1965 Birthday Honours

Life Peer ;Baron • Noel Gilroy Annan, , Provost of King's College, Cambridge. University Lecturer in Politics since 1948. • Richard Beeching. Formerly Chairman, British Railways Board. • Sir Russell Claude Brock, , President, Royal College of Surgeons of England. • Sir Harold Roxbee Cox, lately Chairman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. • Arnold Abraham Goodman, Solicitor. Senior Partner in Goodman, Derrick and Company. Chairman, Arts Council of Great Britain. • Richard Ferdinand Kahn, , Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge since 1951. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Privy Councillor • John Diamond, , Member of Parliament for the Blackley Division of Manchester, 1945–1951 and for Gloucester since 1957. Chief Secretary, HM Treasury since 1964. • Horace Maybray King, , Member of Parliament for the Test Division of Southampton, 1950–1955, and for the Itchen Division since 1955. Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker since October 1964. • The Right Honourable Malcolm Newton, Baron Shepherd, Deputy Opposition Chief Whip, House of Lords, 1960; Deputy Speaker and subsequently Opposition Chief Whip, House of Lords. Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms and Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords since October 1964. Knight Bachelor • Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, . For services to the Stage. • Alderman Joseph Reginald Balmer, . For political and public services in Birmingham. • Alderman Albert Edward Bennett, . For political and public services in Stoke-on-Trent. • Robert John Formby Burrows, President, Law Society. • James Davidson Stuart Cameron, , Consultant Physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. • Thomas Fife Clark, , Director-General, Central Office of Information. • Alderman Joseph Jackson Cleary, . For political and public services, in Liverpool. • Alexander Bradshaw Clegg, Chief Education Officer, West Riding of Yorkshire. • Alderman Jack Cohen, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Sunderland. • Ronald Stuart Gumming, . Chairman, Scotch Whisky Association. Chairman, Distillers Company, Ltd. For services to export. • Charles Sigmund Davis, , Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Ministry of Land and Natural Resources. • Robert Meredydd Wynne-Edwards, , Chairman, Engineering Institutions Joint Council. • William Geoffrey Fiske, , Leader, Greater London Council. Lately Councillor, London County Council. • Victor Gollancz, Publisher and Writer. • George William Harriman, , Chairman and Managing Director, British Motor Corporation. For services to export. • Alderman Sidney Pearson Hill, . For political and public services in Nottingham. • Albert Henry Kennedy, Inspector General, Royal Ulster Constabulary. • John Maurice Laing, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, John Laing and Son, Ltd. • Hector Ross MacLennan, , President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. • James Martin, , Managing Director and Chief Designer, Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd., Middlesex. For services to export and technology. • Peter Brian Medawar, , Director, National Institute for Medical Research. • Maurice Philip Pariser, Alderman, Manchester City Council. • Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott, , Director, British Museum (Natural History). • Frederick Sidney Snow, , Founder and Principal, Frederick S. Snow & Partners, Consulting Engineers. • Donald Gresham Stokes, , Managing Director and Deputy Chairman, Leyland Motor Corporation. For services to export. • Duncan Mackay Weatherstone, , Lord Provost of Edinburgh. • Benjamin Allen Williams, . For public services in Cheshire. • Alderman Henry Edward Wright, . For political and public services in Plymouth. • Colonel Arthur Edwin Young, , Commissioner of Police for the City of London. ;State of Victoria • Edward Leo Curtis, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria. ;State of South Australia • Norman Lane Jude, lately Minister of Local Government, Minister of Roads and Minister of Railways, State of South Australia. ;State of Western Australia • Stanley Lewis Prescott, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia, State of Western Australia. ;Commonwealth Relations • Cecil Geraint Ames, President of the Sierra Leone and Gambia Court of Appeal. • Alec Drummond Ogilvie, formerly President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India. ;Overseas Territories • Arthur Eber Sydney Charles, , Speaker, Legislative Council, Aden. • Russell England . For public services in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Asa Hubert Pritchard. For public services in the Bahamas. • Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, , Premier and Minister of Finance, Mauritius. • Nathaniel Henry Peniston Vesey, For public services in Bermuda. Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Admiral Sir Varyl Cargill Begg, . ;;Army • General Sir Charles Jones, (34845), Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Engineers. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Chief Marshal Sir William Laurence Mary MacDonald, . Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Vice Admiral John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, . • Vice Admiral Raymond Shayle Hawkins, . ;;Army • Lieutenant-General William Robert Macfarlane Drew, (52405), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, (53670), late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons). ;;Royal Air Force • Acting Air Marshal Thomas Öther Prickett, . ;Civil Division • Arthur Lucius Michael Cary, , Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Arnold William France, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health. • Sir Ronald Ernest German, , Director-General, General Post Office. Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Rear Admiral Joseph Leslie Blackham. • Surgeon Rear Admiral Eric Dick Caldwell, . • Rear Admiral John Gervase Beresford Cooke, . • Rear Admiral Hugh Richard Benest Janvrin, . • Rear Admiral Robert William Mayo, . • Rear Admiral Wilfred John Parker, . • Rear Admiral Hugh Gordon Henry Tracy, . • Rear Admiral John Garth-Watson. • Rear Admiral Anthony Woodifield, . ;;Army • Major-General Robert George Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, (53288), late Foot Guards. • Major-General James Craw Barnetson, (41955), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Major-General Desmond Alexander Bruce Clarke, (53615), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, (53668), late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. • Major-General John Reid Holden, (71215), late Royal Armoured Corps. • Major-General Ronald Clarence Macdonald, (52682), late Infantry. Colonel, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers. • Major-General Roger Ellis Tudor St. John, (52703), late Infantry. • Major-General Frederick Joseph Swainson, (194065), late Royal Corps of Signals (now retired). Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals. • Major-General Peter George Francis Young, (53743), late Infantry. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Vice-Marshal Richard Cecil Ayling, . • Air Vice-Marshal Peter Hamilton Holmes, . • Air Vice-Marshal James Edgar Johnson, . • The Venerable Wilfred Ernest Granville Payton, . • Air Commodore Henry Everard Crichton Boxer, . • Air Commodore Ernest Shaw Sidey, . • Air Commodore Sidney George Walker, . ;Civil Division • John Angus Beckett, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Power. • Cyril Maxwell Palmer Brown, , Second Secretary, Board of Trade. • Ronald Kington Christy, HM Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour. • Eric William Eldridge, , Public Trustee. • Cyril James Gill, HM Chief Inspector, Department of Education & Science. • Eric Edwin Haddon, Director, Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Ronald Clive Kent, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Central Staff). • George Gray Macfarlane, Director, Royal Radar Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • Colonel Arthur Noble, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Essex. • Douglas Overend, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Kenneth Bruce Pepper, Commissioner, Board of Customs & Excise. • John Ashworth Ratcliffe, , Director, Radio & Space Research Station, Science Research Council. • Philip Rogers, , Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet. • Frederick Robert Peter Vinter, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. • Harry Whitby, Under-Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Fisheries for Scotland. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) • Sir Paul Henry Gore-Booth, , lately British High Commissioner, New Delhi. • Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Moscow. Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) • Francis Alfred Loyd, , Her Majesty's Commissioner, Swaziland. • Richard Ashton Beaumont, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, in Rabat. • William Leonard Dale, , Legal Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office. • James Alexander Milne Marjoribanks, , Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the European Communities, Brussels. • Eugene Melville, , lately Minister (Economic), Her Majesty's Embassy, Bonn. • William Bonnar Leslie Monson, , British High Commissioner, Lusaka. • Edward Redston Warner, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Yaoundé. Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) • Margery Freda Perham, . For services to the development of new countries in Africa. Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • George James Humphries, , Director of Overseas (Geodetic & Topographic) Surveys, Ministry of Overseas Development. • Eric Atkinson Midgley, , Minister (Economic & Commercial) in India. • Stanley Walden Payton, lately Governor, Bank of Jamaica. • Professor John Henry Richardson. For services in industrial and wage disputes, in various oversea territories in the Commonwealth. • Henry Moir Wilson, , formerly Head of Defence Research and Development Staff, Washington, Ministry of Aviation. Now Deputy Chief Scientist, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Valdemar Jens Andersen, , Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. • Arthur John Alexander Douglas, , Chief Secretary, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • John Marcus Kisch, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office, seconded to the Commonwealth Relations Office. • William Stanley Morgan, Chairman, Public and Police Service Commissions, Mauritius. • John Percival Morton, , lately Security Intelligence Adviser, Colonial Office. • Peter Granville Owen, Commissioner of Police, British Guiana. • Jasper Augustine Peck, Assistant Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. • Patrick Cardinall Mason Sedgwick, Commissioner of Labour and Commissioner of Mines, Hong Kong. • Leslie Clifford Bateman, Chief Executive, Malaya Rubber Board. • James Reginald Alfred Bottomley, British Deputy High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur. • Peers Lee Carter, Inspector of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service Establishments. • John Nicholas Henderson, Foreign Office. • John Robert Hilton, Foreign Office. • Roland Charles Colin Hunt, British High Commissioner, Kampala. • The Honourable Margaret Lambert, lately Editor-in-Chief, Special Historical Section, Foreign Office. • Donald Arthur Logan, Counsellor (Information), Her Majesty's Embassy, Paris. • Ian Innes Milne, , Foreign Office. • John Trevor Archdall Pearce, lately Permanent Secretary (Administration), Ministry of Local Government & Administration, Tanzania. • John Fleetwood Stewart Phillips, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Amman. • Arthur Propper, , lately Counsellor (Agriculture), United Kingdom Delegation to the European Communities, Brussels. • Herbert John Roberts. For public services in Northern Rhodesia, 1954–1964. • Ronald Stratford Scrivener, Foreign Office. • Dermot Joseph Sheridan, Judge of the High Court of Uganda. • Richard Adam Sykes, , Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Athens. • Leonard John Dean Wakely, , British Deputy High Commissioner, Ottawa. ;State of Victoria • Garrett Ernest Fitzgerald, President for the State of Victoria of the Australian Society of Accountants. ;State of Queensland • Roy Leslie Dunlop, Clerk of the Parliament, State of Queensland. ;State of South Australia • George Henry Padget Jeffery, Auditor-General, State of South Australia. Royal Victorian Order Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) • General Sir Henry Charles Loyd, . Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) • Commander Richard Colville, , Royal Navy (Retired). • Major Geoffrey Hugh Eastwood, . • Sir Edward Milner Holland, . • The Right Honourable Malcolm Stewart, Baron McCorquodale of Newton. • Captain Stuart Henry Paton, , Royal Navy (Retired). Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) • Bernard Parkes, . • Commander Philip John Row, , Royal Navy (Retired). Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO) • Squadron Leader Maurice Graham Baker, Royal Air Force. • Squadron Leader Desmond Martin Divers, Royal Air Force. • Chief Superintendent Henry Arthur Griffin, Metropolitan Police. • Richard Hugh Buller Hamersley. • Thomas John Hunt, . • Michael Vincent Levey. • John Pillar, . • Commander Cameron Rusby, Royal Navy. • Quentin Aubrey Thomas, . Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO) • Victoria Lee-Barber. • Ralph Dawson. • Sheila Munro. • Warrant Officer Class I Olive Annie Rutter, , Women's Royal Army Corps. • Edward Smith. • William Walsh. Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) ;Civil Division • Sir James Miller, , Lord Mayor, City of London. • Lieutenant-General Sir William Pasfield Oliver, , British High Commissioner, Canberra. Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Vice Admiral Isaac William Trant Beloe, . ;;Royal Air Force • Acting Air Marshal Charles Broughton, . • Acting Air Marshal Paul Davie Holder, . ;Civil Division • Walter Cawood, , Chief Scientist, Ministry of Aviation. • Stanley Paul Chambers, , Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. • Herbert Tetley, , Government Actuary. • Geoffrey William Aldington, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Luxembourg. • Claude Harry Fenner, , Inspector-General, Royal Malaysia Police. • Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, , lately Head of British Advisory Mission, Viet Nam. ;State of Victoria • The Honourable Sir Thomas Chester Manifold. For services to racing and the community in the State of Victoria. ;State of Queensland • Alan Whiteside Munro, lately Minister for Industrial Development, State of Queensland. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) ;Military Division • Brigadier Joan Evelyn Henderson, (221953), Women's Royal Army Corps. • Brigadier Evelyn Marguerite Turner, (206486), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. ;Civil Division • Florence Evelyn Cayford, . For political and public services. • Alderman Mabel Crout, . For political and public services in South-East London. • Sibyl Mary Hathaway, , Dame of Sark. • Barbara Hepworth, , Sculptor. • Alderman Catherine Campbell Scott, . For political and public services in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Colonel John Cuthbert d'Ewes Coke, , Royal Marines. • Captain Kenneth Alfred Goudge, (Retired). • Surgeon Captain (D) Kenneth Alfred Johnson, (Retired). • Commodore Herbert Jack Lee, . • Commodore Eric Payne, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service. • The Right Reverend Monsignor George Edward Chatham Pitt. • Captain Henry Stuart Spittle. ;;Army • Brigadier (temporary) Patrick Francis Cholmley Bloxam, (31876), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Brigadier (honorary) Harold Ian Bransom, (63052), Army Cadet Force. • Brigadier James Gouinlock Carr (53600), late Corps of Royal Engineers (now R.A.R.O.). • Brigadier John Conway Commings, (58146), late Infantry. • Colonel Geoffrey Seymour Hamilton Dicker, (194982), Staff, Territorial Army. • Brigadier Michael Victor Fletcher (47430), late Infantry. • Brigadier Donald Spencer Humphrys, (71516), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Brigadier Herbert Alfred Temple Jarrett-Kerr, (52639), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Brigadier Rex Hamilton Edward Robinson, (56973), late Royal Corps of Signals. • Colonel David Bruce Ronald (58016), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Colonel John Disney Sale, (73165), late Infantry. • Brigadier (temporary) Harry Thomas Shean, (62485), late Royal Army Educational Corps. • Brigadier Dennis Augustus Turner (67905), late Royal Army Service Corps. • Major-General Rodney Ray Jensen Putterill, . General Officer Commanding, Rhodesia Army. ;;Royal Air Force • Acting Air Vice Marshal Thomas Neville Stack, . • Air Commodore Lionel Herbert Greenman. • Air Commodore Geoffrey Lawrence O'Hanlon, . • Group Captain Henry Desmond Bisley, . • Group Captain Hubert Gordon Davies. • Group Captain Marcus Maxwell Gardham. • Group Captain William Harbison, . • Group Captain Gordon Leonard Mattey, . • Group Captain Peter Norton Smith, . • Group Captain Frederick Beresford Sowrey, . • Group Captain Charles Leopold Walker Stewart, . • Group Officer Janet Arderne Bannatyne, Women's Royal Air Force (Retired). ;Civil Division • John Atkinson, lately Town Clerk, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland. • John Strachan Baillie, Chairman, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. • Frank Donald Bickerton, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Transport. • Brebis Bleaney, Dr. Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy and Head of the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford. • George Brearley, Director, Association of British Chemical Manufacturers. • Molly Root Brearley, Principal, Froebel Educational Institute. • Archibald Bridges, lately Member, Industrial Injuries Advisory Council. • Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne, . For services as Private Secretary to the late Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, . • John Reginald Bunting, lately Assistant Controller of the Education Division, British Council. • Alderman William Alexander Carnie. For political and public services in Wandsworth. • Alderman Frederick Charles Chambers, . For political and public services in Kettering. • Ambrose Congreve, Chairman, Humphreys & Glasgow Ltd. For services to export. • Andrew Ramsden Cooper, Member of the Central Electricity Generating Board. • Malcolm McGregor Cooper, Dean of Agriculture and Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. • Ord Adams Cunningham, , lately Chairman, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Dunfermline, Fife. • Frank Herbert Davey, , Accountant General, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Brian Davidson, Member, Monopolies Commission. • Martin Davies, Keeper, National Gallery. • Professor Karl George Emeléus. For services to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. • William Ian Robertson Finlay, Director, Royal Scottish Museum. • Charles Eddie Gallagher, , Senior Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. • Jack Sydney Bates Gentry, , General Manager, Tees Conservancy Commission. • Arthur Herbert Grainger, Vice-Chairman, London Transport Board. • Alexander Marshall Grant, Principal Dancer, Royal Ballet Company. • Alderman Frederick George Gumbrill. For political and public services in Leicester. • Alderman Florence Ellen Hammond. For political and public services in Birmingham. • Heather Harper (Heather Mary Buck), Soprano. • Geoffrey Wingfield Harris, , Dr. Lees Professor of Anatomy, University of Oxford; Director, Neuroendocrinology Research Unit, Medical Research Council. • Arthur Guiton Harrison, Managing Editor, Jersey Evening Post. For public services in Jersey. • Wilfred George Harrold. For services in the Defence field. • Alderman William John Hartland, , Lord Mayor of Cardiff. • Clement Algernon Charles Henniker-Heaton, Director, British Spinners & Doublers Association. • William Alfred Hobbs, Assistant Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Patrick Basil Hypher, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. • Evan David Jones, Librarian, National Library of Wales. • William Stephen Jones, Managing Director, J. M. Jones & Sons, Ltd. • Alfred Henry Kellett, Chairman, South-Western Division, National Coal Board. • William Latey, , lately Special Divorce Commissioner, Supreme Court of Judicature. • Marcus Lipton, , Member of Parliament for the Brixton Division of Lambeth since 1945. For political and public services. • Roy Frederick Lloyd, , Accountant, HM Treasury. • Douglas Pearson Lund, Secretary and Chief Accountant, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Ltd. • James Millar Macgowan, . For political and public services in Dunbartonshire. • Edgar Arthur John Mahler, Deputy Chief Alkali Inspector, Ministry of Housing, and Local Government. • George Alexander Mason, , Senior Thoracic Surgeon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Regional Hospital Board. • Victor Cornelius Medvei, , Senior Medical Officer, HM Treasury. For services to the Foreign Office. • Stephen Charles Merivale, Secretary, Board of Governors, United Bristol Hospitals. • Cyril Thomas Gibson Risch Miller, Honorary Secretary, British Maritime Law Association. • James William Spencer Mount, , Farmer and Horticulturist, Kent. • Charles Edward Newman, , Dean, Postgraduate Medical School, London. • William Charles Wallace Nixon, , Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of London. • Brian Cecil Vernon Oddie, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Frederick Alan Paine, Chairman and Managing Director, W. F. Paine Ltd. For services to export. • Herbert John Harvey Parker, , Member of Parliament for Romford, 1935–1945, and for Dagenham since 1945. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office, 1945–1946. For political and public services. • Captain Arthur George Victor Patey, lately Commodore, Union-Castle Line. • David Edward Herbert Peirson, Secretary, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • James Westlake Platt, Chairman, Foundation for Management Education. Director, Shell Petroleum Company Ltd. • Montague Illtyd Prichard, , Managing Director, F. Perkins, Ltd. For services to export. • William David Pugh, Managing Director, English Steel Corporation Ltd. • Ronald Kenneth Duncan Renton, Government Parliamentary Agent. • John Alexander Fraser Roberts, , lately Director, Clinical Genetics Research Unit, Medical Research Council. • Walter George Roberts, . For political and public services in Luton. • John MacDonald Ross, Assistant Secretary, Home Office. • Leonard Augustus Sansbury, Deputy Director of Dockyards, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • George Henry Selman, . For political and public services in Swindon. • Daniel Sim, , County Convener, Ayrshire. • Harriet Slater, , Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North since 1953. A Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury since October 1964. For political and public services. • John Jesse George Smith, Assistant Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department. • John Michael Austin-Smith, , Architect. • Alderman Harry Spink. For political and public services in Leeds. • Robert Stead, Controller, North Region, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Ernest Brownson Stevenson, Chairman and Managing Director, Crosfields & Calthrop Ltd., Compound Feeding-stuffs Manufacturers. • Sidney Stringer, Alderman, Coventry, Warwickshire. • Desmond Christopher Shawe-Taylor, Music Critic, The Sunday Times. • Eric Todd, , Principal Executive Officer, Foreign Office. • Arthur Townsend, , Commander, Metropolitan Police. • William John Tristram. For services to the National Health Service. • Albert Jordan Tulip, Senior Chief Inspector, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. • Alderman Arthur James Twigger. For political and public services in Hornchurch. • John Keith Vaughan, Painter. • John Hamilton Vetch, Assistant Paymaster General. • Alexander Burns Wallace, , Part-time Consultant in Plastic Surgery, South-Eastern Regional Hospital Board, Scotland. • Roger Talbot Walters, Deputy Director-General of Research & Development, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • John Arthur Fergus Watson, . For services to Youth. • Roy James Werry, Headmaster, Tollington Park Comprehensive School. • John Foster Wilson, , Director, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hugh Winterborn, , Attached Ministry of Defence. • Frank Coram Wright, Director, Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. For services to export. • Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, British subject resident in Italy. • The Most Reverend Leslie Wilfred Brown, Archbishop of Uganda. • The Right Reverend Archibald Rollo Graham Campbell, lately Bishop of Colombo, Ceylon. • George Lefroy Carson, Conservator of Forests, State of Sabah. • William James Maelor Evans, , lately Chief Medical Officer, Tanzania. • William Matthew Fell, Director of Audit, State of Singapore. • Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Kitcat, (Retd.), Liaison Officer with Defence Staff, Singapore. • Richard Stanley Latham, Commissioner of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Northern Nigeria. • John Edward Madocks, , Adviser, National Development & Planning Office, Zambia. For public services in Northern Rhodesia, particularly in regard to the planning of the Zambia Independence Celebrations. • The Right Reverend John Ernest Llewelyn Mort, Bishop of Northern Nigeria. • Desmond Stephen Palmer, , lately Deputy Head of British Advisory Mission, Viet Nam. • Norman Charles Perkins, , Administrative Officer (Staff Grade), Eastern Nigeria. • Peter Ratcliffe, , Director of Broadcasting, Radio Malaysia, State of Sarawak. • George Frank Norman Reddaway, , Regional Information Officer for the Middle East. • Sam Scrutton Richardson, , Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Northern Nigeria. • George John Romolo Tod, British subject lately resident in Iraq. • Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin, , British Council Representative, Japan. • Edward Parr Wiltshire, Her Majesty's Consul-General, Geneva. • Hugh Burrowes. For public services in the Leeward and the Windward Islands. • John Fernandes. For public services in British Guiana. • Fung Ping-fan, . For public services in Hong Kong. • Ambrose Tucker Gosling, . For public services in Bermuda. • John Maynard Hedstrom. For public services in Fiji. • Sydney Harrington Nurse, , Chairman, Police Service Commission, Barbados. • Raymond Wilson Sawyer. For public services in the Bahamas. • Kenneth John Tomlin, , Director of Public Works, Barbados. • Joseph Lyttleton Wills. For public services in British Guiana. ;State of New South Wales • Henry Thomas Eulert Holt, a Judge of the District Court, State of New South Wales. • William Walter Pettingell, . For public services, particularly as Chairman of the Industries Promotion Advisory Council, State of New South Wales. • Norman Howard Routley. For public services, particularly as Chairman of the Decentralisation Advisory Council, State of New South Wales. ;State of Victoria • Alick Benson McKay, Chairman in London of the Victoria Promotion Committee. • Albert Leonard Read, Chairman of the Judges of the County Court in the State of Victoria. ;State of Queensland • Aubrey David Dick Pye, , of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For his services to the welfare of the sick. ;State of South Australia • Carl Clifford Jungfer, . For services to the community in the State of South Australia. ;State of Western Australia • Norman Brearley, . For services to civil aviation in the State of Western Australia. ;Rhodesia • Avon Montgomery Bruce-Brand, , Secretary for Law and Order, Rhodesia. Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Commander Larratt Cassels Darling. • Commander Robin Beadon Lisle Foster. • Commander Henry Carty Gowan (Retired). • Surgeon Commander (D) Frederick Leonard Hall, . • Commander Peter Gerald Hammersley. • Commander Peter James Hill Hoare. • Commander Mervyn Bennicke Lanyon. • Commander Peter Lavender. • Commander Stanley Leonard, . • Major (Local Lieutenant Colonel) Robert Beverley Loudoun, Royal Marines. • Acting Commander John Stanley Mitcalfe, , Royal Naval Reserve. • Commander Charles Alexander Jacomb Nicoll. • Surgeon Commander Francis Joseph O'Kelly, . • Commander Robert Harold Outram. • The Reverend Basil Alderson Watson. • Commander Denys Sidney Wyatt. ;;Army • Lieutenant-Colonel John Gordon Bagnall, (118398), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Eric James Barbell (268278), Royal Corps of Signals. • Colonel (acting) Bernard Herbert Britton, (63998), Army Cadet Force (now retired). • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Sidney Burnett, (325908), 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles. • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) William Frank Cooper, (125181), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel George Dickson Dunlop, (71094), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (Employed List 1). • Lieutenant-Colonel John Cecil Forman, (71941), Corps of Royal Engineers (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) The Right Honourable Paul Richard, Baron Freyberg, (231225), Grenadier Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ernest Goddard (291866), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (Staff Quartermaster) Alexander George Hobbs (236678), Royal Army Service Corps (Employed List 2). • Lieutenant-Colonel Aveling Barry Martin Kavanagh, (95620), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney James Lewis (256931), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Gordon Robin Kingston Lyon (320174), 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen William Macdonald (358333), The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Charles Edward Michie, (129992), Staff, Territorial Army. • Major George Albert William Neill, (S8433), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cecil Lennox Pusinelli (67780), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Pomeroy Randle, (358326), The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Reading, (320488), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Brevet and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hyde Scobie (296753), The Parachute Regiment, The Parachute Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Blackett Scott (176077), The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment). • Brevet and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel William Norman Roy Scotter, (325998), The King's Own Royal Border Regiment. • Major and Brevet Colonel Keith Nigel Loudoun-Shand, (372581), Queen's Royal Rifles, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Smith (224313), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel David Spencer Squirrell (226362), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (Employed List 1). • Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Edward Tonry (307983), Royal Corps of Signals. • Lieutenant-Colonel (honorary) William Wilson (100774), Combined Cadet Force (now retired). • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Edward Woodley (338830), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Bruce Young, (222684), The Royal Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel William Arthur Godwin, Rhodesia Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Gopsill, (375798), 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles (Employed List 1); on loan to the Government of Malaysia. • Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Worville Greathead, Rhodesia Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel George Serevaki Mate, , Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment. ;;Royal Air Force • Group Captain Graham Abbott Smith, , Royal Rhodesian Air Force Volunteer Reserve. • Wing Commander Francis Henry Percival Austin (45043) (Retired). • Wing Commander John Lindley Causton, (127905). • Wing Commander Joseph Crane (49371). • Wing Commander Douglas Frederick Harvey Grocott, (153754). • Wing Commander William Edward Hedley (162245). • Wing Commander Mark Frederick Hobden (118331), Royal Air Force Regiment. • Wing Commander Hugh Lionel Calder-Jones (153766). • Wing Commander Geoffrey Moss, (181112). • Wing Commander George Hall Pennington (500887). • Wing Commander Roy Henry Petchey (132769). • Wing Commander James George Redman (50989). • Wing Commander Clifford George Reeve, (82965). • Wing Commander Maxwell Scannell, (59609). • Wing Commander William Marton Smedley, (49481). • Wing Commander Terence Nightingale Staples, (100604). • Wing Commander Ronald Storey (46194). • Wing Commander Reginald Tillyard (48039). • Wing Commander (Acting Group Captain) Philip Griffin Tyler (31471). • Wing Commander Ronald Wood, (121525). ;Civil Division • William Douglas Akester, Sales Director, Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd. For services to export. • Alderman William Ody Allen, . For political and public services in Harrow. • Colonel Robert Anthony Armstrong, lately Chairman, Dumfries and Galloway Development Association. • Leslie Alan Ashton, Chief Experimental Officer, Fire Research Station, Ministry of Technology. • Lady Helen Frances Asquith, HM Inspector of Schools, Department of Education & Science. • James Comber Nash Baillie, Chief Commercial Engineer, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. • John Theodore Baldwin, Chairman, Scottish Medical Practices Committee. • Nancy Balfour, Writer in Economist. • Harry Barber, Chairman, North Staffordshire (Mental) Hospital Management Committee. • Joseph Barrow. For political and public services in Middlesex. • Frederick James Redvers Bartlett, Senior Assistant Director of Examinations, Civil Service Commission. • Percival James Barton, . For political and public services in Fulham. • Maurice Beck, Managing Director, Beck & Company (Fashions) Ltd. For services to export. • Alderman Evan Bevan, lately Chairman, Carmarthenshire County Council. • Colonel Eugene St. John Birnie, lately General Secretary, Church of England Children's Society. • Thomas Bodle. For political and public services in Swanscombe. • Frank Stuart Borley, Superintending Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Thornton Howard Bridgewater, Chief Engineer, Television, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Harry Archibald Brown, Chairman and Managing Director, W. & E. Moore, Ltd. • William Donald Tristram Brunyate, , Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Francis Richard Barnard Bucknall, , Deputy Director of the Post Office, Wales and Border Counties. • Sidney James Burton, Manager, Overseas Operations, Chaseside Engineering Company Ltd. For services to export. • Ronald Bernard Button, Higher Collector, Board of Customs & Excise. • Reginald Charles Muskett Callaghan, Chairman, Letchworth Local Employment Committee. • Captain John Archibald Cameron, General Manager, British European Airways Helicopters Ltd. • Violet Helen Carson, Actress. • George Thomas Chamberlain, Manager, Old Vic. • Reginald Hughes Childs, Chairman, City of Westminster Savings Committee. • George Thomas Clarke, Higher Waterguard Superintendent, Board of Customs & Excise. • Leonard Arthur Clarke, Superintendent Registrar for the Surrey Mid-Eastern Registration District. • Wilfred Clover, Councillor, Oldham County Borough. • Alderman John Herbert Cocks. For political and public services in Kingston upon Thames. • Cuthbert Evan Duncan Colquhoun, President, Scottish Milk Trade Federation. • John Hawley Cooke, , Chairman, Staffordshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Arthur James Cope, Chief Constructor, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Ernest Herbert Douglas Craig, Artistic Director, Opera for All. • Charles William Davies, Telephone Manager, London Telecommunications Region Centre Area, General Post Office. • The Reverend David Tegfan Davies. For public services in South Wales. • Wing Commander James Leonard Dell, Chief Test Pilot, British Aircraft Corporation (Operating) Ltd. (Preston Division). • Colin Sturtevant Dence, Managing Director, Brand & Company Ltd. • Captain George Edge, , Master, MV Flintshire, Glen Line Ltd. • Donald Thomas Edwards, Deputy Chief Architect, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. • Ernest Edwards, , Chairman, Cardiff & District Advisory Committee. • Alderman Thomas Hill Ellingham, . For political and public services in Cambridgeshire. • Norman Douglas Ellis, , Chairman, Leicestershire Branch, Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Families Association. • Ernest Thomas Floyd Ewin, , Registrar and Receiver, St. Paul's Cathedral. • Cyril Rawlett Fenton. For political and public services in Rickmansworth. • William Alexander Ferguson, Secretary, British Museum (Natural History). • James Finnigan, , Chairman, Devon District Advisory Committee, South Western Regional Board for Industry. • Major John Francis Fox, . For public services in Lancashire. • Ronald Lloyd Fox, Personnel Officer, Independent Television Authority. • Alfred John Nelson Fuller, Headmaster, Oldborough Manor Secondary School, Maidstone. • Arthur Gee, Chairman, North Level Commission. For services to land drainage. • Margaret Hunter Gibb. For political and public services in the North of England. • Norah Louise Gibbs, Chief Psychologist, London Child Guidance Training Centre. • Mary Lyle Gilchrist, , lately School Medical Officer and Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Leyton. • Isidore Godfrey, Musical Director and Conductor, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. • Ernest William Goodwin, , General Medical Practitioner in Leicester. • Alderman Harold Gray, . For political and public services in Warrington. • Trevor Greenshields, Chairman, Durham County Agricultural Executive Committee. • Denis de Montmorrencie Guilfoyle, Chief Regional Officer, North Midland Region, Central Office of Information. • David James Hadley, Deputy Division Manager, Chemical Research Division, The Distillers Company, Ltd. • Geoffrey Colton Haines, lately General Secretary, London Association for the Blind. • Frank Maurice Hale, Senior Engineer (Electrical), Ministry for Transport|Ministry of Transport. • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stuart Hampton, , Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Associations of the Counties of Angus and the City of Dundee, Fife and Perth. • Francis William Lister Heathcote, Technical Manager, Brockhouse Steel Structures Ltd. • Alderman James Donaldson Henry, Mayor of Ballymena, Co. Antrim. • Frank Hill, Regional Controller, North-Western Region, National Assistance Board. • Catherine Hollingworth, Superintendent of Speech Therapy and Speech Training, Aberdeen. • Dorothy Wood Homer, lately Secretary of the Women's Group on Public Welfare. • George Thomas Hudman, Assistant Manager, Overseas Service, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. • Wing Commander Frederick William Hudson, lately Special Appointment, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Thomas Garfield Hughes, Superintendent (Chemical Plants), Windscale and Calder Works, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Captain James Henry Innes, Licensed Pilot, Clyde Pilotage Authority. • Osmonde Grimes John. For political and public services in Pembrokeshire. • Douglas Norman Johnson, Chairman and Managing Director, Forgecraft Ltd., Welwyn Garden City. • John Francis Jones, , National Savings Member for the South East District of the West Riding of Yorkshire. • John Phillips Jones, Regional Land Commissioner, Wales, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Robert Jones, , County Alderman, Chairman of Highways Committee, Nottinghamshire. • Walter Richards Joslin, Grade I, Deputy Regional Controller, Ministry of Labour. • William Kerr, Chief Constable, Dunbartonshire Constabulary. • Sydney Percy King, Vice-Chairman, North Midland Regional Board for Industry. Chairman, Kesteven Water Board. • Charles William Goodwin Trinder Kirk, Town Clerk, Hemel Hempstead Borough Council, Hertfordshire. • Philip Harold Knighton, , Architect, Newcastle Regional Hospital Board. • William Guldmar Kuhnel, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Geoffrey Roy Landale, , County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. • John Lane, HM Senior District Inspector of Mines & Quarries, Ministry of Power. • Robert Bertram Laurie, Secretary, Law Society of Scotland. • Elsie Blanche Lawson, Chairman, The Helix (Universal) Company Ltd. For services to export. • William Leach, Chairman, Yorkshire Electricity Consultative Council. • Marshall Forbes Leslie, , General Practitioner in Londonderry. • The Right Honourable Winifred