British Empire
Viscount
* The Right Honourable John Scott, Baron Hyndley, , Chairman,Baron
* SirPrivy Counsellor
*Knight Bachelor
* Richard Harold Armstrong, , Chairman of the Royal Liverpool United Hospital. * Michael Elias Balcon, Director and Production Head ofOrder of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
;Military Division * Admiral SirKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
;Military Division * Lieutenant-General Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, , Royal Marines. * Vice-Admiral Charles Saumarez Daniel, . * Lieutenant-General Kenneth Noel Crawford, , (10226), late Corps of Royal Engineers. * Air Vice-Marshal Leslie Oswald Brown, , Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division * Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet Colonel) William Henry Wiggin, , Chairman,Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear-Admiral Arthur Robin Moore Bridge, . * Rear-Admiral Harold Hickling, . * Major-General Hubert Thomas Newman, , Royal Marines. * Surgeon Rear-Admiral Joseph Aloysius O'Flynn, . * Rear-AdmiralOrder of Merit (OM)
*Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)
* His Excellency Lieutenant-General SirKnight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)
* Colonel His Highness Maharao Bhim Singhji Bahadur, Maharao of Kotah. * Sir David Taylor Monteath, , lately His Majesty'sCompanion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)
* Lawrence Arthur Bishop, , Inspector-General of Police, Madras. * John Bowstead, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar. * Philip George Braye, , Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner (officiating), Central Provinces and Berar. * Captain (S) Ronald Vernon Brockman, , Royal Navy, Personal Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Clarence James Creed, , Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bihar. * Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Charles Lawrence Crichton, , Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations (officiating). * Walter Henry John Christie, , Indian Civil Service, Joint Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Thomas Arthur Wyness Foy, , Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Irrigation Department. * William Telford Hall, ,Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
* Sir Wilfred Griffin Eady, (Crawfurd) Wilfrid Griffin Eady, , Second Secretary, His Majesty's Treasury. * Major-General Sir Hubert Elvin Rance, , Governor of Burma. * The Right Honourable Alfred Duff Cooper, , lately List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris. * Sir Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh, Oliver Charles Harvey, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (designate) to the French Republic.Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
* Henry Stanley Gregory, , Head of the Trading with the Enemy Department and Administrator of Enemy Property, Board of Trade. * Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, (John) Gilbert Laithwaite, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Burma Office. * David John Lidbury, , Vice-Chairman of the Executive Commission of the Universal Postal Union. * Walter Crossfield Hankinson, , List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Sri Lanka, High Commissioner designate in Ceylon for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. * Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, Charles Nobel Arden Clarke, , Crown Colony of Sarawak, Governor and Commander in Chief, Sarawak. * Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, , Financial Secretary, Ceylon. * Edward Gerald Hawkesworth, , List of colonial governors and administrators of British Honduras, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, British Honduras. * Andrew Barkworth Wright, , List of colonial governors of the Gambia, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gambia. * Alvary Gascoigne, Alvary Douglas Frederick Gascoigne, , List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Japan, United Kingdom Political Representative in Japan. * Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, , an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office. * George Gordon Medlicott Vereker, , List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Uruguay, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Montevideo. ;Honorary Knight Commander * His Highness Tunku Badlishah of Kedah, Badlishah ibni Sultan Abdul Hamid Halimshah, , The Sultan of Kedah, Malayan Union.Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
* Vernon Gordon Fitzell Bovenizer. For services as Director of Organisation, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). * Ludovic James Dunnett, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation. * Harry Cecil Jones, lately Ministry of Transport Finance Officer, New York. * Ernest Muir (leprologist), Ernest Muir, , Honorary Medical Adviser to the Lepra (charity), British Empire Leprosy Relief Association. * Rowland Hubert Owen, Senior Trade Commissioner for the United Kingdom in India. * William Rowson Richardson, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education. * Robert Ely McGuire, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Burma. * John Chrysostom Barnabas Wakeford, Chief Railway Commissioner, Burma Railways. * Ben Cockram, , an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office, at present serving in His Majesty's Embassy at Washington. * James Edgar Heritage. For public services in the State of Tasmania. * Claude Hamilton Brazel, , Chief Engineer and Manager, Department of Government Electrical Undertakings, Ceylon. * James Calder, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, North Borneo. * Andrew Benjamin Cohen, , Assistant Under-Secretary, Colonial Office. * George Conrad Green, , Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator of Grenada, Windward Islands. * Andrew Park Mitchell, Director of Land Surveys, Mandatory Palestine, Palestine. * Roger Edward Norton, , Commissioner, East Africa Office, London. * Wheatley Alexander Robertson, Forestry Adviser, Colonial Office. * Alfred William Langley Savage, Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Financial Secretary, Nigeria. * Stafford William Powell Foster-Sutton, , Colonial Legal Service, Member for Law and Order and Attorney-General, Kenya. * George Edwin Thornton, , Financial Secretary, Northern Rhodesia. * Edward Rex Ward, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Gambia. * Wilfrid Arthur Ward, , Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, Selangor, Malayan Union. * Douglas Laird Busk, Counsellor in His Majesty's Embassy at Bagdad. * William McCallum Clyde, , employed on the staff of the Special Commissioner in South-East Asia. * Brigadier John Gordon Deedes, , lately Telecommunications Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington. * William Louis Martial Dunlop, , until recently Head of the Communications Department of the Foreign Office. * John Dee Greenway, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Panama, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Panama. * William Goodenough Hayter, Head of the Services Liaison Department of the Foreign Office. * Derwent William Kermode, His Majesty's Consul-General at Seoul. * Lionel Henry Lamb, , Minister in His Majesty's Embassy at Nanking. * Henry Cecil Sumner Maine, , attached to a Department of the Foreign Office. * Alan Charles Trott, , List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Jedda. ;Honorary Companion * His Highness Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Ismail ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Zainal Abidin, The Sultan of Terengganu, Malayan Union.Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)
* His Excellency Sir Francis Verner Wylie, , Indian Civil Service, Governor of the United Provinces. * His Excellency Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins, , Indian Civil Service, Governor of the Punjab. * His Excellency Sir Hugh Dow, , Indian Civil Service, Governor of Bihar. * His Highness Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Sri Sir Laxman Singh, Lakshman Singhji Bahadur, , Dungarpur State, Maharawal of Dungarpur. * Sir Eric Miéville, Eric Charles Miéville, , Principal Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer, , Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University.Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)
* His Highness Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Bhau Saheb Puar, Dewas State, Maharaja of Dewas (Junior Branch). * His Highness Maharaja Shri Meghrajji III, Mayurdhwaj-Sinhji, Dhrangadhra State, Maharaja Raj Saheb of Dhrangadhra. * His Highness Raja Dileep Singh, Jhabua State, Raja of Jhabua. * The Honourable Charles Gordon Herbert, , Indian Political Service, Resident at Hyderabad. * Air Marshal Hugh Walmsley, Hugh Sydney Porter Walmsley, , Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief in India and Deputy Supreme Commander (Air). * Major-General (Temporary Lieutenant-General) Harold Rawdon Briggs, , Indian Army, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Burma Command. * Major-General (Temporary Lieutenant-General) Douglas David Gracey, , General Officer Commanding, 1st Indian Corps. * William Christie (civil servant), William Christie, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Delhi. * Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department. * William Scott Brown, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras. * Sir Ivon Hope Taunton, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. * Major-General Robert Hay (medical officer), Robert Hay, , Indian Medical Service, Director-General, Indian Medical Service. * John Dawson Tyson, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal. * John Rowlatt, , Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (United Kingdom), Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, London.Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
* Brigadier Robert Denis Ambrose, , Indian Army, Inspector-General and Secretary, Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier. * Major-General Allan Cholmondeley Arnold, , Regional Food Commissioner, North-Western Region, Department of Food, Government of India. * Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Malcolm Ashton, , Director, Military Lands and Cantonments, India. * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Donald Rowland Edwin Rowan Bateman, , lately Commander, Wana Frontier Brigade Group. * Neil Brodie, Partner, Messrs. Gladstone Wyllie & Co., Calcutta, Bengal. * Joseph Charles Brommage, , Military Accountant-General, India. * Oscar Henry Brown, , Chief Presidency Magistrate, Bombay. * Colonel Humphry Bullock, , Judge Advocate-General in India. * Albert Edward Caffin, , Indian Police, Commissioner of Police, Bombay. * Alan Campbell Johnson, Alan Campbell-Johnson, , Press Attaché to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Hadden Hamilton Carleston, , Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Madras. * Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Innes Cox, , Indian Medical Service, District Medical Officer, The Nilgiris, and Superintendent, Government Headquarters Hospital, Ootacamund, Madras. * Major Donald Victor Deane, , India Government Mint, Mumbai, Mint Master, Bombay. * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) James Gordon Elliott, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Cabinet Secretariat. * Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon Erskine-Crum, Vernon Forbes Erskine-Crum, , Conference Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Edward Arthur Rawlins Eustace, , Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Ambala Division, Punjab. * Dundonald Gainsford, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Jullundur Range, Punjab. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) John Evison Gordon, , Brigadier in Charge, Administration, United Provinces Area. * Donald Ross Hardwick, Indian Police, Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, Bengal. * Reginald John James Hill, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Central Provinces and Berar. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Reginald Antony Hutton, , Controller of Ordnance Services, Headquarters, 1st Corps, India. * Captain Henry Richmond Inigo-Jones, Acting Commodore, 2nd Class, Royal Indian Navy. * Darbar Shri Khachar Ala Vajsur, Chief of Jasdan. * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Frank McCallum, , lately Brigadier General Staff, Northern Command. * George Maurice McKelvie, , Indian Service of Engineers, Consulting Engineer (Roads) to the Government of India. * Harold Charles Mitchell, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Headquarters and Railways, United Provinces. * Paul Robert James Morgan, Indian Police, Commandant, Provincial Additional Police, Punjab. * William Lee Murrell, , Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Public Works Department. * Herbert John Nichols, Member (Engineering), Railway Board, India. * Claude Frederick Parry, , Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Central Provinces and Berar. * James Edgar Pearman, , Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Orissa. * John Petty, , Chief Conservator of Forests, Sind. * Arthur Walter Pryde, , Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Sind. * Hugh Edward Richardson, , Indian Political Service, British Trade Agent, Gyantse, and Officer in Charge of the British Mission, Lhasa, Tibet, Sikkim Agency. * Reginald Harry Saloway, , Indian Civil Service, Regional Director of Resettlement and Employment, United Provinces. * Charles Norman Sharples, India Supply Commissioner, London. * John Burt Shearer, , Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department, Central Revenues. * Colonel Paul Herbert Shelley Smith, , Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals and Prisons, North-West Frontier Province. * Lieutenant-Colonel Richard William Spear, , Senior Deputy Director-General, Posts and Telegraphs, India. * Hugh Southern Stephenson, , Indian Civil Service, District Magistrate, Cawnpore, United Provinces. * Malcolm Moncrieff Stuart, , Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Dacca Division, Bengal. * Humphrey Trevelyan, , Indian Political Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Department. * William Hovell Turner, Auditor, Indian Home Accounts, India Office, London. * William Dixon West, Director, Geological Survey of India. * Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, , Director-General of Archaeology. * John Stewart Wilcock, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Development and Employment Department. * Collin Maxwell Wright-Neville, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Orissa. * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Gordon Drummond Young, , Brigadier Electrical Mechanical Engineering, (Headquarters, Southern Command), India.Royal Victorian Order
Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
* Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, The Duchess of Gloucester, . * Her Royal Highness Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, The Duchess of Kent, . * Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, .Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
* Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas,Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
* Roland Clive Wallace Burn, . * The Very Reverend Alan Campbell Don, . * Sir Bracewell Smith, .Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
* Colonel Geoffrey Ronald Codrington, . * Sydney Humbert Fisher. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Gibbs, . * Major Philip Reginald Margetson, . * Captain Stephen Hugh Van Neck, . * The Reverend Jocelyn Henry Temple Perkins, . * Captain Hugo Donald Ross, .Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
