The Queen's Birthday Honours 1955 were appointments in many of the

Commonwealth realm A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state in the Commonwealth of Nations whose monarch and head of state is shared among the other realms. Each realm functions as an independent state, equal with the other realms and nations of the Commonwealt ...

s of Queen

Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...

to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen. They were announced on 3 June 1955, for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Pakistan, and for various members of Commonwealth forces in recognition of services in Korea during 1954–1955. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate.

United Kingdom and Colonies

Baron

The Right Honourable ''The Right Honourable'' ( abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is ...

Ralph Assheton, Member of Parliament for the Rushcliffe Division, 1934–1945,

City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...

, 1945–1950, and Blackburn West, 1950–1955; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service, 1939–1942, and

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

1942–1943; Financial Secretary, HM Treasury, 1943–1944; Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Party Organisation, 1944–1946. For political and public services. * Sir

Geoffrey Heyworth Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth (18 October 1894 – 15 June 1974), was a British businessman and public servant. At the outbreak of WW1 he was employed as an accountant in Toronto, Canada. He served as a Lieutenant in 134th Battalion CEF ...

, chairman,

Unilever Unilever plc is a British multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in London, England. Unilever products include food, condiments, bottled water, baby food, soft drink, ice cream, instant coffee, cleaning agents, energy drink, t ...

Ltd. For public services. * The Right Honourable Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1931–1945, and

Epsom Epsom is the principal town of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London. The town is first recorded as ''Ebesham'' in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The ...

, 1947–1955; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service, 1942–1945. For political and public services. * Sir

Arnold Duncan McNair Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair (4 March 1885 – 22 May 1975) was a British jurist and judge of the International Court of Justice and later the first president of the European Court of Human Rights. Early life and education McNair was b ...

, CBE, QC, lately President and United Kingdom Judge,

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at The Hague.

Privy Counsellors

* Henry Brooke, MP, Member of Parliament for West Lewisham, 1938–1945, and

Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from Watling Street, the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the Lon ...

since 1950; Financial Secretary, HM Treasury since 1954; Leader of Conservative Party on

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

, 1945–1952. * Robert Hugh Turton, MC, MP, Member of Parliament for

Thirsk and Malton Thirsk and Malton is a constituency in North Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Hollinrake, a Conservative. History 2010-date Anne McIntosh, a Conservative, elected for Vale of York in ...

since 1929; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance, 1951–1953; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance, 1953–1954; Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since 1954.

Baronet

* Sir Robert Archibald Cary, MP, Member of Parliament for Eccles, 1935–1945, and Withington Division of Manchester since 1951; a Government Whip, 1944–1945, and a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1945. For political and public services. * Sir George Horatio Nelson, chairman and managing director, The

English Electric N.º UIC: 9094 110 1449-3 (Takargo Rail) The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the Armistice of 11 November 1918, armistice of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during th ...

Co. Ltd., London. *

William McNair Snadden Sir William McNair Snadden, 1st Baronet JP (15 January 1896 – 23 November 1959) was a Scottish Tory politician. The youngest son of the Reverend James Snadden, the young Snadden was educated at Dollar Academy. In 1915, early in the Great Wa ...

, JP, Member of Parliament for Kinross and West Perth, 1938–1955; Joint Parliamentary

Under-Secretary of State for Scotland The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a junior ministerial post (of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State rank) in the Government of the United Kingdom, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland. The post is also know ...

, 1951–1955. * His Honour George Clark Williams, QC. For public services in

Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a county in the south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as ...

Knight Bachelor

* George Harold Banwell, Secretary, Association of Municipal Corporations. *

Harold Bishop Harold Wayne Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Ian Smith. The actor was offered the role by the show's creator and executive producer Reg Watson. Smith made his first screen appearance as H ...

, CBE, Director of Technical Services,

British Broadcasting Corporation #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...

. * Professor William Moir Calder. For services to Greek Scholarship. * William Wiggins Cocker, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire. * John Montagu Craster, JP. For political and public services in Northumberland. * George Harold Curtis, CB, Chief Land Registrar. * John Carmichael Denholm, CBE, President,

Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom Chamber or the chamber may refer to: In government and organizations * Chamber of commerce, an organization of business owners to promote commercial interests *Legislative chamber, in politics * Debate chamber, the space or room that houses delib ...

. * Colonel Thomas Charles Dunlop, TD, DL. For political and public services in

Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...

. * Francis Alfred Enever, CB, MC, Deputy Treasury Solicitor. * Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor, Writer. * Benjamin Ifor Evans, Provost of

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. *

Alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many Jurisdiction, jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council membe ...

Frank Savin Foster, CBE, JP. For political and public services in Essex. * Lieutenant-Colonel Oswald Bissill Giles, DL. For political and public services in the

Parts of Holland The Parts of Holland is a historical division of Lincolnshire, England, encompassing the south-east of the county. The name is still recognised locally and survives in the district of South Holland. Administration Parts of Holland was one of th ...

, Lincolnshire. * Ronald Gould, General Secretary,

National Union of Teachers The National Union of Teachers (NUT; ) was a trade union for school teachers in Education in England, England, Education in Wales, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It was a member of the Trades Union Congress. In March 2017, NU ...

. * Hugh Rupert Granger, chairman and managing director, Duke's Grain Warehousing Co. Ltd. * Albert William Grant, CBE, chairman, Engineering and Allied Employers' West of England Association. * Archibald Frederick Harrison, CBE, Solicitor, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Humphrey Haslam, OBE, DL. For political and public services in Hertfordshire. * Wing-Commander Norman John Hulbert, DL, MP, Member of Parliament for

Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is within ...

, 1935–1950, and for North Stockport since 1950. For political and public services. * Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, MD, FRCS, Consulting Surgeon,

St Bartholomew's Hospital St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust. History Early history Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (died ...

. * Ivison Stevenson Macadam, CVO, CBE, Director-General of the

Royal Institute of International Affairs Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a cit ...

. * Major

Duncan McCallum Sir Duncan McCallum (24 November 1888 – 10 May 1958) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Argyllshire at a 1940 by-election. McCallum remained as MP for the seat (renamed Argyll in 1950) unt ...

, MC, MP Member of Parliament for

Argyllshire Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland. Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...

since 1940. For political and public services. * Robert Henry Maconochie, OBE, QC, Sheriff of Stirling, Dunbarton and Clackmannan. * Richard Hope Miller. For political and public services in

Knutsford Knutsford () is a market town in the borough of Cheshire East, in Cheshire, England. Knutsford is south-west of Manchester, north-west of Macclesfield and 12.5 miles (20 km) south-east of Warrington. The population at the 2011 Census wa ...

