The King's Birthday Honours 1942 were appointments by King

George VI George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until Death and state funeral of George VI, his death in 1952. ...

to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the

British Empire The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...

. They were published on 5 June 1942 for the United Kingdom and Canada. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate.

British Empire

Baron

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

, , Member of the

Chancellor of the Exchequer The chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the Chancellor is ...

's Consultative Council.

Privy Councillor

* George Henry Hall, , Financial Secretary, Admiralty.

Baronet

* The Right Honourable James Andrews, ,

Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is a judge who is the appointed official holding office as President of the Courts of Northern Ireland and is head of the Judiciary of Northern Ireland. The present Lord Chief Justice of Northern Irela ...

. * Admiral Sir

Andrew Browne Cunningham Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC". Cunningham ...

, , lately Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean. * Captain

Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet (6 February 1897 – 29 November 1956) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Constituencies Hudson was first elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament (MP ...

, , lately

Civil Lord of the Admiralty The Civil Lord of the Admiralty formally known as the Office of the Civil Lord of Admiralty also referred to as the Department of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty was a member of the Board of Admiralty who was responsible for managing the Royal N ...

. * Thomas Harrison Hughes, Director of the Liner Division,

Ministry of War Transport The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources. It was formed by merging the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Transport ...

. * Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, . For public services. * Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, , lately Parliamentary

Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs The position of Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British ministerial position, subordinate to that of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, created in 1925 to deal with British relations with the Dominions – Canada, Aust ...

Knight of the Garter

* Right Honourable Lawrence John Lumley, Marquess of Zetland, .

Knight of the Thistle

* Major David Lyulph Gore Wolseley, Earl of Airlie, .

Knight Bachelor

* Major Arthur Cecil Abrahams, , Chairman of the Stores Committee, War Organisation of the

British Red Cross Society The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with more ...

and Order of St. John. * Edward Samson Baron. For public and philanthropic services. * Colonel Frank Benson, , General Manager,

Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI ) is a company created by the British government on 9 December 1920 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. It runs c ...

. * William Bernard Blatch, , Solicitor to the

Board of Inland Revenue The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, ...

. * His Honour Samuel Ronald Courthope Bosanquet, Official Referee of the Supreme Court. * Geoffrey Duke Burton, Director-General, Mechanical Equipment,

Ministry of Supply The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply. A separate ministry, however, was responsible for aircr ...

. * John Clague, , lately Adviser to the

Secretary of State for India and Burma His (or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India Secretary or the Indian Secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of th ...

. * George Frederick Cotton, , Under-Secretary, Admiralty. * John Cornelius Joseph Dalton, , Fuel and Power Controller, London & South Eastern Region (Honorary Colonel,

Royal Corps of Signals The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS or R SIGS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communi ...

). * Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Buchanan Davson, , Chairman of the

West India Committee The West India Committee is a British-based organisation promoting ties and trade with the British Caribbean. It operates as a charity and NGO (non-governmental organisation). It evolved out of a lobbying group formed in 1780 to represent the inter ...

. * John McLean Duncanson, Deputy Iron & Steel Controller. *

Charles Richard Fairey Sir Charles Richard Fairey MBE FRAeS (5 May 1887 – 30 September 1956), also known as Richard Fairey, was an English aircraft manufacturer. Early life Charles Fairey was born on 5 May 1887 in Hendon, Middlesex and educated at the Merchant Ta ...

, , Chairman,

Fairey Aviation Company The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire. Notable for the design of a number of important military a ...

. Director-General, British Air Commission, Washington. * Professor Ralph Howard Fowler, , Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics in the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

; lately Liaison Officer in North America. *

Thomas Peirson Frank Sir Thomas Peirson Frank (23 July 1881 – 12 November 1951) was a British civil engineer and surveyor. He is particularly remembered as "the man who saved London from drowning" in the Blitz. Frank was born in 1881 at Kirkbymoorside, Yorks ...

, Co-ordinating Officer for Public Utility Services, London Civil Defence Region. Chief Engineer and County Surveyor,

London County Council London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ...

. * Captain Frederick Edward French, ,

Royal Naval Reserve The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. Together with the Royal Marines Reserve, they form the Maritime Reserve. The present RNR was formed by merging the original Ro ...

(Retd.), Commodore Commander,

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) is a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century. Formerly a public company, it was sold to DP World in March 2006 for £3.9 billion. DP World c ...

. *

William Hamilton Fyfe Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (9 July 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an English and Canadian classics scholar, educator, and educational administrator. He served as the 10th Principal of Queen's University, Ontario, from 1930 to 1936, and was t ...

, , Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen ( sco, University o' 'Aiberdeen; abbreviated as ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; gd, Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Sc ...

. * Arthur Wilfrid Garrett, HM Chief Inspector of Factories,

Ministry of Labour and National Service Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian mi ...

. *

Holbrook Gaskell Holbrook Gaskell (5 March 1813 – 8 March 1909) was a British industrialist, and an art and plant collector. Early life Gaskell was born in Wavertree, Liverpool. He was the eldest son of Roger Gaskell, a sailcloth manufacturer, from his marr ...

, , Director of the Board of

Imperial Chemical Industries Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company. It was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain. It was formed by the merger of four leading British chemical companies in 1926. Its headquarters were at M ...

Ltd. * William Gavin, , Chief Agricultural Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. * Frederick Godber, Chairman of the Overseas Supply Committee, Petroleum Board, and Managing Director of the Shell Transport & Trading Co. Ltd. * John Frederick Heaton, Chairman and Managing Director of

Thomas Tilling The Tilling Group was one of two conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948. Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British El ...

Ltd. Member of the Inland Transport War Council. * Robert Stewart Johnson, , Chairman and Managing Director of Messrs.

Cammell Laird Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. It was formed from the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century. The company also built railway rolling stock until 1929, ...

& Co. Ltd, Shipbuilders. *

Alexander Korda Sir Alexander Korda (; born Sándor László Kellner; hu, Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956)Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, , lately Director General,

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Frederick Handley Page Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. His company Handley Page Limited was ...

, , Managing Director,

Handley Page Handley Page Limited was a British aerospace manufacturer. Founded by Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) in 1909, it was the United Kingdom's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company. It went into voluntary liquidation a ...

Ltd. Vice-Chairman of the Air Registration Board. * Professor William Fletcher Shaw, , President,

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a professional association based in London, United Kingdom. Its members, including people with and without medical degrees, work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, that is ...

. * Edward Raymond Streat, , Chairman of the Cotton Board. * Henry Edward Sparke Upcher, Chairman, Norfolk

War Agricultural Executive Committee The War Agricultural Executive Committees were government-backed organisations tasked with increasing agricultural production in each county of the United Kingdom, during both the First and Second World Wars. They were established in Autumn 1915 b ...

. * Robert Bryce Walker, , Chairman of the Scottish Fire Commission. Commissioner for the Special Areas in Scotland. * Robert Alexander Watson Watt, , Scientific Adviser on Telecommunications,

Ministry of Aircraft Production Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ...

. *

Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, M ...

, , Deputy Keeper of His Majesty's Signet. For legal and public services in Scotland. * Alderman Julian Osborn Whitehouse, Chairman of the

Staffordshire County Council Staffordshire County Council is the top-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshir ...

. * Frederick Charles Yapp, Deputy Chairman of

Vickers-Armstrongs Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, w ...

Ltd. Acting Chairman of the

English Steel Corporation The English Steel Corporation Ltd was a United Kingdom steel producer. The company was jointly owned by Cammell Laird and Vickers and was formed to bring together their basic steel making interests, principally in the Sheffield area but also incl ...

Ltd. ;Dominions * Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria. * The Honourable Herbert Horace Olney, Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. ;India * Biren Mookerjee, Partner, Martin & Co., Bengal. * Dewan Tek Chand, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab. * Charles Bartley,

Indian Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...

, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. * Janardan Atmaram Madan, , Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Bombay Sind Public Service Commission, and lately Adviser to His Excellency the

Governor of Bombay Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. The date of city's founding is unclear—historians tr ...

. * Satyendra Nath Roy, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Communications. * John Hugh Francis Raper, Member, Transportation, Railway Department (

Railway Board The Ministry of Railways is a ministry in the Government of India, responsible for the country's rail transport. The ministry operates the statutory body Indian Railways, an organisation that operates as a monopoly in rail transport and is h ...

), Government of India. * Theodore Emanuel Gregory, , Economic Adviser to the Government of India. * Major-General John Taylor, ,

Indian Medical Service The Indian Medical Service (IMS) was a military medical service in British India, which also had some civilian functions. It served during the two World Wars, and remained in existence until the independence of India in 1947. Many of its officer ...

, Director, Central Research Institute,

Kasauli Kasauli is a town and cantonment, located in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The cantonment was established by the British Raj in 1842 as a Colonial hill station,Sharma, Ambika"Architecture of Kasauli churches" ''The Trib ...

. * Lawrence Mason, , Deputy Director General, Directorate General of Supply, Department of Supply, Government of India, and lately Inspector-General of Forests. * Alexander John Happell, , Inspector-General of Police, Madras. * Randulph Meverel Statham, , Director of Public Instruction, Madras. * Sardar Bahadur Sardar Teja Singh Malik, , Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Central Public Works Department, Government of India. * Khan Bahadur Nawab Malik Allah Bakhsh Khan Tiwana, , Landlord and Member of the

Punjab Legislative Assembly The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in India. The Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted in March 2022. At present, it consists of 117 members, directl ...

, Khwajabad,

Shahpur District Shahpur District was a district in current day Pakistan from 1893, during the British Raj, till 1960. From 1893 to 1914 Shahpur was the district headquarters. In 1914 the district headquarters were moved from Shahpur to Sargodha, although the dis ...

, Punjab. * Robert Dale Denniston, Managing Director, Messrs. Best & Co. Ltd., Madras. * Thomas Sinclair Kennedy, General Manager, Messrs. Glenfield & Kennedy,

Hydraulic Engineers Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to cause the mov ...

, Bombay. ;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *

Theodore Samuel Adams Sir Theodore Samuel Adams (1885-1961) was a British colonial civil servant.'' The International Who's Who 1943-44''. 8th edition. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1943, p. 5. Adams graduated from All Souls College, University of Oxford and entered t ...

, ,

Colonial Administrative Service The Colonial Service, also known as His/Her Majesty's Colonial Service and replaced in 1954 by Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS), was the British government service that administered most of Britain's overseas possessions, under the aut ...

, Chief Commissioner, Northern Provinces, Nigeria. * George Borg, , Chief Justice, Malta. *

Oscar Bedford Daly Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People * Oscar (given name), an Irish- and English-language name also used in other languages; the article includes the names Oskar, Oskari, Oszkár, Óscar, and other forms. * Oscar (Irish mythology), ...

, ,

Colonial Legal Service The Colonial Service, also known as His/Her Majesty's Colonial Service and replaced in 1954 by Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCS), was the British government service that administered most of Britain's overseas possessions, under the aut ...

, Chief Justice, Bahamas. * James Taylor Lawrence, Chief Justice,

Aden Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...

Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division ;;Army * General Sir

Walter Venning General Sir Walter King Venning (17 January 1882 – 19 June 1964) was a British Army officer and administrator who served in both World Wars. Known for his excellency as an administrator, he served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from ...

, , (5928), Colonel, The

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, by the merger of the 32nd (Cornwall Light ...

, Colonel Commandant,

Army Catering Corps The Army Catering Corps (ACC) was a corps of the British Army, responsible for the feeding of all Army units. It was formed in 1941 and amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993. History In 1938 Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of St ...

Aide-de-Camp General Aide-de-camp general is a senior honorary appointment for generals in the British Army. The recipient is appointed as an aide-de-camp general to the head of state, currently King Charles III. They are entitled to the post-nominals "ADC (Gen.)". The ...

to The King. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, . ;Civil Division * Sir

Horace Perkins Hamilton Sir Horace Perkins Hamilton, GCB (20 November 1880 – 15 September 1971) was a British civil servant, who served successively as Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise from 1919 to 1927, Permanent Under-Secretary of State to the Board of T ...

, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Scotland.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot, . * Vice-Admiral

Henry Ruthven Moore Admiral (United Kingdom), Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore (29 August 1886 – 12 March 1978) was the last British admiral to command the Home Fleet during World War II. He served in that post from 1944 to 1945. Naval career Educated at Sherbor ...

, . * Vice-Admiral Alban Thomas Buckley Curteis, . * Surgeon Vice-Admiral

Sheldon Francis Dudley Sheldon may refer to: * Sheldon (name), a given name and a surname, and a list of people with the name Places Australia * Sheldon, Queensland *Sheldon Forest, New South Wales United Kingdom * Sheldon, Derbyshire, England *Sheldon, Devon, England ...

, . ;;Army * Lieutenant-General Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne, , (13980), late

Grenadier Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , colors = , colors_label = , march = Slow: " Scipio" , mascot = , equipment = , equipment ...

. * Major-General (honorary Lieutenant-General) Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke, , (12773), late Grenadier Guards. * General Arthur Brodie Haig, , (191075),

Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal

John Tremayne Babington Air Marshal Sir John Tremayne Babington, (20 July 1891 – 20 March 1979) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he retired and the following year changed his name to Tremayne, his mother's maiden name, to avoid confusion with ...

, . * Air Marshal John Stanley Travers Bradley, . * Acting Air Marshal

Arthur Travers Harris Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C ...

, . ;Civil Division * Major-General Harry Reginald Walter Marriott Smith, , Chairman,

Territorial Army Association The Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Associations were formed in 1908 under the provisions of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 to provide local support to the Territorial Force in the United Kingdom. There were originally 104 ...

of the County of Dorset. * Sir (James) Alan Noel Barlow, , Third Secretary, HM Treasury.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear Admiral Marshal Llewelyn Clarke, . * Rear Admiral Geoffrey John Audley Miles. * Rear Admiral (serving as Commodore Second Class) Cloudesley Varyl Robinson (Retd.) * Rear Admiral Richard Hugh Loraine Bevan, , (Retd.) * Rear Admiral Alfred Hugh Taylor, , (Retd.) * Engineer Rear Admiral Henry William Wildish, . ;;Army * Lieutenant-General

Edward Puttick Lieutenant General Sir Edward Puttick, (26 June 1890 – 25 July 1976) was an officer who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during the First and Second World Wars. The first New Zealand-born soldier to reach the rank of lieutenant ge ...

, , Staff Corps,

New Zealand Military Forces , image = New Zealand Army Logo.png , image_size = 175px , caption = , start_date = , country = , branch = ...

. * Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General)

Archibald Edward Nye Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye, (23 April 1895 – 13 November 1967) was a senior British Army officer who served in both world wars. In the latter he served as Vice Chief of the General Staff ( ...

, , (5851), late The

Royal Warwickshire Regiment The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. The regiment saw service in many conflicts and wars, including the Second Boer War ...

. * Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) John George des Reaux Swayne, , (17966), late The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). * Major-General Austin Timaeus Miller, , (8923), late

The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to f ...

. * Major-General Frederick Gordon Hyland, , (4087), late

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...

. * Major-General Donald Clewer (14233), late

Army Dental Corps An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

. * Major-General Arthur Victor Trocke Wakely, , (3536), late Royal Engineers. * Major-General

Otto Marling Lund Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General Sir Otto Marling Lund (28 November 1891 – 15 August 1956) was a senior British Army Officer (armed forces), officer who served as General officer commanding, General Officer Commanding-in ...

, , (6783), late

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

. * Major-General Daril Gerrard Watson, , (9758), late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. * Major-General

Robert Francis Brydges Naylor Major-General Robert Francis Brydges Naylor, (6 October 1889 – 23 December 1971) was a general officer in the British Army. During the Second World War he was Major-General in charge of Administration at the War Office from 1939 to 1941, Depu ...

, , (19402), late

. * Major-General Robert Beverley Pargiter (273241), late Royal Artillery. * Major-General Humfrey Myddelton Gale, , (21273), late

Royal Army Service Corps The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...

. * Major-General Christopher Geoffrey Woolner, , (5491), late Royal Engineers. * Major-General Francis Henry Norman Davidson, , (20272), late Royal Artillery. * Major-General Geoffrey Chicheley Kemp, , (4557), late Royal Artillery. * Colonel (temporary Major-General)

Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin Major General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, (13 June 1892 – 17 February 1961) was a British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. During the latter, he commanded for just over three years – from July 19 ...

, , (21164), late

The Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

. * Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Wilmot Gordon Hilton Vickers, , (150903), Indian Army. * Major-General Archibald Campbell Munro, , Indian Medical Service. * Major-General Ralph Bouverie Deedes, , (185407), Indian Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Francis Roger North, ,

Australian Military Forces The Australian Military Forces (AMF) was the official name of the Army of Australia from 1916 to 1980. This encompassed both the (full-time) "regular army", and the (part-time) forces, variously known during this period as the Militia, the Citizen ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Vice-Marshal

John Oliver Andrews Air Vice Marshal John Oliver Andrews, (20 July 1896 – 29 May 1989) was an English flying ace of the First World War and later a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was credited with twelve aerial victories. His most significant victory ...

, . * Air Vice-Marshal John Joseph Breen, . * Air Vice-Marshal

Malcolm Henderson Malcolm Henderson may refer to: * Malcolm Henderson (RAF officer) * Malcolm Henderson (diplomat) {{hndis, Henderson, Malcolm ...

, . * Air Vice-Marshal Robert Henry Magnus Spencer Saundby, . * Acting Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Colyer, . * Acting Air Vice-Marshal

Albert Durston Air Marshal Sir Albert Durston, (19 June 1894 – 24 January 1959) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff from 1945 to 1946. RAF career Durston joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and served in the Roy ...

, . * Acting Air Vice-Marshal

Ralph Squire Sorley Air Marshal Sir Ralph Squire Sorley, (9 January 1898 – 17 November 1974) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He began was a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, and rose to senior command in the Se ...

, . * Air Commodore John Wakeling Baker, . * Air Commodore William Forster Dickson, . * Acting Air Commodore

John Whitworth-Jones Air Chief Marshal Sir John Whitworth-Jones, (28 February 1896 – 4 February 1981) was a pilot in the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War. After the latter he held several senior RAF appointments be ...

. ;Civil Division * Honorary Colonel Sir George Fossett Roberts, , Chairman,

of the County of Cardigan. * Honorary Colonel Robert Bruce, , Chairman,

of the County of Aberdeen. * Colonel Eric Charles Malcolm Phillips, , Chairman,

of the County of Hertford. * Harold Corti Emmerson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Herbert John Gough, , Deputy Controller-General, Research & Development,

. * Edward Hale, Principal Assistant Secretary,

HM Treasury His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and ec ...

. * William Percival Mildred, , Director-General of Civil Aviation,

Air Ministry The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State ...

. * John Innes, Director of Telecommunications,

General Post Office The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Before the Acts of Union 1707, it was the postal system of the Kingdom of England, established by Charles II in 1660. ...

; seconded to the Mines Department as Deputy Controller-General. * David Milne, Secretary,

Scottish Home Department The Scottish Office was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1999, exercising a wide range of government functions in relation to Scotland under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland. Following the e ...

. * Edwin Lawrence Mitchell, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. * Arthur William Neville, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. * George Wilfred Turner, Second Secretary, Ministry of Supply. * John Roland Wade, Director of Establishments,

War Office The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). This article contains text from ...

Order of Merit (OM)

Augustus Edwin John Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sarg ...

, . * Professor

Edgar Douglas Adrian Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. ...

, .

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

Diwan Bahadur Dewan Bahadur or Diwan Bahadur was a title of honour awarded during British rule in India. It was awarded to individuals who had performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special T ...

Sir Arcot Ramaswami Mudaliar, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

* Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Thomas Fisher, ,

Indian Political Service The Indian Political Department (IPD), formerly known as the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, was a government department in British India. It originated in a resolution passed on 13 September 1783 by the board of direc ...

, Resident for

Central India Central India is a loosely defined geographical region of India. There is no clear official definition and various ones may be used. One common definition consists of the states of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, which are included in alm ...

. * Conrad Laurence Corfield, , Indian Political Service, Resident for the Punjab States. * Panna Lall, , Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces. * Major-General Geoffry Allen Percival Scoones, , Indian Army, lately Director of Military Operations, General Headquarters, India.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* Sir

Gerald Campbell Sir Gerald Campbell, GCMG (1879–1964) was a British diplomat. He served as British High Commissioner to Canada from 16 May 1938 to 1941. He then was transferred in 1941 by Winston Churchill to serve as British consul general to the United Stat ...

, , lately Director-General of the British Information Services in the United States of America. * Sir Frederick Phillips, , Third Secretary, His Majesty's Treasury, and representative of the Department in the United States of America. * Sir Arthur Charles Cosmo Parkinson, , lately Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

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

* Sir Henry Edward Barker, lately Ministry of War Transport representative, Middle East. * Sir

Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall FRS (20 December 1871 in Amritsar, Punjab – 8 April 1959 in London), was an Indian-born British entomologist. He was an expert on African and oriental weevils.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (201 ...

