1954 Birthday Honours

United Kingdom and Colonies

Viscounts

• The Right Honourable Herwald, Baron Soulbury, GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, Governor-General of Ceylon.

  Barons

• The Right Honourable Thomas Mackay, Lord Cooper, OBE, Lord Justice General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session.
• The Right Honourable Henry James, Earl of Dundee, JP, DL, Member of Parliament for West Renfrew, 1931-1945. Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1936-1939 and 1941-1942. For political and public services.
• Sir Oliver Charles Harvey, GCMG, GCVO, CB, Lately HM Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris

  Privy Counsellors

• Major Sir Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, QC, MP, Member of Parliament for Daventry, 1943-1950, and for Northampton South since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, May–July, 1945; Solicitor-General since 1951.
• Arthur Deakin, CH, CBE, JP. For services to the Trade Union Movement.

  Baronets

• Sir Russell Brain, DM, President, Royal College of Physicians of London.
• Roger John Edward Conant, CVO, JP, DL, MP, Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, 1931-1935, Bewdley, 1937-1950, and Rutland and Stamford since 1950. A Conservative Whip, 1946-1951; Comptroller of HM Household since 1951.
• Colonel Sir Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore, KCB, CMG, DSO, TD, HM Lieutenant of the County of Essex. For public services.

  Knights bachelor

• Donald Richard Allen, OBE, MC, Clerk to the Trustees, London Parochial Charities.
• William Linton Andrews, Editor of the Yorkshire Post.
• Frederick Spencer Arnold Baker, Senior Master, Central Office, Supreme Court of Judicature, and Queen's Remembrancer.
• Arthur Beverley Baxter, MP, Member of Parliament for Wood Green, 1935-1950, and for Southgate since 1950. For political and public services.
• Alfred Chester Beatty. For public services.
• Colonel James Geoffrey Brydon Beazley, MC, TD, DL, Chairman, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
• Stanley Bell, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
• Henry Campbell Brewer, MBE, Honorary Shipping Adviser to the Ministry of Food.
• Russell Claude Brock, MS, FRCS, Surgeon, Guy's Hospital and Brompton Hospital.
• Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, CBE, Historian.
• John Cameron, DSC, QC, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. Member, Industrial Disputes Tribunal.
• Francis Hare Clayton, OBE, Lately Chairman and Treasurer, Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Training Ship.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Charles Lowry-Corry, MC, DL. For political and public services in Suffolk.
• Richard Rylandes Costain, CBE, Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Costain Group.
• Albert James Taylor Day, CBE. Chairman, Staff Side, Civil Service National Whitley Council.
• Gavin Rylands de Beer, Director, British Museum.
• Eric Cyril Boyd Edwards, MC, JP. For political and public services in Essex.
• Arthur Trevor Evans, Controller, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford.
• Arnold Alexander Hall, Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.
• Commander William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Royal Navy, Founder, Chairman and Honorary Director of the Hansard Society.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Mirehouse Hope, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Cumberland.
• John Alfred Golding Howard. For political services in Bedfordshire.
• Herbert Charles Janes. For political and public services.
• William Kerr, CBE, JP, DL, Town Clerk of Glasgow.
• Thomas Stuart Overy. For political and public services.
• Joseph Davidson Qualtrough, CBE, Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man.
• Howard Morley Robertson, MC, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
• John Roland Robinson, MP, Member of Parliament for Widnes, 1931–35, Blackpool, 1935-45, and South Blackpool since 1945. For political and public services.
• Thomas Buston Robson, MBE, Member, Companies Act Accountancy Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade.
• Alderman Percy Alan Sanders, CBE, JP, DL. For political and public services in Essex.
• Frederick Scopes, President, Joint Iron Council.
• Francis Eugene Simon, CBE, Professor of Thermodynamics, University of Oxford.
• Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith, CBE, Artist.
• John Livingston Somerville, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
• Robert William Arney Speed, CB, Solicitor, Board of Trade.
• Thomas Murray Taylor, CBE, QC. Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen.
• Alexander Robertus Todd, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Chairman of the Lord President of the Council's Advisory Council on Scientific Policy.
• Thomas Tomlinson, BEM, JP, Chairman, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.
• Francis Cannon Tudsbery Tudsbery, CBE, Founder and President of the Thistle Foundation.
• Major Arnold Horace Santo Waters, VC, CBE, DSO, MC, Chairman, South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. For services to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
• John Henry Wenham, JP, DL. For political and public services in Surrey.

• Arthur Campbell Rymill, Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide, State of South Australia.

• The Honourable Mr. Justice Walter Eric Thomas, CMG, OBE, MC, Senior Puisne Judge of the High Court, Southern Rhodesia.

• Thomas James Young Roxburgh, CIE, Indian Civil Service, formerly a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

• Patrick Francis Branigan, Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Gold Coast.
• Luigi Antonio Camilleri, Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal, Malta.
• John DeLisle Chandler. For public services in Barbados.
• William Kenneth Horne. For public services in Kenya.
• Arthur Werner Lewey, QC, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Northern Rhodesia.

  Order of the Bath

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

• Admiral Sir Michael Maynard Denny, KCB, CBE, DSO.
• General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

• Sir John Gerald Lang, KCB, Permanent Secretary, Admiralty.

  Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral Cecil Charles Hughes-Hallett, CB, CBE.
• General John Chaddesley Westall, CB, CBE, Royal Marines.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Euan Alfred Bews Miller, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, late Infantry.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell, KBE, CB, DSO, late Infantry Colonel, The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
• Air Marshal Sir John Nelson Boothman, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC.
• Air Marshal Walter Lloyd Dawson, CB, CBE, DSO.

• Sir Eric Blacklock Bowyer, KBE, CB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Materials.
• Francis William Lascelles, CB, MC, Clerk of the Parliaments.
• Sir John Rowlatt, KCIE, CB, MC, QC, First Parliamentary Counsel.

  Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Rear-Admiral Leslie Newton Brownfield, CBE.
• Rear-Admiral Walter Thomas Couchman, CVO, DSO, OBE.
• Rear-Admiral Robert Francis Elkins, CVO, OBE.
• Rear-Admiral George Barney Hamley Fawkes, CVO, CBE.
• Major-General Campbell Richard Hardy, CBE, DSO, Royal Marines.
• Rear-Admiral Charles Littlewood, OBE.
• Rear-Admiral Frederick Robert Joseph Mack, CBE.
• Rear-Admiral Richard George Onslow, DSO.

• Brigadier Walter Samuel Beddall, OBE, Royal Army Educational Corps.
• Major-General Valentine Boucher, CBE, late Infantry.
• Major-General Charles James George Dalton, CBE, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier John Cecil D'Arcy Dalton, CBE, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General William Alexander Duncan Drummond, CBE, FRCS, late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Kenneth Godfrey Exham, DSO, late Infantry.
• Major-General George Drew Fanshawe, DSO, OBE, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Wilfrid Austin Lord, CBE, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Major-General Robert Kirkpatrick Millar, DSO, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Richard Murphy, CBE, MB, QHS, late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General John Field Fraser Oakeshott, CBE, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Major-General Henry Raskins Clapham Sugden, CBE, DSO, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Geoffrey Stuart Thompson, DSO, MBE, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier Frank Borkman Pigott, CIE, late Corps of Royal Engineers; until recently on loan to the Government of India.

• Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Hamilton Brookes, CBE, DFC.
• Air Vice-Marshal John Gerald Franks, CBE.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dicken Cracroft, AFC.
• Air Commodore Rowland Coats.
• Air Commodore Kenneth Brian Boyd Cross, CBE, DSO, DFC.
• Air Commodore Douglas Griffith Morris, CBE, DSO, DFC.
• Air Commodore Ellacott Lyne Stephens Ward, DFC.
• Group Captain Frederick John Manning, CBE.

• Philip Allen, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Terence Frederick Bird, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Ernest Roy Brookes, Commissioner and Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Ernest Reginald Copleston, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury.
• James Pickering Dodds, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health.
• Eric Stead Jackson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• David Hume Lyal, CMG, MBE, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Charles Ernest Maker, Accountant General, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• George Robert Oake, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Herbert Staddon Pengelly, Principal Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty.
• William Alfred Wolverson, Director, External Telecommunications Executive, General Post Office.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, KCMG, CB, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Paris.

  Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

• Major-General Leslie Burtonshaw Nicholls, CB, CBE, Chairman, Cable & Wireless Ltd.
• Algernon Paul Sinker, CB, Director General, British Council.
• Joseph John Saville Garner, CMG, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• The Honourable Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead, CMG, OBE. For public services rendered in connection with the setting up of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.
• Robert Perceval Armitage, CMG, MBE, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cyprus.
• Sir Robert Scott, CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Mauritius.
• Alfred John Gardener, CMG, CBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Damascus.
• Paul Mason, CMG, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in the Hague.
• Sir Andrew Napier Noble, Bt, CMG, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Warsaw.
• Robert Heatlie Scott, CMG, CBE, Minister at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.

  Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Frederick Blackmore Arnold, OBE, Trade Commissioner, Grade I, Karachi.
• Ivor Bowen, lately Head of the United Kingdom Ministry of Supply Staff, Australia. Now Principal Director of Equipment Research & Development, Ministry of Supply.
• Cecil Stanley Harrison, OBE, Attorney-General of Jersey.
• George Hoyle, Divisional Inspector of Mines, North Western Division, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Alan James Ruthven-Murray, Joint Managing Director, Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd.
• Walter Fitzwillam Starkie, CBE, Director of the British Institute in Madrid. British Council Representative in Spain.
• Andrew Topping, MD, TD, Dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
• Joseph Ignatius Carroll, DCM. For services to Industry in the State of New South Wales.
• Hurtle Thomas Jack Edwards, DDSc. For services to the Dental Profession in the State of South Australia.
• John William Goodsell, Under-Secretary & Comptroller of Accounts, Treasury, State of New South Wales.
• The Honourable Julius Macdonald Greenfield, Minister of Home Affairs, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Arthur Wendell Snelling, Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South Africa.
• Colonel John Edmund Hugh Boustead, DSO, OBE, MC, Colonial Administrative Service, British Agent, Eastern Aden Protectorate.
• Edgeworth Beresford David, Colonial Administrative Service, Staff Officer Grade A, Malayan Civil Service, seconded to the Colonial Office.
• Frederick Victor Duckworth, Colonial Administrative Service, British Adviser, Selangor, Federation of Malaya.
• Brigadier Hubert James Marlowe Flaxman, British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides.
• Charles Herbert Hartwell, Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chief Secretary, Kenya.
• Robert Samuel Fleming Hennessey, MD, FRCP, Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Uganda.
• Anthony Gordon Knox Johnston, Colonial Administrative Service, Acting Administrator, East Africa High Commission.
• The Most Reverend Alan John Knight, DD, Archbishop of the West Indies and Metropolitan.
• Arthur John Loveridge, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Regional Officer, Northern Territories, Gold Coast.
• Graham Morgan, Colonial Engineering Service, Director of Public Works, Tanganyika.
• James Lauder Nicol, OBE, Lately Educational Adviser to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare, West Indies.
• Robert Joseph Simmons, CBE, Adviser on Animal Health to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Edgar Ignatius Godfrey Unsworth, QC, Colonial Legal Service, Attorney General, Northern Rhodesia.
• Theodore Rowland Williams, JP. For public services in Jamaica.
• Major-General Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman, CB, DSO, OBE, lately General Officer Commanding British Troops, Berlin, now Chief of Staff, Headquarters Northern Army Group and British Army of the Rhine.
• Charles Beresford Duke, CIE, OBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Amman.
• Wilfrid Orrell Harrop, Foreign Office.
• Geoffrey Dugdale Kirwan, CB, MC, lately Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, now Comptroller General, National Debt Office.
• William Henry Tucker Luce, OBE, Adviser on External and Constitutional Affairs, Sudan Government.
• Dermot Francis MacDermot, CBE, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Bucharest. Lately Inspector, of Her Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments.
• James Alexander Milne Marjoribanks, Deputy Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, Luxembourg.
• Hugh Southern Stephenson, CIE, OBE, lately Head of Political Division, British Middle East Office, Fayid.
• Frank Stanley Tomlinson, lately Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
• Keith Unwin, OBE, Minister at Her Majesty's Embassy in Buenos Aires.
• Michael Sanigear Williams, Foreign Office.
• Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Tehran.

• Raja Abdul Rashid ibni Almarhumi Sultan Idris, CBE, Raja Bendahara, Perak, Federation of Malaya.

  Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• William Henry Harris, CVO.
• The Honourable Sir Albert Edward Alexander Napier, KCB, QC.

  Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Captain Philip Lloyd Neville, Royal Navy
• Captain Sir Frank Todd Spickernell, KBE, CB, DSO, Royal Navy
• John Morton Worthington.

  Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Tyrell Gibbs, OBE, TD.
• Doreen Archer Houblon.
• William George Ridd.

  Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)

• Annie Black.
• Cyril Charles Coates.
• Lieutenant Thomas Douglas Grosset, Royal Navy.
• Squadron Leader Frederick Henry Reed, Royal Air Force
• Leslie Alfred John Treby, BEM..
• Leslie George Vaughan.

  Order of the British Empire

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

• Air Chief Marshal Sir John Whitworth-Jones, KCB, CBE, Royal Air Force

• The Right Honourable Clarence Napier, Baron Aberdare, CBE. For public services.

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

• The Right Honourable Angela Olivia, Countess of Limerick, DBE, Vice-Chairman, British Red Cross Society.

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

• Vice-Admiral Sydney Moffat Raw, CB, CBE.
• Rear-Admiral Alexander Davidson McGlashan, CB, DSO.
• Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, CB, CMG, CBE, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-General William John Eldridge, CB, CBE, DSO, MC, late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery and Glider Pilot Regiment.
• Air Marshal Lawrence Fleming Pendred, CB, MBE, DFC.
• Acting Air Marshal Gerald Ernest Gibbs, CIE, CBE, MC.

• Isaac Frederick Armer, CB, MC, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health.
• Major-General the Right Honourable Robert Clive, Viscount Bridgeman, CB, DSO, MC, President, County of Salop Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Andrew Lockhart Innes, CB, Legal Secretary and Parliamentary Draughtsman, Lord Advocate's Department.
• The Right Honourable William Mabane, Chairman, Civil Defence Publicity and Recruitment Committee.
• Ivan Arthur Rice Stedeford, Chairman and Managing Director, Tube Investments Ltd., Birmingham.
• Sir Philip Wilbraham Baker Wilbraham, Bt, Dean of the Arches; lately First Church Estates Commissioner.
• Geoffrey Cuthbert Allchin, CMG, MC, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Luxembourg.
• John William Taylor, CMG, MBE, lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Mexico City.
• Sir Arthur Cecil Griffin, KCIE, OBE, lately Chairman of the Board of the Rhodesia Railways.
• The Honourable Alexander Lyell McEwin, Chief Secretary, Minister of Health and Minister of Mines, State of South Australia.
• Geoffrey Archer Walch, CVO, CBE. For public services in the State of Tasmania.

• Haji Mohammed Sheriff bin Osman, CMG, CBE. Lately Menteri Besar, Kedah, Federation of Malaya.
• Ademola II, CMG, CBE, The Alake of Abeokuta, Nigeria.

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

• Brigadier Helen Shiels Gillespie, MBE, RRC, QHNS, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

• Alderman Lilian Emily Isabel Jane Bromley-Davenport, JP. For political and public services in Cheshire.
• Edith Louisa Sitwell, Poet and critic.

  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Captain Alan Newhouse Benson, VRD, RNVR.
• Instructor Captain Peter Bracelin, OBE.
• Captain William Stevens Cooper.
• Surgeon Captain Roderick Macdonald Finlayson, LDS.
• Captain Godfrey Alexander French, .
• Colonel Walter Sowden North, ADC, Royal Marines.
• Rear-Admiral Robert William Parker.

• Brigadier Cecil Charles Blackwell, OBE, Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Brigadier Ronald Dickeson Bolton, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Colonel Sheila Cooke, TD, Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Brigadier Hugo Ernest Charles de Chassiron, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Brigadier Harold Cecil William Eking, DSO, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Colonel Ernest Reginald Goode, MBE, late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Brigadier Richard Elton Goodwin, DSO, late Infantry.
• Brigadier St. John Cutler Hooley, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Brigadier John Francis Metcalfe, late Infantry.
• Colonel Charles Henry Mortimore, TD, Army Cadet Force.
• Brigadier Cosmo Alexander Richard Nevill, DSO, OBE, late Infantry.
• Colonel John MacLaren Wolseley Titley, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Colonel William Patrick Everard Walton, The North Staffordshire Regiment.

