1955 New Year Honours

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The New Year Honours 1955 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1955 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1955. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

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

Baron

Privy Councillor

Knight Bachelor

State of South Australia
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Commonwealth Services
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc.

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Civil Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
  • William Denis Allen, CMG, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
  • Kenneth Anderson, CBE, Deputy Director-General and Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office.
  • William Herbert Cornish, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
  • Brigadier Harold Powell Crosland, CBE, MC, TD, DL, chairman, Berkshire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • John Mathew Dick, CBE, VRD, Solicitor to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • Brigadier Sydney Thomas Divers, CBE, DSO, TD, Controller, Central Office, Newcastle, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • George Robert Disraeli Hogg, CBE, Under-Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • William Rankin McGaw, Director General of Aircraft Production, Ministry of Supply.
  • The Honourable Walter Symington Maclay, OBE, MD, FRCP, Senior Medical Commissioner, Ministry of Health and Board of Control.
  • Sydney William Charles Phillips, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
  • Reginald Joseph William Stacy, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Burke St. John Trend, CVO, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • Colonel Francis William Watson, MC, TD, DL, lately chairman, County of Buckingham Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • Maurice Gordon Whittome, Solicitor, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Percy Wilson, HM Inspector of Schools (Chief Inspector), Ministry of Education.

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)

  • Norman Cecil Sommers Down, Senior Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Robert Clark McCall, assistant director of Television Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Gerald John MacMahon, Senior Trade Commissioner and Economic Adviser to the United Kingdom High Commissioner in India.
  • John Ivo Cecil May, OBE, Director, Empire Cotton Growing Corporation.
  • Frederic Milner, HM Treasury Representative in the Middle East.
  • Bellamy Alexander Cash-Reed, Attaché for Food and Agriculture at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Edward Walters Senior, Commercial Director, British Iron and Steel Federation.
  • William Forbes Mackenzie, CBE, Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • David Mowbray Balme, DSO, DFC, Principal, University College, Gold Coast.
  • John Sloman Bennett, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • Theodore Louis Bowring, OBE, Director of Public Works, Hong Kong.
  • Henry Vernon Cusack, CBE, deputy director, Oversea Audit Service.
  • Colville Montgomery Deverell, CVO, OBE, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica.
  • Maurice Henry Dorman, Colonial Secretary, Trinidad.
  • John Frederick Rowland Hill, Member for Communications, Works and Development Planning, Tanganyika.
  • Frank Wilfred Holder, QC, Attorney-General, British Guiana.
  • Raymond Lewthwaite, OBE, DM, BCh, Director of Colonial Medical Research.
  • John Gurney Mackenzie, chairman, Public Service Commission, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Roy James Philip McLaughlan, Inspector-General, Nigeria Police Force.
  • Robert John Minnitt, Chief Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission.
  • Edward James Petrie, Secretary to the Treasury, Kenya.
  • Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, Emir of Kano, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Thomas Murray Shankland, Deputy Governor, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Geoffrey Ellrington Fane Smith, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia.
  • William Frederick Stubbs, CBE, Secretary for Native Affairs, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Kenneth Cecil Tours, Economic Adviser, Gold Coast.
  • Robert Noel Turner, Colonial Secretary, Barbados.
  • Alexander Nicol Anton Waddell, DSC, Colonial Secretary, Gambia.
  • Thomas Yirrell Watson, MBE, Secretary for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Uganda.
  • Marcus John Cheke, CVO, Her Majesty's Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps.
  • Robert Spencer Isaacson, Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Roger William Jackling, Economic and Financial Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Brigadier Geoffrey Alex Colin Macnab, CB, lately Military Attaché at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris.
  • Robert Hugh Kirk Marett, OBE, Foreign Office.
  • Francis Victor Michell, Foreign Office.
  • Edward Humphrey Nightingale, Governor of Equatoria Province, Sudan.
  • Donald Victor Staines, CBE, Foreign Office.
  • Andrew Charles Stewart, OBE, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Korea.
  • Francis Aimé Vallat, Deputy Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office.
  • Edward Redston Warner, OBE, Foreign Office.
  • Thomas Wikeley, OBE, Her Majesty's Consul-General in Jerusalem.
  • Brigadier Arthur Blackburn, VC, CBE, Commissioner of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, Australia
Honorary Companion
  • Raja Haji Kamarulzaman ibni Raja Mansur, OBE, Raja Di-Hilir, Perak, Federation of Malaya.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • Captain James Stephen Dalglish, Royal Navy.
  • Albert Norman Harrison, OBE.
  • Joseph Graeme Humble, MRCS, LRCP.
  • Captain Arthur Cecil Jocelyn.
  • Alan McLeod, FDS, RCS.
  • Kenneth Roy Eldin Taylor.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class
  • Thomas Henry Glasse, MBE.
  • Charles David Heriot.
  • Dorothy Meynell.
  • William James Phillips.
  • Captain The Right Honourable Patrick Terence William Span, Baron Plunket, Irish Guards.
  • Colonel William Quincey Roberts, DSO, OBE, TD.
Fifth Class
  • Philip Graham Bell.
  • William Frederick Stewart Moran.
  • Persis Agnes Lucas Scott.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Reginald Woodford, Royal Navy (Retired).
  • William Charles Wright.

