1954 New Year Honours

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The New Year Honours 1954 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1954 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1954. [1] [2] [3] [4] [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.

United Kingdom

Viscount

Baron

Privy Councillor

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

State of Tasmania.
State of South Australia.
Commonwealth Services.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Civil Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Navy
Army
Air Force
Civil Division

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

  • Sir John Balfour, KCMG, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Madrid.

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

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

  • Ralph Ellis Brook, OBE, Deputy Chairman, Colonial Development Corporation.
  • George Sinclair Dunnett, OBE, Secretary, Commonwealth Economic Committee.
  • Harry Freeman, Principal Actuary, Government Actuary's Department. For services in relation to India, Pakistan and the Colonies.
  • Godfrey Michael Graham, OBE, Director of Fishery Research, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Ellis Charles Raymond Hadfield, Controller (Overseas), Central Office of Information.
  • Francis John Marriott, Deputy Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department. For services to Specialised Agencies of the United Nations.
  • Colonel Gerald Richardson, OBE, Inspector-General of Police, Venezia Giulia Police Force and Director of Public Safety, Trieste.
  • Norman Charles Robertson, MBE, Director General of Electronics Production, Ministry of Supply.
  • Francis Jackson Carter, CBE JP, Under-Secretary and Clerk of the Executive Council, State of Tasmania.
  • The Honourable Francis Joseph Condon, a Member of the Legislative Council, State of South Australia, for many years.
  • Maurice Rupert Metcalf, OBE, an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • The Honourable Mr. Justice Ralph John Morton, OBE MC, Puisne Judge of the High Court, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Eric Cecil Barnes, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland.
  • William Hugh Beeton, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Regional Officer, Ashanti, Gold Coast.
  • Kenneth Vincent Brown lately Puisne Judge, Trinidad.
  • Ronald Paul Bush, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Native Affairs, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Edward Reginald Edmonds, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • Alexander Denis Garson, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • Gervas Huxley, MC, Honorary Adviser on public relations matters to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Cuthbert Joseph Mayne, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
  • Colonel Hugh Waddell Mulligan, MD, Colonial Research Service, Director, West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research.
  • Albert Walter Savage, Colonial Civil Aviation Service, Director General of Civil Aviation, Malaya-Borneo Region.
  • Arthur Edwin Trotman, Colonial Agricultural Service, Member for Agriculture & Natural Resources, Tanganyika.
  • William Venner, General Manager, Sierra Leone Railway.
  • George Evan Cameron Wisdom, Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
  • Arthur Charles Beaton, Deputy Civil Secretary, Sudan Government.
  • Philip Broad, Political Adviser to the Commander, British/United States Zone, Free Territory of Trieste.
  • Isham Peter Garran, Inspector of Her Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments.
  • Austin Anthony Francis Haigh, Head of Cultural Relations Department, Foreign Office.
  • Henry Arthur Frederick Hohler, Head of Northern Department, Foreign Office.
  • Leonard Gibson Holliday, Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Berne.
  • Robin William John Hooper, DSO DFC, lately Head of Personnel Department, Foreign Office. Now at Baghdad.
  • Arthur Herbert Marlow, CBE, lately Her Majesty's Consul-General in Paris.
  • Aubrey Niel Morgan, lately Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Brigadier Claud Catton Oxborrow, CBE MC (Retired), lately Temporary Assistant Secretary, Office of the Economic Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Allen Price, Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Peking.
  • Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman, CBE MC, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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

  • William Macdonald Ballantine.
  • Squadron Leader Ronald George Churcher, DSO DFC.
  • Ernest Thomas Floyd Ewin.
  • Commander John Percy Pitt Michell, RN (Retired.)
  • Wing Commander Roy Charles Edwin Scott, AFC.
  • Reginald Norman Tyrrell, MVO.

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

  • Frank Blunden.
  • Mabel Maud Hill.
  • Francis Alfred Lee.
  • Superintendent Frederick Salter, Berkshire Constabulary.
  • Flight Lieutenant Eric William Lamb, RAF.

Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM)

  • 578267 Corporal Herbert Mark Bulled, RAF.
  • 571101 Corporal Oswald Hastings Carine, RAF.
  • Police Sergeant Charles William Cook, Berkshire Constabulary.
  • Police Sergeant Anthony Charles Rodney Christopher, Berkshire Constabulary.
  • Police Constable William Fuller, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • Police Constable Charles Groombridge, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • Edward Highgate.
  • Horace George Morgan.
  • Francis Edward Ruddle.
  • 1538550 Sergeant Frederick William Silvester, RAF.
  • William Henry Smith.
  • Detective Constable Leslie James Watts, Norfolk Constabulary.

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
Civil Division

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

Civil Division

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

Military Division
Navy
Army
Air Force
Civil Division


Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Navy
  • Captain (S) Arthur Percival Atwill, RN (Retired).
  • Captain (S) Norman Thomas Porteous Cooper, OBE, RN.
  • Captain (L) John Danvers Grossman, RN.
  • Instructor Captain Hector Archibald McDonald, RN.
  • Surgeon Captain Eric Thomas Sutherland Rudd, MB BCh, RN.
  • Colonel Robert William Barrow Simonds, Royal Marines.
Army
  • Brigadier Edward Cunliffe Cooke-Collis, DSO (24314), late Infantry.
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Richard Walter Craddock, DSO MBE (47540), late Infantry.
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Robert Withers Ewbank, DSO (38372), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Stanley Reginald Garratt, OBE (32326), late Infantry.
  • Colonel (now Honorary Brigadier) Richard Nigel Hanbury, OBE TD (63198), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now TARO).
  • Colonel (now Honorary Brigadier) Herbert James Dacre Lacy McGregor (17088), late Infantry (now RARO).
  • Brigadier (now Major-General (Temporary)) Frederick David Moore (23670), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major-General (Temporary) Herbert MacGregor Paterson (24859), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier Robert James Rosie, MB QHP (27887), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Nigel Prior Hanson Tapp, DSO (30558), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Ralph Younger, DSO MC (33496), late Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Brigadier Alexander Cosby Fishburn Jackson, OBE (27513), late Infantry, Commander, Caribbean Area.
Air Force
  • Air Commodore Howard Ford, AFC.
  • Air Commodore David Neal Roberts, OBE AFC.
  • Air Commodore Campion Aubrey Rumball, OBE MRCS FRCP QHP.
  • Air Commodore John Noel Tracy Stephenson.
  • Group Captain William Flint Beckwith, OBE.
  • Group Captain Christopher Crowley, MB BCh.
  • Group Captain Kenneth Walter Godfrey Regiment.
  • Group Captain Ernest Charles Kidd, OBE AFC AFM.
  • Group Captain Lawrence Patrick Moore.
Civil Division
  • Charles Kingsley Adams, Director, Keeper and Secretary, National Portrait Gallery.
  • Douglas Alexander Allan, Director, Royal Scottish Museum.
  • Roy George Douglas Allen, OBE, Professor of Statistics, University of London.
  • William Allen, MBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Insurance, Northern Ireland.
  • Samuel Ranulph Allsopp, MBE DL, Chairman of the Hops Marketing Board.
  • Oliver Charles Barnett, OBE, Assistant Judge Advocate General.
  • Charles Edward Beevers, HM Inspector of Schools (Staff Inspector, Ministry of Education).
  • Charles Hubert Booth, Controller, South Western Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Daisy Caroline Bridges, RRC, Executive Secretary, International Council of Nurses.
  • John Thomas Asprey Brooks, Chief Quantity Surveyor, Ministry of Works.
  • Astrid Marie Stirling-Brown, BEM JP. For political and public services in Renfrewshire.
  • Charles Phipps Brutton, OBE, Clerk of the Peace for Dorsetshire, and Clerk of the County Council.
  • Stephen France Burman, MBE, lately Chairman, now Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors of the United Birmingham Hospitals.
  • James Anderson Burnett, Divisional Road Engineer, Scotland, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • George Thomas Bussey, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Ian MacGregor Campbell, JP. For political and public services in Caithness and Sutherland.
  • Norman Charles Chapling, Managing Director, Cable & Wireless, Ltd.
  • Lilian Edith Charlesworth, Headmistress, Sutton Girls' High School, Surrey.
  • William Stephen Chevalier, Clerk of the Metropolitan Water Board.
  • Victor Frederick Clarendon, Chairman, Linen Trade Advisory Committee, Northern Ireland.
  • William George Clark, MB FRCP(Ed), lately Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh.
  • Harold George Clarke, OBE, Chairman and Managing Director of the Courier Press.
  • Herbert Wallis Coales, OBE MC, Deputy Chief Engineer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Ernest Arthur Cole, OBE, Commander, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • George Trenchard Cox, Director, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
  • James Thomas Curran, MB ChB, Group Physician Superintendent, Lennox Castle and Associated Institutions, Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire.
  • Arthur James Francis Danielli, OBE MC, Deputy Accountant General, Ministry of Health.
  • Frank Ongley Darvall, Director General, English-Speaking Union of the British Commonwealth.
  • Robert Vere Darwin, Principal, Royal College of Art.
  • William Kendall Davey, Chairman, London Metal Exchange.
  • Alderman Frederick William Dean, JP DL. For political and public services in St. Marylebone.
  • Alderman Herbert John Salisbury Dewes, JP. For political and public services in Cheshire.
  • Philip Burrington Dingle, Town Clerk of Manchester.
  • Carl Frederick Dolmetsch. For services to music.
  • Thomas Hall James Douglas, FRFPS FDS RCS, Chief Dental Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • James Patterson Duff, Chairman, Northern Ireland General Health Services Board.
  • St. John de Holt Elstub, Director of Metal Division, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.
  • Edgar Evans, Controller, Wales, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Walter Scott-Evans, OBE DL, Chairman, Buckinghamshire War Pensions Committee.
  • Harry Eyles, OBE lately Secretary, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
  • Thomas Ferguson, MD, Professor of Public Health, University of Glasgow.
  • William Gillies Fergusson, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Materials.
  • James Brierley Firth, Director, North Western Forensic Science Laboratory, Home Office.
  • Charles Montague Fletcher, MD FRCP, Physician and Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Medical School of London.
  • Peter Castle Floud, Keeper, Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • John Hampden Fordham, Chief Officer, Kent Fire Brigade.
  • William Lovat Fraser, JP, Chairman of Directors, Macdonald, Fraser & Company, Ltd., Perth.
  • Frederick Gibberd, Architect and Town Planning Consultant.
  • Paul Goldberg, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Geoffrey Ernest Adair Grey, MC, Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • Reginald Duncan Gwyther, MC, Senior Partner, Coode & Partners, Consulting Civil Engineers, London.
  • Charles Stuart Hallinan. For political and public services in Wales and Monmouthshire.
  • Eric Ronald Hamilton, Principal, Borough Road Training College.
  • John Cole-Hamilton, DL. For political and public services in Ayrshire and Bute.
  • Ernest William Handley, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
  • Brigadier Kenneth Soar Holmes, Director of Army Postal Services, War Office.
  • William Charles How, MM, Deputy Chairman, New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., Chairman, Merchant Navy Welfare Board.
  • Frank Stewart Howes, Music Critic, Lecturer, Royal College of Music.
  • Major Joseph Henry Hudson, MC JP. For public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Herbert Wilson Hughes, JP, Chairman of the Warwickshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • William Kenneth Hutchison, Chairman, South Eastern Gas Board.
  • Douglas Percy Iggulden, DSO TD, Deputy Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Bernard Philip Ingamells, Director of Merchant Shipbuilding & Repairs, Admiralty.
  • Herbert Edgar James, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Stephen Guy Burnet James, OBE, Director, National Service Hostels Corporation.
  • Major Maurice Frederick Stewart Jewell, JP DL. For public services in Worcestershire.
  • Robert William Fairfield Johnston, MC TD, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
  • Edgar Mayne Keatinge, Member of Parliament for Bury St. Edmunds, 1943–45. For political and public services in Suffolk and Wessex.
  • Kathleen Mary Kenyon, Lecturer in Palestinian Archaeology, University of London Institute of Archaeology.
  • Clifford Robertson King, Chairman, East Midlands Electricity Board.
  • Michael Arthur Lewis, Professor of History and English, Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
  • Gilbert Joseph Stephen Little, GM, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office.
  • James McConnach, Chief Constable, City Police, Aberdeen.
  • Colonel Sir Basil Alexander Talbot McFarland, Bt., Chairman, County of Londonderry Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • Cecil McGivern, Controller, Television Programmes, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Alexander William McKenzie, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • James Maxwell, General Manager, Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd.
  • Alfred Henry May, OBE, Assistant Paymaster General.
  • William Millward, Foreign Office.
  • John Henry Nicholson, MM, Principal, University College, Hull.
  • Bertie Clifford Oades, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Ernest Thomas Osborne, OBE, Director of Chemical Inspection, Ministry of Supply.
  • Alfred George Beech Owen, OBE, Chairman and President, Darlaston Savings Committee, South Staffordshire.
  • Ernest Partridge, MP, Member of Parliament for Battersea South since 1951. For political and public services in South London.
  • Clement Frederick Penruddock, Secretary to the Chequers Trust.
  • Joseph Hurrell Pillman, Deputy Director of Imported Cereals, Ministry of Food.
  • Sydney Harvey Plumbly, Divisional Inspector, Ministry of Education.
  • William Harvey Tuthill Porter, Deputy Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office.
  • Alan Pitt Robbins, lately News Editor of The Times .
  • Alderman Kathleen Ryder Runton, OBE JP. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Giles Edward Sebright, Bt. For political and public services in Devonshire and Hertfordshire.
  • Anne Gillespie Shaw (Mrs Pirie), For services in the field of Personnel Management.
  • Glencairn Alexander Byam Shaw, Director, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon.
  • Gilbert Darnley Smith, lately Chairman, Radio Industry Council. Managing Director, Bush Radio, Ltd.
  • Bernard Alfred Southgate, Director, Water Pollution Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Albert William Stone, MVO MSM, RN (Retired), Chief Accountant, Privy Purse Office.
  • Ernest Jack Holford-Strevens, Joint Controller for the Board of Trade and the Ministry of Supply in the North Western Region.
  • Herbert Edward Thatcher, lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
  • Gilbert Learmonth Turnbull, Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Captain George Villar, RN (Retired), General Manager, Southampton, and Director, John I. Thornycroft & Company, Ltd.
  • William Wallace, Chairman, Rowntree & Company Ltd., York.
  • Aubrey John Cuming Walters, Director and Secretary, British Rayon and Synthetic Fibres Federation.
  • Peter Oswald Williams, Member, Development Areas Advisory Committee.
  • Eric Charles Underwood Wilson, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food.
  • Sidney William Wooldridge, Professor of Geography, University of London. For services to the Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Myles Dermot Norris Wyatt, Chairman, Airwork, Ltd.


