1951 New Year Honours

Barons • Archibald Crawford. For political and public services in Leicestershire. • Thomas Macpherson, Member of Parliament for Romford, 1945–1950. For political and public services. Privy Counsellors • The Honourable Sir Owen Dixon, , Justice of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia. • The Right Honourable Henry Charles Ponsonby, Earl of Drogheda, , Chairman of Committees, House of Lords. • The Right Honourable Gordon, Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, , Paymaster General. Knights Bachelor • George William Barr, , Managing Director, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd., Glasgow. • Percy Barter, , Chairman, Board of Control. • Cecil Maurice Bowra, , Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford. Warden of Wadham College. • Eric Ashton Carpenter, . For services as President, Manchester Chamber of Commerce. • Alderman Richard Coppock, , General Secretary, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives. • Thomas Dalling, , Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. • William Kelsey Fry, , Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons. • Richard Walker Haddon, , Chairman, Ministry of Agriculture Publicity Advisory Committee. • Thomas Henry Havelock, , Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne. • Edward Dave Asher Herbert, , Chairman, Short Bros., and Harland Ltd., Belfast. • Christopher Hinton, , Deputy Controller of Atomic Energy (Production), Ministry of Supply. • Gordon Morgan Holmes, , Consulting Physician, Charing Cross Hospital and National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. • Leonard Stanistreet Holmes, , president of The Law Society. • James Lythgoe, , City Treasurer, Manchester. • Desmond MacCarthy, , Literary Critic. • Andrew McCormick MacTaggart, Director, Balfour Beatty & Co. Ltd. President, Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors. • David Hughes Parry, , Professor of English Law, University of London. • Francis Harold Peake, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. • Richard Lloyd-Roberts, , Head of Personnel Management Branch, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • William Alfred Souter. For services to the Tyne Improvement Commission. • Henry Thirkill, , Chairman, Cambridge University Joint Recruiting Board. • Edwin John Venner, , Member, State Management Districts Council. • William Wallace, , Vice-President and Chairman of Finance Committee, Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation. • William Turner Walton, , Composer. • Colonel Victor Dunn Warren, , Lord Provost of Glasgow. • Reginald Holmes Wilson, Comptroller, British Transport Commission. • Harold Wooding, Chairman and Managing Director, Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd., and Kassala Cotton Co. Ltd. ;State of South Australia • Oscar Lionel Isaachsen, Chairman of Directors, Bank of Adelaide, State of South Australia. ;State of Victoria • The Honourable James Stanley Disney, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria, since 1948. • Colonel the Honourable George Victor Lansell, , a Member of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria since 1928. For public services. ;Southern Rhodesia • The Honourable Robert Clarkson Tredgold, , Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia. ;Colonies, Protectorates etc. • Kofaworola Adekunle Abayomi, , Member of the Executive Council, Nigeria. • Alport Barker, , Mayor of Suva, Fiji. • David Edwards, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Uganda. • Charles Geoffry Shield Follows, , Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Hong Kong. • Gerald Robert Wight. For public services in Trinidad. Order of the Bath Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Admiral Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, . ;;Army • General Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman, (5084), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now retired). Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb, . ;Civil Division • Sir Godfrey Herbert Ince, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service. Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Vice-Admiral The Honourable Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, . • Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Nigel Oliver, . ;;Army • Lieutenant-General Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, (11450), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • General Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson, (15429), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Royal Pioneer Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Marshal Charles Ronald Steele, . ;Civil Division • Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, , High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Germany. • Colonel Geoffry Christie-Miller, , lately Chairman, County of Chester Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association. ;;Additional Knight Commander • Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard, , lately Garter Principal King of Arms. Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Rear-Admiral Dennis Marescaux Lees, . • Rear-Admiral John Arthur Symons Eccles, . • Rear-Admiral Frederick Robertson Parham, . • Rear-Admiral Patrick Vivian McLaughlin, . • Rear-Admiral Royer Mylius Dick, . • Rear-Admiral (E) William Scarlett Jameson, . • Acting Rear-Admiral (S) William McBride, . • Surgeon Rear-Admiral Kenneth Alexander Ingleby Mackenzie, . • Captain Richard Oliver Bellasis, , (Retired). ;;Army • Brigadier (temporary) James Rupert Cochrane, (33328), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General Nigel William Duncan, (12071), late Royal Armoured Corps. • Brigadier (temporary) Alfred Francis Hely, (34589), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Brigadier Harold Montague Hinde, (8457), late Royal Army Service Corps (now retired). • Major-General Harold Arthur Hounsell, (13149), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General Kenneth Frank MacKay Lewis, (14122), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Brigadier (temporary) Geoffrey Alex Colin Macnab (22973), late Infantry. • Brigadier (temporary) Herbert Clive Phipps, (13926), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Brigadier (temporary) Cedric Rhys Price, (33361), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major-General Arthur Charles Shortt, (10886), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Brigadier (temporary) (now Colonel) Doidge Estcourt Taunton, (27998), late Infantry. • Major-General Thomas Young, (10380), late Royal Army Medical Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Vice Marshal William Arthur Darville Brook, . • Air Vice Marshal Douglas Macfadyen, . • Acting Air Vice Marshal Theodore Newman McEvoy, . • Air Commodore Charles Edward Chilton, . • Air Commodore Wilfred Leslie Freebody, . ;Civil Division • Herbert Wilfred Ayers, , Under-Secretary and Accountant-General, Ministry of National Insurance. • Eric Barnard, , Deputy Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. • Russell Frederick Bretherton, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade (now serving in the Cabinet Office). • Richard William Barnes Clarke, , Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. • William Richard Joseph Cook, , Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service, Admiralty. • Robert Annesley Wilkinson Dent, Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons. • Mitchell Macdonald Dobbie, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Town & Country Planning. • Ralph Neville Heaton, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. • Charles Thomas Houghton, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. • Colonel Sir Herbert Patrick Hunter, , DL, Chairman, County of Stafford Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association. • Andrew Lockhart Innes, Legal Secretary and Parliamentary Draftsman, Department of the Lord Advocate. • William Francis Porter McLintock, , lately Director of the Geological Survey and Museum. • Commander Seton Steuart Crichton Mitchell, , Royal Navy (Retired), Chief Engineer, Armaments Design Establishment, Ministry of Supply. • Richard Royle Powell, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. • Ewart Watson Ravenshear, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • John Ross, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. • Sidney Donald Sargent, Director of Personnel and Accommodation, General Post Office. • William Strath, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. • Robert Bernard Waterer, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Board of Inland Revenue. • Sydney Frank Wilkinson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health. Order of Merit (OM) • The Right Honourable Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, . • Marshal of the Royal Air Force, the Right Honourable Hugh Montague, Viscount Trenchard, . Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) • Sir Percivale Liesching, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Sir John Stuart Macpherson, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nigeria. Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) • Sir Alexander Hyslop Maxwell, Chairman, British Travel and Holidays Association. • Admiral Sir Thomas Hugh Binney, , Governor of the State of Tasmania. • Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith, , High Commissioner in Pakistan for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. • Hugh Macintosh Foot, , Chief Secretary, Nigeria, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief Designate, Jamaica. • Alfred William Lungley Savage, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Barbados. • Major-General Terence Sydney Airey, , General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Element, Trieste Force. • Walter St. Clair Howland Roberts, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Bucharest. • Oswald Arthur Scott, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, at Helsinki. Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • William Abbott, , HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education. • William Asbury, lately Land Commissioner, Schleswig-Holstein, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). • James William Blackshaw, , Assistant-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. • Wilfred John Hall, , Director of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology. • John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart, , Principal Intelligence Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). • Kenneth McGregor, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. • Cyril John Pyke, Head of Finance and Economic Department, Administration of African Territories, Foreign Office. • James Ramsay, , British subject resident in Portugal. • Mark Dalcour Tennant, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Leonard Waight, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. • Clifford Craig, , Surgeon Superintendent, Launceston General Hospital, State of Tasmania. • Ian Morrison Ross Maclennan, High Commissioner designate in Southern Rhodesia for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. • Godfrey Eccleston Boyd Shannon, an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office. • George Lowe Sutton, . For services to Agriculture in the State of Western Australia. • Robert Perceval Armitage, , Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Gold Coast. • Richard Dennis Blandy, , Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides. • Edward Arthur Carr, Colonial Administrative Service, Commissioner of the Colony, Nigeria. • Hubert Childs, , Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner of the Protectorate, Sierra Leone. • Frederick Crawford, , Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Development, Northern Rhodesia, Governor and Commander-in-Chief Designate of the Seychelles. • William Leonard Dale, Deputy Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. • Charles Frederick Hickling, , Fisheries Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. • Norman Leslie Mayle, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. • John Cochrane Muir, , Colonial Agricultural Service, Member, for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tanganyika. • Harold James Page, , Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. • Stelios Pavlides QC, Attorney-General, Cyprus. • Eric Ernest Falk Pretty, Colonial Administrative Service, British Resident. Brunei. • John Wellesley Steil, , Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for African Affairs, Uganda. • Reginald William Taylor, . Director of Public Works, Nigeria. • Eric Arthur Cleugh, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Panama; lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington. • Ponsonby Moore Crosthwaite, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Athens. • Alfred Stanley Fordham, Head of the American Department, Foreign Office. • Geoffrey Warren Furlonge, , Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office. • George Peter Labouchère, Counsellor and Deputy Commissioner at His Majesty's Legation at Vienna; lately Counsellor of His Majesty's Embassy at Buenos Aires. • Herbert Vere Redman, , Counsellor (Information) at the United Kingdom Liaison Mission in Japan. • Francis Brian Anthony Rundall, , Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments. • George Edward Russell Sandars, , Governor, Blue Nile Province, Sudan. • Frank Edmund Stafford, , Colonial Administrative Service, now serving in the African Department, Foreign Office. • Humphrey Trevelyan, , Deputy Economic Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Bagdad. ;Honorary Companions • Daniel Adesanya Gbelegbuwa II, , Awujale of Ijebuland, Nigeria. • Raja Uda bin Raja Muhammad, , Mentri Besar of Selangor, Federation of Malaya. Royal Victorian Order Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) • Daniel Thomas Davies, . • Brigadier Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin, . • Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Robert Stedall Hickson, , Royal Marines (Retired). • Francis Hugo Teale, . Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) • Marcus John Cheke. • Arthur Campbell Martin, . • George Proctor Middleton, . Members of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO) • The Reverend Hector David Anderson, • Captain Stanley Edward Hill, • Roy Murray Hyslop • Charles William Tanner Members of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO) • Robert Lindsay, • Patrick Joseph Shyne Order of the British Empire Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) ;Civil Division • The Right Honourable Gertrude Mary, Baroness Denman, . For services to the Women's Land Army. Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Admiral Sir Eric James Patrick Brind, . ;Civil Division • The Right Honourable Samuel Lowry, Baron Porter, . For services as president of the International Law Association. Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) ;Military Division ;;Army • Brigadier Anne Thomson, (296473), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Commandant Helen Wilson Cargill, , Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. ; Civil Division • Ellen Marian Acton, , Comptroller, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops. • Ninette de Valois, , Director, Sadler's Wells Ballet. Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Vice-Admiral Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, . • Vice-Admiral Richard Victor Symonds-Tayler, . ;;Army • Lieutenant-General Kenneth Graeme McLean, (15991), late Corps of Royal Engineers. ;;Royal Air Force • Acting Air Marshal Thomas Arthur Warne-Browne, . ;Civil Division • Albert Edgar Feavearyear, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Food. • Harry Mason Garner, , Chief Scientist, Ministry of Supply. • Norman Arthur Guttery, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport. • James Moir Mackenzie, , Deputy Director-General, Federation of British Industries. For services to Commonwealth economic relations. • William Edmund Hodges Rhydderch, , Deputy Chairman, Board of Customs & Excise. • Arthur Elijah Trueman, , Chairman, University Grants Committee. • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Myers Wayman, , Vice-Chairman of the National Savings Committee. • John Colville Hutchison, , Minister at His Majesty's Embassy at Peking. • Andrew Walker Fairley, . For public services in the State of Victoria. • Major Charles Owen Butler, , Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner of Ashanti, Gold Coast. • Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Seychelles. • Harold Frederick Downie, , one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies. ;Honorary Knight Commander • Francis Akanu Ibiam, , Member of the Executive Council, Nigeria. Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Captain (Commodore Second Class) Leslie Newton Brownfield. • Captain Cyril William Byas, (Retired). • Captain (S) Eric Denison Thorngate Churcher. • Captain Henry Bramhall Ellison, , lately on loan to the Government of India as Commodore Second Class. • Rear-Admiral (E) Hubert Southwood Harrison, . • Colonel John Chaddesley Westall, Royal Marines. • Surgeon Captain (D) Frank Reginald Parry Williams, . ;;Army • Brigadier Edwin Raymond Ash, (42159), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Brigadier Oswald Emerson Chapman, (15591), late Royal Armoured Corps. • Colonel (temporary) Rohan Delacombe, (34748), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). • Colonel (temporary) Percy Douglas Fabin, (26854), Employed List (late The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)). • Brigadier John Victor Faviell, (13145), late Infantry, (now retired). • Colonel (acting) Cecil Walter Fort, (272769), Army Cadet Force. • Colonel Elspeth Isabel Weatherly Hobkirk (196046), Women's Royal Army Corps. • Brigadier Wilfrid Gould Pidsley, (27386), late Royal Army Educational Corps. • Brigadier (acting) Derek Mills-Roberts, (69334), Territorial Army. • Brigadier (temporary) Albert Smith, (25252), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Colonel (temporary) Norman George Archie Ireland-Smith (40390), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Colonel Samuel Hamilton Woods, (5446), late Royal Army Dental Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Vice Marshal Percy Eric Maitland, , (Retired). • Air Commodore Vyvyan Stewart Ewing, . • Air Commodore Philip Jones. • Air Commodore William Alfred Opie. • Air Commodore Leonard Taylor. • Group Captain Graham Clarke Bladon. • Group Captain Edward John Corbally. • Group Captain Edward James Laine, . • Group Captain Kenneth John McIntyre, . • Group Captain Howard Wright Penney. ;Civil Division • David Dick Anderson, , HM Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department. • Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Picton Ansell, , Chairman, British Show Jumping Association. • William Armstrong. For services to the Playhouse, Liverpool, and to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. • Henry Ashton Ashton, Deputy Regional Director, North Western Region, General Post Office. • Stanley Bertram Bagley, , Chairman and Joint Governing Director, Bagley & Co. Ltd. • Dennis William Barrett, Director and General Manager, Smiths English Clocks Ltd. Chairman of the British Clock & Watch Manufacturers Association. • Karl Baumann, . For services to turbine development. • Gerald Clayton Beadle, Controller, West Region, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Edgar Charles Behrens, , Chairman, National Wool Textile Export Corporation. Director of Sir Jacob Behrens & Sons Ltd., Bradford. • Henry Berry, , Member of Parliament for Woolwich West, 1945–1950. For political and public services. • George Herbert Bowler, , Ministry of Pensions Representative in North America. • James Boyd, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health & Local Government, Northern Ireland. • Arthur Brandram, , Secretary, The United Services Trustee. • Hermann Justus Braunholtz, Keeper of the Department of Ethnography, British Museum. • The Honourable John Hamilton Bruce, , Principal Secretary of the Priory for Wales, Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Commissioner for Wales, St. John Ambulance Brigade. • Herbert Bruckshaw, , Accountant General, Ministry of Supply. • Clarkson Leo Burgess, Clerk of the Peace for the County of London. • Egerton St. John Pettifor Catchpool, Founder and lately General Secretary, Youth Hostels Association. • Cecil Harry Chester, , Chairman South Western Gas Board. • Daniel Norman Chester. For services to the study of public administration. Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. • Stephen Edgar Chisholm, Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office. • Henry William Coleman, , Chief Officer, Birmingham Fire Brigade. • Hayne Constant, , Director, National Gas Turbine Establishment, Ministry of Supply. • Cicely Courtneidge (Cicely Esmeralda Hulbert), Actress. • Frank Henry Crosier, , Deputy General Manager, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. • Joan Cross, Singer. • Stanley Kenneth Davies, Chairman, Welsh Advisory Council for Civil Aviation. • Frederic Rudolf Mackley De Paula, . For services to the Board of Inland Revenue. • Major Cecil Randolph Dudgeon, Chief Food Officer for Scotland, Ministry of Food. • John Dunlop, Town Clerk of Belfast. • Oscar Faber, , Senior Partner, Oscar Faber & Partners. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons. • Frank Ludford Freeman, Chief Education Officer, Southampton. • James Blair Frizell, Director of Education for the City of Edinburgh. • Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, , City Architect and Town Planning Officer, Coventry. • Sir (Ernest) Basil Gibson, , Chairman, Sheffield Regional Hospital Board. • Lionel Giles, . For services to the study of the Chinese language and its literature. • Robert Gillespie, Managing Director, British Tanker Company Ltd. • Victor Andrew Goddard, . For services as Chief of Establishments and Organisation Division, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. • Archibald Hayman Robertson Goldie, , Deputy Director (Research), Meteorological Office, Air Ministry. • Mary Lynda Dorothea Grier, lately Representative in China for the British Council. • Sidney Aaron Griller, , Leader of the Griller String Quartet. • Walter Henry Guillebaud, Deputy Director General, Forestry Commission. • John Ernest Gwyther, , Deputy Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department. • Ralph William Hill, , Headmaster, Dorchester Grammar School, Dorset. • William Bowyer Honey, lately Keeper, Victoria & Albert Museum. • Joseph Stanley Hopwood, , Medical Superintendent, Broadmoor Institution. • Robert Willis Horton, , lately Chairman of the Wiltshire Agriculture Executive Committee. • Major-General Ivor Thomas Percival Hughes, , Deputy Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons. • Robert Moore Hunter, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works. • Richard Irvin, Alderman, Tynemouth County Borough Council. • Philip Brutton James, Art Director, Arts Council of Great Britain. • Charles Johnson, , for eminent services to Medieval research. • John Cyril Jones, , Director of Education, The Polytechnic, Regent Street, London. • William Sydney Jones, Chief Registrar, Chancery Division, Supreme Court of Judicature. • John Lucien Keith, , Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. • Charles Kemp, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner (Grade I), Johannesburg. • Peter James Kerley, , Director, Radiological Department, Westminster Hospital. Adviser on Mass Radiography, Ministry of Health. • Ernest Charles Kitts, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. • John William Laing, Governing Director, John Laing & Son Ltd., Mill Hill. • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Gordon Larking, , lately Chairman, National Executive Council, British Legion. • Charles Boyd McAlpine, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Lionel Roy McColvin, Librarian to the City of Westminster, and Honorary Secretary of the Library Association. • Charles John Macdonald, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport. • George Tait McGlashan, , Convener of Perth and Kinross. • Geoffrey Marshall, , Principal Medical Referee to the Civil Service Commission. • Charles Carnegie Martin, Chief Constable of Liverpool. • Peter Haig Muirhead, Director and General Manager, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne. • Charles Norman, Chairman, Animal Feeding Stuffs C.I.F. Buyers Association of London Ltd. • William Leslie Maurice O'Connor, Director of Carbonisation, National Coal Board. • Tom Paterson Owens, Chief Inspector, Children's Branch, Home Office. • Charles Ranken Bruce Park, Inspector General of Companies, Companies Liquidation and Bankruptcy Department, Board of Trade. • John Seymour Pearce, , Regional Controller, Ministry of National Insurance. • Solomon Pearce. For political and public services in Leeds. • Samuel Frederick Peshall, , Chairman, North Midlands Regional Board for Industry. • Bernard Frank Pool, , Director of Contracts, Admiralty. • Maurice Ernest Reed, . For services as Legal Secretary, Law Officers' Department. • Harold Taylor Robinson, Vice-Chairman, Derby Local Employment Committee. • William Alexander Ross, , Director of Works & Services, Scotland, Ministry of Works. • George Herbert Russell. For public and agricultural services in Angus and Kincardine. • Reginald John Samuel, , Deputy Chief Engineer, Roads Department, Ministry of Transport. • Eric Sanders, Managing Director, Helli-Wells Ltd., Walsall, and Treforest Trading Estate, Pontypridd. • Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, , Author and poet. • Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, , Author. • Adrian Gilbert Scott, , Architect. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons. • John James Stawell Scouler, Director of Dried Fruits & Edible Nuts Division, Ministry of Food. • Stephen John Secker, Accountant General, German Section, Foreign Office. • John Edward Serby, , Deputy Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. • Professor Arnold Nixon Shimmin, Member, National Arbitration Tribunal. • Colonel the Honourable Cyril Davenport Siddeley, , Chairman, Coventry Local Employment Committee. • Stanley Livingston Smith, , Director of Research of the British Shipbuilding Research Association. • Bernard Morrell Stephenson, Assistant Solicitor, Department of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. • Richard William Trumper, , Senior Partner in the firm of Messrs. Glutton, Agents for the Commissioners of Crown Lands. • Alwyn Ieuan Tudor, , Assistant Secretary, Home Office. • James Nixon Waite, , Controller, London Division, British Electricity Authority. • William Watson, Secretary, Shipbuilding Employers Federation. • Alderman Charles Frederick White, , Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire, 1944–1950. For political and public services. • Harold Ray Whiteman, Controller, London and South Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Frank Whittle, Assistant Secretary, War Office. • Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, , Director of the Unit of Insect Physiology, Agricultural Research Council. • Herbert Sydney Wilcox, Film Producer and Director. • Henry Wilkinson, Controller of Supplies, Ministry of Health. • Octavius George Willey, , Member of Parliament for the Cleveland Division of the North Riding of Yorkshire since 1945. For political and public services. • Olive Christine, Lady Willis. For services to the welfare of wives and families of officers and ratings in the Royal Navy. • Robert Yates, , Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Fuel and Power. • Thomas Yates, General Secretary, National Union of Seamen. ;;Overseas and Diplomatic list • Alexander Brackenridge, President of the British Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce, New York. • John Percival Coghill, His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton. • Howard Mercer, , Chief Secretary, British Administration, Tripolitania. • William Robertson Myers, Deputy Inspector-General of Customs at Shanghai, Chinese Maritime Customs Service. • Judge Michael Harvey Rafferty, lately British Judge of the Mixed Tribunal, International Court, Tangier. • John Francis Robert Vaughan-Russell, His Majesty's Consul-General at Buenos Aires. • The Right Reverend Weston Henry Stewart, , Bishop of the Church of England in Jerusalem. • Lucy Meredith Bryce, , Honorary Director of the Blood Transfusion Service in the State of Victoria. • William Ayliff Godlonton, . For public services in Southern Rhodesia. • William Forbes Mackenzie, , Deputy Resident Commissioner, Swaziland. • Paul McGuire, an author and lecturer of the State of South Australia. • Frank Gladstone Menzies, Crown Solicitor, State of Victoria. • James Henry Methold, President, United Kingdom Citizens Association, India. • Joseph Franklin Thorn, a mining engineer. For services to the gold-mining industry in the State of Western Australia. • Kamil Mohamed Ariff bin Kadir Mustan, . For public services in the Federation of Malaya. • Lancelot Liddle Rorke Buckland, , lately Executive Officer, Development, Tanganyika. • John Campbell. For public services in Kenya. • Patrick Albert Courtney, Colonial Postal Service, Director, Posts & Telegraphs Department, Nigeria. • Nicholas Bayard Dill. For public services in Bermuda. • William John Donnelly, lately Commissioner of Income Tax, Northern Rhodesia. • Garnet Hamilton Gordon, . For public services in the Windward Islands. • Richard Geoffrey Dennison Houghton, lately Commissioner of Labour, Federation of Malaya. • Ronald Macdonald, , Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Federation of Malaya and Singapore. • Adam Rankine, , lately Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Mauritius. • William Harold Salkield, , General Manager and Harbour Authority, Gold Coast Railway. • Tan Chin Tuan. For public services in Singapore. • Captain Arthur Frederick Thelwell, , lately Commissioner of Lands, Jamaica. ;;Honorary Commander • Sheikh Seif bin Ali El-Bually, , State Secretary to the Government of Mukalla, Aden. Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Captain Robert Syme Denholm Armour, (Retired). • Acting Captain (S) Gerald Horace Ashby. • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Clifford Bullock, Royal Marines. • Commander Sidney Arthur Moorhouse Else. • Major (War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel) George Robert Hawkins, Royal Marines (Retired). • Commander (E) Guy Cedric Hoffman, . • Commander (E) Frederick Albert Cyprian Jeans. • Commander Horace Rochfort Law, . • Engineer Captain George Leonard Maclennan, (Retired). • The Reverend William John Ernest Piggott, Chaplain. • Commander Geoffrey Anthony Corry Williams, (Retired). ;;Army • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Sidney Alexander (86049), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (District Officer) Alfred Ernest Ball, (51842), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edward John Hunter Bates, (53108), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Adam Johnstone Cheyne Block, (39141), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Carr (50233), 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Caesar Cashin (139427), Corps of Royal Engineers. • The Reverend Percy William Frederick Cato (87102), Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains' Department. • Lieutenant-Colonel Olive Emily Clark, (206063), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Charles Ernest Weir Dalton (68934), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Major (Quartermaster) Albert Frederick Day, (89101), Corps of Royal Engineers (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List). • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Percy Samuel Dundon, (76791), Royal Army Service Corps (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List). • Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Eaton (56749), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Henry Fitzgerald, (50869), Irish Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Robert Frost, (40889), Combined Cadet Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Thomas Howe Fry, (275715), Army Cadet Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel William Alfred Hardy, (72939), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Neil Frederick Heneage (56613), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Colonel (temporary) Christopher Francis Hutt (40389), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Bryan Jolly, (31994), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Geoffrey Franklin Lushington (41141), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Alistair Manifold (70111), Royal Army Medical Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major (Ordnance Executive Officer)) Bernard McCormack, (123858), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred John Potter (56724), Royal Army Service Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert Caradoc Rose Price, (50915), Welsh Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Henry Pritchard, (21589), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary) and Chief Paymaster) Vivian Wellesley Rees (6056), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Richard Hugh Robertson, (53649), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major John Henry Sharpley, (74431), The Cheshire Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Newbigging Thomson, (36839), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell Richard Julian Hope-Thomson, (52731), The Royal Scots Fusiliers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harold Denis Edwards Verschoyle (6426), The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) George Hedley Watson, (33594), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Somerset Erskine West, , (30705), The Cheshire Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel Roy Harold Willis, (19992), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel George Leslie Wood, (58912), The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army. • Colonel John De Lisle Thompson, Southern Rhodesia Territorial Force. • Colonel Gerald Edward Wells, Southern Rhodesia Territorial Force. ;;Additional Officer • Major (temporary) Paul James Banks Knight (194885), The South Staffordshire Regiment. In recognition of non-operational services in Japan in connection with operations in Korea. ;;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander Richard Alcock (73562). • Wing Commander Leslie Thomas Godard Barber, (28260). • Wing Commander Clifford Thomas Jackaman (35360). • Wing Commander Robert John Bazley Jackson (35269). • Wing Commander Frederick Moir Milligan, (37453). • Wing Commander Francis Walter John Paddon, (45443). • Wing Commander Alan Pyke (26245). • Wing Commander Albert Ernest Sims, (35204). • Acting Wing Commander Brian Roger Wakefield Hallows, (77787). • Acting Wing Commander Henry Lindsay Roxburgh, (101810). • Acting Wing Commander Charles Vivian Winn, (40586). • Squadron Leader James Michael Birkin, (81350), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. • Squadron Leader Gerald Blair (43852). • Squadron Leader Oswald Gradon (21349). • Squadron Leader Andrew Henry Humphrey, (33543). • Squadron Leader George Brian Walford (39914). • Acting Squadron Leader Alfred Roy Driessen (62962), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. • Acting Squadron Leader Montague Clifford Hart (31441). ;Civil Division • Bernard Joseph Ahern, Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland, • John Allan, Member of the Scottish Council of Welfare, Air Training Corps. • John Brock Allon, Town Clerk of Wolverhampton. • Arthur William Angus, , Director of Instrument Production, Ministry of Supply. • Mary Frances Applebey, Principal, German Section, Foreign Office. • David Archibald, General Secretary of the North Atlantic British Liner Committee. • Arthur James Atkins, Principal Armament Supply Officer, Mediterranean, Admiralty. • Herbert Bardgett, , Chorus Master and Conductor. • Henry Sidney Barnes, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. • Harold Barrett, Principal, Board of Customs & Excise. • Francis Alfred Bear, Principal, Board of Trade. • Joe Blackburn. For public services in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, lately president of the Society of Radiographers. • Roy Courtney Bloodworth, Deputy Director (Finance), Ministry of Civil Aviation. • Cyril Boddington, Director and General Manager, Berkshire Printing Co. Ltd., Reading. • James Ryding Bond, , Principal of the Broomfield Farm Institute, Derbyshire. • Alan Garnet Bonny, , Chief Engineer, Technical Training Command, Air Ministry. • Sydney Edward Joseph Brady, , lately Principal, Board of Trade. • Alderman Harry Charles Brown, Chairman, Bournemouth and Poole Local Employment Committee, and Disablement Advisory Committee. • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Jackson Butchart, , Secretary, University of Aberdeen. • Llewellyn Francis Cadwallader, , Director, National Association of Master Bakers, Confectioners & Caterers. • Kenneth Allerton Cameron, Sound Supervisor, Crown Film Unit, Central Office of Information. • Andrew John Charnock, General Works Manager, Leyland Motors Ltd. • Arthur Herbert Clarke, lately Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. • Reuben