1951 New Year Honours

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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, [1] Australia, [2] New Zealand, [3] Ceylon, [4] and Pakistan. [5]

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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.

British Empire

Barons

Privy Counsellors

Knights Bachelor

State of South Australia
State of Victoria
Southern Rhodesia
Colonies, Protectorates etc.

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

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

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
  • Brigadier (temporary) James Rupert Cochrane, CBE (33328), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major-General Nigel William Duncan, CBE DSO (12071), late Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Alfred Francis Hely, CBE DSO TD (34589), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Brigadier Harold Montague Hinde, CBE (8457), late Royal Army Service Corps (now retired).
  • Major-General Harold Arthur Hounsell, CBE (13149), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major-General Kenneth Frank MacKay Lewis, DSO MC (14122), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Geoffrey Alex Colin Macnab (22973), late Infantry.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Herbert Clive Phipps, DSO (13926), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Cedric Rhys Price, CBE BA (33361), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major-General Arthur Charles Shortt, OBE (10886), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) (now Colonel) Doidge Estcourt Taunton, DSO (27998), late Infantry.
  • Major-General Thomas Young, OBE MB KHP (10380), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
  • Herbert Wilfred Ayers, CBE, Under-Secretary and Accountant-General, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Eric Barnard, CBE DSO, Deputy Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
  • Russell Frederick Bretherton, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade (now serving in the Cabinet Office).
  • Richard William Barnes Clarke, OBE, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • William Richard Joseph Cook, MSc, Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service, Admiralty.
  • Robert Annesley Wilkinson Dent, Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons.
  • Mitchell Macdonald Dobbie, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Town & Country Planning.
  • Ralph Neville Heaton, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education.
  • Charles Thomas Houghton, CBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Colonel Sir Herbert Patrick Hunter, CBE, DL, Chairman, County of Stafford Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • Andrew Lockhart Innes, Legal Secretary and Parliamentary Draftsman, Department of the Lord Advocate.
  • William Francis Porter McLintock, DSc FGS, lately Director of the Geological Survey and Museum.
  • Commander Seton Steuart Crichton Mitchell, OBE MIMechE, Royal Navy (Retired), Chief Engineer, Armaments Design Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • Richard Royle Powell, CMG, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
  • Ewart Watson Ravenshear, OBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • John Ross, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
  • Sidney Donald Sargent, Director of Personnel and Accommodation, General Post Office.
  • William Strath, Third Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • Robert Bernard Waterer, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Sydney Frank Wilkinson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health.

Order of Merit (OM)

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)

  • William Abbott, OBE PhD MIMechE, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • William Asbury, lately Land Commissioner, Schleswig-Holstein, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • James William Blackshaw, MBE, Assistant-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
  • Wilfred John Hall, MC DSc PhD, Director of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology.
  • John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart, OBE, Principal Intelligence Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Kenneth McGregor, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Cyril John Pyke, Head of Finance and Economic Department, Administration of African Territories, Foreign Office.
  • James Ramsay, OBE CA, British subject resident in Portugal.
  • Mark Dalcour Tennant, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Leonard Waight, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • Clifford Craig, MD MS FRACS, Surgeon Superintendent, Launceston General Hospital, State of Tasmania.
  • Ian Morrison Ross Maclennan, High Commissioner designate in Southern Rhodesia for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
  • Godfrey Eccleston Boyd Shannon, an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • George Lowe Sutton, DSc. For services to Agriculture in the State of Western Australia.
  • Robert Perceval Armitage, MBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Gold Coast.
  • Richard Dennis Blandy, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides.
  • Edward Arthur Carr, Colonial Administrative Service, Commissioner of the Colony, Nigeria.
  • Hubert Childs, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner of the Protectorate, Sierra Leone.
  • Frederick Crawford, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Development, Northern Rhodesia, Governor and Commander-in-Chief Designate of the Seychelles.
  • William Leonard Dale, Deputy Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Charles Frederick Hickling, ScD, Fisheries Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Norman Leslie Mayle, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • John Cochrane Muir, OBE, Colonial Agricultural Service, Member, for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tanganyika.
  • Harold James Page, OBE FRIC, Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad.
  • Stelios Pavlides QC, Attorney-General, Cyprus.
  • Eric Ernest Falk Pretty, Colonial Administrative Service, British Resident. Brunei.
  • John Wellesley Steil, MBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for African Affairs, Uganda.
  • Reginald William Taylor, AMICE. Director of Public Works, Nigeria.
  • Eric Arthur Cleugh, MVO OBE, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Panama; lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Ponsonby Moore Crosthwaite, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Athens.
  • Alfred Stanley Fordham, Head of the American Department, Foreign Office.
  • Geoffrey Warren Furlonge, OBE, Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office.
  • George Peter Labouchère, Counsellor and Deputy Commissioner at His Majesty's Legation at Vienna; lately Counsellor of His Majesty's Embassy at Buenos Aires.
  • Herbert Vere Redman, OBE, Counsellor (Information) at the United Kingdom Liaison Mission in Japan.
  • Francis Brian Anthony Rundall, OBE, Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments.
  • George Edward Russell Sandars, MBE, Governor, Blue Nile Province, Sudan.
  • Frank Edmund Stafford, CBE, Colonial Administrative Service, now serving in the African Department, Foreign Office.
  • Humphrey Trevelyan, CIE OBE, Deputy Economic Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Bagdad.
Honorary Companions

Royal Victorian Order

Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • Marcus John Cheke.
  • Arthur Campbell Martin, FRIBA.
  • George Proctor Middleton, MVO MB ChB.

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

  • The Reverend Hector David Anderson, BD
  • Captain Stanley Edward Hill, MRCVS
  • Roy Murray Hyslop
  • Charles William Tanner