  • Arthur William Beamand, Representative in New York of the Westminster Bank Limited.
  • William Harris-Burland, OBE TD, lately British Chairman, Combined Steel Group, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Rees John Fowler, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Genoa.
  • Denys Heseltine Hibbert, Director of Education, Sudan Government.
  • Ronald Charles Larkins, Sub-Governor of the National Bank of Egypt.
  • William Jackson Perkins, OBE MC, British subject resident in Turkey.
  • Eric Guard Price, Managing Director of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire (Japan) Limited.
  • John Francis Toye, Director of the British Institute in Florence.
  • Brigadier James Appleby, Commissioner of the British South Africa Police, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Lionel George Archer Cust, OBE, Secretary-General, The Royal Empire Society.
  • Lionel Powys-Jones, Secretary for Native Affairs and Chief Native Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Colonel Cyril Mainwaring Newman, OBE MC VD, Mayor of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. For public services, particularly during the Queen Mother's visit and the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition.
  • Arthur Willoughby Walters, OBE, Assistant Chief Secretary, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.
  • Alexandra Mary Freesia, Lady Worsley, OBE. For services rendered under the auspices of the Victoria League in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseas.
  • William Allan, OBE, Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Mauritius.
  • Cyril John Austin, OBE MB ChB, lately Medical Superintendent, Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, Fiji.
  • John Logan Brown, Director of Public Works, Cyprus.
  • Henry Cronly, Colonial Veterinary Service, Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry, Uganda.
  • Anthony Montanaro Gauci, Senior Judge, Malta.
  • Geoffrey Campbell Gunter, OBE. For public services in Jamaica.
  • Major Albert George Keyser, DSO. For public services in Kenya.
  • Kenneth Mellanby, OBE, lately Principal, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria.
  • Mustapha bin Osman, MD, State Medical and Health Officer, Kedah, Federation of Malaya.
  • Hugh Hargreaves Robinson. For public services in Kenya.
  • John Ernest Peniston Vesey. For public services in Bermuda.
  • The Right Reverend George Weld, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of British Guiana and Barbados and Titular Bishop of Mallo.
Honorary
  • Tengku Muhammad ibn Al-marhum Sultan Ahmad, MBE, Menteri Besar of Pahang, Federation of Malaya.
  • Serwano Wofunira Kulubya, MBE, Member of Executive and Legislative Councils, Uganda.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Navy
  • Commander (E) Hew Gerald Robert Binning, RN (Retired).
  • Commander Malcolm Hilary Brown, DSC, RN.
  • Chief Officer Eileen Myrtle Hampson, WRNS.
  • Surgeon Commander John Morley Holford, MB ChB, RN.
  • Commander (S) Horace Collier Lyddon, RN.
  • Commander James Whaley McClelland, DSO, RN.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lawrence Norcock, Royal Marines.
  • The Reverend Charles Paton, Chaplain, RN.
  • Commander Aylmer Maurice Rundle, DSC, RN (Retired).
  • Commander Thomas Charles Russell, RN.
  • Commander (E) Douglas Percival Sparham, RN.
  • Commander Allistair Tennant Wilson, VRD, RNVR.
Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Bernard Barrass, TD (53882), The West Yorkshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lawrence Birkin, TD (45446), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now TARO).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Staff Quartermaster) Gilbert John Boustead, MBE (86766), Employed List.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting) Samuel Eyre Bower (332245), Army Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred John Burgess, TD (92730), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Peirce Butler, DSO (53159), Grenadier Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Cameron, TD (45192), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now TARO).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Archibald Campbell, TD (87635), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Keily Cantopher, GM TD (73931), The Royal Ulster Rifles, Territorial Army.
  • Brevet Colonel Alfred John Chaston, MC TD (71593), The Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial Army (now TARO).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Nelson Clowes, DSO (52593), Scots Guards.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Stanislaus Gerrard Doyle (114135), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Lawrence Elkington, MC TD (164322), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) James Douglas Frail, MBE TD (86423), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now TARO).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting) Harold Maldwyn Gray, TD (19671), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting) Geoffrey Gilbert Green (39221), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Peter Rupert Hemans (52636), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Howard Hooper, TD (75680), Corps of Royal Engineers, Army Emergency Reserve.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Henry Lewis, MBE TD (66637), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Clement Liesching (44134), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Edward Edmund George Lucas (105723), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Mildred Sydney Frances Millington, TD (192813), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) John Stevenson Mitchell (86505), Royal Corps of Signals (now Retired).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Alec Arthur Pettifor (249986), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (OEO) George Cecil Richardson, MBE (79083), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Alastair Gordon Rumbold, MC (63630), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Augustine Sammut (37984), Royal Malta Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frank William Simpson, DSO (44185), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Edward Osborne Smith, DSO (41242), The Northamptonshire Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Donald St. Clair Thom (36891), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Bertram Verdin, OTD (49741), The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William May Wetherell (30960), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Henry George Wicks (217111), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Vivian Henry Witpen, MBE (142146), Army Catering Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Henry Wynn (168634), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
Air Force
  • Acting Group Captain Herbert Hadfield Farthing, RAF Regiment.
  • Acting Group Captain Peter Geoffrey St. George O'Brian, DFC.
  • Wing Commander Graham Baptie Blacklock, DFC DFM (44874).
  • Wing Commander James Henry George Donald Bugden (21255).
  • Wing Commander Richard Basil Councell (26049).
  • Wing Commander Geoffrey Phillip Harger, DFC (36089).
  • Wing Commander Harry Joseph Hickey (44632).
  • Wing Officer Felicity Barbara Hill (1461), WRAF.
  • Wing Commander Lewis MacDonald Hodges, DSO DFC (33408).
  • Wing Commander Wilfred Macey (31019).
  • Wing Commander Henry Daniel Newman (37584).
  • Wing Commander Russell John Oxley, DSO DFC (37544).
  • Wing Commander Paul Peters, DFC (40641).
  • Wing Commander William Watson Todd Ritchie, AFC (41068).
  • Wing Commander John Samuel Rowlands, GC MBE (73378).
  • Wing Commander Kenneth Gordon Sharvill (82937).
  • Acting Wing Commander Thomas Lightbody (105081), RAF Volunteer Reserve.
  • Squadron Leader Anthony Babington Dunford, DFC (91254), RAuxAF Reserve of Officers.
  • Acting Squadron Leader David Dattner, AFC (182273).
Civil Division
  • Benjamin Elisha Ainley, Chairman, Middlesbrough Executive Council, National Health Service.
  • Captain William Baillie, Chief Flight Captain, British European Airways.
  • Thomas Humphreys Baines, Deputy Director of Radio Equipment (Production), Admiralty.
  • Geoffrey Osborn Barber, MB BCh, Vice-Chairman of Committee on General Practice.
  • Robert Barlow, MBE, lately General Manager, Northern Western Industrial Estates, Ltd.
  • Captain John Alfred Derby Cochrane-Barnett, Alderman, West Sussex County Council, Chairman, Southern Regional Association for the Blind.
  • Captain Samuel Parker Beggs, MC, Principal Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland.
  • John Durant Kennedy Beighton, Principal, HM Treasury.
  • Thomas Bell, JP. For political and public services in Dumfries.
  • Henry Norman Binns, General Manager, Great Grimsby Coal, Salt & Tanning Company, Ltd.
  • Horace George Black, JP. For services as Chairman, Ellesmere Port Urban District Council, Cheshire.
  • Cuthbert Geoffrey Blackford, Principal Executive Officer, Railway Liaison Staff, British Army of the Rhine, War Office.
  • Clara Brakell, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • John Gourlay Bridges, MBE, Director General, British Travel & Holidays Association.
  • Arthur John Bridgwater, District Auditor, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Thomas Padgham Brindley, JP. For public services in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Hugh Brown, Superintending Mechanical & Electrical Engineer, Grade II, Air Ministry.
  • David Douglas Burns, Deputy Chairman, Scottish Gas Board.
  • Charles Ernest Butler, Chief Constable, Grimsby Borough Police Force, Lincolnshire.
  • Thomas Cyril Gwyer Butler. For political and public services in Bristol.
  • Christine Eugenie Fredericka Callingham. For political and public services in Wandsworth.
  • Florence Hilda Cantwell, JP. Chairman, Domestic Coal Consumers' Council.
  • David Carson, Principal, Air Ministry.
  • Joseph Chamberlain, Chief Engineer, Aiton & Company Ltd., Derby.
  • Lyon Clark, Chairman, West Bromwich Local Employment Committee.
  • Samuel Clarke, MBE, Secretary Manager, Royal Ulster Agricultural Society.
  • Major William Northcoates, MC DL, Director of the Lindsey and Holland Rural Community Council, Lincolnshire.
  • William Ernest Coggins, Principal, Forestry Commission.
  • Captain James Cook, Master, SS Captain Cook, Donaldson Line, Ltd.
  • Cyril John Shapleigh Cooke, Chief Administrative Officer, Public Trustee Office.
  • William Alan Coote, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • Alderman William Frederick Cottrell, Chairman, Bristol Food Control Committee.
  • Edward Gordon Couzens, Director, Bexford, Ltd.
  • Ernest John Cowles, Principal, Ministry of Materials.
  • John Frissell Crellin, MC, Member of the Legislative Council, Isle of Man.
  • Major Charles John Crocker, Foreign Office.
  • Roger Kendal Gushing, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Alfred Victor Dalzell, Secretary Director, Federated Quarry Owners of Great Britain.
  • Dorothy Elizabeth, Lady Davies. For political and public services in Leeds.
  • William Evan Davies, MBE, Chairman, Llanelly Savings Committee.
  • Kenneth Sutton Dodd, MC, Deputy Chief Housing and Planning Inspector, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Edgar Thomas Drake, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Tom Eccles, Vice-Chairman, North Western Regional Board for Industry.
  • Joseph Edwards, Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland.
  • Ralph Crombie Erskine, Deputy Director of Sugar Division, Ministry of Food.
  • Eric Christopher Carlyon Evans, MBE, Actuary, Manchester & Salford Trustee Savings Bank.
  • Thomas John Evans, lately Chief Inspector, Glamorgan Local Education Authority.
  • Richard Bertie Fishenden, Editor, Penrose Annual. For services to printing.
  • Alderman William Brown Fitt. For political and public services in Walthamstow.
  • Clarence Charles Fleetwood, Deputy Regional Controller, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Claude Alexander Cumming Forsyth, General Secretary, Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
  • John Holden Fraser, Chief Officer (Signal & Telecommunications), British Transport Commission.
  • John Norman Furnell, Secretary to the Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth.
  • Arthur Garrow, Deputy Secretary, Scottish Savings Committee.
  • John Gavin, Chairman, Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edinburgh.
  • Dennis Herbert Geffen, MD, Medical Officer of Health, St. Pancras and Hampstead.
  • Mary Dorothy George. For services to the Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum.
  • Arnold William Gibson, JP, Principal, Dudley and Staffordshire Technical College.
  • Peter Gilchrist, JP, Principal, Bangor Technical School, County Down.
  • Alexander William Graham, Senior Architect and Surveyor, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Major Benjamin Dixon Grew, Governor, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.
  • Freda Howitt Gwilliam, Assistant Educational Adviser, Colonial Office.
  • Clifford Victor Hall, Chief Officer, Durham County Fire Brigade.
  • Herbert Sidney Harding, Principal Information Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Herbert Victor Heckford, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Robert James Hendry, Chief Engineer, SS Malakand, Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank, Ltd.
  • William Alexander Hendry, Accountant, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.
  • John Hieatt, Chairman, Gloucester Local Employment Committee.