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
Civil Division

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

Military Division
Civil Division

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

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Colonel Mervyn Archdall, ADC, Royal Marines.
  • Surgeon Captain John Henry Breuell Crosbie, MB, BCh, (Retired).
  • Captain Harold Pitcairn Henderson, DSO, (Retired).
  • Captain Ian Frederick Montague Newnham. (On loan to the Indian Navy.)
  • The Reverend Owen Roebuck, OBE, QHC, Chaplain.
  • Captain (S) Victor Evelyn Rusby, OBE, ADC.
Army
  • Brigadier (temporary) Geoffrey Ernest Butler (47699), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Laurence Francis de Vic Carey (27904), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) James Norman Carter, OBE, (34655), late Infantry.
  • Colonel (temporary) Eric Percy Dickson (30522), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier Alec Wilson Drew, OBE, (17200), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Colonel (acting) George Edward Gibson Grant Forman, TD, (47876), Army Cadet Force.
  • Brigadier Arthur Nicholas Gosselin, DSO, OBE, (6521), late Infantry (now retired).
  • Colonel (temporary) Henry Grattan (26968), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Brigadier (temporary) William Stuart King, OBE, (34469), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Brigadier Kenneth Mackay, DSO, OBE, (22028), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel David Meynell, OBE, (41236), late Infantry.
  • Colonel (temporary) Hugh Landale Prentis (44165), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Major-General Frederick Cavendish Hilton-Sergeant, QHP, MB, (26337), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Colonel (acting) Henry Ernest Cubitt-Smith, DSO, OBE, North Sector, Norfolk Home Guard.
  • Brigadier (temporary) Philip John Denton Toosey, DSO, OBE, TD, (38862), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • The Reverend James Alexander Williamson, QHC, MA, Chaplain to the Forces, First Class (44269), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
Royal Air Force
  • Air Commodore Morton Swan Shapcott.
  • Air Commodore Allen Henry Wheeler, OBE.
  • Acting Air Commodore Michael Harington Dwyer.
  • Group Captain John Barrett Altham.
  • Group Captain Arthur Llewellyn Derry, OBE.
  • Group Captain Antony Greville Dudgeon, DFC.
  • Group Captain Arthur Lawrence Holland.
  • The Right Reverend Monsignor Patrick Joseph O'Connell.
  • Group Captain John Dudley Taylor Revell.
  • Group Captain John Marlow Thompson, DSO, DFC, AFC.
  • Group Captain Charles Turl, OBE, DSM.
Civil Division
  • Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, OBE, Foreign Office.
  • Arthur Frederic Alford, MB, ChB, Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Education.
  • Alfred Ernest Amor, chairman, Hendon and Harrow Local Employment Committee.
  • William Henry Ansell, MC, Deputy Commissioner, War Damage Commission. Vice-chairman of the National Buildings Record Council.
  • Dudley Fitz-Mowbray Appleby. For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Reginald Pridham Baulkwill, OBE, Assistant Public Trustee.
  • Risdon Archibald Beazley, chairman and managing director, Risdon Beazley Ltd., Southampton.
  • Frederick George Charles Bentley, Assistant Secretary, Ordnance Survey Department.
  • Hilda Elizabeth Blattner, OBE, Assistant Secretary and Assistant Editor of Publications, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
  • David Blee, Chief of Commercial Services, British Transport Commission.
  • Alderman William Charles Bonney. For political and public services in London.
  • Reginald Livingstone Bradley, MC, Director of Borstal Administration, Prison Commission for England and Wales.
  • Aynsley Vernon Bridgland, chairman, Legenland Property Co. Ltd. For services in the preservation of the Temple of Mithras.
  • Charles Sidney Bryant, lately Director of Materials and Explosives Research and Development, Ministry of Supply.
  • Joseph Bulman, lately Chairman of the Executive Council, Urban District Councils Association.
  • Francis Clive Savill Carey, lately Professor of Singing and Director of the Opera School, Royal College of Music.
  • Alderman Wilfrid Rendel Myson Chambers, OBE, JP, chairman, Middlesex Civil Defence Committee.
  • Lewis Chapman, managing director, William Jessop & Sons Ltd., Sheffield.
  • Robert William Chapman, Author.
  • William Oswald Chatterton, Deputy Accountant General, Ministry of Health.
  • George Elgie Christ. For political services.
  • John Cosmo Clark, MC, Director of the Rural Industries Bureau.
  • Joseph Clitherow, OBE, Chief Officer, Lancashire Fire Brigade.
  • David Kemp Colledge, JP, chairman of the Board of Governors, Scottish Woollen Technical College, Galashiels.
  • William Cox, OBE, Deputy Controller, HM Stationery Office.
  • The Right Honourable John David, Earl of Cranbrook, DL, chairman, East Anglian Regional Hospital Board.
  • Leslie William Crawford, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food.
  • Robert Crichton. For political and public services in Scotland.
  • Isaac William Cumberbatch, OBE, chairman, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
  • William Herbert Currie, OBE, Finance Officer, Home Office.
  • Alun Bennett Oldfield-Davies, Controller, Wales, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Evelyn Sherbrooke Durand, JP. For political and public services in Gloucestershire.
  • Gordon Edwards, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Edward Cassleton Elliott, chairman, Interdepartmental Committee on the Distribution of Remuneration of General Practitioners.
  • Colin Dare Bernard Ellis, MC, lately President, National Association of Corn and Agricultural Merchants.
  • John Ernest Finney, Vice-chairman, Moygashel Ltd., Dungannon, County Tyrone.
  • Richard Michael Fraser, MBE. For political services.
  • Alderman John Newton Frears, chairman and managing director, Frears & Blacks Ltd., Leicester.
  • Cyril John Gadd, Keeper, Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum.
  • William Gairns, OBE, Accountant-General, Ministry of Supply.
  • Eric Holdom Gardener, chairman, Central Horticultural Committee, National Farmers' Union.
  • Francis Steward Gentle, chairman and managing director of the White City Stadium and Harringay Arena. For services to sport.
  • Allan Stewart Gilbert, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Maurice Walter Goldblatt, MD, Director, Industrial Hygiene Research Laboratories, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.
  • John Leonard Gray, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
  • Alan William Greenwood, Director, Poultry Research Centre, Edinburgh, Agricultural Research Council.
  • Nancy Procter-Gregg, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • William Francis Grimes, Director, London Museum.
  • William Hall, Inspector-General of Waterguard, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Frederick William Halliwell, President of the Gauge and Tool Makers' Association.
  • Harold James Hamblen. For services to the Home Office.
  • John Hancock, Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.
  • Colonel William Francis Henn, MVO, Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Constabulary.
  • Edward Joseph Hinge, Member of the Cinematograph Films Council.
  • Harold William Hobbs, Director of Ordnance Factories, Mottingham, Ministry of Supply.
  • Frederick John Cleverdon Honey, Secretary, British Employers' Confederation.
  • Alfred William Hurll, Chief Executive Commissioner, Boy Scouts Association.
  • Horace Ernest Jackson, lately President, British Non-Ferrous Metals Federation.
  • David James, JP, chairman, Cardiganshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Dorothy Johnson, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Edward Wickerson Jones, OBE, Director of Accounts, Board of Trade.
  • Stuart Grace Kermack, Sheriff Substitute of Lanarkshire.
  • William Edward Carr Lazenby, lately Member of the Industrial Court.
  • Kathleen Lovibond, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Middlesex.
  • Herbert Edgar Lunn, County Surveyor, East Sussex County Council.
  • James McBoyle, County Clerk, Midlothian.
  • Thomas McCrea, MC, lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
  • George Shipley McIntire, OBE, Town Clerk, Sunderland County Borough Council.
  • Arthur Johnston McIntosh, OBE, Chief Constable, Dunbartonshire Constabulary.
  • John Joseph McIntyre, OBE, Secretary, Rural District Councils Association.
  • Neil Cameron Macnamara, chairman and managing director, Trollope & Colls Ltd., London.
  • Juanita Mary Maton, Chief Statistician, Board of Trade.
  • Cecil Thomas Melling, chairman, Eastern Electricity Board.
  • Robert Muckle, chairman, Board of Governors, United Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals.
  • Colonel James Walter Munn, OBE, Foreign Office.
  • Alan Noble, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
  • Victor Norrie, JP. For political and public services in Scotland.
  • Elsa Rose Harriette Nunn, Principal, Diocesan Training College, Fishponds, Bristol.
  • George Ormiston, Superintendent Engineer, New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd., and Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
  • Alfred Henry Parker, assistant director of Dockyards, Admiralty.
  • Victor Alexander Patterson, JP, Deputy Chairman and managing director, J. & E. Hall Ltd., Dartford.
  • Professor Robert Peers, OBE, MC, chairman, Central Committee for Adult Education in HM Forces.
  • Benjamin Pickup, JP, lately President, Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
  • Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, Writer on architectural subjects.
  • Leonard Norton Roddis, Assistant Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Frederick Stratten Russell, DSC, DFC, Secretary, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, and Director of the Plymouth Laboratory.
  • Louis Francis Salzman, Medieval Historian.
  • Christine Mary Sheldon, lately Headmistress, Benenden Girls' School.
  • Joseph Harold Sheldon, MD, FRCP, Director of Medicine and Senior Physician, Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton.
  • Eric Earle Shipton, Explorer and mountaineer.
  • David Aitken Shirlaw, Director of Administration and Accounts, Atomic Energy Authority.
  • William Sinclair, JP. For political and public services in Glasgow.
  • Charles Holt Smith, Professor of Instrument Technology, Royal Military College of Science.
  • William Alexander Dey Furley Smith, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office.
  • Harold Thomas Speirs, Director of Accounts, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • John Young Sutherland, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Ernest Leonard Taylor, DVSc, MRCVS, deputy director, Veterinary Laboratories, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • George Frederick James Temple, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford.
  • Charles Stephen Toseland, MBE, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Benjamin Garnet Lampard-Vachell, JP, chairman, Devon County Education Committee.
  • Group Captain John Bartholomew Veal, AFC, Director, Aviation Safety and Licensing, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • William Veitch, JP, Editor-in-Chief and managing director, Aberdeen Journals Ltd.
  • Millicent Anne Warde. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Charles Frederick Waters, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Alfred Watson, Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Air Ministry.
  • George Stanley Wells, MC, Deputy Chief Engineer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
  • Major Francis Reginald Beaman Whitehouse, MBE, chairman and managing director, Chad Valley Co. Ltd., Birmingham.
  • Benjamin Allen Williams, OBE, chairman, Chester Local Savings Committee.
  • Denis John Williams, MD, FRCP, Civilian Consultant to the Royal Air Force in Neurology and Electro-Encephalography.
  • William James Wright, JP. For services to Agriculture in Scotland.
  • Gawain Westray Bell, MBE, lately Permanent Under-Secretary, Ministry of the Interior, Sudan Government.
  • Walter Jesse Wharton Cheesman, MC, lately Co-operative Adviser, Development Division, British Middle East Office, Beirut.
  • Ellis Joseph Hayim, British subject lately resident in China.
  • Captain John Alfred Stewart Jackson, OBE, Headmaster of the Grange School, Santiago.
  • Harry Jones, OBE, Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Howard Campbell McElderry, OBE, lately General Manager and Legal Representative in Greece of the Lake Copais Co. Ltd.
  • Leslie Herbert Mitchell, OBE, First Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in (Washington.
  • Richard Bartram Boyd Tollinton, OBE, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Leopoldville.
  • Lewis Charles Wilcher, Principal of the University College of Khartoum, Sudan.
  • John Beaumont, OBE, AFC, Commandant, Technical Training College, Indian Air Force, Jalahalli, India.
  • Michael James Condon, managing director, Burma Oil Company, Karachi, Pakistan.
  • William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther, DSO, V.D, MB, B.S, a prominent physician in the State of Tasmania.
  • Thomas Henry Grey, a Member of the Board of the Rhodesia Railways, formerly General Secretary of the Rhodesia Railways Workers' Union.
  • Elvie Quigley, MBE. For services to philanthropic movements in Launceston, State of Tasmania.
  • Horace Briggs Walker, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, State of South Australia.
  • Herbert Ison Wonfor, former Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Madras, India.
  • Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, OBE, Federal Minister of Transport, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Arthur Grenfell Barton. For public services in the Falkland Islands.
  • John Ramsay Baxter. For public services in North Borneo.
  • Rowland William Cunningham Baker-Beall, MBE, lately Deputy Financial Secretary of the Federation of Nigeria.
  • Charles Edward James Biggs, Director of Agriculture, Tanganyika.
  • Cyril Handley Bird. For public services in Uganda.
  • Herbert Alan Campbell, OBE. For services to the rubber industry in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Hugh Gordon Hylvestra Cummins, Leader of the House of Assembly, and Minister of Social Services, Barbados.
  • Edgar Cuschieri, OBE, Treasurer and Director of Contracts, Malta.
  • George de Nobriga. For public services in Trinidad.
  • James Milner Fraser, Manager, Singapore Improvement Trust.
  • Charles William Hayward, Commissioner of Customs and Excise, East Africa.
  • Major Frank Horatio de Vere Joyce, MC. For public services in Kenya.
  • John Roger Kynaston, OBE. For public services in Aden.
  • George William Lines, MBE, Director of Agriculture, Sierra Leone.
  • Jane McCotter, MBE. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Peter McNee, Director, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Federation of Malaya.
  • Colonel Frederick Stewart Modera, DSO, MC. For public services in Kenya.
  • Richard Hercules Wingfield Pakenham, OBE, Senior Commissioner, Zanzibar.
  • John Byron Renwick. For public services in Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Audrey Isabel Richards, Director, East African Institute of Social Research, Makerere College, Uganda.
  • Stafford Lofthouse Sands. For public services in the Bahamas.
  • James Edward Windrum, MVO, British Agent and Consul, Tonga.
  • James Wright, Director of Agriculture, Jamaica.
Honorary Commander
  • Mustapha Albakri bin Haji Hassan, OBE, Member for Industrial and Social Relations, Federation of Malaya.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • The Reverend Herbert Wright Brierley, Chaplain.
  • Commander (E) Frederick John Stanley Corney, (Retired).
  • Commander Charles Gerald Forsberg.
  • Commander (S) Gilbert Ferriby Franklin.
  • Surgeon Commander Thomas Wilson Froggatt, MB, BCh.
  • Captain John Rossiter Hayward, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service.
  • Acting Commander Ian Alistair Leitch. (On loan to the Indian Navy.)
  • Commander (L) Walter Ivan Nixon.
  • Commander Charles Frederick Nock, DSO, (Retired).
  • Commander Sidney Hugh Pinchin, DSC.
  • Mr. Harold Ringshaw, Chief Engineer, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Harry William Sanders, Royal Marines.
Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Donald Adams (47502) Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Corby Anderson, TD, (64068), The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Thomas Benn, MBE, (66942), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Edward Moore Bradley, DSO, (63546), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Henry Broadbent, TD, (58695), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Leslie Broom, MC, TD, (151058), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Edward Southwell, Baron de Clifford, TD, (36391), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Bertrand Dawson Cotton, TD, (77818), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Ferry Crooks (189722), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Alfred Duke (44049), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (Employed List (1)).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) William Henry George Dunbar, TD, (19774), 4th Kent (St. Augustines) Battalion, Home Guard.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Stanley Ernest Ellis (115303), Royal Regiment of Artillery (now (retired).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Desmond Ellis, TD, (71676), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Forbes Finlayson (64364), Royal Army Dental Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Lockwood Gadd (175770), Royal Army Educational Corps.