;Fourth Class * The Reverend Cyril Moxon Armitage, . * Francis Beaumont, . * Wladimir Kleinmichel. * William McKie (musician), William Neil McKie, . ;Fifth Class * Lieutenant-Commander Frank Vernon Cook, Royal Navy (Retired).Order of the British Empire
Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
;Civil Division * Beryl Oliver, Beryl Carnegy, Lady Oliver, , (Dame Beryl Oliver). For services with the British Red Cross Society. * Her Excellency the Right Honourable Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Edwina Cynthia Annette, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, , Vicereine of India (dated 14 August 1947).Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
;Military Division * General Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison, , (9487), late Infantry, Colonel, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), and 10th Gurka Rifles, Indian Army. * Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, , Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division * Sir Edward Mellanby, , Secretary, Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Medical Research Council. * Sir Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, Cyril John Radcliffe, . For services to the British Commonwealth.Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
;Military Division * Matron-in-Chief Louisa Wilkinson, Louisa Jane Wilkinson, , (206505), Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
;Military Division * Rear-Admiral (E) John Leigh Bedale, . * Rear-Admiral Arthur Rullion Rattray, , Royal Indian Navy, Flag Officer, Bombay (dated 14 August 1947). * Air Vice-Marshal Matthew Brown Frew, , Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division * Bernard Ottwell Binns, , Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Burma (Lands and Rural Development). * Sir Charles Ramsdale Lockhart, , Colonial Administrative Service, Economic Adviser to the East African Governors' Conference. * James Wilson Robertson, , Civil Secretary, Sudan Government. * Francis Michie Shepherd, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Jakarta, Batavia. * Wilfrid Charles George Cribbett, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation. * Sir John Forster, 1st Baron Forster of Harraby, John Forster, , President of the Industrial Court. * Herbert John Hutchinson, , lately Second Secretary, Board of Trade (now Secretary, National Coal Board). * Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, , Principal (academia), Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews. * George Henry Maddex, Government Actuary's Department, Government Actuary. * Sir Frank Spencer Spriggs, Managing Director, Hawker Siddeley, Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co. Ltd. ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur Falconer, , Indian Political Service, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Nepal, His Majesty's Minister in Nepal. * Sir Joseph Aspden Kay, Managing Director, W. H. Brady & Co. Ltd., Bombay. * Sir Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens, William Patrick Spens, , Chief Justice of India.Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Edgar Stephen Apps. * Rear-Admiral (E) George Herbert Hempson Brown, . * Captain Reginald Andrew Jackson, (Retired). * Surgeon Captain Claude Keating, . * Colonel Robert Arthur Ross Neville, , Royal Marines. ;;Army * Brigadier (temporary) Roderic Duncan Cameron, , (8711), late Royal Army Medical Corps. * Brigadier (temporary) and Chief Paymaster Alfred Arthur Cockburn (18730), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Brigadier (temporary) John Cecil D'Arcy Dalton, , (36501), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Colonel (temporary) Nigel Dugdale (41750), 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. * Brigadier (temporary) George Charles Humphreys, , (13231), late Infantry. * Colonel (temporary) William Hall Jackson (52647), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. * Brigadier (temporary) Richard William Jelf, , (27927), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (temporary) James Wolfenden Kenny, , (14473), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (temporary) Rodney Moore (British Army officer), James Newton Rodney Moore, , (32071), Grenadier Guards. * Colonel (temporary) Alfred Henry Dunlop Phillips, , (10482), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Colonel (Honorary Brigadier) Robert Courtenay Prance, , (18185), late Army Cadet Force. * Controller (temporary) Mary Diana Thorne (192864), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Colonel Hugh Kenneth Blaber, Officer Commanding, the Burma Regimental Centre, Burma. ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Victor Douglas Jones, Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, India Command, G.H.Q., India. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) James Joseph Lambert Mackirdy, Director of Pay and Pensions, G.H.Q., India. * Colonel Ernest Ross-Magenty, Colonel "A" (Indian Army) G.H.Q., Middle East. * Colonel Lawrence Monier-Williams, , Secretary to the Principal Staff Officer, India Office. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Commodore Leslie John Vernon Bates. * Air Commodore Arthur Francis Hutton, . * Acting Air Commodore Robert Henry Seymour Spaight. * Group Captain John Sullivan. * Group Captain Frank Wright. * Acting Group Captain Frederick John Manning. * Acting Group Captain Deryck Stapleton, Deryck Cameron Stapleton, . ;Civil Division * George Linton Hall Brough, , Deputy Director of Electrical Engineering, Admiralty. * Alderman Thomas William Burden, , Second Church Estates Commissioner since 1945, Member of Parliament for the Sheffield Park (UK Parliament constituency), Park Division of Sheffield since 1942. For political and public services. * Alfred James Camm, , Chief Superintendent of Technical Costings, Ministry of Supply. * Edmund Graham Clark, , Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers. * Lawrance Collingwood, Lawrance Arthur Collingwood, lately Musical Director, Sadler's Wells Theatre. * Henry Edward Collins, . For services as Director, Production Branch of the Coal Group, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). * William Frederick Connolly, , Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. * Bertie Gibson Crewe, , Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office, Board of Trade. * William George Crossley, Assistant Secretary, Central Office of Information. * Stanley Cursiter, , Director, National Galleries of Scotland. * Frank Harold Dawson, , lately Assistant Director, Sea Transport Division, Ministry of Transport. * Wilfred John Dawson, lately Metallurgical Director, Hadfields Limited, Hadfields Ltd., Sheffield. * Maria Elizabeth Dickin, , Founder and Hon. Director of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals of the Poor. * Sir Bedford Lockwood Dorman, , Chairman, North Riding War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Professor Norman Dott, Norman McOmish Dott, For services as Director in Neurology and Neuro-Surgery, Brain Injuries Unit, Bangour Hospital, Edinburgh. * Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Edward Evans, , Medical Chancery Visitor, Supreme Court of Judicature. * Ellen Evans, , Principal, Glamorgan Teachers' Training College, Barry. * Lincoln Evans, General Secretary, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. * Robert Jaffrey Forbes, Principal, Royal Manchester College of Music. * Walter Henry Forsdike, lately President of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers. * George Ridsdale Goldsbrough, , Chairman, University of Durham Joint Recruiting Board. * William Smith Gordon, , Director, Agricultural Research Council, Field Station, Compton, Berkshire. * Alderman James Morgan Griffiths, , Chairman, Pembroke War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Claude William Guillebaud, Chairman of Wages Councils. * Major Frank Halford, Frank Bernard Halford, , Chief Engineer and Director, de Havilland Engine Company, Edgware. * Edward Alexander Holmes, Deputy Paper Controller, Board of Trade. * Alfred Edward Hooker, Deputy Director of Imported Cereals, Ministry of Food. * Randall Garfield Hosking, Chairman, East Midlands Regional Committee, EEF (manufacturers' association), Engineering and Allied Employers' Federation. * Richard John Humphreys, , Regional Controller, Wales Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Susan Sutherland Isaacs, , Psychologist to the London Clinic of Psycho-Analysis. * Howell Ewart James, Chief General Inspector, Ministry of Health. * William Charles Jones, Managing Director, W. C. Jones Ltd., Manchester. * Louis Arnold Jordan, , Director, Research Association of British Paint, Colour and Varnish Manufacturers. * Percy Hague Jowett, , Principal of the Royal College of Art. * John Ernest Kerr, Chairman, Stirling and Clackmannan Agricultural Executive Committee. * William Kerr, , Emeritus Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Royal Technical College, Glasgow. * Frank Arthur King, Joint Managing Director, Kelvin Hughes, Kelvin & Hughes Ltd. * Alfred Ernest Kingham, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Frank Lambert (curator), Frank Lambert, , President of the Museums Association, Director of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. * Archibald Wilfred Lawson, , Chief Operating Officer, Petroleum Board. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Alfred Lewis, , (Retired), lately Secretary, National Association of Colliery Managers. * Joseph Frederic Linney, Chairman, RAF Pilots' and Crews' Fund Committee of the Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute. * William Guy Luke, Senior Deputy Director of Stores, Admiralty. * Alderman Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Valentine la Touche McEntee, , Member of Parliament for Walthamstow West (UK Parliament constituency), Walthamstow West, 1922 and 1923 and since 1929. For political and public services. * Thomas Bannatyne Marshall, lately County Clerk and Treasurer, Perthshire. * William Gordon Masefield, , lately Medical Superintendent, Warley Hospital, Brentwood Mental Hospital, Essex. * Walter Alfred Medrow, , Assistant Secretary, Admiralty. * William Alexander Miller, , Chairman of the Housing Committee, Plymouth. * Alexander Francis Morley, Assistant Secretary, Burma Office. * George Morton. For services as Chief Accountant, London Midland & Scottish Railway Company. * Andrew Naesmith, , General Secretary, Amalgamated Weavers' Association. * Arthur Eastwood Nichols, , Headmaster, Hele's School, Exeter. * Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Raymond Rake, , Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of London. * Robert O'Field Oakley, , Assistant Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. * Gerald Richard Paling, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions. * Herbert Edgar Parkes, Member, Panel of Representatives of Employers, National Arbitration Tribunal. * George Herbert Edmeston Parr, , Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland. * Councillor Sydney Woodroffe Pascall, , Director of James Pascall Ltd. For services to the Ministry of Food. * Harold Charles West Roberts, , Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * Gilbert Wooding Robinson, , Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, University College of North Wales, Bangor. * John William Rodden, Director of Milk Products, Ministry of Food. * Albert Ells Rogers, Higher Collector, London Port, HM Customs and Excise. * Major Andrew Alexander Ross, , Chief Technical Adviser to the Director of Engine Research and Development, Ministry of Supply. * Captain Archibald Hamilton Ryley, lately Elder Brother, Trinity House, Trinity House Corporation. * Clifford Fortescue Loftus St. George, Clerk of the Journals, House of Lords. * Frank Ellison Sargant, , Deputy Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Thomas Montgomery Service, Director, William Beardmore and Company Ltd., Glasgow. * Sydney Taverner Shovelton, Chairman of the Council of the Federated Superannuation System for Universities. * Alexander William Southam, Director, Economic Division, Allied Commission for Austria (British Element). * Herbert William Spencer, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works. * Ferdinand Christian Otto Speyer, Member, Advisory Committee to the Board of Trade on Fertilisers. * George French Stebbing, , Member and Honorary Secretary of the Radium Commission. * Thomas Frederick Storey, President, Ulster Tourist Development Association. * Arthur Nicholson Stuart, Adviser to the Ministry of Food on tea production. * George Henry Taylor, Deputy Regional Director, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. * Margerie Venables Taylor, , for services to archaeology. * James Osborne Teare, Deputy Secretary and Establishment Officer, Exchequer and Audit Department. * Laurence Edward Victor Tiffen, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance. * Douglas Learoyd Walker, General Secretary, Federation of British Industries. * Ida Caroline Ward, , Professor of West African Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. * John Percival Watson, Special Director and Manager, Fire Control Drawing Office, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Crayford. * Alderman James Albert Webb, , Chairman, North-Western Division, National Coal Board. * Arthur Reginald Astley Weston, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Charles Thomas Wheeler, , President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. * Arthur Whitley, , Finance Officer, Home Office. * Captain Walter Douglas Melville Wills, , Chairman, Somerset War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Herbert Winstanley, , Chief Constable, Liverpool. * Frank Simcox Winterbottom, Partner, Leonard Plews, Stockdale & Co. Ltd., Manchester. * Allan Richard Wood, Comptroller of the London County Council. * Terence Vincent Brenan, , lately His Majesty's Consul-General at Rabat. * John Colville Hutchison, , Minister (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Nanking. * Leslie Charles Kemp, British subject resident in Greece. * Robert Wynn Mortimore, British subject resident in the United States of America. * Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Wheeler (historian), Geoffrey Edelston Wheeler, , Head of Information Department, His Majesty's Embassy in Tehran. * Harold William Bennetts, , Principal, Animal Health and Nutrition Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, State of Western Australia. * William Bold, William Ernest Bold, formerly Town Clerk, City of Perth, State of Western Australia. * John Burke, . For devoted service as a medical practitioner and surgeon in the Districts of Grand Bank and Fortune, Newfoundland. * Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Walker Roylance, Treasurer, Victoria League. * Roland Starkey, . For public services in Southern Rhodesia, especially in connection with asbestos mining. * John Smith Teasdale. For services to Agriculture, and particularly to the wheat growing industry, in the State of Western Australia. * John Lamb Leyden, , Director, Frontier Areas Administration, Burma. * Philip Nash, Philip Geoffrey Elwin Nash, , Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Burma. * Percy George Graham Salkeld, , General Manager, Messrs. Steel Brothers & Co. Ltd., Burma. * Captain Richard Waverley Head Ballantine, Colonial Police Service, Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast. * John Ignatius De Aguiar. For public services in British Guiana. * Mehmed Halid, Colonial Legal Service, Puisne Judge, Cyprus. * Dora Ibberson, Social Welfare Adviser to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies. * Colonel Henry Lee Hau Shik, Hau Shik Lee, . For public services in the Malayan Union. * William Lachlan Smith Mackintosh, , Colonial Veterinary Service, Director of Veterinary Services, Uganda. * Alfred Muchmore, , Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Aden. * Arthur Godwin