  • Colin Belton Hollingsworth, MBE, Head of Records Branch, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Richard Holt, MM, Assistant Regional Director, Ministry of Works.
  • Leonard Charles Hook, Chief Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Robert Baldwin Hovey, MC, Chairman, Zan, Ltd., Sandbach, Cheshire.
  • Charles Samuel Hubbard, General Manager, Usutu Forests.
  • William Edward Hutchins, JP. For political and public services in Leicester.
  • Stanley Ineson, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Morley Savings Committee, Yorkshire.
  • Andrew Inglis, lately Headmaster Knowetop Primary School, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
  • Martin Johnston, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Ethel Lizzie Victoria Miriam Johnstone. For political and public services in Hertfordshire.
  • William Johnstone, Principal, London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts.
  • Benjamin George Jones, Director and General Manager, William Lewis (Printers) Ltd., Cardiff. For services to printing in Wales.
  • Evan Jones, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Isabel Hetherington Kay, JP. For services as Chief Commissioner for Wales, Girl Guides Association.
  • Howard George Henry Kearns, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Long Ashton Research Station, University of Bristol.
  • John William Kennedy, MBE. For public services in Belfast.
  • George Wellstead Killick, Director of Finance, Cotton Board.
  • Gwen Lally, Pageant Master and Play Producer.
  • William Arthur Langton, Assistant Accountant General, General Post Office.
  • Alderman Robert Colin Large, JP. For political and public services in Luton.
  • Andrew Ramsay Lawson, Area General Manager, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board.
  • Frederick John William Legg, Superintendent, Admiralty Storage Depot, Risley.
  • Cyril Watkin Leon, Deputy Chief Food Officer for Wales, Ministry of Food.
  • Ian Murray Leslie, JP, Editor of The Builder .
  • Abraham Lightman, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Alfred William Lockyer, Director, British Red Shield Services, Salvation Army.
  • Frederick James Lucas, Principal, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Richard Luck, lately Chairman, Darlington Education Committee, Durham.
  • John Wilson McCagie, LRCP, lately Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • James Henry McCuaig, JP, Shipyard Manager, Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast.
  • Thomas Warburton McCullough, lately Superintending Inspector of Factories in Scotland, now Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Donald John Macdonald, TD. For political and public services in the Western Isles.
  • Duncan Lewis Mackenzie Macfarlane, MBE, Director, Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company of Japan, Ltd.
  • John McVie, Keeper of the Registers of Scotland.
  • Arthur Charles Manuel, Assistant Chief Architect, Ministry of Works.
  • Arnold Marsh, Director, National Smoke Abatement Society.
  • Alfred William Marshall, Manager, Liverpool Port, National Dock Labour Board.
  • Gwendolen Alice Eilian Mason, Professor of the Harp, Royal Academy of Music.
  • Thomas Matheson, Convener of the Pensions Committee of the British Legion (Scotland).
  • Thomas Brisbane Meikle, Scottish Regional Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union.
  • Frank Victor Mills, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Arthur Stephen Mitson, Assistant Director, Electronics Production, Ministry of Supply.
  • Roy Adamson Moir, MC, Chief Telephone Engineer, Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.
  • Philip Edward Montagnon, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore, Chairman of Managers, Finnart House Approved School, Weybridge, Surrey.
  • Edward Moore. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Alderman Miss Amy Hargraves Moreton. For political and public services in Warwickshire.
  • William Morton, Staff Controller, Headquarters, North Eastern Region, General Post Office.
  • John Mould, Deputy Chairman, East Midlands Electricity Board.
  • William Calliope Muerhead, Special Director, English Steel Corporation, Ltd., Sheffield.
  • Charles Frederick Grenfell Max-Muller, Head of Outside Broadcasts (Sound), British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • William David Munro, Chairman, North of Scotland Milk Marketing Board.
  • Edward Philmonda Murphy, Deputy Regional Controller, North Western Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Freeman Newton, Chief Constable, Herefordshire Constabulary.
  • Alfred James Nicholas, Director and General Manager, South Wales Switchgear, Ltd., Monmouthshire.
  • George Alfred Ogle, Regional Manager, Southern Region, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
  • Robert Owen. For services to the study of Welsh History.
  • William Joseph Pannett, Higher Collector, London Central Area, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Harold Alfred Parfitt, Deputy Director, Accountants Division, Board of Trade.
  • Charles William Parker, JP, Vice-Chairman, Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Mona Nevill Parker, MBE, Organising Secretary of the Not Forgotten Association.
  • Alderman Henry Patten, JP. For public services in Stockport, Cheshire.
  • Alderman Sam Peel, JP. For public services in Norfolk.
  • Arthur John Perkins, Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factory, Cardiff.
  • Thomas George Poppy, Controller, Standards Department, Board of Trade.
  • Frederick William Preston, MBE, lately Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Alfred Charles Pritchard, Controller, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Far East.
  • Percy Robert Privett. For services to the Sea Cadet Corps.
  • Martin John Langley Pulling, Senior Superintendent Engineer, Television, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • William Hamilton Purdie, Engineering Director, William Doxford & Sons, Ltd., Sunderland.
  • Ernest Arthur Puttick, lately Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Samuel Edwin Ratcliffe, Head Postmaster, Crewe, Cheshire.
  • Vera Frances Ethel Raymond, Vice Chairman, St. John and Red Cross Hospital Library Department.
  • Buller Alfred Renton, Principal, Ministry of Materials.
  • Roland Henry Rhodes, Regional Controller, National Assistance Board.
  • Bertha Anne, Lady Richardson. For political and public services in Surrey.
  • Frederick Richardson, Assistant Chief Constable, Birmingham City Police Force.
  • Brigadier-General Robert Lumsden Ricketts. For political and public services in Hampshire.
  • Alexander Creffield Riddelsdell, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Thomas Maurice Ridley, Chief Executive Officer, Cabinet Office.
  • Albert Eric Vere Robbins, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Herbert Robinson, JP, Chairman, Belfast Rural District Council.
  • Alderman Percy Round, JP, Chairman, Blackpool, Fylde & District War Pensions Committee, Lancashire.
  • William Wilkinson Sapcote, Managing Director, William Sapcote & Sons, Ltd., Regional Leader, Works and Buildings Emergency Organisation, Birmingham.
  • Dorothy Sarjeant, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • Robert Edward Savage, lately Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Captain Eldon Bruce Serjeant, Master, RMS Duke of Lancaster, British Transport Commission.
  • Rowley George Shepherd, Principal Officer, East of England Marine Survey District, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Herbert Frederick Henry Shields, Managing and Technical Director, British Ropeway Engineering Company, Ltd.
  • George Claude Havelock Siggins, General Secretary, Ulster Savings Committee.
  • Sir Basil Robert James Simpson, Bt., JP. For political and public services in County Durham.
  • Bertie Soutar Simpson, MB FRCSEd JP, Consultant Surgeon for the County of Sutherland.
  • John Graham Simpson, Principal, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • William Douglas Simpson, Chairman, Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland.
  • Frederick George Skinner, Deputy Keeper, Science Museum.
  • James Anderson Smiley, MD, Factory Doctor for East Belfast.
  • Alexander Mathieson Smith, Foreign Office.
  • Harry George Smith, Director of Establishment and Organisation Division, HM Stationery Office.
  • Margaret Stafford Smith, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Bromley Savings Committee.
  • Sydney Rawlings Smith, Principal, Pilotage Department, Trinity House.
  • Ernest Robert Spragg, Member, Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles, Eastern Traffic Area.
  • George Aubrey Stapleton, JP. For political and public services in Lambeth.
  • John Marsh Stewart, Technical Manager, Ulster Steamship Company, Ltd., Belfast.
  • George Robert Stratton, Violinist and Associate Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
  • Arthur George Tarrant, Senior Principal Officer, Road Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
  • William George Thomson, Waterguard Superintendent, Dover, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Joseph Tinker, Chairman, North Eastern Wholesale Meat Supply Association, Ltd.
  • William Samuel Toms, JP, Chairman, High Wycombe Local Employment Committee, Buckinghamshire.
  • John Henry Trower, MBE, Chairman, Local Savings Committee, Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Henry Bernard Turle, Member, National Savings Committee.
  • Henry Charles Vogt, Assistant Director of Contracts, Air Ministry.
  • Glyn Lewis Wales, JP, Member, Rhondda Urban District Council and Glamorgan County Council.
  • Sydney Herbert Wallis, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • John Herbert Warren, General Secretary, National and Local Government Officers Association.
  • Vernon Whitaker, County Ambulance Officer, West Riding County Council.
  • Ronald Williams, Chief Sanitary Inspector of Coventry.
  • John Foster Wilson, Director and Secretary, British Empire Society for the Blind.
  • Fred Worthington, JP DL, Chairman, Denton Local Employment Committee, Lancashire.
  • Bernard Harold Lean Wright, Principal, British Army of the Rhine, War Office.
  • Stafford Edward Douglas Barff, Director of British Information Services, Chicago.
  • Thomas Brimelow, First Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Moscow.
  • Archibald Davidson Mason Brown, Chief Engineer, Iraq State Railways.
  • Lewis William Brown, Headmaster of Hantoub Secondary School, Sudan.
  • Frederick Charles Church, British subject resident in Brazil.
  • Thomas Millar Cowan, First Secretary (Labour), Office of the Commissioner General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
  • Raymond Cosins Elliott, Representative in Sweden of Unilever Limited.
  • Alexander Gerard Lee Goschen, Civil Liaison Officer, Carinthia, Austria.
  • Margery Hill, MBE, lately Matron of the British-American Hospital, Madrid.
  • Peter Warren Johnson, DSO DFC AFC, Director, Civil Aviation Branch, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • William Langford, Manager for France of the Associated British Machine Tool Makers Limited.
  • William Frederick Charles Mackie, British Vice-Consul at El Cardon.
  • Alfred Thomas Lancelot Reed, Temporary Chief Executive Officer, Economic Adviser's Office, Berlin, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Arthur Patrick Ruddy, General Manager of the High Speed Alloys Mining Company Limited, Burma.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Manning Stanton, MBE, Director, Stores and Ordnances Department, Sudan Government.
  • William Edred Sanger Tuker, British Vice-Consul at Tocopilla.
  • William Gerald Woodhead, General Manager of the English Coaling Company, Port Said.
  • James Henry Butcher, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, 1953, and Mayor of Bulawayo from 1949 to 1951.
  • Stanley Cooke, one of the founders of The United Central Africa Association. For public services in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Ian Gumming, President of the Madras Branch, Ex-Services Association, and, until recently, Chairman of the United Kingdom Citizens' Association in South India.
  • Percival Alfred Driscoll, ISO, lately Secretary, Public Health Department, State of Tasmania.
  • John Westridge Montague Fitt, JP, Civil Commissioner, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, and a Member of the Board of the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Granger Fleming, JP, Officer Commanding, British South Africa Police Reserve, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Herbert Mathew Hale, Director of the South Australian Museum, State of South Australia.
  • The Reverend Andries Adriaan Louw (Senior). For social welfare services rendered under the auspices of the Morgenster Mission in Southern Rhodesia.
  • James Stewart McEwin, JP, Chairman, District Council of Blyth, State of South Australia.
  • David Charles Bethune Pilkington, Chairman of the Calcutta Branch of the United Kingdom Citizens' Association in India.
  • Ernest Sorell. For services to sporting and philanthropic organisations in the State of Tasmania.
  • Stuart Henry Stevenson, lately Architect-in-Chief, State of South Australia.
  • Ronald Stean Tyson, General Manager, Launceston Bank for Savings, State of Tasmania.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Vincent Abela, MBE, Civil Defence Commissioner and Commandant of the Civil Defence School, Malta.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Robert Goodwill Alston, MC ED. For public services in Trinidad.