. * Robert Minshull Shone, CBE, Executive Member, Iron & Steel Board. * William Arthur Steward, MP, Member of Parliament for Woolwich West since 1950; chairman, Select Committee of House of Commons on Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms, since 1951. For political and public services. * Robert Sproul Stewart, CBE. For political services in Scotland. * Alderman Edmund Villiers Minshull Stockdale, JP, lately Sheriff, City of London. * Captain Cyril Ivan Thompson, Commodore Captain, , Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. * Geoffrey Stewart Tomkinson, OBE, MC, JP. For political and public services in

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it had ...

. * James Milliard Tucker, QC, Vice-chairman, Royal Commission on Taxation of Profits and Income. * Sydney Vernon. For public services in Birmingham. * Hugh Edmund Watts, CB, MBE, GM, lately HM Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office. *

William Emrys Williams Sir William Emrys Williams, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (5 October 1896 – 30 March 1977) was editor-in-chief of Penguin Books from 1936 to 1965 and an educationalist and powerhouse of popular education in the 20th century. ...

, CBE, Secretary-General,

Arts Council of Great Britain The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England (now Arts Council England), the Scottish Arts Council (l ...

. ;State of South Australia *

Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan Sir Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan (8 August 1885 – 9 June 1958) was an Australian medical practitioner and advocate of effective treatment of tuberculosis. Family The sixth of seven sons of James Cowan and Sarah Ann (née Warren) and brother of ...

, MB, BS, a prominent physician in the State of South Australia. ;Commonwealth Services * George Mason Mackinlay, President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India, 1954–1955. ;Oversea Territories *

William Alexander Bustamante Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante (born William Alexander Clarke; 24 February 1884 – 6 August 1977) was a Jamaican politician and labour leader, who, in 1962, became the first prime minister of Jamaica. Early life and education He was ...

. For public services in Jamaica. * Hampden Archibald Cuke, CBE. For public services in Barbados. * Patrick Herbert Fitz-Gerald, OBE. For public services in the

Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G ...

. *

John Bowes Griffin Sir John Bowes Griffin QC (19 April 1903 – 2 February 1992) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as a government lawyer and judge in a number of British colonies in the mid 20th Century. His last positions were as chief justice of th ...

, QC,

Chief Justice of Uganda The Supreme Court of Uganda is the highest court, judicial organ in Uganda. It derives its powers from Article 130 of the Constitution of Uganda, 1995 Constitution. It is primarily an appellate court with original jurisdiction in only one type of ...

. * Tayabali Hassanali Alibhoy Karimjee. For public services in

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

. * John Smith Moffat, OBE. For public services in

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

. * Joseph Leon Mathieu-Perez, QC,

Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago The Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago is the highest judge of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and presides over its Supreme Court of Judicature. He is appointed by a common decision of the President of Trinidad and Tobago, president, the Prim ...

. *

George Gilmour Robinson George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Preside ...

Chief Justice of Zanzibar The Chief Justice of Zanzibar is the highest judge of Zanzibar, part of the state United Republic of Tanzania. He is appointed by the President of Zanzibar in consultation with the Judicial Services Commission and presides over the High Court for Z ...

. *

Harold Ernest Robinson Harold Ernest Robinson (May 22, 1932 – December 17, 2020) was an American botanist and entomologist. Career Robinson's specialty was the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the bryophytes. He has named or described over 2,800 new species and s ...

. For public services in Trinidad. * Hannibal Publius Scicluna, MBE. For public services in Malta. * Ernest Emmanuel Clough Thuraisingham, CBE, JP. For public services in the

Federation of Malaya The Federation of Malaya ( ms, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu; Jawi script, Jawi: ) was a federation of what previously had been British Malaya comprising eleven states (nine Malay states and two of the British Empire, British Straits Settlements, P ...

. * Rukirabasaija Agutamba Tito Gafabusa Winyi IV, CBE,

Omukama of Bunyoro Omukama wa Bunyoro Translates to The King of Bunyoro is the title given to rulers of the East African kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara. The kingdom lasted as an independent state from the 16th to the 19th century. The Omukama of Bunyoro remains an impo ...

-Kitara, Uganda.

Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division * Admiral the Right Honourable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, KCB, DSO. * General Sir

George Watkin Eben James Erskine General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine (23 August 1899 – 29 August 1965) was a senior British Army officer who is most notable for having commanded the 7th Armoured Division from 1943 to 1944 during World War II, and leading major cou ...

, KCB, KBE, DSO (15806), late Infantry. * General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO (15307), late Infantry Colonel, The

Royal Irish Fusiliers The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed by the amalgamation of the 87th (Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot and the 89th (Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot in ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Frederick Robertson Parham, CB, CBE, DSO. * Vice-Admiral Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, CB, CBE, DSO. ;;Army * Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Bishop Callander, KBE, CB, MC (10503), late Infantry Colonel, The

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

. * Lieutenant-General Cecil Stanway Sugden, CB, CBE (27005), late

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

. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal Thomas Geoffrey Pike, CB, CBE, DFC. * Acting Air Marshal Bryan Vernon Reynolds, CB, CBE. * Air Vice-Marshal George Robert Beamish, CB, CBE. ;Civil Division * Sir John Alexander Charles, MD, FRCP, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Home Office. * George Phillips Coldstream, CB,

Clerk of the Crown in Chancery A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping, filing, staffing service ...

and, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor. * Frank Cyril Musgrave, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear-Admiral Laurence Arthur Boutwood, OBE. * Engineer Rear-Admiral John Ernest Cooke. * Rear-Admiral Leonard Francis Dunford-Slater. * Rear-Admiral John Dudley Nelson Ham. * Rear-Admiral Christopher Theodore Jellicoe, DSO, DSC. * Rear-Admiral Manley Lawrence Power, CBE, DSO. * Surgeon Rear-Admiral Seymour Grome Rainsford, MD, DSc. * Rear-Admiral William Halford Selby, DSC. * Rear-Admiral Ernest Henry Shattock, OBE. * Rear-Admiral

Guy Willoughby Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an unincorpo ...

