United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Order of the Crown of India
* Her Royal Highness PrincessBaron
* Reginald Douglas Crook. For political and public services. * Frederick Montague, , Member of Parliament for West Islington, 1923–31, and since 1935. ParliamentaryPrivy Councillor
* Sir (William) Norman Birkett, (The Hon. Mr. Justice Birkett), a Justice of theKnight Bachelor
* John Smith Boyd, Permanent Vice-President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation. * Captain Sidney William Clift. For public services in Birmingham and the Midlands. * John Samuel Dodd, Past President of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce. * William Norwood East, . For services to the study of criminal psychology. *Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
;Military Division * Admiral Sir Algernon Usborne Willis, , Royal Navy. * General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, (936), late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). * General Sir Daril Gerard Watson, (9758), late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. ;Civil Division * Sir Archibald Rowlands, , Permanent Secretary,Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Surgeon Vice-Admiral Henry St. Clair Colson, . * Vice-Admiral Wilfred Rupert Patterson, . * Vice-Admiral SirCompanion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear-Admiral Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, . * Rear-Admiral Hugh Turnour England, , (Retired). * Rear-Admiral Gervase Boswell Middleton, . * Rear-Admiral (E) Charles Hepworth Nicholson, . * Rear-Admiral Reginald Maxwell Servaes, . * Rear-Admiral Guy Langton Warren (Retired). * The Venerable ArchdeaconOrder of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)
* Colonel His Highness Maharaja Shri Sir Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji, Digvijaysinhji, , Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar State, Nawanagar.Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)
* Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, ,Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)
* James Philip Mills, , Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor for Tribal Areas and States, Shillong, Assam. * Henry Stuart Bates, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces (1937–50), United Provinces. * Brigadier Brian Palliser Tiegue O'Brien, , (IA.273), Indian Army, Director of Intelligence, General Headquarters, India. * Walter Graham Lacey, , Indian Civil Service, Divisional Commissioner, Bihar. * Robert McIntosh, , Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (General, Buildings and Defence), Madras. * Victor Kennard Maitland, , Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces and Berar.Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
* The Honourable Sir James Mitchell (Australian politician), James Mitchell, , Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Western Australia. * Major-General Sir Hubert Huddleston, Hubert Jervoise Huddleston, , until recently List of governors of pre-independence Sudan, Governor-General of the Sudan.Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
* Richard Gordon Munro, , Representative of HM Treasury in Washington. * Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, , Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Germany, and Deputy Military Governor. * The Honourable Sir John Waters Kirwan, , lately President of the Western Australian Legislative Council, President of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia. * Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw, , List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad. * Sydney Caine, , a Joint Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. * Nevile Butler, Nevile Montagu Butler, , an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office. * Cecil Bertrand Jerram, , List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stockholm. * Henry Mack, William Henry Bradshaw Mack, , List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Austria, United Kingdom Political Representative to the Austrian Government.Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
* Reginald Albert Furness. For services with the British Food Mission in Washington. * Hubert George Gee, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Raymond Newton Kershaw, Adviser to the Bank of England. * The Honourable John Gilbert Simon, lately Shipping Adviser, Ministry of Transport. * Frederick William Smith. For services as Director-General of Building Materials, Ministry of Works. * Roger Stevens (diplomat), Roger Bentham Stevens. For services as Head of the British Secretariat, Washington, (now Counsellor, Foreign Office). * Colonel Philip Graham Stock, , Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. * Jack Pickering Cartledge, Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman, State of South Australia. * The Honourable Charles Culley, Charles Ernest Culley, a Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly, and lately Chief Secretary and Minister for Transport, State of Tasmania. * Russell William Thornton, , Agricultural Adviser to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and Director of the Native Land Settlement Department, Swaziland. * Sydney Stubbs, lately a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of the State of Western Australia. * Robert Watson, , Director of Agriculture, Burma. * Robert Arundell, Robert Duncan Harris Arundell, Colonial Administrative Service, Resident British Member, Caribbean Commission, Washington. * Henry Basten, Chairman and General Manager, Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards. * Velupillai Coomaraswamy, Colonial Administrative Service, Government Agent, Western Province, Ceylon. * Roger Alastair McLaren Davidson, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Nigeria. * Christopher William Dawson, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Sarawak. * Christopher Eastwood, Christopher Gilbert Eastwood, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. * Ronald Garvey, Ronald Herbert Garvey, , Colonial Administrative Service, List of colonial governors and administrators of Saint Vincent, Administrator, St. Vincent, Windward Islands. * John Cloudesley Mundy, Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Kenya, and Commissioner of Income Tax, East Africa. * John Rankine (governor), John Dalzell Rankine, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Barbados. * Douglas William Robertson, , Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for African Affairs, Uganda. * The Honourable Edwin Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel, Edwin Herbert Samuel, Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Broadcasting, Palestine. * Major Clarence Roy Turner, lately General Manager of the Gold Coast Railway. * Patrick Henry Dean, Head of the German Department of the Foreign Office. * Guy Francis Foley, , formerly Director of the Department of Economics and Trade, Sudan Government. * Harold Charles Lehrs Gibson, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office. * Hubert Ashton Graves, , Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington. * Paul Mason (diplomat), Paul Mason, Head of the United Nations (Political) Department of the Foreign Office. * Sir Andrew Napier Noble, , until recently Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Buenos Aires. * Alexander Swinton Paterson, , Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments abroad. * Denis Hubert Fletcher Rickett, Assistant Secretary, Offices of the Cabinet. * Leslie Robert Sherwood, , Head of the Finance Department of the Foreign Office. * Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger, until recently Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Nanking. ;Honorary Companion * H.H. Tunku Yacob Bin Sultan Abdul Hamid, State Agricultural Officer, Kedah, Malayan Union.Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)
* Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Rajindra Prakash, Bahadur, Maharaja of Sirmur State, Sirmur. * The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, , Indian Political Service, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. * George Abell (civil servant), George Edmond Brackenbury Abell, ,Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
* Noel Kennedy Paterson, , Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. * Charles Beresford Duke, , Indian Political Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department. * Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Joseph Edward Hirst, , lately Chairman, Post-War Accommodation, Scales and Standards Committee, General Headquarters, India. * Arthur George Hall, , General Manager, North Western Railway (British India), North-Western Railway, Lahore. * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) (IA.594) Robert Charles Herron, , Indian Army Corps of EME, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Brigadier IEME, Northern Command (India), Northern Command, India. * Hugh Beresford Kidd, Indian Imperial Police, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bombay. * Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Gordon Heriot de la Fargue, Indian Political Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the North-West Frontier Province (1901–55), North-West Frontier Province. * Idris Wyn Lewys-Lloyd, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces (1937–50), United Provinces. * Kenneth Valentine Freeland Morton, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Electricity and Industries Departments. * Francis Ernest Alfred Taylor, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Revenue Department. * Herbert Gwyther Bartley, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Assam. * William Geoffrey Dyson, , Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Madras. * Francis Theodore Castells, Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer, Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Calcutta. * Colonel Lloyd Kirwood Ledger, , Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals and Director of Public Health,Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
* The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, . * Admiral Sir Dudley North (Royal Navy officer), Dudley Burton Napier North, .Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)
* The Right Honourable Beatrice Mildred Edith, Baroness Harlech.Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
* Sir Hugh Lett, . * Admiral Sir Aubrey Smith (Royal Navy officer), Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith, . * Surgeon Rear-Admiral Henry Ellis Yeo White, . * Rear-Admiral William Gladstone Agnew, .Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
* Lady Delia Adelaide Margaret Peel. * Anthony Frederick Blunt. * George Edward Fenton King, . * Commander the Honourable Humphry Legge, , Royal Navy (Retired). * Geoffrey Sydney Todd, . * Wing Commander Peter Townsend (RAF officer), Peter Wooldridge Townsend, , Royal Air Force. * Major John Lamplugh Wickham, . * Commander William John Lamb, , Royal Navy.Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)
* Lieutenant-Commander Peter Ashmore, Peter William Beckwith Ashmore, , Royal Navy. * Captain William Albemarle Fellowes. * Charles Frederic Glenny, * Benedict Nicolson, Lionel Benedict Nicolson * Commander (E) Lancelot Arthur Babington Peile, , Royal Navy. * Commander (S) Keith Leslie Dunn, Royal Navy. * Lieutenant-Commander Ian Greynvile Steel, Royal Navy. * Major Vivian Dunn, Francis Vivian Dunn, , Royal Marines. * Major Reginald Carteret de Mussenden Leathes, Royal Marines. * Acting Wing Commander Ernest William Tacon, , (36196), Royal Air Force.Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)
* Albert Hugh Buckland, * Harry Vincent Ireson, * Mr. Frederick William Pardy, Warrant Catering Officer, Royal Navy. * Sub-Lieutenant James Duncan Gordon Davidson, Royal Navy. * Mr. Horace Benjamin Banford, Commissioned Boatswain, Royal Navy. * Acting Squadron Leader Harold Frederick Payne, , (46171), Royal Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader Harold Wright (83613), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Arthur Knapper, , (51842), Royal Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant George Alexander Pearson (46106), Royal Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Lewis George Alfred Reed, , (49333), Royal Air Force.Order of the British Empire
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
;Civil Division * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, . For services to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
;Military Division * Matilda Goodrich, , Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. ;Civil Division * Evelyn Fox, Evelyn Emily Marian Fox, . For services to mental health. * Caroline Haslett, . For services to the Board of Trade and the Ministry of Labour. * Emmeline Mary Tanner, lately Headmistress of Roedean School. For services to education.Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