Ranasinha, Ceylon Civil Service, Commissioner of Lands. * Algar Ronald Ward Robertson, Financial Secretary and Treasurer, Fiji. * Cecil Yaxley Shephard, , Professor of Economics, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * Thomas Vaughan Baddeley, Director in Charge, Tata Textile Mills, Bombay. * Jean Begg, , Director, Welfare Services, Young Women's Christian Association. * Brigadier Sydney Phillips Cane, Director of Transportation, Civil Supplies Department, Bengal. * Mark Daniels, , Director of Purchase, Store Department, Office of the High Commissioner for India in London. * Ann, Lady Dow (wife of His Excellency Sir Hugh Dow, , Governor of Bihar). For welfare work among women and children. * Arthur Foot, Arthur Edward Foot, Headmaster, The Doon School, Doon School, Dehra Dun, India. * Leslie Albiston Halsall, Manager, The Anglo-Thai Corporation Ltd., Bombay. * Isabel Emslie Hutton, Isabel, Lady Hutton, , lately Director of Welfare, Indian Red Cross and St. John War Organisation. * C. P. Johnstone, Conrad Powell-Johnstone, Manager, Burmah-Shell Oil Storage & Distributing Company of India Ltd., Madras. * Walter Harold Casimir Kelland, Chief Engineer, Bengal Nagpur Railway, Garden Reach, Calcutta. * Sydney Richard Pocock, , Cotton Broker, Cawnpore, United Provinces, India. * Arthur John Kemp Richardson, Member, Legislative Assembly, Manager, Barrah Estates, Barachakia, Muzaffarpur, Secretary, Bihar Planters' Association, Bihar. * Mir Shaukat Ali Khan, Nagar (princely state), Mir of Nagir. * Kenneth Forbes Glascott Stronach, , Director-General (Consumer Goods), Civil Supplies Department, Bengal. * Norman Thornton, Punjab Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Electricity Branch. ;;Honorary Commanders * Alhaji the Honourable Usman Nagogo, Usuman Nagogo, Emir of Katsina, Nigeria. * John Clifford Bugher, Director of the Yellow Fever Research Institute, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Instructor Commander Geoffrey Meeker Clark, . * Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Cobb. * Engineer Captain Aldridge Evelegh, (Retired). * Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Joseph Patrick Flanagan. * Lieutenant-Colonel John William Lawson, , Royal Marines. * Acting Captain Cecil Stanley Draper Noakes. * Commander Awbery Richmond Bishop Phelp. * The Reverend William Harold Davis Shepherd, Chaplain. * Acting Captain John Edmund Sissmore, , (Retired). * Commander (E) William Leonard Spear. * Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander John Ward Walker, * Acting Temporary-Commander Thomas Alexander Leitch, Royal Indian Naval Reserve (dated 14 August 1947). ;;Army * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Thomas Frederick Abbott (290368), Army Cadet Force. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert Langley Kirkhead Allen (6183), The Royal Welch Fusiliers. * Colonel (then Lieutenant-Colonel) William Proctor Bell Ashton, , (31326), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Colonel (acting) (then Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) Keith Lionel Beddington (23633), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Albert Edward Bevan, , (18447), Royal Army Educational Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Rixon Bucknall (13529), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Quartermaster) Harry George Chard (123325), General List, Infantry. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Michael Corder, (39633), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). * Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Lawrence Corrigan (33505), The Royal Ulster Rifles. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Glover (British Army officer), Peter James Glover (62881), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Kyme Greenwood (56746), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Frederick Arthur Harris (160573), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Mervyn Hunt, , (67201), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Stuart King, , (34469), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Kirk, , (42184), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Knowles (109327), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert Eric Lampen (672), The King's Regiment (Liverpool). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Austin Peter Lavies, , (49861), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Herbert Barker Lowe, (11472), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur George Joseph Luffmann, , (225027), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Xavier Miller, , (35255), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Hugh Graham George Niven (32076), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Wilfred York Price, , (11766), The Welch Regiment. * Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur George Proudlock, , (38421), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Horace Richards, (272735), Army Cadet Force. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Herbert Carington Smith, , (38861), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Quartermaster) Frank Spinks (90432), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant Colonel (temporary) Denis Swinburne (18077), The Royal Ulster Rifles. * Lieutenant-Colonel & Staff Paymaster Class I (temporary) John Christopher Lloyd Thomas (44227), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Patrick Cecil Carus Tweedie (56133), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Maxwell White (44206), The King's Royal Rifle Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney Hampden White, , (51248), General List, Infantry, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Leslie Harman, Officer Commanding, 1st Battalion, The Karen Rifles, Burma. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Victor Perry, Officer Commanding, 2nd Battalion, The Kachin Rifles, Burma. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Edward Deloraine Tims, Officer Commanding, 1st Battalion, The Kachin Rifles, Burma. * Major William Athelstan Aeria, , Singapore Volunteer Corps, * Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Edward Gilpin, (5323), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Officer Commanding Troops, St. Helena. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Maurice James, Federated Malay States Volunteer Corps. * Major Laurence Arthur Williams, Officer Commanding "G" (MG) Company, Singapore Volunteer Corps. ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * Colonel William Alexander Broadfoot, Skinner's Horse, Indian Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) George Vincent Leigh Coleman, Adjutant-General's Branch, G.H.Q., India. * Colonel (local Brigadier) William Edmund Hunt Condon, Director, Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India). * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Franz Reginald Lindsay Goadby, , Rajputana Rifles, Indian Army. * Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Frank Leslie Harry, Indian Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Raymond Sinclair Johnson, 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Harold Shuker, 1st Punjab Regiment, late Provost Marshal, India. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) William Edward Harper Talbot, 14th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Robert Douglas Whitehill, Indian Army, late 2nd Punjab Regiment. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Frederick William Whiteman, Indian Medical Service, Indian Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur John Millard Wilton, Indian Army, Mahratta Light Infantry. ;;Royal Air Force * Group Captain Cuthbert Caumont Bazell. * Acting Group Captain Anthony George Carl Somerhough, . * Wing Commander Edward Lawrence Colbeck-Welch, , (34081). * Wing Commander Alec Baden Kendall, , (35095). * Wing Commander Theodore Urquhart Rolfe (33013). * Acting Wing Commander Harold Gordon Blake (35387). * Acting Wing Commander Glendor Godfrey Nicholas Marshall, , (31020). * Acting Wing Commander Douglas George Scott (31171). * Acting Squadron Leader Francis Peter McKenna (189121), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader Stanley John Marriott (105301), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader George Samuel Morris (43591). * Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Harry Phillips, , (186926), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Wing Officer Jean Conan Doyle, Jean Lena Annette Conan Doyle, (550), Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader William Mace Mair (Can/C.7671), Royal Canadian Air Force. * Wing Commander John Tregonwell Davison, , (N.Z.39906), Royal New Zealand Air Force. ;Civil Division * Edgar James Allies, Accountant, Commonwealth Relations Office. * Captain William Appleby, Member, National Executive Council, British Legion. * Charles Thomas Stanhope Arnett, , Manager, North West England and North Wales Area, Central Electricity Board. * Richard Leonard Atkinson, , Secretary, Historical Manuscripts Commission. * Commander Francis Herbert Austen, Royal Navy (Retired), Commandant, Home Office Civil Defence School, Easingwold. * James Austin, Secretary and Treasurer, Glasgow Veterinary College. * Alderman Malcolm Macdonald Barbour, , Chairman, South Shields Savings Committee. * Edith Mary Batten, Lately Principal, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Arthur Baxter, Founder and National President of the British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association. * George Bennison, Lately Commandant, Fire Service College, National Fire Service College. * Nancie Elizabeth Berger, Statistician, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * Francis Horace Berry, Assistant Chief Constable, City of Edinburgh Police. * Cyril Alfred George Biggs, Director of Printing and Binding, HM Stationery Office. * Edward Blades, . For services to Army education in Scotland. * Arthur Bower, Assistant Regional Controller, North Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Guy Bown, Managing Director, Red & White Services Ltd., Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire. * Sidney Albert Brazier, Technical Manager, Dunlop Rubber Company Ltd. * Henry Brown, , Honorary Secretary, Rochester Savings Committee. * Theophilus Edward Brown, , Honorary Legal Adviser to the Incorporated Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Help Society and Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops. * Richard Frank Bryan, Chairman of Directors and Managing Director, Frank Bryan Ltd. * Ernest William Burbridge, Regional Representative of the British Council for the Midland area of the United Kingdom. * Frederick Cyril Gilmore Butler, Principal, Ministry of Education. * Herbert Stanley Butt, Factory Manager, Bristol Aeroplane Company, Bristol Aeroplane Company (Housing) Ltd. * Arthur Henry Carter, Deputy Director, Sea Transport Division, Ministry of Transport. * Martin Chadwick, Fire Force Commander, Western (No. 1) Area of Scotland, National Fire Service. * Sidney James Chamberlain, , Assistant Secretary, Metropolitan Police Office. * James Clayton, Assistant Accountant General, General Post Office. * Ernest William Clegg, , Chairman, Sheffield Court of Referees. * Cecily Cook, General Secretary, Women's Co-operative Guild. * Arthur George Cookman, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * William Cation Crawford, Engineer Manager, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Glasgow. * Victoria Mary Crosse, , Deputy Senior Assistant Medical Officer of Health, City of Birmingham. * Eugene Curran, Director and General Manager, Curran Steels Ltd., Cardiff. * Henry Darlow, Town Clerk, Bedford. * Lieutenant-Colonel David Grey Davies, County Organiser, Army Welfare Service, Flintshire. * William Robert Dayton. For services as Deputy Regional Controller, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Edward William Ditchburn, Director of Fighting Vehicle Production, Ministry of Supply. * William Edmund Doran, , Chief Engineer, River Great Ouse Catchment Board. * Raymond Noel Dorey, , Manager, Hucknall Division, Rolls-Royce Ltd. * John Dougherty, Scottish District Secretary, National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers. * Frederick Harold Dupre, , Principal Scientific Officer, Home Office Section, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. * Frank Eames. For services as Secretary, Incorporated Society of Musicians. * Herbert Eborall, , Administrative Officer, Air Ministry. * Colonel Ivor Cyrus Edwards, , Deputy Chief, Public Relations and Information Services Control, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). * Captain Thomas Elliot, , Vice-Chaifman, Berwickshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * The Reverend Ivor Evans, Chairman, Abertillery Juvenile Employment Committee. * John Turle Evans, Managing Director and Engineer, Trent Navigation Company. * Roland Owen Grayson-Evans, Acting Controller, Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Branch, Economic Division, Allied Commission for Austria (British Element). * Clifford Ernest Foster Everett, Chairman of the Regional Joint Committee for the Building Industry, Eastern Region. * Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, , Member, Southern Regional Board for Industry. * Katherine Diana Falconer, lately Lady Provost of Edinburgh. * The Reverend William Feore (The Reverend Brother Benedict), Manager of Approved Schools, Order of Brothers of the Christian Schools. * Councillor Jacob Lewis Fine, . For public services in Stepney. * Charles Richard Flynn, . For public services in Gateshead. * Sidney James Forsyth, Director of Public Relations, Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd. * Anne Geddes Gilchrist, . For services to Folk Song Music. * Alderman William Henry Girling, lately Mayor of Shoreditch. * William Graham Glennie, Deputy Regional Controller, South Western Region, Board of Trade. * John Clyde Goodman, Partner, Gray Dawes & Co., London. Lately Chairman, Shipping Deferment Advisory Committee. * Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon, , Director of Ceremonies, Order of St. John of Jerusalem. * John Greaves, , Principal Architect, Ministry of Health. * Stanley Walter Green, , Principal, HM Treasury. * Thomas Alfred Guest, Mechanical Engineer, Manchester Ship Canal Company. * Andrew Hamilton, Sheriff Clerk of Fife. * John Arthur Hamlyn, , Assistant Chief Surveyor, Ministry of Works. * Archibald Standish Hartrick, , Artist. * Sydney George Hearn, Principal Assistant to the Superintendent of the Line, Great Western Railway Company. * Henry Hicken, Labour Director, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. * Agnes Hedvig Hicks, lately Administrative Officer, Grade I, Foreign Office. * John Noel Hill, , Telephone Manager, South East Area, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. * Thomas Hewson Hodgson. For services as National Officer, Agricultural Section, Transport and General Workers' Union. * Marion Edith Felton Vesey Holt, Member of the Council, Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. * Rosamund Hornby, Regional Administrator, South Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary Services. * Isabel May Hornsby, Headmistress, Orange Hill Selective Secondary Modern Girls' School, Hendon. * William Pearson Humphreys, lately Regional Training Officer, Scotland, General Post Office. * Captain William James Hutchinson, Chief Constable of Brighton. * David Gordon Hyslop, Assistant Collector, Higher Grade, Board of Customs and Excise. * Nathan Isaacs, Deputy Director, Home Flax Production Department, Board of Trade. * Cecil Jackson, , Chief Materials Officer, Ministry of Works. * Alderman Thomas Johnson, , Divisional Organiser for theMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Signal Lieutenant Alfred Edgar Brown, (Retired). * Wardmaster Lieutenant Harry Douglas Cluer, (Retired). * Acting Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander John Culf. * Lieutenant (E) Robert William Davies, . * First Officer Colleen Fletcher, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Lieutenant-Commander (L) William Hough, (Retired). * Mr. Edward Moore, Commissioned Gunner. * Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) William Carruthers Murray, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Mr. Ernest George Joseph Pankhurst, Warrant Recruiter. * Lieutenant (E) Maurice Victor Waldron, . * Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Anthony Patrick Willasey-Wilsey, Royal Marines. * Mr. Frederick Edwin Woods, Temporary Acting Commissioned Cookery Officer. * Acting Lieutenant-Commander George Peebles Frazier, Royal Indian Navy (dated 14 August 1947). ;;Army * Lieutenant Kenneth Roy Adams (372229), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Captain (Quartermaster) John Harry Favell Allen, (218910), The Royal Hampshire Regiment. * Major Anthony James Arengo Arengo-Jones, (67137), The Gloucestershire Regiment. * Captain (Quartermaster) William Ashworth, (137601), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Captain (Quartermaster) George Bell (92181), Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain (Quartermaster) Daniel Bonar (92821), The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment). * Major (temporary) John Bishop Borthwick, , (211720), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Major (temporary) Geoffrey Frank Bovey, (356692), Royal Army Educational Corps. * Lieutenant Charles Cochrane (136756), The Border Regiment. * No. 812841 Warrant Officer Class I Arthur Croft, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (temporary) Percy George Devenish (102446), Intelligence Corps, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers. * Captain (temporary) Robert Charles Frederick Eden (193404), Intelligence Corps. * Major (temporary) Richard Newcome Fearns (181784), Royal Army Service Corps. * Major Roy Thomson Fletcher, , (119618), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Major (temporary) Cecil Ford (161376), The South Wales Borderers. * No. 1407879 Warrant Officer Class I Arthur Charles Alfred James Ford, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (acting) William Donaldson Gibson, (286054), Army Cadet Force. * Major Adam Loudon Gordon (63577), The Royal Norfolk Regiment. * Major (Quartermaster) William Guy, , (62467), Royal Horse Guards. * Senior Commander (temporary) Valerie Violet Haigh-Brown (211263), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Major (Quartermaster) Percy John Hanlon (69631), The Royal Sussex Regiment. * Major (temporary) John Henderson, , (218978), Intelligence Corps. * Captain (Quartermaster) Percy Frank Hussey (254014), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (temporary) Ian Archibald Jackson, , (135370), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Captain (temporary) George Hamilton Jones (14080), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Reserve of Officers. * Major (temporary) Victor Alfred Jupp (225008), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Major (I.R.E.M.) Harry William Kenyon (64363), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major (temporary) John Frederick Lockwood (132553), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (temporary) Archibald Edward MacVean, (175181), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Captain (Quartermaster) Redvers Marshall, (270733), The Devonshire Regiment. * Captain (Assistant Paymaster) Charles Alfred Martin (115773), Royal Army Pay Corps. * Major (temporary) Raymond Sidney Mayers, (218877), General List, Infantry. * Major (temporary) Donald Bain McDonald (163986), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major Arthur Geoffrey Howard Moore (62633), The Northamptonshire Regiment. * Major (temporary) John William Talwin Morris (69919), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (acting) George Herbert Morrow, (275190), Army Cadet Force. * No. 1869609 Warrant Officer Class I John Ray Mortlock, Corps of Royal Engineers. * Senior Commander (temporary) Prudence Pamela Perkins (211357), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 543385 Warrant Officer Class I Ronald James Read, 4th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. * No. 1417618 Warrant Officer Class I (A.C.) Reginald Anthony Robinson, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain (Quartermaster) Wallace Rowland, , (89018), The King's Royal Rifle Corps. * Major Cyril Edwin Seaford (199551), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Major (temporary) Geoffrey Wingfield Shepherd (74564), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major (temporary) (Quartermaster) Henry Ernest Simmons (128893), The Northamptonshire Regiment. * Major (Quartermaster) Leonard Stewart (72067), Corps of Royal Military Police. * Major Thomas Stibbs (169425), Royal Corps of Signals. * Captain (Quartermaster) George Richard Stonestreet (143635), General List. * Major (temporary) Edward Manning Tobin (226760), Royal Armoured Corps. * Major (temporary) Philip Walsh (74707) Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. * Major (temporary) Harold William Way (160945), Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. S/5626112 Warrant Officer Class II Richard Wedge, Royal Army Service Corps. * Major Stanley John Williams (58792), Royal Corps of Signals. * Major (temporary) James Wilson (British Army officer), Alexander James Wilson, , (180730), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). * Major (temporary) Eric Wisdom (151300), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Junior Commander (temporary) Marie Maughan Wolf (211440), Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Lieutenant William Henry lies Woodcock (291953), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Major (temporary) Ernest Harrison Gilmore Young (155182), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain (Temporary Major) Leslie Claude Balmer, 4th Battalion, The Burma Regiment. * Captain (Temporary Major) Robert Michael Carr, , Headquarters, Burma Command. * Captain (Temporary Major) John Hunter, The Burma Regiment. * Captain (Temporary Major) Cecil Arthur Stevens, No. 1 GT Company, Burma Army Service Corps. * Captain (Temporary Major) Alfred Richard Thair, Burma Supply Company, Burma Army Service Corps. * Captain Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz, Singapore Volunteer Corps. * Warrant Officer Class II Manassah Nat Rakusen, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. * Captain Chee Juay Poh, , Medical Officer, Singapore Volunteer Corps. * Captain Wijaya Raja Singham Nalliah, Ceylon Light Infantry. ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Frank Adams, Indian Army, 14th Punjab Regiment. * W/S Captain (Temporary Major) John Joseph Barron, Royal Indian Engineers. * W/S Captain (Temporary Major) Thomas Battersby, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, attached G.H.Q., India. * Captain (W/S Major) Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Claude Keays-Byrne, 14th Punjab Regiment, attached Tactical Administrative School, Dehra Dun. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Groves, Quartering Directorate, Quartermaster-General's Branch, G.H.Q., India. * Major Archibald Walter Harding, Army in India Reserve of Officers, attached Royal Indian Army Service Corps. * W/S Major Walter Youell Leggett, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, attached G.H.Q., India. * W/S Major Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel John Haines Mainprize, attached Indian Army Ordnance Corps. * Major John Northmore Stevens, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Headquarters, Southern Command, India. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Nigel John Buchanan Stuart, Frontier Force Rifles, attached 5th Indian Division. * Captain (Temporary Major) Desmond George-Barry Badham-Thornhill, Indian Army, 2nd Punjab Regiment. ;;Royal Air Force * Squadron Leader Edward Samuel Robert Coakes (45194). * Squadron Leader William Alfred George Goldsworthy (11014), (Retired). * Acting Squadron Leader James Rose Watson Adamson (64175), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Acting Squadron Leader John Harold Parker Oxspring (64679), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Thomas Harvey, , (203369), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Hugh Esmor Huxley (159192), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Flight Lieutenant Frederick Arthur Vernon Stoltz (61593). * Acting Flight Lieutenant William George Carr (199796). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Owen (56317). * Warrant Officer Leslie Ault (511938). * Warrant Officer Sydney Alfred John De Souza (238327). * Warrant Officer Arthur Evans (508586). * Warrant Officer Ralph Edward Hartley (590578). * Warrant Officer Thomas Horsfall (338124). * Warrant Officer George William Arthur Lyddiatt (518181). * Warrant Officer William Charles Sheppard (357040). * Warrant Officer George (William Sirman (516037). * Acting Flight Officer Christine Charlotte Harvey (7251), Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * Section Officer Gwendoline Mary Lamb (6159), Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * Acting Matron May Eliza Ball, , (5015), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. ;Civil Division * Ernest Frederick Abbiss, Staff Officer, Air Ministry. * Albert Ernest Adams, Chief Designer, Scophony Ltd. * Jane Stear Alexander. For public services in Featherstone, West Riding of Yorkshire. * William Alexander, Farmer, Eynsford, Kent. For services in the design of new and useful agricultural machines. * Rupert Ellis Alford, Manager of English Flax Ltd., Devizes. * Harry Allard, Skipper of the Fishing Trawler ''Bellona'', Consolidated Fisheries Ltd., Grimsby. * Everina Reeves Allen, Vice-President, Belfast Savings Council. * Frank Raine-Allen, lately Control Officer, Grade II, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). * Hubert John Allwright, , Scientific Officer, Ministry of Supply. * John Anderson, Chief Public Assistance Officer, Aberdeen. * Observer Lieutenant Henry Austin, lately Chief Equipment Officer, Royal Observer Corps. * Sydney George Bailey, Secretary, Cake and Biscuit Manufacturers' War Time Alliance. * Frederick Edward Baker, Works Manager, Hounsells (Bridport) Ltd. * Katharine Stella Baker. For services to the Art for the People Travelling Exhibitions, British Institute of Adult Education. * Horace Alfred Baldwin, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Leslie Banks, Pensions Officer, Blind Veterans UK, St. Dunstan's. * Leonard James Bate, First Class Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Edwin Thomas Bateman, Superintendent, Computations, Trigonometrical and Levelling Division, Ordnance Survey Office. * Annie Bates, lately Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions. * James Gordon Bates, Assistant Drainage Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * The Reverend Canon Aulbrey Baxter, Chaplain to the Chester Royal Infirmary. * Jack Douglas Beebee, Clerk to the Licensing Authorities, South Eastern Area, Ministry of Transport. * Dora Behrens, Deputy-Chairman, Bradford Savings Committee. * Alfred Harry Bell, Senior Experimental Officer, National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. * Margaret Bell, District Nurse, Blackwood District, Nursing Association, Lanarkshire. * Adam Bennett, General Secretary, National Union of Stove Grate and General Metal Workers. * Thomas Bevan. For public services in Carmarthenshire. * Peter Henderson Beveridge, Superintendent, Criminal Investigation Department, Metropolitan Police Force. * Horace Jerome Bingham, Station Superintendent, Poole, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Captain Alwyn Edgar Biscoe, Chief Secretary, Royal Life Saving Society UK, Royal Life Saving Society. * Samuel Charles Bishop, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Peter Bisset, Honorary Secretary, Kincardineshke Savings Committee. * Ernest Blaikley, , Assistant, Imperial War Museum. * Ernest Sidney Blake, Secretary (Eastern Region), National Federation of Building Trades Operatives. * Percy Charles Blatcher, Chief Registrar, HM Treasury. * Ann Blyth, lately District Nurse, Meldon and Hartburn, Northumberland. * William Edward Joseph Bolger, Honorary Secretary, County Antrim Savings Committee. * Joseph Roy Bottom, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Thomas Bowman, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Archibald Claude Bridge, Production Engineer and Works Manager, Crittall-Luxfer Aluminium Windows Ltd., Colwick. * Thomas William Brown, Chief of Central Materials Inspection Bureau, Derby, London, Midland and Scottish Railway. * Bertrand Frederick Brueton, , Senior Planning Officer to the Bristol Corporation. * George Thomas Bullock, President, Bristol Printing and Kindred Trades Federation. * George William Bundock, Chief Clerk of Works, Cambridge, Ministry of Works. * Alfred Charles Button, Accountant, Ministry of Education. * George Edward Camm, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Harry James Capewell, Senior Executive Officer, Passport Office. * Arthur Archibald Chalmers, Assistant Fire Force Commander, Headquarters, National Fire Service. * George Maredydd Chantrill, Chief Labour Officer, Worcester War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Alexander Francis Chase, Staff Officer, Ministry of Transport. * Henry Charles Cheater, Clerk, Special Class, Ministry of Works. * James Christie, Secretary, Norfolk War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Dorothy Hilda Chubb, Assistant Establishments Officer, British Iron and Steel Federation. * John Clark, Colliery Manager, Fifeshire. * John Prosser Clark, Assistant Area Organiser, Scottish Savings Committee. * Raymund Montague Clark, Senior Assistant, Patent Office, Board of Trade. * Harold William Clarke, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * William Joseph Coaley, Secretary, Main Line Railway Canteens' Association, * Edith Cockcroft, , Chairman, Halifax Standing Conference of Women's Organisations. * Jean Holmes Copeland, Honorary Secretary, Dromore Local Savings Committee. * Harry Albert Cox, Head of Branch, Tithe Redemption Commission. * Elsie Craik, Senior Executive Officer, Assistance Board. * George Crawford, Executive Officer, General Post Office, Scotland. * Gerald Graham Lee Cruickshank, Chief Commissioner, National Savings Committee. * Arthur John Cushing, lately Manager, Borough Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Margaret Lamb Dalgleish, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Food. * George Daly, Staff Officer, General Post Office. * James Davenport, lately District Locomotive Superintendent, Bank Hall, Liverpool, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * Bernard Jack Davies, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Education. * Ernest Charles Davies, Superintending Clerk, General Register Office. * Margaret Mary Davies, Deputy Governor, HM Prison Holloway. * Herbert Davoile, , Executive Officer, Juvenile Employment Committee, Coventry. * William Joseph Desmoulins, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Food. * Margaret Sarah Draper, Staff Officer, Ministry of Pensions. * Cecil Nicholas Drew, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Henrietta Muriel Newton Driver, Chairman and Founder, English Speaking Officers' Club, London. * Harry Dudley, Liaison Officer, Pottery and Glass, Ministry of Works. * Janet Wilson Dunbar, Supervisor of Clerical Staff, Wages Department, South of Scotland Wholesale Meat Supply Association. * Mary Duncan, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Health. * William Robert Duncan. For services as Production Superintendent, David Brown Ltd., David Brown & Sons (Huddersfield) Ltd. * Alfred Thomas Duncombe, Column Officer, No. 40 (Wolverhampton) Fire Force, National Fire Service. * Ernest Alfred Dunham, , Managing Director, Crisswell's