Superintendent of Examinations, Civil Service Commission.
  • Hugh Hill Campbell, JP, chairman, Ayrshire County Committee, Air Training Corps.
  • William Gilbert Campbell, Superintending Naval Stone Officer, HM Dockyard, Devonport.
  • Frederick James Carr, JP, Member, Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles, Northern Traffic Area.
  • Hilda Champ, lately Principal, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
  • Francis John Chapple, DSO, MBE, MInstT, General Manager, Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, Ltd.
  • Frederick James Chittenden. For services to horticultural education.
  • Alexander Lane Clark, DL, Member, County Londonderry Committee of Agriculture.
  • Harold George Clarke. For services to the printing and newspaper industry.
  • Richard Milroy Clarkson, Assistant Chief Engineer (Aircraft) and Chief of Aerodynamics Department, De Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd.
  • Ernest Thomas Conybeare, MD, FRCP, Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Charles Frederick Cook, Director of Sun Printers, Ltd., Watford.
  • Frederick Arthur Copp, Deputy Regional Controller, Southern Regional Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • William Courtenay, MM, ARAeS, Writer on aeronautical subjects.
  • Joseph Christopher Cox, Secretary, Building Apprenticeship and Training Council.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Norman George Cox, MInstT, Controller of Transport, Allied Commission for Austria, British Element.
  • Harold Thomas Cranfield, FRIC, Provincial Advisory Chemist (Soils), Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Isaac William Cumberbatch, MIMinE, JP, Area General Manager, North Staffordshire Area, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
  • Arthur George Curtis, Principal, Ministry of Transport.
  • Percival Vaughan Davies, Assistant Keeper, First Class, Public Record Office.
  • Samuel Dunlop, Secretary, Belfast Chamber of Trade.
  • William Paisley Earsman, JP, Councillor, Edinburgh Corporation. For public services in Edinburgh.
  • Edward Ellis, MIMarE, Joint Manager, Repairs Department, J. I. Thornycroft and Company, Ltd., Southampton.
  • George Bertram Sainsbury Errington, AFRAeS, Chief Test Pilot, Airspeed, Ltd. Christchurch.
  • Stanley William Evans, JP, chairman, Bristol Local Appeal Board and Reinstatement Committee, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • David Ewan, Chief Engineer Officer, MS Sepia, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Ltd.
  • Donald Edgar William Fish, Superintendent of Security, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Roland Fletcher, MICE, Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Smethwick.
  • John Victor Foll, managing director, Muirhead and Company, Ltd., Beckenham, Kent.
  • Andrew Gallagher, JP, DL. For public services in Strabane, County Tyrone.
  • Philip Nicolle Gallichan, lately Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey.
  • William Galloway, Regional Finance Officer and Chief Accountant, General Post Office, Scotland.
  • Charles Edward Gamon, FRIBA, JP. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Tom Golding, AMIEE, Manager of Electrical Department, W. H. Allen, Sons and Company, Ltd., Bedford.
  • Norman Walter Goodchild, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton Borough Police.
  • Tom Goodey, DSc, FRS, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
  • John Arthur Gregorson, lately assistant director of Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Supply.
  • The Right Honourable John Frederic, Baron Gretton, chairman of the committee, Burton-on-Trent Unit, Sea Cadet Corps.
  • Ezer Griffiths, DSc, FRS, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • Captain William Alexander Haddock, Master, SS Fanad Head, G. Heyn and Sons, Ltd., Belfast.
  • John Eric Hall, Principal, War Office.
  • Captain Robert Simpson Hanson, MC, County Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
  • George Frederick Morris Harding. For services to Art in Northern Ireland.
  • Benjamin Hargreaves, Chairman of the Blanket Manufacturers' Association.
  • Gerald Ravenscourt Hayes, chief executive officer, Admiralty.
  • Robert Wilson Hayes, Assistant Regional Controller, South Western Regional Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • James William Henley, chairman, Grimsby and Scunthorpe War Pensions Committee.
  • Harry Hepworth, DSc, FRIC, Delegate Managing Director, Imperial Chemical Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.
  • Stanley Francis Hines, Superintendent, Ministry of Supply Factory, Salwick, Nr. Preston.
  • Charles Edgar Hoare, Senior Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Kenneth Holmes, ARCA, Principal, Leicester College of Art.
  • Frederick Hood, Director, Ministry of Pensions.
  • William Wood Horn, JP, Alderman, St. Ives Borough Council, Huntingdonshire.
  • Mary Ida Dorothy Houstoun, JP, Regional Administrator, Northern Region, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Douglas Walter Howard, MC, Director of Disposals, Ministry of Supply.
  • John William Howlett, Vice-chairman, Southern Regional Board for Industry.
  • Arthur Daniel Jaffé, Honorary Secretary-General, International Law Association.
  • George James Horatio Jeffs, MVO, Divisional Air Traffic Control Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Charles Herbert Jenkins, FRICS, Superintending Valuer, Wales, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Edgar Jenkins, Principal, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Ritchie Herbert Douglas Johns, Deputy Command Secretary, Western Command, War Office.
  • Richard Vincent Johnson, Honorary Secretary, Caernarvonshire Branch, Forces Help Society.
  • Alderman Alfred Jones, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
  • Harold Compton Jones, MIEE, Telephone Manager, Liverpool, General Post Office.
  • Thomas Gordon Jones, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Transport.
  • Thomas Hughes Jones, Waterguard Superintendent, Southampton, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • William John Kearns, Regional Controller, North-Western Region, National Assistance Board.
  • Walter Monckton Keesey, MC, ARCA, ARIBA, lately HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • Elizabeth Alletta Clark-Kennedy, MBE, Educational Supervisor, Central Midwives Board.
  • James Kirkland, MA, Headmaster, Shawlands Senior Secondary School, Glasgow.
  • Arthur William Knee, Principal, Ministry, of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Janet Isabel Laidlaw, Director, Y.W.C.A. Services, British Army of the Rhine.
  • Mary Laird, Matron, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride.
  • Francis John Lane, MSc, MIEE, Transmission Design Engineer, British Electricity Authority.
  • Alderman Frederick Charles Langton, National President, Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers and Kindred Trades.
  • John Charles Lawder, JP. For political and public services in Stepney.
  • Claude Kingston Legg, Director of Establishments and Organisation, HM Stationery Office.
  • Leopold Leighton, MICE, MIMechE, lately Engineer-in-Chief, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
  • Colonel Bertie Taylor Lloyd, MC, JP, DL, chairman, Cardiganshire Local Employment Committee and Aberystwyth Disablement Advisory Committee.
  • Harold John Lloyd, Secretary, Agricultural Engineers Association.
  • William John Kynaston Lloyd, AMICE, Regional Director of Opencast Goal Production, North Midland Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • William McCarthy, chief executive officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • James Albert Newlyn McEwan, Principal Control Officer, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Cecil McFetrich, ACA, chairman, Sunderland Savings Committee.
  • Joseph Francis McGlennon, Principal, Air Ministry.
  • Thomas Pearson McIntosh, PhD, Director of the Seed Testing, Plant Registration and Plant Pathology Station, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Jenny Mack, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • Thomas Jardine Mackenzie, Principal Scottish Education Department.
  • Daniel Morris McLauchlan, Chief Constable, Coatbridge Burgh Police, Lanarkshire.
  • George Vert Thomson McMichael, MB, ChB, Medical Officer of Health for the Burgh of Paisley.
  • Douglas Magub, Senior Cinque Ports Pilot, Trinity House Pilotage Service.
  • Alfred Edward Mallett, Secretary, English Herring Catchers Association.
  • Robert Marshall, General Secretary, St. Andrew's Ambulance Association.
  • Walter Douglas Mathieson, MC. For services as Secretary of the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales. Principal, Registrar-General's Office.
  • Richard Tudor Millward, MBE, Inspector of Audit, National Insurance Audit Department.
  • Olive Eleanor Monkhouse, MBE. For services to Bedford College for Women, University of London.
  • David Gwilym Morgan, MRCS, LRCP, Administrative Medical Officer, United Cardiff (Teaching) Hospitals.
  • Gilbert Walter Morgan, PhD, Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
  • Henry Thomas Morgan, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Bristol Savings Committee.
  • Professor Edith Julia Morley, JP, Honorary Secretary, Reading and District Refugee Society.
  • Arthur Netherwood, Chief Officer, Croydon Fire Brigade.
  • Alexander Hodge Nisbet, GM, MBE, Firemaster, Lanarkshire Fire Brigade.
  • Horace James Oram, MBE, Principal, HM Treasury.
  • Herbert Deny Osborn, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Owen John Owen. For public services in the Welsh Border Counties.
  • Alderman Mary Madeline Paterson, JP. For public services in Paddington.
  • Brigadier Norman Fredric Patterson, TD, Industrial Member of the Welsh Board for Industry.
  • Charles Alfred William Pearce. For political and public services in Gloucestershire.
