Baron • Major The Right Honourable Sir
Thomas Lionel Dugdale, , , Member of Parliament for the
Richmond Division of the North Riding of Yorkshire since 1929. A
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1937–1940 and 1941–1942; Deputy Chief Government Whip, 1941–1942.
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1951–1954. Chairman,
Conservative and Unionist Party Organisation, 1942–1944. For political and public services. • Sir
John Forster, , President of the Industrial Court since 1946. • The Right Honourable Sir
(William) Patrick Spens, , Member of Parliament for
Ashford, 1933–1943; and for
South Kensington since 1950.
Chief Justice of India, 1943–1947. For political and public services.
Privy Counsellor • The Honourable Sir
(George) Malcolm Hilbery, Judge of the
High Court of Justice,
Queen's Bench Division. • The Right Honourable
Michael John, Earl St. Aldwyn, ,
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1954–1958.
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms and Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords since 1958. • Sir
Gordon Cosmo Touche, , Member of Parliament for
Reigate, 1931–1950; and for
Dorking since 1950. Deputy
Chairman of Ways and Means since 1956.
Baronet • Major Sir
(Arthur) Harold Bibby, . For political services in Liverpool and Cheshire. •
Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, , Member of Parliament for
Bebington since 1950. An Assistant Government Whip, 1951–1952; a
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1952–1955.
Comptroller of HM Household, 1955–1957.
Treasurer of HM Household, 1957–1959. •
Robert Platt, , President,
Royal College of Physicians; Professor of Medicine,
Manchester University.
Knight Bachelor •
Dugald Baird, ,
Regius Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology,
University of Aberdeen. •
William Smith Duthie, ,
Member of Parliament for
Banffshire since 1945. For political and public services. •
Leslie Carr Gamage, , Chairman and Managing Director,
General Electric Co. Ltd. •
Harold Riley Grime. For political and public services in Lancashire. •
William Vallance Douglas Hodge,
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry,
University of Cambridge.
Master of Pembroke College. •
David John James. For charitable services in Wales. •
Arthur Maynard Chesterfield Jenour, . For political and public services in Monmouthshire. •
Aubrey Julian Lewis, , Professor of Psychiatry,
University of London. • Major
William Cecil McKee, ,
Lord Mayor of Belfast. •
John Cecil Masterman, , Provost,
Worcester College, Oxford. • Brigadier
George David Keith Murray, , Chairman, Northern Agricultural Executive Committee, Scotland. • Brigadier
Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer, , Member of Parliament for
Worthing since 1945. For political and public services. •
James Reginald Pearson, , Deputy Chairman,
Vauxhall Motors Ltd. • Captain
Francis Richard Jonathan Peel, ,
Chief Constable,
Essex County Constabulary. •
Leslie Ernest Peppiatt, . President of
the Law Society. • Captain
Walter Michael Hungerford Pollen, . For political and public services in Gloucestershire. •
George Pollock, , Director,
British Employers' Confederation. •
Kenneth Huson Preston, Chairman, Stone-Platt Industries Ltd. • His Honour Judge John Alun Pugh, Judge of County Courts. •
Major Charles Evelyn Pym, . . For public services in Kent. •
Michael Scudamore Redgrave, , Actor. •
Robert Desmond Ropner, Chairman,
General Council of British Shipping. • Alderman
Edward Percy Rugg. For political and public services. •
William Proctor Smith, . For political and public services in Cheshire. •
Stanley Spencer, , Painter. •
Ronald Syme,
Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford. • Captain
Thomas Antonio Reginald Terrell. For political services. •
William Giles Newsom Walker, , Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Jute Industries Ltd. •
Mortimer Langton Warren, Secretary,
Church Commissioners. •
William Wilkinson Wood. For political and public services in Sheffield. ;State of Queensland •
Herbert Leon Trout, of Everton Park, State of Queensland. For public services. ;State of South Australia •
Sidney Barton Pope, of the State of South Australia. For services to public and charitable organisations. ;State of Victoria •
Edgar Barton Coles. For public and philanthropic services in the State of Victoria. •
Frederick William Thomas,
Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria. ;Overseas Territories •
Vahe Robert Bairamian,
Chief Justice, Sierra Leone. •
Arthur John Grattan-Bellew, , Chief Secretary, Tanganyika. •
Gaston Johnston, , President of the Bar Association of Trinidad and Tobago, and of the Federated Bar Associations of The West Indies. •
Colin Malcolm MacGregor,
Chief Justice, Jamaica. •
John Andrew Mahoney, , Speaker of the Legislative Council,
Gambia. •
George Mutlow Paterson, , Chief Justice,
Northern Rhodesia. •
John Kingsmill Robert Thorp, ,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles.
Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) ;Military Division • Admiral Sir
William Wellclose Davis, . • General Sir
Hugh Charles Stockwell, , (23894), late Infantry. Colonel, The Royal Welch Fusiliers; Colonel Commandant, Army Air Corps; Colonel, The Royal Malay Regiment. • Air Chief Marshal Sir
Claude Bernard Raymond Pelly, , Royal Air Force.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Vice-Admiral
Norman Eric Dalton, . • Vice-Admiral
Harry Philpot Koelle, . ;;Army • Lieutenant-General Sir
Roger Herbert Bower, , (24360), late Infantry. • Lieutenant-General
Joseph Howard Nigel Poett, , (38346), late Infantry. Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry. ;;Royal Air Force • Acting Air Marshal
Walter Graemes Cheshire, . • Acting Air Marshal
Kenneth Brian Boyd Cross, . ;Civil Division •
Victor Martin Reeves Goodman, ,
Clerk of the Parliaments. •
William Strath, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply. •
Alfred John Digby Winnifrith, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Rear-Admiral
Christopher Douglas Bonham-Carter. • Rear-Admiral
Noel Edward Harwood Clarke. • Rear-Admiral
Gilbert Carey De Jersey. • Rear-Admiral
Robert Alastair Ewing, . • Rear-Admiral
Walter Evershed, . • Rear-Admiral
Nigel Stuart Henderson, . • Rear-Admiral
Jack Kenneth Highton, . • Rear-Admiral
Henry Cuthbert Norris Rolfe. • Rear-Admiral
Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe, . • Rear-Admiral
John Harold Unwin, . ;;Army • Major-General
Kenneth Cecil Orville Bastyan, , (34563), late Royal Corps of Signals. • Major-General
Hugh Alastair Borradaile, , (35959), late Infantry. • Major-General
Philip John Lauriston Capon, , (39084), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Major-General
Alexander Frederic Joseph Elmslie, , (31922), late Royal Army Service Corps. • Major-General
Richard Elton Goodwin, , (40616), late Infantry. • Major-General
Gerald Kellett, , (33351), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General
Richard Eyre Lloyd, , (37083), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major-General
John Frederick Matheson Macdonald, , (38523), late Infantry. • Major-General
Geoffrey Randolph Dixon Musson, , (45438), late Infantry. • Major-General
Graham Peddie, , (34508), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. ;;Royal Air Force • The Venerable
Francis William Cocks, . • Air Vice-Marshal
George Augustus Walker, . • Air Commodore
Graham Clarke Bladon, , (Retired). • Air Commodore
Howard Ford, . • Air Commodore
Charles Edward Stuart Lockett, (Retired). • Air Commodore
Cyril John Salmon, . • Air Commodore
John Edward Rudkin Sowman, . • Air Commodore
Ronald Bain Thomson, . • Acting Air Commodore
Patrick Geraint Jameson, . • Group Captain
Andrew Henry Humphrey, . ;Civil Division • Dermot Charles Hyatt Abbot, Under-secretary,
Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. •
Eric Bedford, , Chief Architect,
Ministry of Works. • John Ernest Haldane Blackie, Chief Inspector,
Ministry of Education. • John Edward Hampson, Deputy Secretary,
Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Jack Alexander Sutherland-Harris, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Ralph Henderson, , Director of Stores,
Admiralty. • Colonel Tom Fielden Hood, , Chairman,
Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Gloucester. • Gerald Ewart Johnstone, Principal Assistant Solicitor,
Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor. • Thomas Doyle Kingdom, Under-Secretary,
National Assistance Board. • Colonel Charles Norman Littleboy, , Chairman of Yorkshire (North Riding) Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. • Alexander James Nicol Miller, Secretary,
Board of Inland Revenue. • John Bennet Lorimer Munro, , Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. • Kenneth Alfred Lamport Parker, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. • Reginald Ratcliffe, , Deputy Controller of
Royal Ordnance Factories,
Ministry of Supply. • Harold Ford Rossetti, Under-Secretary,
Ministry of Labour and National Service.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) • Sir
Arthur Edward Trevor Benson, , lately
Governor, Northern Rhodesia.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) • Commander The Right Honourable
Allan Herbert Percy Noble, , Royal Navy (Retired), , Member of Parliament for
Chelsea since 1945.
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1951–1955. Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1955–1956.
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1956–1959. • The Most Reverend
James Duhig, ,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, State of Queensland. •
Alexander Francis Morley, ,
High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ceylon. • Vice-Admiral Sir
Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett, ,
Governor of Southern Rhodesia. • The Honourable
Albert Asher Wolff,
Chief Justice of the State of Western Australia. •
Edwin Porter Arrowsmith, ,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands. • Lieutenant-General Sir
John Dane Woodall, ,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda. •
Douglas Laird Busk, ,
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Helsinki. •
George Lisle Clutton, , lately
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Manila. •
John Walker, ,
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Caracas.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) •
Frank Edward Figgures, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. • Thomas Stephen Leach, , Chief Inspector of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • James Scrimgeour, , Senior Partner, J. & A. Scrimgeour. For services to the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • William Henry Wheeler, lately Head of United Kingdom Ministry of Supply Staff, Melbourne, Australia. (Now Director of Explosives, Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply). • Aubrey William Burleton Coady, Under-Secretary and Comptroller of Accounts,
Treasury, State of New South Wales. •
David Wathen Stather Hunt, , an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office. • David John Muir, Agent-General in London for the State of Queensland. •
Alfred Moxon Simpson, a prominent member of the commercial community in the State of South Australia. •
Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sierra Leone. •
Hugh Percival Elliott, Permanent Secretary, Eastern Region, Nigeria. •
Francis William Essex, Financial Secretary, British Guiana. • John Edward Seaton Griffiths, , Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika. •
Alexander John Haddow, , Director,
East African Virus Research Institute, East Africa High Commission. •
John Edward Beauchamp Hall, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Federation of Nigeria. •
John George Maydon King, , Director of Agriculture, Uganda. •
Hedley Herbert Marshall, , Attorney-General, Northern Region, Nigeria. • John Perry Moffett, lately Commissioner for Social Development, Tanganyika. • Thomas Arthur Manly Nash, , Director, West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research, Federation of Nigeria. •
Charles Robert Harley Nott, , Secretary for Fijian Affairs, Fiji. •
Egerton Rudolph Richardson, Financial Secretary, Jamaica. •
Roger John Massy Swynnerton, , Director of Agriculture, Kenya. •
Michael Hugh Varvill, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport, Federation of Nigeria. •
Robert Everard Wainwright, Provincial Commissioner, Rift Valley Province, Kenya. •
Kenneth Maurice Walmsley, , Colonial Secretary, Bahamas. •
Dennis Charles White, British Resident, Brunei. •
Philip George Doyne Adams, Regional Information Officer, Her Majesty's Embassy, Beirut. • Francis David Wynyard Brown, Foreign Office. •
Robert Cecil, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Bonn. • Guy Hamilton Clarke,
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Monrovia and Conakry. •
William Vincent John Evans, , Legal Counsellor, United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York. • Peter Murray, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Rangoon. • John Gower Meredith Richards, Counsellor, United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, Paris. •
John Christopher Blake Richmond, lately Foreign Office. •
Adrian Christopher Ian Samuel, Foreign Office.
Royal Victorian Order Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) • Brigadier
Ivan de la Bere, . • The Honourable
David Bowes-Lyon, . • Sir
Archibald Montague Henry Gray, . •
Wilfrid Percy Henry Sheldon, .
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) • The Honourable
Henry Arthur Alers Hankey. • Lieutenant-Colonel
John Mandeville Hugo, . •
Richard William Legerton May, . • Dorothy Emily Meynell, .
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) ;Fourth Class • Godfrey Fraser Carey, . • Arthur Cooper. • Surgeon Commander Alan Peter Mayberry Nicol, , Royal Navy. • Lieutenant-Colonel Sam Rhodes, , Scots Guards. • Wing Commander Duncan Frank Hyland-Smith, , Royal Air Force. • Francis John Bagot Watson. ;Fifth Class • Thomas Charteris Barbour. • Jacqueline Lily Clark. • Thomas Hope Findlay. • Charles Albert Linge. • Flight Lieutenant William George McCready, Royal Air Force. • Catherine Peebles. • Frederick Thomas Turk. • Major Leslie Horace Ayliff White.
Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) ;Civil Division • Sir
William Palmer, . For services to industry and commerce. Chairman, European Free Trade Committee. Chairman, British Man-Made Fibres Federation.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) ;Military Division • Brigadier
Mary Katherine Rosamund Colvin, , (192684), Women's Royal Army Corps. ;Civil Division • The Right Honourable
Cynthia Mary, Viscountess Brookeborough. For public services in Northern Ireland.