Agnes, Viscountess Leverhulme, County Organiser, Cheshire, Women's Voluntary Service. • Donald Hamish Little, Superintending Civil Engineer, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Janet Thomson Locke, Matron, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. • Alan Leslie McClure, Deputy Chief Engineer, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations. • Richard Maurice Sotheron McConaghey, , General Medical Practitioner in Devon. • William MacLean, . For political and public services in Northumberland. • Terence Cameron Macnamara, Technical Counsellor, Associated Television, Ltd. • Margaret Macnaughton, Chief Nursing Officer, Scottish Home & Health Department. • Joseph McNeill, . For services to the potato industry in Northern Ireland. • Iris Irene Macvie, Deputy President, County of London Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Gregory Ernest Marriott, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Land & Natural Resources. • Arthur Leslie George Mathams, Director, Camper & Nicholsons Ltd., Southampton. • Arthur James Mee, HM Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department. • William Henry Mercer, , Chief Constable, Air Force Department Constabulary, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Josef Eduard Mladek, Director and Chairman, Crepe Weavers Ltd., Newtownards, Co. Down. • William Huyzer Mol, Headmaster, Ballymena Academy. • Frank Moore, Principal, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Glyndwr Morris, Director, Engineering Employers Association of South Wales. • John Vincent Morris, , Physician Superintendent, Little Plumstead Hospital, Norwich. • Sydney Harry Carael Mound, , Chief Work Study Officer, Army Work Study Group, Guildford, Ministry of Defence (Army). • John Archibald Naisbitt. For services to Agriculture. • Percy George Negus, Senior Architect, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. • John Reginald Neville, Director, Nottingham Playhouse. • Charles Stanislaus O'Flynn, , General Medical Practitioner in Sheffield. • Eric Wilfred Parker, Administrative & Establishment Officer, London Fire Brigade. • Ernest James Parker, Assistant Accountant and Comptroller General, Board of Inland Revenue. • Frank William Parrott, . For political and public services in Westmorland. • Hugh Paul, Chairman, Ipswich Savings Committee. • Eric Omar Pearson, Director, Commonwealth Institute of Entomology. • Captain Philip Henry Pedrick, Commodore Master, MV Port New Plymouth, Port Line Ltd. • David Perkins, Vice-Principal and Head of Mining and Engineering Department, Ammanford Technical College. • William Pitson, lately Quality Manager, Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. • Cyril Thomas Howe Plant, Chairman, Civil Service Sanatorium Society. • Matthew Pollock, Oil Fuel Technical Adviser, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • John Charles Potts, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Ronald Rees Powell, , Chairman, Reigate Sea Cadet Corps Unit Committee. Southern Area Representative Chairman on the Sea Cadet Council. • Charles Ernest Proctor. For services to the fishing industry. Managing Director, Tom Sleight Ltd. • Clifford Prothero. For political and public services in Wales. • James Alfred Quinney, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Leslie John Alfred Randall, lately Industrial Editor, Daily Mail. • Alderman Eva Ratcliffe, . For political and public services in Yorkshire. • Andrew Vincent Rawson. Chairman, No. 103 (Doncaster) Squadron Committee, Air Training Corps. • Reginald Gordon Read, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Home Office. • Edward Valentine Rees. For political and public services in South West England. • Major Wilfrid Norman Reeve, , lately Chairman, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea War Pensions Committee. • Alan Reiach, Architect. • Dorothy Hogg Riddell, . For political and public services in County Durham. • William Thomas Carmichael Riddell, , Managing Director, John Hastie & Company Ltd., Greenock. For services to export. • Alan Robertson, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Agricultural Research Councils Unit of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh. • Eric Desmond Robertson, Assistant Controller, Overseas Services, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Margaret Robertson. For social services in Lancashire and Cheshire. • Charles Henry Robinet, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • Douglas MacIver Robinson, Deputy Principal Sea Transport Surveyor, Board of Trade. • Evelyn Robinson, formerly Chief Nursing Officer, London County Council. • Alderman Archibald Rowe, . For political and public services in Workington. • Derek Samuel Salberg, , Managing Director, Alexandra Theatre (Birmingham) Ltd. • Donald Scott, Engineer-in-Chief, Cable & Wireless Ltd. • Edith Lesley Sewell, General Secretary, National Association of Youth Clubs. • Ian James Shaw, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Percy Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Reflecting Road Studs Ltd. • Joan Margaret Sheppard, Foreign Office. • Cecil Owen Shipp, Attached Ministry of Defence. • Charles Simison, Deputy Chief Investigation Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. • Francis Herbert Smeed, Chief Constable, Newport Borough Police, Monmouthshire. • Clara Marjorie Smith, lately Headmistress, Cockshut Hill Girls, Secondary School, Birmingham. • Frank Smith, , National Savings District Member for North Northamptonshire. • William Frederick Austin Snook, Engineer and Manager, Sewage Purification Department, Havering. • Alfred Matthew Southwick, Alderman, South Shields County Borough Council. • Frances Clare Spurgin, , Chairman of the Blockley Petty Sessional Division of Gloucestershire. • Ernest Menzies Stewart, Chairman, Pensions, Disablement and Employment Committee, British Legion. • Graham Guthrie Sutherland, Honorary Treasurer, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. • Ernest William Swanton, Cricket Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph. • William Stuart Theaker, , Chairman, Board of Visitors, HM Borstal Institution, Hatfield, Yorkshire. • Averil Fuller Thompson, Assistant Keeper 1st Class, India Office Library, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Kenneth Wilson Thorndyke, , lately Civil Defence Officer, Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd., Nottingham. • Leslie Ronald George Treloar. For services to Polymer and Fibre Science. • Herbert Harold Tucker, Director Head of Editorial Section, Foreign Office. • Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, Principal Horn Player, London Symphony Orchestra. • Walter Spenceley Turnbull, lately President of the (Football) Referees' Association. • Frankie Vaughan, (Frank Ableson). For services to the welfare of youth. • Charles Joseph Venables, Timber Merchant. For services to Forestry. • Lewis Edgar Waddilove, Director, Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust. • Cecil Dennis Waldron, Commandant, Prestwick Airport, Ministry of Aviation. • Jack Warner (Jack Waters), Film and Variety Artist. • Roger Washbourn, Controller, Home Division II, British Council. • Frank Douglas Weeks, , lately General Secretary, Manchester and Salford Council of Social Service. • Bernard George Felix Weitz, , Head of Department, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. • Commander Duncan Frederick White, , Chief inspector, HM Coastguard, Board of Trade. • Geoffrey Wiglesworth, Chief Accountant Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Geoffrey Maxwell Penda Williams, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Sidney Mon Williams, Chief, Accountant, Board of Trade. • Major Thomas John Williams, , Director and Group General Manager, Steel Production, South Durham Steel and Iron Company Ltd. • Olive Mary Wilson. For political and public services in Kensington. • Lieutenant-Colonel James Albert Woodgate, Director, United Kingdom Region, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. • Sidney Charles Wybrow, Assistant Director Engineer, Director-General of Inspections Headquarters, Ministry of Aviation. • Robert Yates, Engineer Superintendent, William Robertson Shipowners Ltd. • Wilfred Thomas Young. For political services. • Frank Sudbury Batty, British subject lately resident in the Sudan. • Ernest Henry Wetton Biggs, lately Chief Mechanical Engineer, Western Nigeria. • Reginald Boyd, City Engineer, Lagos, Federal Republic of Nigeria. • Brian Ingle Brough, Chief Water Engineer, Group 5, Northern Nigeria. • Lawrence Hamilton Browne, , British subject resident in Libya. • Stanley George Browne, , Senior Specialist (Leprologist), Eastern Nigeria. • George Buchanan, , Senior Specialist (Surgeon), Western Nigeria. • Ronald Newcomb James Burgess, , British subject resident in Denmark. • The Reverend Canon Douglas Harry Burton, Vicar of St. Saviours Church, Belgrano, Buenos Aires. • Norman Stanley Butterfield, lately Controller, Finance and Accounts, Posts & Telegraphs Division, Federal Ministry of Communications, Nigeria. • Richard Maynard Dudley Buxton, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Malaysia. • Stafford Frederick Campbell, Chargé d'Affaires, Her Majesty's Embassy, Santo Domingo. • John William Valentine Chamberlain, Deputy Chief Inspector of Education, Northern Nigeria. • Mark Alastair Coats, British subject resident in Spain. • Walter Harold Cooke, , Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Works & Transport, Western Nigeria. • Arthur William Evelyn Day. For services to the British community in Nigeria. • The Reverend Henry Frederick Drake, Field Secretary and Head of Baptist Mission Stations in the Congo. • Walter Fairbank, Commissioner of Town and Country Planning, Malaysia. • Jack Fairhurst, . For public services in Northern Rhodesia and Zambia, particularly as Director of the Zambia Independence Celebrations. • Captain Reginald Ernest Gee, Director of Marine, Malaysia. • Thomas Whitby Gee, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Uganda. • Geoffrey Windham Gould, , Under-Secretary (Finance), Treasury, Malaysia. • Richard Hallam Gower, lately Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Tanzania. • Harold Hayman. For services to the British community in South India. • John William (Pat) Heffernan, Head of Reuters Bureau, Washington. • Denys Chalmers Hill, lately Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Tanzania. • William Bradley Inches, Royal Navy (retired), lately Principal Marine Officer, Federal Inland Waterways Department, Nigeria. • Arthur Bert Jefferies, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Malaysia. • Edward Arthur Jenkins. For services to the British community in India. • Peter Gordon Lloyd, British Council Representative, Ethiopia. • Gordon Joseph Lockley, lately Chief Fisheries Officer, Tanzania. • Murray Lunan, lately Commissioner of Agriculture, Tanzania. • Kenneth Lupton, Under-Secretary (Finance), Ministry of Finance, Northern Nigeria. • Douglas Sampson Mackenzie, British subject resident in Chile. • Denis John Mahony, lately Deputy Secretary, Treasury, Tanzania. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Arthur McKay, , lately British Consul, Medan. • Peter Standley McLean, lately Acting Permanent Secretary for Planning, Uganda. • Khushru Mancherji Mehta, , Surgeon, Medical Department, State of Sabah. • Joseph Maria William Novella, , British subject resident in Morocco. • John Thomas Oldham, British subject lately resident in Indonesia. • Stanley Walter Frank Palmer, , Director of Civil Aviation, Malaysia. • Herbert Walter Trevor Pepper, Adviser on Federal Taxation, Treasury, Malaysia. • Sidney John Peskett, British subject resident in Belgium. • Wentworth Victor Rose, Commissioner for Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives, Uganda. • Denys William Rowley, First Secretary, Her Majesty's Embassy, Beirut. • Robert Geoffrey Tunstall St. Leger, Administrative Officer, Class 1, Eastern Nigeria. • Norman Goodes Standen, Her Majesty's Consul, Bergen. • Basil John Jerome Stubbings, lately Provincial Commissioner, Vice-Presidents Office, Tanzania. • Harry Ward Tatham. For services to the British community in Ceylon. • Eric Thorpe. For services to British interests in Nigeria. • Richard Henry Turner, lately Adviser to the Kuwait Currency Board. • Leslie Victor Wailes, Accountant-General, Northern Nigeria. • George Webster, Chief Conservator of Forests, Uganda. • William Trevor Thomas Henry White. For services to the British community in Takoradi, Ghana. • Albert Denis Willey, Surveyor-General, Northern Nigeria. • William Wood, , lately Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Tanzania. • Berchell Aubrey Barker, Planning Officer, Town & Country Planning Department, British Guiana. • David John Barnes, Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Fiji. • Brook Antony Bernacchi, . For public services in Hong Kong. • Aubrey Gordon Booker, , Director of Marine, Mauritius. • Ronald Godfrey Cox, , Director of Fire Services, Hong Kong. • Ralph Hinslewood Daly, Senior Adviser, Western Aden Protectorate. • William Oliver Davies, Director of Public Works, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Leon Davenport Fox, . For public services in Bermuda. • Cyril Maitland Fraser, Accountant General, British Guiana. • Fung Hon-chu. For public services in Hong Kong. • Sidney Samuel Gordon. For public services in Hong Kong. • Kenneth Latimer Hardaker, Federal Deputy Director of Public Works, Aden. • Charles Francis Henville, , Attorney General, British Honduras. • Samuel George Inniss, Manager, Government Savings Bank, Barbados. • Peter Joseph Isola. For public services in Gibraltar. • John Gabriel Joaquin, . For public services in British Guiana. • Cenydd Richards Jones, , Permanent Secretary and Director of Health Services, Federation of South Arabia. • William Archibald Kelsick. For public services in St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. • Vivian O'Donnell King. For public services in Bermuda. • Macfarlane Lepolesa. For public services in Basutoland. • Desmond Oswald Newbert McIntyre, , Surgeon Specialist, Princess Margaret Hospital, Dominica. • Brian Lucien O'Leary, , Assistant Attorney General, Basutoland. • Samuel Alexander Schultz, . For public services in British Guiana. • Victor Thomas Smithyman, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Swaziland. • Ronald Audley Stoute, Commissioner of Police, Barbados. • Patrick Richard Forsyth Thompson, Secretary for Local Administration & Social Development, Swaziland. • Keith William Trenaman, Chief Forestry Officer, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • Harry George William Turner, Deputy Public Service Commissioner, Aden. • John Brian Twomey, Commissioner of Lands & Surveys, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • Noel Edgar Venner, Secretary of Finance, St. Lucia. • Woo Pak-foo, . For public services in Hong Kong. ;State of New South Wales • Councillor John Richard Black, President of the Ashford Shire Council, State of New South Wales. • Edward Michael Boland, Apprenticeship Commissioner, State of New South Wales. • Richard Maxwell Gibson, , Director of Medicine, Royal Newcastle Hospital, State of New South Wales. • Hedley Victor Horwood. For services to local government and the community in Parramatta, State of New South Wales. • Keith Richardson Waddell, lately Chamber Magistrate, Newcastle, State of New South Wales. • Colonel William Wood, , of Narrabeen, State of New South Wales. For services in the interests of ex-servicemen and women. ;State of Victoria • George Burridge Leith, of Toorak, State of Victoria. For services to the community, particularly to returned ex-servicemen. • Beverley Edith Orr. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in the State of Victoria. • Councillor Jack Pascoe, of Maryborough, State of Victoria. For services to local government and the community. ;State of Queensland • Walter Hubert Boyd, of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For services to the legal profession and the community. • George Hender Cheston Garlick, Lieutenant-Colonel and Chaplain, Salvation Army. For community welfare services in the State of Queensland. • Lilian Leitch, of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For devoted services to the nursing profession. • John Robertson Spender, President of the Branch for the State of Queensland of the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia. ;State of South Australia • Roy Elliot Carter, of St. Georges, State of South Australia. For services to the Methodist Church and the care of the aged. • Archibald John Manning. For services to the State Bank of South Australia, particularly as General Manager. • Violet Beatrice Ramsay, Matron, The Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, State of South Australia. • The Reverend Canon William Robert Ray, Headmaster, Pulteney Grammar School, State of South Australia. ;State of Western Australia • David Bell, . For his contribution to progress and development in the State of Western Australia. ;State of Tasmania • Harry Vernard Biggins. For services in the field of education in the State of Tasmania. • Frank Bathurst Edwards, of Ulverstone, State of Tasmania. For public and community services. • Alexander Reginald Muir. For services to the community in the Burnie district, State of Tasmania. ;Rhodesia • Thomas Egerton Seymour Francis. For services to sport, particularly cricket and Rugby football, in Rhodesia. • James Montgomery, . For his services to medicine and the community in Umtali, Rhodesia. • Alan George Hay Rattray, Officer-in-Charge, Agricultural Experimental Station, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Lieutenant Commander William Anthony John Bale. • Engineer Lieutenant John James Duddin. • Lieutenant Commander (SD) (G) Maurice Henry Elsworthy, (Retired). • Supply Lieutenant Commander Reginald James Griffin. • Lieutenant Commander Claude Henry Griffiths. • Lieutenant Commander Julian Michael Howard. • Lieutenant Commander Clifford James Wynne Kindell. • Lieutenant (CCF) Gilbert William Mantell, , Royal Naval Reserve. • Lieutenant (SD) (G) Harry Purser. • Lieutenant Commander Stanley Frederick Rogers. • Wardmaster Lieutenant Commander John Stockton (Retired). • Lieutenant Commander Herbert Richard Tucker. • Lieutenant Commander (SD) (B) Cecil William Whittington. • Lieutenant Michael John Moyse Wilkin. • Captain (Acting Major) Ian Frank Wray, Royal Marines. ;;Army • T/10690802 Warrant Officer Class I Kenneth Blake Allemandy, Royal Army Service Corps. • Captain John Edward Hamilton Arnott (181115), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. • Major Peter Ivor Attack (380013), Royal Army Service Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Joseph Richardson Bell (363156), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major (Q.G.O.) Birbahadur Rawat (423378), Gurkha Signals. • 2548511 Warrant Officer Class I Geoffrey Augustus Bourne, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Major (temporary) John Boyne (422529), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Major (Quartermaster) Charles Arthur Brown (378643), 1st Green Jackets, 43rd & 52nd (now retired). • Major Harry Francis Lovell-Butt (337340), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Major Peter Irvine Chiswell (414821), The Parachute Regiment, The Parachute Corps. • 22276043 Warrant Officer Class II (Drum Major) Windsor Charles Baker Clark, The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment. • Major Elizabeth Rosemary Denne (386452), Women's Royal Army Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Robert Draper (450580), Corps of Royal Engineers. • The Reverend Evan Walter Evans, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class (244136), Royal Army Chaplains Department. • S/19043702 Warrant Officer Class II Albert Flear, Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Jack Spencer Fletcher (397244), The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment. • 2549474 Warrant Officer Class II Brian Cecil Folkard, Royal Corps of Signals. • Major Dorothy Angela Clough Fowler, (192866), Women's Royal Army Corps (now retired). • Major Julian Edmond Kingsford Goodbody (418272), The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. • Major Bryan George Grime, (430900), Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth & Camerons), Territorial Army. • 21019336 Warrant Officer Class II William Hand, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major (Quartermaster) George Arthur Hills (343361), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major Peter Hudson (330952), 3rd Green Jackets, The Rifle Brigade. • Major Hugh Anthony Johnstone (420864), Royal Corps of Signals. • Major (acting) Edward Jones (273871), Combined Cadet Force. • Major Andrew Kerr (415809), Royal Corps of Signals. • Major Christopher Alfred Kiernan (326868), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • 14724282 Warrant Officer Class I Noel Harold Frederick Kisbee, The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow & Ayrshire Regiment). • Major (temporary) Barry Michael Lane (433169), The Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry. • Major Alastair Malcolm Langlands (384066), 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). • Captain Sidney Hugh Lawrence (452472), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major (Queen's Gurkha Officer) Lokbahadur Thapa (401575), 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles. • Major Douglas Percy Lovejoy (403525), The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment. • 1157759 Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Sylvester Ludford, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • S/22056176 Warrant Officer Class II James John MacDougall, Royal Army Service Corps. • 3772686 Warrant Officer Class II Bernard Murphy, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major Lennox Alexander Hawkins Napier, (397999), The South Wales Borderers. • Major Edward Anthony John Parry (393240), The Worcestershire Regiment. • Major Derek Archer Phillips, (100040), Royal Corps of Signals, Army Emergency Reserve. • Major Geoffrey Edward Phillips, (70810), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 2624603 Warrant Officer Class I Dennis Randell, Grenadier Guards. • Major (temporary) John Gordon Richards (429597), Royal Army Educational Corps (now R.A.R.O.). • Major (acting) Francis William Seymour Stanbrook, (249251), Army Cadet Force. • Major Deryck Godfrey Walter Start (390652), Royal Army Service Corps. • 860042 Warrant Officer Class I George Frederick Stirling, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22346425 Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Maurice Clifford Stock, Royal Corps of Signals. • 21015230 Warrant Officer Class II Eric Victor Surman, Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army. • Major John Keith Lumley Thompson, (254875), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major Frank Neville Tromans, (333246), Royal Army Medical Corps, Army Emergency Reserve. • Major (acting) Sidney William Turner (389333), Combined Cadet Force. • Captain James Edward Twinn (454632), Corps 1 of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • Major Richard Maurice Hilton Vickers, (400100), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Leonard Walker (439779), 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. • S/22976513 Warrant Officer Class II Eric Raymond White, Royal Army Service Corps. • Major David Stuart Whiter (415017), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • The Reverend William George Augustus Wright, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class (260306), Royal Army Chaplains Department. • Major William Thomas Duckworth de Haast, Rhodesia Army. • Captain Hugh Richard Louis Whistler (457306), Corps of Royal Engineers; on loan to the Government of Malaysia. • Major Richard Eustace John Gerrard-Wright (407841), 2nd (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment; formerly on loan to the Government of Kenya. • Lieutenant Ivan August Uddenberg, St. Kitts-Nevis Voluntary Defence Force. ;;Royal Air Force • Squadron Leader Vernon Buckman (49851). • Squadron Leader Philip Morton Butler (79864) (Retired). • Squadron Leader Reginald Leonard Cater (123884). • Squadron Leader Jacques Pierre Croizat (4094378). • Squadron Leader Harold Elvey Earnshaw (535424). • Squadron Leader Norman George (591499). • Squadron Leader George Joseph Anthony Ferdinand Green (3121485). • Squadron Leader Arthur Sidney Ilott (1880590). • Squadron Leader Ronald Peter James (49560). • Squadron Leader Timothy Kennedy, (182180). • Squadron Leader Hugh Leigh (51303). • Squadron Leader Leonard Roy Moxam (2458978) (Retired). • Squadron Leader Geoffrey Satherley (49138). • Squadron Leader William Laurence Smyth (1908446). • Squadron Leader Harold John Kevin Vieyra, (506363). • Squadron Leader Norman Watts (52192), Royal Air Force (Retired). • Squadron Leader Paul Mitchell Worthington (607034). • Acting Squadron Leader Bernard Leslie Hunter (124797). • Acting Squadron Leader William Henry Charles Jennings (68338), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Acting Squadron Leader Ernest John Prince (109652). • Flight Lieutenant Donald Albert Bennett (579569). • Flight Lieutenant Robert Felix Byrne (3512200). • Flight Lieutenant Richard Andrew Connor (183471), Royal Air Force Regiment (Retired). • Flight Lieutenant Edward John Cadman Crane (573454). • Flight Lieutenant Leslie Raymond Farmer (573245). • Flight Lieutenant Roy William Gibbard (3117514). • Flight Lieutenant James Marsden (535167). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald Matthew Salt, (607315). • Flight Lieutenant Frederick John Sanders, (569829). • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Oliver Sharples (968370). • Flight Lieutenant Keith Watson (3132383). • Acting Flight Lieutenant Cecil Frederick James Heath (63533), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Flying Officer Bernard Roy Legg (1420631), Royal Air Force Regiment. • Flying Officer Norman James Warnes (4000692). • Master Air Electronics Operator Thomas McHugh, (1215791). • Warrant Officer William Ronald Barsby (612080). • Warrant Officer Francis William Bowie (519638). • Warrant Officer Charles Alphonsus Curran (591709). • Warrant Officer John Walter Dillon (520008). • Warrant Officer William George Kenneth Dingle (591383). • Warrant Officer Peter Hoyland Higgins (941050). • Warrant Officer John Alfred Middleton (529883). • Warrant Officer Dennis Lloyd Teasdale (643684). • Warrant Officer Lydia Wilcock (897283), Women's Royal Air Force. • Warrant Officer Class I Walter William Holden, Royal Rhodesian Air Force. ;Civil Division • William Charles Abbott, Technical Grade I, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • William John Abraham, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. • Ernest James Adams, , Trade Union Vice-Chairman, Merseyside District Advisory Committee, North Western Regional Board for Industry. • Noel Alexander Adrain, , District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. • Reginald William Alexander, Superintending Instructor, Headquarters No. 24 Group, RAF Rudloe Manor, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Rachel Elinor Anderdon, Vice-Chairman, Taunton, Yeovil & District War Pensions Committee. • Oliver Smith Anderson, Export Director, H. S. Whiteside & Company Ltd. For services to export. • Ernest Frederick Armstrong, Managing Clerk, Sherwood & Company, Parliamentary Agents. • Bernard Ash, Executive Engineer, Post Office Laboratories, Wembley, General Post Office. • Sydney Hayes Ashburner, Technical Works Officer, Grade I, Ministry of Power. • John Backhouse, Secretary to the British Waterways Board. • Victor Edward Ronald Bailey, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Annie Ball. For political services in Northampton. • Beatrice Annie Barker, . For political and public services in Hereford. • William Cyril Beale, . For political and public services in Glamorgan. • Mary Martin Craigie Bell. For political services. • William Bell, Manager, Naval Gun Mounting Department, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne. • Observer Commander William George Belton, Group Commandant, No. 14 Group, Royal Observer Corps. • Patricia Frances Carson Bennett. For services to the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society. • Constance Hope Benson, Senior Sister, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. • George Stanley Bentley, Second Assistant Engineer (Control Engineer), Engineering Department, Manchester Area, North Western Electricity Board. • John Squire Bentley, Temporary Executive Officer, No. 35 Maintenance Unit, RAF Heywood, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Bertrand William Bezodis, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. • Roy Oliver Binet, , Chairman, Jersey Branch, Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Families Association. • Thomas Arthur Bish, , Executive Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Nottingham General Post Office. • Captain Charles Blakey, Master, MV Lancastrian Prince, Furness, Withy & Company Ltd. • Victor George Blewden, , Deputy Assistant Chief Officer, London Fire Brigade. • Roger Charles Blunt, Secretary, Cake & Biscuit Alliance Ltd. • William Boggon, Manager, Ravensworth Ann Colliery, Northumberland & Durham Division, National Coal Board. • Richard Mason Bompas, Group Secretary, West Cumberland Hospital Management Committee. • Margaret Boothman, County Superintendent (Nursing), County of Buckingham, St. John Ambulance Brigade. • Norah Boothman, lately Head of Department of Science, Luton College of Technology. • Ian Alexander Borland, Secretary, Honorary Committee of Management, Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College, HMS Worcester. • Helen May Bottrill, Senior Executive Officer, Paymaster General's Office. • Sidney Charles Alfred Bowler, Divisional Administration Officer, Ministry of Aviation. • Samuel Bowles, Assistant Manager, Electrical Testing Departments, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. • Ronald Bowlzer. For political and public services in Derbyshire. • Alderman Oliver Frederick Douglas Bradley. For political and public services in Stafford. • Brenda Bradley Breakwell, Secretary and Manager, Kensington Housing Trust. • Clifford Ellett Bream, Commandant, Leicestershire & Rutland Special Constabulary. • Robert Arthur Brewer, District Reporter, Hull Daily Mail. • Helena Brown, Welfare Officer, Ministry of Health. • Reginald William Brown, Chief Instructor, Wimbledon and District Training Centre, Royal Automobile Club Auto-Cycle Union. • Robert Howard Brown, Principal, Finaghy Primary School, Country Antrim. • William Peter Brownridge, Chairman, Warrington Savings Committee. • Tom Bucknall, National Savings District Member for North East Derbyshire. • Amy Ernestine Buller, Founder and Past Warden, St. Cathrine's College, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park. • John Sydney Buller, Test and First Class County Cricket Umpire. • David Francis John Byrne, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Arthur Donald Caddick, Honorary Secretary, Smethwick Savings Committee. • George Lawson Caldwell, Honorary Secretary, Edinburgh Building Safety Group. • James Caldwell, Senior Assistant Engineer (Communications), South of Scotland Electricity Board; • Captain Alexander Cant, Master, MV Scotstoun, J. & J. Denholm (Management) Ltd. • Gilbert Eric Cawkwell, Full-time Official of the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators. • Edith Elizabeth Chamberlain, County Organiser, Staffordshire, Women's Voluntary Service. • Geoffrey Charles Chouffot, Senior Flight Operations Inspector, Directorate of Aviation Safety, Ministry of Aviation. • Alfred James Cleare, Technical Grade I, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Albert John Coare, Manager, Documentation and Codification Contracts, H. J. Smart Ltd., Middlesex. • Elinor Phyllis Cockburn, Housing Manager, Bracknell Development Corporation. • James Victor Coe, Member, Wiltshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Alan Tom George Coleborn, Chief Draughtsman, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Derek Hamilton Collins, Senior Experimental Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Greta Collyns, General Secretary, Scottish Girl Guides Association. • Malcolm Ridyard Compston, Temporary Senior Technical Examining Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Muriel Lilian Cooke, lately Examinations Officer, National Institute for Housecraft (Employment & Training) Ltd. • George Corbett, Staff Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland. • Gillian Ellen Cornish, , Executive Officer, HM Treasury. • Albert John Courtney, Senior Executive Officer, Central Office of Information. • John Younie Coutts, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Amateur Swimming Association. • William Cowie, Fisherman, Port of Buckie. For services to the Scottish inshore fishing industry. • Edwin Cuthbert Cory Crapp, Head of Supply Section, Conference, Services and Supply Department, Diplomatic Service Administration Office. • Lancelot George Francis Cross, Head Forester, Forestry Commission. • George Henry Crump, Manager, Felling Government Training Centre and Industrial Rehabilitation Unit, Ministry of Labour. • Wilfred George Cunningham. For political and public services in Norfolk. • Walter Robertson Cuthbert, Honorary Vice-President, Scottish Community Drama Association. • Charles Edward Robert Darby, E.D, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office. • Gwilym Davies, , Member, Caernarvonshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • William Glanfrwyd Davies, Surveyor and Chief Public Health Inspector, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Urban District Council. • Wilfred Owen Davis, Engineer, Research Department, Aviation Division, S. Smith & Sons (England) Ltd. • Eric Dawes, Divisional Officer, West Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade. • Frank Leslie Dawkins, Field Officer Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Elizabeth Dobson, Chairman, Spennymoor Savings Committee. • Robert Stevenson Doig, , Area Medical Officer, Isle of Lewis. • Robert Neill Dougall, Newsreader, Television News, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Edgar James Dovey, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. • Annie Downie, lately District Nurse, island of Fetlar, Shetland. • Alfred William Francis Drake, Managing Director, Downe & Baker Ltd., Devon. • Harry Sinclair Drever, , Honorary Secretary, Shetland Local Savings Committee. • Edward Donald Drew, Chairman, Richmond-upon-Thames Savings Committee. • Henry Patrick Durrell, Attached Ministry of Defence. • Frank Humphreys-Edwards, Planning Officer, Scottish Development Department. • Frederick George Ellington, Superintendent, Mid Anglia Constabulary. • Frederick George Elliott, , Sales Superintendent, Telephone Managers Office, Coventry, General Post Office. • Frank Thomas Emery. For political and public services in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. • Edith Elsie Evans, Confidential Secretary and Personal Assistant to the Works Manager, John I. Thornycroft & Company Ltd., Southampton. • Glyn Barrett Evans, County Ambulance Officer, Carmarthenshire. • John Evans, General Manager, East Anglian Trustee Savings Bank. • Kathleen Esther Evans, Senior Woman Technical Adviser, Central Council of Physical Recreation. • Bruce Raymond Farrant, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Dorothy Mary Fell, Senior Machine Operator, No. 16 Maintenance Unit, RAF Stafford, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Major Francis Waldemar Firminger, , Divisional Organiser, Metropolitan Division, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. • Olive Gertrude Fisher, Centre Organiser, Enfield, Women's Voluntary Service. • Alderman Michael Fitzpatrick. For public services in Wakefield, Yorkshire. • Dorothy Eleanor Fletcher, Vice-Chairman, Wallasey Local Employment Committee. • William Flood, Clerical Officer, Headquarters Eastern Command, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Lewis Hamilton Ford, Experimental Officer, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. • William Henry Ford, Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • John Bryan Forster, Divisional Officer, Auxiliary Fire Service, Kent Fire Brigade. • Thomas Alexander Fortune, Chairman, Scottish Society for Mentally Handicapped Children. • Audrie Olive Ethel Francis, Grade 8(e) of HM Diplomatic Service, Foreign Office. • John Gordon French, Chief Officer, Norwich Fire Brigade. • James John Frost, Senior Probation Officer, London. • William Charles Frost, Senior Experimental Officer, Gas Standards Branch, Ministry of Power. • Nora Mary Gaetjens, Assistant, Registry & Records Section, Audience Research, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Ernest Gardner, , Alderman, City of Lancaster. • Charles James Frederick Gilmore, Special Appointment, Chaplains Branch, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Herbert Frederick Girling, Assistant Secretary, The United Services Trustee. • John William Godsell, Detective Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • Douglas Wickham Goodman, Senior Executive Officer, Diplomatic Service Administration Office. • George Frederick Goodman, Divisional Officer, Birmingham Fire Brigade. • Frederick Norman Goss, Manager, Lochaber Works, Fort William, British Aluminium Company Ltd. • Percy Sassoon Gourgey. For political and public services. • Mysie Howie Graham, Organiser of School Meals, Renfrewshire. • Cecil Edgar Green, Senior Accountant, Board of Trade. • George William Greenway, Attached Ministry of Defence. • John William Greenwood, Superintendent Engineer, Hailsham Hospital Management Committee. • Ifor Bowen Griffith, Chairman, Housing Committee, Council of the Royal Borough of Caernarvon. • Albert Edward Hall, Technical Works Grade I, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire. • Doris Lilian Alice Hall, Regional Nursing Officer, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. • Francis Harry Hall, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • John Rutherford Menzies Hamilton, Senior Draughtsman in charge of Central Drawing Office, Ministry of Transport. • Bertha Lilian Hamment, Superintendent, Ladywell Residential Nursery, Lewisham. • James Lawrence Hammill. For political and public services in Barnsley. • James Hanna, Clerk, Ballymoney Rural District Council, County Antrim. • Reginald Harding, Technical Grade I, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Edward Charles Thomas Hardy, lately Senior Executive Officer, Home Office. • Frederick Harrison, Senior Staff Photographer, Northcliffe Newspapers Group, Ltd. • George Harrison, Member of The Beatles. • Albert Edward Harvey. For services to Nursing and old peoples welfare in Middlesex. • Ina Beatrice Harvey, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Frank Craven Hedley, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • John Hemingway, , Part-time Tutor to the Services, Northern Command. • George William Herrick, Chief Public Health Inspector, Hammersmith. • George Mundell Hetherington, , General Practitioner in Clackmannan. • Frank Lawrence Hill, Chief Experimental Officer, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston. • John Hill, Superintendent of Works, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Maude Adelaide Hill, lately Junior Staff Officer, Ministry of Development for Northern Ireland. • Colonel William Arthur Hinchcliffe, , Chairman, National Assistance Appeal Tribunal, Huddersfield. • Doris May Hollyoake. For political and public services in Oldbury. • Joan Beatrice Hopgood, HM Inspector of Factories IA, Ministry of Labour. • Edward Hopkins, . For political and public services in Northwich. • John Laurie Howison, Assistant Chief Cartographer, Ministry of Overseas Development. • John Henry Hurst. For political and public services in Derbyshire. • Dorothy Hyman. For services to Women's Athletics. • Grace Adelaide Mary Inglis, lately Assistant Secretary, Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. • George Irons, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Thomas Carlisle Irwin, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. • Arthur Jackson, Chairman, Doncaster, Mexborough and District War Pensions Committee. • Oliver James. For political and public services in Monmouthshire. • Betty Helen Fyfe-Jamieson, County Organiser, West Suffolk, Women's Voluntary Service. • William Jamieson, Senior Planner, Central Planning Department, British Petroleum Company Ltd. • Frederick Sydney Johnson, , Trawler Skipper, Grimsby. • Ernest Horsford Jones, Chief Superintendent, Sorting Office, Nottingham, General Post Office. • John Glyn Jones, Managing Director, Corgi Hosiery Ltd. For services to export. • Meirion Jones, Headmaster, Bala County Primary School. • Monica Martin-Jones, Superintendent Physiotherapist, Westminster Hospital