, , Director of the Imperial Institute of Entomology. * Sir Frank Nelson, lately Economic Policy Adviser to the

Minister of Economic Warfare The Minister of Economic Warfare was a British government position which existed during the Second World War. The minister was in charge of the Special Operations Executive and the Ministry of Economic Warfare. See also * Blockade of Germany (193 ...

. * Arthur Nevil Rucker, , Secretary, Office of the Minister of State, Cairo. * John Everard Stephenson, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Acting Deputy Under-Secretary of State),

Dominions Office The position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British cabinet-level position created in 1925 responsible for British relations with the Dominions – Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and the Irish Free S ...

. * John Adams Hunter, , Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras. * Major Sir Hubert Craddock Stevenson, , Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Colony & Protectorate of Sierra Leone. * David Victor Kelly, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary (Designate) to the Argentine Republic. * Francis Dudley Rugman, , Financial Secretary to the Sudan Government. * Walter Alexander Smart, Oriental Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Cairo.

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

* Donald Breadalbane Blacklock, , Professor of Tropical Hygiene in the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

and

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is a higher education institution with degree awarding powers and registered charity located in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Established in 1898, it was the first institution in the world dedicated ...

. * John Gammie, Deputy Representative of the Ministry of War Transport in New York. * Kenneth George Grubb, Controller, Overseas Publicity, Ministry of Information. * Henry Drummond Hancock, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply, acting as Secretary-General to the British Raw Materials Mission, Washington. * Charles Roy Price, Assistant Secretary, Dominions Office, at present Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the

Union of South Africa The Union of South Africa ( nl, Unie van Zuid-Afrika; af, Unie van Suid-Afrika; ) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into existence on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the Cape, Natal, Trans ...

. * Alexander Llewellyn Read, , Clerk of the Executive Council, State Under-Secretary, and Official Secretary to the Premier, State of South Australia. * James Alexander Winter, , Chief Clerk and Registrar of

the Supreme Court A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

, and formerly a Member of the Commission of Government,

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

. * Harold Samuel Wootton,

Town Clerk A clerk is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world. In some communities, including most in the United States, the position is elected, but in many others, the clerk is appointed to their post. In the UK, a To ...

of the City of

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

, State of Victoria. * Andrew Basil Acheson, Assistant Secretary,

Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of col ...

. * Harold Francis Cartmel-Robinson, ,

, Provincial Commissioner,

Northern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in southern Africa, south central Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by Amalgamation (politics), amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-West ...

. * Geoffrey Fletcher Clay, , Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture,

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

. *

Robert Harry Drayton Sir Robert Harry Drayton (14 April 1892 - 20 February 1963), was a lawyer and a senior colonial civil servant who worked in Palestine, Tanganyika, Ceylon, Jamaica and Pakistan. He served as the Chief Secretary of Ceylon from 1942 to 1947 and ...

, Chief Secretary,

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. * Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary to the Conference of East African Governors and Secretary to the High Commissioner for Transport, Kenya & Uganda. * Albert Arthur Mangnall Isherwood, , Colonial Education Service, Director of Education,

Tanganyika Territory Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 to 1961. It was initially administered under a military occupation regime. From 20 July 1922, it was formalised into a L ...

. * Victor William Tighe McGusty, , Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services and Secretary for Indian Affairs,

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

, and Central Medical Authority in the Western Pacific. * Alexander Francis Mahaffy, , Director of the Yellow Fever Research Institute, Uganda. * Sydney Moody, , Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary,

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

. *

John Valentine Wistar Shaw Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw (14 February 1894 – 24 December 1982) was a British colonial administrator. Born in Derby on 14 February 1894, Shaw was educated at Repton, and in the First World War did military service from 1914 to 1919. He th ...

, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary,

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

. * Francis Edward Viney Smith, Colonial Agricultural Service, Marketing & Trade Commissioner, Jamaica. * George Frederick Webster, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika Territory. * Acting Commander Wilfred Albert Dunderdale, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. For services to the Foreign Office. * Alvary Douglas Frederick Gascoigne, His Majesty's Consul-General at

Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...

. * William Evelyn Houston-Boswall, , formerly Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Tokyo. * William Henry Bradshaw Mack, Head of the French Department of the Foreign Office. * John Moncaster Ley Mitcheson, , Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Legation at Stockholm. * George Pearson Paton, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Istanbul. * Brigadier William Wyndham Torre Torr, , Military Attache at His Majesty's Embassy at Madrid.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

* Hugh Meggison Hood, ,

, Adviser to His Excellency the

Governor of Madras This is a list of the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947. English Agents In 1639, the grant of Madras to the English was finalized be ...

. * Lieutenant-General Edward Pellew Quinan, , Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Tenth Army. * Edmond Nicolas Blandy, , Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Bengal Public Service Commission and lately Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal. * Major Raja Shrimant Malojirao Mudhojirao alias Nana Saheb Naik Nimbalkar, Raja of

Phaltan Phaltan () is a town, a tehsil, and a municipal council in the Satara district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The town is about northeast of the city of Satara and about 110 km from Pune. History Phaltan was one of the non-salu ...

. * Gerald William Priestley, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Madras.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

* Joseph Boyd Irwin, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the

. * John Ainslie Mackeown, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply. * Percy Marsden, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner,

Rawalpindi Division Rawalpindi Division, also known as Pothohar Division, is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Rawalpindi city is the capital of the division. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the total population of division was 10 mi ...

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. * Geoffrey Charles Frescheville Ramsden, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner,

Jubbulpore Division The Jubbulpore Division, named after its capital Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), was one of the four former administrative divisions of the Central Provinces of British India. It was located in the Mahakoshal region of present-day Madhya Pradesh state ...

Central Provinces and Berar The Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India and later the Dominion of India which existed from 1903 to 1950. It was formed by the merger of the Central Provinces with the province of Berar, which was territory leased by the B ...

. * Cecil Gilbert William Cordon, , Agent and General Manager,

Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway was a railway company that operated in southern India. It was founded on 1 January 1908 by merging the Madras Railway and the Southern Mahratta Railway. Initially, its headquarters was at Royapuram in Ma ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Gaisford, Indian Political Service, Resident for Kolhapur & the Deccan States. * Michael Henry Braddon Nethersole, , Indian Civil Service, Commissioner,

Rohilkhand Division Moradabad division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Moradabad is the administrative headquarters of the division. It forms a part of the Rohilkhand region. Currently (2005), the division consists of distr ...

, United Provinces. * Brigadier Herbert Edwin Abrahall Morris, , Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, General Headquarters, India. * Brigadier Cecil Vivian Staveley Jackson, , British Service, Chief Engineer, Southern Army, India. * Arnold Eustace Bion, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bihar. * Eardley Edward Carnac Price, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Financial Secretary to the Government of the

North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, ) was a Chief Commissioner's Province of British India, established on 9 November 1901 from the north-western districts of the Punjab Province. Followin ...

. * Roualeyn Charles Rossiter Cumming, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police and Joint Secretary in the Home Department,

Government of Assam The Government of Assam is the subnational government of Assam, a state of India. It consists of the Governor appointed by the President of India as the head of the state, currently Jagdish Mukhi. The head of government is the Chief Minister, ...

. * Satyendra Mohan Dhar, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Education, Development & Employment Departments. * Arthur Frederick William Dixon, Indian Civil Service,

Dewan ''Dewan'' (also known as ''diwan'', sometimes spelled ''devan'' or ''divan'') designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A ''dewan'' was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan). Diwans belonged to the el ...

Cochin Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

, lately Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Local Administration Department, Madras. * Gilbert Alexander Murray Brown, , Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the North-West Frontier Province in the Public Works Department. * Captain Sardar Bahadur Dalpat Singh, , Member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Rohtak District, Punjab. * Colonel John Forbes Meiklejohn, Indian Army, Inspector of Physical Training, India. * Captain Lancelot Sanderson,

Royal Indian Navy The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India. Along with the Presidency armies, later the Indian Army, and from 1932 the Royal Indian Air Force, it was one of the Armed Forces of British India. Fr ...

, Naval Officer-in-Charge, Calcutta. * Christopher Millward Harlow, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests,

. * Engineer Captain James Beggs, Royal Indian Navy, Director of Shipbuilding, Munitions Production Branch, Department of Supply, Government of India. * Alfred Ernest Porter, Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Home Department. * Lieutenant-Colonel Abdul Harnid Shaikh, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Prisons, United Provinces. * Joshua Parlby, , Military Accountant-General, Government of India. * William Telford Hall, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, United Provinces. * John Bowstead, , Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary to Government and Director of Civil Defence,

Orissa Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of Sch ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur Falconer, His Britannic Majesty's Consul,

Kerman Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...

Persian Gulf Residency The Persian Gulf Residency () was an official colonial subdivision (i.e., residency) of the British Raj from 1763 until 1947 (and remained British protectorates after Indian independence in 1947, up to 1971), whereby the United Kingdom maint ...

. * Colonel Edward Aubrey Glennie, , (late Royal Engineers), Director,

Survey of India The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of Cartography, mapping and surveying.

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Macmahon Mahon, , Indian Army (Retd.), lately Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Prabhakar Narayan Chandavarkar, Imperial Customs Service, Collector of Customs, Bombay. * Charles Samuel Mullan, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of Income Tax, Bengal. * Shridhar Balkrishna Vaidya, Barrister-at-Law, Collector and District Magistrate,

Surat Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means ''face'' in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport. It is now ...

, Bombay. * Arthur Reginald Augier, Senior Deputy Director-General, Posts & Telegraphs. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Reid McRobert, Indian Medical Service, Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Superintendent and Physician, General Hospital, Madras. * John Leslie Grant, Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer, Sind. * Lieutenant-Colonel Edward McKenzie Taylor, , Director, Irrigation Research Institute, Punjab. * Walter Allen Jenkins, Indian Educational Service, Special Officer under the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. * Sardar Bahadur Nawab sir Asadullah Khan, Raisani,

Kalat State The Khanate of Kalat ( bal, کلاتءِ ھانات) was a Baloch Khanate that existed from 1512 to 1955 in the centre of the modern-day province of Balochistan, Pakistan. Its rulers were Brahui speakers. Prior to that they were subjects ...

Baluchistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

. * Lionel Everard Napier, , Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, Bengal.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Sir Rupert Beswicke Howorth, . * Sir Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, .

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* Thomas Chadwick, . * Colonel Charles Stafford Price-Davies, , (dated 14 February 1942). *

William Henry Harris Sir William Henry Harris (28 March 1883 – 6 September 1973) was an English organist, choral trainer and composer. Early life and education Harris was born in Fulham, London and became a chorister at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill. At the age o ...

, . * Cedric Sydney Lane-Roberts, .

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

* The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, . * Charlotte Haskins, (dated 14 February 1942). * George Edward Fenton King. * Major William Alfred Morris (dated 9 May 1942).

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

* Lieutenant Michael Humble-Crofts (dated 9 May 1942). * Theodore Jenkins. * Ruth Maybell Webster.

Order of the British Empire

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

;Military Division * Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrook Little, . ;Civil Division * Arthur, Baron Riverdale, . For services to the

Empire Air Training Scheme The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), or Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) often referred to as simply "The Plan", was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zea ...

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

;Military Division * Katharine Henrietta Jones, , (206237), Matron-in-Chief,

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as ''the QAs'') is the nursing branch of the British Army Army Medical Services, Medical Services. History Although an "official" nursing service was not established until 1881, the corp ...

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

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral

Francis Murray Austin Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Murray Austin, KBE, CB (10 September 1881 – 19 June 1953) was a Royal Navy officer who served in both world wars.{{Cite news , date=22 June 1953 , title=Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austin , pages=8 , work=The Times On the ...

, , (Retd.) * Vice-Admiral John Augustine Edgell, , (Retd.) * Vice-Admiral Francis Thomas Butler Tower, , (Retd.) ;;Army * Major-General George Brian Ogilvie Taylor, , (3405), late

. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal Bertine Entwisle Sutton, . * Air Vice-Marshal Hazelton Robson Nicholl, . ;Civil Division * Alexander Cunnison, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Pensions. *

Charles Galton Darwin Sir Charles Galton Darwin (19 December 1887 – 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was a son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin an ...

, , Director, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * George Selby Washington Epps, , Government

Actuary An actuary is a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty. The name of the corresponding field is actuarial science. These risks can affect both sides of the balance sheet and require asset man ...

. * Reginald Herbert Hill, , Deputy Director-General,

. * Warwick Lindsay Scott, , Second Secretary,

. * Robert Rowland Appleby, , a British subject resident in New York. * Sir Jwala Prasad Srivastava, Member of the Legislative Assembly,

Cawnpore Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...

, United Provinces. * Jules Leclezio, CBE. For public services in

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Engineer Rear-Admiral Frank Victor King. * Captain Ralph Douglas Binney, (Retd.) * Captain Roden Henry Victor Buxton, (Retd.) * Captain Leonard Gallilan Garbett, (Retd.) * Captain Ian Agnew Patteson Macintyre. * Captain

Robert Don Oliver Vice Admiral Robert Don Oliver CB CBE DSC DL (17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. Naval career Oliver served in World War I taking part in the Battle of the Falkland Is ...

, . * Captain John Noel Pelly, (Retd.) * Captain Philip Ruck-Keene. * Captain Percy Todd, . * Captain (Acting Commodore, Second Class) James Kenneth Brook, ,

. * Engineer Captain Brian John Hamilton Wilkinson. * Engineer Captain Arthur Cyril Weeks Hears,

Royal Australian Navy The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the principal naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM, RAN. CN is also jointly responsible to the Minister of ...

. * Captain (E) Denys Chester Ford. * Surgeon Captain Henry St. Clair Colson, . * Paymaster Captain Bernard Carter, (Retd.) * Paymaster Captain Walter Keir Campbell Grace. * Temporary Paymaster Captain Arthur Purves Shaw. * Colonel Commandant (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Peel Dawson, , Royal Marines. ;;Army * Colonel Marcus James Henry Bruce (45571), late

. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) John Owen Carpenter, , (1203), late

The East Surrey Regiment The East Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, the 70th ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Fitzroy Tozer Chapman, , (108990), General List. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Douglas Hendrie Currie, , Indian Army. * Colonel Richard Brownlow Purey Cust, , (4134), late Royal Artillery. * Colonel William Augustus Bampfylde Daniell, , Suffolk Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) John Conyers D'Arcy, , (10058), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Charles Anderson Lane Dunphie (18327), Royal Artillery. * Colonel Robert Dunsmore, , London Home Guard. * Colonel (temporary Major-General) Oliver Pearce Edgcumbe, , (12450), late Royal Corps of Signals. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Edward Lionel Farley, , (1293), late Royal Engineers. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Douglas Alexander Henry Graham, , (8265), late

The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 26th Cameronian Regi ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel & Ordnance Officer, 2nd Class (temporary Colonel & Ordnance Officer 1st Class) Gordon Paul Umfreville Hardy (5923),

Royal Army Ordnance Corps The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equip ...

. * Colonel Alan Rupert Laurie, , (34416), late

Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. The RAMC, the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps a ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) John Sydney Lethbridge, , (13389), Royal Engineers. * Colonel Robert Godfrey Llewellyn, , London Home Guard. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Charles Allison Murray (4635), late

Royal Army Veterinary Corps The Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC), known as the Army Veterinary Corps (AVC) until it gained the royal prefix on 27 November 1918, is an administrative and operational branch of the British Army responsible for the provision, training and ca ...

. * Colonel Ebenezer John Lecky Pike, , Sussex Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Cecil Whitfield Raw, , (22742), Royal Artillery. * Colonel John Laurence Short, , (12786), late

The King's Regiment (Liverpool) The King's Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest line infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot in 1751. Unlike most British Army infantry regiments, which were ...

. * Colonel Oliver Sutton-Nelthorpe, , (41951), late

The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle ...

. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Thomas Thelwall Waddington, , (49711), late

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Queen' ...

. * Colonel (acting Major-General) Frederick George Wrisberg (10125), late Royal Artillery. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Vice-Marshal

Ronald Graham Ronald Lewis Graham (October 31, 1935July 6, 2020) was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". He ...

, . * Acting Air Vice-Marshal

Alan Lees Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees, (23 May 1895 – 14 August 1973) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Reserve Command. RAF career Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Lee ...

, . * Acting Air Vice-Marshal Robert Dickinson Oxland, . * Acting Air Vice-Marshal Horace Ernest Philip Wigglesworth, . * Air Commodore Walter John Brice Curtis, . * Air Commodore Andrew Grant, . * Air Commodore Bernard McEntegart. * Air Commodore Philip Herbert Mackworth, . * Air Commodore Reginald Baynes Mansell, . * Air Commodore

Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders, (17 March 1898 – 8 February 1974) was a Royal Flying Corps pilot during the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War and the immediate post-war yea ...

. * Group Captain Herbert Ivor Trentham Beardsworth. * Group Captain Arthur Garrity. * Group Captain Herbert George Jones. * Acting Group Captain

Arthur Vere Harvey Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, Knight Bachelor, Kt. (31 January 1906 – 5 April 1994) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (Un ...

Auxiliary Air Force The Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF), formerly the Auxiliary Air Force (AAF), together with the Air Force Reserve, is a component of His Majesty's Reserve Air Forces (Reserve Forces Act 1996, Part 1, Para 1,(2),(c)). It provides a primary rein ...

. * Acting Group Captain Hubert Leonard Patch. * Group Captain Carny Scarlett Wiggins,

Royal Australian Air Force "Through Adversity to the Stars" , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = RAAF Anniversary Commemoration ...

. * Group Captain

George Stacey Hodson Air Vice Marshal George Stacey Hodson , (2 May 1899 – 1 October 1976) was an air officer of the British Royal Air Force who began his military career as a World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories. In the course of his 34 year ...

, ,

Royal New Zealand Air Force The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) ( mi, Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa, "The Warriors of the Sky of New Zealand"; previously ', "War Party of the Blue") is the aerial service branch of the New Zealand Defence Force. It was formed from New Zeala ...

. ;Civil Division * Eric Strickland Bertenshaw, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs & Excise. * Captain James Gordon Partridge Bisset, , Royal Naval Reserve (Retd.),

Master Master or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles * Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans *Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...

, Merchant Navy. * Leslie Stuart Brass, Assistant Legal Adviser, Home Office. * Captain Theobald John Claude Purcell-Buret, , Master, Merchant Navy. * Edward Arnold Carmichael, , Director of the Neurological Research Unit of the Medical Research Council at the

National Hospital for Nervous Diseases The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (informally the National Hospital or Queen Square) is a neurological hospital in Queen Square, London. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was the f ...

. * William George Hamar Chelmick, Accountant and Comptroller-General, Board of Inland Revenue. * Robert Stanley Chipchase, , Chairman and Managing Director, Tyne Dock Engineering Co. Ltd.,

South Shields South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically, it was known in Roman times as Arbeia, and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages. According to the 20 ...

. * John Beresford Clark, Controller (Overseas Services),

. * John Davidson, , Regional Director, London Postal Region,

. * John Alexander Dawson, Director of Works I, Air Ministry. * Frederick William Delve, Deputy Inspector-in-Chief,

National Fire Service The National Fire Service (NFS) was the single fire service created in Great Britain in 1941 during the Second World War; a separate National Fire Service (Northern Ireland) was created in 1942. The NFS was created in August 1941 by the amalga ...

. * Charles Geoffrey Maurice des Graz, Assistant Director, Western Areas, Postal Censorship, Ministry of Information. * Leslie Hall Downs, , Chairman, Hull Reconstruction Panel. Managing Director, Rose, Downs & Thompson Ltd. * Francis Robinson Gladstone Duckworth, , Senior Chief Inspector, Board of Education. * Captain Spencer Freeman, Principal Director, Regional and Emergency Services Organisation, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Will Fyffe, Scottish Actor and Comedian. * Claude Dixon Gibb, Director-General, Weapon Production, Ministry of Supply. * Stephen Frederick Gooden, , Engraver. * William Graham, President of the National Farmers' Union and Chamber of Agriculture in Scotland. * James Gray, , Superintendent Engineer, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. * Honorary Group Captain

William Helmore Air Commodore William Helmore CBE, PhD, MS., FCS, F.R.Ae.S. (1 March 1894 – 18 December 1964) was an engineer who had a varied and distinguished career in scientific research with the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Aircraft Production duri ...

, Royal Air Force (Retd.), , Technical Adviser, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Alan Semphill Hinshelwood, Chairman of the Fire Offices Committee. * Brigadier-General Herbert Arthur Jones. For services as Chairman of a Committee on Royal Air Force Administration. *

Reginald Victor Jones Reginald Victor Jones , FRSE, LLD (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in by solving scientific and technical pr ...

, , Assistant Director of Intelligence, Air Ministry. * Percy William Jupp, , Director of Lands and Accommodation, Ministry of Works and Buildings. * John Vivian Kitto,

Librarian of the House of Commons The House of Commons Library is the library and information resource of the lower house of the British Parliament. It was established in 1818, although its original 1828 construction was destroyed during the burning of Parliament in 1834. Th ...

. * Hector Leak, Assistant Secretary,

Board of Trade The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade. Its full title is The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of ...