. ;;Army * Major-General Eric Gilmour Brown, CBE (18643),

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

. * Major-General Kenneth Christie Cooper, DSO, OBE (27871), late

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

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

. * Major-General Philip Le Marchant Stonhouse Stonhouse-Gostling, CBE (12039), late

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

(now RARO). * Major-General Basil Perronet Hughes, CBE (26978), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major-General Robert Charles Moss King, DSO, OBE (28105), late Infantry. * Brigadier Gilbert Reader McMeekan, DSO, OBE (22955), late

(now RARO). * Major-General Frederick David Moore, CBE (23670), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major-General Albert Sachs, CBE, QHP, MD, MRCP (36785), late

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

. * Brigadier and Chief Paymaster Ernest Thomas Cobley Smith, CBE (12906),

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

. * Major-General

John Wren John Wren (3 April 1871 – 26 October 1953) was an Australian bookmaker, boxing and wrestling promoter, Irish nationalist, land speculator, newspaper owner, racecourse and racehorse owner, soldier, pro-conscriptionist and theatre owner. He b ...

, CBE, QHDS, FDS (5532), late

Royal Army Dental Corps The Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) is a specialist corps in the British Army that provides dental health services to British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace. The corps is a part of the British Army's Army Medical Services. ...

(now retired). ;;Royal Air Force * Air Vice-Marshal John Goodenough Elton, CBE, DFC, AFC. * Air Vice-Marshal Alan David Gillmore, CBE. * Acting Air Vice-Marshal Paul Sandland Blockey, CBE. * Acting Air Vice-Marshal William Alfred Opie, CBE. * Air Commodore Thomas Charles Dickens, CBE. * Air Commodore Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, DFC. * Air Commodore Ronald Lancelot Phillips, CBE. * Air Commodore William Edward Victor Richards, CBE. * Group Captain Kenneth Walter Godfrey, CBE,

Royal Air Force Regiment The Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regiment) is part of the Royal Air Force and functions as a specialist corps. Founded by royal warrant in 1942, the Corps carries out soldiering tasks relating to the delivery of air power. Examples of such t ...

. ;Civil Division * Reginald John Ayres, CBE, Accountant General, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Brigadier Edward Roy Caffyn, CBE, TD, chairman, County of Sussex

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

. * Walter Eric Chiesman, MD, FRCP, Medical Adviser,

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

. * John Rupert Colville, CVO, lately Joint Principal Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, KG, DM, CH, MP. * Colonel George Reginald Curtis, OBE, TD, DL, chairman, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

. * George William Hoggan Gardner, CBE, Director-General of Technical Development (Air), Ministry of Supply. * Douglas John Gordon, Clerk Assistant,

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. ...

. * Thomas Douglas Haddow, Under-Secretary,

Department of Health for Scotland Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

. * John Lawson, Under-Secretary,

Admiralty Admiralty most often refers to: *Admiralty, Hong Kong * Admiralty (United Kingdom), military department in command of the Royal Navy from 1707 to 1964 *The rank of admiral * Admiralty law Admiralty can also refer to: Buildings *Admiralty, Tr ...

. * John Leckie, Under-Secretary,

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

. * Francis William Walker McCombe, CBE, Chief Charity Commissioner. * Alan Samuel Marre, Accountant General, Ministry of Health. * George Richard Parsons, CBE, Director of Establishments and Organisation,

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

. * David Bruce Pitblado, CVO,

Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister The Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a senior official in the United Kingdom Civil Service who acts as principal private secretary to the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of this office is ...

. * John Neish Ritchie, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Sir (Horace) Anthony Claude Rumbold, Bt, CMG, Principal Private Secretary to the

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...

. * Edward Kennedy Stopford, Assistant Under-Secretary of State,

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

. * Norman Charles Wright, Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* Sir Esler Maberly Dening, KCMG, OBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Tokyo.

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

* Edgar Abraham Cohen, CMG, Second Secretary, Board of Trade. * Alexander Colin Burlington Symon, CMG, OBE, High Commissioner in Pakistan for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. *

Robert Brown Black Sir Robert Brown Black (3 June 1906 – 29 October 1999) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1955 to 1957, and Governor of Hong Kong from 1958 to 1964. Born in Edinburgh and educated at George Watson ...

, CMG, OBE, Governor and Commander-in-Chief (designate), Singapore. * Sir Clement John Pleass, KBE, CMG, Governor, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Roderick Edward Barclay, CMG, CVO, Deputy Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * Unit ...

. *

Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows Sir Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows, Order of St Michael and St George, GCMG (3 July 1910 – 7 May 2002) was a British diplomat. Career Burrows studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, Trinity College in Oxford. In 1934, after two y ...

, CMG,

Political Resident In the British Empire a Political Resident or Political Agent was the incumbent of an official diplomatic position involving both consular duties and liaison function. A Consul or Consul-General has largely consular functions, such as looking afte ...

in the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...

. * Berkeley Everard Foley Gage, CMG, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Bangkok. *

Humphrey Trevelyan Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, (27 November 1905 – 9 February 1985) was a British colonial administrator, diplomat and writer. Having begun his career in the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service, he transferred to HM Diplo ...

, CMG, CIE, OBE, lately ''

Chargé d'affaires A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador ...

ad interim'' at Her Majesty's Embassy in Peking.

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

* Arthur Harold Clough, OBE, Member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

. * Walter Ernest Knox, MM, Secretary,

Export Credits Guarantee Department , type = Department , logo = UK Export Finance logo.svg , logo_width = 150 , logo_caption = , seal = , seal_width = , seal_caption = , picture = Government Offices Great George Street. ...

. *

John Moore Caldicott Sir John Moore Caldicott (12 February 1900 – 31 January 1986) was a Rhodesian government minister. Early life John Moore Caldicott was born in Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, on 12 February 1900 the son of solicitor John Croydon Moore Cal ...

, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Health,

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation or CAF, was a colonial federation that consisted of three southern African territories: the Self-governing colony, self-governing British colony of Southe ...

. * Harold Graydon Conde, Chairman of the Electricity Commission, State of

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

. * Julian Randall Dridan, Engineer-in Chief, Engineering and Water Supply Department, State of

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. * Alexander Francis Morley, CBE, an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the

Commonwealth Relations Office The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations was a British Cabinet minister responsible for dealing with the United Kingdom's relations with members of the Commonwealth of Nations (its former colonies). The minister's department was the Commo ...

. * Archibald Richard Park, Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart, State of

Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...

. * Michael Louis Bernacchi, OBE,

Resident Commissioner Resident commissioner was or is an official title of several different types of commissioners, who were or are representatives of any level of government. Historically, they were appointed by the British Crown in overseas protectorates (such ...

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony The Gilbert and Ellice Islands (GEIC as a colony) in the Pacific Ocean were part of the British Empire from 1892 to 1976. They were a protectorate from 1892 to 12 January 1916, and then a colony until 1 January 1976. The history of the colony w ...

. * Ian William Blelloch, British Adviser,

Perak Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...

