Viscount • Field-Marshal Sir
William Joseph Slim, , lately
Governor-General of Australia.
Baron •
Basil Sanderson, . For services to industrial relations in the shipping industry.
Privy Councillor •
Cuthbert James McCall Alport, , Member of Parliament for
Colchester since 1950.
Assistant Postmaster-General, 1955–1957;
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Commonwealth Relations Office, 1957–1959;
Minister of State, Commonwealth Relations Office, since 1959. •
Frederick James Erroll, , Member of Parliament for
Altrincham and Sale since 1945. Parliamentary Secretary to
Ministry of Supply, 1955–1956, and to
Board of Trade, 1956–1958;
Economic Secretary to HM Treasury, 1958–1959;
Minister of State, Board of Trade, since 1959.
Baronet • Major
Thomas Philip Barber, . For public services in Nottinghamshire. • Sir
Herbert Walter Butcher, , Member of Parliament for
Holland-with-Boston since 1937. A
Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury and Joint Deputy Government Chief Whip, 1951–1953. Chief Whip, Liberal Unionist Parliamentary Group, 1945–1951 and since 1953. Vice-Chairman, National Liberal Organisation since 1952. For political and public services. • Major Sir
(Ernest) Guy Richard Lloyd, , Member of Parliament for
East Renfrew, 1940–1959. For political and public services. • Sir
Kenneth Dugald Stewart, , Chairman,
Trustee Savings Banks Associations.
Knight Bachelor •
Robert Stevenson Aitken, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Birmingham. •
Reginald Pridham Baulkwill, ,
Public Trustee. •
John Maxwell Bemrose. For political and public services in the East Midlands. •
Frank Bower, , President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce. •
Walter Eric Chiesman, , Medical Adviser, HM Treasury. • Alderman
Harold Clowes, ,
Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent. •
George Beresford Craddock, , Member of Parliament for the
Spelthorne Division since 1950. For political and public services. •
John Goronwy Edwards, Director,
Institute of Historical Research and Professor of History,
University of London. • Colonel
William Heneage Wynne Finch, , lately
HM Lieutenant of the County of Caernarvon. •
Percy Llewellyn Hunting, Chairman,
Hunting Group of Companies. •
Richard Hugh Jessel, lately Deputy Chairman, Export Credits Advisory Council. •
Edgar Mayne Keatinge, , Member of Parliament for
Bury St. Edmunds, 1944–1945. For political and public services in Suffolk and Wessex. •
Malcolm McLeod McCulloch, , lately Chief Constable,
City Police, Glasgow. •
William Hunter McFadzean, President,
Federation of British Industries. • Commander
John Francis Whitaker Maitland, , Royal Navy (Retd), Member of Parliament for the
Horncastle Division since 1945. For political and public services. •
Thomas Neame, , Horticulturist. For services to fruit growing. •
John Samuel Richardson, , Physician,
St Thomas' Hospital. •
Benjamin William Rycroft, , Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon. •
Samuel Isidore Salmon. For political and public services in London. •
Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, , Director, Research Group,
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. •
Andrew Smith, Alderman, , Chairman,
Lancashire County Council. •
Basil Urwin Spence, , President,
Royal Institute of British Architects. •
Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland, Director,
National Physical Laboratory. •
Henry Gerard Thornton, Foreign Secretary,
The Royal Society. •
Edward George Tucker, Controller of Death Duties,
Board of Inland Revenue. •
William Holmes Lister Urton, , General Director of the
Conservative and Unionist Central Office since 1957. For political services. •
Wilfred Douglas Vernon, Chairman,
Spillers, Ltd. •
Frederick John West, . For political services in Middlesex and Essex. ;State of Victoria • The Honourable
Arthur Dean, Judge of the
Supreme Court of the State of Victoria. ;State of Queensland •
James Arthur Holt, Co-ordinator General of Public Works, State of Queensland. ;State of South Australia •
Ferdinand Caire Drew, , Under Treasurer, State of South Australia. ;State of Western Australia •
Lawrence Percival Gadsdon, President of the Local Government Association, State of Western Australia. ;Commonwealth Relations • Brigadier
Matthew Henry Cox, , Indian Army (retired), formerly Additional Director-General of
Ordnance Factories in India; for services in connection with development projects in India. •
Thomas Vaisey Scrivenor, , Deputy High Commissioner for
Basutoland, the
Bechuanaland Protectorate and
Swaziland. ;Overseas Territories •
Chau Sik-nin, . For public services in
Hong Kong. •
Marie Charles Emmanuel Clement Nageon De Lestang, Chief Justice of the High Court of Lagos and the Southern Cameroons. •
Hallam Grey Massiah, . For public services in Barbados. •
Odumegwu Ojukwu, . For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. •
Olagbegi II, The
Olowo of Owo. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria. •
Alfred Baillie Rennie, Federal Justice, The West Indies. •
Arthur Trenham Weatherhead, , Deputy Governor, Northern Region, Nigeria. •
Ralph Windham, formerly Justice of Appeal,
Eastern African Court of Appeal, now Chief Justice,
Tanganyika.
Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) ;Military Division • Admiral Sir
Caspar John, .
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) ;Military Division • Vice-Admiral
Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, . • Lieutenant-General
Ian Hurry Riches, . • Lieutenant-General Sir
James Newton Rodney Moore, , (32071), late Foot Guards. ;Civil Division •
Frank Chalton Francis, , Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum. •
Alfred John Sims, , Director-General, Ships, Admiralty.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) ;Military Division :;Royal Navy • Rear-Admiral The Right Honourable
David Charles, Earl Cairns. • Rear-Admiral
Edmund Neville Vincent Currey, . • Rear-Admiral
John Grant, . • Rear-Admiral
John Graham Hamilton, . • Rear-Admiral
Edmund Thomas Larken, . • Major-General
Reginald Carteret de Mussenden Leathes, . • Rear-Admiral
Michael Le Fanu, . • Rear-Admiral
Ernest Mill, . • Surgeon Vice-Admiral
William Robert Silvester Panckridge, . • Surgeon Rear-Admiral
Dermot Francis Walsh, . :;Army • Major-General
Gilbert Thomas Lancelot Archer, , (39082), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Major-General
Eric Stuart Cole, , (33651), late Royal Corps of Signals. • Major-General
John French (41109), late Royal Armoured Corps. • Major-General
Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham, , (41133), late Infantry Colonel, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). • Major-General
William Dillon Hughes, , (40252), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Major-General
Basil Douglas Jones, , (28281), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (now R.A.R.O.). • Major-General
Henry Maughan Liardet, , (31303), late Royal Armoured Corps. • Major-General
Denis Grattan Moore (41234), late Infantry. • Major-General
Richard Henry Littleton Wheeler, , (34344), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. :;Royal Air Force • Air Vice-Marshal
Colin Scragg, . • Acting Air Vice-Marshal
Ronald Arthur Ramsay Rae, . • Air Commodore Ord Denny Allerton, . • Air Commodore Herbert Waldemar Mermagen, . • Air Commodore
John Nicholas Haworth Whitworth, . • Acting Air Commodore
James Anthony Leathart, . • Group Captain
Deryck Cameron Stapleton, . ;Civil Division • Frederick Arthur Bishop, , Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet. • John Stirling Brunton, HM Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department. • Percy John Curtis, , Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department. • Owen Francis, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Power. • Frank Hollins, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Morris Mackintosh Ord Johnstone, Under-Secretary, Office of the Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements. • Frederick Measham Lea, , Director, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. • James Stuart McPetrie, Director-General of Electronics Research and Development, Ministry of Aviation. • William Nicholson McWilliam, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland. • Thomas George Talbot, , Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords. • John Martindale Wilson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence. •
George Kennedy Young, , Under-Secretary, Foreign Office.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) •
Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray, , Legal Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office and Colonial Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) •
Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office. •
Arthur Wendell Snelling, ,
High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ghana. •
Alexander Montgomery Wilson Rae, , Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. •
Michael Justin Creswell, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belgrade. •
Samuel, Viscount Hood, , Minister, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. •
Roderick Wallis Parkes, , lately
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Saigon.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • Harold Bailey, United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner, India. • Ronald Stuart Symons, , Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury. • Brigadier Croxton Sillery Vale, , Regional Director (at Arras, France), Northern Region,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. • Arthur Franklyn Williams, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Power. • Kenneth Johnstone Binns, Under Treasurer of the State of Tasmania. •
Robert Peter Fawcus, , Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Richard Henry Francis, General Secretary, Dairymen's Organisation, State of Queensland. •
Norman Frederick Mitchell, a Judge of the County Court, State of Victoria; President, Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. •
Harold Goodhew Turner, formerly Principal Establishment Officer, Federation of Malaya, now Secretary to the Federal Treasury. •
Michael David Irving Gass, Chief Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission. • Iain Gilbert Gunn, Resident, Sokoto Province, Northern Region, Nigeria. • John Leslie Von der Heyde, , Chairman, Public Service Commission, Tanganyika. • Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable
Henry Anthony Camillo Howard, Administrator, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. •
Richard Edmonds Luyt, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Labour and Lands, Kenya. • Alastair James McIntosh, , Resident Adviser and British Agent, Eastern Aden Protectorate. • Dermod Art Felly Murphy, , Commissioner for Special Duties, Western Region, Nigeria. •
John Horace Parry, , Principal of University College, Ibadan, Western Region, Nigeria. •
Henry Ellis Isidore Phillips, , Financial Secretary, Nyasaland. • William Wenban-Smith, , Minister for Education and Labour, Tanganyika. •
Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard, , Secretary to the Prime Minister, Federation of Nigeria. •
Jeromi Oputa Udoji, Chief Secretary to the Premier, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Leonard George Coke Wallis, , Chairman, Public Service Commission, Western Region, Nigeria. •
John Vernon Wild, , Administrative Secretary, Uganda. • Guy Trayton Barton, , Chief Secretary, Barbados. •
Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, Attorney-General, Trinidad. • Randall Erskine Ellison, , Chairman, Public Service Commission, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Alec Cecil Stanley Adams, , Counsellor and Consul-General, Her Majesty's Embassy, Bangkok. • Colonel John George Figgess, , Military Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Tokyo. • Joseph Francis Ford, , Her Majesty's Consul-General, Hanoi. • Marie Ferdinand Philippe Herchenroder, , British Judge, Supreme Restitution Court, Herford. • Kenneth Herbert Huggins, Counsellor (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. • Robert William Fairfield Johnston, , Counsellor, United Kingdom Delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Paris. •
Frederick Cecil Mason, Counsellor (Economic), Her Majesty's Embassy, Tehran. • Thomas Richard Shaw, Foreign Office. •
Edward Emile Tomkins, , Foreign Office. •
Paul Hervé Giraud Wright, , Foreign Office.
Royal Victorian Order Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) •
Ronald Montague Joseph Harris, .
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) • Major Michael Babington Charles Hawkins, . • Group Captain
George James Horatio Jeffs, . • Wladimir Kleinmichel, . •
David Stephens.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) ;Fourth Class • William Horace Fisher. • Deputy Commander
Evan William Jones, Metropolitan Police. • Wing Commander Herbert Brian Kelly, , Royal Air Force. • Commander
Nigel Hugh Malim, Royal Navy. • Chief Superintendent Albert Edward Perkins, , Metropolitan Police. • Wing Commander
Albert Ernest Sims, , Royal Air Force. • Phil John Turner. ;Fifth Class • Albert Edward Bigden. • Kathleen Maud Devers. • Enid Price Hill. • Superintendent Frank Kelley, , Metropolitan Police. • Captain Norman Henry Morgan, . • Ephraim James Rainbow. • Derek Roy Waters.
Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) ;Military Division • General Sir
Cecil Sugden, , (27005), Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers. ;Civil Division • The Right Honourable
John Walgrave Halford, Baron Cottesloe, . For services to the Arts.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) ;Military Division • Commandant
Evelyn Louisa Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar, , Director,
Women's Royal Naval Service. • Air Commandant
Alice Lowrey, ,
Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. ;Civil Division •
Flora McKenzie Robson, , Actress. •
Mary, Lady Herring, . For social welfare services, especially in connection with Nursing organisations, in the State of Victoria.
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ;Military Division • Vice-Admiral
Lancelot Arthur Babington Peile, . • Major-General
Nigel Prior Hanson Tapp, , (30558), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Air Vice-Marshal
Campion Aubrey Rumball, , Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division • Major
Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke, , Member of Parliament for the
Isle of Ely since 1945. For political and public services. • Air Vice-Marshal
Willett Amalric Bowen Bowen-Buscarlet, , Chairman, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. •
Robert Cockburn, , Chief Scientist, Ministry of Aviation. •
Clifford Robertson King, , Chairman, Electricity Council. • Sir
Richard Pike Pim, , Inspector General, Royal Ulster Constabulary. •
Eric John Seward, , British subject resident in Argentina. •
John Percival Summerscale, , lately Minister (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Rio de Janeiro. •
Robert Edmund Alford, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, St. Helena.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division :;Royal Navy • Captain
Paul Morrison Bushe Chavasse, . • The Right Reverend Monsignor Cyril Damian Fay, , Chaplain. • Colonel Henry Fraser Cranfield Kimpton, , Royal Marines. • Captain Eric Vernon St. John Morgan, . • Commodore Ralph William Frank Northcott, . • Captain Jacky Perks, . • Surgeon Captain (D) Alan Warwick Yates Price, . :;Army • Major-General
Henry Templer Alexander, , (52569), late Infantry. • Brigadier (temporary) George Lewis Williams Andrews, , (44824), late Infantry (now R.A.R.O.). • Brigadier Leslie Reginald Heber Keatinge, , (31039), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Brigadier Harold William Kitson (44917), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Colonel (acting) John Alexander Kirkpatrick Lamont, , (58658), Army Cadet Force. • Brigadier (temporary) David Drummond Maurice McCready, , (380237), late Gurkha Rifles. • The Right Reverend Monsignor Bernard Navin, Chaplain to the Forces, First Class (101012), Royal Army Chaplains' Department. • Brigadier Dennis John Edwin O'Flynn, , (39352), late Royal Armoured Corps (now R.A.R.O.). • Brigadier Alexander James Deas Ronald (17911), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (retired). • Colonel Francis John Ronald, , (67904), late Royal Army Educational Corps (now R.A.R.O.). • Colonel Harold Scarisbrick (141193), Army Catering Corps. • Brigadier John Cuthbert de Fontenne Sleeman, , (47683), late Royal Armoured Corps. • Colonel (acting) Christopher Castleton Smythe, , (8623), Army Cadet Force. • Major-General (temporary)
Gerald Patrick Linton Weston, , (49963), late Infantry. • Brigadier
Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler (44189), late Royal Corps of Signals. • Colonel Norman William Schenke, , (185919), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (now R.A.R.O.); formerly on loan to the Government of Pakistan. :;Royal Air Force • Air Commodore Gerard Ward McAleer, . • Group Captain
Frank Reginald Carey, . • Group Captain
John Ellis, . • Group Captain Arthur Foden. • Group Captain William Gwyn Morgan, . • Group Captain William Pitt-Brown, . • The Reverend Arthur John Potts, (Retd.) • Group Officer Louise Hilliard Turner, , Women's Royal Air Force. • Group Captain
Archie Little Winskill, . • Group Captain Brian Pashley Young, . • Air Commodore John Kevitt Rotherham, ; formerly on loan to the Government of Pakistan. ;Civil Division • Thomas Edward Allibone, Director, Research Laboratory,
Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., Aldermaston. • Wilfred Arthur Bailey, Director of Safely Services, War Office. • John Bartholomew, , Chairman,
John Bartholomew & Son, Ltd. • Alderman William Harold Bellis, . For political and public services in Southport. •
Michael Pickersgill Benthall, Theatrical Producer. •
Jack Beresford. For services to Amateur Rowing. • Lawrence Emlyn Douglas Bevan, Chairman, Board of Governors,
St. Peter's, St. Paul's and St. Philip's Hospitals, London. • George William Alfred Birkett, Superintendent of Production Pool,
Admiralty. • Ann Blumer, . For political and public services in Darlington. • Colonel Geoffrey George Hargreaves Bolton, , Chairman, North Western Division,
National Coal Board. • John Wilfred Bridgeman, Principal,
Loughborough Training College. • George Harold Brinkworth, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • David Brown, . For political and public services in Bootle. • Leslie Farrer-Brown, Director,
Nuffield Foundation. • Herbert Alfred Butler. For political services in Doncaster. • John Stanley Carter, , Chief Alkali Inspector, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Bernard John Collins, County Planning Officer, Middlesex. • Frank Malcolm Collins, Senior Official Receiver, Board of Trade. • James Oliver Cullimore, , Chairman, Monmouth County Agricultural Executive Committee. • George Francis Darlow, , Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, Reading. • Gilbert Harold Samuel Edgar. For political and public services in Buckinghamshire. • Benjamin Alfred Edwards, Chairman, University of London Joint Recruiting Board. • William Malcolm Lingard Escombe, . For political and public services in St. Albans. • Walter Raphael Taylor Eveling, Assistant Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Alderman Harold Ernest Fern, , Honorary Secretary,