Clarke, , Marine Director, Laurence, Scott & Electromotors Ltd., Norwich. • Eric William Cockcroft. For public services in Todmorden, Lancashire. • Norman John Wilding Cole, , Chairman, Folkestone, Ashford & District War Pensions Committee. • Henry George Coleman, . For political and public services in Islington. • The Reverend Keith Earle Collins, General Superintendent, Missions to Seamen. • Horace Ernest Comben, , Joint Managing Director, Comben & Wakeling Ltd. • Alderman Nellie Marie Cowan, Chairman, Willesden Local Employment Committee. • Alwyn Stuart Craig, Under-Sheriff, City and County of Londonderry. • Arthur Crossley, Managing Director, Henry Crossley (Packings) Ltd., Bolton. • Victor Alexander Rutherford Davidson, Manager of the Fish Curing Sections, Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd., Aberdeen. • Thomas Eynon Davies. For services as Chairman, Bridgend & District Local Employment Committee and Youth Employment Committee. • William Leslie Day, Engineer I, Atomic Energy Establishment, Ministry of Supply. • Henry Lewis de Bourcier, , Principal, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • Lieutenant-Commander Horace Denton, Royal Navy (Retired). Chairman, Ancillary Staffs Whitley Council, National Health Service. • Fred Dewhurst, , Engineer and Works Manager, London Fire Brigade. • Margaret Digby, Secretary of the Horace Plunkett Foundation. • Colonel Walter Doherty, Assistant Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police. • Archibald Dryburgh, Chairman of Central Farmers Ltd., Fife. • Richard Frederick Roberts Dunbar, Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. • Donald George Dyne, Senior Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue. • Reginald Thomas Ebrey, , General Manager, Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Ltd. • William Russell Edmunds, , Principal, HM Treasury. • William Stanley Edwards, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Florence Eileen Elliott, Matron of Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. • Alfred Ernest Evans, Secretary, Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions. • Emrys Evans, lately Town Clerk, Wallasey. • Maurice Gordon Farquharson, , Head of the Secretariat, British Broadcasting Corporation. • John George Duncan Ferries, Chairman, Ministry of National Insurance Local Appeal Tribunal, Aberdeen. • Agnes Mary Field Hankin. For services as Director of the Children's Film Department of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. • Frederick Charles Fitzpatrick, Representative of the Amalgamated Engineering Union on the Admiralty Industrial Council and the Shipbuilding Trades Joint Council. • David Morley-Fletcher. For services as Senior Director of the Colonial Development Corporation (West Africa) Ltd. • Benjamin Gardner, General Secretary, Amalgamated Engineering Union. • John Wighton Gibson, Firemaster, Angus Fire Brigade. • Gertrude May Godden, Matron of Hammersmith Hospital. • Alderman Eleanor Kathleen Goodrich, . For public services in Wandsworth. • Lionel Ingersoll Gordon, Crown Agent for Scotland. • Mitchell Woods Gordon, . For political and public services. • Erica Beatrice Faith Graham, lately Chairman, Women's Land Army County Welfare Committee, Bedfordshire. • William Gordon Green, , Chief Investigation Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. • Charles Greenwood, , City Engineer and Surveyor, Chester. • Harry Bordley Greenwood, Clerk of the Peace and of the County Council, Westmorland. • Sydney Gully, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • Colonel Philip Ashley Hall, , Secretary, County of Buckingham Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association. • Robert Hall, Chief Constable of Rotherham. • Thomas James Canterbury Hamilton, Vice-President, Belfast City Savings Council. • Councillor Arthur Hampton, . For political and public services in Staffordshire. • Commander Harold Geoffrey Leech Harvey, Royal Navy (Retired), lately Chairman, Bristol Central Committee, Sea Cadet Corps. • Robert Gordon Hattle, Finance Officer and Accountant, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. • Ashley Eldrid Havinden. For services to industrial design. Director, W. S. Crawford Ltd., Advertising Agents. • James Hawitt, , Chairman, Darlington Savings Committee. • William Charleson Hedge, Principal, Scottish Home Department. • Wilfred Lanceley Heywood, Secretary, National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade. • Edward Hinrich, Assistant Controller of Supplies, Ministry of Works. • John Hirst, , Clerk to the River Trent Catchment Board. • Arthur Hoare, , Engineer Manager, J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., Cowes. • Harold Hoffman, , Senior Shipping Manager, Lever Bros., and Unilever Ltd. • Samuel Leonard Hopkinson, Manager, German Office, British Iron & Steel Corporation Ltd. • Stafford Frank Hough, , Chairman, Falmouth, Truro & District Employment Committee. • Patrick Edward Husband. For services as Principal Controller, Reparations, Deliveries & Restitutions Branch, Allied Commission for Austria, British Element. • Major Alfred Huskisson, , Managing Director, S. Simpson Ltd., London. • William Buchan Inglis, , Depute Director of Studies, Moray House Training College, Edinburgh. • William Peter James, Principal, Ministry of Transport. • Captain Guy William Archibald Jarrett, lately Chief Superintendent (Harwich), Trinity House Steam Vessel Service. • William Jenkinson, lately Secretary to the Armagh County Council. • Percy Johnson, Receiver of Parliament Office Fees and Accountant, House of Lords. • Herbert James Jones, , Controller, National Assistance Board, Scotland. • Hugh Jones, Assistant Regional Controller, Ministry of National Insurance, Cardiff. • Florence Elizabeth Kaye, Matron of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. • Tom Knowles, Chief Officer, Cambridgeshire Fire Brigade. • Eric Abel Knox, Assistant Clerk of the London County Council. • John Campbell Lang, Chairman, General Council, Scottish Trades Union Congress. • Margaret Dorothy Law, Managing Editor, Chambers Encyclopaedia. • John Alfred Arthur Leach, Principal, Ministry of Food. • Francis Desmond Littlewood, Town Clerk of Cheltenham. • William Douglas Lockhart, lately Senior Inspector, Ministry of Town & Country Planning. (Now Temporary Inspector.) • Leslie Lord, Assistant Agricultural Adviser, Colonial Office. • Edward Arthur Lovell, , Principal Scientific Officer, Air Ministry. • Harold Newton Lowe, , Deputy Director of Education, Liverpool. • Andrew MacAlpine, President, National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers. • Lionel Gilbert Machin, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer & Audit Department. • Duncan MacLennan, Chairman of the Visiting Committees of Polmont Borstal Institution and Edinburgh Prison Male Borstal Section. • Robert Marchbank, , Regional House Coal Officer, Scotland. • Mary Marsden, Administrator, Women's Voluntary Services, Germany. • Sam Brook Martin, , Manager, Naval Canteen Service, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes. • Captain William Verner Miller, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. • John James Milton, . For political and public services in Bristol. • John Jones Morris, Commodore Chief Engineer, Blue Star Line. • Lionel George Paterson Morris, , Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • Herbert Stanley Munday, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Nevile Chaworth-Musters, , Chairman, Price Regulation Committee, North Midland Region. • Edward George Neate, Deputy Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty. • Alderman Albert Pennington Nicol, , Chairman, Food Control Committee, Huddersfield County Borough. • Emily Rebecca Noall, . For political and public services in the Isle of Wight. • Mabel Orchard, lately Headmistress, Carlton Vale Secondary School for Girls, Willesden. • Harry Ashmore Pass, lately Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • William Hugh Clifford Patrick, , Regional Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. • Richard Ino Payne, Assistant Director, Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Division, Ministry of Food. • Arthur John Pegg, , Chief Test Pilot, Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd. • Cecil Lodge Philcox, , First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Margaret Phillips, Principal, Borthwick Training College, London. • Arnold Platts, , HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education. • Thomas George Richards, , Senior Engineer, Roads Department, Ministry of Transport. • Joseph Herbert Richardson, Controller (Publicity), Public Relations Department, General Post Office. • Philip John Sampey Richardson. For services to Ballet. • Ellen Roberts, , Matron-in-Chief, Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service. • Alexander Robertson, , Deputy Licensing Authority (Scotland), Ministry of Transport. • John Charles Robertson, Chairman, Swinton & Pendlebury Savings Committee, Lancashire. • William James Rodda, Member of the National Savings Committee. • William Hume-Rothery, . Lecturer in Metallurgical Chemistry, University of Oxford. • William Young Sandeman, , Civil Engineer, Railway Executive, Scottish Region. • Archibald Scott. For services to the linen industry in Northern Ireland. • Frank Severs, Principal, Admiralty. • Frederick Shakeshaft, , Generation Design Engineer, British Electricity Authority. • Andrew James Shinnie, , Medical Officer of Health, City of Westminster. • Harry Samuel Shipway, Factory Manager, Post Office Factories Department, Birmingham. • William Duncan Simpson, , Chief Officer (Scotland), Ministry of Pensions. • Arthur Edward Haswell Sinclair. For services as Joint Assistant Secretary, Civil Service Commission. • Alderman Albert Victor Smith, . For political and public services in Ipswich. • Frank Harry Smith, Finance Officer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. • Thyra Smith, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education. • Vernon Alexander Spinks, Assistant Chief Inspector, Immigration Branch, Home Office. • John Edgar Stanier, , Divisional Manager, West Midlands Gas Board. • Kenneth Harry Staple, Secretary and Legal Adviser, British Overseas Airways Corporation. • William Steedman, , Attached to Research Department, Foreign Office. • Captain Harry Steele, Master, SS Port Brisbane, Port Line Ltd. • John Whiteforde Stevenson, , Assistant Director of Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. • Harry Stoddart. For political services in Gateshead and Jarrow. • Oliffe Briant Stokes, Chairman, Bradford Savings Committee. • Captain John William Storey, , Honorary Secretary, Northern Ireland Branch, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops. • Robert Gordon Strachan, , Senior Estates Surveyor, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. • John William Sullivan, Deputy Regional Controller, Board of Trade. • Joseph Eric Swindlehurst, , Borough Engineer, Hampstead. • Bertram Tallyn, Chairman, Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire District Committee, Eastern Regional Board for Industry. • Alan Walter Whittington Taylor, Chairman, West Wales District Committee, Welsh Board for Industry. • Frederick Mouatt Keith Thomas, Joint Chief Surveyor and Contracts Manager, John Mowlem & Co. Ltd. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons. • Walter Wilson Thornton, Assistant Chief Constable of Lancashire. • Thomas Percy Threlkeld, Superintending Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Lewis Edward Trevers, , Honorary Rescue Adviser, Civil Defence Department, Home Office. • William George Venton, Principal Clerk, Companies (Winding-up) Department, Supreme Court of Judicature. • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Herbert Vergin, Conference Officer, Grade I, Foreign Office. • Sidney Ernest Waldron, Principal, Ministry of National Insurance. • Walter Stanley Warwick, Principal, HM Treasury. • Frederick Vincent Watts, , Senior Engineer, Prison Commission. • Harry West, Higher Collector, Manchester, Board of Customs & Excise. • Joseph Whalen, . For political and public services in Manchester. • Charles Gerald White, Principal, Air Ministry. • Lawson Scott-White, , Senior Partner, R. Travers Morgan & Partners. • Cyril John Arther Whitehouse, Principal, Ministry of Supply. • Donovan Williams, , Principal, German Section, Foreign Office. • Peter Jones Williams, , Principal Regional Architect, Ministry of Health. • James Alexander Wright, , Senior Architect, Ministry of Works. • John Arnold Wyer, Assistant Regional Controller, London Appointments Office, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Gladys Young West, Radio Actress. • The Reverend Canon Herbert Brown, , lately Chaplain at His Majesty's Embassy at Madrid. • Captain Andrew Charles Duncan, lately First Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Brussels. • Sidney Edwards Faithful, First Secretary at His Majesty's Legation in Korea. • James Fanstone, , Physician, Surgeon and Founder of the Hospital Evangelico Goiano, at Anápolis. • Kenneth James Hird, , lately First Secretary (Labour) at His Majesty's Embassy at Tehran. • Carl William Hirschberg, lately His Majesty's Consul at Elizabethville. (Now at Geneva.) • John Bruce Spens Jardine, British Council Representative in Poland. • Roy Goodwin Kilburne, Chief Electrical Engineer to the Government of Nepal. • Guy Percival L'Estrange, British Vice-Consul at Macassar. • William Miller, , His Majesty's Consul at Marseilles. • Chaim Raphael, Economic Information Officer, British Information Services, New York. • Alfred Julius Sington, , His Majesty's Consul at Bratislava. • William James Vyvyan Taylor, Controller of Agriculture, British Administration, Tripolitania. • Edmund David Watt, , British Consul at Port-au-Prince. • Duncan Harkness Weir, Private Secretary and Comptroller to the Governor-General of the Sudan. • William Wells, General Manager of the Antofagasta-Bolivia Railway Company. • Arthur George Worrall, General Manager in Egypt of the British Coaling Depots Ltd. • Lieutenant-Colonel William Edgar Andrews, , late Auxiliary Force (India), Principal, La Martiniere College, Lucknow, India. • William George Barnard, , Principal Veterinary Officer, Swaziland. • Joseph Ashton Burton, , Honorary Chairman, House Committee, Royal Empire Society. • Lionel Hedley Collett, , Agricultural and Livestock Officer, Basutoland. • Nancy Cook, MSc, Reader-in-Charge of Bacteriology, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia. • Philip Henry Gifford, lately Chief Inspector of Schools, Southern Rhodesia. • Olive Mary Hargreaves, Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women. • Herbert Hays, of Devonport, State of Tasmania. For public services. • Olive Hicken, . For social welfare services in the State of Victoria. • Maxwell Robert Arthur Lamshed. For voluntary services in connection with the Red Cross Society and the Lord Mayor's Food for Britain Campaign, in the State of South Australia. • Edward Heygate Sunderland Lewis, General Manager, The Assam Oil Co., Digboi, Upper Assam, India. • Louis Monod, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Royal Agricultural Society, State of Victoria. • Richard Greenslade Moore, Mayor of Kalgoorlie, State of Western Australia, since 1937. • Arthur Osmond Richardson. For voluntary services in connection with the despatch of food parcels from the State of South Australia to Great Britain. • John Lloyd Roberts, a member of the Broadcasting Advisory Board, Southern Rhodesia. • Major Robert Rich Sharp, a member of the Land Settlement Board, Southern Rhodesia. • Martin Joseph Talbot Wertheimer. For public services in the State of Tasmania. • The Reverend William Lawson Brooks Wrenford, of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Teyateyaneng, Basutoland. • Edward Cecil Stapleton Adkins, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Singapore. • Frank Agius, Collector of Customs, Malta. • Abbas El Arculli. For public services in Hong Kong. • The Reverend Christian Gonzales Baeta, Senior Lecturer in Theology, the University College of the Gold Coast. • Archdeacon Frederick Robert Banks, Vicar General of the Anglican Church in Trinidad. • Geoffrey Tunstall Bates, Controller of Essential Commodities, Sarawak. • Colin William Carnegie-Brown. For public services in Tanganyika. • Henry Francis Cardona. For public services in Gibraltar. • Richard Charles Catling, Colonial Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya. • William Alec Cole. For public services in Nyasaland. • Henry Franklin, Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Information, Northern Rhodesia. • Alexander Gray, , Port Engineer, Aden Port Trust, Aden. • Percy James Greenway, Colonial Agricultural Service, Systematic Botanist, East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisation, East Africa High Commission. • George Herbert Heaton, Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya. • The Reverend Arthur Joseph Hopkins, lately Superintendent of the Methodist Missionary Society, Kenya. • Percival Victor Hunt. For public services in the Seychelles. • Thomas Edward Jager. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. • Vincent Kenneth Johnson, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer Class I, Nigeria. • Frederick Robert Kay, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer Class II, Nigeria. • Cyril Eric Wool-Lewis, Colonial Administrative Service, Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands. • Alan Courtenay Luck, lately Colonial Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. • Hugh Vernon McDonald, Colonial Administrative Service, Native Courts Adviser, Nyasaland. • Ernest Arthur McGill, , Deputy Chief Engineer, Civil Engineering Department, Crown Agents for the Colonies. • James Wilson Macmillan. For public services in British Honduras. • Stanley George Masterman, Acting District Commissioner, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • James Crichton Mathison. For public services in the Federation of Malaya. • Alexander Miller, Manager, British Cotton Growing Association, Nigeria. • Captain Hugh Maxwell Naylor. For public services in Uganda. • Ng Sen Choy. For public services in Singapore. • Captain Howard Nobbs, , Principal, Queens College, British Guiana. • Charles Roy Petty, lately Colonial Survey Service, Director of Surveys, Gold Coast. • Mohamed Ali Rana, . For public services in Kenya. • Alan William Steward, British Council Representative, Nigeria. • Eric Jackson Smallfield, lately Surveyor-General, North Borneo. • Roger John Massy Swynnerton, , Colonial Agricultural Service, Senior Agricultural Officer, Tanganyika. • Ratu George Tuisawau, Roko Tui Nadroga and Navosa, Fiji. • Bertram Arthur Todd Williams, lately Comptroller of Customs, Barbados. • Leon James Williams, . For public services in Bermuda. ;;Honorary Officers • Yap Mau Tatt. For public services in the Federation of Malaya. • Wan Ali bin Wan Chik, Orang Kaya Indra Maharaja Perba Jelai, Federation of Malaya. Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Wardmaster Lieutenant Douglas Barnard. • Lieutenant-Commander (L) Harold Lewis Bishop. • Second Officer Joan Margaret Hales, Women's Royal Naval Service. • Lieutenant-Commander (E) John Walter Hall. • Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Hammer. • Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) John Anthony Bernard Harrisson, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. • Acting Interim Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander William Boyd Jack, . • Surgeon Lieutenant Trevor Stansfield Law, . • Instructor Lieutenant Bernard Piper. • Lieutenant-Commander John Trevor Rushforth. • Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Thomas William Sherrin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. • Lieutenant (E) Thomas Reginald Stafford, . • Mr. Michael Gerard Sullivan, Temporary Acting Commissioned Communication Officer. On loan to the Government of India as Temporary Commissioned Communication Officer. • Lieutenant (S) Albert John Trundley. ;;Additional Member • Lieutenant (S) Joseph Augustine McGoldrick, Royal Navy. In recognition of non-operational services in Japan in connection with operations in Korea. ;;Army • No. 5610835 Warrant Officer Class II William John Baldock, The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major (temporary) William Richard Boalch (49165), The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. • Major (temporary) Raymond Booth (68023), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • The Reverend Charles John Henry William Andrew Bradley (301695), Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains Department. • Captain Charles Edward Brook (202477), The Royal Sussex Regiment. • Major (acting) William Macbeth Brown (63148), Combined Cadet Force. • Major (acting) Irving Nelson Burgess (272313), Army Cadet Force. • No. 7870321 Warrant Officer Class I Alexander Edward Burton, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (temporary) David Johnstone Campell, (90973), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major (temporary) Charles Leslie Carter (116747), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major Thomas Davie Childs (188807), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. • Captain Edwin Henry Coombs (266744), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • No. 7888944 Warrant Officer Class II Edward Mervyn Courtney, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (temporary) Arthur Cowen (102914), General List, attached Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major (temporary) James Curtis (261368), Corps of Royal Engineers. • No. W/11049 Warrant Officer Class II Margaret Elizabeth Jane Darby, Women's Royal Army Corps. • No. S/91638 Warrant Officer Class II George Francis Darbyshire, Royal Army Service Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Marshall Darkes (127398), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). • No. 550390 Warrant Officer Class I George Henry Day, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), Royal Armoured Corps. • Captain (local Major) Carmen Vera Elizabeth de Bourbel (257015), Women's Royal Army Corps. • No. 890057 Warrant Officer Class II (Artillery Clerk) Ronald Frederick Dell, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major (acting) Francis Reginald Dubery (121577), The Glider Pilot & Parachute Corps, Territorial Army. • Major (temporary) Hamilton James Elverson, (246792), Royal Army Medical Corps. • Major John Neilson Frazer, (392347), 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles. • Major (Quartermaster) Thomas Henry Alexander Godbold (69353), The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List). • Major (temporary) William Edward Guest (259896), Army Catering Corps. • Major (Director of Music) Frederick John Harris, (221011), Grenadier Guards. • Major (Quartermaster) Charles Frederick Hedley (169570), Royal Armoured Corps. • No. 1086979 Warrant Officer Class I Andrew Francis John Heggie, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • No. 1863281 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Hibbard, Corps of Royal Engineers. • Captain William Montague Holman (373004), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major William Henry Howlett (78472), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Captain (temporary) Cyril Robert Hume, (390694), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • Major (acting) James Jardine (100643), Combined Cadet Force. • Major (temporary) John Hanson Keys (233040), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • No. 2733291 Warrant Officer Class I Herbert Eric Knight, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). • Major (acting) Harry Lamming, (340603), Army Cadet Force. • Major Anthony James Lanzon (68499), The York & Lancaster Regiment. • Major (temporary) Keith Johnstone Lightfoot (108222), Royal Army Service Corps. • Major (temporary) John Julius Livick (181293), Corps of Royal Engineers. • No. 7586877 Warrant Officer Class I William Lyon, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) George McCord (112841), The Royal Ulster Rifles (seconded to Extra Regimentally Employed List). • Major (temporary) James McGarry (199722), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • No. 6975021 Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence McNamee, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. • Major (Quartermaster) Sinclair Manson (113930), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. • Major (temporary) William Eric Wolfe Montgomery (182995), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • No. 1062220 Warrant Officer Class I Peter Mulvanny, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major Gerald Wolleston Murphy (71162), The South Staffordshire Regiment. • Major (temporary) John Geoffrey Palmer, (85502), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major (temporary) Charles Fox-Parker (143578), The South Lancashire Regiment (now released). • Major (temporary) Thomas Pearson (165085), The King's Own Scottish Borderers. • Major Clifton Herbert Rayment (79604), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (temporary) Leonard Richard Rees (131423), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major (temporary) Leslie William Rushbrooke (285094), Royal Pioneer Corps. • No. 2653987 Warrant Officer Class I Robert William Smith, , Coldstream Guards. • No. 4601490 Warrant Officer Class II Walter Richard Smith, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), Territorial Army. • Major William Dennis Patrick Sullivan (162125), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (temporary) William Robert Leslie Turp (143474), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. • Major James Harrison Vickers (99203), Royal Army Medical Corps. • No. 850901 Warrant Officer Class I Albert George Ward, Royal Army Pay Corps. • No. 2652912 Warrant Officer Class II John Edward Ward, Coldstream Guards. • Major (District Officer) Edwin Francis Watkins (146609), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major (temporary) Edward John Westlake (232472), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major (temporary) Bertram Frederic William White (202083), Royal Army Service Corps. • Major (acting) Richard Oliver MacMahon Williams, (201598), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. • Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel John Garvey, The Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force). • Major Ian Edmund Snell (219870), The Royal Sussex Regiment. Military Assistant to the Resident Adviser, Mukalla, Aden Protectorate. • Captain (Quartermaster) William Richard James Stanger, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force. ;;Royal Air Force • Acting Wing Commander Charles Austin Percival Noseworthy (102362), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. • The Reverend Alfred Ernest Cook (169523). • Squadron Leader Arthur Gerard Reeves Green (45165). • Acting Squadron Leader Joseph Carey Crabtree Taylor (63663), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. • Flight Lieutenant Leslie Joseph Broughton Blood, (172708). • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gordon Bullen (186967). • Flight Lieutenant Archibald John Dicker (56395). • Flight Lieutenant Harold Fishwick (51862). • Flight Lieutenant Walter James Holmes (57570). • Flight Lieutenant Robert John Kennett (53281). • Flight Lieutenant Charles Mayhew (47371), (Retired). • Flight Lieutenant James Meech (55966). • Flight Lieutenant Charles Merrick (138937). • Flight Lieutenant William Lionel Nix (113808), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. • Flight Lieutenant Donald Lawrence Overton (55967). • Flight Lieutenant Ivor Allen Parry (49244). • Flight Lieutenant Reginald Cecil Dixon Vincent. (136173). • Flight Lieutenant Sydney Albert Warren (50420), (Retired). • Flight Lieutenant Cecil Bertram Louis Warwick (181283). • Flight Lieutenant Vincent Evan Morgan Watkins, . (48257). • Acting Flight Lieutenant Francis Doyle Mainland (91294), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. • Acting Flight Lieutenant Arthur Jackson Spence (59032). • Rab Khamshi Eshu Hamzo (X.I33), Iraq Levies. • Flying Officer Frank Henry Richard Lambourne (548351). • Warrant Officer Harry Clapp (590253). • Warrant Officer Frederick Charles Hamilton (510287). • Warrant Officer Alfred Thomas Knell, (340855). • Warrant Officer John Pollock (516495). • Warrant Officer Robert John Smith (518145). • Warrant Officer Allen Moore Sears Stevens (544583). • Acting Warrant Officer George Wilson Rutter (629867). ;Civil Division • William Thomas Airlie, Vice-Chairman, Edinburgh District Committee, Scottish Board for Industry. • Frederick Parker Alexander, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. • William Rowan Alexander, Senior Inspector and Head Grader of Milk Products, Scotland, Ministry of Food. • Percy Raymond Allison, Senior Experimental Engineer, Flight Refuelling Ltd., Littlehampton. • Herbert Allon, Cashier, Charles D. Holmes & Co. Ltd., Hull. • Clifford Bernard Andrews. For public services in Fakenham, Norfolk. • Evan Anthony, Honorary Secretary, Fishguard & Goodwick Savings Committee. • William George Anwyl, District Officer, Montgomery County Agricultural Executive Committee. • Walter Fenwick Atkinson, , Honorary Secretary, Sunderland Rural District Savings Committee. • Susan Mary Wynyard Atterbury, Secretary to the British Council of the Australian Association of British Manufacturers. • Sidney Hall Bagshaw, , lately Member, Derbyshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Edna Bailey, Member, Women's Sub-Committee, Huddersfield Local Employment Committee. • Lilian Amy Baines, Executive Officer, Home Office. • William Barker, Chief Inspector, Enforcement Division, Ministry of Food. • Horace Barlow, Assistant Works Manager, Westquarter Factory, Polmont, Stirlingshire. • James Joseph Barlow, Head Teacher, Dresden Church of England School, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent • Charles William Barnard, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • Charles Henry Barrett, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Civil Service Lifeboat Fund. • Idwal Bassett, Senior Executive Officer, Welsh Board of Health. • Millicent Maud Mears Bathgate, Public Health Nursing Officer, Ministry of Health. • Lilian Beatrice Beal, Clerical Officer, Admiralty. • Walter Edgar Bedford, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • Thomas William Bell, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. • Helen Berger Benny, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation. • Eric Leslie Bird, , Editor, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. • Alexander Albert Birt, Senior Pilot, HM Dockyard, Rosyth. • Bertram Ewart Blackledge, Superintendent, Coke Ovens & Fuel Departments, Steel Company of Wales Ltd., Port Talbot. • Douglas Henry Bolton, Technical Assistant, Grade I, War Office. • Evelyn Isabel Bond, lately County Organiser for Dorset, Women's Voluntary Services. • Arthur Stephen Morris Borner, Managing Director, Clifford & Snell Ltd., Sutton, Surrey. • David James Bowen, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. • Arthur Edward Bowles, Assistant Chief Officer, Hampshire Fire Brigade. • Ernest Lyon Bowley, , lately Commissioner, National Savings Committee. • Captain Robert Matthew Boyle, , Assistant Staff Officer, Ulster Special Constabulary. • Herbert Bradbury, Chairman, Housing Committee, Northwich Rural District Council. • George Briggs, Experimental Manager, Airspeed Ltd., Christchurch. • William Leslie Brighty, Foreign Office. • Carnegie Brown, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Joliffe John Brown, Chairman of Committee, No. 1465 (Gwynedd, North Wales) Squadron, Air Training Corps. • Robert Brown, Member, South Ayrshire Savings Committee. • Walter George Brown, Engineering Manager, Factory Shops, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. • John Francis Bulleid, , Chairman, Torquay & District Disablement Advisory Committee. • George Royall Bullwinkle, , lately Engineer of Vauxhall Works, South Eastern Gas Board. • Ethel Margaret Burnside, lately Matron, Ulster Volunteer Forces Hospital, Belfast. • James William Buttfield, Director, Whitecroft Pin Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Whitecroft, Gloucestershire. • Stanley Noel Carter, Chairman, Executive Committee, Bournemouth Workshops for Disabled Sailors & Soldiers. • Eric Edward Cooper Cawood, Factory and Contracts Manager, Nu-Swift Ltd., Elland, West Riding of Yorkshire. • Councillor Harry Ernest Chamberlain, . For public services in Oldham, Lancashire. • Harry James Clapp. For public services in East Walthamstow. • Bernard Clarke, , Manager, South Lincolnshire Sub-Division, East Midlands Gas Board. • Ernest Harwood Clarke, Mining Surveyor, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • Leonard Clegg, Regional Fuel Engineer, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • Emma Frances Heather Clode, Deputy Head of Empire and Foreign Department, Women's Voluntary Services. • Mary Cockshott, Health Visitor, West Riding County Council. • William Arthur Colwill, Assistant Waterguard Superintendent, Liverpool, Board of Customs & Excise. • Rose Catherine Coney, Honorary Housing Welfare Officer, Beccles, Suffolk. • William John Cooper, , Liaison Officer, South West Scotland Electricity Board. • Stanley Temple Cope, Principal Moorings Officer, Air Ministry. • Arthur William Cotterell, , Chairman, Walsall Youth Employment Committee. • Sarah Crothers, Chairman, Lisburn & District Local Savings Committee, County Antrim. • Mary Grace Cuff, Women's Land Army County Secretary for Oxfordshire and other counties. • Frederick Charles Davey, lately Principal Foreman, Admiralty. • Councillor Joseph Davies. For political and public services in Hemsworth & District, Yorkshire. • Arthur Bond Dawson, Assistant Mining Agent, No.4 Area, Whitehaven, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board. • Samuel Murray Deacon, Deputy Principal (now Principal), Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. • Thomas Carmichael Dickie, Divisional Organiser, Association of Engineering & Shipbuilding Draughtsmen. • John Richard Dickinson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • James Anderson Dickson, Manager, The Gramophone Co. Ltd., Springfield Road Works (Ministry of Supply Agency Factory), Hayes. • Frederick Haydn Dimmock. For services to the Boy Scouts Association. • Violet Hope Dobbin, Member, Ulster Joint Committee, Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the British Red Cross Society. • Dorothy Mabel Dodd, Superintendent Physiotherapist, Ministry of Pensions. • Grace Donaldson, Member, Board of Management for Stirling and Clackmannan Hospitals. • Arthur Charles Parker Dove, Actuary, East Midlands Trustee Savings Bank. • David Dow, Member, Hill Farming Advisory Committee for Scotland. • Thomas Smith Duncan, Assistant Designer, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Weybridge, Aircraft Division. • William Duncan, Superintendent, Liverpool Youth Employment Bureau. • John William Dunger, Assistant Commercial Superintendent, Train Services (Passenger), Railway Executive (Eastern Region). • John Eadie, Carpet Designer, James Templeton & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. • Elizabeth Augusta Roumieu Ealand, , County Organiser, Surrey Women's Voluntary Services. • Arthur Ernest Edwards, Chairman of the Civil Service Sanatorium Society. • Mary Edwards, , lately Honorary Secretary, Wimbledon Hospital. • Lillian Elizabeth Elliott, Headmistress, Field End Primary School, Eastcote, Middlesex. • Sarah Sawbridge Elliott, Exhibition Director and Acting Secretary, Office Appliance Trades Association of Great Britain & Ireland. • Richard Francis Ellison, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Works. • Gwendolen Mary Evans, County Organiser, Huntingdonshire, Women's Voluntary Services. • John Evans, Clerical Officer, Boys' Training Establishment (Royal Navy), Shotley. • Arthur Bertram Fea, Accountant, Board of Customs & Excise. • Guy Warwick Ferguson, Staff Assistant to Chief Regional Officer, Railway Executive (North Eastern Region). • George Henry Fillmore, Civil Assistant and Accountant, No. 27 Maintenance Unit, Air Ministry, Shawbury, Shropshire. • Gordon Edward Flintham, Foreign Office. • Harold Flood, National Savings Assembly Member for North Kent. • Alderman William Henry Flowers, . For public services in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. • Samuel Ferguson Floyd, , General Medical Practitioner, County Down. • Alice Foley, , Chairman, Women's Sub-Committee, Bolton Local Employment Committee. • Charles Henry Fone, Grade III Officer, Branch B, Foreign Service. • Elsie Forbes, Staff Nurse, Glanely Sanatorium, Cardiff. • Archibald Graham Forrester, Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works. • William Conchie Forsyth, Chairman, Inverness District Savings Committee. • Thomas Frederick Fry, Official-in-Charge, Jersey Town Office, British European Airways Corporation. • Mary Ann Fulcher, Head Teacher, Philipson Children's Sanatorium, Stannington, Morpeth, Northumberland. • Charles Edgar Garland, , Principal Probation Officer, Birmingham. • Charles Herbert Stanley Garton, Grade I Assistant, Foreign Office. • Alfred William Gatling, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Wilfrid Thomas Geden, Station Master, Paddington, Railway Executive. • David Chalmers Gemmell, Manager, Muiredge Training Centre, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. • Elizabeth