• Acting Air Commodore Montagu Douglas Ommanney.
• Group Captain John Robert Andre Embling, DSO.
• Group Captain Walter Frederick Lamb, OBE.
• Group Captain Cuthbert Vincent Mears.
• Group Captain Peter Theodore Philpott, OBE.
• Group Captain Charles Frederick George Rogers, OBE.
• Group Captain Alan Allnutt Saw.
• Group Captain Ernest Alfred Whiteley, DFC.
• Group Captain Albert William Younghusband,

• William Gordon Alexander, OBE, Deputy Secretary, Agricultural Research Council.
• May Andrew, Headmistress, James Gillespie's High School for Girls, Edinburgh.
• Walter Bakel, Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
• Arthur Baker, President, Employers' Federation of Papermakers and Boardmakers.
• Bertram Benjamin Baron Benas, JP. For public services in Liverpool.
• William Henry James Benton, OBE, Chief Officer, Essex Fire Brigade.
• William Charles Black, JP, Lord Provost of Dundee, 1952-1954.
• Alfred Cyril Devenish Blanshard, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
• Dennis Brook Briggs, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
• Thomas Cameron, OBE, Secretary, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.
• Frank George Griffith Carr, Director, National Maritime Museum.
• William John Chalmers, Assistant Secretary, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Jackson Christie. For services as Chairman, Northern Ireland Fire Authority.
• Roland Peace Clarke. For political and public services in High Wycombe.
• Francis John Colvill, Engineer Surveyor-in-Chief, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Alderman Gilbert Colvin. For political and public services in Ilford.
• James Craig, Chairman, Central Agricultural Executive Committee, Scotland.
• Lilian Margaret Crichton. For political services in Scotland.
• Brooke Crutchley, Printer of the University of Cambridge.
• Cecil Francis Cumberlege, Adviser on Tea to the Ministry of Food.
• John Robert Dane, Director of the Imported Meat Division, Ministry of Food.
• Harold Davis, Chief Pharmacist, Ministry of Health.
• George Edward Raven Deacon, Director, National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Surrey.
• James Duff, OBE, JP, Chairman, Ulster Savings Committee.
• William Joseph Everard, Director, F. T. Everard & Sons Ltd.
• Matthew George Fisher, QC, Counsel to the Secretary of State for Scotland.
• George Alexander Fitch, Assistant Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
• Edith Alice Ford, Chairman and Director, British Committee for the Interchange of Teachers between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
• Robert Llewellyn Garbutt, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Richard Wilfrid Gilder, Collector, London Port, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Thomas Edward Goddup, Director, Milliard Ltd.
• Chetwynd John Pershall Grosvenor, MRCS, LRCP, Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• John Lewis Anderton Grout, MC, FRCS, Senior Consultant Radiologist to the Sheffield United Hospitals.
• George Colin Grove, Deputy Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty.
• Frank Howard-Harrison, Director of Equipment and Stores, Ministry of Supply.
• Arnold Lionel David Haskell, Director, Sadler's Wells Ballet School.
• William George Head, OBE, Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand.
• Hugh Geoffrey Herrington, Managing Director, High Duty Alloys Ltd., Slough, Buckinghamshire.
• Richard Henry Higginbotham, Senior Finance Director, Meat and Livestock Division, Ministry of Food.
• James William Francis Hill, Alderman, Lincoln City Council.
• William McLaren Hood. For services to the Colonial Office.
• Cecil James Hooker, Assistant Secretary, War Office.
• Captain William James Hutchinson, OBE, Chief Constable, Brighton County Borough Police Force.
• Gildart Edgar Pemberton Jackson, OBE, Foreign Office.
• Thomas Reginald Jacques, Director of Music to the Bach Choir.
• Colonel Edward Hamilton Carkeet-James, OBE, MC, Resident Governor and Major of HM Tower of London.
• Henry Powell Croom-Johnson, OBE, TD, Controller, Finance Division, British Council.
• Maxwell Shaw Jones, MD, MRCP, Director, Social Rehabilitation Unit, Belmont Hospital, Sutton, Surrey.
• Walter Idris Jones, Director-General of Research, National Coal Board.
• Charles Wilfred Judd, Director General of the United Nations Association of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
• Edwin Vincent Kelley, Timber Director, Ministry of Materials.
• Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, Bt, Commandant-in-Chief, Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
• Wing-Commander James Lawson, OBE, Royal Air Force, Director of Sport and Inspector of Recreation Grounds, Air Ministry.
• Henry Lewis, Professor of Welsh Language and Literature, University College of Swansea.
• Eric Robert Linklater, Author.
• Neville Langdon Lloyd, MB, BS, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Supply.
• Norman Longley, Chairman, James Longley & Co. Ltd., Building Contractors, Crawley, Sussex.
• Captain Thomas Wilfred McAllen, Lately Commodore Captain, SS Edinburgh Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd.
• Frederick Edwin-Alfred Manning, MC, TD, Director of the Post Office in Wales and Border Counties.
• Stirrat Andrew William Johnson-Marshall, Chief Architect, Ministry of Education.
• Charles James Maston, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Alderman Frank Miles, JP, Lord Mayor of Portsmouth.
• Gordon Miles, MM, Comptroller, London County Council.
• William John Waldron Modley. For political and public services in Plymouth.
• Hugh Campbell Montgomery, MBE, Lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
• Gerald Moore, Accompanist. For services to Music.
• Stanley William Nelson, Licensing Authority, Western Traffic Area, and Regional Transport Commissioner, Western Region, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Sir Frank Hillyard Newnes, Bt, Chairman, Eastman Dental Hospital, London.
• John Hubert Newsom, Chief Education Officer, Hertfordshire Local Education Authority.
• Reginald Northam. For political services.
• Karl Theodore Parker, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
• Vincent Alexander Pask, Chief Engineer, Headquarters of the British Electricity Authority.
• Thomas Redden Patterson, JP, DL. For public services in Glasgow.
• Alderman William Hamilton Jollow Priest, OBE, JP, Chairman, Plymouth Local Employment Committee.
• Henry Joseph Rayner, Chief Quantity Surveyor, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
• William Charles Redman. For public services in Margate.
• John Sydney Rogers, Vice-Chairman, Ulster Transport Authority.
• Louis Rosenhead, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Liverpool.
• Archibald Edward Russell, Director and Chief Designer, Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd., Bristol.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Isidore Hamilton Salmon, Honorary Catering Adviser to the Army.
• William Napier Samuels. For political and political services in Glasgow.
• Gerald Fountaine Sanger, JP. For political and public services.
• Group-Captain Geoffrey Shaw, DFC, DL, Vice-Chairman, North Riding of Yorkshire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Thomas Knox-Shaw, MC, Chairman, Board of Governors, United Cambridge Hospitals.
• Henry Leonard Shrimpton, MC, Chief Livestock Husbandry Advisory Officer, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Edward Smith, OBE. For political and public services in Bradford.
• Andrew Stewart, Controller, Home Service, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• The Right Honourable Jean Helen St. Clair, Baroness Stratheden and Campbell, Chief Commissioner and Chairman, Girl Guides Association.
• Richard Charles Sugars, OBE, DCM, Accountant, HM Treasury.
• Hugo Leipner Tabor, Chairman, National Council of Wholesale Egg Distributors.
• John Frederick Tanner, lately President, Amalgamated Engineering Union.
• Harold Tongue. For services as Chief Engineer, Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
• Thomas Henry Turney, lately Chairman, Northamptonshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Louis George Vedy, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Herbert Leslie Verry, Assistant Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
• Gladys Kirk Wainwright, JP. For political and public services in the Hartlepools.
• William Mark Chapman-Walker, MVO, MBE. For political services.
• Alderman Walter Ward, OBE, JP, Director, John B. Ward & Sons Ltd.
• Ronald Stephen Wells, Assistant Secretary, Home Office.
• John Rex Whinfield. For services in the invention of Terylene.
• Cyril Theodore Anstruther Wilkinson, Registrar, Principal Probate Registry.
• Bernard Bradbury Winter, Director of Engineering, Rootes Ltd., Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire.
• Wilfrid Simeon Arthur Winter, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works.
• Gerald Herbert Nowell-Withers, Senior Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Ian Denis Wratten, lately President, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
• Charles Maurice Yonge, Regius Professor of Zoology, University of Glasgow.
• George Hugh Bacon, lately Director of Agriculture, now Agricultural Adviser to the Sudan Government.
• Henry Frederick Barnard, Head of Industrial Division, Military Security Board, Control Commission for Germany.
• Clarence Norbury Ezard, OBE, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in San José.
• Christopher Leonard Patrick Gilshenan, OBE, Assistant Solicitor Director, Legal Division, Allied Commission for Austria.
• Charles Sebastian Insull Mabbatt, British subject resident in Thailand.
• Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, OBE, Director of Public Relations, British Information Services, New York.
• Eric John Seward, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce, Buenos Aires.
• Charles Thomas Underhill, OBE, Customs Adviser to the Imperial Ethiopian Government.
• Athol Donald Evans, MBE, Secretary for Home Affairs, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Thomas Guy Gisborne, OBE, Secretary for External Affairs, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Brian Allan Marwick, OBE, Deputy Resident Commissioner and Government Secretary, Basutoland.
• Finlay Patrick McRae, Crown Solicitor, State of New South Wales.
• Ernest John Pakes, For services to the United Kingdom business community in India.
• Frank Hugh Nigel Parry, Secretary to the Cabinet, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Victor Lloyd Robinson, OBE, Legal Adviser to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Bernard Fane-Saunders, President, United Kingdom Association of Pakistan.
• Andrew Cunningham Soffe. For public services in Southern Rhodesia.
• William Charles Douglas Veale, MC, DCM, ED, Town Clerk of the City of Adelaide, State of South Australia.
• Cecil Julian Manning Walters, ChM, FRACS, a Member of the Medical Board and of the Board of Health, State of New South Wales.
• William Yeo, President of the New South Wales Branch, Returned Sailors', Soldiers' & Airmen's Imperial League of Australia.
• Stanley John William Gooch, Chief Civil Engineer, Office of the Crown, Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations.
• William Alexander Hadley. For public services in St. Vincent, Windward Islands.
• Harold Houghton, Colonial Education Service, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Director of Education, Jamaica.
• Khoo Sian Ewe, OBE, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Alexander MacLeod MacDonald, Intelligence Adviser to the Government of Kenya.
• Robert Smith Marshall, Colonial Veterinary Service, Inspector-General of Animal Health Services, Nigeria.
• Mohamad Javad Namazie. For public services in Singapore.
• The Right Reverend Cecil John Patterson, Bishop on the Niger, Nigeria.
• Donovan Reginald Rosevear, Colonial Forest Service, Inspector-General of Forests, Nigeria.
• Carmelo Thake, OBE, Official Secretary to the Prime Minister of Malta.
• Ivan Bernard Trevor, MC, General Manager, Hong Kong Railways.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ewain Murray Wilson, JP, Member for Health and Local Government, Northern Rhodesia.

• Datoh Haji Mohamed Eusoff bin Mohamed Yusoff, OBE, JP, Datoh Panglima Kinta, Territorial Chief of Perak, Federation of Malaya.
• Abubakar, Emir of Gombe, Nigeria.
• The Right Reverend Ebenezer Tamunoteghe Dimieari, Bishop of the Niger Delta Diocese, Nigeria.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• The Reverend Robert Catterall, Chaplain.
• Commander Dudley Leslie Davenport.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Alfred Eustace, Royal Marines.
• Commander Charles Robert Stanier Farquhar.
• Commander Robert Augustus Fell.
• Surgeon Commander George Lush Foss, VRD, MD, BCh, RNVR.
• Commander Arthur Reginald Kirk.
• Acting Captain John Henry Parkman Proctor.
• Commander William Terence Colbourne Ridley.
• Commander John Richard Arthur Seymour, DSC.
• Commander Patrick Lawrence Viliers Slater.
• Instructor Commander Frank Lorimer Westwater.
• Commander Frank Stanley Cable, VRD, Malayan Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.

• Lieutenant-Colonel George Philip Doyne Adams, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Barber Ainley, MBE, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Elliott Allday, TD, late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh James Bartholomew, The Border Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Russell Filmer-Bennett, MC, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Graeme Bryson, TD, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Ronald Buchanan, TD, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Henry Cameron, MBE, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Whitemore Chant, MC, The Gordon Highlanders.
• Major Thomas O'Grady Cochrane, MC, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• The Reverend Norman Copeland, Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Darrell Denman, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Alfred James Eggar, MBE, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Lambert Freeman, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Francis Fane Gladwin, MBE, Scots Guards.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ralph Harper, TD, late Infantry, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Eric Hatton, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert McDonald Howatt, MC, TD, General List, Territorial Army.
• Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Warburton Jackson, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Robert Johnson, DSO, MC, The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
• Brevet Colonel Mark John Lindsey, MC, TD, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles McKee, TD, Combined Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Edgar Moulder, TD, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard William Suddaby Norfolk, MBE, TD, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Alfred Oliver Perkins, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford Thomas Sherman, Royal Corps of Signals.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Shooter, Army Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel-Robert Leslie Stear, TD, The Royal Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Alexander Stephen, MD, FRCS, Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Thompson, TD, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• Major Clifford Frederic Tumber, TD, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Anstice Vaughan, MBE, Royal Army Educational Corps
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alec Ernest Walkling, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Douglas Lawson Whatley, TD, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Thomas Cyril Wykes, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Colonel Algernon Campbell-Harris, Special List ; at present on loan to the Government of India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Francis Kynaston Thompson, MBE, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

• Acting Group Captain John Bernard Russell, DSO.
• Wing Commander Tom Bradley,
• Wing Commander Robert Deacon Elliott, DFC.
• Wing Commander Edgar John-Harrington.
• Wing Commander Idris George Selvin Hemming.
• Wing Commander William Innes Cosmo Inness.
• Wing Commander Donald Stuart Lindsay, DFC.
• Wing Commander Anthony James Payn, MBE.
• Wing Commander John Frederick Roberts.
• Wing Commander DenisRaymond Stubbs, DSO, DFC.
• Wing Commander Cyril Ernest Thurston,
• Acting Wing Commander Frank Herbert.
• Acting Wing Commander Mowbray Grayhurst Pearson, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Reserve of Officers.
• Squadron Leader David Henry Beckett.
• Squadron Leader John Aubrey Brignell, DFC.
• Squadron Leader Robert Alexander Nathaniel McCready.
• Squadron Leader Raymond Harrison Stephenson.