Group. • Reginald Henry George Jones, , National Savings District Member for South Somerset. • Esther Eleanor Kelly, Headmistress, Patrick School, Isle of Man. • John Kennedy, Headmaster, St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Junior Mixed School, Huyton, Lancashire. • John Wisnom Kerr, Organiser of the Building and Government Workers Section (Northern Ireland), Amalgamated Transport & General Workers Union. • Clifford Dudley Kitching, Engineer II, Royal Ordnance Factory, Woolwich, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Lesley Victor Kleeman, Manager (Construction), Scenic Servicing, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Albert Peter Lamy, , lately Chief Officer, Guernsey Island Police Force. • Frederick John Lawrence, Senior Personnel Assistant, Office of the Works Manager (Road Services), London Transport Board. • Joseph Leeming, Chairman, Advisory Committee of Fairfield Experimental Horticulture Station. • George Sydney Lees, Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Ivy Ford Lees, Headmistress, Middleport County Infants School. • John Winston Lennon, Member of The Beatles. • Ernest Ralph Lesley, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Cecil Stanley Frederick Levon, Clerical Officer, Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Salisbury, Ministry of Aviation. • Catherine Marguerite Lewis, Head of Training Department, Headquarters, Women's Voluntary Service. • Dorothy Lewis, Voluntary Clothing Room Manager, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Jack Lewis, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Cecilia Gladys Lingwood, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • Philip Newsam Linton, lately Warden, Luxborough Lodge Home for the aged and infirm. • Donald Malcolm Lister, Technical Manager, Bartram & Sons Ltd. For services to export. • Iris Mary Lobb, Chief Officer, Welfare Section, Civil Defence Corps, Bristol. • Alfred Harold Lugg, Member, Horticulture Sub-Committee of Hertfordshire Agricultural Executive Committee. For services to Horticulture. • James Paul McCartney, Member of The Beatles. • Sheila May McDougall, Higher Clerical Officer, General Post Office. • Samuel George McMeekin, lately Higher Executive Officer, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. • Norman French McMinnis, Chief Clerk, Land Registry, Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland. • Hugh Rose MacQueen, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Aberdeen City Police. • Leonard Fitzgerald Mansell, Secretary, National Council of Building Material Producers. • John William Martin, Higher Executive Officer, Cabinet Office. • Louis George Martin, Weightlifter, for services to Athletics. • Michael William Blount May, Member of No. 11(F) (Brooklands) Squadron Committee, Air Training Corps. • Captain William Mendus, Master, MV Hollybank, Andrew Weir & Company Ltd. • Victor Robert Joseph Merrett, Acting Chief Architectural and Civil Engineering Assistant, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • James Harold Mills. For political and public services in Sherburn-in-Elmet. • James Gordon Milne, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture & Fisheries for Scotland. • Douglas Moir, Sheriff Clerk, Banff. • Charles Arthur Moore, Sales Manager, Polygram Casting Company Ltd. For services to export. • Frank Moran, lately Golf Writer, The Scotsman. • Margaret Paterson More, Centre Organiser, Paisley Large Burgh, Women's Voluntary Service. • Wallace Mortimer Morfey, Chairman, Ipswich and District Youth Employment Committee. • Julia Mary Agnes Morgan. For political and public services in Lincolnshire. • Rhyllis Edith Morrison, Superintendent of Typists, Nottingham Divisional Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Marjorie Lucy Moss, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour. • William King Moxley, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Doris Rachel Aked Murray, Member of the Committee of Friends, North West Durham Hospitals Group. • John Murray. For services to the Highlanders Institute, Glasgow. • Victor William Neate, lately Collector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. • The Reverend David Thompson Neely, Member, County Down Savings Committee. • Laurence Bruce Nicolson, Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • James Oakes, Founder, Leader and Chairman of the Brindle Heath Lads Club. • Dennis Alfred O'Dell, Export Manager, Payen Ltd. For services to export. • Maurice Charles Oldham, Chief Chemist and Metallurgist, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness. • John Henry Oliver, Accountant, Board of Customs & Excise. • Eleanor Owen, Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives, Superintendent Nursing Officer, Merioneth County Council. • Frank Edward Page, Senior Radio Officer, SS Loch Garth, Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. • Cyril Norman Parish, Senior Overseas Travelling Representative, British Engineers Small Tools & Equipment Company Ltd. For services to export. • Minnie Graham Parker (Mrs. Perishick), Hospitality Secretary, Victoria League in Scotland. • Frederick James Parsons, Observer, County Observatory, Ross-on-Wye. • John Bertram George Haddon Armstrong-Payne, Chairman, Lavapine Ltd., Dundee. For services to export. • Percy Benjamin Payton, President, National Union of Flint Glass Workers. • Sarah Harriet Maud Peek, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. • Sydney James Pellow, lately Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Rex Henry Percy, Chairman of the Guildford Sea Cadet Unit. • George William Perrett, Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Henry James Phillips, Superintendent of Binding, British Museum. • Ivy Gladys Pickford, Member of the Regional Staff, Wales, Women's Voluntary Service. • Frederick William Player, lately Chief Associate, Crown Office & Associates Department, Supreme Court of Judicature. • Robert John Porter, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Ethel Barbara Potter, Member of Regional Staff, Nottingham, Women's Voluntary Service. • William John White Preece, Headmaster, St Chad's County Secondary School, Tilbury. • Leslie Eric Preston, Engineer (Mechanical & Electrical), Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Charles Edwin Puddle, Head Gardener, Bodnant Gardens, Denbighshire. • Doreen Elizabeth Pugh. For services as Secretary to the late Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, . • Arthur Thomas Stanley Rayner, Regional Welfare Officer, Liverpool Street, British Railways Board. • Bertram Edward Rayner, Senior Technical Officer, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Philip Martyn Reason, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Ella Richardson, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. • Ethel May Ringe, Higher Clerical Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. • John Joseph Donald Rivers. For services to the British Legion. • Alderman Jeanette Pearl Roberts, . For public services in Essex. • George Robinson. For political and public services in Whitburn. • Scipio James Robinson. For political services in Petersfield. • William John Marshall Robinson. For services to the Poultry Breeding Industry of Northern Ireland. • Charles Henry Rogers, Technical Class Officer, Grade A, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Henry James Rose, Technical Class Grade I, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • Albert Leith Ruscoe, Head Postmaster, Chelmsford. • Ailsa Russell, Attached Ministry of Defence. • Charles Eric Sargeant, Information Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Celia Magdalena Seymour, formerly Senior Blind Welfare Officer, Middlesex County Council. • George Edward Sharp, Executive Officer, London Postal Region, General Post Office. • Sidney Fredrick Sharpe, Senior Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters, Foreign Office. • Alderman Robert Shotton. For political and public services in Durham. • Margaret Maud Skeet, Honorary Secretary, Community Advisory Committee, Bristol Council of Social Service. • John Augustus Slade, Chief Draughtsman, Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Robert Hans Sloane, Deputy Director, Contracts Division, HM Stationery Office. • Douglas William Smith, Senior Warning Officer, Truro Group, Air Raid Warning Organisation. • Edgar Charles Houghton Smith, Engineer II, Ministry of Aviation. • George Smith. For political services in Swansea. • Harry Vivian Smith, Training Manager, Assembly Division, Ford Motor Company, Ltd. • Mabel Louisa Smith, Clerical Officer, Department of Education & Science. • Phyllis Mayland Smith, lately Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • William Arthur Alexander Smith, Higher Executive Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Catherine Nora Snelling. For services as Secretary to the late Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, . • Victor Clarence Spary, Chairman, Linslade and Wing Savings Committee. • Howard John Spencer, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. • Reginald John Spraggins, . For political and public services in Norfolk. • Charles Richard Squires, Programme Director, Rediffusion Television Ltd. • Frank Roland Stacey, Experimental Officer, Ministry of Overseas Development. • Marcel William Staite. For political and public services in Worcestershire. • Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), Member of The Beatles. • Marjorie Trevelyan Stephens. For services to the United Nations Children's Fund. • Horace Alfred Edwin Stepney, Surveyor, Board of Customs & Excise. • John Dixon Stewart, , Councillor, Meriden Rural District Council, Warwickshire. • Marguerite Ellen Gaudin Stocker, Governor, HM Prison Askham Grange, Home Office. • Charles James Stribling, lately Deputy Chief Driving Examiner, Ministry of Transport. • Marjorie Doris Strong, Divisional Director, Tiverton Division, Devon Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Harry Stubbs, Organiser of the Worcestershire Rural Community Council. • Robert George Sullivan, Honorary Secretary, County Fermanagh Savings Committee. • Ivan James Sutton, Founder and Chairman, City Music Society. • John Edward Swinburn, Departmental Manager, Armament Forgings & Services Liaison Officer, English Steel Corporation Ltd., Sheffield. • Kathleen Isabella Tallent, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Horace Tattersall, Conductor, Blackburn Music Society. • Willielma Yuill Taylor, Infants Mistress, Copeland Road Secondary School, Glasgow. • Glyn Thomas. For political and public services in Anglesey. • Rita Myfanwy Thomas, Senior Executive Officer, London (Heathrow) Airport, Ministry of Aviation. • William Thomasson, Chairman, Barking and Newham War Pensions Committee. • Dick Thompson. For services to Paraplegic Sport. • Alexander Charles Graham Thomson, , Chief Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Carlisle. • Ernest Arthur Thorogood, Chief Telecommunications Superintendent, North Area, London, General Post Office. • Alfred Ernest Tingle, Drainage and Water Supply Officer, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Reginald Clarke Titman, Engineer II, Atomic Weapons Division, Ministry of Aviation. • Minnie Theresa Todhunter, Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & Insurance. • William Clifford Lewis Tonkin, Higher Clerical Officer, Law Officers Department. • Frederick William Toomer, Chief Designer Naval Contracts, Aish & Company Ltd., Dorset. • Ernest Stanley Tooth, lately Dock Superintendent, India & Millwall Docks, Port of London Authority. • Percy Walter Trengrouse, Clerical Officer, National Assistance Board. • Dorothy Frances Urwin, Clerical Officer (Secretary), Ministry of Defence. • Major Adam Gibson Vallance, , Superintendent of the Training Rehabilitation Centre and Workshops for the War Blinded, Linburn. • Phyllis Mary Vasey, lately Clerical Officer (Secretary), Public Trustee Office. • Robert Harold Veal, Trade Union Chairman, Hull District Advisory Committee, East and West Ridings of Yorkshire Regional Board for Industry. • Arthur Samuel Alfred Vickerage, Deputy Regional Commissioner, National Savings Committee. • Anne Sanders Vidler, Deputy Commissioner, Toc H. Services Clubs, Germany. • Diana Barnato Walker. For services to the Air Transport Auxiliary and the Girls Venture Corps. • Cyril Percy Walton, Principal Youth Employment Officer, Worcestershire. • Dorothy Marjorie Warren, Matron, Gregory House Old Peoples Home, Grantham. • Reginald Charles Wassell, Head of Music Department, Portsmouth Technical High School. • David Masson Watt, lately Head Forester, Forestry Commission, Scotland. • Norman George Webb, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health. • James Welsby, . For political and public services in Leyland. • Leonard Walter Wenman, Chairman, Panel of Examiners of the Guild of Air Pilots & Navigators. • Dorothy Elma West, Matron of the Royal Naval & Royal Marine Maternity Home, Portsmouth. • Frank Westfield, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Margaret Brash White, Honorary Secretary of a National Savings Group. • George Dallas Whitelaw, lately Senior Ship Surveyor, Marine Survey, Hull, Board of Trade. • Nellie Whiteley, lately domiciliary midwife, Shipley, Yorkshire. • Joseph Andrew Dalgetty Whyte, Liaison Officer to Royal Canadian Air Force, Scottish Aviation Ltd., Prestwick Airport. • Dorothy Evelyn Wigg, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Frederick William Wilkinson, Technical Grade I, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • John Hywel, Williams, Headmaster, Welburn Hall Residential School for Physically Handicapped Pupils, Kirbymoorside. • Thomas Leonard Williams, Principal, Lickey Grange School for the Blind and Alexandra College for the Blind. • Duncan Roderick Wills, Development Manager, Watson House Research Station, The Gas Council. • Eileen Gertrude Wilson, Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Cecil John Woodward, Foreign Sales Executive, R. A. Lister & Company Ltd. For services to export. • William Woolfenden, Engineer-in-Charge, Independent Television Authority Transmitting Station, St. Hilary, Cowbridge, Glamorgan. • John Percival Ernest Edward Worboys, Senior Chief Managing Clerk, Solicitors Department, Metropolitan Police. • Sidney George Keevil Wright, Assistant County Surveyor, Herefordshire County Council. • George Lilburn Aitchison, Acting Under-Secretary (Establishments), Ministry of Establishments & Training, Northern Nigeria. • Brian Albinson, State Drainage and Irrigation Engineer, Selangor, Malaysia. • James Michael Harsant Barrable, British subject resident in the Federal Republic of Cameroon. • Irene Linda Bastable, lately Principal Matron, Ministry of Health, Tanzania. • George Broadway, lately Senior Accountant, Northern Nigeria. • Harriet Cartwright, British subject resident in the United States of America. • Marjorie Annie Frances Charman, British Pro-Consul, Geneva. • Elenora Freda Ann Clark, Senior Sister Tutor, Western Nigeria Medical Service. • Vera Beatrice Ranson Croucher, Machine Operator Superintendent, Internal Revenue Division, Ministry of Finance, Eastern Nigeria. • Francis Edward Dalby, British Vice-Consul, Valencia. • Harold Furney Charles Darling, Chief Superintendent, Nigeria Police. • Ruth Jane Doran, lately Principal Matron, Ministry of Health, Tanzania. • Egerton Clarence Duckworth, Commercial Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Athens. • Frederick George Fenner, Superintendent of Police, Perak, Malaysia. • Margaret Denby Feuer, British Vice-Consul, Malmö. • Eric Thomas Henry Fitzsimmons, lately British Council Director, Bahrain. • James Theodore Fleming, lately Senior Courts Adviser, Uganda. • Donald Fordwood. For services to the British community in India. • Horace George Franks, Daily Mail Correspondent in The Netherlands. • Peter Garnham, Assistant Surveyor-General, Malaysia. • Mary Isabel Gaskell, Personal Assistant to the Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development. • William Henry Tugwell Herne Goodwin, Chief Accountant and Secretary, Gaskiya Corporation, Northern Nigeria. • Marjorie Joan Gregory, Nursing Sister, Leprosy Service, Ministry of Health, Eastern Nigeria. • Richard Groom, Clerical Office, British High Commission, Kuala Lumpur. • Marjorie Wilhelmina De Haan, Shorthand-typist, Her Majesty's Embassy, The Hague. • Christine Hall. For services to the community in Ceylon. • Stanley Hardy, Superintendent of Police, Sarawak Constabulary. • Albert Francis Joseph Harris, British subject resident in Brussels. • Ronald Rennie Harrison. For services to British interests in Nigeria. • John Victor Hartman, Interpreter, British Military Government, Berlin. • Agnes Mary Hicks, Secretary-Typist, Nigeria Public Service. • John Hugh Cogswell Hicks, Organiser, Rural Science (Group 8), Ministry of Education, Northern Nigeria. • Winifred Annie Buckle Holland, Principal Matron, Kuching General Hospital, State of Sarawak. • Ernest Jackson, Higher Executive Officer, British High Commission, New Delhi. • Thomas Joseph Johnson, Hide Improvement Officer, Uganda. • Joseph Hezekiah Keeble, Regional Fire Officer, Western Nigeria. • Rex Ivan Lagerstedt, Senior Assistant Comptroller of Inland Revenue, Northern Region, Malaysia. • Elizabeth Muir Dow Larsen, British subject resident in Denmark. • Gerard Stephen Leader, Adviser in Fire Services, Ghana. • Ludwik Lotringer, Principal Agricultural Officer, Northern Nigeria. • Donald Stanley Luffman, Cinema Officer, Western Nigeria Public Service. • Muriel Madeleine Mackay, Headmistress, Raeburn Park School, State of Singapore. • Marion Gladys Lang Majdalany, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic. • Major James Knox Matthew, British subject resident in France. • Cynthia Mary Mathews, Shorthand-Typist, Her Majesty's Embassy, Beirut. • Margaret Brown McLean, Palantypist for Parliament in Uganda. • Jane McLoughlin, lately Nursing Sister, Office of the British Chargé d'Affaires, Peking. • Mollie Messing, British subject resident in the United States of America. • Colin George Frederick Millington, Superintendent of Police, Sarawak Constabulary. • Gerald Hugh Alan Murphy, lately Head of Criminal Investigation Department, Uganda. • Albert Augustus Charles Nash, Commercial Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Rome. • Ernest Henry Noble, Second Secretary (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Tunis. • Robert John Osborne, Agricultural Manager, Northern Nigeria Development Corporation. • Gerald Joseph Parry, Senior Technical Officer, Western Nigeria. • Edwin Charles Patient, Principal, Government College, Keffi, Northern Nigeria. • Catherine Ingram Petrie, Confidential Secretary to Her Majesty's High Commissioner in Brunei. • Kenneth Alexander Price, Deputy Chief Federal Immigration Officer, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Nigeria. • John Ridley. For services to the British community in Jinja, Uganda. • Joffre Ringsell, Government Printer, Uganda. • Rosemary Harvey Mary Passmore Rowe, Archivist, Her Majesty's Embassy, Santo Domingo. • Paul Franklin Rudd, Junior Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Santo Domingo. • Ronald Frederick Skitt, Communications Officer, British High Commission, Nicosia. • Annie Georgina Soper, Missionary, lately San Martin, Peru. • Kenneth Stephenson, Stores Superintendent, Public Works Department, State of Sarawak. • John Thomas Stevens, Senior Civil Engineer, State of Singapore. • Robert Stewart, Internal Auditor, Western Nigeria. • Frank Martin Taylor, British Vice-Consul, St. Louis. • Theodore Patrick Tenten, Higher Executive Officer, British High Commission, Port of Spain. • Donald Hamilton Tod, lately General Manager, Nigerian National Shipping Line. • Kenneth Norman Toms, District Surveyor, State of Sabah. • Dorothy Galloway Torrance, Nursing Supervisor, Pakistan (SEATO) Cholera Research Laboratories, Dacca, Pakistan. • Helen Dick Tull, Chairman of the Kyrenia Branch of the British Red Cross Society, Cyprus. • Patrick Julian Wallace, Administrative Officer Class II, Northern Nigeria. • Martin Bertram Watts, , Medical Officer-in-Charge, Lau King Howe Hospital, Sibu, Sarawak. • Albert Joffre Will, Communications Officer, Her Majesty's Embassy, Djakarta. • Donald Mallett Williams, Inspector of Education (Arts & Crafts), Northern Nigeria. • Carl Vincent Worrell, British Pro-Consul, Curaçao. • Dulcina Elizabeth Armstrong. For social services in British Guiana. • Peter Rennie Allen. For public services in, Fiji. • Ahmed Saleh Bashin, Senior Labour