  • James George Pearce, MSc, MIMechE, MIEE, FInstP, Director, British Cast Iron Research Association.
  • James Reginald Pearson, MIMechE, Director and Factory Manager, Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Luton.
  • Harold Ernest Peirce, JP, chairman, Ballast, Sand and Allied Trades Association.
  • Alderman Juanita Maxwell Phillips, JP. For public services in Honiton and district.
  • James Anderson Piggot, JP, chairman, North West Hospital Management Committee, Northern Ireland.
  • James William Richard Porter, FRICS, Assistant Valuer, Housing Management Division, London County Council.
  • Harry Price, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
  • Roger Charles Pugh, Airport Manager, London Airport, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • John Ramsay, Assistant County Commissioner of the County of London Boy Scouts.
  • James Rankin, FCIS, chairman, East Denbighshire Industrial Savings Council.
  • Charles Frederick George Ransom, Grade I Assistant, attached to the Research Department of the Foreign Office.
  • Maurice Leslie Rayner, Principal, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Bertie Lees Read, ACA, Clerk to the Governors, Guy's Hospital.
  • John Edwin Richardson, Engineering Manager, Vickers Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness.
  • Frederic Frank John Bailey Roberts, Director, British Basic Slag, Ltd.
  • Sydney Roberts, Area Milk Products Distribution Officer, North Western Division, Ministry of Food.
  • Alderman Miss Florence Rollo, JP. For public services in Lancashire.
  • Alderman George Saxon, JP. For political and public services in Cheshire.
  • Edward Walter Alfred Scarlett, Principal, Colonial Office.
  • William Henry James Sealy, assistant director for-Wales, Ministry of Works.
  • Ralph Sheldon, Deputy Commander, Metropolitan Police.
  • Frank Settles Siddall, MBE, Principal, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Helen Mary Simpson, Principal, Exhall Training College, Coventry.
  • Philip Smiles, MBE, Member of the Ulster Savings Committee.
  • Alexander Alec-Smith, lately Area Officer, Hull, Timber Control, Board of Trade.
  • Edmund Hill-Snook, Divisional Food Officer, South Wales, Ministry of Food.
  • Duncan McCallum Stewart, Member, Central Agricultural Executive Committee, Stirling, Clackmannan and West Perth.
  • Stanley George Blaxland Stubbs, MBE, Assembly Member for Mid-Surrey National Savings Committee.
  • Captain Frederick Tate, MM, Master, SS Bellerby, Sir R. Ropner and Company, Ltd.
  • Frank Taylor, chief executive officer, Board of Trade.
  • Alderman Arthur Henry Telling, MM, General Secretary, National Association of Operative Plasterers.
  • John Alfred Theyer, Principal Officer, Bristol Channel District, Ministry of Transport.
  • Herbert Gordon Thomas, ACA, Chief Accountant, Cable and Wireless, Ltd.
  • James Joseph Thomasson, General Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • Francis Raymond Thornton, HM Chief Inspector under the Dangerous Drugs Acts, Home Office.
  • Reginald Frederick Torrington, Senior Local Army Welfare Officer for Manchester.
  • Wilfred Turner, chairman, Bradford and District Advisory Committee, National Assistance Board.
  • Eric Harold Underwood, lately Head of the German Information Department, Foreign Office:
  • Alfred Thomas George Unitt, MIMechE, lately Motor Transport Officer (Class I), Engineering Department, General Post Office.
  • Thomas Vose, Assistant Secretary, Welsh Board of Health.
  • Lorna Calvert Watson, Principal, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Frederick Weller, Chief Officer (Administration), Commercial Department, Railway Executive.
  • Percy Samuel James Welsford, FCIS, Secretary, The Library Association.
  • George Johnson White, MBE, Grade II Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Sidney Edward Whitehead, MICE, MIMechE, JP, deputy chairman, Southern Gas Board.
  • Edwin Whitfield, Divisional Manager, British European Airways Corporation. For services to the Berlin Airlift.
  • John Hargreaves Harley Williams, MD, Secretary General, National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • Robert Hugh Wright, Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
  • William Bennett, British subject resident in the United States of America.
  • Rex Walter Bosley, Second Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Helsinki.
  • Gerald Leo Carroll, British subject resident in Peru.
  • Thomas Landale Christie, MC, lately Manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China at Saigon.
  • Douglas Pavid Pedler Cracknell, Commissioner of Police, Somalia.
  • James Currie, lately First Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Santiago.
  • Albert Andrew Ernst Franklin, lately His Majesty's Consul at Tientsin.
  • Bernard John Garnett, First Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy at Bangkok.
  • Frederick Stollard Hardy, lately Deputy Director-General of Irrigation, Iraq Government.
  • Joseph George Hart, Attaché at His Majesty's Legation at Beirut.
  • William James Hawkings, British subject resident in China.
  • Reginald Wiles Highwood, British Council Representative in Beirut.
  • Captain Guy William Ogden, Director, Posts and Telegraphs Department Sudan Government.
  • Thomas Buchan Stewart, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
  • Thomas Speedie Mitchell Terrace, Ministry of Works' Director of Works and Services in the Far East.
  • Ernest Ganz Wilson, lately Labour Adviser to the United Kingdom Liaison Mission in Japan.
  • Alexander William Wallace Willoughby, His Majesty's Consul at Lille.
  • Cyril Allen, a prominent journalist in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Malcolm Munro Betten, chairman, Darjeeling Planters' Association, Bengal.
  • Thomas Gregory Burnett, MB, ChB, chairman, Bulawayo Hospital Advisory, Committee, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Frederick Charles Crawford, lately Town Clerk and Treasurer, Launceston, State of Tasmania.
  • Olivia Gardener. For social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
  • Gladys Lewis, Vice President, Young Women's Christian Association, State of Victoria.
  • Dorothy Hope Lucas. For services rendered under the auspices of the Victoria League in connexion with hospitality to visitors to the United Kingdom from overseas.
  • Mary Lynn, a Matron in charge of Mental Homes, State of Western Australia, for many years.
  • Likely Herman McBrien, Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria, 1943–1949, and Secretary of the Victorian Football League.
  • James Stuart McNeillie, of Southern Rhodesia, formerly President, Rhodesia Railways Workers' Union.
  • Eileen Cicely Phillips, chairman of the executive committee of the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.
  • Andrew Small. For services in the State of South Australia, especially to Scottish societies and settlers from Scotland.
  • Helen Wallis, MBE. For services rendered under the auspices of the Dominions Fellowship Trust in connexion with hospitality to visitors to the United Kingdom from overseas.
  • Amy Ruth Wright, Headmistress, Perth Girls' School, State of Western Australia, since 1925.
  • Henry Peter Zwar. For public services in the State of Victoria.
  • Okunade Ajibade, LRCS, LRCP, LRFPS. For public services in Nigeria.
  • Douglas Bailey. For public services in the Seychelles.
  • Christopher Richard Vincent Bell, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • John Clarence Bryant. For public services in North Borneo:
  • Francis Joseph Carasco. For public services in St. Lucia, Windward Islands.
  • The Reverend Canon Devasahayam David Chelliah, PhD, Education Officer, Singapore.
  • Barthelemy Jules Colin, Permanent Chairman of Conciliation Boards, Mauritius.
  • William Southworth Cooper. For public services in Bermuda.
  • Woolrich Harrison Courtenay. For public services in British Honduras.
  • Marcus Harry French, Adviser, East African Hides, Tanning and Allied Industries Bureau.
  • Jean Daniel Araauld Germond, MBE, Grade 1 Officer, Acting Resident Commissioner, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
  • Minnie Gosden, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, Colonial Medical Service, Senior Pathologist, Sierra Leone.
  • Morrison Greenwood, MBE, Colonial Agricultural Service, Principal Agricultural Officer, Nigeria.
  • Aubrey Victor Hall, Mayor of Blantyre Township. For public services in Nyasaland.
  • Robert Alston Hammond, MRCVS, Colonial Veterinary Service, deputy director of Veterinary Services, Kenya.
  • Geoffrey Hargreave. For public services in Jamaica.
  • William Frederick Hayward, Colonial Postal Service, Postmaster-General, Fiji.
  • Frank Bayliffe Henderson. For public services in British Guiana.
  • Hubert Bedford Henville. For public services in the Leeward Islands.
  • George Norman Herington, Colonial Education Service, Senior Rural Education Officer, Nigeria.
  • Lister George Hopkins, Vital Statistics Officer, Development and Welfare, West Indies.
  • Roy Adolphus Joseph, Mayor of San Fernando. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Arthur William Hoyer Keen, AMIEE, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • The Right Reverend Bishop Francis Xavier Lacoursiere, Vicar Apostolic, Western Province, Uganda.
  • Nicolas Panayi Lanitis. For public services in Cyprus.
  • Lim Khye Seng. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • William Hubble Lindsay, AMIME, AMICE, deputy director of Public Works, Federation of Malaya.
  • John Francis Lipscomb. For public services in Kenya.
  • Charles Septimus Littlefair, Senior Superintendent of Police (Finance), Kenya.
  • Lo Man-Wai. For public services in Hong Kong.
  • Arthur Harold Morley, MB, ChB, FRCS (Ed.), LRCP, Colonial Medical Service, Surgical Specialist, Tanganyika.