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Vice-Admiral
John Gilchrist Thesiger Inglis, . • Vice-Admiral
Geoffrey Thisleton-Smith, . • Rear-Admiral
Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, . ;;Royal Air Force • Air Vice-Marshal
Leslie Dalton-Morris, . • Air Vice-Marshal
Francis Wilfrid Peter Dixon, . ;Civil Division •
John Anderson, , Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. •
Hubert Ashton, , Member of Parliament for the
Chelmsford Division of Essex since 1950. Second
Church Estates Commissioner since 1957. For political and public services. • Professor Sir
David Brunt. For services in the organisation of the
International Geophysical Year. • Sir
Alec Martin, Honorary Secretary,
National Art Collections Fund. Chairman of the Trustees,
Wallace Collection. • Commander
Geoffrey Henry Hughes-Onslow, , Royal Navy (Retired), HM Lieutenant of the County of Ayr. For public services. •
Alexander Brackenridge, , British subject resident in the United States of America. •
James Thyne Henderson, ,
Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in La Paz. •
Ernest Albert Vasey, , Minister for Finance and Development, Kenya. ;;Honorary Knight Commander • Sheikh
Mbarak Ali Hinawy, , Liwali for the Coast and Personal Adviser to the Governor, Kenya, on Arab Affairs.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Commodore Barry John Anderson. • Captain Rodney Harold Power Carver, , (lately on loan to the Government of India). • Captain Dudley Frederick Hingley Chandler, . • Captain Edward Gregson Roper, . • Captain Arthur Geoffrey Sowman. ;;Army • Colonel Timothy Michael Richard Ahern, , (52443), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Brigadier Percy Geoffrey Bamford, , (37159), late Infantry. • Brigadier Geoffrey Herbert Tulloch Billson, , (38384), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now R.A.R.O.). • Brigadier Adam Johnstone Cheyne Block, , (39141), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Brigadier Bertram Edward Lionell Burton, (33625), late Infantry, (now R.A.R.O.). • Brigadier Samuel Rendall Walmer Clarke, (47694), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • Brigadier (temporary) Gilbert John Folkard, (30852), late Royal Army Educational Corps. • Brigadier James Freeman Godwin, , (36650), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Brigadier Henry Martin Gough, (36657), late Royal Army Service Corps. • The Reverend Charles George Gregory, Chaplain to the Forces, First Class, (56216), Royal Army Chaplains' Department. • Brigadier Derek Ernest Holbrook, , (47558), late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Brigadier (temporary) Derek Wooldridge Lister, , (124578), late Infantry. • Colonel (acting) Leonard Gerard Muller, , (7650), Army Cadet Force. • Brigadier Frederick Warren Blakeway Parry, , (34866), late Infantry. • Brigadier Frederick Stephens, , (33782), late Infantry. • Brigadier (temporary) Victor Francis Dawson Tarrant, (40723), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • Air Commodore
James Stewart Wilson, . • Group Captain Leonard Edmund Botting, . • Group Captain Reginald John Clare-Hunt, (Retired). • The Reverend Thomas Hankin. • Group Captain Idris George Selvin Hemming, . • Group Captain Edgar Knowles, . • Group Captain Arthur Ernest Lowe, . • Group Captain David Lumgair. • Group Captain Stanley Edwin Druce Mills. • Group Captain Spencer Leonard Ring, . • Group Captain
Ernest William Tacon, . ;Civil Division • Francis John Armstrong, ,
HM Inspector of Constabulary, Home Office. • Reginald Graham Atkinson, Assistant Comptroller,
Patent Office, Board of Trade. • Charles Frederick Rex Bagnall. For political services. • John Richard Baker, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Power. • Alderman Ernest Ball, , Leader, Wigan County Borough Council. • Alice Margaret Battensby, Headmistress,
Cambridgeshire High School for Girls. • David Kighley Baxandall, Director,
National Galleries of Scotland. • Reginald William Frederick Thomas Berkeley, Director and General Manager,
Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd. • Professor
William John Granville Beynon. For services in the organisation of the International Geophysical Year. • Frederick Herbert Stanley Brown, Member,
Central Electricity Generating Board. • Alderman Sydney Morris Caffyn, For services to industrial relations. • William Campbell, General Secretary,
Educational Institute of Scotland. • George Reader Chappel, Chief Superintendent Engineer,
Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. •
William Edward China, Keeper of Entomology,
British Museum (Natural History). • Eric Edmund Raitt Church, , Controller, Establishments Division,
British Council. • Brigadier
Raleigh Charles Chichester-Constable, , lately Chairman, Yorkshire, East Riding, Agricultural Executive Committee. • Maclachlan Alan Carl Silverwood-Cope, Principal Executive Officer, Foreign Office. • Wilfred Frank Crick, General Manager for Research and Statistics,
Midland Bank Ltd. • Maurice Crump, Deputy Director, Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions. • Bernard William Alfred Crutchlow, HM Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Professor
Sydney John Davies, Dean,
Royal Military College of Science. •
Frederick Richard Dimbleby, , Broadcaster. • George Beedie Esslemont, , City Chamberlain, Glasgow. •
Geraint Llewelyn Evans, Opera Singer. •
William Norman Ewer, Diplomatic Correspondent of the
Daily Herald. • Group Captain George Rowland Scott-Farnie, Managing Director, International Aeradio Ltd. • William Fisk, , Representative of the South Eastern Region, National Savings Committee. • Athelstan Norman Gardiner, Deputy Chief Engineer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • William Gilbert, , Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. • Alderman Gerald Stanley Glover, . For political and public services in Londonderry. • John Herman Thorburn Goldsmith, Civil Service Commissioner and Chairman of the Civil Service Selection Board. • Leslie Graham, , Chairman, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division,
National Coal Board. • Colonel Leonard Green, , Chairman, Civil Defence Committee, Lancashire County Council. •
William Rede Hawthorne,
Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge. • Colonel George William Richard Hearn, , Chief Constable,
Staffordshire Constabulary. • James Henderson. For political and public services in Scotland. • John Henderson, , Chief Engineer,
South of Scotland Electricity Board. • John Gordon Henson, , Chairman, Lincolnshire (Kesteven), Agricultural Executive Committee. • Thomas Clyde Hewlett. For political and public services in Manchester and Cheshire. • Elfrida Lilian Gwendolen Hilton, , Director, Radiotherapeutic Department,
University College Hospital. • Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert Burdett Howcroft, . For political and public services in Oldham. • Major Joseph Charles Hunter, , Chairman, Leeds Regional Hospital Board. • Colonel Herbert Cecil Joel, . For political and public services in London. • Ernest Alexander Francis Johnston, Director of Works, Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland. • Reginald Alexander Kidd, County Surveyor and County Director of Planning, Nottinghamshire. • Charles Frederick Lawrence King, Chairman, Hire Purchase Information Ltd. •
Stephen James McAdden, , Member of Parliament for
Southend East since 1950. For political and public services. • Joseph Francis McGlennon, , Assistant Secretary,
Air Ministry. • Alexander Robert Mathewson. For political services in Edinburgh. • Alderman Charles Gordon Maynard, . For political and public services in Hertfordshire. • Robert William Mclntosh Melvin, General Manager,
Bristol Waterworks Company. • Allan Cuthbertson Monkhouse, lately Deputy Director, Warren Spring Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. • Woodford Alan Muddell, , Chairman, Trent River Board. • William Ness, Assistant Secretary, Agricultural Research Council. • Turlough Aubrey O'Brien, Public Relations Officer,
General Post Office. •
Raymond Harry Oppenheimer. For services to amateur golf. • Dorothy Weir Peile, . For political and public services in Northumberland. • Edwin William Stanley Press, Director, Chemical Inspectorate, Ministry of Supply. • Captain James Harrison Quick, , Chief Nautical Surveyor, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Terence George Randall, , Deputy Clerk,
London County Council. • Gilbert Stanley Nowell Richards. For political and public services in Coventry. • Clifford William Rowell, lately Regional Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • The Honourable Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell, , lately Counsel to the Treasury and the Board of Trade in the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice. • Bertram Schofield, Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. •
Athene Seyler, Actress. • Albert George Thomas Shingler, Senior Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Marshall Arnott Sisson, Architect. • George William Quick Smith, Member, Board of Management, British Road Services. • James Andrew Buchan Smith, Director, Hannah Dairy Research Institute. • Margaret Jane Smyth, , Chairman,
General Nursing Council for England and Wales. • Brigadier James Newton Soden, District Director,
Army Kinema Corporation,
British Army of the Rhine. • Major John Thomas Spinks, , lately National Chairman,
British Legion. • Magdalen Glass Stenhouse, , Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. •
Henry Marshall Steven, Professor of Forestry,
University of Aberdeen. • Geoffrey Singleton Strode, , General Manager, Publications,
British Broadcasting Corporation. • Major Henry Sumner, Veterinary Surgeon. Past President,
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. • William Ellis Thirkettle, Principal,
London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. •
Michael Kemp Tippett, Composer. • Sylvia Vachell, , Administrator for Wales,
Women's Voluntary Services. • Leonard Alfred Walden, Chairman and Managing Director, Walden & Son (Henley) Ltd. • Marjory Winsome Warren, , Consultant Physician, Geriatric Unit,
West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. • Robert Watts, , For services to the
Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland. • Edward Christian Wheeldon, Managing Director,
Westland Aircraft Ltd. • Alexander Hay White, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director,
Lithgows Ltd. • William Arthur Williams, , Assistant Secretary (Finance Officer),
Scottish Education Department. • John Allan Willis, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. • Alderman Eric Franklin Winser, , Chairman, Fire Brigade Committee,
County Councils Association. • William Wittet. For political and public services in Moray and Nairn. •
Leslie John Witts, , Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford. •
Mary Woodall, Director,
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. •
William Ambrose Wright, For services to Association Football. • Reginald Stephens Beak, British subject resident in Argentina. • Albert Edward Bennett, British subject lately resident in Indonesia. • Frank Allan Grafton Cook, , Her Majesty's Consul-General, Smyrna. • Kevin Gerard Fenelon, lately-Statistical Expert to the Ministry of Economics, Baghdad. • Ronald Chalmers Kelt, , lately Inspector-General and Chief Engineer, Iraqi Ports Administration. • Cecil Anthony Maxwell-Lefroy, General Manager,
The Burmah Oil Co. (Burma Trading) Ltd., and Chairman of The Burma Oil Co. (1954) Ltd., Rangoon. • Alan Trevor Oldham, Her Majesty's Consul-General, Dakar. • Fulke Rosavo Radice, lately Vice-Director of the International Bureau of the
Universal Postal Union. • Richard Thistlethwaite, Counsellor, Office of the Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia, Singapore. • Hugh Gerner Brain, . For public services in the State of Victoria. •
Francis Patrick Buckley, Agent-General in London for the State of New South Wales. • John Burgess, Managing Director of the Malaya Borneo Building Society Limited. • Philip Crawshaw, , Director-General of the Over-Seas League. • Patrick Daley, Senior, of Maleny, State of Queensland. For services to the dairying industry. • Lindsay Alexander Dey, , a prominent physician, of Sydney, State of New South Wales. • William Richards Feaver, a member of the United Kingdom business community In Accra, Ghana. • Reginald Francis Graham Fogarty. For public and philanthropic services in the State of Victoria. •
Frank Clifton Green, , in recognition of his contribution to the collection and writing of the history of the State of Tasmania. • Arthur Appleton Jackson, Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association in the State of Queensland. • David Faed Macmillan. For services to the United Kingdom Government and to the United Kingdom community in India. • Neal McCusker, Commissioner for Railways, State of New South Wales. • Roger Edward Pitt, lately Director of Public Works, Federation of Malaya. • Clemens Alexander Reiners, Commissioner of Land Tax, State of South Australia. • Frederick Claude Rowan, a member of the United Kingdom community in Colombo, Ceylon. • Basil Gordon Spurling, Commissioner, British South Africa Police, Southern Rhodesia. • Thomas Wilson, , formerly Director of the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya. •
Norman Stanley Alexander, Professor of Physics,
University College, Ibadan, Western Nigeria. • Herbert Alexander Angus, , Director of Commerce and Industry, Hong Kong. • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Adolph Baerlein. For public services in Uganda. • Geoffrey Pearl Boon. For public services in the Leeward Islands. • Philip Cecil Chambers, Adviser on Agriculture, Northern Region, Nigeria. • John Hume Chiswell Clarke, , Director of Medical Services, Cyprus. • Reginald Walter Cook, , Head of Shipping Department, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • William John Dupre Cooper, Director of Audit, Tanganyika. • Colin Eric Duff, , Chief Conservator of Forests, Northern Rhodesia. • Walter Fletcher, . For public services in Jamaica. • William Arthur Glynn, , Director of Medical Services, Aden. • William Harding, Judge in Her Majesty's Superior Courts, Malta. • Charles William Stewart Hartley, Director, West African Institute for Oil Palm Research. • John Angell Hartley, Director of Education, Aden. • Helen May Johnstone. For cultural services in Trinidad. • John Metcalfe Mason. For public services in Singapore. • Aliyu Musdafa, Lamido of Adamawa, First Class Chief, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Chandulal Kalidas Patel, . For public services in Uganda. • John Dudley Pollett, , Director of Geological Survey, Sierra Leone. • Andre Guy Sauzier, , Minister of Communications, Mauritius. •
Charles Edward Michael Terry, . For public services in Hong Kong. • William Millar Wedderspoon, Commissioner of Income Tax, East African Income Tax Department, East Africa High Commission.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Chief Officer Winifred Joan Denham, Women's Royal Naval Service. • Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Burns Drysdale, , Royal Marines. • Commander Charles Esmond Emerson, . • Commander Stuart Murray William Farquharson-Roberts, (lately on loan to the Government of Pakistan). • Commander John Geoffrey Vesey Holt. • Surgeon Commander Edward Boyd Martin, . • Commander John Ward Meadows, . • The Reverend Frank Lovell Pocock, Chaplain. • Commander Eric Nelson Richardson. • Commander John Peter Sandbrook. • Lieutenant-Commander Frank Arthur Shaw, , Royal Naval Reserve (Retired), Captain,
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service. • Commander Nicholas Withington Watts. • Commander James Young, , Royal Naval Reserve. ;;Army • Lieutenant-Colonel Linda Elizabeth Baldwin, (211148), Women's Royal Army Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel John St. John Balguy, (9269), late The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), (Retired). • Colonel (local) (now Lieutenant-Colonel) John Bruce Chaplin, , (53626), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan Graeme Dickson, , (67722), Mobile Defence Corps, Army Emergency Reserve (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Duncan, (69967), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Frederick Foxton, (72136), Royal Army Educational Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Gordon Gill, , (79107), 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Henry Grattan Halpin, , (87500), Combined Cadet Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Michael Neale Harbottle, (73156), 1st Greenjackets, 43rd and 52nd. • Major Frederick John Harris, . , (221011), Grenadier Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick James Harrison, , (71696), The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Ogilvie Hogg, , , (65528), The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Charles Holmes, (359213), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Alexander Marshall Horace Gregory-Hood, , (66075), late Foot Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Hugh Hordern, , (69189), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) George Frederick Keast, , (171577), Combined Cadet Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel Mortimer Francis Howlett Kelleher, , (67854), Royal Army Medical Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter James Kent, (62328), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter William Lonnon, , (63046), Royal Corps of Signals. • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Ludovic Lyle, (363993), The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment (Employed List (1)). • Lieutenant-Colonel William George Lyon, (50832), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Stephen Mackenzie, (49897), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) (Employed List (1)). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Edward Manning, (148153), Royal Regiment of Artillery (now R.A.R.O.). • Brevet and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Henry Muir, , (73025), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Erskine Nicholson, , (56257), The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Edward Owen, (220955), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Maurice Palin, , (220772), Corps of Royal Engineers, Army Emergency Reserve. • Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Douglas Patterson, , (314592), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hallam Potter, (57075), Royal Army Service Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel Kellow James Kidston Pye, (47631), The Suffolk Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Crofton Sanders, , (52977), Intelligence Corps, Territorial Army. • Brevet and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremy Michael Spencer-Smith, , (138650), Welsh Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Frederick Spearpoint, (384854), Royal Corps of Signals. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Denis Edward Thackeray, , (126334), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel Peile Thompson, , (53109), The King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool). • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Harold Michael Hanslip Ward, , (68696), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Geoffrey Woodhouse White, , (47671), The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (now R.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Frederick Wicks, (123564), Royal Army Medical Corps (now Retired). • Lieutenant-Colonel Louis George Wilkes, , (117053), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Peter John Wilkinson, (375966), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel James Vaughan Williams, , (62311), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Douglas Andrew Conyngham Forbes, , (144361), Corps of Royal Engineers; on loan to the Government of Pakistan. • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Marius Bernard, , Commanding Officer, British Guiana Volunteer Force. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Costello Taylor Peddie, , (363994), The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) (Employed List (1)). Officer Commanding, 4th Battalion, The King's African Rifles. ;;Royal Air Force • Wing Commander Jack Cassell, (46591). • Wing Commander Karl Ernest Christensen, (123190). • Wing Commander John Oswald Dalley , (130136). • Wing Commander (Acting Group Captain) Edwin Earnshaw. • Wing Commander Geoffrey Goodman, , (45491). • Wing Commander Gordon Hampton, , (50204). • Wing Commander Thomas Benedict Jones, (89409), (Retired). • Wing Commander William Henry Kearney, (34159), (Retired). • Wing Commander Norman Sykes Petch, (45357). • Wing Commander Charles Edward Pulham Suttle, (75306). • Wing Commander Arthur Ronald Michael Watts, (58906). • Wing Commander Charles Herbert Wiggins, (105363). • Acting Wing Commander Andrew McKinlay, (101307),
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Acting Wing Commander Peter Donald George Venus Whittingham, , (59790). • Squadron Leader Richard William Clark, (31261). • Squadron Leader John Harold Cooke, (58731). • Squadron Leader Derrick Francis Miller, , (153186). • Squadron Leader Charles Ernest Ness, (166399). • Squadron Leader Hans Neubroch, (152210). • Squadron Leader William Neill Perioli, , (39391). ;Civil Division • Ronald George Handley Abraham, Chief Executive Officer,
War Office. • Frederick Stephen Adams, Treasurer, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. • Ruth Allcroft, Senior Research Officer, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Charles Reginald Allen, lately Superintending Electrical Engineer, Admiralty. • Marguerite Katharine Mary Allport, . For political and public services in Bournemouth. • Charles William Andrews, Deputy Chief Lands Officer, Air Ministry. • Hugh Donald Andrews, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Gerard Marsham Argles. For political services in the Wrekin. • Kenneth Samuel Arnold, Director and General Manager, Duncan Stewart & Co. Ltd. Member, Scottish Joint Committee for Management Studies. • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Aveling, . For political services in Devon. • David Errington Barnes, , Senior Superintendent, Group Safety,
