1957 Birthday Honours

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

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The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published on 4 June 1957 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, [1] Australia, [2] New Zealand, [3] and to members of the British Armed Forces in recognition of distinguished and gallant services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

United Kingdom and Colonies

Viscount

Baron

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

State of South Australia
State of Victoria
Overseas Territories

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
Additional Knight Commander
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Additional Companions
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Brigadier (Temporary Major-General) Geoffrey Lucas, CBE (32021), Staff, late Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Kenneth Thomas Darling, CBE, DSO (44052), Staff, late Infantry.
Royal Air Force
Additional Knight Commander
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Additional Companion
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October-December 1956
Civil Division
Additional Companion

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

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

Honorary Companions
  • Tuan Sheikh Ahmad bin Sheikh Mustapha, CBE, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Othman bin Mohamed, Commissioner for Malaya in the United Kingdom.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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

  • Captain John Harold Adams, Royal Navy.
  • Commander Francis Bruen, Royal Navy.
  • Surgeon Commander Peter Geoffrey Burgess, BM, BCh, Royal Navy.
  • Captain Harold Lewis Cryer, Royal Navy.
  • Commander John Assheton Eardley-Wilmot, DSC, Royal Navy.
  • William Neil Maclay, MBE, MRCS, LRCP.
  • Peter Parker.
  • The Honourable Iris Irene Adele Peake.
  • Phyllis Murray.

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

  • Douglas Butt.
  • Squadron Leader John Edwin Loxton, OBE, Royal Air Force.

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
Additional Knight Grand Cross
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Civil Division

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

Civil Division
  • The Right Honourable Dame Dehra Kerr Parker, DBE, MP, Member of Northern Ireland Parliament, 1921-1929 and since 1933. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1937–1944; Minister of Health and Local Government, 1949–1957. For political and public services in Northern Ireland.

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

Military Division
Royal Navy
Additional Knight Commander
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

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

Civil Division

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Captain James Edward Best, (Retd).
  • Captain Howard Francis Bone, DSO, DSC.
  • Instructor Captain Stanley Walter Croucher Pack.
  • Acting Captain John Gordon Stanning, OBE.
Additional Commanders
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Army
  • Brigadier (temporary) Ian Herbert Fitzgerald Boyd, OBE (38385), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel Joseph Theodore Burgess (26786), late Royal Army Educational Corps.
  • Colonel (temporary) John Frederick Carroll, OBE (34600), The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Employed List), (now RARO).
  • Brigadier Lawrence Norman Cholmeley, MBE (33327), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier Ernest Dynes, OBE, ADC (28066), late Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Brigadier Lindley Robert Edmundson Fayle, DSO, OBE (26965), late Corps of Royal Engineers (now RARO).
  • Colonel (temporary) John Michael Green, MBE (230115), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel (temporary) Michael George Howard Henley (44878), The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • Colonel George Laing, MBE (41033), late Infantry.
  • Brigadier Richard Eyre Lloyd, DSO, OBE (37083), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier John Francis Macnab, DSO, OBE (34875), late Infantry.
  • Colonel (acting) Hugh Rose, DSO, TD (66450), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Territorial Army.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Michael Alan Wethered Rowlandson, OBE (41182), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now RARO).
  • Brigadier (local) Noel Frederick Bridgman Shaw, DSO, OBE (384031), 6th Gurkha Rifles (Employed List).
  • Brigadier Leslie Cuthbert Turnbull (17622), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Colonel (temporary) Lionel Johnson Wood, OBE (37208), The Dorset Regiment.
Additional Commanders
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Brigadier (Temporary) Ewing Henry Wrigley Grimshaw, DSO, OBE (50117), Staff, late Infantry.
  • Colonel Joseph Harold Spence Lacey, OBE (36703), Staff, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier William Guise Tucker, OBE (37097), Staff, late Royal Corps of Signals.
Royal Air Force
  • Air Commodore James Hill, MB, ChB.
  • Group Captain Frederic Osborne Storey Dobell.
  • Group Captain George Desmond Garvin.
  • Group Captain Walter MacIan King.
  • Group Captain Geoffrey Lowe, DFC, AFC.
  • Group Captain Harry Leslie Rudd.
  • Group Captain Henry Niel George Wheeler, DSO, OBE, DFC, AFC.
  • Group Captain Cathcart Michael Wight-Boycott, DSO.
  • Acting Group Captain Leslie Thomas Card.
  • The Reverend Gordon Hyslop.
Additional Commanders
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Group Captain Albert Avion Case, OBE.
  • Group Captain William Vernon Crawford-Compton, DSO, DFC.
  • Group Captain John Charles Macdonald, DFC, AFC.
  • Group Captain Brian Radley Macnamara, DSO.
Civil Division