  • John Harold Baldwin, Chief Accountant, East African Railways and Harbours Corporation.
  • James Begbie, Superintendent Engineer, Marine Department, Nigeria.
  • Awang Besar bin Ong Kiat, MBE. For public services in North Borneo.
  • Alan Edmund Grove Blades, Colonial Police Service, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Singapore.
  • Claude Bramall Burgess, Colonial Administrative Service, Defence Secretary, Hong Kong.
  • The Reverend Robert George Matheson Calderwood, MC, Missionary of the Church of Scotland Mission and Secretary of the Mission Council, Kenya.
  • Philip Carrel, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Somaliland.
  • Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon, MD, Senior Medical Officer, Sierra Leone.
  • Major Lewis Fenech, Manager, Milk Marketing Undertaking, Malta.
  • Neil George Ferguson, Colonial Engineering Service, State Engineer, Kelantan, Federation of Malaya.
  • Reginald Honon Fletcher, ISO. For public services in Jamaica.
  • Max Frederick Garling, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Federation of Malaya.
  • Edith Francis Goring, Colonial Education Service, Principal, European Education Department, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Ernest Hira Greet, Senior Engineer, Civil Engineering Department, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Gopal Haridas, MD. For services to the St. John Ambulance Brigade and movement in Singapore.
  • Abdul Jawad Hassanali. For public services in Aden.
  • Charles John Watney Hodgson. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • John William Jehu lately Deputy Director and Engineer-in-Chief, Posts & Telegraphs Department, Nigeria.
  • Samuel Horton Oluwole Jones, MB ChB, Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Gambia.
  • Ronald Earle Kelsick, Agricultural Superintendent, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Leeward Islands.
  • The Reverend Canon Robert Julian Laurie, Rector-in-Charge, Holy Trinity Church, Castries, and Anglican Church, Dennery, Windward Islands.
  • Douglas Gray Bazett Leakey, Colonial Forest Service, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Kenya.
  • Caspar Eric Leembruggen, Colonial Customs Service, Deputy Comptroller Customs & Excise, Nigeria.
  • Francis Alfred Loyd, MBE, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Fort Hall, Kenya.
  • Vatapakat Ramanmenon Narayana Menon, MB, Medical Officer, Dindings, Federation of Malaya.
  • The Reverend Sister Margaret Mary Nolan, MB MCh. For medical and missionary work in Nigeria.
  • Ong Hap Leong. For public services in Sarawak.
  • George Kingsley Roth, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Fiji.
  • Robert Thomas Stevens, MBE, Director, Electricity & Telephones, Mauritius.
  • Duncan Stevenson, Colonial Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Gold Coast.
  • Teoh Thye Moh, Editor Straits Echo & Times of Malaya, Federation of Malaya.
  • Henry George Triay, MD ChB. For medical services in Gibraltar.
  • Hubert Carey Trowell, MD FRCP, Colonial Medical Service, Specialist (Physician), Uganda.
  • William Henderson Watson, MD, Medical Officer-in-Charge, Mental Hospital, Nyasaland.
  • William Nelson Watson, MBE. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Eric Vaughan Williams, Director of Public Works, British Honduras.
Honorary
  • Tuan Haji Mohamed Razalli bin Haji Mohamed Isa, JP, Orang Kaya Mentri Paduka Tuan, Perak, Orang Besar Jajahan, Larut and Matang, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ja'afar bin Mampak, Assistant Agricultural Officer-in-Charge, Trengganu, Federation of Malaya.
  • The Right Reverend Bishop Alphonso Chukwuma Onyeabo, lately Assistant Bishop to the Bishop on the Niger, Nigeria.
  • Abdullahi, MBE, Emir of Yauri, Nigeria.
  • Atoshi Agbumanu IV, Chief of Wukari and Minister without Portfolio in the Northern Region Executive Council, Nigeria.
  • Mallam-Bello Kano, District Head Dawaki ta Tofa, Kano Emirate, and Northern Regional Minister of Works, Nigeria.
  • Nasoro Saidi Fundikira, Chief of Unyanyembe, Tabora District, Tanganyika.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Navy
  • Temporary Senior Commissioned Air Control Officer George Arthur Biles Barrett, RN (Retired).
  • Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Sydney Boyd, BEM, Royal Marines.
  • Senior Commissioned Gunner Thomas Bonnar Brownlee, RN.
  • Lieutenant-Commander George Henry Cunningham, RN.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Harold Cecil Freeman, RNVR.
  • Senior Commissioned Gunner Donald Groves, RN (serving with the Indian Navy).
  • Acting Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Sydney John Hill, RN.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (L) William Arthur King, RN.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Victor Wallace Poore, RN (Retired).
  • Second Officer Leta Mary Ridley, WRNS.
  • Lieutenant (S) Frederick John Thacker, RN.
  • Lieutenant (E) Ernest Charles Webb, RN (Retired).
  • Lieutenant (E) Douglas Frank Westbrook, RN (Retired).
  • Lieutenant Peter Wilson, RN (serving with the Royal Malayan Navy).
Army
  • Captain Edward Robert Jones Barlow (324612), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major John Edward Beazley, TD (155604), The Essex Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Major John Stanley William Bennett, TD (79366), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Sidney George Beverley (113803), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Giovanni Bonello (107527), Royal Malta Artillery.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Edward George Broomfield (165458), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Stewart Arthur Wilson-Brown, MC (36003), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major William St. George Conway Hawkshaw-Burn (197164), The South Wales Borderers.
  • Captain James David Cameron (359096), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Major John Edward Lovelace Carter, MC (67055), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major James Charles Morton Morton-Clarke (64617), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
  • Major (Paymaster) Henry Cooper (159798), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Major (Temporary) Leslie Harold Corke (222613), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major William Walter Creevy (151437), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
  • Major Ord Adams Cunningham, TD (2338), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • No.726655 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Edwin Davies, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major (Temporary) Daniel Davies, MC (244334), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Louis Charles Marcel Dutot (131476), The Dorset Regiment.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Walter Edwards (254584), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • No.6908943 Warrant Officer Class I Walter Hall Edwards, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), Territorial Army.
  • No.838073 Warrant Officer Class I Vincent Henry Lewis Estop, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major John Montagu Flint (71055), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • No.797518 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Gibson Gowan, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major John Nicholas Revans Hallett (71103), The Royal Norfolk Regiment.
  • Major Eveline May Harroway (239588), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army.
  • No.2318690 Warrant Officer Class I Sidney Frank Hart, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major John Andrew Hawkins (131068), Army Catering Corps (now RARO).
  • Major (Acting) Albert Hill (351810), Army Cadet Force.
  • Major (Temporary) The Honourable Henry Montagu Douglas-Home (150474), General List.
  • Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Harold William Humphries (420427), Welsh Guards.
  • Major (Quartermaster) John Jenkins (221771), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
  • Major Owen Rees Jenkins (53881), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No.787430 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur George Jolley, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • The Reverend Daniel Kelleher, MC, Chaplain to the Forces, Fourth Class (178160 X), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
  • No.3651274 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Kelly, DCM, The Royal Irish Fusiliers.
  • Honorary Captain (GCO) Kharaksing Gurung (IO1361), The Brigade of Gurkhas.
  • No.4534783 Warrant Officer Class II Stanley Kiddy, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), Territorial Army.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Adam Kilburn (135347), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) William Charles Lacey (358464), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No.816426 Warrant Officer Class I James Leslie, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Donald Ross Martin, TD (79417), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Captain Anthony Reginald Matthews (304203), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Ronald Augustine Nightingale (232773), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) William James Oxenham (131063), The Gloucestershire Regiment (now retired).
  • No.S/54471 Warrant Officer Class I Wilfred Pritchard, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No.6081648 Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Harold Pullan, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Territorial Army.
  • Major (Quartermaster) William Frederick Charles Rawlinson (211689), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) George Ridge (356252), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major William John Ross (112956), The Essex Regiment.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Ernest Victor Skinner (355655), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No.2874491 Warrant Officer Class I (Acting) James Smith, Corps of Royal Military Police.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Harvey Hutton Snaith, TD (88401), The East Lancashire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Major (AIOO) Joseph Acland Swinburne Stephenson (231939), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major Cyril Philip Tamlyn (68248), Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • Major Ronald Hugo Tierney (64514), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • No.812132 Warrant Officer Class I (Acting) Arthur James Velvick, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (Acting) Donald Watterson (264409), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Leonard James Webley (254005), 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Alfred Stanley Cecil Westlake (191686), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (AIA) Thomas Wheelright (93291), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • No.W/5840 Warrant Officer Class II Annie Whittaker, Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Captain (Temporary) Fredrick Leslie Whittle (427715), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (Temporary) George Walter Bentley Wise (335007), Royal Pioneer Corps.
  • Major (Acting) The Reverend Philip Arthur Wright (305653), Army Cadet Force.
  • Major George Henry Calvert, ED, Royal Hong Kong Defence Force.
  • Lieutenant Edward Charles Fincher, Royal Hong Kong Defence Force.
  • Major Philip William Holt, ED, Singapore Volunteer Corps.
Air Force
  • Squadron Leader Stewart Findlay (44478).
  • Squadron Leader John Herbert Spencer (46237).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Wilfred Goodier Hughes (43512).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Reginald George Little (50742).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Frank Roland Mangham (66863), RAFVR.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Christopher Berkeley Wynn-Parry, BM BCh (500295).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Gerard Francis Turnbull, AFC (195913).
  • Flight Lieutenant Frederick Ernest Ashford (51946).
  • Flight Lieutenant Edward Charles Bartlett (44385).
  • Flight Lieutenant Murray Barton (57695).
  • Flight Lieutenant William Maxwell Bush Farrow (47373).
  • Flight Lieutenant Gordon Edward Peer Foot (188394).
  • Flight Lieutenant Leonard George Hopkinson (49141).
  • Flight Lieutenant Alexander Geoffrey Kenyon (117309).
  • Flight Lieutenant Ernest Frederick George Launder (51935) (Retired).
  • Flight Lieutenant John Ninian, DFC (53478).
  • Flight Officer Winifred Joan Potts (1905), WRAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant Ernest Scott (55945).
  • Flight Lieutenant Robert Guy Shillingford (204331), RAuxAF.
  • Flight Lieutenant Jack Leslie Wallace (57450).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Joseph Abner Lee (136229), Reserve of Officers.
  • Warrant Officer Alexander Findlay (510744).
  • Warrant Officer William Alexander Fraser (550908).
  • Warrant Officer William Gommo (358562).
  • Warrant Officer John Samuel Allan Madeley (565333).
  • Warrant Officer William Rendall Moodie (520261).
  • Warrant Officer Albert Emsley Parker (560371).
  • Warrant Officer William George Sleep (590371).
  • Warrant Officer William Thompson (590241).
  • Acting Warrant Officer John Francis George Hunter (565165).
  • Rab Tremma Yacube Khoshaba (X.13), Royal Air Force Levies, Iraq.
Civil Division
  • Abdullah bin Abdul Ghani, Clerk, Special Grade Maintenance Base, Seletar, Singapore.