  • Valimohamed Mohamedali Nazerali. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Charles Elias Reindorf, MD. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • The Reverend Sylvester Milton Renner, DD. For public services in Sierra Leone.
  • Henry Langdon Renwick, Colonial Customs Service, Comptroller of Customs, Zanzibar.
  • Joseph Robson, Postmaster-General, Aden.
  • John Ramsay Rycroft, Town Engineer, Lagos Town Council, Nigeria.
  • Alfred Salomone, Manager, Water and Electricity Department, Malta.
  • Edu William Agyl Bampon Sam, Deputy Registrar of Co-operative. Societies, Gold Coast.
  • George William Somerville, Colonial Forest Service;, Conservator of Forests, Federation of Malaya.
  • Reginald Taylor. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
Honorary Officers
  • Seiytd Salim bin Umar Mashhur, State Secretary in the Kathiri Government, Aden.
  • Mustapha Albakri bin Haji Hassan, Officer of Class II, Malayan Civil Service, Federation of Malaya.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Lieutenant (E) William Comstock, (Retired).
  • Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Wilfred Samson Crocker, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Sidney Edward Glover, DSC.
  • Mr. Frederick William Charles Hall, DSC, Senior Commissioned Mechanician.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Fred Jackson, Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve.
  • Lieutenant (S) Vivian Edmund Jupp.
  • Lieutenant Oliver Lascelles, DSC.
  • Acting Lieutenant-Commander James Hunter Lyle.
  • Lieutenant Archibald Graham McLachlan.
  • Captain Alexander Wood Neaves, Royal Marines.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (L) George Blackstock Strain.
Army
  • Major Ralph Percy David Fortescue Allen (52052), 14th/20th King's Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • No. 827625 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Charles Bailey, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Captain (temporary) William Reginald Allen Bateman (310579), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Joshua Birkett (128155), 1st King's Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Charles Arthur Boycott (66110), The Suffolk Regiment.
  • Major (Quarter-Master) Randolph Edgar Dex Brasington, MC, (41730), The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) Walter Cyril Bratt (259377), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  • No. 7341528 Warrant Officer Class I (now Lieutenant Quarter-Master) Arthur James Britnell, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major Bevil Geoffrey Britton (66586), Coldstream Guards.
  • No. 2044199 Warrant Officer Class II Victor James Alfred Britton, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Arthur Broadley, TD, (16676), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  • Captain (temporary) Thomas Nigel Bromage (354991), Grenadier Guards.
  • No. 7259229 Warrant Officer Class I Lionel Henry Bryson, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Bernard Butler (259328), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • No. T/37023 Warrant Officer Class II Malcolm James Arthur Campbell, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
  • No. T/33946 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Henry Carey, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Cyril Henry James Crowley (211159), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Charles William Cullen (243925), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No. 2325516 Warrant Officer Class I Gerald Milliner Derwent, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major Basil Nevill Leslie Ditmas (63419), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No. 405051 Warrant Officer Class I Edmund Dilworth, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • The Reverend Hugh Dowd (125222), Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • Major Bernard Peter Tyrwhitt-Drake, BA, (66052), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Douglas Harley Duke (56662), The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own).
  • No. 2809272 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Lawrence Norman Dunn, ARCM, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
  • Major (temporary) Harry Lyndon Emsley (66250), Royal Army Educational Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Geoffrey Douglas Gill (88029), The Manchester Regiment.
  • Major Maxwell Nalder Graham (69019), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Alexander John Stevenson Grant, TD, (23442), The Royal Sussex Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Jack Guscott (252133), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Albert George Hance (163823), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • No. 7583504 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Harris, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Richard Hill (104740), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
  • Senior Commander (temporary) Ruby Hill (297978), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Major (Quarter-Master) Charles Henry Hutchings (75091), late Corps of Royal Engineers (Extra Regimentally Employed List).
  • Major Francis Royston Peathey-Johns, BSc (Eng.), AMIEE, (63015), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) Jonah Jordon, MC, (117629), The Dorsetshire Regiment.
  • No. 3053283 Warrant Officer Class I Benjamin Walker Kelly, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • Major (Quarter-Master) Vincent Howard Lamb (91676), The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • No. 6284948 Warrant Officer Class I Henry Leader, Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Christopher William John Lewis (266742), 1st The Royal Dragoons, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (acting) Norman Macleod Manson (286059), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List, Army Cadet Force.
  • No. 5173264 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Basil William Matthews, Army Physical Training Corps.
  • Major Kenneth Stewart McGregor (34238), The Royal Leicestershire Regiment.
  • Major Henry George Miller (123156), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) John Henry Moss (122458) Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • No. 316655 Warrant Officer Class I Edwin John Nevitt, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Norman Harry Nicholson (124976), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No. 860747 Warrant Officer Class I Brian Edwin North, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) John Oswald (167752), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (Extra Regimentally Employed List).
  • Major (temporary) John Reginald Hall Parley (71110), The Devonshire Regiment.
  • No. 899229 Warrant Officer Class II John Parr, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (acting) Charles William Pavey (223128), General List, Territorial Army, Kelly College Combined Cadet Force.
  • Major Arthur Rowland (105968), The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (acting) George Barr Shields, MM, (283712), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List, Army Cadet Force.
  • Major George Walter Simpson (173498), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • No. S/52308 Warrant Officer Class I Joseph John Smith, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Stanley William Adolphus Snelling (292055), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • No. 3308467 Warrant Officer Class II Wilfred Sykes, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Arthur John Thather (188250), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  • Major Peile Thompson (53109), The Manchester Regiment.
  • No. 827820 Warrant Officer Class I John Albert Troade, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No. 1406460 Warrant Officer Class II William Woozley Tyrrell, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) (acting) Horace George Waldram, TD, (48717), General List, Territorial Army, Brentwood School Combined Cadet Force.
  • Captain Arthur Gordon Ward (288577), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • No. 6845799 Warrant Officer Class II George William Wastell, Corps of Royal Military Police.
  • Major (Quarter-Master) Lionel John Williams (130693), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
Royal Air Force
  • Squadron Leader Arthur Bertie Jones, AFC, (43173).
  • Squadron Leader Geoffrey Herbert Thomas (46562).
  • Squadron Leader Alan Ridgard Towers (44296).
  • Squadron Leader Sidney William Waller (31489).
  • Acting Squadron Officer Eileen Joyce Borlase (5795), Women's Royal Air Force.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Walter Morton Cookson, MIMun&CyE (199176).
  • Acting Squadron Leader William James Greenslade (117768), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Frederick Leonard Heard (64437), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Hugh Philip Hopkins, AFC, (44826).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Lionel Harley Oates (111682).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Cyril Thomas Phillips, DFC, (143413).
  • Flight Lieutenant John Gillespie (160791).
  • Flight Lieutenant George Harold Jarrett (51998).
  • Flight Lieutenant Henry Norman Kitchin (45566).
  • Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Charles Lounds (50702).
  • Flight Officer Edith May Macgrigor (5882), Women's Royal Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Henry Peter Masse (110524).
  • Flight Lieutenant Cyril George Minchinton, DFC, (84895).
  • Flight Lieutenant William Graham Rogers, DFC, (118614).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant John Frederick Mayo Wright (91241), Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Warrant Officer Ernest Frederick Burford (524740).
  • Warrant Officer Charles Frank Hadley (338188).
  • Warrant Officer Sidney Handley (344995).
