The 1944 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of

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 his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of Ind ...

, were appointments made by the King to various orders and honours. The awards were made in recognition of war service by New Zealanders and were announced on 8 June 1944. No civilian awards were made. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

;Military division, additional * Acting Air Commodore James Lloyd Findlay –

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 ...

. * Brigadier Edward Talbot Rowllings – New Zealand Military Forces; of

Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / ...

. File:James Lloyd Findlay, soldier and air force officer (16551535241).jpg, James Findlay File:Edward Talbot Rowllings.jpg, Edward Rowllings

Officer (OBE)

;Military division, additional * Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Henry William Evenden –

New Zealand Artillery The Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery is the artillery regiment of the New Zealand Army. It is effectively a military administrative corps, and can comprise multiple component regiments. This nomenclature stems from its heritage as an off ...

(Territorial Force); of Christchurch. * Chief Commander Vida Eliza Jowett – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Army Corps; of

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...

. * Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) James Edward Fitzgerald Vogel – New Zealand Military Forces; of

Lower Hutt Lower Hutt ( mi, Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai) is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. It is New Zealand's sixth most p ...

. File:James Edward Fitzgerald Vogel.jpg, James Vogel

Member (MBE)

;Military division, additional * Flight Lieutenant James Bruce Dickey – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

. * Acting Flight Lieutenant William John Fyfe – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

. * Frederick Gardner – temporary gunner, Royal New Zealand Navy; of Auckland. * Captain and Quartermaster William Charles Hastings – New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps; of

Burnham Burnham may refer to: Places Canada *Burnham, Saskatchewan England *Burnham, Buckinghamshire ** Burnham railway station ** Burnham Grammar School *Burnham Green, Hertfordshire, location of The White Horse * Burnham, Lincolnshire **High Burnham, ...

. * Captain Reginald George Hayward – New Zealand Military Forces; of Lower Hutt. * Captain Ronald Kennedy – New Zealand Military Forces; of

Havelock North Havelock North ( mi, Te Hemo-a-Te Atonga) is a town in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, situated less than 2 km south-east of the city of Hastings. It was a borough for many years until the 1989 reorganisation of local ...

. * Flying Officer John Padraic Weippert Pollard – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch. * Second Lieutenant Frederick Douglas Sheppard – New Zealand Dental Corps; of Wellington. * Captain Alfred John Steele – New Zealand Military Forces. * Second Lieutenant Leonard Roy Taylor – New Zealand Military Forces, attached Fiji Labour Corps; of Auckland. File:John Padraic Weippert Pollard.jpg, John Pollard File:Leonard Roy Taylor.jpg, Leonard Roy Taylor

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military division * Sergeant Arthur Bernard Goodwillie – New Zealand Military Forces; of Shannon. * Master-at-Arms Thomas William Hughes – Royal New Zealand Navy; of Christchurch. * Temporary Sergeant Leo Patrick Murphy – New Zealand Military Forces; of Auckland. * Staff Sergeant Gordon Albert Roper – New Zealand Military Forces; of

New Plymouth New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. ...

. * Staff Sergeant Maurice Petrie Shaw – New Zealand Military Forces; of Auckland.

Royal Red Cross

Member (RRC)

* Edith Mary Lewis – matron, New Zealand Army Nursing Service; of Wellington.

Associate (ARRC)

* Joyce Trevelyn Sexton – charge sister, New Zealand Army Nursing Service; of Auckland.

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

* Temporary Lieutenant Maurice Leigh Newman –

Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve The Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNZNVR) is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). History Early history The first Naval Volunteer units were formed in Auckland and Nelson in 1858. Over the rest of th ...

; of Christchurch.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Flying Officer Thomas Alexander – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Acting Wing Commander Arthur Candlish Allen – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Morrinsville. * Squadron Leader Ernest William Barnett – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Halcombe Halcombe is a small settlement in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island, New Zealand. It is situated 13 km north west of Feilding and 4 km east of the Rangitikei River, between State Highway 1 and State Highway 54. Hal ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Hayden Hugh James Miller –

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

; of Morrinsville. * Flight Lieutenant William Bernard Pettet – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

. * Flight Lieutenant Allan John Price – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. File:Thomas Alexander AFC.jpg, Thomas Alexander File:Hayden Hugh James Miller.jpg, Hugh Miller

King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

* Flying Officer Ivor John McLachlan – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington.

Mention in despatches

* Flying Officer Graham Arthur Bice – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Acting Squadron Leader Roy Oldfield Calvert – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Cambridge. * Flight Lieutenant

Arnold George Christensen Arnold George Christensen (8 April 1922 – 29 March 1944) was a New Zealand Mustang fighter pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War during the Dieppe Raid, he is notable for the part he took in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Lu ...

– Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

. * Flight Lieutenant Gordon Andrew Delves – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flying Officer Roy Robert George Fisher – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Cambridge. * Flying Officer Francis Charles Fox – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Napier Napier may refer to: People * Napier (surname), including a list of people with that name * Napier baronets, five baronetcies and lists of the title holders Given name * Napier Shaw (1854–1945), British meteorologist * Napier Waller (1893–19 ...

. * Flight Sergeant Neville Douglas Freeman – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch. * Acting Squadron Leader Wilfred Ronald Gellatly – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Acting Squadron Leader Brian Montgomery Gilmour – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flying Officer Ronald Matherson Grant – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Acting Squadron Leader Ian Hugh Hanlon – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Flying Officer William Charles Kingston Hender – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flying Officer Harold Dennis Holtom – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Paekākāriki Paekākāriki () is a town in the Kapiti Coast District in the south-western North Island, New Zealand, and one of the northernmost suburbs of Wellington. It lies north of Porirua and northeast of the Wellington CBD. The town's name comes from ...

. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Frank Colwyn Jones – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Sergeant Douglas Evan McKenzie – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Masterton Masterton ( mi, Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a r ...

. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Ivan George Edward McPhail – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Dunedin. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Leighton John Montgomerie – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of New Plymouth. * Pilot Officer Walter Frank Morice – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wairoa. * Flight Sergeant David Keith Mulligan – Royal New Zealand Air Force. * Flying Officer James McLean Pearson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Greymouth. * Flying Officer Porokoru Patapu Pohe – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Taihape. * Flying Officer Albert Prenter – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Sergeant Sydney John Salt – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Cyril Keith Silcock – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Nelson. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Allan Henderson Smith – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Sergeant Albert Henry Sowerby – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Johnsonville. * Acting Flight Lieutenant David Cameron Stewart – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Dunedin. * Flying Officer Donald Winter Thomson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Aria In music, an aria (Italian: ; plural: ''arie'' , or ''arias'' in common usage, diminutive form arietta , plural ariette, or in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompanime ...

. * Acting Wing Commander Richard Webb – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Gisborne. * Pilot Officer Leslie Samuel McQueen White – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Gore Gore may refer to: Places Australia * Gore, Queensland * Gore Creek (New South Wales) * Gore Island (Queensland) Canada * Gore, Nova Scotia, a rural community * Gore, Quebec, a township municipality * Gore Bay, Ontario, a township on Manitouli ...

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References

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