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston. • John Donald Beard, , Honorary Secretary, Oldbury Savings Committee, Birmingham. • Thomas Bedford, Director, Environmental Hygiene Research Unit,
Medical Research Council. • Commander Kenneth Barrington Best, , Royal Navy (Retired), Director of Communications, Home Office. • Frederick Barrett Birdsall, District Probate Registrar, Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham. • Reginald Walter Bishop, Superintending Civil Engineer, Admiralty. • George Blackburn, Assistant Chief Constable, West Riding of Yorkshire. • Muriel Marian Bongard, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Harry Bowley, Senior Principal Scientific Officer,
National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. • William Boyce, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Reginald Breffit,
Chief Constable,
East Sussex Constabulary. • Albert Brewin, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Explosives Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply. • Charles Attfield Brooks, , Member of Wheat Deficiency Payments Advisory Committee, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Gabe Robb Bryce, Chief Test Pilot,
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. • Arthur William Buckley, Senior Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue. • George Thomas Bullock, , Chairman, Bristol Disablement Advisory Committee. • Evelyn Christina Busby, , Diocesan Secretary for St. Albans. • Gwilym John Butler, Headmaster, Craig-yr-Eos Secondary Modern School for Boys, Rhondda. • Nelson Thomas Carne, , Joint Managing Director,
National Cash Register Co. (Manufacturing) Ltd. • Joseph Bernard Casey, Assistant Accountant and Comptroller General, Board of Inland Revenue. • Captain Clifford Henry Churchill, Commodore Master, MV
Swiftpool, Sir Robert Ropner & Co. (Management) Ltd. • George Farren Clarke, Senior Principal Scientific Officer,
Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply. • Ernest Alfred Cqmpton, Honorary Treasurer, County of London Boy Scouts Association. • Leslie Colin Cook, , lately Medical Superintendent,
Bexley (Mental) Hospital; President,
Royal Medico-Psychological Association. • Anthony Mitchell Beresford-Cooke, Head of Planning and Construction, Engineering Department,
Independent Television Authority. • Wilfred Hood Covington, Director, Middle East Department, British Council. • Percy Edward Cross, County Advisory Officer, Isle of Ely,
National Agricultural Advisory Service. • John Churchill Brodie Date, Grade B.I. Officer, Foreign Office. • Montague Davenport, Principal, London Communications Electronic Security Agency. • David Lewis Davies, , Chairman, Welsh National Council of
Young Men’s Christian Association. • Wilfred Dawes, Headmaster, Mortimer Wilson Secondary Modern School, Alfreton, Derbyshire. •
Warren Royal Dawson. For services to historical research. • Charles-Louis Leopold Alfred de Beaumont, President, Amateur Fencing Association and British Empire and Commonwealth Fencing Federation. • Major David Devine, , Chairman, County Fermanagh Savings Committee. • Eric John Dickie, , Deputy Director, Operations, Civil Aviation Control and Navigation Directorate, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • William Edmondson Dornan, , Chairman, Medical Practices Committee, England and Wales. • Blackwood Roulston Douglass, General Manager, Londonderry Port and Harbour Board. • Ida May Coffin Duncan, Commissioner, Board of Control, Ministry of Health. • Gerald Eastham, Chief Officer, Worcester City and County Fire Brigade. • James Elliot, , Provost of Jedburgh. • Lionel James Carlyon Evans, Agricultural Officer, Colonial Development Corporation. • William Giraldus Evans, Chairman, Cardiff National Insurance Local Appeal Tribunal. • Doris Mary Finch, , County Organiser, Berkshire, Women's Voluntary Services. • Harry Edward William Firman, lately Higher Collector, London South, Board of Customs and Excise. •
Bud Flanagan (Robert Winthrop), Comedian. • William Henry Ford, , Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Horace Fairie Francis, Director of Labour Relations, British Film Producers' Association. • Reginald Herbert Francis, Senior Partner of L. A. Francis & Sons. For services to the Building Industry. • John Leslie Fryer, Head Postmaster, Norwich. • Robert William Gadsdon, Controller, Statistical Office, Board of Customs and Excise. • David Galloway, Chairman, Association of Multiple Retail Meat Traders. • Cecil Arthur Gardner, Deputy Crown Estate Surveyor, Office of the Crown Estate Commissioners. • George Dudley Gardner, , Organisation and Methods Consultant, War Office. • Samuel James Garton, , Chief Investigator, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Jack Arnold Geer, Superintending Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works. • David Watson Gieve. For political and public services in Guildford. •
Carl Ronald Giles, Cartoonist. • Francis Gilderoy Glossop, Production Director, North Western Division, National Coal Board. • David Watson Gourlay. For political services in Gloucestershire. • Derek Robert Graesser, Member, North Wales District Committee, Welsh Board for Industry. • Kenneth Oliver Grant, Assistant Director of Aircraft Equipment Production, Ministry of Supply. • Donald Christopher Gray, lately Solicitor to
Greenwich Hospital. • Laurence Hague, Senior Administrative Assistant, City of Birmingham Education Department. • John Claude Hamson, , Chairman, Bedford Local Employment Committee. • Robert Charles Harman, Head of Operations and Maintenance, Engineering Department, Independent Television Authority. • Henry Hart, Joint Chairman, Yorkshire Coalfield Savings Advisory Committee. • Benjamin James Hartwell, lately Honorary Secretary, Justices Clerks' Society of England and Wales. • Alderman William Harvey, Deputy Secretary of the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority. • Harold Spedding Haslam, Secretary, Urban District Councils Association. • Marjorie Hayward, Principal, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Eric George Heath, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Beatrice Martha Heaton, . For political and public services in Bradford. • George Frederick Henson, , Chairman, Manchester & District
War Pensions Committee. • Albert Ernest Hewitt, Superintending Structural Engineer, Ministry of Works. • Marjorie Hickling, , Head of Training Department, Women's Voluntary Services. • Commander Eustace Leonard Hill, Royal Navy (Retired), Head of Civil Affairs, Sea Cadet Corps Headquarters. • Frederick Thomas Hill, Waterguard Superintendent, Cardiff, Board of Customs and Excise. • Ralph Hobday, Senior Architect,
Imperial War Graves Commission. • Willie Holdsworth, Alderman, Dewsbury County Borough, West Riding of Yorkshire. • Ambrose Hunter, Managing Director,
Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd., Beverley, Yorkshire. • George Walker Ireland, , General Practitioner in Midlothian. • Henry Braid Irving, Chairman, Noise Research Committee,
Aeronautical Research Council. • William Leonard Ives, Principal Traffic Officer, British Transport Waterways. • Elsie Alice Jamieson, Alderman, Twickenham Borough Council. • Charles Alfred Jarman, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Thomas Evan Jenkins, Alderman, Merioneth County Council. • David Scott Johnston, Controller, Scotland, National Assistance Board. • Herbert James King, Chartered Surveyor. For services to Government Departments. • James Osborne Lang. For political and public services in Paisley. • Sidney Latin. For political and public services in Manchester. • Charles John Vivian Lawson, Engineer-in-Chief,
Cable & Wireless • Jessie Simpson Lawson, Assistant Chief Labour Management Officer, Ministry of Supply. • Charles Robert Leake, Chairman, Eastern Sea Fisheries District Joint Committee. • Helen Grace Liddell, Head of Information Department,
Royal Institute of International Affairs. • William Hatherell Limerick, lately Deputy Chairman, Gloucestershire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Terence Desmond Loughlin, Controller,
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Far East. • Eric Alfred Lyons, Architect. • Joseph MacDowall. For services in charge of the International Geophysical Year programme at the
Royal Society Base, Halley Bay. • Alexander Robert McFarlane, , Chairman, Scottish Dental Estimates Board. • Frank Leslie McHenry, Principal, HM Treasury. • Alexander William Mackay, Rector,
Dingwall Academy, Ross-shire. • William Mackay (Senior). For political services in Inverness-shire. • Captain John Logan McQueen, Master, SS
Corinaldo, Donaldson Line Ltd. • George William Maile, lately Assistant Official Receiver, Bankruptcy, Board of Trade. • Joyce Louise Mann, . For political services. • Hermann Mannheim. For services to criminological research. • John Reid Martin, . For political services in County Tyrone. • Margaret Lauder Martin, Member, Council of the Girl Guides Association. • Alexander Masson, , Firemaster, Perth and Kinross Fire Brigade. • John Harvey Moore, Temporary Grade 2 Officer, Branch "B", Foreign Office. • Alderman Neil Muldoon, . For political and public services in Middlesex. • Major Arthur William Neve, , Secretary, Gamekeepers Association. • Timothy O'Leary, National Secretary (Docks Group),
Transport & General Workers' Union. • Athol Penhorwood Oliver, Principal Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade. • Hugh O'Neill, General Secretary and Treasurer,
Radio Officers' Union. • Francis Harry Ostime, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Donald Ashford Palmer, lately President of the Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers Association. • Frank Richard Parsons, . For political and public services in Northamptonshire. • William Henry Parsons, , Principal, Air Ministry. • Joseph Clarence Patterson, lately
Procurator Fiscal, Hamilton. • George Paul, , Member of the National Savings Committee representing the
National Union of Teachers. • Norman John Payne, , Partner, Messrs. Frederick Snow & Partners. • John Edward Pennifold, , Senior Chief Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • William Alfred Pillinger, lately Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Gilbert Ashton Plummer, Director and Chief Engineer, John Thompson Water Tube Boilers Ltd., Wolverhampton. • David Poston, lately Commodore Chief Engineer,
Port Line Ltd. • William Skirrow Procter, Chief Regional Engineer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. • Herbert James Rathbone, Deputy Chairman, Denbigh Agricultural Executive Committee. • Harold Francis Sidney Rickerby, , Senior Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Edward Ernest Roberts, , lately Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Sir James Denby Roberts, , Chairman, Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding. •
Claude Maurice Rogers, Painter. • Leila Gwendoline Ross, Director, Buckinghamshire Branch,
British Red Cross Society. • Langshaw Rowland, President,
Royal Forestry Society of England and Wales. •
Frederick Allan Rowley, , First Secretary, Foreign Office. • Alfred Russell, . For services to Education in County Down. • Samuel Hibbert Russell, Chairman, S. Russell & Sons Ltd., Leicester. • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Warren Caulfeild Sandes, , Regimental Historian. • Robert Charles Savage. For political services in Westbury, Wiltshire. • William Pertwee Seabrook, Horticulturist. For services to fruit growing. • Denis John Seymour, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. • John Charles Sharman, Manager, Research and Development Division, Garringtons Ltd., Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. • Robert Edward Graham Shillington, , County Inspector,
Royal Ulster Constabulary. • Walter Reginald Thynne Skinner, Deputy Chairman, South Eastern Electricity Board. • Percy Edward Sleight, Head, Department of Civil Engineering and Building, Brighton Technical College. • Norman Carol Smart, Chief Engineer (Telephone and Exchange Systems), The General Electric Co. Ltd., Coventry. • Ernest James Smithies, . For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. • Sydney Reginald Speller, Secretary and Director of Education, Institute of Hospital Administrators. • Brian Spencer, Senior District Inspector of Mines and Quarries, Scottish Division, Ministry of Power. • George Henry Warburton-Steel. For services to Hospitals in Preston, Chorley and District, Lancashire. • James Sinclair Stewart, lately Chairman, Edinburgh and South East Scotland Productivity Committee. • Mollie Kate Stone, , Headmistress, Howell's School, Denbigh. • Marjorie Storrs, . For political and public services in Cheshire. • Cyril John Strother, , Assistant to Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Griffin, Tapp, , Member, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Kent. • Reginald Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Tom Lowe Taylor, , Chairman, Stalybridge Local Employment Committee. • William Russell Addison Taylor, Deputy Works General Manager, Capenhurst Works, Industrial Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. • Raymond Claude Thompson, Principal Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance for Northern Ireland. • William Alfred James Thorn, Deputy Director, Telecommunications, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Noel Mursell Timpson, President and Chairman, Manchester and District Federation of Lads' Clubs. • George Tiplady, Inspector of Alkali, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Reginald Robert Tomlinson, Chairman, Exhibition and Display Sub-Committee,
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. • Commander Franklin George Tritton, Royal Navy (Retired), Works Manager, Sheffield Gauge Factory, Admiralty. • George Antony Turner, Grade 7 Officer, Branch A, Foreign Office. • William Reginald Tyson, Telephone Manager, Bournemouth General Post Office. • John Charles Wade, , General Manager and Secretary, West Cumberland Farmers' Trading Society Ltd. • George Edward Walker, , Secretary, Thames Conservancy. • Alderman William Harold Walker, Chairman, Cheshire County Civil Defence Committee. • Captain Thomas Herbert Wallace, , Chairman, County Down Committee of Agriculture. • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Walton, Honorary Savings Officer for the Army Catering Corps. • Alan Gordon Ward, Director of Research, British Gelatine and Glue Research Association. • Ottiwell Henry Gordon Waterfield, Head of Arabic Service, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Sylvia Bennett Watson, Children's Officer, Hertfordshire County Council. • Hubert Claude Weston, Director, Research in Occupational Optics Group, Medical Research Council. • John Pattullo Mackie Whyte, Conservator, Scotland, Forestry Commission. • James Murray Widdecombe, Assistant Director of Armament Supply, Admiralty. • Valentine Wilkinson, , Medical Officer, Waddon Industrial Rehabilitation Unit, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Robert John Willatt, . For services to Boys' Clubs in Nottinghamshire. • Norman Ellis Williams, lately Education Officer, British Council, India. (Now Liaison Officer, British Council, Australia.) • Thomas Wilson, , Chairman, County Antrim Welfare Committee. • Louis Winter, , Chairman, Stockport Savings Committee, Cheshire. • Alderman Albert Wolstencroft, . For political and public services in Middleton and Prestwich. • Edwin Kenneth Woodford, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Agricultural Research Council Unit of Experimental Agronomy, Oxford. • Hubert Leslie Woodgate, Chorus Master, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Frederick Robert Woodward, Treasurer, Cornwall County Council. • Joseph William Young, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Ronald Frederick Zobel, Chief Meteorological Officer, Aden, Air Ministry. • John George Barney, lately Her Majesty's Consul, Palermo. • Henry Donald Bennetts, British subject resident in Portugal. • Lieutenant-Colonel William Edge, Special Police Officer attached to Department of Public Security, Kuwait. • George Edward Fox, British subject resident in Brazil. • Niel Hone, , British Vice-Consul, Santiago de Cuba. • Gladys Muriel Hunt, , Chairman, British-American Hospital, Nice. • The Reverend Harold Isherwood, , lately Chaplain,
St Edmund's Church, Oslo. • Ian Ritchie Matheson, Estate Manager,
Messrs. Harrisons & Crosfield,
Medan. • John Chevalier O'Dwyer, lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, Berlin. • Edward Eric Orchard, First Secretary, Her Majesty's Embassy, Moscow. • Christine Sandford, , British subject resident in Ethiopia. • Percival Samuel Schor, Head Master,
British School, Montevideo. • Commander Patrick William Stone, Royal Navy (Retired), British Visa Officer, New York. • John Debenham Taylor, First Secretary, Office of the Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia, Singapore. •
Clara Grace Thornton, , Her Majesty's Consul, Copenhagen. •
Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin, British Council Representative, Turkey. • James Terris Turbayne, General Manager, British Travel Association, United States of America. • John Robert Allison. For services to the United Kingdom community in Karachi, Pakistan. • Leonard Wilfred Andrew, of Waikerfe, State of South Australia. For services to the local community. • The Reverend Francis Clune, , of the Roman Catholic Church in the State of New South Wales. • Norman Scott Connal, formerly Headmaster of the Church of England Boys' Grammar School, Toowoomba, State of Queensland. • Olive Dorothea Graeme Cornell (Miss
Olive Wilton) of Hobart, State of Tasmania; in recognition of her work as an actress and a producer. • James Alexander Costello, , Chairman of the Rosenthal Shire Council, State of Queensland. • Simon Crawcour, of Launceston, State of Tasmania. For philanthropic services. • Ernest Arthur Hardy, , Specialist Physician in Selangor, Federation of Malaya. • James George Haskins, Deputy Chairman of the European Advisory Council,
Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Noel Hayton, Assistant Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the State of New South Wales. • Cecil Leander Honey, Secretary for Labour, Social Welfare and Housing, Southern Rhodesia. • Cyril Knight Jacka, Chairman of the Conservation Authority, State of New South Wales. • David Fletcher Jones, of Warrnambool, State of Victoria. For services to the local community. • Kenneth Jowers. For services to the United Kingdom community in New Delhi, India. • George Ernest Maunder, of Sydney, State of New South Wales. For services to Local Government. • Albert Musgrave Merriweather, , Superintending Missionary, Scottish Livingstone Hospital,
Molepolole, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Harry Robert Meyer, of Ashbourne, State of South Australia. For services to the local community. • William Sheridan Morcom. For services to the Grammar Schools of the State of Victoria. •
Doris Lyne Officer, , Medical Officer, Free Kindergarten Union, State of Victoria. • Desmond Stephen Palmer, Deputy Director, Special Branch, Federation of Malaya Police Force. •
William Walter Pettingell, General Manager of the
Australian Gas Light Company in the State of New South Wales. • Mervyn Noel Courtenay St. Quintin, , Secretary/Comptroller (Finance) to the Governor of Southern Rhodesia. • Raymond David Rex, of Richmond, via Mossman, State of Queensland. For services to Local Government. • Stuart Waldemar Leslie Routley. For services to ex-servicemen in the State of Victoria. • Sydney Murray Scott. For services to the United Kingdom community in Bombay, India. • Arthur George Burton-Smith, a farmer in the
Ghanzi District, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Reay Henry Noble Smithers, Director, National Museum, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. • Harry Crompton Wallwork, , Director of Studies, Federation Military College, Port Dickson, Federation of Malaya. • Dorothy Yates, Headmistress of the Girton School for Girls, State of South Australia. • Charles Peter Selwyn Allen, , Permanent Secretary (Supervisor of Elections), Uganda. • Frederick Lawrence Herbert Bascom, Senior Engineer, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • John Thomas Bennett. For public services in Tanganyika. • Denis George Britton, , Director of Audit, Mauritius. • Frederick Charles Brookes, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kenya. • Hugh Boughey Burgess, , Chief Conservator of Forests, Western Region, Nigeria. •
Daphne Wai Chan Chun, , Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
University of Hong Kong. • Peter Harper Cook, Commissioner of Labour, Federation of Nigeria. • Ahmadu Coomassie, Chief Education Officer (Adult), Northern Region, Nigeria. • Geoffrey Borough-Copley, Deputy Director of Public Works, North Borneo. • Leonardo Sarto Da Silva, , Senior Pathologist, Singapore. • Gwladys Davies, Principal Matron, Mauritius. • James Angel Durante, , Medical Officer of Health, Gibraltar. • Ronald James Gammon, Director of Road Transport, Sierra Leone. •
John Simon Rawson Golding, , Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedics, University College Hospital of The West Indies. • Ernest George Albert Grimwood, Director, London Office of Hong Kong Government. •
James Henry Hale, , Professor of Bacteriology,
University of Malaya, Singapore. • John Colman Hammond, Headmaster,