• Archie Duncan Adam, Lately Head of Scottish Schools Broadcasting, and Secretary of Schools Broadcasting Council for Scotland.
• Robert Edward Ainsworth, Head Postmaster, Bournemouth.
• Robert Alexander, Assistant Works Manager, Capenhurst, Department of Atomic Energy.
• Charles Wood Andrew, MC, Secretary, Glasgow Port Area Grain Committee.
• Helen Gertrude Armfield, President, All England Women's Hockey Association.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Michael FitzRoy Talbot Baines, JP, DL, Secretary, County of Bedford Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Edwin James Baldwin, Member, Executive Committee, National Federation of Meat Traders' Associations.
• Kathleen Janet Bardsley, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
• Mary Lloyd Bardsley. For political and public services in Cheshire.
• Lewis Rowland Barrett, MBE, Assistant Director, Ministry of Supply.
• Harry Bateman, Assistant Director of Guided Weapons, Ministry of Supply.
• Harold Ingham Bearder, Chairman, National Insurance Local Tribunal, Halifax.
• Richard Frank Bolt, MRCS, LRCP, Chairman, Willesden Medical Recruiting Board.
• John William Alfred Bonar, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer & Audit Department.
• John Leslie Bott. For political and public services in Surrey.
• John Horace Bowyer, Controller, Valuation Branch, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Robert Bratton, JP, Chairman, County Tyrone Education Committee.
• Alec Broadley, MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Marine Division, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Peter Ewen Brodie, Chief Constable, Stirling and Clackmannan Constabulary.
• Edwin Joseph Brown, Bursar, University of Leeds.
• John Benn Brown, Manager, Gun Mounting Department, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness.
• Noel Hawley Michael Burke, MRCS, LRCP, Lately Medical Superintendent, Cell Barnes Hospital, St. Albans.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Desborough Burnell, DSO, TD, DL. For public services in Berkshire.
• Jorge Abel Camacho, Head of European Productions Department, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Frank Atkinson Capstick, JP, lately Deputy Chairman, Westmorland Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Maud Carpenter Farrington, Director and Manager, Liverpool Repertory Theatre.
• Frederick Ernest Catchpole, JP, Chairman, English Herring Catchers' Association.
• Elizabeth Ruby, Alderman MrsChandler, JP. For public services in the Isle of Wight.
• Commander Glyn Campbell Hollingsworth Clayton, Royal Navy, Chief Constable, Admiralty Constabulary.
• William Edmund Cleaver, Manager, Cable & Wireless Engineering School, Porthcurno, Cornwall.
• Ernest Harry Leonard Clynes, Honorary Secretary, Amateur Athletic Association.
• Edward Alfred Cockayne, DM, FRCP. For services to entomology.
• Francis Morley Colebrook, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
• Donald Adolphus Collenette, For services as Secretary to the Distribution Committee, Lord Mayor's National Flood and Tempest Distress Fund.
• Alderman William Collingson, JP, General Secretary, National Union of Leather Workers.
• Dora Caroline Collins, Headmistress, Bexley County Technical School for Girls, Kent.
• Albert Alfred Lumsden Collis, Chief Engineer, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.
• Sydney Constantine, Director and General Manager, James Dixon & Sons Ltd., Sheffield.
• Samuel James Coombes, MBE, Assistant Chief Inspector, Immigration Branch, Home Office.
• Alderman Edward Ling Cooper, Chairman, East Ham and Barking War Pensions Committee.
• John Craig, Member, East Sussex Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Charles King Crockett, MM, Chief Engineer, SS Southern Harvester, Chr. Salvesen & Co.
• Alderman Edwin Cruikshanks, JP, Chairman of Finance Committee, Rotherham County Borough.
• Alexander Dann, lately Principal Officer, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland.
• Cedric Thorpe Davie, Master of Music, University of St Andrews.
• John Edgar Davies, MC, MRCS, LRCP, Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• William King Davies, Town Clerk, Port Talbot.
• Israel de Keyser, Principal, Board of Trade.
• Adam Dickie, JP, Chairman, Dungannon Urban District Council, County Tyrone.
• Alderman Walter Leslie Dingley. For services to Hospital Boards in Birmingham.
• Pauline Dower, JP, Member of the National Parks Commission.
• John Eaton, Principal, Finance Air Division, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• David Arthur Evans, Assistant Director of Aircraft Engineering, Air Ministry.
• David Esmonde Evans, GM, Principal Intelligence Officer, British Army of the Rhine.
• Frederick John Evans, JP, Vice President, Cardiff Savings Committee.
• John Benjamin Evans, Assistant Director, Council of Social Service for Wales & Monmouthshire.
• William James Eves, Chief Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works.
• Commander William Ian Farquharson, Royal Navy, Superintendent of Tidal Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty.
• Edward William Field, Managing Director, H.W. Ward & Co. Ltd., Birmingham.
• Kester Stephen Finn, Director of Newsprint, Ministry of Materials.
• Frederick Arthur Foord, lately Chief Technical Adviser to Principal Director of Engine Research and Development, Ministry of Supply.
• William Charles Gale, DCM, MM, Financial Adviser to the Commander-in Chief, 2nd Tactical Air Force.
• Robert Angus Galloway, MC, Secretary, Royal Scottish Forestry Society.
• Alan Gardner, Deputy Assistant Paymaster General.
• Hugh Edmund Gordon, lately Manager and Secretary, Institute of London Underwriters.
• Thomas Andrew Greig, Principal, Department of Health for Scotland.
• Herbert Griffiths, JP, Chairman, Port Talbot Local Employment Committee.
• Frank Grimshaw, General Works Engineer, Leyland Motors Ltd., Leyland.
• Maurice Frederick Hackett, Principal Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
• Edward Ernest Hall, Senior Housing Inspector, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
• Ernest John Hammond, Principal, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Wilfred Marsh Hampton, Technical Director and General Manager, Chance Bros. Ltd., Glassworks, Smethwick, Staffordshire.
• Philip Henry Harrold, Town Clerk of Hampstead.
• Ernest Stanley Joseph Hinds, MBE, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Forestry Commission.
• Fred Hirst, JP, Director, Fruit and Vegetable Canning and Quick Freezing Research Association.
• William John Benjamin Hopkinson, Principal, Ministry of Food.
• John Dobson Hornsby, MBE, Senior Young Men's Christian Association Representative, Forces in the Middle East.
• Charles Edward Hubbard, Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Reginald Norman Huggett, Assistant Secretary, Metropolitan Police Office, New Scotland Yard.
• Samuel Percy Hughes, Headmaster, Flint Secondary Modern School.
• Lieutenant-Colonel George James Humphries, Deputy Director, Directorate of Colonial Surveys, Colonial Office.
• Ernest Frederick Hyatt, For political and public services in Paddington.
• James Irvine, Principal Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Charles Arthur Ivory, Assistant Regional Controller, London Region, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Alfred Edwin Johnson, Principal, War Office.
• Harold Cottam Johnson, Assistant Keeper, First Class, Directing Section, Public Record Office.
• Jean Donald Jolly, Matron, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.
• Jenkyn Edward Jones, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Thomas Richard Jones, Controller in Wales, National Assistance Board.
• William Richard Owain-Jones, British Council Representative in Pakistan.
• John Morton Scott Jupp, MC, Foreign Office.
• Clifford Ivor King, Chief Officer, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire Fire Service.
• John Francis Buller Kitson, DSC, Chairman, Poole Savings Committee, Dorset.
• Walter Charles Lamarque, Deputy Director, Imported Cereals Division, Ministry of Food.
• Leonard Lewis Landy, War Office Chief Security and Intelligence Adviser, Austria.
• Ivy Lang, Nursing Adviser to the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
• Frank Charles Lant, Deputy Chief Fuel Engineer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Alexander Watt Lee, lately Deputy Chairman, West Midlands Gas Board.
• James Craig Lennox, Secretary, Ancient Order of Foresters.
• Willie Edward Leopold, Principal, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Frank Herbert Lister, JP, Employer Chairman, South Gloucestershire District Advisory Committee, South Western Regional Board for Industry.
• Michael John Lithgow, Chief Experimental Test Pilot, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Hursley Park.
• Thomas Thomson Rankin Lockhart, MC, JP, Headmaster, Cheadle Hulme School, Cheshire.
• George Matthew Lackland Logie, Shipyard Manager, Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne.
• Herbert Wykeham Lydall, Governor and Vice-President, Thomas Coram Foundation for Children.
• Leslie Irwin McCandless, Principal Regional Officer, Birmingham and Nottingham Regions, Ministry of Health.
• Alexander McKibbin, MBE, MM, Foreign Office.
• Captain Hugh Ingersoll Hall McMichael, Master, MV British Sailor, British Tanker Co. Ltd.
• Thomas George Marriott, Chairman, South Eastern Region, Provisions and Groceries Committee.
• Leslie George Suffield Mason, Senior Organisation Officer, HM Treasury.
• Thomas William Mathias, General Operations Manager, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd.
• William Hughes Mathias, JP. For public services in Carmarthenshire.
• Henry Ernest Matthews, National Industrial Officer, National Union of General & Municipal Workers.
• Alderman Bernard Lovegrove Maule, JP, Chairman, Newark Local Savings Committee, Nottinghamshire.
• Joseph Percival Mayo, Governor, HM Prison Barlinnie.
• Arthur George Mellor, Chief Accountant, National Sulphuric Acid Association Ltd.
• Alderman Llewellin John Meyler, JP, Member of the Pembrokeshire County Council.
• Renwick James Gunn Millar. For political and public services in Caithness.
• Major Harold James Milne, MC, DL, Provost of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
• James Corsar Mitchell, Divisional Controller, North Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority.
• Alderman Thomas Shilston Mitchell. For public services in Hampshire.
• Thomas Edward Murray, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
• Harold Needham, JP, Chairman, Croydon and Sutton Local Employment Committee.
• George Anderson Noble, Principal, Air Ministry.
• Sydney Ombler, General Secretary, Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association.
• Colonel Walter Parkes, DSO, MC, JP, Secretary, Teaching Hospitals Association.
• Willie Parkin, Superintending Examiner, HM Patent Office, Board of Trade.
• Thomas George Farquhar Paterson, Curator, County Museum, Armagh.
• Captain Denis Ives Peacock, Fleet Manager, Stratocruiser and Constellation Fleet, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Herbert Peart, JP. For public services in Northumberland.
• Cecil Henry Perry, Chief Constructor, Admiralty.
• William Conon Grant Peterkin. For political and public services in Fife.
• Herbert Henry Phillips. For services as Chief Commercial Officer, British Transport Commission.
• Leslie William Picknett, lately Senior Executive Officer, Supreme Court Pay Office.
• Cuthbert John Pither, Superintending Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
• William Thomas Polkinghorne, Head Postmaster, Brighton.
• Harold Powis. For political and public services in Essex.
• Alderman Wykeham Price, JP. For public services in Guildford.
• Philip Dent Priestman, JP, Chairman, Hull and District Local Employment Committee.
• Rudolph Pyser, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Ruth Railton, Founder and Musical Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
• Eric Reily, Senior Architect, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
• Walter Langley Roberts, HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
• Percy Rockliff, Honorary Parliamentary Agent, National Union of Holloway Friendly Societies.
• Arnold Roebuck, Scientific Officer, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Eleanor Mary Sampson, JP. For political and public services in Sheffield.
• Wilfred Harry Sansom, MC, Production Director, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• John Charles Scott. For political and public services in Glasgow.
• Arthur Douglas Scudamore, MBE, Principal, Road Transport Division, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• John Harold Knowles Sebright, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Alderman William Edmund Redfern Short, JP, Chairman, Birkenhead Savings Committee.
• Major Arthur Simmonds, MC, Deputy Secretary, Royal Horticultural Society.
• Captain Walter Henry Simmonds, Master,, Glen Line Ltd.
• Major James Frederick Simpson, TD, Chairman and Managing Director, Simpson & Godlee Ltd., Manchester.
• William James Skardon, Civil Assistant, War Office.
• Arthur Thomas Smalley, Assistant Director, Contracts Department, General Post Office.
• James Smith, Secretary, Glasgow and West of Scotland Regional Advisory Council for Technical Education.
• Frederick Sidney Snow, Principal, Frederick S. Snow & Partners, Consulting Engineers.
• Freda Mary Sower, Assistant Regional Controller, North Western Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• George Herbert Stancer, President, Cyclists' Touring Club.
• Thomas Ralph Stobart, Film Director and Cameraman.
• George Chatburn Sumner, JP, Chairman, Bolton and District Hospital Management Committee.
• Edward Tattersall, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Eleanor Tegart, Principal, Ministry of Materials.
• Horace Thorley. For political and public services in Willesden.
• Claude John Thorne, MBE, Director, National Association of Paper Merchants.
• Horatio Todd, JP. For political and public services in Belfast.
• George William Tyler, Chief Executive Officer, Civil Service Commission.
• Marjorie Mary Tyler. For political services in Leicester.
• Robin Victor Vanderfelt, Assistant Secretary, United Kingdom Branch, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
• Henry James Vann, Chief Constable, Birkenhead Borough Police.
• Albert Edward Waddington, Assistant Chief Constable, Lancashire Constabulary.
• Harry Wallwork, Deputy Regional Food Officer, North West Region, Ministry of Food.
• Eva Dorothy Haddon Remson Ward, lately Central Secretary of the Mothers' Union.
• Raymond John Ward, Technical Adviser, South West Regional Office, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
• Ivor Charles Webley, Chief Inspector, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Alderman Forsgate Weekley, JP, Chairman, Grantham, Sleeford & District Local Employment Committee.
• Frederick Arthur Wells. For services in the field of industrial relations.
• Alderman James Heywood Wensley, JP, Chairman, Cheshire Wing Consultative Committee, Air Training Corps.
• Alderman Harry Clifford Whitehouse, JP. For political and public services in Dudley.
• Robert Noble Wilkinson, Manager, Barclays Overseas Development Corporation.
• Gladys May Williams, JP. For political and public services in Glamorgan.
• William Hamilton Wilson, lately Chairman, Tea Selling Section, Ministry of Food.
• William Lawrence Wilson, Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Works.
• Edna Wright, JP. For services to disabled ex-Servicemen in Northern Ireland.
• Captain John Piachaud Wright, DSO, Royal Navy, Deputy Assistant Director, Ministry of Defence.
• Peter Yorke. For political services.
• Stuart Ainsworth, Manager of the Guaqui–La Paz Railway, La Paz.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Davis Belton, British subject resident in Egypt.
• John Bull, Director of the Sudan Mercantile Co., Port Sudan.
• Henry Lower Carter, MBE, Accountant for North America of Thomas Cook & Son, Inc..
• Leslie Lobeth Coxwell, British subject resident in Brazil.
• Captain Harry Ross Dibble, District Commissioner, Gambeila, Sudan.
• The Venerable Archdeacon Paul O'Brien Gibson, Archdeacon of the Church Missionary Society, Sudan.
• Colonel John Teasdale Lisle, TD, Temporary Chief Executive Officer, Office of the Economic Adviser, Control Commission for Germany.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Desmond George McCaully, MB, BCh, Medical Officer for the Trucial Coast, Persian Gulf.
• Professor Everard Arnold Mills, Professor of Bacteriology at the Royal College of Medicine, Bagdad.
• Colonel Geoffrey Littlewood Peace, TD, lately Senior Legal Assistant, Berlin, Control Commission for Germany.
• Gerald William Vosper Rumble, Field Manager of the Anglo-Ecuadorean Oilfields Ltd., Ecuador.
• Paul James Sandison, Commissioner of Labour, Sudan Government.
• Frederick William Syer, Deputy Commissioner, Tripolitania Police Force.
• Wilfrid George Tatham, MC, British Council Representative in Greece.
• Kenneth Edwin Whittall, British subject resident in Turkey.
• John Bryan Wood, Research Section, Political Branch, British Military Government.
• Constance Jean, Lady Bonython. For services to charitable organisations in the State of South Australia.
• Philip Alan Bowmaker, Director of Livestock and Agricultural Services, Basutoland.
• Cleaver Ernest Bunton, Mayor of Albury, State of New South Wales.
• Michael Gelfand, MB, ChB. For services to Medicine in Southern Rhodesia.
• Penelope Gordon, Headmistress, Eveline Girls' High School, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
• Francis Arthur Lewis, Town Clerk, Glenelg, State of South Australia.
• David Lyon McLarty, Director of the State Dockyard in New South Wales.
• William Ford Nicholas, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Cecil Leslie Joshua Nott, Comptroller General of Prisons, State of New South Wales.
• Douglas William Leigh Parker, ChM, FRACS, Director of Orthopaedic Services, State of Tasmania.
• Ernest Parker, Chairman, Bombay Branch, United Kingdom Citizens' Association in India.
• Basil Owen Agincourt Plummer, Director of Housing, State of Tasmania.
• Richard Bestall Pounsett. For services to patriotic and charitable organisations in the State of South Australia.
• Victor York Richardson, President of the Country Carnival Cricket Association, State of South Australia.
• John Brebner Ross, Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in London.
• Bernard Thomas Squires, DM, BCh, Medical Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• George Stark, Director of the Native Education Department, Southern Rhodesia.
• Robert Stanley Steel, MB, ChM, Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, State of New South Wales.
• Guillaume Francois Marais Van Eeden. For services rendered in connection with the setting up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Henry James Reginald Way, Director, Geological Survey, Swaziland.
• Reginald George Squire Willis, Chairman, Punjab and N.W.F.P. Branch, United Kingdom Association of Pakistan.
• Martin Osterfield Wray, Administrative Secretary, High Commissioner's Office, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.
• Rudolf Ebenezer Mason Anderson. For public services in Kenya.
• Ivor Cresswell Welslord Bayldon, For public services in Tanganyika.
• Colin Macaulay Booth. For public services in Nigeria.
• Reginald Walter Cook, Head of Department, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations.
• Frederick Horace Charles Dawson, Colonial Prisons Service, Commissioner of Prisons, Tanganyika.
• Peter Francis de Souza. For public services in Singapore.
• Frank Cecil Exon, Manager in Fiji of Amalgamated Wireless Ltd.
• Philip Alexander Gordon Field, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Karamoja, Uganda.
• Donald Selvyn Adolphus FitzRitson. For public services in Jamaica.
• Lucien Victor Genet. For public services in Sierra Leone.
• Philip Francis Howitt, Senior Education Officer, Singapore.
• John Anthony Hunt, Colonial Geological Survey Service, Chief Geologist, Somaliland.
• The Reverend Dom Maurus Inguanez, Librarian, Royal Malta Library.
• William Jarvis Mill Irving, Colonial Agricultural Service, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Uganda.
• Hugh Anthony Stephen Johnston, DFC, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Nigeria.
• John Kennedy. For services to education in the Federation of Malaya.
• Leung Cheung Ling, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Ian Gregor MacGregor, MB, ChB, Colonial Medical Service, Senior Specialist, Nigeria.
• Eugene Pierre Larnach Lockhart Masson, MB, ChB, Colonial Medical Service, Superintending Medical Officer, Mental Hospital, St. Ann's, Trinidad.
• Herbert James Millar. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
• Victor George Milward. For public services in Nyasaland.
• Malcolm Park, Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
• Vaghjibhai Shankerbhai Patel. For public services in Zanzibar.
• Henry Raymond Phillips, Lately Director of Education, Northern Region, Nigeria.
• Ebenezer Amos Sackey, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Gold Coast.
• Alastair Malcolm Smith, MBE, Assistant Superintendent of Ports & Lights and Port Manager, Mombasa, East African Railways and Harbours Corporation.
• Hugh Worrell Springer, JP, Registrar of the University College of the West Indies.
• Fred Stansfield, Government Printer, Nyasaland.
• James Stirling, Commissioner of Labour, Mauritius.
• Alfred Quarcoo Tagoe, For services to the Boy Scout movement in the Gold Coast.
• James Taylor, MB, ChB, Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Seychelles.
• Dennis Hugh Trumble, State Treasurer and Controller of Customs and Marine, Brunei.
• Frank Leslie Walcott. For services to the Trade Union movement in Barbados.
• William John Webb. For public services in Kenya.
• Charles William Wells, Colonial Veterinary Service, Deputy Director of Veterinary Services, Federation of Malaya.
• Ronald Willcock, Secretary, Lint Marketing Board and Uganda Coffee Industry Board, Uganda.
• George Arnold Williams. For public services in Bermuda.
• Ian Malcolm Gordon Williams, MBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Cyprus.
• Thomas Williams, Colonial Education Service, Director of European Education, Northern Rhodesia.
• Arthur Woo Wai Tak, MB. For public services in Hong Kong.

• Tengku Pekerma Wira, Tengku Wok Abdullah bin Din, Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Trengganu, Federation of Malaya.
• Kuan Chan Sang, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Ernest Sessei Ikoli. For services to journalism in Nigeria.
• Francis Chukwuka Nwokedi, Senior Labour Officer, Labour Department, Nigeria.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Second Officer Irene May Austen, WRNS.
• Senior Commissioned Master-at-Arms Alfred Thomas Ayres.
• Lieutenant-Commander Stanley James Barton,
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry Brown, DSC.
• Lieutenant-Commander Albert Edward Charman.
• Commissioned Recruiter Fred Clarkson.
• Lieutenant-Commander James Alfred Crane, VRD, RNVR,
• Lieutenant William Benjamin James Harding, DSC.
• Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Cyril Tuxford Haynes.
• Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Stanley Geoffrey Fox Linton, MRCS, LRCP.
• Captain Sidney Edward Shaw, Royal Marines.
• Lieutenant George John Hext Stephens,
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry Francis White, VRD, RNVR.

• 22278984 Warrant Officer Class II Albert Charles Ackland, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 7885970 Warrant Officer Class II Cyril Alexander, The Royal Scots Greys, Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major Alan Edward Arnold, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• S/57470 Warrant Officer Class II John Frederick Binstead, Royal Army Service Corps.
• 775110 Warrant Officer Class II Cyril Francis Bradley, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 6198725 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Alfred Britton, The Middlesex Regiment.
• Major Edward John Sidney Burnett, MC, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles.
• Lieutenant Reginald Edwin Butler, Grenadier Guards.
• 22269922 Warrant Officer Class II Herbert Stuart Campbell, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
• Major Wentworth Randolph Chetwynd, Grenadier Guards.
• Major John Francis Lockhart Clarke, TD, The Queen's Royal Regiment, Territorial Army.
• Major Joffre William Clayton, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Major Arthur Stanley Crockford, TD, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
• 1566125 Warrant Officer Class I John Edgar Daniels, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 809796 Warrant Officer Class II Harold Claude Deacon, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• 22244980 Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Edge, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
• Major Charles Harris Esmond, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• 2334399 Warrant Officer Class I Gomer James Francis, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Major Walter Victor Garrard, TD, Royal Army Educational Corps.
• Major Kenneth David Gribbin, Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major Walter Harvey Hall, The Royal Berkshire Regiment.
• Major Margaret Austin Hardie, TD, Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army.
• Major William Harris, The West Yorkshire Regiment.
• Major Charles William Harrison, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major George Holmes Hoerder, Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major Alexander Marshall Horace Gregory-Hood, MC, Grenadier Guards.
• Major Percy Trelivin Howard, TD, The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army.
• Captain Horace Matthew Humphrey, Army Cadet Force.
• Major Alexander Kirk Johnson, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
• Major Peter Sutherland Johnson, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Thomas Norman Johnston, Royal Army Pay Corps.
• 809254 Warrant Officer Class I Arthur Henry Lacey, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Harry Lacy, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Douglas Sutherland Leghorn, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major Peter MacDonald, The Border Regiment.
• Major Raymond Walter Macdonald, The Gordon Highlanders.
• Major Ambrose Marriott, Corps of Royal Military Police.
• Major James Martlew, The Lancashire Fusiliers.
• Captain Gilbert Eric Mayers, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
• 831256 Warrant Officer Class II Terence McCleary, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• 22210250 Warrant Officer Class II Alfred McConnell, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Major Stanley Noel Meredith, Combined Cadet Force.
• Major Edward John Neal, Royal Army Service Corps.
• 2754006 Warrant Officer Class I Robert Bernard Nix, The Black Watch.
• 2974308 Warrant Officer Class II James Orr, MM, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Territorial Army.
• S/5494567 Warrant Officer Class I William Parrott, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Captain Norman Phythian, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major Thomas Henry Joseph Pine 257167, Royal Regiment of Artillery
• Captain Charles William Pitt, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 22222087 Warrant Officer Class II David Plant, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
• Major Stoddart Prentice, Combined Cadet Force.
• 822917 Warrant Officer Class I Maurice Leslie Robinson, Army Physical Training Corps.
• Captain Gilbert Russell Russell-Smith, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• W/7057 Warrant Officer Class II Margaret Sharp, Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Major Robert John Blantyre Simpson, TD, The Royal Scots, Territorial Army.
• Major John Robert Kilgour Sinclair, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
• Major John William Turnbull, Home Guard.
• S/54952 Warrant Officer Class I Reginald William Villa, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major John Stuart Gerard Walenn, MC, The Royal Berkshire Regiment.
• Major William Henry Walker, TD, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 1061963 Warrant Officer Class I Douglas John Ward, MM, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Henry Stuart Ramsay Watson, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major Albert Graham White, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Douglas Arthur Whybrow, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• 22236441 Warrant Officer Class II Leonard James Yeomans, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Reginald Henchy, Corps of Royal Engineers; until recently on loan to the Government of India.
• Major Bevan Clarence Field, MC, ED, The Hong Kong Regiment.
• Major Stanley Ludgater, lately Commanding Officer, The Federation of Malaya Volunteer Force Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Captain Francisco Vincente Vieira Ribeiro, ED, The Royal Hong Kong Defence Force.
• 4340953 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Alfred Adams, ARCM, The North Staffordshire Regiment.
• Captain William Henry Eardley, The North Staffordshire Regiment.
• 3054502 Warrant Officer Class II Malcolm Edward Chalmers Neave, The Royal Scots.
• Major John Foster Fenton Rooney, MB, Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major Cyril Tobenhouse, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

• Squadron Leader George Gaskin Thompson, DFM.
• Squadron Leader Bernard Webster.
• Squadron Leader James Alan Wright, DFC,.
• Acting Squadron Leader John Frederick Barford.
• Flight Lieutenant Pearson Bell.
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Cheater.
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Ian Colquhoun, DFC, AFC.
• Flight Lieutenant James Coppock.
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Arthur Gale.
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas William Robert Godmon.
• Flight Lieutenant William Arthur Sidney Harrison.
• Flight Lieutenant Frank William Richards Moody,
• Flight Lieutenant William Trevor Morrison, AFC.
• Flight Lieutenant Joseph Palmer.
• Flight Lieutenant Fred Hanson Perry.
• Flight Lieutenant James Wishart.
• Acting Flight Lieutenant Glover Ernest Austin, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Charles Lush, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Flying Officer John Albert Henry Sorrell.
• Warrant Officer William Haydn Graham Beacon.
• Warrant Officer George Robert Beaney.
• Warrant Officer Wyn Davies.
• Warrant Officer Marie Donevan, Women's Royal Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Arthur Greenhow.
• Warrant Officer George Charles Marsh.
• Warrant Officer Reginald Walter Joseph Moon.
• Warrant Officer William James Bartholomew Nelles.
• Warrant Officer James Robinson.
• Warrant Officer Harry Frederick Whiting.
• Warrant Officer Frederick John Woolley.