Amateur Swimming Association. • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Arthur Golden, , Chief Constable,
Wiltshire Constabulary. • Winifred Margaret Goode, Assistant Secretary, Home Office. • James Graham, , Senior Administrative Medical Officer, North East Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board. • Ian Dingwall Grant, , lately President,
College of General Practitioners. • Joan Agnes Gray. For political and public services in Kent and Sussex. • Henry Rupert Green, Legal Senior Commissioner, Board of Control, Ministry of Health. • Edmund Thomas Charles Grint, Chief Labour Officer,
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. • Harman Joseph Gerrard Grisewood, Chief Assistant to the Director-General,
British Broadcasting Corporation. •
Ludwig Guttmann, , Director, National Spinal Injuries Centre,
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. • Ivan Conrad Hill, Member,
Monopolies Commission. • Ernest John Hunter, , Chairman,
Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne. • Henry William Walter Huxham, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Labour. • Edward Richard Jackson, Chairman, Yorkshire (North Riding) Agricultural Executive Committee. • Douglas John James, , Representative of the London Region, on the National Savings Committee Chairman, Tottenham Savings Committee. • Edgar Stafford Jones, , Grade I Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • Herbert Stanley Keep, , Assistant Chief Engineer, Ministry of Transport. • Harold Thomas Kirby, Director of Army Contracts (Munitions), War Office. •
Janet Lacey. For services to refugees. • Walter James Langford, , Headmaster,
Battersea Grammar School, London. • William Thomas Lewis, Regional Director, Bristol, Ministry of Works. • Robert William Louis McCaig, , Convener,
Angus Council. • John Crawford McKell, Joint Managing Director,
Ralston & McKell, Ltd., Glasgow. •
Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology, University of London. Director, British School of Archaeology in Iraq. • Captain Arthur Marsden, Royal Navy, (Retd), Chairman, Committee of Management,
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society. • Thomas Matheson, , Chairman,
British Legion, Scotland. • Frank Mayell, , lately Superintendent, County Courts Branch, Lord Chancellor's Office. • Violet Edith Seary-Mercer, , Chairman, Central Clothing Depot
Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association. • Charles Thomas Meredith, Director of Contracts,
General Post Office. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Aylmer Christie-Miller, OBE, TD, Chairman, Stockport Local Employment and
Disablement Advisory Committees. • Anthony Horace Milward, , Chief Executive,
British European Airways Corporation. • William Greenwood Mitchell, Director
Mitchell Bros Sons & Co. Ltd. • Captain George Horace Guy Morris, lately Commodore, RMS
Queen Elizabeth,
Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd., Liverpool. • Fred Pilling, Collector, London Port, Board of Customs and Excise. •
Ceri Giraldus Richards, Painter. • Mary Olivia Robinson, , Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health for Scotland. • Henry George Rushbury, , Artist Keeper of the
Royal Academy. •
Martin Amsler Rushton, , Professor of Dental Medicine, University of London. • James Douglas Russell. For political services in the Wirral. • Henry Campbell Scarlett, . For political services in Dundee. • Professor
Alexander Whiteford Scott. For contributions to the food dehydration industry and services to the Aberdeen research establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. •
Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith, Writer. •
Robert Allan Smith, Chief Scientific Officer,
Royal Radar Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • Harold Spragg, Director,
L. P. Watts & Co. Ltd. • Reginald Statham, . For political and public services in Newcastle-under-Lyme. • George Stephen, Lord Provost of Aberdeen. • James Cecil Campbell Stewart, Deputy Managing Director, Production Group,
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Richard George Meredith Street, Vice-Chairman, Central Transport Consultative Committee. • Arthur Edward Swain. For services to agriculture in Northern Ireland. • Alderman
Grace Tebbutt, . For public services in Sheffield. •
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, Actor. • Peter Harold Llewellyn Thomas, lately Commissioner (Engineering Adviser), Civil Service Commission. Now Director of Ordnance (Filling), War Office. • Ruth Tomlinson, , United Kingdom Representative,
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. • Francis Ralph Tubbs, Director,
East Malling Research Station, Maidstone. •
Joan Wake, Honorary Secretary and General Editor, Northamptonshire Record Society. • Norman Macdonald Lockhart Walker, Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire at Glasgow. • Alderman Harry Watson, . For political and public services in Wakefield. • Harry Weber, Principal Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. • Colonel John Milns West, , Vice-Chairman,
Combined Cadet Force Association. • George Andrew Wheatley, Clerk of the Hampshire County Council and Clerk of the Peace. •
Errol Ivor White, Keeper of Palaeontology,
British Museum (Natural History). • Harold Newton White, lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Henry Peart Wood, Principal, Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow. • John Clarke Ramsay Woodside, , Deputy Director of Works, Air Ministry. • Robert Lyon Wyllie, , Chairman, West Cumberland Industrial Development Co. Ltd. • William Young, Vice-Chairman, Scottish
Milk Marketing Board. • David Balfour, Her Majesty's Consul-General, Geneva. • Francis William Alfred Fairfax-Cholmeley, British subject resident in France. • Anthony Colin Kendall, , lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, Mogadishu. • Eric Freeman Madams, British subject, lately resident in Iraq. • Herbert Francis Mooney, , Forestry and Soil Conservation Adviser, Middle East Development Division, Lebanon. • Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald John Pink, , lately Her Majesty's Consul, Harar. • John Edgcumbe Rendle, Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. • Henry Raywood Sawbridge, lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, Geneva. • Raymond Horace Smith, British subject resident in Venezuela. • James Hurtle Allen, Sheriff and Comptroller of Prisons, State of South Australia. •
Noel Stanley Bayliss, Professor of Chemistry at the University of the State of Western Australia. • Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold Henry George Conville, . For services to the United Kingdom community in West Pakistan. • Johan Henrik Durr, Commissioner of Roads and Road Traffic, Southern Rhodesia. • The Honourable
Francis Joseph Finnan, formerly a Member of the Executive Council, State of New South Wales. For public services. •
Walter Sykes George, Architect, of New Delhi, India. • The Reverend Mervyn Henderson, of Auchenflower, State of Queensland. For services to the Presbyterian Church and Education. •
Thomas Gilbert Henry Jones, Professor of Chemistry at the University of the State of Queensland. • Harvey Theodore Blackburne Ryves, formerly Deputy Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. • Douglas Arthur Suthers, of Townsville, State of Queensland. For services to returned servicemen. • Captain Hugh Arundell Were, a prominent Grazier, of Coleraine, State of Victoria. • William Maurice Young, formerly Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Federation of Malaya. • Edward Arrigo. For public services in Malta. • John Harold Baldwin, , Chief Accountant, East African Railways and Harbours. • Ernest Bellevue, , Head of Finance Department, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • Raymond Marie Antoine Berenger, Director of Public Works and Surveys, Mauritius. • Myles Canice Madden King Carew, Director of Prisons, Federation of Nigeria. • Lawrence John Clapham, , Director of Medical Services, North Borneo. • William Janvrin Deal, , Director of Public Works and Commissioner of Lands, Aden. • John Patrick Ilbert Fforde, Commissioner of Police, Northern Rhodesia. • Archibald Peter Sturrock Forbes, Director of Agriculture, Tanganyika. •
Trevelyan Codrington Gardner, Secretary for Finance, Northern Rhodesia. • The Right Reverend
Percival William Gibson, Bishop of Jamaica. • Alhaji Umaru Gwandu, , Speaker, Northern House of Assembly, Northern Region, Nigeria. •
Haji Ibrahim bin Mohamed Jahfar, , Mentri Besar of Brunei. • Abraham Elias Issa. For public services in Jamaica. • Richard Bradford McConnell, Director of Geological Surveys, British Guiana. • Charles Petrie McConnachie. For public services in Sierra Leone. • Kenneth Duncan Simpson MaCowan, Director of Veterinary Services, Kenya. • James Eugene Pearman. For public services in Bermuda. • William Edwin Rumbelow, , Commissioner of Police, Federation of Nigeria. • Alexander Frederick Morgan Smith, Director of Lands and Surveys, Uganda. • Bahadurali Kassim Suleman Verjee. For public services in Uganda. • Edgar Vernon Whitcombe. For public services in Kenya. • Ronald Edward Wraith, , Chairman, Federal Electoral Commission, Federation of Nigeria.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division :;Royal Navy • Commander Robert Henry Allen. • Commander Eric Harry Banfield. • Commander Sidney Noah William Dennis. • Major (SD (B)) (Local Lieutenant-Colonel) Francis Vivian Dunn, , Royal Marines. • Acting Captain Emile William Goodman. • Surgeon Commander Clifford Vivian Harries, . • Commander Brian Patrick McConnell. • Surgeon Commander Robert Adams McKeown, , Royal Naval Reserve. • Chief Engineer Officer John Benjamin Deane Payne, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service. • Commander Malcolm Harold James Petrie. • Commander Richard Moncrieff Rome. • Instructor Commander Samuel Sydney Stevenson. • Commander David Franks Townsend, Royal Navy (Retd.) • Commander John Strover Townson, , Royal Navy (Retd.) • Commander Richard Frederick Wells, . :;Army • Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Arthur Beckett, , (113508), The Parachute Regiment. • The Reverend Charles John Henry William Andrew Bradley, , Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (301695), Royal Army Chaplains' Department. • Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Eric George Brain, , (86368), The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's), Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Douglas Richard Lucas Bright (77659), 1st Green Jackets, 43rd and 52nd. • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Richard Thorpe Burkimsher, , (178904), Royal Army Service Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel David Frank Turquand Colbeck (63671), The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Employed List 1). • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) James Edward Corless, , (32230), Combined Cadet Force (now retired). • Lieutenant-Colonel (local Colonel) Stanley Edward Dickinson (161422), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Frank Newton Dunn (52613), The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) (Employed List 1). • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary))
Michael Forrester, , (69349), The Parachute Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Gardiner Galloway, , (150137), Royal Army Dental Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Aird George, , (117510), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel St. George Gribbon (71097), The King's Own Royal Border Regiment (Employed List 1). • Lieutenant-Colonel David Llewelyn Griffith (74558), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Terence Leslie Higgins (231244), Army Cadet Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Walter Holme, , (117134), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot). • Lieutenant-Colonel David Ronald Kelly (151487), Royal Regiment of Artillery (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Benson MacDonald, , (148236), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Brevet and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Roy Stuart Marshall, MC, MM (224271), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gerard Thomas McClellan, , (189432), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel William Wilson McHarg, , (155625), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Allan Eric Eustace Mercer, , (94705), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List 1). • Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Claud Macbeth Moir (105763), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). • Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Charles William Mackenzie Penn, , (67902), Grenadier Guards (Employed List 1) (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Pollard, , (288876), The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) William Harold Texereau Roberton, , (63734), Combined Cadet Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Walter Routledge, , (58932), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Ernest Rowley (207812), Royal Army Service Corps (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel (Staff Paymaster, First Class) Ronald Skeates (188926), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Melbourne Squire, , (97979), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Alexandria Styles (66118), The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment). • Brevet and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
David John Willison, , (95070), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel Doris Helen Isabella Wilson (196476), Women's Royal Army Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Henry Wotton (74574), Royal Corps of Signals. :;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander Roy Stanley Boast, , (81066). • Wing Commander Arthur Boonham (45533). • Wing Commander Albert Holden Bullock (106111). • Wing Commander Lawrence Barclay Davey (55088). • Wing Commander Richard Duckett (73165). • Wing Commander (Acting Group Captain) Charles Arthur Hague Goudie (77583). • Wing Commander John Harris, , (104460). • The Reverend William Patrick Henry. • Wing Commander John Erskine Malcolm, , (501602). • Wing Commander Joseph Thaddeus O'Sullivan (48834), Royal Air Force Regiment. • Wing Commander Frank Parvin (43140). • Wing Commander Charles Harry Pocock (62782). • Wing Commander Thomas Dixon Sanderson, , (131619). • Wing Commander Stanley Slater, , (145503). • Wing Commander Edwin Augustus Leon Wakely (31250). • Wing Commander William Harry Webber (46182). • Acting Wing Commander Charles Henry Markham (135352), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Squadron Leader George Stanislaus Lau (198801). ;Civil Division • John Adam, , Regional Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. • Robert Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. • William Reginald Andrew, Chief Constructor, Ship Department, Admiralty. • Arthur Marshall Andrews, Administrative Officer, Television, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Anthony Kemp-Bailey, Grade I Officer, Ministry of Labour. •
George Grenfell Baines, Architect Senior Partner, Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves. • Ethel Margery Bartlett, Principal Educational Psychologist, Essex. • Frank William Bates, Works Director, Kelvin & Hughes, Ltd., Barkingside, Essex. • Frederick George Beith, Attached War Office. • Alderman Alfred Jonathan Best, . For public services in Darlington and District, County Durham. • Robert Taylor Bigland, Assistant County Commissioner for Handicapped Scouts, West Cheshire, Boy Scouts Association. • Guy Stanley Maitland Birch, , Assistant Chief Solicitor, British Transport Commission. • William John Black, , Chairman, Armagh County Committee of Agriculture. • Geoffrey David Maurice Block. For political services. • Kenneth William Bowder. For political and public services in Leicester. • John Ernest Benjamin Bowdler. For political and public services in Shrewsbury. • Ernest Bower, , Chairman, Lincoln, Newark and District
War Pensions Committee. • Geoffrey Murray Boyd, Head, Technical Records Department, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. • Nydia Minnie Brailey. For political services in Saffron Walden. •
Norbert Brainin, Violinist Leader of the
Amadeus Quartet. • Arnold Douglas Breguet, Accountant, Naval Accounts Branch, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. • Harold Broadbent, Chairman, Bolton National Insurance Tribunal. • Leonard Francis Broadway, Head of Research Laboratories, Electrical & Musical Industries, Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex. • Alderman Mary Aymee Lilian Clifton-Brown. For political and public services in Norfolk. • Oliver Gustave Frank Brown, Joint Managing Director, The Leicester Galleries. • William Martin Brownlie, Rector, Greenock High School, Renfrewshire. •
John Brymer, Clarinetist. • George Henry Burgess, Chairman, Lerwick Harbour Trust. • Alderman William Burrows, , Chairman, St. Helens Local Employment Committee. • Albert Daniel Leo Carroll, Captain Staff Pilot, Grade I, Civil Aviation Flying Unit, Stansted, Ministry of Aviation. •
Robert James Clayton, Manager, Applied Electronic Laboratories, General Electric Co. Ltd. • James Arthur Cole, , Commander, Metropolitan Police Force. • Major Ronald Edmond Combe, , Chairman, Herefordshire Civil Defence Committee. • Charles Alan Connell, Conservator, Forestry Commission. •
Giles Stannus Cooper, Playwright. • Alderman Frederick James Cornthwaite. For public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. • Richard Desmond Cramsie, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. •
Alexander Lamb Cullen, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield. • Claude Culpin, Chief Machinery Advisory Officer, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Frederick Dale, , lately Chairman, County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. • Frank Herbert Davey, Accountant-General, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Norman Davey, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. • Alexander Robert Dean, District Auditor, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Norman Holdsworth Dean, General Manager, Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd. • Frederick Henry Dight, lately Chief Meteorological Officer, Headquarters, Coastal Command, Air Ministry. • Roger Nicholas Dixey, Director, Institute of Agrarian Affairs, University of Oxford. • John Dixon, , Chairman, St. Albans Medical Board. • Tom Eatough, Chairman and Managing Director, Eatough's, Ltd., Earl Shilton, Leicester. • Charles Clark Elder, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • George Branwhite Ellis, Higher Collector, Birmingham, Board of Customs and Excise. • Betty Agnes Fripp, International Commissioner, Commonwealth Headquarters, Girl Guides Association. • Frank Edward Gaines, Engineer I, War Office. • Mary Margaret Gallup, . For political and public services in Tavistock. • Lieutenant-Commander Donald Herbert George. For political services in Canterbury. • Herbert Whincup Gloyne, Chemist I, War Office. •