  • Warrant Officer Hughie Jonathan Marker (335599).
  • Warrant Officer Alfred William Harper (349692).
  • Warrant Officer Ernest William Hornett (1860788).
  • Warrant Officer Percy Masters Jacobs (349832).
  • Warrant Officer Harold Francis Jones (505310).
  • Warrant Officer George Rowland Neal (236887).
  • Warrant Officer George Henry Randle (515353).
  • Warrant Officer Alastair Ronald Stewart (590891).
  • Warrant Officer Richard Carroll Thorp (537294).
  • Warrant Officer Sidney Watson (510863).
Civil Division
  • Stephen George Akhurst, JP. For political and public services in Brighton and Hove.
  • Gilbert Horatio Aldred, Chief Engineer, British Ropes, Ltd., Doncaster.
  • Alderman Bruce Alexander, JP, lately Local Army Welfare Officer, Kendal and South Westmorland.
  • Agnes Frances Allan, County Director, British Red Cross Society, City of Dundee.
  • Alexander Broadfoot Allan, Farmer. For services to farming in Kirkcudbrightshire.
  • Annie Maud Allan, Headmistress, Littlehampton County Secondary School for Girls.
  • James Anderson, Dockmaster, Methil, Fifeshire.
  • Elsie Harriet Andrew, Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Margaret Clara Archard, Personal Assistant to the Regional Director, South Western Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Frederick Herbert Archer, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
  • Robert Armstrong, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
  • George Reginald Ashton, Local Fuel Overseer, Keynsham Urban District.
  • Elsie Marianne Baker, Executive Officer, HM Treasury.
  • Richard Siviter Baker, Production Manager, Adie Brothers, Ltd., Birmingham.
  • Arthur William Ball. For public services in Stepney.
  • Frank Augustus Ballard, Chief Machinist, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • Ernest Victor Balsom, AMIMechE, Secretary, Institution of Sanitary Engineers.
  • John Bamber, Accountant, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Donald Barlow, Chief Engineer, Bond Air Services, Ltd. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • Douglas Clyde Barlow, Superintendent of Welfare Establishments, Middlesbrough County Borough.
  • James Barrie, Principal Probation Officer, County of Fife and Burgh of Dunfermline.
  • David Bayley, Valuation Clerk, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Arthur William Bean, chairman, Horticultural Sub-Committee of the East Riding Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • William Fitzgerald Beatty, AMICE, Assistant District Engineer, Railway Executive, Watford.
  • Herbert Beckwith, Regional Establishment Officer, Birmingham, Ministry of Health.
  • Harry Richard Bennett, Member, National Schools Savings Advisory Committee.
  • Henry Oscar Wallace Bigg, ASAA, Honorary Secretary, Dagenham Savings Committee.
  • Alexander William Black, County Organiser for Inverness, North of Scotland College of Agriculture.
  • Samuel John Blair, Honorary Secretary, Portstewart and District Savings Committee, County Londonderry.
  • Rosalia Marie d'Arnim Blumberg. For services to the North of England Children's Sanatorium, Southport.
  • Daniel Boland, First Class Clerk, Supreme Court of Judicature.
  • John Boss, Superintendent, Glasgow City Police.
  • Mary Dorothy Boston, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • James Edward Bothwell, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Aberdeenshire Branch, Forces Help Society.
  • Harry Bowen, Secretary, British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation.
  • Gladys Mary Bowerman, Assistant Divisional Nursing Officer, London County Council.
  • Margaret Cicely Bowley, lately Dietetic Adviser to King Edward VII Hospital Fund for London.
  • Clarence Eric Boxall, Factory Manager, I and R. Morley, Ltd., County Durham.
  • Thomas Michael Brennan, Radio Officer, Flight Refuelling, Ltd., Wunstorf and Fuhlsbüttel. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • Reginald Richard Walter Bridson, Manager, No. 1 Unit, Overseas Food Corporation, Kongwa, Tanganyika.
  • Eva Johnson Broad, Senior Chief Clerk, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Francis Charles Brobyn, Senior Station Engineer, Flight Refuelling, Ltd., Wunstorf and Fuhlsbüttel. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • John Edward Broomhead, Superintendent of Limeburning, Hindlow Works, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.
  • Alfred Sidney Brown, Manager of the Electric Department, Clarke Chapman and Company, Ltd., Gateshead.
  • Alfred Stanley Brown, Skipper of the Steam Trawler Stalberg, Consolidated Fisheries, Ltd.
  • Arthur Edwin Brown, AMIMechE, Assistant Engineer Inspector, Admiralty.
  • Major Samuel Burkey, Regional Inspector, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • John Cahill, DCM, Senior Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • William Lorraine Calder, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • John Campbell, General Secretary, Scottish Slaters, Tilers, Roofers and Cement Workers Society.
  • Albert Canter, Senior Office Clerk, House of Commons.
  • Victor Carlisle, Senior Auditor, National Insurance Audit Department.
  • Randle William Carr, ARICS, Senior Assistant Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Adelaide Cartwright, Matron, Brockhall Institution for Mental Defectives, Langho, Lancashire.
  • Henry George Milward Castell, attached to the Diplomatic Wireless Service, Foreign Office.
  • Frank Archibald Cave, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • Leonard Challenor, Honorary Treasurer, North-Western Area, British Legion.
  • Herbert James Charlton, Headmaster, South Park Primary School, Ilford.
  • Ernest Chicken, JP, Colliery Manager, Blackhall and Castle Eden Collieries, Northern Division of the National Coal Board.
  • Harold Child, Assistant General Secretary, National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.
  • Norman Victor Church, Superintendent, Boundary Section, Ordnance Survey Department.
  • James Clark, JP, lately Honorary Local Fuel Overseer, Borough of Camberwell.
  • Albert Walter Wallis Clarke, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Leonard Cyril Clarkson, Works Director, Raleigh Industries, Ltd., Nottingham.
  • Alderman Richard Clift, JP, Vice-chairman, Staffordshire County Council.
  • Charles Collier. For services to the Edgware Road Local Employment Committee.
  • John Cooke, DCM, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • William George Copsey, Secretary, Institute of Certificated Grocers.
  • William Maurice Samuel Cox, Assistant Regional Director, South West Region, Ministry of Works.
  • Richard George Crickmay, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Lizzie Marion Crittle, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Leslie Thomas Crofts, Higher Executive Officer, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
  • Gerald Edward Crouch, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Brighton Borough Police.
  • Grace Elaine Currey, Trustee-in-Charge, Royal Sailors' Rests, Portsmouth and Devonport.
  • Ernest Cuttell, Secretary, Butter and Cheese Association, Ltd.
  • Henry Herbert Davidson, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • George Edmund Dearing, Member, Leicester Local Employment Committee.
  • Elizabeth Denton, County Borough Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Liverpool.
  • Elliot Brocklebank Dewberry, FRSanI, Sanitary Officer Grade I, Ministry of Works.
  • James Hamilton Donald, Senior Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department.
  • Hugh Dougal, JP. For services as a Prison Visitor in Belfast.
  • Harry Frederick Dowler. For services to the Children's Hospital, Birmingham.
  • Emily Mary Duggan, lately Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases.
  • Jean Elizabeth Dunlop, Sister in Charge, Chronic Sick Ward, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.
  • Charles William Dunnet, Honorary Secretary, Berwickshire Savings Committee.
  • Philip Henry Durham, JP, lately Higher Clerical Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • Neil Gordon Edmondson, Actuary, Liverpool Savings Bank.
  • Robert Edwards, chairman, Wrexham Rural District Food-Control Committee.
  • Alderman William Ewart Ellis, chairman, Bideford Youth Employment Committee.
  • Esther Annie Emery, chairman, Women's Sub-Committee of Widnes Local Employment Committee.
  • Cecil Emmerson, Surveyor, Sunderland Rural District Council.
  • Denis Michael Evans, lately Pilot, Skyways, Ltd., Wunstorf. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • John David Eryl Evans, Senior Intelligence Officer, Control Commission for Germany. (British Element).
  • Thomas Alfred Presgrove Feist, Higher Clerical Officer, Savings Department, General Post Office.
  • Anne Dorothy, Countess of Feversham, County Organiser, Yorkshire, North Riding, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Lucy Field, Secretary, Association of Wholesale Distributors of Imported Poultry and Rabbits, Ltd.
  • Alice Mary Sybil Wynne Finch, JP, lately Member, Denbigh Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • James Frederick Flatman, Superintendent and Deputy, Chief Constable, Isle of Ely Constabulary.
  • Olive Mary Forbes, Chief Superintendent of women employees, Ferranti, Ltd., Hollinwood.
  • Elisabeth Shaw Brodie Forrest, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Rutherglen.
  • Clarice Muriel Friday, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Charles Douglas Frogbrook, Senior Executive Officer, Central Ordnance Depot, War Office.
  • Robert Gordon Fryer, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Angela Galbally, Translator, attached to the Foreign Office.
  • Stanley Garrett, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Reginald Gaved, District House Coal Officer, St. Austell, Cornwall.