. * Lachlan Macpherson Boyd, Secretary for African Affairs, Uganda. * Hablot Robert Edgar Browne, OBE, Civil Secretary,

Northern Region, Nigeria Northern Nigeria was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures. In 1962 it acquired the territory of the British Nort ...

. * Alexander Edward Cook, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Thomas Richard Fisher Cox, Provincial Commissioner, Uganda. * John Hugh Ellis, Deputy Chief Secretary,

Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the M ...

. * Richard Percy Errington, Chairman of the Aden Port Trust. *

Albert Gomes Albert Maria Gomes (25 March 1911 – 13 January 1978) was a Trinidadian unionist, politician, and writer of Portuguese descent, was the first Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He was the founder of the Political Progress Groups and later led ...

, Minister of Labour, Industry and Commerce,

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

. * Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey, OBE, Secretary to the Governor-General and Council of Ministers,

Federation of Nigeria The Federation of Nigeria was a predecessor to modern-day Nigeria from 1954 to 1963. It was a British protectorate until its independence on 1 October 1960. British rule of Colonial Nigeria ended in 1960, when the ''Nigeria Independence Act 1960 ...

. * Lieutenant-Commander James Jolly, CBE, RD, RNR (Retd), Director of Marine,

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. * Frederick Herbert Page-Jones, Member for Local Government,

Tanganyika Tanganyika may refer to: Places * Tanganyika Territory (1916–1961), a former British territory which preceded the sovereign state * Tanganyika (1961–1964), a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania * Tanzania Main ...

. * Richard Wildman Kettlewell, Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland. * Leslie Frank Leversedge, Development Secretary, Northern Rhodesia. * John Ewart Marnham, MC, TD, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. * William Allan Cunningham Mathieson, MBE, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. * Arthur George Rixson Mooring, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Western Region, Nigeria. * Eric George Rowe, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika. * James Stewart Smith, Senior Resident, Owerri Province, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Robert de Stapeldon Stapledon, CBE, Chief Secretary, Tanganyika. * John Henry Wallace, Commissioner for Northern Rhodesia in the United Kingdom. *

Richard Ashton Beaumont Sir Richard Ashton Beaumont (29 December 1912 – 23 January 2009) was a British diplomat and Arabist who spent most his diplomatic career serving in the Arab world. Educated at Repton School and Oriel College, Oxford, Beaumont joined the Cons ...

, OBE,

Counsellor Counselor or counsellor may refer to: A professional In diplomacy and government * Counsellor of State, senior member of the British royal family to whom the Monarch can delegate some functions in case of unavailability * Counselor (dipl ...

at Her Majesty's Embassy in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

. * Thomas Eardley Bromley, Foreign Office. * Leslie Alfred Charles Fry, OBE, Foreign Office. * Frederick Herbert Gamble, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Quito. * Terence Willcocks Garvey, Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

. * Arthur Maxwell Hankin, lately Personnel Adviser to the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Sudan Government. * Anthony Edward Lambert, Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. * Humphrey Alan Walter Morrice, Irrigation Adviser and Director of Irrigation, Sudan Government. * Edward Michael Rose, lately Deputy to the General Officer Commanding and Head of Political Division, Berlin (British Sector). * John Lanham Bradbury Titchener, OBE, Counsellor (Economic) at Her Majesty's Embassy in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. *

Archibald Duncan Wilson Sir Archibald Duncan Wilson (12 August 1911 – 20 September 1983) was a British diplomat and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Career Wilson was born on 12 August 1911 in Winchester to Archibald Edward Wilson, German teacher at Winc ...

, Foreign Office. *

George Kennedy Young George Kennedy Young, CB, MBE, M.A. (8 April 1911 – 9 May 1990) was a deputy director of MI6, and later involved in British Conservative Party politics. He was also a merchant banker. Early life George Kennedy Young was born in Dumfries, a ...

, MBE, Foreign Office.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* Sir Horace Evans, KCVO, MD, FRCP.

Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* The Most Noble Mary Alice, Duchess of Devonshire, CBE.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Major

John Crocker Bulteel John Crocker Bulteel (1793–1843) of Fleet, Holbeton, in South Devon, was a Whig MP for South Devon 1832-4 and was Sheriff of Devon in 1841. He was Master of the Dartmoor Foxhounds and bred the finest pack of hounds in England. Origins He was ...

, DSO, MC. * Eric Humphrey Savill, CVO, CBE, MC. * The

Right Reverend The Right Reverend (abbreviated The Rt Revd, The Rt Rev'd, The Rt Rev.) is a style applied to certain religious figures. Overview *In the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church in Great Britain, it applies to bishops, except that ''The M ...

and Right Honourable John William Charles Wand,

Bishop of London A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* Vice-Admiral Thomas Bernard Drew, CB, OBE. * Henry George Rushbury.

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

* Commander Anthony Dunhill, Royal Navy. * The Reverend Peter Llewellyn Gillingham. * Lieutenant (S) Kenneth Hall, MVO, MBE, Royal Navy (Retd.) * Alec Hobson, OBE. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Hilgrove Leslie McCarthy, DSO, MC, MD, MRCP. * Francis Kennedy Bryden Murdoch, MBE, TD. * Louis Albert Nickolls. * Arthur William Peterson. * Kenneth William Upjohn. * Captain Thomas Wright, MRCVS.

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

* Frederick Charles Burke. * Derek Charles Dashfield. * Lillie Hocking. * Hugh Brown Mounsey. * Andrew Naysmith. * Percy Randall. * Herbert William Taffs, MBE. * Patricia Thomas.

Order of the British Empire

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

;Civil Division * Sir William Edward Rootes, KBE, chairman, Dollar Exports Council.

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

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Ian Murray Robertson Campbell, CB, DSO. * Vice-Admiral Peter Grenville Lyon Cazalet, CB, DSO, DSC. ;;Army * Brigadier Henry Shapcott, CB, CBE, MC (26224), Army Legal Services Staff List. * Major-General

George Alexander Neville Swiney George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President ...

, CB, CBE, MC (10754), Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (now RARO). ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal Francis Joseph Fressanges, CB. ;Civil Division * Sir George Mowlem Burt, President,

Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governing ...

. * Edmund Gerald Compton, CB, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. *

Alexander Fleck Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck (11 November 1889 – 6 August 1968) was a British industrial chemist. Background and education Fleck was born on 11 November 1889, the son of Robert Fleck, coal-merchant of the firm Alexander Fleck & Co of 4 ...