Mary Dilys Glynne, Principal Scientific Officer, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. • Geoffrey Desmond Gordon, Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Captain Gavin Charles Goudie, Master, SS
Auckland Star, Blue Star Line, Ltd., London. • Thomas Orrell Gray, Deputy Treasurer, Royal National Life-Boat Institution. • Henry Leigh Groves, , Alderman, Westmorland County Council. • Ellis Norman Gummer, Deputy Controller, Arts and Science Division, British Council. • Stanley Gunson, Superintendent, Mechanical Engineering, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Alexander Edwin Halliday, General Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers of Great Britain and Ireland. • Eric Lawrence Hancock, Deputy Representative of the British Council, Pakistan. • Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, President, Trawler Owners' Association, Milford Haven. • Ernest Henry Harman, Deputy Chairman, East Midlands Gas Board. • Major George Bourke Harvey, lately Governor, Class I, HM Prison, Wakefield. • George Montague Harvey, Managing Director, British Oxygen Wimpey, Ltd. • William James George Hawkins, Principal Sea Transport Surveyor, Ministry of Transport. • Dorothy Veale Haythornthwaite. For political services in North Fylde. • Eric Frank Hedger, Assistant Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty. • William Stewart Henderson, Secretary, Antrim County Council. • Alma Gertrude Hiett. For political and public services in Cumberland. • Joseph Stanley Hill, Principal, Board of Customs and Excise. • Alderman Edwin Rigby Hinchliffe, Chairman, Ashlar Divisional Executive, Local Education Authority, West Riding of Yorkshire. • Eileen Mary Hoare. For political and public services in London. • Eric Percival Hodgson, , lately General Secretary, Association for Post Office Controlling Officers. • Robert William Baxter Howarth, Chief Information Officer, Grade B, Ministry of Works. • Arthur Edward Howells, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Gerald Edward Howling, lately Principal of Mineral Resources Division, Overseas Geological Survey, Colonial Office. • Derek Walter Lionel Hughes, Staff Controller, Scotland, General Post Office. • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wynne Lloyd Hughes, . For political and public services in North Wales. • William John Irwin, . For political services in Belfast. • Fred Jackson, Regional Controller, London (South), National Assistance Board. • George James Morley Jacob, , Secretary, London Police Court Mission. • Alderman Arthur Reginald Jones, , Chairman, Montgomeryshire County Council. •
Kenneth Jeffrey Jones. For services to Welsh Rugby Football. • Thomas Hugh Jones, Senior Honorary Veterinary Officer, Royal Welsh Agricultural Society. • James Knipe, Principal Officer, Ministry of Health and Local Government, Northern Ireland. • Marjorie Cecile Laidman, Headmistress, Cowplain Secondary School for Girls, Waterlooville, Hampshire. • Harry Lamb, Principal, Bilston College of Further Education, Staffordshire. • Willie John Layton, Chairman, Herefordshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Richard Macgregor Lemmon, Secretary, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. • Wilfred Roy Lewin, Principal, Admiralty. • Charles Gordon Libby, Superintending Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works. • Captain Arthur George Litherland, lately Commodore, Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Liverpool. • Martin Lovett, Chief Inspector for River Pollution, Yorkshire Ouse River Board. • John Cunningham MacCallum, Director of Research, Lace Research Association. • Angus Roy Jenner McGregor, Project Manager, Lobatsi Abattoir, Bechuanaland. • Donald McKenzie, Principal Scientific Officer, Armament Research and Development Establishment, War Office. • Frederick Walter Maclachlan. For political and public services in Fife. • Alexander McLean, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Muriel Annette, The Honourable Mrs Maclean of Ardgour, President, Argyll Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Francis Leslie Marwood, Superintending Naval Store Officer (Higher Scale), Portsmouth, Admiralty. • Alick Ernest Mason, lately Managing Director, BP Refinery (Kwinana), Ltd., and Director, BP Australian, Ltd. • Belinda Davie Mason, Matron, Lennox Castle Hospital, Lennoxtown. • Leslie Frank Masters, Superintending Civil Engineer, Grade I, No. 7 Works Area, Air Ministry. • Francis Mees, , Chief Officer, Berkshire and Reading Fire Brigade. • James Henry Herbert Merriman, Assistant Staff Engineer, General Post Office, on loan to HM Treasury. • Sidney Charles Merson, Chief Executive Officer, Public Works Loan Board. • Mary Emma, Lady Meyrick. For public services in Pembrokeshire. • John James Gordon Michie, Head of Commercial Division, John Laing & Son, Ltd. • Herbert Sidney Mileman, Assistant Comptroller, National Debt Office. • Hugh Miller, Chairman, Board of Directors, Haven Products, Ltd., Hillington, Glasgow. • William George Moffitt, Principal, Ministry of Transport. • Thomas McCowat Montford, , Chairman, Leicestershire and Rutland Executive Council, National Health Service. • Robert Maxwell Lyon Moore, . For political services in Londonderry. • The Very Reverend Canon Peter Morrison, Chairman, Visiting Committee, Borstal Institution, Barlinnie. • Jessie Elizabeth Morshead, Organiser and Secretary, Alexandra Rose Day Fund. • John Smith Ramage Muir, Chief Constable, Ayr Burgh Police. • Thomas Muirhead, Sheriff-Clerk of Aberdeenshire. • Robert Naylor, , Chairman, Darlington, Auckland and District War Pensions Committee. • Robert Pearson Neilson, , Chief Dental Officer, Midlothian and Peebles. • Michael David Nightingale, Secretary, Museums Association. • Charles Edwin North, Deputy Chairman, Northamptonshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Hugh William O'Connell, Principal Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade. • John Weatherson Ormiston, , Secretary and Treasurer, Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trusts. • Miles Parkes, , Vice-Chairman, Cheshire Executive Council, National Health Service. • Leonard Patrick, Head, Government Contracts Department, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. • Compton Edwin Pearson, Chief Inspector, Plant Health Inspectorate, Ministry of Agriture, Fisheries and Food. • Abram Geoffrey Peel, . For political and public services in Bradford. • Stanley William Petchey, , Chairman, Chelmsford Savings Committee. • William Melville Pooley, Managing Director, Towers & Co. Ltd., Meat Importers. • Robert Gibson Prenter, Director, MacTaggart, Scott & Co. Ltd., Station Ironworks, Loanhead, Midlothian. • Stanley Price, lately Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Arthur Granville Ravensdale, , Chairman, East Midland Regional Schools Advisory Committee. • Henry Alexander Redpath, , Senior Chief Executive Officer, Northern Regional Office, Board of Trade. • Rowland George Richards, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Stanley Roland Richards, Assistant Accountant-General, Board of Customs and Excise. • James Osbert Roach, Principal, Ministry of Education. • Isabella Robertson, , Grade I Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Harold George Robert Robinson, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aviation. • Hugh Rigby Rowbotham, , Member, Midland Regional Board for Industry. • Oscar William Rowntree, Divisional Land Commissioner, Yorkshire (North Riding), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • James Gordon Ruffell, Manager, Repair Department, John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd. • John Albert Rugless, Principal, Ministry of Aviation. • Herbert Francis Rutherford, lately Secretary, Board of Governors, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. • George William Sale, lately Chairman, Birmingham Local Wheat Committee. • Frank Henry Saniter, Director of Research, The United Steel Companies Ltd. • Anne Shepherd, Adviser, Loan Section, Commonwealth Headquarters, Girl Guides Association. • Hector Sayers Shuter, Manager in Brazil, Western Telegraph Co. Ltd. • James Morrison Simpson. For political and public services in Banffshire. • Lieutenant-Colonel James Beattie Skinner, , Wing Representative Chairman, Scottish Air Cadet Council. • Albert Arthur Smales, Deputy Chief Scientist, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. • Nicholas Kay Smith, Technical Director, Murphy Chemical Co. Ltd. • James Squire, Principal, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Ena Mildred Steel, General Secretary, Church of England Moral Welfare Council. • James Steptoe, , Honorary Secretary, Sturminster Savings Committee. • Sydney Frank Stevens, lately English by Radio Manager, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Robert Horace Stroud, Chairman, Somerset County Council Children's Committee. • Percival James William Summerfield, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Air Ministry. •
Victor Samuel Summerhayes, Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. • Frederick John Dunn Taylor, , Staff Engineer, Research Station, General Post Office. • Godfrey Theaker, Secretary, John I. Jacobs & Co. Ltd., Shipowners, London. For services to trade in the Island of St. Helena. • Ferdinand Bernard Thole, lately Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Power. • John Hugh Thomas, Chairman, Anglesey County Council. • Ernest Frederick Thompson, Director and General Manager, British Small Arms Guns, Ltd. • Leon Thompson, , Senior Chief Executive Officer, Foreign Office. • Ernest Arthur Timson, , Managing Director, Timsons, Ltd., Kettering, Northamptonshire. • William Gordon Tong. For political and public services in Buckinghamshire. • Walter John Triggs, Senior Maintenance Surveyor, Receiver's Office, Metropolitan Police Force. • Alec Tunnington, , Honorary Assistant Treasurer, Liverpool Savings Committee. • James Pellatt Turner, Director of Printing Works Division, HM Stationery Office. •
Thomas Walker. For services to Scottish Association Football. • Cecil Richard Hutton Ward, Deputy Director, Exhibitions Division, Central Office of Information. • Kathleen Mary Ward, Deputy President, Sussex Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Edith Annie Watson, , Chairman, Burnley and District Hospital Management Committee. • Johann Leopold Welser, Grade 7 Officer, Branch A, Foreign Office. • Geoffrey Henllan White, Editor,
The Complete Peerage. • Stanley Charles White, , Secretary, Citizenship Training Committee, Army Cadet Force. • Melissa Sillence Whitley, Chief Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue. • Captain James Percival Raymond Williams, Commodore Chief Engineer, MV
Rangitiki, New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., London. • William Pierce Williams, , Principal Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Harry McIntyre Wilson, , Veterinary Practitioner, Fife. • Frank Wood, Telephone Manager, Leeds. • Mary Louisa Cooper Woodham, , Grade 2 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • John Alwyn Cayton, British Council Representative, Brazil. • Halsey Sparrowe Colchester, British Consul, Zurich. • John Frederick Greaves, President, British Chamber of Commerce, Belgium. • Hubert Deacon Harrison, Chief Correspondent in Austria of Reuters Ltd. • Robert Fritz Herries Hinrichsen, , Medical Director, Strangers' Hospital, Rio de Janeiro. • Richard Paul Hogge, British subject resident in Chile. • Harold Reginald Lord, British subject resident in Beira. • William Mackenzie, British subject resident in Spain. • William Henry Marsh, Labour Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Brussels. • Major Michael William Stilwell, , British subject resident in Portugal. • The Reverend Robert Veysey de Carle Thompson, Baptist Missionary, Belgian Congo. • William Lionel Carlyon Tweedy, British subject resident in Peru. • John Baxter Ventham, British subject lately resident in Iran. • George Malcolm Wilson, lately Manager, Antofagasta-Bolivia Railway, La Paz. • William James Wilson, , British subject resident in France. • Ernest Frank Wise, Her Majesty's Consul, Los Angeles. • James Anthony Allison, First Assistant Secretary (Finance), Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Honoria Christina Atherton, State President, Queensland Country Women's Association. • Gilbert Rowatt Gordon Cameron, Under Secretary and Permanent Head of the Department of Public Health, State of New South Wales. • Henry James Reginald Cole, Town Clerk, City of Hobart, State of Tasmania. • Margaret Estelle Cunningham, Principal of Fintona Girls' School, State of Victoria. • Vernon Ernest Dawson, formerly Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. • Harry Fell, formerly Chief Statistician, Federation of Malaya. • Cyril Fortune, . For services to the Blood Transfusion Service in the State of Western Australia. • Edward Rowland Gee, formerly Director of Geological Survey of Pakistan. • Reginald Richard Gregory, Town Clerk, Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. • Edric Georg Hallam, an Assessor on the Water Court, Southern Rhodesia. • Mervyn Holland, formerly President of the Local Government Association, State of South Australia. • Donaldson Gray Hood, formerly Divisional Road Engineer, Umtali, Southern Rhodesia. • Trevor Claude James, , Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the State of Tasmania. • Reginald Kelly, an Attorney in Mafeking; Legal Adviser to the Bechuanaland Protectorate Administration. • Richard William Kelly, Deputy Controller, Trade Division (Supplies), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Federation of Malaya. • Rasebolai Kgamane, , African Authority, Bamangwato Tribe, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Winifred Barbara Meredith, , Director of Maternal, Infant and Pre-school Welfare, Department of Health, State of Victoria. •
Audrey Cummins Morphett. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia. • David Low Penny. For services to the United Kingdom community in Pakistan. • John Reginald Robertson. For services to Tennis in the State of Victoria. • James Ross. For services to charitable movements in the State of Victoria. • George White Rothery, , Acting Comptroller of Supplies, Treasury, Federation of Malaya. • David Leslie Vivian Rowe. For services to the United Kingdom community in India. • John Houghton Sumner, Chief Hydro Development Engineer, Central Electricity Board, Federation of Malaya. •
Margaret Alison Telfer, Registrar, University of Sydney, State of New South Wales. • Alfred Harold Varcoe. For services to industry and the community in the State of New South Wales. • Arthur Ridley Williams, formerly Commissioner of Main Roads, State of Queensland. • Charles Emanuel Williams, , a medical practitioner, of Mackay, State of Queensland. • Sesca Ross Zelling, President of the Branch in the State of South Australia of the National Council of Women. • Reginald Banham Allen. For services to sport in Nigeria. • Theophilus Sunday Babatunde Aribisala, Principal Agricultural Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. • Oliver Penlyn Bennett. For services to sport in Trinidad. • Victor Gordon Bennett, Deputy Regional Director, Uganda, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. • The Reverend Canon Philip Bottomley, Headmaster, Nabumali High School, Uganda. • Harold Albert Braham, , General Manager, Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation. • Edith Clarke. For public services in Jamaica. • Reginald Arnold Clarke, , Undersecretary (Finance), Federation of Nigeria. • Clifford Alfred George Coleridge, Director of Audit, Aden and Somaliland. • John Reginald Crabbe, Senior Education Officer, Tanganyika. • Charles Ruickbie Davidson, Planning and Development Adviser to the City Council of Nairobi, Kenya. • Ernest Howard Davis, Chief Assistant Secretary, Gibraltar. •
Wladyslaw Dering, Senior Medical Officer (Surgical) Somaliland Protectorate. • Clement Joseph Leonard Dupigny. For public services in Dominica. • Harry Evans. For services to tropical agriculture and to the sugar and cocoa industries in British Guiana. • Richard James Farrell, Senior Engineer, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • Charles Joseph Fenton, , Director of Posts and Telegraphs, North Borneo. • Philip Fletcher, Headmaster, Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, Kenya. • Hubert Philip Peter Gale, Acting Principal, Royal Technical College, Nairobi, Kenya. • John William Laurence Gale, Representative, British Council, British Guiana. • Ratu
Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau, , Economic Development Officer, Fiji. • James Olva Georges, . For public services in the British Virgin Islands. • The Reverend Walter Henry Graddon. For services to education in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Arthur Leslie Hardy, . For public services in the Falkland Islands. • Stephen John Henry, Electoral Commissioner and Chief Federal Officer West, Western Region, Nigeria. • Lawrence John Hobson, lately Assistant Chief Secretary, Aden. • Leonard Catesby Huggins, , Medical Officer and Bacteriologist (Senior Surgeon), Bahamas. • John Michael Hunter. For public services in Tanganyika. • Joseph Enaifoghe Imoukhuede, Administrative Officer, Class I, Principal Assistant Secretary, Premier's Office, Western Region, Nigeria. • Alison Hingley Izzett, Chief Social Welfare Officer, Federation of Nigeria. • John Howard Jameson. For public services in St. Helena. • Arthur Richard Kemp. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. • Edward Douglas Kirby. For services to farming in Northern Rhodesia. • Gwilym lorweth Michael, Director of Education, Seychelles. • Justin Trevor Moon, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Uganda. • David Joseph Mead Muffett, Senior District Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Zacheus Chukwu Obi. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Alice Mabysse Paterson, Principal of Women's Training College, Kano, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Arthur Edward Perry, , Controller of Stores, Hong Kong. • William Pulfrey, Commissioner (Mines & Geology), Kenya. • Thomas Reginald Colston Raikes, Postmaster-General, Sierra Leone. • Frank Walton Roe, formerly Director of Geological Surveys, Sarawak, now Deputy Director, Overseas Geological Surveys. • The Reverend Edward Charles Rusted. For public services in North Borneo. • The Reverend Joseph Ernest Sandbach. For public services in Hong Kong. • Alexander Daniel Jamieson Scott, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Welfare, Sierra Leone. • Agnes Ramsay Shaw. For public services in Kenya. • Ian Small, Director, West African Building Research Institute. • David Wilson Spreull, Government Town Planner, Jamaica. • Reginald Henry Lothian Sung. For public services in Brunei. • Eugene Julian Theunissen, Administrative Officer, Nyasaland. • Ting Lik Hung. For public services in Sarawak. • Mallam Mohammadu Tukur, Emir of Yauri, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Selwyn John Walton, Chief Accountant, Treasury, Aden. • John Macdonald Wann, District Commissioner, Sierra Leone. •