. * Charles George Maby, , Chief Constable of Bristol. *

Thomas Jones Mackie Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

, , Professor of Bacteriology in the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

. For services to Civil Defence. * Frederick Martin, Chairman of the Public Health Committee, Aberdeen County Council. * John Primatt Redcliffe Maud, Deputy Secretary,

Ministry of Food An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

. * Kenneth Tweedale Meaby, ,

Air Raid Precautions Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids. Government consideration for air raid precautions increased in the 1920s an ...

Controller, and County Clerk, Nottinghamshire. * Commander Edward Robert Micklem, Royal Navy (Retd)., General Manager,

. * Henry Morris, Secretary to the Cambridgeshire Education Committee. * Francis James Mortimer, lately President of the

Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with ...

. * George Henry Parker, Chairman of the National Joint Council for the Building Industry. * Wyndham Parker, ,

Medical Officer of Health A medical officer of health, also known as a medical health officer, chief health officer, chief public health officer or district medical officer, is the title commonly used for the senior government official of a health department, usually at a m ...

for

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

. For services to Civil Defence. * Alexander Pickard,

Kingston-upon-Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east o ...

. For services to Civil Defence. * Clifford Walter Radcliffe, Clerk to the Middlesex County Council. For services to Civil Defence. * Alderman Edwin Scoby Oak-Rhind, Chairman of the Kent County Civil Defence Committee. * Lawrence Richmond, , Public Assistance Officer, Yorkshire,

West Riding County Council West Riding County Council (WRCC) was the county council of the Administrative counties of England, administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1974. The council met at County Hall, Wakefield, County Hall i ...

. * Leslie Roberts, General Manager,

Manchester Ship Canal Company The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, it generally follows the original routes of the rive ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel James Bertie Simpson, . For public services in

Sutherlandshire Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later co ...

. * Allan Stevenson, , lately Deputy Director of Merchant Shipbuilding, Admiralty. * Geoffrey Summers, . For public services in

Flintshire , settlement_type = County , image_skyline = , image_alt = , image_caption = , image_flag = , image_shield = Arms of Flint ...

. * Harold Vincent Tewson, , Assistant General Secretary of the

Trades Union Congress The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national tra ...

. * Frank Douglas Turner, , Medical Superintendent, Royal Eastern Counties Institution for the Mentally Defective. * George Campbell Vaughan, Chief Constable, West Riding Constabulary and Deputy Air Raid Precautions Controller. * Major Aubrey Pattisson Wallman Wedd, , Chairman of Civil Defence Committee of

Essex County Council Essex County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Essex in England. It has 75 councillors, elected from 70 divisions, and is currently controlled by the Conservative Party. The council meets at County Hall ...

. Air Raid Precautions Controller for Essex. * William Dale Wilkinson, , Assistant Secretary, Offices of the War Cabinet. * Zwinglius Frank Willis, , General Secretary,

Young Men's Christian Association YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London, originally ...

. * James Ireland Craig, of the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. * Arthur Noel Cumberbatch, , Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Tehran. * George Lyall, His Majesty's Consul-General at San Jose. * Alfred Clarence Norman, , Director of the X-Ray Institute in Iraq, and Professor of Radiology, Royal College of Medicine, Bagdad. * Joseph Pyke, His Majesty's Consul-General at

Basle , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), ...

. * Edward Campbell, a Member of the Melbourne City Council, State of Victoria, for many years. * Leslie Jenner, President of the

, State of Victoria. For public services. * Raja Bahadur Raja Brij Narayan Rai, of Padrauna Estate,

Gorakhpur District Gorakhpur district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This district is a part of the Gorakhpur division. The city of Gorakhpur, or Gorakhpur is the administrative headquarters of this district and Gorakhpur divi ...

, United Provinces. * Samuel Garthwaite Edgar, Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer and Public Works Minister, Government of

Jodhpur Jodhpur (; ) is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of the princely state of Jodhpur State. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the Ki ...

Rajputana Rājputana, meaning "Land of the Rajputs", was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day ...

. * James Bell Henderson, General Manager of the Garden Reach Workshops of MacNeill & Co., Calcutta. * John Humphrey, , Broker, Sind. *

Nilkanth Chintaman Limaye, District Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor,

Sholapur Solapur () is a city located in the south-western region of the Indian state of Maharashtra, close to its border with Karnataka. Solapur is located on major highway, rail routes between Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, with a branch lin ...

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

. * Cecil Austyn Bartlett, Secretary-Manager, Clove Growers Association,

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

. * Gilbert Edwin Bodkin, Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture and Principal, College of Agriculture, Mauritius. * Henry Carr, . For public services in Nigeria. * The Reverend Harold Aldwyn Cox. For public services in the

Nyasaland Protectorate Nyasaland () was a British protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasalan ...

. * Farquhar Victor Macdonald, General Manager, Gold Coast Railways. * Lionel McDowall Robison, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Ceylon. * Hubert Edmund Walker, , Deputy Director of Public Works, Nigeria. * William Law Watson, , Head of the Engineering Contracts Branch, Crown Agents for the Colonies. ;;Honorary Commander * Umar ibn Mohammed al Amin al Kanemi, Shehu of Bornu, Northern Provinces, Nigeria.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Temporary Paymaster Captain Alan Watson Laybourne. * Commander Guy Runciman Barrow, (Retd). * Commander Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley. * Commander Thomas Marcus Brownrigg. * Commander James Edmund Fenton. * Commander Henry Keppel Gamier, (Retd). * Commander John Henry Revel Homfray, (Retd). * Commander Francis Bernard Lloyd. * Commander Alfred William James Long, (Retd). * Commander Ernest Robert Maycock, (Retd). * Commander John Henry Ruck-Keene, . * Commander Anthony Henry Thorold. * Acting Commander Geoffrey Niblett. * Commander Eric Arthur Divers, , Royal Naval Reserve. * Commander Trevor Lewis Owen, Royal Naval Reserve. * Commander Reginald Vincent Rutley, , Royal Naval Reserve (Retd.) * Acting Commander Charles Wilfred Cecil Pinckney, , Royal Naval Reserve. * Commander John Lawrence,

. * Engineer Commander Alfred Ernest Kemp, (Retd). * Engineer Commander Robert Albert Perry, (Retd). * Acting Engineer Commander Frank William Crabbe, (Retd). * Temporary Engineer Commander James Steel Doran McGuffog,

Royal Australian Naval Reserve The Royal Australian Naval Reserve (RANR) is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Australian Navy in Australia. The current Royal Australian Naval Reserve was formed in June 1973 by merging the former RANR (Seagoing) and the Royal Australian ...

(S). * Commander (E) William Evelyn Cavendish Davy. * Commander (E) John Oswald Hugh Gairdner. * Commander (E) Otto Francis McMahon, Royal Australian Navy. * Paymaster Commander (Acting Paymaster Captain) Herbert Reginald Henry Vaughan. * Paymaster Commander Ronald Bailey. * Paymaster Commander Harry Prevett. * Surgeon Commander Robert Cyril May, . * Acting Constructor Commander Henry Robert Mann,

Royal Corps of Naval Constructors The Royal Corps of Naval Constructors (RCNC) is an institution of the British Royal Navy and Admiralty for training in naval architecture, marine, electrical and weapon engineering. It was established by Order in Council in August 1883, on the r ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Colonel Commandant, Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Nicholl Williams, Royal Marines. * Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Louis Alkin. * Lieutenant-Commander Richard James Bailey. * Lieutenant-Commander Richard George Wyndham Hare. * Lieutenant-Commander Lillistone Powys Lane, (Retd). * Lieutenant-Commander John Robert Mead, (Retd). * Lieutenant-Commander James Francis Drake, , Royal Naval Reserve. * Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Samuel Rayer, , Royal Naval Reserve. * Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Albert Henry Rendle, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant-Commander Raymond Palmer Middleton, Royal Australian Navy. * Engineer Lieutenant-Commander (Acting Engineer Captain) Andrew Robert William Richardson, (Retd). * The Reverend Alan Spender, , Chaplain. * The Reverend

Arthur Kenneth Mathews Arthur Kenneth Mathews was Dean of St Albans from 1955 until 1963.He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 11 May 1906 and educated at Monkton Combe School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he met his future brother-in-law Henry Brooke, Ba ...

, , Temporary Chaplain, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Captain (Acting Temporary Major) John Farquhar Maxfield, Royal Marines. ;;Army * Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Richard Allen, , London Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Thomas Frank Arnott (45342), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Edgar Ashton, , (25751), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). * Captain (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 3rd Class) (temporary Major Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 2nd Class) Harold Atherton (131867), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Colin Willoughby Baker, , (136060),

The Leicestershire Regiment The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688. The regiment saw service for three centuries, in numerous wars and conflicts such as both W ...

. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Geoffrey William Beeforth, ,

. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) George Alexander Bond (24733), Royal Army Service Corps. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Leslie Ernest Bourke (27894), Royal Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (acting Brigadier) Geoffrey Kemp Bourne (23643), Royal Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Edward Victor Brumell, , (25578), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Chamberlin, Somerset Home Guard. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Randolph Arthur Chell (95833),

The Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...

. * Major Valentine William Bland Church, , (60695), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Kenneth Cleary, London Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Victor Collins, ,

Ceylon Garrison Artillery Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. * Major Vincent Morse Cooper (53594), Royal Artillery. * Colonel Edward Boustead Cuthbertson, , Hampshire Home Guard, (Appointment dated 12 May 1942, since deceased.) * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Charles James George Dalton (18839), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Leopold Faure Deneys, Cheshire Home Guard. * Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Stephen Searle Hill-Dillon, (4068),

The Royal Ulster Rifles The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot and the 86th (Royal County D ...

. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Godfrey Maxwell Dyer,

Indian Armoured Corps The Indian Armoured Corps was a unit of the British Empire's Indian Army. The Corps was formed on 1 May 1941 to administer existing armoured units within the Indian Army. Its headquarters was located at Ferozepore. Upon partition in 1947, the unit's ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Ordnance Officer 2nd Class) James Percy Earp, , (13809), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Scott-Evans, Buckinghamshire Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Vernon Fitton, , North Riding Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Rose Compton Gannon, , (3790), Retd. pay, late Indian Army. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur William Sumner Gibson (3540), Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Harrison, Kent Home Guard. * Colonel (acting Brigadier) Robert Alexander Hepple, , (22839), late Royal Army Medical Corps. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Norman Hugh Huttenbach (4599), Royal Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Percy Jennings, , (9742), Royal Corps of Signals. * Major Edwin Jones (1150), Royal Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Frank Eric Burr Jones (2855), Royal Corps of Signals. * Lieutenant-Colonel Khem Singh, Bikaner Ganga Risala,

Indian States Forces The Imperial Service Troops were forces raised by the princely states of the British Indian Empire. These troops were available for service alongside the Indian Army when such service was requested by the British government. At the beginning of ...

. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Ian Leo William Douglas Laurie (18587),

Royal Tank Regiment The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War. Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as th ...

Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Armoured Corps is the component of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. It includes most of the A ...

. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) (temporary Major) Richard George Leggett, , Retd. pay, late

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Robert Stedman Lewis, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * Major (Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) George Lidstone (22310), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Major Stephen Alfred Lowman, Royal Indian Army Service Corps. * Major & Paymaster (Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (Staff Paymaster 1st Class) Herbert Henry Malpass (700),

Royal Army Pay Corps The Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) was the corps of the British Army responsible for administering all financial matters. It was amalgamated into the Adjutant General's Corps in 1992. History The first "paymasters" have existed in the army before t ...

. * Captain (Brevet Major) Alexander Hall-Maxwell (9332), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Edgar Ravenswood McKillop,

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. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Cecil George Millett (25112), The

. * Lieutenant (temporary Major) Albert Mitchell, Australian Military Forces. * Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Moncrieff, , West Riding Home Guard. * Major George Stanley Newman,

17th Dogra Regiment The 17th Dogra Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army moving away from single battalion regiments to multi-battalion regiments. After the part ...

, Indian Army. * Captain (temporary Major) Francis George Clare Noakes (4249), 16th/5th Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Nock, Fifeshire Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Besley Pasmore, , (19764), The

Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Arm ...

. * Major Neville Ernest Valentine Patterson (10877), Royal Engineers. * Captain Hubert Ronald Phipps, , (11023), The

Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) The Wiltshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot and the 99th Duke of Edinburgh's (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot. The ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Albert William Homer Rea, , Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Francis Smith Reid, Royal Artillery. * Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Thomas Reilly, , (11642), Royal Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) John Ridgway Reynolds,

15th Punjab Regiment The 15th Punjab Regiment was a infantry regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947 and of the Pakistan Army from 1947 to 1956. Following its allotment to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947, it was amalgamated in 1956 with ...

, Indian Army. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Thomas Dunnette Roberts (94618), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Captain (temporary Major) David Winter Roy, Reserve of Officers, attached

Trans-Jordan Frontier Force The Trans-Jordan Frontier Force was formed on 1 April 1926, to replace the disbanded British Gendarmerie. It was a creation of the High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan, British High Commissioner for Palestine whose intention was tha ...

. * Major & Staff Paymaster 2nd Class (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel & Staff Paymaster 1st Class) Robert Horton Sayers, , (34442), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Sydney Oliver Screen (107369), Royal Engineers. * Major Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Herbert James Sheppard, ,

6th Rajputana Rifles The 6th Rajputana Rifles were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They were formed in 1922, after the Indian government reformed the army. They moved away from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments. The regiment se ...

, Indian Army. * Captain (temporary Major) Thomas Patrick Spens, , (101826), Special List. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (local Colonel) Eustace Dupuis Henchman Stocker, , (28539), Extra Regimentally Employed List. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Joseph Terreni (146741), Royal Malta Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 1st Class) Leslie Norman Tyler, , (38480), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Frederick Farquhar Young (21740), The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). ;;Royal Air Force * Acting Group Captain Lionel Richard Stanford Freestone. * Wing Commander Frank George Brockman, , (03162), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Wing Commander Joe Davison (11078). * Wing Commander William George Hamilton Ewing (24052). * Wing Commander Charles Joseph Philip Flood (33085). * Wing Commander (now Acting Group Captain) Ernest Charles Kidd, , (05237) * Wing Commander (now Group Captain) Henry Edward Nowell (16160). * Wing Commander Kenneth John McIntyre (25039). * Wing Commander Hugh Whittall Marlow, , (29189). * Wing Commander Walter Philip George Pretty (26163). * Wing Commander Laurence John Stickley, , (34252), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Wing Commander Francis Claude Sturgiss (26095). * Wing Commander John Andrews Tester (29151). * Wing Commander Michael Watson (28061). * Wing Commander (now Acting Group Captain) John Gerard Willsley Weston (26097). * Wing Commander (now Acting Group Captain) Charles Henry Chapman Woollven, , (03111). * Acting Wing Commander William John Stephen Barnard, , (35100). * Acting Wing Commander Arthur Harold Beach (03133),

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) was established in 1936 to support the preparedness of the U.K. Royal Air Force in the event of another war. The Air Ministry intended it to form a supplement to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF ...

. * Acting Wing Commander Alfred Clifton (35060). * Acting Wing Commander Frederick Fulton Fulton (74014), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Wing Commander Noel Thomas Goodwin (19020), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Wing Commander William Eric Warr Grieve (22115). * Acting Wing Commander Thomas Arthur Scarff (35245). * Squadron Leader Bernard Gould Carfoot (31175). * Squadron Leader Harold Hugh Laurie (35063). * Acting Squadron Leader William Herbert Bigg (70063), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Acting Squadron Leader Hubert Dinwoodie, , (72819), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader Harry Zaida Foreman (36100). * Acting Squadron Leader John Gallie (35341). * Acting Squadron Leader Richard Francis Gore Lea (90116), Auxiliary Air Force Reserve of Officers. * Acting Squadron Leader Tom Urquhart Pollitt (35278). * Wing Commander John Raeburn Balmer,

Royal Australian Air Force "Through Adversity to the Stars" , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = RAAF Anniversary Commemoration ...

. * Acting Wing Commander Charles John Newhill Leleu, Royal Australian Air Force. ;Civil Division * Captain Albert Andrew Andrews, Secretary of the

Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association SSAFA – the Armed Forces charity, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, is a UK charity that provides lifelong support to serving men and women and veterans from the British Armed Forces and their families or dependents. Anyone ...

. * Benjamin Edward Astbury, General Secretary,

Charity Organisation Society The Charity Organisation Societies were founded in England in 1869 following the ' Goschen Minute' that sought to severely restrict outdoor relief distributed by the Poor Law Guardians. In the early 1870s a handful of local societies were formed w ...

. For services to Civil Defence. * Ernest Astbury, , Chief Engineer and Chief Executive Officer of the Liverpool Gas Company. For services to Civil Defence. * Stanley Critchley Auty, Town Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller,

Bromley Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...

. * Harold Balme, , Medical Superintendent, Pinder Fields Emergency Hospital,

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...

. * Captain Henry Barnett,

, Merchant Navy. * Madge Frederic Bell, Honorary County Secretary for the North & West Ridings of Yorkshire, Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association. * Percy Gibson Bennell, Assistant Controller, Post Offices Stores Department. * Clement Berry, Chief Merchant Ship Repair Licensing Officer, West of Scotland, Admiralty. * John Herman Binder, Superintending Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade. * George Binns, Chief Sanitary Inspector and Chief Billeting Officer, Liverpool. * Alexander Black, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Leonard Christopher Blackstone, , Surgeon, Merchant Navy. * Councillor Colin George Blanchard, Mayor of Deptford. For services to Civil Defence. * Percy Pickersgill Booth, Chief Regional Fire Officer, No. 2 (North Eastern) Region, National Fire Service. * Kate Louisa Borne, Matron, Papworth Village Settlement. * Edward George Bowen, Senior Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Charles George Box, Chief Constable and Air Raid Precautions Controller,

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...

. * Harold Edward Brooke-Bradley, Deputy County Surveyor,

Worcestershire County Council Worcestershire County Council is the county council for the non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire in England. The most recent elections to it were in 2021. Worcestershire County Council has its headquarters at County Hall in Worcester, wh ...

. For services to Civil Defence. * John Hector Brebner, , Director, News Division, Ministry of Information. * Alfred John Bridle, Fire Force Commander, No. 23 (Worcester) Area, National Fire Service. * Gideon John Brown, Deputy Director, Tank Supply, Ministry of Supply. * Rupert Pollard Browne, Secretary of the Radio Manufacturers' Association. * Captain William Orr Burns, Master, Merchant Navy. * William Arthur Butterfield, Chief Petroleum Engineer, Petroleum Department. * Stephen Butterworth, , Principal Scientific Officer, Admiralty. * Annie Isabella Cameron, , (Mrs. G. B. Dunlop), Member of the Council of the Scottish History Association. * Captain Dunslay Harwood Casson, , Royal Naval Reserve, (retd.), Master, Merchant Navy. * Sydney Richardson Cauthery, Director of Production Liaison for Engines & Aircraft Equipment, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Richard Clegg, Air Raid Precautions Controller and Town Clerk,

Chesterfield Borough The Borough of Chesterfield is a non-metropolitan district with borough status in Derbyshire, England. It is named after its main settlement of Chesterfield. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, ...

. * Ernest John Cook, Works Manager, London Fire Force Headquarters Workshops. * Frank Cook, Sub-District Manager in the Road Transport Organisation of the Ministry of War Transport, Hull. * Hannah Frances Mary Court, Accountant, Offices of the House of Lords. * Cicely Mary, Countess of Courtown, County Organiser for

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

Women's Voluntary Services The Royal Voluntary Service (known as the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS) from 1938 to 1966; Women's Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) from 1966 to 2004 and WRVS from 2004 to 2013) is a voluntary organisation concerned with helping people in need ...

for Civil Defence. * Captain Charles Henry Cranch, Master, Merchant Navy. * Frank Henry Crosier, Deputy General Manager,

. * Herbert Crowther, , Assistant Divisional Food Officer, Ministry of Food. * Francis Dann, Fire Force Commander, No. 27 (Manchester) Area, National Fire Service. * James Taylor Davidson, Assistant Fire Force Commander, Western No. 1 Area, Scotland, National Fire Service. * Captain Lachlan Dewar, Master, Merchant Navy. * James Brownlie Dick, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Arthur Hughes Dodd, Engineering Inspector, Grade I, Ministry of War Transport. * Gerald Dowse, , Headmaster, Cowley School for Boys, St. Helens. * Henry John Dryer, Secretary, Scottish Federation of Grocers' & Provision Merchants' Associations. * Commander (E) Peter Du Cane, Royal Navy (Retd)., , Managing Director, Messrs. Vosper Ltd. * Alderman Edward George Eddy, . For public services in

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. * James Ellery, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Dorothy Mary Elliott, Chief Woman Officer of the

National Union of General and Municipal Workers The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 460,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National Health Service (N ...