George, Chief Assistant, Leather Control, Board of Trade. • Basil Leek Gibbs, District Secretary, Birmingham & Midland Sheet Metal Workers Society. • Eric Dallison Gilding, Signals Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation. • Captain Robert Graham Gillespie, Master, MV Mausang, Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd. • Bert Goddard, Production Manager, Klinger Manufacturing Co. Ltd. • Wolfe Goldberg, Vice-Chairman, East & West Ridings Regional Board for Industry. • George Joss Gordon, lately Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. • John Harold Gozzett, Senior Executive Officer, War Office. • Alderman Alfred Graham. For political and public services in Barking and Brentwood. • Janet Grant, Sister-in-Charge, Male Wards, East Fortune Sanatorium, Drem, East Lothian. • Joseph Gray. For public services in Armagh. • Elisha George Sandham Gregory, Assistant Engineer, London Telecommunications Region. • Herbert Charles Gregory, lately Executive Officer, British Museum. • Olive Constance Gregory, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Works. • Alderman Thomas Edward Gwillim, Member, Brecon Agricultural Executive Committee. • Harold Norman Hadaway, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Mary Sinclair Haig, Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland. • Frederick James Hando, Headmaster, Hatherleigh Secondary Modern School, Newport, Monmouthshire. • Emanuel Harbron, , Divisional Organiser, Amalgamated Engineering Union. • William Reginald Harrison, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. • William Frederick Hartmann, Senior Executive Officer, HM Land Registry. • Florrie Harvie, District Organiser, Eastern District of Scotland, Women's Voluntary Services. • Arthur Henry Harwood, Senior Executive Officer, Central Ordnance Depot, War Office, Chilwell. • Ada Maud Hawkins, Honorary Secretary, Camberwell Savings Committee. • Alfred William Hawkins, Manager, Government Training Centre and Industrial Rehabilitation Unit, Leicester. • Gerald Alfred Victor Hayes, , Senior Secretarial Assistant, British Transport Commission. • Edward Head, Port Labour Officer, National Dock Labour Board. • Walter Victor Heasley, County Commissioner of Scouts in County Down. • William Heavey, Senior Dockmaster, Port of London Authority. • Hilda May Helms, Private Secretary to the General Manager, North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd. • George Henry Bishop Heppel, District Officer, HM Coastguard, Berwick. • James Heyes. For services to farming in Lancashire. • Leo Sebastian Heyes, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office. • Anne Dorothy Hindle, Chairman, Cranbrook Rural Food Control Committee. • Edgar Hirst, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation. • Alexander Hislop, lately Warden, Colonial Office Hostel for Moslem Seamen, South Shields. • Thomas Sydney Hobbs, Secretary of the Mersey District of the Shipping Federation Ltd. • John Benjamin Hodges, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • Ernest Joseph Frederick Clausson Hogg, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • Alfred Charles Holding, Special Grade Clerk, Headquarters, Malaya District, War Office. • William Holland, Deputy Chief Officer, East Sussex Fire Brigade. • Mabel Jessie Hooper, lately Clerical Assistant to the Medical Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Kathleen Thehna Hosegood, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. • Dorothy Isabel Hubbard, County Superintendent for Sussex, St. John Ambulance Brigade. • Henry Hubbuck, General Manager, Robinson & Sons Ltd., Chesterfield. • Oswald Cyril Blake Hughes, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • William Hunter, Honorary Secretary, Okehampton & District Savings Committee. • Alfred Hutchings, Engineer and Surveyor to the Cuckfield Rural District Council. • Mary Hutchinson, Principal Sister Tutor, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. • Henry Jackson, , Farmer. For services to agriculture in Cumberland. • James Jackson, Works Manager, HM Stationery Office Press. • Arthur Edward James, Grocer Member, Cardiff Borough Food Control Committee. • Charles Alfred James, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. • Joshua James, Chairman, Ashton-under-Lyne Youth Employment Committee. • Sydney Jeffrey, Works Superintendent, W. H. A. Robertson & Co. Ltd., Bedford. • Frank Herbert Jenkins, , Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. • Harold Dawson Jennett, Departmental Manager, Brown Bayley's Steel Works Ltd., Sheffield. • Gordon Sotham Jennings, , Chief Assistant Surveyor, Southend-on-Sea County Borough Council. • Frederick Surridge Jones, Flour Recovery Officer. • Lily Ann Jones. For public and charitable services in Ferndale and district, Glamorganshire. • John Junor, Member, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Local Employment Committee and Court of Referees. • Ildefons Florian Kedzierzykowski, Intelligence Officer I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. • Percy Frederick Keen, Senior Executive Officer, Admiralty. • William John James Keen, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Victor Kelsey, , Drainage Officer, Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Agricultural Executive Committee. • Marguerite Elizabeth Kidd, Secretary, Fermanagh County Hospital. • Cedric Marcus King, Honorary Secretary, Coffee Importers & Exporters Association of London Ltd. • Reginald Fred Knowler, Superintendent, Lincolnshire Constabulary. • William Robert Knox, MM, . For public services in County Antrim. • Jack Laurence, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Edward Augustine Lowe Laxton, Director of Laxton Bros., Bedford Ltd., Nurserymen. • Rudolph Lederer, Senior Control Officer, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. • Louisa Allan Lee, Controller of Typists, Ministry of Pensions. • Robert Lee, MIEE, , Sub-Area Liaison Officer, London Electricity Board. • George William Brand Leslie, Skipper Motor Fishing Boat Betty Leslie, Shetland. • Andrew King Lewis, Chief Staff Assistant, Glasgow Education Authority. • Elizabeth Lindsay, Headmistress, Gartcraig Junior Secondary School, Glasgow. • Reginald Sydney Lobb, Chief-Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • Alderman Harry Lord, , lately Local Army Welfare Officer for Stretford and Davyhulme, Lancashire. • Roderick Edward Louch, Head of the Poultry Keeping Department, Cheshire School of Agriculture. • Peter Low, , Superintendent, Purfleet Installation, Anglo-American Oil Co. • Arnold Lowe, Manager, Chanters Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board. • Percival John Luxton, Chief Clerk of Works, Ministry of Works. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons. • George Maxwell Lyne, Assistant Master, Blackpool Grammar School. • Councillor George Gall McDiarmid, Chairman, Scottish Committee of the National Joint Apprenticeship Council for the Farriery & Blacksmith Trade. • Alexander Macdonald, Works Manager, North British Locomotive Company Ltd., Glasgow. • Thomas Leslie McDonald, Chairman of McDonald Engineers (Kirkcaldy) Ltd. • John McInroy, Horticultural Officer, Southern European District, Imperial War Graves Commission. • Martha Ellen MacKenzie, , County Officer for Fermanagh, St. John Ambulance Brigade. • Douglas James Mackie, Manager, Cable & Wireless, Hong Kong. • James Finlay McKinnon, Senior Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Charles Samuel Mackley, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • John Louis MacLaughlan, Reporter to the Kemsley Group and Representative of the Press Association (Greenock & District). • Lendrick McMaster. For services to the Belfast Boys Brigade. • The Reverend John Roderick Macpherson, Minister, St. Andrew's Church, Kirkintilloch. Founder of the Kirkintilloch Junior Choir. • William Edward Mallett, Chief Engineer Officer, MV Royal Sovereign, General Steam Navigation Co. • Edward George Marshall, Records Officer, Imperial War Graves Commission. • Harold Martingell, Senior Member of the Central Committee, The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust. • Seymour Mitchell, Head Pharmacist and Technical Assistant to the Medical Director General, Royal Naval Medical Depot, Risley. • Peggie Flora Morden, Head of Services Welfare (Home) Department, Women's Voluntary Services. • Charles Ernest Morgan, Assistant Postmaster, Head Post Office, Birmingham. • David Edgar Morgan, Deputy Chief Constable, Swansea. • Councillor Frank Morris, . For political and public services in Barnsley. • Thomas James Morris, Postmaster, Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. • Bertram Munn, Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. • Elsie Rosina May Musselwhite, Personal Assistant to Head of Technical Services, British Joint Services Mission, Washington. • John Henry North, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office. • Edward Francis O'Neill, Headmaster, Prestolee School, Manchester. • Claud Meredith Overton, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • Harold Owens, Chairman, South Wales Regional Committee, Transport & General Workers Union. • Frederick Horn Paley, Vice-Chairman, Wearside District Committee, Northern Regional Board for Industry. • Leonard George Pargiter, Senior Architect, Ministry of Works. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons. • Alderman Daisy Parsons, . For public services in West Ham. • Edwin James Paton, Executive Officer, Central Office of Information. • Charles James Pattison, Chief Engineer, Hobourn Aero Components, Rochester. • Dora Alice Payne, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • George Edgar Pearce, Local Fuel Overseer for Stroud Urban & Rural Districts. • Thomas Charles Pearson, , Secretary, Printing & Kindred Trades Federation, Birmingham & District. • Bertie Peckham. For services as Control Officer I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. • William Ewart Pegg, Higher Executive Officer, Office of HM Procurator General & Treasury Solicitor. • Samuel Dunsdon Pendry, , Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Guildford. • John Howard Audley Perkins, , Director of John Perkins & Son Ltd., Bristol. • Fanny Matilda Phelps, District Midwife, Bemerton, Wiltshire. • Councillor Harry Pilkington. For political and public services in Gloucestershire. • John Pointon, Honorary Secretary, Welshpool Savings Committee. • Harold Vincent Pollard, , Senior Experimental Officer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. • Walter Dudley Potts, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • Eric James Powell, Senior Chief Technical Officer, Ministry of Works. For services in the rebuilding of the House of Commons. • William Francis Thomas Powell, Honorary Secretary, Swanage Lifeboat Station. • Kathleen Seymour Pring, lately County Organiser for Staffordshire, Women's Voluntary Services. • Claude William Loftus Purkiss, Labour Advisory Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. • William George Pyatt, , Chief Sanitary Inspector, Cardiff County Borough Council. • John Rae, , Engineering Manager, John Brown & Company Ltd., Clydebank. • Wallace George Rainer, , Chairman, Southend Local Employment Committee. • Reginald Frederick Rees, Vice-Chairman, Great Marlborough Street Local Employment Committee. • Albert Edward Rendle, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. • Margaret Louise Rickey, Chairman, National Association of Home Help Organisers. • Reginald Roberts, Commandant, No. 6 District Police Training Centre. • Thomas Roberts, Head Forester, Cowdray Estate, Midhurst, Sussex. • Ethel Maud Robinson, Senior Lady Editorial Assistant, ''Debrett's Peerage''. • Captain Wilfrid Robson, lately District Officer, Worcestershire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Kathleen Jean Alexander Ross, Organiser, Large Burgh of Arbroath, Women's Voluntary Services. • Leonard Rushforth, , Head of Section, Research Laboratory, British Thomson-Houston Ltd., Rugby. • George Russell, Breeder of the modern coloured lupins. For services to horticulture. • Charles Reginald Salmon, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Geoffrey Arthur Maurice Sargent, Land Agent and Valuer, War Office. • Oliver Stephen Scott, Superintendent and Depute Chief Constable, Paisley Burgh Police. • Victor Henry Scott, Supervising Examiner for Driving Tests, Ministry of Transport. • Harry Balmforth Shaw, Commandant, Oldham Special Constabulary. • Robert Lionel Shearer, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Hubert Ernest Shepherd, , Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary. • Percy Sheridan, Traffic Manager, City of Oxford Motor Services. • Jessie Cameron Shiels, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department. • Florence Elsie Shinner, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Colonial Office. • Reuben Edward Simpson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food. • Cecil William Skinner, Assistant Superintendent Engineer, Transmitters, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Arthur Henry Smith, Clerk to the Lord Chief Justice of England. • Edmund Smith, Senior Trustee, National Association of Operative Plasterers. • Joseph Smith, Chief Officer, Rotherham Fire Brigade. • Walter Leopold Smith, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. • Winifred Jacob-Smith, Women's Land Army County Organiser, North Riding of Yorkshire. • William John Sparey, Manager, Electrical Department, Silley, Cox & Co. Ltd., Falmouth. • Wilfrid Leslie Sparks, Technical Director, Sexton, Son & Everard Ltd., Norwich. • Derrick Edwin Speigal, Base Engineering Superintendent, British Overseas Airways Corporation. • William Ernest Spence, District Delegate, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Humber District. • Algernon William Stevens, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. • William Stevens, Member of the National Executive Council of the National Union of Public Employees. • Robert Stewart, Staff Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Insurance, Northern Ireland. • Alban Maurice Sticklan, Warden, Welfare Department of the London County Council. • Reginald Henry Stone, lately Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Supply. • Marjorie Anne Stotesbury, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • William Alexander Stuart, lately Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Dorothy Stutfield, Superintendent of Typists, Air Ministry. • Captain Frederick Summers, Master, SS Brika, F.C. Strick & Co. • James John Symons, Chief Male Nurse, Warlingham Park Hospital, Surrey. • James Talbot, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions. • Ernest James Taphouse, , Manager of the Blanket Finishing Department, Charles Early & Co. Witney. • David Taylor, Chief Instructor, Department of Operating Manager (Central Road Services), London Transport Executive. • Francis Joseph Taylor, Manager, Redditch Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • George Richard Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power. • Violet Mona Taylor, . For services to the Young Women's Christian Association, Tyneside. • Florence Ethel Beatrice Timonen, Personal Assistant to the Chairman, British Electricity Authority. • Mary Barrett Towndrow, Civil Assistant, War Office. • Walter Charles Tricker, Grade III Officer, Branch B, Foreign Service. • Mary Elizabeth Tuck, Member, Lincoln Local Employment Committee. • Evelyn Mary Ulyatt, Administrator, Women's Voluntary Services, South-East Asia. • George Whalley Wakeford, , Director of the School of Navigation, University College, Southampton. • Edgar Orgill Walker, lately Headmaster, Spring Lane Junior School, Northampton. • John Goodrich Walker, General Secretary, Royal Engineers Old Comrades Association. • Major Herbert Edward Wallis, lately Senior Assistant, German Section, Foreign Office. • John Maurice Walshe, , Works Engineer, Belliss & Morcom Ltd., Birmingham. • Reginald William Ward, Experimental Designer, Gloster Aircraft Company Ltd. • James Hamilton Warnock, Governor of the West of Scotland Agricultural College. • George Patrick Houston Watson, , Senior Investigating Officer, Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments, (Scotland). • William Rueben Watson, Assistant to the Commercial Superintendent, Eastern Region, Railway Executive. • Agnes Baillie White, Executive Officer, Allied Commission for Austria, British Element. • Francis Henry Whitehead, , Chairman, Wandsworth & Battersea War Pensions Committee. • Doris Lizzie Mary Whiteman, Higher Executive Officer, War Damage Commission & Central Land Board. • John Whiteside, Vice-President, Bridlington & District Savings Committee. • Dalby Walter Harry Wickson, Passport Officer in the Office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner, Cape Town. • Benjamin Richard Williams, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. • Thomas Charles Richard Willis, Assistant Regional Manager, London (South Western) Region, War Damage Commission & Central Land Board. • Winifred Wilson, Higher Clerical Officer, Telephone Manager's Office, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. • Captain Maurice Wise, Assistant Secretary, Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Middlesex. • Osborne Stanley Witcombe, Higher Clerical Officer, Swansea Depot, Trinity House. • Albert James Wood, Secretary of the National Sanatorium, Benenden. • William Woodall, Secretary of the Condensed Milk Pool Ltd. • Magdalen Agnes Woods, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Grace Woodward, District Nurse Midwife, Bacton, District of East Suffolk. • Kenneth Wright, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Maud Ellen Wright, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Charles Ernest Wylie, , lately Member, Buckinghamshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • William Yeardye, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. • Aziz Mir Arjumand, Munshi of His Majesty's Consulate at Kermanshah. • Arthur Robert Cackett, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Basle. • Gervase de la Poer Cassels, Chief Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Government of Cyrenaica. • Winifred Annie Coate, British subject resident in the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan. • Nicholas Hector Economies, British subject resident in Athens. • Edward Alfred Edwards, British Vice-Consul at Smyrna. • Stewart Hunter Evans, lately British Vice-Consul at Galveston. • Henry Wilfred Glockler, British subject resident in the Lebanon. • Alice Maud Goddard, Matron of the Samaritano Hospital at São Paulo. • Zygmund Horn, Officer of Forestry & Fisheries, British Administration, Eritrea. • Doris May Hudson, Administrative Assistant at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington. • Ruth