Officer, Aden. • Cyril Augustine Bowen, lately Assistant Postmaster of the Bahama Islands. • Leo Humberto Bradley, Librarian, British Honduras. • James Allardyce Campbell, Commissioner, Out Island Department, Bahamas. • Chung Kam-chuen. For public services in Hong Kong. • William Dainty. For public services in British Guiana. • Inez Maria de Lourdes Soares Da Rosa, Senior Class Secretary and Stenographer, Hong Kong. • Peter Andrew Day, lately Administrator, Tristan da Cunha. • Claude Joseph Guy De Commarmond. For public services in Mauritius. • Richard Pullin Fielders, Superintendent, Bermuda Police Force. • Camille Frichot, Postmaster, Seychelles. • Hugh Haynes Hamlett, Senior Auditor, St. Vincent. • Elizabeth Sofia Harper. For public services in Antigua. • David Horn, Diamond Drilling Superintendent, Geological Survey & Mines Department, Swaziland. • Lawrence Braithwaite Howard, Workshop Manager, Public Works Department, Swaziland. • Sheila Iu Sui-tong, Matron, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong. • Cecil Albert Jacobs, Financial Secretary, St. Vincent. • The Reverend Charles Jesse. For public services in St. Lucia. • Osea Kaloumaira, Field Officer, Agricultural Department, Fiji. • James Kerr, Director of Civil Aviation and Senior Pilot, Falkland Islands. • Ko Siu-wah Kwan. For social services in Hong Kong. • Liu Ping-pui, Head Computer, Royal Observatory, Hong Kong. • Janet Mary Longfield Lloyd. For public services in Fiji. • Reginald McConney, Assistant Accountant General, Barbados. • Josephine Margaret Patricia McIntosh, Headmistress, St. Anne's School, Glacis, Gibraltar. • Mohamed Ghaleb Mohamed. For public services in Aden. • Gideon Sapoa Nitz, Senior Executive Officer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. • Margaret Orella. For public services in British Guiana. • Phyllis Ena Osbourne. For public services in Grenada. • Francis William Penhey, Executive Engineer (Roads), Public Works Department, Aden. • Ralph Henry Picardo, Assistant Electrical Engineer, Electricity Department, Gibraltar. • Elizabeth Catherine Pyatt, Matron, Godden Memorial Hospital, Lolowai, New Hebrides. • Samuel Anson Rangasawmy. For public services in British Guiana. • Harold de Lisle Rock. For public services in Barbados. • Charles Cochrane Sachs, Lay Superintendent, St. Giles Hospital, Fiji. • Jerome Gordon St. Bernard, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications & Works, Grenada. • Abel Caweni Sikunyana, District Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Alfred Arthur Morgan Tatem, , Treasurer, Turks & Caicos Islands. • Moses Thokoa Tlebere, Clerk to the Legislative Council, Basutoland. • Ena Kathleen Walters, Matron, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados. • Edward Percival Yorke, Principal, Belize Technical College, British Honduras. ;State of New South Wales • Jean Fleming Arnot. For services to the community in Sydney, State of New South Wales. • Ethel Winifred Blaxland, of Sydney, State of New South Wales. For social welfare services. • Mary Monica Carr, Sister in charge, Maternity Wing, Mercy Hospital, Young, State of New South Wales. • Vera Leah Cohen. For charitable and social welfare services in the State of New South Wales. • Betty Cuthbert. For services to athletics in the State of New South Wales. • Rose Anne Enticknap. For services to the community in the State of New South Wales, particularly in the rehabilitation of alcoholics and on behalf of crippled and spastic children. • David Randolph Kirkby, of Sutherland, State of New South Wales. For services to local government. • Francis Stanislaus Maher. For services in the interests of ex-servicemen in the State of New South Wales. • Loretto Agnes O'Connor, of Mudgee, State of New South Wales. For services to nursing. • Edward Watman, Chairman of the Board of the Grafton Hospital, State of New South Wales. ;State of Victoria • Alice Lillian Gertrude Craig, of Camberwell, State of Victoria. For services to the community. • Harold Thornton Grimwade. For charitable and community services in Lismore, State of Victoria. • Harold Jeffrey Keys, , Deputy Secretary for the State of Victoria of the Senior Young Farmers of Victoria. • Ivan Edward Layton. For services to the community, particularly as Executive Officer of the Melbourne Legacy Club, State of Victoria. • Everest Albert Le Page. For services to the community and charitable organisations in Moorabbin and Cheltenham, State of Victoria. • Alma Rogers. For her services to the First Auxiliary of Mount Royal Special Hospital for the Aged, State of Victoria. • Councillor Henry Lester Smith, . For services to local government and the community in Kerang, State of Victoria. ;State of Queensland • Grace Elizabeth Allt, of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For services on behalf of ex-servicemen and women. • Thomas Beech, of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For services in the cause of ambulance work. • Katherine Cameron Carter, lately Headmistress, Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, State of Queensland. • Harry Corones. For community and charitable services in Charleville, State of Queensland. • Timothy John Cotter, , of Innisfail, State of Queensland. For services in the fields of medical welfare and research. • John Dorney, Chairman, Chinchilla Shire Council, State of Queensland. ;State of South Australia • Sarah Louisa Bailey, of Jamestown, State of South Australia. For services to the community. • Florence Hilda May Pollock. For community services in Clare District, State of South Australia. • Sydney William Rogers, of Stirling District, State of South Australia. For services to the community, particularly to returned ex-servicemen. • Margaret Ann Young, of Port Augusta, State of South Australia. For services to the community. ;State of Western Australia • Charles Austin Gardner. For services in the advancement of the knowledge of the flora of the State of Western Australia. • Victor Lewis Steffanoni, President of the Young Australia League in the State of Western Australia. • Alice Williams. For services to the community, particularly in connection with the Country Women's Association of the State of Western Australia. ;State of Tasmania • Corrie Isobel Bugg, , of Queenstown, State of Tasmania. For public, community and charitable services. • William Carl Burrows, of Hobart, State of Tasmania. For services to the community, particularly to youth and crippled children. • Maxwell Robinson, , Secretary, Launceston Sub-Branch, Returned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, State of Tasmania. ;Rhodesia • Archibald Leslie Alison, Chairman, Sinoia Town Management Board, Rhodesia. • Alice May Balsden. For social welfare work in Shabani, Rhodesia. • Edward Arthur Bircher, founder & Chairman of the Rhodesian Paraplegic Games Association. • William Jacob Springer, a pilot in the British South Africa Police Reserve, Rhodesia. • Benjamin Austin Williams, founder and Chairman of the Intensive Conservation Committee, Bubi, Rhodesia. • Chief Zwimba, President of the Council of Chiefs, Rhodesia. Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) • Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, lately Professor of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. • The Right Honourable Emanuel Shinwell, , Member of Parliament for Linlithgow 1922–1924 and 1928–1931; for the Seaham Division of Durham, 1935–1950 and for Easington since 1950. Minister of Fuel and Power, 1945–1947; Secretary of State for War, 1947–1950; Minister of Defence, 1950–1951. Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party since November, 1964. For political and public services. Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) ;Home Civil Service • John Bryan, Director, Forest Products Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. • Peggy Joan Cairns, Principal, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. • Alexander Cameron, lately Grade 2 Officer — Assistant Regional Controller, Edinburgh, Ministry of Labour. • Colin Carruthers, Senior Civil Engineer, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Walter Henry Cartwright, Registrar of Death Duties, Scotland, Board of Inland Revenue. • Edwin George Crocker, Head Postmaster, Head Post Office, Crewe. • Eric Cruddas, Deputy Chief Architect and Deputy Director of Works (Superintending Grade Works Group), Home Office. • Cecil Wilfred Greenwood Daring, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Meteorological Office, Ministry of Defence (Air). • William Darwin, Chief Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters, Foreign Office. • Reginald Hugh Dowler, , Chief Commissioner (Senior Chief Executive Officer), National Savings Committee. • Francis Kenneth Duke, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Command Secretary, Headquarters, Cyprus District, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Herbert Forrest, Local Liaison Officer (Chief Executive Officer), Scottish Development Department. • Lewis Leonard Hall, Assistant Staff Engineer, Engineering Department, General Post Office. • George Alexander Hill, Superintending Civil Engineer, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Lewis Payne, Higher Collector, Board of Customs & Excise. • Cyril Pengelly, , Senior Chief Executive Officer, HM Stationery Office. • Reginald John Williams Pitchford, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Power. • John Silyey Preston, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. • Donald Reginald Stanley Pursey, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence (Navy). • David Johnston Robertson, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. • Elsie Marjorie Scott, Deputy Regional Controller, London Region, National Assistance Board. • Henry John Steggall, Superintending Electrical Engineer, Ministry of Defence (Navy). • Gordon Frederick Taylor, , Engineer I, Electrical Inspection Directorate, Ministry of Aviation. • Albert Leslie Thompson, Principal, Ministry of Health. • Arthur Tibbitts, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • John Topping, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Home & Health Department. • Walter Leonard White, , Establishment Officer (Chief Executive Officer), Public Record Office. • John Richardson Wilson, Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Health & Social Services for Northern Ireland. • Philip Winter, Chief Executive Officer (Museum Superintendent), Victoria & Albert Museum, Department of Education & Science. • Claud Cranmer Woods, , Chief Assistant (Establishment Officer), HM Land Registry. ;State of Victoria • William John Price, , lately Assistant General Manager, Electricity Commission, State of Victoria. • Roy Edwin Perry Stafford, lately Deputy Permanent Head of the Treasury, State of Victoria. ;State of South Australia • Andrew Ward Bowden, Public Actuary, State of South Australia. ;State of Western Australia • Reginald John Bond, Public Service Commissioner, State of Western Australia. ;Rhodesia • Hugh Leonard George, Under-Secretary (Administration), Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rhodesia. ;Overseas Civil Service • Bernard Alphonsus O'Connor, Senior Entomologist, Fiji. • Hugh Augustus Ragg, Deputy Postmaster-General, Fiji. • Tsang For-piu, Special Class, General Clerical Service, Hong Kong. • Wan Ram-fan, Assistant Registrar of Shipping, Hong Kong. • Watt Hoi-kee, Principal, Technical College, Hong Kong. British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Chief Wren Quarters Assistant Grace Annie Barnes, Women's Royal Naval Service No. 40430. • Chief Electrical Artificer Hartley George Brenton, D./MX 60688. • Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Francis Cleminson Byrne, Royal Naval Reserve M 993711. • Chief Airfitter (A/E) Jack Morris Chadwick, L/FX 76850. • Chief Engine Room Artificer Victor George Cooke, P/MX 60361. • Engine Room Artificer (1st Class) Albert Ernest Crawford, P 054515. • Chief Shipwright Henry Dealmar, E/MX 897049. • Chief Petty Officer Cook (O) James Dowds, P/MX 57870. • Chief Aircraft Artificer (A/E) Eric Lancelot Herbert Hughes, L/FX 78390. • Chief Aircraft Artificer John Lawrence Kingston, L/FX 668421. • Chief Petty Officer (Gunnery Instructor) Edgar Walter Long, D/JX 152060. • Chief Aircraft Artificer John Edwin Marchant, L/FX 87578. • Chief Petty Officer James Christopher Molloy, D/JX 154717. • Chief Petty Officer Walter Thomas Neal, P/JX 329669. • Chief Petty Officer Writer Jack Holmes Nelson, P/MX 796898. • Master-at-Arms Albert Charles Nicholls, P/MX 716378. • Chief Radio Supervisor Patrick Laurence O'Rourke, D/JX 778126. • Chief Engine Room Artificer Godfrey Parris, P/MX 842933. • Colour Sergeant Barry John Quantrill, Royal Marines, PLY/X 4245. • Petty Officer Stores Accountant (S) Norman Derick Robson, P/MX 904787. • Chief Petty Officer (Coxswain) Bernard Charles Scarr, P/JX 581564. • Quartermaster Sergeant James Henry Sharland, Royal Marines, PLY/X 1917. • Colour Sergeant Francis Edgar Slim, Royal Marines, PO/X 5492. • Engine Room Artificer (1st Class) John Thomas Smith, P/MX 902390. • Chief Petty Officer Writer John Francis Spencer, P/MX 847785. • Chief Engine Room Artificer William George Tapley, D/MX 116887. • Head Naval Nursing Auxiliary Doris Taylor, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, No.0022. • Acting Chief Electrical Artificer Geoffrey Norman Trigg, P/MX 904049. • Chief Ordnance Artificer William Dennis Alfred Tulip, P/MX 58323. • Electrical Artificer (1st Class) John Joseph Webb, D/MX 102289. ;;Army • 22798992 Staff Sergeant Frederick Edward George Bailey, The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. • T/22218701 Sergeant John Bentley, Royal Army Service Corps. • 21146271 Warrant Officer Class II (local) Bombahadur Limbu, Gurkha Signals. • 22967885 Staff Sergeant (acting) Kenneth Bowden, Royal Army Medical Corps. • 1127177 Staff Sergeant Michael Byrne, Army Catering Corps. • Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant James Adolphus Clarke, The British Guiana Volunteer Force. • 19045792 Corporal Brian Colley, The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment. • 23872652 Corporal Jimmy Philip Durup, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 14469891 Staff Sergeant John Henry Edge, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • 22983814 Sergeant John Edward Francis, Royal Corps of Signals. • 23497989 Sergeant Ian Glendenning, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • 23472083 Corporal Michael Rodney Guise, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 22521924 Staff Sergeant Gilbert John Hewlett, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • 14460216 Staff Sergeant Ivor Ronald Hillier, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 23832689 Corporal Angus Basil Holmes, Royal Army Pay Corps. • W/158375 Staff Sergeant Alice Muriel Kefford, Women's Royal Army Corps. • 22781153 Sergeant James Joseph McGinty, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. • 22250946 Sergeant William Murray, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • 4987706 Sergeant Marcel Edward Naseby, Royal Army Pay Corps. • 23532803 Corporal Rowland Frank George Nash, Corps of Royal Engineers. • W/335361 Sergeant (acting) Megan Olive Nockolds, Women's Royal Army Corps. • 2657997 Sergeant Martin Tom Parris, Coldstream Guards. • W/26112 Sergeant (acting) Irene Dorothy Parry, Women's Royal Army Corps. • 21015117 Staff Sergeant Gordon Thew Pearson, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army. • 2703452 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Thomas Rorison, Scots Guards. • 22802631 Sergeant (acting) Cyril Leslie Shaw, The Herefordshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army. • 22771344 Sergeant Colin Milne Smith, Royal Corps of Signals. • 2670764 Staff Sergeant Peter Smurthwaite, Coldstream Guards. • S/22036485 Staff Sergeant Bernard Gerald Stevens, Royal Army Service Corps. • 877029 Staff Sergeant Ronald Tillman, The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment. • 22255134 Sergeant Albert George Trillo, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • W/l 53965 Sergeant (acting) Ivy Trotter, Women's Royal Army Corps. • 5438734 Staff Sergeant Gordon Ronafd Tune, The Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry. • 23240574 Corporal Fernand Victor Henry Eddie Westergreen, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • 2549142 Staff Sergeant Norman Williams, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • 6845664 Corporal John Henry Windle, 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • 709007 Flight Sergeant Zygmunt Bar. • 577481 Flight Sergeant David Richard Baum. • 1091609 Flight Sergeant Alan Hutton. • 523116 Flight Sergeant James Sidney Frederick Middleweek. • Flight Sergeant Roy Bernard Pardoe, Royal Rhodesian Air Force. • 476334 Flight Sergeant Bessie Dorothy Parsons, Women's Royal Air Force. • 534476 Flight Sergeant Donald Jasper Thomas Snell. • 613340 Flight Sergeant Herbert Arthur Spindler. • 4077103 Flight Sergeant Maxwell George Edward Tankard. • 1451889 Flight Sergeant George Taylor. • 1807778 Chief Technician John Ahern. • 934730 Chief Technician Stanley Cyril Batcheller. • 1920644 Chief Technician Alan Arthur Crossland. • 564211 Chief Technician Robert Henry Gill. • 4032358 Chief Technician Leslie Patrick Halligan. • 583653 Chief Technician Hugh David Leggatt. • 579017 Chief Technician John Richard Lumley. • 4017630 Chief Technician Dennis Nicholson. • 579078 Chief Technician Gordon Pickles. • 3502842 Chief Technician Charles William John Robertson. • 975317 Sergeant Daniel Aldridge. • 1926449 Sergeant Brian Albert Carter. • 2062128 Sergeant Joyce Edna Dable, Women's Royal Air Force. • 592838 Sergeant Wesley Thomas William Freary. • 3203040 Sergeant Royston Walter Gunning. • 2211452 Sergeant Stanley Hibbert. • 4031096 Sergeant John Keegan. • 2286020 Sergeant Norman Herbert Miller. • 3127108 Sergeant Derek Arthur Murkin, Royal Air Force Regiment. • 4121431 Sergeant Allan Kenneth Oxlade. • 2254791 Sergeant Kenneth Prior. • 2296543 Sergeant Angus Stuart Scott, Royal Air Force Regiment. • 3084785 Acting Sergeant Cecil Ivan Bull. • 588626 Corporal Keith Ernest Britton. • 5053612 Corporal David John Clements. • 2201214 Corporal Harold Dobson. • 4062384 Corporal John William Moon. ;Civil Division ;;United Kingdom • Thomas Abram, Boatman, British Waterways Board. • Paul Bernard Addington, Deputy Commandant, Surrey Special Constabulary. • Joseph Thomas Archer, Experimental Worker Grade I, Explosives Research and Development Establishment, Waltham Abbey, Ministry of Aviation. • Ronald Albert Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent (P), Western District Office, General Post Office. • Charles Gill Asher, Clerk of Works and Ground Officer, Glenlivet Estate, Crown Estate office. • Leonard Alexander Baga, Supervisor of Security Guards, Foreign Office. • William Henry Bain, Chief Annunciator Operator, House of Commons. • Herbert Arthur Baldock, Assistant to the Docks Superintendent (General Cargo), Port of Bristol Authority, Avonmouth Docks. • Leslie William Barber, Postal and Telegraph Officer, Mount Pleasant, General Post Office. • William John George Beard, Station Officer, HM Coastguard, Sheerness, Board of Trade. • Albert Edwin Bearne, Technical Grade III, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Elsie Bell, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Southwick, Sunderland. • John Henry Bell, Workshop Superintendent (W), Rose Bros. (Gainsborough) Ltd., Gainsborough. • Frederick George Bernsten, Principal Keeper, Cape Pembroke Lighthouse, Falkland Islands, Board of Trade. • Gertrude Irene Bickley, Sergeant, Staffordshire Special Constabulary. • Arthur James Birch, lately Technical Grade III, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • William Francis Bishop, Warden of Cley and Salthouse Marshes Reserve, Norfolk Naturalists Trust. • John Edgar Bonney, Local Chargeman of Shipfitters, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Arthur Brand, Underground Road Repairer, No. 6 Area Bestwood Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. • Jack Bussey, Groundsman, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • John Robert Cairns, Assistant Foreman Sheet Metal Worker, Cammell Laird & Co. (Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd.), Birkenhead. • Thomas Waller Carmichael, Chief Works Inspector, Glasgow North, British Railways Board. • Frank Causer, Stores Attendant, Littleton Colliery No.2 (Cannock, South Staffs & Shrops.) Area, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. • Annie Emma