. Member of the Women's Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Herbert Millson Enderby, City Surveyor,

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. For services to Civil Defence. * William Fairley, , Secretary, Board of Control. * John Falconer, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * John Drummond Farmer, Director, Messrs. J. & E. Hall,

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. * Edwin Field, Principal, Home Office. * Sidney Fitch, , Chief Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. * Captain Harry Fuller, Master, Merchant Navy. * Emilie Montgomery Gardner, District Officer, Assistance Board. * Maud Gates, Assistant Divisional Food Officer (Wartime Meals), North Western Division, Ministry of Food. * Francis Henry Gibbons, , Borough Engineer and Deputy Air Raid Precautions Controller,

Dudley Dudley is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically an exclave of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the ...

. * Captain Herbert Joseph Giles, , Royal Naval Reserve (Retd.), Master, Merchant Navy. * Captain George Gillanders, Master, Merchant Navy. * William Santon Gilmour, , First Aid Commandant, Leeds Casualty Service. * Leslie Ward Goddard, Senior Air Raid Precautions Operations and Training Officer, Western District of Scotland. * Victor Andrew Goddard, Chief Instructions Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Captain Henry Robert Gordon, Secretary, Ashridge Emergency Hospital. * Durban Haigh, Chief Executive Officer, War Risk Insurance Office, Ministry of War Transport. * Joseph Hardy, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Arthur Clement Hamilton, , Assistant Director of Contracts, Air Ministry. * Alderman Edward Harris, Chairman of the West Glamorgan Advisory Committee, Assistance Board. * Captain Ernest Hart, Master, Merchant Navy. * Thomas Hartland, Chief Accountant, War Office. * Leslie William Hayes, Head of Overseas and Engineering Information Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Captain William Hill, Master, Merchant Navy. * Gladys Verena Louisa Hillyers, Matron,

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. For services to Civil Defence. * Alexander Beatson Howie, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * William Hughes, Air Raid Precautions Controller, Dundee. * Major Selwyn Wollaston Humphery, , Mayor of

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and Air Raid Precautions Sub-Controller. * Cecil Joseph Hurst, Member of the Midland Regional Transport Committee,

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. * Robert Illingworth, Engineer and General Manager, Poplar Borough Council Electricity Undertaking. For services to Civil Defence. * Major Thomas Jackson, Chairman, War Work Committee of the

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. * Doris James, County Director for

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, War Organisation of the

and Order of St. John. * Dorothy Foster Jeffery, Regional Administrator, North West Region, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Richard Henry Bishop Jesse, Executive Officer, East Sussex War Agricultural Executive Committee. * David Murray John, Town Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller,

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. * William Johnston, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Edward Charles Henry Jones, , Assistant Secretary,

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. * Captain Edward John Jones, lately Master, Merchant Navy. * Captain George Brown Kelly, Master, Merchant Navy. * Clive Hughes Kilmister, Chief Engineer, Coastal Command, Air Ministry. * Arthur Richard Knowles, Secretary, Sheffield Chambers of Commerce. * Vernon Lawrence, Air Raid Precautions Controller,

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. * David Laws, Staff Controller, London Postal Region, General Post Office. * William Thomas Cangley Lett, Higher Collector, Belfast Collection, Board of Customs & Excise. * William Charles Letts, , Principal, Ministry of Pensions. * Stanley Eli Lovatt, Assistant Controller,

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. * Major Daniel McBride, , Chairman of the

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and

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

Local Employment Committee. Sheriff Clerk for

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. * Colin MacDonald, Divisional Land Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * Ernest Kenneth Macdonald, , Medical Officer of Health,

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. For services to Civil Defence. * George Donald Alastair MacDougall, Chief Assistant, Statistical Branch, Prime Minister's Office. * Captain Harold Colquhoun Marris, Air Raid Precautions Controller and County Clerk, Holland (Lincolnshire). * Major Alec Bryan Matthews, , General Works Manager, New Crown Forgings Ltd. * William Thomas Matthison, lately Chief Examiner, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue. * Henry Maw, JP, Secretary and Treasurer of the

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, or RIE, often (but incorrectly) known as the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, or ERI, was established in 1729 and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest v ...

. For services to Civil Defence. * Captain Alexander Graham Melville, Master, Merchant Navy. * Captain John William Mills, Senior Marine Superintendent, Turnbull, Scott & Co. * Charles Johns Mole, , Assistant Director of Works, Ministry of Works & Buildings. * Alexander Monro, , Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. * Herbert William Morgan, Docks Manager,

Swansea Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...

. * Gwladys Perrie Hopkin-Morris, , Chairman of the South Wales Welfare Advisory Committee. * Captain James Postgate Morris, Trinity House Pilot. * Captain Daniel Morrison, Master, Merchant Navy. * Captain Edgar John Myles, Master, Merchant Navy. *

Andrew Naesmith Sir Andrew Naesmith (24 July 1888 – 23 October 1961) was a British trade union leader. Born in Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, Naesmith grew up in Lancashire, where he worked in a cotton mill,"Obituary: Sir Andrew Naesmith", ''The Times'', 24 Octob ...

, , General Secretary of the

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. * Hilda May Nichols, Assistant Controller, Money Order Department,

. * Alfred Nisbet, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Frank Noble, Chief Accountant, Grants Section,

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. *

John Lankester Parker John Lankester Parker OBE FRAeS Hon. MSLAE (1896 – 22 August 1965) was Chief Test Pilot for Short Brothers from 1918 until his retirement in 1945. He joined Shorts in 1916 as a part-time test pilot and assistant to then Chief Test Pilot Rona ...

, Chief Test Pilot, Messrs. Short Brothers. * Adam Valentine Parlby, Superintendent, Royal Ammunition Factories, Woolwich. * Robert Paterson, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Captain Herbert Leonard Payne, , Royal Naval Reserve (Retd.), Master, Merchant Navy. * Ernest Victor Pollard, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * D'Arcy Patrick Reilly, Principal,

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. * Wilfred Eric Rice, Chairman of the Brixton Local Employment Committee. * Hugh Bailie Robinson, Actuary, Belfast Savings Bank. * William Henry Robinson, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Major Vivian Barry Rogers, , Staff Officer to the Commandant-in-Chief,

Metropolitan Police The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

Special Constabulary The Special Constabulary is the part-time volunteer section of statutory police forces in the United Kingdom and some Crown dependencies. Its officers are known as special constables. Every United Kingdom territorial police force has a specia ...

. * Ernest William Russell, Assistant Chief Inspector, Armaments Inspection Department, Ministry of Supply. * Captain Henry Sadler, , Air Raid Precautions Officer, West Sussex. * Robert Lindsay Scarlett, Chairman of the Scottish Horticultural Advisory Committee and of the Scottish Potato Registration Committee. * George Arthur Scoley, Assistant Secretary, Office of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. * Robert James Shand, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * David Shaw, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Captain Norman Shotton, Master, Merchant Navy. * Captain Malin Sorsbie, Manager in West Africa,

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. * Katherine Milne Stirling, Chairman, Middlesex District Man-Power Board, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * George Irvine Strath, Chief Constable,

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. * Captain Robert Strutt, Master, Merchant Navy. * Henry John Swift, General Manager (Aero Production),

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. * Captain Albert Ernest Thomas, Master, Merchant Navy. * Alexander Thomson, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Esther Margaret Thornton, Director, Prisoners of War Department, War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John. * Ralph Windsor Thorpe, , Housing Inspector, No. 5 London Region, Ministry of Health. * Captain William Loftus Todd, Master, Merchant Navy. * Jack Birchall Twist, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * William George Vincent Vaughan, Director, General Production Division, Ministry of Information. * William Robert Vaughan, Secretary, Waifs and Strays Society. For services to Civil Defence. * Captain John Edwin Wade, Master, Merchant Navy. * Claude Humphrey Meredith Waldock, Temporary Principal, Admiralty. * James Wallace, Town Clerk of

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. For services to Civil Defence. * Philip James Watkin, , Medical Superintendent, London County Council Hospital, Lambeth. For services to Civil Defence. * John Rogers Watkins, Chairman of

William Watkins Ltd William Watkins Ltd one of the first tugboat owning companies in the world, was founded by John Rogers Watkins in 1833.Dick Goldsmith White, Assistant Director, War Office. * Arnold Frederic Wilkins, , Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Harry Willshaw, Chairman, Birmingham Reconstruction Panel. Works Engineer, Dunlop Rubber Company. * Flight Lieutenant Lambert Eardley-Wilmot, Royal Air Force (Retd.), Regional Officer, Grade I, Ministry of Home Security. * George Hamilton Bracher Wilson, , Chairman, Nottingham War Savings Campaign Committee. * Captain Leonard Gordon Wiseman, Master, Merchant Navy. * Henry Wooldridge, Senior Scientific Officer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * Dudley George Bourn, Traffic Manager of the Iraq State Railways. * Alexander Cruickshank, , Senior Medical Inspector,

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, Sudan. * Clarence Norbury Ezard, His Majesty's Consul at Beira. * Ronald Ferguson, General Manager of the Egyptian State Broadcasting Company. * John Philip Gordon Finch, His Majesty's Consul at Mosul. * Laurence Brouncker Southby Larkins, formerly British Commercial Agent at

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. * Leonard Haines Leach, Acting British Consul-General at New York. * Robert Hugh Kirk Marett, Press Attache at His Majesty's Legation at Mexico City. * Captain (Retd.) John Kindersley Maurice, District Commissioner,

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. * William Alexander Troup, Headmaster Scottish School for Boys,

. * Tom Stanley Denson Walley, a British subject resident in Buenos Aires. * George James Armstrong, , Acting Financial Secretary,

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. * Major Hedley William Clemow, Assistant Commissioner, Criminal Investigation Department,

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. * Robert William Dobson. For social welfare services in the

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, State of Victoria. * Thomas Gilbert Henderson, , Principal Veterinary Officer,

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. * Greta Lewis. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia. * Andrew Paton Martin, , Medical Director and Chief Health Officer,

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, Director of Medical Services for the Defence and Air Force in the Colony. * Sidney Heneage Coates Palgrave, lately Auditor General, Southern Rhodesia. * Robert Charles Thear, Mayor of the City of Geelong, State of Victoria. * Hermann Albertus Voss, London Manager of the

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. * Lilian Ethel Thomas, Deputy Directress of Public Instruction,

. * Felix Ash, Director of Telegraph Stores & Workshops,

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. * Baini Prashad, , Director, Zoological Survey of India. * Major Reginald Charles George Chapman, Royal Engineers, Deputy Master, Security Printing, India. * Major James Edward Corbett, Deputy Military Vice-President, Soldiers' Boards, Meerut, United Provinces. * Major Frederick Tucker Deatker, Indian Medical Department (Retd.), District Superintendent, No. 3 District, St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, Bombay. * Arthur Graham Francis Farquhar, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpur,

. * Donald William Gollan, Deputy Adviser of Factories, Air Raid Precautions, ARP, Delhi, and lately Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, Madras. * Cardwell Sinclair Gunning, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Lakhimpur District, Assam Province, Assam. * Khan Bahadur Syed Hamid Husain Khan, , Rais and Honorary Magistrate, Lucknow, United Provinces. * Michael Arthur Frederick Hirtzel, Member of the Legislative Assembly, Joint Secretary, Calcutta War Committee, and Calcutta Defence Loans Committee, Bengal. * Khan Bahadur Sayid Ijaz Ali, , Minister, Khairpur State. * Hugh Dallas Latham, Indian Police, Special Air Raid Precautions Officer, Madras. * Angus Alexander Macdonald, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to Government of the Punjab in the Home Department. * Harry Joel Mulleneux, Chief Electrical Engineer, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bombay. * Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Ferguson Murland, Coffee Planter, Coorg. * Syed Abu Talib Naqvi, Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Aligarh, United Provinces. * Frederick George Percival, , General Superintendent of Mines, Tata Steel, Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Jamshedpur, Bihar. * Edwin Terrey Prideaux, Indian Civil Service, District Magistrate, Bhagalpur district, Bhagalpur, Bihar. * Muhammad Rahmatullah, Nawab Rahmat Yar Jung Bahadur, Hyderabad City Police, Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City & Suburbs, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad State, Hyderabad (Deccan). * Ranjit Singh, Senior Director, R. G. Cotton Mills Ltd, Lucknow. * Mulk Raj Sachdev, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Supply Department and lately Additional Deputy Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department. * Harold Forbes Scroggie, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Hazara District,

. * Probha Nath Singh Roy, Joint Secretary, Calcutta War Committee, and Calcutta Defence Loans Committee, Bengal. * Archibald Hyndman Stein, Indian Forest Service, Divisional Forest Officer, Hoshangabad, Central Provinces & Berar. * Captain Andrew Charles Stewart, Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. * Paul Burgman Wilkins, , Indian Police, District Superintendent of Police, Poona, Bombay. * Raymond Wilmot, , Director of Leather Manufactures, Directorate-General of Supply, Department of Supply, Government of India. * Arthur Henry Wilson, Field Controller of Military Accounts in Iraq. * Malcolm Palliser Barrow. For public services in Nyasaland. * Verey Alfred Beckley, , Colonial Agricultural Service, Senior Agricultural Chemist, Kenya. * Hablot Robert Edgar Browne, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Barbados. * Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant to the Lieutenant-Governor, Malta. * Joseph Charles Degiorgio. For public services in Malta. * Louis Farrugia. For public services in Malta. * Horatio Harvey Field. For public services in

. * James Mervyn Fonseka, Legal Draftsman, Ceylon. * Robert Spence Foster, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education,

. * Henry Joseph O'Donnell Burke-Gaffney, , Colonial Medical Service, Senior Pathologist,

. * Kenneth Legat Hunter, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior District Commissioner, Kenya. * Julius Jacobs, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Secretary, Mandatory Palestine, Palestine. * Robert Irwin Kirkland, Workshops Superintendent, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours Administration. * James William Dunbar Locker, , Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant to the Lieutenant-Governor, Malta. * Arnold Burnett Mathews, Colonial Administrative Service, Commissioner of Division, Sierra Leone. * Muljibhai Motibhai Patel. For public services in Uganda. * Edward Charles Phillips. For public services in the Tanganyika Territory. * George Eustace Poulia. For public services in Cyprus. * Emmanuel Charles Quist. For public services in the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast. * Frederic Gardiner Rose, , Medical Superintendent, Leprosy Hospital, British Guiana. * Cecil Bernard Symes, Medical Entomologist, Kenya. * Roland Wingrave Tench. For public services in Malta. * Arthur Frederick Thelwejl, Secretary, Jamaica Agricultural Society. * John Nicholas Elpidoforas Zarpas. For public services in Nigeria. ;;Honorary Officer * Haj Shan Abdul-Hadi, Mamour Awqaf, Nablus, Palestine.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Neville James Cunningham,

. * Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Walter Hubert Lucas,

. * Acting Temporary Paymaster LieutenantCommander Charles Ingram Poole, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Major (Quartermaster) Alfred James Bryant, Royal Marines (Retd.) * Lieutenant James Sidney Cleary, (Retd). * Lieutenant George Herbert Neave, (Retd). * Lieutenant Samuel Richard Williams. * Lieutenant Kenneth Arnold Vasey, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant John William Evenden, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Guy Thornton Quine, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Hector Brownlie Campbell, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Charles Gordon Victor Davies, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Peter Markham Scott, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant (E) Herbert Henry David Campaign. * Temporary Lieutenant (E) John Richmond. * Temporary Lieutenant (E) William James Caw Fiddes, Royal Naval Reserve. * Paymaster Lieutenant John Sydney Devitt, (Retd). * Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant Simon Meleck, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Electrical Lieutenant Bernard Harden Champion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Wardmaster Lieutenant Victor Allan Haines, Royal Australian Navy. * Temporary Skipper Vincent Nicolini, 628, T.S, Royal Naval Reserve. * Mr. Arthur John Steele, Commissioned Gunner. * Mr. Reginald Thomas Jones, , Commissioned Engineer. * Mr. Sidney Lewis Leech, Commissioned Engineer. * Mr. Joseph Frederick Walker, Commissioned Engineer. * Mr. Ronald Alfred Edwin Marwood, Commissioned Ordnance Officer. * Mr. Donald Augustus Claude Hubbard, Signal Boatswain. * Mr. Gilbert Reynolds, Warrant Telegraphist. * Mr. Robert Maskell, Temporary Warrant Observer. * Mr. Frederick James Horn, Warrant Shipwright. * Mr. Walter Charles Edward McGinnes, Warrant Shipwright. * Mr. William Burton, Warrant Engineer. * Mr. Walter Gage Rockey, Temporary Warrant Engineer. * Mary Elizabeth Perrin Pelloe, Second Officer, Women's Royal Naval Service. ;;Army * Lieutenant Robert Norman Adam (25625), Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Robert George Addis, Special List, Indian Army. * Captain (temporary Major) Cyril Edgar Adie, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * No. 3178111, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Thomas Allan, The King's Own Scottish Borderers. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) (temporary Captain) Arthur Reginald Colenso Anderson (159257), General List. * Captain (Quarter-Master) Robert Lewis Angel, , (63866), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). * Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) Cicely Eleanor Aymer (192382), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 7733630, Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major James Claud Backwell, Royal Army Pay Corps. * No. 4602684, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Arthur Colin Bagshaw, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). * Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) the Honourable Phyllis Patty Barclay (192360), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Lieutenant & Paymaster (temporary Captain) Reginald Clyde Bateman (102836), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Lieutenant Guy Fothergill Batho (109783), Royal Artillery. * Captain (temporary Major) Ernest Hubert Bax (128041), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Robert Benbow (131127), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Gervais De La Poer Beresford, , (169120), Royal Engineers. * No. 2609368, Warrant Officer Class II, Orderly Room Quarter-Master-Sergeant Charles Frank Booth,

Grenadier Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , colors = , colors_label = , march = Slow: " Scipio" , mascot = , equipment = , equipment ...

. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Andrew Gilbert Brown (86452), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant Charles Edward Callow, Lincolnshire Home Guard. * Major John Walter Chitty (99519), The Essex Regiment. * Warrant Officer Class I (Sub-Conductor (temporary Conductor)) Leonard Clare, Indian Army Corps of Clerks. * Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (temporary Captain) Reginald Charles Ceilings (90426), Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain Eric Dudley Comer, Kent Home Guard. * Captain Harold Tom Coneybeer, Gloucestershire Home Guard. * Warrant Officer Class I (Sub-Conductor (temporary Conductor)) Harold Cotton, Indian Army Corps of Clerks. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Bruce Creed (163584), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. * Warrant Officer Class I (Sub-Conductor (temporary Conductor)) Theodore Crowl, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * Major Cecil Charles Danby (34243), Royal Corps of Signals. * Lieutenant (District Officer) William Charles Day, , (120460), Royal Artillery. * Captain Thomas Hamilton Denny, Suffolk Home Guard. * Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) Cyril Derbyshire, Derbyshire Home Guard. * Lieutenant (temporary Major) William Leslie Dowd, Australian Military Forces. * Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, the Reverend James Cyril Thomas Downes, , (94307), Royal Army Chaplains' Department. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Horace Walter Duncan, Australian Military Forces. * Captain (temporary Major) (Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) Hugh Piers Dyer (101685), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Senior Commander (temporary Chief Commander) Noel Lindsay Fielden (192028), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Cornelius Foley (89410), The Royal Scots Fusiliers. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) George Keith Fulton, , (5070), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Bertie Gay, , (48709), Royal Artillery. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) William Laurence Gibson (15849), Royal Artillery. * No. 1896515, Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major Edward Henry Godden, Royal Engineers. * Captain Robert Lambert Gorrie, City of Edinburgh Home Guard. * No. 6335276, Warrant Officer Class II, Quarter-Master-Sergeant (Foreman of Signals) John Redvers Greenfield, Royal Corps of Signals. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Hector Norman Grieve (131093), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). * Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) (temporary Major) Victor Hathaway, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * Captain John Newman Heales, , (49642), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Captain Jessie Agnes Taylor Henry, , East African Army Medical Corps. * No. 10968, Warrant Officer Class II, Orderly Room Quarter-Master-Sergeant William Hewitt, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). * Captain Arthur Stuart Hewson (23980), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant Norman Openshaw Higgins, Cambridgeshire Home Guard. * Captain Bruce Arthur Charles Hills, Warwickshire Home Guard. * No. 1425097, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Albert Edward Howe, Royal Artillery. * Major (Commissary) James Robert Jackson, Corps of Indian Engineers. * Subadar-Major and Honorary Captain Jit Singh, Sardar Bahadur, , (Honorary Assistant Surgeon), Indian Medical Department. * Captain Edward Johnson, London Home Guard. * Captain Thomas Sleman Johnstone, Indian Medical Department. * Captain (Quarter-Master) Edward David Knight, , (62902), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own). * Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) Margaret Lockhart Laing (196334), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Wyndham Owen Lang (175279), General List. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Wilfred John Leader, Australian Military Forces. * Captain Augustus Frederick Shirley Leggatt, Devonshire Home Guard. * No. 2714237, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Joseph Francis Linnane, , The Essex Regiment. * Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, the Reverend George Arthur Lewis Lloyd, , (34068), Royal Army Chaplains' Department. * Captain (Quarter-Master) Alexander Marr, , (56976), The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's). * No. S/12815, Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major Henry Weatherley Marshall, Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain (Quarter-Master) (acting Major) Patrick Joseph Martin (66766), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant (Assistant Paymaster) (temporary Captain) Percy Evelyn Matthews (107462), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) William Currer McCallum, , (106746), Royal Engineers. * Captain (Deputy Commissary) (temporary Major) Robert Louis McCulloch, Corps of Indian Engineers. * No. 1852536, Warrant Officer Class II, Clerk of Works, Quarter-Master-Sergeant Hubert McDermott, Royal Engineers. * Honorary Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Allan Cedric Mclnnes, Instructional Corps, Australian Military Forces. * Lieutenant & Quarter-Master (temporary Captain & Quarter-Master) Thomas Alexander Stewart McKenzie, Permanent Staff, New Zealand Military Forces. * No. S/12738, Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quarter-Master-Sergeant (acting Staff Sergeant-Major) Joseph Edward McKeowen, Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain William Singer McMillan, Dumfriesshire Home Guard. * No. 7581328, Warrant Officer Class I, Sub-Conductor Arthur Frederick Meaden, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Captain (Quarter-Master) (temporary Major) Leon Alfred Moore (98538), General List. * No. 7582880, Warrant Officer Class I, Sub-Conductor (acting Conductor) Walter Dacres Moore, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Herbert Harold Morrell, , (118648), The