Somerville King, British subject resident in Egypt. • Walter Ivan Lake, lately His Majesty's Consul at Palma de Mallorca. • George Lange, Ministry of Works Representative in Moscow. • John William Lee, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Amsterdam. • Daniel James Lloyd, Archivist and Accountant at His Majesty's Legation at Bucharest. • Thomas Holt Lloyd, British subject resident in Trieste. • Marie Myllin Morton, Assistant Administration Officer, Office of the Commissioner-General for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia. • Ethel Parker, Principal, Church Missionary Society Girls School, Wad Medani, Blue Nile Province, Sudan. • Alfred George Porter, British subject, resident in the Argentine Republic. • The Reverend William Daniel Reynolds, Head of the Baptist Missionary Society in Leopoldville. • John James Sparks, , British Vice-Consul at Coatzacoalcos. • Leve Steventon, lately British Vice-Consul at Mukden. • Brigadier Leslie Clayson Thomas, Officer Commanding the Salvation Army in Burma. • Leonard Saville Wallgate, Director of Messrs. Reckitt & Colman in Denmark. • Camilla Fugl Wiley, Secretary in the Visa Section of His Majesty's Embassy at Oslo. • Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia. • Armadale Charles Anderson, formerly a Head Teacher, Education Department, State of Tasmania. • Edith Blanche Anderson, formerly Matron, Northfield Mental Hospital, State of South Australia. • Councillor William Cumming, of Traralgon Shire Council, State of Victoria. • John Daniel Doggett, of Hobart, State of Tasmania. For services to the community. • William Daniel Gale, Acting Director of Public Relations, Southern Rhodesia. • Victor Charles George Gatti, Chief Clerk, Royal Empire Society. • Agnes Grace Gillespie, , Medical Missionary, Mary Calvert Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore City, India. • John Gluis, , Headmaster and Principal, Unley High School, State of South Australia. • William Frederick Howell, Senior Works Manager, Messrs. Jessop & Co. Ltd., Calcutta, India. • George Harold Johnson. For services to the British Empire Service League, Southern Rhodesia. • Adam Sutherland MacLeod, Driller, Public Works Department, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • William Margolis. For services to Industry in Southern Rhodesia. • Councillor John Stewart Mathieson, , of Winchelsea Shire Council, State of Victoria. • Evelyn Rose Morey, Matron, Lachlan Park Mental Hospital, State of Tasmania. • Councillor Joseph Brook Pridmore, , Yarra Ward, Hawthorn City Council, State of Victoria. • John Francis Brownlee Purcell, District Officer, Swaziland. • Harold Raymond. For services to the Institute for the Blind, Deaf & Dumb, State of South Australia. • Alexander Frederick Reid, . For social welfare services in Wodonga, State of Victoria. • Fanny Dorothy Sanders. For social welfare services in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. • Eileen Adelaide Stokes, Matron, The Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, State of Western Australia. • Walter Edward Thurlow. For services in connection with the development of the Mazoe Valley, and particularly of Bindura, Southern Rhodesia. • Doris Ethel Trousdale, Matron of the Lady Rodwell Maternity Home, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. • Isaac Kwadjo Agyeman. For public services in the Gold Coast. • Akiwande Akiwumi, Inspector of Mines, Sierra Leone. • Annie Maude Locker-Allen, Head Teacher, Basseterre Girls School, St. Kitts, Leeward Islands. • Gwendoline Edith Atherton, Principal, Suva Indian Girls Intermediate School, Fiji. • John Axisa, Director of Emigration, Malta. • Marjorie Marion Balch, lately Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Financial Secretary, Kenya. • Georgiana Olivia Beckles. For public services in Trinidad. • Louisa Margaret Benade, Nursing Sister, Dutch Reformed Church Mission, Nyasaland. • Robert Staveley Boumphrey, Colonial Audit Service, for services as Auditor, Falkland Islands. • Stancia May Bridge. For public services in Bermuda. • Eric Murray Brown, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Jamaica. • Norah Bell Burton, Headmistress of St. Michael's Girls School, Barbados. • Vaikunthlal Motiran Clerk. For public services in Uganda. • Nathaniel Onesimus Cofie, lately Chief Clerk, Government Printing Department, Gold Coast. • Douglas John Collister. For public services in Nigeria. • Thomas Lochie Dennison. For public services in Nigeria. • Arthur Joseph Edwards, lately Chief Revenue Inspector, Gibraltar. • William Henry Especkerman, Assistant to the Governor's Private Secretary, Singapore. • Arthur Griffiths Farr, , Colonial Medical Service, Acting-Senior Medical Officer, Tanganyika. • Major Arthur Reynold Foster. Superintendent of Prisons, Barbados. • Beatrice Marion Foulger. For public services in Singapore. • Fung Vui Kong, Superscale Grade "A" Clerical Officer, North Borneo. • Findley Louis Germain, Sergeant Major of Police, Seychelles. • Constance Goh (Mrs Goh Kok Kee). For public services in Singapore. • Albert Edward Gresty. For public services in Nigeria. • The Reverend Alfred Thomas Hill, Headmaster of the Methodist Mission School, Pawa, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • Ida Annie Hill, Sister, Owerri and Rivers Area, Church Missionary Society, Nigeria. • Rosamond Euphemia Hilton, lately Grade I Clerk, Jamaica Agricultural Society, Jamaica. • Kathleen Winifred Howard, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Public Health Matron Grade I, Singapore. • Eugenie Dorothy Hughes, . For public services in Kenya. • Seyfu Tamba Jammeh, District Head, Upper Baddibu, Central Division, Gambia. • Major Robert George Jones, , Director of Music, Jamaica Military Band, Jamaica. • Ferdinand Jean July, County Sanitary Inspector, Berbice, British Guiana. • Athole Stephen Horsford Kemp, Colonial Administrative Service, Acting Administrative Officer, Segamat, Federation of Malaya. • Frederick William Knight, Executive Officer, Crown Agents for the Colonies. • Apostplos Constanti Kontos, Administrative Assistant, Grade I, Cyprus. • Sydney Alfred Lee, Inspector of Telephones, Fiji. • Lo Pak Wai, Superintendent of Mails, General Post Office, Hong Kong. • William Marcus Lopey, Headmaster of St. Vincent Grammar School, Windward Islands. • Pilane Godokandegai Michael George Mahindasa, Teacher, St. Francis Institution, Malacca, Federation of Malaya. • Beatrice Winifred Mercer. For public services in the Falkland Islands. • Frederick William Moore, , Inspecting Engineer, Crown Agents for the Colonies. • Dayabhai Govindbhai Patel, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Aden. • Thomas Leslie Peet, District Commandant, Police Reserve, Kenya. • Mutukrishnan Tevanathan Pillay, Accountant, Treasury, Singapore. • George Basil Popov, Field Officer, Desert Locust Survey, East Africa High Commission. • Enche Abdul Rahman bin Haji Mohyiddin, Head Malay Teacher, Sultan Idris Training College, Federation of Malaya. • Idea Roblet, Charge Nurse, Civil Hospital, Medical & Health Department, Mauritius. • Donald Alexander Ross, Superintendent of Works (Mechanical), Public Works Department, Sierra Leone. • Barbara Saben. For public services in Uganda. • Joseph George Sackey, lately Chief Clerk, Prisons Department, Gold Coast. • Michael Angelo Saliba, Director, Approved School, Malta. • Abang Samsudin bin Abang Matusin, Native Officer, Sarawak. • Benjamin James Sealy. For public services in Trinidad. • Eileen Margaret Skinner. For public services in Nyasaland. • William Adolphus Small, Senior Surveyor, Gambia. • Frederic Vernon Stevens, Headmaster, Mitsis School, Lemythou, Cyprus. • Shemuel John Egertori Stober, Superintendent of Prisons, Nigeria. • Isabella Jessie Phillipson Stow, lately Sister, Rhodesia Railway Nursing Service, Northern Rhodesia. • Lily Rebecca Thrush, Medical Sister, Church Missionary Society, Ngara District, Tanganyika. • Gladys Ella Van Hees. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. • Waruhiu wa Kunga, Divisional Chief, Kenya. • Alaistair Maitland Watermeyer, Road Superintendent, Public Works Department, Tanganyika. • Edward Michael Wilson, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Somaliland Protectorate. ;;Honorary Members • Saw Seong Peck, Chief Clerk, Labour Department, Perak, Federation of Malaya. • Esien Enian Esien, lately Supervising Teacher, Education Department, Nigeria. • Joseph Adeyani Ojo, lately Master Grade I, King's College, Lagos, Nigeria. • Samuel Ali Oloko, Accountant, Agricultural Department, Nigeria. • Alice Okon. For public services in Nigeria. • Haid Deria, Elder of the Habr Yunis, Somaliland Protectorate. • Warsama Ali Obseyeh, Elder of the Dolbahanta, Somaliland Protectorate. • The Reverend Daudi Machina, Clergyman in the Universities Mission to Central Africa, Tanganyika. • Majebere Bin Masanja, Chief of Mwagalla, Tanganyika. • Zekeria Mungonya, Enganzi of Ankole, Uganda. Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) • The Right Honourable Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, , lately Chancellor of the Exchequer. • The Right Honourable Robert Gordon Menzies, , Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. British Empire Medals (BEM) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Chief Radio Electrician John Albon, P/MX 759136. • Chief Petty Officer William Pettit Coop, P/JX 142609. • Marine John Basil Corrigan, Ch.X 4580, Royal Marines. • Chief Petty Officer Airman (Ordnance) Lancelot Wesley Edwards, L/FX 77062. • Stores Chief Petty Officer William Angus Finch, D/MX 49035. • Chief Petty Officer Steward George Henry Hallett, D/LX 21753. • Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Henry Holdforth. P/MX 49831. • Chief Yeoman of Signals John William Jennings, P/JX 131989. • Ordnance Artificer 1st Class Frederick George King, D/MX 48129. • Quartermaster Sergeant Reginald George Long, RMB/X 61, , Royal Marine Band. • Chief Shipwright Victor George Mann, P/MX 47452. • Chief Engine Room Artificer Ronald Francis Manning, C/MX 46030. • Chief Petty Officer Writer Harold Wilfred Miller, P/MX 48791. • Chief Wren Steward (O) Elsie Alice Morphy, 2493, Women's Royal Naval Service. • Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class Philip Stanley Peter Muir, C/MX 73876. • Able Seaman Charles Richard Nixon, C/KX 659163. • Chief Petty Officer Ernest Herbert George Oakshatt, P/J 115070. • Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer James O'Regan, C/MX 50461. • Chief Petty Officer Michael Joseph O'Sullivan, D/JX 132003. • Chief Wren Cook (S) Janet Ramsay, 32025, Women's Royal Naval Service. • Mechanician 1st Class William Wilfred Reading, D/KX 95894. • Sick Berth Petty Officer Yunos bin Mohamed Salleh, SE/X 338, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. • Ordnance Artificer 1st Class John Edward Saloway, P/MX 53571. • Chief Petty Officer Writer Harold Edward Sharp, C/MX 59832. • Stores Chief Petty Officer (S) Herbert Garth Stone, D/MX 58662. • Colour Sergeant Albert Ernest Tomkins, Ch/X 1512, Royal Marines. • Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist James Irving Turnbull, WR. 2147, Royal Navy Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve. • Mechanician 1st Class Harry Leonard Wenham, P/KX 96914. • Chief Petty Officer Hugh Meirion Williams, , D/JX 126604. • Chief Engine Room Artificer Edward Sidney James Wilshere, P/MX 47841. • Chief Petty Officer Frederick Wilson, P/JX 131536. • Stores Chief Petty Officer Harry Garrod, P/MX.59634. In recognition of non-operational services in Japan in connection with operations in Korea. • Acting Leader Stoker Mechanic Maurice James Kirk, P/SKX. 833619. In recognition of Operational Minesweeping service. ;;Army • No. 818584 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Arthur Anker, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • No. NA/26292 Regimental Sergeant-Major Oseni Bama, West African Army Ordnance Corps. • No. 22262278 Sergeant Herbert Barker, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • No. S/14457363 Sergeant Alec James Carpenter, Royal Army Service Corps. • No. 5392839 Staff Sergeant Joseph Arthur Castle, Corps of Royal Engineers. • No. 14444491 Sergeant Gerald Chapman, Royal Corps of Signals. • No. NA/24682 Battery Sergeant-Major Mursal Doba, The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. • No. 7586420 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Reginald Dobson, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • No. 5567312 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Ronald James Donkin, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • No. 2038279 Staff Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) William Albert Franklin, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • No. 1868131 Staff-Sergeant Frank Geoghegan, Corps of Royal Engineers. • No. SLA/37037 Band Sergeant-Major William Harding, The Sierra Leone Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. • No. 22200692 Corporal Morris Frederick Howard Harper, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. • No. 6199886 Colour-Sergeant Charles Holdford, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own). • No. 892273 Staff-Sergeant Cecil Christopher Hutchison, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • No. R.494 Lance-Corporal Kamala son of Wasi, East African Armoured Corps. • Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Abdul Karim bin Haji Abdul Jabbar, Infantry Company, Singapore Volunteer Corps. • No. 14644886 Staff-Sergeant Frank Kennedy, Corps of Royal Engineers. • No. S/14275936 Staff-Sergeant George Ernest Latham, Royal Army Service Corps. • No. W/163352 Sergeant Joan Margaret Mackenzie, Women's Royal Army Corps. • No. 22211322 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Raymond William McColl, Corps of Royal Engineers. • No. W/44335 Sergeant Margaret McCue, Women's Royal Army Corps. • No. 6284696 Sergeant Cyril Robert McKay, , Intelligence Corps. • No. S/2596160 Staff-Sergeant Robert Brown Millar, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • No. 2992710 Colour-Sergeant Gordon Ross Mitchell, Scots Guards. • No. GC/10923 Company Sergeant-Major Salifu Moshie, The Gold Coast Regiment. • No. SR/1197 Company Sergeant-Major Mwaniki son of Kitee, East African Army Ordnance Corps. • No. N/6964 Regimental Sergeant-Major Mwanzia Nganda, The King's African Rifles. • No. 2872781 Colour-Sergeant William Ogg, The Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army. • No. 3953369 Sergeant Dennis O'Keefe, The Welch Regiment, Territorial Army. • No. GC/32961 Company Sergeant-Major John Alfred Opoku, West African Army Medical Corps. • No. 2717690 Colour Sergeant Joseph Parke, Irish Guards. • No. W/4100 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant (acting) Gwendoline Olive Peary, Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. • No. NA/28152 Bombardier Garuba Rara, Royal West African Frontier Force. • No. 4273900 Sergeant Russell Reddish, Army Catering Corps. • No. 886027 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) George Harry Rogers, Corps of Royal Military Police. • No. 2323857 Sergeant (acting) Eric Rumford, Royal Corps of Signals. • No. S/824440 Staff-Sergeant Alfred Benjamin Smedley, Royal Army Service Corps. • No. 794717 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant John Edward Stead, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • No. 1482388 Bombardier William Story, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • No. 7670564 Staff-Sergeant Henry Talbot, Royal Army Pay Corps. • No. W/22725 Sergeant Margaret Turncock, Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. • No. 6642112 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Paul Henry Vandy, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), Territorial Army. • No. 22304806 Staff-Sergeant Thomas William Ward, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • No. S/2689209 Staff-Sergeant Charles William Webb, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. • No. T/14441067 Corporal Joseph White, Royal Army Service Corps. • No. 5932916 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant Jack Wilderspin, Royal Corps of Signals. • No. 2732313 Colour Sergeant (acting) Arthur Leslie Williams, Welsh Guards. • No. T/14449233 Staff-Sergeant Leonard George Williams, Royal Army Service Corps. • No. 21182092 Sergeant (acting) Walter James Ernest Taylor, Royal Army Service Corps. In recognition of non-operational services in Japan in connection with operations in Korea. ;;Royal Air Force • 523368 Flight Sergeant Ernest William Browning. • 534474 Flight Sergeant George Eric Davis. • 562119 Flight Sergeant William Foster. • 561016 Flight Sergeant (now Acting Warrant Officer) Edgar Hardisty. • 966405 Flight Sergeant James Edwin Lowe. • 1356699 Flight Sergeant Robert Alfred Masters. • 365274 Flight Sergeant Frederick George Miller. • 620332 Flight Sergeant Walter James Rousseau. • 561215 Flight Sergeant William Henry Steer. • 561636. Flight Sergeant Ronald Stephens. • 990827 Flight Sergeant Walter Tomlinson. • 2683303 Acting Flight Sergeant Henry John Henderson, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. • 1202497 Acting Flight Sergeant Benjamin Robinson. • 591368 Acting Flight Sergeant Laurence Allah Wright. • 569364 Sergeant Charles Henry Hull Allen. • 571118 Sergeant Roy Gerald Carey. • 632023 Sergeant Leslie Dring. • 1455517 Sergeant Henry Thomas Hathaway. • 522623 Sergeant Horace Peter Howell. • 649682 Sergeant Thomas Edward King. • 568180 Sergeant Alfred Henry Landry. • 572776 Sergeant Ralph Martin Peto. • 1612757 Sergeant Kenneth William Russell. • 622113 Acting Sergeant Fred Cousins. • 630312 Corporal John Robert Clay. • 574331 Corporal Thomas Edward Dean. • 529969 Corporal George William Marshall. • 1182422 Corporal John Alfred Stannard. • 4019859 Acting Corporal Denis William Mitchell. • 483324 Leading Aircraftwoman Maisie Edna Dabinett, Women's Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division ;;United Kingdom • Herbert Abbs, , Station Officer, HM Coastguard, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. • Herbert Abel, Head Chancery Servant, HM Embassy, Oslo. • John Henry Adams, , Chief Supervisor (M), Post Office Telephone Exchange, Exeter. (Exmouth.) • Alexander Fraser Allan, Inspector and Deputy Chief Constable, Caithness Constabulary. (Wick.) • Byron Lloyd Allington, Depot Manager, House Coal Distribution Scheme, Grimsby. • Anne Blanche Anstie. For welfare services to members of the Forces in Devizes. • Henry Hartley Appleyard, Screenhand, Whitewood Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Normanton, Yorkshire.) • Robert B. Young Baird, Foreman Maintenance Engineer, Glenboig Union Fire Clay Co. Ltd. (Glenboig, Lanarkshire.) • Marion Cray Balmain, Centre Organiser, Wishaw, Women's Voluntary Services. • Frederick George Baynes, Senior Foreman, Steel