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

  • Robert Lindsay, BEM
  • Patrick Joseph Shyne

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

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

Military Division
Royal Navy
Civil Division

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

Military Division
Army
Royal Air Force
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
  • Captain (Commodore Second Class) Leslie Newton Brownfield.
  • Captain Cyril William Byas, (Retired).
  • Captain (S) Eric Denison Thorngate Churcher.
  • Captain Henry Bramhall Ellison, DSO, lately on loan to the Government of India as Commodore Second Class.
  • Rear-Admiral (E) Hubert Southwood Harrison, DSC.
  • Colonel John Chaddesley Westall, Royal Marines.
  • Surgeon Captain (D) Frank Reginald Parry Williams, OBE FDSRCS BDS KHDS.
Army
  • Brigadier Edwin Raymond Ash, MIMechE (42159), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Brigadier Oswald Emerson Chapman, MIMechE (15591), late Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Colonel (temporary) Rohan Delacombe, DSO MBE (34748), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
  • Colonel (temporary) Percy Douglas Fabin, MBE (26854), Employed List (late The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)).
  • Brigadier John Victor Faviell, OBE MC (13145), late Infantry, (now retired).
  • Colonel (acting) Cecil Walter Fort, MBE MC (272769), Army Cadet Force.
  • Colonel Elspeth Isabel Weatherly Hobkirk (196046), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Brigadier Wilfrid Gould Pidsley, DSO OBE MC (27386), late Royal Army Educational Corps.
  • Brigadier (acting) Derek Mills-Roberts, DSO MC (69334), Territorial Army.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Albert Smith, OBE TD ADC (25252), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Colonel (temporary) Norman George Archie Ireland-Smith (40390), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Colonel Samuel Hamilton Woods, OBE FDS KHDS (5446), late Royal Army Dental Corps.
Royal Air Force
  • Air Vice Marshal Percy Eric Maitland, CB MVO AFC, (Retired).
  • Air Commodore Vyvyan Stewart Ewing, MB ChB DPH.
  • Air Commodore Philip Jones.
  • Air Commodore William Alfred Opie.
  • Air Commodore Leonard Taylor.
  • Group Captain Graham Clarke Bladon.
  • Group Captain Edward John Corbally.
  • Group Captain Edward James Laine, DFC.
  • Group Captain Kenneth John McIntyre, OBE.
  • Group Captain Howard Wright Penney.
Civil Division
Overseas and Diplomatic list
  • Alexander Brackenridge, President of the British Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce, New York.
  • John Percival Coghill, His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.
  • Howard Mercer, MC DFC, Chief Secretary, British Administration, Tripolitania.
  • William Robertson Myers, Deputy Inspector-General of Customs at Shanghai, Chinese Maritime Customs Service.
  • Judge Michael Harvey Rafferty, lately British Judge of the Mixed Tribunal, International Court, Tangier.
  • John Francis Robert Vaughan-Russell, His Majesty's Consul-General at Buenos Aires.
  • The Right Reverend Weston Henry Stewart, DD, Bishop of the Church of England in Jerusalem.
  • Lucy Meredith Bryce, MB BS FRACP, Honorary Director of the Blood Transfusion Service in the State of Victoria.
  • William Ayliff Godlonton, OBE. For public services in Southern Rhodesia.
  • William Forbes Mackenzie, OBE, Deputy Resident Commissioner, Swaziland.
  • Paul McGuire, an author and lecturer of the State of South Australia.
  • Frank Gladstone Menzies, Crown Solicitor, State of Victoria.
  • James Henry Methold, President, United Kingdom Citizens Association, India.
  • Joseph Franklin Thorn, a mining engineer. For services to the gold-mining industry in the State of Western Australia.
  • Kamil Mohamed Ariff bin Kadir Mustan, LMS. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Lancelot Liddle Rorke Buckland, MICE, lately Executive Officer, Development, Tanganyika.
  • John Campbell. For public services in Kenya.
  • Patrick Albert Courtney, Colonial Postal Service, Director, Posts & Telegraphs Department, Nigeria.
  • Nicholas Bayard Dill. For public services in Bermuda.
  • William John Donnelly, lately Commissioner of Income Tax, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Garnet Hamilton Gordon, OBE. For public services in the Windward Islands.
  • Richard Geoffrey Dennison Houghton, lately Commissioner of Labour, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ronald Macdonald, OBE MC, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Federation of Malaya and Singapore.
  • Adam Rankine, MC MB ChB, lately Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Mauritius.
  • William Harold Salkield, MInstT, General Manager and Harbour Authority, Gold Coast Railway.
  • Tan Chin Tuan. For public services in Singapore.
  • Captain Arthur Frederick Thelwell, OBE, lately Commissioner of Lands, Jamaica.
Honorary Commander
  • Sheikh Seif bin Ali El-Bually, OBE, State Secretary to the Government of Mukalla, Aden.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Captain Robert Syme Denholm Armour, (Retired).
  • Acting Captain (S) Gerald Horace Ashby.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Clifford Bullock, Royal Marines.
  • Commander Sidney Arthur Moorhouse Else.
  • Major (War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel) George Robert Hawkins, Royal Marines (Retired).
  • Commander (E) Guy Cedric Hoffman, AMIMechE.
  • Commander (E) Frederick Albert Cyprian Jeans.
  • Commander Horace Rochfort Law, DSC.
  • Engineer Captain George Leonard Maclennan, (Retired).
  • The Reverend William John Ernest Piggott, Chaplain.
  • Commander Geoffrey Anthony Corry Williams, (Retired).
Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Sidney Alexander (86049), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (District Officer) Alfred Ernest Ball, MBE (51842), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edward John Hunter Bates, MC (53108), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Adam Johnstone Cheyne Block, DSO (39141), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Carr (50233), 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Caesar Cashin (139427), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • The Reverend Percy William Frederick Cato (87102), Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Olive Emily Clark, RRC (206063), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Charles Ernest Weir Dalton (68934), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Albert Frederick Day, MBE (89101), Corps of Royal Engineers (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Percy Samuel Dundon, MBE (76791), Royal Army Service Corps (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Eaton (56749), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Henry Fitzgerald, DSO (50869), Irish Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Robert Frost, TD (40889), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Thomas Howe Fry, MM (275715), Army Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Alfred Hardy, AMIMechE (72939), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Neil Frederick Heneage (56613), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Colonel (temporary) Christopher Francis Hutt (40389), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Bryan Jolly, TD (31994), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Geoffrey Franklin Lushington (41141), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Alistair Manifold (70111), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major (Ordnance Executive Officer)) Bernard McCormack, (123858), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred John Potter (56724), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert Caradoc Rose Price, DSO (50915), Welsh Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Henry Pritchard, MC TD (21589), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary) and Chief Paymaster) Vivian Wellesley Rees (6056), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Richard Hugh Robertson, MA (53649), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major John Henry Sharpley, MBE (74431), The Cheshire Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Newbigging Thomson, DSO TD (36839), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell Richard Julian Hope-Thomson, DSO MC (52731), The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harold Denis Edwards Verschoyle (6426), The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) George Hedley Watson, MC TD (33594), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Somerset Erskine West, MC, (30705), The Cheshire Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roy Harold Willis, TD (19992), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Leslie Wood, DSO MC (58912), The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  • Colonel John De Lisle Thompson, Southern Rhodesia Territorial Force.
  • Colonel Gerald Edward Wells, Southern Rhodesia Territorial Force.
Additional Officer
  • Major (temporary) Paul James Banks Knight (194885), The South Staffordshire Regiment. In recognition of non-operational services in Japan in connection with operations in Korea. [6]
Royal Air Force
  • Wing Commander Richard Alcock (73562).
  • Wing Commander Leslie Thomas Godard Barber, AFC (28260).
  • Wing Commander Clifford Thomas Jackaman (35360).
  • Wing Commander Robert John Bazley Jackson (35269).
  • Wing Commander Frederick Moir Milligan, AFC (37453).
  • Wing Commander Francis Walter John Paddon, AFC (45443).
  • Wing Commander Alan Pyke (26245).
  • Wing Commander Albert Ernest Sims, MBE LRAM ARCM (35204).
  • Acting Wing Commander Brian Roger Wakefield Hallows, DFC (77787).
  • Acting Wing Commander Henry Lindsay Roxburgh, MB ChB (101810).
  • Acting Wing Commander Charles Vivian Winn, DSO DFC (40586).
  • Squadron Leader James Michael Birkin, DSO DFC AFC (81350), Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Squadron Leader Gerald Blair (43852).
  • Squadron Leader Oswald Gradon (21349).
  • Squadron Leader Andrew Henry Humphrey, DFC AFC (33543).
  • Squadron Leader George Brian Walford (39914).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Alfred Roy Driessen (62962), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Montague Clifford Hart (31441).
Civil Division
  • Bernard Joseph Ahern, Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland,
  • John Allan, Member of the Scottish Council of Welfare, Air Training Corps.
  • John Brock Allon, Town Clerk of Wolverhampton.
  • Arthur William Angus, MSc, Director of Instrument Production, Ministry of Supply.
  • Mary Frances Applebey, Principal, German Section, Foreign Office.
  • David Archibald, General Secretary of the North Atlantic British Liner Committee.
  • Arthur James Atkins, Principal Armament Supply Officer, Mediterranean, Admiralty.
  • Herbert Bardgett, FRCO, Chorus Master and Conductor.
  • Henry Sidney Barnes, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Harold Barrett, Principal, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Francis Alfred Bear, Principal, Board of Trade.
  • Joe Blackburn. For public services in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, lately president of the Society of Radiographers.
  • Roy Courtney Bloodworth, Deputy Director (Finance), Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Cyril Boddington, Director and General Manager, Berkshire Printing Co. Ltd., Reading.
  • James Ryding Bond, MBE MSc, Principal of the Broomfield Farm Institute, Derbyshire.
  • Alan Garnet Bonny, AMICE, Chief Engineer, Technical Training Command, Air Ministry.
  • Sydney Edward Joseph Brady, MBE, lately Principal, Board of Trade.
  • Alderman Harry Charles Brown, Chairman, Bournemouth and Poole Local Employment Committee, and Disablement Advisory Committee.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Jackson Butchart, DSO TD DL, Secretary, University of Aberdeen.
  • Llewellyn Francis Cadwallader, FCIS, Director, National Association of Master Bakers, Confectioners & Caterers.
  • Kenneth Allerton Cameron, Sound Supervisor, Crown Film Unit, Central Office of Information.
  • Andrew John Charnock, General Works Manager, Leyland Motors Ltd.
  • Arthur Herbert Clarke, lately Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Reuben Clarke, MIMarE, Marine Director, Laurence, Scott & Electromotors Ltd., Norwich.
  • Eric William Cockcroft. For public services in Todmorden, Lancashire.
  • Norman John Wilding Cole, MBE, Chairman, Folkestone, Ashford & District War Pensions Committee.
  • Henry George Coleman, JP. For political and public services in Islington.
  • The Reverend Keith Earle Collins, General Superintendent, Missions to Seamen.
  • Horace Ernest Comben, AMICE, Joint Managing Director, Comben & Wakeling Ltd.
  • Alderman Nellie Marie Cowan, Chairman, Willesden Local Employment Committee.
  • Alwyn Stuart Craig, Under-Sheriff, City and County of Londonderry.
  • Arthur Crossley, Managing Director, Henry Crossley (Packings) Ltd., Bolton.
  • Victor Alexander Rutherford Davidson, Manager of the Fish Curing Sections, Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd., Aberdeen.
  • Thomas Eynon Davies. For services as Chairman, Bridgend & District Local Employment Committee and Youth Employment Committee.