Everton De Courcey Weekes, Cricket Coach to Barbados Government. • Dudley Lee Borrett Wickham, Commissioner of Local Government, British Guiana. • Joseph William Widdell, Administrative Officer, Class I, Secretary to the Governor, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Harry Norman Williamson, Senior Principal (Education Department), Hong Kong. • William George Wilson, Financial Secretary, Mauritius. •
Peter William Youens, Deputy Chief Secretary, Nyasaland.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division :;Royal Navy • Lieutenant-Commander Malcolm James Hopewell Bonner, . • Temporary Electrical Lieutenant Albert George Butler, (Retd.) • Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Charles Brandling Copland-Griffiths. • Engineer Lieutenant-Commander James Edward Percival Cuff. • Lieutenant-Commander Harold Thomas Duffy, Royal Naval Reserve. • Supply Lieutenant John William Evans, (Retd.) • Lieutenant-Commander (SD) Jack Alfred James Johnson. • Lieutenant-Commander Charles Victor Jones. • Lieutenant-Commander Denys Cooper Landman, Royal Malayan Navy. • Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Donald Campbell McNutt, . • Lieutenant (SD) Donald McDowell Patchett, (Retd.) • Recruiting Officer James Prentice. • Lieutenant-Commander (SD) Charles Frederick Thorpe. • Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth John Barnett Topley. :;Army • Captain Bridget Islay Forbes Adam (401904),
Women's Royal Army Corps. • Major John Forrester Allen (301412),
Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major (acting) Thomas Richard Ball (347276),
Army Cadet Force. • Major Michael Stewart Bayley (253885),
Grenadier Guards. • 4194526 Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Harold Owen Bound, The
Royal Welch Fusiliers. • Major (Staff Quartermaster) Sidney Ernest Bracken (171790), Employed List 2. • Major (acting) Arthur Douglas Brown, , (193661),
Combined Cadet Force. • Captain (Quartermaster) Patrick Joseph Byrne, , (436106), The
Parachute Regiment. • Major George Tennant Calder (358631),
Royal Pioneer Corps (Employed List 3). • Major Henry Ernest Child (229665),
Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major (Quartermaster) Edward Lovel Clapton (195753),
Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Edward William Chadnor Clutterbuck (354645), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 305120 Warrant Officer Class I George Colley,
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). • Major (Quartermaster) George Robert Cooper (282295),
Royal Tank Regiment,
Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Stanley Joseph Cottee (146235),
9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. • 1927617 Warrant Officer Class II Abraham Crompton, The
Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps,
Territorial Army. • Captain Keith Charles Davis (390362), Royal Army Service Corps. • 22244832 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Frederick William Dennett, The
King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army. • Captain Jean Gordon Duff Donaldson (380492), Women's Royal Army Corps. • 22225410 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Donnelly,
Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army. • Major (Quartermaster) Leslie John Dyer (195434), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List 2X) (now retired). • Major (temporary)
John Lindley Marmion Dymoke (364334),
2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire). • Captain Kathleen Nora Edwards, , (230037), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. • Major (Quartermaster) Ernest Albert Ellender (291234), Royal Army Service Corps. • Major (acting) Leslie Harry Fallon (416731), Combined Cadet Force. • Major George Tindal Fitchie (182127), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major (acting) Archibald Forbes, , (114573), Combined Cadet Force. • Captain Frederick Sendall Furneaux, , (159801), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major Ronald Richard Hugh Glue (288511), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major Thomas Harris (193240), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major (acting) Robin Antony Henderson, , (140213), Combined Cadet Force. • Major Charles Peter de Brisay Jenkins, , (276457), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Captain William Kelly (379383), Corps of Royal Engineers. • 21019298 Warrant Officer Class II Harry Kelsey,
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major (Quartermaster) Ralph Reginald Kimberley (408934),
Army Catering Corps. • Major John Lefroy Knyvett, , (94279), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 2209868 Warrant Officer Class II Albert Edward Lee,
Royal Corps of Signals. • 2718820 Warrant Officer Class I Desmond Thomas Lee Lynch, ,
Irish Guards. • Major Robert Lyon (288788), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Captain Laurence Geoffrey Walrond Marshall (277681), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • Major James McClure, , (67570), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.). • Major (acting) Alexander McDonald (283271), Army Cadet Force. • Major Michael Bywater McNabb (117906),
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). • 21192239 Warrant Officer Class II Donald McNair, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Major Charles John Gerald Meade (190453), The
Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. • 3596686 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Ernest James Moore, The
Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers). • Major (Quartermaster) Thomas Gerard Nicoll (274365), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22295950 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick James North, The
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Territorial Army. • Major (acting) Brian O'Kelly (256817), Combined Cadet Force (now retired). • Major Benjamin James Palmer (85658),
3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot). • 5444877 Warrant Officer Class I William John Passmore, The
Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry. • 22200943 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Edward Paylor, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 4381882 Warrant Officer Class II James Pearce, The
Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), Territorial Army. • S/4699887 Warrant Officer Class I Richard Sidney Athelstane Penfold, Royal Army Service Corps. • W/276232 Warrant Officer Class II Agnes Pryer, Women's Royal Army Corps. • Major Thomas Anthony Richardson (228462), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 894114 Warrant Officer Class II Ivor Rogers, , Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Major Maurice Carmel Sacco (325817) Royal Malta Artillery. • 2925990 Warrant Officer Class II Peter Frederick Winton Scotland,
Royal Pioneer Corps. • Major Robert Edmond Scott, , (326145), The
Durham Light Infantry. • Major John James Seth (366390), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major Peter Charles Shapland (320366), Corps of Royal Engineers. • 6344148 Warrant Officer Class II George Victor Isidore Simpson, The
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. • Major John Sydney Smith (132478), The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major Roy Albert Smith (112973), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22802905 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Victor Staddon, The
Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major (temporary) Timothy Stuart Champion Streatfeild (369843), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22517507 Warrant Officer Class II Richard Oswald Taylor,
Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), Territorial Army. • 4529305 Warrant Officer Class I Richard Walter Trend,
Corps of Royal Military Police, Territorial Army. • 317727 Warrant Officer Class I Nicholas Jacobus Van Rensburg,
9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. • Captain Taylor Walton (421467), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Captain (Quartermaster) Albert Ward, , (434965), The
Royal Highland Fusiliers. • Major Hugh Anthony Whitehead (64502), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • S/68978 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Walter James Dennis Wood, , Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Kenneth Leonard Coomber Wright (262701), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • Major Douglas Arthur Banks (375571), The
Royal Sussex Regiment; on loan to the Government of the
Federation of Malaya. • Major Christopher Geoffrey Cotel Holmyard (75751), The
King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool); on loan to the Government of the Federation of Malaya. • Major Adrian Watson Wise, , (85604), The
Royal Warwickshire Regiment; on loan to the Government of the Federation of Malaya. • WI/1027 Warrant Officer Class II Michael Rodolphus James, 1st Battalion, The
West India Regiment. :;Royal Air Force • Squadron Leader George Ronald Bailey (55747). • Squadron Leader Bartholomew Bainbridge, , (179638). • Squadron Leader John George Boagey (57858). • Squadron Leader Charles Thomas Boxall, , (44599). • Squadron Leader Matthew Aitken Boyd (52597). • Squadron Leader Edward Thomas Curran (2411677). • Squadron Leader Stanley Herbert Kitchener Eyre, , (54754). • Squadron Leader Edward John Holden (500446). • Squadron Leader Edwin Merch-Chammon (48375). • Squadron Leader John Richardson (196473). • Squadron Leader Ernest Henry Sowden (51777). • Squadron Leader John Raymond Spencer (57501), Royal Air Force Regiment. • Squadron Leader Alexander Haldane Stott (162273). • Squadron Leader Frederick Thomas Trahair (56883). • Squadron Leader Duncan Archie McFarlane Walker (53964). • Squadron Leader Allan White (1608011). • Acting Squadron Leader George Alexander Charles (153521). • Acting Squadron Leader Job Greenwood Chew (57574). • Acting Squadron Leader William Govanlock Hislop (168759), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Acting Squadron Leader Leonard Martin (67444), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Flight Lieutenant Edmund Ball (591619). • Flight Lieutenant John Beattie (561447). • Flight Lieutenant Robert Graham Carr (569186). • Flight Lieutenant Benjamin Thomas Gunner (512033). • Flight Lieutenant Samuel Myatt (130466). • Flight Lieutenant Raymond Charles Phillips, , (561871). • Flight Lieutenant Donald Stanley Price (1573658). • Flight Lieutenant John Alex Reed (52406). • Flight Lieutenant Alfred Leslie Richards (522513). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald George Sparkes, , (154204). • Flight Lieutenant Alan Tavenner (2692502), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. • Flight Lieutenant Joseph Weedon (50170). • Acting Flight Lieutenant John Bernard Bruce Watling (1336807). • Flying Officer Leslie Samuel Davey (59147). • Warrant Officer Ada Elsie Ainsworth (884772), Women's Royal Air Force. • Warrant Officer Charles William Bowman, , (512476). • Warrant Officer Joseph Samuel Briggs (631797). • Warrant Officer Philip Lincoln Burridge (901810). • Warrant Officer John Henry Dale (517930). • Warrant Officer Harold Ford (519078). • Warrant Officer Robert James Greenway (591548). • Warrant Officer Jack Gordon Harrison (552164). • Warrant Officer Philip Charles Kiley (591340). • Warrant Officer Leonard Pass (574029). • Warrant Officer Frederick John Peyton (562590). • Warrant Officer Frank Pratt (364940). • Warrant Officer Hubert Markham Wenman (527490). • Wing Commander William Henry Coast (49035); formerly on loan to the Government of Pakistan. ;Civil Division • Edwin John Abra, Divisional Officer, London Fire Brigade. • Charles Henry Allen, Chief Chemist, Tate & Lyle, Ltd., Plaistow Refinery. • Major Frederick Allsop, Honorary Secretary, Greenwich Savings Committee. • Benjamin William Appleby, Music Organiser for Doncaster, and Schools Broadcaster. • Enid Muriel Arnold, County Commissioner, Somerset, Girl Guides Association. • James Bernard Arstall, formerly Higher Executive Officer, HM Dockyard, Hong Kong. • Frank Henry Austen, General Manager, Rediffusion (South East), Ltd., Canterbury. • Frederick Bacon, Chairman, Lambeth War Pensions Committee. • Robert Bainbridge, , Chairman, South Shields, Jarrow and District War Pensions Committee. • Stanley Henry Baker, , Chairman, Ulverston Rural District Savings Committee. • William Dinsdale Banks. For political and public services in Deptford. • John Calcluth Bannatyne, Chief Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. • Georgiana Eleanor Barcroft, Clerical Officer, Foreign Office. • Ernest Sidney Barnard, Higher Executive Officer, British Museum. • Constance Lilian Barnes, Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Transport. • Frederick Barnes, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Cecil Thomas Edwin Barnett, lately Experimental Officer, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. • George William Barrow, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • Cyril Jack Bawden, Headmaster, Ashburton County Primary School. • Percival George Beak, Assistant Director, Commonwealth Forestry Bureaux, Oxford. • Joseph Reginald Beaumont, lately Member, Huddersfield and Halifax District Advisory Committee, East and West Ridings of Yorkshire Regional Board for Industry. • Graham Reginald Beeston, , Councillor, Bedwas and Machen Urban District Council. • Frederick Southall Bell, Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • William Victor Bell, lately Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Thomas John Bennett, Technical Class, Grade I, Royal Mint. • Edgar Betts. For political services. • William Kenneth Birchall, Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works. • Thomas Birtwistle, Chief Officer, Blackburn Fire Brigade. • Alderman Henry Blackburn, Chairman, Fleetwood Sea Cadet Corps Unit, Lancashire. • Marjorie May Boileau, Senior Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters. • Colin Boorman, Research Manager, Capenhurst Works, Development and Engineering Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Donald Dalrymple Borland, formerly Certifying Officer, East Midland Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport. • Joseph Harling Turner Borland, Chief Designer, Glenfield & Kennedy, Ltd., Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. • Edward Henry Borrett, lately Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Dorothy Alice Boucher, District Nurse Midwife, Cradley, near Malvern. • Albert Henry Bradley. For political and public services in Derbyshire. • Harry Bridge, Senior Duly Authorised Officer, Mental Health Service, City of Liverpool. • Cyril Alfred Brighton, Civil Defence Officer, Distillers Co. Ltd., Barry. • Reginald Lewis Burrows, , Foreman, Engineering Branch (Technical, Grade 1), Admiralty Gunnery Equipment Depot, Glasgow. • Archibald Josiah Buxton, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Power. • George Arthur Cain, Assistant Manager, C. & H. Crichton Ltd., Ship Repairers and Engineers, Liverpool. • Hector Mackay Calder, , lately Member, Glasgow National Service Medical Board. • William Handley Calvert, Assistant Chief Constable, No. 2 Area, Air Ministry Constabulary. • David Bisset Campbell. For services to youth in Grangemouth. • Horace Charles Carter, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Dudley Cemm, Engineer II, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Ministry of Aviation. • Alderman Albert Edward Chappell, . For political and public services in Lincolnshire. • Victoria Gertrude Chappelle, Senior Information Officer, Central Office of Information. • Maud Helen Charlton. For political and public services in Surrey. • Leonard Robert Charlwood, Clerk of Works (Class I), British Broadcasting Corporation. • George William Frederick Claxton, Senior Experimental Officer, British Museum (Natural History). • Eric George Clement, Divisional Officer, Kent Fire Brigade. • Beatrice Mary Cliffe, County Borough Organiser, Huddersfield, Women's Voluntary Services. • Samuel Cload, Principal Executive Officer, New Scotland Yard. • Hilda May Coats. For political and public services in Argyll. • Ethel Nellie Coe, Grade 5 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • David Newman James Cole, Chief Engineer Draughtsman, Vosper, Ltd., Portsmouth. • Arthur Brierley Collins. For political and public services in Liverpool. • Herbert Edward Collins, , Secretary, Aldershot District Athletic Association. • John Colvin, Technical Class, Grade I, Royal Ordnance Factory, Bishopton, Renfrewshire. • Henry Cooper, Chairman, Durham Rural District Savings Committee. • Harold Edwin Crockford, Draughtsman, Grade I, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • William Joseph Crooks, Production Manager, Aberdare Cables, Ltd., South Wales. • Alice Eva Cross, Ward Sister, Tone Vale Hospital, near Taunton, Somerset. • James Cross, Member, Elham Rural District Council, Kent. • Margery May Cullen. For services to the Leith Hill Musical Festival. • John William Dane, Chief Clerk, District Probate Registry, Lincoln. • Wilfred Ernest Davey, , Superintendent, Admiralty Constabulary, Portsmouth. • David Davidson, Head Postmaster, Motherwell and Wishaw, Lanarkshire. • Elsie May Davis, Honorary Secretary, Clothing Depot, Poole Division, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association. • Ivor Leslie Davis, Head, Penge Evening Institute. • James Henry Burnell Davis, Senior Executive Officer, Savings Department, General Post Office. • Walter John George Davis, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Margaret Dawson. For political and public services in Middlesbrough. • Harold Denman, Technical Representative, Moorwoods, Ltd., Harleston Iron Works, Sheffield. • Frank Albert Dennis, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • Mary Woodrow Dick, . For political and public services in Dunbartonshire. • William Gerald Dickson, Wireless Communications Superintendent, Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland. • William Edward Dornan, Honorary Secretary, Belfast Savings Council. • George William Drew, lately Lettings Manager, Liverpool Corporation. • Zoe Violet Drummond, County Organiser, Renfrewshire, Women's Voluntary Services. • Fred Duerden, Chief Sales Superintendent, Telephone Manager's Office, Liverpool. • Peter Leitch Duncan, , Chairman, Lower Banffshire Local Savings Committee. • William Edward Duparcq, Higher Executive Officer, Admiralty. • Arthur Robert Allen D'Ypres, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Education. • Arthur Henry Richmond East, Clerical Officer, Export Credits Guarantee Department. • Daphne Russell Edmunds, Assistant, Grade II, Office of the Prime Minister. • Walter James Ellis, Chairman, Exeter, Barnstaple and District War Pensions Committee. • David Evans, Secretary, Newcastle Emlyn Branch, Carmarthenshire, British Legion. • George Baden Evans, Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. • Elmore Carson Fallis, Honorary Secretary, Service Committee, Ballymena