  • Major Henry Alwyn Barker, OBE. British subject lately resident in Egypt.
  • Harold Godfrey Crawshaw, OBE, lately Assistant Administrator for Finance, International Administration of Tangier.
  • Ian Douglas Davidson, lately President of the Compania Shell de Venezuela.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Wolstan Beaumont Charles Weld Forester, RN, (Retd), lately Her Majesty's Consul-General at Nice.
  • James Darsie Gillie, Manchester Guardian Correspondent at Paris.
  • Herbert Morgan Jones, lately General Manager of the Anglo-Egyptian Oilfields Ltd., Cairo.
  • Brandon Laight, OBE, lately Headmaster of the English School, Cairo.
  • Alan Guy Elliot-Smith, lately Headmaster of Victoria College, Cairo.
  • Brigadier John William Ferguson Treadwell (Retd), vice-president and Director of the English-Speaking Union of the United States.
  • Keith Courtney Acutt. For services to Industry in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Archibald Simpson Anderson, MB, FRACS, Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, State of Victoria.
  • Arthur Beggs, of Beaufort, State of Victoria. For services to Agriculture.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Page Burt, MVO, Official Secretary to the Governor of the State of Western Australia.
  • Thomas Warden Cree, a prominent Member of the United Kingdom community in Karachi, Pakistan.
  • Benjamin Thomas Edye, ChM, FRCS, Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and other institutions in the State of New South Wales.
  • Russell England, OBE, JP, Chairman of the European Advisory Council, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Chief Bathoen Seeapitso Gaseitsiwe, OBE, of the Bangwaketse Tribe, Bechuanaland Protectorate, Chairman of the African Advisory Council for the Protectorate.
  • Charles Henry Hand. For public services in the State of Tasmania.
  • Gilbert Sherman McDonald, OBE, deputy director of Education, State of South Australia.
  • Robert Jackson Noble, Under-Secretary and Permanent Head of the Department of Agriculture, State of New South Wales.
  • Stanley Mortimer Pechey, Southern Rhodesia representative on the Governing Board of the Rhodesian Iron & Steel Company.
  • Councillor William Ernest Roff, of Ballaarat, State of Victoria.
  • Arthur Leslie Brice Bennett, OBE, DFC. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Allan Shaw Campbell, JP. For public services in Jamaica.
  • Eugene Aubrey Pyfrom Dupuch. For public services in the Bahamas.
  • Cyril Charles Emmett, Chairman of the Nigerian Coal Corporation, Federation of Nigeria.
  • William Douglas Farrington, Chief Inspecting Engineer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations.
  • Cecil Gordon Harrison, General Manager and chairman, Railway and Port Swettenham Boards, Malayan Railway, Federation of Malaya.
  • Joshua Abraham Hassan, MVO, JP. For public services in Gibraltar.
  • Samuel Horton Oluwole Jones, OBE, MB, ChB, Director of Medical Services, Gambia.
  • George Kinnear, OBE. Lately Director, East African Standard , Kenya.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Michael Knocker, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Philip Lee Tau Sang, OBE. For public services in North Borneo.
  • Clifford Lewis. For public services in Uganda.
  • James Alexander Macdonald, Deputy Inspector-General, Nigeria Police Force.
  • William Thomas Mackell, OBE. Lately Chief Federal Adviser on Education, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Guy Charles Madoc, Director of Intelligence, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ernest Steven Monteiro, MD, FRFPS, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Malaya.
  • Maurice Scott, DFC. For public services in Fiji.
  • Anthony Arthur Shillingford, Director of Education, Northern Region, Nigeria, now Chief Federal Advisor on Education, Federation of Nigeria.
  • William George Syer, Commissioner, Sierra Leone Police Force.
  • The Right Reverend Frank Oswald Thorne, MC, Bishop of Nyasaland.
  • Michael William Turner, JP. For public services in Hong Kong.
  • James Bowie White, Director, Roads Organisation, Uganda.
  • Hugh Oliver Beresford Wooding, QC. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Frederick Henry Woodrow, OBE, Director of Public Works, Tanganyika.
Honorary Commander
  • Abdul Aziz bin Haji Abdul Majid, Mentri Besar, Selangor, Federation of Malaya.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Commander Frederick Arthur Kemmis Betty, VRD, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Commander Arthur Francis Blowers.
  • Commander (A) Norman Henry Bovey, DSC, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Chief Officer Sheila Helen Broster, Women's Royal Naval Service.
  • Commander George Walter Dibben.
  • Commander Hugh William Falcon-Steward, (Retd).
  • Major John Norman Hedley, DSO, Royal Marines.
  • The Reverend Jack Newton Charles Holland, Chaplain.
  • Commander Frederick Ross James.
  • Surgeon Commander James Lees, MRCS, LRCP.
  • Commander James George Patrick Douglas Long, (Retd).
  • Commander Derek Roy Mallinson.
  • Acting Commander John Frederick Stewart.
  • Instructor Commander John Russell Thorp.
Additional Officers
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Stewart Balmain, MBE (64148), 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps (Employed List).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Webb Beazley, TD (64307), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Reginald Blomfield, MC (67063), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Carstairs Buchanan, MC, TD (66802), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Norah Kathleen Cadden (211199), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Cameron, MBE (47530), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Colonel (local) (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) James Noel Cowley (170308) 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Brynmor Davies (194591), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford Mayhew Dodkins, DSO (380533), 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps (Employed List).
  • Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Gordon-Finlayson, MBE (69036), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roger John Gary Fleming, TD (74255), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now TARO).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Raymond Grace (52622), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Charles Kirkpatrick Halford, DSO, MBE (62867), The York & Lancaster Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Charles William Victor Hankinson (152772), Army Physical Training Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Douglas Travis Harris (58060), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major Beverley Harold Holloway, TD (256867), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Leonard Horton (214316), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, MC (73056), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Albert Martin-Jenkins, TD (134026), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Ernest Marchant Kenber, TD (64020), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cumberland Laughton, MBE (63514), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask, DSO, MBE (62419), The Royal Scots Fusiliers (Employed List).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roy Leyland (65469), The East Surrey Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Robert Taylor Lundie, MC, MB(94926), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) William Lords Mather, MC, TD (66950), The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Maurice William Mountain (66139), The Border Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Charles Herbert Patrick, MBE (88573), Royal Corps of Signals (now retired).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Francis Wheatly Patrick, TD (39528), Army Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Algernon Rodney Reyne, MC (391532), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Michael William Temple Roberts, MBE (62879), The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) (Employed List).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Arthur Hughes Sheppard (63424), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice Irving Silverton, TD, MRCS, LRCP, DPH (72620), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Guy Swadling (129776), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Maude Tompkins (234261), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Noel Hugh Tyacke (66134), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Christopher Patrick Wheeler (158235), City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), Territorial Army (now TARO).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Ronald Warren Whitmore, TD (76008), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Richard Thomas Meurig Williams, MC, TD (190713), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Geoffrey Wykeham, MC (56419), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Staff Paymaster, 1st Class) Cedric Lionel Herbert Young (125074), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Eric Arnold Heaslip (EC.4266), Special List (ex-Indian Army). Until recently on loan to the Government of India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Hengrave Kitson, Basutoland Mounted Police.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond Hubert Stone, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Alexander McInnes, MC, Commanding Officer, Negri Sembilan Home Guard, Federation of Malaya.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence Joseph West, Commanding Officer, Selangor Home Guard, Federation of Malaya.
Additional Officers
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Holroyd Gibbon (66187), Royal Tank Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Compton Lewis (64532), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary) Stuart John Cornfoot, MVO, MBE, ERD (85748), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Geoffrey Wingfield Shepherd, MBE (74564), Corps of Royal Engineers.
Royal Air Force
  • Wing Commander William Alexander Covill (21294).
  • Wing Commander John Frank Davis, DFC, AFC (78867).
  • Wing Commander Charles Walter Hayes (123491).
  • Wing Commander Francis Victor Morello (39256).
  • Wing Commander Charles Trengrove Nance (89935).
  • Wing Commander Donald Arthur Pocock (102191), Royal Air Force Regiment.
  • Wing Commander Robert Edgar Guy Van der Kiste, DSO (39248).
  • Wing Commander David Evelyn Alfred Williams (37581).
  • Acting Wing Commander Albert Longhurst (114790), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch).
  • Squadron Leader Douglas Ian Benham, DFC, AFC (104443).
  • Squadron Leader William Cuthill Blair (119709).
  • Squadron Leader Sydney William Kenneth Hart (167819).
  • Squadron Leader James Carlyle Marmion (165684).
  • Squadron Officer Sheila Penelope Titcombe (3832), Women's Royal Air Force.
  • Squadron Leader John Asquith Wilson (130824).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Peter Howard, MB, BS (502025).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Philip Armett Inman (58640).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Arthur John Wainwright, MB, BS (502218).
Additional Officers
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Wing Commander Edward Charles Ashley (45192).
  • Squadron Leader Robert Henry Collins Hustwith (151796).
  • Squadron Leader John Henry Lowes, AFC (43936).
  • Squadron Leader John Alexander Gwynne Tucker (168600).
Civil Division
  • Richard Acheson. For political services in County Tyrone.
  • Edmund Patrick Grove Annesley, lately managing director, Omo Sawmills, subsidiary of the Colonial Development Corporation, Nigeria.
  • Alfred Henry Appleyard, Principal Clerk to the Corporation of Lloyd's.
  • Donald Charles James Arnold, Chief Constable, Cambridgeshire Constabulary.
  • Herbert Louis Nicholson Ascough, Divisional Manager, Cable & Wireless (West Indies) Ltd., Barbados.
  • Joseph Louis Barentz, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Nellie Beer, JP, Member, Interdepartmental Committee on Horticultural Marketing.
  • Colin Stanley Knowles Benham, Director, Benham & Sons Ltd.
  • Ernest Henry Betts, Deputy Controller, Telecommunications Liaison Group, War Office.
  • Walter John Searles Bew, Clerk, Essex River Board.
  • Alderman Harry Bolland. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Norman Loftus Bor, CIE, assistant director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Alfred Stanley Bowes, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Harold Wiblen Brown. For political and public services in Luton.
  • William George Bunday, Deputy Chief Investigation Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Arthur William Bunnage, Head Postmaster, Stockport, Cheshire.
  • Gilbert John Tudway Cains, Chief Officer, Nottingham Fire Brigade.
  • James William Calder, Senior District Inspector of Mines & Quarries, North Eastern Division, Ministry of Power.
  • William Henry Capper, JP. For public services in Warrington.
  • Arthur William Chapman, Registrar, University of Sheffield.
  • Rowland Charlton, MBE, JP, Alderman, Andover Borough Council.
  • Leslie George Child, Principal, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Hugh Whitmore Christie. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Philip Richard Clipsham, MBE, Principal, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • David Spence Clouston, Veterinary Surgeon, Zetland.
  • Charles Coates, assistant director of Finance, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Frederick James Cochrane, JP, President, Irish Football Association.
  • Alderman Arthur Benjamin Cooke, JP, chairman, Local Health Committee, Gloucestershire County Council.
  • Mabel Alice Dobbin Crawford, MD, FRCSI, Medical Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • The Reverend Canon Louis Warden Crooks, Parliamentary Chaplain, Parliament of Northern Ireland.
  • Herbert George Ovard Cross, MBE, lately deputy director of Naval Information, Admiralty.
  • Eugene John Cruft, MVO. For services to Music.
  • William Victor Curtis, Honorary Secretary, Forces Help Society & Lord Roberts Workshops, South Essex.
  • Cyril Mangnall Davies, Deputy-Chairman, Manchester Savings Committee.
  • Herbert William Dawson, Organist and Master of the Choir, St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.
  • Jack James Bampfylde Dempster, Deputy Chief Education Officer, Southampton.
  • Rose Myfanwy Dewey, Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • William Burton Doak, Chief Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland.
  • Colvin Edward Docker, Chief Engineer, Coastal Command, Royal Air Force.
  • John William Dodd, chairman, Pontypridd Local Employment Committee.
  • Mary Katherine Dorothy Douglas, MB, ChB(Ed). For political and public services in Fife.
  • Herbert Langdon Dowsett. For political and public services in Essex.
  • John Horsfall Dyde, Deputy Chairman, Eastern Gas Board.
  • Margery Helen Edwards, Headmistress, Gleed County Secondary Girls' School, Spalding.
  • Bernard Albert Ellis, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Government Chemist's Department.
  • Bernard Myrddin Evans, Grade I Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Einion Evans, Representative of the British Council, Wales.
  • Harold Fairbank, Director, Luddington Experimental Horticulture Station, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • John Herbert Farmer. For social and charitable services in Guernsey.
  • John Carter Fidler, Principal Scientific Officer, Food Investigation Organisation, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
  • Ronald Field, Member of the Central Youth Employment Executive, Ministry of Labour & National Service, representing the Ministry of Education.
  • Peter Farquhar Flett, Senior Marine Salvage Officer, Mediterranean and Malta.
  • George Ford, Assistant Chief Architect, Ministry of Works.
  • Sidney Colwyn Foulkes. For services to architecture in Wales.
  • Captain Bernard Cecil Frost, Flight Captain, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Frank Gardner, Principal, Carlisle Technical College.
  • Thomas Philip Garland, Clerk, Monmouthshire & Newport Executive Council.
  • William Alfred Gething, lately Senior Chief Executive Officer, Public Works Loan Board.
  • George Isaac Gibbons, Chief Labour Officer, Courtaulds Ltd.