;Military Division * Lieutenant-General Ivor Thomas (British Army officer), Gwilym Ivor Thomas, , (1374), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-General (Acting) Ernest Wood (Indian Army officer), Ernest Wood, , Quartermaster General in India. * Air Vice-Marshal William Cushion, William Boston Cushion, , Royal Air Force (Retired). ;Civil Division * William Castle Cleary, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Education. * George Henry Henderson, , Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. * George David Roseway, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, War Office. * Harold Herbert Wiles, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * The Honourable Cecil James Henry Campbell, , Managing Director, Marconi Radio Telegraph Company of Egypt. * Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Jedda. * Sir Harry Harrison Burn, Imperial Chemical Industries, Calcutta, Bengal. * Ralph Thompson Stoneham, Government Projects Financial Representative. * George Ritchie Sandford, , Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, East African Governor's Conference.Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * The Reverend Alexander Campsie, , Chaplain. * Engineer Captain Colin John Gray, , (Retired). * Temporary Surgeon Captain Robert Gregory Henderson, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Captain Francis Deschamps Howie, . * Captain (S) William McBride, . * Colonel Raymond Humphrey Quill, , Royal Marines. ;;Army * Brigadier (temporary) Alec Pendock Aveline, , (13790), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). * Colonel (acting) Samuel Leslie Bibby, , (272469), Army Cadet Force. * Brigadier (temporary) George Vallette Britten, , (44031), The Northamptonshire Regiment. * Brigadier (temporary) James Rupert Cochrane (33328), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (temporary) Basil Goodenough Cox, , (13142), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Brigadier (temporary) Kilner Rupert Brazier-Creagh, , (44007), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (temporary) Cyril Edwin Harold Dolphin (30838), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. * Major-General (local) Ian Erskine, Ian David Erskine, , (15319), late Scots Guards. * Colonel (temporary) Herbert Leslie Graham, , (6853), Scots Guards. * Major-General (local) Ralph Edgeworth-Johnstone (11542), Reserve of Officers, late The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. * Brigadier (temporary) Ralph Emerson Pickering (15187), The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). * Brigadier (temporary) Leslie Frederic Ethelbert Wieler (12759), The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. * Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham, , Commander, Force 401, Iraq. ;;Royal Air Force * Acting Air Commodore Adolphus Dan Davies. * Group Captain John Messurier Cohu. * Group Captain Frederick Arthur Norton. * Group Captain Geoffrey Charles Stemp. * Acting Group Captain Harold Edmund Cardwell, . * Acting Group Captain Thomas George Gait Hutchinson. ;Civil Division * William Aston, Chairman, Denbighshire Education Committee. * George Henry Bagnall, General Secretary, National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers. * John Everett Creighton Bailey, Managing Director, Baird and Tatlock, Ltd. * Roland Auriol Barker, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works. * Geoffrey George Barnes, lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food. * Samuel Leslie George Beaufoy, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning. * Cadet Colonel Lancelot William Bennett, . For services to the Army Cadet Force. * Cecil Bentham, , Engineering Consultant to the Admiralty. * Robert Hugh Bindloss, , Executive Director, National Service Hostels Corporation Ltd. * William Newton Booth, , Chief Mechanical Engineer and Superintendent of Building Works, Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich. * Leslie Ripley Bradley, , Director, Imperial War Museum. * Gerald Burdon Brown, Director of Education for Cumberland. * George Lindor Brown, . For services to medical research in the Royal Navy. * Oscar Frank Brown, Assistant Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. * Eric Cartwright, Chairman of the Weaving Advisory Committee, Cotton Board. * Thomas Chadwick, , Accountant, HM Treasury. * Alderman Charles Borthwick Chartres, , Vice-Chairman of the Agricultural Machinery Development Board. * Tom Peach Colclough, . For services to the Ministry of Supply. * Ernest Benjamin Cook, Adviser on Shipping Values to the Ministry of War Transport. * Henry Anstey Cookson, . For public services in the County of Durham. * Captain William Harry Coombs, President, Officers (Merchant Navy) Federation Ltd. * Cyril Russell Dashwood, , Chief Accountant, Great Western Railway Company. * James Llefelys Davies, Assistant General Manager, Milk Marketing Board. * Jesse Cooper Dawes, , Director of Salvage and Recovery, Board of Trade. * John Carmichael Denholm, Director, Denholm Group, J. and J. Denholm, Ltd. * Frank Dobson (sculptor), Frank Dobson, , Sculptor. * Francis Edmond, Member, Safety in Mines Research Board. * Geoffrey Eley, Geoffrey Cecil Ryves Eley, Director of Overseas Disposals, Ministry of Supply. * Hubert Moore Fairweather, . For services to building construction. * Leslie William Farrow, , Chairman of the National Brick Advisory Council. * John Scott Ferrier, Flax Controller, Board of Trade. * Ernest Wensley Lapthorn Field, , Director, North West EEF (manufacturers' association), Engineering Trades Employers' Association. * Eric Wilfred Fish, , Dental Surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, London. * William Thomas Fitzgerald, lately Chief Inspector, Ministry of National Insurance. * John Henry Gunlake, , lately Assistant Statistical Adviser, Ministry of Transport. * James Andrew Gunn, , Chairman, British Pharmacopoeia Commission. * Dorothy Margaret Hammonds, Chief Inspector, Ministry of Education. * Thomas Mimes Harbottle, , Chairman, Local Price Regulation Committee, Northern Region, Board of Trade. * Archibald Frederick Harrison, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Frank Wyndham Hirst, , Joint Assistant Public Trustee. * Henry Weston Howard, Chairman of the Eastern Regional Board for Industry. * Samuel Thompson Irwin, , Chairman, Northern Ireland Medical War Committee. * Robert Ponton Kerr, , Command Secretary, Eastern Command, War Office. * Arthur Stanley King, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply. * Alderman Bertie Victor Kirby, , Member of Parliament for the Liverpool Everton (UK Parliament constituency), Everton Division of Liverpool since 1935. For political and public services. * Harold Lister Kirke, , Head of the Research Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Sydney Laskey, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education. * Arthur George Lee. For services to the Ministry of National Insurance. * Alderman Walter Samuel Lewis, . For public services in Birmingham. * James Robert Lumsden, , Chairman of Directors, Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. * John McCaughey, , Chairman, Belfast Harbour Board. * George Rettie McIntosh, Member of Aberdeen Town Council. * John McLean, Member of the Ministry of Labour Committee on Training for Business Administration. * Charles Walden Kirkpatrick MacMullan, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Rowland Nicholas, , City Surveyor and Engineer, Manchester. * Arthur Trevor Nichols, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. * Lieutenant-Colonel Sholto Stuart Ogilvie, , Lately Joint Manager, National Gas Council of Great Britain and Ireland. * John Augustus Oriel, , General Manager of the Shell Oil Company, Shell Refining and Marketing Company Ltd. * Leslie Walter Phillips, Controller of Storage and Transport, Ministry of Food. * Charles Russell Pledger, , Clerk to the Special Commissioners of Income Tax, Board of Inland Revenue. * Frank Waller Rattenbury, , Adviser on Hospital Finance and Business, Ministry of Health. * Ernest William Reardon, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. * Walter Harpham Rhodes. For services to the Canada Educational Trust. * Francis Noel Roberts, Assistant Secretary, HM Customs and Excise. * Frederick Augustus Secrett, Technical Adviser on Vegetable Production, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * George Frederick Silley, Shipyard Manager, Blackwall Yard, R. and H. Green and Silley Weir, Ltd., London. * Victor William Smith, , Civil Assistant, War Office. * Captain John Christie Stewart, , Chairman of the Executive Committee, Scottish Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Aldwyn Brockway Stokes, , Lately Member, National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled. * Walter Ernest Strudwicke, , Chief Accountant, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Henry Studdy, Chief Constable, West Riding Constabulary. * Lucy Stuart Sutherland. For services to the Lace Industry. Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. * Professor Eric Reginald Pearce Vincent, , lately employed in a Department of the Foreign Office. * Charles Clement Walker, , Director and Chief Engineer, de Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd. * Gilbert Watson, HM Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department. * Margaret Watts, Secretary, Merchant Navy Comforts Service. * Arthur Wells, Controller, Stores Department,Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Acting Captain Thomas Ramsey Beatty, (Retired). * Engineer Commander Francis William Burden, (Retired). * Commander Carey Robert Easten De Jersey, (Retired). * Acting Captain John Victor Findlay. * Captain Reginald John Harland, Master, Royal Fleet Auxiliary. * Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Hunt, Royal Marines. * Commander (S) Stuart Archibald Joliffe. * Marjorie Florence Miller, Superintendent, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Commander (L) Charles Vernon Robinson. * Commander (E) Alfred Broughton Vickery. * Surgeon Commander Edward William Bingham, . ;;Additional Officers * Commander Ronald Etridge Portlock. * Commander Quintin Pascoe Whitford. ;;Army * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Maurice Leopold Adler (53739), The Welch Regiment. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Charles David Bruce, , (35750), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Harold Buckham (65698), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Terence Burrowes, , (44012), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Ordnance Executive Officer) Herbert Ross Cameron (40064), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Alexander Cleghorn, , (48133), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Senior Commander (temporary) (Formerly Chief Commander (temporary)) Mary Colvin, Mary Katherine Rosamund Colvin (192684), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Winder Cusack (318546), General List, African Colonial Forces Section. * Colonel (local) Harold Drury (31686), The East Lancashire Regiment. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Henry Faulk (240703), Intelligence Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert David Finlay (154923), Royal Pioneer Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Walter Michael Graham (27982), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Albert Neville Griffiths (140928), Royal Corps of Signals. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cecil Alexander Tollemache Halliday, , (52954), The Royal Hampshire Regiment. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Thomas Neville Hammond (4055), Army Cadet Force. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Hichens (56296), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Frederick Charles Hitchcock, , (11097), Retired Pay, late The East Surrey Regiment. * Lieutenant-Colonel (now Brigadier (temporary)) Gilbert Daly Holmes, , (12489), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Gerald William Plant Kimm (4384), Royal Army Educational Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) George Alexander Milton Leathem (283163), Army Cadet Force. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Douglas McAndrew, , (46173), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Hubert Charles Mitchell (12210), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Slater Nangle, , (337322), 9th Gurkha Rifles,Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Lieutenant (A) Edgar Grocock. * Temporary Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Lionel Hill. * Instructor Lieutenant-Commander William Douglas Jenkin. * Signal Lieutenant Albert Frank Lamble, (Retired). * Lieutenant (QM) Horace Victor Layers, Royal Marines. * Mr. Emrys Morgan, , Temporary Acting Commissioned Stores Officer. * Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Robert Beechey-Newman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Cecil Albert Payne, Royal Naval Reserve. * Lieutenant (S) Sidney Joe Edward Searle, (Retired). * Lieutenant-Commander (E) John Sowray, (Retired). * Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Cyril Edward Wood, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. ;;Additional Members * Mr. James Victor Thomas Rawlence, Temporary Warrant Engineer. * Lieutenant Paul Francis Christopher Satow. ;;Army * Captain (temporary) Horace Edward Anderson (271947), Royal Army Service Corps. * Major (temporary) Leonard Ernest Andrews (1260139), General List. * Major (Quartermaster) Charles Austen (66933), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major John Colston Babbage, , (75669), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Major (temporary) Arthur Frederick Bacon (134780), The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's). * Major (temporary) Francis Charles Shaw Bayliss (97797), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (Quartermaster) Percy Beard (108432), Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 5820259 Warrant Officer Class I James Chalk, , The Suffolk Regiment. * Major (temporary) George Henry Chambers, , (69065), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (local) Richard Gowen Collins (50936), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). * Major (temporary) Benjamin Walter Cordwell (218882), General List. * Major (temporary) Thomas William Edward Corrigan (328729), Royal Armoured Corps. * No. 1061819 Warrant Officer Class I, Percy Edward Crack, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain (temporary) Michael James Stephen Cubbage (271459), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain (temporary) Gordon Currie (342565), Intelligence Corps. * No. 274897 Warrant Officer Class II, John Alan Dally, Intelligence Corps. * Captain (Quartermaster) Robert Charles Deboice Douglas (294294), Scots Guards. * Captain (Quartermaster) David Dowey (325183), The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. * Senior Commander (temporary) Jean Elizabeth Rivett-Drake (234025), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Captain (temporary) Wilfred John Elms (246868), General List. * Major (temporary) Gerald Fitzgerald (257648), Royal Army Educational Corps. * No. 7076200 Warrant Officer Class I Hugh Patrick Flood, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). * Captain (temporary) Alan Freeman (314256), Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 5379367 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Gibson, , The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). * Major (acting) Alfred William Colder (290993), Army Cadet Force. * Captain (Quartermaster) Alexander Greenwood (248020), Scots Guards. * Major William Tom Harris, , (8916), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). * Captain (temporary) Laurence Charles Hinton (277153), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. 7262521 Warrant Officer Class I Leslie Roy Hitchcock, Royal Army Medical Corps. * No. 7579260 Warrant Officer Class I John Nisbett Hogg, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * No. S/57379 Warrant Officer Class I Douglas Charles Hooker, Royal Army Service Corps. * Major (temporary) William Alexander Howe (130922), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (temporary) Arthur Jacob Howes (199175), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Major John Leslie Jeffree (275659), Army Cadet Force. * Major Richard Keith-Jones, Richard Keith Jones, , (62519), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (temporary) John Paul Kaestlin (162179), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain (Quartermaster) Jack Leach (257171), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. 7685261 Warrant Officer Class I William McEvoy, Corps of Royal Military Police. * No. 2716011 Warrant Officer Class I John McGarrity, Irish Guards. * Major (temporary) Jack Cranstoun Metcalfe (118634), General List. * Junior Commander (temporary) Moyra Miller (257915), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Captain Andrew Frank Barnett Milligan (308440), The Royal Scots Fusiliers. * No. 2587439 Warrant Officer Class I James Milne, Royal Corps of Signals. * Major (Quartermaster) Walter Patrick Mullane (66309), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant Robert James Pickard (346941), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major (temporary) Edwin Alfred Powe (296829), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major and Paymaster (temporary Staff Paymaster 2nd class) Francis Henry Vivian Purcell (36755), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Major (temporary) John Andrew Rankin (1151238), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (Quartermaster) Percy Rowden (67486), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant Brian Annesley Seaward (295564), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major Eldred George Shales (260637), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Major (temporary) John Gerald Shenstone (79744), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (temporary) Henry George Bobs Styran (131580), Reserve of Officers, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. * Major (temporary) Norman Arthur Taylor (148670), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain (temporary) Albert Kenneth Wallis (130827), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). * Major (temporary) Cyril Joseph Wilson (133180), Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 7607826 Warrant Officer Class I Frank Winterbottom, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Major and Staff Paymaster 2nd Class Arthur Wood (98014), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Conductor Stuart James Gebbie, Indian Army Corps of Clerks. * War Substantive Major Percy Frank Ray, Royal Indian Engineers. * War Substantive Captain (Temporary Major) Leonard Charles Kennedy, Indian Army Corps of Clerks. * Major Francis John Bayman, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Assistant Paymaster Kaimakam Diran Bodossian, Transjordan Frontier Force. * Captain George Noel de St. Croix, Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps. * Regimental Sergeant-Major Cecil John Fooks, Officer Commanding, Police Training School, Hong Kong. ;;Royal Air Force * Acting Wing Commander Alec Knowles Fitton (67817), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Wing Commander Peter Robert Gibson Lynch (49976). * Squadron Leader Charles Warren, , (33482). * Acting Squadron Leader Stanley Herbert Brown (107554), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader Eric John Furlong, , (118833), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader Harold Charles Room (62411), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader Ernest Henry White (46036). * Flight Lieutenant Percival Philip Burton (47372). * Flight Lieutenant William Heaton (50870). * Flight Lieutenant John Norman King Le Fleming-Shepherd (77497), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant James Wilson (46973). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Robert Endell Charles Finch (182936), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Flight Lieutenant Alfwyn Peach Verrinder (110002), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer William Thomas Bolster (201112), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Warrant Officer Albert Arrowsmith (590759). * Warrant Officer Martin Curnow Bassett (590170). * Warrant Officer Philip Thomas Cook (516679). * Warrant Officer Cecil Herbert Wellington Hall (591111). * Warrant Officer Philip John Henry Tallamy (366456). * Acting Flight Officer Muriel Fletcher (7648), Women's Auxiliary Air Force. ;Civil Division * George Adams, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Robert Stanley Allen, Honorary Secretary, Luton Rural District Savings Committee. * Harry Aspinall, , Manager, Hemsworth Colliery, Yorkshire. * Harold Nelson Back, Assistant Chief Constable, Surrey. * Ernest Aubrey Bacon, Head of Section, Ministry of Works. * Donald Alan Baird, Chief Designer, Nuffield Mechanizations Ltd., Birmingham. * Alfred Albert Baldwin, Technical Assistant, Ministry of Pensions. * George Harding Barlow, Labour Officer, North Riding War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Mary Ann Barraclough, . For public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. * Marianne Louise Beazley, Secretary of the Women's Land Army for Dorset. * Anne Muriel Wallace Belchem, Commander, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Women's Transport Service); Military Assistant to the Deputy Military Governor, Control Commission for Germany. * William Bell, Superintendent of Signals, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Eliza Jane Boyd, , Chairman, Donaghadee Urban District Council. * Ernest Vincent Brown, President, Local Committee of No's. 1359 and 1360 Squadrons, Air Training Corps. * George Chadwin Brown, Assistant Accountant, HM Treasury (now serving in the Ministry of Defence). * Reginald Smith Brown, Chief Metallurgist, Ryland Bros. Ltd., Warrington. * Thomas Searle Brown, Chief Draughtsman, Clarke Chapman and Company Ltd., Gateshead. * William Charles Brown, Senior Staff Officer, Admiralty. * Lieutenant-Commander (S) William Thomas Brown, Royal Navy (retired). For public services in Gillingham, Kent. * Thelma Mary Bertha Bryan, Director, William Bryan Ltd., London. * Charles Frederick Bulmer, Secretary, Mediterranean Shipping Conference. * Charles Stanley Burleton, Staff Officer, Ministry of Works. * George Parkinson Burns, Senior Chief Clerk, HM Customs and Excise. * Malcolm Wyatt Burt, Manager and Secretary of the Society of British Gas Industries. * Charles Archibald Carter, , Office Keeper, Prime Minister's Office. * Elsie Mary Chalk, Clerical Officer, Dominions Office. * Councillor Elsie Chamberlain, . For public services in Caernarvonshire. * Ronald Chick, Area Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union. * John Turner Clark, Staff Officer, Scottish Education Department. * Arthur Clarke, Chief Railway Inspector, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. * Thomas Clarke, Staff Clerk, Lord Chancellor's Office. * William Joseph Clarke, Senior Staff Officer, Air Ministry. * Alfred Henry Clinch. For services as Senior Shipping Assistant, Ministry of Transport. * Philip Richard Clipsham, Staff Officer, Dominions Office. * James Selwyn Cockcroft, Chairman, Hebden Royd and Hepton Savings Committee. * Gladys Irene Cole, Senior Technical Officer, Board of Trade. * Daisy Eveline Minnie Coleman, lately Superintendent Nurse, the Central Home, Leytonstone. * Francis Norman Colthurst, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland. * William Herbert Counter, Shop Superintendent, H. M. Hobson Components Ltd., Coventry. * Laura Evelyn Crabtree, Postmistress, Wetherby, Yorkshire. * Arnold Leslie Crewe, Staff Assistant, Southern Area, London and North Eastern Railway Company. * Charles Crowfoot, Senior Experimental Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. * Theodore John Culverwell, District Officer, HM Coastguard Station, Walton-on-the-Naze. * John Cunningham, General Manager, Boiler Division, Ruston and Hornsby Ltd., Lincoln. * Robert Alvin Dalzell, Honorary Secretary, Coleraine Local Savings Committee, Northern Ireland. * Ernest Leonard Davies, Area Manager, South Wales, National Dock Labour Corporation Ltd. * John Davies, Colliery Manager, Lucy Thomas Drift, Merthyr Tydfil. * Nora Bryan Deane, Matron, Bristol Maternity Hospital. * James Spencer Devey, , Chairman of the Local Employment Committee, Luton. * Major David Devine, , Honorary Treasurer, Enniskillen Savings Group, Northern Ireland. * James Dickinson, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Preston Comforts Fund. * Alan James Dingley, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Lottie Dixon. For services to the Street Group Savings movement in South Lancashire. * William Duffy, , District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * William Eames. For services as Press Officer, Wales Region, Central Office of Information. * Ernest Edwards, Staff Officer, General Post Office. * Marion Ellice, Member of the Agricultural Executive Committee for Inverness (Mainland) and Nairn. * Henry Wilfred Emerton, Secretary to the Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Devonport. * Arthur Ernest England, Chief of the Engine Working Section, Traffic Department, Waterloo, Southern Railway Company. * Albert Entwistle, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Robert Pughe Evans, Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factory, Bishopton. * John Stuart Everett, Senior Civilian Technical Officer, War Office. * Sydney Ernest Fairlie, Works Superintendent, Sir W. G. Armstrong-Whirworth Aircraft Ltd. * Thomas Fallon, , Superintendent, Thames Division, Metropolitan Police. * Grace Isabel Acheson Faris, Headmistress, Victoria College, Belfast. * Major Richard Alexander Fawcett, , Army Welfare Officer, Bradford Area. * Henry Thomas Ferrier. For services in connection with Mobile Miniature Mass Radiography Units. * Arthur Henry George Field, Assistant Engineer, Cardiff Telephone Area, General Post Office. * John Finn, , Chief Assistant Engineer, Witham and Steeping Rivers Catchment Board. * Captain Charles Arthur Freer Fowke, , Poultry Area Organiser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Robert Charles Frederick, , Adviser on Applied Hygiene to the Medical Director-General of the Navy. * Cecil Richard Fright, Telephone Manager, Reading, General Post Office. * John Gaffney, Local Fuel Overseer, Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District Council. * Amy Gambier, lately Matron, Graylingwell Mental Hospital, Sussex. * George Gardner, , Headmaster, The Kibble Approved School, Paisley. * Violet Muriel Garner, Senior Woman Officer, No. 8 (Wales) Region, National Fire Service. * Wilfred Charles Gaskin, Assistant Secretary, British European Airways Corporation. * Margaret Efanwy George, Regional Organiser for Wales, Women's Voluntary Services. * Alderman William George, Member of Monmouth War Agricultural Executive Committee. * John Gibson, , Secretary and Superintendent, Preston and County of Lancaster Royal Infirmary. * Leonard George Goddard, Divisional