Branch, British Legion. • Robert Patrick Farley, Engineer II, Inspectorate of Armaments, Ministry of Aviation. • Frederick Robert Fisk, Senior Investigation Officer, Board of Customs and Excise. • Edith Alice Christian-Fletcher, Old People's Welfare Specialist, Regional Staff, Women's Voluntary Services. • Benjamin Jesse Folliard, Inspector of Accidents, British Overseas Airways Corporation. • Samuel George Forsyth, Export Manager, Ford Motor Co. Ltd. • Lily Kathleen Frith, Controller of Typists, Board of Trade. • Richard Marchant Fry, lately Deputy Director, Colonies Department, British Council. • William Strachan Gavin, . For services to the Boys Brigade in Leith. • Eileen Marguerite Gerrard, formerly Restaurant and Welfare Superintendent, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Cyprus. • Stanley Arthur Gibbins, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office. • Harold Gibson, Chief Preventive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise. • Anne Melville Gilliland, County Librarian, Staffordshire. • John Chester Gillott, lately Assistant Chief Commercial Officer, East Midlands Electricity Board. • William Ernest Gilson. For services to inshore fishing, Southend-on-Sea. • Arthur Edward Gisby. For political services in Nottingham. • Leonard Godber, Local Director and General Manager, Newton Chambers & Co. Ltd., Sheffield. • Thomas Henry Goodman, Honorary Secretary, Midland Rifle Association. • Iris Evelyn Graves, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office. • Kenneth Thomas James Green, Secretary, British Bacon Curers' Federation. • Lily Elizabeth Green, . For political and public services in South Wales. • William Green, Honorary Secretary, Bromyard and District Savings Committee. • William Robert Groves, Superintendent, Short Brothers & Harland, Ltd., Belfast. • William Redvers Guile, Attached War Office. • Sidney Arthur Harold Guille, Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Paymaster-General. • William Henry Thomas Hamer, Building and Civil Engineering Officer, South Western Region, Transport and General Workers' Union. • Stanley Waynforth Hammond, Chairman, Eastbourne and District Disablement Advisory Committee. • Robert Hargreaves, Chairman, Sheffield Amateur Sports Club, Abbeydale Park, Sheffield. • Jack Harper, Chief Liaison Engineer, Admiralty Contracts, Heenan & Froude, Ltd., Worcester. • Frederick Harrison, Member, Warwickshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • John Harrison, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Clementine Mary Hawthorn, Vice-President, Northumberland Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Harry Robert Haynes, Senior Secretary and Principal Horticultural Officer, National Farmers' Union. • Henry Heason, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • William Benjamin Heigho, Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. • Max Edward Hellman, Clerk to HM Attorney-General. • Ernest Frederick Hellmuth, lately Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Gerald Smedley Hervey, , Librarian, The Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank. • John William Hickey, Works Manager, C. H. Bailey, Ltd., Ship Repairers, Barry Docks. • Arthur Robert Hill, Higher Executive Officer, General Post Office. • William Richard John Hoare, Senior Executive Officer, War Office. • Joseph Pearson Leslie Hobbs, , Member, National Savings Assembly, representing North Buckinghamshire. • John Hodge, , Chairman, Ayr and Dumfries Collieries Savings League. • Arthur Edward Holt, Claims Settler, War Risks Insurance Office, Ministry of Transport. • Edith Frances Hopes. For political and public services in Bristol. • Evelyn Mary Hopwood, Deputy Head and Senior Mistress, Greaves County Secondary School, Lancaster. • Bertram Vivian Howell, Honorary Secretary, Pwllheli Station, Royal National Life-Boat Institution. • Dudley Vincent Pelham Howell, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • George Wyllie Howie, Agricultural Organiser, Isle of Man. • Herbert Edward Hudson, HM Inspector of Factories (Class 1A), Ministry of Labour. • Roy Vivian Hughes, Assistant New Works Officer, Civil Engineer's Department, Manchester, British Railways. • Joseph Lewis Humble, Chief Accountant, The Industrial Estates Management Corporation for Wales. • Charles Henry Huntley, Clerk and Chief Financial Officer, Penrith Urban District Council, Cumberland. • Elsie Dorothy Hurrell, lately Senior Nursing Sister, Union Castle Line, London. • Margaret Flockhart Irvine, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department. • Edward Jackson, lately Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. • James Adam Jamieson, Headmaster, Coldstream Junior Secondary School, Berwickshire. • Marjorie Jefferies, Executive Officer, Home Office. • Mary Heddle Johnstone, formerly Secretary, Church of Scotland Committee for Hut and Canteen Work for HM Forces in Cyprus. • The Reverend Haydn Price Jones, Officiating Chaplain, Royal Air Force, Wattisham. • John Owen Jones, Head Postmaster, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. • William Keane, Chief Scientific Officer, Headquarters Section, Derby Division, Civil Defence Corps. • Alderman Thomas Vincent Keelan, Assistant Education Officer, Plastics Division, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. • Captain John Joseph Kelly, District Marine Manager, Fishguard Harbour, British Transport Commission. • James Lackland Kennedy, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Ruby Elizabeth May Kenyon, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Hilda Mary Ker. For political and public services in Portsmouth. • Mark Kielbig, lately Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • George Killen, Senior Technical Superintendent (Engineer), No. 22 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Silloth. • John Paton King, Group Scoutmaster, 4th Ealing Group, Boy Scouts Association. • Mabel Adelaide Hannah King, Domiciliary Midwife, Smethwick. • John Edward Kneale, Chief Engineer, MV
Dolius, Alfred Holt & Co. Liverpool. • Frederick George Knight, Member, Newent Rural District Council. •
Ludwig Koch, Naturalist. • Aurora Mary Lamplough, Senior Housing Manager, Crown Estate Commissioners. • Captain Fred Laycock, Master, SS
Empire Roach, Ministry of Transport. • Margaret Frances Layne, Private Secretary to the Chairman, Gas Council. • Walter Ernest Leach, Production Manager, Birds Eye Foods, Ltd., Lowestoft. • Marjorie Leech. For political and public services in Warwickshire. • Joan Davida Leggett, Administrative Assistant, Planning and Presentation, Sound Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Harold Lennox, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • John Hubert Lewis, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Reginald Ernest Lewis, , Works General Manager, Packaging and Distribution Divisions, Evans Medical Supplies, Ltd., Speke, Liverpool. • Robert George Linale, Chairman, Shoreditch and Bethnal Green War Pensions Committee. • Joseph Albert Lloyd, , lately Member, Denbigh Agricultural Executive Committee. • Kenneth Grenville Lloyd, Chief Export Estimator, John Thompson Water Tube Boilers Ltd. • Gerard Masterman Loly, Lecturer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. • George Lomas, Assistant Mechanical Engineering Officer, Command Workshop, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Ashford, War Office. • Ernest George Longman, Executive Director, The Hoffman Manufacturing Co. Chelmsford. • Thomas Peter McDermott, Engineer II, Royal Ordnance Factory, Woolwich. • Blanche Adelaide McDonald, Regional Organiser, (South Wales Region, National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers. • Captain John Macdougall, Section Minewatching Service Officer, Royal Naval Minewatching Service, Nore Command. • Ronald McGlashen, Assistant Commercial Officer (Industrial Engineer), South of Scotland Electricity Board. • James Petrie McIntyre, , Divisional Officer (Grade I), Glasgow Fire Brigade. • Annie Mackenzie, Executive Officer, State Management Districts (Scotland). • Kenneth Mackinnon, Deputy Chief Constable, Argyll County Police. • Margaret Edith Mackway, Clerical Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Margaret Ferrier McRitchie, lately Grade 5 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • Dominick McSweeney, Technical Class, Grade A, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth. • William George Madge, Senior Accountant (Professional), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Kathleen Veronica McDougall Maiden. For political and public services in the East Midlands. • Henriette Stacey Marchant, Chairman, Tonb ridge Urban District Street Savings Committee. • Thomas Joseph Marjoram, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Gladys Amy Martin, Clerical Officer, Board of Trade. • Vera Dorothy Mason, Welfare Officer, Ministry of Health, seconded to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • John Alexander Matthew, lately Head of Spinning Department, Linen Industry Research Association, Northern Ireland. • Eleanora Maunder, Matron, Old People's Home, Wincanton, Somerset. • Jessamine Iris Medcalf, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. • Felice Ambrose Mercieca, lately Honorary Secretary, Malta League. • Winifred Norman Metcalfe. For political and public services in Kent and Norfolk. • George Frederick Midwood, lately Engineer II, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • William Crawford Miller, Chairman, Paisley and District Disablement Advisory Committee. • Herbert James Mills, Senior Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Newcastle, Ministry of Transport. • Ernest Soutar Milne, Senior Public Health Engineering Assistant, Ministry of Works. • Mary Iola Misa. For public services in Minehead, Somerset. • Arthur Lewis Mitchell, Agricultural Journalist. • Leslie Edgar Morgan, Horticulturist, Highways Engineering Staff, Ministry of Transport. • Olwen Eirene Morgan, , National President, Women's Section, Free Church Federal Council (England & Wales). • George Alfred Morris, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Aviation. • Robert Bruce Morrison, lately Higher Executive Officer, Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • James William Moseley. For political services. • Doris Irene Moss, Regional Organiser, London Region, Women's Voluntary Services. • John Myerscough, Chairman, Bacup Local Employment Committee, Lancashire. • Samuel Thomas Nash, Chairman, Public Health and Waterworks Committee, Ashbourne Rural District Council. • Dennis Ambrose Neill, Director, Smart & Brown (Engineers), Ltd. • Arthur Sidford Newman, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Sarah Elizabeth Newman. For political and public services in Morecambe and Lonsdale. • Walter Rufus Newton, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Newport Borough Police. • Alexander Neil Nicolson, Secretary and Treasurer, Gaelic Society of Inverness. • Samuel Alfred George Nowell, Establishment Inspector, County Courts Branch, Lord Chancellor's Office. • Nellie Nuttall. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. • Kevin Patrick O'Neill, Secretary, National Dairymen's Association. • Dorothy Maude Oultram, formerly Assistant Director, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, Malaya. • Major James Glover Parker, lately Chief Clerk, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Stafford. • Leslie Middleton Parker, Chief Engineer, Northern General Transport Co. Ltd. • William Mathie Parker. For services to the study of the works of Sir Walter Scott. • Jane Cynthia Cicely Parsons, Clerical Officer Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister. • Margaret Russell Paton, Superintendent, St. Faith's Shelter, Coventry. • Mary Ann Paton, Chief Clerk and Supervising Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Oxford. • Edna Mary Pearce, Honorary Secretary, Nottingham City Savings Committee. • Walter Kennedy Pearce, , Chairman, Southampton National Assistance Appeal Tribunal. • Edmund Pedlar, Chief Clerk, Board of Customs and Excise. • David Croll Pendrigh, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Frank John Perkins, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Power. • John Telford Petrie, Chief Civil Defence Officer, Unilever Group of Companies. • Margaret Lucy Pile. For political and public services in Montgomeryshire. • Eirene Elizabeth Pilkington, Deputy Director, Hampshire Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Charles Henry Pope, Radio Supervisor, War Office. • Joan Mary Porter, Clerical Officer Secretary, Cabinet Office. • Thomas Cyril Powell, Headmaster, Gig Mill County Primary Junior School, Stourbridge, Worcestershire. • John Alexander Price, Chief Draughtsman, Ship Department, Admiralty. • Leslie Harold Priestley, lately Superintending Engineer and Bridge Master of Tower Bridge. • Robert George Protheroe, Manager, Purfleet Terminal, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. • John Henry Archibald Pugh, Assistant Engineer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. • Herbert Radford, Dock Master, Cammell Laird & Company (Shipbuilders & Engineers), Ltd., Birkenhead. • Elizabeth Rashleigh, , Chairman, Women's Section, Southern Area, British Legion. • Edith Barbara Readymartcher, , County Organiser, Lincolnshire, Lindsey, Women's Voluntary Services. • Francis Corbett Reid, Regional Fatstock Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Nellie Bella Reid, Superintendent Radiographer, Radiotherapy Department, Royal Marsden Hospital, London. • Rosalie Sperling Richardson, County Organiser, Dorset, Women's Voluntary Services. • William Threlfall Rimmer, Chairman of Committee, No. 273 (Wallasey) Squadron, Air Training Corps. • Mary Brown Clelland Ritchie, Ward Sister, Bangour Village Hospital, West Lothian. • Observer Commander Harold Robens, Deputy Area Commandant, Western Area Headquarters, Royal Observer Corps. • Herbert Ellis Hugheston-Roberts. For political services in Wales. • Rachel Annie Roberts, Member, Cwmamman Urban District Council. • Nan Bell Robinson, Head of Catering, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Robert William Henry Robinson, Process Superintendent, Folland Aircraft, Ltd., Southampton. • Albert Edward Rolton, Engineer III, Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green. • John Irvine Ross, Senior Executive Officer, No. 7 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Quedgeley. • Albert Henry Roullier, , Group Secretary (General Workers' Section), No. 1 Region, Transport and General Workers' Union. • Alfred Henry Rowe. For political services in Morpeth. • Frank Mogg Ryall. For political and public services in Plymouth and Devonport. • Alderman Herbert William Rymill. For political and public services in Hastings and St. Leonards. • Isabel Marguerite Sambidge. For services to the British Legion in South Worcestershire. • James Wesley Sandford, . For public services in County Antrim. • Charles George Scott, lately Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Ivy Scott, Executive Officer, Foreign Office. • Henry Robert Searby, Chairman, South-East Lindsey District Committee, Lindsey/Lincolnshire Agricultural Executive Committees. • Johnston Berry Cochrane Sherman, General Manager, Workshops for the Blind, Belfast. • Douglas James Short, Technical Superintendent, Animals Division, National Institute for Medical Research. • Mary Mackenzie Skinner, County Secretary, Inverness-shire, British Red Cross Society. • Harold Albert Smale, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Arthur Smart, Organiser, Southern District, National Union of General and Municipal Workers. • Charles Alfred Smith, Assistant Factory Manager, Post Office Factory, Birmingham. • Hubert Charles Smith, Manager, Leeds Employment Exchange. • Lilian Winifred Smith, Clerical Officer Secretary, Air Ministry. • Mervyn George Smith, Divisional Manager, Mechanical Automation Division, Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., Lewisham. • Wilfrid Louis Smith, Superintendent, Staffordshire Constabulary. • William Wilson Smith, Headmaster, British Families Education Service School, Laarbruch, Germany. • Laurence James Sowden, Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Elsie Spencer, Matron, Holmefield Boys' Home, Biggleswade. • Ernest James Squibb, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • William John Sterritt, Staff Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland. • Alexander Walker Stevens, Assistant Secretary, Clyde Navigation Trust. • Andrew Strang. For political services in the West of Scotland. • William Alfred Stride, lately Secretary and General Manager, The Sailors' Home and Red Ensign Club, London. • Frank Owen Sudbury, , Chairman, Pembroke and Cardigan Agricultural Wages Committee. • Doris Annie Surman, County Borough Organiser, Plymouth, Women's Voluntary Services. • Sylvia Mabel Symonds. For political and public services in Oxford. • Winifred Ethel Tancock, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Alan Hunter Taylor, Higher Executive Officer, War Office. • Andrew Richard Taylor, Principal, Harding Memorial Primary School, Belfast. • Lucy Ellen Tennant, lately Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Robert Edmonstone Thallon, Head, Technical Information Service, Ministry of Works. • Howard Charles Thompson, , Chief Civil Defence Warden, Portsmouth. • Robert Thompson, lately Chairman, East Antrim Hospital Management Committee. • Samuel Thompson, Senior Assistant Engineer, Appleby Frodingham Steel Co. Ltd., United Steel Companies, Ltd. • William Thompson, , District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. • William Dewings Thomson. For services to the Northern Ireland milk industry. • Joseph Mordue Todd, , lately Manager, North Walbottle Colliery, National Coal Board. • Lena Taylor Toller. For political and public services in Sussex. • Stanley Harold Tombs, Director and General Manager, Globelite Industries, Ltd., Marsh Barton, Devon. • Lorenzo Smith Trevan, Deputy Naval Store Officer, HM Dockyard, Devonport. • Walter Charles Tyrell, Examiner, Tithe Redemption Commission. • John Vincent, lately Head of the Department of Cookery, Hotel School, Westminster Technical College. • Florence Vousden, lately Clerical Officer, Warren Spring Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. • Charles Vedrines Waddell, Electrical Engineer, Cowans Sheldon & Co. Ltd. Carlisle. •