  • Frederick George Ackerman, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • William Henry Adcock. For political and public services in Bury.
  • William Richard Anstie, Depot Superintendent, Bridgend, Glamorganshire, British Road Services.
  • William John Archard, JP. For political and public services in Glamorgan.
  • Joseph Edward Arthur, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Edmund Aspinall, Manager, Cotton Yarn Doubling Mill, Halliwell, Bolton, Lancashire.
  • Mary Austin. For public services in the City of Londonderry.
  • William Edmund Withers Bacon, Quantity Surveyor, War Office.
  • William James Baker, Divisional Manager, Northern Division, South Western Gas Board.
  • John Stephen Ball, Head of Design and Development Department, Henry Simon, Ltd., Stockport.
  • William Liddle Barker, Vice-Chairman, Wearside District Advisory Committee, Northern Regional Board for Industry.
  • William Davison Barnes. For political and public services in Edinburgh.
  • James Barr, Secretary, National Association of Scottish Woollen Manufacturers.
  • Oliver Harold Barron, Engineer, Planning and Installation Department, British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Olive May Barton, Clerical Officer, Board of Trade.
  • John Frederick Batstone, Higher Executive Officer, United Kingdom Treasury and Supply Delegation, Washington.
  • Richard Charles Baverstock, lately Assistant Secretary and Establishment Officer, Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
  • Observer-Lieutenant Leonard Stanley Beaufoy, lately Duty Controller, No. 1 Group, Maidstone, Royal Observer Corps.
  • Alderman Albert John Edgar Beck, JP, Chairman, Swindon, Chippenham and District War Pensions Committee, Wiltshire.
  • Bernard Stanley Billingham, Resident Engineer, Tunis, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Robert Cruickshank Birnie, Area Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Aberdeen.
  • Theodore William Blake, Welfare Officer, Westwood Works, Baker Perkins, Peterborough.
  • William George Blishen, Head of Branch, Tithe Redemption Commission.
  • Frank Boardman. For services as Engineer and Manager, Cardiff Undertaking, Wales Gas Board.
  • John Anthony Wyndham Bolt, Senior Assistant, Frank C. Strick & Company (Busra), Ltd.
  • Douglas Frederick Bowering, Senior Experimental Officer, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry.
  • William Henry Bowker, M. M., lately Inspector-in-Charge, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Ministry of Supply.
  • David Joachim Bowman, Section Leader, Special Listening Section, Monitoring Service, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Beatrice Scott Vawdrey Brander, JP. For political and public services in Glasgow.
  • John Stamper Briggs, Higher Executive Officer, Whitehaven District Office, Cumberland, Board of Trade.
  • Kelsall Broadley, Chairman, Combined Sowerby Bridge and Halifax District Committee, West Riding of Yorkshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • John Brocklebank, JP, Vice-Chairman, North Yorkshire Local Employment Committee.
  • Margaret Elizabeth Reeve Brooke, Member of the Council of Management, London Hostels Association, Ltd.
  • Charles William Brown, Local Fuel Overseer, Hoddesdon Urban District Council and other Urban and Rural Districts in Hertfordshire.
  • Mary Brown, lately Headmistress, Marsh Hill Open Air School, Birmingham.
  • John Laing Buchan, Director and Manager, Electrical Department, William Broady & Son, Ltd., Hull.
  • Albert Victor Buddin, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Alfred Joseph Bull, Traffic Superintendent, Continental Telephone Exchange, General Post Office.
  • Cyril Edward Aubrey Bull, JP, Headmaster, Conway Primary School, Plumstead.
  • Arthur James Burt, Higher Clerical Officer, Metropolitan Police Office.
  • Hedworth Burt, Probation Officer, Durham.
  • Ethel Mary Butcher, Controller of Typists, Outport Establishments, Admiralty.
  • Fred Calvert, Superintendent, Norfolk Constabulary.
  • Jessie Robb Campbell, Matron, Canaan Lodge Children's Home, Edinburgh.
  • William Francis Cannon, JP, County Organiser, National Union of Agricultural Workers.
  • Paul Maxwell Carment, Technical Engineer, Headquarters, No. 90 Group.
  • Frederick George Cawsey, Cost Accountant, Royal Mint.
  • Edith Amelia Chamberlayne, JP, Vice Chairman, Winchester Rural District Council.
  • William James Chapman, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • Arthur Joseph Chew, Honorary Secretary, Irish Bowling Association.
  • Frank Clark, Radio Officer, MV Isipingo, (Bank Line, Ltd.), Marconi International Marine Communication Company, Ltd.
  • Harold John Clark, Senior Technical Officer, Ministry of Works.
  • William Cole, Divisional Transport Officer, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
  • Godfrey Joseph Cooper, Chairman, Hackney Unit, Sea Cadet Corps.
  • William Claude Cooper, Senior Technical Officer, Ministry of Supply (Died 22 December 1953) — Dated 20 December 1953.
  • Henry John Milford Couch, Senior Ship Surveyor, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Lucy Elizabeth Cox, Deputy President, Perthshire Branch, British Red Cross Society.
  • Henry John Cull, Assistant Head, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Birmingham College of Technology.
  • Percy Edwin Curnock, Ceramic Artist, Doulton and Co., Ltd., Burslem.
  • William Thomas Cuthbert, Legal Assistant, Registry of Friendly Societies.
  • Arthur Gordon Cutler, Fruit Grower and Market Gardener, Worcestershire.
  • Irene May Dagger, County Borough Organiser, Birmingham, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Edna Irene Daglish, Member of Northamptonshire County Staff (Civil Defence), Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Vera Mary Dallas, Principal Investigator, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England).
  • Claude George Dann, Chief Sales Superintendent, Telephone Manager's Office, Centre Area, London.
  • James Dickinson Darbyshire. For services to Lads' Clubs in Manchester and Salford.
  • John David, Hospital Secretary, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.
  • Douglas Reginald Davidson, Chief Executive Officer, National Savings Committee.
  • Louis Ernest Davidson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Bleddyn Lloyd Davies, JP, Chairman, Taunton Local Savings Committee.
  • Myfanwy Davies, Grade III Advisory Officer, National Agricultural Advisory Service.
  • Leslie Thornley Dawes, Commercial Manager, Secretary and Director, Beyer, Peacock & Company, Gorton, Manchester.
  • James Dawson, Engineer, Northern General Transport Company
  • Joseph Arnold Dawson, Secretary, West Cumberland Industrial Development Company
  • Louis Charles Dennis, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
  • Nazlie Violet Dinjian, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
  • Captain Peter Anthony Ditton, Master, SS Saint Edmund, Saint Line, Ltd.
  • William John Dixon, Deputy Contracts Manager (Pricing), Automatic Telephone & Electric Company, Ltd., Liverpool.
  • Phyllis Mary Dothie, Senior Executive Officer, Post Office Savings Department (Savings Certificate Division), General Post Office.
  • George Gordon Down, Clerk, West Sussex Executive Council, National Health Service.
  • Falconer Bayne Dryburgh, County Surveyor, Zetland.
  • Annabelle Powrie Duncan, Secretary and Lecturer, Scottish Council of the Alliance of Honour.
  • Alexander Wallace Dunlop, Engineering Superintendent, Short Brothers & Harland, Ltd., Belfast.
  • Agnes Earl. For political and public services in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Ernest Herman Edwards, Managing Clerk, British Transport Commission.
  • John Ralph Edwards. For architectural services in South-West England.
  • William Ewart Egar, Chairman, Willenhall Savings Committee, Staffordshire.
  • Captain Arthur Ellis, Master, MV St. Thomas, South American Saint Line, Ltd.
  • Eleanor Evans, JP. For political and public services in Flintshire.
  • John Morgan Evans, Member, Central Milk Distributive Committee.
  • Morgan Thomas Evans, Chairman, Carmarthen Local Savings Committee.
  • Edith Annie Farrall, Leader, The Beacon Club, Suez.
  • Marie Josephine Feil, Foreign Office.
  • Edward William Ferrier, Detective Chief Superintendent, City of Edinburgh Police.
  • Ethel Mary Calyert Footitt. For political and public services in Nottinghamshire.
  • Eleanor Hersilie Mary Foster. For political and public services in Dorset.
  • Henry Frederick Frampton, Cashier and Head of Accounts Department, Headquarters, Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.
  • Anne Wright Frank, Foreign Office.
  • Ronald French, Assistant Chief Officer, Leeds Fire Brigade.
  • Reginald Wallace Gardner, Senior Assessor, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
  • The Honourable Violet Ethel Mary Gerard, County Organiser, Hertfordshire, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Frederick Arthur Gibbs, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • John David Gilbert, Senior Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Sidney Thomas Gill, Senior Partner, Thomas Gill & Son (Norwich), Ltd.
  • Florence Margaretta Glanvill. For political and public services in Battersea.
  • Herbert Francis William Golding, Chief Inspector, Northern Aluminium Company, Ltd., Banbury, Oxfordshire.
  • Captain Reginald Eric Goodman, District Superintendent, Penzance, Corporation of Trinity House.
  • Albert Goodwin, Member, North Staffordshire District Advisory Committee, Midland Regional Board for Industry.
  • William Herbert Gordon, Assistant Director of Imported Meat, Ministry of Food.
  • Georgina Jessie Graham, Civil Defence Officer, Scottish Headquarters, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Frank Henry Green, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Thomas Henry Greene. For public services in County Down.
  • Thomas Henry Griffiths, Divisional Officer, Nottinghamshire Fire Brigade.
  • Thomas John Griffiths, Higher Executive Officer, Postal Services Department, General Post Office.
  • William Henry Frederick Griffiths, Chief Engineer, H. W. Sullivan, Ltd., Peckham.
  • George William Grooby. For public services in Derbyshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Wilfred Thomas Groom. For political and public services in Northamptonshire.
  • Elsie Mabel Guisani, Superintendent of Typists, Board of HM Customs & Excise.
  • Florence Caroline Mary Hackett, Honorary Secretary, Sarisbury Savings Group, Hampshire.
  • Frederick Richard Hallett, Clerk to the Master of the Rolls, Supreme Court of Judicature.
  • Henry John Harbour, Test Controller, E. K. Cole, Ltd., Ekco Works, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
  • Percival Harry Hardidge, Director and Manager, David Hollander & Sons, Ltd., Birmingham.
  • Edwyn Worrall Mountain Hardy, BEM, Chief Clerk, British Joint Services Mission, Washington.
  • Gordon Harley, MC, Training Service Officer II, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Dorothy Alice Maud Harper. For political and public services in Bath.
  • Audrey Harris, County Secretary, Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes.
  • Eileen Winefride Harris. For political and public services in Essex.
  • Mary Elizabeth Harrison, County Midwife for Kent.
  • John Hastings, Civilian Workshop Officer (Technical Grade I), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Workshops, Aldershot.
  • Anne Mary Patricia Hatfield. For political services.
  • Percy Hawkins, Superintendent, Derbyshire Constabulary and Commandant, No. 1 District, Police Training Centre.
  • Reuben John Hawley, MC, Land and Estate Agent, Staveley Iron & Chemical Company, Ltd.
  • Reginald Victor Hayman, Architect. For services to the Glamorgan Police Authority.
  • William Eccles Henry, Town Clerk, Coleraine, County Londonderry.
  • George Frederick Henson, President, Grenadier Guards Comrades Association, Manchester.
  • Thomas Aubrey Hesketh, Divisional Officer, West Sussex Fire Brigade.
  • Joseph William Higgs, Divisional Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers.
  • Alcuin Hill, Chairman, Warrington, Widnes and District War Pensions Committee, Lancashire.
  • James William Hill. For services as Licensing Officer, London, Ministry of Works.
  • Vera Millicent Hills, Supervisor, Duplicating Section, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • John Hirst. For services to the war disabled.
  • Harry Holliday, Chief Superintendent, Post Office Sorting Office, Nottingham.
  • Richard Holmes, Chairman, Chesterfield and District War Pensions Committee, Derbyshire.
  • Benjamin Howe, Executive Officer, Army Medal Office, Droitwich.
  • Arthur Alfred Howick, Secretary Administrator of the British Legion Village, Maidstone, Kent.
  • George James Hughes, Senior Foreman, Laminated Department, Bakelite, Ltd., Birmingham.
  • George Cutler Huke, Clerical Officer, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham.
  • John Fiddes Hymers, JP. For political and public services in Roxburghshire.
  • Harold Anson, Higher Executive Officer, Northern Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • William Robert Ingram, lately Superintendent of Works, Ministry of Works.
  • Andrew Fraser Insch, Chief Clerk of Works, Aberdeen.
  • Edward Beaumont Ivemey, Senior Staff Officer, Admiralty.
  • Elizabeth James, District Nurse-Midwife, Cardiganshire County Council.
  • John David James, lately Secretary, Aberdare Gardeners' Society.
  • Edward James Jarvis, Deputy Manager, Surrey Sub-Area, South Eastern Electricity Board.
  • Ralph John Jenkins, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in India.