  • George Cruickshank Gilbert, JP, Provost of the Royal Burgh of North Berwick, East Lothian.
  • Gordon Gilchrist, Chief Accountant, Supreme Court Pay Office, Supreme Court of Judicature.
  • Arthur Glover, Head of Technical Research, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd., Manchester.
  • Alderman Ioan Ynyr Glynne, MC, chairman, Caernarvon & Blaenau Festiniog National Insurance Appeal Tribunals.
  • Ann Armstrong Graham, Principal Nursing Officer, Northumberland County Council.
  • John Grant, Chief Constable, Burgh Police Headquarters, Kilmarnock.
  • Percy Victor Norman Grayling, chief executive officer, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
  • Arthur Griffiths, JP, Member, North Western Regional Board for Industry.
  • John William Hall, Senior Inspector (Horticulture), Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Tom Harker, MC, Headmaster, Chester-le-Street (Secondary) Modern School, County Durham.
  • Harold Cecil Harper, Chief Accountant, National Dock Labour Board.
  • Colonel Carrique Edgar Lewin-Harris, DL, Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Somerset.
  • Stanley Charles Camps Harris, JP, Member, South Eastern Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
  • Mary Margaretta Embrey Harrison, MBE, chief executive officer, Foreign Office.
  • Francis John Hartwell, Principal Scientific Officer, Safety in Mines Research Establishment, Ministry of Power.
  • Richard Selwyn Haskew, chairman and managing director, General Chemical & Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
  • John Haslett, MC, Deputy Chief Inspector Board of Customs & Excise.
  • William Ivor Hawkes, chief executive officer, Board of Trade.
  • Maurice Hewitt Hawkins, MBE, Principal, Air Ministry.
  • Alderman Ernest George Heal, JP, Deputy Chairman, Isle of Wight Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Maurice James Hellier, County Planning Officer, Derbyshire.
  • Ernest Harold Hickery, chairman, East Wales Local Productivity Committee.
  • Frank Hill, Regional House Coal Officer, North Midland Region, House Coal Distribution (Emergency) Scheme.
  • Richard Norton Hollyer, Representative of the British Council, Ghana.
  • Alderman Frederick Holmes, Chairman of the Managers, Castle Howard Approved School, Hull.
  • Strother Smith Hopkins, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • Harold Robert Hubert, Senior Chief Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Penrhyn Stanley Hudson, Director, Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding & Genetics.
  • Frederick William Isard, Alderman, Bromley Town Council.
  • Captain Kenneth Wallwyn James, Royal Navy (Retd), Senior Chief Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters.
  • Francis Wynn Jones, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Griffith Vernon Wynne Jones, JP. For political and public services in South Wales.
  • Robert William Kelley, Principal Regional Officer, North West Metropolitan & Southern Hospital Areas, Ministry of Health.
  • Francis Haughton Kelly. For political services in Leicester.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Philip William Thomas Kime, RNVR. For political services in Hertfordshire.
  • Heinz Koeppler, Warden, Wilton Park Centre, Steyning, Foreign Office.
  • Alderman Frederick Lawrence, JP. For public services in Paddington.
  • Charles Louis Lawton, Chief Actuary, York County Savings Bank.
  • Bernard Leslie Lelliott, MBE, Chief Welfare Officer, Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd.
  • Alderman Mary Dorothy Lewis, MBE, JP, chairman, South Wales Street Groups Advisory Savings Committee.
  • Alderman Alfred Herbert Little, JP, For public services in Bournemouth.
  • Gwynneth Nesta McCleary, Principal, Board of Trade.
  • James McClenaghan, chairman, Larne Harbour Ltd., County Antrim.
  • Leslie Ashby Macdonnell, Member Variety Sub-Committee, Combined Services Entertainment Advisory Committee.
  • John Alexander McGregor, Burgh Engineer, Surveyor & Planning Officer, Paisley.
  • Harry Roy Mackay, Firemaster, South Western Area Fire Brigade, Scotland.
  • Ellen Jane McLaughlin, Headmistress, Lawside Roman Catholic Academy, Dundee.
  • Donald Alexander Stewart McLeish, For political services in Glasgow.
  • Maud Lilburn MacLellan, TD, Corps Commander, Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry).
  • Herbert Blythe Mallalieu, Principal Intelligence Officer, War Office.
  • Alderman Howard Rothwell Mallett. Assistant County Commissioner for Relationship, Cambridgeshire, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Edith Louise Manley, MBE, Regional Administrator, Northern Region, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Edward Grey Marchant, MBE, chief executive officer, Air Ministry.
  • Noel John Margetts, lately chief executive officer, Admiralty.
  • Henry Alfred Metayers, Senior Architect, Home Office.
  • Commander Thomas Gerald Michelmore, RD, RNR (Retd), Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Mighall, Chief Constable, Southport Borough Police.
  • David Forbes Milne, Generation Engineer, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Tummel Valley Stations.
  • George Morrison, managing director, Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd.
  • William Morrison Morrison, Principal, Scottish Education Department.
  • Edward Reginald Mount, Principal Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Alexander Ernest Munro, Principal Surveyor for Japan, Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
  • Major Robert Alistair Murray. For political and public services in Scotland.
  • Helen Mary Murtagh, Member, Board of Governors, United Birmingham Hospitals.
  • The Honourable Lucia Charlotte Susan FitzRoy-Newdegate, JP. For political and public services in Warwickshire.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Newman, VC, TD, DL, Director, W. & C. French Ltd., Civil Engineering and Public Works Contractors, Essex.
  • John Hewley Outhwaite Noble, Deputy Controller, Scotland. Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Thomas Park Noble, Chief Engineer, SS Edinburgh Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd.
  • Cyril Vernon Oliver, JP, chairman, Maidstone & District Local Employment Committee.
  • Arthur Douglas Parham, Deputy Chief Housing and Planning Inspector, Ministry of Housing & Local Government
  • Arthur Reginald Parr, District Auditor, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel James Beaumont Worsley Pennyman, JP, DL. For public services in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
  • John Alexander Philip, managing director, Philip and Son Ltd., Dartmouth.
  • Alfred Samuel Charles Phillips, Principal Production Engineer, Admiralty.
  • John Francis Phillips, Lately Assistant General Secretary, National Farmers' Union.
  • The Reverend Martin Wallis Pinker, General Secretary, National Association of Discharged Prisoners Aid Societies.
  • William Henry Pocock, JP, Member, Traffic Commissioners, South Eastern Traffic Area.
  • Cecil Norman Potter, County Commissioner, Middlesex, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Brigadier James Maudsley Rawcliffe, MC, TD. For political services.
  • Frank Aubrey Rawlings, Finance Officer, Central Electricity Authority.
  • Augustus Cecil Reeve, MBE, chief executive officer, HM Treasury.
  • Arthur Reginald Albert Rendall, Head of Designs Department, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Alderman Sidney Frank Rich. For political and public services in Wandsworth.
  • Frederick Lubovius Richard, MB, ChB, Commissioner, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Staffordshire.
  • Alfred Richardson, Deputy Public Relations Adviser, Prime Minister's Office.
  • Walter James Robinson, assistant director of Stores, Admiralty.
  • Michael Joseph Ronayne, Chief Engineer, Ford Motor Co. Ltd.
  • Olive Mary Rudd, JP. For political and public services in Exeter.
  • James Henry Rule, MBE, Member, National Savings Assembly, South Buckinghamshire.
  • Susan Ryder. For services to Displaced Persons and Refugees in Western Germany.
  • Walter Howard Scarborough, Telephone Manager, Canterbury, General Post Office.
  • Edward Shanks, Principal Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
  • Captain Henry Alldred Shaw, Master, SS Pacific Fortune, Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.
  • Neil Shaw, lately President, An Comunn Gàidhealach (The Highland Association).
  • Ronald Andrew Shaw, assistant director, Aircraft Research, Ministry of Supply.
  • Herbert Basil Sheasby, MBE, JP, Joint Secretary, National Federation of Wholesale Grocers & Provision Merchants.
  • Henry Arthur Thomas Simmonds, Deputy County Commissioner, London, Boy Scouts Association.
  • William John Simmons, JP, chairman, Berkshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Thomas Haines Sims, Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Arthur Roy Slyth, deputy director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department.
  • Norman Arthur Smedley, Finance Officer and Chief Accountant, Post Office Headquarters, Scotland.
  • John Smiles, Senior Scientific Officer, Department of Biophysics & Optics, National Institute for Medical Research.
  • The Honourable Marjorie Methwold Constantine-Smith. For political and public services in Lancashire and Cheshire.
  • Thomas Robert Howey Smith, JP, chairman, Jarrow & Hebburn Disablement Advisory Committee.
  • Alderman Emanuel Snowman. For public services in Hampstead.
  • Herbert George Spencer, JP, Deputy Chairman, Monmouthshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Joanna Ravenscroft Spicer, Head of Programme Planning, Television Service, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Reginald Stacey, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • William Joe Stern, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence.
  • Clifford William Stevens. For political and public services in Portsmouth.
  • George Alexander Stevens, Honorary Secretary, Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance.
  • Charles Stewart, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Albert Leonard Story, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Air Ministry.
  • John Terence Sutton, Higher Waterguard Superintendent, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Herbert Thomas Symons, chairman, Bournemouth War Pensions Committee.
  • Alderman Ellen Maud Thornton. For public services in Eastbourne.
  • John Thomas Tomblin, Superintendent, Planning Trials Division, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston.
  • Lionel Peter Twiss, DSC, Chief Test Pilot, Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd.
  • Claude Anderson George Wallis, Principal, Colonial Office.
  • Ernest Victor Walshe, Town Planning Officer, Belfast Corporation.
  • Sidney Francis Ward, chief executive officer, Ministry of Works.
  • Wyndham Evelyn Holmes Watkins, Consulting Engineer and Architect, South Wales.
  • Ronald Wentworth, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • Walter Westin, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Gordon Weston, Technical Director, British Standards Institution.
  • Edward Whitworth, Deputy Research Manager, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (Nobel Division), Ardeer.
  • Richard Hilditch Williams, Senior Railway Employment Inspector, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Thomas Hamilton Wilson, Secretary, Herring Industry Board.
  • Victor Henry Wilton, assistant director of Aircraft Production, Ministry of Supply.
  • Harry Charles Wood, chairman, Deeside & District Savings Committee.
  • William Wood, MB, BS, Head of Virus Research Unit, Glaxo Laboratories Ltd.
  • The Reverend Canon Howard Frank Woolnough, Wing Chaplain, Manchester Wing, and chairman, Chaplains' Committee, Air Training Corps.
  • Arthur Wragg, Manager, Shell Department, and Chief Metallurgist, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Sydney James Wrigglesworth, Director and General Manager, Oldham & Sons Ltd., Denton, Manchester.
  • Joseph Gilbert Yardley, MBE, Secretary, Bath & West and Southern Counties Society.
  • Dora Abdela, British subject resident in Monaco.
  • Fergus Lee Dempster, DSC, lately Second Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Saigon.
  • Charles Edward Hobart Druitt, MC, Assistant Petroleum Attaché at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • John Edmund Fox, General Manager of the Turyag Company, İzmir.
  • Albert Victor Goudie, British Consul at Coquimbo.
  • William Bertram Hesmondhalgh, lately First Secretary (Information), United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations, New York.
  • Geoffrey Lionel Henry Hitchcock, British Council Representative in Austria.
  • Alfred Horace King, lately Manager of British Coaling Depots Ltd., Port Tewfik.
  • Robert Littlejohn, British subject resident in Argentina.
  • Howard Sydney Meech, British Governor of the Allied National Prison, Werl.
  • Leslie Mitchell, First Secretary (Labour) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Walter Thomas Rees, a Director of Messrs. Hull, Blyth & Co. (Port Said) Ltd., lately of Port Said.
  • Colonel Michael Joseph O'Brien-Twohig, Superintending Queen's Foreign Service Messenger.
  • Henry James Walker, lately Assistant Cultural Attaché at Her Majesty's Embassy in Bonn.
  • William John Wilkinson, General Manager of the Banque-de-Commerce, Antwerp.
  • Captain Guy Dingwall Williams, MC, British Vice-Consul at Jerez de la Frontera.
  • Karl Frederick Waverling Woods, lately Chief Engineer, Iraqi State Railways.
  • Paulin Frederick Barrett, MBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport & Works, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Thomas James Biggs, MB, ChM, Vice Chairman of the Board of Management, and Senior Physician, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Sydney, State of New South Wales.
  • John Brown. For municipal services in the State of New South Wales.
  • The Reverend James Maxwell Burton, a missionary in Basutoland. For services to African Education.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Griffith Ffloyd Chomley. For social welfare services in the Marandellas/Wedza District, Southern Rhodesia.
  • The Honourable John Alexander Ferguson, formerly a Member of the Industrial Commission in the State of New South Wales. For public services.
  • Noel Gerald Carleton Gane, FRCS(Ed), a Consultant Surgeon, of Salisbury, in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Anne Blanche Alice Gordon, MBE. For honorary services rendered under the auspices of organisations for the care of the Blind and Physically Handicapped in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Robert Joseph Hawkes, Chairman of the Ambulance Transport Service Board, State of New South Wales.
  • Peter Hughes, District Commissioner, Maseru, Basutoland.
  • Acting Chief Constructor-Captain Leonard Kirkpatrick, Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, detached for loan service to the Indian Navy.
  • Edward Acton Lloyd, Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Organisation in the State of New South Wales.
  • John Arthur King Martyn, Headmaster of The Doon School, Dehra Dun, India.
  • Otto Mastbaum, Malaria Medical Officer, Swaziland Medical Service.
  • Donald McLennan, JP, of Scottsdale, State of Tasmania. For public services.
  • Jean Eileen Muntz, President of the Royal College of Nursing in the State of Victoria.
  • John Francis Chalmers Park, musical director of the Bulawayo Municipal Orchestra, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Julia Rapke, Special Magistrate, Children's Courts, State of Victoria.
  • Alderman Walter Frederick Riddiford, Mayor of the City of Broken Hill, State of New South Wales.
  • Councillor Robert Monteith Rolland, Sale Town Council, State of Victoria.
  • The Reverend Gordon Rowe, President of the Methodist Conference, State of South Australia. For social welfare services, particularly to Aborigines.
  • Tom Ceilings Stephens, formerly Garden Suburb Commissioner, State of South Australia.
  • Sidney Bruce Williams, ISO, Administrative Officer, Swaziland.
  • Bryan Abbott, MBE, Administrative Officer, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Chief Samuel Adeloye Aboluwodi. For services to the Co-operative Movement in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Stanley Vernon Adams, JP, City Secretary & Treasurer, George Town, Penang, Federation of Malaya.
  • Joseph Antoine Hermann Andre, MBE, MRCS, LRCP, deputy director of Medical Services, Mauritius.