• Dorothy Ablett, Sister, Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridgeshire.
• William Albert Acott, Home Teacher of the Blind, Kent County Council.
• William Ross Adam, Senior Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department.
• Charles Edmund Addis, BEM, Assistant Works Manager, Bulpitt & Sons Ltd., Birmingham.
• Alfred George Agate, General Works Manager and Production Controller, J. Langham Thompson Ltd., Stanmore, Middlesex.
• Dorothy Julia Alloway, Foreign Office.
• Joan Mary Antony, Senior Temporary Assistant, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Beatrice Isabella Appleby. For political and public services in Newark.
• Margaret Esmond Armstrong, Clerical Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Thomas Smith Arnott, Station Master, Edinburgh, Scottish Region, British Railways.
• Reginald Charles Ashman, Vice-Chairman, Bristol Savings Committee.
• Thomas Bagley. For public services in Stone, Staffordshire.
• William Newson Bailey, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force.
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Maurice Hindley Baker, RD, RNR, Purser, SS Pretoria Castle, Union Castle Steamship Co. Ltd.
• Stanley Herbert Baker, Deputy County Planning Officer, West Sussex County Council.
• John Benjamin Ball, Welfare Officer, Headquarters, Mid West District, Western Command.
• Edward Ballard, lately Senior Foreman of Engineer Branch, Admiralty.
• Robert John Balls, Skipper, Steam Trawler William King.
• Jack Barnes, Manager, Metal Pattern Shop, G. Perry & Sons Ltd., Leicester.
• Michael Joseph Barrett, Chemical Plant Manager, British Titan Products Co. Ltd., Billingham-on-Tees.
• Gertrude Mary Bartle, Headmistress, Cross Flatts Park Girls' School, Leeds.
• George Elton Bates, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department.
• William Ralph Beardall, Engineer and Surveyor, Boston Rural District Council.
• Frederick Vernon Fletcher Bennett, Senior Information Officer, Ministry of Education.
• Laurence Arthur Bent, Assistant Regional Food Officer, South Eastern and Eastern Region, London, Ministry of Food.
• Reginald Betts, Official Receiver, Cardiff, Board of Trade.
• Helen Muriel Blackburne, Secretary, National Adoption Society.
• Reginald Gilbert Blake, Senior Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Charles Blaney, Town Surveyor, Newry, County Down.
• Edgar Furness Bradbury, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Muriel Pervenche Emilie Bradnock, Make-up and Wardrobe Manager, Television, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Gertrude Bray, Supervisor of Typists, Town Clerk's Office, Birmingham.
• Horace Brierley, JP, Chairman, Burnley Local Savings Committee.
• Elsie Blanche Bromfield. For political and public services in East London.
• Christina Thomson Brough. For political and public services in Glasgow.
• Annie Brown, Headmistress, Ormesby County Primary School, North Riding of Yorkshire.
• Lancelot Browne, Senior Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department, Northern Ireland.
• Denis Leslie Brownlow, Director and Chief Engineer, Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Ltd., near Stockport, Cheshire.
• Alice Maud Buckingham, County Borough Organiser, Reading, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Michael Leslie Burgan, Experimental Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
• Charles Burns. For political services in County Antrim.
• Florence Edith Margot Butler. For political services.
• James Butterworth, Local Fuel Overseer, County Borough of Wigan.
• James Cairns, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Frank Norman Calver, Engineer-in-Charge, Daventry Transmitting Station, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Olivia Mary Cape, Civil Assistant, War Office.
• Arthur Charles Careless, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Health.
• Fred Carruthers, Grade 3 Officer, Regional Office, Leeds, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Robert Simpson Caruth, Honorary Secretary, Local Savings Committee, Banbridge & District, County Down.
• Rex Henry John Gary, Senior Experimental Officer, Radar Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Malvern.
• Alfred Chantry, Inspector of Clothing, Ministry of Supply.
• Frederick George Chapman, Senior Executive Officer, War Office.
• Harry Albert Chapman, MM, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
• John Frederick Chapman, TD, Senior Executive Officer, Northern Army Group, British Army of the Rhine.
• Lily Olson Chapman, Matron, General Hospital, Sunderland.
• Rosalind Chapman, Home Help Organiser, Hounslow, Middlesex.
• Ernest Mark Cheetham, Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Louis Thornton Nicol Clark, Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Richard Alexander Philip Clark, Honorary Secretary, Nottinghamshire Area, Forces Help Society & Lord Roberts Workshops.
• Astell Maude Mary Clements, Honorary Secretary, Canterbury Division, Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association.
• Mildred Larcombe Coleman, JP, Chairman, Women's Sub-Committee, Bournemouth and Poole Local Employment Committee.
• Herbert James Ennis Colley, Machinery Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Gladys Norman Commander, Hospitality Secretary, Overseas Department, Girl Guides Association.
• John Cairns Connor, JP. For public services in Lanarkshire.
• Florence Ellen Conquest, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• William Charles Douglas Considine, Senior Lecturer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
• Marjorie Hutchinson Cook, Public Health Nursing Officer, Ministry of Health.
• George Holt Corker, Manager, Derwenthaugh Coking and Chemical Works, Blaydon-on-Tyne, National Coal Board.
• Charles Rennie Cowie, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade, Scotland.
• Alfred Cowley, Senior Trade Officer, Oils & Fats Division, Ministry of Food.
• Thomas Cowling. For political and public services in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
• Ernest Craddock, Director and General Manager, West Hunwick Silica & Firebrick Co. Ltd., Willington, County Durham.
• Olive Maud Creese. For political and public services in Gravesend.
• William Crichton, Principal Supervisor, Admiralty.
• Victor George Critchlow, Area Engineer, Sheffield Telephone Area, General Post Office.
• Eric David Croft, Director and Secretary, British Hotels & Restaurants Association.
• Eric William Cross, Chief Executive Officer, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Department of Atomic Energy.
• Eugene Cross, MM, JP, Personnel Manager, Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd., Ebbw Vale.
• Hugh Alexander Cushnie, JP. For political and public services in County Armagh.
• William John Dabson, Superintendent, West Sussex Constabulary.
• Ian Ainslie Dalgliesh, Chief Radio Officer, British European Airways Corporation.
• William Johnston Dallas, Head Outside Engineer and Dock Superintendent, Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
• Arthur William Dando, lately Higher Executive Officer, HM Stationery Office.
• William John Daniel, JP, Trade Union Member, Worcester District Advisory Committee, Midland Regional Board for Industry.
• Percy Edwin D'Arcy, Secretary, Men's Division, Central After-Care Association.
• David John Pugsley Davies, Superintendent of Works, Ministry of Works.
• John Davies, JP, Chairman, Market Bosworth and Ashby District Committee, Leicestershire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Major John Benjamin Davies, Member, National Executive Council, and Chairman, Wales Area, British Legion.
• Thomas Edward Davies, Manager, Cardiff Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Frank Moore Dean, Senior Experimental Officer, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry.
• Kenneth John James Dean, Senior Accountant, Ministry of Food.
• Albert Ernest Delph. For political and public services in Essex.
• Norah Donoghue, Director, Catholic Women's League, British Army of the Rhine.
• Captain William Victor Doughty, Master, MV Atlantic City, Sir Wm. Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd.
• Herbert Walter Dowle, Valuation Clerk, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Captain Herbert Austin Drudge. For political and public services in the Isle of Wight.
• Sidney Edwin Dudley, Superintendent, Farmfield House, Horley, Surrey.
• Isaac Main Duggie, Director, Macrae, Duggie, McPherson Ltd., Fish Salesmen.
• Claude Edward Edmonds, JP, Member, Monmouthshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Herbert Edward Edmonds, JP, Regional Secretary for South Wales and Monmouthshire, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.
• Alderman George Edwards. For political and public services in Cornwall.
• Ruth Gladys Edwards, Chairman, Women's Sub-Committee, Stoke-on-Trent, Local Employment Committee.
• Percival Francis Ellis, Training Superintendent, National Oil Refineries Ltd.
• Walter David Evans, Senior Executive Officer, Home Office.
• Lieutenant-Commander Alfred George Farrance, Royal Navy, Harbour Master, Tees Conservancy Commissioners.
• Percy George Crosbye Farrell, Assistant Director, Hirings, Cyprus District, War Office.
• Marjorie Aline Farthing, Manager, Manchester Office, Raw Cotton Commission.
• Marjorie Ellen Faulkner, Senior Executive Officer, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office.
• Stephen Ferry, Traffic Manager, Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd.
• Jane Field, Warden, "Oaklands" Home for old people, Dalton, Huddersfield.
• Harris Finn, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
• Lewis Forsyth, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• James Edward Harold Forty, Duty Officer, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Agnes May Anderson Fraser, County Borough Organiser, Carlisle, Women's Voluntary Services.
• William Scott Frater, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
• Donald Galbraith, Master, Lighthouse Motor Vessel May, Northern Lighthouse Board.
• Fergus McWilliam Galbraith, Technical Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• William McArthur Gall, Manager, Barry Graving Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd., Glamorganshire.
• Walter Thomas Gann. For services as District Manager, Merseyside & North Wales Electricity Board.
• Ernest Henry Garner, Higher Executive Officer, General Post Office.
• Mary George, Deputy Chief Press Officer, Ministry of Food.
• Edward James Gerber, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Major Ernest Gordon Gibbons, Road Safety Officer, NE Cheshire and SE Lancashire Road Safety Organisation.
• William Duncan Gilchrist, Chief Accountant, Scottish Industrial Estates Ltd.
• Edward Frank Joseph Goad, BEM, Horticultural Officer, French District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Frank Gooch, Inspector of Works, Air Ministry.
• Douglas Alfred Good, Higher Executive Officer, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty.
• Maud Gordon, Headmistress, St. John's Infants' Roman Catholic School, Glasgow.
• Harold Gould, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force.
• Marald Dingwall Grant, Warden of the Guild of Aid, Glasgow.
• Richard Bruce Gray, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office.
• Lieutenant-Colonel The Reverend Prebendary Robert Dixon Rosby Greene, Chairman, Hereford and District Disablement Advisory Committee.
• Alderman John Joseph Grogan, JP, National President, National Association of Operative Plasterers.
• Sidney Thomas Gunnis, Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
• Richard Emmanual Hall, Assistant Manager, T. R. Dowson & Co. Ltd., South Shields.
• Alma Hardy, Matron, Royal Hospital Chelsea.
• Rose Ethel Harraway. For political and public services in Gillingham.
• Mabel Mary Harris, Foreign Office.
• Rhoda Annie Elizabeth Harris, Centre Organiser, Guildford Borough, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Edward George Haylett, Chief Officer, Lincoln Fire Brigade.
• Muriel Elizabeth Haythorn-Thwaite, Superintendent, Young Men's Christian Association Centre, Gold Coast.
• Charles William Helm, Chairman, Tadcaster District Committee, West Riding Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Louis Daniel Henderson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• William Henderson, Main Grade Engineer, Highways Engineering Staff, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Joseph James Henson, Clerk to the Licensing Authority, East Midland Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Doris May Higgs, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• John Hill, Secretary to the Mayor of Derby.
• Pegeen Fear Hill, Senior Welfare Officer, Hospitals Welfare Department, British Red Cross Society.
• William Turland Hill, Air Photographs Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
• Henry Hinde, Headmaster, Hillmorton Paddox Primary School, Rugby.
• Thomas Henry Charles Hobbs, MM, Divisional Potato Supervisor, North East England, Ministry of Food.
• Cecil Arthur Hollands, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Alfred Ernest Holloway, Chief Clerk, Manchester District Registry of the High Court, Supreme Court of Judicature.
• Reginald Bartley Hosking, DFM, Signals Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• John Dominic Howe. For political services in Portsmouth.
• James William Hubbard, Deputy Superintendent Engineer, Board of Customs & Excise.
• John Stanley Huggins. For public services in Paignton, South Devon.
• Arthur Hurst. For services as Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Works.
• Dennis Edmund Hutchinson, JP, Chairman, Kettering District Committee, Northamptonshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Leonard Rochford Hyde, Chairman, Droitwich District Committee, Worcestershire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Francis Ralph Imison, lately Chief Personnel Manager, Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd., Bristol.
• Frank Edward Impey, Superintendent, Paddington District Post Office, London.
• George Ernest Intin, Regional Secretary, Transport & General Workers' Union.
• Kenneth Trelawny Jago, Senior Executive Officer, Royal Air Force Record Office, Gloucester.
• Lila Rose Eugenie Jarvis, Higher Executive Officer, HM Treasury.
• Annie Jelley. For public services in County Armagh.
• Dora Gwendoline Jennings, Honorary Lady Superintendent, Soldiers' Home, Glasgow.
• Edgar Frank Johnson, Wholesale Meat Supply Association Supervisor, Birmingham City Meat Market.
• Kathleen Webb-Johnson, Chairman, Wimbledon, Epsom & District War Pensions Committee.
• Charles Evelyn Lee-Jones, District Engineer, Derby District, Derby and Burton Sub-Area, East Midlands Electricity Board.
• Evelyn May Jones, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Glyn Jones, Chairman, North Wales Schools Advisory Committee for National Savings.
• Hagop Boghoss Kalemkiarian, Superintendent Clerk, General Headquarters, Middle East Land Forces.
• Fenton Alexander Kennedy, Rationing Officer, Northern Ireland Region, Ministry of Food.
• Charles John Kilby, JP. For public services in Bedfordshire.
• Thomas Lock Kinnair. For political and public services in Northumberland.
• Walter Kirkpatrick. For political and public services in Selkirkshire.
• Flora Jane Knapp, lately Matron, Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, Exeter.
• George Henry Laking, MM, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• James Douglas Lambert, Foreign Office.
• Leslie Lancaster, Registrar of Births and Deaths, Hull.
• Stanley Edwin Langston, Secretary, English Schools Rugby Union.
• George William Lanigan, Senior Assistant Collector, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Richard Derek Lanser, Superintendent of Radio Maintenance, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Alfred Lawrence, MM, Manager, Newcastle Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• William Burton Lawrie, Factory Inspector, Class IB, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Elsie Pemberton Leach, lately Honorary Secretary, Bird Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology.
• Reginald Nelson Le Fevre, Training and Education Officer, North Thames Gas Board.
• Ieuan Lewis, Senior Sanitary Inspector, Pontardawe Rural District Council, Glamorgan.
• Stanley Herbert Lines, General Works Manager, A.C. Cossor Ltd., London.
• Mary Laurie Logan, Area Officer, Northern Ireland, British Council.
• Norman Brydon Logan, Male Mental Nurse in Charge, Burnholme Unit, Northgate and District Hospital, Stannington, Northumberland.
• Albert Edward Lomax, JP, Chairman, Rawtenstall Local Employment Committee, Lancashire.
• Charles Augustus James Lowlett, BEM, Principal Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty.
• Catherine Robertson MacArthur. For political services in Argyll.
• Henry McClelland, Senior Assistant Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Ralph Clifford Machin, Assistant Chief Constable, Bedfordshire Constabulary.
• Robert Malcolm MacLeod, Crofter, and member of the District Council, Isle of Lewis.
• The Very Reverend Hubert MacManaway, Chairman, Fermanagh Hospital Management Committee.
• Anna Loretta McNamee, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Thomas McNiece, lately Clerical Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
• John Maddison, Senior Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
• John Alexander Maisey, District Inspector and Horticultural Officer, Anzac Agency, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Mildred Kate Mann, Higher Executive Officer, Admiralty.
• Doris Louise Marshall, Clerical Officer, Tithe Redemption Commission.
• John Leslie Matthews, Chief Actuary, Savings Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Elizabeth Maybin, Headmistress, Colthurst House School, Cheshire.
• James Melvin, GM, Divisional Officer, Glasgow Fire Brigade.
• Clare Miller, BEM, Director and Manageress, Embroidery and Regalia Department, Hobson & Sons Ltd.
• James Milne, MM, Higher Executive Officer, Supplies Department, Post Office, Edinburgh.
• Violet Orr Moore, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Arthur Jasper Morbin, Senior Executive Officer, Area Finance Office, Edinburgh, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Anna Morrissey, JP, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Alderman John Hides Moss. For political and public services in Huntingdonshire.
• Michael Murphy, MM, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
• Roland Baden Naylor, Chief Inspector, F. H. Lloyd & Co. Ltd., Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
• Eveline May Nicholas, Headmistress, Ystrad Mynach Infants' and Nursery School, Glamorgan.
• Alderman Lewis Herbert Nicholson. For political and public services in Bedford.
• Agnes Nicolson, Lately Sister, Longmore Hospital, Edinburgh.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Edward Oliver, TD, JP, DL, Chairman, Bury St. Edmunds Disablement Advisory Committee.
• Thomas Meeburn Oliver, Chairman, Durham and Bishop Auckland District Committee, Durham Agricultural Executive Committee.
• George O'Neill, Honorary Secretary, National Association of Workshops for the Blind, Manager, Waterloo Road Workshop.
• Ronald Leslie Osborn, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• William Vincent Owens, Development Officer, Paper Sacks Ltd.
• Alfred Arthur Parker, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office.
• Gilbert Parker, Chief Shipbuilding Draughtsman, J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., Cowes, Isle of Wight.
• Alex Reginald Parselle, Assistant Director, Transport Division, Ministry of Food.
• Ernest Roderick Paskins, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
• Leslie Charles Payne, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham.
• Valentine Frederick Peaty, Senior Executive Officer, General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Stanley William Petchey, Chairman, Chelmsford Savings Committee.
• Nora Pidding, Assistant, Programme Contracts, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Captain Harry Pilling, Master, SS Funing, China Navigation Co. Ltd.
• John Thomson Pirie, Higher Executive Officer, HM Exchequer Office, Edinburgh.
• Lilian Ada Pratt, County Organiser, Lancashire, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Henry William Prothero, JP, Chairman, Willesden Food Control Committee, London, South Eastern and Eastern Region.
• Francis John Prout. For political services in North Cornwall.
• Marie Randall, People's Deputy in the States of Guernsey.
• William John Rees. For political services in Glamorgan.
• Norman Frederick Reid, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
• Basil Bernard d'Armagnac Rhodes. For political services.
• Harold Edgar Rich, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Arthur Albert Ring, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence.
• Reginald Walter Ofield Ring, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
• Jessie Walker Buthlay Ritchie, Burgh Organiser, Dunfermline, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Pamela Mary Ritchie, Assistant to General Manager, Malcolm Clubs.
• William Ritchie, Assistant Secretary and Accountant, National Playing Fields Association.
• Morris Griffith Roberts, Chairman, Barmouth and Towyn Joint Food Control Committee.
• Alice Logic Robertson, Headmistress, Foss Primary School, Perthshire.
• Mary Helen Heron Robertson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Donald McMillan Robinson, Chief Engineer, SS Maid of Orleans, British Transport Commission.
• Septimus Robinson, Honorary Secretary, Keighley Church of England School Savings Group.
• Edith Annie Rose, lately Member of the Folkestone Local Employment Committee.
• Frank Rostron, Export Sales Manager, Ferranti Ltd., Hollinwood, Lancashire.
• Herbert Cecil Rowse, Chairman, St. Austell Joint Food Control Committee, Southern and South Western Region.
• John Dawson Rundle, Assistant Regional Manager, London North-East Regional Office, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
• William Paterson Russell. For political services in Lanarkshire.
• Harold Ryden, JP, Chairman, Blackburn Rural District Council.
• James Abingdon Samworth, Chief Clerk, Army Sport Control Board.
• John Herbert Saunders, Assistant Electrical Manager, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast.
• Thomas Herbert Scadding, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Gustave Charles Scott, Manager, Naval Test Department, Evershed & Vignoles Ltd., Chiswick.
• Thomas Day McNeill Scrimgeour, Special Duties Officer, Production Department, Scottish Division, National Coal Board.
• Douglas Scruton, Chief Registrar, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• Helen Mary Shannon, Chief Personnel Officer, Fine Spinners & Doublers Ltd., Manchester.
• John Hinton Sheryn, District Secretary, Shipping Federation Ltd., Cardiff.
• Peter Christie Mauldon Shillitoe, Operations Manager, Flight Operations Department, British European Airways Corporation.
• Mary Elizabeth Jane Siddons, JP. For political and public services in West Bromwich.
• Arthur Ian Forbes Simpson, Senior Engineer, The General Electric Co. Ltd., Allesley, Coventry.
• Samuel John Simpson, Headmaster, Enniskillen Model School, County Fermanagh.
• Alfred Slator, Managing Clerk, Lees & Co., Parliamentary Agents.
• George Owen Dudley Smith, Secretary, Port Labour Employers' Association, Southampton.
• James Smith, Industrial Relations Officer, Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co. Ltd., Leamington Spa.
• John Smith, Divisional Officer, Grade II, Liverpool Fire Brigade.
• Kerrich Philip Smith, Senior Executive Officer, HM Land Registry.
• Leslie Frederick Smith, Company Secretary, Longford Engineering Co. Ltd., Bognor Regis, Sussex.
• William Smith, Secretary, Liverpool Port Area Grain Committee.
• Lilian Snelling, Artist, Lithographer and Botanical Illustrator.
• Margaret Christine Solomon, Secretary, The Housing Centre Trust.
• Eric Norman Southall, Director, Joseph Westwood & Son Ltd., Staffordshire.
• John Harold Spaull, Assistant Chief Surveyor, Air Registration Board.
• Robert Sprott, MC, Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Insurance, Northern Ireland.
• William Stafford, Senior Sales Superintendent, Telephone Manager's Office, Post Office, Belfast.
• Phyllys Everyl Steer, County Borough Organiser, Newport, Monmouthshire, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Doreen Stiven, Personnel Manager, Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., Hirwaun, Glamorgan.
• Thomas Stocks, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Henry Joseph Singer Stone, Youth Employment Officer, Leeds County Borough Council.
• Lucy Elinor Stone, Lately Honorary Secretary, Little Baling Infants' School Savings Group.
• Frank Stonehouse, Departmental Manager and Assistant Production Manager, Jarrett, Rainsford & Laughton Ltd., Birmingham.
• May Dora Storey, Foreign Office.
• Basil Edwin Sutton, Chief Engineer, Thames Valley Traction Co. Ltd.
• Howard James Tabor, Senior Experimental Officer, Royal Mint.
• Walter Tavendale, National Organiser, Scotland and Ireland, National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives.
• Henry Fazakerley Taylor, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
• Observer Commander Horace Aubrey Nelson Tebbs, Commandant, No. 7 Group, Royal Observer Corps, Bedford.
• George Tee, Works Manager, Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd., Stockport, Cheshire.
• Harry William Tettmar, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Materials.
• Harry Gibson Thornley, Lately Executive Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Post Office, Blackburn.
• Horace William Tidy, Lately Higher Executive Officer, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Yu Ah Tim, Compradore, HM Dockyard, Hong Kong.
• Cyril Gordon Tobias, BEM, Assistant Chief Officer, Essex Fire Brigade.
• Sydney Edward Toon, Chairman, Burton-on-Trent, Lichfield and District War Pensions Committee.
• Sybil Margaret Monica Trudgett, District Nurse Midwife, Hertfordshire.
• Alison Kinghorn Turner, Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• William Radcliffe van Straubenzee. For political services.
• George Henry Vennard, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• John William Wagstaff, Cashier, Hadfields Ltd., East Hecla Works, Sheffield.
• John Wallett, Chairman, North Northumberland War Pensions Committee.
• The Honourable Pamela Frances Walpole, JP, Chairman, Smallburgh Savings Committee, Norfolk.
• Reginald William Wardill, Architect, Ministry of Works.
• Archer Birkin Waters, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board.
• Alexander Watson, Lately Mental Nurse, Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital.
• James Watson, Chairman, Stirlingshire Savings Committee.
• Henry Henson Watts, Manager, Post Office Printing Works, McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., Wolverton, Buckinghamshire.
• Reginald Dan Weeks, Higher Executive Officer, Forest Products Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
• Frank Thomas West, Principal, Southampton Technical College.
• Ronald Arthur Weston, General Manager, Norwich Division, Eastern Gas Board.
• Robert Barr Westwood, Manager, Middleton School Camp, Gorebridge, Midlothian.
• David Campbell White, Honorary Secretary, City of Londonderry Savings Committee.
• John Harold White, Stores Officer, Grade I, Directorate of Electronics Research & Development, Ministry of Supply.
• Leonard Frederick William White, Chairman of Committee, No. 1098 Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• Madge Edith White. For services to the Boys' Brigade.
• William Edgar Wickens, Chief Clerk, County of Kent Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Margaret Duncan Will, Clerk Shorthand Typist, Northern Lighthouse Board.
• Frederick James Williams, Senior Executive Officer, HM Treasury.
• John Oscar Parry-Williams, Secretary, Welsh Plant Breeding Station.
• Vivian Charles Vaughan Williams, Higher Executive Officer, Civil Aviation Overseas Facilities Division, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation.
• William George Williams, Managing Clerk, Sharpe Pritchard & Company, Parliamentary Agents.
• William Oliver Williams, Shift Manager, Treforest Chemical Co. Ltd., Glamorgan.
• George Wheatley Wilson, Sales Director, Belmos Co. Ltd., Belshill, Lanarkshire.
• John Wilson, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Lanarkshire Constabulary.
• William Newrick Wilson, Assistant Chief Constable, Portsmouth City Police Force.
• Frank Winch, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Anona Edna Winn Lamport, Broadcasting Artist. For services to the British Sailors' Society.
• Reginald John Winney, Housing Manager, Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council.
• William Winstanley, JP, Warden and Secretary, St. Anne's Institute, Liverpool.
• John Charles Wolridge, Trade Union Chairman, North Gloucestershire District Committee, South Western Regional Board for Industry.
• Horace Nelson Woodard, Local Fuel Overseer, Municipal Borough of Tipton.
• Harry Leonard Woollcott, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Sidney Francis Charles Young, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance.
• Winifred Baker, Head of the Political and Economic Section, Sudan Government Agency in London.
• Geoffrey Francis Beard, British subject resident in Egypt.
• Adam George Birrell, British subject resident in Chile.
• Cecil John Bowes, British Vice-Consul at Mollendo.
• Ethel May Bridger, Personal Assistant to Her Majesty's Ambassador in Buenos Aires.
• Esther Barbara Chalmers, British subject resident in Belgium.
• Ada Crewe, Headmistress of Dunalastair Girls' School, Santiago.
• Esther Withers Dawson, Superintendent of the British Services Club, Alexandria.
• Charles Dennis Day, Inspector, Sudan Prison Service.
• Isabel Mary Agnes Doeg, MB, ChB, Lady Medical Officer, Bahrain Government.
• Leonard Bucknall Eyre, British subject resident in Sweden.
• Donald Hardwick, lately British Council Assistant Representative and Science Officer in Brazil.
• Albert Holloway, Third Secretary at the Hong Kong Office of the Commissioner General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
• Marian Lumley-Holmes, Personal Secretary to Her Majesty's Ambassador in Panama.
• Anna Graham Irvine, lately Warden of the St. George's Hostel, Jerusalem.
• Walter George Charles May, Administrator-General, Sudan Government.
• Hammond Joseph Mitchell, Almoner and Assistant Secretary of the Saint George's Society, New York.
• David Yorwerth Morgan, Lecturer at the British Council Office and Centre, Rangoon.
• Patrick Murphy, Clerk at Her Majesty's Consulate at Florence.
• Peter Joseph Nolan, MC, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Philadelphia.
• Joseph William Novella, British subject resident in Casablanca, French Morocco.
• John Leonard Paice, Temporary Senior Executive Officer, Land Commissioner's Office, Düsseldorf, Control Commission for Germany.
• Eric Charles Rose, lately British Pro-Consul at Bagdad.
• George John Rudd, Passport Examiner at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris.
• Major Ian Francis Henry Sconce, Senior Temporary Assistant, Control Commission for Germany.
• Major William George Michael Spens, Temporary Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Services Relations Adviser, Control Commission for Germany.
• John Albert Thomson, British subject resident in Cuba.
• Frederick Arthur Witty, British subject resident in Spain.
• Alice Jane Carr, Matron, State Hospital and Home, Lidcombe, State of New South Wales.
• Joyce Mary Chalmers, Honorary Secretary, Dacca and Narayanganj Sub-Branch, United Kingdom Association of Pakistan.
• Edward Zdzislaw Cierach, Surveyor, Basutoland.
• Violet Sarah Coltheart, of Queenstown, State of Tasmania. For services rendered in connection with patriotic and charitable organisations.
• John Thomas Crowe, of Burnie, State of Tasmania. For services rendered in connection with philanthropic movements.
• Olive May Dyer, Officer in Charge of the Leper Lazaret, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, State of New South Wales.
• Daphne Doris Filleul. For social welfare services, especially to boys in the State of Tasmania.
• Captain Kenneth Flower, British South Africa Police, Southern Rhodesia.
• Archibald Roy Francis, MC, a Member of the Primary Schools Curriculum Board, State of South Australia.
• William Alfred Gleeson, Personal Officer, Premier's Department, State of New South Wales.
• Dorothy Ruby Hall, Assistant Director and Secretary of the Fairbridge Society.
• James Richard Hardy, a Member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Life Saving Society in the State of South Australia.
• Maidie Frances Adelaide Donovan Hemeon, of Nagpur, India. For services to United Kingdom interests.
• Katheen Amy Huston, of Launceston, State of Tasmania. For services rendered in connection with charitable organisations.
• Major Henry Bennett Marcoolyn, Indian Army For services to the United Kingdom community in Hyderabad.
• Edith Alice Mehrtens, of Adelaide, State of South Australia. For services rendered in connection with cultural and patriotic movements.
• Constance Kathleen Nash, Honorary Secretary, Essex County Branch, Victoria League.
• Nellie O'Connell, Matron, Gladesville Mental Hospital, State of New South Wales.
• Edwin Pallett. For services rendered on behalf of ex-servicemen in Southern Rhodesia.
• Harry Pichanick. For services rendered in connection with the administration and organisation of Sport in Southern Rhodesia.
• William Harold Possingham, of Naracoorte, State of South Australia. For public services.
• Brendan Quin, London Manager, 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association.
• Irene Eveline Ruile, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. For social welfare services.
• Beryl Courtenay St. Quintin, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. For social welfare services.
• John Edward Stone. For public services in Southern Rhodesia.
• Frederick Percival Vanstone, Manager, Government Motor Garage, State of South Australia.
• Elizabeth Banks, Sister-in-charge Church Missionary Society Maternity Clinic, Murgwanza, Ngara District, Tanganyika.
• William Charles Beck, Building Superintendent, East African Railways & Harbours Administration.
• Emily Ella May Bowsher, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, King George V Memorial Hospital, Gibraltar.
• James Michael Beecroft Butler, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Nyeri, Kenya.
• Evelyn Laurel Cafe. For services to African education in Uganda.
• Donald Cyril Carroll, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Sarawak.
• Vyravapillai Chelliah, Auditor, Malayan Audit Service, Federation of Malaya.
• David Lowry Cole. For public services in Kenya.
• Dorothy Colgate, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, Northern Rhodesia.
• Captain Arthur Zammit Cutajar. For public services in Malta.
• Josephine Degannes. For public services in Trinidad.
• James Dodds, DFM, Civil Pilot, attached to the Kenya Police Reserve Air Wing, Mweiga, Kenya.
• Thomas Leslie Edgar, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Nyeri, Kenya.
• Captain James Norris Ellis, Military Assistant to the Resident Adviser, Eastern Aden Protectorate.
• Julian Arthur Evetts, lately Assistant Secretary to the Member for Agriculture, Northern Rhodesia.
• John William Farnsworth. For services to sport and social welfare in Nigeria.
• William Guerin Fitz-Gibbon, JP, Assistant Registrar, Registrar-General's Department, Hong Kong.
• Vincent Killian Flynn. For services to African education in Northern Rhodesia.
• Eva May Fricker. For services to the Girl Guide movement in Northern Rhodesia.
• Gee Kok Weng, Chinese Affairs Officer, Penang, Federation of Malaya.
• Gilbert Rotely Gibbons, Colonial Forest Service, Senior Forester, Kenya.
• Robert James Gordon. For public services in St. Kitts Nevis, Leeward Islands.
• Jack Courtenay Green, DFC, Assistant to the Director of Civil Aviation, East Africa.
• David Smith Gray, Senior Commercial Officer, Nigeria.
• Leon Joseph Elias Hennequin, Assistant Accountant, Railway Department, Mauritius.
• Frederick Orton Hersee, Chief Health Inspector, Tanganyika.
• John Hill. For social welfare work in the Gambia.
• Paul Ingram Hill, Functional Officer, British Council, Gold Coast.
• Ernest John Hines, Chief Health Inspector, Medical Department, Uganda.
• Harold Cecil Moreton Horsley, Colonial Administrative Service, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Johore, Federation of Malaya.
• Stanley Ernest Hulse, District Commissioner, British Honduras.
• Leonard Humphrey, Senior Assistant Meteorologist, Gold Coast.
• Joan Mowat Jardine. For services to the Girl Guide movement in Fiji.
• Gopal Kondopant Joshi, LCPS, Senior Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Medical Department, Nyasaland.
• Thambiah Kandiah, Financial Assistant, Department of Information, Federation of Malaya.
• Eva Gertrude Lancaster, Red Cross Nursing Sister, Federation of Malaya.
• Victoria, Lady Lo. For public services in Hong Kong.
• Mildred Thomasina Mansfield. For public services in British Guiana.
• Sarah Matthew, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Senior Nursing Sister, Nigeria.
• Mary Paitoo. For social welfare work in the Gold Coast.
• Pang Yong Wah, Headmaster, Bandar Hilir English School, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
• Achilles Symeon Papadopoulos, Administrative Officer, Cyprus.
• Mary Irene Pearce. For services to African education in Northern Rhodesia.
• William James Ronald Pincott, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Blantyre, Nyasaland.
• Roy Alexander Price, Forest Engineer, Forest Department, Sierra Leone.
• Adam Thomson Pullar. For services to shipping in Jamaica.
• Saul Raccah. For public services in Nigeria.
• Joseph Koseni Randle. For public services in Nigeria.
• Basil Reel, Senior Game Observer, Veterinary Department, Tanganyika.
• Betty Evelyn Richards, Cypher Officer, The Secretariat, Uganda.
• David James Gardiner Rose, Colonial Police Service, Superintendent of Police, British Guiana.
• Laurence John Rowed, Inspecting Engineer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations.
• Alice Eugenie Russell, Cashier, Customs Department, Bahamas.
• The Reverend Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr, Senior Lecturer and Chaplain, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone.
• James William Smith, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Jamaica.
• Irfan Souleiman, MM, Labour Inspector, Cyprus.
• Thambimuthu Supramaniam, Financial Assistant, Contingent Police Headquarters, Kuala Lipis, Federation of Malaya.
• Mota Shayakshaw Talati. For public services in Zanzibar.
• Helene Tan, JP. For welfare work in Singapore.
• The Reverend Samuel Muthalithamby Thevathasan. For services to education in Singapore.
• Wanyutu Waweru, For services to education in Kenya.
• Albert Raymond Wilkey, Assistant Secretary, North Borneo.
• George Robert Wilson, Clerk, General Post Office, Fiji.
• Canon Robert Render Young, Principal, Union College, Bunumbu, Sierra Leone.

