The 1945 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 14 June 1945. No civilian awards were made. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

;Military division, additional * Brigadier (temporary) Albert Edward Conway –

New Zealand Staff Corps The New Zealand Staff Corps was a corps of professional officers in the regular New Zealand Military Forces which, in peacetime, administered the Territorial Force. During the First and Second World Wars, many members of the corps commanded batta ...

; 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 ...

. File:Albert Edward Conway - WWI.jpg, Albert Conway

Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE)

;Military division, additional * Acting Air Commodore Ronald Burns Bannerman –

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 ...

; of Wellington. * Acting Air Commodore Hector Douglas McGregor –

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 Napier. File:Ronald Bannerman.jpg, Ronald Bannerman File:Hector Douglas McGregor.jpg, Hector McGregor

Officer (OBE)

;Military division, additional * Wing Commander

Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett (30 April 1901 – 27 March 1979) was a New Zealand physicist and meteorologist. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, he studied in that country but obtained his PhD in the United Kingdom at the University of Cambridge. He ...

– Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Morton Foster – New Zealand Staff Corps; 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 ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Kemp –

New Zealand Medical Corps New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created. New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz (South Korean band), The Boyz Albums and EPs * New (album), ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartn ...

; of

Upper Hutt Upper Hutt ( mi, Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta) is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington#Wellington metropolitan area, Wellington metropolitan area. Geography The Upper Hutt city cent ...

. File:Miles Barnett.jpg, Miles Barnett File:Henry Morton Foster.jpg, Henry Morton Foster File:Frederick William Kemp.jpg, Frederick William Kemp

Member (MBE)

;Military division, additional * Flight Lieutenant John Darral Ackerman – 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 ...

. * Senior Commander

Jean Neill Erwin Jean Neill Erwin (25 January 1890 – 24 July 1969) was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse, masseuse, and army nursing administrator. She was born in Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand on 25 January 1890. She was appointed a Member of ...

– New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; 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 / ...

. * Major John Robert Griffin –

2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force The New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) was the title of the military forces sent from New Zealand to fight alongside other British Empire and Dominion troops during World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). Ultimately, the NZE ...

(Fiji Section); of Wellington. * Flight Lieutenant Henry Charles Hudson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Temporary Lieutenant Frederick Johnston –

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 Auckland. * Section Officer Mary Katrine Loughnan –

New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force The Women's Auxiliary Air Force was the female auxiliary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. Established in 1941, it began with an initial draft of 200 women, reaching a peak strength of about 3,800, with a total of ab ...

; of Scargill. * Warrant Officer (Class I) George John Narbey – New Zealand Temporary Staff; of

Pukekohe Pukekohe is a town in the Auckland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern edge of the Auckland Region, it is in South Auckland, between the southern shore of the Manukau Harbour and the mouth of the Waikato River. Th ...

. * Temporary Major Frank Leonard Rees –

Canterbury Regiment The Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast Regiment was a Territorial Force (Army Reserve) unit of the New Zealand Army. Formation and recent history The regiment was formed in 1964 during the reorganisation of the army by the amalga ...

; of Christchurch. File:Jean Neill Erwin.jpg, Jean Erwin

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military division * Stores Chief Petty Officer James Charles Deane –

Royal New Zealand Navy The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; mi, Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa, , Sea Warriors of New Zealand) is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of nine ships. The Navy had its origins in the Naval Defence Act ...

; of Auckland. * Sergeant Hugh Gordon Dickson – New Zealand Medical Corps; of Auckland. * Flight Sergeant George Andrew Edmond – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Staff Sergeant Edwin Richard Green – New Zealand Temporary Staff; of

Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilt ...

. * Flight Sergeant Eric George McEwen – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Corporal Robin Henry McNeilly –

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; 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 ...

. * Flight Sergeant Arthur Jack Smaill – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Timaru Timaru (; mi, Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to ...

. File:Hugh Gordon Dickson.jpg, Hugh Gordon Dickson

Royal Red Cross

Associate (ARRC)

* Charge Sister Beth Webster –

New Zealand Army Nursing Service The New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS) formally came into being in early 1915, when the Army Council in London accepted an offer of nurses to help in the war effort during the First World War from the New Zealand Government. The heavy losses ...

; of Hīhītahi.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Flying Officer Alexander Agnew Appleby – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Lieutenant David Laurence Bade – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Flight Lieutenant Alfred Sydney Drew – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Squadron Leader Vincent David Gain – 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 William Higgins – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Canada. * Flying Officer George Willis Kidd – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Thames Valley The Thames Valley is an informally-defined sub-region of South East England, centred on the River Thames west of London, with Oxford as a major centre. Its boundaries vary with context. The area is a major tourist destination and economic hub, ...

. * Squadron Leader Kenneth Godfrey King – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Lower Hutt. * Flight Lieutenant·Lawrence Alan Lawton – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Sydney Harold Manning – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch. * Squadron Leader Allan Gerald Sievers – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Wanganui Whanganui (; ), also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whangan ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Hillyiard Stuart – Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Flight Lieutenant Robert Francis Watson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch. File:Alexander Agnew Appleby.jpg, Alexander Appleby File:Albert Sydney Drew.jpg, Albert Sydney Drew File:George Willis Kidd.jpg, George Willis Kidd File:Sydney Harold Manning.jpg, Sydney Harold Manning

King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

* Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Russell Clarke – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Dunedin. * Flight Lieutenant Charles Geoffrey Jamieson Cunningham – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Tauranga Tauranga () is a coastal city in the Bay of Plenty region and the fifth most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of , or roughly 3% of the national population. It was settled by Māori late in the 13th century, colonised by ...