  • Arthur Henry Armitage, Overseas Audit Service, deputy director of Audit, Singapore.
  • Marie Grace Augustin. For public services in St. Lucia, Windward Islands.
  • Frederick William Bailey, Controller of Government Stores, Northern Rhodesia.
  • George Percy Bargery, Translator, British and Foreign Bible Society, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Max Barnett For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Humphrey Malomo Samuel Boardman, LRCS, LRCP, assistant director of Medical Services, Sierra Leone.
  • Major David Ronald Bridges, Blind Welfare Officer, Department of Social Welfare, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ronald Ernest Brown, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice & Local Government, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Herbert Charles Butcher, DSC, deputy director of Chemistry, Federation of Malaya.
  • William Ernest Calton, Government Chemist, Tanganyika.
  • Chan Chi On. For public services in North Borneo.
  • Ainslie Bennett Leigh Clarke, Administrative Officer, Federation of Malaya.
  • Edward James Cooper. For public services in Johore, Federation of Malaya.
  • Sidney Ernest Coppen, Senior Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Department, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations.
  • Alfred John Craig, MD, FRCS. For medical services in Malta.
  • Ivan Robert Dale. Lately Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests, Uganda.
  • Florence Evelyn Daysh. For social and welfare services in Barbados.
  • Muthiah Doraisingham, Deputy Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health & Deputy Director of Medical Services, Singapore.
  • William Henry Especkerman, MBE, Assistant to the Private Secretary to the Governor, Singapore.
  • Mabel Lucy Everett, Queen Elizabeth Overseas Nursing Service, Principal Matron, Medical Department, Hong Kong.
  • John Cartwright Braddon Fisher, Administrative Officer, Sarawak.
  • Gilbert Maxwell Fletcher, Deputy Establishment Secretary, Uganda.
  • Margaret Ferguson Gartshore, Headmistress, St. Andrew High School for Girls, Jamaica.
  • Allan James Gerard, Chief Generation Engineer, Central Electricity Board, Federation of Malaya.
  • Frederick William Goodwin, Government Printer and Comptroller of Stationery, Zanzibar.
  • John William Gregory, Comptroller of Customs & Excise, British Guiana.
  • Charles Curtis Harris, Administrative Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Alhaji Isa Kaita, Minister of Natural Resources, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Miriam Janisch, Assistant Director-of Education, Kenya.
  • Captain Robert Philip Johnstone. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Anne Laugharne Phillips Griffith-Jones, MBE. For services to education in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Chief Majebere bin Masanja, MBE, Chief of Mwagalla Chiefdom, Maswa District, Tanganyika.
  • John Mackay Malcolm, Provincial Commissioner, Sierra Leone.
  • Baldev Sahai Mohindra. For public services in Kenya.
  • Leonard Geoffrey Morgan, deputy director of Education, Hong Kong.
  • Major Omer Faik Muftizade, MBE, Commissioner, Paphos, Cyprus.
  • Kenneth Crosthwaite Murray, Surveyor of Antiquities, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Adam Noble. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Derek Antony Gordon Reeve, Senior District Commissioner, Nyasaland.
  • The Venerable Archdeacon Harry Vivian Collett Reynolds, Archdeacon of the Solomons and Vicar-General of the Diocese, Western Pacific.
  • Dhun Jehangir Ruttonjee, JP. For public services in Hong Kong.
  • Mallam Muhammadu Sambo. For public services in the Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Lauraeston Sharp, Senior Assistant Commissioner, Uganda Police Force.
  • Robert Stewart Slessor, MB, ChB, Senior Medical Officer, Falkland Islands.
  • Major Ian Edmund Snell, MBE, Assistant Adviser, Eastern Aden Protectorate.
  • Edward Charles Sowe, MBE, Postmaster General, Gambia.
  • Donald Stephens, Director of Intelligence, Cyprus.
  • Arthur Wesley Sugunaratnam Thevathasan, MRCP. For public services in Singapore.
  • George Worthington Thom, Administrative Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Thomas Charles Whitbread Tippin, Senior Marine Engineer, East African Railways & Harbours Administration.
  • Joseph Vassallo, Director of Education, Malta.
  • Harold George Ward, Deputy Representative, Overseas Territories Income Tax Office.
  • Edward John Hugo Colchester-Wemyss, Commissioner, Bahamas Police Force.
  • Edward Williams, deputy director of Agriculture, Nyasaland.
Honorary Officers
  • Yeoh Cheang Kang, JP. For public services in Perak, Federation of Malaya.
  • Abdul Rahman Mohamed Abu Bakar. For public services in Penang, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ameri Tajo. For public services in Zanzibar.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Lieutenant-Commander Sidney William Alfred Charlton, BEM, RNVR.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Richard George Ralph Clay.
  • Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Sydney William Dobinson, (Retd).
  • First Officer Margaret Louise Doughty, Women's Royal Naval Service.
  • Supply Lieutenant Kenneth Leonard Finch, BEM, (Retd).
  • Lieutenant-Commander (SP) James Hunter, RNVR.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Jackson, (Retd).
  • Major Thomas Melvin Lenham, Royal Marines.
  • Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Charles Leonard Martin.
  • Recruiting Officer Alfred Henry Edward Watkins.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (SD) Alfred Henry West.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Robert Andrew Williams.
  • Lieutenant (SD) George Alan Morley Wookey.
Additional Members
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Lieutenant-Commander George Hill Creese, HMS Eagle.
  • Lieutenant-Commander John Homersham Golds, HMS Newfoundland.
  • Lieutenant-Commander John Morris Jones, 895 Royal Naval Air Squadron.
  • Lieutenant John Arthur Charles Morgan, 845 Royal Naval Air Squadron.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Eric Norman Read, HMS Kingarth
  • Lieutenant-Commander Deryck Arthur James Sheppard, 810 Royal Naval Air Squadron.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Alan Montagu Burleigh Taylor, HMS Eagle.
Army
  • Captain Wellington Umo Bassey (WA/1), The Royal West African Frontier Force.
  • Major James Willcox Berridge (86005), Irish Guards.
  • 22557866 Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Bowles, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Jack Broadbent (345215), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (Director of Music) Basil Hector Brown, ARCM (388004), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Thomas Hadden Caldwell, TD (384611), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Major Sidney George Chissim (307697), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Peter Hollis Clayton (397206), The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  • S/57239 Warrant Officer Class I Reginald Stanley Cole, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • S/782249 Warrant Officer Class I Laurence Charles Collins, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain George William Cox (414005), Royal Army Dental Corps.
  • Major Thomas Stevenson Craig, MC (85709), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 2976865 Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Montgomery Crumlish, MM, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major Robert James Patrick Cummins (174748), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant Welby Arthur James Davey, TD (67721), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) John Arthur Davies, TD (291101), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • 2615076 Warrant Officer Class I Alfred Dickinson, Grenadier Guards.
  • 21021029 Warrant Officer Class I Martin Dillon, Royal Pioneer Corps.
  • Major Sidney Ernest Dutton (355689), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Henry Edwards (113927), The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
  • Major (acting) John Robert Fisher (69568), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Captain Ernest Floweth (327380), Corps of Royal Military Police.
  • Captain (acting) Thomas Forbes, TD (221725), Combined Cadet Force.
  • 1103322 Warrant Officer Class II Alexander Cecil Green, The Parachute Regiment Glider Pilot & Parachute Corps.
  • S/14298191 Warrant Officer Class II William Terence Griffiths, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain Edwin Xavier Halliday (337218), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Ernest Harold Hancock (265484), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • The Reverend John Francis Wrangham Hardy, TD, Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class (86757), Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Territorial Army.
  • Major Diana Mia Hewitt (196042), late Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • 21001474 Warrant Officer Class II George Arthur Jelley, The Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Hugh McCarter Joel, MM (422096), Coldstream Guards.
  • Major Cecil Francis Kirby, TD (33040), Royal Corps of Signals, Army Emergency Reserve (For services with the Combined Cadet Force).
  • Major (Quartermaster) Edward Horace Lane (246478), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major (acting) Frederick Lionel Le Franc (374607), Army Cadet Force.
  • 7883872 Warrant Officer Class I Owen Arthur Lester, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 22221006 Warrant Officer Class II Reginald Vaughan Marriott, Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), Territorial Army..
  • 4913359 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Edward Marshall, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).
  • Major William Edwin Martin (67781), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Leslie Mellor (210077), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Major (temporary) Edward Henry Merry (302643), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Captain Frederick William Levin Miller (177373), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List).
  • 22243844 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Thomas George Morgan, The Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • 21015682 Warrant Officer Class II John Michael Murphy, The Parachute Regiment, Glider Pilot & Parachute Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Reginald Neal (414198), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
  • Major (temporary) Raymond Clephn Werner Nightingale (KR.5713), The Kenya Regiment, Territorial Force.
  • T/61102 Warrant Officer Class I Arthur Saward Ogden, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • ER/6001435 Warrant Officer Class II Bertie Oliver, The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).
  • Major (temporary) John Herbert George Parfect (271777), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Charles Parmee (378411), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Army Emergency Reserve.
  • Major Peter Alec Paxton (205942), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • 5763457 Warrant Officer Class II John Herbert Pearce, The Royal Norfolk Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Alec Dennis Pelling (221173), 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Captain Victor Hamilton Philip (427504), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
  • Captain Ernest George James Pott (420507), General List.
  • 879859 Warrant Officer Class II Charles Thomas Preston, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Henry Lally Tolendal Radice (180619), The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • Major (Quartermaster) George Merson Reid (113040), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Robert Donald Alexander Renton, MC (87095), 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Charles Abiathan Rice (181970), The South Wales Borderers (Employed List).
  • Captain (acting) William Thomas Richards (351373), Army Cadet Force.
  • Captain Harry Rothwell (373641), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Charles Norman Russell (407672), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • 14889886 Warrant Officer Class II Grenville Savage, The Parachute Regiment, Glider Pilot & Parachute Corps.
  • Captain Richard John Shackleton (360424), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Denis Story Sole (73140), The Border Regiment.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Joseph William Storey (107087), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • 2324422 Warrant Officer Class I Cecil Armstrong Thompson, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major Richard James Andrew Watt (73092), Welsh Guards.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Edward Henry Ford Watts (244322), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
  • 5381454 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Wigg, Intelligence Corps.
  • Major Hugh Rowan Marett Wilkin (64581), The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
  • 6134739 Warrant Officer Class II Hector Lisle Stuart-William, The East Surrey Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • 4184388 Warrant Officer Class II John David Williams, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
  • Major and Paymaster Walter Basil Wilton, MC (182431), Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Dudley Lancefield Wolstenholme (165197), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (now retired).
Additional Members
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Major Kenneth D'Alby (132343), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Charles Whish Dunbar (121519), The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
  • Major Thomas Henry Giffard Fletcher (95199), Royal Corps of Signals. Now RARO.
  • Major (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Harry Kline, MC (321001), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Henry Andrew Thomas Rosser, ERD (219722), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Michael Guy Stevens (166461), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Stephen MacPhail Yeoman (233089), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (Temporary) Lionel Alexander Digby Harrod (320943), Grenadier Guards.
  • Captain (Temporary Major) Hugh William Longbourne Browne (303370), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • 22819000 Warrant Officer Class II Edward Daniel George Cavanagh, Corps of Royal Engineers.
Honorary Members
  • Lieutenant Foo Gee Teng, Platoon Commander, Kulai New Village Home Guard, Federation of Malaya.
  • Honorary Captain Sivagnanam Rajaratnam, Home Guard Inspector, Negri Sembilan, Federation of Malaya.
  • Warrant Officer Class II Loh Chee Mee, Patrol Commander, Kinta Valley Home Guard, Federation of Malaya.
Royal Air Force
  • Squadron Leader Edwin Harold Burgess, DFC (159449).
  • Squadron Leader Valentine Harold Hemming (140930).
  • Squadron Leader Arthur Leslie Fairhurst Lloyd (57771).
  • Squadron Leader Irwyn Morse Perkins, MRCS, LRCP (202773).
  • Squadron Leader Merlyn Williams (49695).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Gilbert William Goodwin (59088).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Roland Humphrey (503310).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Roy Massey Hutson (504353).
  • Flight Lieutenant Adrian Frederick Clement Colthurst Adcock (502474).
  • Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Beard (501103).
  • Flight Lieutenant Anthony Burdess (51787).
  • Flight Lieutenant Francis Bolam Cowen, MC, TD (149992), Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment.
  • Flight Lieutenant David James Cutts (50224).
  • Flight Lieutenant Peter William Gee (700746).
  • Flight Lieutenant Brian Geoffrey Greenbank (45450).
  • Flight Lieutenant Osmond Roy Griffiths (591553).
  • Flight Lieutenant Roy Hedger (58878).
  • Flight Lieutenant Stanley Jackson (179342).
  • Flight Lieutenant William Keith MacTaggart (3117688).
  • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Mail (142094), Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Robert John McGurk Melvin (132454), Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Harry Patterson (501097), (Retd).
  • Flight Lieutenant Harry Russell (508015).
  • Flight Lieutenant George Alan Stalker (1820115).