Cheatle, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Torquay. • Frank William James Child, Chargehand, Equipment Department Workshops, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Janet Chrystall, Manageress, Royal Navy Fleet Club, N.A.A.F.I., Faslane. • Sydney William Collins, Carpenter, MV Bhamo, General Service Contracts. • Thomas Henry Cook, Senior Attendant, Royal Courts of Justice, Lord Chancellor's Department. • Alfred Gilbert Cooper, Mechanic Examiner, Royal Ordnance Factory, Cardiff, Ministry of Aviation. • James Coulton, Foreman (Substations), Leigh District, Bolton Area, North Western Electricity Board. • Edward Fred Cowling, General Foreman, Gas Works, Bude, Cornwall, South Western Gas Board. • Charles Flett Craigie, Inspector and Deputy Chief Constable, Orkney Constabulary. • Elliot Crisp, Confidential Clerk, Gibraltar, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Lawrence Sylvester Moreton Crook, Flood Warden, Montgomeryshire. • Harold Cyril Edgar Cummings, Engine Room Storekeeper, Greaser, MV Otaki, New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. • John Robert Cundall, Grade I Gas Fitter, Harrogate District, North Eastern Gas Board. • James C. Cursiter, Assistant District Engineer, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Banchory, Deeside. • James Curtis, Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force. • Bridget Dalton, Principal Instructor, HM Prison Styal, Home Office. • Julia Lily Davenport, Controlling Supervisor of Cleaners, Foreign Office. • William Ross Davies, Departmental Head, Packing and Shipping Division, Max Factor & Co. • Robert Davis, Chief Works Inspector, Crewe, British Railways Board. • Robert Daykin, Quality Control Inspector, Darchem Engineering Ltd., Stillington, Co. Durham. • Arthur James Deacon, Voluntary Youth Leader, St. Michaels Boys Youth Clubs, Northampton. • Sidney Charles Dell, Head of Pre-Production Department, R. B. Pulling & Co. Ltd., Brentford. • Walter Henry Deverson, Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary. • Albert Henry Dingley, Non-Technical Grade III, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Foulness, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Gertrude Dinsdale, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Tenby. • John Marcus Moore Douglas, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Belfast. • Stanley Duncan, Foreman, Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. • Thomas Eaton, Turbine House Foreman, Kearsley Power Station, North Western Region, Central Electricity Generating Board. • William Kydd Eaton, Leading Storekeeper, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Alexander Joseph Ellul, lately Kavass, HM Consulate-General, Istanbul. • John Summerfield Evans, Foreman, Severn River Board. • Gwendoline Ewbank, Centre Organiser, Windermere, Women's Voluntary Service. • Thomas William Fairbairn, Foreman, Newcastle East District, Tyne Area, North Eastern Electricity Board. • James Farrell, Works Technical Grade II (M. & E.E.), Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Robert William John Farrow, Recorder of Work, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Stanley John Ferrand, Chief Supervisor (M), Telephone Exchange, Plymouth, General Post Office. • Gladys Betty Joan Flowers, Member of Women's Voluntary Service (Old Peoples Welfare), North Middlesex. • Edgar Robert Frarey, Instructor Grade III, 8th Signal Regiment, Catterick, Ministry of Defence (Army). • John Walker Galloway, lately Foreman Blacksmith, Dickson & Mann Ltd., Armadale. • Doris Phoebe Garner, Supervisor (F), Head Post Office, Wisbech. • Eddie Sidney Gewitzke, Senior Checker, Bricklayers Arms Goods Depot, British Railways Board. • Frederick Percy William Giles, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, Streatham Unit, Sea Cadet Corps. • Sybil Gillespie, Centre Organiser, Bude, Women's Voluntary Service. • Allan Goodlet, Timber Yard Inspector, Clyde Navigation Trust. • William Ewart Grant, Senior Scientific Assistant, Royal Armament Research & Development Establishment, Ministry of Defence (Army). • William Sweetlove Greenaway, Chargehand, R.E.M.E. Workshops, Lisburn, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Phyllis Beryl Griffin, Centre Organiser, Andover, Women's Voluntary Service. • Robert Harper, Foreman Boilermaker, Harland & Wolff Ltd. • Reginald William Harrison, Warrant Officer, No. 40F (Maidstone) Squadron, Air Training Corps. • Walter Harrison, Foreman Rigger, British Ropes Ltd., Doncaster. • James Harwood, , Chief Paperkeeper, Home Office. • John Hay, Boatswain, MV Duke of Athens, General Service Contracts. • Gladys Mary Hazelrigg, Member, of County Staff (Children's Welfare), Shropshire, Women's Voluntary Service. • Jeffrey John Heley, Branch D.II Officer, HM Embassy, Peking. • Michael Morris Henderson, Employee, Spennymoor Factory, Remploy Ltd. • Alice Mary Hensby, Honorary Street Savings Group Collector, Bedford Park, London. • Walter Harry Heydon, Auxiliary Postman, Withington Sub-Post Office, Cheltenham. • Edith Mary Hill, Commandant, Detachment 2 Soke & City of Peterborough Branch, British Red Cross Society. • Sydney Thomas Hills, Staff Coxswain, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. • Amos Holdcroft, Overman, Chatterley-Whitfield Colliery, No. 1 (North Staffordshire) Area, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. • John Holgate, Civil Defence Training Officer, York. • John Herbert Hollies, Inspector (Postal), Head Post Office, Dudley. • Lucy Capron Hollist, Commandant, Sussex 18, Sussex Branch, British Red Cross Society. • John Charles Hopwood, Warrant Officer, No. 1995 (Poplar) Squadron, Air Training Corps. • George Alfred Richard Hotchkiss, Overseer, Head Post Office, Oswestry. • Frank Forrester Howard, Senior Foreman, Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd., Corby. • John Frederick Robert Hudson, Works Technical Grade II, Ministry of Public Building & Works. • Charles William Huggins, Overseer Grade III (Binding), HM Stationery Office. • Arthur John Hughes, Superintendent of Stores, No. 35 Maintenance Unit, RAF Heywood, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • James Hulme, Technical Grade II, Reactor Materials Laboratory, Culcheth, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Herbert George Hursey, Chargehand, Special Craftsman, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. • Abu Hassan bin Haji Ibrahim, Inspector, Royal Air Force Police (Auxiliary) Service, Singapore, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • George Irvine, Farms Foreman, Co-Partnership Farms, Ltd., Boreham. • Evan John James, Smithing, Welding and Farriery Instructor, Rural Industries Bureau. • John Russell Jeffries, Substation Attendant, South Wales Electricity Board. • George Wallett Jenkinson, Sub-Officer, Lincolnshire (Holland) Fire Brigade. • William Clague Kaighin, Head Foreman Caulker, Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd., Birkenhead. • Edward Arthur Kellington, Sub-Officer, Nottinghamshire Fire Brigade. • Cecil Harry Kiddle, Sector Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Norfolk. • Frank Frederick King, Technical Officer, Engineering Department, General Post Office. • Charles Kirk, Hospital Porter, Pontefract General Infirmary. • Charles Norman Kirk, Engineer Technical Grade II, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Robert Laird, Test House Superintendent, Martin Black & Co. (Wire Ropes) Ltd., Coatbridge. • James Alexander Lamb, Technical Officer, Dundee Telephone Area, General Post Office. • Mabel Alice Larkin, Group Officer, Lancashire Fire Brigade. • William George Law, Leading Chargehand, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Sydney Lister, Chief Observer, No. 18 Group, Royal Observer Corps. • James Smith Loudon, Instructional Officer Grade III, Ministry of Labour. • John McFarland, Special Constable, Ulster Special Constabulary, Armagh. • Jean McIlroy, Collector, Street Savings Group, Belfast. • James McKay, Inspector Fitter, Hillington Factory, Remploy Ltd. • Agnes Mabel Murray MacKinlay, Voluntary Social Worker at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. • Vera Mallinson, Chief Supervisor, Trunk Exchange, Reading, General Post Office. • Peter Martin, Main Pump Attendant, Seaham Colliery, Northumberland and Durham Division, National Coal Board. • Gerald Edgar Medcalf, Chargehand, Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Defence (Army). • James Miller, Overman, Roslin Colliery, Lothians Area, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. • John Gerald Merriman Miller, Chief Observer, Post 8/R3, Royal Observer Corps. • Cyril Evan Molyneux, , Postman, Preston, General Post Office. • James Tuft Monroe, lately Lighting Superintendent, Belfast Corporation Gas Works. • Stanley Howard Moore, Telephone Operator Charge-hand, RAF Northwood, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Charles Francis Mullender, Technical Officer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. • Josiah Murray, Technical Assistant, Grade IV, Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. • Evelyn Musgrave, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Bradford. • Robert John Oakes, Chargehand Metal Machinist Grade I, Doncaster Locomotive and Carriage & Wagon Works, British Railways Board. • Gerald O'Grady, Assistant Administrative Instructor, 1st (Cadet) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. • Herbert William Parker, Foreman Fitter, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. • Thomas Ernest Parrott, Senior Shipkeeper, HMS President, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Leonard Hugh Parry, Area Supervisor, Anzac Agency, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Victoria, Australia. • Thomas Payne, Technical Class Grade II, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). • Thomas Joseph Perkins, Overseer, Head Post Office, Hounslow, Middlesex. • Harry Petty, Telephonist, Leeds Installation, North Eastern Division, Shell-Mex & B.P. Group. • Samuel Richard Price, Furnace Building Superintendent, Firth Brown Ltd. • Dennis Wyndham Puddle, Haulage Driver, Garn Drift (Blaenavon Mine) No. 6 (Monmouthshire) Area, South Western Division, National Coal Board. • Alfred James Punter, Senior Instructor (Diesel), Staff Training School, Ilford, British Railways Board. • Leslie Jack Ralls, Model Shop Foreman, Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. • Jaffa Hasson Abdul Rehman, Clerk Grade I, No. 114 Maintenance Unit, RAF Steamer Point, Aden, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • John Henry Robinson, Travelling Chief Inspector (Postal), Home Counties Region, General Post Office. • George Edward William Rowe, Skilled Labourer, Ministry of Public Building and Works. • Harold Glyn Sangwin, Foreman Inspector, Yorkshire Imperial Metals Ltd. • George Herbert Scott, Station Officer, South-Eastern Area Fire Brigade, West Lothian. • George William James Sharp, Draughtsman, Telephone Managers Office, Reading, General Post Office. • William Joseph Simpson, Station Officer, Auxiliary Fire Service, Manchester. • Charles Smith, Honorary Assistant Commandant, Larbert (British Railways) Section, St. Andrews Ambulance Corps. • Frederick Samuel Smith, Greaser, Cleaner, SS Windsor Castle, British & Commonwealth Shipping Co. Ltd. • George Smith, Chief Inspector, Air Force Department Constabulary, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). • Thomas Steel, Mill Foreman, Carrs Flour Mills, Ltd., Carlisle. • Wilfred Stephens, Higher Grade Surveyor, Ordnance Survey, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. • Clifford John Stidard, Chargehand and Assistant Foreman, British Aircraft Corporation (Operating) Limited, Guided Weapons Division. • James Sullivan, Leading Fireman, Glasgow Fire Brigade. • Winifred Lucy Tallentire, Member of County Staff (Food), East Riding of Yorkshire, Women's Voluntary Service. • Harry Taylor, Officer-in-Charge, Supply and Transport Store, Pencoed, Home Office. • William Simpson Teasdale, Chargehand, Hawker Blackburn Division, Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd. • Oswald Vivian Thomas, Senior Civilian Instructor, Metropolitan Police Driving School. • William Thomas, Boatswain SS Perseus, Alfred Holt & Co. • Reuben Thompson, Coaling Plant Foreman, Peterborough Power Station, North Thames Division, South Eastern Region, Central Electricity Generating Board. • Arthur Troop, Sergeant, Lincolnshire Constabulary. • Doris Emma Very, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Sheerness. • Alice Elizabeth Walker, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Wilmslow, Cheshire. • Ellis Walsh, Motor Driver, Sheffield Branch, South Yorkshire and Lincoln District, British Road Services Ltd., Transport Holding Company. • John Henry Walters, Inspector, North Western Road Car Company Ltd. • George William Walton, Chief Gallery Warder, British Museum. • Leslie Cyril Ware, Production Supervisor, Mullard Radio Valve Co. • Archibald Thomas Weeks, Office Keeper, Grade II, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, HM Treasury. • Richard Welch, Watcher, Board of Customs and Excise. • Sidney Wheldale, Stores Supervisor, Grade II, Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester, Ministry of Defence (Army). • Albina Whittington, Sub-Postmistress, Sub-Post Office, Methley. • John Whyte, Chief Steward, MV Heriot, George Gibson & Co. Ltd. • Irene Margaret Wood, Senior Signals Officer, Civil Defence Corps, Caernarvonshire. • Sidney Charles Harry Wright, , Leading Man of Works, Ministry of Public Building & Works. ;;Overseas Territories • Moapare Mosiiwa, Sub-Chief and African Authority, Northern Kgalagadi, Bechuanaland. • John Edmund Putnam King, Superintendent of Reafforestation, Department of Agriculture & Fisheries, Bermuda. • Simeon Doorga Singh, County Public Health Inspector, British Guiana. • Edward Ernest Michael Bull, Senior Mechanic, Posts & Telegraphs Department, Fiji. • Cuthbert William Southey, Road Supervisor, Public Works Department, Fiji. • John Michael Nunez, Head Dispenser, Medical Department, Gibraltar. • Fung So, Foreman Class I, Civil Aviation Department, Hong Kong. • Yuen Chiu-kwong, Office Attendant, Labour Department, Hong Kong. • Qhakaza Ntshalintshali, Liaison Officer (Ndabazabantu), Swaziland. • Martin Maeheta, Chief Boatswain, Marine Department, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Western Pacific. • Nei Mereta Auatabu, Medical Department, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Western Pacific. ;;State of Victoria • Alfred George Simmons Hindle, Clerk, Purchasing Branch, State Electricity Commission. • Leslie Thomas Banner, Ministerial Chauffeur. ;;State of Western Australia • Beatrice Ada Mouritz. For services to charity and community welfare movements. • Thomas Charles Carlisle. For services to the Volunteer Fire Brigades in Western Australia. ;;Southern Rhodesia • Leonard James Genet, Police Field Reservist, British South Africa Police. • Alfred Mafe King, Overseer, Ministry of Roads & Road Traffic. Bar to the British Empire Medal ;Military Division • 568732 Flight Sergeant Arthur Richard Hall, , Royal Air Force. Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) ;In Gold • Stanley Edgar Hooks. ;In Silver • Percy Benham. • Robert Urquhart Brown. • Frederick Henry Collings. • Divisional Sergeant Major Arthur Frederick Hall, , Her Majesty's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard. • Isabella Jane Keith. • Stanley Archibald Paice. • Arthur Vivian Preece. • Police Constable Frederick Benjamin Raft, Metropolitan Police. • Petty Officer Stores Accountant William James Anthony Salmon, P/MX 59632. • Edward John Charles Smith. • Frederick Frank Sutton. • Walter Frederick Taylor. ;;Honorary • Monsieur Pierre Capacci. Queen's Police Medal (QPM) ;England and Wales • Frederick Peter Collison Garland, Chief Constable, Norfolk Constabulary. • Robert Mark, Chief Constable, Leicester City Police. • Francis Gerard Hulme, Chief Constable, Derby Borough Police. • Richard Bonnar Matthews, Chief Constable, Warwickshire Constabulary. • Herbert David James Smith, Assistant Chief Constable and Deputy Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Constabulary. • Eric Cunningham, District Co-ordinator, No. 1 District Regional Crime Squad. • Colin Gaskell, Deputy Director of the Senior Staff Course, Police College. • Frederick Henry Banfield, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • William George Vernon Friend, Commandant, No. 8 District Police Training Centre, Bridgend (seconded from Glamorgan Constabulary). • Anthony Graham, Superintendent, Deputy Chief Constable, Tynemouth Borough Police. • Edwin James Oakervee, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • William George Duncan, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. ;Scotland • James Kiltie Scott, Superintendent, Deputy Chief Constable, Kilmarnock Burgh Police. • James Morris Kelman, Superintendent, Ayrshire Constabulary. ;Northern Ireland • Thomas Frederick Murphy, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;State of New South Wales • Allan Glenville Wild, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • Roy Badderly Elliot, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • James Ferguson, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • Samuel Joseph Cleary, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • John Tarbert, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • William Charles Jack Springthorpe, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. ;State of South Australia • Edwin Lindsay Calder, , Inspector, South Australia Police Force. • Maurice Henry Eaton, Inspector, South Australia Police Force. ;Southern Rhodesia • Robert John Vivian Bailey, Senior Assistant Commissioner, British South Africa Police. ;Overseas Territories • William James Hillier, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Aden. Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM) ;England and Wales • Arthur James Milbery, Divisional Officer, London Fire Brigade. • Robert William Austin Newbury, Divisional Officer, Glamorgan Fire Brigade. • Joseph Gerard Ryan, Assistant Chief Officer, Lancashire Fire Brigade. • Leonard Alfred Wood, , Chief Officer, Bournemouth Fire Brigade. ;Scotland • Harry Roy Mackay, , Firemaster, South Western Area Fire Brigade. ;State of South Australia • William John Farthing, Deputy Chief Officer, South Australia Fire Brigade. • Rowland Charles Loader, Auxiliary Foreman, South Australia Fire Brigade. ;Overseas Territories • Anthony Stephen Henderson, District Fire Officer, Hong Kong. • Alfred Evelyn Harry Wood, District Fire Officer, Hong Kong. Colonial Police Medal (CPM) ;Rhodesia • Jack Berry, Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • John William George Cannon, , Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • Jack Denley, Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • Harry Bertram Tahuwona Mageza, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Majongosi, No. 10742, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Phillip Thomas Owen, Chief Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • Gibson Tapfuma Vazhure, Detective Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. ;Overseas Territories • William Algernon Argyle, Deputy Superintendent, British Guiana Police Force. • Albert Sidney Banks, Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. • Chung Hon, Staff Sergeant, Class II, Hong Kong Police Force. • Pierre Fernand Regis Comarmond, Inspector, Mauritius Police Force. • Eustan Commisiong, Member of the Auxiliary Police Force, St Vincent. • John Thomas Crawley, Superintendent, Bahamas Police Force. • Christopher John Rowland Dawson, Chief Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. • Joseph Luc Duverge, Pay and Quarter Master, Mauritius Police Force. • Sereamokolong Garefarolwe, Sub-Inspector, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police Force. • Hung Hing, Principal Fireman, Fire Services, Hong Kong. • Seiyid Mohamed Ali Ismail, Deputy Superintendent, Aden Police Force. • Alan James Jones, Divisional Officer, Fire Services, Hong Kong. • Awadh Salim Maisari, Chief Inspector, Aden Police Force. • George Maynard, Detective Inspector, British Guiana Police Force. • Dennis John Morgan, Director of Music (Deputy Superintendent of Police), Bahamas. • Ng Wah-sin, Sergeant, Hong Kong Police Force. • John William Olivier, Superintendent, Swaziland Police Force. • Richard Arthur Joseph Richardson, Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. • Karlum Shum, Superintendent, Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force. • Brian Francis Slevin, Chief Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. • Leslie Waddell, Detective Sergeant, Bermuda Police Force. • Russell White, Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. • George Ernest Woodman, Deputy Superintendent, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police Force. • Yau Lo, Principal Fireman, Fire Services, Hong Kong. • Eugene George Yourieff, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force. Royal Red Cross (RRC) • Lieutenant-Colonel Vera Kathleen Turner (209294), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC) ;;Royal Navy • Alice Mary Gadd, Matron, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. • Patricia Margaret Wilks, Superintending Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. ;;Army • Major Williamina Polson (215904), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Major Mildred Elizabeth Wainwright (215236), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Major Joan Margaret Waters (402075), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Squadron Officer Mary Irene Savage (405919), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. • Squadron Officer Catherine Jean Riddell Singer (406732), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. Air Force Cross (AFC) • Wing Commander John Fraser (1821637). • Squadron Leader George Thomson Cannon (3124043). • Squadron Leader John Robert Jackson(4034407). • Flight Lieutenant John Stephen Sowdan Hay (57090). • Flight Lieutenant Laurence John Wittin-Hayden, (56337). • Flight Lieutenant William Edward Hobby (4041415). • Flight Lieutenant John Robert Huntington, (1685829). • Flight Lieutenant Terence Ernest Leonard Lloyd (3519222). • Flight Lieutenant Victor Douglas Woods (199609). • Master Pilot Stanley Thomas Bousher (1454521). Bar to Air Force Cross • Squadron Leader Jack Norton Henderson, (4042817). Air Force Medal (AFM) • 4149473 Sergeant Ronald William Haddow. Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air ;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander David Brownrigg Craig (2600048). • Wing Commander Norman Frank Curtis, (53115). • Squadron Leader Herbert Henry Jones Browning (607135). • Squadron Leader William Francis Page (2538877). • Squadron Leader Hector Desmond Seymour (579979). • Squadron Leader Royston Watson (582051). • Flight Lieutenant George Leonard Aylett (607605). • Flight Lieutenant Roger David Britton (504608). • Flight Lieutenant Glyndwr Charles Chapman (2504353). • Flight Lieutenant Laurence Frederick Charleton (1861984). • Flight Lieutenant Raymond Arthur Dodkin (4156572). • Flight Lieutenant Ian George Douglas (1868548). • Flight Lieutenant Jack Firth, (179371). • Flight Lieutenant John Lawton Harrison (607294). • Flight Lieutenant George Johnston (1566510). • Flight Lieutenant Ernest Edmund Jones (3517316). • Flight Lieutenant Bruce Anthony Donald McKenzie McDonald (4036925). • Flight Lieutenant Richard Albert Miller (5037273). • Flight Lieutenant Norman William Wilson Pryde (187756). • Flight Lieutenant Gordon William Smith, (161059). • Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Nicholas Sparks, (59631). • Flight Lieutenant William Ian Charles Stoker (607678). • Flight Lieutenant Alan Gilbert Topham (5037759). • Flight Lieutenant Edwin George Waddingham (1805533). • Master Pilot William Thomas Jackson, (1321034). • Master Pilot Edward James Treeves, (1323638). • Master Navigator James Carroll (1551033). • Master Signaller William Edmund Lowther, (2209306). • 1931884 Corporal David Welsh. ;United Kingdom • Shirley Patricia Jenkins, Assistant Experimental Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. • Captain Donal Francis O'Sullivan, Senior Captain, British Overseas Airways Corporation. • Captain Thomas Roy Pigden, Senior Training Captain, Argosy Flight, British European Airways Corporation. ==Australia==

Knight Bachelor • William Hewson Anderson, , of East Malvern, Victoria. For public services. • Henry Armand Bland, , Secretary, Department of Labour and National Service, Victoria. • George Stanley Colman, , of South Yarra, Victoria. For services to commerce and industry. • Arnold Hughes Ennor, , Professor of Biochemistry, Australian National University, Canberra. • Edwin William Hicks, , Secretary, Department of Defence, Canberra. Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) ;Military Division • Major-General Thomas Joseph Daly, (45), Australian Staff Corps. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • Leslie Atkinson, , of Earlwood, New South Wales. For services to Australian commerce. • Elias Godfrey Coppel, , of Glen Iris, Victoria. For services to the Law. • Thomas Meek Ramsay, of Toorak, Victoria. For services to the Australian manufacturing industry. Order of the British Empire Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ;Civil Division • Professor John Philip Baxter, , Chairman, Australian Atomic Energy Commission. • His Excellency the Honourable Alexander Russell Downer, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia in London. • William John Kilpatrick, , of Toorak, Victoria. For public services. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Captain John Hastie Dowson. ;;Australian Army • Brigadier George Percy Hunt, (398), Australian Staff Corps. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • Air Commodore William Edwin Townsend, . ;Civil Division • Howard Ernest Dann, Associate Commissioner, Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority. • William Cotter Burnell Harvey, , of Bellevue Hill, New South Wales. For services to Medicine. • John Keith McCarthy, , Director of District Administration, Territory of Papua and New Guinea. • Alfred Clement Borthwick Maiden, Secretary, Department of Primary Industry, Canberra. • Clive Ogilvy, of Mosman, New South Wales. For public services, particularly to broadcasting. • Richard Robert Law-Smith, , Vice-Chairman, Qantas Empire Airways. • James Edward Taylor, Senior Commissioner, Commonwealth Conciliation & Arbitration Commission, Victoria. • Arthur Cleveland Wigan, Deputy Chairman, Board of Business Administration, Department of Defence, Victoria. • James Robert Willoughby, , Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia. Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Lieutenant Commander (Acting Commander) David Nicholls. ;;Australian Army • Colonel Peter Kaye, (350211), Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. • Colonel John Frank McLean (337579), Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Bishop Stretton, (3324), Australian Staff Corps. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • Group Captain Alexander Thomas Fay, . • Acting Group Captain Wilbur Herbert Sergeant Talberg. ;Civil Division • Keith McRae Archer, Commonwealth Statistician, Canberra. • Donald Gordon Barwick, of Tamworth West, New South Wales. For his services to primary industry. • Archie Garner Brown, of Essendon North, Victoria. For his services to the aircraft industry. • John Patrick Buckley, First Assistant Secretary, Inspection and Design Division, Department of Defence, Victoria. • Gerard D'Arcy Chislett, Secretary, Graziers Federal Council and Australian Woolgrowers Council. • Charles Kennedy Comans, Principal Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman, Canberra. • Philip Halford Cook, Assistant Secretary (Employment), Department of Labour and National Service, Victoria. • The Reverend Father Thomas Vincent Dunlea, of Hurstville, New South Wales. For services in the field of social welfare. • Henry James Evans, of North Brighton, Victoria. For his contribution to Australian industry. • Ernest David Gardiner, of Williamstown, Victoria. For his services to the advancement of science teaching. • Joseph Robert Archibald Glenn, of Toorak, Victoria. For his services to industry. • Arthur Lawrence Hall, Assistant Secretary, (Establishments) Secretariat, Department of Air, Canberra. • Travis Henry John Harrison, Director, Plant Quarantine Division, Commonwealth Department of Health, Canberra. • Stanley Scott Ick-Hewins, of Pymble, New South Wales. For his services to the Australian grazing industry. • George Ernest Kitchin-Kerr, Secretary, Australian Citrus Growers' Federation. • William Richards Lawson, Collector of Customs, Department of Customs and Excise, Western Australia. • Ian McDonald, , Chairman, Papua and New Guinea Copra Marketing Board. • James Joseph McGrath, Director, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. • David MacKay, lately Secretary of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission. • Peter Malloch, , of Mildura, Victoria. For his services to the Australian dried fruits industry. • Thomas Stuart Philpott, First Assistant Secretary (Establishments and General), Department of the Navy, Canberra. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Surgeon Lieutenant Bernard Charles Firth, ;;Australian Army • Major (Quartermaster) Alan Henry Moorhouse Bohle (2191), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. • Major William Brian Fegan (1355), Royal Australian Corps of Signals. • 33953 Warrant Officer Class I Reginald Douglas Marsden, Royal Australian Army Service Corps. • 2920 Warrant Officer Class I Walter Mills, Royal Australian Infantry Corps. • 1314 Warrant Officer Class I Thomas Lloyd Muggleton, Royal Australian Infantry Corps. • Captain Noel Dudley Prime (437312), Royal Australian Engineers. • Major Douglas Harold Yeats (17544), Australian Staff Corps. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • Squadron Leader Thomas Butler (033148), • Warrant Officer Norman Arthur Hugo (A31337). • Warrant Officer Geoffrey Roger Joseph Keary (A3919). • Warrant Officer Colin Ellis Tickner (A2284). ;Civil Division • Arthur Edward Bingham. For services to disabled ex-servicemen, particularly as President of the Maimed and Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association of Western Australia. • Leonard David Percival Blessington, of Girral, New South Wales. For services to the welfare of blinded ex-servicemen. • Dorothy Bruce, Matron, Repatriation General Hospital, Springbank, South Australia. • Kenneth Rutherford Bunn, of Bondi, New South Wales. For services to the blind. • Elizabeth Robson Calvert, of Canberra. For social welfare services, especially in connection with the Red Cross. • John Maxwell Cameron, Director of Works, Territory of Papua and New Guinea. • Patrick John Edward Claffey, Registrar of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Health, Sydney, New South Wales. • Robert Alan Crook, , of Killara, New South Wales. For public services, particularly as founder of the Australian Rostrum. • Elizabeth Margaret Cunningham, of Orange, New South Wales. For her services to the care of the sick. • Reginald Cecil Davies, lately Superintending Inspector, Weapons Branch, Department of the Navy, Canberra. • Alan Robert Docking, Director, Commonwealth Bureau of Dental Standards, Department of Health, Victoria. • Elsie Jean Easterbrook, of East Kew, Victoria. For services to the R.A.A.F. Women's Association. • Thomas Kingston Fisher, Administrative Officer, Department of the Army, Canberra. • Charles Fletcher, , of Toongabbie, New South Wales. For services to aviation. • Agnes Mary Garry, of Binalong, New South Wales. For social welfare services. • Harry Christian Giese, , Director of Welfare, Department of Territories, Northern Territory. • Herbert Francis Griffin, Area Finance Officer, Department of Air, Sydney, New South Wales. • Joan Merritt Haigh. For her services on behalf of immigrants, particularly as Secretary of the Good Neighbour Council of Western Australia. • George Henry Hallandale, Assistant Director of Works, Victoria and Tasmania. • Clive Henry Harburg, of Coorparoo, Brisbane, Queensland. For services to ex-servicemen. • Cleven James Healey, of West Footscray, Victoria. For services to ex-servicemen. • Michael James Healy, lately District Commissioner, New Ireland District, Territory of Papua and New Guinea. • Elenor Hempton, of Waverley, New South Wales. For public and social welfare services. • Beryl Elaine Jacka, Secretary, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Victoria. • Edwin Thomas John Kerby, of Auburn, Victoria. For services to the welfare of ex-servicemen. • Captain Arthur Carrington Lovell. For services to civil aviation, particularly as Chief Pilot, Ansett/Australian National Airways. • Frank Sydney Meddows, , of Balgowlah, New South Wales. For services in the field of hospital administration. • Olive O'Keefe, of Katherine, Northern Territory. For services to nursing. • Margaret Somerville, of Darwin, Northern Territory. For services to the welfare of part-aboriginal children. • Sam Wilson Stinson, of Bathurst, New South Wales. For services to local government and the community. • Eva Margaret Thompson, of Strathfield, New South Wales. For services to subnormal children. • William Douglas Tredinnick, Deputy Assistant Director-General, Post Offices Branch, Postmaster-General's Department, Victoria. • John Andrew Tuite, Engineer, Class 4, Postmaster-General's Department, New South Wales. • Archibald James Vasey, Executive Secretary, Commonwealth Scientific Committee. • Anne Gorman Watts, , of Darra, Brisbane, Queensland. For social welfare services. • Grace Young (Matron Saunders), of Collaroy, New South Wales. For services to the care of the aged. Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) • James Arthur Collopy, lately Chief Aircraft Surveyor, Airworthiness Branch, Department of Civil Aviation, Victoria. • Horace Walter Hyett, lately Assistant Director-General, Central Staff, Postmaster-General's Department, Victoria. • Michael Leo Kelly, Inspector, Conditions and General Division, Public Service Board, Canberra. • James Douglas MacFarlane, First Assistant Secretary, Inspection and Management Services,. Department of Primary Industry, Canberra. • William Alfred Eric Nielsen, Assistant Director-General (Telecommunications), Central Staff, Postmaster-General's Department, Victoria. • Edward O'Grady, Director, Naval and Air Stores, Department of the Navy, Victoria. • Leslie Thompson, lately Senior Assistant Commissioner of Taxation, Canberra. • Henry Francis Yoxon, First Assistant Director-General (Management Services), Department of Works, Victoria. British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Chief Petty Officer Coxswain Raymond Jamieson, R 48390. • Chief Airman Keith Francis Kempnich, R 36801. • Master-at-Arms Charles Joseph Wright, 40133. ;;Australian Army • 34393 Warrant Officer II (temporary) Reginald James Collinson, Royal Australian Engineers. • 212800 Sapper Ivor Bernard Lewis, Royal Australian Engineers. • 26811 Sergeant Roy Arthur Noud, Royal Australian Army Service Corps. • 13363 Staff-Sergeant Gordon Robert Robertson, Royal Australian Artillery. • 14249 Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) Robert Emmet Rooney, Australian Intelligence Corps. • 34767 Sergeant Noel Edward Tinning, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • A25316 Flight Sergeant James Alfred Davison. • A22570 Sergeant John Neil Bell. • A13068 Corporal William Earle Wilkinson. ;Civil Division • Millicent Clare Brassel, Postmistress, Bellbrook, New South Wales. • Rita Kathleen Demas, Overseas (Phonograms), Postmaster-General's Department, New South Wales. • Edgar Bruce Elliott, Plant Operator, Snowy Hydro-electric Authority, New South Wales. • George Albert John Fleming, lately Senior Technical Officer, Williamstown Dockyard, Victoria. • Vida Mitylene Greentree, Postmistress, Freeman's Reach, New South Wales. • Henry Joseph Lea, lately civilian Oil Fuel Installation Attendant, Department of the Navy, Darwin, Northern Territory. • Joseph Antonio Maranta, Senior Technical Instructor Grade 2, Postmaster-General's Department, Queensland. • John McCallum, Senior Foreman (Mechanical Plant), Department of Works, Canberra. • Irene Elizabeth Mills, Steno-Secretary to the Secretary, Department of Air, Canberra. • John Sperry Noseda, Clerical Assistant Grade 4, Postmaster-General's Department, Victoria. • Edward Sylvester Schmutter, Trades Labourer, Snowy Mountains, Hydro-electric Authority, New South Wales. • Elsie Rose Sullivan, lately Postmistress, Gongolgon, New South Wales. • Eleanor Mabel Thompson, President, Coffs Harbour Branch of the Australian Red Cross Society. • Graham George Young, Senior Mail Officer Grade 1, Postmaster-General's Department, Tasmania. Air Force Cross (AFC) ;Royal Australian Air Force • Squadron Leader Robert Derik Bray (022191). • Squadron Leader John Thomas Carter (04430). • Squadron Leader Raymond Francis Fox, (035498). • Squadron Leader Roberts Hunter Martin (022188). Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air ;Royal Australian Navy • Lieutenant Anthony Ireson Booth, Royal Navy (on exchange service with the RAN). • Lieutenant Robert Charles O'Day. • Sub Lieutenant David Alan Cronin. ;Australian Army • Major Rex Stuart Deacon (17007), Royal Australian Army Service Corps • Captain John Cameron Ross (235137), Royal Australian Army Service Corps. ;Royal Australian Air Force • Squadron Leader Reginald Heathcote (022050). • Squadron Leader Donald Couldrey White (013864). • Squadron Leader John Ronald Young (05357). • Flight Lieutenant George Melville King (035883). • Flight Lieutenant John James McKenzie (0216734). • Flight Lieutenant John Irvine Thomson (032446). ==New Zealand==

Knight Bachelor • Samuel Bankole Jones, Chief Justice. Order of the British Empire Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Civil Division • Christopher Okoro Elnathan Cole, Puisne Judge. • Madame Ella Koblo Gulama, , Paramount Chief, Kaiyamba Chiefdom. For public services as Minister without Portfolio. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Civil Division • Hugh Stanley Godbeer, Industrial Development Officer, Ministry of Trade and Industry. • The Venerable Archdeacon Michael Keili. For services to the development of education. • Cyril George White, General Manager, Rice Department, Ministry of Trade and Industry. • Tamba Richard Yamba. For services to the community in Kono District. British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Civil Division • Theophilus James Williams, Survey Superintendent, Surveys and Lands Division, Ministry of Lands, Mines and Labour. Queen's Police Medal (QPM) • John Gidioh Wales, Assistant Commissioner, Sierra Leone Police Force. ==Jamaica==

Order of the British Empire Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Civil Division • John Kenneth McKenzie Pringle. For public services. Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Kenrick Neville Mascoll, , Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-Master-General, Jamaica Defence Force. ;Civil Division • Allan Isidore Morais, Deputy High Commissioner for Jamaica in London. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division • Major Basil Constantine Burke, Jamaica National Reserve. ;Civil Division • Altman Herbert Valentine Cotterell, Clerk of the Courts. • Harold Noel Walker, Headmaster, Wolmer's Boys School. Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) • Kathleen Beatrice Sharpe, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax. British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Military Division • Corporal Melmoth George Myrie-Guy, Jamaica Defence Force Engineer Unit. ==Trinidad and Tobago==

Knight Bachelor • Werner James Boos, . For public services. ==Malawi==

Order of the British Empire Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Civil Division • John Alexander Galloway Corrie, , Under Secretary, Prime Minister's Office. • Robert Milne Garrard, Commissioner for Surveys. • Watkin Edward Lewis, Chief Conservator of Forests and Game. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Civil Division • Norman Reginald Bartlett, Senior Establishment Officer, Ministry of Works. • Garnice Veronica Wessels, Principal Nursing Officer. Queen's Police Medal (QPM) • Alfred Trevor Bevan, Assistant Commissioner, Malawi Police Force. ==Gambia==

Order of the British Empire Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Civil Division • Momodou Mousa Jallow, Chairman, The Gambia Oilseeds Marketing Board. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Civil Division • Ian Cedric Reed Coombe, Development Officer. • Sister Mary Jarlath, Principal, St Joseph's Secondary School. • Abdul Khadie Rahman, Technician and Interpreter, Medical Research Council. British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Civil Division • Mamour Alieu Secka, Senior Health Inspector. Queen's Police Medal (QPM) • John Patrick Bray, Commissioner, The Gambia Police Force. ==References==