Tube Mill, Wellington Tube Works. (Tipton.) • James Beardsley, Dataller, Shipley Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Ilkeston, Derbyshire.) • Elsie Beaumont, Warden, Women's Land Army Hostel, Sherburn. • Frank Beckett, Senior Upholsterer and Trimmer, Vauxhall Motors Ltd. (Luton.) • William Bedford, Chargehand Field Worker, Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Christchurch. (Bournemouth.) • John Beggs, Quartermaster, SS City of Norwich, Hall Line Ltd. (Harrogate.) • Jack Bennett, Detective Inspector, East Riding Constabulary. (Beverley.) • William James Bewers, Chargeman, Grade III, HM Boom Defence Depot, Malta. • William Binnie, General Foreman, Gas Works, Aberdeen, Scottish Gas Board • Charles Gilbert Birch, Mate-in-Charge, Royal Navy Armament Depot, Bull Point. (Plymouth.) • Alexander Charles Blay, Section Inspector, N.4 Line, British Overseas Airways Corporation. (Marchwood, Hampshire.) • Arthur James Blee, Inspector of Riggers, HM Dockyard, Sheerness. (Minster.) • Alfred John Boon, Garage Foreman, Southern National Omnibus Co. Ltd., Road Passenger Executive. (Weymouth.) • Alfred Frederick Thomas Brider, Boiler House Foreman, South Wales Division, British Electricity Authority. (Newport.) • Frank Bridgwater, Head Mainlayer, Bristol Sub-Division, South Western Gas Board (Bristol.) • John Thomas Brighton, Deputy Overman, Harraton Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Chester-le-Street.) • John J. Brown, Collector, Street Savings Group, Belfast. • Kate Brown, Honorary Collector, Beech Hill Street Savings Group, Luton. • Joseph Arthur Bryan, Temporary Draughtsman, HM Gunnery School, Devonport (Saltash, Cornwall.) • Herbert Bullough, Shaftman, Wheatsheaf Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board. (Outwood, Manchester.) • James Daniel Butler, Packer and Porter, Supplies Department, General Post Office. (Romford, Essex.) • William Campbell, Carpenter, SS Capetown Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. (Dagenham, Essex.) • Joseph William Chaney, Staff Foreman, North Thames Gas Board (Regents Park, N.W.1.) • William Henry Chinn, Foundry Worker, J. Lassam & Co. Ltd. (Cardiff.) • Frank Bernard Clegg, Chargehand, Whipp & Bourne Ltd., Castleton. (Rochdale.) • Charles William Clubley, Works Foreman, Spalding, East Midlands Gas Board (Spalding, Lincolnshire.) • Norman Coke, Chief Cook, MV Anchises, Alfred Holt & Co. (Lanark.) • George Coleman, lately Sub-Postmaster, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent. • Maria Leontine Coles, Manageress, YMCA Canteen, RAF Yatesbury. • Richard Collick, Foreman of Works, Imperial War Graves Commission, North West European District. • John Connelly, Salvage Worker, Primrose Hill Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Methley, near Leeds.) • Herbert James Conyard. Moulder and Coremaker, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. (Crayford, Kent.) • Beatrice Jessie Denny-Cooke, Area Officer, Loddon Rural District, Women's Voluntary Services. (Norwich.) • John Cosh, Chargehand, Radar Research & Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Malvern. • George Henry Cowley, Conveyor Attendant, Percival Lane Power Station, Runcorn, Merseyside & North Wales Division, British Electricity Authority. (Runcorn, Cheshire.) • Kate Creighton. Centre Organiser, Swinton, Women's Voluntary Services. • Frederick Cuffley, Permanent Labourer, Port of London Authority. (South Benfleet, Essex.) • John Robert Curry, , Goods Guard, Railway Executive, North Eastern Region. (Blyth.) • Alfred William Curtis, Builders Foreman, Hannover, Control Commission for Germany. • Richard Thomas Davies, Coke Oven Foreman, Cargo Fleet Iron Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough. (South Bank, Yorkshire.) • Frederick John Davis, Supervisor I (Transport), Düsseldorf, Control Commission for Germany. • George Devon, lately Foreman Engineer, A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow. • Charles Donnelly, , Assistant Shearer, Lanarkshire Steel Co. Ltd. (Motherwell.) • George Down, Mason, Exeter. • Robert Duncan, Senior Company Officer, Perth & Kinross Fire Brigade. (Perth.) • Evelyn Joyce Dunlop, Member, Women's Land Army, Albrighton, Wolverhampton. • George Ely, Dock Worker, Liverpool, Birkenhead. • Albert Edward Payers, Office Keeper, Department of the Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons. • Charles Henry Firman, Boatswain, SS British Cavalier, British Tanker Company. (South Shields.) • Victor Allen Fisher, lately Foreman Craftsman, British Museum. (Now Temporary Craftsman, Class I.) (Hanwell, W.7.) • James Fowler, Oncost Worker, Woolmet Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Portobello.) • Frederick Thomas French, Chargeman Stripper, Kingsbury Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Tamworth.) • Alick Gardner, Chief Officer, Works Fire Brigade, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Ltd., Coventry. • Frederick Ralph Girdlestone, Chargehand Fitter, No. 4 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Ruislip. (Ickenham.) • Joyce Mary Gleadow, Centre Organiser, Pickering Urban District & Rural District, Women's Voluntary Services. • Fred Goodier, Leading Blacksmith, Northwich, Docks & Inland Waterways Executive. • Joseph Gough, Chargeman Packer, Rufford Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Rainworth, near Mansfield.) • Joseph Byron Graham, Foreman Carver, Green & Vardy, London. (Finchley, N.3.) • John Grant, Farm Manager, Doonholm, Ayr. • Edward Graves, Chargehand, Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. (Ilminster, Somerset.) • John Gray, Chief Engineman, Steam Trawler William Brady. (Aberdeen.) • Thomas William Gray, , Fireman, Bowhill Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Cardenden, Fife.) • William George Gray, Head Forester, Forestry Commission. (Oxford.) • Lily Greenhalgh, Chief Supervisor (F), Head Post Office, Bolton. • Alan Gridley, Senior Artificer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. (Teddington.) • Mark Owen Griffiths, Foreman Fish Porter, V.J. Travis, Monument Stores. (Petts Wood, Kent.) • John Hanson, Foreman Driver, Cardiff Group, Road Haulage Executive. • Thomas Harris, Head Doorkeeper, Department of the Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons. (Hounslow.) • John Thomas Hathaway, Rolling Mill Foreman, Henry Wiggin & Co. Ltd. (Birmingham.) • Thomas John Hawkes, Office Keeper, Grade II, Ministry of National Insurance. (New Cross, S.E.14.) • Sam Healey, lately Technician, Class I, Telephone Manager's Office, Leicester. (Loughborough.) • Richard William John Helyer, Fireman, London Fire Brigade. (Dalston, E.8.) • Jean Pringle Henry, Chief Supervisor (F), Belfast Telephone Area. • Alexander Hodge, Shift Foreman, Cleckheaton Works, North Eastern Gas Board (Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.) • Allan Houghton, Mate, Royal Army Service Corps Vessel Helford, War Office, Bermuda. • Harry Arthur Hunstone, Chargehand Electrician, Ocker Hill Generating Station, Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority. (Tipton, Staffordshire.) • Frederick Charles Hunt, Office Keeper, Grade II, Paymaster General's Office. (Chertsey, Surrey.) • Frederick Newman Hunter, Boiler House Fitter, Wallasey Power Station, Merseyside & North Wales Division, British Electricity Authority. (Birkenhead.) • James Boyd Inglis, Foreman Linesman, South Western Division, British Electricity Authority. (Plymouth.) • Alfred E. Ireland, Deck Hand, Trawler Loch Oskaig. (Hull.) • Robert Irving, Foreman Estate Workman, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. (Terregles, Dumfriesshire.) • Edward Robert Jones, Works Superintendent, Colwyn Bay, Wales Gas Board • John Jones, Fireman, Sneyd Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Stoke-on-Trent.) • John Henry Jones, Greaser, SS San Cipriano, Eagle Oil and Shipping Company. (Liverpool.) • Leslie Washington Jones, Organiser and Collector, Savings Group, Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd., Manchester. • Walter Jones, Works Foreman, Barker Brothers. (Birmingham.) • James Kinnear Malcolm Kerr, Postman, Cupar, Fife. • John King, Construction Fitter, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. (Aberdeen.) • Lilly Leah, Weaver, Brocklehurst-Whiston Amalgamated Ltd. (Macclesfield.) • Ralph Lee, Detective Inspector, Durham Constabulary. • Alice Lloyd, Honorary Organiser and Collector, Oak Street Savings Group, Oswestry. • Ernest George Long, Foreman, Aeronautical & General Instruments Ltd. (Morden, Surrey.) • Edward Longley, Blacksmith, Boldon Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Durham.) • Andrew Hardie Lyon, Tinsmith, James Paterson & Co. Ltd. (Dundee.) • Jemima Mccafferty, Cook, Argyll & Bute Mental Hospital, Lochgilphead. • Malcolm Mcdougall, Foreman Welder, Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. (Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.) • Janet Campbell McGowan, Assistant Nurse, Robroyston Hospital, Glasgow. • Hugh Maclean MacGregor, Instructor Grade III, Letchworth Government Training Centre. (Letchworth.) • John McMillan McHutcheon, Tunnel Foreman, Cementation Company, Fasnakyle. (Inverness.) • Joseph Christopher Dickson McKenzie, , Garage Hand and Checker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Road Haulage Executive. (Ashington.) • John MacKinnon, Scale Payment Sub-Post Office Assistant, Applecross, Ross-shire. • Marion Paterson Macmillan, Woman Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. (Belfast.) • Matthew Latty March, Checkweighman, Dudley Colliery, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board. (Dudley.) • William John Marshall, , Warehouse Supervisor, HM Stationery Office. (Islington, N.1.) • Harold Ewart Mason, Leading Draughtsman, Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham. • John Maxwell, Chargehand Fitter, Ulster Transport Authority. (Belfast.) • Ernest James May, Boatswain, THV Patricia, Corporation of Trinity House. (Dovercourt.) • William Daniel Menniss, Driver, South Eastern Division, Road Haulage Executive. (East Dulwich, S.E.22.) • Fred Mew, Member, Coast Life Saving Corps, Blackgang, Isle of Wight. • Emma Middleton, Machine Operator, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (Birmingham.) • Alexander Duffield Morgan, Superintendent of Stores, No. 61 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Handforth. (Abingdon.) • Olive Louise Morris, Chief Supervisor of Sorting Assistants, Accountant General's Department, General Post Office. (Walthamstow, E.17.) • William Henry Morris, Senior Instructor, Army Apprentices School, Arborfield. (Yateley, Surrey.) • Thomas Moses, Checkweighman, Mainsforth Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Ferryhill, Co. Durham.) • Frank Douglas Murchie, Store Superintendent, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. (Dagenham, Essex.) • Frederick Mycock, Foreman Plant Engineer, Joshua Wardle Ltd. (Leek, Staffordshire.) • William O'Goo, Donkeyman-Greaser, SS Brika, F. C. Strick & Co. (Cardiff.) • Robert O'Neil, lately Miner, Benhar Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Harthill, Lanarkshire.) • David L. Page, Relief Signalman, Dunfernpline Lower, Railway Executive (Scottish Region). • Frederick Paul, Honorary Organiser and Collector, Street Savings Group, Brighton. • Charles Edward Phillips, Technical Assistant, Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackburn. • Paramvopillai Balakrishna Pillai, Master of Yard Craft, HM Dockyard, Singapore. • Lilian Eliza Mary Powell, Manageress of Packing and Despatch Department, Itshide Rubber Co. (Petersfield.) • Henry Edward Pyke, Postman, Guildford, Surrey. • Robert Rae, Clerk of Works, War Office, Edinburgh. • Thomas Redpath, Winding Master, Blackstaff Flax Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd., Belfast. • William Henry Reynolds, Chief Inspector, Divisional Operating Superintendent's Office, Railway Executive, North Eastern Region, York. • Grace Mary Roberts, Supervisor (F), Post Office Telephone Exchange, Chester. • John Cameron Robinson, , Sub-Postmaster, Rookhope Sub-Office, Bishop Auckland. • Thomas Rochford, Travelling Superintendent Gardener, Imperial War Graves Commission, French District. • Fred Houldsworth Rycroft, Foreman, Tysons (Contractors) Ltd., Liverpool. • Ethel May Sharp, Home Help, Kent County Council. (Chatham.) • Andrew Cunningham Shearer, Foreman Mason Fixer, Webber & Corben. (Tooting, S.W.17.) • William Arthur Shenton, Demolition Supervisor Grade I, Hamburg, Control. Commission for Germany. • Matthew Simpson, Back Ripper, Bolsover Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Chesterfield.) • Phillip Sidney Skyrme, Senior Assistant Overseer, Office of Admiralty Engineer Overseer, South Yorkshire & North Midland District. (Sheffield.) • Walter Frederick Feben Smith, Principal Storekeeper, Ministry of Works.(Croydon, Surrey.) • William Frank Smith, Acting Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty Storage Depot, Risley. (Glazebrook.) • Charles Matthew Spittles, Sub-Officer, Buckinghamshire Fire Brigade. (Wendover.) • James W. Stephens, Sergeant, Royal Ulster Constabulary. For services to the Savings Movement. (Enniskillen.) • Osten James Stephenson, Foreman, C. A. Parsons Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne. (Walkergate.) • Charles Albert Stirling, Plater, Consett Iron Company Ltd. (Blackhill, Co. Durham.) • Ernest George Stoker, Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant, Sedbergh School Combined Cadet Force. (Sedbergh.) • Herbert Strickland, Foreman Electrician, Wm. Jessop & Sons Ltd. (Sheffield.) • Harold John Summers, Head Foreman, United Dairies Ltd., Chard Junction, Somerset. • Geraldine Thomas, Member, Women's Land Army, Caernant Farm, Tycroes, Anglesey. • Fanny Thorne, Agricultural Worker, Preston Candover, Basingstoke. • Tom Tilly, Radio Operator, HMTS Monarch, General Post Office. (Mablethorpe.) • Thomas Tippet, Surface Worker, Rising Sun Colliery, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board. (Wallsend-on-Tyne.) • Doris Rosetta Towell, Assistant Supervisor, London Telecommunications Region. (South Harrow.) • William Albert Towner, Confirmed Leading Man, HM Dockyard, Chatham. (Gillingham.) • William Beeton Towns, Tool Room Foreman, Acton Bolt Ltd. (Acton, W.3.) • William Ferguson Turnbull, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, Sea Cadet Corps, Newark Unit. • Alfred Turner, Technician, Class I, Research Station, General Post Office. (West London. N.W.4.) • Robert Turner, Foreman, Ministry of Works. (Stirling.) • Arthur Varley, Bread Bakery Foreman, Matthes, Gorleston. (Great Yarmouth.) • Fred Robinson Waller, Chargehand Plater, Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough. (Stockton-on-Tees.) • Alfred Ward, Honorary Organiser and Collector, Norcot Estate Savings Group, Reading. • Mary Ward, Consultant Sister, Docks & Inland Waterways Executive. (Towcester.) • George Dickson Waring, Chief Inspector, Road Passenger Service, Ulster Transport Authority. (Newtownards, County Down.) • Leslie Howard Weaver, Assistant II, Ministry of Supply, Malvern. • Mabel Winifred Webber, Assistant to Regional Organiser, No. 6 Region, Women's Voluntary Services. (Reading.) • Arthur John Wells, Honorary Collector, Prince of Wales Dry Dock Savings Group, Port Talbot. • James Western, Boot and Shoe Operative, G. B. Britton & Sons Ltd. (Bristol.) • Thomas White, Leading Hand, Edinburgh & Leith Flint Glass Works. (Edinburgh.) • Alfred Whitehead, Telephonist (M), Telephone Exchange. (Salford, Lancashire.) • Thomas Whitley, , Foreman Shipwright, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. • Harold Ernest Whorwell, Leading Draughtsman, Ministry of Transport. (Barnes, S.W.13.) • Ernest Charles Wilkie, Lens Foreman, M. Wiseman & Co. London. (North Wembley.) • Alexander George Wilkinson, Pattern-Maker, Vulcan Foundry Ltd. (Newton-le-Willows.) • Wilfred Claude Wilkinson, Electrician, North Eastern Division Electricity Board. (Newcastle upon Tyne.) • Adam Williams, Ripper, Llay Main Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board. (Llay, near Wrexham.) • James Williams, Class I Jointer, South Eastern Division, Electricity Board. (Rochester, Kent.) • Robert Richard Williams, Foreman Farm Worker, Ystrad, Denbigh. • Walter Williams, Sectional Supplies Superintendent, General Post Office. (Finsbury Park, N.4.) • Frank Willingham, Principal Foreman, Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd., Cricklewood. (Neasden, N.W.2.) • Henry Willis, Deputy, Ashington Colliery, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board. (Ashington, Northumberland.) • Jean Wilson, Home Help, Lanark County. (Cambuslang.) • William Henry Wingham, lately Works Foreman, Haywards Heath Works, South Eastern Gas Board (Haywards Heath, Sussex.) • Mohammed Yakub, Station Engineer, Royal Air Force Habbaniya, Iraq. ;;State of Victoria • Allen James Smith, Head Chauffeur to His Excellency the Governor of Victoria. ;;Colonial Empire • Matilda Trapp, Matron, HM Prison Service, British Honduras. • Sofoclis Nicola Boyiadjis, Mukhtar of Kalopanayiotis, Cyprus. • Ali Raouf Yousouf, Mukhtar of Louroudjina, Cyprus. • Socrates Metaxas, Mukhtar of Pelendria, Cyprus. • Syed Abdul Rashid bin Syed Ali, Pengjhulu, Mukim Triang Hir, Jelebu, Federation of Malaya. • Kathirippillai Vairavappillai, Stationmaster, Mentakab, Pahang, Federation of Malaya. • Abdul Rahim bin Mohamed Aikb, Technical Assistant, Telecommunications Department, Ipoh, Federation of Malaya. • Meli Rokobici, Field Assistant, Department of Agriculture, Fiji. • Ouseinou Sarr, 1st Grade Quartermaster, Marine Department, Gambia. • Leung Yeung Lok, Health Inspector, Hong Kong. • Cheuk Sui Bun, Senior Dresser, Government Medical Service, Hong Kong. • Davidson Ngimbuini Kunguru, Hospital Assistant, Medical Department, Kenya. • Andre Dulcidonio Coelho, Cashier, Treasurer's Department, City Council of Nairobi, Kenya. • George Onaga, Member of the Ngwo Native Authority, Onitsha Province, Nigeria. • Sam Anekwe Obiekwe, Foreman Grade II, Public Works Department, Nigeria. • Venu Krishne Nadasan Naidu, Postmaster, Beaufort, North Borneo. • John Ernest Bankole Weekes, Temporary Draughtsman, Resident Engineers Office, Freetown, Sierra Leone. • Badokufa s/o Nineka, Third Oracle Chief Warder, Police and Prisons Department, Tanganyika. • Helen Marie Victorin, Head Teacher of Choiseul Girls Primary School, St. Lucia, Windward Islands. Royal Red Crosses (RRC) ;;Royal Navy • Barbara Nockolds, , Acting Matron, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. ;;Army • Major Ethel Mary Neale (206352), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Florence May Smith, (206434), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Wing Officer Annie Winifred Marsland, (5214), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. Associates of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC) ;;Royal