. * Lieutenant (Assistant Paymaster) (temporary Captain) Frederick Victor Mundy (131194), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Alfred Hembry Oxenford (118106), Royal Army Service Corps. * No. S/35321, Warrant Officer Class I, Staff-Sergeant-Major Frederick John Parker, Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 1412876, Warrant Officer Class I, Master Gunner 1st Class William Leslie Parker, Royal Artillery. * Captain John Edgar Penny, , Essex Home Guard. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Archibald William Perry (99471), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. * Captain (temporary Major) John Dennis Paxton-Petty, , (39123), Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) (acting Captain) Robert Lyddon Player (157902), The Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. * No. 1032507, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental-Sergeant-Major Septimus George Poole, Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Gilbert Percy Price (143888), General List. * Captain (temporary Major) William Thomas Richard Rainford (98163), General List. * Warrant Officer Class I (Sub-Conductor) Henry Arthur Rankin, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) William Richard Reed (216793), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Captain (temporary Major) David Talbot Rice (101864), Special List. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) John Herbert Rignell (103497), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) David Mawdsley Ritchie, , (106859), Royal Artillery. * Captain (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 3rd Class) (temporary Major) (Ordnance Mechanical Engineer 2nd Class) Gerald Rhodes Rosevere (43484), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Alexander Ross (107155), Scots Guards. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Eric Sachs, Eric Leopold Otto Sachs, , (98437), Royal Artillery. * Major Neil Schokman, , Ceylon Engineers. * Captain (temporary Major) Howard Phillips Skinner (56807), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). * No. 2714496, Warrant Officer Class I (Superintending Clerk) Arthur Frederick Smith, Irish Guards. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) (temporary Captain) Edward James Smith (115121), Royal Artillery. * Captain (temporary Major) Herbert Maurice Victor Norman Smith, , Indian Army. * Captain (temporary Major) Norman Henry Graves Smith (49480), Royal Engineers. * Captain William John Snelgrove, Monmouthshire Home Guard. * Lieutenant (Mechanist Officer) (temporary Captain) Albert Edward Springett (115530), Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain (temporary Major) Warren Trestrail Stephens (106901), Royal Engineers. * Major & Paymaster (temporary Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) Harold Charles Harker Taylor (32185), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Leonard Taylor (86385), Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Harry Thorpe (72677), The Lovat Scouts. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) William Gordon Topham (171074), Royal Pioneer Corps, Pioneer Corps. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Christopher Rowland Turner (41526), Royal Artillery. * No. 7583248, Warrant Officer Class II, Armament Quarter-Master-Sergeant, Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Armament Sergeant Major Leslie James Walker, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) (temporary Captain) James Henry Warren (123323), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant (Assistant Inspector of Armourers) Robert Emmanuel Warry (93290), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Captain (temporary Major) Malcolm Stuart Waterstone (90262), Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 4794006, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Alfred Webb, The Lincolnshire Regiment. * No. 6190690, Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Harry Haken Webb, Welsh Guards. * No. 1416895, Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major (Assistant Instructor in Gunnery) Ernest John Weller, Royal Artillery. * Captain Reginald Owen West, Surrey Home Guard. * Warrant Officer Class II (Company-Sergeant Major) Arthur Charles Frederick Wheeler, West Riding Home Guard. * Senior Commander (temporary Chief Commander) Katherine Whiddington (192086), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) John Gerald Maunsell How-White (74972), Royal Engineers. * Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) Evelyn Dorothy Wilson (192982), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 1864136, Warrant Officer Class II, Quarter-Master-Sergeant Instructor Algernon Alfred Wright, Royal Engineers. * Captain John Vincent Wrigley, Cheshire Home Guard. ;;Royal Air Force * Flight Lieutenant Owen Edward Bartlett (31421). * Flight Lieutenant John Bowran Currie, , (43750). * Flight Lieutenant Charles Fenn (07079), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Flight Lieutenant Glen Edward Grindlay Grindlay (75693),

. * Flight Lieutenant Duncan Macdonnell Jannaway (31279). * Flight Lieutenant Edmund George Pole (75293), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Ralph Reader, William Henry Ralph Reader (75026), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant George Robert Wiltcher (44645). * Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) William Shaw Baddeley (78377), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Percy George Coleman (44364). * Acting Flight Lieutenant David Charles Davies (78644), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Norman Kempton Dyson (87100), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant John Hayward Holland (84542), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Edward Rupert Somers Joce (43215). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles William Morle (81182), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant John Leonard Newton, , (44511). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Lawrence O'Hanlon, (44090). * Acting Flight Lieutenant David Patterson (88505), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Edwin James Praill (45284). * Acting Flight Lieutenant John Samuel Rowlands (73378), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Captain Cecil William Lippiatt (202911), South African Air Force. * Flying Officer Arthur Grosvenor Alsop (83846), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer William Wayles Cornish (46152). * Flying Officer Reginald Thomas Walter Evans (45102). * Flying Officer Eric Charles Seeley (47041). * Flying Officer Garbet Westcott (77872), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flying Officer Leslie William Percival (46413). * Acting Flying Officer Frederick Walker (46273). * Acting Flying Officer Frederick John Walters (45770). * Warrant Officer George Bannister (365170). * Warrant Officer Alfred Herbert Bell (353808). * Warrant Officer Richard Carruthers (564131). * Warrant Officer Horace Ramsey Green (149682). * Warrant Officer Ernest Pouard (301444). * Warrant Officer John Purkiss (220951). * Warrant Officer Terence Lawson Reeves (560256). * Warrant Officer Percival John Soper (362664). * Warrant Officer Roderick William Toole (350756). * Warrant Officer Alfred Frederick Townsend (330430). * Warrant Officer Henry Watson (564490). * Sister Letitia Jones, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. * Flight Officer Constance Marion Colbeck-Davis, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader Gerald Patrick O'Loughlin,

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. * Acting Squadron Leader John Arnold Power, Royal Australian Air Force. * Pilot Officer Elwyn Boyce White, Royal Australian Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Donald Edward Grigg (NZ.1139),

. ;Civil Division * Alexander Aberdein, Superintendent, Manchester Police Force. * Herbert Allen, Managing Director of the Yelloway Motor Services Ltd., Rochdale. * Mary Andrews, , Chief Civil Defence Warden, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. * Elsa Helene Appleyard, Clerical Officer, Prime Minister's Office. * The Honourable Barbara Baird, Deputy Regional Administrator, North Midland Region,

for Civil Defence. * Captain David Barclay, Chief Pilot of Scottish Airways. * Ernest Walter Barker, Honorary Secretary, Cardiff Savings Committee. * Helen Barron, , Organiser, Inverness Burgh, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Ernest Alfred Bates, Staff Officer, HM Treasury. * Mervyn William Beale, Chief Administrative Officer for Civil Defence, Lancashire. * Benjamin Bentley, Divisional Officer No. 4 (Leeds) Area Headquarters, National Fire Service. * Joan Margaret Mary George Berkeley, Centre Organiser and Billeting Officer for Banbury Rural District, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Walter George Bishop, Divisional Honorary Secretary of the

, Bromley. * Annie MacColl Blythe, Matron, Friern Hospital, New Southgate. * Peter Bonar, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * Eleanor Bradley, Chairman, Leeds Street Savings Group Committee. * Winifred Bramhall, Inspector of Welfare of the Blind, Ministry of Health. * Reginald Martin Brimacombe, Senior Staff Clerk, War Office. * Alexander Jackson Brown, Divisional Honorary Secretary, Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association, Weymouth and Portland. * Captain Herbert Buxton, Master, Merchant Navy. * Captain Alexander Cameron, lately Master, Merchant Navy. * Edith Florence Cassady, Honorary County Borough Organiser, Bootle, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Annette Chard, County Secretary, North Riding of Yorkshire, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Robert Stephen Kemble Cheek, Senior Staff Officer, Admiralty. * William Clarkson, Higher Clerical Officer, India Office. * Dorothy Collington, Divisional Honorary Secretary of the Soldiers', Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association, Coventry. * Arthur Collins, Outside Manager,

Ltd. * Joseph Cooling, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Mary Jane Coombes, Matron and Senior Stewardess, Merchant Navy. * Gladys Mary Penly Cooper, County Superintendent and Secretary, West Suffolk County Nursing Association. Voluntary Organiser for the Civil Nursing Reserve for West Suffolk (county), West Suffolk. * Thomas Coleman-Cooper, First Aid Commandant, Penzance. * John Rae Cowie, Vice-Chairman of Aberdeen, Banff & Kincardine Local Employment Committee. * Margaret Bessie Cross, Director of the Junior Section of the

. * Alexander Currie, Third Senior Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Charles Christie Davies, Steward, Class I, HM Prison Wandsworth. * John Edwardes Davies, Chief Civil Defence Warden and Air Raid Precautions Officer, St Pancras, London, St. Pancras. * Sarah Emma Esme Edmonds Davies, Matron, Royal Naval & Royal Marine Maternity Home, Canada House, Chatham. For services to Civil Defence. * Percy Edward Davis, Senior Stores and Accounts Officer, Air Ministry. * Dove Agnes Dawson, County Secretary, Midlothian Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Henry Lewis de Bourcier, Senior Staff Officer, Mines Department. * Captain Alexander Thompson Dodds, Master, Merchant Navy. * Walter Parsons Dover, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * William John Downie, Skipper of a Steam Drifter. * William Herbert Dunham, Chief Billeting Officer and Sanitary Inspector, East Grinstead Urban District Council. * William Martin Ellis, Chief Mate, Merchant Navy. * Albert Edward Eperon, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Food. * Eric Christopher Carlyon Evans, Actuary, Manchester & Salford Savings Bank. * Howell Justin Evans, Secretary for Training to the Ambition (charity), National Association of Boys' Clubs. * Frederick George Eyles, lately Headmaster of Norcot Senior School, Reading, Berkshire, Reading. * Frank Fellowes, Technical Superintendent, Dunlop Rubber Company, Ltd. * Walter Austin Fenner, Second Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Thomas William Finch, Chief Civil Defence Warden, Ilford. * Thomas Foreman, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * Charles Valdemar Forsberg, Fourth Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Captain Alfred Fraser, Master, Merchant Navy. * George Johnson Fraser, Staff Officer, No. 6 Southern Region, Ministry of Health. * John Douglas Galliard, , Electrical Superintendent, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. * Arthur Reginald George, Headmaster of the Senior Council School, Plympton, Devon. * Captain Thomas Gilmour, Master, Merchant Navy. * May Goodwin, Member of the Leicester Local Employment Committee. * Captain Harry Philip Gouge, Master, Merchant Navy. * Charles Job Goulson, Divisional Air Raid Precautions Sub-Controller, Skegness. * Thomas Stuart Grant, Civil Assistant and Accountant, Grade I, Air Ministry. * Marcus Arthur Greenhill, Senior Staff Officer, Colonial Office. * William Henry Archibald Groom, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise. * William Paul Haldane, Deputy City Engineer, Edinburgh. For services to Civil Defence. * William Hall, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Ernest Halton, , Chief Radio Officer, Merchant Navy. * Sidney Frederick Hardie, Column Officer, North Eastern Area of Scotland, National Fire Service. * Edwin Beaumont Harrington, Divisional Officer, No. 8 (Nottingham) Area, National Fire Service. * John Healy, Officer-in-Charge of the Royal Air Force Comforts Fund and Secretary of the Royal Air Force Comforts Committee. * William Alfred Frank Hearne, Honorary Secretary, Luton Savings Council. * James Richard Hembrough, Executive Engineer, Ministry of Home Security. * Violet Winifred Henderson, Higher Clerical Officer, Assistance Board. * Robert Beattie Wylie Henry, , Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Pensions. * Philip George Heppenstall, Elected Member of the National Savings Committee. Joint Honorary Secretary, Barnstaple Savings Committee. * Hilda Margaret Hetherington, County Secretary, Buckinghamshire Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Ronald Ivor Hicks, Air Raid Precautions Officer, Glamorgan County Council. * The Reverend Frederick Harcourt Hillersdon, , Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of St Mary le Strand, St. Mary's-le-Strand. For public services in Westminster. * Percy Charles Hinds, Works Manager, Sperry Gyroscope Company Ltd. * Albert Cecil Horst, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Harold Houghton, Rating and Valuation Officer and Billeting Officer, Newton-le-Willows Urban District Council, Lancashire. * Sybil Dorothea Howard, Group Administrator, Surrey, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Ada Jeanie Innes, Head of the Overseas Section/Central Hospital Supply Services, War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John. * Thomas Jackson, Chief Civil Defence Warden, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham. * The Reverend Canon Alfred Llewelyn Jones, , lately Rector of Lambeth. * David Pugh Jones, Clerk & Chief Billeting Officer, Dolgelly Rural District Council. * Captain Edgar Jones, Master, Merchant Navy. * Richard Jones, Second Officer, Merchant Navy. * William Robertson Jones, Higher Clerical Officer, Offices of the War Cabinet. * Henry Armitage Jowett, (Captain, late the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) T.A.), Observer Group Officer, Royal Observer Corps. * Andrew Kay, Provost of Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire. * James Keir, , Honorary Secretary, Arbroath Local Savings Committee. * John Kemp, Staff Officer, Ministry of Food. * Christine Ethel Kennedy, Assistant County Air Raid Precautions Officer, Stratford-on-Avon. * Thomas William Kenner, Accountant, Royal Mint. * Madeleine Odell Kerr, Honorary Secretary & Lady Superintendent, Police Seaside Home, Hove. * William Woodfield Kidd, Assistant Secretary, Territorial Army & Air Force Association of the County of Lancaster (West). * Violet Helen King, Centre Organiser, Rochester, Kent, Rochester, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Wilfred King, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * Joseph Young Kirkup, lately Assistant Fire Force Commander, No. 17 (Bristol) Area, National Fire Service. * Charles Richard Kirton, Accounts Clerk, Imperial War Graves Commission. * John Thomas Knaggs, Superintendent, Durham Constabulary, Durham County Police Force. * Herbert Joseph Lawton, Second Engineer, Merchant Navy. * James Leatham, , Provost (civil), Provost of Turriff, Aberdeenshire. * Captain James Forbes-Leith, Retired Officer, War Office. * Martha Liddle, . For services to Civil Defence, Spennymoor, Durham. * Charles Ernest Lucette, Air Raid Precautions Officer,

. * William Walton Lund, Manager, Messrs. J. Russell & Co. Ltd., London. * William Kennedy MacDonald, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Armour John Macfarlane, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. * John Mclntosh, Assistant Postmaster, Head Post Office, Glasgow. * Captain Murdock Mackenzie, Master, Merchant Navy. * Angus McKinnon, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Captain Frederic William McLaren, Master, Merchant Navy. * Donald Matheson McLeod, , Headmaster of Denholm Central Rural School, Roxburghshire. * Patrick Joseph McParland, Mate, Merchant Navy. * William Hill Macrostie, Superintendent, Handley Page Ltd. * Hugh Harvey McTaggart, , Quantity Surveyor, Department of Health for Scotland. * Frances Winifred Alberta Mann, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of War Transport. * Samuel Barnaby Manning, Column Officer No. 12 (Cambridge) Area, National Fire Service. * Martha Annie Marks, Matron, Preston & County of Lancaster Royal Infirmary. * Edward George Marsden, Principal Assistant to the Secretary, Railway Executive Committee. * Leonard Massey, Air Raid Precautions Officer, Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax. * Frank Benjamin Matthews, Public Assistance Officer, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, Lindsey (Lincolnshire). For services to Civil Defence. * Archibald Russell Mercer, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * James Miller, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Anne Mary Milligan, , Regional Nursing Officer, South Eastern District of Scotland. For services to Civil Defence. * Ralph Eric Mills, Technical Assistant, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Mabel Alice Moir, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Food. * John Alexander Moore, Town Clerk of Wick, Caithness. * Robert Moorhead, Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factory. * Albert Edward Morley, Manager, Ministry of Labour & National Service Employment Exchange, Gateshead-on-Tyne. * Captain Charles Burn Muir, Master, Merchant Navy. * Catherine Boyd Munro, Honorary representative of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, Greenock & Gourock. * Frederick William Nicholas Murphy, Superintendent, Filling Factories in the United Kingdom, Royal Ordnance Filling Factory. * Andrew Murray, Vice-Chairman of the Swansea Local Employment Committee. * Commander Peter Mursell, Officer Commanding, No. 6 Ferry Pilot Pool, Air Transport Auxiliary,

. * Thomas Nesbitt, Head of the Finance Division, Government Office, Isle of Man. * Wilfrid Turner Nicholls, , Air Raid Precautions Sub-Controller, Gloucester Rural District. * Thomas Pilkington Norris, , Group Labour Manager, Imperial Chemical Industries Works. * Cyril Needham Norton, Civil Defence Training Officer, Sheffield. * Henry Sebastian Noyes, Deputy Area Commandant, Western Area Headquarters, Royal Observer Corps. * Anne Winefride O'Reilly, Acting Headmistress of Peckham Central School. * Frederick Orman, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * Hermann John Otten, Assistant Superintendent of Stores, Ministry of Works & Buildings. * Councillor Gladys Nellie Paling, , Area Organiser for the Don Valley, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence, and Honorary Welfare Officer for the Doncaster Rural District Council. * Peter George Parkhurst, Staff Officer, Ministry of War Transport. * James Brown Paterson, Works Manager, William Beardmore and Company, Beardmore Diesels Ltd., Dalmuir. * Alberta Diana Paynter, County Director, Leicestershire British Red Cross Society. * Jacob Mark Paynton, Secretary of the Drapers' Chamber of Trade. * Florence Maud Perry, Senior Women's Staff Officer (London), British Broadcasting Corporation. * Captain Arthur Gordon Petrie, Chief Civil Defence Warden, Hendon. * Rose Alice Peverall, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Economic Warfare. * Leo Oswald Philbin, in charge of administration, Home Institutes Service, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes. * John Warburton Phillips, Local Social Welfare Officer, Blackburn District, Western Command. * Arthur John Pilditch, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * Susannah Ethel Pinney, Warden of the Josephine Butler Memorial House, Liverpool. * Edward Richard Ventris Porter, Divisional Organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. * Harry Royston Portman, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Information. * Captain James Hunter Potts, Master, Merchant Navy. * Joyce Powrie, Senior Area Officer, attached to No. 10 (Manchester) Regional Headquarters, National Fire Service. * Robert Owen Pratt, Chief Officer, HM Cable Ship ''Alert'', General Post Office. * John Rae, Senior Second Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Ida Mary Ralph, Superintendent Health Visitor, Bristol. * Edwin Harold Ranee, Senior Establishment and Accounts Officer, Foreign Office. * Claud Gordon Ransom, Higher Executive Officer,