Peter Edward Walker. For political services. • Mary Isabella Wandless, Headmistress, Valley Infants' School, Whitehaven, Cumberland. • Hazel Georgina Ward, Voluntary County Organiser, Pembrokeshire, National Federation of Women's Institutes. • Frederick Guy Wardle. For public services in Nottingham. • Harold Ewart Watson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Aviation. • Norah Vaudine Watson, Head Secretary-Typist, County Councils Association. • Alexander John Watt, lately Agricultural Adviser, Alford and Deeside District, Aberdeenshire. • Euphemia Mathison Watt, lately Grade 4 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • Major William Arthur Weaver. For services to the Sea Cadet Corps in Coventry and District. • Alma Florence Annie Webb, General Office Manager, Association of British Chambers of Commerce. • Ellen Harrison Webb. For public services and services to education in South Derbyshire. • James Henry Weir, Chief Officer, Northampton Fire Brigade. • Frederick Albert Welling, Chairman, Barnet Sea Cadet Corps Unit. • Elizabeth Wells, Matron, Rookwood Hospital, Llandaff, Cardiff. • Florence Westley, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Command Ordnance Depot, Donnington, War Office. • Geoffrey George White, Services Liaison Officer, Germany, War Office. • Dorothy Edith Whitney, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • Griffith Harry Whittaker, formerly Engineering Technical Class, Grade I, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • James Rogerson Wight, Electrical Manager, Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock. • Albert Willey, Member, Scunthorpe Hospital Management Committee and Sheffield No. 4 Hospital Management Committee. • Beatrice Ellen Williams. For social services in Wrexham, Denbighshire. • Lizzie Williams, Area Officer, Holyhead, National Assistance Board. • Harold Edwin Wilson, General Secretary, Institute of Housing. • Herbert Edward Wilson. For political and public services in Hendon. • Rosemary Wilson. For political services in Glasgow. • Florence Mercy Windebank, Ward Sister, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London. • Thomas Joel Wing, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Dorothy Marion Wood, Welfare Worker, Nottingham Council of Social Service. • Marion Wray, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • John Wren, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary. • Leslie Harding Barnes, Administration Officer, British Military Government, Berlin. • May Lelia Anne Berry, lately Shorthand-Typist, Her Majesty's Consulate-General, Zurich. • Leslie Walter Blackwell, lately Her Majesty's Consul, Lisbon. • John Mackenzie Cameron, British Vice-Consul, Cebu. • William Louis Cassar, Consular Clerk, Her Majesty's Embassy, Tripoli. • James Henry Castleton, Officer in charge of United Kingdom Section of Allied Travel and Interzonal Facilities Bureaux, Berlin. • Thomas Eustace Dutton, British Vice-Consul, Mérida. • Marie Katharina Eichenberger, British Pro-Consul, Berne. • Thomas Duncan Gould, , British subject resident in Belgium. • Charles Arthur Green, lately Communications Officer, Office of the United Kingdom Commissioner for Singapore and Commissioner-General for South-East Asia. • Irene Mary Howlett, Assistant Private Secretary to Her Majesty's Ambassador, Paris. • Eleanor Jack, British subject resident in the United States of America. • Mary Rae Keymer, , British subject resident in the Sudan. • William Hill Lawson, British
Consul, Algiers. • Daisy Annie Mackay, British subject resident in Argentina. • Demetrius Marc, British Vice-Consul, Samos. • Marion Audrey Marchbank, Shorthand-Typist, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. • Letitia Emma Neale, Functional Officer,
British Council, Mexico City. • Henry Leopold O'Neal, British Vice-Consul, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. • William James Smith, lately Secretary, Paris Branch of the
British Legion. • Julian Fortay Walker, Grade 8 Officer, Branch "A" of the Foreign Service, for services in the Trucial States and Muscat. • Richard Jeffery Webb, Vice-President, Foreign Colonies Hospital, Barcelona. • Cordelia Stella Georgette Edith Whitaker, British subject resident in Italy. • Reginald Rainford Witter, British subject resident in France. • Francis Alexander York, lately Her Majesty's Consul, Munich. • John Herbert Anderson, of Yandilla, State of Queensland. For services to Dairying and Local Government. • Robert James Bain, of Launceston, State of Tasmania. For services to the community. • John Francis Banks, of Blackall, State of Queensland. For services to Local Government. • Barry Barker. For services to the United Kingdom community in Bombay, India. • Paul Barnes, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya. • Charles Stewart Cassidy, an electrical engineer, in charge of the Maseru Power and Water Supply, Basutoland. •
Gaositwe Keagakwa Tibe Chiepe, Education Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Arthur Mark Cook, formerly Superintendent, Highfield Village Settlement, Southern Rhodesia. • Cecil George Audley Done, , formerly Town Clerk, Toowoomba, State of Queensland. • Kilner Valentine Dowling. For services to patriotic movements in the State of Victoria. • Evelyn Doyle, a member of the staff of the Public Services Board, Southern Rhodesia. • Claude Vivian Drake, , Chairman of the Court of General Sessions in the Wynyard Municipality, State of Tasmania. • Walter Watson Feather, , Medical Superintendent, Roma Hospitals Board, State of Queensland. • Merle Nellie Graham Finimore, , of Ipswich, State of Queensland. For social welfare services. • David Howells Fleay, a Zoologist, of West Burleigh, State of Queensland. • Edna May Gill. For services to the United Kingdom community in Colombo, Ceylon. • Kate Sophie Healy, President, Catholic Women's League, State of South Australia. • Joyce May Hickes, Principal of the Federation School for the Deaf at Penang, Federation of Malaya. • Rosalie Susan Hipwell, of Mirboo North, State of Victoria. For social welfare services. • Herbert Edwin Holt. For services to local Government in the Korong Shire, State of Victoria. • Aaron Jacha, President of the African Farmers' Union, Southern Rhodesia. • Raymond Charles Jennings, President of the Bibbenluke Shire Council, State of New South Wales. •
Bertha May Jorgensen, Leader of the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, State of Victoria. •
Doreen Moira Langley, Principal, Women's College, University of Sydney, State of New South Wales. • Frank Lebentlele, Headmaster of the Basutoland High School. • William Jamieson Littlejohn, formerly an Emergency Administrative Officer, Federation of Malaya. • Eva Muriel Lucas. For services to the Blind in the State of Western Australia. • Achim Mathule, Assistant Agricultural and Livestock Officer, Basutoland. • Frederick Frazer Mills. For services to Local Government in Clermont, State of Queensland. • Elaine Moran. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in the State of Victoria. • Leslie Moseley, State Secretary, Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Fathers' Association of the State of South Australia. • Dorothy Lilian Munn, Honorary Secretary of Coronation Cottages for Old People, Southern Rhodesia. • Septimus Scuffan Sanderson. For honorary services in connection with the Dogs' Rescue Home, State of South Australia. • Norman Lewis Sharpe, Manager of the Peat and Milson Islands Mental Hospital, State of New South Wales. • Betty Stubbs, Education Officer, Swaziland. • Rivers Fendall Thompson, Judicial Commissioner, Basutoland. • Kathleen Alice Tofft, of Campbell Town, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services. • Maurice Philip Charles Went, a Trade Unionist, of Southern Rhodesia. • Elsie Jane Whicker, Superintendent, Bush Nursing Association, State of New South Wales. • Ethel Mary White. For services to the United Kingdom community in Pakistan. • Marguerite Adam, Confidential Clerk, to the Governor, Mauritius. • Alhaji Ahmadu, Galadiman Daura, District Head, Mai'aduwa District, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Nathaniel Akindele Akingbehin, Principal Meteorological Officer, Federation of Nigeria. • Wilberforce Edward Alagoa, Education Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Shanitilal Ravishanker Anantani, Assistant Government Passages Agent, Tanganyika. • Anthony Joseph Proto Antao. For services to social welfare in Nyasaland. • Leonard Edward Arnold, Pathologist, Police Department, Jamaica. • Dolarrai Hiralal Avashia, Chief Clerk, Supreme Court, Civil Side, Nairobi, Kenya. • Ali Bahadur, Assistant Superintendent, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. • Maggie Estelle Bartlett, Confidential Records Officer, Chief Secretary's Office, Barbados. • Hugh Llewellyn Bennett, Senior Laboratory Technician, Medical Department, British Honduras. • Stefan Bergander, Executive Engineer, Grade I, Ministry of Works and Transport, Western Region, Nigeria. • Tahempton Jehangirji Bhumgara. For public services in Zanzibar. • Eugene Bonello. For services to sport in Malta. • John Staveley Boumphrey, Administrative Assistant, Grade IV, General Manager's Office, East African Railways and Harbours. • Beryl Katherine Elizabeth Bransgrove. For public services in Tanganyika. • Edgar Samuel Bridgewater. For services to music in St. Kitts. • Elizabeth Grace Browning, Woman Education Officer, Gambia. • Lystra Josephine Charles. For public services in Trinidad. • Gwendoline Vera Clark. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria. • Charles Jonathan Clarke, Deputy Registering Officer, Gambia. • William Stewart Clayton, Ranch Manager, Tanganyika Agricultural Corporation, Kongwa. • Dionysius Silvestinus Cole. For public services in the Northern Region, Nigeria. • Louise Bennett Coverlet. For services to dramatic art in Jamaica. • Kate Elizabeth Crust. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. • Olive Elizabeth Curties, Personal Secretary, Grade II, Federation of Nigeria. • Oba Timothy Talabi Dada, The Olotta of Otta, Western Region, Nigeria. • Leopoldo Cipriano da Gama, Law Clerk, Office of Attorney-General, Uganda. • Alhaji Danwawu. For public services in the Northern Region, Nigeria. • Marion Emily Darke, Woman Education Officer, Somaliland Protectorate. • Hilary da Silva. For public services in St. Vincent. • Sydney Joseph Dedier, Head Teacher, Santa Cruz Primary Roman Catholic School, Trinidad. • William Michael Dickinson, Administrative Officer, Somaliland Protectorate. • William Alexander Doust, Senior Laboratory Technologist, Kenya. • William John Dupigny, Registrar of Trade Unions, Sierra Leone. • Francis Harvey Edmondson. For public services in Bermuda. • Matthew Ojeme Elebesunu, Assistant Controller (Staff), Posts and Telegraphs Division, Ministry of Communications, Federation of Nigeria. • Aret Okon Etim, Senior Nursing Sister, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Nellie Fagan. For public services in the New Hebrides. • Jack Fairhurst, District Commissioner, Luwingu, Northern Rhodesia. • Catherine Farrell, lately Senior Health Sister, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Ruby Irene Franker, Librarian, Public Free Library, British Guiana. • Mallam Umaru Gana, Rural Health Superintendent, Malaria Unit, Endemic Diseases Division of Ministry of Health, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Ayoub Gopaul, Area Superintendent, Education Department, Mauritius. • Carmel Grech, Higher Clerical Officer, Malta. • Peter Greening, Agricultural Officer, Northern Rhodesia. • Wilfred Haresign, Works Manager, Sierra Leone Railway. • George Ratcliffe Hemming. For public services in Fiji. • William Alfred Hoare, Government Printer, British Honduras. • Joseph Paul Hopkins, Agricultural Superintendent, Sierra Leone. • Jacob Onaba Kamodan Inyoin, District Officer, Uganda. • Samuel Clifford Jacobs. For public services in Grenada. • Frank Read James, Inspecting Engineer, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • William Frederick Cecil Jenner, Government Printer, Hong Kong. • Mary Johnson. For services to Education in Nyasaland. • Chief Kadwere, Head of Native Authority in the Blantyre District, Nyasaland. • John Ogunyale Kalejaiye, Workshop Supervisor, Nigerian Railway Corporation. • Eileen Ethel Sylvester King, Matron, Aden. • Brian Edmond Redshaw Kirwan, Community Development Officer, Uganda. • Moipei Ole Kodonyo, President, Kajiado African Court, Kenya. • Stephen Kodovaru. For public services in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • Gertrude Shuk-Luen Kwok. For public services in Hong Kong. • Josiah Lawale Lasebikan, Office Assistant (Chief Clerk), Federation of Nigeria. • Lau Han Choon. For services to sport in Sarawak. • Leonard Gregory Laurent, Superintendent of Mails, British Guiana. • Jean Le Mesurier Layers. For services to education in Kenya. • Lee En Min, Assistant District Surveyor, Lands and Surveys Department, North Borneo. • Ambrose Lim. For public services in North Borneo. • Joseph Felix Guy Lionnet, Senior Technical Officer, Seychelles. • The Reverend Frank Hollis Longley, Head of the Badagry/Abeokuta Circuit of the Methodist Mission, Western Region, Nigeria. • Keki Shavakshaw Madon, Assistant Secretary and Clerk to the Legislative Council, Zanzibar. • Muriel Millicent Manley, . For public services in Jamaica. • Ernest Kofele Martin. For public services in the Southern Cameroons. • William Kimutai Martin, Secretary/Treasurer of the Kipsigis African District Council, Kenya. • Charles Francis Mas Sally. For public services in Sierra Leone. • Crichton Slight Mitchell, Principal Agricultural Supervisor, Northern Rhodesia. • Ronald George Morgan. For public services in Nyasaland. • Louis Septaime Mowbray, Curator of Bermuda Government Aquarium, Museum and Zoo. • Sheikh Mohamed Sirad Sheikh Musa, , Chief Kadi, Somaliland Protectorate. • Wallace Newton, Senior Examiner of Accounts, St. Lucia. • Panos Basil Nicholas. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Michael Bazze Nsimbi, Education Officer, Uganda. • David Edward William O'Brien, Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong. • Moses Anizoba Odita, Higher Executive Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Solomon Ayodabo Ogunnaike, Baggage Officer, Ministry of Works, Federation of Nigeria. • Benjamin Olatunji Oguntimein, Labour Relations Officer, Ministry of Works and Transport, Western Region, Nigeria. • Peter Nwaokonkwo Okoye, Inspector of Works, Public Works Department, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Chief Michael Adeosun Oso Olurin, , President, Grade "B" Customary Court, Ilaro, Western Region, Nigeria. • Dunstan Alfred Omari, Administrative Officer Class III, Tanganyika. • Josephine Elizabeth Osborne. For public services in Dominica. • Lawrence Willey Pepple, Senior Produce Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Cyril Oyebola Phillips, Principal Agricultural Superintendent, Western Region, Nigeria. • The Reverend Sister Emma Rainford. For services to education and social work in British Guiana. • Frederick Salt, Superintendent, Mental Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak. • Peter Paul Scicluna. For public services in Malta. • Becharlal Dwarkadas Shah, Education Officer, Tanganyika. • Sham Pak-Ying, Station Officer, Fire Brigade, Hong Kong. • Shin Tak-Hing. For social services in Hong Kong. • Deodatt Singh. For services to the Boy Scout movement in Fiji. • Gurdial Singh, lately Senior Clerical Officer, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. • Florence Louise Skinner, Assistant Office Superintendent, East Africa High Commission. • Patricia Smith. For social services in Gibraltar. • Joseph Stravens, Government Printer, Seychelles. • Tafuna, Senior Chief of the Lungu Tribe, Northern Rhodesia. • Beatrice Mary Thoms. For services to the Girl Guide movement in Nyasaland. • Mubarak Assahm al Toselli, Junior Assistant Adviser, Western Aden Protectorate. • Leslie William Herbert Tuffill, Chief Office Supervisor, Secretariat, Aden. • The Reverend Setareki Akeai Tuilovoni, Director of the Young Peoples' Department of the Methodist Mission, Fiji. • Shambushanker Jathashanker Vyas. For public services in Kenya. • Yekoniya Bifuwo Walukamba, Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry, Busoga African Local Government, Uganda. • Wilma Nora Wintle, Senior Sister Tutor, Tanganyika. • Edward Hammond Williams, . For public services in Uganda. • Wong Wai-Tsoi, Divisional Officer, Fire Brigade, Hong Kong. • Joyce Elizabeth Woodstock, Assistant Controller, Grade I, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Jamaica.
Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) ;Home Civil Service • Andrew Livingstone Borthwick, Assistant Accountant, Office of the Accountant of Court, Scotland. (Edinburgh). • Phyllis Valerie Carr, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. (St. Annes on Sea). • Bernard Rose Cody, lately Chief Executive Officer, National Savings Committee. (Thorpe Bay). • Frank Percival John Dockrill, School Principal and Chief Regional Training Officer, Home Counties Region, General Post Office. (Bletchley). • Wilfred Ernest Dockrill, Chief Executive Officer, Air Ministry. (Rustington). • Walter Elrick, Actuary, Government Actuary's Department. (New Barnet). • Charles Henry Fone, , Grade 1A Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. (South Croydon). • William Edward Seymour Harvey, lately Principal Executive Officer, Home Office. (Guildford). • Edwin Noel Horne, , Chief Executive Officer, Colonial Office. (Brighton). • Robert Kay, , Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour. (Cults, Aberdeenshire). • Thomas Lacey, Principal, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. (Burgess Hill). • James William Lambie, Chief Executive Officer, Civil Service Commission. (Welwyn Garden City). • Thomas McKail, Senior Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. (London W.2). • James McMullan, Commissioner of Valuation, Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland. (Belfast). • Frank William Mugridge, , Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Aviation. (West Ewell). • Edward John Palmer, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade. (Seaford). • Eric Wigley Pratt, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Admiralty. (Woking). • Thomas Henry Pritchard, Deputy Director of Contracts, Ministry of Works. (Long Ditton). • Leonard Nelson Reffell, Principal, War Office. (Enfield). • Leslie Charles Ridley, , Chief Executive Officer, Lord Chancellor's Office. (Barnet). • Horace Edward Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. (Cheam). • William Albert Rolph, Principal, General Register Office. (Sutton). • Reginald John Telling, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. (Banstead). • Leonard Albert Warr, Principal, Board of Inland Revenue. (Wallington). • Frank Reginald Williams, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Sutton). ;Australian States and Southern Rhodesia • Arthur Valentine Curwen Fortescue Hubbard, Accountant, Central Mechanical Equipment Department, Southern Rhodesia. • Henry Norman Jones, Secretary, Department of Labour and Industry, State of Victoria. • Frederick John McNally, Chairman, Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board, State of South Australia. ;Overseas Civil Service • Philip Ashby Allison, lately Conservator of Forests, Western Region, Nigeria. • Bernard Ian Bickford, Secretary, Medical and Health Department, Hong Kong. • Willy Bourdet, Postmaster-General, Mauritius. • Augustus Elendu Eronini, Clerk to the Eastern Legislature, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Aloysius Emil Ibreck, Scholarships Secretary, Education Department, Uganda. • Abdul Karim, Assistant Secretary, Scale A, Sierra Leone. • Stanley Charles Sinclair, Principal Immigration Officer, Tanganyika. • William Arthur Spradbrow, Government Printer, North Borneo. • James Arnold Sweeney, , lately Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kenya. • Evan Thomson Wood, Treasurer, Turks and Caicos Islands.