Surveyor, Hampshire County Council. * Herbert Goodier, , Secretary, Apparel Manufacturers' Association. * George Edward Goodman, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * David Nisbet Gray, Senior Chief Superintendent and Inspector, Mercantile Marine Office Service', Ministry of Transport. * Arthur John Green, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Kenneth Cyril Henry Greene, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Marion Janet Greeves, Chairman and Organiser, St. John Ambulance Brigade Depot for Hospital Supplies and Forces Comforts, Portadown. * Cyril Sidney Willis Grice, Scientific Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * George Llewhellin Griffiths, Divisional Maintenance Engineer (Scottish Division), British European Airways Corporation. * Major Francis Boys Grinham, Senior Horticultural Officer, Imperial War Graves Commission. * Ida Mary Groves, Vocational Guidance Officer, Kent County Council. * Hilda Guest, Third Class Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Edith Miranda Gwyer, employed in a Department of the Foreign Office. * James Hall, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Roxburghshire Constabulary. * Harold Edgar Hammett, Chief Enforcement Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * Ethel Hanley, , Chairman, Widnes Probation Committee. * Loris Christian Hansen, Group Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union. * Charles Espin Hardwick, lately Chairman, No. 157 (Central Birmingham) Squadron Committee, Air Training Corps. * George Cuthbert Hardy, Surveyor and Engineer, Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council. * James Harper. For services to the Belfast Mental Hospital Authority. * George William Harris, Staff Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Ernest Charles Hart, Staff Officer, HM Customs and Excise. * Cecil Oscar Haven, Head of Section, Foreign Office. * James William Heap, Lately Materials Inspector, North of England, Southern Railway Company. * William Henry Hellmuth, Higher Clerical Officer, General Post Office. * Annie Elizabeth Helme, , Chairman, Lancaster Local Employment Committee. * William John Hepburn, Parks Superintendent, Hampton Court Palace, Ministry of Works. * Frederick George Hewitt, Station Master, St. Pancras, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * James Hicks, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Alderman William Augustus Hillier, , President, Eton and District Savings Committee. * Sidney Charles Hills, Area Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union. * Edward Henry Treffry Hoblyn, , Secretary, British Chemical Plant Manufacturers' Association. * Gertrude Florence Hole, Headmistress, London County Council North Hackney Secondary School. * Thomas Alfred Hole, Milk Inspector. Ministry of Health. * John Henry Holme, Manager, Wigan Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Frederick Richard Davies Horn, Deputy Superintendent, Northern Area Branch, HM Stationery Office. * Agatha Mary Hosking, Honorary Secretary, Warwickshire, Incorporated Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's Help Society. * Merle Frances Houghton, Assistant Administrator for London, Women's Voluntary Services. * George Edward Charles Howes, Chief Designer, Fire Control Apparatus, R. W. Crabtree and Sons, Ltd., Leeds. * William Hudson, Divisional Chief Engineer, South Eastern Division, National Coal Board. * Joseph Hunter, Under-manager, Old Meadows Colliery, Bacup. * Robert Gladstone Hunter, Secretary, Northern Road Transport Owners Association, Ltd. * Ethel Hutchings, , Matron, Ministry of Pensions Hospital. Musgrove Park, Taunton. * Ernest Henry Huxford, Naval Store Officer, Admiralty. * Norman Monk Ince, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Victor Herbert Ingram, Clerk of Accounts, Admiralty Registry, Supreme Court of Judicature. * Isabella Jackson, Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions. * David Jeffreys, Chief Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Martha Ellen Jewers, Chief Quartermaster, National Services Club, Bournemouth. * Arthur Henry Jones, Superintendent of Works, Ministry of Works. * Ivor Hywel Jones, Assistant Regional Controller, Wales, Board of Trade. * James Thomas Jones, Food Executive Officer, Port Talbot, Ministry of Food. * Thomas Duncan Kay, Works Manager, Boase Spinning Company Ltd., Fife. * Sydney Thomas Kelly, Museum Superintendent, Science Museum. * Arthur John Kennedy, Senior Executive Officer, Foreign Office. * John William Kennedy, Chairman, Sailors' Friendly League, British Sailors' Society, Belfast. * Edward Robert Lamburn, Deputy Executive Officer, Warwickshire War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Robert James Layland, Master of Islington Institution, London County Council. * Harry Litherland, Chairman of the Manchester and District Potato Committee. * Kathleen Leah Macaldin, Voluntary Organiser, Empire Services Club, Cairo. * Thomas Anderson McCorkindale, Deputy Fire Force Commander, National Fire Service, Western (No. 2) Area of Scotland. * Thomas Hugh MacDonald, Clerk, Lisburn Urban District Council. * William Alexander Macdonald, Staff Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation. * James Walker McGillivray, Executive Officer to the Kincardineshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Helen Mackay McKenzie, , Research Chemist, Alex. Pine and Sons Ltd., Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire. * Agnes Watson McLeod, Chief Clerk, Telephone Manager's Office, Lancaster, General Post Office. * David Holliday McMath, Traffic Assistant, Leith Docks. * John McMillan, , Shipyard Labour Supply Officer, East of Scotland, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Robert Macpherson, Member, Edinburgh Savings Committee. * Kathleen Muriel Maden, Clerical Officer, Home Office. * Mary Elizabeth Mansell, Secretary of the Women's Land Army for Denbighshire. * David John Marr, Ex-soldier Clerk, War Office. * William Henry Milnes Marsden, , Member, Derby Savings Committee. * Alfred Marsh, County Health Inspector, Essex County Council. * Norman Hubert Mattock, Headmaster, The Shawbury (Approved) School, Birmingham. * James Forrester Millar, President, Stirling Branch of the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association. * Thomas Lowe Millar, Member, Edinburgh Savings Committee. * Edward Cyril Mills, District House Coal Officer, London Region. * Herbert Mobbs, Honorary Machinery Officer, Northamptonshire War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Alderman Basil Monk, , Chairman, Croydon District Production Committee of the London and South Eastern Regional Board for Industry. * James Guthrie Monteath, Governor, HM Prison, Greenock. * The Reverend Francis Benvenoto Monti, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Shepherds Bush, London. * Richard Charles Morris, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary. * Thomas Muir, Division Officer, Ordnance Survey, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Dorothy Stanton Murphy, Administrator, County of London, Women's Voluntary Services. * Joseph William Myers, Manager of Iron and Steel Foundries, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. * Wilfrid Naylor. For services as Assistant Rolling Stock Controller, London and North Eastern Railway Company. * William Newall, District House Coal Officer, Scottish Region. * Frank Newport, Works Manager, Board of Trade Carbide Factory, Kenfig, Glamorganshire. * William Henry Nicholls, Chief Electrical Engineer, Aldershot District, War Office. * William Matthew Noble. For services to the Quaker Educational Settlement in Rhondda. * Fred Knowles Nuttall, Chief Staff Officer, Board of Trade. * David Nye, Manager, White's Cement Works, Kent. * Frederick William Francis Outram, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health. * Clarence Bertram Parkes, , Secretary, West Midland Group on Post War Reconstruction and Planning. * Thomas Reginald Parsons, Staff Officer, Colonial Office. * William Henry Penson, Executive Assistant, London Passenger Transport Board. * Florence Winifred Midwood Dyson Perrins. For services to the Personal Service League in Malvern. * James Robert Phillips, Assistant Administrative Officer, War Office. * Herbert Andrew Pitman, Chief Clerk, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of London. * William Henry Ponsford, lately Unit Controller, Road Haulage Organisation. * Doris Isabel Postle, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Food. * George Stanley Preston, Department Superintendent, Plessey Company Ltd., Ilford. * Joan Treffry Prideaux, Assistant, Prime Minister's Office. * Ingrid Prytz, Secretary, National Camps Corporation. * Leonard Raftery, Chairman, Southwark Committee, Air Training Corps. * Edith Ramsay. For public services in Stepney. * Mary Dorothea Whiting Ramsey, Secretary, National Old People's Welfare Committee of the National Council of Social Service. * George Charles Ransley, Grade I Clerk, Malta, War Office. * John Reddington, Vice-Chairman, Scunthorpe Local Employment Committee. * Joseph Allen Reeves, Local Fuel Overseer, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. * Robert Scott Reid, , Admiralty Surgeon and Agent. * Grace Margery Isabella Reynolds, , Honorary Secretary, Camberley and Frimley Cadet Corps. * John Oswell Morgan Richards, First Class Officer, Wales Regional Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Archibald Alexander Ritchie, General Secretary, St. Andrew Order of Ancient Free Gardeners Friendly Society. * Agnes Helena Muriel Roberts, Controller of Typists, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Edward Ernest Roberts, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Mary Silyn Roberts, lately Secretary, North Wales District Workers' Educational Association. * May Kathleen Robins, Staff Clerk, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Frederick Victor Rolfe, Chief Building Inspector, Southern Railway Company. * Edgar Walter Rooksby, Staff Officer, Ministry of Food. * Thomas William Roper, Staff Officer, Assistance Board. * Thomas Henry Rosser, Labour and Welfare Officer, Blackstone Ltd., Stamford, Lincolnshire. * Alderman William George Row, . For public services in Dartmouth. * Phyllis Margaret Rumbold, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Ernest Owen Sadler, Chief Officer, Parks, Cemeteries and Allotments Department, Sheffield. * John Cecil Sheffield. For services to the Civil Defence Association in Edmonton. * Robert Harry Shipway, Victualling Store Officer, Royal Naval Victualling Depot, Sydney. * Councillor Fred Siddall, District Organiser, Amalgamated Engineering Union. * Arthur Abraham Sigsworth, Works Manager, E. Curran Eng. Ltd., Cardiff. * Harry George Ernest Silver, Assistant Chief Inspector, Ministry of Supply. * Dorothy Simpson, Headmistress, The Park Infants School, Doncaster. * John Sloman, Higher Clerical Officer, Air Ministry. * Thomas Roberts Smith, Higher Executive Officer, India Office. * Winifred Mary Smith, Clerical Officer, Office of the Lord President of the Council. * Ethel Isabel Snowden, Honorary Divisional Secretary, Northampton, Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association. * Frank Leslie Burgess Soar, Staff Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Norman Ivor Sparks, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Thomas John Stephenson, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. * Harold Stevens, Honorary Publicity Officer, Sunderland Savings Committee. * Walter Stonex, , Commandant, Salford Special Constabulary. * Edward Walter James Street, Inspector, Class I, Ministry of Supply. * Robert Arthur Strong, Instructor in charge of the Gardening Centre, Saffron Walden. * Dorothy Jean, Viscountess Suirdale, Vice-President, County of London Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Katharine Barclay Tait, Welfare Food Officer, Women's Voluntary Services, Edinburgh. * John Richard Tanner, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Education. * Harry Norman Taylor, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * William Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * William Taylor, lately Unit Controller, Road Haulage Organisation, Buckie. * Thomas Thomas, , Member of the Carmarthen War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Edward Campbell Thomson, Clerk to Traffic Commissioners, Scotland, Ministry of Transport. * Jean Henderson Thomson, Ward Sister, Ashludie Hospital, Ashludie Sanatorium, Monifieth, Angus. * Herbert Toms, United Kingdom Liaison Officer for Labour, Dublin, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Hannah Croft Turnbull, Assistant Matron, Monsall Hospital, Manchester. * James Ronald Turner, Assistant Regional Manager, South Eastern Region, War Damage Commission. * Reginald Foster Turner, Regional Supply Storage Officer, Cardiff, Ministry of Supply. * Frank William Thomas Turness, Staff Officer, Home Office. * Florence Mabel Tutte, Corps Superintendent, Southampton, St. John Ambulance Brigade. * Grace Muriel Tyrrell, Staff Officer, Ministry of Food. * Frederick Grange Umpleby, , Senior Assistant, Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department, Derby, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * Francis Edward Vaughan, Manager of the Distribution Office, Rubber Trade Association. * Henry George Vincent. For services in organising factory concerts in Staffordshire. * Percy Nevill