Garage, Newmarket. For services to the Ministry of Transport. * Richard Reginald Dutton, Civilian Staff Officer, War Office. * Sidney John Eardley, , Regional Fuel Engineer, North Eastern Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * William George Nickels Easterbrook, Proprietor, W. G. Nickels & Co., Stockport. * Harold Edridge, Lately Deputy Director of Salvage and Recovery, Chesterfield. * John Shuttleworth Elliott, Assistant Divisional Operating Manager (Motive Power), Crewe, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. * Wilfred Howe Elliott, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. * William Thomas Elston, Superintendent of Production, Hydrographic Supplies Establishment, Admiralty. * Lieutenant (S) Charles James Wahab Enwright, Royal Navy (Retired), Book Officer, The Nore, Admiralty. * Stanley Arthur Wesley Evans, Staff Officer, Air Ministry. * William Henry Everett, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation. * Leslie Ivan Farren, Technical Assistant, General Electric Company Ltd., Wembley. * John Hayden Fitton, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Senator Henry Fleming, . For services as Irish Auditor for the Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Society. * George Howard Forsyte, . For services as Principal Engineer Surveyor for Research, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. * John Howard Fox, . For public service in Somerset. * Dundas Joseph Dick Frame, District Chairman, Toc H, Belfast. * Thomas Henry Gale, Honorary Local Fuel Overseer, Abertillery Urban District Council. * Muriel Winifred Gibbs, Head of Section, Children's Department, Women's Voluntary Services. * Samuel Tonge Goggins, , Chairman, Ashton-under-Lyne Employment Committee. * Ernest Charles Gough, Chairman, Deptford Savings Committee. * Alderman Arthur William Green, , Chairman, King George Hospital, Ilford. * Geoffrey Taylor Greenhalgh, Senior Captain, British European Airways Corporation. * Jessie Isabella Gregor, Lady Convener, Forces Social Centre, Perth. * Kathleen Griffiths, Office Secretary of the Radium Commission. * Emma Groves. For public services in Keighley. * James Jackson Grundy, lately Distribution Manager, Alkali and General Chemicals Divisions, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. * Horace Guerrier, Machinery and Cultivations Officer, Surrey War Agricultural Executive Committee. * William Snowdon Hall, , Vice-Chairman, Durham District Miners' Welfare Committee. * Sarah Frances Theodora (Doris) Hanna, Assistant Director, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, Middle East Land Forces. * Dorothy Margaret Vernon Harcourt, Leader in Charge, YMCA King George's Club for Officers, London. * Mary Margaretta Embrey Harrison, employed in a Department of the Foreign Office. * Gilbert Harknett Harvey, Honorary Port Fishery Officer for Leigh-on-Sea. * Edward Richard Hayter, Assistant Controller, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). * Edith Frances Heaven, Controller of Catholic Women's League, British Army of the Rhine. * Phyllis Hennings, Member, Northampton Juvenile Employment Committee. * Walter James Henton, , District Superintendent, (South East), Country Buses and Coaches, London Passenger Transport Board. * Ethel Margaret Hill, Chairman of the Women's Auxiliary, North Eastern Division of the YMCA. * Charles Henry Hinchcliffe, Manager, Bullcliffe Wood Colliery, Yorkshire. * Phyllis Hirst, Senior Women's Welfare Supervisor, London Passenger Transport Board. * Stanley Samuel Hirst, Clerk, Great Western Railway Company. * John Martin Hogan, . For public services in Wellington, Shropshire. * Mary Megan Holman, lately Outports Welfare Officer, Admiralty. * Francis Alexander Holmes, Assistant Chief of Police, Southern Railway Company. * Henry William Holmes, Principal Civilian Staff Officer, War Office. * Alfred Allman Hopwood, Farmer, Cheshire. Member of a District Committee of the War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Annis Louisa Horne, Clerical Officer, Cabinet Office. * Norah Horner, Chairman, Stretford Savings Committee, Manchester. * Edwin Henry Hounsell, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Thelma Gwendolen Hunt, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. * Bertram Hunter, Staff Officer, Board of Trade. * Harry Easdown Hutchins, Secretary, North Midland Regional Board for Industry, Board of Trade. * Lancelot William Ibbotson, District Superintendent, Darlington, London and North Eastern Railway Company. * Ernest William Irons, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * William Irwin, Staff Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. * Ethel Grace James, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Contracts Department, General Post Office. * Christiana Elizabeth Bayne-Jardine, County Organiser, Berkshire, Women's Land Army. * Christine Cobban Jenkins. For services as Member of the Welfare Committee, RAF Watchfield, Royal Air Force Station, Watchfield. * Ruth Rogers Jolliffe, Matron, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, Headington, Oxford. * Norman William Isom Jones, , Chief D.C. Designer, Maudsley Ltd., Dursley. * Richard Llewelyn Jones, , Member of the Cardigan War Agricultural Executive Committee. * Marjorie Jose, Clerical Officer, Foreign Office. * John Benjamin Kennedy, District Officer, HM Coastguard, Ministry of Transport. * Alfred John Kent, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Sidney Alfred Kettley, Manager, Hounslow Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Ethel Maureen King, Honorary Matron, Glendhu Children's Hospital, Co. Down. * Edith Mary Kirkham, Assistant Home Sister, Walton Hospital, Liverpool. * Arthur Johnston Lacey, Staff Officer, Ministry of Works. * Harry Lager, , Senior Staff Officer, Air Ministry. * John Henry Starkey Lager, Civil Assistant and Accountant, Air Ministry. * Donald Lamont, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise. * Julia Lance, Divisional President, Norfolk Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Lewis Norman Law, Civilian Workshpp Officer, Class I, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * Eileen Leach, , Liaison Officer and Head of Supplies Department, Women's Voluntary Services. * Norman Howard Leaker, Secretary to the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. * Leonard Edward Le Burn, Staff Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. * Councillor John Henry Lewis, , District House Coal Officer, Biimingham. * Albert Edward Littlewood, Training Officer, Williamthorpe Colliery, Chesterfield. * John Lomax, Civil Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty. * Frank Winstanley Longworth, Manager, Camden Town Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Ella Forsyth Lyell, Assistant County Director, County of Angus, British Red Cross Society. * Muriel Lynn, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Phyllis Kathleen Lyons, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Town and Country Planning. * Isobel Taylor McAinsh, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * John MacCalman, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Argyllshire Constabulary. * John McGregor, Senior Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department. * Donald Mackay, , Headmaster, Viewforth Public School, Kirkcaldy. * Catherine McMenemy, Honorary Secretary, Drumpark Special School Savings Committee, Bargeddie, Lanarkshire. * Frederick William Malby, Assistant Controller, Board of Trade. * Margaret Malim, Headmistress, Stockton-on-Tees, Deaf County School. * Isabel Manson. For services as Chairman of the Women's Land Army Sub-Committee of the Agricultural Executive Committee for Aberdeen and Ellon. * Frank Dixon Marshall, Honorary Secretary, Yorkshire Air Training Corps Association. * William Sidney Mason, Senior Staff Officer, General Post Office. * Douglas Edward Masson, Senior Representative of HM Stationery Office in the Middle East. * Joseph Frederick Anthony Mawdsley, Regional Maintenance and Certifying Officer, North Western Region, Ministry of Transport. * Alderman Douglas Archibald Alfred Merry, Chairman, Finchley Local Committee of Nos. 393 and 1825 Squadrons, Air Training Corps. * Charles William Midgley. For public services in Dewsbury and district, West Riding of Yorkshire. * John William Mildon, Port Food Movement Officer, Cardiff, Ministry of Food. * Alexander Watson Miller. For services as Secretary, West Green Approved Society. * James Thornton Morgan, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland. * John Vernon Morley, Clerk to the River Severn Catchment Board. * Cherry Morris, Almoner, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London. * Cyril George Morris, Chairman, Wrexham and District Savings Committee. * Thomas Edward Murray, Senior Executive Officer (now Principal), Ministry of Health. * Henry Maurice Myers, Production Manager, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Metals Division. * Donald Drummond Mynott, Director, Autos (Tiptree) Ltd., Essex. * Rhoda Mary-Linda Needs (Mrs. Olden), Higher Executive Officer, Central Office of Information. * Harry Boswell Norris, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation. * Lieutenant-Colonel Rudolf Ord, , Managing Director, Satterthwaite & Co. Formerly Chairman, Council of Leather and Grindery Merchants' Associations of Great Britain. * Thomas Whyte Pagan, Works Manager, R. & J. Garroway Ltd., Glasgow. * Flight-Lieutenant Cecil Lawrence Pashley, , Chief Instructor, South Coast Flying Club, Shoreham. * David John Patten, Undermanager, Cwmtillery Colliery, Monmouthshire. * Harold Russell Paul, Member, Building Industries Distributors Advisory Committee in Wales. * Robert Alexander Perry, Collector of Taxes, Belfast, Board of Inland Revenue. * Guy Alan Pillinger, Regional Coal Officer, South Western Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * Herbert Allan Victor Piper, Assistant Director of Finance, War Damage Commission. * Helen Symon Pirie, Food Executive Officer and National Registration Officer, Arbroath, Ministry of Food. * George Gordon Pringle, , Higher Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * Herbert Rainford, Senior Experimental Officer, Electrical Testing Station, Buxton, Ministry of Fuel and Power. * Arthur Lincoln Ralphes, Town Clerk, Borough of Conway. * Pamela Susannah Randall, Officer, Grade II, Foreign Office (German Section). * Livingstone Albert Randerson, Engineer and Surveyor to the Swale Rural District Council. * Gladys Ranscombe, Superintendent of Typists, Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Ministry of Supply. * Eva Jessie Rice, Clerical Officer, Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor. * Dorothy Kate Richard, Travelling Organiser, North Midland Region, Women's Voluntary Services. * James Robertson, Principal Civilian Staff Officer, War Office. * Frederick John Robinson, , Director and General Works Manager, Bakelite Ltd. * George Albert Rogers, Senior Staff Officer, Admiralty. * William Munro Ross, Staff Assistant to the Divisional General Manager, Scottish Area, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * Sidney George Russ, Honorary Secretary, Salisbury Savings Committee. * Alma Doris Rutter, Clerical Officer, Burma Office. * Alfred James Ryan, , lately Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Corporation of Hastings. * Henry Saunders, Major, Salvation Army, British Red Shield Services. * Henry William Savidge, Senior Executive Officer, Home Office. * George Arthur Sawbridge, Manager, Naval Shop, Coventry Gauge & Tool Company Ltd. * Leslie Caie Scott, Accountant, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * Arthur Sidebottom, lately Head of Costings Department, Cotton Control. * Major Herbert William Shelly, Officer in Charge, Message Control, Foreign Office (German Section). * Norah Elizabeth Skrimshire, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. * Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Slater, , (Retired), Deputy Commander, Royal Engineers, Shorncliffe. * Edward Smith, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions. * Sidney Walter Smith, Deputy Chief Accountant, Colonial Office. * William Smith, Secretary, Scottish Fertilizers Distribution Committee. * Mabel Alice Sparks, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Charles David Stanier, General Secretary, National Union of Flint Glassworkers. * John Hunter Stewart, Assistant Superintendent, Waterguard Department, Board of Customs and Excise. * Walter Stoneman, Portrait Photographer and Lecturer. For services to the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery. * Edith Emily Strachan, Chief Supervisor, Regional Director's Office, London Postal Region, General Post Office. * Arthur John Sullivan, Senior Executive Officer, Land Registry. * Norman Tarttelin, Superintendent, Lincolnshire Constabulary. * Edward Taylor, Undermanager, Amingon Colliery, Tamworth. * Edward Taylor, , Chairman, Bath Savings Committee. * James Tecey, Factory Inspector, Northampton District, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * John William Thomas, Senior Inspector, Clothing Inspectorate, Ministry of Supply. * William Edgar Wenallt Thomas, Manager, Gloucester Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service. * David Tipper, Headmaster, Morchard Bishop Voluntary Primary School, Devon. * Archibald Kirkwood Todd, Honorary Secretary, Falkirk Savings Committee. * Sidney Alfred Tompkins. For services as Deputy Controller, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Western Europe. * Rachel Janet Trant, , Women's Land Army member of the Montgomery War Agricultural Executive Committee, * Harry William Horatio Hawkesford Treadwell, Member, Employers' Side, Boot and Shoe Repairing Wages Council. * Margaret Gladys Triggs, Head of Services Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary Services. * Marie Trimble. For public services in County Fermanagh. * Frederick James Tucknott, Chief Statistical Officer, National Smallbore Rifle Association. * George Frederick Tyler, , Chairman, Ilford Wing Committee, Air Training Corps. * Alma Gardyne Uffindell, Higher Clerical Officer, Board of Trade. * Beatrice Vint, Headmistress, Blenheim County Infants' School, Leeds. * Councillor Ulric Bertram Walmsley, Chairman, Chelsea Savings Committee. * Mary Walsh, Senior Sister, Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley. * Reginald Basil Webb, Chief Clerk, Town Clerk's Department, Westminster City Council. * Ivy Dickinson Webber, Higher Executive Officer, Home Office. * Charles Anthony Welch, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance. * Sidney Whincup, , Secretary, National Service Hostels Corporation. * Reginald Whitworth. For welfare services to the Post Office in Sheffield. * Robert Roger Whyte, , Assistant Superintendent, Gas Turbine Department, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Ltd. * Christopher Watson Willcox, Deputy Principal Inspection Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Gladys May Willder, Health Visitor, Liverpool County Borough. * John Richard Williams, Secretary, Civil Service Sanatorium Society. * Owen Medwyn Williams, Secretary, Local Price Regulation Committee for South Wales, Board of Trade. * George Edward Williamson, Chief Managing Clerk, Solicitors Department, New Scotland Yard. * Henry Wolfson, Senior Research Chemist, Valve Research Laboratories, Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., Ilminster. * Harold George Woodbery, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence. * Henry Charles Wooderson, lately Senior Shipping Assistant, Ministry of Transport. * Ruth Woodhouse, Army Welfare Officer, Dorsetshire, Hon. Junior Commander, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * Ada Anna Woodman, Superintendent Health Visitor, East Ham County Borough. * Charles Ernest Worthington, Executive Engineer, Northern Ireland Region, General Post Office. * Captain Thomas William Yarnell, Honorary Treasurer, Northern Ireland Area, British