British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Military Division :;Royal Navy • Chief Petty Officer Shaibu Ajayi Ajinomo, Royal Nigerian Navy. • Master-at-Arms Eric Albert Henry Bentley, P/MX.768062. • Chief Petty Officer Ronald William Brotherton, C/JX.158830. • Chief Petty Officer Steward Carmelo Buhagiar, E/LX.21774. • Quartermaster Sergeant Bernard Walter Bullimore, Ch.X.2663, Royal Marines. • Leading Wren Sheila June Valerie Craven, 111227, Women's Royal Naval Service. • Chief Radio Communication Supervisor Kenneth George Dence, P/JX.138305. • Chief Engineering Mechanic Wilfred Harold Dingley, P/KX.87110. • Chief Communication Yeoman Harold Downer, Q.991308, Royal Naval Reserve. • Chief Petty Officer Harry Gilbert Dudley, P/JX.126225. • Chief Shipwright Artificer Eric Geoffrey Ethell, C/MX.53802. • Chief Electrical Artificer (Air) James Ewart, L/FX.78689. • Chief Engineering Mechanic Ronald Francis Francis, C/KX.93235. • Chief Electrician (Air) Michael Edward Hall, L/FX.82634. • Chief Engine Room Artificer Percy Edward Hills, C/MX.61635. • Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Kenneth Albert Wheeler Bobbins, D/MX.667789. • Chief Electrical Artificer Norman Henry Thomas Hogg, D/MX.50900. • Chief Engineering Mechanic William Gordon Hopper, C/KX.84034. • Chief Petty Officer Writer Leonard Stuart Hopping, D/MX.54184. • Chief Petty Officer Steward Kenneth Edgar James Howard, P/LX.21486. • Chief Aircraft Artificer Donald Hullah, L/FX.78299. • Colour Sergeant James Anthony Kelly, RMV200321, Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve. • Chief Petty Officer Arthur Lacey, C/JX.153445. • Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Frederick Montague Lenton, P/M.38913. • Chief Air Fitter William Rennie McGibbon, L/FX790020. • Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Stanley Frederick Mitchell, P/MX.51657. • Quartermaster Sergeant James Albert Richardson, Ch.X.2635, Royal Marines. • Chief Petty Officer John Walter Sharpe, DSM, P/JX.129930. • Chief Petty Officer Everard William Greenfield Tyson, D/JX.139709. • Yvonne Wallington, Head VAD Nursing Member. :;Army • S/5725875 Staff-Sergeant Harry George Anley, Royal Army Service Corps. • 6350105 Staff-Sergeant William Bass, Royal Pioneer Corps. • T/71815 Staff-Sergeant John Garth Beck, Royal Army Service Corps. • 22535375 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) John Thorold Bentley, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • T/149616 Staff-Sergeant Stephen Patrick Bergin, Royal Army Service Corps. • 22982984 Colour-Sergeant Eric Frank Bowles, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army. • 2734335 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Hugh Charles William Brawn, Welsh Guards. • 22570073 Sergeant William Harrison Burnham, Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army. • S/21016519 Corporal Charles Stuart Butcher, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • NA/49872 Company Sergeant-Major Leke Chinjina, The Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment. • 4389672 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Bernard David Colclough, Corps of Royal Engineers. • W/105561 Sergeant (acting) Mary Miller Deans, Women's Royal Army Corps. • 22542282 Sergeant Derrick Norman Allan Dienn, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 22211341 Staff-Sergeant William Thomas George Dorman, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • 949790 Sergeant William Francis Joseph Duffy, Royal Regiment of Artillery; attached Army Air Corps. • 21016932 Sergeant Alexander Gibson Duncan, Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army. • 157422 Sergeant William Arthur Elston, Army Catering Corps. • 6978133 Sergeant Henry Erskine, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. • W/374696 Sergeant (acting) Norah Leece Faragher, Women's Royal Army Corps. • 2610603 Sergeant Ernest William Fisher, Grenadier Guards. • 22235549 Staff-Sergeant John Edward Eraser, Corps of Royal Engineers. • S/888786 Staff-Sergeant William Harold Gardiner, Royal Army Service Corps. • 380678 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Christopher Charles Glynn, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 21139663 Sergeant (acting) Gyanbahadur Limbu, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. • 14498343 Staff-Sergeant Frederick John Hammett, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 22803093 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Cyril Frederick Holland, The Northamptonshire Regiment. • 14446027 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Ronald Hornby, Royal Corps of Signals. • 11420506 Staff-Sergeant Robert James Howard, Corps of Royal Engineers. • T/4182651 Staff-Sergeant Arthur William Hurst, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • 14081787 Staff-Sergeant Leonard Victor William Ings, Royal Corps of Signals. • 22276396 Sergeant Sydney Norman Jackson, Corps of Royal Military Police. • 22824173 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Arnold Johnson, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • CAR/1060 Regimental Sergeant-Major Elija Kilonzo Kinhowe, Fifth Battalion The King's African Rifles. • 22241796 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant Alexander Lamont, The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. • T/19036810 Sergeant Robert Anthony Marshall, Royal Army Service Corps. • 22548148 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Sergeant) John Martin, The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment). • 22781583 Colour-Sergeant George Alexander McBratney, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's), Territorial Army. • S/22222240 Sergeant Norman McCarthy, Royal Army Service Corps. • 7691875 Sergeant John Sibbald McGaw, Corps of Royal Military Police. • 884212 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Herbert Lorrimore Mitchell, Army Catering Corps. • T/21016472 Sergeant Maurice Anthony Murphy, Royal Army Service Corps. • 14461821 Sergeant David William Rosebrook Ryer, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • SLA/36370 Regimental Sergeant-Major Abu Brima Seisay, The Sierra Leone Regiment. • S/19042608 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Lawrence Frederick Stephens, Royal Army Service Corps. • 2717967 Colour-Sergeant Keith Melhado Thomas, Irish Guards. • 2549239 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Kenneth Ernest Tiley, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • 14469612 Sergeant Wilfred Arthur Alfred Walker, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • T/22519387 Sergeant William Williams, Royal Army Service Corps. • 21017314 Staff-Sergeant (Provisional Warrant Officer Class II) Thomas Windas, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. • 22996190 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Ronald George Wright, The Parachute Regiment; attached Army Air Corps. • W/366184 Sergeant (acting) Eleanor Mary Young, Women's Royal Army Corps. :;Royal Air Force • 1294834 Flight Sergeant Noel Ball. • 527636 Flight Sergeant John Connell. • 566242 Flight Sergeant (now Warrant Officer) George Stanley Day. • 520997 Flight Sergeant John Dunnington. • 1478529 Flight Sergeant John Albert Farey. • 578621 Flight Sergeant (now Pilot Officer) Ray Gardner. • 432593 Flight Sergeant Elizabeth Hunter, Women's Royal Air Force. • 570402 Flight Sergeant Ronald Cecil Kidd. • 566751 Flight Sergeant Thomas Porter. • 563915 Flight Sergeant (now Warrant Officer) Reginald James Pudney. • 562281 Flight Sergeant Victor Maynard Reed. • 1161904 Flight Sergeant Harry Bertie Saunders. • 981500 Flight Sergeant William Alfred Schofield. • 530092 Flight Sergeant Arthur Charles Wright. • 577225 Chief Technician Thomas James Evenden. • 815037 Chief Technician Harry Fogg. • 636926 Chief Technician Thomas Hetherington. • 366241 Chief Technician Reginald Henry Logan. • 537835 Chief Technician Roy Dixon Murray. • 623652 Chief Technician William John Nicholson. • 535277 Chief Technician Walter Endley Williams. • 902624 Acting Flight Sergeant Guy Bertram Bennett. • 938867 Acting Flight Sergeant Stanley Joseph Bevan, Royal Air Force Regiment. • 544574 Acting Flight Sergeant Reginald Herbert Cummings. • 2078928 Acting Flight Sergeant Lily Howard, Women's Royal Air Force. • 1352411 Acting Flight Sergeant Terence McCall. • 435995 Acting Flight Sergeant Jean Elizabeth Macfarlane, Women's Royal Air Force. • 1219388 Sergeant Henry Ashley. • 585790 Sergeant Geoffery Stuart Batterbee. • 3503387 Sergeant Campbell Johnson Bryan. • 2024113 Sergeant Evelyn Hilda Eunice Chiverton, Women's Royal Air Force. • 584967 Sergeant Brian Arthur Clayton. • 998434 Sergeant Stanley Gallagher. • 584956 Sergeant Roy Harrington. • 3512702 Sergeant Kenneth Clifford Albert Hart. • 541885 Sergeant William John Hewitt. • 571335 Sergeant Clarence Roland Marsh. • 412361 Sergeant Alfred Geoffrey Niven. • 538382 Sergeant Robert Watson. • 4001068 Senior Technician Ronald Leslie Spidey. • 541046 Senior Technician Leonard George Stanley. • 4013956 Acting Sergeant Clifford Furness Clarke. • 4186258 Corporal Patrick Alan Coley. • 2784869 Corporal Edward McEwan. • 4020668 Corporal Ronald Henry George Williams. ;Civil Division ;United Kingdom • Frederick Charles Ackerman, Foreman Propeller Patternmaker, J. Stone & Company (Charlton) Ltd. (London SE.6). • David Kelso Algie, Principal Overlooker, Royal Ordnance Factory, Bishopton, Renfrewshire. (Paisley). • Irene Allison, , Centre Organiser, Pocklington Rural District, Women's Voluntary Service. • Thomas Carbury Amos, Station Officer, HM Coastguard, Nell's Point, Barry Island, Glamorganshire. • John Goodwin Anderson, Assistant Foreman Electrician, Vickers Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) Ltd. (Barrow-in-Furness). • Charles George Andrews, Senior Assistant (Scientific), National Chemical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. (Hanworth). • Sidney Arthur Atterton, Deputy Office Keeper, Grade III, Ministry of Transport. (London SE.21). • John Edward Aucott, Non-Technical Grade III, Armament Research and Development Establishment, War Office. (London SE.2). • Jack Austin, Distribution Foreman, Hither Green Depot, South Eastern Gas Board. (London SE.15). • Alfred Charles Victor Baker, Foreman of Model Shop, EMI Electronics Ltd. (Greenford). • George Baker, Foreman Corebuilder, Associated Electrical Industries (Rugby) Ltd., Rugby. • Ernest John Victor Barnes, Head Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Kendal. • George Edward Barnes, Detective Sub-Inspector, War Department Constabulary, Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester. • Samuel Barnes, Special Constable, City of Glasgow Police. • John Thomas Baxter, Agricultural Worker, Irnham Estates, Grantham. • George Henry Betts, Driver, Mechanical Transport, Royal Air Force, Hawkinge. (Folkestone). • Charles Frederick Biddiscombe, Ship's Butcher, SS
Andes, Royal Mail Lines Ltd. (Southampton). • Thomas Blaney, Senior Rescue Instructor, Civil Defence Corps, Stirling Burgh Division. (Stirling). • Phyllis Bontoft, Head Telephonist, HM Embassy, Paris. • Olive Maud Botting, Chief Supervisor, Royal Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. (London SE.13). • Elizabeth M. Boyd, Collector, Street Savings Group, Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. • Robert Wallis Bray, Assistant Divisional Officer, Portsmouth Fire Brigade. (Southsea). • John Brennan, Overseer, Head Post Office, Harrogate. • Lieutenant-Commander Albert Francis Barclay Bridges (Retd), Civil Defence Officer, Wokingham Borough. • William George Charles Brown, Chief Inspector, St. Helier Police Force, Jersey. (St. Lawrence, Jersey). • Philip Charles Norman Browne, Deputy County Commandant, Northumberland Special Constabulary. (Ponteland). • Kathleen Mary Brushwood. For welfare services to the Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for West Riding of Yorkshire. (Leeds). • Wilfrid Cheadle, Leading Stoker, Chadderton Power Station, Central Electricity Generating Board. (Oldham). • Arthur Samuel Clark, Chief Instructor, No. 155 (Maidenhead) Squadron, Air Training Corps. (Langley). • Alexander Whitla Colville, Head Instructor, Ulster Special Constabulary. (Belfast). • Alexandras Constantinides, Foreman of Trades, Class I, Air Ministry, Akrotiri, Cyprus. • Reginald Cooke, Volunteer-in-Charge, Coast Life Saving Corps, Pett Level, near Hastings. • John James Coffins, Skilled Labourer, HM Dockyard, Sheerness. • George Frederick Coppock, Principal Foreman of Stores, Royal Air Force, Heywood. • Arthur James Henry Copsey, Transport Officer, British Council. (London N.7). • Lilian May Cornwall, Senior Chargehand, Electronics Group, Plessey Co. Ltd. (Chadwell Heath). • Charles Crescimanno, Local Electrical Fitter Supervisor, Admiralty, Malta. • William Croughan, Chef, SS
Reina Del Mar, Pacific Steam Navigation Company. (Liverpool). • Robert Cumming, Sub-Postmaster, Dairy, Castle Douglas. • James Cuthbert, Head Foreman Fitter, Austin & Pickersgill Ltd., Sunderland. • Arthur Dalton, Stores Superintendent, British Families Education Service, War Office, Germany. • Sidney Gordon Daly, lately Foreman, T. J. Smith & Nephew, Ltd., Hull. • Simon Diamond, Electrician, Ministry of Works. (London SW.12). • William Henry Dixon, Shop Foreman Fitter, T. R. Dowson & Co. Ltd., South Shields. • Gary Charles Dorey, Foreman, Tom Parker (Fareham) Ltd., Charity Farm, Fareham. (Droxford). • Francis Duggan, Glazier, The Mond Nickel Co. Ltd. (Swansea). • Arthur Edgar Dyer, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, Cheltenham College Combined Cadet Force. • Arthur William Eames, Chief Inspector, Travelling Post Office, General Post Office. (Ilford). • Jesse Thomas Elliott, Airport Foreman III, Stansted Airport, Ministry of Aviation. (Takeley, Essex). • William Patrick Elms, , lately Fitter Airframe, RAF Technical College, Henlow. (Hitchin). • Ernest George Findlater, Chief Officer, Class II, Polmont Borstal Institution, Scottish Home Department. (Brightens, near Falkirk). • Eleanor Mary Ruth Fisher, Senior Scientific Assistant, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. (Wantage). • Elizabeth Fry, lately Weaver, Smyth's Weaving Co. Ltd., Banbridge. (County Down). • Mary Christina Ann Gale, Collector, Street Savings Group, Eastleigh, Hampshire. • Miriam Eliza Gilmore, Supervisor, Windsor Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. • James Murray Gilmour, Sergeant-Major Instructor (Cumnock) Cadet Co. Royal Scots Fusiliers. (Cumnock). • Robert William Goddard, Verger, St. Oswald's Garrison Church, War Office, Catterick. • John William Powell Goodhall, Senior Paperkeeper, Cabinet Office. (London N.7). • Alice Goodier, Voluntary Canteen Worker, Manchester "Trafalgar" Unit, Sea Cadet Corps. • Charles William Gray, Chief Viewer (Textile), Admiralty Storage Depot, Risley. (Warrington). • Charles Alfred Green, Labourer, Eastern Electricity Board. (London N.9). • Joseph Bradford Grieves, Checkweighman, Dudley Colliery, National Coal Board. (Dudley). • Allan Cecil Griffin, Chief Warder, HM Tower of London. (London EC.3). • May Louise Ashdown Grindrod. For services to the Women's Voluntary Service and Other social work in Machynlleth District, Montgomeryshire. • Ernest James Stuart Hall, Head Gardener, Northern Region, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. • Bessie Hepworth Hamilton, Collector, Fleming Square Street Savings Group, Maryport. • Henry Hammond, , Collector, Hall Lane Savings Group, Chingford, London. • Frances Harrison. For charitable services in Camberley and Frimley. • Peter Hastie, Mechanisation Team Leader, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Hill of Beath, Fife). • Willie Hawksworth, Power Loader Operator, Rockingham Colliery, National Coal Board. (Barnsley). • Frederick Herapath, Foreman Steeplejack, M. Macdonald & Company (Steeplejacks) Ltd., Nottingham. • Leonard E. Higgs, Signals Officer, Headquarters Section, Civil Defence Corps, St. Pancras. (London NW.1). • Alistair Hill, Garage Foreman, HM Stationery Office. (Sidcup). • Stella MacCaig Holloway, Communications Officer, Grade IV, Birdlip Radio Station, Ministry of Aviation. (Shurdington). • Margaret Hannah Hughes, Collector, Park Avenue Street Savings Group, Flint, North Wales. • Beatrice Gladys Hyde, Chief Supervisor, Pinner Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. • Harry Hyde, Manager, Printing Department, E. Illingworth & Co. Ltd., Shipley. • Charles Taylor Imrie, Assistant Divisional Officer, South-Eastern Area Fire Brigade, Scotland. (Edinburgh). • Anthony John Isaacson, Industrial Worker, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Soham, Cambridgeshire). • Reginald Arthur Jerrard, Draughtsman, Grade III, Ordnance Survey Department, Southampton. • George Henry Johnson, Shearsman, The Steel Company of Wales Ltd. (Port Talbot). • Trevor Nelson Jones, Post Warden, Newport Civil Defence Corps. • George Kennedy, Control Engineer, Dalmarnock Generating Station, South of Scotland Electricity Board. (Rutherglen). • Henry Kisby, Deputy Overman, Wearmouth Colliery, National Coal Board. (Sunderland). • Hilda Knowles, Collector, Vapron Road Street Savings Group, Plymouth. • John William Knowles, Poultry Assistant, Land Settlement Association Ltd. (Great Abington, Cambridgeshire). • Walter Edwin Knowles, Technician IIA, Telephone Manager's Office, Gloucester. • John Lacey, Educational and Vocational Training Instructor, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham. (Strood). • Frederick Roy Languth, Chief Observer, Post 1/C, No. 1 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (Farnborough). • Charles Stewart Touzeau Lavers, Chief Observer, Post 5/C, No. 5 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (St Albans). • Edward David Francis Lawrence, Research and Development Craftsman Special, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. (Camberley). • David John Lewis, , Salvage and Economy Officer, Cwmgwrach Colliery, National Coal Board. (Aberdare). • Frederick Charles Love, Foreman, Central Ammunition Depot, War Office. (Carlisle). • Sidney Percy Lovell, Postman, Higher Grade, Western District, General Post Office. (London W.7). • Harry Lugg, Chargehand, Royal Arsenal Estate, War Office. (London SE.2). • James McDonald, Foreman Boilermaker, Drypool Engineering & Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Hull. • James W. Macdonald, Superintendent of Fishmarket Porters, Aberdeen. • John Macdonald, Boatswain, Fishery Cruiser Fleet, Scottish Home Department. (Edinburgh). • Hector MacIntyre, Quartermaster, Merchant