  • Major John Charles Pengelley Madden-Gaskell, MBE, TD, (20596), General List (now retired).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hamilton Glyn, TD, (45164), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Francis Edwin Goad (195713), Army Cadet Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, MC, (53368), 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Gomersall (173353), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Ian Rollo Graeme (56580), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Stuart Gray, MC, TD, (75430), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Michael William Henry Head (58030), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (Local Lieutenant-Colonel) Gerald Rowley Heyland, MC, (71112), The Suffolk Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Charles Frederick Spencer Hill, MM, TD, (36274), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Major Hugo Craster Wakeford Ironside (77706), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Clayton Carter Lewis (39373), Royal Army Service Corps (now R.A.R.O.).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Macleod (53041), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas McGregor McNie, MB, MRCOG, (56405), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Local Colonel) St. Leger Morris (37272), The King's Own Yorkshire (Light Infantry, (Employed (List (1)) (now R.A.R.O.).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Albert William Penna (195935), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter John Macdonald Ross, MC, TD, (66551), The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roy Cecil Salmon (230901), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Felix James Moncrieff Schuster, TD, (88116), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Sydney Sell, MC, TD, (56366), The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence Nelson Smith (41190), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List (1)).
  • Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene Vincent Strickland, DSO, MM, (66223), 16th/5th Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Hepworth-Taylor (36399), Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Waddington, MC, TD, (73585), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Robert Alexander Wixley (113126), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Holland Hartley, Rhodesian African Rifles.
  • Major Evan George Stewart, DSO, ED, Commanding Officer, Home Guard, Royal Hong Kong Defence Force.
Royal Air Force
  • Group Captain Harry Emlyn Bufton, DSO, DFC, AFC.
  • Wing Commander Frank George Foot (40902).
  • Wing Commander Arthur Kenneth Furse, DFC, (39512).
  • Wing Commander Charles Clement Howes (35198).
  • Wing Commander John Ernest Allen-Jones (81434).
  • Wing Commander Walter Noel Kenyon, AFC, (88395).
  • Wing Commander Richard Cyril Pearson (35276).
  • Wing Commander Edward Francis Pippet (37119).
  • Wing Commander Reginald Alexander Roy (46100).
  • Wing Commander Charles Francis Norman Seaman (201646).
  • Wing Commander Richard David Williams (39182).
  • Acting Wing Commander John Finch, DFC, AFC, (64308).
  • Acting Wing Commander John Hope Pool, MD, BS, (90789), Royal Auxiliary Air Force Reserve of Officers.
  • Squadron Leader Ernest Claude Bennett, DFM, (46218).
  • Squadron Leader Frank William Marius Jensen, DFC, AFC, (102058).
  • Squadron Leader Arthur Charles Morris (89029).
  • Squadron Leader John Robert Oswald (45456).
  • Squadron Leader Stanley William Timmis (45879).
  • Squadron Leader Alfred Lewis Walker (114645).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Frank Kasz (122885), RAF Volunteer Reserve.
Civil Division
  • Jack Caudrey Abraham, BEM, Honorary Treasurer, Royal Naval Benevolent Trust.
  • Henry William Lyon Absalom, assistant director, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry.
  • Basil William Armstrong, MC, MB, B.S, lately Medical Superintendent, The Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.
  • Harold James Atkinson, Area General Manager, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
  • George Watson Bain, Chief Engineer, SS Mauretania, Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd.
  • Stanley Watson Bainbridge, Principal Information Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Arthur Charles Baker, Assistant Regional Controller, Eastern, Regional Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Elizabeth Marian Maxwell Balfour, County Director, Hampshire, British Red Cross Society.
  • Arthur Vincent Barker, Deputy General Manager, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
  • Arthur Beauchamp, MRCS, LRCP, General Practitioner, Birmingham. For services to the Ministry of Health.
  • Frederick Evylen James Behn, chief executive officer, Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands.
  • Joseph Blewitt, MBE, JP, Midlands Regional Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union.
  • Maurice Francis Bond, Clerk of the Records, Offices of the House of Lords.
  • John James Breslin, Principal, Board of Trade.
  • Richard Cain, President, World Manx Association.
  • Lucy Evelyn Cheesman. For services to Entomology.
  • Mary Cheney, chairman, Oxford County Youth Employment Committee.
  • Herbert James Clare, MBE, Chief Commissioner, National Savings Committee.
  • Francis James Clark, Deputy Chief Inspector, Postal Services Department, General Post Office.
  • Douglas Hardcastle Clarke, MC, Appointments Officer, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Alderman John Clarricoats, General Secretary, Radio Society of Great Britain.
  • Alfred John Claydon, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Ralph Hedworth Clough, Senior District Inspector of Mines, West Midland and Southern Division, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Harold Clowes, JP, Councillor, Stoke-on-Trent Borough Council.
  • Walter Thomas Cockle, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Barking Savings Committee, Essex.
  • Henry Edwin Arthur Condon, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Robert Connor, DSM, Director and General Manager, Measurement Ltd., Oldham, Lancashire.
  • George Robert Acworth Conquest, Principal, Foreign Office.
  • Wilfred John Corbet, Industrial Disputes Officer, Guernsey.
  • Arthur David Richards Cowley, Principal Regional Architect, Birmingham, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
  • Edith Margaret Jane Cowper. For political and public services in Lancashire.
  • David Leonard Craig, Manager, Italy, British European Airways.
  • Deodora Croft. For political and public services in Wandsworth.
  • Richard Benedict Cunningham, Higher Collector, Birmingham, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Eliot Cecil Curwen, MRCS, LRCP, Honorary Physician to the Police Convalescent Seaside Home, Hove.
  • George Daly, MBE, Staff Controller, Engineering Department, General Post Office.
  • Robert John Davies. For political and public services in North Wales.
  • Major James Dawson, JP. For public services in Lancashire.
  • Margery Phyllis Deslandes, Principal, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
  • George Clifford Diamond, Headmaster, High School for Boys, Cardiff.
  • Major Hugh Dixon, chairman, Keighley, Skipton and District War Pensions Committee, West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Peter Arthur Domeisen, Principal Intelligence Officer, British Services Security Organization, Germany.
  • John Herbert Drayson, Chief Accountant, Board of Trade.
  • Marjorie Drury, General Secretary, Central Council for the Care of Cripples.
  • Herbert Duckworth, Superintending Electrical Engineer, Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, West Drayton.
  • Isabel Grace Wharton Duff, chairman, Moray and Nairn Education Committee.
  • William Jesse Dyer, Resident Engineer, Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex.
  • George Douglas Elliot, Works Manager (Iron), Appleby-Frodingham Branch, United Steel Companies Ltd., Sheffield.
  • Eliot James Wilfred Ely, chief executive officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Wynn Hawyn Evans, Principal Scientific Officer, Safety in Mines Research Establishment, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • William John Felton, Secretary, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy.
  • Alick Hayden Finney, Chief Officer, Staffordshire Fire Brigade.
  • Robert Foster, MBE, Chief Actuary of the London Trustee Savings Bank.
  • Arthur Frederick Fountain, Secretary, Civil Service Sanatorium Society.
  • Alderman George Robert Critchley Fox, JP. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Captain Peter Frank Frai, VRD, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Retired), lately Chief Representative for Scotland, King George's Fund for Sailors.
  • Isaac Arthur Franks, Member of the Licensed Non-Residential Establishment Wages Board.
  • George Freeman, Honorary Treasurer, Birmingham Savings Committee.
  • Anthony Herbert Gardner, TD. For political services.
  • Harold Garside, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Henry Arthur Geelan, Commissioner of Police, Belfast.
  • Alderman William Alfred Gibson, JP. For political and public services in Cheshire.
  • Francis Charles Morgan-Giles, managing director, Morgan Giles Ltd., Teignmouth, Devonshire.
  • George Henry Giles, Secretary and Director of Examinations, British Optical Association.
  • Alfred Ernest Gollop, assistant director of Storage, Ministry of Supply.
  • George Herbert Goode, deputy director of Statistics, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • James Gordon, MBE, Principal, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Frederic Ascott Gould, lately Senior Principal Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • Peter Leonard Gould, Member, Welsh Board for Industry.
  • Leslie Ernest Gray, lately chairman, Distribution Section, Tea Division, Ministry of Food.
  • The Honourable Richard Francis Maynard Greville. For political services.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Campbell Goldney Grey. For political and public services in Somerset.
  • Leonard Hagestadt, Deputy Regional Controller, London and South Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Arthur Harold Hammond, Principal, Home Office.
  • Harry Oswald Harries, chairman, London Welsh Association.
  • David Harrison, Chief Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Arthur Stanley Hartshorn, recently Scientific Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Paris (now Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough).
  • John Tattersall Haynes, General Manager, Western Division, Southern Gas Board.
  • Henry Hayward, Assistant Controller, Operations Branch, London Postal Region, General Post Office.
  • Cecil Heap, JP, General Secretary, Wallpaper Workers' Union.
  • Reginald Ernest Hedger, Attached War Office.
  • James Joseph Hegan, Principal, Moseley & Kings Heath Evening Institute, Birmingham.
  • Gerald Aubrey Hill, Director, Higgs & Hill Ltd., Crown Works, London.
  • Henry Hill, Member, Board of Customs and Excise Diamond Committee.
  • Bernard Reginald Hillard, Assistant Regional Controller, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Ronald Sidney Hope, Director, Seafarers' Education Service and College of the Sea.
  • Arthur Trobridge Horton, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence.
  • The Reverend Francis Harry House, Head of Religious Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Leslie Howarth, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol.
  • William Charles Hudson, Assistant Accountant General, Hospitals Management Division, Ministry of Health.
  • Robert Thomson Hutcheson, JP, Secretary of the University Court, and Registrar, University of Glasgow.
  • Ellen Mary Ibberson, MBE. For services to Music. Director of the Rural Music Schools Association.
  • Alderman Fred James, Vice-chairman, Cornwall Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, MC, lately Editor of the British Council publication, Britain Today.
  • Edward Norman Jamieson, LRCP(Ed.), FRCS.(Ed.), Surgeon, Lewis Hospital, Stornoway.
  • Henry Cecil Johnson, Divisional Operating Superintendent, Eastern Region, British Railways.
  • Herbert John Jones, Technical Consultant, Hemingway & Co. Ltd.
  • John Jones, chief executive officer, Board of Trade. (Lately Deputy Regional Food Officer, Midland and North Midland Regions, Ministry of Food.)
  • Alexander Speirs Kelly, HM Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department.
  • Hugh Kelly, General Secretary, Plumbing Trades Union.
  • Nellie King, MBE, Member, representing North Wiltshire, National Savings Assembly.
  • James Kirkwood, Director of Practical Dairying, West of Scotland Agricultural College, Auchincruive, Ayrshire.
  • Matthew Lamont. For political and public services in Ayrshire.
  • James Frederick Lane, JP. For public services in Battersea.
  • Margaret Millar Lawson. For public services in Belfast.
  • Arthur Moss Lee, chairman, Kettering and District Hospital Management Committee.
  • Herman Roderick Lindars. For services in the field of fuel efficiency.
  • John Lindley, JP, chairman, Bury Local Employment Committee and Disablement Advisory Committee.
  • James Rene Lindsay, Chief Registrar, Principal Probate Registry, Supreme Court of Judicature, Northern Ireland.
  • Mary Milroy Lindsay, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
  • Archer Lindsey, Principal Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Freda Violet Lingstrom, Head of Children's Programmes, Television, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Arthur Ivor Llewelyn, Chief Research Officer, Headquarters, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force.
  • Marion Avis Lloyd. For political services.
  • Claude Frederick Nelson Longhurst, Principal, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Walter Pollock Lucas, JP, chairman, Greenock, Port Glasgow and District Local Employment Committee.
  • Charles Luker. For political and public services in Oxfordshire.
  • Duncan Mackintosh MacDonald, Firemaster Northern Area Fire Brigade, Scotland.
  • George Watkins McNeil, Trade Commissioner, Board of Trade.
  • Albert James Maker, Alderman, Reading County Borough Council.
  • Frederick Peter Russell Mallows, Senior Legal Assistant, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Captain John Henry Jones Martin, Works Manager, Elswick and Scotswood Works, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.
  • James Matthews, MBE, Trade Union Side Secretary, National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport.
  • George Alfred May, deputy director of Cold Storage, Ministry of Food.
  • Alderman Sidney Arthur Maycock, JP, Editor of The Smallholder.
  • Alderman Samuel Thomas Melsom, JP. For public services in Oldbury, Worcestershire.
  • Andrew Millar. For public services in Belfast.
  • Wing Commander Geoffrey William Monk, DFC, Divisional Air Traffic Control Officer, Scottish Divisional Headquarters, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Geoffrey Miles Morant, Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough.
  • Cyril Douglas Morgan, MC, Principal Clerk to the Chamberlain of London.
  • Alan Greenwood Morkill, chairman, Colonial Committee of the Victoria League.
  • James Alexander Fraser Morrison, MM, City Quantity Surveyor, Dundee.
  • Arthur Edward Morton, JP. For political and public services in Cambridgeshire.
  • Captain William Francis Lister Newcombe, MBE, TD, Secretary, Army Cadet Force, and Combined Cadet Force, Associations.
  • Victor Patrick O'Connor, Regional Manager, South Eastern London and the South Eastern Regions, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
  • William Oliver, lately Secretary, Hull Trawler Officers' Guild.
  • Harold Grey Padbury, lately Area Meat and Livestock Officer, London Area, Ministry of Food.
  • William Jones Pate, National Secretary for Wales, Young Men’s Christian Association.
  • Ruth Hope Pecker, Registrar, General Nursing Council for Scotland.
  • Peter Philip, Area Manager, Dundee, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board.
  • Percy Nicholas Piggott, assistant director for Wales, Ministry of Works.
  • Captain Philip Ernest Hastings Potter, Master, MV Port Hardy, Bibby Line Ltd.
  • Alderman Alfred James Pugh, chairman, West Cheshire Water Board.
  • Harry Purt, Secretary, Leicester and County Chamber of Commerce.
  • Helen Marjorie Ramsden, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Scunthorpe Savings Committee.
  • William Arthur Hugh Redwood. For services in the field of religion.