, chairman,

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

Ltd. For services to the Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Arthur Hulin Gosling, CB, Director General,

Forestry Commission The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England. The Forestry Commission was previously also respon ...

. * Sir

Harold Spencer Jones Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS (29 March 1890 – 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer. He became renowned as an authority on positional astronomy and served as the tenth Astronomer Royal for 23 years. Although born "Jon ...

, MBE,

Astronomer Royal Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834. The post ...

. * Sir Alexander Stuart Murray MacGregor, OBE, MD, FRFPS, JP. For services to public health in Scotland. * Sir Harold Parkinson, OBE, Vice-chairman,

National Savings Committee The National Savings Movement was a British mass savings movement that operated between 1916 and 1978 and was used to finance the deficit of government spending over tax revenues. The movement was instrumental during World War II in raising fu ...

. * Dick Goldsmith White, CBE, attached War Office. *

William O'Brien Lindsay Sir William O'Brien Lindsay (8 October 1909 – 20 October 1975) was the Chief Justice of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1950 or 1954 to 1955, during the period when it was administered as an Anglo-Egyptian condominium. He served in the Sudan Politi ...

, lately Chief Justice of the Sudan. * Ernest William Meiklereid, CMG, Minister (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris. * William Addis, CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles. :;Honorary Knight Commander * Dato Setia Wangsa Mahmud bin Mat, CMG, OBE,

Speaker Speaker may refer to: Society and politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly * Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture * A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially: ** In ...

Federal Legislative Council The Federal Legislative Council (also known simply as the Legislative Council) was the legislative body of the Federation of Malaya and the predecessor of the Malaysian Parliament. It was formed in 1948 after the abolition of the Malayan Union and ...

, Federation of Malaya.

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

;Civil Division * Irene Mary Bewick Ward, CBE, JP, MP, Member of Parliament for

Wallsend-on-Tyne Wallsend is a town in North Tyneside, England, at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. It has a population of 43,842 and lies east of Newcastle upon Tyne. History Roman Wallsend In Roman times, this was the site of the fort of Segedunum. This fo ...

, 1931–1945, and for

Tynemouth Tynemouth () is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, North East England. It is located on the north side of the mouth of the River Tyne, hence its name. It is 8 mi (13 km) east-northeast of Newcastle upon T ...

since 1950. For political and public services.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Captain William Power Carne, (Retd.) * Captain Michael Everard. * Colonel Adolphus John Harvey, OBE, Royal Marines. * Captain Arthur Trestain Phillips. ;;Army * Brigadier (temporary) Alan Ward Brown, DSO, MC (44827), late Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. * Colonel (acting) Arthur Alexander Ernest Merlott-Chitty, DSO (8414),

Army Cadet Force The Army Cadet Force (ACF), generally shortened to Army Cadets, is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army. Along with the Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Training Corps, the ACF mak ...

. * Brigadier Allen Lepard Crockford, DSO, OBE, MC, TD, QHS, MB (40934), late Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * Colonel Charles Dalby (34225), late Infantry. * Brigadier Averell John Daniell, DSO, MBE (26961), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier Alexander Frederic Joseph Elmslie (31922), late Royal Army Service Corps. * Colonel (local) (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) Peter Godfrey-Faussett, OBE (128925),

Corps of Royal Military Police The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of army service personnel, and for providing a military police presence both in the UK and while service personnel are deployed overseas on operations ...

. * Brigadier Geoffrey Bernard Sylvester Hindley, OBE (26976), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (acting) Alan Harvey Jones, TD (57861), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Brigadier Clarence Kirk, OBE (42184), late Corps of Royal Engineers. * Brigadier (temporary) Geoffrey Franklyn Lushington, OBE (41141), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Colonel Arthur Selby Milner, OBE (34688), late Royal Corps of Signals. * Colonel William Paul Temple Roberts (38423), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (temporary) Anthony Donald Macdonald Teacher, OBE (33372), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Colonel Robert Cecile Thomson (34995), late Infantry. * Brigadier (temporary) Edward Dacre Howard-Vyse, MC (33342), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier (acting) Ian Hamilton Reeve (IA.812), Special List (ex-

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

); until recently on loan to the Government of India. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Commodore Albert Frederick Cook, OBE, LRCP&S. * Air Commodore Henry Rudolph Graham, DSO, DFC. * Group Captain Donald David Christie, OBE, AFC. * Group Captain Stephen Peirson Hagger. * Group Captain Sydney Herbert Verder Harris. * Group Captain Andrew Blair Holloway, OBE. * Group Captain Sidney Weetman Rochford Hughes, OBE, AFC. * Group Captain John Malcolm Douglas KER. * Group Captain William Ivan Guy Kerby, OBE. * Group Captain Waters Eveleigh Rankin, DSO. * Group Captain Frederick Ernest Rosier, DSO, OBE. ;Civil Division * Edgar Montague Amphlett, MC, Member, National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled. * William Henry Arnold, HM

Attorney General In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...

, Guernsey. * Alderman Albert Ballard, chairman, Board of Governors, United Sheffield Hospitals. * Roger Gilbert Bannister, MRCS, LRCP. For services to amateur athletics. * Godwin Edward Banwell, OBE, MC, Chief Constable,

Cheshire Constabulary Cheshire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the English unitary authorities of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Borough of Halton and Borough of Warrington. The force is responsible for policing an are ...

. * George Edward Birkenshaw, managing director, David Dixon & Son Ltd., Leeds. * Arthur Blackman, JP. For public services in Hastings. * Eric Walter Blom. For services to Music. * John Brown, MBE, MC, Education Officer,

. * Captain William Anthony Brown. For political and public services in Sevenoaks. * William Bertram Brown, Divisional Inspector of Mines, East Midland Division, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Edwin Butler, Senior Engineering Inspector, Welsh Office, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Philippe Leslie Caro Carrier, MD, MRCP, Senior Medical Officer, Home Office. * Arnold Blatchford David Cassie, Director of Research,

Wool Industries Research Association The Wool Industries Research Association was an industrial research organization in the United Kingdom. It later became the Wira Technology Group before being merged with the Shirley Institute in the 1989 to form the British Textile Technology Group ...

. * Reginald Percy Chester, JP, chairman, Hampshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Albert Edward Childs, Director of Chemical Defence Research and Development, Ministry of Supply. * Guy Chipperfield, chairman, British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. * Robert Hugh Clay, MC, Director of the Post Office, Northern Ireland. * Henry William Clements, Manager Director,

United Dairies United Dairies is a former United Kingdom-based creamery, milk bottling and distribution company. The company was formed in 1915 and merged to form Unigate in 1959. During World War I, there were dire shortages of men, horses and vehicles com ...