. * Mary Kerr Rathie, Senior Nurse, Standard Motor Company Ltd., (Aero Engines). For services to Civil Defence. * Thomson Reid, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * James Richardson, Tugmaster, Admiralty. * Harold Shepherd Rigg, Purser, Merchant Navy. * Joshua O'Bethel Riley, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Alice Robertson, Secretary of the Women's Land Army Committee for Lancashire. * James Anderson Robertson, Officer-in-Charge, Air Raid Precautions Section, and Superintendent, Glasgow Police Force. * David Robert Robbie, Second Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Thomas Robinson, Cleansing Superintendent, Newcastle upon Tyne. * Thomas Robinson, Chief Actuary, London Trustee Savings Bank, lately Actuary, Finsbury and City of London Savings Bank. * Captain James Bowmaker Rochester, Master, Merchant Navy. * Alice Marie Rothbarth, First Class Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Captain John Owen Rowlands, Master, Merchant Navy. * Eric Sandys, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * John Scott, Chairman, Kelso & District Local Savings Committee. * Kathleen Mary Shaw, Personal Assistant to the Dean, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. * Henry Alfred Shorter, Senior Company Officer, No. 30 (East Kent) Area, National Fire Service. * Frank Settles Siddall, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. * Frederick William James Sills, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * Bertram Richard Simons, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * Alderman William Edmund Simpson, Chairman of the Fleetwood Local Employment Committee. * Denis Eli Skelding, Member of the Midland Regional Transport Committee. Manager, Road Passenger & Transport Association Ltd. * Captain Joseph Edmunds Slattery, Chief Air Raid Precautions Officer, Hertfordshire. * William Medhurst Smith, Senior Staff Officer, General Post Office. * William Robert Snell, Controller of a Group Centre, Royal Observer Corps. * Captain Frank Stammers, Retired Officer, War Office. * William Stuart Stanbury, , Regional Blood Transfusion Officer, Emergency Medical Service. * William Henry Stephens, Staff Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. * Major Horace Fred Stimson, , Air Raid Precautions Officer, County of Cardigan. * Stanley George Blaxland Stubbs, Organising Chairman, Leatherhead Savings Committee. * Margaret Mary Sullivan, Personal Assistant to the Chairman, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Phyllis Margaret Annie Sykes, Secretary of the Women's Land Army Committee for London & Middlesex. * Anne Taylor, Matron-in-Chief, Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service. * Dorothy Marion Noel Breffney Ternan, Clerical Officer, Admiralty. * Helen Louisa Thomas, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * Vera Beatrice Herbert Thomas, County Borough Organiser, Bristol, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Harry Louis Thompson, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Frederick George Thomsett, Skipper of a Steam Trawler. * Gladys Maud Robina Thwaites, Assistant Public Assistance Officer, Newcastle upon Tyne. For services to Civil Defence. * Archibald Stanley Tolhurst, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Trade. * Harold Travers, Chief Civil Defence Warden, Bermondsey. * Captain Edward Henry Tuckwell, , Commandant, Surrey Special Constabulary. * Leslie Bertram Turner, Deputy Assistant Director, Explosives Department, Ministry of Supply. * Ernest Rudolph Tyzack, Chief Engineering Assistant, County Borough of Great Yarmouth. For services to Civil Defence. * Joseph John Unwin, Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * James Waddell, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * James Clare Wade, Purser, Merchant Navy. * William Henry Alexander Wagg, Chief Engineer, Merchant Navy. * Harold Clark Walker, Senior EngineerSurveyor, Ministry of War Transport. * Frank George Ward, Assistant Administrative Officer, Board of Education. * Leonard Weatherall, Railway Liaison Officer (London, Midland and Scottish Railway), Mines Department. * Jack Leslie Webster, Head of the Air Raid Precautions Department, Great Western Railway. * Edith Elizabeth Welch, Principal Clerk, National Savings and Investments, Post Office Savings Bank. * Roy Leslie White, Air Raid Precautions Officer, County Borough of Southend-onSea. * Stuart George Wilce, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. * James Smith Wilkes, Establishment Officer, Public Trustee Office. * Charles Jeffery Willmot, Chief Inspector, General Post Office. * Frederick Charles Wilson, District Superintendent, Stratford, London and North Eastern Railway. * Thomas Reginald Amery Windeatt, Chief Civil Defence Warden, Torbay Area. * Doris Marguerite Wolfson, Centre Organiser, Uckfield, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence. * Harry Wood, Chairman of the North Eastern Region Coal Transport Advisory Joint Committee. * John William Wood, Co-Chief Civil Defence Warden and Sub-Controller, Southampton. * Captain Charles Wilfred Woods, Master, Merchant Navy. * William Worthington, Assistant Secretary, Manchester Chamber of Commerce. * John Henry Wright, , Air Raid Precautions Officer, Smethwick. * Raymond de Courcy Baldwin, British Vice-Consul at Beirut. * Charles Broughton, British Vice-Consul at Lisbon. * Jessie Brown, Matron of the Anglo-American Hospital at Cairo. * Edward John Clark, a British subject resident in Rio de Janeiro. * Amy Fallen, Clerical Officer at His Majesty's Consulate-General at San Francisco. * Bernard Charles Flynn, Head Archivist and Accountant at His Majesty's Embassy at Cairo. * Thomas William Glover, Higher Clerical Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Rio de Janeiro. * Elaine Hills-Young, Principal of the Midwives Training School, Sudan Medical Service. * William John Leach, Administrator-General, Legal Department, Sudan Government. * Thomas William Morray, Director of the British Institute at Bagdad. * Arthur Henry Noble, His Majesty's Consul at San Juan. * Chantry Hamilton Page, British Vice Consul at Istanbul. * Marian Pym, a British subject resident in Montreux. * Alice Mary Corbin. For services to the King George & Queen Elizabeth Club for Service Women of the Empire, London. * Johannes Peter Jones, Senior Postmaster, Basutoland. * Myra Helen Melville. For services to the King George & Queen Elizabeth Club for Overseas Troops, Glasgow. * Henry Charles Mundell, Agricultural & Livestock Officer, Basutoland. * Henry Victor Pinks, Chief Accountant, Royal Empire Society. * Beatrice Agnes Richardson. For social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia. * Eileen May Rischbieth, Organiser of the Royal Naval Friendly Union of Sailors Wives & Mothers. in the State of South Australia. * Edward Bruce Shepherd. For social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia. * Ida Marion Brown (wife of Captain W. E. Brown, Chief Pilot, Bombay Port Trust), Bombay. * Gwladys Campbell, Honorary Secretary, Lady Mary Herbert's Bengal Women's War Fund, Bengal. * Rani Digraj Kunwari (widow of the late Raja Harnam Singh, Taluqdar of Ramnagar Dhameri), Rais, Ganeshpur, Bara Banki District, United Provinces. * Jerusha Jhirad, , Medical Officer in Charge, Cama Hospital, Cama & Albless Hospitals, Bombay. * Anne Stiffle, Proprietor, Stiffle's Hotel and Vice-President, Municipal Committee, Dalhousie, India, Dalhousie, Punjab. * Hazel Violet Twells, Indian Educational Service, Inspectress of Girls' Schools, Central Division, Poona, Bombay. * Bessie Matilda, Lady Ward (wife of Colonel Sir John Ward, , Director, Port Trust, Basra). * Meriall Ida White (wife of Captain S. E. C. White, Lloyd's Agent), Bombay. * Abdul Aziz, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Buildings & Roads Branch, Punjab. * Rao Bahadur Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, Rais and Zamindar, Bagpat, Meerut District, United Provinces. * Hugh Benedict Adams, Divisional Electrical Engineer, North Western Railway (British India), North-Western Railway, Lahore. * Khan Bahadur Ahmed Khan, Zamindar, Sind. * Tara Persad Barat, Deputy Controller of Purchase, Cotton Textiles Directorate, Bombay. * Sidney Barr, Refinery Superintendent, India Government Mint, Mumbai, His Majesty's Mint, Bombay. * Pherumal Ghanshamdas Bhagat, Deputy Controller of Purchase, Office of the Chief Controller of Purchase (Supply), Government of India. * Naushir Cursetji Bharucha, Advocate, Bombay. * Thakur Bisheshwar Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Retd.), Special Magistrate, Fatehgarh, United Provinces. * John Cyril Burton, Manager, Messrs. Peirce Leslie & Co. Ltd., Coimbatore Branch, Madras. * Lieutenant-Colonel Karuna Kumar Chatterjee, , District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Bengal. * William Thomas Eccleston, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Buildings & Roads Branch, Punjab. * James Victor Stuart Edwards, Assistant Director of Engineering, Railway Department (

), Government of India. * Jnanendra Mohan Ghose, Registrar in Insolvency, High Court, Calcutta, Bengal. * Khan Bahadur Mian Ghulam Rasul, Retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, Commander, Civic Guards, Jhang, Punjab. * Arthur Gravell, Superintending Engineer, Nahan Foundry, Sirmoor State, Sirmur State. * Major Albert Hodges, G.S.O.2, General Headquarters, India. * Lieutenant James Eyre Howard, Indian Medical Department, Assistant Port Health Officer, Karachi. * William Arthur Huitt, Manager, The Coromandel Co. Ltd., Cocanada, East Godavari District, Madras. * Rai Bahadur Lala Izzat Rai, Additional District Magistrate, Lahore, Punjab. * Alfred Gladwin Jacob, Controller of Accounts, Air Forces in India. * Moulvi Muhammad Jan Khan, Zamindar, Dadon, Aligarh District, United Provinces. * Kandappa Durai, Senior Superintendent, Way & Works, East Indian Railway, Howrah. * Rai Sahib Lala Ram Jawaya Kapur, Proprietor, The Kapur Art Printing Works, Lahore, Punjab. * Lieutenant Kewal Krishna Chaudhri, New City, Etawah, United Provinces. * William Adrian Kidd, Assistant Manager, Messrs. James Finlay & Co., Chittagong, Bengal. * Captain Edward Dudley King, Staff Captain, Quartermaster-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India. * Syed Masum Ali, Superintendent, District Jail, Amraoti, Central Provinces & Berar. * Major Allan Howard Niblett, Staff Captain, Adjutant-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India. * Rai Bahadur Sudershun Hariram Pandit, , Lecturer in Surgery, King Edward Medical University, King Edward Hospital Medical School, and Medical Officer in Charge, Ophthalmic Department, K.E.M. Hospital, Indore. * Rao Bahadur Manda Venkata Appa Rao Pantulu, Retired Deputy Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Orissa. * Tom Parks, Assistant Works Manager, Gun & Shell Factory, Cossipore. * Vithal Nathu Patil, Barrister-at-Law, District Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor, East Khandesh, Bombay. * Major Allen Oswald Charles Pettyfer, 10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army, lately Military Adviser to the Government of Muscat and Oman. * Thakur Prithi Singh, Major, Indian Army (Retd.), Colonel in the Kotah State Forces, General Officer Commanding, Kota State, Kotah State Forces. * Sardar Bahadur Joaquim Nascimento Rodrigues, Landholder, Yeotmal, Central Provinces & Berar. * Khan Bahadur Sadullah Khan, Assistant Commissioner, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province. * Robert Morton Saner, Indian Civil Service, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department. * Rai Bahadur Binode Bihari Sarkar, Deputy Secretary, Revenue Department, Bengal. * Seth Muhammad Sarwar, , Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, North-West Frontier Province. * Mohamed Siddique Hasan, Assistant Deputy Director-General, Posts & Telegraphs. * Muhammad Taher, , Bandra, Bombay. * Frank Austen Tucker, Chief Officer, Calcutta Fire Brigade, Bengal. * Philip Ignatius Blanc, Officer-in-charge, Bonded Warehouses, Trinidad. * William Buttery, Chief Train Controller, Kenya & Uganda Railways and Harbours Administration. * Mary Olive Marjorie Carter, Principal, School for Deaf & Blind, Ceylon. * Archibald Benson Cavaghan, Collector of Customs, Cyprus. * Ernest Meredyth Hyde-Clarke, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya. * Hannah Benka-Coker. For social welfare work in Sierra Leone. * Louis Arthur Gaston Cupidon, Special Grade Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office,

. * Ernest George Garrity, , Works Manager, Public Works Department, Nigeria. * Vida Mildred Geering. For social welfare work in the Gambia. * Marjorie Gilbert. For social welfare work in Bermuda. * Cecil John Green, Works Manager, Messrs. Harrtz & Bell Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya. * Captain Clement Holland, Superintendent, Industrial School, Bahamas. * The Reverend Canon Lackland Augustus Lennon. For services to education and agriculture in Nigeria. * George William Lines, Colonial Agricultural Service, Agricultural Officer, Nigeria. * Alick Harold Maw. For public services in Nyasaland. * Dost Mohamed, First Grade Clerk, Provincial Administration, Tanganyika Territory. * The Reverend Clarence Ebenezer Victor Nathanielsz, Charity Commissioner, Public Assistance Department, Colombo Municipality, Ceylon. * Donald Obeyesekere. For public services in Ceylon. * Joseph James William Sneddon. For social welfare work in Trinidad. * John William Terrington, Operating Superintendent, Kenya & Uganda Railways & Harbours Administration. * Margaret Trowell. For services to African arts and crafts. * Helen Bertha Waller, Mistress, European Education Department, Northern Rhodesia. * Mary Millar Walmsley. For social welfare work in Kenya. * Alice Walton, Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, Kingston Public Hospital, Jamaica. * John Lionel Airey Watson, City Engineer, Haifa Municipality, Palestine. ;;Honorary Members * Dimitri Farradj, Administrative Officer, Palestine. * Joseph Kuperman, Administrative Officer, Palestine. * Selim Yusef Beshara, Mayor of Nazareth, Palestine. * Abbas Pasha Mirza, Mutessarrif, Ajloun Governorate, Ajlun District, Emirate of Transjordan, Trans-Jordan.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

* The Right Honourable Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, Frederick James, Baron Woolton, .

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Home Civil Service * Richard Bloore, , Deputy Passport Officer, Foreign Office. * Alan Cameron, Controller, Edinburgh Postal & Telegraph District, General Post Office. * James Arthur Clarke, Chief Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Ministry of War Transport, Newcastle. * James Alexander Cole, Senior Chief Inspector, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland. * William Hubert Ekins, Principal, Ministry of Supply. * Alexander Blaeburg Garrard, Assistant Head of Branch, General Register Office, Ministry of Health. * Ivie Douglas Gemmell, Finance Officer and Accountant, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * William Archibald Girvin, Waterguard Superintendent, 2nd Class, Board of Customs & Excise. * Herbert Charles Grange, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Overseas Trade. * George Herbert Green, Principal Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade. * Robert Harper, , Superintendent of Land Charges and Agricultural Credits Department, Land Registry. * Allan William Old, Chief Clerk, Exchequer Office, Scotland. * Barton Morting Robinson, Senior Staff Officer, Air Ministry. * Herbert Frederick Shave, Senior Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue. * Russell Edwin Stanley, , Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. * Theophilus William Warrell, Senior Staff Officer, Home Office. * Albert Harold Joseph Watson, , Assistant Director of Stores, Admiralty. * Sidney Herbert Wisdom, , Senior Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions. ;Dominion Civil Services * James Patrick Burnside, Chairman of the Supply & Tender Board, Chief Inspector of Factories & Steam Boilers, State of South Australia. * Stephen Bernard Dutton, lately Comptroller of Stores,

. ;Indian Civil Services * Anthony Cardozo, Officer Supervisor, Office of Chief Administrative Officer, Purchase Branch, Department of Supply, Government of India. * Alfred Bertram Foster, Superintendent, Confidential Department, Civil Secretariat, United Provinces. * William Edmund McMurray, Registrar, Education Department, Government of the Punjab. ;Colonial Service * Allen Bolton Campbell, Accountant, British Guiana. * George Davis Goode, Chief Clerk, Department of Science & Agriculture, and Personal Secretary to the Director of Agriculture, Jamaica. * Bismarck Halligey Johnson, Senior Accountant, Marine Department, Nigeria. * Harold Pietersz William Melder, Office Assistant, Matale Kachcheri, Ceylon. * Marie Francis Edgar Perombelon, Colonial Postal Service, Postmaster-General, Mauritius. * Mohamed Yasouf Sanusi, Staff Superintendent, Sierra Leone. * Alexander John Shellish, Colonial Postal Service, Postmaster-General, Cyprus. * Arthur William Donald Skinner, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast. * James Cyril Wirekoon, Assistant Director of Education, Ceylon.

Imperial Service Medal

* Shaik Esmail Shaik Emamuddin, Chobdar, Development Department, Bombay. * Sheikh Kifayat Ullah, Head Jemadar Chaprasi, Orissa. * Asun Rangkhol, Head Interpreter, North Cachar Hills, Assam.

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

;For public services in India: * Mary Theresa, Lady Herbert (Wife of Sir John Herbert (Conservative politician), John Herbert, , Governor of Bengal). * Clare de Burgh Dening (Wife of Major-General Roland Dening, , General Officer Commanding, Peshawar District), North-West Frontier Province. * Hilda Mary Lazarus, Women's Medical Service for India, Principal, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi. * Ida Mary Roberts, , Medical Officer in charge of the American Hospital for Women & Children, Madura District (Madras Presidency), Madura, Madras Presidency, Madras. * Durani Warburton,

, Punjab. * Amulya Chandra Ukil, , Senior Honorary Visiting Physician, Chest Department, Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, Bengal.

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

* Christian Frederik Frimodt-Moller, , Medical Commissioner, Tuberculosis Association of India.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Chief Petty Officer Arthur Henry Carter, P/J.33956. * Chief Petty Officer William George Cave, D/J.2229. * Chief Petty Officer Francis Douglas Tom Hodges, P/J.579. * Chief Petty Officer William Hutton, C/J.41627. * Chief Petty Officer John Valentine Lovell, P/JX.134550. * Chief Petty Officer William Haslam Manners, P/J.109276. * Chief Petty Officer Arthur Edward Morant, P/J.194630. * Chief Petty Officer Thomas James Munson, C./J.67840. * Chief Petty Officer William George Richardson, P/J.75819 * Chief Petty Officer Edward Andrew Stote, D/J.48389. * Chief Petty Officer Archibald George Warden Waters, C/J.11358. * Chief Petty Officer Albert Richard Watters, D/JX.I63747. * Chief Petty Officer Ernest Frederick Wheeler, P/J.103887. * Acting Chief Petty Officer William Arthur John Croom, C/J.104578. * Yeoman of signals, Chief Yeoman of Signals Alfred James Cooper, C/J.19616. * Chief Yeoman of Signals Ralph Charles Fuller, C/J.109411. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Rupert Douglas Brown, D/J.36251. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist George Gamblin, C/J.111403. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Ancil Robert Granville Molton, D/J.48226. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Andrew Brunton, C/M.26914. * Chief Engine Room Artificer William Alexander Burden, C/M.38758. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Richard Robert Gauntlett, P/M.34487. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Thomas Henry Horsley, C/M.1368. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Albert William Charles Manley, D/MX.45274. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Olaff Lawrence Martin Matson, P/MX.59410. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Charles Henry Norsworthy, D/M.37664. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Leslie Harold Page, D/M.34929. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Francis George Short, D/M.39462. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Alfred Reginald Woodley, D/M.36174. * Fireman (steam engine), Chief Stoker William Frederick Marsh, C/K.56608. * Chief Stoker Herbert Frederick McKain, N.Z.D.437, Royal New Zealand Navy. * Chief Electrical Artificer Francis William Vernon Barrett, D/MX.47065. * Chief Electrical Artificer Leonard Robert Grove, C.347548. * Chief Ordnance Artificer Harold Raymond Beale, D/M.36178. * Chief Ordnance Artificer James McLean, C/MX.46089. * Chief Ordnance Artificer Albert Victor Wiles, C/M.35567. * Chief Ordnance Artificer William Alfred Williams, D/M.37235. * Chief Shipwright Sidney Carah Allen, D/MX.53555. * Chief Shipwright Albert Edward Taply Cook, C/M.35370. * Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer John George Cumber, C/M.396. * Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Fred Courtenay Tonkin, P/M.2934. * Chief Petty Officer Writer Arthur Thomas Gilbert McCall, P/346679. * Chief Petty Officer Writer James Rowe, C/MX.47878. * Chief Petty Officer Writer Philip Wild, P/MX.46822. * Supply Chief Petty Officer Albert John Lamborn, D/M.372O3. * Supply Chief Petty Officer John Francis Whitehead, P/MX.45094, Royal New Zealand Navy. * Master-at-Arms Frederick Donald Ballard, P/M.39657. * Master-at-Arms Frederick Andrew Bicknell, D/M.39643. * Master-at-Arms Arthur William Dicker, C/M.36389. * Master-at-Arms John Chard Seagrove, P/M.39677 * Master-at-Arms Arthur Albert Wattle, RAN.10921. * Chief Petty Officer Cook George Norcutt, C/M.37427. * Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor Philip Joseph Lawrence Allum, Po.22819, Royal Marines. * Acting Temporary Company Sergeant Major William Joseph Henry Garrard, Po.X.323, Royal Marines. * Colour Sergeant Alexander Clydesdale Wilkie, Po.19622, Royal Marines. * Acting Temporary Colour Sergeant Archibald Frederick Merckel, Po.216927, Royal Marines. * Acting Temporary Colour Sergeant Herbert Edward Mullins, Po.22390, Royal Marines. * Flight Sergeant Sydney Herbert Lonsdale, 562770, Royal Air Force. * Chief Wren Marie Winifred Hastings, 977, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Flight Sergeant Enid Vaughan, 892573, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * Engine Room Artificer First Class Albert James Blatchford, D/MX.49598. * Engine Room Artificer First Class John Cole, C/M.35278. * Engine Room Artificer First Class Kenneth Hayne, P/MX.46891. * Engine Room Artificer First Class Stanley Reginald Morgan, D/M.11048. * Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class Harry Brewer, D/MX.74193. * Electrical Artificer Third Class Bertie James Sanders, D/MX.55988. * Petty Officer Stanley Ellis, P/JX.146228. * Petty Officer James Glass Saunders, C/JX.128654. * Petty Officer Robert Simpson, D/J.109944. * Petty Officer Joshua Channon Thompson, D/JX.229607. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Frederick James Henry Mears, P/J.106242. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Herbert Samuel White, P/J.40323. * Stoker Petty Officer William Greaves, C/K.55960. * Supply Petty Officer Francis Kingsley Watts, D/MX.47155. * Petty Officer Steward Caetano Francisco de Lima, Goa.360967. * Petty Officer Steward Harry Ernest Redman, P/L.15030. * Petty Officer Rigger James William Spiller, P/JX.166547. * Temporary Acting Leading Seaman Stanley Wright, D/SSX.18500. * Temporary Acting Leading Stoker Frank William Legate, C/KX.92883. * Leading Air Fitter Peter Allen, FAA/FX.81043. * Leading Writer James McIllwraith, CD/X.1235, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Leading Wireman Harold Douglas French, D/JX.168308. * Leading Steward Emmanuel Micaleff, E/L.11632. * Able seaman (rank), Able Seaman Lionel George Andrews, P/JX.153810. * Able Seaman Thomas Henry Bailey, D/J.96396. * Able Seaman Stephen Leonard Bell, D/SSX.21171. * Able Seaman Wallace Ferguson, D/J.38457. * Able Seaman Leonard James Tilney, C/JX.126055. * Able Seaman Wilford Watmough, C/J.109128. * Stoker First Class John Charles Hughes, C/K.64115. * Stoker Cyril Benson Ross, Royal Naval Special Reserve, 50413. * Temporary Corporal Ernest Edward Ashford, Po/X.1875, Royal Marines. * Marine Ernest Joseph Smith, Ply.E21093, Royal Marines. * Marine James Brownlee, Ply.X.3965, Royal Marines. ;;Army * No. 4747047 Private Charles Aspinall, The York and Lancaster Regiment. * No. 2649079 Colour-Sergeant (Company Quarter-Master-Sergeant) William Comes, Coldstream Guards. * No. 1437004 Battery-Quarter-Master-Sergeant (local Warrant Officer Class II Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) William John Driver,