. * Flight Sergeant Arthur Henry Dallimore – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Lieutenant Peter Durning – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Timaru. * Flying Officer Leslie Hunter Jolly – Royal New Zealand Air Force; 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. ...

. * Flight Lieutenant George Selwyn Martin – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch.

Mention in despatches

* Acting Flight Lieutenant Henry Drury Alcock – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Napier. * Acting Squadron Leader Wallace Campbell St Clair Bainbridge – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Henry Becroft – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Helensville Helensville is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. It is sited northwest of Auckland, close to the southern extremity of the Kaipara Harbour. New Zealand State Highway 16, State Highway 16 passes through the town, connecting it to Waimauk ...

. * Flight Lieutenant Douglas Gordon Elliot Brown – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flying Officer Desmond Roy Browne – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Sergeant Royden Joseph Burkitt – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of New Plymouth. * Flying Officer Cyril George Clarke – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Lieutenant Donald Louis Clow – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flying Officer Daniel Clements Colmore-Williams – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flying Officer George Currie Couper – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Mosgiel Mosgiel (Māori: ''Te Konika o te Matamata'') is an urban satellite of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, fifteen kilometres west of the city's centre. Since the re-organisation of New Zealand local government in 1989 it has been inside the Dunedin ...

. * Flying Officer Alexander John Crawford – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Mosgiel. * Acting Squadron Leader Noel Ainsley Cresswell – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Napier. * Flying Officer Herbert James Dalzell – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Taratuhi,

Oaro Oaro is a settlement close to the Pacific Ocean Coast of north Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. Oaro is within Kaikoura District on State Highway 1 and on the South Island Main Trunk railway, 20 kilometres south of Kaikoura. It ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Archibald England Davis – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Ōrākei Ōrākei is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on a peninsula five kilometres to the east of the city centre, on the shore of the Waitematā Harbour, which lies to the north, and Hobson Bay and Orakei ...

. * Flight Lieutenant George Russell Dickson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Dunedin. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Trevor Gordon Dill – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Kaipara Flats Kaipara Flats is a locality in the Rodney District of New Zealand. Warkworth, New Zealand, Warkworth is 12 km to the east, Ahuroa to the south, and Tauhoa to the north-west. The North Auckland Line, North Auckland railway line passes through ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Ian Gilman Dunn – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Dunedin. * Flight Lieutenant Edwin Leonard Eason – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Ōtaki. * Flight Lieutenant Roy Robert George Fisher – 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 ...

. * Flight Lieutenant Leslie Gerald Fowler – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Acting Squadron Leader Garth Reginald Gunn – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Plimmerton The suburb of Plimmerton lies in the northwest part of the city of Porirua in New Zealand, adjacent to some of the city's more congenial beaches. State Highway 59 and the North Island Main Trunk railway line pass just east of the main shopping an ...

. * Temporary Lieutenant Douglas Leonard Hazard – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve; of Hamilton. * Flying Officer Cyril John Hector – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Runanga. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Desmond George Geddes Horgan – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Francis William Kilgour – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Flying Officer Wallace James Marr – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Lieutenant Patrick Stewart McBride – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Colville. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Cyril William McCardle – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Martinborough Martinborough ( mi, Wharekaka) is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington region of New Zealand. It is 65 kilometres east of Wellington and 35 kilometres south-west of Masterton. The town has a resident population of The town ...

. * Flight Lieutenant William McDowall – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Taupiri Taupiri is a small town of about 500 people on the eastern bank of the Waikato River in the Waikato District of New Zealand. It is overlooked by Taupiri mountain, the sacred burial ground for the Waikato tribes of the Māori people, located ju ...

. * Temporary Lieutenant Roderick Thomas McIndoe – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve; of Wanganui. * Acting Wing Commander Hayden Hugh James Miller – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Morrinsville Morrinsville is a provincial town in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island, with an estimated population of as of The town is located at the northern base of the Pakaroa Range, and on the south-western fringe of the Hauraki Plains. ...

. * Flight Sergeant Michael Redmond Murphy – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Christchurch. * Leading Aircraftman William John Murphy – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Percival Fyans Neill – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Mount Somers Mount Somers ( mi, Te Kiekie) is a small town in Canterbury, New Zealand, nestled in the foothills of the Southern Alps. The population in the 2001 census was 2,307. Due to its scenic location, it has seen growth in the number of holiday homes ...

. * Acting Squadron Leader Charles Fray Ormerod – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Gisborne. * Flight Lieutenant Ross Charles Sayers – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Cambridge. * Flight Lieutenant William John Robert Scollay – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Acting Squadron Leader Denis John Thomas Sharp – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Nelson Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...

. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Smith – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Flying Officer Maxwell Tovey – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Plimmerton. * Flight Lieutenant John Spencer Watson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Auckland. * Temporary Lieutenant Kenneth Howden Webb – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve; of Wellington. * Flying Officer James Stewart Wilkinson – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of Wellington. * Flight Lieutenant Stamford Seaton Williams – Royal New Zealand Air Force; of

Orini Orini is a rural community in the Waikato District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located east of Taupiri Orini is centred around a community hall which was opened in 1913, which was rebuilt in 1937 following a fire. It als ...

. * Lieutenant Howard Thomas Arthur Winnall –

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

; of Auckland.

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