Harrison College, Barbados. • Edward James Hand. For public services in Kenya. • Clinton Hart, Clerk of the Legislature, Jamaica. • Joyce Veronica Herklots, Diocesan Education Secretary-General, Western Region, Nigeria. • Peter Henry Hicks, Assistant Chief Engineer (Construction), East African Railways and Harbours Administration, East Africa High Commission. • Charles Greaves Hill, lately Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Jamaica. • Philip Lowther Hotchin, Senior Agricultural Officer, Mauritius. • Geoffrey William Young Hucks, Administrative Officer, Class I, Tanganyika. • Edward Alexander Clavier Hughes. For public services in St. Vincent, Windward Islands. • Felix Ofurum Ihenacho, Commissioner in the United Kingdom for Eastern Region, Nigeria. • William Brown Johnson, Public Market Superintendent, Bahamas. • Olatunji Emeric Adeniyi-Jones, , Medical Officer of Health, Lagos Town Council, Nigeria. •
Yuet-Keung Kan. For public services in Hong Kong. •
Edgie Lapira, , Emeritus Professor of Dental Surgery, Malta Central Hospital. • Alan Charles Ledger. For public services in Zanzibar. • James Fraser MacDonald, , Senior Surgical Specialist, Northern Rhodesia. • James Hugh Morrison McNaughton, Director, Geological Survey Department, Nyasaland. • Donald Marshall, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government, Uganda. • Richard Martin, , Government Printer, Nyasaland. • Maurice Charles Salles-Miquelle. For public services in St. Lucia, Windward Islands. • Ernest Dunstan Morgan, . For public services in Sierra Leone. • Thomas Dunnachie Murphy, Electrical Superintendent, Belize Electricity Board, British Honduras. • Colin Bruce Murray, Director of Lands and Surveys, Sarawak. • Kenneth James Neale, Deputy Administrative Secretary, Cyprus. • John Anthony Palfreman, Principal Immigration Officer, Kenya. • Dahyabhai Kalyanbhai Patel. For public services in Tanganyika. •
John Warburton Paul, , Permanent Secretary, Sierra Leone. • Tom Alan Phillips, Director of Agriculture, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Harry Gilbert Roberts. For public services in Bermuda. • Ivor George Salmond. For public services in Singapore. • Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Senior Councillor, Zaria Native Authority Council, Northern Region, Nigeria. • William Tod Thom, , Director of Medical Services, Somaliland Protectorate. • The Right Reverend
Gilbert Price Lloyd Turner,
Bishop of St. Helena. • Kyriacos Nicolaou Vassiliades, Government Printer, Cyprus. • James McIndoe Watson. For public services in Antigua, Leeward Islands. • Arthur Francis Watts, Deputy Adviser and British Agent, Western Aden Protectorate. • Leslie Edward Whitehouse, Administrative Officer, Kenya.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Lieutenant-Commander William Hector Brereton. • Major (Quartermaster) John Brown, , Royal Marines. • Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Thomas William Henry Foster. • Supply Lieutenant-Commander Charles Harry Hann. • Lieutenant-Commander James Stanley McCarthy. • Lieutenant (S.D.) William Young McLanachan, . • Wardmaster Lieutenant-Commander Alfred Ernest Masters, . • Warrant Officer Aloysius Ola Oni, Nigerian Navy. • Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Colin Frederick Parker. • Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Hedley Punch, , Royal Naval Reserve. • Lieutenant-Commander (S.D.) Charles Stokes, (Retired). • Lieutenant William Thorniley. • Lieutenant-Commander Robert William Snowdon Winn. ;;Army • Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) Norman Allison, , (70829), Royal Army Service Corps. • Major (acting) (now Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel) Leslie George Anniss, (272304), Army Cadet Force (now retired). • Major (Quartermaster) Frederick George Lawrence Baddock, (263741), Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Geoffrey George Baker, (386359), The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major John Charles Balharrie, , (74305), The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Edward Henry Dean Bancroft, (399022), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major (acting) Albert Jacob Barker, (395932), Army Cadet Force. • 21001472 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Baxter, The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. • Major Alec Jack Bennett, (124713), The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major (temporary) (now Captain) Peter Mudie Boileau, (354244), 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major Frank Swinstead Britton, (243228), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major William Kemmis Buckley, (219080), Welsh Guards. • 22283443 Warrant Officer Class I Samuel Robert Bull, Mobile Defence Corps, Army Emergency Reserve. • 6666443 Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Ian Bulpin, The Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army. • Major (temporary)
Robin MacDonald Carnegie, (364503), The Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. • 22511117 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Edward Charnock, The Cheshire Regiment, Territorial Army. • 553943 Warrant Officer Class I Patrick Cleere, , The Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major (acting) John Francis Coghlan, (293577), Combined Cadet Force. • Major George Arthur Russell Collier, (301875), Royal Army Service Corps. • S/57620 Warrant Officer Class I William Edward Cook, Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Leslie Michael Lonsdale-Cooper, , (79990), The York and Lancaster Regiment, Territorial Army. • 21015643 Warrant Officer Class I William Peter Cooper, 3rd Greenjackets, The Rifle Brigade. • Major Henry George Antony Cordwent, (253972), Royal Army Pay Corps. • 22262823 Warrant Officer Class II Victor Henry Cox, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Captain (Quartermaster) Arthur George Everett, (442445), Grenadier Guards. • Captain Frank Charles Edward Fare, (324471), Army Catering Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Percy Fred Ford, (384085), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major (honorary) James Andrew Foss, (163882), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, (Retired). • 1667882 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Thomas James Fraser, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Major Thomas Reginald Gascoigne, (285681), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Captain John Vincent Gatt, (325966), Intelligence Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) John William Gay, (316329), Army Physical Training Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) Ronald George Jeremiah Genge, (348382), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • Major Ivor Dennis Gibb, (210817), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (now R.A.R.O.). • Major (temporary) Laurie William Albert Gingell, (283239), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • W/12869 Warrant Officer Class II Violet Kathleen Hamilton, Women's Royal Army Corps. • Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Harold Hardy, (460878), The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. • Major (Quartermaster) Stanley Samuel Hawkins, (329362), Corps of Royal Engineers. • 5378969 Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Ernest Hickman, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army. • 5194307 Warrant Officer Class II Trevor Hier, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major (Ordnance Executive Officer) George Hodgson, (231927), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major Thomas Francis Jouning, , (90677), Royal Army Medical Corps. • Major (Quartermaster) William Ephraim Kille, (246832), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). • Major (temporary)
Frank Edward Kitson, , (362061), 3rd Greenjackets, The Rifle Brigade. • 21003329 Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Henry Lake, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • Major Henry David Lowther, (56591), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22294012 Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Alfred Lucas, The Welch Regiment, Territorial Army. • 22256484 Warrant Officer Class II David Mitchell, , The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), Territorial Army. • Major Sydney Alfred Moore, (117789), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major Ernest Harold Morgan, , (339778), The Suffolk Regiment. • 10545199 Warrant Officer Class I Horace Roland Moules, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Major Derek Andre Alton-Nagel, , (97584), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22268866 Warrant Officer Class I Patrick Joseph Neale, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army. • Major (acting) Frederick Charles Nicklin, , (91688), Army Cadet Force. • Major Hugh Justin O'Neill, , (89717), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • 2695724 Warrant Officer Class I George Paterson, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). • Major Ronald Matthew Pearson, , (283274), Royal Army Dental Corps. • Captain (Quartermaster) Alfred Albert Pilgrim, , (413062), The Northamptonshire Regiment, Territorial Army. • Major Robert Laslett John Pott, , (95241), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster); attached Trucial Oman Scouts. • 2027492 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Herbert Price, The South Staffordshire Regiment. • 4343214 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Reginald Arthur John Pritchard, The Northamptonshire Regiment. • Major (temporary) Ivor Basil Ramsden, (403662), Welsh Guards. • Major Leslie Frederick Richards, (380592), Corps of Royal Military Police. • Major (Quartermaster) Frederick Heslop Robson, (266057), 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), Royal Armoured Corps. • 843990 Warrant Officer Class I (Artillery Clerk) George Arthur Pettit Rowlatt, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 5441267 Warrant Officer Class I Harold Frederick Royffe, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. • S/5058346 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) (now Warrant Officer Class II) Jules Leon St. Romaine, Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, , (234315), 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. • 2612402 Warrant Officer Class I Percival John Sedgwick, Corps of Royal Military Police. • Major William Boughtflower Sedgwick, (203825), Intelligence Corps. • 19036916 Warrant Officer Class II Maurice Peter Slingo, 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), Royal Armoured Corps. • Major Henry Thomas Stanley, (237116), Royal Pioneer Corps. • 3718101 Warrant Officer Class I Ronald Joseph Taylor, The King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool). • Major (Quartermaster) Stanley Charles Walford, (356140), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • S/1459320 Warrant Officer Class I Gerald Henry Walke, Royal Army Service Corps. • Major Richard Carless Wilkins, , (89662), The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's), Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel George Thomas Wheeler Collins, Home Guard, Federation of Malaya. • S/6479223 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Albert Jenkins, , Royal Army Service Corps. Personal Assistant to the General Officer Commanding,
East Africa Command. ;;Royal Air Force • Squadron Leader Ronald Brickwood, (57611). • Squadron Leader Leslie William Denning, (56761). • Squadron Leader Douglas Houghton, (147740). • Squadron Leader Edward Lawrence McMullen, (176322),
RAF Regiment. • Squadron Leader Frank Reginald Pusey, (55599). • Squadron Leader Frederick Thomas Russell, (53615). • Squadron Leader Anthony Barrie Smith, (50923). • Squadron Leader (now Acting Wing Commander) Allan Ainslie Storar, (51293). • Squadron Leader Jim Wass, (52456). • Squadron Leader Thomas Charles Douay Whiteside, , (203221). • Squadron Leader William Wright, (48835). • Acting Squadron Leader Gilbert John Brewer, (58920). • Acting Squadron Leader John Harvey Hunt, (567609). • Acting Squadron Leader Thomas Knox, (114543), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Acting Squadron Leader Leonard Victor Mansfield Price, (63017), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). • Acting Squadron Leader Horace Charles Puxlet, (51205). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald Courtney Bowers, (575237). • Flight Lieutenant William Cecil George Budden, , (567472). • Flight Lieutenant Leonard Carey Evans, (57940). • Flight Lieutenant Leon Ypres Jack Friend, , (46732). • Flight Lieutenant Josef Grant, (82526). • Flight Lieutenant Alfred Jackson, (569869). • Flight Lieutenant Basil Millman, (137035), (Retired). • Flight Lieutenant Keith Stanlawse O'Brien, (3031247). • Flight Lieutenant Herbert Richardson, (46652). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald Robinson, (501825). • Flight Lieutenant Thomas Anthony Robinson, (1680408). • Flight Lieutenant William Holden Robinson, , (48464). • Flight Lieutenant William Kirkwood Sewell, (2201279). • Flight Lieutenant Ernest Gordon Smith, (150968),
Royal Auxiliary Air Force. • Flight Lieutenant Thomas Doig Walker, (166377). • Flight Lieutenant James Mann Waters, (52230). • Flying Officer Clifford McAllister, (629971). • Acting Flying Officer Leslie Dobson, (571427). • Master Technician Stephen John Cameron, (574624). • Master Technician William Gilfillan, (1378729). • Master Technician Leonard Francis Paddock, (546274). • Warrant Officer Daniel Richard Calcutt, (562513). • Warrant Officer Thomas Henry Doughty, (510257). • Warrant Officer Robert Fox, , (526978). • Warrant Officer Walter Graham, (521640). • Warrant Officer Bertram Ernest Neale Hayles, (566136). • Warrant Officer Robert James Legge, (541033). • Warrant Officer Bernard Lewis, (590550). • Warrant Officer Richard McDermott, , (648042). • Warrant Officer Ralph Waud, (590968). ;Civil Division • William Scott Abbott, , lately Member, Huntingdonshire, and Soke of Peterborough Agricultural Executive Committee. • Matthew Adamson, Blast Furnace Projects Engineer, Ashmore Benson Pease & Co. • Robert Hugh Allan, Chairman, Newcastle, Hexham and District War Pensions Committee. • Charles Allsop, Chief Research Engineer,
Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. • Jack Andrews, , Chairman, Colchester Local Employment Committee. • Harold William Annetts, Member,
Wiltshire County Council. • John Walter Armitage. For political and public services in North Somerset. • Percy Armstrong, Superintendent, Erecting Shop, W. H. Allen, Sons & Co. Ltd., Bedford. • Elizabeth Arnold, lately Senior Personnel Officer,
Montague Burton Ltd. • Howard James Aveling, Manager, Peterborough Employment Exchange, Lincolnshire. • Jack Howell Westwood Axtell, Senior Museum Assistant,
British Museum. • Commander Geoffrey John Tress Bahin, Royal Navy (Retired), General Secretary, Kent Council of Social Service. • Kate Sarah Dennis Baker, . For political and public services in South London. • Dora Band, Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Winifred Bates, Honorary Secretary,
English Electric Co., Stafford, Savings Group. • Ernest Albert Beasant, Principal Lay Officer and Chief Welfare Officer, Municipal Health Department, Southend County Borough. • Horace Norman Beckett, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. • Clifford Beevers, Chairman, North East Branch, Association of Drainage Authorities. • Isaac Edward Bell, Secretary, North Armagh Hospital Management Committee. • Lewis Lloyd Bell, Honorary Organiser, Armstrong Primary School Savings Group, Armagh. • Walter Bell, , Provost of The Royal Burgh of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. • William Claude Elder Bell, Manager,
Dorman, Long (Steel) Ltd., Middlesbrough. • Arthur Benjamin Bennett, Works Superintendent (Weapons Division),
Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd. • Edwin Berry, Deputy Manager, Contracts Department,
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. • William Henry Bickle, Senior Experimental Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. • John Clarke Bidgood, lately Chief Superintendent,
Metropolitan Police Force. • Jack Henry Edwin Biggs, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Harold Blackmore, Managing Director, M. W. Blackmore & Sons Ltd., Bideford. • James Montgomery Blackstock, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. • Irene Dorothy Blakemore, Member of East Lothian Local Savings Committee. • Winifred Frances Bonas, , Regional Staff, (Services Welfare), Women's Voluntary Services, North Midland Region. • Walter Edward Rawson-Bottom, Engineer (Main Grade), Ministry of Works. • Gertrude Bowen, Member, Ikleton Parish Council, Cambridgeshire. • Gwilym Morris Bowen, Field Officer Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Pembrokeshire. • Thomas Bowman, Chief Superintendent,
Leeds City Police. • John Armitage Briddon, Higher Executive Officer, War Office. • Constance Kathleen Brind, Chief Executive Officer, Savings Department, General Post Office. • John William Brown, Engineer II,
Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackburn, Ministry of Supply. • Stanley Brumby, , District Organiser,
National Union of Agricultural Workers, Lindsey Division of Lincolnshire. • Brian George Buckley, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise. • Arthur Ledger Budd, Chief Telecommunications Superintendent, Air Ministry. • John James Bunday, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Percy Fred Burgess, Senior Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department. • John Henry Burton, Production Manager, Asbestos-Cement Moulded Goods Division,
Turners Asbestos Cement Co. Ltd. • Edith Hannah Bushby. For political and public services in Cumberland. • Phyllis Annie Butcher, Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • William Harold Butchers, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office. • Tom Cliff Buttrey, Headmaster, Prince's Street Junior School, Wellington, Shropshire. • Mary Sarah Nora Byrne, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Graham George Cann, Secretary, Grimsby United Fish Merchants' and Fish Curers' Association Ltd. • Alderman Johnson Ernest Cann. For public services in Harwich. • Abram Maxwell Caplin. For political and public services in Liverpool. • Stanley Carlier, Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Arthur Chase, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. • Alfred Cheesman, Grade 3 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • Eleanora Frieda Chester, County Organiser, North Caernarvonshire, Women's Voluntary Services. • George Chreseson, lately Chief Administrative Officer, Roads and Bridges Department, Shropshire County Council. • Frederick John Henry Clarke, Senior Telecommunications Superintendent, Long Distance Area, General Post Office. • Gerald Frederick Clarke, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Percy Herbert Clarke, Clerical Officer,
Staff College, Camberley. • Captain John Fox Clement, , Chairman, Executive Committee, Pilots' Section,
Transport and General Workers' Union. • Mary Lily Goldman, Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Robert William James Cole, Principal Production Inspector, Admiralty. • Harry Collier, Surveyor to the Preston Rural District Council. • Edward Chorley Cookson, Assistant Civil Engineer, Western Region, British Railways. • Maurice Tone Corrigan, Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • David Craine. For services to Manx traditional culture. • Donald John Cresswell, Regional Commissioner, West Midland Region, National Savings Committee. • Sidney Rowland Cresswell, Divisional Organiser,
Amalgamated Engineering Union. • Reginald Ernest Crocker, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Frederick William Cross, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • Elsie Elizabeth Crotty, Grade 4 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • Thomas Henry Cumberlidge. For charitable services in Hyde, Cheshire. • Frances Janet Dale. For social services in Bradford. • Robert Darling Kirton-Darling, District Advisory Officer, Grade III, National Agricultural Advisory Service. • Ernest Davies, Chief Clerk, Regimental Depot of the
South Wales Borderers. • Alec Godfree Davis, Chief Cashier, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Colonel Arthur Edward Davis, . For political and public services in South Wales. • Victor Ely Debenham, Superintendent, Parcel Section (Foreign), General Post Office. • Leena Michael Devaraj, Radio Announcer and Programme Assistant, Forces Broadcasting Unit, Singapore, War Office. • James Dallas Dixon, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Walter Henry Dixon, Electricity Service Manager, March, Eastern Electricity Board. • Raymond Doherty, City Librarian, York. • William Thomas Doherty, . For political and public services in Liverpool. • Charles Donald, Main Grade Engineer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • James Knight Donald, , Surgeon, ,
Union-Castle Line. • Donald Cameron-Douglas, Senior Investigating Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Launcelot Victor Driffield, Secretary, Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce. • Gerald Duckworth, Traffic Manager,
Southdown Motor Services Ltd. • Reginald Burdass Earwaker, Farmer. For services to the
Army Air Corps. • Percy Edward George Eden, Commercial Manager, Speedy Prompt Delivery Ltd. • Edith Mary Lowe Else, . For welfare services in St. Helens. • Dorothy Gladys Emery, District Nurse Midwife, Lyndhurst, Hampshire. • Reginald Herbert Epps, , Secretary Eastern Gas Board. • Gordon Walter Ette, County Further Education Organiser, Hampshire. • Thomas Evans, Member of Glamorgan County Agricultural Executive Committee. • David Charles Evemy, Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise. • Edna Evenson, Superintendent, Shakespeare Street Nursery School, Manchester. • Leonard Charles Everard, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Robert Fairnie, , President, Firth of Forth Fishermen's Association. • Angela Falwasser, Ward Sister,
Guy's Hospital, London. • Stephenson Fletcher, , Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Reginald Francis George Flint, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • Vera Adeline Frances Forbes, Leader,
Young Men’s Christian Association,