  • James George Gibson, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • Raymond Gilbert, Senior Experimental Officer, Government Chemist's Department.
  • Robert Watson Gillespie, Honorary Secretary, Lisnaskea and District Savings Committee, County Fermanagh.
  • Stanley Robert Bygate Gillespie, JP, lately Technical Staff Officer, HM Stationery Office.
  • Neil Gillies, Inspector of Quarries, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Doreen Maud Golding, Control Officer I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • John Goldsbrough, MINA, Assistant to the Technical Director, Furness Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., Billingham.
  • Vyvian Edwin Goodman, Commandant, Bedfordshire Special Constabulary.
  • Joseph William Gothwaite, Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Agnes Gibb Gray, Statistician, South West Scotland Division, British Electricity Authority.
  • Archibald Newbigging Grierson, Chief Draughtsman, David Rowan and Company, Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Samuel Ewing Haire, lately Secretary, Londonderry and Gransha Hospital.
  • Blodwen Hallett, Sister, Graig Hospital, Pontypridd, Glamorgan.
  • Esther Maud Handford, Member, Loughborough Youth Employment! Committee.
  • Captain James Augustus Hamer Harries, Commissioner, North Wales Region, National Savings Committee.
  • David John Edward Harris, Chief Clerk, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Union of South Africa.
  • Alfred Haselden, General Works Manager, Ford Motor Company Ltd., Dagenham.
  • Frances Florence Hawker, Honorary Secretary, Newbury Division, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.
  • Frank Basil Hawkins, Regional Welfare Officer, Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • William Healey, JP, lately Member, West Sussex Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Harry Noble Heard, chairman, Camberwell War Pensions Committee.
  • Leonard William Hedger, FCIS, Secretary, Royal Western Counties Hospital Group.
  • Alexander Henderson, Assistant Chief Constable of Cheshire.
  • Alexander Bremner Henderson, MA, Headmaster, Wick North Primary School.
  • George Colin Henry, Pilot, Bond Air Services, Ltd., Fuhlsbüttel. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • Arthur Joseph Hewitt, Superintendent of Gas Turbine. Aero Engine Development, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Ltd., Coventry.
  • Constance Mabel Hickling, Personnel Manager, John Bright and Brothers, Ltd., Rochdale.
  • Edgar Nathaniel Hiley, General-Secretary, National Brass Foundry Association.
  • Thomas Frank Hiscock, Navigating Officer, Flight Refuelling, Ltd., Wunstorf and Fuhlsbüttel. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • Jessie Elizabeth Hobbs, Sister, Male Medical Ward, Gravesend and North Kent Hospital.
  • Sydney Arthur Hodges, MINA, Senior Ship Surveyor, Ministry of Transport.
  • Alderman Herbert Laurence Hogg, JP, chairman, Hartlepool Sea Cadet Unit.
  • Frederick Holmes, Tug Master, Traffic Department, North Eastern Waterways Division, Goole, Docks and Inland Waterways Executive.
  • Doris Holoran, Technical Nursing Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • William Holroyd, Secretary, East and West Ridings Regional Board for Industry.
  • Edwin Holt, JP. For public services in West Hendon.
  • Thomas Hosking, Senior Experimental Officer, Admiralty.
  • George Noel Howard, Staff Officer, Admiralty.
  • Gordon Rushworth Howells, Chemist I, Atomic Energy (Production) Division, Ministry of Supply.
  • Ernest Hoyle, Chief Draughtsman, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • Charles Henry Hubbard, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • John Harold Hubbard, Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Norman Hudson, Chief Commercial Officer, North Eastern Gas Board.
  • Joseph Anthony Hunt, chairman, Birmingham Advisory Committee, Midland Regional Board for Industry.
  • Alfred Reginald Chadwick Huntington, FCIS, chairman and managing director, William Champness and Sons, Ltd., Caernarvon.
  • Stanley Edward Hutson, AMIMechE, Senior Experimental Officer, Armament Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • Robert George Jackson. For services to the Belfast and Castlereagh Rural District Councils.
  • Bernard Jacobs, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • George Arthur Livesey Jaques, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • William Altham Johnson, Control Officer I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Arthur Ifan Jones, JP, chairman, Anglesey Group Committee, Wales Gas Board.
  • John Oswell Jones, Manager, Bradford Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Olive Esdpn Courtney-Jones, Chaplain's Assistant, British Army of the Rhine.
  • Walter Jones, Chief Steward, Alfred Holt and Company.
  • Miriam Britland Jowett, Officer-in-Charge, Foreign Relations Work, British Red Cross Society, Berlin.
  • Herbert Keeling, Production Manager, Job Wheway and Son, Ltd., Walsall.
  • Captain William Houston Keenan. For services to ex-Servicemen in Bangor, County Down.
  • Norman Kettlewell, Chief Officer, West Hartlepool Fire Brigade.
  • David King, Chief Armament Designer, De Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd.
  • Nellie King, National Savings Assembly Member for North Wiltshire.
  • Annie Phyllis Knox, lately Matron, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
  • Cyril Charles Lee, Marine Superintendent, Trinity House Service, Great Yarmouth.
  • Mary Lidbury, lately Regional Clothing Officer, No. 3 (North Midlands) Region, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Isabel May Life, Commandant, British Red Cross Society, Isle of Wight.
  • Marguerite Louise Limozin, Private Secretary to the Deputy Chairman (Operations), British Electricity Authority.
  • Kenneth Bernard Ling, Superintendent, Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Treforest.
  • James Sheridan Little, Agricultural Machinery Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Horace Henry Livett, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Leonard George Livingstone, chief executive officer, Ministry of Education.
  • Harry Jones Lloyd. For public services in Denbighshire.
  • John Robert Lloyd, Superintendent of Records, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Norah Henrietta Lonsdale, Staff Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland.
  • Henry Estes Lynch, Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
  • Geoffrey Ernest Derek MacBride, Control Officer I, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • John Macdonald, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Henry McIlwaine, Chief Engineer Officer, SS Lord O'Neill, Ulster Steamship Company, Ltd.
  • Charles Smith Brown McLarty, Factory Manager, Alexander, Fergusson and Company, Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Alexander Duncan McLean, lately Head Postmaster, Canterbury, Kent.
  • Archibald Maclean, Deputy Oil Production Officer, North Western Area, Oil and Fats Division, Ministry of Food.
  • William Currie McNee, Works Manager, McCrae and Drew, Ltd:, Glasgow.
  • Robert Valentine Macrory, MIEE, City Electrical Engineer, Londonderry.
  • Captain Bryan Elidore Stacpoole Mahon, Supervising Inspector of Home Grown Cereals, Ministry of Food.
  • Joseph Mandefield, lately Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Allan Manson, Assistant General Secretary, National Union.of Seamen.
  • James Fenton Marsden, Inspector Grade I, Board of Trade.
  • Philip Marshall, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry, of National Insurance.
  • Walter Henry Martin, Accountant, Ministry of Education.
  • Thomas Martindale, Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty.
  • William George Masters, Senior Technical Officer, Royal Mint.
  • Ino Matthewman, Private Secretary to the Divisional Waterways Officer, North Eastern Division, Docks and Inland Waterways Executive.
  • Herbert Langsford Matthews, Collector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • James Matthews, Secretary, Trade Union Side, National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport. National Industrial Officer, National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
  • Edward Maughan, Purser and Chief Steward, Troop Transport Empire Windrush, New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd.
  • Richard Henry Porcher Meen, CA, Deputy Finance Director, Meat and Livestock Division, Ministry of Food.
  • Frank Albert Mells, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Ann Black Mennie, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • Walter George Cuthbert Miller, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Cecil Henry Milton, Inspector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Archie Lane Mitchell. For public services in Tavistock.
  • Edward Wilfred Monteith, Staff Officer, Ministry of Labour, and National Insurance, Northern Ireland.
  • Eleanor Mary Morgan, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Dundee.
  • William Moseley, Telephone Manager, Gloucester, General Post Office.
  • Albert George Moss, Higher Clerical Officer, Admiralty.
  • Frances Dorothy Mott, Executive Officer, Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
  • Nina Frances Emmeline Mower, Clerical Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Charles Alexander Munro, Senior Executive Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Bernard Murphy, DSC, lately Chief Engineer Officer, SS Annaghmore, John Kelly, Ltd.
  • Frank Musselbrook, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • Jameson Leonard Neill, Senior Executive Officer, National Assistance Board.
  • Philip Alexander Nelson, Secretary and Technical Adviser, South Coast Engineering and Shipbuilding Employers' Association.
  • Isabella Suttie Fairnie Ness, Domiciliary Midwife, Musselburgh Town Council.