Waddington, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Mary Elizabeth Waiters, Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Works. * Harry Edwin Watson, Staff Officer, Foreign Office. * Laura Mary Emeline Watson, Private Secretary to the President of the Federation of British Industries. * William Brearley Wells, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * William Welsford, Manager, Furniture Factories, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. * Joseph James Went, Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department. * Richard Thomas Weston, Regional Secretary, Northern Counties, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives. * Harry Whitaker, Head of Branch, Tithe Redemption' Commission. * Alfred Sidney White, lately employed in a Department of the Foreign Office. * Thomas Whittaker, Senior Experimental Officer, Air Ministry. * James Wilde, lately Staff Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Mabel Wilkins, Controller of Typists, Board of Trade. * Robert Wilkinson, Assistant Postmaster, Head Post Office, Belfast. * Jack Williams, Personnel Manager, Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., London. * William Ernest Willshaw, , Research Physicist, General Electric Company, Ltd. * Joyce Elizabeth Wilson, lately Senior Assistant, HM Treasury. * John William Yerrell, Secretary, National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Approved Society. * Margaret Elizabeth Barraclough, on the staff of the Special Commissioner in South East Asia. * Arthur Temple Blackwood, formerly British Vice-Consul at Baltimore. * Robert Thomas Blaney, Personal Assistant to the Counsellor (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Bagdad. * Edward Leonard Blundell, on the staff of the Special Commissioner in South East Asia. * Dora Helen Cockburn, Assistant Information Officer at His Majesty's Embassy in Mexico City. * William Edwin Cornish, British Vice-Consul at Milan. * Edwin Nowell Dempster, formerly British Vice-Consul at Rabat, (now His Majesty's Consul at Nantes.) * Major Leslie Bland Dufton, , British Vice-Consul at Houston. * Reverend Josepn William Dunbar, , Chaplain of the British Embassy Church m Pans. * Alexander Gilbert Fenton, Audit Inspector, Sudan Government. * Frank Olov August Henry Finney, Chief Clerk, Commercial Secretariat at His Majesty's Legation in Stockholm. * Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Roland Philip Gale, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office. * Phyllis Josephine Gerson. For services under the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad. * James Ellis Hartley, until recently British Vice-Consul at Lyons, (now serving in Roumania.) * Denise Eileen Lester, British subject resident in Portugal. * Alice Maureen Lowe, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office. * John McKenzie, , Second Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Reykjavik. * William Brice Milton, Third Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Madrid. * Muriel Gladys Nimmo, on the staff of His Majesty's Embassy in Cairo. * William Hamilton Ponton, until recently British Vice-Consul at Bocas del Toro. * Alfred Roberts, until recently Deputy Director of the Information Department of His Majesty's Embassy at Buenos Aires. * Leila Seeley. For services with the (Indian Red Cross in South East Asia. * Christopher Broughton Sharman. For services with the British Red Cross Society in South East Asia. * Walter John Turner, British subject resident in Persia. * Arthur Vivian Waddell, attached to the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service, Singapore. * Miriam Gwyneth Wallis, Assistant Commissioner, the Central European Commission of British Red Cross Society in Austria. * Anthony Claud Woolrych, British subject resident in Denmark. * Doris Jean Bannigan. For social welfare services, especially in connexion with the Legacy Club, in the State of South Australia. * Lily May Collins, employed at Government House, St. John's, Newfoundland, for many years. * Lilian Elizabeth Connolly, a qualified nurse and midwife of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. For services to the coloured community. * Dorothy Lucy Deacon, Staff Matron, Department of Public Health, Southern Rhodesia. * Alphonsus Gregory Duggan, Honorary President, Newfoundland Federation of Labour. * Captain Charles William Duncombe, British South Africa Police. For services in connexion with Their Majesties' visit to Southern Rhodesia. * Stewart Fitz Finnis, Assistant Native Commissioner, Rusapi, Southern Rhodesia. * Thomas William Fraser, Assistant District Officer, Basutoland. * Harold William Groom, Assistant Postmaster, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. * Kathleen Helene Hilfers. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia. * Percy Richard Burt Hinde, Under-Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Lands, and Chairman of the Land Settlement Board, Southern Rhodesia. * James Eric McKee. For services in connexion with patriotic and charitable organisations in the State of South Australia. * Mabel Marryat. For social welfare services to service and ex-servicemen in the State of South Australia. * Jessie Dorothy Morgan, lately an Inspector in the (Department of Education, Southern Rhodesia. * Cecil Reginald Morris, Warden of the Municipality of Kentish, State of Tasmania. * Francis John Petch, a former Chairman of the Loxton District Council, State of South Australia. For voluntary services to local government over many years. * William Charles Quinton, Parliamentary Librarian, State of South Australia. * Captain Ernest William Richens, British South Africa Police. For services in connexion with Their Majesties' visit to Southern Rhodesia. * William Laurence Smith, formerly Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. * Henry William Stone. For services to the shipbuilding industry of Newfoundland. * Marjory McNab Veats. For social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia. * Mabel Gertrude Worrall, a school teacher in Newfoundland for over forty-three years. * Doreen Elphick (wife of Mr. E. de B. Elphick, Agent and Chief Engineer, The Madras Electric Supply Corporation, Limited), Madras. * Nellie Halls, 24588 Welfare Officer (Lieutenant), British Red Cross attached to Indian Red Cross. * Arthur John Bennison, Civilian Voluntary Service, Coimbatore. * Vernon Robert Bowler, Acting Principal Executive Officer, India Store Department, Office of the High Commissioner for India. Major Herbert Collershaw, Executive Engineer, Internal, Calcutta Telephones District, Posts and Telegraphs Department. * William Francis Corfield, Higher Clerical Officer, Accounts Department, Office of the High Commissioner for India, London. * Peter Crombie,Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
* James Bone (journalist), James Bone, lately London Editor of the ''Manchester Guardian''. For services to journalism. * John William Robertson Scott, , Author, Founder and lately Editor of ''Countryman (magazine), The Countryman''.Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)
;Home Civil Service * Arthur Frederick Beal, Senior Regional Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * Henry Francis Clive Bence, Assistant Director of Accounts, Air Ministry. * William Birrell, General Inspector, Department of Health for Scotland. * Harry Cranwell, lately Engineer Surveyor in Chief, Ministry of Transport. * Albert Crossley Dodd, , Senior Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions. * Albert William Douglas, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department. * Arthur Joseph Edwards, , lately Head of the Patent Division, Contract and Purchase Department, Admiralty. * Clyde Bernard Fitzgerald, Senior Staff (Officer, (Department of Scientific land Industrial Research. * George Herbert Flew, Principal Clerk, Public Works Loan Board. * Thomas Gardener, Accountant, Prison Commission. * Herbert Harding, Principal Examiner, Board of Trade. * George William Hearn, Deputy Accountant-General, Ministry of Supply. * Lillian Mary Woodley Hill, lately Principal, (Ministry of Education. * George Howard Jones, , Senior Architect, Ministry of Works. * William Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Food. * Robert Preston Lewin, Waterguard Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. * James Hamilton Logan, Deputy Comptroller of Stamps and Taxes (Scotland), Board of Inland Revenue. * Percy Robert Mellors, Deputy Regional Director, London Postal Region, General Post Office. * Alexander Jardine Morrison, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Arthur Frederick Orchard, , Chief Executive Officer, Foreign Office. * Thomas Reginald Oswin, Accountant and Receiver-General, Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands. * Edith Moorhouse Parker, Assistant Regional Controller, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Arthur Reginald Poole, , Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Charles Romeril de St. Paer, Chief Executive Officer, Assistance Board. * George Thomas Williams, Inspector of Audit, National Insurance Audit Department. ;Dominion Civil Services * Charles Edward Cox, Secretary, Attorney-General's Department, State of Tasmania. * Percival Alfred Driscoll, Secretary, Public Health Department, State of Tasmania. * Charles Frederick Taylor, lately Collector of Customs, Class I, Newfoundland. ;Indian Civil Services * Basil Stanley Eaton Gow, Office Superintendent, Locomotive and Carriage and Wagon Administrative Offices, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Ajmer. * Albert Henry Leamon, Officiating Deputy Director, Communications, Civil Aviation Directorate, Government of India. * Leslie Herbert Spinks, Assistant Secretary to the Honourable the Resident at Hyderabad and Treasury Officer, Hyderabad (Deccan). * Malcolm James Allan Staggs, , Principal Entitlement Officer and Ex-officio Deputy Secretary, Pensions Branch, Defence Department, Government of India. ;Colonial Service * Donald Cormack, Regional Director, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Kenya. * Albert Babbington Ghunney, Assistant Controller of Posts, Gold Coast. * Edward Harding, Assistant Accountant (African), Nigeria. * William Irving Howell, lately Marketing Officer, Nevis, Leeward Islands. * Ephraim Krasnansky, Chief Clerk, District Office, Palestine. * Horace James Mackintosh, Revenue Inspector, Gibraltar. * Joezer Christian Oldfield, Postmaster, Freetown, Sierra Leone. * Charles John Roe, General Secretary, Public Works Department, Hong Kong. * Bryce Otterbein Smith, Controller of Post Office Savings Banks, British Guiana.Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
;In Gold * Sister Mary Elizabeth Aftentranger, Sister Superior, St. Anne's Hospital, Bezwada, Kistna District, Madras. * Carol Jameson, , Vice-Principal, Missionary Medical College for Women, Vellore, North Arcot District, Madras. * The Right Reverend Richard Acland (bishop), Richard Dyke Acland, Bishop of Bombay.British Empire Medal (BEM)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Chief Joiner Jack Caudrey Abraham, P/MX 45760. * Chief Petty Officer Writer (Temporary) Douglas Foch Billing, D/MX 55435. * Chief Petty Officer Steward John Bonnici, E/L 6697. * Company Sergeant Major William James Boobyer, Depot/X-40, Royal Marines. * Petty Officer Wren Writer Mabel Louise Bowman, 2604, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Petty Officer Henry Robert Burlingham, C/JX 146226. * Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Carmelo Camilleri, E/KX 78821. * Chief Petty Officer (Temporary) Frederick Arthur Ching, D/J 109869. * Bandmaster First Class (Acting Quartermaster Sergeant) Albert Edward Collier, R.M.B.2414. * Chief Shipwright Alexander William Davidson, P/MX 50076. * Petty Officer Cook (O) William James Dench, P/MX 51477. * Petty Officer Wren Writer Marjorie Vansittart Dickinson, 20855, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Quartermaster Sergeant Richard James Dixon, PO.X. 1155, Royal Marines. * Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Francis Gallagher, P/MX 45948. * Sergeant Sydney Frank Hills, PO.X.4175, Royal Marines. * Able Seaman (Pensioner) Frederick James Jones, D/J 23900. * Master-at-Arms Roger Henry Le Page, P/MX 47287. * Chief Engineroom Artificer Donald Matheson Macgregor, P/MX 667630. * Chief Petty Officer Writer Reuben John Marshall, C/M 37710. * Master-at-Arms Reginald Arthur Page, DSM, P/MX 667669. * Petty Officer Telegraphist William Henry Parker, P/J 107811. * Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Albert Henry Robertshaw, C/KX 90032. * Stores Chief Petty Officer (Temporary) Stanley Spencer Sims, C/MX 56407. * Chief Petty Officer Fred Spearman, P/J 96701. * Chief Petty Officer Air Mechanic (E) Eric Richard Gordon Boyd Todd, Lee/FX 80046. * Chief Wren Ethel Mildred Walsh, 8117, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic David John White, D/KX 82369. * Acting Petty Officer William Catherall, C/JX.153487. * Acting Yeoman of Signals (Temporary) Maurice John Chandler, D/JX. 152348. * Engine Room Artificer Third Class James Leonard Clark, C/S/MX.4OO. * Petty Officer Benjamin Hennings, P/JX. 128955. * Acting Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic William Salmond, D/KX.81395. ;;Army * No. 3544 Company Sergeant-Major Ahmed Mahomed, Somalia Gendarmerie. * No. GC 13094 Drum-Major Salifu Ali, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. * No. 6216420 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Kenneth Alfred Baldwin, Royal Corps of Signals. * No. 14345583 Sergeant Jack Percy Bishop, Royal Armoured Corps. * No. 14603858 Sergeant Valentine Alexander Botwright, Corps of Royal Military Police. * No. 14752820 Sergeant (acting) Gerald Raymond Burt, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 4689062 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Alexander Charters, Army Catering Corps. * No. 14358254 Sapper Phelim Joseph Dunne, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 14593531 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (now War Substantive Warrant Officer Class II) Peter Willoughby Eberall, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. W/140715 Corporal Amelia Kathleen Elliott, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 14361121 Sergeant Roy Fell, Royal Army Medical Corps. * No. 4533848 Sergeant Francis Goldsmith, The York and Lancaster Regiment. * No. 7597491 Staff-Sergeant William Albert Sydney Goodenough, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * No. S/14678083 Staff-Sergeant Augustus Dale Greenlee, Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 14793183 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Geoffrey Bertram Grey, Intelligence Corps. * No. 3526701 Sergeant George Edward Grogan, Corps of Royal Military Police. * No. 14667331 Staff-Sergeant (acting) William Arthur Heath, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 843006 Staff-Sergeant George Hemsworth, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. 