  • William Leslie Day, Engineer I, Atomic Energy Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • Henry Lewis de Bourcier, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Horace Denton, Royal Navy (Retired). Chairman, Ancillary Staffs Whitley Council, National Health Service.
  • Fred Dewhurst, MIMechE, Engineer and Works Manager, London Fire Brigade.
  • Margaret Digby, Secretary of the Horace Plunkett Foundation.
  • Colonel Walter Doherty, Assistant Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police.
  • Archibald Dryburgh, Chairman of Central Farmers Ltd., Fife.
  • Richard Frederick Roberts Dunbar, Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
  • Donald George Dyne, Senior Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Reginald Thomas Ebrey, FCIS, General Manager, Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Ltd.
  • William Russell Edmunds, TD, Principal, HM Treasury.
  • William Stanley Edwards, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Florence Eileen Elliott, Matron of Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
  • Alfred Ernest Evans, Secretary, Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions.
  • Emrys Evans, lately Town Clerk, Wallasey.
  • Maurice Gordon Farquharson, MC, Head of the Secretariat, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • John George Duncan Ferries, Chairman, Ministry of National Insurance Local Appeal Tribunal, Aberdeen.
  • Agnes Mary Field Hankin. For services as Director of the Children's Film Department of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
  • Frederick Charles Fitzpatrick, Representative of the Amalgamated Engineering Union on the Admiralty Industrial Council and the Shipbuilding Trades Joint Council.
  • David Morley-Fletcher. For services as Senior Director of the Colonial Development Corporation (West Africa) Ltd.
  • Benjamin Gardner, General Secretary, Amalgamated Engineering Union.
  • John Wighton Gibson, Firemaster, Angus Fire Brigade.
  • Gertrude May Godden, Matron of Hammersmith Hospital.
  • Alderman Eleanor Kathleen Goodrich, JP. For public services in Wandsworth.
  • Lionel Ingersoll Gordon, Crown Agent for Scotland.
  • Mitchell Woods Gordon, JP. For political and public services.
  • Erica Beatrice Faith Graham, lately Chairman, Women's Land Army County Welfare Committee, Bedfordshire.
  • William Gordon Green, MBE, Chief Investigation Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Charles Greenwood, MICE LRIBA, City Engineer and Surveyor, Chester.
  • Harry Bordley Greenwood, Clerk of the Peace and of the County Council, Westmorland.
  • Sydney Gully, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Colonel Philip Ashley Hall, DSO MC TD JP DL, Secretary, County of Buckingham Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • Robert Hall, Chief Constable of Rotherham.
  • Thomas James Canterbury Hamilton, Vice-President, Belfast City Savings Council.
  • Councillor Arthur Hampton, JP. For political and public services in Staffordshire.
  • Commander Harold Geoffrey Leech Harvey, Royal Navy (Retired), lately Chairman, Bristol Central Committee, Sea Cadet Corps.
  • Robert Gordon Hattle, Finance Officer and Accountant, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Ashley Eldrid Havinden. For services to industrial design. Director, W. S. Crawford Ltd., Advertising Agents.
  • James Hawitt, MBE, Chairman, Darlington Savings Committee.
  • William Charleson Hedge, Principal, Scottish Home Department.
  • Wilfred Lanceley Heywood, Secretary, National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade.
  • Edward Hinrich, Assistant Controller of Supplies, Ministry of Works.
  • John Hirst, AFC, Clerk to the River Trent Catchment Board.
  • Arthur Hoare, MIMechE MINA MIMarE, Engineer Manager, J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., Cowes.
  • Harold Hoffman, FICS, Senior Shipping Manager, Lever Bros., and Unilever Ltd.
  • Samuel Leonard Hopkinson, Manager, German Office, British Iron & Steel Corporation Ltd.
  • Stafford Frank Hough, FICS, Chairman, Falmouth, Truro & District Employment Committee.
  • Patrick Edward Husband. For services as Principal Controller, Reparations, Deliveries & Restitutions Branch, Allied Commission for Austria, British Element.
  • Major Alfred Huskisson, MC, Managing Director, S. Simpson Ltd., London.
  • William Buchan Inglis, MA PhD, Depute Director of Studies, Moray House Training College, Edinburgh.
  • William Peter James, Principal, Ministry of Transport.
  • Captain Guy William Archibald Jarrett, lately Chief Superintendent (Harwich), Trinity House Steam Vessel Service.
  • William Jenkinson, lately Secretary to the Armagh County Council.
  • Percy Johnson, Receiver of Parliament Office Fees and Accountant, House of Lords.
  • Herbert James Jones, MC, Controller, National Assistance Board, Scotland.
  • Hugh Jones, Assistant Regional Controller, Ministry of National Insurance, Cardiff.
  • Florence Elizabeth Kaye, Matron of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
  • Tom Knowles, Chief Officer, Cambridgeshire Fire Brigade.
  • Eric Abel Knox, Assistant Clerk of the London County Council.
  • John Campbell Lang, Chairman, General Council, Scottish Trades Union Congress.
  • Margaret Dorothy Law, Managing Editor, Chambers Encyclopaedia.
  • John Alfred Arthur Leach, Principal, Ministry of Food.
  • Francis Desmond Littlewood, Town Clerk of Cheltenham.
  • William Douglas Lockhart, lately Senior Inspector, Ministry of Town & Country Planning. (Now Temporary Inspector.)
  • Leslie Lord, Assistant Agricultural Adviser, Colonial Office.
  • Edward Arthur Lovell, ARCS, Principal Scientific Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Harold Newton Lowe, MSc, Deputy Director of Education, Liverpool.
  • Andrew MacAlpine, President, National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers.
  • Lionel Gilbert Machin, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer & Audit Department.
  • Duncan MacLennan, Chairman of the Visiting Committees of Polmont Borstal Institution and Edinburgh Prison Male Borstal Section.
  • Robert Marchbank, MM, Regional House Coal Officer, Scotland.
  • Mary Marsden, Administrator, Women's Voluntary Services, Germany.
  • Sam Brook Martin, MBE, Manager, Naval Canteen Service, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes.
  • Captain William Verner Miller, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • John James Milton, JP. For political and public services in Bristol.
  • John Jones Morris, Commodore Chief Engineer, Blue Star Line.
  • Lionel George Paterson Morris, MM, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Herbert Stanley Munday, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Nevile Chaworth-Musters, DSO TD JP DL, Chairman, Price Regulation Committee, North Midland Region.
  • Edward George Neate, Deputy Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty.
  • Alderman Albert Pennington Nicol, JP, Chairman, Food Control Committee, Huddersfield County Borough.
  • Emily Rebecca Noall, JP. For political and public services in the Isle of Wight.
  • Mabel Orchard, lately Headmistress, Carlton Vale Secondary School for Girls, Willesden.
  • Harry Ashmore Pass, lately Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • William Hugh Clifford Patrick, MD, Regional Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Richard Ino Payne, Assistant Director, Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Division, Ministry of Food.
  • Arthur John Pegg, MBE, Chief Test Pilot, Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd.
  • Cecil Lodge Philcox, DFC ARICS, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Margaret Phillips, Principal, Borthwick Training College, London.
  • Arnold Platts, PhD, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • Thomas George Richards, AMICE, Senior Engineer, Roads Department, Ministry of Transport.
  • Joseph Herbert Richardson, Controller (Publicity), Public Relations Department, General Post Office.
  • Philip John Sampey Richardson. For services to Ballet.
  • Ellen Roberts, MBE RRC, Matron-in-Chief, Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service.
  • Alexander Robertson, MBE, Deputy Licensing Authority (Scotland), Ministry of Transport.
  • John Charles Robertson, Chairman, Swinton & Pendlebury Savings Committee, Lancashire.
  • William James Rodda, Member of the National Savings Committee.
  • William Hume-Rothery, DSc FRS. Lecturer in Metallurgical Chemistry, University of Oxford.
  • William Young Sandeman, MC MICE, Civil Engineer, Railway Executive, Scottish Region.
  • Archibald Scott. For services to the linen industry in Northern Ireland.
  • Frank Severs, Principal, Admiralty.
  • Frederick Shakeshaft, AMIEE, Generation Design Engineer, British Electricity Authority.
  • Andrew James Shinnie, MD ChB, Medical Officer of Health, City of Westminster.
  • Harry Samuel Shipway, Factory Manager, Post Office Factories Department, Birmingham.
  • William Duncan Simpson, MBE, Chief Officer (Scotland), Ministry of Pensions.
  • Arthur Edward Haswell Sinclair. For services as Joint Assistant Secretary, Civil Service Commission.
  • Alderman Albert Victor Smith, JP. For political and public services in Ipswich.
  • Frank Harry Smith, Finance Officer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office.
  • Thyra Smith, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • Vernon Alexander Spinks, Assistant Chief Inspector, Immigration Branch, Home Office.
  • John Edgar Stanier, GM, Divisional Manager, West Midlands Gas Board.
  • Kenneth Harry Staple, Secretary and Legal Adviser, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • William Steedman, PhD, Attached to Research Department, Foreign Office.
  • Captain Harry Steele, Master, SS Port Brisbane, Port Line Ltd.
  • John Whiteforde Stevenson, MC PhD, Assistant Director of Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
  • Harry Stoddart. For political services in Gateshead and Jarrow.
  • Oliffe Briant Stokes, Chairman, Bradford Savings Committee.
  • Captain John William Storey, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Northern Ireland Branch, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops.
  • Robert Gordon Strachan, FRICS, Senior Estates Surveyor, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.
  • John William Sullivan, Deputy Regional Controller, Board of Trade.
  • Joseph Eric Swindlehurst, MICE FRSanI, Borough Engineer, Hampstead.
  • Bertram Tallyn, Chairman, Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire District Committee, Eastern Regional Board for Industry.
  • Alan Walter Whittington Taylor, Chairman, West Wales District Committee, Welsh Board for Industry.
  • Frederick Mouatt Keith Thomas, Joint Chief Surveyor and Contracts Manager, John Mowlem & Co. Ltd. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons.
  • Walter Wilson Thornton, Assistant Chief Constable of Lancashire.
  • Thomas Percy Threlkeld, Superintending Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Lewis Edward Trevers, MBE BEM, Honorary Rescue Adviser, Civil Defence Department, Home Office.
  • William George Venton, Principal Clerk, Companies (Winding-up) Department, Supreme Court of Judicature.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Herbert Vergin, Conference Officer, Grade I, Foreign Office.
  • Sidney Ernest Waldron, Principal, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Walter Stanley Warwick, Principal, HM Treasury.
  • Frederick Vincent Watts, AMIMechE, Senior Engineer, Prison Commission.
  • Harry West, Higher Collector, Manchester, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Joseph Whalen, JP. For political and public services in Manchester.
  • Charles Gerald White, Principal, Air Ministry.
  • Lawson Scott-White, MICE, Senior Partner, R. Travers Morgan & Partners.
  • Cyril John Arther Whitehouse, Principal, Ministry of Supply.
  • Donovan Williams, MBE, Principal, German Section, Foreign Office.
  • Peter Jones Williams, LRIBA, Principal Regional Architect, Ministry of Health.
  • James Alexander Wright, MC ARICS, Senior Architect, Ministry of Works.
  • John Arnold Wyer, Assistant Regional Controller, London Appointments Office, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Gladys Young West, Radio Actress.
  • The Reverend Canon Herbert Brown, MA, lately Chaplain at His Majesty's Embassy at Madrid.
  • Captain Andrew Charles Duncan, lately First Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Brussels.
  • Sidney Edwards Faithful, First Secretary at His Majesty's Legation in Korea.
  • James Fanstone, MD, Physician, Surgeon and Founder of the Hospital Evangelico Goiano, at Anápolis.
  • Kenneth James Hird, MA, lately First Secretary (Labour) at His Majesty's Embassy at Tehran.
  • Carl William Hirschberg, lately His Majesty's Consul at Elizabethville. (Now at Geneva.)
  • John Bruce Spens Jardine, British Council Representative in Poland.
  • Roy Goodwin Kilburne, Chief Electrical Engineer to the Government of Nepal.
  • Guy Percival L'Estrange, British Vice-Consul at Macassar.
  • William Miller, MBE, His Majesty's Consul at Marseilles.
  • Chaim Raphael, Economic Information Officer, British Information Services, New York.
  • Alfred Julius Sington, MC, His Majesty's Consul at Bratislava.
  • William James Vyvyan Taylor, Controller of Agriculture, British Administration, Tripolitania.
  • Edmund David Watt, MBE, British Consul at Port-au-Prince.
  • Duncan Harkness Weir, Private Secretary and Comptroller to the Governor-General of the Sudan.
  • William Wells, General Manager of the Antofagasta-Bolivia Railway Company.