Legion. * Hugh Young, Head Postmaster, Warrington, Lancashire. * Phyllis Kitty Hodder Young, Head of Old Peoples Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary Services. * Walter Hollis Adams, British Vice-Consul at San Francisco. * Maitre Robert Francis John Ange Borg, British, subject resident in Egypt. * Elizabeth Galbraith Bradshaw, lately Private Secretary to His Majesty's Consul-General at São Paulo. * Marjorie Henrietta Brown, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office. * Cecil James Bunbury, Head of Information Department, His Majesty's Legation in Havana. * Stanley William Coomes, Clerk at His Majesty's Legation at Bucharest. * Frederick William Cresswell, British Vice-Consul at Rotterdam. * Gower George Gautray, British subject resident in Algeria. * George Alexander Glass, Chief Public Health Inspector, Sudan Government. * John Henry Hall, Chief Hydrographical Surveyor, Basra Port Directorate. * Amelia Hammersley, British subject until recently resident in the United States of America. * Henry Vincent Harty, Clerk at His Majesty's Embassy in Ankara. * Reuben John Llewellyn, Acting Chief Engineer, Basra Port Directorate. * Ernest Main, Deputy Head of Information Department, His Majesty's Embassy in Cairo. * Charles Richard Wilson Montagu, lately Temporary Secretary, at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Batavia. * Isobel Laura Nation, lately Head Clerk at His Majesty's Consulate at Seattle. * Charles Sidney Palmer, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy in Prague. * Samuel Stuart Pennington, British subject resident in Argentina. * Margaret Hope Pilkington. For services in Greece under the Guide International Service. * John Kenneth Reuterdahl, Third Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Stockholm. * Jean Margaret Riley, Captain, Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). For services in South-East Asia prior to 2 September 1945. * William Anthony Thomas Sowden, until recently Second Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Cairo. (Now First Secretary (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.) * Cynthia Margaret Stephenson. For services in South-East Asia prior to 2 September 1945. * Senga Anbuthnot Todd, Captain, Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). For services in South-East Asia prior to 2 September 1945. * Manoel Walker, British subject resident in the Dominican Republic. * Charles Euan Van Waterschoodt, British subject resident in Hayti. * Lavinia Jane Graham-Weall, Captain, Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). For services in South-East Asia prior to 2 September 1945. * Minnie Lee White, British subject resident in Peru. * William Nesbitt Wilson, Senior Examiner, Passport Control Office, New York. * Norman Irving Archibald, Principal, Lerotholi Technical School, Basutoland. * John Butt, Collector of Customs, Class II, Newfoundland. * Susan Adelaide Casson. For social welfare services, especially to mentally afflicted persons, in the State of Western Australia. * Frances Diana Christison. For social welfare services in Clare, State of South Australia. * Philip Crawshaw. For services rendered under the auspices of the Overseas League in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseas. * Aubrey John Crocker, Controller of Telecommunications, Newfoundland. * Donald Henry Cummings, Government Disposals Officer, Treasury, Southern Rhodesia. * Alice Elizabeth Drakes, lately Matron, Rhodesian Children's Home, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. * Hugh Fraser, formerly a Master at the Launceston Church Grammar School, State of Tasmania, for many years. * Isaac Charles Goodyear, a school teacher in the Newfoundland outport, Outports of Newfoundland. * Hilda Mary Hanton, lately Matron, Memorial Hospital, Adelaide, State of South Australia. * John Payne Luscombe, Auditor, Grade I, Department of the Comptroller and Auditor-General, Newfoundland. * Louise McDonald, of Eiffel Flats, Southern Rhodesia. For social welfare services. * Mary Stewart McKinlay, President, Women's Auxiliary of the Western Australian Executive of the Returned and Services League of Australia, Returned Sailors' Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia. * Elizabeth Moore, Matron, Merchant Navy Hospital, St. John's, Newfoundland. * Thomas James Needham, of Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia. For public services. * Robert Bright Norton, a prominent member of the Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association, State of South Australia. For charitable services. * Horatio Thomas Patrick, lately Travelling Engineer, Newfoundland Railway. * Zoe May Richardson, of Hobart, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services. * Gwendoline Beatrice Soames, Clerk, Grade II, Swaziland. * Arthur Danesbury Towner, of Burnie, State of Tasmania. For philanthropic services. * Frederick Jonas Davis, Superintendent of Traffic and Personal Assistant to the Chief Engineer, Telecommunications, Burma. * Samuel Betton Gwynn, Divisional Engineer, Wireless, Burma. * Patrick Warre Rathbone, Burma Civil Service (I), Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (Commerce), Burma. * Wilfred John Stone, Bridge Engineer, Burma Railways. * Arthur Julian Adolphus Archer. For public services in St. Vincent, Windward Islands. * Jonathan Erastus Ayettey, Assistant Auditor, Gold Coast. * Alexander Bentley, Senior Foreman, Public Works Department, Fiji. * Thomas George Blount, Clerical Officer, Police Force Clerical Service, Palestine. * Agnes Anna Brown de l'Hoste, Lady Bowie. For social services in Nyasaland. * Francis Brett, Chief Junk Inspector, Harbour Department, Hong Kong. * Margaret Venn Brown. For services to the Red Cross in the Bahamas. * Francis John Bush, Assistant to the General Manager, Gold Coast Railway. * William Howard Carter, District Inspector of Schools, Barbados. * Edwin Emmanuel Cesar, Colonial Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mauritius. * Thomas Ambrose De Mel. For services to the tea industry in Ceylon. * Sheik Feroze-Ud-Din, Office Assistant, Tanganyika. * Saravanamuthu Eliatamby, lately Financial Assistant, Customs Department, Malayan Union. * Robert Ewart Gabourel, Assistant Colonial Secretary, British Honduras. * Demang Haji Abdul Ghani bin Haji Abdul Manan, , lately Senior Headman, Malayan Union. * Charles James Gomez, Collector of Revenue, Gibraltar. * Harold Gilkison Gray, Press Censor, Palestine. * George Mathieson Hardie, Government Printer, Sierra Leone. * Cecil William Hodges, Colonial Audit Service, Auditor, Windward Islands. * Anna Caroline Jane Hollar, Assistant Teacher, Wolmer's Boys' School, Jamaica. * Constance Mary Hornby. In charge of the Church Missionary Society Schools, Kigezi, Uganda. * Puthenvelil Mathai Joseph, , Medical Officer, Seychelles Hospital, Seychelles. * Angus Kerr, Chief Underground Manager of the Nigerian Government Collieries. * Alfred Joseph Khayat, Acting District Officer, Finance, Jaffa, Palestine. * Cuthbert Geary MacArthur, lately Senior Assistant Game Warden, Game Department, Kenya. * The Reverend Walter Forrest McWhan, Presbyterian Minister, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. * John Alexander Mitchell, Acting Chief Mechanical Engineer, Transport and Harbours Department, British Guiana. * Hassan Esmail Nathoo, . For social and welfare services in Kenya. * John Alan Bennett Nicholson, , Colonial Medical Service, Medical Officer, Nigeria. * Gertrude Tiang Wee Ong. For services to the Blood Transfusion Service, Singapore. * Alfred Eric Peters, Keeper of Prisons, Antigua, Leeward Islands. * Henry William Pledge, Staff Officer, Crown Agents for the Colonies. * Francis Ramadhani, Staff Grade Clerk, Tanganyika Local Civil Service. * Gershom Adolphus Ricketts. For services to education and technical training in Nigeria. * The Reverend David Maxwell-Robertson, Principal, Jeanes School, Northern Rhodesia. * Benedict Aloysius Skelchy. For services to the Co-operative Society Movement in the Malayan Union. * Howard Emmett Dunscomb Smith. For services to horticulture in Bermuda. * Evgenia Theodotou. For public services in Cyprus. * Arthur George Whitehead, Chief Draughtsman, Lands and Mines Department, Tanganyika. * Wilfred Augustine Kayinde Williams, Office Assistant, Public Works Department, Sierra Leone. ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * Arthur Robin Adair, Indian Civil Service, Additional Director of Agriculture, Bihar. * Margaret Kerr Menzies Alexander, Medical Superintendent, Christian Raily Hospital, Todiarpet, Madras. * Edward Herbert Annett, Superintendent, Walton Training School, North Western Railway, Lahore Cantonment. * Allan James Vincent Arthur, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Multan. * Charles William Ayton, Deputy Assistant, Chief Administrative Officer (Procedure), Defence Department, Government of India. * Edward Harold Barnes, Spinning Master, Madura Mills, Madura, Madras. * Kenneth Charles Batten, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for India in London. * Herbert Christopher Beaumont, Indian Political Service, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Department. * Peter Scott Bennett, Signal Engineer, Oudh Tirhut Railway, Gorakhpur. * Ernest John Beveridge, Indian Police, Assistant Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India. * Frank Arthur Bird, Deputy Assistant Director, Ordnance Factories, General Headquarters, India. * Captain Richard Ernest Rawland Bird, Indian Political Service, Under-Secretary, Political Department, India. * John Blake Bowman, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Revenue Department, Bombay. * Herbert Harry Brisley, Officer Supervisor, H.Q., Military Adviser-in-Chief,Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
* The Right Honourable Margaret Grace Bondfield, . For public services. * Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Mary, the Honourable Mrs. Harold Nicolson (Miss V. Sackville-West). For services to Literature.Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)
;Burma Civil Service * Albert Edward Ambrey, Assistant Works Manager, Burma Railways. ;Indian Civil Services (dated 14 August 1947) * Harold Maurice Evennette, Superintendent, Punjab Public Works Department Secretariat, Buildings and Roads Branch, Punjab. * Walter Leonard Harrison, , Assistant Secretary, Office of the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Barrie Grosvenor Nash, , Assistant Secretary (officiating) Office of the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Francis Randel Sanger, , Assistant Secretary, Office of the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
;Gold Medal * Colleen, Lady Nye (wife of His Excellency Sir Archibald Nye, ,Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
;Gold Medal * Hilla, Lady Cowasji Jehangir (wife of Sir Cowasji Jehangir, , Bombay), Chairman, Bombay Mothers' and Children's Welfare Society, Bombay. * Jena, Lady Duggan (wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Jamshedji Duggan, , Bombay), Chairman, Indian Red Cross Women's Council for Bombay, Bombay. * Jean Murray Orkney, , Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service.British Empire Medal (BEM)
;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Leading Seaman (Temporary) Robert Percy Barker, C/JX 158153. * Air Artificer Third Class Harold John Patrick Barry, L/SFX 2110. * Master-at-Arms Frederick Cyril Robert Boxall, P/M 40190. * Chief Petty Officer Harry Brook, , P/JX 135236. * Quartermaster Sergeant David Richard Clarke, Po.X.2293. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Howard Frank Davis, D/MX 45612. * Chief Petty Officer Writer James Sidney Dron, C/MX 59843. * Petty Officer Haji Jamil bin Haji Dzafir, SE/X 21, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Master-at-Arms Charles John Francis, C/M 39899. * Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Thomas George Hallahan, D/M 7878. * Mechanician Richard Harold Hannaford, P/KX 88331. * Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Harold George Herman, D/MX 48144. * Colour Sergeant (Acting Regimental Sergeant Major) Walter French Jackson, Po.X.137. * Chief Petty Officer Albert Henry Jervis, , D/JX 132623. * Chief Petty Officer William George Kingdon, P/J 111693. * Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic James McKintosh, P/KX 78954. * Petty Officer Frederick George Martin, P/JX 126987. * Chief Petty Officer Awang bin Mohamed, SE/X 234, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Chief Petty Officer Tom Martin Moore, , C/JX 126144. * Petty Officer (A.H.2) Frederick Job Napper, C/JX 127845. * Petty Officer Wren Patricia Ewart Neale, 40846, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Charles Marshall Payne, P/KX 75663. * Chief Radio Electrician Alfred John Reader, P/JX 129192. * Chief Petty Officer Richard Patrick Richards, , P/JX 137214. * Air Artificer Third Class Kenneth John Russell, L/FX 75642. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Thomas Scott, P/J 110149. * Chief Wren Steward (O) Eileen Lucy Southern, 849, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Chief Engine Room Artificer John James Steel, C/M 39451. * Chief Electrician (T.I.) Daniel Charles Thomas Walker, P/JX 125629. * Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Charles Arthur Warner, C/KX 75467. * Bandmaster First Class (Acting Company Sergeant Major) Walter Percival Wells, R.M.B. X. 171. * Chief Yeoman of Signals John Alfred Williams, D/JX 136379. ;;Army * No. 3233759 Colour-Sergeant James Ahlers, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). * No. 14795463 Corporal John Allen, The York and Lancaster Regiment. * No. W/320466 Corporal Jessie Phillip Anderson, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 863192 Sergeant Douglas Aveyard, Corps of Royal Military Police. * No. 2307248 Sergeant (acting) Harry Barton, Royal Corps of Signals. * No. W/54038 Sergeant Freda Boocock, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 6011123 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Frank Wright Carey, Army Air Corps. * No. 10566581 Corporal William James Corbett, Army Catering Corps. * No. W/30009 Corporal Margaret Cowling, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 853020 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant (acting) Herbert William Downes, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. S/14924874 Staff-Sergeant Bryan Emes, Royal Army Service Corps. * No. 14047440 Sapper Esmond Alfred Ewers, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 2978589 Sergeant Alexander Fairfull, Corps of Royal Military Police. * No. 6911921 Colour-Sergeant Henry Ferguson, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). * No. 6975652 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) William Ferris, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment). * No. 4530410 Sergeant Joseph Wilfred Flanagan, Grenadier Guards. * No. 4443763 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Francis Henry Galton, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. W/40027 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Joan Maud Mary Gardiner, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 14419346 Sergeant Raymond Harding, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * No. 14914418 Sergeant Arthur Alfred Hardy, Royal Corps of Signals. * No. 14468873 Sergeant (local) John Houlden, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. NA/31555 Company Sergeant-Major Ibrahim Bala, The Nigeria Regiment. * No. NA/27364 Warrant Officer Class II Isa Sokoto, The Nigeria Regiment. * No. 14692865 Colour-Sergeant Simon Katz, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). * No. 1073969 Bombardier Chester Hamilton Kelly, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. N/1948 Warrant Officer Platoon Commander Kipto Cherbogei, The King's African Rifles. * No. 14802335 Staff-Sergeant William George Lambshead, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. * No. 2967867 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Clifford Vincent Lewis, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. W/NC/272802 Sergeant Carmen Claudia Lopez, Auxiliary Territorial Service (Jamaica Company). * No. 14794894 Sergeant Edwin William Albert Lovatt, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. 