  • James Charles Johnson, Piermaster and Foreshore Manager to the Corporation, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
  • William Charles Johnson, Chief Chemist, Baird & Tatlock (London), Ltd., Chadwell Heath, Essex.
  • Amy Catherine Johnston, Foreign Office.
  • Jessie Hay Johnston. For political and public services in Aberdeen.
  • Edward Jones, JP, Managing Secretary, Tredegar Industrial & Provident Society, Ltd.
  • Edward Cecil Jones, MC JP, Chairman, Southend-on-Sea and District War Pensions Committee, Essex.
  • Thomas Edward Jones, Manager, Mansfield Remploy Factory, Nottinghamshire.
  • Ella Priscilla Jorden, Headquarters Overseas Field Officer, British Red Cross Society.
  • Eveline Maud Kaddy. For political services.
  • Philip Sims Kemsley, Works Superintendent, Gas Turbine Combustion Production Factories, Joseph Lucas, Ltd., Burnley.
  • Eva Dorothy Kenny, County Borough Organiser, York, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • James Killin, District Traffic Superintendent, Perth, British Transport Commission, Scottish Region.
  • Elizabeth Ferguson Kilpatrick, Club Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Kurhaus, Bad Oeynhausen, British Army of the Rhine.
  • Doris Cecilia King. For political and public services in Kent and Sussex.
  • Cyril Leonard Kingston, Insurance Officer, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Frank Henry Laite, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Arthur Laverack, Senior Executive Officer, Ordnance Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • Ernest Joseph Frederick Lawrence, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Walter Reginald John Leach, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • John Henry Lee, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Sarah Troughton Lee, Superintendent, Boot and Shoe Factory, Somervell Brothers, Ltd., Kendal, Westmorland.
  • Leonard John Leek, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Horace Lefevre, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • May Legg, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Bessie Leith, Provost of the Royal Burgh of Wick, Caithness.
  • David Robert James Veitch Lennox, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Peter Frederick Lewindon, Manager, Germany, British European Airways Corporation.
  • James Grandison Drysdale Lindsay, Chief Engineer, SS Taksang, Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
  • Agnes Jane Little, Medical Ward Sister, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
  • Clifford Ack Llewellin, Senior Executive Officer, Welsh Office, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • George Low, lately Farm Manager, Agricultural Research Institute, Hillsborough, County Down.
  • Walter Samuel Mabey, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • John James Keith McArthur, Manager, Derby Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Alexander Macaulay, MC, County Adviser, East Aberdeenshire, North of Scotland College of Agriculture.
  • Daniel Victor McCall, Principal, Beechfield Primary School, Belfast.
  • James McCandlis, JP, Chairman, Hillsborough and District Local Savings Committee, County Down.
  • Robert McCarter, Secretary, City and County Hospital, Londonderry.
  • Thomas McClean, Manager, Armley Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Mary Jane Sloan McCrindle, Honorary Secretary, Kirkcudbrightshire Savings Committee.
  • Margaret Kate Macdona. For political and public services in the Wirral.
  • Angus Sinclair Macintosh, DSM, Skipper of the motor fishing vessel Primula.
  • Colin McKay, Head Foreman Shipwright, John Brown & Company, Clydebank.
  • John Richard Mackenzie, MM, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Frederick James McNeill, Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland.
  • Flora Martin, District Nurse, Eriskay, Outer Hebrides.
  • William Kenneth Martin, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Muriel Phyllis Carroll-Marx, County Organiser, County of London, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • David Matheson, Waterguard Surveyor, Inverness, Board of Customs & Excise. (Died 28 December 1953) — Dated 20 December 1953.
  • William Rupert Maunder, Technical Officer (Grade I), Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Cyril Ernest Mellish, Chief Meat Inspector, Smithfield Market, London.
  • Cicely Mary Middleton, Director, Films Department, British Council.
  • Charles Edward Miles, Manager, Hampton Launch Works, Ltd., Hampton, Middlesex.
  • John Bloor Mills, Chief Designer, Fodens, Sandbach, Cheshire.
  • Isabella Adamson Mitchell, Head of Galloway House Residential School, Wigtownshire.
  • John Maurice Montague, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Materials.
  • Joseph Moody, Higher Executive Officer, General Register Office.
  • Iva Genevieve Mooney, Senior Executive Officer, Reading Regional Office, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • William Herron Morgan, Headmaster, Guide Post Secondary Modern School, Choppington, Northumberland.
  • Francis Dennis Murphy, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Ernest Arthur Musto, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • John George Tedford Nelson, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • Fred Newell, lately Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Alderman Charles Maurice Newton, Chairman of Committee, No. 5 (Northampton) Squadron, Air Training Corps.
  • Sidney George Nicholls, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Florence Mabel Norman, Training Officer, National Institute of Houseworkers, Ltd.
  • Robert Douglas Page, Assistant Secretary, The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society.
  • Albert Parker, JP, Chairman, Tipton Local Employment Committee, Staffordshire.
  • Audrey Elizabeth Peareth Parker. For political and public services in Cambridge.
  • Ernest Albert Pascall, District House Coal Officer, Medway Towns House Coal Distribution (Emergency) Scheme.
  • Thomas Noel Pattinson, Chief Clerk and Chief Accountant, County of Northumberland Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • George Paul, Member, National Savings Committee, representing the National Union of Teachers.
  • Herbert William Pawsey, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Robert Percival Pedley, Research Engineer, Percival Aircraft, Ltd.
  • Stanley Pickering, General Manager, Recommissioned Mills Ltd., Ministry of Food.
  • Harold Nathan Pitstow, Conductor and Secretary of the Bell Ringers of Westminster Abbey.
  • John Francis Power, JP, Honorary Secretary, Leeds Savings Committee.
  • Arthur Stephen Albert Pryor, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Frances Gweneth Pyman. For charitable and social work in West Hartlepool, County Durham.
  • Alfred Henry Quilley, JP, Alderman, Hampshire County Council.
  • Catherine Priscilla Rabagliati. For political and public services in Paddington.
  • Albert Sidney Raven, JP Chairman, Chelmsford Local Employment Committee and Disablement Advisory Committee, Essex.
  • Edward John Redmond, Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Richard Richards, Manager, Lewis Merthyr Collieries, South Western Division, National Coal Board.
  • Arthur Frederick Richardson, Temporary Technical Officer, HM Stationery Office.
  • Kathleen Rider, Matron, St. Saviour's Hospital, Jersey.
  • Alfred Joseph Riley, MC, Higher Executive Officer, HM Treasury
  • George Henry Rippon, Technical Director, Maun Industries, Ltd., Mansfield.
  • John Rix, Production Manager, Vespers, Ltd., Portsmouth.
  • Edward Richard Roberts, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
  • Colonel Josiah James Robertson, DSO TD JP DL, Chairman, North of Scotland War Pensions Committee.
  • Thomas Robins, JP, Member, Devon Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Margaret Gladys Robinson, Headmistress, Marlborough Secondary Modern Girls' School, Isleworth, Middlesex.
  • Hubert Rogers, Grade 3 Officer, Midlands Regional Office, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Henrietta Syme Russell, Secretary, Mental After-Care Association.
  • Horace Cyril Sarjeant, Foreign Office.
  • Lillian Savage, Nurse, War Office.
  • Cyril Frederick Scott, Assistant Manager, Personnel Department, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes.
  • Herbert Wilfred Sealley, Dock Superintendent, Avonmouth Docks.
  • Stanley Ernest Selves, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board.
  • William James Sergent, Chairman, "F" Division, Liverpool Savings Committee.
  • John Thomas Sharp, lately Senior Assistant Engineer (Generation Construction Department), South West Scotland Division, British Electricity Authority.
  • Robert Sharp, Senior Executive Officer, Civil Service Commission.
  • Alice Emily Shaw, Assistant Secretary, Lord Mayor's Private Office, City of London.
  • James Davidson Drewette Shaw, Managing Director, James Kilpatrick & Son, Ltd., Electrical Engineers.
  • Ernest Richard Shepherd, Senior Foreman of Factory, Admiralty.
  • Arthur Hammond Shipley, Manager, Engineering Department, Dendex Brushes, Ltd., Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
  • George Debney Shoosmith, Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands.
  • Leopold Augustus Leon Siffre, District Superintendent, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation, Mercantile Marine Office Service, Southampton.
  • Colonel Reginald Jack Sims, MC, Retired Officer, War Office.
  • Dorothy Singer Torry, Secretary to the Director-General, and Clerk to the Board of Governors, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Cicely Ella Smart. For political and public services in Norfolk.
  • John Edward Smart, JP, Chairman, Settle Rural District Food Control Committee.
  • Frank Prichard Smith, Catering Manager, HM Dockyard, Devonport.
  • Herbert Reginald Harry Smith, Clerk of Egham Urban District Council, Surrey.
  • Stanley Joseph Wesley Snook, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Percy Frederick Thomas Snow, Senior Assistant, Ministry of Materials.
  • Captain Geoffrey Wareing Spencer, Poultry Advisory Officer, Grade 1, National Agricultural Advisory Service.
  • James Henry Spencer, lately Vice Chairman, Chatham Local Employment Committee, Kent.
  • Geoffrey Newton Spring, Meals Organisation Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Captain Thomas Hall Conradi Squance, Member, North-Western Area Council, British Legion.
  • Cyril William Stanbridge, Assistant Manager, Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley.
  • Arthur Frank Standen. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Frank Rupert Stapley, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office.
  • Frank John Stenning, lately Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Hubert Robert Stephens For political and public services in Gloucestershire.
  • Mary Grace Stewart, Senior Mistress, High School for Girls, Swansea.
  • William Bertie Stewart, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Madeline Loftus Stocker, Grade 5 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • David Steven Strang, Farmer, East Berkshire.
  • James Arthur Stringer, lately Production Officer, Board of Trade.
  • John Irvine Swan, Secretary, Greenock Harbour Trust.
  • William James Swann, Valuation Clerk, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Ernest Stephen Tacagni, Inspector, Supplies Department, London County Council.
  • Alfred Edwin Mess Taylor, JP, District Chairman of Auctioneers, Ministry of Food, Maud, Aberdeenshire.
  • Basil Churton Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Milton Whalley Taylor, lately Deputy Agricultural Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Sibyl Adeline Thesiger, Head of the Welfare Department, Returned British Prisoners of War Association.
  • John Lloyd Thomas, JP, Mayor of Llanfyllin Borough, Montgomeryshire.
  • Captain Leonard Henry John Thompson, Master, MV Whitewing, General Steam Navigation Company, Ltd.
  • James Simpson Thomson, Assistant Director, Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition.
  • Elmira Thorpe, JP. For public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Major Noel Oughtred Till, Secretary and Treasurer, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, East Riding of Yorkshire.
  • David Reid Todd, Naval Architect, John I. Thornycroft & Company, Ltd., Southampton.
  • Frank Littler Tomkiss, Inspector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Alfred Fairweather Tosh, Director and Works Manager, Summerson's Foundries, Ltd., Darlington.
  • Roland Albert Frederick Hazell Towner, Esq., Senior Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • Kathleen Traynor, Ward Sister, Rubery Mental Hospital, Birmingham.
  • Nicholas Henry Tregedga, lately Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Ghuznee George True, MM, Head Postmaster, Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge, Surrey.
  • Major Philip Ewen Caulfeild Tuckey, Private Secretary to the Commandant, Joint Services Staff College, Ministry of Defence.
  • Leslie William Stokes Upton, Second Clerk, Judicial Committee, Privy Council Office.
  • William Bell Scott Valentine, Honorary Secretary, Girvan Lifeboat Station, Ayrshire.
  • Charles Ernest Vernon, Superintendent, East Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary.
  • Henry Alfred Vickery, Senior Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • Alfred Eber Vincent, Divisional Officer, No. 6 Division (West South Wales), Iron & Steel Trades Confederation.