  • Arthur George Worrall, General Manager in Egypt of the British Coaling Depots Ltd.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Edgar Andrews, ED, late Auxiliary Force (India), Principal, La Martiniere College, Lucknow, India.
  • William George Barnard, BVSc, Principal Veterinary Officer, Swaziland.
  • Joseph Ashton Burton, MM, Honorary Chairman, House Committee, Royal Empire Society.
  • Lionel Hedley Collett, MBE, Agricultural and Livestock Officer, Basutoland.
  • Nancy Cook, MSc, Reader-in-Charge of Bacteriology, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia.
  • Philip Henry Gifford, lately Chief Inspector of Schools, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Olive Mary Hargreaves, Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.
  • Herbert Hays, of Devonport, State of Tasmania. For public services.
  • Olive Hicken, JP. For social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
  • Maxwell Robert Arthur Lamshed. For voluntary services in connection with the Red Cross Society and the Lord Mayor's Food for Britain Campaign, in the State of South Australia.
  • Edward Heygate Sunderland Lewis, General Manager, The Assam Oil Co., Digboi, Upper Assam, India.
  • Louis Monod, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Royal Agricultural Society, State of Victoria.
  • Richard Greenslade Moore, Mayor of Kalgoorlie, State of Western Australia, since 1937.
  • Arthur Osmond Richardson. For voluntary services in connection with the despatch of food parcels from the State of South Australia to Great Britain.
  • John Lloyd Roberts, a member of the Broadcasting Advisory Board, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Major Robert Rich Sharp, a member of the Land Settlement Board, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Martin Joseph Talbot Wertheimer. For public services in the State of Tasmania.
  • The Reverend William Lawson Brooks Wrenford, of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Teyateyaneng, Basutoland.
  • Edward Cecil Stapleton Adkins, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Singapore.
  • Frank Agius, Collector of Customs, Malta.
  • Abbas El Arculli. For public services in Hong Kong.
  • The Reverend Christian Gonzales Baeta, Senior Lecturer in Theology, the University College of the Gold Coast.
  • Archdeacon Frederick Robert Banks, Vicar General of the Anglican Church in Trinidad.
  • Geoffrey Tunstall Bates, Controller of Essential Commodities, Sarawak.
  • Colin William Carnegie-Brown. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Henry Francis Cardona. For public services in Gibraltar.
  • Richard Charles Catling, Colonial Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya.
  • William Alec Cole. For public services in Nyasaland.
  • Henry Franklin, Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Information, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Alexander Gray, AMICE, Port Engineer, Aden Port Trust, Aden.
  • Percy James Greenway, Colonial Agricultural Service, Systematic Botanist, East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisation, East Africa High Commission.
  • George Herbert Heaton, Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya.
  • The Reverend Arthur Joseph Hopkins, lately Superintendent of the Methodist Missionary Society, Kenya.
  • Percival Victor Hunt. For public services in the Seychelles.
  • Thomas Edward Jager. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Vincent Kenneth Johnson, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer Class I, Nigeria.
  • Frederick Robert Kay, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer Class II, Nigeria.
  • Cyril Eric Wool-Lewis, Colonial Administrative Service, Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
  • Alan Courtenay Luck, lately Colonial Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria.
  • Hugh Vernon McDonald, Colonial Administrative Service, Native Courts Adviser, Nyasaland.
  • Ernest Arthur McGill, MSc AMICE, Deputy Chief Engineer, Civil Engineering Department, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • James Wilson Macmillan. For public services in British Honduras.
  • Stanley George Masterman, Acting District Commissioner, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
  • James Crichton Mathison. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Alexander Miller, Manager, British Cotton Growing Association, Nigeria.
  • Captain Hugh Maxwell Naylor. For public services in Uganda.
  • Ng Sen Choy. For public services in Singapore.
  • Captain Howard Nobbs, MSc FRIC, Principal, Queens College, British Guiana.
  • Charles Roy Petty, lately Colonial Survey Service, Director of Surveys, Gold Coast.
  • Mohamed Ali Rana, MBE MRCS LRCP. For public services in Kenya.
  • Alan William Steward, British Council Representative, Nigeria.
  • Eric Jackson Smallfield, lately Surveyor-General, North Borneo.
  • Roger John Massy Swynnerton, MC, Colonial Agricultural Service, Senior Agricultural Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Ratu George Tuisawau, Roko Tui Nadroga and Navosa, Fiji.
  • Bertram Arthur Todd Williams, lately Comptroller of Customs, Barbados.
  • Leon James Williams, MD. For public services in Bermuda.
Honorary Officers
  • Yap Mau Tatt. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Wan Ali bin Wan Chik, Orang Kaya Indra Maharaja Perba Jelai, Federation of Malaya.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Wardmaster Lieutenant Douglas Barnard.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (L) Harold Lewis Bishop.
  • Second Officer Joan Margaret Hales, Women's Royal Naval Service.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (E) John Walter Hall.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Hammer.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) John Anthony Bernard Harrisson, DSC, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Acting Interim Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander William Boyd Jack, BM BCh.
  • Surgeon Lieutenant Trevor Stansfield Law, MB ChB.
  • Instructor Lieutenant Bernard Piper.
  • Lieutenant-Commander John Trevor Rushforth.
  • Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Thomas William Sherrin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Lieutenant (E) Thomas Reginald Stafford, DSC.
  • Mr. Michael Gerard Sullivan, Temporary Acting Commissioned Communication Officer. On loan to the Government of India as Temporary Commissioned Communication Officer.
  • Lieutenant (S) Albert John Trundley.
Additional Member
  • Lieutenant (S) Joseph Augustine McGoldrick, Royal Navy. In recognition of non-operational services in Japan in connection with operations in Korea. [6]
Army
  • No. 5610835 Warrant Officer Class II William John Baldock, The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) William Richard Boalch (49165), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • Major (temporary) Raymond Booth (68023), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • The Reverend Charles John Henry William Andrew Bradley (301695), Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains Department.
  • Captain Charles Edward Brook (202477), The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  • Major (acting) William Macbeth Brown (63148), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Major (acting) Irving Nelson Burgess (272313), Army Cadet Force.
  • No. 7870321 Warrant Officer Class I Alexander Edward Burton, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) David Johnstone Campell, TD (90973), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Charles Leslie Carter (116747), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Thomas Davie Childs (188807), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
  • Captain Edwin Henry Coombs (266744), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No. 7888944 Warrant Officer Class II Edward Mervyn Courtney, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Arthur Cowen (102914), General List, attached Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) James Curtis (261368), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • No. W/11049 Warrant Officer Class II Margaret Elizabeth Jane Darby, Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • No. S/91638 Warrant Officer Class II George Francis Darbyshire, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Marshall Darkes (127398), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).
  • No. 550390 Warrant Officer Class I George Henry Day, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Captain (local Major) Carmen Vera Elizabeth de Bourbel (257015), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • No. 890057 Warrant Officer Class II (Artillery Clerk) Ronald Frederick Dell, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (acting) Francis Reginald Dubery (121577), The Glider Pilot & Parachute Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Hamilton James Elverson, MB (246792), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major John Neilson Frazer, MC (392347), 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Thomas Henry Alexander Godbold (69353), The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List).
  • Major (temporary) William Edward Guest (259896), Army Catering Corps.
  • Major (Director of Music) Frederick John Harris, ARCM (221011), Grenadier Guards.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Charles Frederick Hedley (169570), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • No. 1086979 Warrant Officer Class I Andrew Francis John Heggie, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No. 1863281 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Hibbard, Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Captain William Montague Holman (373004), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major William Henry Howlett (78472), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Captain (temporary) Cyril Robert Hume, (390694), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (acting) James Jardine (100643), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Major (temporary) John Hanson Keys (233040), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No. 2733291 Warrant Officer Class I Herbert Eric Knight, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).
  • Major (acting) Harry Lamming, MM (340603), Army Cadet Force.
  • Major Anthony James Lanzon (68499), The York & Lancaster Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) Keith Johnstone Lightfoot (108222), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (temporary) John Julius Livick (181293), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • No. 7586877 Warrant Officer Class I William Lyon, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) George McCord (112841), The Royal Ulster Rifles (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List).
  • Major (temporary) James McGarry (199722), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • No. 6975021 Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence McNamee, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Sinclair Manson (113930), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • Major (temporary) William Eric Wolfe Montgomery (182995), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • No. 1062220 Warrant Officer Class I Peter Mulvanny, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Gerald Wolleston Murphy (71162), The South Staffordshire Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) John Geoffrey Palmer, MC (85502), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Charles Fox-Parker (143578), The South Lancashire Regiment (now released).
  • Major (temporary) Thomas Pearson (165085), The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  • Major Clifton Herbert Rayment (79604), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Leonard Richard Rees (131423), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) Leslie William Rushbrooke (285094), Royal Pioneer Corps.
  • No. 2653987 Warrant Officer Class I Robert William Smith, DCM, Coldstream Guards.
  • No. 4601490 Warrant Officer Class II Walter Richard Smith, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), Territorial Army.
  • Major William Dennis Patrick Sullivan (162125), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) William Robert Leslie Turp (143474), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
  • Major James Harrison Vickers (99203), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • No. 850901 Warrant Officer Class I Albert George Ward, Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • No. 2652912 Warrant Officer Class II John Edward Ward, Coldstream Guards.
  • Major (District Officer) Edwin Francis Watkins (146609), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) Edward John Westlake (232472), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major (temporary) Bertram Frederic William White (202083), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (acting) Richard Oliver MacMahon Williams, MC (201598), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
  • Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel John Garvey, The Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force).
  • Major Ian Edmund Snell (219870), The Royal Sussex Regiment. Military Assistant to the Resident Adviser, Mukalla, Aden Protectorate.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) William Richard James Stanger, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force.