Episkopi, Cyprus. • Kathleen Florence Forsdyke. For services as Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • David Freeland. For services to the Ulster Poultry Federation. • Harold Walter Robert Gale, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Robert Reid Galloway, Senior Survey Clerk, West of Scotland District, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • David Gardner, Manager, Partick Employment Exchange, Lanarkshire. • James Henry Garmston, Vice-Chairman, Bristol and Bath District Advisory Committee, South Western Regional Board for Industry. • Stella Mary Gatehouse. For political services. • Phyllis Barbara Gates, County Secretary, Norfolk,
National Federation of Women's Institutes. • Francis Richard Isaac Gerrard, Head of Regional Department, National College of Food Technology. • Daniel Leonard Glasscock, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Jessie Lillian Glazebrook, Founder and Voluntary Transcriber, Students' Library,
Royal National Institute for the Blind. • Annie Isabella Godsman, Organiser, Fisherie Savings Group, King Edward, Banff, Aberdeenshire. • Captain John Reginald Gorman, , District Inspector,
Royal Ulster Constabulary. • Frederick William Goulding. For political services. •
Isabel Frances Grant. For services to the
Highland Folk Museum. • Arthur John Green. For political and public services in Essex. • Grace Emily Greenwood, Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Edward Frederick Habicht, Executive Officer,
Government Communications Headquarters. • Ellen Louise Haggard, Centre Organiser, Torquay, Women's Voluntary Services. • Christina Gordon Haldane, , Social Welfare Worker, Edinburgh Burgh, Church of Scotland Committee on Social Service. • Agnes Halkes. For political and public services in Lincoln. • Leslie Henry Hammond, , Driving and Traffic Examiner, Metropolitan Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Ernest John Harding, Chairman, Regional Joint Council, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives. • Richard Edgar Hardman, Chief Civil Defence Officer, Turners Asbestos Cement Co. Ltd., Widnes. • William Frank Harlow, Works Supervisor, Grade II, Admiralty. • Richard Alfred Harman, Chief Civil Defence Training Officer,
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., London. • Robert Henry Harman, Chairman, Isle of Thanet, Dover and District War Pensions Committee. • Herbert Harper, Chairman and Managing Director, J. E. Harper & Son Ltd., Birmingham. • Jean Catherine Beatrice Harrison. For political and public services in Lincolnshire. • Arthur Everett Hartley, Chairman, Wakefield National Assistance Appeal Tribunal. • Ronald Arthur James Harvey. For political and public services in Hertfordshire. • Raymond William Hastings, Clerk of the Spalding Urban District Council. • Geoffrey Alan Hawthorn, Immigration Inspector, Harwich, Home Office. • Leonora Constance Hayne, , County Organiser, West Kent, Women's Voluntary Services. • John Arthur Hayward, Superintendent Safety Officer,
John Laing & Son Ltd. • Archibald Henderson. For political and public services in South Shields. • John Raymond Henshaw, Honorary Organiser, Stockport Blood Transfusion Service. • Johnie Friend Herdman, Member, Cumberland Agricultural Executive Committee. • George Bertram Hill, Chief Clerk,
National Debt Office. • George William Hill, Superintendent Marine Engineer,
Associated Humber Lines Ltd. • Una Alice Himson. For political services in Norwich. • Eric William Hobbis, Senior Experimental Officer,
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, Agricultural Research Council. • William Edward Hollins, Senior Architect, Department of Health for Scotland. • Ernest Renaud Hooper, Chief Inspector,
Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd. • Janet Lilian Horn, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • James Thomas Horton, , Chief Civil Defence Warden, Fulham, London. • Thomas Alfred Hough, Works Manager, The D.P. Battery Co. Ltd., Derbyshire. • Maurice Geoffrey Housego, Information Officer,
London Airport, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Hubert Howells, Senior Health Physicist, Windscale Works, Atomic Energy Authority. • William Howlett, District Secretary, South Western District,
National Union of General and Municipal Workers. • Albert Charles Hughes, Agency and Inter-line Manager,
British Overseas Airways Corporation. • Peter Gerald Hunt, Press Officer, Scottish Information Office. • Sidney Irwin, Clerical Officer, Headquarters, Northern Command, York, War Office. • Leslie Charles Victor Jeffery, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Carl Denham Jenkins, Chairman, Disabled Sailors' and Soldiers' Workshops, Bournemouth. • Bryn John, Chairman, Caerphilly Urban District Council. • Thomas Meredith John, Head Postmaster, Pontefract and Castleford, Yorkshire. • John Walter Jones, Chairman, Neath Borough Local Savings Committee, Glamorganshire. • William Thomas Jones, General Secretary, Coal Trade Benevolent Association. •
Edward Edmund Kemp, Curator of the
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Ministry of Works. • Andrew Kennedy, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Douglas Hamilton Kerr, Agricultural Adviser for Uist and Barra, North of Scotland College of Agriculture. • George William King, Chief Draughtsman, Outfit Department,
Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. • Joan Faye Sendall King, Probation Officer, Essex. • Wallace James Knight. For political services in Dover. • Edith Lamprey. For services to the British Legion, Women's Section, in Wales. • Archibald Lewis Lane, Leading Draughtsman (Engine Drawing Office),
Messrs. Cammell Laird & Co. (Shipbuilders & Engineers) Ltd., Birkenhead. • Mary Angell Lane. For services as psychiatric social worker, The
Maudsley Hospital,
Denmark Hill, London. (Now at
Hammersmith Hospital.) • Charles Henry Lewis, Area Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Bristol, General Post Office. • Norman Peter Lewis, Head of Cabinet Section, Admiralty. • Percy Alfred Lewis, Area Chief Engineer, South Western Division, National Coal Board. • Hersey Lineham, Supervisor of Housing Managers, Church Commissioners. • Helena Louise Long, Director, Women's and Girls' Division, Central After Care Association. • Betty Katie Sarah Loosely, Clerical Officer, Admiralty. • Percival Ernest Mabb. Lately Deputy General Secretary,
Royal Naval Benevolent Trust. • James McCoy, Northern Ireland Area Secretary and National Organiser,
National Association of Operative Plasterers. • George Duff McGlashan, Senior Assistant Engine Works Manager,
Alexander Stephen and Sons Ltd., Glasgow. • Harry McGuffey. Attached War Office. • Halcrow McHattie, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department. • The Reverend Patrick Hugh Robson Mackay, , Chairman, West Lothian Youth Employment Committee. • Walter McKeown, Assistant Divisional Officer, Northern Ireland Fire Authority. • Arthur Nicholson McKie, Senior Executive Engineer, War Office. • Ernest William McMillan, Chief Welfare Officer, General Post Office. • John Kevin Maguire, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. • Wilfred Henry George Mann. Lately Member, Rayleigh Urban District Council. • Gwendoline Dorothy Rosanna Marshall, Headmistress, North Town County Infants School, Taunton. • Jack Laurence Martin, lately Clerical Officer, Offices of the House of Lords. • James Martin, Civil Defence Officer, Aberdeen County. • John Harold Martin, Higher Clerical Officer, HM Treasury. • Charles Percy Mason, . For political and public services in West Sussex. • George Albert Henry Matthews. For political and public services in Gloucester. • Nellie Matthews. Lately Deputy District Superintendent, London District, St. John Ambulance Brigade. • Alderman Albert Ernest Maxey, , Chairman of Committee, No. 1228 (Louth) Squadron,
Air Training Corps. • Hannah Metcalfe, lately Assistant Teacher, Penley Voluntary Aided School, Flintshire. • Paul Mifsud, Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Malta, War Office. • Gladys Emily Miller. For hospital and other voluntary services in Pontefract. • Arthur George Mitchell, Senior Museum Assistant,
Victoria & Albert Museum. • William Henry Mitchell, Experimental Officer,
Royal Radar Establishment, Ministry of Supply. • Kathleen Mary Moon, Executive Officer, Foreign Office. • Ronald Moon, Divisional Officer, Glamorgan Fire Brigade. • John Houghton Moore, Welfare Officer,
British Overseas Airways Corporation. • John Barlas Morrison, Secretary,
Royal Scottish Academy of Music. • Robert Sydney Morrow, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. • John William Mortimore, lately Branch Manager, Cable & Wireless Ltd., Cyprus. • Cecil James Murden, Chief Officer, Lincolnshire (Kesteven) Fire Brigade. • William Jack Newman, Senior Foreman of the Yard, Admiralty. • Nora Bertha Maud Newton, Secretary, Rural Industries Loan Fund Ltd. • Donald George Nicholson, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. • Harry Herbert Nicholson, Duty Editor, External Services News Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Sydney Charles Northcott, Vice-Chairman, Grimsby District Advisory Committee, North Midland Regional Board for Industry. • John Norton. For services as Chairman, Clun District Committee, Shropshire Agricultural Executive Committee. • Richard Albert Burton Oakley, Surveyor of Lifeboats,
Royal National Lifeboat Institution. • Hugh O'Neill, Senior Executive Officer, Charity Commission. • Alice Constance Glyn Owens, Principal, Liverpool School of Occupational Therapy. • Harold William Pack, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Captain John Watson Pacy, Master, MV
Avonwood, Constantine Lines, Middlesbrough. • Colin Foulger Page, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. • Harold Elliott Page, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. • Gladys Lilian Parker. For political and public services in Eastbourne. • William Henry Parker, Chief Chemist,
British Sugar Corporation. • Margaret Helen Parrott, Matron, Balmedie Eventide Home, Aberdeen. • John Osmund Peacock, HM Inspector of Factories, Class IA, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Edward Mortimer Pearson, Chief Officer, Dewsbury Fire Brigade. • Ethel Vera Pemberton. For services to youth in Ingatestone, Essex. • Ivy Percival, Ward Sister,
Salford Royal Hospital. • Thomas David Perry, Senior Experimental Officer,
Royal Mint. • Beatrice Amy Phipps. In charge of Headquarters Registries, Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes. • Frederick William John Pickering, Chief Accountant, British Legion. • Maud Marjory Pickering, , County Borough Organiser, Smethwick, Women's Voluntary Services. • Richard John Pocock, Surveyor, Port Talbot, Board of Customs and Excise. • Nora Potter, Honorary Organiser and Secretary, Federation of Sussex Industries. • Winifred Mabel Poulton, Honorary Secretary, Wanstead and Woodford Local Savings Committee. • Thomas Powell, Member, Herefordshire War Pensions Committee. • William Powell. Lately Senior Executive Officer,
Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Ministry of Supply. • William Thomas Powell, Architect, Ministry of Works. • Walter Ronald Price, Information Officer,
Central Office of Information. • Bruce Pringle, Manager of Motor Engineers,
British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., Rugby. • Francis Albert Pryor, Executive Officer, Foreign Office. • Ivy Alexandra Punt, Chief Superintendent of Typists,
HM Stationery Office. • William Frederick Quinnell, Examiner of Dockyard Work, Admiralty. • Margaret Wallace Ramsay, Supervisor of Home Helps, County of Ayr. • Irene Sarah Ramsey, Secretary, Industrial Co-Partnership Association. • Gilda Helena Rawlinson, Chairman, Islington Schools Savings Sub-Committee. • Frank Edward Rawnsley, lately Secretary, The West Yorkshire Regimental Association. • Francis Edmund Rees, Superintendent,
Imperial Lighthouse Service, Colombo. • George Reid, , lately Works Manager,
Scottish Oils Ltd., Uphall. • John Edmund Rich, Children's Programmes Organiser, Television, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Thomas William Richards, Honorary Secretary, Colwyn Rural District Savings Committee, Radnorshire. • Alderman Stanley Samuel Riddle, Vice-Chairman, Hastings Local Employment Committee. • Joyce Eileen Riley, Welfare Worker, Gurkha Depot, Lehra, India. • Augustus Alphonso Roberts, , Member of Leeds Medical Board, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Marion Iris Robinson, Canteen Manageress,
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston. • Alexander Rodger, Electrical Manager,
William Denny & Brothers Ltd., Dumbarton. • Ernest Stanley Rodgers, Senior Executive Officer, Export Credits Guarantee Department. • Charles Harry Rogers. For political services in Merton and Morden. • Ralph Edgell Rogers, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force. • Alexander Lilly Rogerson, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Stirling and Clackmannan Police Force. • Matilda Rowe. For political services in Worcester. • Captain Archibald Rowlands, lately Master of HM Emigrant Ship
Captain Hobson,
P. Henderson & Co. • Albert Samuel Royse. For political and public services in Farnworth. • Florence Mary Ruston. For political and public services in Lewisham. • Joseph George Ryall, Grade 4 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. • James Ryding, Deputy Director of Stamping, Board of Inland Revenue. • Rosina Maude Sangston, Secretary,
The Royal Soldiers' Daughters' School. • Michael Joseph Saunders, . For medical services to
HM Borstal Institution, Portland. • Fred Scholefield, Technical Adviser on Dyestuffs, Association of British Chemical Manufacturers. • Charles George Russell Sewell, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. • Stanley Shaw, Welfare and Safety Officer, George Kent Ltd., Luton. • Frederick George Sheldon, District Commissioner, North Wiltshire, Boy Scouts Association. • Charlotte Mary Sherriff. For political services in Edinburgh. • Christine Mary Sheryer, lately Executive Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory, Woolwich, Ministry of Supply. • William Eaton Simpson. For political services in Oxford. • James Alexander Walker Sinclair, Chief Designer, Brown Brothers & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. • Thomas George Sinclair, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • Alice Mary Smith. For political services in Scotland. • Francis Hughes Smith, Director of Optical Design, C. Baker Instruments Ltd., Croydon. • Sydney Guy Frederick Coast-Smith. For political and public services. • William Smith, Divisional Education Officer at Fleetwood, Lancashire Local Education Authority. • Ernest Speirs, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Lowingham Sproat, Operating Officer, North Eastern Region, British Railways. • John Michael Stamper, Honorary Secretary, Hull Productivity Committee. • Percy William Stephen, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Alfred George Stickland, Chairman', Alton and District Savings Committee, Hampshire. • Eric Childe Stonehouse, , Chairman of Committee, No. 127 (Wakefield) Squadron, Air Training Corps. • Marshall Richardson Stonehouse, Chief Clerk, Swansea County Court and District Registry of the High Court, Supreme Court of Judicature. • Eileen Mary Stott, Controller of Typists, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. • John William Herbert Strange, Chief Officer, Flintshire Fire Brigade. • Harry Sumner. For political and public services in Manchester. • Ethel Louisa Swann. For political and public services in Essex. • Captain Ernest Sweet, Managing Clerk, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Cornwall. • Philip Wallis Swindells, Deputy Chief Heavy Haulage Manager, Pickfords Division, British Road Services Board of Management. • Miriam May Tachon, Matron, St. Monica's Boarding Home for Diabetic Children, Deal, Kent. • Charles Reginald Talbot, Chief Civil Defence Warden, Nottingham. • Jesse Horace Taylor, Secretary and Finance Officer, Godalming, Milford and Liphook Group Hospital Management Committee. • Mary Taylor, Matron, Whitecross Homes (Warrington County Borough) and Whitecross Hospital. • William Horace Taylor, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. • Frederick Horace Temple, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. • Harriette Aline Tennant. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. • Geoffrey Hinchcliff Theobald, Drainage Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Isabelle Janet Thom, Women's Voluntary Services Welfare Worker, Gurkha Depot, Singapore. • Elsie Maria Thomas. For political and public services in Caerphilly. • Fred Thomas, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • Edmund Charles Thompson, Model Designer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Ivy Winifred Tonge, County Borough Organiser, Southampton, Women's Voluntary Services. • Violet Powell Townend, Secretary to Chief Labour Officer, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. • Stanley James Treen, Assistant Manager, Distribution Department,
Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. • Margaret Henderson Turpie, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Power. • Joseph Uren, Headmaster, British Families Education Service School, Berlin, War Office. • Observer Lieutenant Arthur Henry Vear, Duty Controller, No. 14 Group,
Royal Observer Corps. • Herbert Harry Vincent, Senior Executive Officer, Government Communications Headquarters. • John Henry Wadley, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • Agnes Wake, Alderman, Whitley Bay Borough Council. • Neil Walker, Senior Executive Engineer, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, General Post Office. • Eunice Wall, Senior District Nurse Midwife, Clevedon, Somerset. • Robert Foulis Walls, District Manager,
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Orkney. • John Henry Walsh, , Chairman, Lurgan Rural District Council, County Armagh. • Henry William Ward, Clerk of Works, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. • Emma Elizabeth Warrington, Matron, Metropolitan Police Nursing Home. • Squadron Leader Henry Lyons Webb, Secretary, Northern Ireland Area,
Royal Air Forces Association. • Edward John Weller, Executive Officer, Admiralty. • Hilda Wheatcroft, Deputy Director, Durham County Community Service Council. • Frederick William Whiley, Commandant, No. 8 District, Police Training Centre. • Ben White, Chairman, Grimsby Local Savings Committee. • Samuel George Whittingham, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. • Grace Wiggins, Milk Officer, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Wilfred Wilkinson, lately Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. • Edith Wilson, Officer-in-Charge, Headquarters Office, Second Post Office Relief Fund. • Freda Margaret Winnett, Assistant, Budget and Control Department, British Council. • Alwyn Oswald Winter, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. • Olive Rosa Winterbottom, Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Albert Bertram Wood, , Traffic Superintendent and Station Superintendent, Isle of Man, British European Airways Corporation. • Colin Bradshaw Wood. For public services in Codnor, Derbyshire. • Edward Farrington Woods, Assistant to Superintendent Engineer, Lines, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Denby Charles Woollard, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Power. • Eva Margaret Would, Senior Mental Health Officer, Grimsby County Borough. • Margaret Wragg, Housing Manager, Crawley Development Corporation. • Arthur Frederick Wyatt, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. • Grace Alexandra Wylie, , Organiser, Large Burgh of Greenock, Women's Voluntary Services. • Thomas Douglas Youl, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue. • Ellis George Bloor, British Vice-Consul, Geneva. • Kathleen Mary Boyes, British subject resident in Brazil. • Samuel Lewis Burgess, Manager, State Electricity Department, Qatar. • Hazel Dorothy Emily Christy, Shorthand-Typist, Her Majesty's Embassy, Mexico City. • Annie Clay, lately British Vice-Consul, Shanghai. • Ivor Davies, lately Communications Officer, Her Majesty's Embassy, Djakarta. • Gertrude Madeleine Grafton, Personal Assistant to Her Majesty's Ambassador, Kabul. • Joseph Salim Hatoum, Head of Palestine Paying Centre, Her Majesty's Embassy, Beirut. • Mary Katharine Hawkins, Matron, Children's Wing, National T.B. Santorium Masan, Korea. • Sydney Francis Hodge, Manager, International Aeradio Ltd., Sharjah. • Vincent Bancroft Clifton Janniere, , British subject resident in Panama. • Vincent Hubert Charles Jarrett, Editor of Press Summary, Her Majesty's Embassy, Oslo. • Shoa Menahem Joseph, British subject resident in Eritrea. • John Eric Kirsch, British subject resident in Belgium. • Michael Lee, Regional Information Department, Office of the Commissioner-General for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia, Singapore. • Hugh John Legg, , lately Her Majesty's Consul, Zurich. • Dorothy Margaret MacLean, lately British Pro-Consul, Macao. • Cyril Maplethorp, British subject resident in France. • Kathleen Florence March, Personal Assistant to Naval Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Buenos Aires. • Antoin Zareh Minassian, British Pro-Consul, Baghdad. • Malcolm James Tisdale Nicholson, Second Secretary, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. • George William Redvers Robinson, Communications Officer, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. • Francis Augustus Rodrigues, British Pro-Consul, Djakarta. • Frederick Nicholson Soulsby, British Consul and Information Officer, Frankfurt. • John Alan Stewart, Head Master, Markham College, Lima. • Albury Herbert Tatum, lately British Vice-Consul, Truxillo. • William Watson, Commercial Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Lisbon. • Dorothea Nancy Rose Webster, Head Mistress of the Community School, Amman. • James Cedric Arkell, of Indooroopilly, State of Queensland. For services to the Bush Children's Health Scheme. • Harold Ernest Wilton Braund, , a member of the United, Kingdom community in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. • Grace Johnston Browne, , Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare, Department of Public Health, State of New South Wales. • Mabel Lucy Chesterfield. For services to the Organisation in the State of Victoria of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. • Phyllis Owen Crompton. For services to the Red Cross in the State of South Australia. • Grace Davy, of Proserpine, State of Queensland. For charitable services. • William John Dooley, of Williamstown, State of Victoria. For services to charitable movements. • Stanley James Dunkley, Town Clerk of the City of Maitland, State of New South Wales. • Maurice Stephens Fisher, a journalist in the State of South Australia. • John Foster, formerly Cost Accounts Officer, Pakistan Navy. • Doris Fowler, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. For services to women's organisations. • Margaret Greatrex, President of the Federation of Women's Institutes of Southern Rhodesia. • Laurel Louise Hoffmann. For social welfare services in the Tanunda District, State of South Australia. • Dorothy Constance Howells, President of the Federation of Mothers' Clubs, State of Victoria. • Chief Mopeli Jonathan, District of Leribe, Basutoland. • William Hubbard Kidd, Senior, Chairman of the Widgee Shire Council, State of Queensland. • Norman Edmund Muchamore Knight, lately Foreman of Factory, Pakistan Naval Armament Depot, Karachi. • Donald Hugh Knox, Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya. • Chief Matlere Lerotholi, of the Mokhotlong District, Basutoland. • Mary Ellen McCarthy, Matron, Townsville General Hospital, State of Queensland. • Audrie Lillian McLeod, Honorary Superintendent of the Spastic Centre, Sydney, State of New South Wales. • Alfred Ernest McMicken, Honorary Secretary of the Library Association, State of Victoria. • Monica May Barton Mitchell, a member of the United Kingdom community in India. • Edith Maria Johanna Opperman, a Nursing Sister in the Public Health Department, City of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. • Mabel Audrey Packham, of Smithton, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services. • Arthur Parkinson, . For services to the community in the West Coast mining centres, State of Tasmania. • William Watt Addison Phillips, lately Adviser on Maldivian affairs with the Royal Air Force on