. * No. S/107345 Sergeant William John Hawkes,

. * No. 2092594 Lance-Corporal Leonard John Knott,

. * No. 7609799 Staff-Sergeant Raymond Herbert Maddocks,

. * No. 6408 Lance-Corporal Joseph Mallia, King's Own Malta Regiment. * No. 824875 Sergeant (acting Staff-Sergeant) (Artillery Clerk) Alexander McCaw, Royal Artillery. * No. 1904899 Sergeant George New, ,

. * No. 882827 Sergeant Thomas Rawlings Potts, Royal Artillery (now Warrant Officer Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major). * No. S/80732 Staff-Sergeant George Martin Richardson, Royal Army Service Corps. * Lance-Corporal John William Scott, Home Guard (United Kingdom), Home Guard. * No. 2583603 Corporal Joseph William Symonds,

. * No. 2200932 Sergeant Ronald Archibald Thomas, Royal Artillery. * No. 2579494 Sergeant Kenneth Wickham Worlock, Royal Corps of Signals. ;;Royal Air Force * 561676 Flight Sergeant George Joseph William Abraham. * 560514 Flight Sergeant Thomas William Atkinson. * 363344 Flight Sergeant Edgar William Belgrove. * 352841 Flight. Sergeant Harold Blackburn. * 562045 Flight Sergeant Leonard Edwin Cowan, . * 363073 Flight Sergeant Henry Forrest. * 562532 Flight Sergeant William John Graham. * 349167 Flight Sergeant Robert Lee Hoey. * 366319 Flight Sergeant Ivor Norman Jones. * 561286 Flight Sergeant Edward Herbert Leonard. * 562209 Flight Sergeant Harry Jack Moule. * 563673 Flight Sergeant Charles Thomas Nicholls. * 363326 Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas Salmon. * 510958 Flight Sergeant Frederick Smith. * 353409 Flight Sergeant Norman Watson. * 516087 Sergeant William Richard Jones. * 205246 Sergeant Harry Kinsela Pask. * 811136 Corporal Robert Edward Butler,

. * 572804 Corporal Maxwell John Edmonds. * 571114 Corporal Kelita Hall. * 615225 Corporal Arthur Oliver Molson. * 1063547 Corporal William Paul. * 572402 Corporal Dennis Arthur Purser. * 994894 Leading Aircraftman Harry Beesley. * 937162 Leading Aircraftman Horace Burke. * 648662 Leading Aircraftman James Murphy. * 370709 Leading Aircraftman Robert Stenhouse. * 1107991 Aircraftman 1st Class David Russell Burton Browning. * 881955 Flight Sergeant Ivy Lillian Millett, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 881309 Flight Sergeant Jessie Mary. Shannon, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 2091118 Leading Aircraftwoman Doris Margaret Nichol, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. ;Civil Division ;;United Kingdom * Frederick Abbatt, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy. * Samanda Abdoola, Engine Room Serang, Merchant Navy. * Ruckboth Ali, Deck Serang, Merchant Navy. * William Lumsden Allardyce, Chief Works Foreman, de Havilland, De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd. * James Alton, Head Office Inspector, London, Midland & Scottish Railway, Glasgow. * Edward Ashcroft, Staff Officer to the Director of Rescue & Decontamination Services, Nottinghamshire. * Harold Ashcroft, Quartermaster, Merchant Navy. * Herbert Henry Bagshaw, Head Foreman,

Ltd., Southern Works. * George Alfred Bailey, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Frank William Ballard, Principal Foreman of Stores, List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units, No. 14 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force. * Frederick Banks, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * Albert George Baxter, Steward, Merchant Navy. * Angus Beaton, Skipper of a Motor-boat. * Algar John Bedwell, Telegraphist, London North Telegraph Centre, General Post Office. * Henry George Bennett, Area Inspector, Southern Railway. * Hector Black, Inspector, Lanarkshire Police Force, Air Raid Precautions Co-ordinating Officer, Lanark County. * Ralph Bland, Waste Engineer, Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd. * Maurice Samuel Boardman, Instructor, Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply. * Albert Bolten, Carpenter-Pumpman, Merchant Navy. * Charles Brayley, Chargehand, The Manchester Dry Docks Co. Ltd. * William Bridgehouse, Foreman Fitter, The Whitehead Torpedo Co. Ltd. * William Frederick Charles Brogan, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy. * William Brown, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * William Henry Brown, Chargehand, Humber Limited, Humber Ltd. * Ralph Arthur Buckingham, Divisional Civil Defence Warden, Leicester. * Harry James Burt, Supervisor of Heavy Structures, Southern Railway (UK), Southern Railway. * Captain Douglas Walter Thomas Cain, Fire Guard Staff Officer, Chatham. * Esmail Cassum, Deck Serang, Merchant Navy. * Elizabeth Joyce Shillington Gather, Woman Auxiliary, London Fire Force, National Fire Service. * Lee Hai Chang, Quartermaster, Merchant Navy. * Charles Edward Christian, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * Thomas Clarke, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * Charles Hedley Cooper, Fireman, Merchant Navy. * George Cordwell, Permanent Way Inspector, Southern Railway. * Leonard William Cottell, Town Sub-Postmaster, London. * Joseph Jeremiah Cotter, Assistant to Chief Civil Defence Warden, Poplar, London, Poplar. * Thomas Walker Court, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Horace Crossland, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * David Blackwell Cummings, Station Engineer, Grade I,

. * Wallace Cundy, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy. * William Cutler, Greaser, Merchant Navy. * Sidney James Damsell, Foreman, Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd., (Aero Engine (Production) Department). * Charles Davies, Head Foreman Boilermaker, Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks, Messrs. Grayson, Rollo & Clover Docks Ltd. * Harry David Day, Fire Guard Staff Officer, Reigate. * Herbert Edward Day, Foreman of Milling Department, D. Napier & Son Ltd. * Thirza Dempsey, Hostel Matron, Redruth. * Albert John Dottrill, Machine Shop Foreman, Daimler Company, Daimler Ltd. * Reginald Vernon Dowler, Patrolman, Merchant Navy. * Michael Thomas Driscoll, Foreman in charge of Hull Shop, Saunders-Roe Ltd. * Gertrude Dunn, Woman Cook, Port of London Authority. * Philip James Dunn, Carpenter-Pumpman, Merchant Navy. * Arthur John Earley, Toolmaker, Westland Aircraft Ltd. * Arthur Cyril Edwards, , Acting Foreman, Messrs. Henry Meadows. * Richard England, Inspector, Telephone Manager's Office,

. * Thomas Entwistle, Foreman Millwright, Armstrong Siddeley, Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd. * Frank Evans, Signals and Telegraph Supervisor, Southern Railway. * Morgan Evans, Senior Overlooker, Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply. * Thomas Fallen, Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police. * Tom Foster Farmery, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy. * Emily Field, Voluntary School Care Committee Worker, London. * William Charles Finnern, Class "A" Observer, Southern Area, Royal Observer Corps. * Albert Ernest Fisher, Chief Foreman, Great Western Railway Goods Depot, South Lambeth. * Elizabeth Fisher, Senior Chargehand, J. E. Baxter & Co. Ltd. * William Alfred Fisher, Foreman Rigger, Channel Dry Dock Company. * Albert Fletcher, Messenger, Admiralty. * Insoector Patrick Fletcher, Dundee Police Force. Assistant Air Raid Precautions Training Officer, Dundee. * Frederick Ford, Organiser of Civil Defence Messenger Service (Cyclists), Bristol. * William Forrester, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Amelia Jane Foster, Supervisor, Toll Telephone Exchange, Manchester. * George Henry Foster, Civil Defence Sector Warden, Plymouth. * Winifred Wast Fovargue, Honorary Organiser of the Civil Nursing Reserve in the County Borough of Eastbourne. * William Edward Franklin, Company Officer, No. 12 Fire Force Area, National Fire Service. * James Fraser, Foreman Caulker, Messrs. Fleming & Ferguson. * Henry Frend, Quartermaster, Merchant Navy. * John James Freshwater, Telegraph Ganger, London Midland & Scottish Railway. * Arthur William Garrard, Civil Defence Post Warden, Lambeth. * David George Garrett, Foreman Shipwright, Messrs. C. H. Bailey Ltd. * Frederick Arthur Gent, Civil Defence Incident Officer, Derbyshire. * Charles Henry Gibbins, Part-time Company Officer, National Fire Service. * George Gillingham, Chief Dock Foreman, Great Western Railway, Barry Docks. * Frederick William Arthur Goodchild, Fireman,

. * Charles Henry Goody, Auxiliary Fireman, Despatch Rider, London Fire Force, National Fire Service. * Joseph Stanley Gould, Inspector, Telephone Exchange, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. * George William Goulden, Electrician, Merchant Navy. * Alexander Griffin, Carpenter in charge of Launching Squad, Greenock Dockyard Company Ltd. * Leonard William Hall, Turner,

Ltd. * Jim Hamment, Sample Passer, English Steel Corporation Ltd, Vickers Works, Sheffield. * Richard Eustace Handforth, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * James Hanmore, Quartermaster, Merchant Navy. * William George Harding, Head of General Cargo Section, Great Western Railway, Newport. * Edward Stanley Harris, Head Observer, Western Area, Royal Observer Corps (Major, late Royal Field Artillery). * Charles Heathcote, Tool and Gauge Maker, Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply. * Charles Hellyar, Fireman, Merchant Navy. * Walter George Hempstead, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy. * George Henderson, Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist (Postal), Head Post Office, Edinburgh. * Lawrence Higham, Chargehand Erector, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. * Edith Charlotte Kindle, Supervisor, Telephone Exchange, Bradford. * James Gilbert Hobbs, Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, General Post Office. * William Henry Hobbs, Training Officer, Bristol Casualty Services. * William Lee Hogg, Part-time Firemaster, Haddington Fire Brigade. * John Hughes, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Percy William Hughes, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * Henry Thomas Hull, Woodworking Superintendent, Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd. * Edward Hunt, Fireman, Merchant Navy. * Edwin Thomas John Inch, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * John Godfrey Jacobsen, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Walter Henry James, Station Engineer, Grade I, Air Ministry, Middle East. * Olive Johnson, Matron, Cherryhinton Children's Hostel. * Joseph John Henry Jones, Storekeeper, Merchant Navy. * Malcolm Jones, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * John Keen, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * Henry George King, Boiler Maker, Merchant Navy. * Edmund Osric Edgar Lander, Office Keeper, Home Office and Ministry of Home Security. * Tohn Larkin, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Cecil Lauze, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * Anthony King Laverton, Maintenance Engineer, Gloster Aircraft Company, Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd. * Gaston Victor Leverett, Foreman, Aveling-Barford Ltd. * Cecil Herbert Lockyer, Skilled Workman, Class I, General Post Office, Southampton. * Charles Logan, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * Leonard Evelyn Lowings, Company Officer, No. 30 Fire Force Area, National Fire Service. * Harry Lyne, Unestablished Postman, Beckenham. * Alexander McLeod McCormack, Dockmaster and Foreman Shipwright, Barclay Curie & Co. Ltd. * Lewis Macdonald, First Engineer of a Steam Trawler. * Donald McLean, Seaman, Merchant Navy. * Alexander McMillan, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * Roderick McNeil, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Charles Maidment, Donkeyman, Merchant Navy. * Frances Minnie Markham, Factory Forewoman, Post Office Factories Department, Birmingham. * Charles George Marshall, Foreman, Great Western Railway, Cardiff Docks. * John Marshall, Chargehand Caulker, D. and W. Henderson and Company, Messrs. D. & W. Henderson Ltd. * William Marshall, Chief Baker, Merchant Navy. * John Hall Martin, Manager of Web Department, Messrs. Topp & Hindley Ltd. * William Robinson Martin, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * William Henry Mathews, Police Sergeant, Glamorgan County Constabulary. * Munshed Meath, Deck Serang, Merchant Navy. * William Ernest Mee, Chief Foreman of Metal Detail Department, The Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd. (Aircraft Works). * George Meehan, Chief Engineer of a Steam Trawler. * George Michie, Inspector, Aberdeenshire Police Force. * George Arthur Minshall, Permanent Way Inspector, Southern Railway. * Arthur Mitchell, Baker, Merchant Navy. * Albert Thomas Morgan, Driver, Civil Defence First Aid Party, Birmingham. * Samuel Morgan, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * Donald Munro, Crane-man, Traffic Department, Clyde Navigation Trust. * Peter Murray, Mate of a Steam Drifter. * George Nettleton, Chief Engineer of a Steam Trawler. * James William Nicholson, Chargehand Fitter, Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. * Joseph Noble, Foreman Shipwright, Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Palmers Hebburn Co. Ltd. * John Oddy, Foundry Foreman, Austin Motor Company Ltd. * Harold James Pallister, Overseer, Air Ministry Wireless Station. * James Bell Patterson, Foreman of the Flight Shed, Short & Harland Ltd. * Margaret Doris Phillips, Machinist, Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply. * Sidney George Phillips, Chief Steward, Merchant Navy. * John Plant, Senior Subordinate Instructor, Ministry of Home Security School, Falfield. * Frank Pyatt, Night Foreman, Standard Motor Company Ltd. * William Robinson Raistrick, Steward, Merchant Navy. * Edwin George Read, Locomotive Inspector, Southern Railway. * George James Reardon, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Mary Redman, Forewoman, Edward Curran & Co. Ltd. * James Reid, Leading Furnaceman, William Beardmore & Company Ltd. * Clive George Ridyard, East Divisional Assistant Civil Defence Warden, Southampton. * Alice Mary Rigby, Assistant Supervisor, Class II, Private Branch Telephone Exchange, War Office. * Edgar Riley, Toolmaker, The English Electric Company Ltd. * Arthur Capell Roberts, Chief Inspector, Permanent Way Section, London Passenger Transport Board. * William James Rogers, Chief Bedroom Steward, Merchant Navy. * Abdool Rohoman, Engine Room Serang, Merchant Navy. * Edgar Royston, Deputy County Ambulance Officer,

. * Arthur Rundle, Scientific Instrument Maker, Ross Ltd. * Ahmid Mahomid Sallia, Second Fireman's Tindal, Merchant Navy. * Albert Edward Sanderson, Donkeyman, Merchant Navy. * William Sargent, Chief Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * George Shaw, Wireless Telegraphy Watchkeeper, Air Ministry Outstation. * Ngay ah Sik, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Lillian Gertrude Silvernie, Press Tool Setter, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. * Hjalmar Sjoholm, Boatswain, Merchant Navy. * Thomas Sloan, , Skipper of a Motor-boat. * Henry Slowe, Donkeyman, Merchant Navy. * Andrew Smith, Civil Defence Depot Rescue Officer, Westminster. * Arthur Ernest Smith, Shop Foreman (Acting), No. 19 Maintenance Unit, Ministry of Aircraft Production. * John Henry Smith, Sub-Postmaster, Hull, Yorkshire. * John William Smith, Chief Inspector of Postmen, Head Post Office, Birmingham. * Robert Smith, Foreman Plater, William Denny and Brothers, Messrs. Denny Brothers. * William Johnstone Smith, Foreman Plumber, Harland and Wolff, Messrs. Harland & Wolff Ltd. * George Fenech Soler, Senior Engineer, British Overseas Airways Corporation, Malta. * Cecil John Speed, Acting Chief Architectural Assistant, Borough Engineer's Department, Southampton. * George Henry Springer, Chief Engineer of a Steam Trawler. * Maria Jane Emily Sturgeon, Assistant Safety Officer, Imperial Chemical Industries (Fertilisers & Synthetic Products) Ltd. * William Swankie, Skipper of a Motor-boat. * Henry William Tagg, Permanent Way Inspector, Southern Railway. * William Charles Thurston, Able Seaman, Merchant Navy. * Lewis Edward Trevers, Officer in charge, Civil Defence Rescue Party, Bradfield Rural District, Berkshire. * Thomas Turnbull, Civil Defence Training Officer, County of Selkirk. * Dorothy Alice Tyler, Ambulance Driver, Bromley. * Albert Stanley Venn, Turner, Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply. * George Charles Vetcher, First Bedroom Steward, Merchant Navy. * Thomas Waitt, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * William Ernest Walker, Crane Driver, King George's Dock, Hull. * Charles Henry Ward, Assistant Storekeeper, Merchant Navy. * George Watson, Foreman, Experimental Shop, Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. * George Ernest Watson, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Prison Brixton. * William James Watson, Office Keeper, Ministry of War Transport. * Hilda Lilian Watts, Auxiliary Station Officer, London County Council Ambulance Service, Battersea. * John Edgar Webb, Foreman Boilermaker, Prince of Wales Dry Dock Company. * Arthur Frank West, Senior Foreman, Short Brothers Seaplane Works. * John White, Fireman, Merchant Navy. * Joan Whitehouse, Women's Voluntary Services Centre Organiser for Cannock Urban District. * Neil Whyte, Carpenter, Merchant Navy. * Stanley Wicks, Shop Foreman, No. 8 Maintenance Unit, Ministry of Aircraft Production. ;;India * Keki Byramji Godrej, Accountant, Indian Merchant Marine Training Ship ''Dufferin'', Bombay. * Syed Abdul Jalil, Officiating Tahsildar, Kaimganj, Farrukhabad District, United Provinces. * Joseph Cyril Roche, Assistant in charge, Office of the Chief Controller of Imports, New Delhi. * Mirza Basharat Husain Beg, Jailor, District Jail, Unao, United Provinces. ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. * Percy John Rostance, First Class Foreman, Public Works Department,

. * Frederick Leon Smith, Carpenter, Public Works Department, Fiji. * Panalal Kapoor, Senior Yard Foreman, Nairobi, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours. * Maganhai Javerbhai Patel, Senior Yard Foreman, Nairobi, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

;Royal Navy * Captain William Scott Bardwell, , (Retd). * Captain Colin Alexander Gordon Hutchison, (Retd). * Commander Walter Thomas Couchman, .

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

;Royal Navy * Commander Edmund Mount Haes. * Acting Commander William Hugh Moloney. * Acting Temporary Commander Sidney Peck Herival, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant-Commander Alan Francis Black, (Retd). * Lieutenant-Commander Vernon North Graves. * Lieutenant-Commander Ronald Stanley Howlett. * Lieutenant-Commander Reginald Horace Johnson. * Lieutenant-Commander Eric Norman Walmsley. * Lieutenant-Commander Alfred Ernest Willmott,

. * Lieutenant-Commander Gordon Bridson, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant-Commander John George Hilliard, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Charles Ernest Davies, Royal Naval Reserve. * Lieutenant John Arthur Stanley Davey. * Lieutenant Brian Desmond Gallie. * Lieutenant Henry Kirkwood. * Lieutenant John Douglas David Moore. * Temporary Lieutenant John William Ailwyn Jones, Royal Naval Reserve. * Lieutenant Henry Owen L'Estrange, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Denis Malet Lambert, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant John Stanley Roe, Royal Naval Reserve. * Lieutenant Peter Birkett Hague, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant William Sinclair Macdonald, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Edward George Antony Bell, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant George Henry Clark, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Henry Leonard Choppin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant George Clifford Fanner, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Leonard Henry Hill, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Frederick Cecil Mascall, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Alan Robert Mitchell, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant Malcolm Campbell Waylen, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Lieutenant John Mortimer Davies, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant (E) Aubrey Richard Moore. * Temporary Lieutenant (E) James Douglas Percy. * Acting Skipper Lieutenant James Thomson White, 2780.W.S, Royal Naval Reserve. * Acting Temporary Skipper Lieutenant George Alfred Whichello, 217T.S, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Skipper Frederick Sydney Johnson, 223T.S, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Skipper Reginald Robert Russell, 326T.S, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Skipper Donald Helenio Ward, 404T.S, Royal Naval Reserve. * Sub-Lieutenant Peter Morton Wilcockson, Royal Naval Reserve. * Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) Alan Michael Tritton, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Mr. Thomas Benson Garnett, Commissioned Engineer. * Mr. Edward Garnall Jenkinson, Commissioned Engineer. * Mr. Ernest Alfred Aguzzi, Gunner. * Mr. Jesse Philip Rathbone, Gunner (T).