  • Christopher Hodgson Wainwright, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Ruby Brown Wallace, Clerical Officer, Scottish Home Department.
  • Arthur Walls, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Margaret Walters, Matron, Graig (Chronic Sick) Hospital, Pontypridd, Glamorgan.
  • Miriam Beatrice Ward, Superintendent, Sandes Soldiers' Homes, Lisburn, County Antrim.
  • Sarah Jane Gertrude Ware. For political and public services in South Shields.
  • Stanley Mellor Warr, Works Manager, Peter Spence & Sons, Ltd., Widnes, Lancashire.
  • Mildred Beatrice Waters, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
  • Frederick William Andrew Waterson, Senior Contract Officer, Admiralty.
  • Margaret Mary Watkins, District Nurse, Walwyns Castle and Little Haven, Pembrokeshire.
  • Audrey West, Area Superintendent for Nursing Divisions, St. John Ambulance Brigade, South Western Area, No. 1 London District.
  • Edward Henry West, Fishery Officer, Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee.
  • John Selby West, Director of Welfare Services, South Shields County Borough Council, County Durham.
  • Pauline Norah Wheatley, Superintendent Radiographer, Radiotherapy Department, Westminster Hospital.
  • Arthur Whinnett, Senior Executive Officer, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
  • Arthur James Cassels White, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Bulstrode Harry Whitelocke, Librarian, Lewisham Borough Council.
  • John Arthur Wild, Chairman, Todmorden Local Employment Committee.
  • Catherine Elizabeth Williams, Private Secretary to the Vice-President, Shipbuilding Employers' Federation.
  • Maurice Lovel Burton Williams. For services Senior Executive Officer, British Army of the Rhine, War Office.
  • George Henry Gordon Wills, Secretary, Southampton District, Shipping Federation, Ltd.
  • Arthur Edward Wilson, Blind Persons Employment Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • James Wilson, Chief Driving Examiner, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • John Wilson, General Works Manager, Blaw-Knox, Ltd., London.
  • Marion Wince. For political and public services in Harrow.
  • Edmund Alliston Wingrove, lately Managing Clerk, Baily Gibson & Company.
  • Vernon Montagu Wood, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
  • Sidney Alfred Woodcock, MM, Pumping Station Engineer, Hampton Works, Metropolitan Water Board.
  • Edward John Wright, lately Regional Coal Officer, Scottish Region, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John George Coleman Perrett-Young, Chief Technical Administrator, British Joint Services Mission, Washington.
  • George Holland Active, Control Officer Grade III, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Jean Shaw Aiton, British subject resident in the United States of America.
  • The Reverend Roger Grant Allison, Head of the Church of England Mission to the Jews, Jaffa.
  • Ethel Rosa Edwards-Amati, Secretary to the British Council Representative in Rome.
  • Joyce Bloxham, lately Headmistress of the English Girls' College, Alexandria.
  • Oswald John Brandt, British subject resident in Haiti.
  • Richard Burnett, BEM, Control Officer Grade III, Frontier Inspection Service, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Philippe Camilleri. British subject resident in Algeria.
  • Captain Harry Cross, MC, Market Officer at Her Majesty's Embassy in Montevideo.
  • Lucy Katherine Mary Giudici, Passport Examiner at Her Majesty's Consulate General, Düsseldorf.
  • Gerald Baldwin Hayward, British subject resident in Greece.
  • Lucy Lydia Kenwood, Grade 6 Officer, Branch B of the Foreign Service at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris.
  • Denis John Horan, lately Chief Draughtsman, Sudan Railways.
  • Elaine Dorothy James, Acting Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Bernard Kelly, British Vice-Consul at Buenos Aires.
  • Henry Newbold Lyster, Clerk at Her Majesty's Consulate-General at Istanbul.
  • Charles Gommaire Overlaet, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Antwerp.
  • Lady Gertrude Gwendoline Scott, British subject resident in Tangier.
  • Joseph Spoor, lately Associate Professor at the Higher Training College, Bagdad.
  • Charlotte Annie Stuart, MB BCh, Principal Medical Officer, Church Missionary Society Hospital, Cairo.
  • Albert Victor Thornton, British subject resident in Switzerland.
  • George Frederick Tizard, Grade 5 Officer, Branch B of the Foreign Service at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Howard Bevan Ward, British subject resident in Denmark.
  • John Watson, British subject resident in Cuba.
  • John Leonard Wilkes, Manager of the British Bank of the Middle East at Kuwait.
  • Howard Whitefield Willy, Assistant to the Commercial Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Lima.
  • Florence Elizabeth McKinley Wilson, Passport Examiner at Her Majesty's Embassy in Copenhagen.
  • Nora Aitken, a member of various social welfare organisations connected with the United Kingdom community in Bombay, India.
  • Olive Grant Burn. For services to the Hobart Repertory Society and the Theatre Royal, Hobart, State of Tasmania.
  • Jane Burns, JP. For services to charitable organisations at Glenelg, South Australia
  • Florence Evelyn Calder. For social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Benjamin Robert Cohen, General Manager, Manica Trading Company, Beira. For services to Southern Rhodesian interests at the port.
  • Peter Tebbett Ensor, Secretary of the Central Administration of the United Kingdom Association in Pakistan.
  • Anna Florence Greene, a Missionary in Chota Nagpur, Bihar, India, for 40 years.
  • William Henry Ridge Gunner, Transport Officer, Central Mechanical Equipment Department, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Daisy Ethel May Harvey, of Hobart, State of Tasmania. For services to patriotic and philanthropic movements.
  • Geoffrey Houghton, Chief Technical Instructor, Radar Section, Technical Training College, Indian Air Force, Jalahalli, India.
  • Louise Isobel Jearey, a member of the Loyal Women's Guild, Southern Rhodesia, for many years.
  • Arnold Farish Benister Jones. For public services in the Sinoia District, Southern Rhodesia.
  • John Knowles McGhie. For services to local government in the Fort Victoria District, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Evelyn Elizabeth Mitchell, Vice-President of the Bulawayo and District Horticultural Society, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Edward Greenwood Palmer, For social welfare services in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Chief Nkoebe Mitchell Peete, of Kolojane, Berea District, Basutoland.
  • Florence Annie Perrin. For services to the Women's Branch of the Agricultural Bureau, State of South Australia.
  • Eugene Schultz, a Deputy Sheriff, Enkeldoorn District, Southern Rhodesia.
  • John Douglas Smith. For services to Local government in the Selukwe District, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Kathleen Leonora Symons. For services to the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.
  • Dorothy Vaughan, a Member of the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board, State of South Australia.
  • Edward Stanley White, Town Clerk, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Honorary
  • Rasebolai Kgamane, BEM, Native Authority, Bamangwato Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Mobarak Ahmad son of Sher Mohamad, Colonial Police Service, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya.
  • Sigismund Ayodele Ajanaku, Administrative Assistant, Department of Statistics, Nigeria.
  • Arnavaz Ardeshir Arjah. For public services in Zanzibar.
  • Harold Edward Ashe, Superintendent, Advanced Approved School, Telok Mas, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
  • Robin Bain. For nursing services in Aden.
  • Louis Baissac. For services to the British Red Cross Society in Mauritius.
  • Frank William Beecham, Town Clerk, Kumasi Town Council, Gold Coast.
  • Edward Rupert Burrowes. For services to art in British Guiana.
  • James Hardie Candler, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
  • Minnie Carlton. For services to education in North Borneo.
  • Charles Caruana, Clerk, General Post Office, Gibraltar.
  • John Casley, Chief Inspector of Works, Gold Coast.
  • Hilda Margaret Cleaver, lately Matron, Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji.
  • Elizabeth Craill. For services to the blind in Nyasaland.
  • John Alfred Cumber, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
  • Darashaw Hornusji Daruwalla. For services to sport in Zanzibar.
  • Andre d'Emmerez De Charmoy, Agricultural Officer, Mauritius.
  • Ratu Jione Antonio Rabici Dovi, MB ChB., Medical Officer, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
  • Mabel Hilda Edmett. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Goh Tan Teng, Clerk of Councils, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
  • Bruce Greatbatch, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Nigeria.
  • Elise Ena Griffin. For nursing services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Francis Maximilian Grosse, Registrar of Marriages, Singapore.
  • Lottie Hazeley. For services to women's education in Sierra Leone.
  • William John James, Colonial Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Somaliland.
  • Dorothy Jewitt. For nursing services in Nigeria.
  • Parma Nand Joti, Colonial Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Tanganyika.
  • Phyllis Kennedy. For services to the British Red Cross Society in Sarawak.
  • Robert Henry Kennedy. For services to the Boy Scout Movement in Bermuda.
  • Thomas Jay Lennard, Assistant Public Relations Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Lim Kim Seng, JP. For public services in Singapore.
  • John Robert Archibald McDonald, Acting Principal Auditor, Leeward Islands.
  • Roy Maltby, Economic & Marketing Officer, Department of Commerce, Uganda.
  • Joseph Joaquim Marinho, Magistrate, Nigeria.
  • Theophilus Dougan Brodie-Mends, Administrative Officer, Nigeria.
  • Munusamy Ramanujam Naidu, Assistant Commissioner for Labour (Indians), Selangor, Federation of Malaya.
  • Josaia Navoka, lately Assistant Medical Practitioner, Fiji.
  • Joseph Francis Nelson, JP. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Vishnuprasad Balkrishna Pandit, LCPS, Senior Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Uganda.
  • Saverimuthu Manuel Pillay, Acting Custodian of Enemy Property, Federation of Malaya.
  • Pun Ku Kwai, lately Clerk, Secretariat, Hong Kong.
  • Clarence Renwick, Superintendent of Works, Windward Islands.
  • Ernest Rudolf Riegels. For public services to the East Africa High Commission.
  • Newton Clyde Roberts, Assistant Registrar General, Bahamas.
  • Jack Rose, DFC, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Angela Mary Ryan, lately Secretary Typist, Nigeria.
  • Ethel Joyce Saward, MRCS LRCP. For medical services in Jamaica.
  • Nicos Schizas, Senior Laboratory Technician, Medical & Health Department, Cyprus.
  • Mustafa Shemi, lately Administrative Assistant, Secretariat, Cyprus.
  • The Reverend Canon Arthur Harry Smith, JP. For services to education in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Gordon Miller Smith, Colonial Police Service, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kenya.
  • Margaret Morrison Smith, Provincial Welfare Officer in Nyasaland.
  • Charles Strange, Superintendent of Sanitary Services, Urban Services Department, Hong Kong.
  • Rose Strong, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Falkland Islands.
  • Daniel George Tackie. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • Arthur Graeme Taylor, Colonial Audit Service, Principal Auditor, Sarawak.
  • Henry Guy Thicthener, Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Zaccheus John Cline Thomas, Deputy Shipping Master, Sierra Leone.
  • Willoughby Harry Thompson, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
  • Joan Gertrude Waddington, Cypher Clerk, East Africa High Commission.
  • Charles Levi Westby. For public services in British Honduras.
  • Ina Wilkie, Administrative Assistant, Secretariat, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Arthur Stanley Wint. For services to sport in Jamaica.
Honorary
  • Haji Ahmad bin Daud, District Officer, Kuala Belait, Brunei.
  • Tombinte Dato Abdul Razak, Assistant Lady Supervisor, Vernacular Schools, Kedah, Federation of Malaya.
  • Dato Abdul Hamid bin Dato Kaya Baduk, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Abdul Azizbin Haji Shukor, Executive Secretary, Johore State War Executive Committee, Federation of Malaya.
  • Robert Udo Umo-Inyang. For public services in Nigeria.
  • Abdul Salami Ebun Agbabiaka, Superintendent of Police, Nigeria.
  • Mallam Abdullahi Maikano, Emir of Wase, Nigeria.
  • Francis Bekewuru Ogu Kalanama, President of the Akugbene Native Court and Council, Nigeria.
  • Anthony Obi Agusiobo, Chief Clerk, Public Works Department, Nigeria.
  • Mallam Adi Byewi, Headmaster of Benue Middle School, Katsina-Ala, Nigeria.
  • Ellis Tamunoipiriye Furo, Supervising Teacher, Education Department, Nigeria.
  • Odofin Belo, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Nigeria.
  • Alimami Jaia Kaikai, Paramount Chief of Panga Chiefdom, Pujehun District, Sierra Leone.
  • Eria Paulo Engulu, Chief Judge, Teso District Native Court, Uganda.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division
Navy
Army
Air Force
Civil Division
United Kingdom.
Southern Rhodesia.
Colonial Empire.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