Gan Island. • Edward Charles Pender Phillott, Chairman, Winton Shire Council, State of Queensland. • Charles Felix Pollard, of Wodonga, State of Victoria. For services to the local community. • Vernon Barnes Pope, Revenue Officer, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. • Dorothy Ross, formerly Headmistress of the Church of England Girls' School, Melbourne, State of Victoria. •
Leo Cardwell Ross, Native Commissioner, Department of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia. • William Ivor Shipley, an architect in the Public Works Department, Federation of Malaya. • Harry Gilbert Shorters, Superintendent of Prisons, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya. • Percival James Skerman, Senior Lecturer in Agriculture at the University of the State of Queensland. • Catherine Smith, Matron, Salvation Army Girls Home, Ipoh, Federation of Malaya. • Phoebe Elizabeth Smyth. For services to the United Kingdom community in Bombay, India. • Albert Yuba Solomon. For social welfare services, especially on behalf of ex-servicemen, in the State of South Australia. • Hugh Richard Myrddin Storey, an Administrative Officer in the Malayan Civil Service. • Carl Alfred Thiele, , of Adelaide, State of South Australia. For public services. • Ingvald Johan Titlestad, Agricultural and Livestock Officer, Agricultural Department, Bechuanaland Protectorate. • Ella Sinclair Wood. For services to the Nursing Profession in the State of South Australia. • Vincent Charles Burghart Wright. For services to literature and journalism in the State of New South Wales. • Maud Marion Yeats. For social welfare services in Basutoland. • Mallam Bulama Abagana, Health Superintendent, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Edwin Emmanuel Abraham, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Mauritius. • Kofoworola Aina, Lady Ademola. For public services in Western Region, Nigeria. • Basil Clifford Akehurst, Agricultural Officer, Department of Agriculture, Tanganyika. • Ali Akilu, Administrative Officer, Class IV, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Samuel Olu Akinjobi. For services to Civil Aviation in the Federation of Nigeria. • Dorothy Isabel Allan, Superintendent of Prisons, Uganda. • Benjamin Olisa Eluka Amobi, Igwe of Ogidi, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • David Lewtas Cordue Anderson, Regional Director, British Council, Enugu, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Wilton Sylvester Ashley, Superintendent of Police, Jamaica. • Walter Baker, Clerk of Works, Lands and Works Department, Gibraltar. • Boey Khye Leng, Assistant Controller of Posts, Singapore. • Eileen Margaret Boswell, Headmistress, Alexandra Junior School (Army), Gillman Barracks, Singapore. • Ursula Mary Bozman, Temporary Woman Education Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Evan Percy Bradley, Assistant Secretary, Agricultural Department, British Honduras. • Dorothy Amphlett Brewster. For public services in Uganda. • Robert Fraser Broadway, . For public services in St. Helena. • Victor Sylvester Brookes. For public services in the Leeward Islands. • Chief Chikowi, Zomba District, Nyasaland. • Doston Clarke, Government Printer, Trinidad. • Ilisoni Cokanasiga, Livestock Officer, Department of Agriculture, Fiji. • John Black Templer Cowan, Senior Superintendent of Prisons, Kenya. • Mary Cuzner, Superintendent, Malta Memorial District Nursing Association • Abel Olu Diribe, Administrative Officer (Assistant Secretary), Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Thomas Dwyer, Senior Executive Officer, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • Ee Lai Watt, Assistant Treasurer, Sarawak. • Felix Adebowale Erinoso, lately Principal Accountant, Nigeria Coal Corporation. • Theodore Francis Farrell, Supervisor of Elections, Trinidad. • Jose Socorro Taumaturgo Ferrao, Office Superintendent, Grade II, Kenya. • Rose Fleuret, Nursing Sister, Falkland Islands. • Fong Peng Loi, Senior Supervisor, Posts and Telegraphs, North Borneo. • Walter Frank Harcourt Freeman. For public services in Fiji. • Fred Fuller. For public services in the Northern Region, Nigeria. • Sidney Leonard Gauntlett, , Medical Superintendent, Chikankata Salvation Army Hospital, Northern Rhodesia. • Iain Allen Grant Gillies, Administrative Officer, Class I, Cyprus. • Helen Glennie. For public services in Kenya. • Ella Koblo, Madame Gulama, Paramount Chief, Kaiyamba Chiefdom, Sierra Leone. • Elizabeth Halls, Sister Supervisor, Diocesan Maternity Services, Niger Diocese, Nigeria. • Harry Harvey, Acting Fire Superintendent, East African Railways and Harbours Administration, East Africa High Commission. • Fritz Percy Duncan Hay. For public services in Cyprus. • George Dudley Hayes. For public services in Nyasaland. • Kenneth Donald Fordham Heath, Confidential Secretary, Government House, Somaliland Protectorate. • The Reverend Thomas Harlington Hield. For public services in the Bahamas. • Captain Henry Hughes, Senior Superintendent, Medical Field Units, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Mallam Ibrahim, Waziri of Gumel, Councillor, Gumel Native Administration, Northern Region, Nigeria. • John Adayemi Ige, Meteorological Superintendent, Federation of Nigeria. • Eileen Elizabeth Jackson, Temporary District Officer, Nairobi, Kenya. • Adeluola Okanlawon Karunwi, Senior Auditor, Western Region, Nigeria. • Kasina s/o Ndoo, , Senior Chief, Special Grade B, Kenya. • Lieutenant-Colonel John Kiggell, , Assistant to the Commissioner for Northern Rhodesia. • Robert Granville Ojumiri King, Ministerial Secretary, Sierra Leone. • Clifton Thomas Large, Assistant Registrar of Co-operatives, Hong Kong. • Li Po-Kwai. For public services in Hong Kong. • Lim Yong Liang. For services to sport in Singapore. • Alexander Mabaleka, Assistant Master, African Education Department, Northern Rhodesia. • William Macdonald, lately Principal, Colby School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Nyasaland. •
Sadanand Maharaj, . For public services in Fiji. • Mahmood bin Abdul Wahab, Sergeant-at-Arms, Legislative Assembly, Singapore. • Muhammadu Mamudu, District Head, Ringim District, Northern Region, Nigeria. • Evelyn Mancham. For public services in the Seychelles. • Melville Crowther Marke. For public services in Sierra Leone. • Richard William Henry Maynard, Senior Executive Officer, Class I, Hong Kong. • Francis Menezes, Office Superintendent, Aden. • Andreas Panayi Mikellides, , Mental Specialist, Cyprus. • Anthony Beecroft Moore, Administrative Officer, Class III, Tanganyika. • Emmanuel Mutesasira Musoke. For public services in Uganda. • August Ndoro, President, Kilimanjaro Native Co-operative Union Limited, Moshi, Tanganyika. • George Greenley Nellist. For public services in Malta. • Arthur James Newman, , lately Principal, Mico Training College, Jamaica. • Hosea Nkojo, Katikiro to the Toro Native Government, Uganda. • Mohamed Issah Noah. For public services in Sierra Leone. • Daniel Osagiede Odigie, Senior Registrar, Judicial Department, Western Region, Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Reverend Sylvanus Nwoha Okoli. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. • Akibu Jaiyesimi Abudu Olufawo, Senior Executive Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. • Joseph Reynold O'Neal, . For public services in the Leeward Islands. • Arthur Somerset Outerbridge, Senior Customs Officer, Bermuda. • Manibhai Bhailalbai Patel, Pensions Officer, Treasury, Kenya. • Manubhai Gordhanbhai Patel. For services to sport in Uganda. • Lucie Sawa Pavlou, Matron, Kyperounda Sanatorium, Cyprus. • Leonard Pinshow. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. • George William Robins, Senior Executive Engineer, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration, East Africa High Commission. • Joyce Lilieth Robinson, Director, Jamaica Library Service, Jamaica. • Sylvia Margaret Rogers, Cypher Officer, Tanganyika. • Cecil Tranter Rose, Chief Waterworks Superintendent, Federation of Nigeria. • Robert Cammish Rowntree, Works Manager, Public Works Department, Gambia. • Violet Rudder, Health Visitor, East African Institute for Medical Research, East Africa High Commission. • Thomas Emanuel Ryan, Education Officer, Leeward Islands. • Mohammed Salih Hussein Audhali, Rais, Government Guards, Aden. • Arthur Horace Sanham, Superintendent, Johore Works Water Department, City Council of Singapore. • Madelonette Eloise Skekel Savory, Senior Woman Secretary, Public Works Department, British Guiana. • Harold Edwin Scott. For public services in Jamaica. • David Leslie William Sheldrick. For public services in Kenya. • Ibrahim Sidki, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Class I, Cyprus. • Alex John Smith, District Officer, Northern Rhodesia. • Letty Stuart, Principal, Freetown Secondary School for Girls, Sierra Leone. • Kenneth John Swann, Assistant Representative, British Council, Malta. • Olga lanthe Symmonds, . For public services in Barbados. • Robert Watson Taylor, Manager, Motor Transport Depot, Public Works Department, Tanganyika. • Norman Bowen Thomas, Engineer, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. • Robert Edward George Trembath, Airport Manager, Hargeisa, Somaliland Protectorate. • Olive Walke (Mrs. Hercules). For public services in Trinidad. • Clarice Mary Whitelock, Chief Typist, Land and Agricultural Bank of Kenya. • Marie Louise Jeanne Wiehe. For public services in Mauritius. • Wong Kara Cheung. For services to the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Hong Kong. • Edgar Redvers Wright. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. • Lancelot Asgil Wynn, Assistant Works Manager, Ministry of Works and Transport, Western Region, Nigeria. • Edward James Yeomans, Government Printer, Aden. • Erukana Kisaja Zabuliwo, Education Officer, Uganda. • Sospater Kalokora Zahoro. For public services in Tanganyika.
Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) • The Right Honourable
Walter Nash,
Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) ;Home Civil Service • Stanley Arthur Ashmore. Lately Senior Principal Scientific Officer,
Government Chemist Department. (London S.E.22.) • Edgar Arthur Beaton, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise. (London S.W.16.) • Leonard Henry Callard, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Home Office. (London S.W.18.) • William Clarkson, , Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. (Redhill.) • John Rupert Dutton, Commissioner, National Savings Committee. (North Shields.) • Trevor William Franks, Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Works. (Seaview, Isle of Wight.) • Albert Edward Gilby, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. (Harrow.) • George Edward Hance, , Grade 1A Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office. (Bexley.) • Frank Hemingway, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade. (Leeds.) • William George Hillary James, Chief Executive Officer, War Office. (London N.21.) • William Howard Jennings, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. (Maidenhead.) • Cyril Jowsey, , Assistant Director (Executive), Admiralty. (London S.W.14.) • John Francis Larcombe, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. (Pinner.) • Howard Louis McConnell. Lately Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. (Helen's Bay, Co. Down.) • Christopher Jonathan Pridmore, , Principal, Air Ministry. (Andover.) • William McAllister Ramsay, Finance Officer and Accountant, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. (Edinburgh.) • Henry Royston, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. (London S.E.3.) • Arthur Sanders, , Senior Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. (Reading.) • Leslie Roland Sankey, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Belmont.) • Henry Albert Saunders, Chief Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. (London W.S.) • Sydney George Smith, Chief Executive Officer, War Damage Commission. (West Wickham.) • William Augustine Squires, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department. (Sanderstead.) • Charles Sidney Stammers, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Power. (Coulsdon.) • John Myrtle Stevenson, Principal, Board of Inland Revenue. (Hatch End.) • John Allardice Wilson. Lately Controller, Investigation Branch, General Post Office. (Wembley.) ;State of South Australia and Southern Rhodesia • Ivor Gwynn Cockcroft, , Native Commissioner at Binga, Department of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia. • Andrew Caldwell Wilson, Assistant General Manager, Marine and Harbors Board, State of South Australia. ;Overseas Civil Service • Humphrey Darrell Tupper-Carey, Senior Forest Estate Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. • William Richard Kingdom Collings, Assistant Director of Marine (Ship Surveys), Hong Kong. • Ainsley Leverell Dopwell, Accountant General, Grenada, Windward Islands. • Augustin Roger Harvais, Accountant General, Mauritius. • Noel Frederick de Berrett Holtz. Lately Under-Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Jamaica. • Thomas Henry Manning, Comptroller of Posts and Telecommunications, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • Anton Francis Skerl, Assistant Commissioner for Mines, Tanganyika. • Richard Wicks Stephens, Director of Posts and Telegraphs, North Borneo. • Major George Graham Thomson, , Road Service Authority, Nyasaland.
British Empire Medal (BEM) ;Military Division ;;Royal Navy • Chief Petty Officer Writer John Edward Ahearn, P/MX 60789. • Chief Radio Electrician Joseph Allen, W999286,
Royal Naval Reserve. • Chief Petty Officer Douglas Richard Armitage, D/JX 745226. • Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Robert Frederick Arnot, D/MX 704112. • Chief Petty Officer Edwin Banks, , C/JX 125265. • Chief Wren Writer Elizabeth Isobel Boyd, 14041,
Women's Royal Naval Service. • Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick William Danson, Ch.X 2210,
Royal Marines. • Chief Petty Officer Steward Thomas George Dorrington, D/L 14709. • Chief Wren (Welfare) Elsie Elizabeth Garbutt, 6937, Women's Royal Naval Service. • Sergeant Philip Goring, Ply.X 5542, Royal Marines. • Chief Electrical Artificer Sidney John Hooper, C/MX 49536. • Chief Petty Officer Godfrey Luke Kent, P/JX 129596. • Chief Air Fitter (E) Patrick Keohane, L/FX 79743. • Chief Aircraft Artificer William Noel Leach, L/FX 76905. • Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class James Bruce Leishman, C/MX 902509. • Sergeant Herbert John Llewellyn, Po.X 914, Royal Marines. • Chief Petty Officer Frederick Moore, C/J 929290. • Able Seaman Raymond Newman, P/J 950585. • Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Charles Gerrard O'Neill, D/MX 51601. • Chief Petty Officer Walter Francis Payne, C/JX 504935. • Chief Petty Officer George Compton Pert, , P/J 112155. • Chief Electrician (Air) Reginald Pownall, L/FX 670045. • Chief Ordnance Artificer Arthur Frederick Reed, D/MX 50892. • Master-at-Arms Charles Edwin William Rogers, P/MX 801487. • Chief Engineering Mechanic Albert John Cleverley Ryder, C/KX 97743. • Acting Chief Radio Electrical Artificer George Maxwell Smith, D/MX 766809. • Stores Chief Petty Officer (S) William Stanley Thompson, C/MX 59727. • Chief Mechanician Arthur Sydney Tomlest, P/KX 86811. • Chief Engine Room Artificer Donald Arthur Turner, C/MX 51788. • Chief Electrician Herbert Mark Wyartt, C/MX 804989. ;;Army • Warrant Officer Second Class Ahamed Ali,
Somaliland Scouts. • Warrant Officer Second Class Mohamed Alin, Somaliland Scouts. • 6015972 Staff-Sergeant John Barlow, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. • 22532738 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Joseph Bennett, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • T/5623468 Sergeant (acting) William Henry Binmore, Royal Army Service Corps. • 904524 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Valentine Cecil Bird, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 10541160 Sergeant (acting) Walter Brandon, Army Catering Corps. • 2328463 Staff-Sergeant Allan Bullock, Royal Corps of Signals. • 22530578 Colour-Sergeant Leonard Burrow, The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army. • 4272869 Band-Sergeant Ronald Joseph Colclough, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. • LS/3523574 Colour-Sergeant William Collier, The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers). • 22222602 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Leslie Norman Derek Collins, Royal Corps of Signals. • LS/4031419 Sergeant Gustavious Donnelly, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. • 848002 Sergeant William Wilson Durno, Corps of Royal Military Police. • 22844578 Corporal Leonard Albert Easter, Royal Corps of Signals. • 14189878 Sergeant George Alfred Evans, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • S/14770571 Staff-Sergeant Stanley Evans, Royal Army Service Corps. • 22775968 Staff-Sergeant Patrick Arthur Fox, Intelligence Corps. • 858972 Sergeant Arthur Edward Francis, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • 835536 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Michael Halpin, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 4985925 Staff-Sergeant Francis Joseph Hogan, Royal Corps of Signals. • 18 Company-Sergeant-Major Samuel Ibemessie, Sierra Leone Medical Services. • 22566830 Sergeant Samuel Leslie Jago, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • 22278619 Sergeant (now Bombardier) Gawn Jamison, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. • T/99583 Sergeant Benjamin Jennings, Royal Army Service Corps. • 22259833 Band-Sergeant Edward Herbert Johnson, The Bedfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army. • 22550470 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Edward Albert George Knight, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 7597137 Staff-Sergeant John Frederick Lucie, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • 2320614 Warrant Officer Class II (local) (Band Sergeant-Major) Eric Marsh, Royal Corps of Signals. • 22521153 Sergeant Cyril Edward Mathias, Corps of Royal Engineers. • S/22816052 Sergeant Evan Astley Morris, Royal Army Service Corps. • 14186319 Sergeant Charles George Norman, The Parachute Regiment. • 29107 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Holde Numan, The Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment. • 88194 Sergeant William Jack Norman Peck, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • 843985 Staff-Sergeant Marcel Christopher Pee, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 7393377 Corporal Albert Augustus Phillips, Royal Army Medical Corps. • 22232220 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) George Henry Pitkin, Army Catering Corps. • 22262673 Staff-Sergeant (Farrier) Charles Sidney John Ponjeart, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 22208127 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Bernard Francis Price, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 892296 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Douglas Ernest Quare, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • 7885445 Staff-Sergeant Walter Rustage, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • 296265 Corporal of Horse John Smith, The Life Guards. • 22238199 Sergeant Geoffrey Frederick Stockham, Royal Corps of Signals. • S/22822543 Sergeant John Vincent Sykes, Royal Army Service Corps. • 7882995 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Ernest Stanley Taylor, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • 905239 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Leonard Hugh Taylor, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • 10596488 Staff-Sergeant (acting) John Matthew Thompson, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • NA/159204 Regimental Sergeant-Major Godwin Nna Ezenwoko Ugoala, The Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment. • 17048 Sergeant Isoa Wilfred Vavaitamana, Fiji Military Forces. • 19054536 Sergeant Jack William Ward, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 1870688 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Robert Edward Lionel Wardle, Corps of Royal Engineers. • 2549621 Staff-Sergeant Donald George Owen White, Royal Corps of Signals. • W/355319 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Sarah Lily Williams, Women's Royal Army Corps. ;;Royal Air Force • 591936 Flight Sergeant Herbert John Barnes. • 638562 Flight Sergeant James Devenish. • 1863173 Flight Sergeant Charles Roy Elliot. • 631679 Flight Sergeant Albert George Evans. • 617770 Flight Sergeant Harold Fearnhead. • 627733 Flight Sergeant Edward Donald Forde. • 795789 Flight Sergeant John Galea, RAF Malta. • 550826 Flight Sergeant Robert Frank Gillett. • 894947 Flight Sergeant Catherine Dorothy Hambidge, Women's Royal Air Force. • 569853 Flight Sergeant James Ernest Lewis. • 3022888 Flight Sergeant Derek James Manson. • 551416 Flight Sergeant Ronald Eaton Mason. • 564366 Flight Sergeant Henry Wilkins Neill. • 564393 Flight Sergeant Francis Henry Richards. • 573863 Flight Sergeant Frank Maltby Rodgers. • 566207 Flight Sergeant Ronald Walter Routley. • 927729 Flight Sergeant Raymond Augustus Spurgeon. • 524603 Flight Sergeant Charles Frederick Percival Underwood. • 571726 Flight Sergeant Nicholas John Warrington. • 570647 Flight Sergeant Richard Ernest Williams. • 649751 Chief Technician James Leslie Frame. • 566938 Chief Technician Alexander John Langlands. • 3005452 Chief Technician Harold Albert Morgan. • 622247 Chief Technician Joseph Albert Perris. • 567994 Chief Technician Peter Allan Sayzeland. • 4120827 Acting Flight Sergeant John Blaylock. • 551386 Acting Flight Sergeant Leslie Raymond Harris. • 538733 Acting Flight Sergeant Richard Lambert. • 2434668 Acting Flight Sergeant James Sorbie. • 4030571 Acting Flight Sergeant Ronald Henry James Varndell. • 777060 Sergeant William Croker. • 525273 Sergeant William Ronald Curtis. • 4005905 Sergeant Thomas Doran. • 3501984 Sergeant Francis Murphy. • 585271 Sergeant Peter Inglis Parkin. • 3500482 Sergeant Michael Walter Podmore. • 632752 Sergeant James Taylor. • 4113110 Senior Technician John Francis Allen. • 3501116 Senior Technician Alan Skelton. • 3504906 Acting Sergeant Peter Stuart Hall. • 3517984 Acting Sergeant Denis Warmoth. • 4049890 Corporal Joseph Blair. • 4118836 Corporal George Thomas Horder. • 4024749 Corporal John Paul. • 1921302 Corporal Stuart George Edward Sullivan. ;Civil Division ;;United Kingdom • Leonard James Abbott, Inspector, Commercial Department, Western Region,