  • Flight Officer Barbara Constance Stannard (2170006), Women's Royal Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Robert Beresford Walker (200582).
  • Flight Lieutenant John Samuel McCulloch Wallace (163201).
  • Flight Lieutenant Stanley Thomas Frederick Webb (166107).
  • Yuzbashi Mohamed Said Yafai (3482), Aden Protectorate Levies.
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Joseph Francis Duffin (65237), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant Dudley Charles Palmer (189023), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch).
  • Flying Officer Billy Yarnall, BEM (568608).
  • Warrant Officer George Barron (590990).
  • Warrant Officer Roland Bourton (513012).
  • Warrant Officer Jack Copus (564560).
  • Warrant Officer George Kyffyn Done (572019).
  • Warrant Officer Albert Rees Evans (565322).
  • Warrant Officer Frederick William Humberstone (235655).
  • Warrant Officer Sydney Victor Hunt (510689).
  • Warrant Officer Meurig Jones (590978).
  • Warrant Officer Bernard Lockwood (562848).
  • Warrant Officer Frank William Heman Parsons (561205).
  • Warrant Officer Percival Gloyn Tall (365814).
  • Warrant Officer Frank Ward (511719).
  • Acting Warrant Officer Louis Percy Marfleet (552482).
Additional Members
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Squadron Leader Peter George Coulson, AFC (55836).
  • Squadron Leader Albert Hudson Streeter (50422).
  • Squadron Leader David Rutherford Ware, DFC, AFC (169023).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Vaughan Henshaw (172788).
  • Flight Lieutenant Douglas Bourke (518586).
  • Flight Lieutenant Stanley Albert Waring (137084).
  • Flying Officer John-White Fraser (1822429).
Civil Division
  • Margaret Allan, Honorary Secretary, Stonehaven (Kincardine) Savings Group.
  • Doris Nellie Allen, Executive Officer, Office of the Crown Estate Commissioners, (now Executive Officer, National Assistance Board).
  • Sidney Allman, Area Chief Mechanical Engineer, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
  • Evelyn Richardson Anderson, Honorary Secretary, Glasgow Tree Lovers' Society.
  • Ruby Lilian Anderson, JP, Centre Organiser, Luton, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Harold Bradley Andrews, Assistant Regional Manager, Eastern Region, War Damage Commission & Central Land Board.
  • John William Ansell, Chief Clerk, Telephone Manager's Office, Leeds, General Post Office.
  • Thomas Henry Arnold, Deputy Controller of Research, Hadfields Ltd.
  • Walter Provan Arrol, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Alec William Astling, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Raymond John Ayers, Assistant County Surveyor, Devon County Council.
  • Arthur Hedley Bantham, Light Spring Shop Manager, John Spencer & Sons (1928) Ltd., Newburn, Northumberland.
  • William Wilfrid Barber. For political services in Pontefract.
  • Henry Charles Barham, Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Lewis James Barrell, Honorary Secretary, Colchester Savings Committee.
  • Alderman Thomas Henry Bate, chairman, Chester District Committee, Cheshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Arthur Hurle Bathard, Experimental Officer, Rodent Research Branch, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • Alderman Thomas Battersby, JP, National Officer (Retail Meat Trade and Slaughterhouse Industry), Union of Shop, Distributive & Allied Workers.
  • Philip Edwin Bayley, Second Clerk, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
  • George Reginald Bean, lately Chief Clerk, York District Probate Registry, Supreme Court of Judicature.
  • Bernard Thomas Beaumont, Area Commissioner and County Secretary, Kent, St. John Ambulance Brigade.
  • Frederick Henry Bennett, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Arthur Howard Bevan, Telecommunications Traffic Superintendent, Cardiff, General Post Office.
  • Elsie Bickley, Headmistress, Sherwood County Primary School, Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
  • Frederic Arthur Bird, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Sidney Black, Coal and Products Officer, Northern Gas Board.
  • Alfred Blamire, chairman, Newton-le Willows-Unit, Sea Cadet Corps, Lancashire.
  • Doris May Blanks, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence.
  • Agnes Leila Mildred Boden, Division Commissioner, Nottingham (Forest), Girl Guides Association.
  • Basil Frederick Boothby, Head of Export Assistance Department, National Union of Manufacturers.
  • Archibald Whitelaw Boyd, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Albert Arthur Brake, Assistant Secretary, Aldershot & District Traction Co.
  • Ida Brandon, Assistant to the Honorary Secretary, Northern Ireland District, Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association.
  • William Henry Brickwood, chairman, Loughborough District Committee, Leicestershire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Charles Henry Briggs, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer, No.13 Works Area Headquarters, Air Ministry.
  • Lady Barbara Ruggles-Brise, Senior Social Worker, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.
  • Hermione Joyce Cecilia Bromwich, Warden, Dockland Settlement No.4, London.
  • Ernest Alfred Brooks, Higher Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters.
  • Harold Denovan Bruce, Head of Electronics Application Department, W. H. Smith & Co. Ltd., Electrical Engineers.
  • Charles Arthur Bryer, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Eric William Budden, Honorary Secretary, St. Thomas Secondary School Savings Group, Salisbury.
  • Henry Burch, JP, chairman, Eastry District Committee, Kent Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Robert Evan Burns. For political services in County Londonderry.
  • Ella Maud Burrows, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Edmund Alfred Bushell, chairman, Dover Local Employment Committee.
  • William Harold Butler, Head Postmaster, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
  • Reginald James Brooks Butt, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Annie Caley, Senior Ward Sister, the Pastures Hospital, Mickleover, Derby.
  • Jack Alexander Calvesbert, Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Daniel Carmichael, National Secretary, Merchant Navy & Air Line Officers' Association.
  • John Alexander Carss. For political services.
  • Gertrude Carter, lately District Midwife, Hertfordshire County Council.
  • Kenneth Charles Graham Chambers. For services to the British Legion.
  • Mary Chambers, Headmistress, North Cadbury Church of England School, Somerset.
  • George Alexander Chapman, Chief Papermaker, Alexander Cowan & Sons Ltd.
  • Wilfred Baker Claridge, Divisional Engineer and Manager, Swindon Division, South Western Gas Board.
  • Ernest Harcourt Coleman, Senior Experimental Officer, Fire Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
  • Ethel May Coles. For political and public services in Buckinghamshire.
  • Catherine Elisabeth Cooke, Senior Woman Physical Education Organiser, Bristol Local Education Authority.
  • William Coop, Chief Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Salford.
  • George Ellis Cooper, Senior Assistant, Harriseahead County Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
  • James Robinson Corrin, JP, lately Member, Legislative Council, Isle of Man.
  • William Arthur Coslett, BEM, Manager, Cable & Wireless (West Indies) Ltd., Jamaica.
  • Edward James Cotterell, Production Superintendent, Wellington Tube Works, Great Bridge, Staffordshire.
  • Sydney Herbert Counter, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Winifred May Cox, Training Officer, Emergency Bed Service for London.
  • Frederick William Coxhead, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Winifred Margaret Cragg Turner, Senior Auditor, Exchequer & Audit Department.
  • Frederick Dean Cresswell, Revenue Accountant, British European Airways Corporation.
  • John Curtis, Assistant Honorary Clerk, General Purposes Sub-Committee, Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee.
  • William Wallace Burnyeat Dalzell, District Commissioner, Whitehaven District, Cumberland, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Winifred Monica Dance, Secretary, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
  • Hector Frederic Townsend Davey, JP, chairman, Whitstable Savings Committee, Kent.
  • Frederick Davidson, Manager, Government Contracts Department, Revo Electric Co. Ltd., Tipton, Staffordshire.
  • Gilbert Marr Davies, Manager, Mode Wheel (Trafford Park) Terminal, Manchester, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd.
  • William Edwin Davis, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • Frank Dalmeny Dawtry, Secretary, National Association of Probation Officers.
  • Leslie Day, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Emile Alexander Paul De Waele, Chairman of Committee, No.16 F (Wood Green & Hornsey) Squadron, Air Training Corps.
  • John James Duffy, JP, General Secretary, Union of Jute, Flax & Kindred Textile Operatives, Dundee.
  • Ethel Clara Duke, lately Headmistress, Hartley House School for the Deaf.
  • Peter Ferguson Dunbar, Scottish Executive, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • John Alan Dunkley, Development Engineer and Designer-in-Charge, R. B. Pullin & Co. Ltd., Brentford, Middlesex.
  • Arthur Douglas Durbin, General Secretary, Federation of British Manufacturers of Sports & Games Ltd.
  • Sydney Charles Elliott, Customs Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • William Arthur Ellis. For political and public services in Stockton-on-Tees.
  • Douglas William Emmott, Regional Secretary (Yorkshire), National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.
  • Harry Evans, Divisional Mental Welfare Officer, West Central Division, Middlesex County Council.
  • Colonel Henry Conrad Tindal Faithfull, Retired Officer, Grade II, War Office.
  • Albert Ferguson, Assistant Engineer, Belfast Corporation Transport Department.
  • Annie Elizabeth Fisher, Clerical Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Gerald Bernard Fisher, Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Dorys Murita Fletcher. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Nancy Howard Fletcher, County Organiser, Glamorgan, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • William Nicholas Fox, Chief Draughtsman, Engineering Department, HM Dockyard, Rosyth.
  • Arnold Gordon Francis, Waterguard Surveyor, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Edwin Franks, MC, Deputy County Commissioner, North Riding, Boy Scouts Association.
  • George French, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • Pamela Winifred Freston, Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Frederick Robert Edward Clark Gale, Senior Museum Assistant, Science Museum.
  • George Michael Gapp, Grade B3 Officer, Government Communications Headquarters.
  • Evelyn Rosanna Garnett, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
  • Norman Garside. For political services in Coventry.
  • James Henry Gazzard, Accountant, Headquarters, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes.
  • Phyllis Eleanor Angela Gelli. For political services.
  • Arthur Ernest Gettens, Senior Executive Officer, Public Trustee Office.
  • James Gilbert, Honorary General Secretary, Scottish Amateur Athletic Association.
  • Herbert Laurence Gilder, Accountant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
  • Harold Cecil Francis Gill, Senior Accountant, Ministry of Power.
  • George Walter Gillam, Senior Executive Officer, War Office.
  • George Glover. For political and public services in Northumberland.
  • Norman Wilfoy Goodall, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Frederic Causley Goodger, Accountant, Colonial Development Corporation.
  • Cyril Charles Goodhind, Administrative Secretary, Imperial Headquarters, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Marie Louise Goodway, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Stanley Mark Gray, Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Horace Edward Green, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • William Jesse Green, Clerk of the Works, York Minster.
  • Walter Stanley Gregory, Slaughterhouse Superintendent, Guildford Corporation Abattoir.
  • William Glyn Griffith. For political and public services in North Wales.
  • Margaret Macpherson Guthrie, JP. For political services in Kinross and Perthshire.
  • Kathleen Mary Haddock, HM District Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Ernest Frederick Hall, Assistant Chief Constable, Surrey Constabulary.
  • George Hallam, Group Scoutmaster, 8th Stoke-on-Trent Group, Staffordshire, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Mary Jane Halsey. For services as Manageress, "The Connaught" Sailors', Soldiers' & Airmen's Home, Malta.
  • Eric Halson, Chief Examiner of Paper and Office Requisites, HM Stationery Office.
  • Wilfred Richard Hammond, School Purser and Chief Clerk, National Sea Training School, Sharpness.
  • Alderman John Handley, JP, chairman, South District Committee, Westmorland Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • David Hanna, Principal, Enniskillen Technical Education Area, County Fermanagh.
  • Rotchford Charles Hanner. For political services in Woolwich.
  • Tom Oliver Harper, JP, Member, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.
  • Elizabeth Gertrude Harrison. For political services in Northampton.
  • Observer Lieutenant Robert Charles Harrod, Area Training Officer, Eastern Area, Royal Observer Corps.
  • Harold William Hart, Senior Executive Officer, National Assistance Board.
  • Henrietta Hawkins, JP. For political and public services in Hampshire.
  • Arthur Edmund Hayne. For political and public services in Surrey.
  • John Frederick Head. For services to Archaeology in Buckinghamshire.
  • Cyril Michael Heathcote, chairman, Mansfield, Retford & District War Pensions Committee.
  • Agnes Heaton. For political and public services in the Spen Valley.
  • Kate Henderson, Welfare Supervisor (Women), North Eastern Region, British Railways.
  • Francis Merchant Hermon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence.
  • Kathleen May Hill, Woman Police Staff Officer, Home Office and Scottish Home Department.
  • Olive Lois Hillbrook, Land Ranger Adviser for England, Girl Guides Association,
  • Isabelle Marian Hilliers, Staff Officer-in-Charge, Invalid Travel Section. British Red Cross Society.
  • Walter Hinchcliffe, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Charles Stephen Hindwood, Senior Executive Officer, Paymaster General's Office.
  • John Heath Hoare, Assistant Engineer, General Post Office.
  • Joan Margaret Hoban, Administrative Assistant, Transcription Service, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Eleanor Hollinshead, Scottish. Headquarters Officer, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Richard John William Hollis, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Patrick Stephen Horrigan, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • Alexis Francis Houlberg, chairman, Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.
  • Henry Houston, Commissioner, North Western. Region, National Savings Committee.
  • Jane Henderson McNeill Houston, JP, chairman, Fife War Pensions Committee.
  • James Pryor Howard, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, National Federation of Far Eastern Prisoners-of-War Clubs & Associations.
  • Oliver Stanley Howden, JP, Member, Doncaster Rural District Council.
  • Thomas Patrick Howkins, MRCS, LRCP, Divisional Medical Officer, Southern Region, British Railways.
  • Robert Howorth, chairman, Bury, Rawtenstall & District War Pensions Committee.
  • Charles Humphries, Higher Executive Officer, British Museum.
  • Cyril Herbert Donald Hurdle. For political and public services in Salisbury.
  • Thomas Richard Ierland. For political and public services in Battersea.
  • Sidney Charles Ireland, Editor of Debates, House of Lords.
  • Edmund Alexander Jackson, Chief Registrar, Shipping Federation Ltd.
  • Kenneth Noel Jacques, Senior Warning Officer, Civil Defence Corps, Derby.
  • Thomas George Jellis, Administrative Assistant (Finance), Anzac Agency, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Doris Johnson, County Borough Organiser, Darlington, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • John Walter Joseph Johnson, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Reuben Dexter Jones, Clerk, Llandudno Urban District Council.