Bar to the Distinguished Service Cross

* Lieutenant John Charles Grattan, , Royal Navy.

Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)

;Royal Navy * Chief Petty Officer Frederick Bird, P/J.18522. * Chief Petty Officer John Brearley, D/J.83828. * Chief Petty Officer John Christie Burnet, D/J.101300. * Chief Petty Officer Walter Henry Homewood, P/J.111612. * Chief Petty Officer Bernard Leslie Maddock, D/J.108776. * Chief Petty Officer William Maydwell, D/J.29144. * Chief Petty Officer Andrew Mortimer, C/JX.125376. * Chief Petty Officer James Stephen Seaman, C/J.3192. * Chief Petty Officer John Stephen Silby, C/J. 100298. * Chief Yeoman of Signals William Munro, P/JX.128928. * Chief Yeoman of Signals George Alfred Toon, D/J.32877. * Chief Engine Room Artificer James Bennett Bourke, P/M.34825. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Albert James Martin Chambers, C/M.34468. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Maurice William Tanner, C/M.37037. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Cyril Leighton Yarwood, C/M.35056. * Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer Norman Frederick Biddlecombe, D/MX.51435. * Chief Mechanician Stephen William Snelling, C/K.18995. * Chief Stoker Henry Alexander Brooks, D/K.64576. * Chief Stoker Walter William Jasper, C/K.63647. * Chief Stoker William John Edward Pruett, D/KX.76477. * Chief Stoker Charles Frederick Stevens, P/K.5461. * Chief Ordnance Artificer William Hall Akers, D/M.36688. * Chief Engineman Thomas Kimpson, LT/KX.110649, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Chief Engineman Sidney Wells, L/KX.108332, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Engine Room Artificer Third Class Gerald Cecil Collins, P/MX.48679. * Engine Room Artificer Third Class Owen Lloyd Thomas, D/MX.51446. * Acting- Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class Albert George Messenger, P/MX.56231. * Electrical Artificer First Class Albert Edward Ford, C/M.35416. * Ordnance Artificer First Class Philip Thomas McGrath, C/M.36681. * Sergeant William Herbert Holbrook, 335602, Royal Air Force. * Petty Officer Robert Ernest Clements, C/JX.126010. * Petty Officer Cecil Ernest Paul, P/JX.166288. * Acting Petty Officer Derek Arthur James Bright, C/JX.134603. * Acting Petty Officer David Shirra McGilvray, D/SSX.15623. * Petty Officer Airman Arthur Jopling, FAA/FX.79821. * Petty Officer Airman Albert William Sabey, FAA/FX.76465. * Yeoman of Signals Charles Skelton Stanford, D/JX.131923. * Acting Yeoman of Signals Ronald Frederick William Winter, P/JX.136084. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Charles Beecroft, C/J.108264. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Vincent Brennan, D/JX.133174. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Cecil Harry Claridge, D/JX.133951. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Cyril Haisell, C/J.90931. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Arthur John Harrington, D/JX.136120. * Petty Officer Telegraphist Norman William Harris, F/JX.137191. * Temporary Acting Stoker Petty Officer Kenneth William John Rudge, D/KX.83517. * Second Hand William Jarvie Hall, LT/JX.190001, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Second Hand Alexander Murdo Kennedy, LT/X.191191,

. * Second Hand George Reginald Rope, LT/X.20573A, Royal Naval Reserve. * Second Hand Meldrum Duncan Shipley, LT/X.10272B, Royal Naval Reserve. * Second Hand Henry James Wink, LT/JX.195882, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Engineman Jack Oliver Blakelock, LT/KX.104251, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Engineman James Peter Thompson Dell, X.5914ES, Royal Naval Reserve. * Engineman Richard Duncan, LT/KX.99968, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Engineman John William Foxcroft, LT.5909ES, Royal Naval Reserve. * Engineman William Young, LT/KX.109767, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Temporary Petty Officer Cook Cecil Roy Smith, P/MX.51629. * Leading Seaman Edward Henderson Barras, LT/KX.205464, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Leading Seaman John Henry Brett, C/JX.147905. * Leading Seaman Arthur Chance, LT/JX.167049, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Leading Seaman Ernest Foster, P/236437. * Leading Seaman Ronald John George, LT/X.18291A, Royal Naval Reserve. * Leading Seaman Evan Ernest Morgan, C/SSX.16627. * Leading Seaman Herbert Henry Parry, P/JX.128289. * Leading Seaman Edward Robert Pitt, L.5704D, Royal Naval Reserve. * Leading Seaman Donald Sinclair, LT/5585B, Royal Naval Reserve. * Leading Seaman Robert Thomas Smith, C/J.41870. * Leading Seaman Jack Henry Charles Turner, LT/JX.147005, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Leading Seaman Frederick William Turpin, P/J.97991. * Leading Seaman Frederick Wingate, LT/JX.225539. Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Acting Leading Seaman William Alfred Kirby, P/JX.148369. * Leading Airman Norman Leslie, FAA/FX.79399. * Leading Airman Frederick Ronald Rhodes Lowe, FAA/FX.79410. * Leading Airman Ronald Stratford Saunders, FAA/SR.16177. * Leading Air Fitter Bertie Edward Cawdron, FAA/FX.79767. * Leading Air Fitter (E) Wilfred Jones, FAA/FX.75587. * Acting Leading Telegraphist John Shipley Weir, D/JX.135107. * Temporary Acting Leading Telegraphist Reginald Squelch, D/J.107214. * Leading Stoker Frederick Thomas Newport, P/KX.86343. * Leading Stoker Bernard Verdun Trueman, D/KX.88469. * Leading Wireman Herbert Ambler, P/MX.64580. * Able Seaman Harold Lucas Harris, D/J.106084. * Able Seaman George Arthur Rapley, C/J.104029. * Able Seaman Henry Yeoell, D/J.102036. * Wireman James Thompson Nisbet, C/MX.68808. * Wireman Smith Rapp, C/MX.71428. * Wireman Frederick Rollason, P/MX.67502. * Telegraphist Bernard Ostler Ralph Nicholson, P/SSX.17538. * Signalman Philip Aldridge Bott, P/JX.199524. * Convoy Signalman Russell Francis Charles Durbin, C/JX.226561. * Stoker Frank George White, LT/KX.128291, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Seaman Raymond Arthur Charles Dean, LT/JX.175049, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Seaman Thomas Henry Gale, LT/JX.209137, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Seaman Robert Sproul, LT/JX.2O7738, Royal Naval Patrol Service. * Seaman Stanley Ronald Wakefield, LT/JX.222734, Royal Naval Patrol Service.

Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal

;Royal Navy * Chief Engine Room Artificer Ralph Dixon Hall, , C/M.11533. * Chief Stoker Alfred Lawrence, , P/K.61871. * Petty Officer Francis George Keefe, , C/JX.129342.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

;;Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service * Kathleen Minnie Atkinson, , Superintending Sister. ;;Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service * Marion Delves, Matron (206104). * Rose Gertrude Moffat, , Matron (206298). * Dorothy Richardson, Matron (215270). * Margaret Myllim Roberts, , Matron (206653) (Retd.) * Maggie Bella Robertson, Matron (215281). * Evelyn Mary Silkstone, Matron (206433). * Elizabeth Dorothea Ann McHardy, Sister (acting Matron) (206292). * Dora Granville Grayson, , Assistant Matron (208303). ;;Territorial Army Nursing Service * Lucy Gwendoline Duff-Grant, Principal Matron, * Edith Olive Jackson, Principal Matron, Territorial Army Nursing Service. * Eleanor E. Hughes, Matron (213478), Territorial Army Nursing Service.

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

;;Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service * Olga Heather Franklin, , Superintending Sister. * Phyllis Lucy Shipton, Acting Superintending Sister. * Elizabeth Alice Mary Maunsell, Nursing Sister. * Marion Ruby Hill, Reserve Nursing Sister. * Kathleen Eva Bogue, Reserve Nursing Sister. ;;Voluntary Aid Detachment * Frances Ada Bailey, Nursing Member. * Beatrice Evelyn Phillimore, Nursing Member. * Josephine Elspeth Janet Black, Nursing Member. * Ethel Roseveare, Nursing Member. * Linda Matilda Mills, Nursing Member. ;;Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service * Marjorie Birdsall, Assistant Matron (206033). * Ellinor Humphreys Owen, Assistant Matron (206357). * Irene Annie Elizabeth Caldwell, Sister (acting Matron) (206109). * Ellen Curwen, Sister (acting Matron) (206102). * Phyllis Eva Wilkins, Sister-in-Charge (206523). ;;Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve * Grace Christabel Belcher, Sister-in-Charge (206629). * Mary Gertrude Cardine Heathcote, Sister-in-Charge (208444). * Annie Kennedy, Sister (208039). * Nora Ellen Newton, Sister (208949). ;;Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service * Acting Senior Sister Hilda Adams. * Acting Senior Sister Ethel Winifred Griffiths. * Acting Senior Sister Joan Mallalieu Mallalieu. * Acting Senior Sister Jessie Winifred Rogers. * Acting Senior Sister Edna Mabel Tilbrook. * Acting Senior Sister Roberta Mary Whyte. * Sister Mary McCallum.

Military Cross (MC)

;Royal Air Force * Flight Lieutenant Alan Graham Douglas (41387).

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Group Captain Philip Clermont Livingston, . * Wing Commander John Charles Macdonald, , (26183). * Wing Commander Hubert Pelham Simpson, , (31098). * Wing Commander Walter Peter Whitworth (36039). * Wing Commander Ronald Hildyard Young (32214). * Acting Wing Commander Roland Henry Winfield (23411). * Squadron Leader Herbert Benjamin Bell-Syer (39266), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Squadron Leader Curwen William Bromley (40782). * Squadron Leader Henry Gordon Goddard, , (70252), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Squadron Leader Hugh James Felce Le Good (32200). * Squadron Leader William Edward Lawley Lewis (29038). * Squadron Leader Bryce Gilmore Meharg (39941), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Squadron Leader Robert John Sage (39342). * Squadron Leader Ivan George Statham (72119), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Squadron Leader James Richard Tobin (39909). * Acting Squadron Leader Edgar Buhner Bright (23375). * Acting Squadron Leader William Roy Greenslade (45202). * Acting Squadron Leader Keith Constantine Roberts (70817), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Acting Squadron Leader Richard Somerville Sikes (70622), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Flight Lieutenant Thomas Roper Burne (33457). * Flight Lieutenant James Moore Ennis (42341). * Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gordon Hall (70914), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Flight Lieutenant Oswald Victor Holmes (77969), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Thomas Henry Algernon Llewellyn (74656), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Alan Ormerod Moffet (40736). * Flight Lieutenant Ernest William Tacon, , (36196). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Ronald Gerard Addy (84699), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Ian Bishop Butler (84700), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Gerald Arthur Clarke (43165). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Leslie John Flack (84705), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant William Albert Alexander Read (80822), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Henry Wilfred Ward (80896), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer Peter Andrew Kleboe (88440), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer Norman John Wheeler (82668), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer Clifford Wright (43081). * Pilot Officer Jack Archer (46394). * Pilot Officer Arthur Alexander Rollo (47003). * Pilot Officer Reginald Arthur Studd (47188). * Warrant Officer Leslie Stuart Millen, (745789), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Warrant Officer William Gordon Ross (590112). * Warrant Officer Joseph Edward Sunderland (337207). * Acting Wing Commander William Raymond Garrett (Aus.118), Royal Australian Air Force. * Squadron Leader Eric William Cooper (Aus.93), Royal Australian Air Force. * Squadron Leader Charles Raymond Gurney (Aus.160), Royal Australian Air Force (since deceased). * Squadron Leader William George Leer (Aus.173), Royal Australian Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader Frank Neale (Aus.231), Royal Australian Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader Harry Plumridge (Aus.354), Royal Australian Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant John Leonard Grey, Royal Australian Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Godfrey Ellard Hemsworth, Royal Australian Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Michael Vaughan Mather, Royal Australian Air Force. * Wing Commander Donald William Baird (N.Z.1016), Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Ted Firth, Edward Buckland Firth (N.Z.1148), Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Bar to the Air Force Cross

* Wing Commander John William McGuire, , (34211) (since deceased).

Air Force Medal (AFM)

* 740890 Flight Sergeant John Richard James Belson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 749384 Flight Sergeant Reginald William Birchall. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 754392 Flight Sergeant John Richardson Emmerson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 581331 Flight Sergeant (now Warrant Officer) William Henry Leslie Grant. * 911888 Flight Sergeant James Edwards Sainsbury. * 904918 Flight Sergeant Roy Derwent Stirk. * 923219 Sergeant Lewis Larsen. * 760158 Sergeant Thomas Stanley White, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 622843 Corporal Alexander Paxton Skelding Fimister. * Aus.1974 Sergeant Newcombe Adrian Boddington, Royal Australian Air Force. * Aus.16638 Corporal James Smith Lyall, Royal Australian Air Force. * N.Z.63915 Sergeant Allan Arthur Hodder, Royal New Zealand Air Force.

King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

* Charles Leonard Cheeseman, Radio Officer,

. * Frank Wilfred Holland, Civilian Armament Instructor, RAF Flying Training School (now No. 1670549, Aircraftman 2nd Class, Royal Air Force). * Greg Grenville Lambert, Third Engineer, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Flight Captain Nigel Pelley, British Overseas Airways Corporation, Cairo. * Ernest William Smith, Steward, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Captain Louis Bisson, RAF Ferry Command * Captain Donald Moore McVicar, RAF Ferry Command.

King's Police and Fire Services Medal (KPFSM)

;For Gallantry ;;England & Wales * John Bannister, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Force. * William Oliver, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Force. * William Potter, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Force. * John McVernon, Constable, Metropolitan Police Force. * William Monteith, Constable, Metropolitan Police Force. * Bertie Coates, Inspector, Durham Constabulary. * Thomas David Watkins, Sergeant, Glamorganshire Constabulary. * Albert Edward Butterworth, Leading Fireman, No. 27 (Manchester) Fire Area. * Wilfred Atherton, Fireman (Professional), No. 26 (Liverpool) Fire Area (St. Helens). ;;Northern Ireland * Patrick Murphy, deceased, Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;For Distinguished Service ;;England & Wales * William Henry Beacher, Chief Constable of Reigate Borough Police Force. * Robert Hall, Chief Constable of Rotherham Borough Police Force. * Ernest James Braby, Superintendent, Berkshire Constabulary. Regional Police Staff Officer, No. 6 Region. * Thomas Oldcorn, , Superintendent, Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary. * Harry James Mortimer, Sub-Divisional Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force. * Walter Henry Mardon, Fire Force Commander, No. 2 (Middlesbrough) Fire Area. ;;Scotland * William Ferguson Thorn, Inspector and Deputy Chief Constable, Kincardine Constabulary. * William James Paterson, Fire Inspector, Grade I, Scottish Home Department. ;;Northern Ireland * William James Perrott, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;;Australia * Edward George Allen, Superintendent, First Class, New South Wales Police Force. * George Campbell, lately Inspector, Second Class, New South Wales Police Force. * Thomas William Hooper, Superintendent, First Class, New South Wales Police Force. * James Frederick Scott, Superintendent, First Class, New South Wales Police Force. * James Sharpies, lately Superintendent, Third Class, New South Wales Police Force. * Hubert William Thompson, lately Superintendent, Third Class, New South Wales Police Force. * John Joseph Walsh, Superintendent, First Class, New South Wales Police Force. ;;India * Maurice Prince La Bouchardiere, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Labour Officer, Bombay. * Ernest Michael Phillips, , Deputy Superintendent of Police, United Provinces. * Khan Sahib Qasim Ali Shah, Deputy Superintendent of Police, North West Frontier Province. ;;Colonies, Protectorates & Mandated Territories * Emmanuele Calleja, Inspector (Acting Superintendent), Malta Police Force. * Captain Rupert Leonard Hill, Superintendent of Police, Gambia. * Geoffrey Jackson Morton, , Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine.

Colonial Police Medal (CPM)

;Southern Rhodesia * Colonel John Sidney Morris, , Inspector General of Police. ;Colonies, Protectorates & Mandated Territories * Tewfic Nour Abboushi, Sub-Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Robert Kenneth Allen, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Jameel Rashid Assali, First Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Reginald Joseph Caldwell, British Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Ernest Knightly Catchpole, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Richard Charles Catling, Assistant Superintendent, Palestine Police Force. * Matthew Kirkham Needham Collens, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Nigerian Police Force. * Cecil Vivian Curtis, Assistant Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. * Arthur Patrick Daly, Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Daniel Day, Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Joseph William Deegan, Assistant Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. * Ziev Dichter, Sub-Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Igbimosun Evbuma, Constable, Nigerian Police Force. * Lawrence Ewa, Sergeant, Nigerian Police Force. * Robert Edward Foulger, Deputy Commissioner, Gold Coast Police Force. * Sulemanu Grunshie, Escort Police Sergeant, Gold Coast. * Herbert Harris, Superintendent, Nigerian Police Force. * John Donald Hegerty, Deputy Superintendent, Palestine Police Force. * Farrah Issa, First Sergeant, Kenya Police Force. * Abdul Karim John, Sub-Inspector, Gambia Police Force. * Edwin Fitzosbert Kelly, Detective Sergeant-Major, Trinidad Police Force. * Dost Mohamed Kham, Chief Sub-Inspector, Tanganyika Territory Police Force. * Roy James Philip McLaughlan, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Nigerian Police Force. * George Leslie Mathews, Inspector, Palestine Police Force * Captain William Manning, Senior Superintendent, Zanzibar Police Force. * Bakari Mohamed, First Sergeant, Kenya Police Force. * Arthur Robert Lungley Neame, Superintendent, Tanganyika Territory Police Force. * James Tharsis Ogbolu, Assistant Superintendent, Nigerian Police Force. * Robert Tetteh Kwabena Okpodjah, Sub-Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force. * Pauliasi Raucikula, Sergeant, Fiji Police Force. * Sat Bachan Singh, Chief Sub-Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * James Arnold Sweeney, Assistant Superintendent, Nigerian Police Force * Reginald Fulbrook Townsend, Deputy Superintendent, Palestine Police Force. * Robert Vivian Douglas White, Superintendent, Nigerian Police Force. * Dennis Leslie Wright, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force.

Canada

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division ;Royal Canadian Air Force * Flight Sergeant J. R. Burdes. * Flight Sergeant G. F. G. Gayton. * Flight Sergeant J. H. Haime. * Flight Sergeant W. E. S. Weir, Royal Air Force. * Sergeant A. W. Appleby. * Sergeant C. W. Boughner. * Sergeant E. Gowda. * Corporal T. A. Calow. * Corporal A. S. Hayton. * Corporal W. H. Smith. * Leading Aircraftman A. E. Sinclair.

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

;Royal Canadian Naval Reserve * Lieutenant-Commander Edgar G. Skinner. * Acting Lieutenant-Commander William Edward Slade Briggs. * Acting Lieutenant-Commander George Hay Stephen.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

;Royal Canadian Air Force * Wing Commander C. P. Dunlop. * Wing Commander R. H. Waterhouse, Royal Air Force. * Wing Commander L. E. Wray. * Acting Wing Commander R. L. Burnett, Royal Air Force. * Acting Wing Commander C. Scragg, , Royal Air Force. * Squadron Leader R. D. Byers. * Squadron Leader F. M. Milligan, Royal Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant J. Hone. * Flight Lieutenant J. P. Rae, Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Flight Lieutenant J. H. Roberts. * Flight Lieutenant N. E. Small. * Flight Lieutenant E. M. Williams. * Flying Officer F. H. A. McNeil. * Flying Officer R. L. Rizon.

Air Force Medal (AFM)

;Royal Canadian Air Force * Flight Sergeant (now Pilot Officer) A. N. Hornby, Royal Air Force. * Sergeant (now Pilot Officer) E. A. H. Bacon, Royal Air Force. * Sergeant A. J. Chandler. * Sergeant A. Deeks. * Corporal L. G. Harvey. * Leading Aircraftman W. J. Hunt.

References

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