  • Donald Henry Reed, Superintending Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade.
  • Charles Arthur Richards, Superintending Architect, War Office.
  • Thomas Dow Richardson. For services to British Skating.
  • Eric Lewis Ripley, Principal Scientific Officer, Structures Department, Ministry of Supply.
  • John Herbert Owen Roberts, MD, JP, Medical Superintendent, North Wales Hospital for Nervous and Mental Disorders, Denbigh.
  • Vernon Watkin Madoc Roberts, Commercial Manager, Electronics Department, British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., Rugby.
  • Herzl Ruben, Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland.
  • Arthur Ryder, Director (Inspection, Transport and Warehouses), HM Stationery Office.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Charles Saxon, MC, chairman, Chester, Runcorn and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Jack Shackleton, Engineering, Superintendent of Design, Atomic Energy Authority.
  • James Shanks, Principal Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland.
  • John Leighton Sharratt, Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Shoreditch.
  • Leonard Edwin Arthur Shave. For political and public services in Kent.
  • Beatrice Annie Shaw, Matron, Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.
  • William John Shea, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Observer Captain Ivor David Richard Sims, Commandant, Southern Area, Royal Observer Corps.
  • John Sutcliffe Spence, lately chairman, South of Scotland Wholesale Meat Supply Association.
  • Robert Spence, Director and General Manager, John Hastie & Co. Ltd., Greenock, Renfrewshire.
  • Allen James Sugden. For political and public services in the Spen Valley.
  • Cyril Ryan Williford Tindall, Senior Legal Assistant, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
  • Stanley Herbert Titford, Secretary, London Corn Trade Association Ltd., 1919–1954.
  • Donald Todd, deputy director of Armament Supply, Admiralty.
  • David Victor Turner, Chief Constable, Swansea Borough Police Force.
  • Dorothy May Vatsey, General Secretary, Friends of the Poor.
  • Michael George Francis Ventris. For services to Mycenaean paleography.
  • George Alexander Vowles, Divisional Controller, Yorkshire Division, British Electricity Authority.
  • Frederick William Wadely, Master of the Music, Carlisle Cathedral.
  • George Wall, chief executive officer, Air Ministry.
  • Wilson Walton, Regional Controller, East and West Ridings Region, National Assistance Board.
  • Alderman George Frederick Warburton. For political and public services in Derby.
  • Professor Frederick Victor Warnock, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Belfast Municipal College of Technology.
  • Norman Horace Arthur Warren, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Admiralty Gunnery Establishment, Portland.
  • David Watson, Principal, Ministry of Works.
  • Douglas Robinson Wattleworth, chairman, Workington and District Local Employment Committee.
  • Laurence Whistler, Designer and Writer.
  • Harry Whitaker, MBE, Head of Division, Tithe Redemption Commission.
  • Leonard Whitehouse, JP. For public services in Staffordshire.
  • Alderman Percival Nathan Whitley, JP, chairman, Halifax Education Committee.
  • Cicely Joan Whittington, MBE, Director, Overseas Branches Department, British Red Cross Society.
  • Eric Stewart Willbourn, ED, Deputy-Director, Colonial Geological Surveys.
  • Gerald Vernon Williams, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Peter Michael Williams. For public services in Cornwall.
  • Robert Wilson, JP, chairman, Braemar Knitwear Ltd., Hawick, Roxburghshire.
  • Arthur William Yeoman. For services to the Retail Fruit Trade.
  • William Harry Yoxall, GM, Principal Inspection Officer, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Midland Area, Ministry of Supply.
  • Dennis Bernard James Ambler, lately First Secretary (Assistant Regional Information Officer), Office of the Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
  • Henry William Carter, British subject lately resident in China.
  • Major John Fleming Gumming, lately District Commissioner, Upper Nile Province, Sudan.
  • Ralph Marshall Dexter, British subject resident in Italy.
  • Robert Howard Elkington, British subject resident in Egypt.
  • Frederick Michael MacLeod Forster, Deputy Governor, Kassala Province, Sudan.
  • Hilda Mary Hatton, lately chairman, British Army of the Rhine Central Committee for Displaced Persons in Germany.
  • Ronald Chalmers Kelt, MBE, Engineer in Chief and Inspector-General of Ports and Navigation, Port Directorate, Basra.
  • Henry Hutchison Lennox, MC, British subject lately resident in China.
  • Francois Paul List, MBE, Joint President of the British Luxembourg Society, Luxembourg.
  • The Venerable Archdeacon Charles Sidney Neale, Archdeacon in charge of Christ Church, Rio de Janeiro.
  • Thomas James Oliver, Public Safety Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Peter George Upton Pope, Temporary Chief Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Geoffrey Herbert Grant Richards, Director, Mechanical Transport Department, Sudan Government.
  • William Marsden Ford Robertson, MD, medical director of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders, Beirut.
  • Derek Aimone Antona Traversi, British Council Representative in Chile.
  • Joseph Albert Whitlock, Labour Adviser on the West Coast of the United States of America to Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • William Baddeley Adams, former Manager of the Havelock Asbestos Mine, Swaziland.
  • Cecil Roy Baker. For public services in the State of Tasmania.
  • Dorothy Carroll, Matron of the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, Adelaide, State of South Australia.
  • Anthony Drinkwater Chataway, MBE, High Commissioner in the Union of South Africa for the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Annie Muriel, Lady Coningham, chairman, Hospitality Committee, Victoria League.
  • Donald Henry Cummings, MBE. For services to the Ministry of Finance, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Constance Muriel Davey, a psychologist. For services to the Education Department and social welfare organisations in the State of South Australia.
  • Ryno de Beer. For services to the Mining Industry in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Alan Hilliard Donald, District Officer, Basutoland.
  • Roger Paul Goode, JP, chairman, St. John Ambulance Association, State of South Australia.
  • Harry Gladwyn Harcourt, DSO, MC, JP, employed in the Industrial Development Branch of the Premier's Department, State of Tasmania.
  • Vivian William Hiller, Chief Archivist, Central African Archives, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • James Hutchinson Kennedy, BM, BCh, Government Medical Officer at Ndanga, Southern Rhodesia.
  • James Harold Krikler, Chairman of the Town Management Board, Shaibani, Southern Rhodesia.
  • John Malcolm Lambert. For services to the United Kingdom community in Chittagong, Pakistan.
  • Henry Campbell MacColl, former Manager of the Bombay Branch of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
  • Patrick John Frederick Parsons. For services to members of the United Kingdom community, particularly ex-servicemen, in Calcutta, India.
  • Denise Eleanor Sanderson, Staff Matron and Head of the Southern Rhodesia Nursing Service.
  • John Hancock Strangman, chairman, Waikerie District Council, State of South Australia.
  • Peter Simon Achimugu, Minister for Natural Resources, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Michael Charles Atkinson, Administrative Officer, Western Region, Nigeria.
  • David Alexander Baird, MB, ChB, Director of Medical Services, Somaliland.
  • The Right Reverend Alberi Kakyomya Balya, Assistant Bishop of Uganda.
  • Colin Campbell, Colonial Secretary, Falkland Islands.
  • Diarmaid William Conroy, TD, QC, Attorney-General, Gibraltar.
  • Eric Clifford Crawford. For public services in Trinidad.
  • James Cornelius Odofumi Crowther, JP. For public services in Sierra Leone.
  • The Reverend Bernard Joseph Davis. For services to Education in North Borneo.
  • Vishnu Deo. For public services in Fiji.
  • William Rees Evans, Director of Agriculture, Bermuda.
  • Chief Samuel Ajaye Falade, JP, (The Lejoka of Ilesha). For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Eric Charles Guy Fuller, lately Deputy Accountant-General, Nigeria.
  • Thassos Charidimos Gircotis. For medical services in Cyprus.
  • Goh Hood Kiat. For public services in Singapore.
  • Joseph Bernard Gould, lately Establishment Officer, Kenya, and Secretary, East African Salaries Commission.
  • Harry St. Ledger Grenfell, MC. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Norman Henry Hardy. For public services in Kenya.
  • Reginald Wilfred Higginson. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • Ho Seng Ong. For services to Education in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Frank Humphreys, Administrative Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • William Edward Hutchinson, ED, MD, JP, assistant director of Medical Services (Civil Defence), Singapore.
  • Muriel Frances Ellen Pelham-Johnson, assistant director of Education, Tanganyika.
  • Abdul Karim Yusufali Alibhai Karimjee, JP. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Alan Kennedy, Director, Electrical Department, Bahamas.
  • Koh Sin Hock, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Louis Cools-Lartigue, Chief Secretary, Windward Islands.
  • Law Ohemg Phuan. For public services in Sarawak.
  • Jack Hayden Lewis, Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya.
  • John Lilly, Director, Department of Rural Water Development, Gold Coast.
  • James McMahon, Entomologist, Kenya.
  • Chief Kidaha Makwaia. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Anthony Mamo, Deputy Attorney-General, Malta.
  • Andrew Gillespie Marshall. For public services in Nigeria.
  • David Butler Mills, Superintending Engineer, Buildings Branch, Public Works Department, Kenya.
  • Alan Shepherd Milward, Deputy Chief Engineer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations.
  • Joseph O'Connor, MBE, Secretary to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief and Clerk to the Executive Council, Trinidad.
  • Alexander Oppenheim, Professor of Mathematics, University of Malaya.
  • William Blake Ouseley, Senior Assistant Director of Education, Uganda.
  • Edward Maurice Frederick Payne, assistant director of Education, Federation of Malaya.
  • Ernest Cuthbert Peterkins. For public services in Nyasaland.
  • John Shaw Rennie, Deputy Colonial Secretary, Mauritius.
  • George Herbert Rusbridger, deputy director of African Education, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Loris Rohan Sharples, MB, ChB. For public services in British Guiana.
  • Major Hugh Beaumont Shepheard, Liaison Officer for Nigerian Students in the United Kingdom.
  • The Reverend Hugh Braham Sherlock. For public services in Jamaica.
  • Eustace Maxwell Shilstone, MBE. For public services in Barbados.
  • Francis Walkey Smith, Government Printer, British Honduras.
  • The Reverend Joseph Johannes David Stegmann. For public services in Nyasaland.
  • John William Stobart, Manager, Road Transport Department, Sierra Leone.
  • Edmund Strickland, Superintendent of Physical Education, Singapore.
  • Umar Suleiman, Emir of Bedde, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Francis William Toovey, Director, West African Institute for Oil Palm Research.
  • Richard Frank Tring, Commandant of the Government Guards, Aden.
  • Wong Pak Kan. For public services in Hong Kong.
  • Alhaji Yahaya Madawaki, Madawakin Ilorin and Minister of Health, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Waiter Ansley Young, MRCS, LRCP, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Carl Theodore Quinn-Young, Director of Education, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
Honorary Officer
  • Chik Mohamad Yusuf bin Sheikh Abdul Rahman, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Temporary Senior Commissioned Electrical Officer (L) Albert Frederick Bowles, (Retired).
  • Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Alan Cyril Levin Callaway, Royal Marines.
  • Senior Commissioned Gunner (T) Frederick Charles Carroll.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (E) William Frederick Morgan Davies, (Retired).
  • Commissioned Recruiter Charles Henry Manuel.
  • Lieutenant-at-Arms Arthur George Miller.
  • Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Eugene Mansbridge Mole.
  • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Louis Harry Morrison. (Lately on loan to the Royal Malayan Navy.)
  • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Reginald Arthur Price, DSC, (Retired).
  • Instructor Lieutenant-Commander James Henry John Rowe.
  • Lieutenant (E) Claude Glinton Smith, (Retired).
  • Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Charles Haskell-Thomas, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Shipwright Lieutenant Alexander George Williams.
Army
  • Major William Alexander Adam (179679), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major Thomas Charles Ayres, TD, (96011), Royal Army Medical Coops, Territorial Army.
  • Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) Desmond John Howard Bannister, MC, (66109), The Devonshire Regiment.
  • Major Cyril Lane Barnes, MC, TD, (56870), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Territorial Army and Combined Cadet Force.
  • Major Francis John Bastin (326989), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
  • 22259784 Warrant Officer Class I Frank William Orlando Battle, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Captain Ivor Robert Bessant (333112), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Sydney George Betts, TD, (79536), The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  • 2979240 Warrant Officer Class I Richard Thomas Boyde, DCM, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).
  • Major Daniel Buckley (240782), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major William Norman Bygate, TD, (69482), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • 1871189 Warrant Officer Class II Douglas Cecil Clayton, Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major (Local Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Bernard Cook (176964), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) (Employed List (3)).
  • 5375421 Warrant Officer Class II Percy Reginald Frank Cox, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  • Major (acting) Denys Kingwill Crews, TD, (75877), Combined Cadet Force.
  • Captain Edward Davies, TD, (89070), The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
  • 1873895 Warrant Officer Class I Ronald Stanley Derrick, Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Major (acting) Richard Michael Digby, 3rd Hampshire (Alton) Battalion, Home Guard.
  • 21129451 Warrant Officer Class II William Henry Dixon, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major John Bartlett Dodds, TD, (70636), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • 6005306 Warrant Officer Class II Francis Earnest Edwards, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Captain Robert Alfred Foster (181408), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • S/57643 Warrant Officer Class I Donald Charles John Goddard, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain Arthur Edward Chase Green, TD, (94000), Honourable Artillery Company, Territorial Army.
  • 3192507 Warrant Officer Class I (now Warrant Officer Class II) George Brown Gunn, The Lanarkshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • 25402 Warrant Officer Class II Richard Edward Gurney, MM, Honourable Artillery Company, Territorial Army.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Daniel David Hale (421049), Small Arms School Corps.
  • 7586462 Warrant Officer Class I Lewis Nelson Halsall, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Alexander Hamill, TD, (194569), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • 806195 Warrant Officer Class I Christopher Victor Harding, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) James Arthur Harris (309872), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (formerly Warrant Officer Class I) Elsie Elizabeth Harrison (436858), Women's Royal Army Corps.
  • Major (temporary) George Thomas Harwood (358836), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List (3).
  • 729164 Warrant Officer Class II Alfred Hemingway, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
  • 121358 Warrant Officer Class II John Winship Hetherington, The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • 3651093 Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Holton, The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers).
  • Captain Eric Lawford Hughes, TD, (102833), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • 550532 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Roy Hurst, 14th/20th King's Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) John William Jones (345686), The Durham Light Infantry.
  • Major Robert Norman Legge, MM, (168263), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major (acting) Herman William Levy (275601), Army Cadet Force.