  • Florence Keegan, Senior Technical Nursing Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Alfred Gregory Kerry, Group Scoutmaster, 7th St. Helen's Group, Lancashire, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Bessie Margaret Fraser Kingsbury, Executive Officer, Home Office.
  • Sidney Joseph George Knight, Senior Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters.
  • Henry Thomas Knightbridge, lately Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Thomas Edmund Knowles, County Poultry Advisory Officer for Lancashire, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • Elsie May Lathlean, Senior Executive Officer, Post Office Savings Department, General Post Office.
  • George Lee, Senior Rural Industries Organiser, Yorkshire Rural Community Council.
  • William Alexander James Leitch, lately Maintenance Engineer, Dunston & Blaydon Power Stations, North Eastern Division, Central Electricity Authority.
  • Albert Leonard, Secretary, Breconshire Local Education Authority.
  • Henry Lloyd, Chief Experimental Officer, Metallurgy Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
  • Basil Gunson Lord, Senior Technical Assistant, Foreign Office.
  • Henry Laurence Lynch, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Ronald James McCallum, Senior Telecommunications Superintendent, Scotland, General Post Office.
  • Griselda Patricia MacCaul, Head Occupational Therapist, King's College Hospital.
  • Christina McDonald, Headmistress, Harmony Row Primary School, Glasgow.
  • Daniel Fraser Macdonald, Civil Defence Officer, Glasgow.
  • John Macdonald, Relieving Chief Engineer, Ben Line Steamers Ltd.
  • Alfred McGregor, Chief Electrician, MV Circassia, Anchor Line Ltd.
  • James Alexander Macintyre, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Inverness-shire Constabulary.
  • Alan MacKay, Regional Chief Executive Officer, North Eastern Region, Ministry of Power.
  • William James McKee, Member of Council, St. Andrew's Ambulance Association.
  • Captain John Cameron MacKinnon, Master, MV Claymore, David MacBrayne Ltd.
  • James Charles McLaughlin, lately Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland.
  • George Alexander MacLeod, Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • Alexander McNeilly, Clerk, North Down Rural District Council.
  • Alexander Turner MacPherson, Senior Assistant Shipyard Manager, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Charles Reginald Makepeace, Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Richard George Mann, Executive Engineer, External Telecommunications Executive, General Post Office.
  • Raymond George Robins Marshall, Honorary Secretary, Cardiff Savings Committee.
  • Elsie Marston. For political services in Cheshire.
  • Frank Sidney Martin, Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • William George Bushell-Matthews. For services to the Theatre. Chairman, Western Area Committee, British Drama League.
  • William Meharg, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • Constance Mary Mercer, lately Organising Secretary, Federation of Women's Institutes of Northern Ireland (Belfast).
  • Thomas Herbert Messenger, Head of Library & Intelligence Division, Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers.
  • Alfred Cyril Middleton. For political and public services in Dagenham.
  • Isabella Wyllie Milstead, Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Ralph Wardle Moore, Senior Technical Superintendent, No.33 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Lyneham.
  • Thomas Morgans, Land Service Assistant, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
  • David Milne Morrice, MSM, Master, RFA Kinbrace.
  • John Herbert Moss, Inspector of Stamping, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Neville Chilton Mountford, Assistant Chief Officer, Hampshire Fire Brigade.
  • Uisdean Fraser Murray, Assistant Chief Commercial Officer (Contracting, Sales and Service, Publicity) South of Scotland Electricity Board.
  • Harry Nailer, Clerical Officer, Royal Air Force Flying College, Manby.
  • Brian Leigh Nelson, Regional Ground Services Manager, Europe & Africa, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Lady Violet Sophia Mary Neville. For political and public services in Norfolk.
  • John Newell, Curator of the Garden, John Innes Horticultural Institution.
  • Hubert Wilfrid Newill, AFM, Personal Assistant to Joint Managing Director, Blaw-Knox Ltd.
  • Albert John Norris, lately Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Northamptonshire Constabulary.
  • Norman Nye, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
  • Stewart Hunter O'Fee, Senior Auditor, Exchequer & Audit Department, Northern Ireland.
  • Helen Mary Harms Orme, National Honorary Treasurer, British Legion (Women's Section).
  • Robert Owens, Member, Northern Ireland Executive Council, Forces Help Society & Lord Roberts Workshops.
  • Isobel Ferguson Palmer, Chief Clerk, Territorial & Auxiliary Forces' Associations, County of the City of Aberdeen & Counties of Aberdeen, Banff & Kincardine.
  • Wilfrid Ernest Palmer, Member, South Somerset District Advisory Committee, South Western Regional Board for Industry.
  • William Thomas Hele Palmer, lately Clerical Officer, War Office.
  • Arthur Allan Parry, Head Forester, Forestry Commission.
  • Gilbert Wright Partridge. For political and public services in Staffordshire.
  • George Paton, Supervisor of Art, Dunbarton Education Authority.
  • Alderman Archibald Patton, JP. For public services in Northumberland.
  • Albert Payne, Charge Nurse, Banstead Hospital, Surrey.
  • William Richard Payne, lately Clerk of Works, Grade I, Ministry of Works.
  • Richard Grigg Paynter, JP, Member, Cornwall County Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Denis Alfred Pearce, Chief Foreman of Works, Civil Engineering Department, HM Dockyard Devonport.
  • Charles Pearson, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Robert Reginald Pecorini, Engineering Technical Class, Grade I, Ministry of Supply.
  • Joseph Pennington, JP, chairman, Worsley Town Development Joint Management Committee, Lancashire.
  • Sheila Marjorie Pocock, General Secretary, Crafts Centre of Great Britain, Hay Hill, London.
  • Albert John Porter, Security Officer, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Thomas Pratt, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • William James Quill, Chief of Systems Design & Planning, Radar Division, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.
  • Doris Mary Quin, Attached War Office.
  • Rebecca Randall. For services to the Blind.
  • George Rawlinson, Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Marjorie Joan Redman, Sub-Editor, The Listener , Publications Department, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Henry John James Redwood, Chief Draughtsman, Engineer-in-Chiefs Department, Admiralty.
  • Herbert Renton, Manager, Building Department, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness.
  • Jemima Leven Corral Renwick, Matron, Woodlands Home, Cults, Aberdeenshire.
  • Edward Hinbest Richardson. For public services in Birmingham.
  • Margaret Cunningham Richmond, Member, Visiting Committee, HM Prison Perth.
  • Henry William Felix Rodney Ricketts, deputy director, Middle East Department, British Council.
  • Arthur Robinson, Divisional Officer, North Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade.
  • Harry Robinson, Clerk, Ampthill Rural District Council.
  • James Rodger, Headmaster, Kelty Primary School, Fife.
  • Herbert Frank Rofe, Temporary Assistant, Suffolk Flax Establishment, Board of Trade.
  • Ronald Charles Rose, Director, Historic Buildings Bureau, Ministry of Works.
  • Donald George Ross, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Captain Charles Nelson Meredith Rountree, Honorary. Secretary, County Tyrone Savings Committee.
  • Stanley Haines Rowell, Honorary Treasurer, Civil Service Sports Council.
  • Hermann Rusby, Design Engineer, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., Sheffield.
  • Edna May Rutland, First Assistant Secretary, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
  • Harold Ryder, Chief Officer, Stockport Fire Brigade.
  • John Brundrit Sankey, Engineer II, Fighting Vehicles Research & Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • John Howard Satterthwaite, JP, Alderman, Clitheroe Borough Council.
  • Irene Edith Philippa Savery, Voluntary Worker, Sandes Home, Royal Air Force, Mildenhall.
  • Kenneth Scott, Outside Manager, Hawthorn Leslie (Engineers) Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Thomas William Scoular, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Edward William Charles Seward, MM, Higher Executive Officer, General Register Office.
  • Ernest Shaw, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
  • Reginald Cairns Shaw, Secretary, Cyclists' Touring Club.
  • Charles Percival Bassil Shippam, JP. For services to Boys' Clubs in Sussex.
  • Ronald Percy Sillence, Surveyor, Grade I, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton.
  • Frederick Simpson, Under-Manager, Wheatley Hill Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board.
  • Albert John Smith, Chief of Production Control, Commercial Engineering Factory, EMI Electronics Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex.
  • James William Smith, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Preston Borough Police Force.
  • William Richard Smith, Chairman of Committee, No.152 (City of Hull) Squadron, Air Training Corps.
  • Robert Hill Spires, lately Senior Experimental Officer, British Museum (Natural History).
  • Albert Isaac Spooner. For political and public services in West Ham.
  • Martha Atkinson Stevenson, JP, chairman, South Tyrone Hospital Management Committee.
  • Dudley Goodridge Stone, lately Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
  • Vera Stoves, Senior Nursing Sister, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Ministry of Supply.
  • Commander Albert John Stowe, RNR, Cargo Superintendent, Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.
  • John Richardson Stuart, Civil Engineer (Main Grade), Nicosia, War Office.
  • Alice Sutcliffe, Headmistress, Tullyallan Open-Air School, Darwen, Lancashire.
  • Ethel Symonds, JP. For political and public services in Norfolk.
  • Robert Tankard, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Birkenhead Borough Police Force.
  • Stanley Steventon Tatem. For political and public services in Wolverhampton.
  • Edward Alexis Gilbert Taylor, Grade 3 Officer, Branch B of the Foreign Service, Foreign Office.
  • James Raitt Taylor, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
  • Harold John Perdue Teague, MC, Honorary Secretary, Truro & District Savings Committee.
  • Isabella Thain, Senior Clerkess, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
  • Geoffrey Thomas, Senior Captain, Transair Ltd.
  • William Thomas, District Officer, HM Coastguard, Holyhead, Anglesey.
  • James Thomson, Headmaster, Woodlands County Primary School, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  • Kenneth Wilson Thorndyke, Civil Defence Officer, Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., Nottingham.
  • Julia Todd, Superintendent Nursing Officer, Radnorshire County Council.
  • Alice Margaret Todhunter, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Donald James Tomlinson, Grade4 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
  • Leonard Richard Tout, Naval Architect, Thorneycroft (Hampton) Boatyard Ltd., Hampton-on-Thames.
  • Frank Willie Townsend, Experimental Manufacturing Manager, Plessey Co. Ltd., Ilford, Essex.
  • Frederick Henry Travers, Higher Executive Officer. No.72 Maintenance Unit, Air Ministry (now Higher Executive Officer, No.10 Maintenance Unit, Air Ministry).
  • Leslie Alfred John Treby, MVO, BEM, Chief Clerk and Accountant, Household of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
  • Frederick Archibald Tree, chairman, Enfield Savings Committee.
  • George Healey Trend, DSC, Boom Defence and Salvage Officer, Grade II, Admiralty.
  • Ida Emily Tripp. For services to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
  • Arthur David Troup, Clerk, Visiting Committee, HM Prison Peterhead.
  • Thomas Tunstall, Development Engineer on Production, Rockware Glass Ltd., Doncaster.
  • Angus Turnbull. For political and public services in County Durham.
  • Archibald Ritchie Turnbull, Chief Radio Officer, FF Southern Harvester, Chr. Salvesen & Co.
  • James Henry Turner, District Organiser, Birmingham Area, Transport & General Workers' Union (Building Group).
  • Gilbert George Lee Tyte, Senior Structural Engineer, Ministry of Works.
  • Robert Clarence Vaughan, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Kenneth Roy Vernon. For political and public services in Ashton-under-Lyne.
  • Alderman Wilfrid Ewart Vince, JP, chairman, Trowbridge, Chippenham & District Local Employment Committee.
  • Sidney Wade, chairman, Dewsbury, Batley, Wakefield & Mirfield District Advisory Committee, East & West Ridings Regional Board for Industry.
  • Charles William Wagner, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Herbert William Wake, Director & Secretary, Northern Counties Federation of Building Trades Employers.
  • Bernard Cason Wallace. For political and public services in Yorkshire.
  • John Wallace, Chief Clerk, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Durham.
  • Dorothy Ethel Wallis, lately Sister, Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital.
  • Percy Wallis, Engineer II, Royal Ordnance Factory, Barnbow, Ministry of Supply.
  • Cyril Tennant Walters, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Andrew McKie Ward, Secretary, Scottish Engineering Employers' Association.
  • Archibald Howitt Warren, Assistant Chief Officer, Cheshire Fire Brigade.
  • John Hind Warwick, Superintendent of Gardens, West of Scotland Agricultural College, Auchincruive.
  • Major Frederick Waspe, Secretary, Old Comrades Association, The Queen's Royal Regiment.
  • Gertrude Evelyn Watt, Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Gaye Waiters. For public services in Belfast.
  • Ernest George Webber, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
  • Harold Victor Webster, Lately Senior Executive Officer, Headquarters, No.41 Group, Royal Air Force, Andover.
  • Hubert Annesley Kemp-Welch, MC, Lately Chairman, Lyndhurst District Committee, Hampshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Captain Francis Warr Wethey, Master, SS Cormorant, General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
  • Robert Whatling, Docks Manager, Garston Docks, British Transport Commission.
  • Captain Walter George White, Assistant County Commissioner (Relationships), Surrey, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Walter Victor Cecil White, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office.
  • John Gordon Wickham, Lately Secretary to the Captain-in-Charge, HM Dockyard Simonstown.
  • Brigadier George Giffard Rawson Williams, Civil Defence Officer, Mather & Platt Ltd. Manchester
  • Mabel Ellen Williams, JP. For political and public services in Cardiff.
  • Eric Wilson, Senior Experimental Officer, Scottish Home Department.
  • Ernest Albert Wilson, Senior Clerk, Hertford District, Eastern Electricity Board.
  • Ronald George Winton, Director & Technical Manager, Lansing Bagnall Ltd., Basingstoke.
  • Charles Withers, DCM, Departmental Clerk, South Staffordshire Regimental Depot, War Office.
  • Margery Withers, Publicity Officer, European Service, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • William James Wood, Skipper, Steam Trawler Northern Jewel.
  • Edith Agnes Woodhouse, chairman, Street Groups Sub-Committee, Middlesbrough Savings Committee.
  • Arnold Woods, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
  • James Wrann, Chairman & Managing Director, Agamemnon Boat Yard Ltd., Bucklers Hard, Hampshire.
  • Florence Harriet Wynne. For services to the Invalid Children's Aid Association.
  • Hetty Wyon, Welfare Worker, Family Welfare Section, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham.
  • Leslie Carr Basher, lately Senior Executive Officer, British Military Government, Berlin (British Sector).
  • George Blacktopp, Director of the Seamen's Club, Mobile.
  • Edward James Caulfeild-Browne, British Pro-Consul at Rangoon.
  • Joseph Cockin, British Vice-Consul at Shanghai.
  • Florence Minnie Collins, Shorthand typist/Archivist at Her Majesty's Consulate in Baltimore.
  • Mary Alexander Cowgill, British subject resident in Germany.