Navy • Olive Mary Molyneaux, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. ;;Army • Major Nina Alys Buck (206024), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Major Daisy Lister (206279), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Flight Officer Freda Short (5116), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. Air Force Crosses (AFC) ;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, (33211). • Wing Commander John Randall Daniel Braham, (40667). • Acting Wing Commander Russell Edwin Bell, (0372), Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Acting Wing Commander Peter Carteret Fletcher, (80028). • Squadron Leader Reginald Thomas Bainbridge (102569). • Squadron Leader Robert Bruce Cole, (66483). • Squadron Leader Leo Charles Evan De Vigne, (113859). • Squadron Leader John Stafford Howitt, (84854). • Squadron Leader Leonard Horace Lambert, (119791). • Squadron Leader Edward Lawley McMillan (65561). • Squadron Leader Raymond Archibald Watts (65530). • Acting Squadron Leader Michael Terry Wainwright (40346). • Flight Lieutenant William Nicholas Hugh Brawn, (175648). • Flight Lieutenant Alec Norman Bristow, (101502). • Flight Lieutenant Frederick Charles Dray (156665). • Flight Lieutenant Roger Emett (53248). • Flight Lieutenant Ben Loraine Garner, (106649). • Flight Lieutenant Gyon Erleon Heilbron Hackman (123249). • Flight Lieutenant Frederick Samuel Hazlewood (55087). • Flight Lieutenant Francis Michael Hegarty (164406). • Flight Lieutenant Reuben William James Horsley (198177). • Flight Lieutenant John Kenneth Hough (163220). • Flight Lieutenant John Alfred William Long (133263). • Flight Lieutenant Douglas Harold Mackie (171575). • Flight Lieutenant William Edward Martin, (55101). • Flight Lieutenant James Lorenzo Nelson (59552). • Flight Lieutenant Raymond Benjamin Phillips, (177656). • Flight Lieutenant Basil Arthur Templeman-Rooke, (157102). • Flight Lieutenant Peter Sherriff, (125575). • Flight Lieutenant Clifford Alan Sullings (172750). • Flight Lieutenant Denis Albert Trotman (124478). • Flight Lieutenant Charles Watkinson, (55069). • Master Navigator Henry James Baxter (565139). • Master Navigator Albert John Haygreen (517848). • Master Signaller Robert Henry Hooley, (751264). • Master Signaller Cyril Jones, (621518). ;Royal Navy • Lieutenant Alfred Raymond Rawbone. • Lieutenant Richard Henry Reynolds. Bars to Air Force Cross ;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander Hugh Patrick Ruffell Smith, (23353). Air Force Medals (AFM) ;Royal Air Force • 542848 Pilot I Harold Andrew. • 1601703 Pilot I John Robert Foster. • 657028 Pilot I Ian Roy Gordon. • 1318074 Pilot I Claude John Samuel Howard. • 1800482 Pilot I Leslie Steward Ketcher. • 1603653 Pilot I Alexander Peter Mackie. • 573824 Pilot I Douglas Walter Raymond Thompson. • 1602579 Pilot I Albert Laurent Shaw Welvaert. • 576523 Signaller I Roy Evan Hardwick. • 634175 Signaller I Leslie Charles Turnbull. • 635371 Engineer I Thomas Kennedy, . • 1079283 Pilot II Frank Harvey. King's Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air ;Royal Air Force • Squadron Leader James Robert Wade Blyth, (115103). • Acting Squadron Leader Richard Ulick Paget de Burgh (118569). • Acting Squadron Leader Clifford Hardman (53434). • Acting Squadron Leader Graham Stanway Hulse, (52935). • Acting Squadron Leader Herbert George Slade (123239). • Acting Squadron Leader Herbert William Taylor, (47000). • Flight Lieutenant John Handley Appleton (53931). • Flight Lieutenant Raymond Baker (52510). • Flight Lieutenant Harold John William Bareham, (44413). • Flight Lieutenant Anthony George Brown, (146747). • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Campey (181221). • Flight Lieutenant Murray Grant Casselman.(59539). • Flight Lieutenant David Dattner (182273). • Flight Lieutenant John Joseph Doyle (135735). (deceased) • Flight Lieutenant Raymond Cecil Henry Easy (57384). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald Cyril Everson (52030). • Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Dalton-Golding (156681). • Flight Lieutenant Luigi Giuseppe Hurrell (158724), RAF Reserve of Officers. • Flight Lieutenant Lancelot Alexander Alister MacKilligin (128629). • Flight Lieutenant Leslaw Roman Miedzybrodzki (500038). • Flight Lieutenant James Herbert Christopher Plummer (157863). • Flight Lieutenant Francis Reid (152503). • Flight Lieutenant William George Smith (55566). • Flight Lieutenant James Alexander Stephen (55561). • Flight Lieutenant Dan Thomas (162531). • Master Navigator Bernard Weller, (1165351). • 1600539 Pilot I Noel Edward Cooke. • 1672028 Signaller I Eric Davies. • 2209306 Signaller I William Edmund Lowther. • 1822311 Engineer I Alexander Primrose Fraser. • 627400 Engineer I Thomas Plumpton Milligan. • 2360011 Pilot II John Mackenzie. • 1609526 Navigator II Guy Allen Cohen. • 1852123 Signaller II Frank Christopher Slee. • 1904398 Signaller III Jeremiah Corkery. • 3502564 Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry John. ;Army • Major Bernard Edward Mills Repton (109305), Royal Artillery. King's Police and Fire Services Medals ;Police ;;England and Wales • Walter Edward Schofield, , Chief Constable, Oldham Borough Police Force. • Alfred Thomas Neale Evans, , Chief Constable, Pembrokeshire Constabulary. • John William Barnett, Chief Constable, Leeds City Police Force. • John Fenlli Roberts, , Chief Constable, Flintshire Constabulary. • Frank Leonard Bunn, , . Chief Constable, Stoke-on-Trent City Police Force. • Frederick William Hicks, , Assistant Chief Constable, Bristol City Police Force. • Edward John Brown, , Chief Superintendent, Birmingham City Police Force. • Walter James Crombie, Superintendent, Berkshire Constabulary. • John Sainsbury, Superintendent, Portsmouth City Police Force. • Leonard Walter King, , Superintendent, Norfolk Constabulary. • Sidney Thomas Smith, Superintendent. Metropolitan Police. • William Henry Rudkin, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. ;;Scotland • Donald Angus Ross, , Chief Constable, Argyllshire Constabulary. • James McCallum, Superintendent, Fife Constabulary. ;;Northern Ireland • William James Edward Stoddart, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;;Australia • Stanley Robert Mudie, Inspecting Superintendent, Victoria Police Force. ;;Former Mandated Territory • Dhonaill Patrick Macnamara, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. • Ian Standish Wylie, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. ;;Occupied Territories Administration • Bruce Henry Taylor, Superintendent, Eritrea Police Force. ;Fire Service ;;England and Wales • Edward George Hobbs, Chief Officer. Buckinghamshire Fire Brigade. • Sidney Albert Phillips, . Chief Officer, Eastbourne Fire Brigade. • Windsor Percy Jorgensen, Divisional Officer, Manchester Fire Brigade. • Claud Petley, Station Officer (part-time), Kent Fire Brigade. ;;Scotland • William Francis McLaughlin, Divisional Officer, Glasgow Fire Brigade. Colonial Police Medals (CPM) ;In recognition of meritorious service in Malaya and Singapore • Halim bin Haji Muhamed, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Thomas Hamilton, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • John Noel Douglas Harrison, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • John Hedley Hindmarsh, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • John James Holmes, Honorary Assistant Superintendent of Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya. • Thomas Horton, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Abdul Jalil bin Haji Aminudin, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Brinley Lewis, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. • Francis Knyvett McNamara, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Patrick Henry O'Flynn, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Othman bin Jaafar, Auxiliary Police Officer, Federation of Malaya. • John Jara Raj, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Clifford Maxim Allan Shaw, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Arjan Singh, Chief Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Charles Howard Agabeg Sturge, , Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Tang Kwan Kun, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • John Forest Thompson, Honorary Inspector of Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya. • Wong Chen Chee, late Chief Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Harold John Woolnough, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Mohamed Yatim bin Hussein, Acting Lance Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Mohamed Yusuf bin Mohamed Shukor, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. • Zon bin Abdul Sukor, Sergeant-Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force. Mentions in Despatches ;In recognition of services in Operational Minesweeping since the end of the war. • Lieutenant Ronald Leonard William Lancaster, Royal Navy. • Chief Yeoman of Signals Albert Ernest Blood, , P/JX.139771. • Radio Electrical Artificer Third Class Hambleton Mason, P/MX.713941. ==Australia==

Knights Bachelor • Professor Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , director of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. For services to biological research. • Charles Lloyd Jones. For services to charitable organisations and to Art. • David Maughan, , of Sydney. For public services. • Leslie James McConnan, Chief Manager of the National Bank of Australasia. • Norman Rupert Mighell, , lately Deputy High Commissioner in the United Kingdom for His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia. • Edwin Van-der-Vord Nixon, . For public services, more especially as Director of Finance, Ministry of Munitions, 1940–45. Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) ;Military Division • Major-General John Stewart Whitelaw, , Australian Military Forces. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • Douglas Thornley Boyd, Chairman of the Australian Wool Board. Order of the British Empire Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Vice-Admiral John Augustine Collins, . ;;Army • Lieutenant-General Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, , Australian Military Forces. ;Civil Division • The Honourable Edward McTiernan, a Judge of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia. Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division ;;Army • Brigadier Denzil Macarthur-Onslow, , Commonwealth Military Forces. • Annie Moriah Sage, , Matron-in-Chief, Australian Army Nursing Service. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • Air Vice-Marshal Joseph Eric Hewitt, . ;Civil Division • Arthur Sydney Victor Smith, formerly Secretary, Department of Supply and Development, and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Contract Board. Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Superintendent (Naval Dockyard Police) Norman Hamon Shaw, Royal Australian Navy (Auxiliary Services). • Commander John Anthony Walsh. ;;Army • Lieutenant-Colonel Donald George McKenzie, Royal Australian Army Service Corps. • Colonel Ferdinand Henry Wright, , Australian Military Forces. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • Group Captain Colin Thomas Hannah. • Matron Alice Jean Wheatley, , Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service. ;Civil Division • The Honourable Joseph Palmer Abbott, . For services to the wool industry; former member of the Federal Cabinet; and Vice-Chairman of the Australian Wool Board. • Alfred John Chambers, , Federal President of the T.B. Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Association. • William Joseph Dawkins, South Australian Representative on the Australian Meat Board. • Robert David Fitzgerald, of Sydney. For services to Literature. • Colin Macdonald Gilray, , Principal of the Scotch College, Melbourne. • John Alexander James, , a prominent surgeon and physician in the Australian Capital Territory. • William Stanley Kelly, a prominent agriculturist. For public services. • Henry Gilbert Nobbs, of Sydney. For outstanding services to the blind. • The Reverend Frank Harrison Rayward, Superintendent of the Central Methodist Mission, Sydney. • Christopher Sheehy, General Manager of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd. • Alan Robert Stanley Vickers, . For services to the Flying Doctor Service in Australia. Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Lieutenant-Commander Albert James Haberfield, (Retired). • Lieutenant-Commander Harold Blomfield Hatten, (Retired). • Lieutenant (E) John Alfred Hutton, (Retired). • Lieutenant-Commander (S) Frederick Walter Nelson, (Emergency List). ;;Army • Major John Cletus Holden, Australian Military Forces. • Captain Colin Campbell Knott, Commonwealth Military Forces. • Captain Leo Max Riedel, Australian Military Forces. • Lieutenant Albert William Smith, Commonwealth Military Forces. ;;Royal Australian Air Force • Squadron Leader John Wallworth Nankivell (03591). • Squadron Leader Frank Stiller (03400). • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Machin (03122). • Warrant Officer Ole Norman Eric Johannesen (A.3670). ;Civil Division • Harold Bruce Bennett. For services to munitions production in Tasmania. • Hugh Lancelot Brisbane. For services to munitions production in Western Australia. • Ethel Braun. For social welfare services, especially in hospitals. • Gladys De-aar Elliott, formerly Matron-in-Charge, Australian Comforts Fund, Hobart, Tasmania. • Colonel Daniel Edward Evans, . For services to munitions production in Queensland. • James Sydney Wallace Eve, of Sydney, For services to amateur Sport. • Ruth Heathcock. For outstanding services to the community in one of the remotest areas of Australia. • Henry Christian Hopman, of Melbourne. For services to Sport. • Lieutenant-Commissioner Joshua James, Territorial Commander of the Salvation Army in the Commonwealth of Australia. • Stephen Lackey Kessell, formerly Controller of Timber. • Roy Waugh Kippax, of Sydney. For services to the blind. • Eileen Gertrude Lenihan, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister for many years. • Walter Albert Lindrum, a well-known Australian billiards player. For services to charitable organisations. • Iney Louisa Marden. For voluntary services to Service personnel organisations. • Frank Tennyson Perry. For services to munitions production in South Australia. • Sydney Ernest Pratt. For services to Australian journalism. • Alice Marion Prichard, , Matron of Saint George's Hospital, Kogarah. • Stephen Harold Stack. For services to the War Veterans' Home in New South Wales. • Patricia Tillyard, President of the Canberra Community Hospital Auxiliary. • John Stapledon Wilkinson. For services to ex-servicemen and the Red Cross. British Empire Medals (BEM) ;Military Division ;;Royal Australian Navy • Master-at-Arms Stanley Williamson, No.16470. ;;Army • No. 1/9594 Warrant Officer Class 2 (temporary) Albert Edwin Connolly, Australian Military Forces. • No. 2/134806 Sergeant (temporary) Henry Hamilton James, Commonwealth Military Forces. • No. 4/9322 Sergeant Robert Winfred Lyon, Australian Military Forces. Air Force Crosses (AFC) ;Royal Australian Air Force • Wing Commander Keith Raymond John Parsons, (0337). • Squadron Leader William David Ephgrave (03394). • Squadron Leader Ronald Albert Hosking, (033102). • Flight Lieutenant John Ihwin Adams (033119). • Flight Lieutenant James Patrick Graney (04409). • Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Hughes, (021974). Air Force Medals (AFM) ;Royal Australian Air Force • A.33201 Pilot 1 Geoffrey Thornton. King's Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air ;Royal Australian Air Force • Flight Lieutenant John Iveson (022023). • Flight Lieutenant William Henry Scott (033175). ==New Zealand==

Knights Bachelor • Chittampalam Abraham Gardiner, Senator. • The Honourable Edward George Perera Jayetileke, , Chief Justice of Ceylon. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • Oswald Leslie De Kretser II. For public services. Lately Puisne Justice. • Hethumuni Ayadoris De Silva, District Judge, Colombo. Order of the British Empire Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division • Brigadier the Right Honourable James Roderick, Earl of Caithness, , Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon Army. ;Civil Division • Joseph Nalliah Arumugam, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Works. • Abdon Ignatius Perera, , Postmaster General and Director of Telecommunications. Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Civil Division • Suriyakumara Nichinga Senathiraja Ambalavaner Naganather Thandigai Canaganayagam, , Head Shroff, National Bank of India, Ltd., Kandy. • Don Sam De Simon, , Medical Superintendent, Hendala Leprosy Hospital. • David Shillingford Paynter. For public and social services. • Conrad Boniface Peter Perera, Acting Settlement Officer, Land Settlement Department. • Don William Rajapatirana, Commissioner of Income Tax, Estate Duty and Stamps. • Sinnatamby Subramaniam, . For medical and social services. Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division • Major Terence Richard Jansen, , Ceylon Medical Corps. ;Civil Division • Dinshah Pherojshah Bilimoria. For public services. • Somadeva Casinathan, lately Rubber Commissioner and Rubber Controller. • Mandawalagama Appuhamelage Gunasekera. For public and social services. • Mohamed Ismail, Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives. • Thanahandi David Mendis. For services to transport. • Ahamado Casim Mohammado, , Proctor and Notary, Colombo. • Swaminathar Patanjali. For public services in Jaffna. • Aruwala Jotige Simon Perera. For public and charitable services. • Victor Garvin Weerawardena Ratnayake, Member of Parliament for Deniyaya. • Abdul Rahaman Mohamed Thassim. For public services in Galle. • Joseph Nicholas Cecil Tiruchelvam, , City Coroner. • Oliver Weerasinghe, , Government Town Planner. ==Pakistan==

Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) ;Military Division • General (temporary) Sir Douglas David Gracey, , Special List (ex-Indian Army). Order of the British Empire Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division • Acting Rear-Admiral James Wilfrid Jefford, , Royal Navy (Special List) (ex-Royal Indian Navy). • Acting Air Commodore Robert George Bowditch, Royal Air Force. Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division • Acting Captain George Bailey, , Royal Navy (Special List) (ex-Royal Indian Navy). • Brigadier (temporary) Francis Herman Barclay Ingall, , Special List (ex-Indian Army). • Colonel (temporary) Geoffrey Knowles, Special List (ex-Indian Army). • Acting Squadron Leader John Edwin Loxton, (53285), Royal Air Force, Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division • Major (War Substantive) John Darby, Special List (ex-Indian Army). ==References==