  • 728797 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Lowrey, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major (Mechanist Officer) Francis James Norman McCann (95418), Royal Army Service Corps (Employed List (2X)).
  • 22268292 Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Ernest McCausland, North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Major Donald Ross McGillivray (203148), The Gordon Highlanders (Employed List (4)).
  • Major Harold Gerard McGrath (177021), Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Captain (acting) Dugald McKillop (351419), Army Cadet Force.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Alexander McLeod, MM, (418859), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major Cuthbert Newbold, ERD, (53912), Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Major Peter Percy Pearson (359478), The York and Lancaster Regiment.
  • Lieutenant (now Captain) John Herbert Piper (421308), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (temporary) (now Captain) Richard Hopkins Purvis (137112), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major Leslie Frank Richmond, TD, MB, (47948), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • 7875479 Warrant Officer Class II Edwin Peircy Roberts, Westminster Dragoons, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
  • 22226342 Warrant Officer Class I William Burnhope Robson, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (temporary Captain) William Ignatius Rooney, MM, (425957), Irish Guards.
  • Lieutenant Coralie May Ross (270344), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army.
  • W/196896 Warrant Officer Class II Kathleen Olwen Ryan, Women's Royal Army Corps, (Territorial Army.
  • 3518299 Warrant Officer Class II Percy Seddon, The Manchester Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant (E.M.A.E.) (formerly Warrant Officer Class I) Alfred Charles Shirlaw (437324), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (Quartermaster) William Terrance Sloane (195622), The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (Employed List (4)).
  • Major Walter Staples (289425), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Major Robert Steele (108138), Grenadier Guards.
  • Major (Staff Quartermaster) Darrel Ernest Lumb Street (111058), Employed List (2).
  • Major (Quartermaster) John Patrick Stroud (120558), Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Major Robert Henderson Sturrock, TD, (224431), Corps of Royal Military Police, Territorial Army.
  • Major (Quartermaster) George Louis Vokins, MM, TD, (74196), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (temporary) Harry Bryan Claude Watkins (190477), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 318820 Warrant Officer Class I James Edward Watson, DCM, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), Royal Armoured Corps.
  • Major (E. & M. O.) Denis White (238299), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • Major Carol Francis Willis, TD, (97009), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  • Major George Cyril Willis, MC, (113958), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Major (Quantity Surveyor) (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) Wesley Frank Willoughby (76518), Corps of Royal Engineers.
  • 4535981 Warrant Officer Class II Harry Woolley, The South Staffordshire Regiment.
  • 828981 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Harold Yapp, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
  • Captain (Quartermaster) Ernest Sidney Cook (350431), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, seconded to the 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles.
  • Major (local Colonel) Wilfred Harold Marshall (E.C.6901), Special List (ex-Indian Army); at present on loan to the Government of India.
  • Major John Stuart Scott Roger, Southern Rhodesia Transport Corps, Territorial Force.
  • Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Frederick Stanley (O.W.98), Special List (ex-Indian Army); at present on loan to the Government of India.
  • Captain Raymond James Minjoot, Singapore Volunteer Corps.
Royal Air Force
  • Squadron Leader John Leonard Aron (110492).
  • Squadron Leader Joseph William Judge (79925).
  • Squadron Leader Ernest Sidney Odbert, MB, BCh, (137280).
  • Squadron Leader David Glyndwr Roberts, MM, (146809), RAF Regiment.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Clive Chesterfield (67807), RAF Volunteer Reserve.
  • Acting Squadron Leader Laurence Frederick Crawley (51969).
  • Acting Squadron Leader George Alfred Jeffery (58537).
  • Flight Lieutenant Leslie James Anderson (43594).
  • Flight Lieutenant James Anthony Henry Armstrong (51103).
  • Flight Lieutenant Powell Thomas Brown (54474).
  • Flight Officer Mary Agnes Clayden (4372), Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant John William Eastham (57916).
  • Flight Lieutenant Albert Henry George Grant (54427).
  • Flight Lieutenant James Macintyre (171781), Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment.
  • Flight Lieutenant John Sidney Millman (561821).
  • Flight Lieutenant Erroll Minter, AFC, (201177).
  • Flight Lieutenant Jan Wincenty Mondschein (500259).
  • Flight Lieutenant James Albert O'Connell (54017).
  • Flight Lieutenant Thomas Nelsom Forrest Orr (106832).
  • Flight Lieutenant Reginald William Beecroft Rainford (82213).
  • Flight Lieutenant Douglas Ferdenain Shallow (48309).
  • Flight Lieutenant Bernard Smith, DFC, (42365).
  • Flight Lieutenant Hector Joseph Smith, DFC, (49952).
  • Flight Lieutenant Walter William Charles Snipp (53800).
  • Flight Lieutenant John Campbell Grenall Wilson (142076).
  • Flight Lieutenant Roy Wood (58657).
  • Acting Flight Lieutenant George Shaw (63283), RAF Volunteer Reserve.
  • Flying Officer Thomas William Baker (58438).
  • Warrant Officer Frederick John Collis (521805).
  • Warrant Officer David Angus Crombie (620747).
  • Warrant Officer Walter Miles Goddard (364057).
  • Warrant Officer Raymond Humphrey (566986).
  • Warrant Officer George Henry Meager (506229).
  • Warrant Officer William James Morris (562578).
  • Warrant Officer Bertie Reginald Newman (508044).
  • Warrant Officer John Thomas Norman (512791).
  • Warrant Officer William Philip Roberts (591180).
  • Warrant Officer Joseph Rockley (615407).
  • Warrant Officer Edward Stanley Charles Saunders (562289).
  • Warrant Officer William Daniel Sinclair (527631).
  • Warrant Officer Ernest James Tufnail (550595).
  • Warrant Officer Ronald Albert Edwin Underhill (366220).
  • Warrant Officer Leonard Walker (545709).
  • Warrant Officer John Waugh (536518).
Civil Division
  • Penelope Loader, The Honourable Mrs. William Aitken, JP, Member of County Staff, Children, East Suffolk Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Bertrand Cecil Amies, Chief Officer of Welfare Services, Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Gilbert Anderson, Manager of Welding and Fabricating Department, Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh.
  • Arthur William Aylett, Senior Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Captain Edward George Baker, Secretary, London Master Printers Association.
  • William Baker, Seneschal of Sark.
  • Henry Robert Ball, Calligrapher.
  • James Ball, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, St. Helens Borough Police Force, Lancashire.
  • Francis Henry John Ballinger, Assistant Regional Food Officer, Southern and South Western Region, Ministry of Food.
  • Charles Dean Barber, Honorary Secretary, Admiralty Ferry Crew Association.
  • Hubert Wilfrid Barlow, Assistant Postmaster, Malvern, Worcestershire.
  • Thomas Charles Battersby, General Manager, Watford Division, Eastern Gas Board.
  • Harold Thomas Beer, Collector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Ernest Alfred Bell, International Secretary, Trades Union Congress.
  • Harold George Betteridge, Headmaster, Buckingham Gate Secondary School, London.
  • William Joseph Beviere, Attached, War Office.
  • John Birch, Assistant Railway Employment Inspector, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Harry Birtwistle, General Manager, Ermen and Roby Branch, and Stanhill Branch, English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd.
  • Ethel Ann Blackburn, President, Leeds Babies Welcome Association.
  • David Shaw Blaikie, Technical Assistant and Clerk of Works, Ministry of Works, serving at HM Embassy, Washington.
  • Ann Blumer, JP. For political and public services in Darlington.
  • Richard Board, Deputy Town Clerk, Cheltenham.
  • Alfred James Bolt, Senior Experimental Officer, Admiralty.
  • Quintin Bone, Surveyor (Main Grade), Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
  • George Arthur Booth, Superintendent, Altcar Rifle Range, West Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
  • Gladys Aileen Botsford, Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Observer Commander George Alfred Donovan Bourne, Group Commandant, No. 5 Group, Watford, Royal Observer Corps.
  • Arthur Thomas Bowden, JP, District Organiser, Bristol and North Somerset, National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
  • Doris Florence Bray, Higher Executive Officer, Development Commission.
  • Antonin Augustin Brejcha, Senior Technical Officer, Operations Development Unit, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • John Brigenshaw, chairman, Bournemouth and Dorset Local Advisory Committee of the National Assistance Board.
  • Stanley Walter Brown, Chief Radio Officer, SS Scythia (Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd.), International Marine Radio Co. Ltd.
  • Thomas Brown, Divisional Officer, Scotland, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.
  • Catherine Ann Hamilton Bruce, Guider in Charge, Trefoil School, Hermiston, Currie, Midlothian.
  • Helen Gray-Buchanan, Superintendent, Meadow Street Nursery School, Falkirk.
  • William Frederick Buck, Experimental Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Frederick James Bull, Secretary, British Dairy Farmers' Association.
  • Gordon Charles Burch, Air Traffic Control Officer II, Northern Divisional Headquarters, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Arthur James Burden, Estate Surveyor, Prison Commission.
  • Alderman Harold Burgin, chairman, Barnsley and District Disablement Advisory Committee, West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Phyllis Browne Bury, JP. For public services in Denbighshire.
  • Victor Allen Buschini, RD, Skipper, ST St. Just, Fleetwood.
  • Elfrida Margaret Butler, Assistant Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
  • Percy Arthur Cackett, Civil Assistant to the Medical Director-General, Admiralty.
  • Jack Frank Cains, Master Superintendent, Royal Army Service Corps Fleet.
  • John Willie Call, Director of Public Cleansing, Bradford Corporation.
  • Alexander John Campion, Senior Executive Officer, Admiralty.
  • Henry James Cannon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Godfrey Joseph Challis, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Ernest Charlton, lately Chief Steward, SS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd.
  • Jackson Sweeting Chrisp, Chief Maintenance Engineer, Consett Iron Company Ltd., County Durham.
  • Robert Henry Thwaites Clarke, Manager, Lewisham Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Kathleen Frances Claydon, Higher Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Mary Elizabeth Clayton. For political services in Leeds.
  • Ruth Margaret Cockerton, Pictorial Publicity Officer, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Anne Sarah Colvin, Honorary Secretary and Assistant Treasurer, International League for the Protection of Horses.
  • Frank Thomas Colyer, chairman, Erith Savings Committee, Kent.
  • Joseph Henry Coney, Civil Assistant and Accountant, No. 14 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Carlisle.
  • Sidney Arthur Cooper, Station Engineer, Rome, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Bernard William Corden, MC. For services as Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Squadron Leader Herbert Victor Cox, Member of the Staff of the Officers' Association.
  • Dorothea Florence Coxhead. For political and public services in Devon.
  • Frederick Harold Crocombe, MM, District Engineer, Minehead District, Taunton-Sub-Area, South Western Electricity Board.
  • William John Daines, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office.
  • Sarah Jane Vickery Dale, managing director, Dales Coaches (Swalwell) Ltd., County Durham.
  • Robina Barbour McKelvie Darroch, Principal Sister Tutor, Liverpool Royal Infirmary.
  • Leonard Peter Darsley, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • George William Davies, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Mungo Murray Dewar, Administrative Assistant to the Director of Home Sound Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Captain William Dinwiddie, TD, chairman, Dumfries and Galloway War Pensions Committee.
  • Thomas Dodgson, Headmaster, Myrtle Park County Primary School, Bingley, Yorkshire.
  • Ronald Ivanhoe Drake, Vice-chairman, Plymouth Savings Committee.
  • Arthur Duggan, Conductor, Pendyrus Male Voice Choir, Glamorgan.
  • Oliver Montague Proudlock-Dunbar, lately chairman, Enfield Local Employment Committee, Middlesex.
  • Ethel Emily Dunn, County Secretary, West Suffolk Federation of Women's Institutes.
  • Donald Dunsmore, Superintendent, Brush Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd., Loughborough, Leicestershire.
  • Christina Wood Eckford. For political services.
  • George Arkwright Edwards, Gauge Design Officer, Naval Ordnance Inspection Department, Admiralty.
  • William Best Ellison, Head Grader and Senior Inspector of Milk Products, Ministry of Food.
  • Ernest Evans, District House Coal Officer (Aberdare), House Coal Distribution (Emergency) Scheme.
  • Ernest Gordon Dashwood Evans, Chief Courier, Student Welfare Department, British Council.
  • Haydn Iestyn Evans, Administrative Assistant, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd.
  • Donald Fairweather, Chief of Crystal Production, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.
  • George Robert Farrar, MC, Staff Officer, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland.
  • Victor Robert Fenn, Chief Officer, Oxford Fire Brigade.
  • Annie Ferries, Senior Nursing Sister, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Ministry of Supply.
  • William Fielding, Senior Telecommunications Superintendent, North Eastern Region, General Post Office.
  • David Peter Figgins, lately Principal, Antrim Road Primary School, Belfast.
  • Charles Victor Fish, Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Raymond Francis Fletcher, lately Assistant Financial Adviser, British Element, Trieste Forces.
  • John Forbes, Honorary Secretary, Kintore School Savings Group, Alberdeenshire.
  • William Ernest Forster, Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Alderman George Forsyth, JP, lately chairman, Tynemouth Food Control Committee, Northumberland.
  • Herbert William Fox, Higher Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Edwin John Franklin, Works Manager, Remploy Factory, Longton, Staffordshire.
  • Eric Frith, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force.
  • Margaret Barr Fulton, Head of Occupational Therapy Department, Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospital.
  • Arthur Frederick Gammon, Headquarters Inspector of Clerical Establishments, General Post Office.
  • Keith Gammon. For public services in Petersfield, Hampshire.
  • John Henry Gandy, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • James Gaskell, JP. For public services in Orrell, Lancashire.
  • Walter Geary, Assistant Superintendent, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., Manchester.
  • Samuel Sturgeon Gemmell, Skipper and Owner of the motor fishing boat Stormdrift II.
  • Albert George Gempton, Headmaster, Dawlish County Secondary Modern School, Devonshire.
  • Gordon Robert Gentleman, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Harry Reginald George, lately Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Mabel George, lately Executive Officer, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
  • Alderman Robert Davies Gerrard, JP, chairman, Willenhall Local Employment Committee, Staffordshire.
  • Herbert William Gill. For political services.
  • Emanuel Goldberg, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • William Elding Gott, Architect, Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd.
  • Eva Gower, Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Thomas William Greaves, Safety Officer, Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., Birmingham.
  • Harold Ernest Green, Principal, Malvern Technical School.
  • Edward Anthony Greene, Senior Superintendent of Works, French District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Herbert Greig, Assistant to Commercial Superintendent, Scottish Region (Glasgow), British Railways.
  • Major Charles James Grierson, TD, Secretary, The King's Regiment Old Comrades Association.
  • Amy Wilhelmina Nora Griffin, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
  • Henry Edward Gummer, Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Health and Local Government, Northern Ireland.