• Dato Haji Yahya bin Abdul Razak, JP, Territorial Chief, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya.
• Prakasam Samuel, Senior Assistant Registrar, Supreme Court, Federation of Malaya.
• Tai Loi Kim, Second Legal Assistant, Legal Department, Ipoh, Federation of Malaya.
• Wan Zarazillah bin Wan Haji Ismail, Cooperative Supervisor, Department of Cooperative Development, Federation of Malaya.
• Wong Chow. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Phillip Adrian Peris, Lately Assistant Engineer, Public Works Department, Federation of Malaya.
• Wan Chik bin Ismail, Interpreter, Royal Air Force Regiment, Malaya.
• Mohammadu Adananu, Sarkin Bai, District Head, Kano Native Administration, Nigeria.
• Chief Ntuen Ibok, President, The Ibibio Native Authority, Opobo Division, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
• Josiah Michael Matamni Osimosu, Education Officer, Nigeria.
• Robert Rawson Olisa, Senior Assessment Officer, Inland Revenue Department, Nigeria.
• Etta Harris. For public services in Sierra Leone.
• Haji All Yunis. For public services in Somaliland.
• The Reverend Asa Byara, Rural Dean, Native Anglican Church, Toro District, Uganda.
• Danieri Serwaniko, County Chief of Kyadondo, Buganda, Uganda.

  Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• William Somerset Maugham, Author and dramatist.

  Companions of the [Imperial Service Order]

• Edmund Charles Atkins, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade
• Philip William Barnes, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Home Office
• Finlay Keir Black, Senior Architect and Surveyor, Department of Agriculture for Scotland
• Charles Bliss, Chief Accountant, Board of Customs & Excise
• Leslie Herbert Cobley, Principal, Ministry of Labour & National Service
• Leonard Herbert Cryer, Principal, Ministry of Supply
• Roy Cullerne, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue
• Daniel Albert Eden, OBE, Head of Division, Tithe Redemption Commission
• Ronald George Exley, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany, Foreign Office.
• Sydney Gilmour, Assistant Secretary, Admiralty
• Samuel George Hansford, MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government
• William Frederick Howard, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Food
• William Gilbert Lockyer, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Materials
• John Charles McCathie, Establishment Officer, Public Trustee Office
• Donald Morrell, Chief Maintenance Surveyor, Ministry of Works
• Harry Peter Northcote, MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Air Ministry
• Alfred Scott Page, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Headquarters, British Troops in Austria, War Office.
• Basil Henry Rook, Deputy Regional Controller, National Assistance Board
• Thomas David Stevenson, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power
• Henry William Albert Tasker, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries
• William Taylor, Regional Finance Officer and Chief Accountant, General Post Office, Edinburgh
• Charles Towers, lately Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance
• Frank Ernest Widdicks, Principal, Ministry of Health

• Gerald Brian Clarke, Secretary to the Cabinet, Southern Rhodesia.
• Keith Melville Stevenson, Government Printer, State of South Australia.
• Leonard Roy Woodhouse, Superintendent, St. John's Park Hospital, Hobart, Department of Public Health, State of Tasmania.

• James Donaldson Broatch, Colonial Agricultural Service, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Gold Coast.
• Bruce Britten Donald, Colonial Prisons Service, Deputy Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya.
• George Arthur Elliott, MM, Colonial Survey Service, Director of Surveys, British Honduras.
• Edward Arthur Evelyn, Warden of Nevis, Leeward Islands.
• Leofred Aloysius Joseph, Administrative Officer, Singapore.
• Lewis Dunbar Kennedy, Commissioner of Trade & Customs, Sarawak.
• Walter Gilbert Smithers, MBE, Colonial Customs Service, Comptroller of Customs & Excise, Cyprus.
• Alexander Provan Weir, Deputy Director of Public Works, Hong Kong.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Engine Room Artificer Daniel Frederick Baker, C/MX.56841.
• Chief Petty Officer Spiro Barbara, Malta, JX.136726.
• Chief Electrician Robert Vernon Bell, D/MX.802915.
• Chief Petty Officer Frank Biscoe, DSM, C/JX.130072
• Chief Electrical Artificer Samuel Albert Brand, P/MX.54554.
• Chief Petty Officer Alfred Ernest Britton, C/JX.128429.
• Chief Yeoman of Signals Herbert Winston Carter, C/JX.134676.
• Chief Petty Officer Frederick Mervyn Collett, D/JX.127077.
• Quartermaster Sergeant William Curran, Ply.X.1019, Royal/Marines.
• Leading Telegraphist Robert Hyman Colin Davidovitz, P/SSX.661066.
• Acting Chief Electrical Artificer Ernest Victor Davies, D/MX.57397.
• Chief Petty Officer William George Mark Dukes, P/JX.144059.
• Sick Berth-Chief Petty Officer Allan Arthur Dunthorn, D/MX.50537.
• Chief Petty Officer Philip Gregory Epsley, C/J.99170.
• Chief Aircraft Artificer Nod Wesley Ferris, L/FX.75161.
• Chief Petty Officer Archibald Filson, FD/3, RNVR.
• Sergeant William Edward Foord, Ch.X.4932, Royal Marines.
• Chief Petty Officer Writer Ronald Francis Forrester, C/MX.51110.
• Chief Engine Room Artificer William Norman Freathy, DSM, Norman Charles John Hird, C/MX.54630.
• Chief Wren, Cook Edna May Jenkyn, 36167, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Michael Logan, TD/921, RNVR.
• Chief Wren Cook May McColgan, 23745, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Master-at-Arms Edward Molloy, D/M.40277.
• Chief Engine Room Artificer Frederick Sidney Harold Palmer, P/MX.49516.
• Electrical Artificer 2nd Class Charles Alfred Pratt, P/MX.88296.
• Chief Petty Officer James Arthur Radford, P/JX.134281.
• Chief Aircraft Artificer Ernest Victor Brassley Shilling, L/FX.75852.
• Chief Aircraft Artificer Derek William Tunks, L/FX.75283.
• Chief Petty Officer Writer John Wood, C/MX.59851.

• 7889915 Sergeant Kenneth Kitchener Joffre Ashworth, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
• T/817246 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Alexander Ballantyne, Royal Army Service Corps.
• MAUR/13909175 Warrant Officer Class II Yousuf Bayjoo, Royal Pioneer Corps.
• ER/2717720 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Brady, Irish Guards
• 21124526 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant Robert Beattie Casson, Royal Corps of Signals.
• 2329562 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant William Henry Edward Chandler, Royal Corps of Signals.
• S/22293807 Staff-Sergeant Charles Clutterbuck, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• 6343007 Sergeant Richard Stephen Cooper, The North Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
• 2695808 Colour-Sergeant Robert Crabb, Scots Guards.
• 22243014 Colour-Sergeant Stanley Crooke, The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
• S/19069055 Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Davis, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Na/29233 Regimental Sergeant-Major Amadu Dosso, MM, The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force.
• 22223636 Staff-Sergeant George Stephen Dunn, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 2156802 Staff-Sergeant George Douglas Fogg, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• 22836040 Staff-Sergeant Cyril Halstead, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• 22520446 Sergeant Ernest Harrhy, Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army
• 788443 Warrant Officer Class II John Hodgson, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• S/6479223 Warrant Officer Class I Henry Albert Jenkins, Royal Army Service Corps.
• 7881404 Warrant Officer Class II James Alfred Jones, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
• 2001524 Sergeant Walter David Jones, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Corporal Kaisara Manwedi, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police.
• 1447864 Sergeant George Stanley Lawrence, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 22210679 Sergeant John Lee, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
• 840375 Warrant Officer Class I Harry Clifford Lungley, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• 11051358 Staff-Sergeant Harry Charles Maggs, Military Provost Staff Corps.
• T/3704310 Band Sergeant-Major Francis Michael Mahon, Royal Army Service Corps.
• 5572092 Sergeant Douglas Henry William Matthews, Corps of Royal Military Police.
• 726996 Sergeant Hector Donald McWilliam, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• S/21016898 Staff-Sergeant John Miller, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• 225146 Staff-Sergeant William Colin Mitchell, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• GC/12706 Regimental Sergeant-Major Nawa Mosffl, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force.
• 21125655 Staff-Sergeant Henry Pace, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• 14434495 Sergeant Arthur Harry Pargeter, Corps of Royal Military Police.
• 2204545 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant Harry Porter, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
• T/22280938 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant James Rankin, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• 22264016 Warrant Officer Class I Lynn Hughes Richardson, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Warrant Officer Class II James Crane Robertson, The Hong Kong Regiment.
• 22220292 Sergeant Arthur Raymond Simpson Scotney, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
• 22210216 Warrant Officer Class II Tognevald Donald McPhail Seatter, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 22221294 Colour-Sergeant Ronald William Frederick Sims, The Royal Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
• 4906386 Sergeant Horace William Stockham, The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
• T/6285296 Sergeant Joseph Swaine, Royal Army Service Corps.
• 22543202 Sergeant Alexander Taylor, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Q/308736 Corporal Betty Terry, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
• 22257361 Warrant Officer Class II Albert Victor Waknell, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• W/163111 Warrant Officer Class II Gladys Warden, Women's Royal Army Corps.
• 2978145 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant James Warren, Royal Corps of Signals.
• 22292906 Warrant Officer Class II Gibson Carlisle White, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• 4606688 Sergeant Thomas Woodcock, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• 6398849 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant James Harry Ernest Woolgar, MM, Royal Corps of Signals.
• 833356 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Albert Hugh Ilsley, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• 1876552 Warrant Officer Class II Leopard Charles Look, Corps of Royal Engineers.

• 569979 Flight Sergeant Arthur Walter Bennett.
• 538316 Flight Sergeant Ralph Derick Brown.
• 1516011 Flight Sergeant Stanley Burrows.
• 2688001 Flight Sergeant Arthur Dwyer, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
• 884202 Flight Sergeant Winefride Gibbons, Women's Royal Air Force.
• 549598 Flight Sergeant John Wright Hillsden.
• 944181 Flight Sergeant Hugo Houghton.
• 517624 Flight Sergeant William Harold Hubbard.
• 522411 Flight Sergeant Brian Hughes.
• 336600 Flight Sergeant Redvers Baden Ince.
• 577546 Flight Sergeant Leonard Charles Knight.
• 4013014 Flight Sergeant Stanley McArthur.
• 1102953 Flight Sergeant John Myers.
• 513941 Flight Sergeant Leslie Charles Finn.
• 536247 Flight Sergeant George Harcourt Roberts.
• 954607 Acting Flight Sergeant George Cuthbert Fletcher.
• 2073135 Sergeant Mary Byrne, Women's Royal Air Force.
• 4021614 Sergeant Paul Richard Caley.
• 1185140 Sergeant John Robert Campbell.
• 576903 Sergeant Vernon Walter Richard Lloyd.
• 4030958 Sergeant Eric Charles Longhurst.
• 2676433 Sergeant Frank Manning, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
• 525169 Sergeant Harry Marsden.
• 534815 Sergeant George Roberts.
• 952790 Sergeant Jack Bernard Scarff.
• 644986 Sergeant Ronald Frederick Tooke.
• 535383 Senior Technician John Armstrong.
• 3503757 Corporal Technician Lionel Anthony McGinn.
• 579815 Senior Aircraftman Ronald William Ernest Newman.
• 4055717 Senior Aircraftman Keith Alexander Pardoe.