Royal Air Force
  • Acting Wing Commander Charles Austin Percival Noseworthy (102362), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • The Reverend Alfred Ernest Cook (169523).
  • Squadron Leader Arthur Gerard Reeves Green (45165).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Joseph Carey Crabtree Taylor (63663), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
  • Flight Lieutenant Leslie Joseph Broughton Blood, DFM (172708).
  • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gordon Bullen (186967).
  • Flight Lieutenant Archibald John Dicker (56395).
  • Flight Lieutenant Harold Fishwick (51862).
  • Flight Lieutenant Walter James Holmes (57570).
  • Flight Lieutenant Robert John Kennett (53281).
  • Flight Lieutenant Charles Mayhew (47371), (Retired).
  • Flight Lieutenant James Meech (55966).
  • Flight Lieutenant Charles Merrick (138937).
  • Flight Lieutenant William Lionel Nix (113808), Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Donald Lawrence Overton (55967).
  • Flight Lieutenant Ivor Allen Parry (49244).
  • Flight Lieutenant Reginald Cecil Dixon Vincent. (136173).
  • Flight Lieutenant Sydney Albert Warren (50420), (Retired).
  • Flight Lieutenant Cecil Bertram Louis Warwick (181283).
  • Flight Lieutenant Vincent Evan Morgan Watkins, DFM. (48257).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Francis Doyle Mainland (91294), Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Arthur Jackson Spence (59032).
  • Rab Khamshi Eshu Hamzo (X.I33), Iraq Levies.
  • Flying Officer Frank Henry Richard Lambourne (548351).
  • Warrant Officer Harry Clapp (590253).
  • Warrant Officer Frederick Charles Hamilton (510287).
  • Warrant Officer Alfred Thomas Knell, MM (340855).
  • Warrant Officer John Pollock (516495).
  • Warrant Officer Robert John Smith (518145).
  • Warrant Officer Allen Moore Sears Stevens (544583).
  • Acting Warrant Officer George Wilson Rutter (629867).
Civil Division
  • William Thomas Airlie, Vice-Chairman, Edinburgh District Committee, Scottish Board for Industry.
  • Frederick Parker Alexander, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • William Rowan Alexander, Senior Inspector and Head Grader of Milk Products, Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Percy Raymond Allison, Senior Experimental Engineer, Flight Refuelling Ltd., Littlehampton.
  • Herbert Allon, Cashier, Charles D. Holmes & Co. Ltd., Hull.
  • Clifford Bernard Andrews. For public services in Fakenham, Norfolk.
  • Evan Anthony, Honorary Secretary, Fishguard & Goodwick Savings Committee.
  • William George Anwyl, District Officer, Montgomery County Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Walter Fenwick Atkinson, FSAA, Honorary Secretary, Sunderland Rural District Savings Committee.
  • Susan Mary Wynyard Atterbury, Secretary to the British Council of the Australian Association of British Manufacturers.
  • Sidney Hall Bagshaw, JP, lately Member, Derbyshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Edna Bailey, Member, Women's Sub-Committee, Huddersfield Local Employment Committee.
  • Lilian Amy Baines, Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • William Barker, Chief Inspector, Enforcement Division, Ministry of Food.
  • Horace Barlow, Assistant Works Manager, Westquarter Factory, Polmont, Stirlingshire.
  • James Joseph Barlow, Head Teacher, Dresden Church of England School, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Charles William Barnard, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Charles Henry Barrett, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Civil Service Lifeboat Fund.
  • Idwal Bassett, Senior Executive Officer, Welsh Board of Health.
  • Millicent Maud Mears Bathgate, Public Health Nursing Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Lilian Beatrice Beal, Clerical Officer, Admiralty.
  • Walter Edgar Bedford, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Thomas William Bell, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • Helen Berger Benny, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Eric Leslie Bird, MC ARIBA, Editor, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects .
  • Alexander Albert Birt, Senior Pilot, HM Dockyard, Rosyth.
  • Bertram Ewart Blackledge, Superintendent, Coke Ovens & Fuel Departments, Steel Company of Wales Ltd., Port Talbot.
  • Douglas Henry Bolton, Technical Assistant, Grade I, War Office.
  • Evelyn Isabel Bond, lately County Organiser for Dorset, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Arthur Stephen Morris Borner, Managing Director, Clifford & Snell Ltd., Sutton, Surrey.
  • David James Bowen, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Arthur Edward Bowles, Assistant Chief Officer, Hampshire Fire Brigade.
  • Ernest Lyon Bowley, MC, lately Commissioner, National Savings Committee.
  • Captain Robert Matthew Boyle, MC, Assistant Staff Officer, Ulster Special Constabulary.
  • Herbert Bradbury, Chairman, Housing Committee, Northwich Rural District Council.
  • George Briggs, Experimental Manager, Airspeed Ltd., Christchurch.
  • William Leslie Brighty, Foreign Office.
  • Carnegie Brown, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Joliffe John Brown, Chairman of Committee, No. 1465 (Gwynedd, North Wales) Squadron, Air Training Corps.
  • Robert Brown, Member, South Ayrshire Savings Committee.
  • Walter George Brown, Engineering Manager, Factory Shops, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast.
  • John Francis Bulleid, JP, Chairman, Torquay & District Disablement Advisory Committee.
  • George Royall Bullwinkle, AMIMechE, lately Engineer of Vauxhall Works, South Eastern Gas Board.
  • Ethel Margaret Burnside, lately Matron, Ulster Volunteer Forces Hospital, Belfast.
  • James William Buttfield, Director, Whitecroft Pin Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Whitecroft, Gloucestershire.
  • Stanley Noel Carter, Chairman, Executive Committee, Bournemouth Workshops for Disabled Sailors & Soldiers.
  • Eric Edward Cooper Cawood, Factory and Contracts Manager, Nu-Swift Ltd., Elland, West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Councillor Harry Ernest Chamberlain, JP. For public services in Oldham, Lancashire.
  • Harry James Clapp. For public services in East Walthamstow.
  • Bernard Clarke, JP, Manager, South Lincolnshire Sub-Division, East Midlands Gas Board.
  • Ernest Harwood Clarke, Mining Surveyor, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Leonard Clegg, Regional Fuel Engineer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Emma Frances Heather Clode, Deputy Head of Empire and Foreign Department, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Mary Cockshott, Health Visitor, West Riding County Council.
  • William Arthur Colwill, Assistant Waterguard Superintendent, Liverpool, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Rose Catherine Coney, Honorary Housing Welfare Officer, Beccles, Suffolk.
  • William John Cooper, MIEE, Liaison Officer, South West Scotland Electricity Board.
  • Stanley Temple Cope, Principal Moorings Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Arthur William Cotterell, JP, Chairman, Walsall Youth Employment Committee.
  • Sarah Crothers, Chairman, Lisburn & District Local Savings Committee, County Antrim.
  • Mary Grace Cuff, Women's Land Army County Secretary for Oxfordshire and other counties.
  • Frederick Charles Davey, lately Principal Foreman, Admiralty.
  • Councillor Joseph Davies. For political and public services in Hemsworth & District, Yorkshire.
  • Arthur Bond Dawson, Assistant Mining Agent, No.4 Area, Whitehaven, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board.
  • Samuel Murray Deacon, Deputy Principal (now Principal), Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland.
  • Thomas Carmichael Dickie, Divisional Organiser, Association of Engineering & Shipbuilding Draughtsmen.
  • John Richard Dickinson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • James Anderson Dickson, Manager, The Gramophone Co. Ltd., Springfield Road Works (Ministry of Supply Agency Factory), Hayes.
  • Frederick Haydn Dimmock. For services to the Boy Scouts Association.
  • Violet Hope Dobbin, Member, Ulster Joint Committee, Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the British Red Cross Society.
  • Dorothy Mabel Dodd, Superintendent Physiotherapist, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Grace Donaldson, Member, Board of Management for Stirling and Clackmannan Hospitals.
  • Arthur Charles Parker Dove, Actuary, East Midlands Trustee Savings Bank.
  • David Dow, Member, Hill Farming Advisory Committee for Scotland.
  • Thomas Smith Duncan, Assistant Designer, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Weybridge, Aircraft Division.
  • William Duncan, Superintendent, Liverpool Youth Employment Bureau.
  • John William Dunger, Assistant Commercial Superintendent, Train Services (Passenger), Railway Executive (Eastern Region).
  • John Eadie, Carpet Designer, James Templeton & Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Elizabeth Augusta Roumieu Ealand, ARCM, County Organiser, Surrey Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Arthur Ernest Edwards, Chairman of the Civil Service Sanatorium Society.
  • Mary Edwards, JP, lately Honorary Secretary, Wimbledon Hospital.
  • Lillian Elizabeth Elliott, Headmistress, Field End Primary School, Eastcote, Middlesex.
  • Sarah Sawbridge Elliott, Exhibition Director and Acting Secretary, Office Appliance Trades Association of Great Britain & Ireland.
  • Richard Francis Ellison, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Works.
  • Gwendolen Mary Evans, County Organiser, Huntingdonshire, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • John Evans, Clerical Officer, Boys' Training Establishment (Royal Navy), Shotley.
  • Arthur Bertram Fea, Accountant, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Guy Warwick Ferguson, Staff Assistant to Chief Regional Officer, Railway Executive (North Eastern Region).
  • George Henry Fillmore, Civil Assistant and Accountant, No. 27 Maintenance Unit, Air Ministry, Shawbury, Shropshire.
  • Gordon Edward Flintham, Foreign Office.
  • Harold Flood, National Savings Assembly Member for North Kent.
  • Alderman William Henry Flowers, MM. For public services in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
  • Samuel Ferguson Floyd, MB BCh, General Medical Practitioner, County Down.
  • Alice Foley, JP, Chairman, Women's Sub-Committee, Bolton Local Employment Committee.
  • Charles Henry Fone, Grade III Officer, Branch B, Foreign Service.
  • Elsie Forbes, Staff Nurse, Glanely Sanatorium, Cardiff.
  • Archibald Graham Forrester, Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works.
  • William Conchie Forsyth, Chairman, Inverness District Savings Committee.
  • Thomas Frederick Fry, Official-in-Charge, Jersey Town Office, British European Airways Corporation.
  • Mary Ann Fulcher, Head Teacher, Philipson Children's Sanatorium, Stannington, Morpeth, Northumberland.
  • Charles Edgar Garland, MC, Principal Probation Officer, Birmingham.
  • Charles Herbert Stanley Garton, Grade I Assistant, Foreign Office.
  • Alfred William Gatling, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Wilfrid Thomas Geden, Station Master, Paddington, Railway Executive.
  • David Chalmers Gemmell, Manager, Muiredge Training Centre, Scottish Division, National Coal Board.
  • Elizabeth George, Chief Assistant, Leather Control, Board of Trade.
  • Basil Leek Gibbs, District Secretary, Birmingham & Midland Sheet Metal Workers Society.
  • Eric Dallison Gilding, Signals Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Captain Robert Graham Gillespie, Master, MV Mausang, Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
  • Bert Goddard, Production Manager, Klinger Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
  • Wolfe Goldberg, Vice-Chairman, East & West Ridings Regional Board for Industry.
  • George Joss Gordon, lately Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • John Harold Gozzett, Senior Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Alderman Alfred Graham. For political and public services in Barking and Brentwood.
  • Janet Grant, Sister-in-Charge, Male Wards, East Fortune Sanatorium, Drem, East Lothian.
  • Joseph Gray. For public services in Armagh.
  • Elisha George Sandham Gregory, Assistant Engineer, London Telecommunications Region.
  • Herbert Charles Gregory, lately Executive Officer, British Museum.
  • Olive Constance Gregory, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Works.
  • Alderman Thomas Edward Gwillim, Member, Brecon Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Harold Norman Hadaway, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Mary Sinclair Haig, Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Frederick James Hando, Headmaster, Hatherleigh Secondary Modern School, Newport, Monmouthshire.
  • Emanuel Harbron, JP, Divisional Organiser, Amalgamated Engineering Union.
  • William Reginald Harrison, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • William Frederick Hartmann, Senior Executive Officer, HM Land Registry.
  • Florrie Harvie, District Organiser, Eastern District of Scotland, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Arthur Henry Harwood, Senior Executive Officer, Central Ordnance Depot, War Office, Chilwell.
  • Ada Maud Hawkins, Honorary Secretary, Camberwell Savings Committee.