  • Dora Hale, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Frederick William Thomas Hammett, Principal Production Inspector, Admiralty.
  • Arthur Hankey, JP, Technical Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Margaret Sophia Hannah, For political and public services.
  • William Stewart Hare, Traffic Assistant, Leith Dock Commission.
  • Percy Harris, Director and Manager, P. K. Harris & Sons Ltd., Appledore, Devonshire.
  • Arthur Vincent Hart, Inspector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Marjory Sophia Hassall. For political and public services in Cambridgeshire.
  • Hilda Maude Hatchwell, Milk Production Officer, Grade II, National Agricultural Advisory Service.
  • William Seward Hearder. For political services.
  • Reginald Hedley, Manager, Letchworth Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Margaret Josephine Hetherington, lately Senior Executive Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  • Arthur Edwin Hill, Manager, Glass Works, British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., Chesterfield.
  • James Donald Holmes, MB, CM, Admiralty Surgeon and Agent, Finchley and District, London.
  • Thomas Holmes, Inspector, Newcastle, Board of Trade.
  • Percy William Hopkins, Senior Executive Officer, War Office.
  • Olive May Hornsby, Headmistress, Burgess Street County Primary School, Harpurhey, Manchester.
  • Harry Hough, Secretary, Procter Gymnasium and Hulme Lads' Club, Manchester.
  • Edgar Hugh Hudson, County Treasurer, Surrey, British Red Cross Society.
  • Lydia Constance Hudson. For political and public services in Sheffield.
  • Charles Hughes, JP, lately Honorary Business Manager, The College of Handicraft, Manchester.
  • Cecil Lionel Hunt, Chief Clerk, J. Jefferies & Sons Ltd., Graving Dock Works, Avonmouth, Gloucestershire.
  • Doris Illingworth. For political and public services.
  • Fred Ivill, Senior Executive Officer, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
  • Norman Morris Johns, TD, Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Emmie Johnstone, lately District Superintendent of Nursing Divisions, Northern Ireland, St. John Ambulance Brigade.
  • Alun Morgan Jones, County Road Safety Organiser for Caernarvonshire.
  • Charles Morris Jones, JP, Member of Bala Urban District Council, Merionethshire.
  • George Stanley Jones, Chief Engineer, Grosvenor Chater & Co. Ltd., Abbey Paper Mills, Holywell, Flintshire.
  • John Edward Jones, chairman, Sodbury District Committee, Gloucestershire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • William Alun Jones, Manager, Radford and Wollaton Unit, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
  • Arthur Reeves Julian, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Captain Donald Fores Kellie, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
  • Isabelle Kerr, JP. For political and public services in Greenock.
  • Lady Margaret Mary Kerr. For social services in Edinburgh.
  • Percy William Burton King, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Alfred Edward Knight, managing director, Alfred Knight Ltd.
  • Charles William Knight, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Sydney Knight, Engineer II, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • Cyril Clement Knowles, Works Manager, William McGeoch & Co. Ltd., Birmingham.
  • The Reverend Canon Charles Compton Lanchester, chairman, Local Employment Committee, Norwich.
  • Arthur Malcolm Lander, Official Receiver in Bankruptcy for the districts of Canterbury, Maidstone and Rochester.
  • Ian Welsh Leebody, Deputy County Surveyor, Tyrone County Council.
  • Alice Mary Leeper. For public services in County Tyrone.
  • Charles John Lever, Works Manager, Siemens Brothers & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, and Spennymoor, County Durham.
  • Lilian Frances Lewis, Experimental Officer, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry.
  • Sanmugan Thuraiyan Vaithi Lingam, Chief Clerk, Base Ordnance Depot, Singapore, War Office.
  • Wallace Livingstone, Head of Accounting Section, National Service Hostels Corporation Ltd.
  • Charles Lodge. For political and public services in Essex.
  • Willett John Lowry, Executive Officer, Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Robert Lumley, Labour Manager, John Readhead & Sons Ltd., South Shields, County Durham.
  • Nellie Lund, For political and public services in Bradford.
  • Norman Spinks Macauley. For services to blinded ex-servicemen in Northern Ireland.
  • Alastair Macdonald, Depute City Chamberlain, Edinburgh.
  • Mabel Lena Macer, Attached War Office.
  • Catherine Mary Alice MacGregor, Teacher, Logie Junior Secondary School, Dundee.
  • Catherine McKenna, Principal Sister, HM Prison Holloway.
  • William James McKeown, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
  • Commander Donald Henry Townsend Macmillan, Royal Naval Reserve, Hydrographic Surveyor, Southampton Harbour Board.
  • Hector Macpherson, Engineer II, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
  • Frank Paul Macrae, Manager of Structural Shops, Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
  • Frederic Charles Mallett. For political services in Winchester.
  • Alfred Andrew Maris, Supervising Home Grown Cereals Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Frank Marriott, Works Manager, Head Wrightson Steel Foundries Ltd., Stockton-on-Tees.
  • Edward Marshall, JP. Lately Chairman, Warrington Food Control Committee, Lancashire.
  • George Wicks Marshall, BEM, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Captain Albert Frederick Martin, Master, SS Empire Shelter, Ellerman Lines Ltd.
  • Alfred John Gordon Martin, Assistant Secretary, Glasgow Branch, Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
  • Charles Frederick Hunter Martin, MM, Assistant Manager, Wales, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
  • Alexander John Matheson, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, City of Aberdeen Police Force.
  • Richard Hale Mercer, Superintendent, Belfast Mercantile Marine Office, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Ruth Mary Meyler, Executive Officer, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Philippa Inez Michell. For political services in Hove.
  • Benjamin Miller, Chief Engineer, HM Revenue Cruiser Vigilant, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Pattie Miller, Headmistress, Nunsthorpe County Infants' School, Grimsby.
  • Alexander Milne, lately Head Forester, Maiden Bradley Estate, Wiltshire.
  • Mary Elizabeth Mitford, Honorary Secretary, Shildon Savings Committee, County Durham.
  • Arthur Edward Morgan, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Frank Robert Morgan, Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
  • Sam Morgan, chairman, Llwchwr Savings Committee, Glamorganshire.
  • Harold Morris, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Thomas Affleck Morrison, MB, ChB, chairman, Brighton Executive Council, National Health Service.
  • Charles Bruce Pitblado Morton, DSO, DFC, Assistant to the chairman, Matthew Hall & Co. Ltd.
  • John Henry Mottram, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Sidney Arthur Mould, chairman, Salisbury Local Employment Committee.
  • Joseph Stephen Mugglestone, JP, chairman, Blackwell Rural District Savings Committee, Nottinghamshire.
  • Robert Edlward Murchison, Chief Engraver, Royal Mint.
  • Thomas Gerard Murray, Manager, Bristol Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Leslie Ronald Mustill, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
  • Andrew Mutch, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Arangasery Madhavain Nair, Clerk, Special Class, Air Ministry Audit Office, Singapore.
  • Thorald Eric Naughten, Superintending Inspector, Aeronautical Inspection Service, Headquarters No. 40 Group, Royal Air Force.
  • William Lionel Newton, Officer, Hull, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Elsie Nightingale. For political and public services in Newton-le-Willows.
  • William Frederick Offord, Member, Sussex District Advisory Committee, London and South Eastern Regional Board for Industry.
  • Stanley Richard O'Hanlon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Frederick Henry Owles, Senior Draughtsman, Home Counties Region, General Post Office.
  • Herbert Leslie Pace, Senior Experimental Officer, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry.
  • Florence May Paterson, Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the National Trust.
  • Frederick Henry Paul, lately Senior Certifying Officer, West Midland Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • James Gamlin Paul, Senior Executive Officer, National Assistance Board.
  • Cyril John Payne, MM, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Bertram Spencer Pears, Production Manager, Imperial Typewriter Company Ltd., Leicester.
  • Gladys May Pearson, Matron, Stapleton Hospital, Bristol.
  • William Richard Peatling, Apprentice Supervisor, Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co. Ltd., Greenwich.
  • Hubert Leslie Peddle, Signals Officer, Telecommunications Department, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Sidney Russell Peek, Base Engineer, Stratocruiser and Constellation Fleet, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
  • Colonel Harold Peploe, DSO, Consultant to Director of Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Supply.
  • Reginald Peppitt, Headmaster, Linden Lodge Blind School, Wandsworth Common, London.
  • Frederick Stanley Perry, Assistant Manager, English Steel Corporation Ltd., Sheffield.
  • Frederick Jack Pewtner, Chief Designer, E.N.V. Engineering Co. Ltd., Willesden.
  • Ernest Edward Pheasey, Works Manager, Foster, Yates & Thorn Ltd., Blackburn, Lancashire.
  • Edward William Phillips, managing director, Air Schools Ltd., Derby.
  • Moss Joan Phillips, For political and public services in Hammersmith.
  • Philip Phillips, Civil Assistant, Royal Naval Air Repair Yard, Fleetlands, Hampshire.
  • William Edward Phillips, Chief Draughtsman, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Bootle, Lancashire.
  • Arthur Frederick Piper, Manager, Land Settlement Association Estate, Newent, Gloucestershire.
  • Jack Hubert Pitts, JP, chairman, Plymouth and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Arthur Stuart Pointing, Assistant Chief Constable, Somerset Constabulary.
  • Robert William Porter, Director, Eastern Federation of Building Trades Employers.
  • James Rankin, 3rd Engineer, ST Southern Opal, Chr. Salvesen & Co.
  • Herbert James Ray, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • Muriel Frances Read, County Borough Organiser, Hull, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Walter Samuel Read, Manager, Fraser & Chalmers Engineering Works, Erith, Kent.
  • Geoffrey William Frederick Reburn, Senior Committee Clerk, Plymouth City Corporation.
  • Minnie Gertrude Reed. For political and public services in Devizes.
  • William John Rowe Richards, Deputy Superintendent, Directorate-General of Works, Air Ministry.
  • Marion Agnes Richardson, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Saraih Elizabeth Roberts, District Nurse Midwife, Portmadoc, Caernarvonshire.
  • Alderman. Walter Roberts. For public services in Shropshire.
  • Robert Arthur Rogers, Executive Officer, British Museum.
  • Margaret Shearer Ross, Matron, Rhives House Old People's Home, Golspie, Sutherland.
  • Matthew Russell, Chief Engineer, Cerebos Group of Companies, Middlewich Salt Co. Ltd., Cheshire.
  • Joseph Frederick Rust, General Manager and Engineer, Newport Undertaking, Wales Gas Board.
  • Arthur Reginald Salmon, Departmental Chief Executive Officer, Eastern Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • John Jacob Sarche, Chief Inspector, Ultra Electric Ltd., Acton.
  • Edward Henry Scott, First Class Clerk, Admiralty Registry, Supreme Court of Judicature.
  • Margaret Macdonald Scott. For services as District Administrator for South-East District of Scotland, Women's Voluntary Services.
  • Nicholas Thomas Sekers, managing director, West Cumberland Silk Mills Ltd.
  • Elsie Marguerite Seymour, Assistant, Newsroom, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Ida Mirrielees Seymour, LRCP, LRCS(Ed), lately Medical Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Elizabeth Averil, Lady Shakerley. For political and public services in Sussex.
  • Ernest Edward Shatford. For political services.
  • William Edward Shaw, Deputy Works Manager, Charlton Factory, United Glass Bottle Manufacturers Ltd., London.
  • Albert George Short, Assistant Regional Director (Building Industries), Ministry of Works.
  • Ethel Simmons, Honorary Divisional Secretary, Watford, Hertfordshire, Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.
  • Ernest Keener Simpson, Chief Engineer, MV Highland Prince, Prince Line Ltd.
  • Grace Mabel Agnes Simpson, Health Visitor, Camberwell and Lewisham.
  • Jane Taylor Simpson, Senior Clerk, Lanarkshire, Sheriff Clerk Service.
  • Edward Thomas Slater, Vice-chairman, Carmarthenshire Blind Society.
  • Robert Slater, JP, lately Provost of Kirkwall, Orkney.
  • William Small. For services to journalism in Wolverhampton.
  • Albert Edward Smith, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
  • Arthur George Smith, Higher Executive Officer, Enfield Factory, General Post Office.
  • Bertram Stanley Smith, Divisional Potato Supervisor, Ministry of Food.
  • Constance Lilian Sidney-Smith, Principal School of Stitchery and Lace, Bookham, Surrey.
  • Frank Edward Ernest Smith, Member of the Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council.
  • Frederick Stewart Smith, JP, chairman, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Winchester and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Samuel Smyth, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • Joseph Reginald Sockett, Surveyor and Engineer, Atcham Rural District Council, Shrewsbury, Salop.
  • William James Lovell Solly, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence.
  • Herbert Speck, Honorary Secretary, Swindon Savings Committee, Wiltshire.
  • Charles Paul Spencer, chairman, Nottingham Branch, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.
  • Raymond Spencer, Engineer, Newark Area Internal Drainage Board.
  • Mary Teresa Spens, lately Headquarters Field Officer, Gold Coast, British Red Cross Society.
  • George Roberts Stainer, Male Charge Nurse, Lewisham Hospital, London.
  • The Reverend Canon John Mortimer Duniam Stancomb, Honorary Chaplain to the Bristol Special Constabulary.
  • James Stanger, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
  • William Thomas James Stead, Honorary Secretary, No. 148 (Barnsley) Squadron Committee, Air Training Corps.
  • Francis Holden Steele, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Works.
  • Marguerite Barbara Stiles, Clerical Officer, Office of the Public Trustee.
  • Amelia Louisa Storey. For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Alice Kezia Street, chairman and Founder, London Flower Lovers' League.
  • The Reverend John William Stutt, lately Superintendent, North Belfast Mission, Belfast.
  • Alderman William Herbert Summer, JP, chairman, Welton District Committee, Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Joseph Swales, MC, President of the Cleveland and South Durham Institute for the Blind, Middlesbrough.
  • John Douglas Swanson, Senior Map Curator, War Office.
  • William Robert Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • William Frederick Terkelsen, Chief Officer, Grade I, Drainage and Water Supplies, Agricultural Executive Committee, Essex.
  • Elizabeth Snelgrove Thompson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Herbert James Thompson, Manager for Inclusive Traffic, Thomas Cook & Son Ltd.
  • Reginald Thompson, Secretary, Joint Council of British Potato and Vegetable Merchants Associations.
  • Edith Mary Thomson, Higher Clerical Officer, Telephone Manager's Office, Aberdeen.
  • Harry Downie Thomson, Managing Secretary, Methil Co-operative Society, Fifeshire.
  • Annie Elizabeth Thornley, Matron, Jersey Maternity Hospital.
  • Bertie Maurice Thurbon, Supervisor, East Africa, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
  • Stanley Alfred Tilley, Senior Executive Officer, Civil Service Commission.
  • Jack Edwin Timmings. For political and public services in Wandsworth.
  • Herbert Eric Toogood, Assistant Engineering Manager, Humber St. Andrew's Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull.
  • Ernest Clifford Townend, Alderman, City of Winchester.
  • Louise Adele Tucker, assistant director, Youth and Junior training, Somerset, British Red Cross Society.
  • Arthur George Tunnell, chairman, National Insurance Local Advisory Committee, Guildford.
  • Albert Henry Joseph Turner, Assistant, Freight Rolling Stock, British Transport Commission.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Frank St. Aubyn Turner, Retired Officer, War Office.
  • Arthur Reginald Turner, Secretary, Hull Corn Trade Association Ltd.
  • Dorothy Olive Turpin. For political and public services in Denbighshire.
  • Percival James Uffen, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Mary Isabelle Urquhart. For political services in Grimsby.
  • Major Thomas Henry Vile, JP. For public services in Monmouthshire.