  • Idalia Julia Murlis Nicholls, Regional Transport Officer, No. 7 (South Western) Region, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Morris Lyndon Nicholls, Honorary Secretary, Fishguard, Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
  • James Norman, AFRAeS, Chief Surveyor, Air Registration Board.
  • Hetty Bottomley North, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • James William Oliver, Headmaster, Cuckoo County Secondary School for Boys, Baling.
  • Arthur Ernest Owler, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Works.
  • Elsie Page, Regional Clothing Officer, No. 6 (Southern) Region, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Ernest Edward Page, Station Superintendent, Llanelly Power Station, South Wales Division, British Electricity Authority.
  • John Dickson Panton, CA, lately Treasurer to Dundee Harbour Trustees.
  • James Park, Member, Edinburgh Savings Committee.
  • James Henry Parkinson, lately Manager, North Eastern Division of the National Coal Board.
  • William Parry, Senior Engineer, British Overseas Airways Corporation. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • Theodora Alberta Pars, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Home Office.
  • Bert Parsons, Works Manager, Stephen Walters and Sons, Ltd., Silk Weavers, Sudbury, Suffolk.
  • Captain Denis John Parsons, Pilot, Fairflight, Ltd., Wunstorf. For services in the Berlin Airlift.
  • Hugh Patchett, chairman, Spen Valley Local Employment Committee.
  • Noel Wyatt Paul, Farmer. For services to farming in Dorset.
  • Leslie Richard Pears, TD, PhD, Member, School Harvest Camps Advisory Committee.
  • Albert Pearson, Assistant Chief Constable, Bradford City Police.
  • George Matthew Raymond Pearson, Secretary, Woollen and Worsted Trades' Federation.
  • Allen John Perring, President of the Amateur Swimming Association.
  • Arthur Hector Pettitt, Manager, Southampton Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Archiman Pickard. For political and public services in Yorkshire.
  • Emily Powell, BEM, Domiciliary Midwife, London County Council.
  • Jessie Agnew Preston, County Secretary, Shropshire, Women's Land Army.
  • Arthur John Crawford-Price, Assistant to the chairman, British Tourist and Holidays Board.
  • Edmund Priestley, LRAM, Senior Music Adviser, West Riding County Council.
  • Anthony Procter, AMIMechE, Manager, Oil Seal Department, George Angus and Company, Ltd.
  • Allan Proctor, General Secretary, City of Hull Great War Trust.
  • Robert Bannerman Rae, lately Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department.
  • John Stanyon Ratcliffe, Housing and Estates Manager, Willesden Borough Council.
  • James Ray, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Percival Montford Reckhouse, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Mabel Edith Redman, lately Matron, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire.
  • Leonard Maurice Reeves, Senior Trunk Road Engineer, East Suffolk County Council.
  • Norman Renison, Vice-chairman, Coventry Savings Committee.
  • Harry Reoch, Principal, Dundee Trades College.
  • Agnes Leslie Richmond, Departmental Secretary, Scottish Trades Union Congress.
  • Dora Alice Robinson, Higher Clerical Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Stanley Gordon Robinson, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Lieutenant Commander Herbert John Rose, Royal Navy (Retired), lately Secretary, Portsmouth Branch, Naval Warrant Officers' Death Benefit Association.
  • Captain Frederick Arthur Roughton. For services as Ship's Master, Marine Contractors, Ltd., Southampton.
  • Ernest William Rowe, Clerical Officer, Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Boscombe Down, Wiltshire.
  • Horace Sanders, ACCA, Actuary, Nottingham Trustee Savings Bank.
  • Fanny Stella Saunders, Controller of Typists, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Ninian Hill Scarth, Manager, Engine Department, Yarrow and Company, Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Captain Cyril Rayner Scate. For public services in the Isle of Man.
  • Robert Schofield, Works Manager, Hugh Mackay and Company, Ltd., Durham.
  • William Robert Scott, MIEE, chairman, Western District Committee, Scottish Board for Industry.
  • Edith Alice Secker, Matron, Overdale Isolation Hospital, Jersey.
  • Eric Sellman, JP, lately chairman, Wolverhampton Local Employment Committee and Disablement Advisory Committee.
  • Mary Sergent, Honorary Secretary, Liverpool Street Groups Savings Committee.
  • Edwin Shackley, Welfare Officer and Treasurer, Lakes and Lancaster Wing, Air Training Corps.
  • John Emanuel Arthur Shearing, Divisional Police Superintendent, Railway Executive.
  • William Sheepwash, Principal Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty.
  • Mary Isabel Lilias Sherbrooke, Officer II, Education Branch, Allied Commission for Austria, British Element.
  • William John Shingfield, Member, Essex Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Walter Charles Shinn, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • George William Shott, Higher Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Arthur George Sjogren, chairman, Bedfordshire District Committee, Eastern Regional Board for Industry.
  • Elizabeth Staples Smellie, County Superintendent for Essex, St. John Ambulance Brigade.
  • Andrew Stuart Lees Smith, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office.
  • Edward Duncanson Lindsay Smith, Superintendent, City of Glasgow Remand Home.
  • Wing Commander Edward Montague Smith, Employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
  • James Alexander Smith, Superintendent, Lambton Street Boys' Fellowship Centre, Sunderland.
  • Olive Mary Sparks, District Nurse and Midwife, Sutton and Glusburn, Yorkshire.
  • James Spence. For public services in County Antrim.
  • Mary Stanley, County Borough Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Burton-on-Trent.
  • Harold William Steele, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • Captain Hilmar John Stenwick, DSC, lately Master, SS Merton, R. Chapman and Son.
  • Herbert Charles Stevens, Heavy Forge Manager, William Jessop and Sons, Ltd., Sheffield.
  • James Barr Stevenson, Works Director, E.M.I. Factories, Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex.
  • Horatio Nelson Taylor, Registrar and Archivist, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, New Delhi.
  • Joseph Taylor, Dockmaster, Cammell Laird and Company, Ltd., Birkenhead.
  • Alexander Frederic Aimé Imbert-Terry, Clerical Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Captain Frederick Theobald, Local Army Welfare Officer, Metropolitan Kent.
  • John Thexton, Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Jennie Thomas, JP, County Organiser of Language Training and Infant Schools, Caernarvonshire.
  • Observer Commander John Neill Thompson, Commandant, No. 19 (Surrey and West Kent) Group, Royal Observer Corps.
  • Hatton Henry Ewart Timmis, FRICS, Assistant Regional Planning Officer, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
  • Richard Harold Timmis, Member, Alsger Urban District Council, Stoke on Trout.
  • Henry Ian Herick Titchener, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office.
  • Gladys May Troak, Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • John Henry Trower, ACA, Honorary Secretary, Newcastle upon Tyne Savings Committee.
  • William Turnbull, Chief Engineering Officer, SS Parkwood, Constantine Steamship Line, Ltd.
  • Sidney William Turner, chairman, Coventry, Nuneaton and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Henry Massey Turvey, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Johanna Helena (Joan) Van Thal, Director, Department of Speech Therapy, Central School of Speech Training, London.
  • James Trickey Vowles, Senior Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Tom Wadsworth, Chief Inspector, Calder and Hebble Section, North Eastern Region, Docks and Inland Waterways Executive.
  • Harold Isaac Fyjis-Walker, Secretary, Cambridge Preservation Society.
  • Herbert Robert Waller, JP, Chairman of Committee, No. 10F (Luton) Squadron, Air Training Corps.
  • John Alfred Walters, Member, Bristol Local Employment Committee.
  • Geoffrey William Warren, Physicist, Research Laboratories, General Electric Company, Ltd.
  • Charlotte Mary Waterlow, Administrative Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Herbert Watts, Inspector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Jane Lennie Waugh, District Nurse, Bannockburn.
  • John Webster, FRICS, Divisional Officer, Forestry Commission.
  • Alan Willsher Weekes, MIMechE, Industrial Member, Coventry and District Committee, Midland Regional Board for Industry.
  • Percy Stanley West, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office.
  • Horace Burgoyne Whiskin, Senior Executive Officer, HM Treasury.
  • Cecil James Whittall. In charge of the Admiralty Division, Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.
  • Jack Ernest Morey Wicks, Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Ernest Wilkinson, Chief Steward, RMS Andes, Royal Mail Lines, Ltd.
  • Captain Frederick Williams, MC, DFC, Superintendent, St. Loyes College for the Disabled, Exeter.
  • George Alfred Williams, Control Officer II, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Thomas Haydn Williams, Mill Manager and Chief Roll Designer, Cargo Fleet Iron Company, Ltd., Middlesbrough.
  • Muriel Moulsdale-Williams, Grade IV Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Herbert Owen Wilshere, Honorary Secretary, Leicester Savings Committee.
  • Herbert Walter Wilson, MM, AMIEE, Admiralty Liaison Engineer, General Electric Company, Ltd., Birmingham.
  • John Wilson, AMINA, Chief Draughtsman, Admiralty Drawing Office, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast.
  • Sam Clifford Wilson, Clerk to Camborne-Redruth Urban District Council, Cornwall.