  • Alfred William Hawkins, Manager, Government Training Centre and Industrial Rehabilitation Unit, Leicester.
  • Gerald Alfred Victor Hayes, ACIS, Senior Secretarial Assistant, British Transport Commission.
  • Edward Head, Port Labour Officer, National Dock Labour Board.
  • Walter Victor Heasley, County Commissioner of Scouts in County Down.
  • William Heavey, Senior Dockmaster, Port of London Authority.
  • Hilda May Helms, Private Secretary to the General Manager, North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd.
  • George Henry Bishop Heppel, District Officer, HM Coastguard, Berwick.
  • James Heyes. For services to farming in Lancashire.
  • Leo Sebastian Heyes, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • Anne Dorothy Hindle, Chairman, Cranbrook Rural Food Control Committee.
  • Edgar Hirst, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Alexander Hislop, lately Warden, Colonial Office Hostel for Moslem Seamen, South Shields.
  • Thomas Sydney Hobbs, Secretary of the Mersey District of the Shipping Federation Ltd.
  • John Benjamin Hodges, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Ernest Joseph Frederick Clausson Hogg, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Alfred Charles Holding, Special Grade Clerk, Headquarters, Malaya District, War Office.
  • William Holland, Deputy Chief Officer, East Sussex Fire Brigade.
  • Mabel Jessie Hooper, lately Clerical Assistant to the Medical Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Kathleen Thehna Hosegood, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
  • Dorothy Isabel Hubbard, County Superintendent for Sussex, St. John Ambulance Brigade.
  • Henry Hubbuck, General Manager, Robinson & Sons Ltd., Chesterfield.
  • Oswald Cyril Blake Hughes, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • William Hunter, Honorary Secretary, Okehampton & District Savings Committee.
  • Alfred Hutchings, Engineer and Surveyor to the Cuckfield Rural District Council.
  • Mary Hutchinson, Principal Sister Tutor, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow.
  • Henry Jackson, JP, Farmer. For services to agriculture in Cumberland.
  • James Jackson, Works Manager, HM Stationery Office Press.
  • Arthur Edward James, Grocer Member, Cardiff Borough Food Control Committee.
  • Charles Alfred James, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Joshua James, Chairman, Ashton-under-Lyne Youth Employment Committee.
  • Sydney Jeffrey, Works Superintendent, W. H. A. Robertson & Co. Ltd., Bedford.
  • Frank Herbert Jenkins, ARCM ARCO, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • Harold Dawson Jennett, Departmental Manager, Brown Bayley's Steel Works Ltd., Sheffield.
  • Gordon Sotham Jennings, FRICS, Chief Assistant Surveyor, Southend-on-Sea County Borough Council.
  • Frederick Surridge Jones, Flour Recovery Officer.
  • Lily Ann Jones. For public and charitable services in Ferndale and district, Glamorganshire.
  • John Junor, Member, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Local Employment Committee and Court of Referees.
  • Ildefons Florian Kedzierzykowski, Intelligence Officer I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Percy Frederick Keen, Senior Executive Officer, Admiralty.
  • William John James Keen, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence.
  • Victor Kelsey, MC, Drainage Officer, Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Marguerite Elizabeth Kidd, Secretary, Fermanagh County Hospital.
  • Cedric Marcus King, Honorary Secretary, Coffee Importers & Exporters Association of London Ltd.
  • Reginald Fred Knowler, Superintendent, Lincolnshire Constabulary.
  • William Robert Knox, MM, JP. For public services in County Antrim.
  • Jack Laurence, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Edward Augustine Lowe Laxton, Director of Laxton Bros., Bedford Ltd., Nurserymen.
  • Rudolph Lederer, Senior Control Officer, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • Louisa Allan Lee, Controller of Typists, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Robert Lee, MIEE, AMIMechE, Sub-Area Liaison Officer, London Electricity Board.
  • George William Brand Leslie, Skipper Motor Fishing Boat Betty Leslie, Shetland.
  • Andrew King Lewis, Chief Staff Assistant, Glasgow Education Authority.
  • Elizabeth Lindsay, Headmistress, Gartcraig Junior Secondary School, Glasgow.
  • Reginald Sydney Lobb, Chief-Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
  • Alderman Harry Lord, JP, lately Local Army Welfare Officer for Stretford and Davyhulme, Lancashire.
  • Roderick Edward Louch, Head of the Poultry Keeping Department, Cheshire School of Agriculture.
  • Peter Low, MIMarE AMIMechE, Superintendent, Purfleet Installation, Anglo-American Oil Co.
  • Arnold Lowe, Manager, Chanters Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board.
  • Percival John Luxton, Chief Clerk of Works, Ministry of Works. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons.
  • George Maxwell Lyne, Assistant Master, Blackpool Grammar School.
  • Councillor George Gall McDiarmid, Chairman, Scottish Committee of the National Joint Apprenticeship Council for the Farriery & Blacksmith Trade.
  • Alexander Macdonald, Works Manager, North British Locomotive Company Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Thomas Leslie McDonald, Chairman of McDonald Engineers (Kirkcaldy) Ltd.
  • John McInroy, Horticultural Officer, Southern European District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Martha Ellen MacKenzie, JP, County Officer for Fermanagh, St. John Ambulance Brigade.
  • Douglas James Mackie, Manager, Cable & Wireless, Hong Kong.
  • James Finlay McKinnon, Senior Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Charles Samuel Mackley, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • John Louis MacLaughlan, Reporter to the Kemsley Group and Representative of the Press Association (Greenock & District).
  • Lendrick McMaster. For services to the Belfast Boys Brigade.
  • The Reverend John Roderick Macpherson, Minister, St. Andrew's Church, Kirkintilloch. Founder of the Kirkintilloch Junior Choir.
  • William Edward Mallett, Chief Engineer Officer, MV Royal Sovereign, General Steam Navigation Co.
  • Edward George Marshall, Records Officer, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Harold Martingell, Senior Member of the Central Committee, The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust.
  • Seymour Mitchell, Head Pharmacist and Technical Assistant to the Medical Director General, Royal Naval Medical Depot, Risley.
  • Peggie Flora Morden, Head of Services Welfare (Home) Department, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Charles Ernest Morgan, Assistant Postmaster, Head Post Office, Birmingham.
  • David Edgar Morgan, Deputy Chief Constable, Swansea.
  • Councillor Frank Morris, JP. For political and public services in Barnsley.
  • Thomas James Morris, Postmaster, Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire.
  • Bertram Munn, Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Elsie Rosina May Musselwhite, Personal Assistant to Head of Technical Services, British Joint Services Mission, Washington.
  • John Henry North, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • Edward Francis O'Neill, Headmaster, Prestolee School, Manchester.
  • Claud Meredith Overton, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Harold Owens, Chairman, South Wales Regional Committee, Transport & General Workers Union.
  • Frederick Horn Paley, Vice-Chairman, Wearside District Committee, Northern Regional Board for Industry.
  • Leonard George Pargiter, Senior Architect, Ministry of Works. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons.
  • Alderman Daisy Parsons, JP. For public services in West Ham.
  • Edwin James Paton, Executive Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Charles James Pattison, Chief Engineer, Hobourn Aero Components, Rochester.
  • Dora Alice Payne, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • George Edgar Pearce, Local Fuel Overseer for Stroud Urban & Rural Districts.
  • Thomas Charles Pearson, JP, Secretary, Printing & Kindred Trades Federation, Birmingham & District.
  • Bertie Peckham. For services as Control Officer I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
  • William Ewart Pegg, Higher Executive Officer, Office of HM Procurator General & Treasury Solicitor.
  • Samuel Dunsdon Pendry, AMIEE, Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Guildford.
  • John Howard Audley Perkins, AMICE, Director of John Perkins & Son Ltd., Bristol.
  • Fanny Matilda Phelps, District Midwife, Bemerton, Wiltshire.
  • Councillor Harry Pilkington. For political and public services in Gloucestershire.
  • John Pointon, Honorary Secretary, Welshpool Savings Committee.
  • Harold Vincent Pollard, MIMechE, Senior Experimental Officer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
  • Walter Dudley Potts, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Eric James Powell, Senior Chief Technical Officer, Ministry of Works. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons.
  • William Francis Thomas Powell, Honorary Secretary, Swanage Lifeboat Station.
  • Kathleen Seymour Pring, lately County Organiser for Staffordshire, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Claude William Loftus Purkiss, Labour Advisory Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • William George Pyatt, FRSI, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Cardiff County Borough Council.
  • John Rae, BEM, Engineering Manager, John Brown & Company Ltd., Clydebank.
  • Wallace George Rainer, JP, Chairman, Southend Local Employment Committee.
  • Reginald Frederick Rees, Vice-Chairman, Great Marlborough Street Local Employment Committee.
  • Albert Edward Rendle, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
  • Margaret Louise Rickey, Chairman, National Association of Home Help Organisers.
  • Reginald Roberts, Commandant, No. 6 District Police Training Centre.
  • Thomas Roberts, Head Forester, Cowdray Estate, Midhurst, Sussex.
  • Ethel Maud Robinson, Senior Lady Editorial Assistant, Debrett's Peerage .
  • Captain Wilfrid Robson, lately District Officer, Worcestershire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Kathleen Jean Alexander Ross, Organiser, Large Burgh of Arbroath, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Leonard Rushforth, MIEE, Head of Section, Research Laboratory, British Thomson-Houston Ltd., Rugby.
  • George Russell, Breeder of the modern coloured lupins. For services to horticulture.
  • Charles Reginald Salmon, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Geoffrey Arthur Maurice Sargent, Land Agent and Valuer, War Office.
  • Oliver Stephen Scott, Superintendent and Depute Chief Constable, Paisley Burgh Police.
  • Victor Henry Scott, Supervising Examiner for Driving Tests, Ministry of Transport.
  • Harry Balmforth Shaw, Commandant, Oldham Special Constabulary.
  • Robert Lionel Shearer, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Hubert Ernest Shepherd, LDS, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
  • Percy Sheridan, Traffic Manager, City of Oxford Motor Services.
  • Jessie Cameron Shiels, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department.
  • Florence Elsie Shinner, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Colonial Office.
  • Reuben Edward Simpson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Cecil William Skinner, Assistant Superintendent Engineer, Transmitters, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Arthur Henry Smith, Clerk to the Lord Chief Justice of England.
  • Edmund Smith, Senior Trustee, National Association of Operative Plasterers.
  • Joseph Smith, Chief Officer, Rotherham Fire Brigade.
  • Walter Leopold Smith, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Winifred Jacob-Smith, Women's Land Army County Organiser, North Riding of Yorkshire.
  • William John Sparey, Manager, Electrical Department, Silley, Cox & Co. Ltd., Falmouth.
  • Wilfrid Leslie Sparks, Technical Director, Sexton, Son & Everard Ltd., Norwich.
  • Derrick Edwin Speigal, Base Engineering Superintendent, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • William Ernest Spence, District Delegate, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Humber District.
  • Algernon William Stevens, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
  • William Stevens, Member of the National Executive Council of the National Union of Public Employees.
  • Robert Stewart, Staff Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Insurance, Northern Ireland.
  • Alban Maurice Sticklan, Warden, Welfare Department of the London County Council.
  • Reginald Henry Stone, lately Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Marjorie Anne Stotesbury, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • William Alexander Stuart, lately Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Dorothy Stutfield, Superintendent of Typists, Air Ministry.
  • Captain Frederick Summers, Master, SS Brika, F.C. Strick & Co.
  • James John Symons, Chief Male Nurse, Warlingham Park Hospital, Surrey.
  • James Talbot, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Ernest James Taphouse, JP, Manager of the Blanket Finishing Department, Charles Early & Co. Witney.
  • David Taylor, Chief Instructor, Department of Operating Manager (Central Road Services), London Transport Executive.