7662163 Sergeant David Douglas Hill, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. 3321739 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Vernon Henry Honey, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. W/105468 Sergeant Evelyn Clifford Hutchison, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 14262252 Sergeant Harry Hyde, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 1877186 Sergeant George Henry Jasper, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 1704606 Staff-Sergeant William Albert George Jeynes, Royal Electrical and (Mechanical Engineers. * No. L/NCA/744 Sergeant Charles Jones, Jamaica Battalion. * No. 14426095 Corporal John Aeron Jones, The iRoyal Welch Fusiliers. * No. S/114803646 Staff-Sergeant Edwin Arthur Lambeth, Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 2651226 Sergeant William Larbey, Coldstream Guards. * No. 828519 Sergeant (acting) Jesse Laskey, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. 6436377 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Kenneth Lincoln, Intelligence Corps. * No. 10575299 Staff-Sergeant Walter Marchant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * No. 14740004 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Edward Murdoch Martin, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * No. W/26410 Sergeant Dorothy Mary (Mathews, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. W/98181 Sergeant Edna Marion Mortimer, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 14308807 Sapper Arnold Parsons, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 2319055 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Albert Price, Royal Corps of Signals. * No. W/5162 Sergeant Winifred Joan Rackham, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. L/SCA/1213 Lance-Sergeant Harold Rampersad, The Trinidad Regiment. * No. 7264213 Sergeant George Ramsay, Royal Army Medical Corps. * No. Dt/5 Warrant Officer Class II, Nusurupia Renatus, Combined School of Infantry, East Africa. * No. 1535514 Sergeant Sam William Richardson, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. S/5676040 Sergeant Douglas Charles Frank Smart, Royal Army Service Corps. * No. SL/9 Warrant Officer Class II, Andrew Tambia, Royal West African Frontier Force. * No. 1657573 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Aubrey Whitfield Tring, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. S/13117496 Staff-Sergeant Bruce John Ward, Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 2030413 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Edward Webber, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. W/16650 Staff-Sergeant Audrey Noel Wilks, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 14340199 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Sydney Wood, Royal Army Ordnance Carps. * No. NA/25802 Warrant Officer Class I, Ramadu Yerwa, Royal West African Frontier Force. * No. 7591019 Staff-Sergeant Anthony Zammit, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. ;;Royal Air Force * 529957 Flight Sergeant Cyril John Baynham. * 1100487 Flight Sergeant Edric Grenville Clapton, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 638227 Flight Sergeant Myles Alban Coles. * 513104 Flight Sergeant Edmund John Edwards. * 356777 Flight Sergeant Harold Knight. * 370702 Flight Sergeant Samuel Arthur Scoggins. * 638423 Flight Sergeant James Alec Sharples. * 567274 Flight Sergeant William Thomas Watson. * 75336 Acting Flight Sergeant Albert Thomas Boxall. * 771529 Acting Flight Sergeant Maurice Francis Moore Flynn, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 515973 Acting Flight Sergeant Frederick Wilfred Smith. * 574080 Sergeant Derrick George William Eeles. * 637228 Sergeant Gordon Joseph Farrelly. * 1052914 Sergeant Fred Mitchell, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 552317 Acting Sergeant, Archibald Gardyne Coomber. * 1578879 Corporal Maurice Herbert Bendell, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 577684 Corporal Kenneth Jones. * 576761 Corporal Kenneth Loughran. * 1494543 Corporal Leonard Rimmington, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 1717024 Corporal Denis Alfred Shadwell, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 1698060 Corporal Frank Suddaby, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 544925 Leading Aircraftman John Seward. * 892036 Flight Sergeant Margaret Bowen, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 420348 Flight Sergeant Lauretta Kerr, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 896581 Flight Sergeant Christina Jessie Rose, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 436887 Acting Flight Sergeant Dillys Elaine Jenkins, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 438498 Sergeant Gladys Jean Baker, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 883973 Sergeant Constance Williams, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 490714 Corporal Sheila Clenaghan, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 2107984 Corporal Eileen Marie Louise Roberts, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. ;Civil Division * Matthew Abernethy, Foreman Tenter, Falls Flax Spinning Company Ltd., Belfast. * Katherine Orme Alexander, Member, Women's Land Army, West Sussex. * Robert Stephen Allan, Police Sergeant, Ayr County Police Force. * Albert Oliver Allen, Deputy Chief Warehouse Supervisor, HM Stationery Office. * Joseph Allison, Inspector, Head Post Office, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. * James Adam Anning, , Plumber, Pearn Bros, Plymouth. * Sidney Barnard, Foreman of Trades, No. 3 Maintenance Unit, RAF Milton, Berkshire. * Gladys Marion Barnes, Assistant Group Officer, No. 39 (Swindon) Fire Force, National Fire Service. * Joan Bartlett, Member, Women's Land Army, Coombe Keynes, Wareham. * Francis John Bean, Laboratory Assistant, Ministry of Supply. * James Bentley, Chief Petty Officer, Bridgend and Porthcawl Sea Cadet Corps. * George Harry Beyer, Night Supervisor, Higher Grade, Gerrard Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. * Arthur John Bishop, Acting First Class Draughtsman, Admiralty. * Sidney Blake, Foreman, Regents Park, Ministry of Works. * Arthur John Blowers, , Divisional Chief Inspector, Air Ministry Constabulary. * John Blundell, District Inspector, Trams and Trolleybuses, London Passenger Transport Board. * John Bowen, Stoneman, Ashington Colliery, Northumberland. * Abraham Bradburn, Roadway Maintenance Man, Moss Colliery, Lancashire. * Samson Broad, Chief Passenger Yard Inspector, Great Western Railway Company. * William Burton, Brigadesman, Sunderland Volunteer Life Brigade. * Beatrice Annie Cain, Member, Women's Land Army, Mickleover Mental Hospital Estate, Derbyshire. * Albert Victor Campbell, Postman, London Parcel Section. * Michael James Carr, lately Collier, Astley Green Colliery, Lancashire. * Thomas Walter Castledine, Receiving Foreman, Ministry of Supply Inspectorate of Electrical & Mechanical Equipment, Chislehurst. * James Cessford, Foreman, Bruce Peebles & Company Ltd., Edinburgh. * Joseph Burdis Chapman, Depot Storeholder, Ministry of Supply Depot, Leeds. * James Andrew Chappell, Shop Foreman, Signals Development Unit, RAF West Drayton, Middlesex. * William Drake Chapple, Sub-Postmaster, Allerford, Minehead, Somerset. * Marjorie Ethel Cheston, Member, Women's Land Army, Bunny, Nottinghamshire. * Walter Chevalier, Chargeman Labourer, King's Cross, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * Hannah Coleby, Exchange Attendant, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Blundeston, Lowestoft. * Alfred James Cordell, Chief Foreman (Sawmill), Southern Railway Company, Eastleigh. * Percy Corden, Coal Getter, Newstead Colliery Nottingham. * Lenora Cornish, Assistant Stock Controller, A. V. Roe & Company Ltd., Manchester. * Percy Frederick Coward, Temporary Engineering Assistant, Ministry of Works. * Harold Neville Cracknell, Maintenance Engineer, West Riding County General Hospital, Otley. * Hugh Norman Cummings, Principal Technical Foreman, No. 35 Maintenance Unit, RAF Heywood. * John Daley, Surface Worker, Dinnington Colliery, Northumberland. * John Alfred Dash, Established Chargeman of Shipwrights, HM Dockyard, Devonport. * Charles John Davis, Telegraph Inspector, Barking, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * Ernest Reginald Dawkes, Acting Inspector of Engine Fitters, HM Dockyard, Rosyth. * Charles Dawson, Shell Plater, Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. * Hugh Dawson, Assistant Storekeeper and Ambulance Man, Clock Face Colliery, Lancashire. * William Henry Deane, Chief Draughtsman, Cocksedge & Company Ltd., Ipswich. * George William Dillaway, Chief Street Group Collector, Abertillery Savings Committee. * Sydney James Docking, Manager, NAAFI Canteen, Chilwell. * Robert Douglas, Leading Fireman, Western (No. 2) Area of Scotland, National Fire Service. * Thomas Dowell, Coal and Stone Header, Cadley Hill Colliery, Midway. * Matthew Duffy, Grade 4 Supervisor, Control Commission for Germany. * Thomas Duncan, Bottomer, Polkemmet Colliery, Scotland. * Thomas Henry Dwyer, Area Inspector, Traffic Department, Orpington, Southern Railway Company. * Albert Eaton, Principal Artificer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. * Ernest Ede, Slaughtering Contractor, Guildford. * William Henry Fall, Skilled Workman, Class I, Post Office Telephones, Cambridge. * Thomas Leslie Fenwick, Foreman, Nitric Acid Plant, Billingham. * Joseph Finch, Surface Hand, Moorfield Colliery, Lancashire. * Ernest Walter Flint, Barrack Warden, Carlisle Barracks, Cumberland. * John Garland, Revolution Press Cutter, North British Rubber Company Ltd., Edinburgh. * Harriet Geddes, Machine Tender, Henry Boase & Company Ltd., Dundee. * George Howarth Gent, Mill Engineer, Yates Duxbury & Sons Ltd., Bury. * Tessa Bernadine Graham, Member, Women's Land Army, Clarbeston, Pembrokeshire. * William Graham, lately Underground Pump Attendant, Carnbroe Colliery, Lanarkshire. * Arthur Henry Grainger, Mechanical and Electrical Chargehand, Air Ministry Works Directorate, Newmarket. * Janet Paton Gray, Woman Police Sergeant, Glasgow City Police. * Etta Green, Canteen Manageress, Ministry of Supply Factory, Springfields. * Harry Greetham, Skilled Workman, Class I, Telephone Manager's Office, Peterborough. * Winifred Greggains, Established Telephonist, Whitehall Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. * Thomas Grimes, lately Trimmer, Transport Department, Sheffield. * Henry Edward George Gummer, Senior Draughtsman, Admiralty. * Percy Gwillim, , Underground Workman, Llanhilleth Colliery, South Wales. * George William Haines, Porter, Bancroft's School, Woodford. * Joseph Halsall, Plumber Jointer, Freshfield (Lanes), London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * William Hamil, Head Moulding Foreman, Cameron and Robertson Ltd., Kirkintilloch. * Henry Frederick Harding, Acting Company Officer, No. 5 (London) Regional Headquarters, National Fire Service. * James Harker, Foreman, Metal Box Company Ltd., Hull. * Gilbert George Harris, Principal Foreman, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. * Manning Harris, Inspector-in-charge, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Ministry of Supply, Cheltenham. * Clara Eleanor Hartley, Supervisor, Higher Grade, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Salford. * Horace Havard, Foreman, National Gas Turbine Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Stanley Montague Clark Hayter, Charge Hand, Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Christchurch. * David Grey Hildreth, Chief Examiner, Ministry of Supply, Barnoldswick. * George Hitchborn, Acting Artificer, Admiralty Mining Establishment, Fareham. * Richard Holford, Foreman, Air Service Training, Hamble, Hampshire. * Leonard Sargent Holmes, Depot Manager, Coal House Distribution Scheme. * Wilfred Douglas Hopkins, Officer Keeper, Grade II, Ministry of