  • Hilda Wagstaff, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Maurice Joseph Walsh, Secretary, Finance and Supplies Officer, Knowle Hospital Management Committee, Hampshire.
  • Raymond Henry Walter, Higher Clerical Officer, HM Treasury.
  • Samuel Waring, DCM, lately Commandant, Ulster Regiment, Church Lads' Brigade.
  • Henry Emil Wasser, Chief Testing Engineer, Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority.
  • Edward Samuel Watkins, assistant director of Contracts, HM Stationery Office.
  • Thomas Albert Watson, lately Operating Superintendent, Meat Transport Organisation Ltd.
  • Eric Gordon Charles Weatherley, Senior Information Service Clerk in the Library of the House of Commons.
  • Ernest Arthur Whalley, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • John Eric Whitaker, Chief Officer, Walsall Fire Brigade.
  • Thomas Whiting, Group Engineer, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland), Division National Coal Board.
  • Arthur Walden Whittaker, Senior Executive Engineer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office.
  • Mabel Williams, JP, Sister, Calderstones Mental Hospital, Whalley, Blackburn, Lancashire.
  • William Williams, lately Member, Caernarvonshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
  • Henry Charles Wills, Factory Foreman, Hodges & Sons (Clothiers) Ltd., Fforestfach, Swansea.
  • Helen Jessie Eardley-Wilmot, Honorary Secretary, East Grinstead Citizens Advice Bureau, Sussex.
  • Albert Edwin Wilson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Robert Wilson. For services to the British Legion in Londonderry.
  • Frank Wood, Works Manager, Turner Brothers Asbestos Co. Ltd., Hindley Green.
  • Harry Francis Wood, JP, chairman, City of Stoke-on-Trent Savings Committee, Staffordshire.
  • Elisabeth Hyatt-Woolf, chairman, Tonbridge Rural District Council, Kent.
  • Allister Robert George Wray, Chief Officer, Birkenhead Fire Brigade.
  • Arthur Nichols Wright, JP, chairman, National Insurance Local Advisory Committee, Norwich.
  • Jessie Arabella Wright, Sister in Charge, Casualty and Outpatients Departments, Kent and Canterbury Hospital.
  • Joseph Leslie Wright, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • John Yates, Senior. Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
  • Constance Ivy Young, Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
  • Frank Sidney Yuill, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
  • Stanley Charles Bennett, Senior Control Officer, Frontier Inspection Service, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Walter George Cook, Senior Control Officer, Cultural Relations Branch, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • Fred Leslie Cooper, Deputy Secretary, Sudan Government Agency in London.
  • Ursula Frances Yorke Coulson, Personal Assistant to Her Majesty's Ambassador in Cairo.
  • Jane Evans, Medical Missionary in Egypt.
  • Margaret Faraday Evans, Headmistress of San Silvestre College, Lima.
  • Manuel Salvador Gomez, British Vice-Consul at La Linea.
  • Ivy Lina (Jane) Grant, Shorthand typist at Her Majesty's Embassy in Djakarta.
  • The Reverend William Popham Hosford, RD, Anglican Rural Dean of the Netherlands.
  • John Hare Park Jennings, British subject resident in France.
  • Robert Charles Johnston, British Vice-Consul at Port Limón.
  • Gwendolen Muriel Kidd, Librarian at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • George Thomas Nixon, managing director in the Western Hemisphere of John Henderson (Curasao) & Co. Ltd., Curaçao.
  • Philip Hugh Clive Pawson, Inspector, Local Government Branch, Sudan Government.
  • Stanley Dutton-Pegram, British Vice-Consul at Torreón.
  • Harold Curtis Perkins, Director of the Institute of the Asociacion Argentina de Cultura Inglesa, Santa Fe.
  • Jane Bain Rosie, Headmistress of the Tabeetha School, Tel Aviv.
  • Florence Mary Shackshaft, Matron of the Anglo-American Hospital, Cairo.
  • Hugh Peter Sherman, District Commissioner, Khartoum North, Sudan.
  • Henry Allen Smith, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Tangier.
  • Robert John Stewart Thomson, District Commissioner, Southern Darfur, Sudan.
  • William Henry Traill, Senior Temporary Assistant, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
  • William Leslie Tyson, Senior Temporary Officer Grade III at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
  • Margaret Walker, Secretary to the British Council Representative in Amsterdam.
  • Cissie Weale, British subject resident in Greece.
  • Peter Blanche Williamson, British subject resident in Cuba.
  • Harold William Wort, Grade II Officer, Office of the Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South East Asia.
  • Charles Martin Austin, Mayor of Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Percy Barker. For services to the Industrial Council of the Mining Industry, and to the Silicosis Board, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Paulin Frederick Barrett, Secretary, Interim Public Service Commission, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Alderman Collin Hamilton Bell, of Gatooma, Southern Rhodesia. For municipal services.
  • Ethne Elenor Bernard, a Clerk in the Secretariat, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Maxwell Mackie Buchan, JP, of Gatooma, Southern Rhodesia. For public services.
  • Olive Mabel Calvert, JP. For social welfare services in the State of Tasmania.
  • Menai Campbell, Lady District Superintendent of the St. John Ambulance Association in Calcutta, India.
  • Comninos Xenophon Comninos. For public services in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Ernest William Dearman. For services to local government bodies in the Lobethal District, State of South Australia.
  • Ronald Adrian Griffiths. For services to the Ministry of Finance, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Francis Leslie Hadfield. For public services in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Alan Izod, producer of the Central African Film Unit, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Constance Cecily McGrath, Principal, Women Police, State of South Australia.
  • Brenda Murch, Matron, Athlone Hospital, Lobatsi, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • John Charles Paice, JP, a District Coroner, and President of the Justices' Association, North West Coast, State of Tasmania.
  • Douglas Robert Plaister, Honorary Secretary of the Branch of the Royal Life Saving Society in the State of Tasmania.
  • Catherine Roux, a Maternity Nurse, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
  • John Harold West, Statistician, Central African Statistical Office, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • Waliam John Williams. For services to the community on Eyre Peninsula, particularly in the District of Streaky Bay, State of South Australia.
  • The Reverend Eric John Martin Wyld, Principal and Chaplain, St. George's School and Orphanage, Madras, India.
  • Victor de Vere Allen, Superintendent of Prisons, Kenya.
  • Valdemar Jens Andersen, District Commissioner, Western Pacific High Commission.
  • Walter Reginald Nahum Andrews, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong.
  • Pious Anthony, Labour Inspector, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Frank Barnett, lately Executive Officer, Transport, Department of Trade, Transport and Industry, Northern Rhodesia.
  • The Reverend Harold George Beckwith. For services to Education in Uganda.
  • Margaret Laurie Belcher, JP, Social Welfare Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Captain Hugh Fitzherbert Bloxham, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Paul Agyeman Boatin, Private Secretary to the Asantehene, Gold Coast.
  • Fanny Ebun Boyle. For services to Education in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Arthur Lyndall Brown, Chief Draughtsman, Department of Surveys and Land, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Frank Howard Sudden, MB, BS, Medical Officer (Ophthalmology), Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Douglas Victor Bunting, District Traffic Superintendent, East African Railways and Harbours.
  • Alfred Charles Ernest Callan, Inspector of Produce, Zanzibar.
  • Lily Ann Carrara. For public services in Gibraltar.
  • Sowande Henry St. Edward Robbin-Coker, Chief Dispenser, Medical Department, Sierra Leone.
  • Homersham Felton Cox, Senior Accountant, Nyasaland.
  • Joseph Clement Dalais. For public services in Mauritius.
  • Seiyid Muhammad Darwish. For services to the Government in the Western Aden Protectorate.
  • Jean de Verteuil. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Joseph Antoine Max de Verteuil, Senior Warden, Trinidad.
  • Nicholas Probert Downing. For services to HM Forces in Malta.
  • Francis Vivian Dunstan, JP. For public services in Fiji.
  • Maria Leonora Du Toit. For medical services in the Tiv Division, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Enosi Ejoku, Secretary-General, Teso District Council, Uganda.
  • Lazarus Udo Ekpo, Secretary, Abak County Council, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Frederick Thomas Ephraums, Architect and Building Surveyor, Rural Board, Singapore.
  • Eyo Ekpenyong Eyo, Nursing Superintendent, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Henry Vincent Eyre, Senior Health Superintendent, Makurdi, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Pastor Norman Asprey Ferris. For public services in Pitcairn island.
  • Ethelwynne Downing Fisher. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Graham Gamble, Agricultural Officer, Kenya.
  • Michael Ashley Gimson, Field Officer, Tsetse Control Department, Uganda.
  • Goh Hoon Seng, Superintendent, Waste Detection, Singapore City Council.
  • Ramasamy Govindasamy, Assistant Official Assignee, Sessions Court, Ipoh, Federation of Malaya.
  • James Wallace Graham, Superintendent of Works, Public Works Department, Kenya.
  • Marjorie Beatrice Greenland, Superintendent, St. Barnabas School for the Blind, Nicosia, Cyprus.
  • Harold James Grey, lately Senior Agricultural Supervisor, Department of Agriculture and Forestry, St. Helena.
  • Mallam Gwamna, Chief of the Kagoro Independent District, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Mallam Umaru Gwandu, Clerk of the Northern House of Assembly, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Henry Washington Halstead, Engineer (Radio), Posts and Telegraphs Department, Fiji.
  • George Nathaniel Hamilton, lately Senior Surveyor, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Federation of Nigeria.
  • George Norman Hampson, District Officer, Kenya.
  • Florence Maud Harmer, Nursing Sister, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Agnes Swann McGarvey Hawkins, Supervisor of Elections, Penang, Federation of Malaya.
  • William Haythornthwaite. For public services in the Gambia.
  • Gwendolen Emily Mary Hill. For social services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Ho Chung Chung, Principal, True Light School, Hong Kong.
  • Robert Hunter, Principal, Highlands School, Eldoret, Kenya.
  • Ivy Hvidt. For public services in Tanganyika.
  • Charlotte Quashie-Idun. For public services in the Gold Coast.
  • Mallam Jonathan Yahaya Inusa, Government Supervisory Teacher, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Sultan Jabil bin Hussein, Representative of the Audhali Sultan, Aden Protectorate.
  • Mohamedali Sharif Jiwa. For public services, in Tanganyika.
  • Eric Ronald Johnson, Assistant Adviser, North Eastern Area, Aden Protectorate.
  • Arthur Ranjit Julumsingh, Pay and Quartermaster, Police Department, Trinidad.
  • Ebenezer Eliab Alexander Kattell, Administrative Assistant, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Alice Kerridge. For public services in North Borneo.
  • Dennis Kirby, District Commissioner, Sierra Leone.
  • Paramount Chief Francis Kposowa, Bumpe Chiefdom, Bo District, Sierra Leone.
  • Mallam Dauda Haruna Kwoi, Adult Education Supervisor, Southern Zaria, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • The Venerable Roger George Patrick Lamburn, Archdeacon of the Diocese of Masasi, Tanganyika.
  • Edith Ada Leeming. For nursing services in the Western Region, Nigeria.
  • Derek North Lewis, Livestock Officer, Veterinary Department, Kenya.
  • Li Wing Sum, Clerk, Government Records Office, Hong Kong.
  • Eva Constance Lowe, Chief Nursing Supervisor (Public Health), Jamaica.
  • Saulo Lubega. For services to Education in Uganda.
  • John Barker Avis McFarlane, Administrative Assistant, Colonial Secretary's Office, Jamaica.
  • Ruby MacGregor. For services to music in British Guiana.
  • Alexander Stewart McKinnon, assistant director of Agriculture and Veterinary Services, Somaliland.
  • Kenneth John Ramsay Maclennan, Veterinary Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria.
  • Louis Joseph Claude Maingard, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Secretariat, Mauritius.
  • Major Clifford Melhado. For public services in Jamaica.
  • Catherine Paton Moir. For services to Education in the Gold Coast.
  • Fernand Albert Morel, Superintendent of Prisons, Seychelles.
  • Charles Vincent Mtawali, African Assistant Medical Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Teresa Ntale binti Gwasa, Chieftainess of Kasulu, Tanganyika.
  • Effiong Offiong Eniang Offiong. For services to Education in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Emmanuel Abiodun Ogunbiyi. For public and social services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Ong Eng Lian. For public services in Singapore.
  • Joseph Okodike Onwuka, Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, Federation of Nigeria.
  • Pang Pui Kwan, Chief Clerk, Public Works Department Sub-Treasury, Singapore.
  • Jashhai Chhotavahai Patel. For public services in Uganda.
  • John Paterson, For missionary services and agricultural work in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • The Reverend Jacobus Cornelius Christoff Pauw. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Owen Napier Denbigh Phillips, Assistant Conservator of Forests, British Honduras.
  • Frederick William James Plucknett, Government Storekeeper, Fiji.
  • Leslie Francis Gordon Pritchard, Private Secretary to the Governor and Commander-and-Chief, Kenya.
  • Herman Pyfrom, Labour Officer, Bahamas.
  • Haji Abdul Rahman bin Haji Osman, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Maduranayagam Rajaratnam, Assistant Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Federation of Malaya.
  • Mehmet Raouf. For professional and social services in Cyprus.
  • Melvile John Rattray, City Engineer, Georgetown Municipality, British Guiana.
  • Thomas Hughes Rice, Senior Assistant Agricultural Officer, Kenya.
  • Percy Richards, Locomotive Instructor, East African Railways and Harbours.
  • Helen Margaret Roberts, lately Regional Director, British Council, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • Harman Seymour Sainsbury, Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Barbados.
  • Sinnathamby Selvadoray, Assessment Officer, Department of Inland Revenue, Federation of Malaya.
  • Freda Mary Sennitt. For nursing services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria.
  • The Reverend John Robert Shaw. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Daniel Powell Turner-Shaw, Administrative Assistant, Medical Department, Lagos, Nigeria.
  • Elizabeth Ellen Simmons. For nursing services in Nyasaland.
  • Warrington Howard Lloyd Simmons. For services to sport in Bermuda.
  • John Skinner, Superintendent Radiographer, Medical Department, Hong Kong.
  • Arthur Charles Small, TD, District Commissioner, Kenya.
  • Nicolaos Demetriou Solomonides. For public services in Cyprus.
  • Malbel Felicia Sprott. For public services in St. Vincent, Windward Islands.
  • Martin Samuel Staveley, Secretary, Development and Welfare Organisation, West Indies.
  • Douglas Swannie, Broadcasting Officer, Tanganyika.
  • Emmanuel Tagoe. For services to Education in the Gold Coast.
  • Helen Talbot. For public services in Bermuda.
  • Ethel Gertrude Taylor, Member, Malayan Relief Teams, St. John's Ambulance Brigade, Federation of Malaya.
  • Caroline Harriet Thomas, Headmistress, Holy Trinity Infants School, Sierra Leone.
  • Dudley Clarke Todd, Inspector of Works, Montserrat, Leeward Islands.
  • Clarita Katherine Toote. For public and social services in the Bahamas.
  • Gordon Garth Van Hien. For services to Music in Singapore.
  • John William Vincent, Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations.
  • Louis Joseph Victor Westergreen, Chief Storekeeper, Public Works Department, Seychelles.
  • Eleanor Mary Wilkin, Administrative Assistant, Tanganyika.
  • Ethel Marguerite Williams. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Horatio Wilson, Acting Assistant Accountant-General, Singapore.
  • Violet Constance Young, Assistant to the East African Commissioner, East African Office in London.
Honorary Members
  • Chunilal Manekchand Seth, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Zainal Abidin bin Endot, Assistant District Officer, Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, Federation of Malaya.
  • Siang Thian See. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
  • Teo Peng Kai. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