  • Francis Joseph Taylor, Manager, Redditch Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • George Richard Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Violet Mona Taylor, JP. For services to the Young Women's Christian Association, Tyneside.
  • Florence Ethel Beatrice Timonen, Personal Assistant to the Chairman, British Electricity Authority.
  • Mary Barrett Towndrow, Civil Assistant, War Office.
  • Walter Charles Tricker, Grade III Officer, Branch B, Foreign Service.
  • Mary Elizabeth Tuck, Member, Lincoln Local Employment Committee.
  • Evelyn Mary Ulyatt, Administrator, Women's Voluntary Services, South-East Asia.
  • George Whalley Wakeford, AMINA, Director of the School of Navigation, University College, Southampton.
  • Edgar Orgill Walker, lately Headmaster, Spring Lane Junior School, Northampton.
  • John Goodrich Walker, General Secretary, Royal Engineers Old Comrades Association.
  • Major Herbert Edward Wallis, lately Senior Assistant, German Section, Foreign Office.
  • John Maurice Walshe, AMIEE, Works Engineer, Belliss & Morcom Ltd., Birmingham.
  • Reginald William Ward, Experimental Designer, Gloster Aircraft Company Ltd.
  • James Hamilton Warnock, Governor of the West of Scotland Agricultural College.
  • George Patrick Houston Watson, FRIBA, Senior Investigating Officer, Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments, (Scotland).
  • William Rueben Watson, Assistant to the Commercial Superintendent, Eastern Region, Railway Executive.
  • Agnes Baillie White, Executive Officer, Allied Commission for Austria, British Element.
  • Francis Henry Whitehead, MRCS LRCP, Chairman, Wandsworth & Battersea War Pensions Committee.
  • Doris Lizzie Mary Whiteman, Higher Executive Officer, War Damage Commission & Central Land Board.
  • John Whiteside, Vice-President, Bridlington & District Savings Committee.
  • Dalby Walter Harry Wickson, Passport Officer in the Office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner, Cape Town.
  • Benjamin Richard Williams, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board.
  • Thomas Charles Richard Willis, Assistant Regional Manager, London (South Western) Region, War Damage Commission & Central Land Board.
  • Winifred Wilson, Higher Clerical Officer, Telephone Manager's Office, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
  • Captain Maurice Wise, Assistant Secretary, Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Middlesex.
  • Osborne Stanley Witcombe, Higher Clerical Officer, Swansea Depot, Trinity House.
  • Albert James Wood, Secretary of the National Sanatorium, Benenden.
  • William Woodall, Secretary of the Condensed Milk Pool Ltd.
  • Magdalen Agnes Woods, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Grace Woodward, District Nurse Midwife, Bacton, District of East Suffolk.
  • Kenneth Wright, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Maud Ellen Wright, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Charles Ernest Wylie, JP, lately Member, Buckinghamshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • William Yeardye, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Aziz Mir Arjumand, Munshi of His Majesty's Consulate at Kermanshah.
  • Arthur Robert Cackett, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Basle.
  • Gervase de la Poer Cassels, Chief Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Government of Cyrenaica.
  • Winifred Annie Coate, British subject resident in the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan.
  • Nicholas Hector Economies, British subject resident in Athens.
  • Edward Alfred Edwards, British Vice-Consul at Smyrna.
  • Stewart Hunter Evans, lately British Vice-Consul at Galveston.
  • Henry Wilfred Glockler, British subject resident in the Lebanon.
  • Alice Maud Goddard, Matron of the Samaritano Hospital at São Paulo.
  • Zygmund Horn, Officer of Forestry & Fisheries, British Administration, Eritrea.
  • Doris May Hudson, Administrative Assistant at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
  • Ruth Somerville King, British subject resident in Egypt.
  • Walter Ivan Lake, lately His Majesty's Consul at Palma de Mallorca.
  • George Lange, Ministry of Works Representative in Moscow.
  • John William Lee, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Amsterdam.
  • Daniel James Lloyd, Archivist and Accountant at His Majesty's Legation at Bucharest.
  • Thomas Holt Lloyd, British subject resident in Trieste.
  • Marie Myllin Morton, Assistant Administration Officer, Office of the Commissioner-General for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
  • Ethel Parker, Principal, Church Missionary Society Girls School, Wad Medani, Blue Nile Province, Sudan.
  • Alfred George Porter, British subject, resident in the Argentine Republic.
  • The Reverend William Daniel Reynolds, Head of the Baptist Missionary Society in Leopoldville.
  • John James Sparks, LMS, British Vice-Consul at Coatzacoalcos.
  • Leve Steventon, lately British Vice-Consul at Mukden.
  • Brigadier Leslie Clayson Thomas, Officer Commanding the Salvation Army in Burma.
  • Leonard Saville Wallgate, Director of Messrs. Reckitt & Colman in Denmark.
  • Camilla Fugl Wiley, Secretary in the Visa Section of His Majesty's Embassy at Oslo.
  • Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia.
  • Armadale Charles Anderson, formerly a Head Teacher, Education Department, State of Tasmania.
  • Edith Blanche Anderson, formerly Matron, Northfield Mental Hospital, State of South Australia.
  • Councillor William Cumming, of Traralgon Shire Council, State of Victoria.
  • John Daniel Doggett, of Hobart, State of Tasmania. For services to the community.
  • William Daniel Gale, Acting Director of Public Relations, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Victor Charles George Gatti, Chief Clerk, Royal Empire Society.
  • Agnes Grace Gillespie, MB ChB, Medical Missionary, Mary Calvert Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore City, India.
  • John Gluis, MA, Headmaster and Principal, Unley High School, State of South Australia.
  • William Frederick Howell, Senior Works Manager, Messrs. Jessop & Co. Ltd., Calcutta, India.
  • George Harold Johnson. For services to the British Empire Service League, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Adam Sutherland MacLeod, Driller, Public Works Department, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • William Margolis. For services to Industry in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Councillor John Stewart Mathieson, JP, of Winchelsea Shire Council, State of Victoria.
  • Evelyn Rose Morey, Matron, Lachlan Park Mental Hospital, State of Tasmania.
  • Councillor Joseph Brook Pridmore, JP, Yarra Ward, Hawthorn City Council, State of Victoria.
  • John Francis Brownlee Purcell, District Officer, Swaziland.
  • Harold Raymond. For services to the Institute for the Blind, Deaf & Dumb, State of South Australia.
  • Alexander Frederick Reid, JP. For social welfare services in Wodonga, State of Victoria.
  • Fanny Dorothy Sanders. For social welfare services in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Eileen Adelaide Stokes, Matron, The Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, State of Western Australia.
  • Walter Edward Thurlow. For services in connection with the development of the Mazoe Valley, and particularly of Bindura, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Doris Ethel Trousdale, Matron of the Lady Rodwell Maternity Home, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Isaac Kwadjo Agyeman. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • Akiwande Akiwumi, Inspector of Mines, Sierra Leone.
  • Annie Maude Locker-Allen, Head Teacher, Basseterre Girls School, St. Kitts, Leeward Islands.
  • Gwendoline Edith Atherton, Principal, Suva Indian Girls Intermediate School, Fiji.
  • John Axisa, Director of Emigration, Malta.
  • Marjorie Marion Balch, lately Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Financial Secretary, Kenya.
  • Georgiana Olivia Beckles. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Louisa Margaret Benade, Nursing Sister, Dutch Reformed Church Mission, Nyasaland.
  • Robert Staveley Boumphrey, Colonial Audit Service, for services as Auditor, Falkland Islands.
  • Stancia May Bridge. For public services in Bermuda.
  • Eric Murray Brown, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Jamaica.
  • Norah Bell Burton, Headmistress of St. Michael's Girls School, Barbados.
  • Vaikunthlal Motiran Clerk. For public services in Uganda.
  • Nathaniel Onesimus Cofie, lately Chief Clerk, Government Printing Department, Gold Coast.
  • Douglas John Collister. For public services in Nigeria.
  • Thomas Lochie Dennison. For public services in Nigeria.
  • Arthur Joseph Edwards, lately Chief Revenue Inspector, Gibraltar.
  • William Henry Especkerman, Assistant to the Governor's Private Secretary, Singapore.
  • Arthur Griffiths Farr, MRCS LRCP MB BChir, Colonial Medical Service, Acting-Senior Medical Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Major Arthur Reynold Foster. Superintendent of Prisons, Barbados.
  • Beatrice Marion Foulger. For public services in Singapore.
  • Fung Vui Kong, Superscale Grade "A" Clerical Officer, North Borneo.
  • Findley Louis Germain, Sergeant Major of Police, Seychelles.
  • Constance Goh (Mrs Goh Kok Kee). For public services in Singapore.
  • Albert Edward Gresty. For public services in Nigeria.
  • The Reverend Alfred Thomas Hill, Headmaster of the Methodist Mission School, Pawa, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
  • Ida Annie Hill, Sister, Owerri and Rivers Area, Church Missionary Society, Nigeria.
  • Rosamond Euphemia Hilton, lately Grade I Clerk, Jamaica Agricultural Society, Jamaica.
  • Kathleen Winifred Howard, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Public Health Matron Grade I, Singapore.
  • Eugenie Dorothy Hughes, FRIBA. For public services in Kenya.
  • Seyfu Tamba Jammeh, District Head, Upper Baddibu, Central Division, Gambia.
  • Major Robert George Jones, ARCM LRCM, Director of Music, Jamaica Military Band, Jamaica.
  • Ferdinand Jean July, County Sanitary Inspector, Berbice, British Guiana.
  • Athole Stephen Horsford Kemp, Colonial Administrative Service, Acting Administrative Officer, Segamat, Federation of Malaya.
  • Frederick William Knight, Executive Officer, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Apostplos Constanti Kontos, Administrative Assistant, Grade I, Cyprus.
  • Sydney Alfred Lee, Inspector of Telephones, Fiji.
  • Lo Pak Wai, Superintendent of Mails, General Post Office, Hong Kong.
  • William Marcus Lopey, Headmaster of St. Vincent Grammar School, Windward Islands.
  • Pilane Godokandegai Michael George Mahindasa, Teacher, St. Francis Institution, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
  • Beatrice Winifred Mercer. For public services in the Falkland Islands.
  • Frederick William Moore, AMIMechE, Inspecting Engineer, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Dayabhai Govindbhai Patel, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Aden.
  • Thomas Leslie Peet, District Commandant, Police Reserve, Kenya.
  • Mutukrishnan Tevanathan Pillay, Accountant, Treasury, Singapore.
  • George Basil Popov, Field Officer, Desert Locust Survey, East Africa High Commission.
  • Enche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Mohyiddin, Head Malay Teacher, Sultan Idris Training College, Federation of Malaya.
  • Idea Roblet, Charge Nurse, Civil Hospital, Medical & Health Department, Mauritius.
  • Donald Alexander Ross, Superintendent of Works (Mechanical), Public Works Department, Sierra Leone.
  • Barbara Saben. For public services in Uganda.
  • Joseph George Sackey, lately Chief Clerk, Prisons Department, Gold Coast.
  • Michael Angelo Saliba, Director, Approved School, Malta.
  • Abang Samsudin bin Abang Matusin, Native Officer, Sarawak.
  • Benjamin James Sealy. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Eileen Margaret Skinner. For public services in Nyasaland.
  • William Adolphus Small, Senior Surveyor, Gambia.
  • Frederic Vernon Stevens, Headmaster, Mitsis School, Lemythou, Cyprus.
  • Shemuel John Egertori Stober, Superintendent of Prisons, Nigeria.
  • Isabella Jessie Phillipson Stow, lately Sister, Rhodesia Railway Nursing Service, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Lily Rebecca Thrush, Medical Sister, Church Missionary Society, Ngara District, Tanganyika.
  • Gladys Ella Van Hees. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Waruhiu wa Kunga, Divisional Chief, Kenya.
  • Alaistair Maitland Watermeyer, Road Superintendent, Public Works Department, Tanganyika.
  • Edward Michael Wilson, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Somaliland Protectorate.
Honorary Members
  • Saw Seong Peck, Chief Clerk, Labour Department, Perak, Federation of Malaya.
  • Esien Enian Esien, lately Supervising Teacher, Education Department, Nigeria.
  • Joseph Adeyani Ojo, lately Master Grade I, King's College, Lagos, Nigeria.
  • Samuel Ali Oloko, Accountant, Agricultural Department, Nigeria.
  • Alice Okon. For public services in Nigeria.
  • Haid Deria, Elder of the Habr Yunis, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Warsama Ali Obseyeh, Elder of the Dolbahanta, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • The Reverend Daudi Machina, Clergyman in the Universities Mission to Central Africa, Tanganyika.
  • Majebere Bin Masanja, Chief of Mwagalla, Tanganyika.
  • Zekeria Mungonya, Enganzi of Ankole, Uganda.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