Ltd. * Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, MBE. For services to the study of Muslim architecture and archaeology. * Percy John Curtis, Secretary,

Exchequer and Audit Department The National Audit Office (NAO) is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies. The NAO also carries out valu ...

. *

Helen Darbishire Helen Darbishire, (1881–1961) was an English literary scholar, who was Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1931 until her retirement in 1945.'Obituary: Miss Helen Darbishire, former principal of Somerville College', ''The Guardian'' ...

. For services to the study of English literature. * Major Cecil Reginald Dibben, OBE, chairman, Midland Regional Board for Industry. * John Vernon Dunworth, Head of Reactor Physics Division,

Atomic Energy Research Establishment The Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) was the main Headquarters, centre for nuclear power, atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from 1946 to the 1990s. It was created, owned and funded by the British Governm ...

, Harwell. * Clare Hankinson Dutton, Vice-chairman,

Rotax Rotax is the brand name for a range of internal combustion engines developed and manufactured by the Austrian company BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co KG (until 2016 BRP-Powertrain GmbH & Co. KG), in turn owned by the Canadian Bombardier Recreational Product ...

Ltd., London. * James Alistair Dyson, Director of Costings, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Charles William Atkinson Emery, MB, ChB, Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Mary Esslemont, MB, ChB, JP. For services to Medicine in Scotland. * Norman William Farmer. For political and public services in Lewisham. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Dudley Henry Charles Forbes, DL. For political and public services in Scotland. * Geoffrey Edwin Foxwell, Consulting Fuel Technologist. * Richard William Lewis Gawn, OBE, assistant director of Naval Construction; Superintendent, Admiralty Experimental Works, Haslar. * John Douglas Geake, Deputy Controller of Death Duties,

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

. * Reginald George Gosling, JP, chairman,

Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London. It was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948). It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and ...

and Hatfield New Town Development Corporations. * The Reverend Professor John Macdonald Graham, lately

Lord Provost of Aberdeen The Lord Provost of Aberdeen is the convener of the Aberdeen City local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. They are equivalent in m ...

. * Lawrence Edward Greener, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs & Excise. * Hugh Kinghorn Grey, ISO, MBE, Head of Communications Department, Foreign Office. * Vernon William Grosvenor, JP, chairman, Birmingham

Regional Hospital Board In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...

. * Brigadier Ivor Reginald Grove, OBE, Member of the Board and Technical Adviser, Army Kinema Corporation. *

Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies, including ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (194 ...

, Actor. * Ernest Edward Hall, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply. * Francis Carol Hampden, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Alexander Harrison, Lately Chairman of the Edinburgh Savings Bank. * John Napthali Hart. For political and public services in Enfield. * Cyril Alexander Frederick Hastilow, OBE, chairman, Docker Brothers, Birmingham. * Theodore George Alexander Henderson, DCM, Manager and Secretary, Scottish

Milk Marketing Board The Milk Marketing Board was a producer-run product marketing board, established by the Agricultural Marketing Act 1933, to control milk production and distribution in the United Kingdom. It functioned as buyer of last resort in the milk market in ...

. * Arthur Edward Hewitt, MC, JP, managing director, W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent. * Alderman Thomas Rowland Hill. For public services in Leicester. * Alderman Matthew Holland, JP, chairman, Nottinghamshire Education Committee. * Lex Hamilton Hornsby, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * George Houldsworth Houlden, MBE, managing director of the Shipbuilding Division,

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

Ltd. * Percy Granville Hutton, Assistant Solicitor, Board of Inland Revenue. * Dorothy Christian Liddle Johnstone, Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury. * David Jones, Painter and Author. * Harry Ernest Jones, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland. * John Arthur Llewelyn Vaughan-Jones, MB, ChB, JP, Regional Medical Adviser, East and West Ridings Region, Yorkshire. For services to the Ministry of Labour & National Service. *

Sidney Anderson Kinnear Sidney Anderson Kinnear, CBE (1902 – 1985) was the first HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland to come from a police''Mr. Sidney Anderson Kinnear'' The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 28, 1945; pg. 6; Issue 50335 rather than a mil ...

HM Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) is a public body (Scotland), public body of the Scottish Government and reports to the Scottish Parliament. It has statutory responsibility for the inspection of the effectiveness and ...

. * Raymond Lewis Lawson, deputy director of Armament Supply, Admiralty. * Charles Ernest Lucette, MBE, Manager and Secretary,

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

Co. * Reginald William Lunn, Technical Director, Leyland & Birmingham Rubber Co. Ltd. * Colonel Edward Frank Maltby, OBE, Foreign Office. * Cecil George Mant, Deputy Director General of Works, Ministry of Works. * Eoin Cameron Mekie. For political and public services. * The Honourable

Lilian Helen Montagu The Hon. Lilian Helen "Lily" Montagu, CBE (22 December 1873 – 22 January 1963) was the first woman to play a major role in Progressive Judaism. Life Lily Montagu was the sixth of 10 children born to Ellen Cohen Montagu (1843–1919) and Samu ...

, OBE. For services to Jewish Organisations. * Walter Cecil Moore, Director, Plant Pathology Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Kevern Ivor Morgan, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Swansea. * Lionel Percival William Arthur Mortimer, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. *

Raymond Mortimer Charles Raymond Bell Mortimer CBE (25 April 1895 – 9 January 1980), who wrote under the name Raymond Mortimer, was a British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor, who also wrote a classic history of th ...

, Author and Literary Critic. * William Roderick Mullen. For services to the Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. * Charles George Morley New. For services to the Electricity Industry. * Frederick Harwood Norman. For services to the

Civil Service Commission A civil service commission is a government agency that is constituted by legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants, oversee hiring and promotions, and promote the values of the public service. Its role is rou ...

. * Alderman Frederick Ernest Oliver, TD, DL. For political and public services in Leicester. * Hedley John Parham, assistant director, Department of the

Director of Public Prosecutions The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members o ...

. *

John Bryan Ward-Perkins John Bryan Ward-Perkins, (3 February 1912 – 28 May 1981) was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome. Family and early life John Bryan Ward-Perkins was born on 3 February 19 ...

, Director of the

British School at Rome The British School at Rome (BSR) is an interdisciplinary research centre supporting the arts, humanities and architecture. History The British School at Rome (BSR) was established in 1901 and granted a UK Royal Charter in 1912. Its mission is " ...