  • Arthur Charles Wise, Officer, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Fox Wollaston, MC, Chief Recruiting Officer, Southern Command, War Office.
  • Albert Frank Wood, AMIMinE, Colliery Manager, West Midlands, Division of the National Coal Board.
  • Marion Jane Wright, Senior Sister Tutor, Southend General Hospital.
  • Angus McLeod Young, Meteorological Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Nellie Hilda Young, Secretary to the Governing Body, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.
  • John Agius, British subject resident in Egypt.
  • Karl Andre Auty, British subject resident in the United States of America.
  • Joseph Francois Michel Cassar, British subject resident in Algeria.
  • Henry Waldo Coverley, British Vice-Consul at Oporto.
  • John Crabb Edwards, Senior Public Health Inspector, Port Sudan.
  • Lewis Forde, Senior, lately British Vice-Consul at Larache.
  • Cecil Ernest Greatorex, Civil Liaison Officer, British Administration, Tripolitania.
  • Frederick James Harper, British subject resident in Chile.
  • Winifred Jessie Hitchcock, Examiner, Visa Section of His Majesty's Embassy in Brussels.
  • Hubert Gordon Hopkirk, Temporary Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Bangkok.
  • Muriel Grahame Jack, Shorthand-typist at His Majesty's Embassy at Nanking.
  • Alexander Charles Jarvis, British subject resident in Denmark.
  • Harry Taylor Lawrence. For services to the British Council in Ethiopia.
  • Norman Leslie, until recently British Vice-Consul at Montevideo.
  • Evelyn Lowe, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
  • Roderick Price Mann, Assistant to Manager in Spain of the Eastern Telegraph Company at Vigo.
  • Marjorie Mary Meeghan, Civilian Nursing Sister, British Administration, Somalia.
  • Anthony Maurice Nowson, Archivist at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Alexandria.
  • Alexander Ernest Passawer Percival, Cypher officer at His Majesty's Legation at Ciudad Trujillo.
  • Madeleine Ines Reid, British subject resident in Greece.
  • William Walter Richardson, Public Works Department, British Administration, Eritrea.
  • Edgar Vincent Rizzo, lately clerk at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Istanbul.
  • Heiga Schneider. For services at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Zurich.
  • Christina Pirie Scotson, Private Secretary to His Majesty's Consul-General at Boston.
  • Charles Bracey George Wilson, British Vice-Consul at Callao.
  • Edward Youde, Third Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Nanking.
  • Councillor Edwin Buckland, a member of the Huntly Shire Council, State of Victoria, since 1910.
  • Edmund Charles Borlase Cockaine, Secretary, United Kingdom Citizens' Association in Bombay.
  • Herbert James Cook, formerly Town Clerk, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Robert Dawson, a farmer in the Robe district, State of South Australia.
  • Herbert Daniel Gowran FitzPatrick, District Commissioner, Swaziland.
  • Veronica Margaret Gill. For services in connexion with patriotic and charitable movements in Port Pirie, State of South Australia.
  • Hilda Dunnington-Jefferson. For services rendered under the auspices of the Victoria League in connexion with hospitality to visitors to the United Kingdom from overseas.
  • Catherine Mabel Langham, Headmistress, Hasfa Homecraft Village, Southern Rhodesia.
  • David Hercules Mochochoko, Senior Clerk and Interpreter, Secretariat, Basutoland.
  • Councillor Arthur Hugh Moore, of the Shire of Alberton, State of Victoria.
  • Ilma Meta Bridges Osborn, Matron, Melrose House for Aged and Indigent Blind, State of South Australia.
  • Marjorie Alice Parker. For services in connexion with patriotic, and charitable movements in Launceston, State of Tasmania.
  • Evelyn Emily Richardson, a missionary for 38 years at Mbuluzi in Swaziland.
  • Margaret Roach, President, Fitzroy Ladies' Work Association, State of Victoria.
  • Gladys Aroha Schott, Inspecting Sister, Department of Social Services, State of Tasmania.
  • Lilian Alma Solly. For services rendered under the auspices of the Dominions Fellowship Trust in connexion with hospitality to visitors to the United Kingdom from overseas.
  • Councillor Reginald Howard Lee Sparks. For services to Box Hill, State of Victoria.
  • Patrick James Sylvester. For patriotic services in the State of Victoria.
  • Harold Arthur Stanley Wiseman. For services to ex-servicemen in the State of Victoria.
  • Ernest Verano Andlaw, AMIEE, AMIMechE, City Electrical Engineer, Gibraltar.
  • Mary Elizabeth Arthur. For public services in Cyprus.
  • Au Kwok-Leung, Clerk, Hong Kong.
  • Alice Emma Blowers. For public services in Kenya.
  • Denis George Britton, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, British Guiana.
  • The Reverend John Ethalstan Cheese. For missionary services in Somaliland, Aden and Kenya.
  • Helen George Chryssafinis. For public services in Cyprus.
  • Olive Alexandria Conton, Assistant Teacher, Annie Walsh Memorial School, Sierra Leone.
  • Charles Henry Cox, Senior Gaoler, Prisons Department, Singapore.
  • Dennis Murdoch Currie. For public services in Uganda.
  • Clarence Maria Dass, Agricultural Assistant, Fiji.
  • John Durey. For public services in British Guiana.
  • Paul Duncan Fletcher, Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy British Agent, Eastern Aden Protectorate.
  • Gabriel William Geikie, Municipal Assistant, Sibu, Sarawak.
  • Mohamed Ghows, Education Officer, Singapore.
  • Joseph Charles Gill, Revenue Inspector (Chief Gauger), Gibraltar.
  • Albert Bgadedo Goyea, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Press, Nigeria.
  • Jack Graham, Honorary Commissioner of Special Constabulary, Jamaica.
  • Henry Magnus Grant, Headmaster, Accra Royal Boys' School, Gold Coast.
  • Iris Dora Grant (Miss Brown), Matron, Grade 1, Malayan Medical Service.
  • Eric Harvey Halse, Colonial Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Reginald John Hart, Senior Agricultural Supervisor, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Arthur Allan Hinds, Senior Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office, Barbados.
  • Clementine Margaret Mary Huffelmann, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Nursing Sister, Federation of Malaya.
  • Edward Victor Hulme, Engineer-Clerk, Aberdare District Council, Kenya.
  • William Stuart Hutchins, Engineer in Charge, Lusaka Electricity and Water Undertakings, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Phyllis Hutchinson, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Nursing Sister, Nyasaland.
  • Lalchan Jaggernauth. For public services in Trinidad.
  • George Robert Arthur McGard Johnston, DSO, DFC, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Francis Ezekiel Jones, Headmaster, Duke Town School, Calabar, Nigeria.
  • Francois Jumeau. For public services in the Seychelles.
  • Charles Macdonald Lastique. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Poon Lip Loh, JP, (formerly Teo Soh Choo). For public services in Singapore.
  • Sarah Lyon, Sister in Charge, Church Missionary Society Hospital, Fort Portal, Uganda.
  • Thomas Matthew McCartney. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Robert Darius James M'Cauley, Manager of the Freetown Rice Mill, Sierra Leone.
  • Susan McKennel, District Missionary of the Slessor Memorial Institute, Aro, Nigeria.
  • Mgoye Mgoye. For service with the East African Construction Forces (Civil), Kenya.
  • Vera Moody. For public services in Jamaica.
  • Arthur Mullin, Temporary Surveyor, Public Works Department, Gold Coast.
  • Ooi Hong Suat (Mrs. Chong Ah Khoon). For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Joseph John Outerbridge, Secretary, Trade Development Board, Bermuda.
  • Gemma Ramkeesoon. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Charles Samuel Sayce, Assistant Stores Superintendent, East African Railways and Harbours.
  • Barbara Gertrude Schofield, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Senior Nursing Sister, Nigeria.
  • Eric Gordon Shrubbs, Principal, Government Secondary School, Aden.
  • Ujagar Singh, Executive Officer, Grade I, Hong Kong.
  • Victor Ffennell Smith, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Sierra Leone.
  • Constantinos Athanassios Soteriades, Administrative Assistant, 1st Grade, Cyprus.
  • Kandiah Subramanian, Paymaster, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
  • Francis Reeves Sweet, Development Officer, Swollen Shoot Campaign, Nigeria.
  • Sybil Mary Swift, Colonial Education Service, Senior Mistress, Education Department, Hong Kong.
  • Captain Syed Shaidali bin Asgar Alt, Headmaster, Government English School, Parit, Federation of Malaya.
  • Charles Archibald Darrell Talbot, Secretary, Currency and Exchange Control Board, Bermuda.
  • Jovesa Tana. For public services in Fiji.
  • Phyllis Tanner. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Emanuel Tonna, Headmaster of Elementary School, Malta.
  • Tuanku Mohamed bin Tuanku Tibu, Datu, Sarawak.
  • Un Ting Fan, Clerical Officer, Grade I, Hong Kong.
  • William Bernard Walters, Superintendent of Stock Transfer Office, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Maud Ward, Superintendent of Nurses, Nethersole Hospital, Hong Kong.
  • Thomas Edwin Went, Assistant to the Colonial Engineer, Barbados.
  • Cecil Winnington-Ingram, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Yeo Koon Guan, Chief Clerk, Medical Department, Singapore.
Honorary Members
  • Wakil-Qaid Hassan Mumin, Police Assistant to the Resident Adviser, Commandant of Police and Superintendent of Prisons in the Mukalla Government, Aden.
  • Azan bin Rashed (Sheikh), Liwali of Lamu, Kenya.
  • Abdullahi, Emir of Yauri, Second Class Chief, Nigeria.
  • James Kamalu Nzerem, Headmaster of St. Paul's School, Owerri, Nigeria.
  • Mikaeri Byabadda Wamala, Treasurer to the Uganda Growers' Co-operative Union, Ltd., Uganda.