  • Herbert John Davis, Honorary Treasurer of the Allen Gardiner Memorial Homes, Cordoba.
  • Walter Frederick Edwin George Dorrington, Passport Examiner at Her Majesty's Embassy in Oslo.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Cave Easter, British subject lately resident in Egypt.
  • Joan Helen Fish, lately Her Majesty's Consul at Budapest.
  • Henry Green, Communications Officer at Her Majesty's Legation in Budapest.
  • Joseph Charles Imossi, British Vice Consul at Ceuta.
  • Arthur Ivor Garland Jayne, British subject resident in Norway.
  • Joseph William-Webster Kay, lately Honorary Secretary of the St. Andrew's Society, Montevideo.
  • Hector Archibald Kempton, lately Communications Officer, Office of the Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
  • Koh Kim Fatt, Salaries Clerk, Office of the Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
  • Josephine Mary Millar, Representative of the Save the Children Fund in Greece.
  • David Garnett Mitchell, lately Second Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Monrovia.
  • Herbert Reginald Pearce, British subject resident in Terceira (Azores).
  • Ethel Sutherland Robertson, British subject resident in Chile.
  • William Hector Sanguineti, lately Treasurer for the Tangier Zone, International Administration of Tangier.
  • Richard Alfred Simcox, lately Assistant Education Officer, British Council, Alexandria.
  • Lancelot Stell, British subject resident in Sweden.
  • Joseph Soubhi Talhamy, British Pro-Consul at Amman.
  • Frederick Terry, Power Station Superintendent, Sudan Light & Power Co., Khartoum.
  • Harry Lever Tyrer, British Pro-Consul at Barranquilla.
  • Frances Folliott Williams, British subject resident in France.
  • Wallace Donald Badenhorst, a member of the Victoria Central Intensive Conservation Area Committee, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Gladys Vivienne Liscarton Barlow. For voluntary services on behalf of lepers at the Mtoko Settlement and patients at the Chindamora Sanatorium, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Herbert George Beard, TD. For services to the United Kingdom community in Karachi and Rawalpindi.
  • Alfred James Beeby, Assistant Treasurer, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Alice Dorothy Chadwick Bell, Vice President of the Borradaile Trust, Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia.
  • George Thomas Bell, a Member of the Committee of Management, Ararat and District Hospital, State of Victoria.
  • Leonard Stanley Blease, President of the Brunswick Swimming Club, State of Victoria.
  • Jeannie Marr Boggie. For charitable and social welfare services in the Gwelo District, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Annie Danks. For social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
  • Chief Mhau Dhlamini, of Swaziland. For services to the Administration.
  • John Gregory Dore, formerly a member of the Berwick Shire Council, State of Victoria.
  • Joyce Helen Galloway, Chairman of the Committee of the Fendall Home, Calcutta, India.
  • Robert Eric Garmany, Chief Administrative Assistant, Local Government & Housing Department, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Ernest Fleetwood Stringfellow Harding. For social welfare services, particularly in connection with young people's organisations, in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Olive Dagmar Kersley, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. For voluntary service to the care and training of the Blind.
  • Alma Grace Luckie, formerly Matron of the Chest Hospital, State of Tasmania.
  • Lars Henry Madsen, an aeronautical engineer, and a representative in India of Messrs. Rolls-Royce.
  • Ruth Audrey Morris. For services to the United Kingdom community in Madras, India.
  • Pastor Douglas Nicholls, of Fitzroy, State of Victoria. For services to the Aboriginal people.
  • The Reverend Brother Patrick Gildas O'Neill, of Melbourne, State of Victoria. For services to the Blind.
  • Patience Dorothea Owen, Senior Lady Clerk, Audit Department, Basutoland.
  • Olive Hannibal Coates Palgrave. For services to the National Publications Trust in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Barbara Patullo, Matron of the Clare & District Hospital, State of South Australia.
  • Frederick Conrad Pflaum, Honorary Secretary of the Branch in the State of South Australia of the South African War Veterans' Association.
  • Gwendoline Victoria Collett Sellick, a singer of the State of South Australia. For services to charitable and patriotic organisations.
  • William Johannes Strydom, Senior Soil Conservation Foreman, Basutoland.
  • Samuel Thornton Msindazwe Sukati, Assistant Secretary in the Swaziland Administration.
  • Frederick Bernard Hill Watermeyer, Field Husbandry Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Ethel Maud Watson, Matron of Rydalmere Mental Hospital, State of New South Wales.
  • William Francis Wynne, Supervisor of Hospital Stores and Equipment, Government Medical Service, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Emanuel Albuquerque, Personal Assistant to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health & Director of Medical Services, Singapore.
  • Haji Mohammed Ali bin Mohammed Rouse, Pilgrimage Control Officer, Penang, Federation of Malaya.
  • George Henry Allen, JP. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Alexander Hamilton Craig Anderson, Archaeological Commissioner, British Honduras.
  • Rhoda Kathleen Applebee, Queen Elizabeth Overseas Nursing Service, Senior Sister Tutor, Federation of Malaya.
  • Leslie Bernard Assang, Sanitary Inspector, Trinidad.
  • Iman Bakash, Head Clerk, District Engineer's Office, Eldoret, East African Railways & Harbours Administration.
  • Gulabrai Krapashanker Baxi, Stores Officer, Tanganyika Police Force.
  • Cyril Thomas Beare, Director of Music, Uganda Police Force.
  • Peter Charles Bethune Benson. For public services in Kenya.
  • Frederick William Bird, Chief Superintendent, Cyprus Police Force.
  • Richard Bolding Brayne, Administrative Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Major James Bruce William Breckenridge, Community Development Officer, Kenya.
  • Mary Bridget Cahill, Queen Elizabeth Overseas Nursing Service, Senior Matron, Federal Medical Department, Nigeria.
  • Kathleen Mary Cansdell. Lately Settlement Social Welfare Officer, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Forbes Elliot Chaplin, MC, Executive Officer, Provincial Emergency Committee, Kenya.
  • Edward Henry Clarke, Higher Clerical Officer, East African Office.
  • Robert Wilson Coelho, Chief Clerk, Secretariat, Gibraltar.
  • Frank Lionel Cole. For services to the Boy Scout Movement in the Bahamas.
  • Louise Mabel Crawford. Lately Matron, Cottage Hospital Nursing Home, Bermuda.
  • Alfred William Crofts, Director of Music, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
  • Gertrude Elizabeth Smart-Dalgleish, Senior Secretary, Governor's Secretariat, British Guiana.
  • Mohamed Darus bin Abdul Rahman, Senior Assistant Inspector of Malay Schools, Federation of Malaya.
  • Eric Wallace Dunlop, DFC, Senior Labour Officer, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Louisa Gwendolyn Maud Edwards, Examiner of Accounts, Audit Department, Antigua, Leeward Islands.
  • Sebastian Thomas Nwabuoku Ejefor, Pay and Quartermaster, Nigeria Police Force.
  • Frederick Esiri, MRCS, LRCP. For medical services in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Frank Clifford Finch, District Commissioner, Chingola, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Kathoni Mary Warren-Gash, Community Development Officer, Kenya.
  • Emmanel Benjamin Ghansah, Auditor, Audit Department, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Frank Neville Grannum, ED, MB, ChB. Lately Senior Medical Officer of Health, Barbados.
  • Tom Marston Greensill, Agricultural Superintendent, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Eruch Nusserwanji Gundevia, Assistant Secretary, Zanzibar.
  • William Horsford Hagley. For public services in Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Marjorie Agnes Hamer. For social welfare services in Perlis, Federation of Malaya.
  • Pauline Kathleen Hamilton, Nurse, British Red Cross Society, Province Wellesley, Federation of Malaya.
  • Mary Edith Hancock, Woman Education Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Fazal Haq. Lately Field Officer, Department of Tsetse Control, Uganda.
  • Frank Leonard Heath. For social welfare services in the Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Harold Barton Hobbins, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations.
  • Minnie Keziah Hodgson, Nurse, St. John Ambulance Brigade Team, Kota Tinggi, Federation of Malaya.
  • The Venerable Archdeacon Agori Iwe, Church Missionary Society, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Kathleen Jardine, Nursing Sister, Kenya.
  • Samuel Jeffers, Assistant Government Printer, Trinidad.
  • Ivan Saja Kadama, Medical Officer, Uganda.
  • Vallipuram Kanagasabai, Clerk, Treasurer & Accountant-General's Department, Federation of Malaya.
  • Sister Jessie Kerridge. For social and welfare services in Jamaica.
  • Moshin Hassan Khalifa, Assistant Welfare Officer, Labour & Welfare Department, Aden.
  • Khor Choo Hin, Senior Assistant Auditor, Singapore.
  • Arthur Vincent Clement King, Government Secretary, St. Vincent, Windward Islands.
  • Paramount Chief Raymond Brima Sese Koker, Bagbo Chiefdom, Bo District, Sierra Leone.
  • Charles Aryeequaye Kotey, Technical Officer, Public Works Department, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Stephanus Petrus Kruger, District Officer, Kenya.
  • Manchersha Manekji Kutar, MB, Assistant Medical Officer, Aden.
  • Mallam Muhammadu Ladan, Programme Officer, Nigerian Broadcasting Service.
  • Gnanapragasam Leo, Technical Assistant (Superscale), Telecommunications Department, Stores & Workshops, Federation of Malaya.
  • Michael Maurice Veasey Leonard, District Commissioner, Nyasaland.
  • Carmen Isabel Lusan, General Secretary, YWCA, Jamaica.
  • Philip Louis Machado, Financial Officer, Education Department, Federation of Malaya.
  • Mahmood bin Haji Yusof, Administrative Assistant, Marine Surveys, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Singapore.
  • Abdo Ahmed Maiseri, Health Inspector, Aden.
  • Leslie Swettenham Marston, Manager, Lucky Hill Farming Cooperative Society Ltd., Jamaica.
  • Amanda Martyres, Office Superintendent, Uganda.
  • Henry Hawtayne Fortisque Mayers, Warrant Officer, British Guiana Militia Band.
  • Paul Mboya, BEM. For public services in Kenya.
  • Wilmot Nwakakku Mends. Lately Senior Education Officer, Sierra Leone.
  • William Rae Miller. For public services in Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
  • Phyllis Millicent Moffett. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in Tanganyika.
  • Andrew Morris Moodie, Administrative Officer, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Petro Solomon Blandina Muganwa, Medical Officer, Uganda.
  • Gordon Mwansasu. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Candiah Nagalingam, Chief Clerk, Ministry for Internal Defence & Security, Federation of Malaya.
  • Paul Naudi, Information Officer, Malta.
  • The Reverend Samuel Richard Stephen Nicholas. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Bassey Eyo Nsa, Mechanical Engineer, Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Daniel Akor Ogu, Councillor for Education, Igala Native Authority, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Isaac Akinola Ogunmodede, Assistant Establishment Officer, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Samuel Akinbolaji Oladapo. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Abraham Alegbe Ordia, Nursing Superintendent (Mental), Federation of Nigeria.
  • Joseph Benjamin Owen, JP. For public services in Anguilla, Leeward Islands.
  • Gajanan Balkrishna Panvalkar, Accounts Officer, East African Trypanosoimiasis Research Organisation.
  • Frank Cecil Rhodes Parris. Lately Superintendent, Barbados Police Force.
  • Shivabhai Mithabhai Patel, For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Albert Oliver Payne, JP. For public services in Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Arthur James Peaker, Superintendent of Furniture & Equipment, Stores Department, Hong Kong.
  • Maurice Basil Pestana. For services to sport in Penang, Federation of Malaya.
  • Selva Doray Pillay, JP. For services to education in Singapore.
  • Subramaniam Ampalavanar Ponniah, Financial Assistant, Geological Survey, Federation of Malaya.
  • Vilikesa Ramaqa, Senior Assistant Medical Practitioner, Medical Department, Fiji.
  • Edward Gilbert Rayner, Office Superintendent, Department of Veterinary Services, Tanganyika.
  • Earle Thomas Henry Redrup, Dredging Superintendent, Public Works Department, Singapore.
  • Olagunju Ribihun II, The Olotan of Otan (Ifelodun District Council), Western Region, Nigeria.
  • James Leslie Roscoe, Senior Health Superintendent, Gambia.
  • Herbert Ewart Austin Rowley, Assistant Marine Superintendent, Port Services Department, Trinidad.
  • Allan Holme Russell, DSC, Administrative Officer, Uganda.
  • Mohammadou Demba Sallah, Education Officer, Gambia.
  • Chief Karamo Kaba Sanneh, District Chief, Kiang East District, Central Division, Gambia.
  • Albert Frederick Carnelo Savory, JP, Welfare Officer, Oji River Leper Settlement, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Stanley Howlett Schwartzel, Architect, Public Works Department, Uganda.
  • Charles Hugh Johnstone Scott, Chief Superintendent, Cyprus Police Force.
  • Laurence Henry Simpson. For public services in Fiji.
  • Frederick Henry Sims, Overseas Audit Service, Senior Auditor, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
  • Aloysius Singh, Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court and Deeds Registry, British Guiana.
  • Vehid Salih Soubhi, Local Commandant, Special Constabulary, Limassol, Cyprus.
  • The Reverend Ernest Stamp. For missionary services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Kandiah Subramaniam. For services to the Cooperative Movement in Selangor, Federation of Malaya.
  • Wali Mohamed Talab s/o Talab, Tugmaster, East African Railways & Harbours Administration.
  • Samuel Edward Evelyn Aiyefimih Taylor. For services to education in Sierra Leone.
  • John Asirvatham Thuraisingham, Deputy Registrar of Trade Unions & Societies, Federation of Malaya.
  • The Reverend Canon William Turner. For services to African education in Nyasaland.
  • Chief Jonah Ukpe, Head Chief of the Ikpa Ibekwe Clan, Opobo Division, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • John Obumneme Charles Uzowulu, Town Clerk, Enugu Municipality, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Anna Margaret Wales. For social welfare services in North Borneo.
  • Frederick Ernest Moore Warner, Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Fiji.
  • Catherine Wilge (The Reverend Mother Ignatius), Mother Superior, Kasaba Mission & Leper Settlement, Northern Rhodesia.
  • David Blood Williams, Building Superintendent, Public Works Department, Somaliland.
  • Ethel Marie Winter, Queen Elizabeth Overseas Nursing Service, Regional Matron, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Wong Tet Pop, Assistant Accountant, Penang Port Commission, Federation of Malaya.
  • Kathleen Margaret Wood. For services to youth in North Borneo.
  • Wu Wai Kay, Cooperative Officer, Cooperative & Marketing Department, Hong Kong.
  • John Zachariades, Local Commandant, Special Constabulary, Larnaca, Cyprus.
Honorary Members
  • Sheriff Kullatein, Headmaster, Government African School, Wajir, Kenya.
  • Zakaria bin Abdul Raof, Assistant Agricultural Officer, Selangor, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ellen Magdelene Ramachandram. For services to social welfare in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Mohamed Jaffar bin Ahmad. Lately Technical Assistant, Federal Town Planning Department, Federation of Malaya.
  • Tan Peng Khoon. For public services in Johore, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ditt Singh s/o Maggar Singh. For public services in Perak, Federation of Malaya.
  • Chan Kwai Chon, Paymaster, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
  • Yahya bin Haji Abdul Aziz, BEM, Penghulu (Special Grade), Federation of Malaya.
  • Mohammed Shamte Hamadi. Lately Supervisory Teacher, Pemba Island, Zanzibar.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Home Civil Service
State of South Australia & State of Tasmania
Overseas Civil Service