Pensions. * William Hughes, Collier, Grove Colliery, Cannock Chase Area. * Charlotte Mary Humphrey, Auxiliary Postwoman, Head Post Office, East Grinstead, Sussex. * Benjamin Allen Hutchinson, Fire Prevention Officer, Bullcroft Main Colliery, Yorkshire. * John William Ibbetson, Chief Smithy Foreman, Shildon Wagon Works, London and North Eastern Railway Company. * Hilda Illingworth, Street Group Collector, Blackpool, National Savings Committee. * Alfred Edwin Jago, Foreman, J & E Hall, J. & E. Hall Ltd., Dartford, Kent. * Edward John Jeffery, Works Foreman, Cozens & Sutcliffe Ltd., Muswell Hill, London. * Vivien Eugenie Kipling, Member, Women's Land Army, Knebworth, Hertfordshire. * Henry Kirkman, Furnace Brick-setter, United Glass Bottle Company Ltd., St. Helens. * Thomas William Lancaster, Colliery Deputy, Brookhouse, Colliery, Yorkshire. * John Lee, , Technical Assistant, Tate Gallery, Millbank. * Clement Lees, Grocer, Rochdale. * William Lindop, Coalface Ripper, Parkhall Colliery, Staffordshire. * David Thomas Llewellyn, Overman, Clydach Merthyr Colliery, Swansea. * Marjorie Macaulay, Head of Information Department, Women's Voluntary Services. * Jean Robertson Mackay, Member, Scottish Women's Land Army, Portmahomack, Rossshire. * Mona McKellar, Member, Women's Land Army, Tadcaster, Yorkshire. * Victor Henry McLeod, Station Master, Piccadilly Circus Station, London Passenger Transport Board. * Charles Maguire, Depot Storeholder, Ministry of Supply Depot, Glasgow. * Constance Love Mainwood, Postal & Telegraph Officer, Deal, Kent. * Maurice Marks, Bookkeeper, Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham. * William John Marsh, Assistant Overseer, Admiralty, Newcastle-on-Tyne. * Charles Anderson Maxwell, Acting General Foreman of Works, Naval Works Office (Avadi Section), Madras, India. * William Merritt, Day Wage Worker, Chislet Colliery, Kent. * Samuel Edgar Miller, Head Officer Inspector, Willesden, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * John Montgomery, Museum Glazier, British Museum. * Edwin Charles Moody, , Office Keeper, Grade I, Ministry of National Insurance. * Henry Morgan, Underground Worker, Princess Royal Colliery, Gloucestershire. * John Newman, Conductor, Central Buses, London Passenger Transport Board. * Patience Mourilyan Badenach Nicolson, Assistant Nurse, Stracathro Hospital, Angus. * Robert Noble, Works and Plant Engineer, North Eastern Marine Engineering Company (1938) Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne. * James Nolan, Labour Foreman, Fleetwood Fishing Vessel Owners' Association Ltd. * William James Norton, Maintenance Mechanic, Royal Ordnance Factory, Swynnerton. * John Ogg, Sergeant Warder, Edinburgh Castle. * Sarah O'Kelly, Head Laundress, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Blackburn. * James Omer, Chief Foreman of Workshops, Admiralty Compass Observatory, Slough. * Edward William James Osborne, Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force. * William Harman Pamplin, Chief Collector, Trumpington Village National Savings Group. * Sidney William Parnell, Overseer of Clothing, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police. * Wilfred David Peerless, Superintending Experimental Wireless Assistant, War Office. * Maud Phillips, Controller, Nuffield House Junior Officers Residential Club. * William Henry Pink, Mill Foreman, Cray Valley Paper Mills, Orpington, Kent. * Thomas Plant, Travelling Night Supervisor, Telephone Manager's Office, Chester. * Mary Esta Price, Member, Women's Land Army, Thornton Hough, Cheshire. * William Thomas Prynn, Travelling Superintending Gardener, Imperial War Graves Commission, France. * Edward Pumfrey, Foreman, Ministry of Supply Storage Depot, Strensham. * Arthur Purdue, Onsetter, Newstead Colliery, Nottingham. * Cecil Raynes, Chef, Public Assistance Institution, Leicester. * Frank Richards, lately Locomotive Inspector, Redhill, Southern Railway Company. * Alfred Robbins, Underground Pumpman, Brancepeth Colliery, Northumberland. * Edward Turner Roberts, Inspector, North Junction Signal Box, Crewe, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * May Roberts. For services to the Forces in Londonderry. * Albert Edwin Robinson, Assistant Line Engineer, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Manuel Rodriguez, Civilian Foreman, Ordnance Services, War Office, Gibraltar. * Henry Rogers, Senior Bailiff, Manchester County Court. * Margaret Saunders, Member, Women's Land Army, Isleworth, Middlesex. * Leslie Charles Scott, Warrant Officer, No. 20F (Cardiff) Squadron, Air Training Corps. * Edgar Scovell, Recorder of Work, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth. * Stanley Reginald Sheldon, Senior Draughtsman, Newton Bros, (Derby) Ltd., Derby. * Archibald Simpson, Trial Trip Engineer and Outside Erector, G. & J. Weir Ltd., Glasgow. * George Cameron Simpson, Warrant Officer, No. 404 (Morpeth) Squadron, Air Training Corps. * George Edgar Smith, Foreman, Liverpool (Stanley) Slaughterhouse. * John Robert Smith, Collier, Briggs Collieries, Yorkshire. * Isaiah William Purchase Sparrock, Station Officer, HM Coastguard, St. Agnes, Cornwall. * Frederick Rambart Spicer, Charge Hand Mechanic, Ministry of Supply Experimental Establishment, Shoeburyness. * George Ernest Squibb, Storeholder Grade "A", Central Ammunition Depot, War Office, Bramley. * Stanley Howard Squires, Inspecting Officer, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. * William Henry Starr, Chief Draughtsman, Brintons Ltd., Kidderminster. * William Duncan Stewart, Assistant Superintendent, Reproduction Ordnance Survey, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * John Stronach, Mail Contract Driver, Alyth, Perthshire. * Thomas Stubbs, Miner, Mitchells Main Colliery, Yorkshire. * William Cyril Taylor, Technician, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Bradford. * Helen Thom, Machinist, Inverurie Works London & North Eastern Railway Company. * Henry Charles Thomas, Foreman, Royal Edward Docks, Avonmouth Docks. * Thomas Thompson, Overman, Sandwell Park Colliery, Staffordshire. * Charles Robert Turner, Works Inspector, Stratford, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * Frances Tuxworth, Assistant Supervisor, Class II, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Willesden. * William Dennis Tyrell, Driver, Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Ltd., Norwich. * George Henry Yenning, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Prison, Birmingham. * Mabel Maud Wallace, Stranding Machine Operator, Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd., North Woolwich. * James Matthew Wallington, lately Goods Agent, Chatham, Strood and GiUingham Goods Depot, Southern Railway Company. * Florence Welch, Supervisor (Telegraphs), Head Post Office, Hastings. * Percival Arthur West, Superintendent of Department, Cellomold Ltd., Feltham, Middlesex. * Edwin James Wharton, Inspector of Postmen, Head Post Office, Crewe, Cheshire. * Albert Wilkinson, Coal Cutter and Conveyor Supervisor, Snibston Colliery, Coalville, Leicestershire. * Albert Edward Williams, Collector, Street Savings Group, National Savings Committee, Brighton. * Henry George Williams, Charge Hand Patternmaker, Ministry of Supply. * James Edward Williams, Storeman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Oxford. * Robert Henry Williams, Volunteer-in-Charge, Coast Life Saving Corps, Barmouth. * Horace Watson Wise, Station Master, Heighington, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * Robert Scott Burns Wood, Dry Dock Attendant, Imperial Dry Dock, Leith. * Fanny Wooler, Organiser, Services Canteen, Women's Voluntary Services, Ellenborough Park, Weston-Super-Mare. * Violet Wooler, Organiser, Services Canteen, Women's Voluntary Services, Ellenborough Park, Weston-Super-Mare. * Charles John Wright, Sorter, London Postal Region. * Mary Jane Wright, Sub-Postmistress, Oakridge Lynch, Stroud. * May Yeomans, Forewoman, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. * Augusta Hart Young, Assistant Supervisor, Class I (Travelling), Post Office, Telephone Exchange, Swansea. * Catherine Young, Collector, Middleham National Savings Group, Yorkshire. ;Foreign Services * Ernest John Mark Gay, Head Messenger, British Consulate General, New York. * William Meadows, Driller, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd. * John Fulton Robinson, Rigger, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Ltd. ;India * Lewis William Atkinson, Officiating Assistant Mechanical Engineer, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Perambur. * Charles Banyard, Foreman, Carriage and Wagon Shops, North-Western Railway, Moghalpura. * Noel Henry Arthur Beach, Principal Foreman, High Explosives Factory, Kirkee. * Ena Boyes-Cooper, lately Grade "A" Clerk, General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India. * Phyllis Leonora Crummy, Lady Clerk, Headquarters, Northern Command, India. * Vera Dorothy Moncrieff, Personal Assistant to the General Officer Commanding, Peshawar Area. ;Colonial Empire * Leonard Adolphus Jervis, Senior Agricultural Instructor, Agriculture and Marine Products Board, Bahamas. * William Henry Smith, Warrant Officer, Police Force, British Guiana. * George Armah, Postmaster, Bolgatanga, Northern Territories, Gold Coast. * Miguel Caetano Nazareth, Asian Clerk, Isiolo, Kenya. * Karioki wa Nai, Chief Warder Grade I, Prisons Department, Kenya. * Cecil Ernest Utting, Overseer, Class I, Port Department, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours. * Debandra Nath Samanta, Chief Bridge Inspector, Railway Service, Malayan Union. * Adolphus Lionel Goring, Chief Traffic Inspector, Nigerian Railway. * Matthew Adeniran Griffin, Carriage and Wagon Inspector, Nigerian Railway. * Aryeh Shamir, Chief Laboratory Assistant, Palestine. * Marianthy Megasthenos, Secretary-Stenographer, Government Press, Palestine. * Harry Dunstan Klass, lately Office Assistant, Colonial Secretary's Office, Singapore. * James Addison Ntukula, African Sanitary Inspector, Grade II, Medical Department, Tanganyika. * Abbas Jumbe, Supervisor of Schools, Education Department, Tanganyika.Royal Red Cross (RRC)
* Principal Matron (acting) Dorothy Davis (NZ 6514), Military Nursing Service (India), Indian Military Nursing Service. * Matron Zillah Scott (206438), Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. * Acting Senior Sister Ethel Winifred Griffiths, , (5037), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing ServiceAssociate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)
* Barbara Francis Bailey, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. * Joan England Simpson, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. * Senior Sister Blanche Elizabeth Burke (NZ 29337), Indian Military Nursing Service (Temporary). * Sister Dorothy Olive Wakeham (206517), Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. * Senior Sister Florence St. Clair Watkins (NZ 21389), Indian Military Nursing Service (Temporary). * Acting Senior Sister Muriel Ethel Hale (5176), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing ServiceAir Force Cross (AFC)
;Royal Air Force * Group Captain John Herbert Thomas Simpson, . * Acting Wing Commander Elmer Coton, , (70851). * Acting Wing Commander James Graham Mann (40477), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Acting Wing Commander Robert Maycock, , (23422). * Acting Squadron Leader Staveley Ernest Bulford (60541). * Acting Squadron Leader William Ernest Farrow (119548). * Acting Squadron Leader John Trevor Freeman, , (43418). * Acting Squadron Leader Harry Spencer Grimsey, , (121202), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader Leonard Preddy (55084). * Acting Squadron Leader Joseph Singleton, , (69431), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Archibald Reginald Ainsworth (145044), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant John Stuart Aldridge (84669), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Raymond Alfred Baker, , (143896), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Ernest William Bartlett (139599), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Stanley Beckett (131944), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Nelson Briggs (126070). * Flight Lieutenant Apostolos Contaris (168692), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Douglas Jellicoe Mason Coxhead (156632), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant William George Drinkell, , (55113). * Flight Lieutenant William Kenneth Greer (133689), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Peter Harrison (115247), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant John Maldwyn John (158549), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Philip Clive Kilmister, , (142358), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Stanley McCreith (124790), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant William Trevor Morrison (52111). * Flight Lieutenant John Murphy (144225), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Desmond Burman Nixon (141725). * Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Pendrey (49145). * Flight Lieutenant Francis Herbert Smith (108134), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer Harold Thomas Goldham (167782), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer James Munro (186738), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. ;Royal Navy * Lieutenant-Commander Eric Brown (pilot), Eric Brown, . ;Royal Australian Air Force * Squadron Leader John Raymond French (Aus.251511). * Squadron Leader Colin Charles Henry (Aus.280802). * Squadron Leader John Geoffrey Hoskins, , (Aus.261718). * Squadron Leader Justyn Ronald Lavers, , (Aus.2758). * Squadron Leader John Thomas O'Brien (Aus.467). * Flight Lieutenant Reginald William Adsett (Aus.402194). * Flight Lieutenant Edgar Murray Allison (Aus.411847). * Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Wilbur Baker (Aus. 406127). * Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Clive Clifford (Aus.413244). * Flight Lieutenant Charles Royston Gallwey (Aus.404093). * Flight Lieutenant Eric Thomas Wallis Holt (Aus.413384). * Flight Lieutenant Patrick Joseph Love (Aus. 22788). * Flight Lieutenant Arthur William Primrose Malcolm (Aus.407206). * Flight Lieutenant Cecil Raymond McNichol (Aus.414503). * Flight Lieutenant John Rankin (Aus.1390). * Flight Lieutenant Edward Beauchamp Stacy (Aus.403962). * Flying Officer Arthur Burns (Aus.437727). * Flying Officer Henry Angell Kirkhouse, , (Aus.21147). * Flying Officer Norman John Properjohn (Aus.16549).Bar to Air Force Cross