• Jean Aitkenhead, Member, Women's Voluntary Services, Glasgow.
• Stanley Frank Anderson, Technical Assistant Grade II, Admiralty
• John Joseph Patrick Barnett, Sub-Postmaster, Frances Street Town Sub-Office, Woolwich, SE. 18.
• Leslie Thomas Bassett, Fireman, London Fire Brigade
• Henry Richard Batchelor, Foreman, Submarine Cables Ltd.
• Leonard Beal, Boatswain, SS Brighton, British Transport Commission
• Alexander McKay Beattie, Clerk of Works, Grade II, Royal Air Force Edzell
• John Henry Benn, Table Knife Manager, John Blyde Ltd., Sheffield.
• Mary Vere Bertie, Centre Organiser, Glendale Rural District, Northumberland, Women's Voluntary Services
• Charles Berwick, Office Keeper, Grade II, Board of Trade
• William Francis Bingham, Member, Dover LSA Company, Coast Life Saving Corps.
• Ernest Bishop, Honorary Collector, East Cannock Colliery Savings Group
• James Black, Head Chancery Guard, Her Majesty's Embassy, Tehran.
• Anita Eleanor Larke Blakemore, Deputy County Borough Organiser, Halifax, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Harold Goodwin Bodger, Draughtsman, R.A.S.C. Training School, War Office
• Wilfred Lionel Bone, Senior General Building Foreman, R. G. Carter Ltd., Norwich.
• George Arthur Bowles, Technician Class I, Telephone Manager's Office, Edinburgh.
• John William Braddick, Deckhand, Steam Trawler Slebech
• Alfred Thomas Brook, Laboratory Worker, Grade 'A', Armament Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply
• Archibald Frederick Buckle, Foreman, Jealott's Hill Research Station, Berkshire
• Cyril Louis Burns, Foreign Office
• Thomas Callaghan, Brickmaker, B. Whitaker & Sons Ltd., Leeds.
• William John Cambridge, Senior Overlooker, Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich
• Emamuel Camilleri, Chargeman of Skilled Labourers, Admiralty Floating Dock, Malta.
• Richard Charles Carr, Coastguardsman, Cley, Norfolk.
• Alfred James Castle, MM, Chief Inspector, War Department Constabulary
• William James Branstom Chapple, Carpenter and Joiner, Eastern Electricity Board
• William Watson Charlton, Checkweighman, Stargate Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board
• Alfred Ezra Cheshire, Sub-Postmaster, North Marston, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
• Jane Chilvers, Honorary Collector, Lucas Road and District Savings Group, Colchester.
• George Perry Clark, Distribution Foreman, Brighouse Works, North Eastern Gas Board
• Arthur Clifford Clarke, Brazier, Hammerman, Razor and Saw Piercer, Roberts & Belk Ltd., Sheffield.
• James Clarke, Sub-District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary
• Andrew Clarkson, Blacksmith, Colvilles Ltd., Motherwell.
• William George Collins, Assistant Superintendent, Telegraph Branch, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office,
• John Cook, Foreman, School of Infantry, War Office, Hythe.
• James Cormack, Inspector and Deputy Chief Constable, Orkney Constabulary
• Hugh William Courtney, Engineer and Foreman Fitter, John Compton Ltd., Linen Manufacturers, County Armagh.
• Leo Kelly Crossley, Checkweighman, Bank Hall Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board
• Leslie Charles Crowe, Chief Studio Attendant, British Broadcasting Corporation
• Frederick Thomas Curd, Chief Storeman, County of Cornwall Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association
• Charles Cuttler, Chief Saw Sharpener, J. Gliksten & Son Ltd., London
• Victor, Alfred Dale, Deckhand, Research Vessels, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries
• Annie Margaret Davies, Senior Leading Firewoman, Carmarthenshire & Cardiganshire Fire Service
• David Adolphus Dennis, Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary
• Thomas Dick, Foreman, Victor Products Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne.
• Doris Edith Dickenson, Overseer, Michaelson Road Branch Post Office, Barrow-in-Furness.
• Thomas Doughty, Foreman Carpenter, Mersham-le-Hatch Estate, Kent.
• Wilfred Lewis Doughty, Head of Security Guard, HM Treasury
• John Foster Drake, DFC, Head Observer, Post E1, Henley-in-Arden, No.8 Group, Royal Observer Corps.
• Percy Reginald Drake, School Staff Instructor, Campbell College, Belfast.
• Frederick Earey, Farm Worker, Purles Hill, Great Maplestead, Essex.
• James Eastham, Warden, Territorial Army Drill Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne.
• May Edwards, Chief Supervisor, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Southampton.
• Frederick Victor Ellis, Office Keeper, Grade I, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance
• Samuel Adams Emptage, Quarterdeckman, SS Orion, Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
• Charles James Etheridge, Chargehand, British Sugar Corporation Factory, Cantley, Norfolk
• John Elias Evans, Shift Charge Engineer, Dolgarrog Hydro-Electric Station, Merseyside and North Wales Division, British Electricity Authority
• Lionel Donald Foster, Inspector, Carmarthenshire Constabulary
• Frederick Fox, MM, Chargehand, Royal Signals Establishment, War Office
• Frank Harold Fryer, Distribution Superintendent, Darlington Gasworks, Northern Gas Board.
• Thomas Gallagher, Yard Foreman, Uddingston Gas Works, Scottish Gas Board.
• Ada Garland, Fabric Worker, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Farnborough
• Reginald Ernest Alfred Gates, Toolmaker, Royal Ordnance Factory, Cardiff.
• Dorothy Gilruth, Street Group Collector, Victoria Street Savings Group, Edinburgh.
• Alfred Henry Goggin, Research and Experimental Mechanic I, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Farnborough.
• Bessie Goodall, Centre Organiser, Felixstowe, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Margaret Gray, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Belfast.
• James Grieve, Leading Linesman, South West Scotland Electricity Board
• Edgar James Hacker, Chief Inspector, Head Post Office, Birmingham.
• Samuel John Haley, Head-Gardener, North West European District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Alfred Hall, Experimental Assistant, Aladdin Industries Ltd., Greenford.
• John Wilcoxon Hallows, Signalman, Dunford, British Railways, Eastern Region,.
• Ernest Edward Hanney, Special Craftsman, Royal Mint, Melbourne, Australia.
• Sidney William Harper, Artificer, Technical Class, Grade III, Admiralty
• Trevor Hayden Harper, Works Superintendent, Crosville Motor Services Ltd.
• William Ewart Harris, Senior Assistant General Instructor, Civil Defence Technical Training School, Taymouth Castile, Aberfeldy.
• Arthur Hawkesworth, Mains Foreman, London Electricity Board
• Thomas Helliwell, Foreman, W. H. Smith & Co., Manchester
• George Henderson, Engineering Clerk of Works, Newcastle & Gateshead Water Co.
• Sidney Hennen, Foreman Blacksmith, Camper & Nicholsons Ltd., Gosport.
• Ernest William Hill, Sub-Officer, Somerset Fire Brigade
• George Hill, Foreman, Bray Accessories Ltd., Leeds.
• Thomas Joseph Hill, Sack Storeman, Ministry of Food
• Ronald Thomas Hodder, Plater, Marine Department, Southampton, British Railways
• Herbert Hoggard, Foreman-in-Charge, John Deheer Ltd., Bridlington
• David Holmes, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Prison, Belfast.
• Percy Francis Hope, Warden, Washington Residential Training Centre, Durham Division, National Coal Board.
• Robert George Howard, Fields Research Engineer, Davey, Paxman & Co. Ltd., Colchester.
• Frederick Neville Howlett, Principal Workshop Foreman, 10 Command Workshop, REME, War Office
• Fred Isherwood, Toolroom Turner, Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd., Darlington.
• Ann Jenkins, Storewoman, Pembroke Depot, Swansea District, British Road Services
• Bennet Jepson, Depot Manager, Sheffield, House Coal Distribution Scheme.
• Frederick Johnson, Mechanical Engineering Superintendent, Southampton Corporation Waterworks
• Evan Jones, Deputy, Groesfaen Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board
• Phillip Henry Jones, Mechanic Examiner, Inspectorate of Electrical & Mechanical Equipment, Ministry of Supply
• Florence Jowett, Honorary Collector, St. Stephen's Church Savings Group, Grimsby.
• Robert Kemsley, Chargehand, W. G. Bagnall Ltd., Stafford.
• Harold Grimmitt Kendall, Head Foreman Fitter, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow-in Furness.
• Frederick James Kershaw, Supervising Instructor, Grade I, No. 2 School of Technical Training, RAF Cosford
• David Knight, Assistant Foreman, Leith Harbour Commission
• Richard George Frederick Knight, Driver, Southdown Motor Services Ltd.
• Gertrude Leach, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Halifax.
• Robert Melton Leach, Senior Scientific Assistant, Royal Army Medical College
• George James Lindsay, Foreman, Pressed Steel Co. Ltd., Paisley.
• Evan Lodwick, Pumpsman and Salvage Man, Penrikyber Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board
• William Parkin Lowe, Coal Face Worker, Haig Colliery, Northern Division, National Coal Board
• Kathleen Mary Luraschi, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Palmers Green, N.13.
• Thomas Lyon, Mains Foreman, Rotherham Undertaking, No.2 District, East Midlands Gas Board.
• Frederick Arthur McCallum, Dental Technician, RN Dental Service
• William McCallum, Draughtsman, Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock.
• William Joseph McKean, School Staff Instructor, Uppingham School, Rutland.
• George MacLeay, Leading Fireman, Northern Area Fire Brigade, Bonar Bridge, Sutherland.
• James Normanton Madin, Sub-checkweighman, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board
• Margaret Helen Mair, Superintendent, Townsend Street Central Kitchen, LCC School Meals Service
• Frank Mansell, Coppersmith, Guy Motors Ltd., Wolverhampton.
• Prudence Marshall, Weaver, Fielden Brothers Ltd., Todmorden, Lancashire.
• Charles William Mellor, Driver, North Western Road Car Co., Macclesfield.
• Edward Meyers, Attack Teacher Assistant, Admiralty
• Edwin Moody, Foreman Fitter, Rose Brothers Ltd., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
• George William Moore, Pattern Shop Supervisor, Millspaugh Ltd., Sheffield.
• Charles Frederick Morris, Inspector, City of London Special Constabulary
• Joseph Morris, Chief Storekeeper, Establishments and Organisation Division, Ministry of Supply
• William Frederick Morter, Research and Experimental Mechanic, Department of Atomic Energy
• Percy Moyes, Assistant Clerk of Works, J & E Hall Ltd., Dartford.
• Edward Nunn, Inspector, Transport Services, London Postal Region
• Patrick O'Kane, Foreman, Ioco Ltd., Glasgow.
• William Stobart Ord, Inspector, Northumberland Constabulary
• Robert Paterson, Head Charge Hand, W. & J. Martin Ltd.
• John Patience, Head Gardener, French District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Anne Peel, Honorary Collector, Billinge Road Savings Group and Tunstall Lane Savings Group, Wigan.
• Winston Pemberton, Jointer, North Western Electricity Board
• Harry Phillips, Foreman Meat Porter, Wholesale Meat Supply Association Depot, Wolverhampton
• Edward Charles Porter, Established Painter, Civil Engineer-in-Chiefs Department, Admiralty
• John William Porter, Storekeeper, Grade IV, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries
• Charles Potter, Coal Face Developer, Frances Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board
• Frank Edwin Thomas Powell, Technical Officer, Tunbridge Wells Telephone Area
• Frederick Harold Powell, Postman, Higher Grade, Head Post Office, Wolverhampton.
• Arthur Noel Powis, Repair Manager, J. A. Mulhern & Co. Ltd. Liverpool.
• David Prentice, Repairer, Blackrigg Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board
• Thomas Price, Station Officer, HM Coastguard, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
• Alfred Prince, Coal Face Worker, Ledston Luck Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board
• Samuel Pugh, Senior Foreman, Ambrose Shardlow & Co. Ltd., Sheffield.
• James Rae, Principal, Lightkeeper, Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, Northern Lighthouse Board.
• Anne Patricia Read, Assistant Regional Clothing Officer, London, Women's Voluntary Services
• Robert Redfearn, Auxiliary Postman, Forest-in-Teesdale Post Office, Barnard Castle, County Durham.
• Cyril John Samuel Way Reeve, Inspector of Fitters, Admiralty
• David Reid, Master, Haisbro' Light Vessel, Corporation of Trinity House
• David John Richards, Colliery Traffic Weigher, Tymawr Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board
• Leonard Percival Richards, Chief Supervisor, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Cardiff.
• Harold Arthur Ridge, District Superintendent, Longton, West Midlands Gas Board.
• John Wrae Rigg, Mechanical Transport Officer, London Airport, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation
• George Robinson, Mechanic, National Physical Laboratory
• William Robinson, Progressman, Torpedo Experimental Establishment, Admiralty
• Thomas Jacob Rothwell, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary
• James William Rowland, Senior Paper Keeper, HM Stationery Office
• Leonard Rudd, Export Packer and Maintenance Man, Celluware Ltd.
• George Rue, Master Repairer, Dillwyn Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board
• Stanley Edward Bentley Russell, Printing Overseer, Grade II, Savings Department, General Post Office
• William Ryan, Foreman Joiner, Williams, Harvey & Co. Ltd.
• Newark Robson Sainthouse, General Foreman, John Laing & Sons Ltd.
• Charles Salter, Donkeyman-Greaser, SS Paparoa, New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd.
• Harold Scaife, Installation Inspector, North Eastern Electricity Board
• Frank Thomas Scott, Sewage Plant Attendant, Broadmoor Institution.
• Walter Pickersgill Sever, Chief Inspector, Head Post Office, Bradford.
• James Harry Sheppard, Chief Instructor, Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour & National Service, Birmingham.
• Eva Shilling, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Ashford, Kent.
• John Edward Simmonds, Exhauster Driver, Stratford Works, North Thames Gas Board
• Thomas Henry Singleton, Quay Superintendent, Liverpool Port Dried Fruits Office
• Arthur Smith, Underground Belt Turner, Orgreave Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board
• Frank Herbert Smith, Superintendent of Stores, No. 25 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Hartlebury.
• John Squires, Ripper, Yorkshire Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board
• Harold Lewis Staddon, Chargehand Carpenter, Royal Air Force, Halton
• John Henry Stephens, Grade I Welder, Unit Superheater & Pipe Co. Ltd., Swansea.
• John Stone, Underground Road Repairer, Denby Hall Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board
• Henry Charles Stuart, Foreman, East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd.
• Frederick John Sweeting, Senior Bailiff, Lambeth County Court
• Ronald Talbot, Plumber, War Department, Caribbean Area.
• Sayid Talib, Motor Transport Driver, Grade I, RAF Habbaniya.
• Charles Henry Taylor, Shop Foreman, No. 20 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Aston Down
• James Timmins, Foreman, Alloa Glass Works Co. Ltd., Alloa.
• Emily Louise Violet Tuckett, Assistant Supervisor, Cabinet Office Telephone Exchange, General Post Office
• Alfred Turner, Slaughtering Demonstrator, Ministry of Food
• Dorothy Mary Twyman, Supervisor of Telephone Operators, Navy, Army, & Air Force Institutes
• Percy Unsworth, Technician, Class I, Head Post Office, Bolton.
• Charles Van Den Bergh, Head Messenger, British Consulate-General, Antwerp.
• Albert Edward Walker, Head Forester, Forest of Dean, Forestry Commission
• Charles Henry Walker, Joiner, Chesterfield Undertaking, East Midlands Gas Board
• Cyril Walker, Foreman Electrician, Cabot Carbon Ltd., Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
• Thomas Edward Walker, Boatswain, SS British Scientist, British Tanker Co. Ltd.
• Horatio Wallett, Mains Inspector, Bilston District, West Midlands Gas Board
• John Warren, Foreman Mechanic, Hem Heath Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board
• Edward Watson, Belt Cleaner, Babbington Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board
• Thomas Watson, Instrument Maker, Radar Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Malvern.
• Thomas Williams Watts, Commandant, Pembrokeshire Special Constabulary
• Davies Thomas Wilkinson, Works Foreman, Meltham Silica Firebrick Co. Ltd., Meltham.
• Charles Williams, Foreman, Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd., Gloucester.
• Frederick George Williams, Office Keeper, Grade II, Ministry of Labour & National Service
• Gordon Stuart Williams, Postman, Head Post Office, Cardiff.
• Hope Williams, Centre Organiser, Tarvin Rural District, Cheshire, Women's Voluntary Services
• Edwin John Winkworth, Leading Turbine Driver, Southern Division, British Electricity Authority
• Frank Womersley, Foreman, Maintenance Fitter, Steetley Magnesite Co.
• Mary Beatrice Woodhead, Assistant County Organiser, Derbyshire, Women's Voluntary Services
• Arthur Wright, Leading Stoker, Stoke Power Station, Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority

• Roy Robert Elliott, Constable, Traffic Control Section of the Traffic Division, South Australia Police Force.

• Walter James Stone, lately Inspector, British South Africa Police Reserve.

• Jonah Francis Greenidge, Bailiff, Supreme Court, Bahamas.
• Alice Scott, Private Nurse, Bermuda.
• Haralambosi Papageorghiou Karakannas, Inspector of Water Supplies, Water Supply and Irrigation Department, Cyprus.
• Eileen Hazel Hockley, Telephone Supervisor, East African Posts & Telegraphs.
• Dulcie Arnold, Health Nurse, Infant Welfare Clinic, Seremban, Federation of Malaya.
• Nagamuthu Chelliah, Chief Clerk, Police Clerical Service, Federation of Malaya.
• Chua Seng Kooi, Chinese Liaison Officer, Muar District, Federation of Malaya.
• Hasnah binte Abdul Manap, Social Welfare Assistant, Muar, Federation of Malaya.
• Charles Ellice Hermon, Technical Assistant, Revenue Survey Office, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
• Nagamuthu Kandiah, Technical Assistant, Telecommunications Department, Johore, Federation of Malaya.
• Segamany Maruthamuthu, Police Clerk and Interpreter, Segamat, Federation of Malaya.
• Haji Min bin Haji Ahmad, Junior Agricultural Officer, Federation of Malaya.
• James Michael Scully, lately Chief Clerk, District Office, Bukit Mertajam, Federation of Malaya.
• Tan Khay Tiong, Manager, Hock Seng Teck Sawmill, Kota Tinggi, Federation of Malaya.
• Sabapathy Pillay Tatparanandam, Commercial Licensing Assistant, Road Transport Department, Federation of Malaya.
• Kanagasaby Thilliampalam, lately Service Clerk, General Clerical Service, Director of Forestry's Office, Federation of Malaya.
• Joseph Awotwi Dadzie, Foreman, Public Works Department, Gold Coast.
• Zena Eliza Lopez, Sister, Kingston Public Hospital, Jamaica.
• Kinyanjui s/o Thigo, lately Interpreter, City African Affairs Department, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Muntu Rindari Muntu Mukira, Inspector of Police, Kenya.
• Iris Blanche Dickson, Head Operator, Antigua Telephone Service, Leeward Islands.
• Umoru Falwal, Chief of Police, Bida Native Administration, Nigeria.
• Olawale Martins, 1st Class Clerk, Survey Department, Nigeria.
• Aaron Mwenya, Clerk to Native Courts Adviser, Northern Rhodesia.
• William Benjamin Lewis, Forest Surveyor, Forest Department, Sierra Leone.
• Silas Sitai, Administrative Assistant, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
• Haji Jama Ali. For public services in Erigavo, Somaliland.
• Saleh Farah, Sergeant-Major, Burao Illalo Force, Somaliland.
• Morton Kumwenda, Medical Assistant, Junior Service, General Division, Tanganyika.
• Shabani s/o Mtengeti, Clerk, Junior Service, Tanganyika.
• Leslie Beckles, Senior Mechanic, Customs & Excise Department, Trinidad.
• James Alexander Belgrave, Club Leader, Castries Boys Club, St. Lucia, Windward Islands.
• Khalfan Said, Sailmaker, Port and Marine Department, Zanzibar.

  Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

• James Edward Emmerson.

• Chief Petty Officer Charles Edwin Henry Breach, P/JX.125472.
• Chief Joiner Frederick Charles Nichols, P/MX.46201.
• Montague Sergy, Charles Alfred Smith.
• Maurice Ransome Watts.
• William Alfred Wigley.

  Royal Red Cross (RRC)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Helen Mary Grant, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
• Major Mary Ethel Holmes, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Beatrice Louise Ferrier, ARRC, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

  Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Mary Potter, SuperintendingSister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
• Bridget Quill, SeniorNursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
• Major Marily Fabien, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
• Major Barbara Masson Gordon, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
• Wing Officer Adairine Mary Tisdall, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
• Squadron Officer Elinor Margaret Wright, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Acting Group Captain Henry Niel George Wheeler, DSO, OBE:, DFC.

• John Watson Allan, DSO, DFC.
• Hubert Neville Garbett, DFC.
• Duncan Frank Hyland-Smith, DjfC.
• Acting Wing Commander.
• Patrick Peter Colin Barthropp, DFC.

• Maechel Anthony Ensor, DSO, DFC.
• Basil Robert William Forster, DjfC. <124611).
• Derek Jack Furner, DFC.
• Winston Herbert Kellaway, DSO.
• John Harding Lewis.
• Basil Goodhand Lock.
• Gordon Leonard Mattey, DFC.
• William John Peter Straker.

• Harry George Currell, DFC.
• Bevis Deraton Davies.
• Edward John Eames, Royal Air OForce.

• George Allan, MC.
• David Henry Blomeley, DFC.
• Hannan Bushen.
• Peter William Carr.
• Frank Hugh Philip Cattle.
• Norman Chamberlain.
• Desmond Lionel Edmonds.
• William Edwards.
• William Henry Evans, DFC.
• Terence Michael Fennell.
• Alfred Arthur Francis.
• Robert MacAlastair Furze.
• Scott Riuncdman Garden.
• William James Glenn, DFM.
• Walter Stanley Green.
• Jack Harry Liversidge.
• Walter George Myatt.
• Geoffrey Raper.
• Anthony William Ringer.
• Robin Anderson Slater, DFC.
• Colin Hannington Sloan.
• Lionel Christopher Spargo.
• William Robert Sparkes.
• Arthur George Steele.
• Leslie Albert Titmuss, DFC.
• Vlastimil Vesely, DFC.
• Michael George Eugene Williams.

• Edwin Albert Ambrose.
• John Bartrum.
• Michael Francis Hilary Dobson.
• Donald William Greenslade.
• Idris Jones.

• Kazimierz Artymuik, DFM.
• Albert Victor Potter.
• Harry George White.

• Peter Melville Lamb, DSC, Royal Navy.

  Bar to Air Force Cross

• Ernest William Tacon, DSO, MVO, DFC, AFC.

• John Crampton, DFC, AFC.
• Gordon Douglas Cremer, AFC.
• Rex Southern Sanders, DFC, AFC.
• Ernest Harry Turner, AFC.

• Francis Michael Hegarty, AFC.

  Air Force Medal (AFM)

• 1237648 William James Aitchison.
• 1587259 Robert Edward Anstee.
• 1358087 Geoffrey Crossley.
• 1318872 William Henry Harris.
• 1494629 George Edwin Ridley Kelly.
• 1322449 Frederick John Loveridge.
• 1344040 James Ferns McCorkle.
• 1582812 Derek Oldham.
• 1482477 Norman Levi Park.
• 1609386 Dennis George Range.
• 4015091 Raymond Harold Stead.
• 1602361 William Carpenter Todd.
• 1437404 John Anthony Trigg.

• 1584704 Edward Heslop.
• 3034141 George Thomas Lovett.

  Bar to Air Force Medal

• 578390 Gordon Acklam, AFM.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Walter Lansdowne Bennett, Fleet Engineer Officer, Comet Fleet, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Captain Peter Edward Bressey, Senior Captain, Second Class, British European Airways Corporation.
• Captain Athelstan Sigfried Mellersh Rendall, Flight Superintendent, Britannia Fleet, British Overseas Airways Corporation.

• James Henry Iremonger, DFC.

• Dean Wendell Jones, DFC.
• John William James Leggett.
• Ian Hector Mercer, LMSSA.
• George Frederick Turner, DFC.
• Acting Squadron Leader Cyril George Lewis.

• Joseph Donald Baker.
• Allan Bountiff.
• John Goodwin Burns.
• John Nigel Carpenter.
• John Curd.
• Seymour Evans.
• Frank Garside.
• John Wilson Harper, DFC.
• Michael Edward Hobson.
• David Daniel James, Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers.
• Robert Edward Jefferies.
• John William Kilburn.
• Brunon Jerzy Kudrewicz.
• Charles George Lawrence.
• Jack Houghton Leyland.
• Lachlan MacKinnon, DSC.
• Peter Douglas Menzies.
• Ernest Frederick Pennie, DFM.
• John Edward Pollington.
• Gordon Powell.
• Joseph Archibald Donald Rice.
• Duncan Matthew Stevenson.
• Reginald Douglas Topley.
• Michael Alwyn Vickers.
• Anthony Sydney Ware.
• Gordon Wrigley.

• Paul Wilson.

• Victor John Bryant.
• Kenneth Russell Hayward.
• Kenneth Johnstone.
• Edwin Malin.
• Adam Pieniazek.

• 1850082 Arthur Halliday Elliot.
• 3127399 Graham Neil Franklin.
• 1232214 Charles Vincent Cyril Lacey.
• 1604985 William James Ryall.
• 546053 John Williamson Smallfield, BEM.
• 2200042 Eric Arthur Smith.

• 4031509 John Patrick Holland.
• 1584783 Ronald Redfern.

• 1488987 John Ronald Erskine.

  [Queen's Police Medal]

• Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Arthur Golden, OBE, Chief Constable, Wiltshire Constabulary.
• Thomas Beasley Humphrey, OBE, Chief Constable, South Shields Borough Police Force.
• George Henry Cook, OBE, Chief Constable, Sunderland Borough Police Force.
• Reginald Rowland, Assistant Chief Constable, Cornwall County Constabulary.
• Harold Nelson Back, MBE, Assistant Chief Constable, Surrey Constabulary.
• William Benjamin Rawlings, OBE, MC, Deputy Commander, Metropolitan Police.
• Frank William Kitchener, Chief Superintendent, Bedfordshire Constabulary.
• Wilfred Arthur Beard, Superintendent, Isle of Ely Constabulary.
• Owen Jones, Superintendent, Denbighshire Constabulary.
• Sophie Alloway, Superintendent, MetropolitanPolice.

• Alexander McCombie, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Scottish North Eastern Counties Constabulary.
• Robert King, Superintendent, City of Glasgow Police Force.

• Jacob Frederick Martin, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary.

• John Joshua Turnbull, Inspector, First Class, South Australia Police Force.