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division
Royal Navy
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Army
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Royal Air Force
In recognition of distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Civil Division
United Kingdom
Australia
Overseas Territories

Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

In Silver

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]

Bar to Distinguished Service Order

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell, KCB, KBE, DSO (23894), Staff, late Infantry.
  • Brigadier Mervyn Andrew Haldane Butler, DSO, MC (58152), Staff, late Infantry.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force

Bar to the Distinguished Service Cross

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
  • Lieutenant-Commander Maurice William Henley, DSC, 893 Royal Naval Air Squadron.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Peter Melville Lamb, DSC, AFC, 810 Royal Naval Air Squadron.

Military Cross (MC)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Royal Navy
Army

Bar to the Military Cross

  • Major Dennis Leolin Samuel St. Maur Aldridge, MBE, MC, 42 Commando, Royal Marines.

Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]

Air Force Cross (AFC)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]

Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]

Military Medal (MM)

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Royal Navy
Army

Air Force Medal (AFM)

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

Royal Air Force
United Kingdom

Queen's Police Medal

England and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Southern Rhodesia
Overseas Territories

Queen's Fire Services Medal

England and Wales
Scotland
Australia
Overseas Territories

Colonial Police Medal

Southern Rhodesia
Bechuanaland
Swaziland
Overseas Territories

Mention in Despatches

In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Operations in the Near East, October–December 1956. [4]
Royal Navy
Army
Commands and Staff
12th Royal Lancers
Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Corps of Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals
Scots Guards
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
The Border Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
The Manchester Regiment
The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
The Durham Light Infantry
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
The Parachute Regiment
The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
Royal Army Service Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
Women's Royal Army Corps
General List
Royal Air Force

Australia

Knight Bachelor

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

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

Civil Division

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Civil Division

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Civil Division
  • Brigadier Frederick Oliver Chilton, DSO, Deputy Secretary, Department of Defence.
  • Leonard Brockenshire Curnow, of Caulfield, Victoria. For services to amateur sport.
  • Sydney Broadway Grange, of Balgowlah, New South Wales, in recognition of his valuable contribution to amateur sport.
  • Ivor Roy Ian Hanger, General Secretary, Young Men’s Christian Association, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Manuel Richard Hornibrook, of Newstead, Queensland. For contributions to the practice and science of building in Australia.
  • Walter Noakes, MM. President of the Farmers' Union of Western Australia.
  • John Paul Quinn, Head of the Defence Liaison Branch, Department of External Affairs.
  • George Ronald Richards, Deputy Director-General (Operations), Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
  • Cuthbert Sowerby Ruston, of Renmark, South Australia. For his contribution to the development of the South Australian Upper Murray areas.
  • Edgar Harry Short, Chairman of the North Queensland Tobacco Growers Cooperative.
  • George William Francis Smith, President of the High Council, Commonwealth Public Service Organisations.
  • Mervyn Richard Charles Stradwick, Assistant Director-General (Telecommunications), Postmaster-General's Department.
  • Robert Harley Wainwright, President, New Settlers' League, Queensland.
  • Reginald Horton Wallman, of Adelaide, South Australia. For services to amateur sport, particularly rowing.
  • Wilfred Alan Westerman, First Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Bandmaster Lieutenant-Commander George Hooker, Royal Australian Navy.
  • Captain William David Benson (5/34619), Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major Robert Geoffrey Cronk, MC (3/37544), Australian Staff Corps.
  • 5/125 Warrant Officer Class II George Henry Gibson, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Captain (temporary) Frank George Hoeter (1/39440), Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
  • 3/2326 Warrant Officer Class I William Arthur Hoskins, Royal Australian Army Provost Corps.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Albert John Lyons (1/18), Royal Australian Artillery.
  • Major William John Mair (3/37540), Australian Staff Corps.
  • 4/32866 Warrant Officer Class I Richard Thompson Mattison, Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • The Reverend Stuart Campbell Calder, Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Edward William Frederick Sunderland (03283), Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Warrant Officer Stanley Nevitt (A31232), Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Australian Civil Service.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division
Civil Division

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

  • Major (temporary) Margaret Catherine Carmody (F1/45), Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.
  • Section Officer Joan Dorothy Kirwan (N39728), Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

New Zealand

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  3. "No. 41091". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1957. pp. 3411–3413.
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