* Group Captain Edward Mortlock Donaldson, , Royal Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader William Arthur Waterton, , (42288), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Marais Retief, , (102989V), South African Air Force.Air Force Medal (AFM)
* 566371 Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Clarence Brookin, Royal Air Force. * 2236287 Flight Sergeant John Francis Entwtstle, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Sergeant Derrick William Hosking (Aus.5308), Royal Australian Air Force.King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air
;Royal Air Force * Acting Wing Commander R. C. E. Scott, , (36250). * Squadron Leader W. B. Price-Owen (39829), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Acting Squadron Leader Hedley Hazelden, H. G. Hazelden, , (60323), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader F. Landrey, , (43176). * Flight Lieutenant M. H. Cadman (150882), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant G. S. Forrest (130948), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant A. E. Garrod (44264). * Flight Lieutenant D. W. Harvey (150431), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant E. M. Haslam (127042), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant W. K. J. Haynes (175000). * Flight Lieutenant M. V. Hodge (129471), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant M. Hoyle (47407). * Flight Lieutenant H. J. King (49237) Royal Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant E. McNamara, , (177437), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant D. E. Osland (115427), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant G. R. I. Parker, , (47140). * Flight Lieutenant G. C. Toye (87016), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant D. G. Walker (181075), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer R. A. E. Allen (187693), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer K. A. W. Butcher (189479), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Flying Officer C. B. Lindop (57482). * 3060375 Flight Sergeant W. W. Truckle, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 1312531 Pilot II H. Davies, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 1441086 Pilot II N. C. Hayes, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * 657873 Pilot II D. J. Parsons. * 1803877 Navigator II R. D. Bone, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. ;Royal Navy * Commander J. A. Ievers, . ;Royal Australian Air Force * Flight Lieutenant Robert Henry Campbell (Aus.275144). * Flight Lieutenant Michael John Hynes (Aus.428316). * Flight Lieutenant Herbert Raymond Lee (Aus.417088). * Flight Lieutenant Leonard Charles Lobb (Aus.418965). * Flight Lieutenant Harold Ballam O'Connor (Aus.2242). * Flight Lieutenant Bernard Parker (Aus.411942). * Flight Lieutenant Colin Carl Keith Rowe (Aus.12420). * Flight Lieutenant William Ottaway Thomas (Aus.407935). * Warrant Officer Cyril Robert Loney (Aus.435574).King's Commendation for Brave Conduct
* 1632388 Corporal K. J. Harn, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.King's Police and Fire Services Medal (KPFSM)
Police
;England and Wales * Joseph Jones, , Chief Constable, Glamorganshire Constabulary. * William James Howard, , Chief Constable, Bolton Borough Police Force. * Charles George Maby, , Chief Constable, Bristol City Police Force. * Captain Stephen Hugh Van Neck, , Chief Constable, Norfolk Constabulary. * William Newrick Wilson, Assistant Chief Constable, Portsmouth City Police Force. * Thomas Murray Chartres, Superintendent, Northumberland Constabulary. * Sidney Walter Hammond, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, West Suffolk Constabulary. * Samuel George Weir, Superintendent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Police Force. * Arthur Brice, Sub-Divisional Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force. * William Wright Brownfield, Sub-Divisional Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force. * William Henry Simmons, , Chief Officer, Port of London Authority Police. ;Scotland * Victor George Savi, Chief Constable, Fifeshire Constabulary. * Robert Mitchell, , Chief Constable, Kincardineshire Constabulary. ;Northern Ireland * Albert Henry Kennedy, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;Australia * James Richard Birch, Detective Sub-Inspector, Victoria Police. ;New Zealand * James Cummings, Commissioner of Police, Wellington. ;India * Frederick Lewis Underwood, , Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Madras. * Arthur Ernest Spitteler, District Superintendent of Police (Officiating), Madras. * Harold Brown, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Officiating), Madras. * Cecil William Edward Uren, District Superintendent of Police, Bombay. * Clement Mervin Scott Yates, Superintendent of Police, Bombay. * Babu Pramatha Nath Banarji, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Officiating), Howrah, Bengal. * Syed Yad Ali, Circle Inspector of Police, District Unao, United Provinces. * Sardar Sant Parkash Singh, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Punjab. * Edward Charles Borton, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Assistant Commandant, Dehri Military Police, Bihar. * Sarada Prashad Varma, Superintendent of Police, Bihar. * Rai Sahib Sripati Nanda, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Orissa. * Arthur Walter Pryde, , Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Special Duty, Karachi, Sind. * William Douglas Robinson, , Senior Superintendent of Police, Delhi. * Srinivasa Parthasarathi Ayyangar, Inspector-General of Police, Travancore State. * Sardar Ajaib Singh, Inspector of Police, Faridkot State. ;Burma * Cecil Bruce Orr, Officiating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Burma. ;Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories * Allan Malcolm Bell, , Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mauritius. * Malcolm Lionel Fraser, , Commissioner of Police, Nyasaland. * Alfred Edward Burt, Superintendent of Police, Seychelles. * Major Thomas Norman Drake, Superintendent of Police, Trinidad. * William Frederick Stafford, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Malayan Union. * Loh Sin, Detective Sub-Inspector, Malayan Union Police. * Rolf Sadler Hainsworth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine. * George Leslie Matthews, , Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine.Fire Services
;England and Wales * Clifford Victor Hall. Fire Force Commander, No. 1 (Newcastle) Fire Force. * William Gayton. Assistant Fire Force Commander, No. 20 (Cardiff) Fire Force. * Ernest Thomas, Assistant Fire Force Commander, No. 31 (Brighton) Fire Force. * Edward George Haylett, Divisional Officer, No. 9 (Leicester) Fire Force. * John Cronshaw Crabtree, Column Officer, No. 29 (Preston) Fire Force. ;Scotland * Thomas Johnson, Senior Company Officer, Eastern Area.Colonial Police Medal (CPM)
;Southern Rhodesia * Herbert Colin De La Taste, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. * Sydney George Kilborn, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. * Ernest James Lennox, Inspector, British South Africa Police. * Shabo. Native First Detective Sergeant, British South Africa Police. ;Bechuanaland Protectorate * Joseph Dinku, Senior Lance Sergeant, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police. * Captain Morley Robert Dalrymple Langley, , Superintendent, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police. ;Colonies, Protectorates, Mandated Territories * Naif Daoud Abboud, Palestinian Sub-Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, Sergeant-Major, Malayan Union Police Force. * John Aboderin, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police Force. * James Adam, British Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Ang Ah Khai, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Ali Ibrahim Azaizeh, Second Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * Louis Altred Bancilhon, Sergeant, Mauritius Police Force. * Captain Guy Ronald Bass, lately Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. * Hassan Mahmoud Batrouch, Palestinian Constable, Palestine Police Force. * Ibraham Bitar, Assistant Superintendent, Palestine Police Force. * Francis Edwin Blackburn, Acting Assistant Superintendent, Mauritius Police Force. * Salifu Dagarti, Sergeant-Major, Gold Coast Police Force. * Harold Arthur Diffey, 1st British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * William Tillawah Doherty, Assistant Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police Force. * James Charleston Douglas, 1st British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Walter Duncan, Senior Superintendent, Aden Police Force. * Jean Tristan Etienne, Staff Sergeant-Major, Mauritius Police Force. * Eu Hai Lee, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Sandys Parker George, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Giam Chong King, Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Thomas Gombera, Head Detective, Nyasaland Police Force. * John Martin Goodlet, 1st British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Austin Byers Harper, First Class Inspector, Jamaica Constabulary. * Robert Gordon Henderson, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Lewis Hobbs, 2nd British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Basil Frederick Hooper, Superintendent, Fiji Constabulary. * , Palestinian Sub-Inspector, Palestine Police Force. * ElDagalla Aboker Musa Jama Abdi, Sub-Inspector, Somaliland Police Force. * William John James, Major, Somaliland Police Force. * Keith Littlewood Johnson, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Momammed Ali El Khalil, Palestinian Corporal, Palestine Police Force. * Charles Tristan Lagaite, Paymaster, Mauritius Police Force. * Charles Stuart Langley, 1st British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Yisa Lawani, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. * George Robert Livett, Superintendent, Malayan Union Police Force. * James Alexander Macdonald, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * George Kell Matthews, 1st British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Edward Alfred Hamilton Melville, Sub-Inspector, Trinidad Police Force. * Mohammed Khalil Mohammed, Foot Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Mohamed Mustaffa, 1st Grade Sergeant, Kenya Police Force. * Adana Onana, Sergeant, Nigeria Police Force. * Major Edward Oliver Plunkett, Senior Superintendent, Windward Islands Police Force. * William Edgar Ryan, Lance Corporal, Leeward Islands Police Force. * Abdulla Said, Chief Inspector (Asian), Kenya Police Force. * Salleh Bin Ismail, Inspector, Malayan Union Police Force. * Isaac Schweilly, Mounted Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Stanley Charles Sinclair, Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Laban Estler Stanley, Sergeant-Major, Jamaica Constabulary. * Frederick Stevenson, Acting Assistant Superintendent, Palestine Police Force. * Edward William Strutt-Cavell, British Constable, Palestine Police Force. * Govindasamy Thancanamootoo, Corporal, Mauritius Police Force. * Thomas Tranter, British Constable, Palestine Police Force. * Louis Henry Turenne, Constable, Mauritius Police Force. * Arthur Henry Waghorn, 2nd British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force. * Uriel Augustus Watson, Detective Sergeant, Jamaica Constabulary. * Reginald Ivor Woodhouse, 2nd British Sergeant, Palestine Police Force.Mention in Despatches
;Royal Navy * Acting Commander Claude Edward Lutley Sclater, . * Lieutenant-Commander David Allan Robert Malcolm Ramsay, . * Acting Lieutenant-Commander John Dalton Jones. * Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Walter Lionel Pollard, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Chief Petty Officer Torpedo Coxswain William George Mark Dukes, P/JX. 144059. * Chief Engineman Leonard Charles Ball, LT/KX.109786. * Petty Officer David O'Shea, D/JX.142697. * Acting Petty Officer Terence Michael Riley, C/JX.148059. * Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic (Temporary) Leonard Arthur Joseph Smith, P/KX. 93341. * Engineman Alfred Thomas George Wheeler, L/KX.106915. * Able Seaman Lionel Maguire, C/JX.152941. * Cook (S) John Elliott Leyton, P/MX.761907.New Zealand
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