  • Edna Nellie Georgina Gill, Superintending Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
  • Cynthia Felicity Joan Cooke, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
  • Q/1000009 Corporal Elizabeth Kathleen Gallant, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Major Sarah Annie Raine (209154), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Captain Muriel Helen Rundle (241018), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Air Force Cross & bar

  • Wing Commander Edward William Anderson, OBE DFC AFC (83847).
  • Wing Commander Harry Hamilton Scott Brown, AFC MB BS (23355).
  • Squadron Leader Frederick Samuel Hazlewood, AFC (55087).
  • Squadron Leader Cyril Stanley Hunton, DFC AFC (141735).
  • Squadron Leader Thomas Stevenson, AFC (82957).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Howard Thomas Murley, DFC AFC (176032).
  • Flight Lieutenant Roland Louis Ernest Burton, AFC (50530).

Air Force Medal (AFM)

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

King's Police and Fire Services Medal

Police, England and Wales.
Police, Scotland.
Police, Northern Ireland.
British Transport Commission.
Fire Service, England and Wales.
Australia
Southern Rhodesia.
Colonies, Protectorates and Protected States.

Colonial Police Medal

Southern Rhodesia.
Colonial Empire.

Australia

Knight Bachelor

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

Order of the Bath

Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (DBE)

Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
  • Engineer Rear-Admiral John Webster Wishart, C.B.E, Royal Australian Navy.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division
  • Air Marshal Richard Williams, C.B, C.B.E, D.S.O, R.A.A.F. (Retired), Director-General of Civil Aviation since 1946.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Civil Division
  • Kate Isabel Campbell, M.D, B.S. For services to medical science in Australia.
  • John Grenfell Crawford, Secretary, Department of Commerce and Agriculture, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Lady Eleanor Mary Latham. For social welfare services, particularly on behalf of children, in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Patrick Silvesta McGovern, Commissioner of Taxation.
  • William Alexander McLaren, Secretary, Department of the Interior, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Lyle Howard Moore. For public services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Frederick William George White, Chief Executive Officer of the Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
  • Surgeon Commander Eustace Alwynne Rowlands, V.R.D, M.B, B.S, Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Newton Barton, E.D. (1/28202), Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
  • Colonel (Temporary) Leonard John Bruton (2/18), Australian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Ronald Evans (2/41), Australian Staff Corps.
  • Group Captain Frank Headlam, Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Acting Group Captain James William Reddrop, Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Wing Commander Derek Randal Cuming, A.F.C. (033012), Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division
  • The Right Reverend Richard Bardon, Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
  • Alice Miriam Berry. For public services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • John Augustus Bostock. For public and philanthropic services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • John Huntly Collins. For services in the interests of ex-Servicemen in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Hilda Young Daniell. For services to education in Australia.
  • Reginald Murray Dunstone, M.B, Ch.B. For public and social welfare services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • John Gunther, M.B, B.S, Director of the Department of Public Health of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
  • Aubrey Halloran, M.B.E. For services rendered to charitable and cultural organisations in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Eric Harding, M.M, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Army.
  • Ralph Bodkin Kelley. For services to cattle breeding in Australia.
  • Samuel James Frederick Rellock, Director of Posts and Telegraphs (New South Wales), Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Alderman Alexander Stuart McDonald. For services to local government organisations in Australia.
  • Charles Ernest Naismith. For services to the dairying industry in Australia.
  • James Tindal Stewart Scrymgeour. For public services, particularly to the cattle industry in Australia.
  • Harold John Stewart. For services to education in Australia.
  • Ernest Keith White, M.C, President of the Australian-American Association.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Lieutenant (E) Harold George Betts, Royal Australian Navy.
  • Major Frank Ronald William Charlton (4/17751), Royal Australian Engineers.
  • Major Donald Beaumont Dunstan (2/289), Australian Staff Corps.
  • Major Cyril Charles Hall (3/320), Australian Staff Corps.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Norman Neels (2/370), Australian Instructional- Corps.
  • Major Arthur Cecil Pepper (2/79001), Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Francis Edward Resuggan (2/147), Australian Instructional Corps.
  • No.2/579 Warrant Officer Class I William Waddell Sydney Sommerville, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
  • Squadron Leader John Tennent (03459), Citizen Air Force, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Squadron Leader Henry Murdock Bain (03339), Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Theo Gough Phillips (0210343), Air Training Corps, Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Warrant Officer Ernest Avery (A.3646), Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division
  • Weller Arnold. For services to the community in Australia.
  • Eliza Briggs. For public services, especially in connection with the Australian Red Cross Society.
  • Leslie Oswald Brown, Assistant Commissioner, Public Service Board, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Margaret Dorothy Edis. For public services rendered in the Commonwealth of Australia to persons suffering from incurable diseases.
  • Ralph Edward Goode, J.P. For public services rendered in the Commonwealth of Australia, especially in the interests of returned servicemen.
  • Rebecca Anne Gordon, President of the Australian Imperial League of Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Womenfolk.
  • John Hill, a former Head of the Engineering Branch in the State of Victoria of the Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • William Charles John Hill, J.P. For services to the Boy Scout movement and ex-servicemen's organisations in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Mary Linus Lawson. For services to public and charitable organisations in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Amy Elizabeth Lefroy. For services to the Australian Red Cross Society.
  • Charlotte Joan Mcallister. In recognition of her services to the nursing profession in Australia.
  • Annie Bertha Parry. For services to first aid, especially in connection with the St. John Ambulance Association in Australia.
  • Sarah Peterson, J.P. For social welfare services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Bervin Ellis Purnell. For services to local government in Australia.
  • Philip Rees, a former President of the Superannuation Board, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • John Cameron Semmens, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Salvation Army Philanthropic Organisation attached to the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment in Korea.
  • Henry Harrison Edward Swan, International Relations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation.
  • Claude Taylor, Chief Finance Officer, Department of the Army.
  • Gladys Ellen Wallace, J.P. For public services, especially in the interests of servicemen and their dependants in Australia.
  • John Philip Walshe, External Communications Officer, Department of External Affairs, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Ruth White. For services rendered to patriotic, charitable and public health organisations in Australia.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

New Zealand

Ceylon

Knight Bachelor

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

  • Walter Gerald Wickremesinghe, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, lately Acting Director of Health Services.
  • Tom Neville Wynne-Jones, CBE, Chief Architect, Public Works Department.

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Van Langenberg, ED, Ceylon Light Infantry.
Civil Division

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Civil Division
  • Edmund Clement Fernando, Chief Engineer and Manager, Department of Government Electrical Undertakings.
  • Alfred Proom Humble, Resident Engineer, Port Development Works.
  • Hettiaractichige Jinadasa, Rubber Commissioner.
  • Charles Trevor Lorage, Chief Inspector of Schools, Department of Education.
  • Wijesinghe Aratchige Bertram Arthur Eric Perera, Divisional Transportation Superintendent, Ceylon Government Railway.
  • Gabriel Asvini Kumara Rockwood, Deputy Inspector-General of Police.
  • Herbert Ernest Tennekoon, Land Commissioner.
  • Raphael Lawrence Tiruchelvam, MRCS, LRCP, Acting Director of Social Services.
  • Rienzie Alexander Wijeyekoon, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Works.
  • Everard Clarence Wijeyesekera, Chief Engineer, Way and Works, Ceylon Government Railway.
  • Somisara Banda Yatawara, Deputy Commissioner of Co-operative Development.

Pakistan

Knight Bachelor

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
  • Brigadier (temporary) Charles Ian Jerrard, CBE, British Service (Special List).

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

  • Herbert William Waite, CIE, Principal, Police Training School, Punjab.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division
  • Edward Alec Abbott Snelson, OBE., Secretary, Ministry of Law and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
  • Colonel (temporary) John Richard Connor, OBE, Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel (temporary) Harold Garnett Eccles, British Service (Special List).
Civil Division
  • John Ortcheson, Legal Remembrancer, Government of the Punjab.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
  • Acting Commander John Abbott, Royal Pakistan Navy.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Archibald Joseph Apperley, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edwin Harold Bowen, Corps of Royal Pakistan Engineers.
  • Major Franklin Burbridge Ledlie, MBE, Royal Pakistan Army Service Corps.
Civil Division
  • Richard Frederick Thomas Farrant, Deputy Secretary, Public Works Department, Punjab.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Angus Hume, Deputy Commissioner, Chittagong Hill Tracts.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Kenneth Oldrini, MC, Administrative Officer, Frontier Corps.
  • Emanuel Sam Philpott, MBE, Director of Administration and Co-ordination.
  • George Arthur MacMillan Smith, Deputy Financial Adviser, Military Finance, Rawalpindi.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Major (temporary) Lawrence Joseph McAdam, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Charles James Dick Maiden, British Service (Special List).
  • Captain (temporary) William Malpas White, British Service (Special List).
Civil Division
  • Mervyn Douglas Hicks, Controller of Telegraph Stores, Karachi.
  • Hubert Pascal Murray, Assistant Chief Engineer (Administration), Directorate of Posts and Telegraph.
  • Charles Harold Shirtcliffe, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Factories.
  • Mervyn John Alston Wood, Establishment Officer, Food Department, Punjab.
  • Annetta Wrench. For social services in Karachi.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division
Civil Division

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References

  1. UK list: "No. 40053". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. pp. 1–38.
  2. Australia list: "No. 40054". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. pp. 39–42.
  3. New Zealand list: "No. 40055". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. pp. 43–46.
  4. Ceylon list: "No. 40056". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. pp. 47–48.
  5. Pakistan list: "No. 40057". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. pp. 49–50.