British Empire Medal (BEM)

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

Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

In Silver

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

  • Doreen Geoghegan, Head V.A.D. Nursing Member.
  • Major Dorothy Hunt (223206), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
  • Squadron Officer Dorothy Gertrude Masters (405143), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
  • Flight Officer Doriel Vivian Lionel Sharples (406357), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Royal Air Force
Wing Commander
Squadron Leaders
Flight Lieutenants

Bar to Air Force Cross

Royal Air Force
  • Wing Commander Harold Arthur Cooper Bird-Wilson, DSO, DFC, AFC, (40335).
  • Acting Wing Commander Robert Bruce Cole, DFC, AFC, (66483).
  • Squadron Leader Alfred Denmark Burt, AFC, (49994).
  • Acting Squadron Leader Roger Leslie Topp, AFC, (166654).
  • Flight Lieutenant Colin Ian Blyth, DFC, AFC, (199075).

Air Force Medal (AFM)

Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeants
Sergeants
Acting Sergeant

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

United Kingdom
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Acting Wing Commander
Squadron Leaders
Flight Lieutenants
Flying Officer
Master Pilots
Master Engineer
Flight Sergeants
Sergeant (now Pilot Officer)
Sergeants

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

England and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Australia
Southern Rhodesia
Colonies, Protectorates, Protected States and Trust Territory

Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM)

England and Wales
Protected State

Colonial Police Medal (CPM)

Southern Rhodesia
Basutoland
Bechuanaland
Colonial Empire

Australia

Knight Bachelor

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
  • Major-General (honorary Lieutenant-General) Victor Clarence Secombe, CBE, (3/10), Australian Staff Corps (now retired).

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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)

Military Division
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
  • Commander (E) John Charles Balfour Anderson, DSC, RD, Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
  • Commander John Langston Bath, Royal Australian Navy.
  • Colonel James Weston Fletcher (2/29), Australian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Hartridge Lowen (3/72604), Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
  • Group Captain Hans Dyring Hamilton, Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Reserve Group Captain John Lloyd Waddy, DFC, ADC, Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division
  • John Ronald Shafto Adair. For services to Civil Aviation in Australia.
  • Gwendolen Norah Burbidge. For services to Nursing in Australia.
  • Clifton Jenkyn Carne. For public services, particularly in connection with the promotion of Australia's trade overseas.
  • Michael Chamberlin. For services to the community in Australia, especially in connection with the social welfare of young persons.
  • Sydney Christie, Manager, Territory Enterprises Proprietary, Ltd., Australia.
  • Ernest Charles de Burgh. For services to journalism in Australia.
  • Elizabeth Anne Hamer. For charitable and social welfare services in Australia.
  • Hannah Beynon, Lady Lloyd Jones. For social welfare services in Australia.
  • Sydney Lucas, Director, War Service Homes Division, Department of Social Services, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Leslie Rae Lucke. For services in connection with the social welfare of returned servicemen in Australia.
  • James Joseph Malone, MC, formerly Chairman of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and deputy director, Posts and Telegraphs, New South Wales, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Doris Alice Mason (Miss Doris Fitton). For services to the theatre and dramatic art in Australia.
  • Jane Anne McLeod. For social welfare services in Australia.
  • Frederick James Meacham, managing director and Secretary, Australian Provincial Daily Press, Ltd.
  • The Reverend John Gray Robertson, Convenor of the Australian Inland Mission.
  • Kathleen Sandover. For public and social welfare services in Australia.
  • Percival Evert Russell Vanthoff, MVO, Deputy Director-General, Posts and Telegraphs, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Lieutenant (L) Henry John Percy Boxall, Royal Australian Navy.
  • Major (temporary) Willoughby John Crosby (VX700235), Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
  • 2/162999 Warrant Officer Class I John Francis Enright, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Captain George Edward Johnson (3/306), Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major (provisional) Ernest Thomas Lenton (1/35803), Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant Raymond Clifford Lovett (2/161289), Royal Australian Engineers (Transportation).
  • Major Alan George Cranston Mason (3/55212), Royal Australian Artillery.
  • Major (Quartermaster) Robert Victor McMillan (3/193), Royal Australian Army Provost Corps.
  • 5/9276 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Francis Edward Platell, Royal Australian Engineers.
  • 4/119 Warrant Officer Class II Thomas John Thompson, Royal Australian Armoured Corps.
  • Acting Wing Commander Leslie Norman Kroll (011334), Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant James Washington Wylie (0234), Royal Australian Air Force.
  • Warrant Officer Thomas Reid Fotheringham (A.3657), Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division
  • Robert Archer. For services in the interests of blinded ex-servicemen Australia.
  • The Reverend Herbert Maxwell Arrowsmith, Commonwealth Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society of Australia.
  • Elizabeth Bailey. For philanthropic and social welfare services in Australia.
  • Moya Kathleen Bailey, MB, BS, (Doctor Blackall), a prominent medical practitioner in the Australian Capital Territory.
  • Frank Banks, of Laverton, Western Australia, a mail contractor to the Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Major George Conybear Batchelor. For public services in Australia.
  • Marion Catherina Blaxland. For social welfare services in Australia, especially under the auspices of the Red Cross.
  • Annie Priscilla Book. For services rendered in connection with various charitable organisations in Australia.
  • Donald Gillies Browne. For social welfare services in Australia, especially in the interests of ex-servicemen.
  • Catherine Wallace Miller Cameron. For educational and social welfare services, especially on behalf of girls, in Australia.
  • Thomas Frederick Corley, Senior Clerk, Trade and Customs Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia in London.
  • David Crawley. For services to Music in New Guinea and Papua.
  • Annie Margaret Crome. For public and social welfare services in Australia.
  • Ernest Albert Crook, Accountant, Office of the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia in London.
  • Evelyn Paget Evans, JP, chief executive officer and General Secretary of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
  • Joseph Horace Evans, Manager, Commonwealth Shipping Service, Papua and New Guinea.
  • Rhoda Mary Felgate. For services rendered in connection with theatre in Australia.
  • Clarence Brace Taylor Gates, President of the Australian Corriedale Sheep Breeders' Association.
  • Charlotte Maude Jackson. For services rendered in connection with patriotic and charitable movements in Australia.
  • Eileen Mary Delia Johnston. For social welfare services rendered under the auspices of the Red Cross and other movements in Australia.
  • Esmond Gerald (Tom) Kruse, of Marree, South Australia. For services to the community in the outback.
  • Frederick Laby. For public services in Australia.
  • John Michael Landy. For services to Amateur Athletics in Australia.
  • John Norman (Senior). For public services in Australia.
  • Hugh Michael O'Rorke. For public services in Australia, especially in connection with brush fire flighting.
  • William Leopold Rush, Commonwealth Public Service Inspector, Victoria.
  • George Logie-Smith. For services to Music in Australia.
  • Lily Constance Taylor. For social welfare services, especially to ex-servicemen, in Australia.
  • The Reverend Harry Reginald Brodie Thorpe. For social welfare services, especially to Australian servicemen.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division
Australian Military Forces
Royal Australian Air Force

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Royal Australian Air Force

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

New Zealand

Ceylon

Knight Bachelor

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

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division
  • Manikuwadumestrige Chandrasoma, Principal Collector of Customs, Colombo Port Commission.
  • Weliwaittage Liveris Perera Dassanayake, LRCP&S, Superintendent, Filariasis Campaign.
  • George Rajanayagam Handy, MD, MRCP, Visiting Physician, General Hospital, Colombo.
  • Thomas David Jayasuriya, MBE, Director of Education.
  • Kandiah Mahendra. For public services.
  • Cecil Alexander Speldewinde, Commissioner of Income Tax, Estate Duty and Stamps.
  • Joseph Nicholas Cecil Tiruchelvam, MBE, JP, City Coroner, Colombo.
  • Joseph Salvadore Victoria, MVO. For services to Commerce.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Captain Alexander Joseph Zosimus Navaratne, Ceylon Army Medical Corps.
  • Captain Weerasena Rajapakse, Ceylon Light Infantry.
Civil Division
  • Thomas Frederick Blaze, JP, Crown Proctor, Badulla.
  • Leslie Vernon Cooray, Secretary, Ceylon Savings Bank.
  • Dalrymple Nandalochana Wickremaratne De Silva, Member, Colombo Municipal Council.
  • Eardley Charles D'Silva, Secretary to the Leader of the House of Representatives, and Chief Government Whip.
  • James Vethanayagam Feldano. For social services in Mannar.
  • Somawira Gunasekera. For services to Sport.
  • Lucien Arnold Gunesekera, Medical Practitioner, Colombo.
  • Seiyadu Ibrahim Saibo Hameed. For public services in the North-West Province.
  • Al-Haj Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Haniffa. For services to the Muslim community.
  • Jiwatfam Towrmal Hirdaramani. For public services in Colombo.
  • Mudhalithamby Mappanar Kulasekaram, Vice-Principal, Royal College, Colombo.
  • Francis John Aloysius Ponrajah. For public services in Mannar.
  • Avis Enid Raffel. For social services.
  • Vithana Aratchige Sugathadasa, Member, Colombo Municipal Council.
  • Arthur van Langenberg, Secretary, Colombo Port Commission.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

Pakistan

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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)

Military Division
  • Major-General Stuart Greeves, CB, CBE, DSO, MC, British Service (Special List).

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
  • Colonel (temporary) Sidney Victor Parsons, OBE, British Service (Special List).
Civil Division
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Noel Bacon, OBE, Manager, Sugar Mills, Mardan, North-West Frontier Province.
  • William Stirling Hall, Superintending Engineer, Lower Sind Barrage.
  • Alexander William Redpath, Deputy Secretary, Central Organisation and Methods Unit.
  • William Leonard O'Brien Stallard, OBE, deputy director, Intelligence Bureau.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
  • Acting Commander Cuthbert Richard Purse, DSC, Royal Navy.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Willoughby Major Goddard-Fenwick, MBE, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Herbert Waring, British Service (Special List).
Civil Division

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
  • Warrant Officer I William Allison, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Major Francis Thomas Carless, British Service (Special List).
  • Major (temporary) Claude Cheesman, British Service (Special List).
  • Squadron Leader Basil Charles Johnson (49453), Royal Air Force.
Civil Division
  • Kathleen Alexander, Nursing Sister, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.
  • Luce George Asquith, Divisional Personnel Officer, North-Western Railway.
  • Frederick Thomas Dobson, Works Manager, Non-Ferrous Factory, Ordnance Factories, Wah.
  • John William Douglas, Dock Master, Karachi Port Trust.
  • Donald Anthony Michael McDonald, Works Manager, Pakistan Mint, Lahore.
  • Donald Iain Mackinnon, Principal, Technical Training Centre, Lahore.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division

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The 1953 Coronation Honours were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours on the occasion of her coronation on 2 June 1953. The honours were published in The London Gazette on 1 June 1953.

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

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

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

The New Year Honours 1956 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 2 January 1956 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1956.

The New Year 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. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 28 December 1956 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1957.

The New Year Honours 1958 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1957 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1958.

The New Year Honours 1959 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 30 December 1958 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1959.

The New Year Honours 1960 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1959 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1960.

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

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1952 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen, and were published in supplements of the London Gazette on 30 May 1952 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan.

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

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1955 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1956 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen.

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

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1959 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1961 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

The King's Birthday Honours 1951 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King, and were published on 1 June 1951 for the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan. These were the last Birthday Honours awarded by George VI, who died eight months later.

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

The 1950 New Years Honours were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 2 January 1950 for the United Kingdom, New Zealand, India, and Ceylon.

The 1948 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the Commonwealth Realms. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King, and were published in The London Gazette on 4 June.

References

  1. UK list: "No. 40366". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1954. pp. 1–38.
  2. Australia list: "No. 40367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1954. pp. 39–42.
  3. New Zealand list: "No. 40368". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1954. pp. 43–46.
  4. Ceylon list: "No. 40369". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1954. pp. 47–48.
  5. Pakistan list: "No. 40370". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1954. pp. 49–50.