British Empire Medals (BEM)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
United Kingdom
State of Victoria
Colonial Empire

Royal Red Crosses (RRC)

Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force

Associates of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Royal Navy
  • Olive Mary Molyneaux, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
Army
  • Major Nina Alys Buck (206024), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Major Daisy Lister (206279), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
Royal Air Force
  • Flight Officer Freda Short (5116), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Crosses (AFC)

Royal Air Force
Royal Navy

Bars to Air Force Cross

Royal Air Force

Air Force Medals (AFM)

Royal Air Force

King's Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air

Royal Air Force
Army

King's Police and Fire Services Medals

Police
England and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Australia
Former Mandated Territory
Occupied Territories Administration
Fire Service
England and Wales
Scotland

Colonial Police Medals (CPM)

In recognition of meritorious service in Malaya and Singapore

Mentions in Despatches

In recognition of services in Operational Minesweeping since the end of the war. [6]

Australia

Knights Bachelor

Order of the Bath

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
Royal Australian Navy
Army
Civil Division

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Army
Royal Australian Air Force
  • Air Vice-Marshal Joseph Eric Hewitt, OBE .
Civil Division

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Australian Navy
  • Superintendent (Naval Dockyard Police) Norman Hamon Shaw, Royal Australian Navy (Auxiliary Services).
  • Commander John Anthony Walsh.
Army
Royal Australian Air Force
Civil Division
  • The Honourable Joseph Palmer Abbott, MC . For services to the wool industry; former member of the Federal Cabinet; and Vice-Chairman of the Australian Wool Board.
  • Alfred John Chambers, MBE , Federal President of the T.B. Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Association.
  • William Joseph Dawkins, South Australian Representative on the Australian Meat Board.
  • Robert David Fitzgerald, of Sydney. For services to Literature.
  • Colin Macdonald Gilray, MC, Principal of the Scotch College, Melbourne.
  • John Alexander James, ChM MB FRCS, a prominent surgeon and physician in the Australian Capital Territory.
  • William Stanley Kelly, a prominent agriculturist. For public services.
  • Henry Gilbert Nobbs, of Sydney. For outstanding services to the blind.
  • The Reverend Frank Harrison Rayward, Superintendent of the Central Methodist Mission, Sydney.
  • Christopher Sheehy, General Manager of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd.
  • Alan Robert Stanley Vickers, ChM MB. For services to the Flying Doctor Service in Australia.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Australian Navy
  • Lieutenant-Commander Albert James Haberfield, (Retired).
  • Lieutenant-Commander Harold Blomfield Hatten, (Retired).
  • Lieutenant (E) John Alfred Hutton, (Retired).
  • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Frederick Walter Nelson, (Emergency List).
Army
  • Major John Cletus Holden, Australian Military Forces.
  • Captain Colin Campbell Knott, Commonwealth Military Forces.
  • Captain Leo Max Riedel, Australian Military Forces.
  • Lieutenant Albert William Smith, Commonwealth Military Forces.
Royal Australian Air Force
  • Squadron Leader John Wallworth Nankivell (03591).
  • Squadron Leader Frank Stiller (03400).
  • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Machin (03122).
  • Warrant Officer Ole Norman Eric Johannesen (A.3670).
Civil Division
  • Harold Bruce Bennett. For services to munitions production in Tasmania.
  • Hugh Lancelot Brisbane. For services to munitions production in Western Australia.
  • Ethel Braun. For social welfare services, especially in hospitals.
  • Gladys De-aar Elliott, formerly Matron-in-Charge, Australian Comforts Fund, Hobart, Tasmania.
  • Colonel Daniel Edward Evans, DSO VD . For services to munitions production in Queensland.
  • James Sydney Wallace Eve, of Sydney, For services to amateur Sport.
  • Ruth Heathcock. For outstanding services to the community in one of the remotest areas of Australia.
  • Henry Christian Hopman, of Melbourne. For services to Sport.
  • Lieutenant-Commissioner Joshua James, Territorial Commander of the Salvation Army in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Stephen Lackey Kessell, formerly Controller of Timber.
  • Roy Waugh Kippax, of Sydney. For services to the blind.
  • Eileen Gertrude Lenihan, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister for many years.
  • Walter Albert Lindrum, a well-known Australian billiards player. For services to charitable organisations.
  • Iney Louisa Marden. For voluntary services to Service personnel organisations.
  • Frank Tennyson Perry. For services to munitions production in South Australia.
  • Sydney Ernest Pratt. For services to Australian journalism.
  • Alice Marion Prichard, RRC , Matron of Saint George's Hospital, Kogarah.
  • Stephen Harold Stack. For services to the War Veterans' Home in New South Wales.
  • Patricia Tillyard, President of the Canberra Community Hospital Auxiliary.
  • John Stapledon Wilkinson. For services to ex-servicemen and the Red Cross.

British Empire Medals (BEM)

Military Division
Royal Australian Navy
Army

Air Force Crosses (AFC)

Royal Australian Air Force

Air Force Medals (AFM)

Royal Australian Air Force

King's Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air

Royal Australian Air Force

New Zealand

Ceylon

Knights Bachelor

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

Order of the British Empire

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Civil Division

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Civil Division
  • Dinshah Pherojshah Bilimoria. For public services.
  • Somadeva Casinathan, lately Rubber Commissioner and Rubber Controller.
  • Mandawalagama Appuhamelage Gunasekera. For public and social services.
  • Mohamed Ismail, Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives.
  • Thanahandi David Mendis. For services to transport.
  • Ahamado Casim Mohammado, JP, Proctor and Notary, Colombo.
  • Swaminathar Patanjali. For public services in Jaffna.
  • Aruwala Jotige Simon Perera. For public and charitable services.
  • Victor Garvin Weerawardena Ratnayake, Member of Parliament for Deniyaya.
  • Abdul Rahaman Mohamed Thassim. For public services in Galle.
  • Joseph Nicholas Cecil Tiruchelvam, JP, City Coroner.
  • Oliver Weerasinghe, FRIBA, Government Town Planner.

Pakistan

Order of the Bath

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Order of the British Empire

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
  • Acting Rear-Admiral James Wilfrid Jefford, OBE , Royal Navy (Special List) (ex-Royal Indian Navy).
  • Acting Air Commodore Robert George Bowditch, Royal Air Force.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
  • Acting Captain George Bailey, DSC , Royal Navy (Special List) (ex-Royal Indian Navy).
  • Brigadier (temporary) Francis Herman Barclay Ingall, DSO , Special List (ex-Indian Army).
  • Colonel (temporary) Geoffrey Knowles, Special List (ex-Indian Army).
  • Acting Squadron Leader John Edwin Loxton, (53285), Royal Air Force,

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Major (War Substantive) John Darby, Special List (ex-Indian Army).

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References

  1. British Empire : "No. 39104". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 1–34.
  2. Australia : "No. 39105". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 35–38.
  3. New Zealand : "No. 39106". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 39–42.
  4. Ceylon : "No. 39107". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 43–44.
  5. Pakistan : "No. 39108". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 45–46.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "No. 39109". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 47–48.