British Railways. (London W.3.) • Arthur Leonard Adams, Chargehand,
Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd., Chelmsford. • Victor Jack Adsett, Foreman Linesman, Southern Electricity Board. (Ryde, Isle of Wight.) • Mark Edward Allen. For services to the National Sea Training School, Sharpness. • Thomas Alsford. For services to the Devonshire Regiment Old Comrades Association. (Exeter.) • Nathan George Andrews, General Foreman, Chelmsford District, Eastern Electricity Board. (Chelmsford.) • Harold Probyn Ayres, Chief Inspector,
Metropolitan Special Constabulary. (Croydon, Surrey.) • William Edward Bailey, Chief Warden,
Civil Defence Corps, Grantham. • Mabel Dorothy Barker, County Training Officer, South Middlesex,
Women's Voluntary Services. (Twickenham.) • Percival William Barrow, lately Loco Driver, Warwick Power Station, East Midlands Division, Central Electricity Generating Board. (Leamington Spa.) • Nellie Baxendale, Senior Overlooker,
Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley, Ministry of Supply. (Wigan.) • Nancy Bellers, Centre Organiser, Axminster, Women's Voluntary Services. (Colyton.) • Hugh Bennett, Overseer (R), Telegraphs, Head Post Office, Cardiff. • George Berriman, Leaded Glazier and Cutter, Wainwright & Waring Ltd. (London W.11.) • Frederick Bignall, Collector, Tilbury Rise No. 3 Savings Group, Nottingham. • Raymond Alexander Birks, Station Officer, Buckinghamshire Fire Brigade. (Gerrards Cross.) • Eric Reader Booth, Toolroom Foreman, Moore & Wright (Sheffield) Ltd. (Sheffield.) • George Bowman, Head Foreman,
Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. • Leslie Samuel Brading, Civilian Warrant Officer, No. 424 (Southampton) Squadron, Air Training Corps. (Southampton.) • Marguerite Clare Bradley, Collector, Longhope Women's Institute Savings Group, Gloucester. • Joseph Howey Branch, Supervising Workman, Rising Sun Colliery, Northern (N. & C.) Division, National Coal Board. (Wallsend-on-Tyne.) • Charles James Brawn, Sergeant, Shropshire Special Constabulary. (Tasley.) • George Augustus Bredemear, Chef, ,
British-India Steam Navigation Company Ltd. (Bournemouth.) • William John Raworth Brett, Inspector (Special Class Category "B"), Waterloo, Southern Region, British Railways. (London S.W.17.) • Leslie Arthur Bridle, Bedroom Steward, ,
Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. (Southampton.) • Harry Briggs, Yard Foreman, Dixon Green Depot, North Western Division, National Coal Board. (Manchester.) • Annie Brough, Member, Women's Voluntary Services, Chesterfield. • Alfred Charles Butcher, Inspector, North Area, London, General Post Office. (London N.17.) • Walter Butterworth, Chief Inspector, Lancashire Constabulary. (Ryton-on-Dunsmore.) • Joseph Dover Buyers, Senior Foreman,
Hunting Aircraft Ltd., Luton. • Alexander Joseph Camilleri, Clerk Grade A, Air Ministry, Malta. • Robert Andrew Campbell, , Sub-District Commandant,
Ulster Special Constabulary. (Omagh, County Tyrone.) • William Campbell, Instructor, Warden Section, Lanarkshire Division, Civil Defence Corps.(Garrowhill.) • Hugh Carp, Overman, Chatterley-Whitfield Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Stoke-on-Trent) • Muriel Daisy Caudwell, Centre Organiser, Abingdon Rural District, Women's Voluntary Services. • Edgar Chambers, Chargehand Plater, The Tees-side Bridge and Engineering Works Ltd. (Middlesbrough.) • Harry James Thomas Charlton, Inspector, Woolwich Sub-District Office, General Post Office. (Bexley, Kent.) • Frederick Chivers, Hall Superintendent,
British Museum. (London W.C.I.) • Harold William Clark, lately Engineering Inspector (Electrical),
Port of London Authority. (London S.E.3.) • Frederick John Collins, , Instructor Grade III,
RAF College, Cranwell. • Albert Edward Cook, Established Storehouseman,
Royal Naval Armament Depot,
Bull Point. (Plymouth.) • John Cook, Charging Machine Driver,
Colvilles Ltd., Scotland. (Cambuslang, near Glasgow.) • Albert James Coward, Prepayment Meter Collector, Dorset and Bournemouth Region, Southern Gas Board. (Boscombe.) • Dorothy Evelyn Cox, Manageress, N.A.A.F.I.,
Hobart Barracks, Detmold, Germany. (Bedford.) • William Craig, Traffic and Materials Supervisor,
J & E Hall Ltd., Glasgow. • James Crofts, Janitor,
Forfar Academy. • Clara Davis, Cup Maker, General Earthenware Factory,
T. G. Green & Co. Ltd. (Burton-on-Trent.) • Reginald Alfred Sydney Disborough, Technical Works (Engineering and Allied Grades) Grade II, Royal Mint. (Mitcham, Surrey.) • Albert George Dixon, Chief Motive Power Inspector, Line Traffic Manager's Office, G.N. Line, British Railways. (Enfield, Middlesex.) • Evelyn Dodds, Convoy Organiser, Food Flying Squad, Hexham, Women's Voluntary Services. (Riding Mill, Northumberland.) • Marjorie Downing, County Staff, North Middlesex, Women's Voluntary Services. (London N. 14.) • Alexander Duncan, Office Keeper Grade I, Scottish Home Department. (Edinburgh.) • Jack Harold Evans, Postal and Telegraph Officer,
Electra House,
General Post Office. (Redhill, Surrey.) • Sidney Thomas Evans, Non-Technical Grade II, Storage Depot, Summerfield, Ministry of Supply. (Brinsford, Wolverhampton.) • Kathleen Mary Fensome, Welfare Section Instructor, Civil Defence Corps, Warwickshire. (Berkswell.) • Edward Floyd, Operating Room Attendant, Admiralty. (Rainham, Kent.) • Edwin James Fuller, Head Groundsman,
All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon. • Albert William Furnival, Instructor, Oxfordshire Division, Civil Defence Corps. (Binfield, Berkshire.) • Cecil Osbert George, Electrical Foreman,
South Wales Transport Co. Ltd. (Swansea.) • John Gibson, Chargehand Fitter, Blackburn District, North Western Electricity Board. (Blackburn.) • Henry John Giles, lately Foreman, Mount & Sons Ltd., Canterbury, Kent. • James Joseph Alf Gough, Head Fitter of Artificial Limbs, J. E. Hanger & Co. Ltd. (Whitton, Middlesex.) • Raymond Albert Grace, Instrument Maker,
EMI Electronics Ltd., Hayes. • David Lionel Grigg, , Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Force. (Bromley, Kent.) • Robert James Hambrook, Stores Foreman, Command Ordnance Depot, Ashford, War Office. • Alfred Leonard Harvey, Sub-Postmaster, Clapham Old Town Sub-Post Office, London. (London S.W.4.) • William Haston, Sub-Officer, Lanarkshire Area Fire Brigade. (Shotts.) • George Henry Heron, Foreman Fitter, The Middle Docks & Engineering Co. Ltd., South Shields. • Thomas Sidney Owen Hill, lately Physical Instructor,
National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital. (South Harrow.) • William James Hockley, Senior Foreman of Inspections,
Metropolitan Water Board. (Ruislip, Middlesex.) • Constance Winifred Hoggarth, Head Telephone Operator, HM Embassy, Washington. • Stanley Holland, Colliery Deputy,
Six Bells Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board. (Abertillery.) • Henry John Horton, Officers' Mess Steward, School of Infantry, War Office. (Hythe, Kent.) • Harold Horwood, Chief Supervisor (M), Exeter Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. • Norman Howard, Mechanic Examiner, North Midland Region, Ministry of Supply. (Llangefni, North Wales.) • Robert Ernest Howse, Land Service Assistant, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Maidstone.) • Fred Hudson, , Development Worker, Mansfield Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Mansfield.) • Horace Jack Humphreys, Chief Observer, Post 7/H.4, No. 7 Group,
Royal Observer Corps. (Northampton.) • Edward Hunt, Technical Officer, Engineering Department, General Post Office. (Greenford, Middlesex.) • Enid Sophia Ruth Hunt. For services to homeless children in Huntingdonshire. • Marjorie Jacob, , Centre Organiser, Lichfield, Women's Voluntary Services. • Joseph Johnson, Overman, Ormonde Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Nottingham.) • William John Johnston, Head Messenger and Office Keeper, National Assistance Board for Northern Ireland. (Belfast.) • Walter Jones, Steelworker, John Summers & Sons Ltd., Shotton, Flintshire. • William Henry Jose, General Foreman, South Western Electricity Board. (Camborne, Cornwall.) • James Terence Kelly, Senior Marine Survey Assistant (Launchman), Newcastle, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. (Gateshead.) • Tom Kerrigan, Plater, The
Greenock Dockyard Company Ltd., Greenock. • Winifred Kilner. Collector, Oxford Road Savings Group, Middlesbrough. • Sarah Ann Kilpatrick, Weaver,
Thomas Ferguson & Co. Ltd., Edenderry, Banbridge, County Down. • John Kirkham, Chargehand Process Worker Grade II, Royal Ordnance Factory, Irvine, Ministry of Supply. (Kilmarnock.) • Mary Lawton, Divisional Superintendent, Spalding, St. John Ambulance Brigade. (Crowland, Lincolnshire.) • Leung Nai Poon, Assistant
Compradore, HM Dockyard, Hong Kong. • John Lindley, lately Works Foreman, Dukinfield Undertaking, North Cheshire Group, North Western Gas Board. (Hyde, Cheshire.) • James Gibb Livie, Superintendent to the Trustees of the Harbour of Dundee. • Lok Shing, No. 1 Electrical Fitter, HM Dockyard, Hong Kong. • Low Bing Shue, No. 1 Sailmaker, HM Dockyard, Hong Kong. • Pamela Joy Loweth, Welfare Section Instructor, Civil Defence Corps, Surrey. (Guildford.) • John Harry Lowther, Transport Driver, Yorkshire Electricity Board. (Leeds.) • Robert McBride, Engineering Superintendent, The Scottish Stamping & Engineering Co. Ltd., Ayr. • James McCallum, Foreman Rigger,
William Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton. • Charles Henry Mackenzie, Process Foreman, Fabrication of Titanium, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (Swansea.) • Robert Charles Gordon Mackenzie, Postman (Rural), Head Post Office, Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire. • Jane McKinstry, Collector, Works Savings Group, Eglinton Bakery Ltd., Belfast. (Carnmoney, County Antrim.) • Charles Alexander McMillan, Technical Class Grade II, Royal Ordnance Factory, Birtley, Ministry of Supply. (Glasgow.) • Douglas Patrick McVeigh, Commandant, Somerset/19 Detachment,
British Red Cross Society. (Yeovil, Somerset.) • Alexander Mair, Able Seaman, MS
Cardiffbrook," Comben Longstaff & Co. Ltd. (Seaton Delaval, Northumberland.) • Elsie Norah Maker, Chief Supervisor, Directory Enquiry Bureau, Terminus Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. (London S.W.19.) • Dudley Raeburn Marsden, Assistant Divisional Officer, Birmingham Fire Brigade. • Charles William Marsh, Inspector (Postal), Head Post Office, Kettering. • George Miles, Mains Foreman, East Midlands Electricity Board. (Ilkeston, Derbyshire.) • Herbert Miller, Foreman Driver, War Office, Malta. • Thomas Henry Millicent, Chargehand, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston. (Basingstoke.) • Margaret Ellen Moreland, Assistant Supervisor, Coleraine Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. • James Morrison, Station Officer, Northern Area Fire Brigade, Isle of Lewis. (Stornoway.) • Sydney Adolphus Nairne, , Head Chancery Messenger, HM Embassy, Havana. • John Neeld, Tool Maker, C.A.V. Ltd., Acton. (North Harrow.) • George Alfred Newby, Head Foreman Ship-wright, J. S. Doig (Grimsby) Ltd., Grimsby. • Reginald Francis Newns, Mechanic-in-Charge 1A, Post Office Garage, Newcastle upon Tyne. • George Richard Thomas Norris, Superintendent, Northampton County Borough Special Constabulary. • Edgar North, Underground Repairer, Barley Hall Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Chapeltown, near Sheffield.) • Alfred Nye, Chargeman of Shipwrights,
HM Dockyard, Rosyth. • Winifred Oliver, Centre Organiser, Guisborough Urban District, Women's Voluntary Services. • Frederick Samuel Wallace Parker. For services to the Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve Southend Unit. (Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.) • Cissie May Patmore, Supervisor. Bishop's Stortford Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. (Stansted, Essex.) • George William Pearce, , Storeman, City West Depot (Surveyors), Ministry of Works. (Mitcham, Surrey.) • Moses Perks, Colliery Mechanical Engineer, Hilton Main Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Westcroft, near Wolverhampton.) • Vera Francis Petchey, Chief Observer, Operations Centre, No. 5 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (Watford.) • Rosa Plumbley, Collector, Street Savings Group, Itchen, Southampton. • Robert Kime Shaw Porter, Station Officer, Andover Fire Brigade, Hampshire. • Elsie Pritchard, Collector, Street Savings Group, Uckfield, Sussex. • Fadel Saeed Quassim, Head Chowkidar,
RAF Khormaksar. • Kenneth William Rawe, Civil Defence Liaison Officer for Plumpton Rural District Council. (Plymstock.) • John Reston, Senior Overman, Whitrigg Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Whitburn.) • Reginald Rosser, Foreman, Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Ltd. (Treforest.) • Raymond Douglas Naylor Rushen, Land Service Assistant, Grade III, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Chelmsford.) • William John Sage, Chief Permanent Way Inspector, Stratford, Eastern Region, British Railways. (Tilbury, Essex.) • William Hewett Sanders, General Foreman,
British Museum (Natural History). (London S.W.6.) • Frederick Arthur Scally, Head Office Keeper, Commonwealth Relations Office. (London E.17.) • Henry Thomas Scarborough, Civilian Warrant Officer, No. 2048 (Dagenham) Squadron, Air Training Corps. (Ilford, Essex.) • Maurice Arthur Searle, Chief Inspector,
War Department Constabulary, War Office. (Aldershot.) • Walter Tom Shipway, Mains and Service Inspector, Swindon District, South Western Gas Board. (Swindon.) • Robert Sim, Foreman Jointer, South of Scotland Electricity Board. (Hamilton.) • Kynymond Edwin Spurrel Simmons, General Foreman, Bartrey Board Co. Ltd., Essex. (Colchester.) • Albert Edward Slater, Leading Chargehand Carpenter, Command Ordnance Depot, Branston, War Office. (Burton-on-Trent.) • George Henry Smedley, Underground Worker, Hucknall Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Hucknall.) • Arthur Ernest Smith, Technical Officer, Telephone Manager's Office, Cambridge, General Post Office. • Cyril Wickings-Smith, Chief Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Bedford. • Arthur Snell, Telephone Operator, No. 1 Works Area, Grantham, Air Ministry. • Violet Blanche Solloway, Collector, Roberts Row and Palace Row Savings Group, Abertillery. • Frederick Thomas Southwell, Storekeeper, , Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. (Southampton.) • Maggie Sparrow, First Aid Attendant, No. 14 Maintenance Unit,
Carlisle, Air Ministry. • Alexander Starrett, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. (Armagh.) • Herbert Stocking, Stoker-in-Charge, Wissington Sugar Factory,
British Sugar Corporation. (Norfolk.) • Daniel Patrick Sullivan, Garage Foreman,
Diplomatic Wireless Service, Foreign Office. (Wolverton, Buckinghamshire.) • William Arthur Taft, Chief Officer, Class I,
HM Borstal, Hollesley Bay Colony. (Woodbridge, Suffolk.) • Frederick George Thomas, Chief Instructor, Cardiff Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service. (Swansea.) • Tiong, Ah Hai, Chargehand Rigger, HM Boom Defence and Salvage Depot, Singapore. • Jack Topper, lately Manager, Histon pig herds, Cambridge. • Leonard Varley, Works Superintendent, Kidderminster District, West Midlands Gas Board. • Francis William Vass, Head Gardener, Abbeville, Imperial War Graves Commission. • Dorothy Louise Wager, Seamstress (Special),
Armament Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply. (London S.E.18.) • Thomas Walker, Gas Fitter, Bridge Street Depot, Leeds, North Eastern Gas Board. • Frederick George Walton, Leading Technical Officer, City Telephone Area, General Post Office. (London E.C.1.) • William Henry Ward (Senior), Technical Officer, Telephone Manager's Office, Liverpool, General Post Office. (Wallasey, Cheshire.) • Victor George Wiles, Foreman Operator, Pests Department, Huntingdon Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Sandy, Bedfordshire.) • Jessie Williams, Collector, Street Savings Groups, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. • William Williamson, First-aid Demonstrator, St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, Edinburgh. • Frank Mintrum Woodford, Pumpman,
Esso Cheyenne, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. (Southampton.) • Edward Charles Woods, Senior Assistant (Scientific),
Hydraulics Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. (Wallingford, Berkshire.) • Arthur William Enoch Wright, Lairage Foreman, British Railways, Fishguard. (Goodwick, Pembrokeshire.) • Wu Chun Sang, Local Clerk, Grade "A", Admiralty, Hong Kong. ;;Basutoland • Ntseke Jonathan Molapo, Administrative Assistant, Department of Agriculture, Basutoland. • Joel Moteki Sekamane, Higher Grade Works Staff, Public Works Department, Basutoland. ;;Pakistan • Frank White, Assistant Foreman of Factories, Pakistan Navy Armament Depot, Karachi. ;;Overseas Territories • Hussein Dervish, Mukhtar of Kandou, Cyprus. • Antigone Georghiadou, Teacher and Assistant, St. Barnabas School for the Blind, Cyprus. • Xenophon Ioannou, Chief Foreman, Department of Public Works, Cyprus. • Andranik Karoglanian, Inspector of Works, Water Department, Cyprus. • John Michaelides, Postal Officer, 3rd Grade, Cyprus. • Mehmed Emin Mehmed Salih, lately Mukhtar, Sinda, Cyprus. • Mehmet Remzi Tahir, Mukhtar of Ayios Andronikos, Cyprus. • Kitwara s/o Irinje, Fisheries Assistant, Lake Victoria Fisheries Service, Mwanza, East Africa High Commission. • Alikade s/o Musoke, Station Master Grade VII, Mityana, Uganda, East African Railways and Harbours Administration. • Minnie Magdeline Jacqueline Roberts, Telephonist Grade I, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. • Wong Chak Sang, Male Charge Nurse, Medical Department, Hong Kong. • Gachunji Kanyarati, Principal Officer, Grade I, Thompsons Falls Prison, Kenya. • Evanson Thiongo s/o Macharia, Tribal Policeman, 1st Grade, Limuru, Kenya. • Laurent Ongoma s/o Makokha, Senior Chief, Kenya. • Louvina Carey, Supervisor, Public Health Nurses, Nevis, Leeward Islands. • Joseph Edokayoba Anoha, Senior Trade Instructor, Prisons Department, Federation of Nigeria. • Edward Iduorobo Ogedegbe, Agricultural Assistant, Grade I, West African Institute of Oil Palm Research, Federation of Nigeria. • Agu Mkpa, Agricultural Supervisor, Department of Agriculture, Eastern Region of Nigeria. • David Madandola Durojaiye, 2nd Class Technical Assistant, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Region of Nigeria. • Frederick Luma, Ranger, Forest Department, Western Region, Nigeria. • Datu Jinurain, Native Chief, Grade II, Lahad Datu District, North Borneo. • Tham Yat Sang, Capitan China, Kota Belud, North Borneo. • Sumama Sumaili, Head Court Messenger, Fort Johnston District, Nyasaland. • Harry Derek Clifford, Charge Nurse, Mental Hospital, St. Helena. • Robert du Buisson, Technical Officer, Agricultural Department, Seychelles. • Bockari Mongbama Gbolie, Health Superintendent, Kono District, Sierra Leone. • Eusope bin Ahmad, Tug Serang Grade I, Wharf Superintendent's Department, Singapore Harbour Board. • Abdallah Hemed, Liwali of Kilwa Kivinje and the Coast, Tanganyika. • Joseph Remedio Luis Lobo, lately Clerk, Game and Fisheries Department, Uganda. • Frederick David Murdoch, Senior Foreman of Works, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Western Pacific. • Edward Arnold Trotter, Chief Mechanic, Public Works Department, Windward Islands.
Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) ;In Silver • Stanley Albert Edward Ashton. • Alfred Arthur Betteridge. • Chief Petty Officer Charles Henry Bickley, P/LX 21082. • Police Constable Cyril John Blyth,
Metropolitan Police. • Stanley William Childs. • Alexander Fraser. • Robert Harold George Godfrey. • 630391 Chief Technician Albert Charles Hadley, Royal Air Force. • Henry Charles Harmsworth. • Edith Holmes. • Divisional Sergeant-Major Sidney James Oxford, , Her Majesty's Bodyguard of The
Yeoman of the Guard. • Chief Engine Room Artificer George Harry Rolls, P/MX 49955. • 586672 Corporal Technician Michael John White, Royal Air Force. • Ernest Edward Woore.
Royal Red Cross (RRC) • Joan Mary Woodgate, , Principal Matron,
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. • Lieutenant-Colonel Gwendolen Mary Willoughby, (206530),
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Wing Officer
Veronica Margaret Ashworth, , (405076),
Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC) • Petty Officer Wren Sick Berth Kathleen Emily Ada Funnell, 108330,
Women's Royal Naval Service. • Major Joyce Barbara Chambers, (206076), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Captain Dorothy Carl Gatenby, (392099), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. • Flight Officer Patricia Carney, (406709), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
Air Force Cross (AFC) ;Royal Navy • Lieutenant-Commander Daniel Patrick Norman. ;Royal Air Force • Group Captain David Foster Dennis, . • Wing Commander Herbert George Slade, (123239). • Squadron Leader George Michael Bailey, (180527). • Squadron Leader Christopher Michael Bruce, (2260080). • Squadron Leader Philip Jacobus Lagesen, , (502146). • Squadron Leader Roland Wharrier Richardson, (113339). • Squadron Leader Sidney Walker, (181180). • Squadron Leader Allen Ernest George Woods, (164603). • Flight Lieutenant Allan Montague Bezzant, (4055760). • Flight Lieutenant John Edward Connolly, (179240). • Flight Lieutenant John Victor Cordery, (203484). • Flight Lieutenant Ivor Davies, (190234). • Flight Lieutenant Arthur John Fellows, (195530). • Flight Lieutenant Robert Thornton Jones, (172453). • Flight Lieutenant Robert Eyre Mackie, , (502075). • Flight Lieutenant Sinclair O'Connor, , (1077386). • Flight Lieutenant David Rankin Scott, , (157309). • Flight Lieutenant Charles Taylor, (4076381). • Flight Lieutenant Terry Calthorp Taylor, (2517027). • Flight Lieutenant Derek Hubert Wales, (102292). • Flight Lieutenant John Raymond Weeds, , (119824). • Flying Officer Harry Stanley Bray, (4160480). • Master Pilot Jan Rogers, (794907). • Master Pilot Cyril Munro Ward, (1321215). • Master Navigator Brinley Phillips, (638951). ;;Bar to Air Force Cross • Wing Commander
Colin Weall Coulthard, , (104469). • Wing Commander
Geoffrey Howard Dhenin, , (138384). • Acting Wing Commander Clifford Alan Sullings, , (172750). • Squadron Leader Ronald Albert Edward Allen, , (187693). ;;Second Bar to Air Force Cross • Group Captain
Hugh Patrick Ruffell Smith, .
Air Force Medal (AFM) ;Royal Air Force • 582745 Flight Sergeant Stanley William Austin. • 2205548 Flight Sergeant Laurence Christian. • 3500390 Flight Sergeant Sidney William Kenneth Woskett. • 4008785 Sergeant Thomas Gavin. • 1910773 Sergeant Thomas Moloney.
Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air ;Army • Major Richard James Parker, (303686), Royal Regiment of Artillery; permanently attached
Army Air Corps. ;Royal Air Force • Acting Wing Commander John Darral Ackerman, (58785). • Squadron Leader Desmond Joseph Gordon (199923). • Squadron Leader Michael Jones (119566). • Squadron Leader Deryk Arthur Maddox (180382). • Squadron Leader Donald Trench Skeen (162157). • Squadron Leader Reginald James Spiers (607056). • Squadron Leader Foster Malcolm Neill Taplin (59237). • Squadron Leader Anthony Desmond Jeens Williams (131152). • Flight Lieutenant Andrew McFarlane Adams (57007). • Flight Lieutenant Dennis Allison (585081). • Flight Lieutenant Alan John Biltcliffe (579310). • Flight Lieutenant Anthony William Francis Burge (53498). • Flight Lieutenant Ronald William Cozens, (170216). • Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frank Easto (168195). • Flight Lieutenant Norman Henry Giffin (607248). • Flight Lieutenant Philip James Goodall (2425514). • Flight Lieutenant Frederick Michael Haynes (2472109). • Flight Lieutenant John Frederick George Howe (503984). • Flight Lieutenant James Alfred Kinver (160830). • Flight Lieutenant Brunon Jerzy Kudrewicz, (501903). • Flight Lieutenant Miroslav Lastovka (139568). • Flight Lieutenant Donald McClen (4065528). • Flight Lieutenant William Brian Colin Morgan (4031735). • Flight Lieutenant Reginald Trevor Ponting (55442). • Flight Lieutenant Anthony Edgar Radnor (2513091). • Flight Lieutenant Dennis John Read (4123924). • Flight Lieutenant Colin Geoffrey Richardson (607497). • Flight Lieutenant John Deryck Rowell (2324762). • Flight Lieutenant Vernon Reginald Rust (3110011). • Flight Lieutenant Alfred Charles Shape (175080). • Flight Lieutenant Robert William Smith, (131882). • Flight Lieutenant Peter David George Terry (203299). • Flying Officer Maurice Burdett (175309). • Flying Officer Wilfred George Gregory (1588009). • Flying Officer Stuart Burleigh Mead (3507910). • Flying Officer Clarence Richard Talbot Mottershead (1233910). • Flying Officer Gordon Cyril Timewell (1459573). • Pilot Officer Tadeusz Peter Antoniak (706548). • Pilot Officer Peter George Vanhinsbergh (1652082). • 4034144 Flight Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Norman. • 4175683 Acting Corporal George Henderson. ;United Kingdom • Walter Richardson, Flight Navigating Officer,
British Overseas Airways Corporation. • Ronald Smith, Flight Engineer Officer, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
Queen's Police Medal (QPM) ;England and Wales • Captain
John Murray Rymer-Jones, , Assistant Commissioner,
Metropolitan Police. • William George Symmons, Chief Constable,
St Helens Borough Police. • William Tait, Chief Constable,
Sunderland Borough Police. • James Edward Cotton, Chief Constable, Rotherham Borough Police. • Arthur Richard George White, Assistant Chief Constable,
Somerset Constabulary. • Horatio John Bentley, Assistant Chief Constable,
Cheshire Constabulary. • Clarence Lambie McDonough, , Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. • Sydney William Smith, Chief Superintendent,
Birmingham City Police. • Ronald Douglas Clapp, Superintendent,
West Sussex Constabulary. • James Alexander Skinner, , Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Grimsby Borough Police. • Ernest Albert Rossiter, Superintendent,
Dorset Constabulary. • Arthur Robert Pitcher, Superintendent (Grade I), Metropolitan Police. ;Scotland • Alexander Brown, Superintendent,
City of Glasgow Police. • John Morren Dow, Chief Superintendent,
Edinburgh City Police. ;Northern Ireland • Arthur Irvine, Head Constable,
Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;State of New South Wales • Roy McClelland, Superintendent 3rd Class,
New South Wales Police Force. • Norman Henry Newton, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • John Henry Dogan, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force. • John Joseph Agnew, Inspector 1st Class, New South Wales Police Force. • John Stephen Brown, Inspector 1st Class, New South Wales Police Force. • William Henry Flood, Inspector 1st Class, New South Wales Police Force. ;Southern Rhodesia • Basil Joseph Price, Senior Assistant Commissioner,
British South Africa Police. ;Overseas Territories • Ronald Audley Stoute, Commissioner of Police, Barbados. • John Thomas Hodgkinson, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kenya. • Abdus Salam Ebun Agbabiaka, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. • Thomas Robinson Pallet, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. • Lawson Augustine Hicks, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Northern Rhodesia. • Anthony Sheriff Keeling, , Deputy Commissioner of Police, Sierra Leone.
Queen's Fire Services Medal (QFSM) ;England and Wales • Harry Judge, Chief Officer, West Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade. • Fred Henry James Danniells, Divisional Officer (Deputy Chief Officer), Plymouth Fire Brigade. • Leslie Allinson, Chief Officer, Sunderland Fire Brigade. • Thomas Harcourt Nunns, Divisional Officer (Deputy Chief Officer), Newport (Monmouthshire) Fire Brigade. • Henry Radford Lucas, Superintendent, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Fire Service Training School, Cardiff. ;Scotland • John Craig, , Divisional Officer, Western Area Fire Brigade. ;Overseas Territories • Joseph Thomas Atkinson, Chief Fire Officer, British Guiana.
Colonial Police Medal (CPM) ;Southern Rhodesia • Anthony Lawry Andrew, Superintendent,
British South Africa Police. • Maurice Bernard Buckley, Inspector, British South Africa Police. • Elias, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Jiri, Detective Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Cyril Anthony Schollum, Detective Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. • Takaruza, 1st Class Sergeant, British South Africa Police. • Laurence Herbert Turner, Superintendent, British South Africa Police. • Basil Francis Horatio Wright, Staff Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. ;Basutoland • Kenneth Edward Shortt Smith, Superintendent, Basutoland Mounted Police. ;Bechuanaland Protectorate • Thomas John Dent, Assistant Superintendent, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police Force. • Adam Thogo Mogatle, Sergeant Major, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police Force. ;Overseas Territories • Musa Abdulla, Chief Inspector, Somaliland Police Force. • Jilo Aden, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. • Joseph Adeola, Deputy Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • Shatir Ahmad, Inspector, Grade I, Kenya Police Force. • Ali bin Mohamed, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. • William Pearson Apps, Chief Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force. • Joshua Roger Barber, Assistant Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. • Andrew Norman Barkley, Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force. • Peter Vivian Birch, Senior Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police Force. • Paul Redman Blyth, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. • John Brian Boulton, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. • John Patrick Bray, Superintendent, Gambia Police Force. • Eric Norman Godfrey North Brend, Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force. • William John Cannon, Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force. • Chan Lap, Staff Sergeant, Class II, Hong Kong Police Force. • Phillip Alexander Charles, Inspector, St. Vincent Police Force. • Patrick Okwudi Chude, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • Dowding Stuart Cozier, Senior Superintendent, Trinidad Police Force. • Christopher Ralph Crawford, Assistant Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • William Duncan Gumming, Assistant Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. • Ernest Dover, Deputy Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. • Wilfred Arthur Farmer, Deputy Commissioner, Barbados Police Force. • Thomas Francis Flynn, Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. • Albert Nathaniel Foster, Sergeant, Grade I, Jamaica Police Force. • Abdul Hamid Marican, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. • Thomas Arthur Handford, Chief of Police, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. • Ho Cheung, Sergeant, Hong Kong Police Force. • Hu Hung-Cheung, Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force. • Jagjit Singh, Detective Staff Sergeant, Singapore Police Force. • Ali Kaid Ali, Assistant Superintendent, Aden Police Force. • Abdul Hamid Khan, Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force. • Ali Liban, Sergeant Major, Somaliland Police Force. • Samuel Majiyagbe, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. • Rupert Vincent Major, Chief Inspector, Trinidad Police Force. • John Marshall, Inspector, Bermuda Police Force. • Akuila Matanibukaca, Sub-Inspector, Fiji Police Force. • David Gordon Mathers, Assistant Superintendent, Aden Police Force. • Mohamed bin Ismail, Ambulance Attendant, Singapore Fire Brigade. • Musa Muhini, Inspector, Grade II, Kenya Police Force. • Ereiza Dungu Mukasa, Inspector, Uganda Police Force. • Peter Mucheusi Mutoka, Inspector, Grade II, Kenya Police Force. • Neta, Detective Assistant Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. • Mordecai Nneji, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. • William Nyrenda, Sergeant Major, Tanganyika Police Force. • Sidney Mba Odukwe, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. • Henry Oni-Okpaku, , Senior Pay and Quartermaster, Nigeria Police Force. • Ong Kian Tiong, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. • Zephaniya Opondo, Head Constable, Uganda Police Force. • Eugene Kevin Ignatius O'Reilly, Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. • Haralambos Christodoulos Patsalides, Chief Inspector, Cyprus Police Force. • Ronald David Arthur Price, Assistant Superintendent, Nyasaland Police Force. • Eleazor Manasseh Proctor, Inspector, Leeward Islands Police Force. • Anthony Fredrick Rose, Chief Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force. • Bernard Edward Ruck, , Senior Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. • Yeasa Samura, Sergeant-Major, Sierra Leone Police Force. • Geoffrey Sawaya, Chief Inspector, Tanganyika Police Force. • Ramanu Sawyekr, Chief Inspector, Sierra Leone Police Force. • Proven James Sharpe, Detective Inspector, Cyprus Police Force. • Walter Stansfield, Assistant Chief Constable, Cyprus Police Force. • Tan Boon Ann, Section Leader, Singapore Fire Brigade. • Edgar Theophilus Tonge, Inspector, Leeward Islands Police Force. • Yeoh bin Chiat, Deputy Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. ==Australia==