. * John Cassels Pinkerton, MC, JP, City Assessor,

Glasgow Corporation The politics of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city by population, are expressed in the deliberations and decisions of Glasgow City Council, in elections to the council, the Scottish Parliament and the UK Parliament. Local government As one of ...

. * David Doig Pratt, OBE, Director, Chemical Research Laboratory,

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, abbreviated DSIR was the name of several British Empire organisations founded after the 1923 Imperial Conference to foster intra-Empire trade and development. * Department of Scientific and Industria ...

. * George Taylor Pringle, HM Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department. * Fleetwood Craven Pritchard, MC, chairman, Senior Partner, Pritchard, F. G. Wood & Partners Ltd., London. * Harold Leney Raybould, Controller of Supplies, Ministry of Works. * Lister Philip Rees, Chief Technical Adviser, Central Land Board and

War Damage Commission The War Damage Commission was a body set up by the British Government under the War Damage Act 1941 to pay compensation for war damage to land and buildings and " 'Fixed' plant and machinery", throughout the United Kingdom. It was not responsible ...

. * Geoffrey Arthur Roberts, MBE, Director of Manning, Air Ministry. * Henry Goland Robinson, Emeritus Professor of Agriculture,

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

. * Frederick William Roques, MD, FRCS, Consultant in Gynaecology to the Royal Air Force. * Max Leonard Rosenheim, MD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine,

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. * Wilfrid Stanley Scammell, MC. For political and public services in Somerset. * Louis Christian Schiller, MC, HM Inspector of Schools (Staff Inspector), Ministry of Education. * Harold Percy Raymond Scott, Joint Managing Director, Summersons Foundries Ltd., Darlington. * Bernard Alexander Royle Shore. For services to Music. * Charles Short, Chief Valuer (Scotland), Board, of Inland Revenue. * Charles Alan Slatford, MC, Custodian of Enemy Property for England and Wales, Board of Trade. * James Snoxhill, Regional Controller, Midland Region, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Captain

Arthur Christopher John Soames Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliamen ...

, MP, Member of Parliament for

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...

since 1950.

Parliamentary Private Secretary A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom who acts as an unpaid assistant to a minister or shadow minister. They are selected from backbench MPs as the 'eyes and ears' of the minister in the H ...

to the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, MP, 1952–1955. For political and public services. * Henry Edward Steel, Chief Ship Surveyor, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Eric George Sugden, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education. * Frederick Neil Sutherland, General Manager, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. * William Sweeney, JP. For public services in Belfast. * Robert Eric Swift, Director of Aeronautical Inspection, Ministry of Supply. *

Harold McCarter Taylor Harold McCarter Taylor, (13 May 1907 – 23 October 1995) was a New Zealand-born British mathematician, theoretical physicist and academic administrator, but is best known as a historian of architecture and the author, with his first wife Joan Ta ...

, TD, Secretary-General of the Faculties,

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

. * Humphrey George Taylor. For services to the Chain and Chain Cable Industry. * Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Cuthbert Rees Thompson, TD, DL, chairman, County of Monmouth

. * James Leonard Thomson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering,

Royal Military College of Science The Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) was a British postgraduate school, research institution and training provider with origins dating back to 1772. It became part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in 2009, and ceased to exist ...

, Shrivenham. * George Benjamin Thorneycroft, MM, lately General Secretary,

Transport Salaried Staffs' Association The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for workers in the transport and travel industries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its head office is in London, and it has regional offices in Bristol, Derby, Dublin, Manche ...

. * John Norman Toothill, General Manager,

Ferranti Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The firm was known ...

Ltd., Edinburgh. * Percy Brooksbank Walker, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Samuel Richard Walker, Member of the

Common Council of the City of London The Court of Common Council is the primary decision-making body of the City of London Corporation. It meets nine times per year. Most of its work is carried out by committees. Elections are held at least every four years. It is largely composed o ...

. Chairman of the Reconstruction Committee of the Guildhall. * Alexander West, chairman, Welland River Board, Lincolnshire. *

Johannes Wilde Johannes Wilde CBE (2 July 1891 – 13 September 1970) was a Hungarian art historian and teacher of art history. He later became an Austrian, and then a British, citizen. He was a noted expert on the drawings of Michelangelo. Wilde was a pione ...

, Professor of the History of Art, University of London. * James Thomas Pither Wilson, Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy,

High Court of Justice The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Courts of England and Wales, Senior Cou ...

. * Annie Florence Wood, JP. For political and public services in Birmingham. * Eileen Louise Younghusband, MBE, JP, Lecturer in Social Science,

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. Chairman of the West London Juvenile Court. * George Cameron Allen, lately Cultural Relations Adviser, United Kingdom High Commission in Germany. * George Beckwith Dent, British subject resident in Burma. * Professor Edward Vivian Gatenby, OBE, lately Linguistics Adviser to the British Council and Professor of English Language and Literature,

Ankara University Ankara University ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the formation of the republic in 1923. The university has 40 vocat ...

. * Austin Gill, lately Director of the British Institute, Paris. * David Jarvis Mill Irving, Her Majesty's Consul-General (designate) at Algiers. * George Norman McLeod Law, chairman of the Board of Directors of Barclays Bank Ltd., in Egypt and the Sudan. * Derek Lomax, lately Senior Justice of the High Court of the Sudan. * Malcolm Smith Mainland, General Manager, Fields and Pipeline Iraq, Iraq Petroleum Co. Ltd. * Joseph Robinson, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Asunción. * Adolf Basser. For philanthropic services in the State of New South Wales. * Alexander Kirkwood Brown. For services to the United Kingdom business community in

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

, India. * William Hives Eastwood, OBE. For public and political services in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Anderson Colin Talbot Edwards. For services to the Interim Public Service Commission, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * John Lewers Grove, MD, BS, a prominent physician in Launceston, State of Tasmania. * Norman Bede Rydge. For public services in the State of New South Wales. * William Thomas Smith, OBE, Chairman of various Native Labour Boards in Southern Rhodesia. * George Lloyd Wallis, OBE, JP, a farmer in Swaziland. * John Clarence Bryant, OBE. For public services in

North Borneo North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British Protectorate, British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo, which is present day Sabah. The territory of North Borneo ...

. * John Kenneth Buchanan, Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission, Nigeria. * Robert Benson Carey, Member for Works, Federation of Malaya. * Philip Arthur Tyrer Chrimes, chairman, Singapore Harbour Board. * John Constantine Clerides, QC. For public services in Cyprus. * Matthew Kirkham Needham Collens, Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast. * The Right Reverend Nigel Edmund Cornwall, The Lord Bishop of Borneo. * William Fairley, Chief Civil Engineer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations. * Louis Galea, OBE, Attorney-General, Malta. * Gordon Gibson, Chief Mechanical Engineer,

East African Railways and Harbours Corporation The East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) is a defunct company that operated railways and harbours in East Africa from 1948 to 1977. It was formed in 1948 for the new East African High Commission by merging the Kenya and Ugand ...