Navy General Service. (South Uist). • Mary Maguire, Nursing Auxiliary, Queen's Hospital, Croydon. • Agnes McCullough Mawhinney, Manager, Crown Hotel, Wetheral, State Management District. • Arthur Mead, Check Measurer, Kirkby Colliery, National Coal Board. (Kirkby-in-Ashfield). • George Edwin Morse, Collector, Works and Staff Savings Groups, Doncaster Wagon Co. Ltd. (Doncaster). • Richard Vyvyan Nelms, Pitman, Abercynon Colliery, National Coal Board. (Mountain Ash). • Charles Leslie Oakes, Assistant Technical Officer (Engineer), Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (Redcar). • William Odie, Boatswain, Merchant Navy General Service. (Aberdeen). • Robert Hugh Owen, , High Tension Linesman, Caernarvon District, Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board. (Llanberis). • Arthur Charles Pagden, Sectional Supplies Superintendent, General Post Office. (London N.7). • Leonard Arthur Palmer, Sergeant (Second Class, CID), Metropolitan Police. (Banstead). • Alfred Parkins, Chef, Admiralty (London) Luncheon Club. (Harrow). • Muljibhai Khushalbhai Patel, Clerk Grade I, Command Pay Office, War Office, Kenya. • Leonard Robert Charles Percival, Foreman (Technical Grade II), Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Ministry of Aviation, Westcott. (Aylesbury). • Morris Perkins, Technical Officer, Galashiels, General Post Office. • Frederick Ross Pettyfer, Technical Officer, Telephone Manager's Office, Bournemouth. • Agnes Pittendreigh, Member of the Women's Voluntary Service, Aberdeen City. • Arthur Richard Powell, Station Master, Charing Cross, London Transport Executive. (Erith). • Florence Ethel Priestley, Centre Organiser, Benfleet Urban District, Women's Voluntary Service. (South Benfleet). • Sidney John Pusey, Technician I, Kensington Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. (London W.14). • Alfred George Raby, Non-Technical Class Grade III, Explosives Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Aviation, Waltham Abbey. • William Robert Ramsay, Mechanic Examiner, RN Aircraft Workshops, Admiralty, Perth. (Kelty). • William Alfred Reeves, Substation Attendant, East Midlands Electricity Board. (Boston). • Leonard Richmond, Ironworker, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation, Farnborough. • Peter Robinson, Principal Instructor, HM Prison, Manchester. • Frank Rodgers, Chief Medical Room Attendant, Treeton Colliery, National Coal Board. (Treeton). • Bernard Corian Mitchell Rogers, Skilled Labourer (Leading Slinger), HM Dockyard, Devonport. (Plymouth). • George Thomas Rowe, Chargeman, J. I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd., Southampton. • Frank Ryan, Chief Officer, Class II, HM Prison, Wakefield. • James Screeton, Foreman Painter and Sealer, Amos & Smith Ltd., Hull. • Harold Henry Sellwood, Building Supervisor, Reading Group of Hospitals. • Joan Shacklock, Centre Organiser, Alfreton Urban District, Women's Voluntary Service. • James Sighe, Shed Foreman, Manchester Ship Canal Company. (Salford). • Adelaide Patricia Smith, Senior Chief Supervisor, Birmingham Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. • Archibald Tulloch Smith, Donkeyman Greaser, SS
Egidia, Anchor Line Ltd. (Glasgow). • Percy Joshua Smith, District Fittings Foreman, Harlow, Eastern Gas Board. (Harlow). • Hannah Smullian, Voluntary Welfare Worker, RAF Rehabilitation Unit, Headley Court. (London W.8). • Gilbert Alexander Stewardson, Chargehand Jointer (E.H.T.), North Western Electricity Board. (Manchester). • Alexander Strachan, lately Janitor, Girls' High School, Aberdeen. • Amy Elizabeth Street, Senior Overlooker, Royal Ordnance Factory, Glascoed, Usk, Monmouthshire. (Blackwood). • George Thomas Arthur Sturgis, Station Officer, Leicestershire and Rutland Fire Brigade. (Market Harborough). • Charlotte Scarth Summerscales, Sub-Postmistress, St. Michaels T.S.O., Wakefield. • James Belfridge Taylor, Turner Cammell Laird & Co. (Shipbuilders & Engineers) Ltd., Birkenhead. • William Thorley, Foreman of Trades, Royal Air Force, Shawbury. (Market Drayton). • John Jennett Tidd, lately Fatstock Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Goring-by-Sea). • George Trantham, General Foreman, AEI-Hotpoint Ltd. (Llandudno Junction). • Jack Troth, Member, Civil Defence Corps, Coventry. • Charles Harry Turner, Postman, Northern District Office, General Post Office. (London N.1). • John Elliott Tweddell, Chargeman, A. Reyrolle & Co. Ltd. (Hebburn). • Stanley Urch, Foreman Cooper, Colthurst & Harding Ltd. (Bristol). • Walter Vinter, Inspector, Lincolnshire Special Constabulary. (Wigtoft). • Thomas Wallace, Assistant Superintendent, Head Post Office, Liverpool. (Birkenhead). • Charles Robert Weaver, lately Senior Artificer, Admiralty Experiment Works, Haslar. (Gosport). • Violet Ann Wells, Collector, Crown Street Savings Group, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire. • Dorothy Wescott, County Clothing Officer, Berkshire, Women's Voluntary Service. (Wokingham). • Harold Walter Weston, Station Officer, Wiltshire Fire Brigade. (Calne). • William John Whitby, Foreman, Rotax Ltd. (Greenford). • Arthur Edward Stanley White, Head of Despatch Department, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., Bath. • John Owen Williams, Hooker and Pump Attendant, Maenofferen Slate Mine. (Merioneth). • James Wilson, Research and Experimental Mechanic (Welder) "A", Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston. (Basingstoke). • Stanley Frank Wren, Assembly Shop Foreman, Aish & Company Ltd., Poole, Dorset. (Bournemouth). • Thomas Wrigley, County Commandant, Buckinghamshire Special Constabulary. (Great Missenden). ;State of New South Wales • Robert Charles King, lately Bookbinder, Government Printing Department, New South Wales. • Sidney Walter Pauley, Caretaker-Carpenter, Government House, Sydney. • Aubrey Richard Shaw, lately Senior Inspector, Explosives Branch, Department of Mines, New South Wales. ;Basutoland • Vivian Mohai, Senior Nurse in Charge, Botsabelo Leper Settlement, Basutoland. ;Overseas Territories • Hasson Muhammad Warsama, Akil of Fish Sellers, Aden. • Awang bin Dollah, Marine Assistant, Marine Department, Brunei. • Randolph Atherley, Foreman of Works, Public Works Department, Dominica. • Ralph James Edward Dalgairns, Foreman, Grade I, East African Railways and Harbours Administration. • Owen Morsley Miller, Government Printer, Printing Department, Grenada. • Lam Shiu Sheung, General Clerical Service, Class I, Hong Kong. • Li Cheong, Hall Porter, Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong. • Arthur George Mcdermott, Chief Inspector, Licensing Authority, Traffic and Transport, Jamaica. • Ibrahim Hassan, Senior Sergeant of Dubas (Tribal Police), Kenya. • Dominic Simiana, Senior Foreman, Gas Board, Malta. • Musa Imam, Imam, Royal West African Frontier Force, Federation of Nigeria. • Adama Funtua Balaraba, Matron, Sokoto Native Authority Hospital, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Mohammed Jiddah, Assistant Health Superintendent, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Oko Willie, Chargeman, Ministry of Works and Transport, Western Region, Nigeria. • Ng Ho Kong, Senior Charge Hand, Electricity Board, North Borneo. • Sigoh bin Singkuman, Native Chief, Grade II, Pensiangan District, North Borneo. • Bwanali Kaojole, , Head Court Messenger, Mlanje District, Nyasaland. • Samuel Gibson, Chief Officer, Royal Gaol, Saint Lucia. • Peter Joseph, Head Teacher, Babonneau R.C. School, Saint Lucia. • Abang Suhaili bin Abang Ali, Government Outboard Driver, Kapit, Sarawak. • Paul John Samynadin, Clerk, Secretariat, Seychelles. • Joshua Sylvanus Williams, lately Foreman of Works, Civil Engineering Branch of Railway, Sierra Leone. • Jama Hersi Alaleh, Chief, Local Authority, Somaliland Protectorate. • Nicolaos Vassiliou, Building Foreman to Ukerewe-Ukara Native Authorities, Tanganyika. • John Barlow, Assistant Instructor, Nsamizi Training Centre, Uganda.
Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) ;In Silver • George Victor Charles Abbott. • Edwin John Burkitt. • Police Constable William Benjamin Burroughs, Metropolitan Police. • Yeoman Bedgoer George Collins, , Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard. • Frank Herbert Augustus Doel. • Walter Ernest East. • James Robert Emmerson. • John Charles Ghost. • Ernest Page. • Andre Rous. • Francis Henry Turner. • Albert George Wiles.
Royal Red Cross (RRC) • Major Louisa Dodsley (206127), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC) • Dorothy Aileen Cooling, Superintending Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (Retd.) • Mary Josephine Miller, Superintending Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. • Major Kathleen Grimshaw (342217), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Major Flora MacDonald (208788), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Squadron Officer Isabella Robertson (405761), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. • Squadron Officer Ellen Nancy Stooks (405111), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
Air Force Cross (AFC) ;Royal Navy • Lieutenant-Commander Morris John Hedges. ;Royal Air Force • Squadron Leader Peter John Bardon, , (607039). • Squadron Leader Raymond John Davenport (199966). • Squadron Leader
Peter Anthony Latham (57736). • Flight Lieutenant Edward Ross Gordon (4015072). • Flight Lieutenant Jack Loat (41189). • Flight Lieutenant Francis Daniel O'Brien (53468). • Flight Lieutenant Eric Charles Peck (180342). • Flight Lieutenant John Darrell Purcell (3041923). • Flying Officer John Ross Ritchie (1571507). • Master Pilot Lionel John Charles Wilcox, , (1586369). • Master Navigator Frank Walter Goodwin (1821306).
Bar to Air Force Cross • Wing Commander Derek Shannon Vaughan Rake, , (124494).
Air Force Medal (AFM) • 3504551 Flight Sergeant Basil Breach. • 1587199 Flight Sergeant Ronald Harry Albert Pinn.
Bar to Air Force Medal • 636119 Acting Flight Sergeant Alfred Walter Card, .
Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air ;United Kingdom • Captain Ronald Hartley, , Senior Captain, First Class (Flight Operations), British Overseas Airways Corporation. • Captain Wylie James Wakelin, , Senior Captain, First Class, British European Airways Corporation. ;Overseas Territory • Captain Roman Hrycak, Air Pilot, Nigerian Airways. ;Royal Navy • Lieutenant-Commander John Stephen Humphreys. ;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander Basil Champneys, , (116920). • Squadron Leader
Peter Edward Bairsto, , (202703). • Squadron Leader William John Laidler, (181250). • Squadron Leader Leslie Edwin Hugh Scotchmer (152183). • Squadron Leader John Lerwill Welland Towler (58600). • Flight Lieutenant George Dunwoody Bain (161481). • Flight Lieutenant Harold Baker, , (45075). • Flight Lieutenant Francis William Barker, , (117441). • Flight Lieutenant Robert Elliott Brown (181215). • Flight Lieutenant Michel Jean-Claude Burton (4077039). • Flight Lieutenant Basil Walter Dodd, , (3507986). • Flight Lieutenant William Snowdon Douglas (171007). • Flight Lieutenant Patrick Bardon Hine (2494717). • Flight Lieutenant Paul Julius Hirst (4076366). • Flight Lieutenant Charles William Michael Lister (4088074). • Flight Lieutenant William James McBurney (158763). • Flight Lieutenant Alexander Hugh MacKenzie (1823783). • Flight Lieutenant Ebenezer Milroy (198850). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald Frederick Mudge (3514200). • Flight Lieutenant Frederick John Myers (1623642). • Flight Lieutenant Bernard James Noble (583275). • Flight Lieutenant William Patrick Peedell, , (161598). • Flight Lieutenant Roger Ernest Pyrah (607302). • Flight Lieutenant James Robertson Rhind (3509000). • Flight Lieutenant John Severn (186065). • Flight Lieutenant John James Taylor (184027). • Flight Lieutenant Peter Ronald Woodham (4108266). • Flying Officer Gilbert Harman (1602993). • Flying Officer Richard Thomas Vane, , (1809968). • Master Engineer Arthur Halliday Elliot (1850082). • 2713571 Acting Sergeant Derek Finlay James Holmes.
Queen's Police Medal (QPM) ;England and Wales • David Aitken, Chief Constable, Wigan Borough Police. • John Stuart Hinton Gaskain, , Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Constabulary. • Gerald Frederick Payne, , Commander, Metropolitan Police. • Kenneth George Julian, Assistant Chief Constable, Cornwall Constabulary. • Frederick Edward Shannon, Chief Superintendent, City of London Police. • John Lawson Harper, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • James Marsh Rodgers, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Blackburn Borough Police. • Leonard Arthur Unwin, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Cambridgeshire Constabulary. • John William Dwyer, Superintendent, Cardiff City Police. • Henry George Edmonds, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • Harry May, Superintendent, Sheffield City Police. ;Scotland • David Gray, Chief Constable, Stirling and Clackmannan Constabulary. • Robert Winter Rutherford, Superintendent, Lothians and Peebles Constabulary. ;Northern Ireland • Alexander McCord, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;Isle of Man • Thomas Arthur Cringle, lately Chief Inspector, Isle of Man Constabulary. ;State of New South Wales • Sidney John Sellers, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • John Henry Aldridge, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • Sylvester George Bourke, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • Hector Arnold Crampton, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • John McMenamin Parmeter, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • Thomas Austin Schuback, Inspector 1st Class, New South Wales Police Force. ;State of South Australia • Gilbert Leonard Gully, Senior Inspector, South Australia Police Force. • Geoffrey Malcolm Leane, , Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Australia Police Force. ;Southern Rhodesia • Charles William Duncombe, , Senior Assistant Commissioner, British South Africa Police. ;Overseas Territories • Ian Saxby Proud, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Federation of Nigeria. • Edward Oliver Plunkett, Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Borneo. • Roy James Randell, Senior Superintendent of Police, Northern Rhodesia. • Alan Robert Lodge, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Nyasaland. • Roland de Lacey Wheeler, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sierra Leone. • Stanley Marchmont Fortt, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Uganda.
Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM) ;England and Wales • Cyril Outhwaite, Chief Officer, North Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade. • William Bell Muir, , Chief Officer, Northumberland Fire Brigade. • Reginald Robert Lloyd, Chief Officer, Croydon Fire Brigade. • Daniel Gerald Jones, Chief Officer, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire Joint Fire Brigade. ;Scotland • Alexander James Greenslade, Firemaster, Fife Fire Brigade.
Colonial Police Medal (CPM) ;Southern Rhodesia • Thomas Digby Allen, Superintendent,
British South Africa Police. • Dzimiri, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Peter Stanley Gordon Hawke, Inspector, British South Africa Police. • Robert Conway John, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. • George Charles John Light, Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • Magama, Detective 1st Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Mukiwa, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Eric Desmond van Sittert, Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • Arthur Vincent Weston, Superintendent, British South Africa Police. ;Overseas Territories • Lennard Allard, Assistant Superintendent, Trinidad Police Force. • Timothy Omo Bare, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • Arthur Henry Bishop, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • Watson Eustace Bowling, Chief Inspector, British Guiana Police Force. • Chan Fook-Cheung, Sub-Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force. • Chau Chun-Kau, Inspector, Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force. • Nazir Ahmed Dar, Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force. • Miguel Alberto Da Sousa, Superintendent, Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force. • Arthur John Docherty, Senior Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. • Thomas Lillie Dow, Chief Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force. • Ian Nigel Dundas, Senior Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. • Edward Charles Ealey, Senior Superintendent, Lagos Special Constabulary, Nigeria Police Force. • Lorenso Farquharson, Inspector, Jamaica Police Force. • Joseph Maurice Ithier, Superintendent, Mauritius Police Force. • Albert Spencer James, Detective Inspector, Jamaica Police Force. • Munyambu s/o Kavindu, Sergeant, Kenya Police Force. • Ibrahim Jaganda Kisau Khamisi, Head Constable, Uganda Police Force. • Mohamed Yusuf Khan, Temporary Senior Inspector, Tanganyika Police Force. • Desmond Murray McGusty, Deputy Superintendent, Fiji Police Force. • Magina, Sergeant-Major, Tanganyika Police Force. • Austin Kenneth Malcolm, Senior Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. • Mkenyela Rashidi, Detective Sergeant, Tanganyika Police Force. • John Stanford Morvvo, Inspector, Sierra Leone Police Force. • Joel Ekemezie Okoli, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • David Ian Oliver, Chief Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. • Emmanuel Olufemi Olufunwa, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • Jeremiah Obonyo Ongala, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. • Pierpaulo Otto, Detective Head Constable, Uganda Police Force. • Peter Granville Owen, Senior Superintendent, Somaliland Police Force. • Searle John Barfield Page, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. • Herman Zenda Rohomoja, Detective Sergeant, Tanganyika Police Force. • Arthur Henry Rose, Superintendent, Lagos Special Constabulary, Nigeria Police Force. • Manohar Singh Sandhu, Assistant Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. • Robert Carlisle Spooner, Chief Officer, Trinidad Volunteer Fire Service. • Stephen Talabi, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. • Randolph Marcus Thomas, Assistant Superintendent, St. Vincent Police Force. • Charles Olabode Turner, Chief Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. • John Walker, Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. ==Australia==