5343669 Staff-Sergeant Thomas William Marks, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). * No. 316624 Squadron Quartermaster-Sergeant James Ernest McVittie, Royal Armoured Corps. * No. 14399584 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Ronald Edward Meyer, Royal Armoured Corps. * No. 10679853 Warrant Officer Class II (then acting) Peter Cable Nunn, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * No. 2021899 Sergeant Albert Jack Pike, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. W/110980 Staff-Sergeant Ella Mackenzie Pilbeam, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 3309004 Sergeant (Drum-Major) Robert Roy, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). * No. W/270709 Sergeant Grace Patricia Rumbles, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 1950695 Staff-Sergeant John Sinclair, Corps of Royal Engineers. * No. W/45839 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Diana Stephenson, Auxiliary Territorial Service. * No. 3126802 Fusilier James John Stevens, The Royal Scots Fusiliers. * No. 1481406 Sergeant Charles Oliver Stokes, Army Catering Corps. * No. NA/28937 Regimental Sergeant-Major (acting) Sule Ankwa, The Nigeria Regiment. * No. 5772140 Corporal Eric Alexander Taylor, The Royal Norfolk Regiment. * No. 2324409 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) George Webb, Royal Corps of Signals. * No. 833302 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Geoffrey Walter White, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * No. 13116095 Sergeant Kenneth Wilde, Royal Armoured Corps. * No. ZBK/11665 Warrant Officer Platoon Commander Wilson Munthali, The King's African Rifles. * No. 14654571 Sergeant Frederick Samuel Windridge, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * No. 1453860 Corporal Ronald George Wyld, The King's Regiment (Liverpool). ;;Dated 14 August 1947 * 804637 W.S./Sergeant (Company Quartermaster Sergeant) George Arthur Chandler, Royal Signals, attached 4th Indian Division Signal Regiment. * 5444857 Staff Sergeant Noel Hammond Doutre, Royal Army Service Corps. * 14297895 Sergeant, Acting Staff Sergeant, Reginald Griffiths, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Medical Directorate, G.H.Q., India. * 14531844 W.S./Sergeant Peter Malcolm Todd, Royal Army Service Corps, attached Headquarters 7th Indian Division. * 14661925 W.S./Sergeant, Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant Douglas Franklin Wood, Royal Signals, attached Indian Signals Corps School. ;;Royal Air Force * 524308 Flight Sergeant John Adam. * 519415 Flight Sergeant Joseph Kenneth Archer. * 560591 Flight Sergeant Herbert William Cooper. * 561073 Flight Sergeant Maurice Crawford. * 950543 Flight Sergeant Reginald Mark Daniel, RAF Volunteer Reserve. * 364037 Flight Sergeant Robert Fleming. * 1792652 Flight Sergeant Stuart Benjamin Greet, RAF Volunteer Reserve. * 532945 Flight Sergeant Jack Hartley. * 566505 Flight Sergeant Charles Albert Frederick Kettle. * 536028 Flight Sergeant Stanley Leonard. * 561601 Flight Sergeant Harold Norster. * 570327 Flight Sergeant John Charles Payne. * 546053 Flight Sergeant John Williamson Smallfield. * 523547 Flight Sergeant Arthur Thomas Summers. * 626458 Flight Sergeant Rex Travers. * 748972 Flight Sergeant George Edward Trott. * 544551 Flight Sergeant John Turvey. * 1008331 Sergeant Reginald Charles Callow, RAF Volunteer Reserve. * 654429 Sergeant Leonard Lewin Cobbin. * 569850 Sergeant Bruce Lionel Cosh. * 567543 Sergeant Victor George Frost. * 591907 Sergeant Stanley Charles Nurse. * 936155 Sergeant Jack Corbett Percival. * 536449 Acting Sergeant Thomas Stockbridge. * 1405758 Corporal Theodore Edward John Harrison. * 3056731 Acting Corporal Maurice Hunt, RAF Volunteer Reserve. * 881945 Sergeant Margaret Blaney, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 2003668 Sergeant Margaret Emma Campbell, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 444514 Sergeant Nancy Smith, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. * 2161345 Corporal Gwendoline Mabel Hindes, Women's Auxiliary Air Force. ;Civil Division ;;United Kingdom * Harry Abbotts, Overseer, Head Post Office, Stafford. * Humphrey Ackers, lately Haulage Hand, Garswood Hall Colliery, Wigan. * Henry Adkins, Foreman, De La Rue, Thomas De la Rue & Co. Ltd. * Donald Arnold, Works Foreman, Steerpoint Brickworks, Brixham. * William Henry Ashcroft, Radial Driller, Castner-Kellner Works, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. * William Atkin, Head Foreman, River Hull Catchment Board. * Herbert Harry Auker, Gardener-Caretaker, Imperial War Graves Commission, France. * George Edward Bagnall, Senior Foreman, Chadburns (Liverpool) Ltd., Liverpool. * Jean Bailey, Member, Women's Voluntary Services, Clogher, County Tyrone. * Norman James Banks, Senior Examiner, Admiralty, Crayford. * Olive Adele Barbour, Manageress, N.A.A.F.I. Canteen, Victory House, Kingsway. * William Barnes, Skilled Fitter, GKN, Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd., Birmingham. * William John Barnes, Chief Divisional Inspector, Birmingham Division, Great Western Railway Company. * Heber Thomas Barrett, Assistant Inspector, Head Post Office, Richmond, Surrey. * Albert William Bassett, Warden, Kingsbury Rifle Range, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Warwick. * William Edward Bassett, Foreman, Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield. * Mark Stephenson Bateson, Sub-Postmaster, Main Street Sub-Post Office, Menston, Leeds. * Hedley John Beare, Postman, Morwenstow Sub-Post Office, Bude, Cornwall. * Graham Bell, Inspector, Forth Bridge, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * John Campbell Bennett, Skilled Workman, Class I, General Post Office, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. * Thomas Bickle, Grinder, Clarke Chapman & Co., Gateshead-on-Tyne. * Thomas Birmingham, Office Keeper, Ministry of Supply. * Robert Blackburn, Coal Hewer, Boldon Colliery, County Durham. * Thomas Bone, Oncost Worker, Auchingeich Colliery, Lanarkshire. * Nellie Bowker, lately Telephone Supervisor, Ministry of Transport. * George Ernest Bradford, Supervisor, Grade III, Control Commission for Germany. * Thomas Bradford, Underground Haulage Corporal, Teversal Colliery, Nottinghamshire. * Rendels Bradshaw, Charge-hand, Howard & Bullough Ltd., Accrington. * Florence Brealey, Supervisor, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Nottingham. * Arthur Brown, Coal Face Worker, Denby (Drury-Lowe) Colliery, Derbyshire. * Flossie Brown, Supervisor (Telephone Service Observation), Telecommunications Department, General Post Office. * Eirene F. Bruce, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Whitby Urban District. * Henry Thomas Bryant, Cold Store Blockman, Port of London Authority, Royal Albert Dock, London, Royal Albert Dock. * Alfred Charles Buckingham, Bridge Inspector, Reading, Great Western Railway Company. * Alfred George William Bullock, Assistant Superintendent, Ordnance Survey Department. * Lewis Burt, Stoneman, Elemore Colliery, County Durham. * John Cameron, Senior Foreman, Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh. * James Alfred Carter, Inspector, Trams and Trolleybuses, London Passenger Transport Board. * William Thomas Carter, Foreman of the Wharf, Royal Victoria Yard, Deptford. * Jack Stanley Cavill, Engineering Supervisor, Posts & Telecommunications Branch, Düsseldorf, Control Commission for Germany. * Mrs. Roland Clarke, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, High Wycombe, Bucks. * Annie Clough, Card Room Hand, Winder & McKeen, Bradford Mills, Bolton. * Richard William Coker, Area Inspector, Class I, Clapham Junction, Southern Railway Company. * James Cole, Detective Inspector, Aberdeen City Police Force. * Wallace George Colegate, Watcher-in-Charge, Coast Life Saving Corps, Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey. * Alexander Gilbert Colson, Switchboard Attendant, Admiralty Signal Establishment, Witley. * Charles Richard Dawson Cope, Motorman, London Passenger Transport Board. * John Robert Copplestone, Chef, Union Jack Club, London. * Alice R. Cox, Village Organiser and Collector, National Savings Movement, Badgworth, Somerset. * Joseph Craddock, Coal Filler, Sleekburn 'A' Colliery, Northumberland. * George Crowther, Laboratory Worker, Grade "A", Chemical Research and Development Department, Ministry of Supply. * Albert Henry Croxon, Foreman, Elliott Brothers (computer company), Elliott Bros. (London) Ltd., Lewisham. * Muriel Culverwell, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Chippenham. * Gladys Eveline Cummins, Street Group Organiser and Collector, National Savings Movement, Shirley, Southampton. * Richard Dally, Miner, Llanhilleth Colliery, Monmouthshire. * Harry Davies, Process Operator, Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., Wrexham. * Robert Davies, Cable Machine Operator, British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd. * Joseph Day, lately Station Master, New Cross Gate and Brockley, Southern Railway Company. * Frederick Joseph Dollin, Manager, Shipping Pool Office, Fleetwood. * Winifred Boaler Dore, Assistant Supervisor, Class I (Travelling), Post Office Telephone Exchange, Colwyn Bay. * Maurice Dutton, Foreman, A. Kershaw & Sons Ltd., Leeds. * Harold Ellison, Head Foreman, B.S. & W. Whiteley Ltd., Yorkshire. * Edward David Evans, Underground Workman, Llay Hall Colliery, North Wales. * Evans, Underground Workman, John Ynysarwed Colliery, South Wales. * Thomas Evans, Overman, Fenton (Glebe) Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent. * William W. Everitt, Ganger, River Great Ouse Catchment Board. * Thomas Fairclough, Colliery Checkweighman, Bedford Colliery, Lancashire. * William John Fenwick, Acting Foreman of Storehouses, SLN Dockyard, Royal Naval Yard, Trincomalee. * Herbert James Field, Charge Hand, Wood Lane Depot, London Passenger Transport Board. * Frederick Edward Fitch, lately General Foreman of Works, HM Dockyard, Chatham. * Frank William Foote, Inspector, Post Office Telephones, Liverpool. * William Ford, , Blacksmith Foreman, Prestongrange Colliery, East Lothian. * Albert France, , Coalfiller, New Stubbin Colliery, Rotherham. * William James Franklin, Inspector, Great Western Railway Police Force. * Samuel Fretwell, Coalminer, Baddesley Colliery, Warwickshire. * Jean M. Furness, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Melton Mowbray Urban District. * George Gibb, Ripper, Betteshanger Colliery, Kent. * Patty Goode, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Burgess Hill Urban District, East Sussex. * Robert Goodyear, Foreman, Witham and Steeping Rivers Catchment Board. * George Greenhouse, Heavy Floor Moulder, General Electric Company plc, General Electric Company Ltd., Witton. * Joseph Walter Halfpenny, Stone Contractor, Rufford Colliery, Nottinghamshire. * Edwin Hamer, Cotton Worker, Lambert's Carr Hall Mill, Haslingden. * William Hamilton, Factory Foreman, Thomas Boag & Co. Ltd., Greenock. * Elsie Handy, Cook, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. * Robert Henry Hardy, Inspector, Stamford Hill Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. * George Richard Harratt. For public services in Northampton. * Robert Harris, Foreman, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. * Catherine Alice Hatton, Matron, Dorchester (Dorset) Children's Home. * Arthur Healey, Foreman Papermaker, Robert Fletcher & Sons Ltd., Oldham. * Bertha Evelyn Hince, Assistant, Grade I, Post Office Telephones, Brentwood, Essex. * Thomas Hinton, Bird Keeper, St James's Park, Ministry of Works. * Joseph Pearson Leslie Hobbs, Depot Manager, House Coal Scheme, Bletchley District. * William Holbrook, Technician, Head Post Office, Welshpool. * Alec Holdsworth, Plant Engineer, Wilsons & Mathiesons Ltd., Leeds. * Samson Holloway, Operator, Lilleshall Company Ltd., Shropshire. * Albert Hooper, Acting Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty Storage Depot, Risley. * Elizabeth Mary Hucksted, lately Sub-Postmistress, Luton Road Sub-Post Office, Chatham. * Margaret Hughes, Honorary Organiser and Collector, Street Groups, National Savings Movement, Anglesey. * Ben Idle, Deputy (Overman), Sharleston West Colliery, Yorkshire. * Reginald Eric Jones, Resident Porter, Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington. * Walter Jones, Collier, Ocean Western Colliery, Nanrymoel. * William Jordan, Foreman Shipwright, Hellyer Bros., Hull. * Philip Lancaster, Clerk of Works, Royal Air Force Base, Singapore. * Harry Langford, Works Engineer, A. W. Hawkesley Ltd., Gloucester. * Alfred Richard Leaning, Foreman Fitter, Rose Bros. (Gainsborough) Ltd., Lincolnshire. * Mary Theresa Leather, Quartermaster, Women's Voluntary Services, Troops Canteen, Evesham. * Margaret Isobel Leechman, Canteen Worker, Church of Scotland. * Bernard Ignatius Lynch, Ground Fitter, Martin-Baker, Martin Baker Aircraft Company Ltd., Middlesex. * James McDonald, Section Leader, National Fire Service, Perth and Kinross Area of Scotland. * Charles McGowan, Head Foreman Plater, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Glasgow. * Robert McGuffin, Foreman Tenter, William Ewart & Sons Ltd., Belfast. * Betty Nora MacNamara, Station Senior Supervisor, Cable & Wireless plc, Cable & Wireless, London. * Edward Martin, Stripper, Haigh Colliery, Whitehaven. * Frank Fred Mather, Group Collector, National Savings Movement, Lincoln. * John Edgar Maxam, Process Worker, Van den Burghs & Jurgens Ltd., Purfleet, Essex. * Thomas Miles, Mine Sinking and Driving Contractor, Scottish Coalfield. * Monica Mitchell, County Clothing Officer, Women's Voluntary Services, Cumberland. * William Mitchell, Cattleman, Skellymarm, Strichen, Aberdeenshire. * James Moran, Operative, Dunlop Rubber Company Ltd., Manchester. * David John Morse, Checkweigher, Werfa Dare Colliery, Aberdare. * Catherine Scott Morton, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Airdrie. * Albert James Murphy, Temporary Housing Superintendent, Ministry of Works. * Henry Joseph Nichols, Overseer, Eastern District Office, London Postal Region. * William Harry Nicholson, Running Shed Superintendent, Eastleigh, Southern Railway Company. * Hubert Alfred Fountaine North, Bandmaster, 14th County of London Cadet Battalion. * Dorothy Annie Nye, Supervisor, Branch Telephone Exchange, New Scotland Yard. * Margaret O'Hara, Group Secretary, National Savings Movement, Belfast. * Leslie Jack Pacey, , Senior Messenger, Burma Office. * Albert Parkes, , Stallman, Hilton Main Colliery, Wolverhampton. * Herbert Parkinson, Overseer, Head Post Office, Bradford. * William George Henry Parsons, Chief Inspector, War Department Constabulary. * Sidney Campion Peach, Chargehand Telephone Operator, RAF Cranwell, Royal Air Force Station, Cranwell. * Albert Weighill Peacock, Collier, Barnsley Main Colliery, Yorkshire. * Albert Edward Pearman, Motor Driver, Post Office Stores Department, Birmingham. * Arthur George Perryman, Acting Senior Draughtsman, Admiralty Mining Establishment, Havant. * Ernest Henry Pitt, Foreman, Salvage Division Reconditioning Depots, Ministry of Food. * William George Prescott, , lately Instructor, Duke of York's Royal Military School. * Philip Raisbeck, Builders Foreman, Control Commission for Germany. * Frank Crompton Read, Permanent Chargeman of Shipwrights, HM Dockyard, Chatham. * Elizabeth Reid, Temporary Telephonist, Ministry of Food Divisional Office, Belfast. * Ernest Arthur Rendell, Company Officer, No. 39 (Swindon) Fire Force, National Fire Service. * Helene Rich, Superintendent of Cleaners, Ministry of Works. * Henry Richardson, Foreman, English Steel Corporation Ltd., Sheffield. * Albert Rickards, Senior Examiner, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Ministry of Supply. * Andrew