British Empire Medals (BEM)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
United Kingdom
Colonial Empire
Basutoland

Royal Red Crosses (RRC)

Associates of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

  • Eileen Mary Mercer, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
  • Alice Isabel Mitchell, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
  • Subaltern Nancie May Kinsella (208591), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Senior Commander (temporary) Elizabeth Mackaness (206008), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Acting Matron Gladys Elsie Chinnery (5071), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Crosses (AFC)

Royal Air Force
Royal Australian Air Force
South African Air Force.

Bars to Air Force Cross

Royal Air Force
  • Squadron Leader Bryce Gilmore Meharg, AFC, (39941).
  • Flight Lieutenant Hugh Glanffrwd James, AFC, DFM, (173932).
Royal Australian Air Force
  • Squadron Leader Derek Randal Cuming, AFC, (Aus. 250553).

Air Force Medals (AFM)

Royal Air Force

King's Commendations for Brave Conduct

King's Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air

United Kingdom
Royal Air Force
Royal Australian Air Force

King's Police and Fire Services Medals (KPFSM)

England and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Australia
Colonies, Protectorates, Mandated and Former Mandated Territories

Colonial Police Medals (CPM)

In recognition of meritorious service in Malaya and Singapore.

New Zealand

India

Knights Bachelor

Order of the Bath

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
  • Lieutenant-General (temporary) Dudley Russell, CB, CBE, DSO, MC, (A.I.451), late Indian Army.
Civil Division

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
  • Captain (Commodore 2nd Class) Henry Norman Scott Brown, OBE, Royal Navy.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Nigel John Buchanan Stuart, MBE, (A.I.499), late Indian Army.
Civil Division
  • Major Norman Jesse Boxall, deputy director of Ordnance Factories, Directorate of Ordnance Factories, Calcutta.
  • Norman Barraclough, OBE, Chief Inspector of Mines.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Byrne, MBE, (E.C.1617), 11th Sikh Regiment.
  • Acting Group Captain Gordon Charles Allen, Royal Air Force.
  • Acting Group Captain William Arthur Harry Cullum, Royal Air Force.
Civil Division
  • Maureen Helen Susan, Lady Bucher, MBE, President, Indian Forces Welfare Ladies Committee.
  • Christopher Macaulay Bennett, Secretary to the Government of Orissa, Public Works Department, and Chief Engineer (Roads and Buildings), Indian Service of Engineers.
  • Edward Charles Peter Garrat Jan Hessing, MBE, Special Officer of National Cadet Corps, Education Department, West Bengal.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Acting Shipwright Lieutenant Ronald Bryan Fielder, Royal Navy.
  • Major (acting) Walter Henry Cliff (C.C.50), Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
  • Major (temporary) Alfred Godfrey Hicks. (E.C.6849), 5th Mahratta Light Infantry.
Civil Division
  • Allan Dudley Wilks, Superintendent, Ordnance Factory, Katni.

King's Police and Fire Services Medals (KPFSM)

Ceylon

Knights Bachelor

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

  • Herbert Kenneth De Kretser, MICE. For public services.

Order of the British Empire

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Civil Division
  • Simon Frederick Amerasinghe, JP. For services to the Co-operative Movement.
  • Panagodage Bertram Fernand, MB, BS, MRCP, LMS, Professor of Medicine, University of Ceylon.
  • William Alexander Guthrie, FRSA, MICE, deputy director of Irrigation.
  • Adeline, Lady Molamure, Senator.
  • Senarath Paranavithana, Archaeological Commissioner.
  • Alfred Eaton Spaar, LRCP, FRCS (Ed.), LMS, Medical Practitioner, Kandy.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Major Leslie Percival Hayward, Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps.
  • Major Mohandirange Don Simon Jayawardena, ED, LRCP, LRCS (Ed.), LRFPS, LMS, Ceylon Medical Corps (Reserve).
Civil Division
  • Julian Granville Claessen, MIMechE, Factory Engineer, Government Factory, Public Works Department.
  • Nicholas De Alwis. For public service in Bentota.
  • Evelyn Johanna Publina, Lady de Soysa. For social services.
  • Warushahennedige Aaron Fernando For services to transport in the Panadura district.
  • Ida Moonemalle Goonewardene. For social services in Kurunegala District.
  • Leslie Norman Peries, Deputy Inspector-General of Police.
  • John Marcus Senaveratna. For services to the study of the history of Ceylon.
  • Warusahennedige Abraham Bastian Soysa, Senator, and Mayor of Kandy.
  • William James Albert Van Langenberg, acting director of Industries.

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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 1955 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 1955 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1955.

The New Year Honours 1958 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1957 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1958.

The New Year Honours 1959 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 30 December 1958 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1959.

The New Year Honours 1960 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1959 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1960.

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 New Year Honours 1966 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1965 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1966. At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.

The New Year Honours 1967 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 1967 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1967.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1952 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, and were published in supplements of the London Gazette on 30 May 1952 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan.

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 Queen's Birthday Honours 1958 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. They were published on 3 June 1958 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1959 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 Queen's Birthday Honours 1960 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 3 June 1960 for the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1962 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 "on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday", and were published in supplements to the London Gazette of 25 May 1962.

The King's Birthday Honours 1951 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. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King, and were published on 1 June 1951 for the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan. These were the last Birthday Honours awarded by George VI, who died eight months later.

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 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the Commonwealth Realms. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King, and were published in The London Gazette on 4 June.

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.

References

  1. United Kingdom : "No. 38797". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. pp. 1–34.
  2. New Zealand : "No. 38798". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. pp. 35–38.
  3. India : "No. 38799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. pp. 39–40.
  4. Ceylon : "No. 38800". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. pp. 41–42.