• Robert John Wyndham Verrall, MVO, Commissioner of Police, Bahamas.
• Harold John Woolnough, Superintendent of Police, Head, Special Branch, Malacca, Federation of Malaya.
• Conrad Swire Kerr Bovell, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chief Police Officer, Pahang, Federation of Malaya.
• John Timmmerman, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kenya.
• Allan Charles Chiappini Peebles, Commissioner of Police, Northern Region, Nigeria.
• Edwyn Sandys Sherwood, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Nigeria.
• Charles Hugh Fairfax Apthorp, MVO, Commissioner of Police, Nyasaland.
• Nigel Godfrey Morris, Commissioner of Police, Singapore.
• Michael John Macoun, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Tanganyika.

  [Queen's Fire Service Medal]

• Joseph Whiteside, MBE, Assistant Chief Officer, Manchester Fire Brigade.
• Eric Searston, Chief Officer, East Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade.
• Joseph Holt, Chief Officer, Wallasey Fire Brigade.
• Harry Sidney Charles Tanner, Chief Officer, Warwickshire Fire Brigade.

• Robert Bowman, OBE, Firemaster, Western Area Fire Brigade.

• William James Gorman, BEM, Chief Officer, Fire Brigade, Hong Kong.

  Colonial Police Medal

• Machado, First Class Sergeant, British South Africa Police.
• Major Ernest Stanley Streeter, British South Africa Police.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Gordon Spurling, British South Africa Police.
• Douglas Ponting Willshire, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police.

• Captain Geoffrey Walter Taylor, Superintendent, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police.

• Mangal Singh Ahlwalia, Assistant District, Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• AJi Ahmed, Inspector, Brunei Police Force.
• Alwi bin Mohamed Yusof, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Mohamed Amin bin Mohamed Jamil, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force.
• Mohamed Aslam, Assistant District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• Abdul Aziz bin Mahmood, Inspector, Singapore Police Force.
• Baba bin Mordin, Staff Sergeant, Singapore Police Force.
• Merwin Leon Barrow, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police Force.
• Colonel Edward Brymer Belcher, MC, District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• Harvey Samuel Brookes, Sergeant, Leeward Islands Police Force.
• Leslie Harold Brown, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force.
• Neill Brown, Assistant Superintendent, Uganda Police Force.
• Choo Kok Weng, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Alexander Fearn Cochrane, Chief Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force.
• James Patrick Cooper, Assistant District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• Noel Alfred Crosswell, Superintendent, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Hugh Blackburn Jervoise Donaldson, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Richard Harold Francis England, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force.
• Ronald Edgar Fellows, Assistant District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• Samuel Morrison Ferguson, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Francis Folabit, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force.
• Joseph Fominyen, Inspector, Nigeria Police Force.
• Major-General Charles Christopher Fowkes, CBE, DSO, MC, Inspector General, Kenya Police Reserve.
• Courtenay Giles Bartholomew Gidley, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force.
• Arthur Llewelyn Griffith, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force.
• Joseph Griffith, Superintendent, British Guiana Police Force.
• Harry Halstead, Superintendent, Fiji Police Force.
• Douglas Bertram Davenant Henchman, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Federation of Malaya Police.
• John Thomas Hodgkinson, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force.
• Dennis William Humphrey, Senior Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Alexis Ioannou, Assistant Superintendent, Cyprus Police Force.
• Abdul Kadir bin Abu Samah, Sergeant, Special Constabulary, Federation, of Malaya.
• Haji Abdul Kadir bin Haji Hassan, Sub Inspector, Singapore Police Force.
• Kiber arap Chelimo, Sergeant, Kenya Police Force.
• Alois Kojo s/o Madote, Assistant District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• Kwan Fook Nam, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Ngah Lamat bin Pandakmat Ali, Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Lee Kooi Yin, Woman Searcher, Special Constabulary, Federation of Malaya.
• Thomas Paterson McBrierley, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force.
• Manikam s/o Muniandy, Corporal, Special Constabulary, Federation of Malaya.
• John Metcalfe Mason, Commandant, Volunteer Special Constabulary, Singapore.
• Robert Key Masson, MBE, Superintendent, Belize Fire Brigade, British Honduras.
• Clement Matacheta, Sub-Inspector, Nyasaland Police Force.
• Henry Robert Middleton, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Raja Mohamed bin Raja Ismail, Honorary Inspector, Police Volunteer Reserve, Federation of Malaya.
• Tinuaga Moshie, Sergeant, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Sumba Mugamba, Sergeant, Kenya Police Force.
• Raphael Nganje, Sergeant, Nigeria Police Force.
• Desmond Victor Noott, Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police Force.
• Isaac Yemote Odoi, Sub-Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Emile Philippe Benjamin Ohsan, Bandmaster, Mauritius Police Force.
• Emmanuel Olawaiye, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force.
• Thomas Robinson Pallett, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force.
• Richard Hugh Gwynne Prettejohn, Senior Reserve Police Officer, Kenya Police Reserve.
• James Porter Reid, Superintendent, Trinidad Police Force.
• Douglas Stewart Ross, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Abdul Samad bin Lahadi, Corporal, Special Constabulary, Federation of Malaya.
• Fore Samura, Sergeant-Major, Court Messenger Force, Sierra Leone.
• Shahbudin bin Ibrahim, Acting Company Serjeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Francis William Matheson Sharman, MC, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Ujagar Singh s/o Karam Singh, Detective Corporal, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Victor Thomas Smithyman, Superintendent, Nyasaland Police Force.
• Alfred John Broomhall Temple, Deputy Commissioner, Somaliland Police Force.
• Joseph Peter Tham, Commandant, Special Constabulary, Singapore.
• Sydney George Thompson, Assistant Superintendent, Kenya Police Force.
• Frederick Clive Somerville Tillbrook, ED, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Leonard William Whymark, Superintendent, Cyprus Police Force.

  Australia

Knight Bachelor

• Alexander Paterson Murphy, MC, MD, ChM, President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
• Ian Clunies Ross, CMG, Chairman of the Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Herbert Henry Schlink, MB, ChM, of Sydney, a distinguished Surgeon.
• The Honourable John Soundy, CBE, MLC, of Hobart, Tasmania. For public services.
• Arthur George Stephenson, CMG, MC, of Melbourne. For services to Architecture.
• Captain Patrick Gordon Taylor, GC, MC, of Sydney. For services to Civil Aviation.
• Alan Stewart Watt, CBE, Australian Commissioner in Malaya.

  Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Lieutenant-General Henry Wells, CBE, DSO, Australian Staff Corps.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable Sir Owen Dixon, KCMG, Chief Justice of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia.

  Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• The Most Reverend Joseph John Booth, MC, Archbishop of Melbourne.
• The Most Reverend James Duhig, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane.
• Kenneth George Luke, of Melbourne. For services to Commerce and to philanthropic organisations.
• John Spencer Nall, of Geelong. For services to the community.

  Order of the British Empire

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

• The Honourable Sir William Flood Webb, Justice of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Dudley Williams, MC, Justice of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia.

  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Brigadier Hector McDonald Finnie, OBE, ED, Royal Australian Army Dental Corps.
• Brigadier Albert Harold Hellstrom, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps.
• Brigadier John Gordon Noel Wilton, DSO, OBE,, Australian Staff Corps.

• Group Captain Colin Thomas Hannah, OBE.

• Francis Eric Hitchins, OBE, of Cranbrook, Western Australia. For services to primary industries.
• Charles Washburne Joyce, of Kew, Victoria. For services to ex-servicemen.
• Professor Leslie Harold Martin, of Camberwell, Victoria. For services to Science.
• Arthur John Metcalfe, MB, ChM, Director-General of Health and Director of Quarantine.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Joseph Alfred Moses, General Manager, Australian Broadcasting Commission.
• Peter Belmont Newcomen, of Box Hill, Victoria. For services to primary production.
• Harold George Raggatt, Secretary of the Department of National Development, Canberra.
• Tom Cleave Stott, MHA, of Plympton, South Australia. For services to the wheat industry.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Commander Lindsay Gellatly, DSC.
• Acting Captain Stanley Herbert King Spurgeon, DSO.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Downs d'Archy, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
• Colonel George Percy Hunt, MBE, Australian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John William Lawson, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich Lawrence Charles Martins, Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

• Group Captain Ernest Hey.
• Group Captain William Darcy Mason.

• The Reverend Frank William Boreham, of Kew, Victoria, a prominent preacher and author.
• Stanley Roy Carver, Acting Commonwealth Statistician.
• David Brendon Doyle, of Brighton, Victoria. For services to the building industry.
• Roland Alistair House Foster, of Sydney. For services to Music.
• Mabel Eileen Furley, JP, of Mosman. For social welfare services.
• Herbert John Goodes, Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Treasury, Canberra.
• Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, of Aldinga, a distinguished Artist.
• Violet Muriel Herring, of Ascot, Queensland. For services to the Red Cross.
• Councillor Albert Mainerd, of Bexley, New South Wales. For services to Local Government in Australia.
• Nora Minnie McKid, Matron of the Kyogle Memorial Hospital.
• Harold Clive Newman, Assistant Secretary, Defence Division of the Commonwealth Treasury, Melbourne.
• Ada May Norris, of Camberwell, Victoria. For social welfare services.
• James Lampard Paton, of Peppermint Grove, Western Australia. For public services.
• Vernon Seymour Ransford, a former international cricketer, now Secretary of the Melbourne Cricket club.
• Frank Leslie Stillwell, formerly Officer-in-Charge of the Mineragraphic Section, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
• James Arnold Whittle, of Lower Mitcham, South Australia. For services to blinded ex-servicemen.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Senior Commissioned Gunner Michael John Duffy.
• Lieutenant-Commander Francis Benjamin Glynn, VRD, RANVR.

• Major Edward Henry Colley, Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Major Tom Wooton Elliott, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
• Major Jack Michael Goold, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant John Cecil Hoar, late Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Captain Robert Cecil Loder, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
• 3/545 Warrant Officer Class I Lionel Douglas Haig McCombe, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
• 2/738 Warrant Officer Class I John William Simpson, Royal Australian Artillery.
• 1/205 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Humphris, The Royal Australian Regiment.

• Squadron Leader William Frederick James Palmer.
• Warrant Officer Maurice Roy Selke.
• Warrant Officer Thomas Guildstern Ullrich.

• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth McCullough, Royal Australian Air Force.

• John Barry, Assistant Commonwealth Statistician, Canberra.
• Isabel Katherine Brown, of Toronto, New South Wales. For services to the Red Cross.
• William Chambers, of Longueville, New South Wales. For services to the shipping industry.
• Ida Cohen, JP, of Tamworth, New South Wales. For services to the Red Cross.
• Colonel Edwin Theyer Dean, DSO, VD, of Moculta, South Australia. For public services.
• Kathleen Norah Dennis, of Greenwich, New South Wales. For social welfare services.
• Mona Gwendoline Fitz-Gerald, of Enoggera, Queensland. For organising food gifts for ex-service personnel in the United Kingdom.
• Isabella Flack, of Hay, New South Wales. For social welfare services.
• Olive Victoria Gray, JP, of Malvern, Victoria. For social welfare services especially on behalf of children.
• Clarice Lilian Greenhill, Secretary to the Australian Consul-General in New York.
• Matthew Harrison, JP, of Camberwell, Victoria. For services to ex-service personnel.
• Councillor John Charles Hogan, JP, of Mont Albert, Victoria. For services to Local Government in Australia.
• Nellie Grace Ibbott, of Mornington, Victoria. For services to Local Government and charitable organisations in Australia.
• Stuart Charles James, of Annerley, Queensland. For services to ex-service personnel, especially those suffering from tuberculosis.
• William Henry Knight, Assistant Transport Officer, Department of the Interior, Canberra.
• Mabel Louise Lavan, Officer-in-charge of the Cable Section, Australian High Commissioner's Office, London.
• Edward Lionel Birch Leeson, of Kew, Victoria. For social welfare work, especially on behalf of distressed and destitute persons.
• Dorothy Lena Leggett, of Cooper's Plains, Queensland. For social welfare services.
• Councillor Harold Charles Matheson, JP, of Kurrajong, New South Wales. For services to Local Government in Australia.
• Allan Foster McConnell, of Sandringham, Victoria. For services to blinded ex-servicemen.
• Arnold Cecil Moon, of Parkes, New South Wales. For services rendered in connection with patriotic and charitable organisations.
• Arthur Blackburn Smith, Commonwealth Public Service Inspector, Hobart.
• Frances Mary Smith, of South Yarra. For services rendered to the Commonwealth Government on matters of interior decorating.
• Mary Steel Stevenson, of Canberra. For public services.
• Richard Frank Tunley, of Clayfield, Brisbane. For services to deaf, dumb and blind children.
• Gertrude Mary Zichy Woinarski, of Mentone, Victoria. For services rendered in connection with charitable organisations.

  Companions of the [Imperial Service Order]

• James Brophy, Auditor-General, Commonwealth of Australia.
• William Funnell, Lately Secretary of the Department of Labour and National Service.
• Victor Francos Turner, Chief Electoral Officer of the Commonwealth of Australia.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Engine Room Artificer Alwyn Dew Barlow, 20527.
• Chief Petty Officer Cecil Claude Bettens, 20723.

• 2/96575 Staff-Sergeant William Ellwood Genner, Royal Australian Armoured Corps.
• 5/2009 Staff-Sergeant Ray Godenzie, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
• 3/117319 Sergeant William Joseph Hall, Royal Australian Engineers.
• 2/712 Staff-Sergeant William Cecil Lawes, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
• 1/380 Warrant Officer Class II Patrick Brennan Murtagh, Royal Australian Armoured Corps.
• 4/846 Warrant Officer Class II John Joseph Scally, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
• 8/308 Sergeant Sina Malmaus, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.

• A.33009 Flight Sergeant David Glynn Lloyd.
• A.3654 Flight Sergeant Daniel Arthur William Strong.
• A.3693 Flight Sergeant Albert Edward James Vizard.

  Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Major Elizabeth Irene Uren, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.
• Major Jean Veitch, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.

• Captain Perditta Marjorie McCarthy, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader James Stanley Gooch.

  Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Squadron Leader Charles Norman Geschke.
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Keith Nelson Norris.
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Alfred de Rusett Kydd.
• Flying Officer Francis Gerald Bourke.
• Warrant Officer John Spencer Edmonds.
• Warrant Officer Colin Stephen Ryan.

  New Zealand

Ceylon

Knight Bachelor

• Warusahennedige Abraham Bastian Bennet Soysa, Esq., CBE, Senator. For social services.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Gunasena de Soyza, OBE, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence and External Affairs.

  Order of the British Empire

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

• The Honourable Mr. Kalutaravedage Deepal Susantha de Fonseka, Statesmen and Ambassador.
• The Honourable Mr. Pattiya Pathirannahalage Albert Frederick Peries, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Alexander Nicholas D'Albrew Abeyesinghe, MBE, Member of Parliament for Negombo. For services to the Co-operative Movement.
• Ernest Peter Arnold Fernando. For social services.
• Paul Alfred John Hernu, OBE, Chairman, Colombo Port Commission.
• H.de Z. Siriwardana, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Clifford Serasinghe, ED, Ceylon Army Medical Corps.

• A. Arulpiragasam, MBE, Government Agent, North Western Province.
• Homi Framjee Billimoria, MBE, Chief Architect, Public Works Department.
• Jayasuriya Aratchige Edward Mathew de Saram, MBE. For social services.
• Santiago Wilson de Silva, MBE, Deputy Inspector General of Police.
• James Lamb, Director, Tea Research Institute of Ceylon.
• Pararajasingham Nadesan, Director of Civil Aviation and Additional Secretary to the Prime Minister.
• Hanwedige Henry Oliver Waitson Peiris. For services to Commerce.
• John Marcus Senaveratna, MBE. For services to the study of the history of Ceylon.
• G. P. Tambayah, Government Agent, Western Province.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Major Bertram Lucien Seneviratne, Ceylon Light Infantry.

• Cyril Herbert Sooriaarachchi Amarasekera, Flying Instructor, Civil Aviation Department.
• Don Edmund Amarasekera, Chairman, Village Committee, Udugaha Pattu, Kalutara District.
• Leon Louis Attygalle, Municipal Treasurer, Colombo Municipality.
• Mohamed Falil Abdul Caffoor. For services to Commerce.
• Gerald Henry Cooray, MD, MRCS, Professor of Pathology, University of Ceylon.
• Neville Joseph Louis Jansz, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Defence and External Affairs.
• Don Edward Victor Wanniarachchige Jayamanne, Actor and Producer.
• Don Timothy John Jayesinghe. For services to Commerce.
• Walatara Acharige David Silva Karunaratne. For charitable services.
• Nobel Irene Kiriella. For social services.
• G. H. P. Leembruggen, Assistant Superintendent of Police.
• Salebhoy Husainbhoy Moosajee. For services to Commerce.
• Anton Wickremasinghe. For services to Commerce.
• Sarah Laurencina Wijesinghe. For charitable services.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Jayalath Yakkalamullage Ebert de Silva, Electrical Foreman, Department of Government Electrical Undertakings.
• Fitzroy Valentine Pinto Jayawardena, Acting Chief Welfare Officer, Ministry of Transport and Works.
• Murugupillai Navaratnasamy, Agricultural Instructor, Department of Agriculture.

  Pakistan

Knighthood

• Eric Alexander Franklin, CBE, Establishment Officer to the Government of Pakistan.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Albert Ernest Wright, OBE, Member, Central Board of Revenue, and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Colonel Harold Sydney James Jelf, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Brigadier Ronald Arran Graham Nicholson, Royal Pakistan Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier Geoffrey Pigot, British Service.
• Colonel Arthur Lenthall Harcourt-Powell, British Service.

• Arthur George Bunn, Director of Inspection, Central Board of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
• Wing Commander Robert Milroy Hayes , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
• Colonel Campbell Aubrey Kenneth Innes-Wilson, OBE, Surveyor General of Pakistan.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Crawford Dick, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Guilford Wood, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Acting Squadron Leader Andrew Frederick McCarthy, MBE, Royal Air Force.

• Captain William Frederick Ellis, RN, lately Principal Officer, Mercantile Marine Department.
• Oliver George Holt Ormerod, Superintendent, Watch and Ward, East Bengal Railway.
• Archibald Reglan Hope Veevers, BEM, Deputy Master of the Mint.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Acting Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Neil Stevenson, DSC, Royal Navy.
• Warrant Officer I Gordon William Cooper, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Captain Walter Raymond Hodgson, Pakistan Remounts, Veterinary and Farms Corps.

• Anne Brotherton, Principal, Frontier College for Women, Peshawar.
• John Cuthbert Heathcote, Radio Traffic Officer, Central Telegraph Office.
• Thomas Johnstone, General Staff Officer II, Directorate of Military Training and Education.
• Robert Malcolm Massingham, Permanent Officer Supervisor, Naval Headquarters.
• William Stopforth, Manager, Lithoprinting Office, Survey of Pakistan.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• 844807 Flight Sergeant Kenneth Victor Jackson, Royal Air Force.

• Alexander McIntosh Webster, Foreman of Inspection, Naval Armament Inspections.