Ritchie, General Foreman, Ministry of Transport. * Joseph Roebuck, Checkweighman, Wooley Colliery, Yorkshire. * Mabel Valeria Roper, Supervisor of Sorting Assistants, Savings Department, General Post Office. * Douglas James Rowett, Head of Central Timing and Diagramming Section, Southern Area, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * William Randolph Everett Satchell, Instructor of Engineers, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Horace Saunders, Instructor, Grade I, No. 1 School of Technical Training, Royal Air Force Halton, Aylesbury. * Ben Savage, Utility Man, Northern Aluminium Company Ltd., Newport, Monmouthshire. * Vincent Savona, Foreman Engineer, War Department Cold Storage Plant, Port Said. * Horace Arthur Shackelton, Foreman Electrician, Hepworth & Grandage Ltd., Bradford. * May Shanahan, lately Chief Officer, Class II, HM Prison Manchester. * Herbert Stanley Sharp, Shop Foreman, No. 4 Maintenance Unit, RAF West Ruislip, Royal Air Force, Ruislip. * Clare Sheppard, Deputy Laundry Superintendent, Vale Brook Lodge Public Assistance Institution, Nottingham. * Hubert Silvester, Senior Foreman, River Ouse (Yorkshire) Catchment Board. * John Thompson Simpson, Head Foreman Joiner, Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne. * Elsie May Smith, Street Group Collector, National Savings Movement, West Hartlepool. * Frank Smith, Office Keeper, Air Ministry. * Arthur Henry Sparks, Head Office Inspector, Watford, London Midland & Scottish Railway Company. * Edward Spavin, Chargehand, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. * Albert Starr, Sergeant, Lincolnshire Constabulary. * Audrey Stewart, lately Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Shaftesbury Borough and Rural District. * Constance Stopper, County Clothing Officer, Women's Voluntary Services, Leicestershire. * Sidney Swift, Deputy Office Keeper, Ministry of National Insurance. * Mary Taylor, Member, Women's Land Army, Dunsop Bridge, Clitheroe. * Audrey Thackrey, Member, Women's Land Army, Lindsey Division of Lincolnshire. * Doris Jessie Thwaites, Assistant Supervisor, Class I, Gerrard Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. * Frances Olivia Tomlin, Deputy Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Battle Rural District. * Frank Charles Toombs, Foreman, British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd., John Robinson & Co. Branch, Bristol. * William Towers, Roller, Platt Brothers, Platt Bros. & Co. Ltd., Oldham. * Samuel Tunnicliffe, Chargehand Blacksmith, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Buxton. * John Turnbull, Senior Draughtsman, Admiralty. * Richard Walker, Foreman, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. * John Allardyce Wallace, , Warrant Officer, No. 367 (City of Sheffield) Squadron, Air Training Corps. * Phyllis Mary Walton, Member, Women's Land Army, Hampton-on-the-Hill, Warwickshire. * William John Ward, Company Officer, No. 2 (Middlesbrough) Fire Force, National Fire Service. * Winifred Kate Weaver, lately Regional Storekeeper, No. 9 (Birmingham) Region, Women's Voluntary Services. * Jesse Webber, Assistant Foreman, Mechanical Transport, Experimental Bridging Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * George Webster, Collier, Highgate Colliery, Rotherham. * John Thomas Weighell, Signalman, Northallerton, London & North Eastern Railway Company. * Harry Whidbourne, lately Foreman of Workshops, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * James Burnett White, Body Jig Maker, Armstrong Siddeley Ltd. * James Wilkie, Chief Bookseller, HM Stationery Office, Edinburgh. * Frank Milner Williams, Area Inspector, Southern Railway Company. * Jane Williams, Process worker, Bickford Smith Factory, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. * Mary Lloyd Williams, Village Organiser, Llandwrog & District Savings Sub-Committee. * Henry George Winks, Foreman of Works, Science Museum, London, Science Museum. * Arthur Wisdom, Mechanic Examiner, Electrical and Mechanical Equipment Inspectorate, Ministry of Supply. * William Young, Harbour Master, Royal Harbour of Ardglass, County Down. ;Foreign Services * Dorothy Rieussat Cawdle, Sergeant, Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). * Kathleen Mary Eddy, Sergeant, Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). ;Colonial Empire * Herbert Seymour Selman, Resident Foreman, Waterworks Department, Barbados. * Anthony Paul, Inspector of Police, Class I, and Bandmaster, Ceylon Police. * Manasa Tauca, President, Nausori Co-operative Market Association, Fiji. * Cornelius Hymanson Thomas, Senior Foreman of Works, Public Utilities Department, Gambia. * Battata Badja, Head of Badjakunda Village, Gambia. * Mohamed Yousif Khan, Postal Clerk, Hong Kong. * Jeremiah Nyawira, Head Scout of Veterinary Department, Kenya. * Lincoln Zakaeiah, Hospital Assistant, Grade I, Medical Department, Kenya. * Shadrack Munyi wa Kamwithi, Senior Agricultural Instructor, Department of Agriculture, Kenya. * Joseph Micallef, Third Class Officer, Customs Department, Malta. * Peter Paul Chetcuti, Postman, Postal Department, Malta. * Saleemeh Ibrahim Shibley, Graduate Nurse, Public Health Department, Palestine. * Yusef Ali Khalid, Mukhtar of Zakariya Village, Hebron Sub-District, Palestine. * Miriam Danielly, Senior Supervisor, Jaffa Telephone Exchange, Palestine. * Ghaleb Younis El Husseini, Station Engineer, Jerusalem Water Supply, Palestine. * James Lawley, First British Warder Sergeant, Prison Service, Palestine. * Thomas Sidney Johnson, Technical Staff Grade II, Sierra Leone Railway. * Emanuel Joseph Beale, Assistant Medical Storekeeper, Sierra Leone. * Benjamin Hoi Cheah, Chief Record Clerk and Interpreter, Prisons Department, Singapore. * Mathew Nyirenda, Hospital Assistant, Grade III, Mwika Dispensary, Tanganyika. * Robert Charles Denbar, 1st Class Customs and Excise Guard, Trinidad. * Sydney Russell Baldwin, 1st Class Clerk (Non-Establishment), Port and Marine Department, Trinidad. ;India (dated 14 August 1947) * Frederick James Challan, Boiler Shop Foreman, Grade IV, North-Western Railway, Moghalpura, Lahore. * Irene Mary Fahie, Superintendent, General Headquarters, India. * Herbert George Fentum, Reserve Inspector of Police, Central Provinces and Berar. * Maud Aileen Mackleworth, Grade "A", Lady Clerk, Defence Department, Government of India. * Samuel Eric Marsden, Firemaster, North-Western Railway, Moghalpura, Lahore. * Bertram Pearce, Superintendent, Viceregal Garage, and Chauffeur to His Excellency the Viceroy. (Staff Sergeant, Royal Army Service Corps). * Terence Perkins, Foreman, Foundries, Grade III, North-Western Railway, Moghalpura, Lahore. * Frank Leonard Round, lately Officiating Assistant Mechanical Engineer, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Parel. * Margaret Thomson, Confidential Assistant, Mysore Residency. * Gilbert Edward Townsend, Assistant Mechanical Engineer, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Parel. * Emily Edith Wilson, Lands, Hirings and Disposals Directorate, General Headquarters, India. * Charles Russell Woolnough, Chauffeur to the High Commissioner for India in London.Royal Red Cross (RRC)
* Muriel Bannatyne Goulton, Acting Senior Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. * Anna Muir, Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. * Matron (temporary) Margaret Whamond (215733), Territorial Army Nursing Service. * Matron Irene Desouza, , (N.Z.8253), Indian Military Nursing Service. * Principal Matron (acting) Winifred Enid Gardiner, , (N.Z.12842), Indian Military Nursing Service. ;Bar to Royal Red Cross * Matron Catherine Walker, , (5007), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)
;Associate of the Royal Red Cross, Second Class. * Senior Sister (temporary) Marion Lyell (353660), Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve). * Matron Maude Adelaide Barwick (N.Z.4698), Indian Military Nursing Service. * Matron Clarice Isabelle Cartner (N.Z.8410), Indian Military Nursing Service. * Sister Phyllis Mary Fonceca (N.Z.24168), Indian Military Nursing Service. * Matron Iris Murray (N.Z.4507), Indian Military Nursing Service. * Acting Matron Millicent Clara Rattenberry (5044), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.Air Force Cross (AFC)
;Royal Navy ;;Lieutenants * Stanley Gordon Orr, . * Eric Michael Welch, . ;Royal Air Force ;;Wing Commanders * Arthur Ernest Dale, , (36232). * Richard Ian Jones (33167). ;;Acting Wing Commander * John Robert Baldwin, , (122337). ;;Squadron Leaders * Ian Robert Campbell (33557). * James Stewart Higgins, , (44680). * Edgar James, , (67346). * Eric Franklin Thornicroft, , (47208). ;;Acting Squadron Leaders * Frederick John Cable (89581), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Anthony Derek George Stephenson, , (41535). ;;Flight Lieutenants * John Francis Massy Bevan (49261). * Robert Thornley Bowring (50529). * Welsh Foster, , (45124). * William Gallagher, , (48955). * William Frederick Hoffmann (150015), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Cecil Jack Homes (162299). * Charles Francis Kirkwood-Hackett (39992), Reserve of Air Force Officers. * Alfred Lloyd (153251). * Jack Ewart Major (147761), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Tihomas Hermangild Meyer (114915), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * John Hubert Pinckard (175722), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Frederick Norman Ramsey (54041). * Jacques Emile Leon Rivalant (134321), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * David Arnot Shaw, , (170275), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Neil Currie Thorne (154447), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Ronald Vincent Yates Walmsley (52016). ;;Acting Flight Lieutenant * Stanley John Hubbard, , (179943) Royal Air Force. ;;Flying Officers * George Herbert Carter (195846), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Geoffrey Jukes (167945), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * William John Oliver Morrison (187550), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * Peter Rowland (184437), RAF Volunteer Reserve. ;;Acting Warrant Officer * Donald Sinclair Campbell (541331). ;Royal Australian Air Force ;;Squadron Leader * Cyril William Stark (Aus.576). ;;Flight Lieutenants * John Gladstone Cornish (Aus.422430). * David Robert Hebbard (Aus.406998). * Allan James Somerville (Aus.402765). * Albert Starkey (Aus.20561). * Geoffrey Tuck (Aus.409348).Bar to Air Force Cross
;Royal Air Force ;;Acting Wing Commander * Roy Charles Edwin Scott, , (36250). ;;Squadron Leaders * Michael Charles Adderley, , (40973), * Michael Dillon Lyne, , (33431).Air Force Medal (AFM)
;Royal Air Force ;;Navigator II * 1317244 Gordon James Howell Mewis. ;;Engineer II * 578366 John Bowman Elder, .King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air
;United Kingdom * Captain Charles Edward Madge, Senior Captain, British Overseas Airways Corporation. ;Royal Air Force ;;Squadron Leader * R. R. Jeffery (46086). ;;Flight Lieutenants * E. L. D. Drake, , (118557). * H. T. Lerry (49135). * H. W. Taylor, , (47000). ;;Flying Officers * D. E. Edney (201291), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * A. G. Henderson (196895), RAF Volunteer Reserve. * R. I. Sneddon (57891). ;;Pilots II * 1580293 W. H. Atkins. * 1580038 N. W. Davey, RAF Volunteer Reserve. ;;Navigator II * 1569031 C. Mcclelland. ;;Signaller II * 578490 D. A. Birchall. ;;Engineers II * 16771880 A. S. Shoebottom. * 18215997 A. S. Simpson. ;Royal Australian Air Force ;;Wing Commander * G. D. Marshall (Aus.208). ;;Flight Lieutenants * J. P. Graney (Aus.4O7944). * J. C. Green (Aus.412590). * E. W. Guy (Aus.418106).King's Commendation for Brave Conduct
* Flight Lieutenant F. W. Gregory (Aus.275478), Royal Australian Air Force.King's Police and Fire Services Medal (KPFSM)
;England and Wales ;;Police * Francis Cecil Summers, Chief Constable, Warrington Borough Police Force. * Charles Hubert Walters, Chief Constable, Lincoln City Police Force. * Ronald Paterson Wilson, Chief Constable, West Sussex Constabulary. * Major George William Richard Hearn, First Assistant Chief Constable, Staffordshire Constabulary. * Frederick Waddington, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary. * Reginald John Child, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force. * Michael Bennett, Superintendent, Coventry City Police Force. * Charles William French, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Rochdale Borough Police Force. * Percy Hawkins, Superintendent, Derbyshire Constabulary. * William Edward Astley, Sub-Divisional Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force. ;;Fire Services * Albert Patrick Loisel Sullivan, , formerly Chief of Fire Staff and Inspector-in-Chief, National Fire Service Headquarters. * Denis William Bates, Fire Force Commander, No. 37 (London) Fire Force. * Francis Dann, , Fire Force Commander, No. 27 (Manchester) Fire Force. * Clement Murray Kerr, Fire Force Commander, No. 23 (Worcester) Fire Force. * Charles Edward Mant, Company Officer, No. 32 (Worthing) Fire Force. ;Scotland ;;Police * Major Sholto William Douglas, , Chief Constable, Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian and Peebles Constabularies. * Thomas Instant Paxton, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Ayrshire Constabulary. ;;Fire Services * Robert Thomas Wylie, , Deputy Fire Force Commander, South Eastern Area, Scotland. ;Northern Ireland * Thomas Jackson, Head Constable, Ulster Constabulary. ;Australia * Leonard Frank Allmond, ex-Inspector, 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force. * Wilfred Stanley Eddie, ex-Sergeant, 1st Class, New South Wales Police Force. ;Burma * U Ba Maung, , Inspector General of Police, Burma. * Samuel Gordon Arnaud Scott, , District Superintendent of Police, Kyankpyu. ;Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories * Gan Chai Lai, Detective Sub-Inspector, Malayan Union Police. * Matthew Kirkham Needham Collens, , Deputy Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. * Ronald Stuart Shuel, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. * Alan Courtenay Luck, , Assistant Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. * Kenneth Page Hadingham, , Superintendent of Police, Palestine. ;India (dated 14 August 1947) * Duncan Charles Thomas Cameron, Deputy Inspector General of Police. * Mallavarapu Lourdu Thomas, Deputy Superintendent of Police (officiating), Madras. * Narayanrav Marutirav Kamte, , Indian Police, Officiating Deputy Inspector of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Province of Bombay. * Govind Hari Wanjara, Officiating Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bombay. * Kenneth Tolson, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Bengal. * Percy John Holden, Second Officer, Calcutta Fire Brigade. * Gerald Arthur Swift, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces. * Naresh Chandra Misra, Indian Police, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, United Provinces. * Rai Bahadur Badri Nath, Officiating Superintendent of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab. * Rai Bahadur Avadh Kishore Prasad Sinha, Indian Police, Officiating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bihar, Patna. * Saiyid Ali Abbas, Officiating Superintendent of Police, Darbhanga. * Rai Saheb Kailash Jha, Officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police, Siwan, Saran District, Bihar. * Ashley Norman Postance Jones, Commandant, Special Armed Constabulary, Central Provinces and Berar. * Lala Kirpa Ram, Deputy Superintendent of Police, North West Frontier Province. * Said Kamal Badshah, Officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police, Railway Police, North West Frontier Province. * Pran Kumar Mitter, Indian Police, Officiating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Orissa. * Rai Sahib Kartar Nath Malhoutra, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Rewa State, Central India.New Zealand
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