. * Richard Thomas Bondfield Green, MD, Senior Bacteriologist, Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya. * Sir Roger Evans Hall. For public services in Bermuda. * Robert Alston Hammond, OBE, Director of Veterinary Services, Kenya. * Mallam Haruna, Emir of Gwandu, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Herbert John Hinchey, Financial Secretary,

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

. * Roy Adolphus Joseph, OBE, Minister of Education and Social Services, Trinidad. * The

Reverend Mother An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic ...

Kevin, Mother General of the Missionary Sisters of St Francis, Uganda. * Lo Man Wai, OBE, JP. For public services in Hong Kong. * Captain Henry Wilfred Scott McGrath,

Custos {{Wiktionary, custos ''Custos'' is the Latin word for guard. Titles * Custos rotulorum ("keeper of the rolls"), a civic post in parts of the United Kingdom and in Jamaica * Custos (Franciscans), a religious superior or official in the Fran ...

of the Parish of St Catherine, Jamaica. * Charles William Tachie-Menson, OBE. For public services in the Gold Coast. * Victor Herbert Merttens, Commissioner of Income Tax, East Africa High Commission, and Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Kenya. * The Right Reverend James Moris, Roman Catholic Bishop of Roseau,

Dominica Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...

Windward Islands french: Îles du Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Windward Islands. Clockwise: Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth ...

. * Andrew James Don Small. For public services in Kenya. * Charles William Stanley Seed. Lately Director of Audit, Federation of Malaya and Singapore. * Thio Chan Bee, JP. For public services in Singapore.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Barnes,

Royal Marines Forces Volunteer Reserve The Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) is the volunteer reserve force used to augment the regular Royal Marines. The RMR consists of some 750 trained ranks distributed among the four units within the UK. About 10 percent of the force are working with t ...

. * The Reverend Bernard William Briggs, Chaplain. * Commander Hugh Wilson Findlay, DSC. * Commander Jack Raymond Haysom. * Instructor Commander John Sydney Hewitt. * Commander John Samuel Hervey Lawrence. * Chief Officer Catherine Alice Lawson,

Women's Royal Naval Service The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the ...

. * Commander Alexander John McHattie, DSC, RD,

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

. * Captain William Walter Peddle,

Royal Fleet Auxiliary The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a naval auxiliary fleet owned by the UK's Ministry of Defence. It provides logistical and operational support to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The RFA ensures the Royal Navy is supplied and supported by ...

Service. * Commander Frederick Hugh Phillips. * Commander Edward Bernard Tancock, DSC, (Retd.) * Lieutenant-Commander Louis George Toone. * Commander Robert Travers Young, (Retd.) ;;Army * Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) Arthur Tobia Abate (303451), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Warwick Allpass, TD (109768), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Anthony Arthur Arnold (65486),

Combined Cadet Force The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is a youth organisation in the United Kingdom, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (MOD), which operates in schools, and normally includes Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force sections. Its aim is to "provide a ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Charles Frederic Villiers Bagot (50952), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Peter John Barbary, MBE, GM, TD (65924), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Millard Bennett (56618), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Bryan Stanley Scott-Clarke, TD (62394), The

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment was the final title of a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was originally formed in 1688. After centuries of service in many conflicts and wars, including both the First and Second World W ...

, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Cooper (182968), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (Employed List). * Major John Hector Creswell (77550), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Norrington Cronin, MBE, TD (66597), The

Worcestershire Regiment The Worcestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment in the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot and the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot. The regimen ...

, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) William John Drake, 16th Essex Battalion,

Home Guard Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense. The term "home guard" was first officially used in the American Civil War, starting wi ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Harry Edward Richard Ford, MC (11761), Army Cadet Force. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) William Edwin Gill, MBE, TD, 4th West Lancashire Battalion, Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Gregg, MD (108108), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Griffith (33699), The

Welch Regiment The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch", an archaic spelling of "Welsh") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1969. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of ...

(now RARO). * Lieutenant-Colonel Alwyne Tregelles Hingston, MBE (50823), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List). * Lieutenant-Colonel Michael O'Connor Horgan, TD (39604), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Kenneth Hunt, MC (151485), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Antony Hunter, DSO, MBE, MC (63621), The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. * Major Samuel Newburgh Standish Hutchins (74539), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Kelly, TD (76823), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Arthur Leivers, TD (71932), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Michael Hardwicke Lewis (85569), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major) Robert Richmond Lindsay (66037), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Warren Mallory (126545), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major) William John Martin (201217), The

Suffolk Regiment The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries, participating in many wars and conflicts, including the First and Second World Wars, before bein ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Paul (151227), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred George Penna (32102), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mordan Thorne Clarke Campbell-Preston, MC, TD, DL, JP (39010), The

Scottish Horse The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War. It saw heavy fighting in both the World War I, First World War, as the 13th Battali ...

, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army (now TARO). * Lieutenant-Colonel George Harcourt Rae, MC, TD (63027), The

King's Own Scottish Borderers The King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSBs) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division. On 28 March 2006 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own ...

, Territorial Army (now TARO). * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Reginald Ramsbotham, 4th/6th North Riding Battalion, Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel Walter George Robinson, TD (63706), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Christopher Shapland (68714), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant-colonel Charles James Stewart, TD (71983), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Muir Stewart, MB (73590), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Stanley Storm, MC (138822),

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

. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Patrick Turrill, TD (63080), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel James Newton Vallance, TD (87237), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * The Reverend Guy Rowland Whitcombe, MA, Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (101551),

Royal Army Chaplains' Department The Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) is an all-officer department that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army. History The Army Chaplains' Department (AChD) was formed by Royal Warrant of 23 September 1796; until the ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Stanford Edwin Doig (356916), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers; at present on loan to the Government of India. :;In recognition of services in Korea during the period 1 August 1954 to 31 January 1955. * Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Herbert Stainforth (378004), Royal Army Service Corps. * Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) John Castle Woollett, MC (66051), Royal Engineers. ;;Royal Air Force * Wing Commander Albert Edward Davey (31475). * Wing Commander Alfred Herbert Harding, DFC (NZ70033),

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

. * Wing Commander Ernest Alfred Johnston (33343). * Wing Commander Robert Alfred Milward, DFC (37201). * Wing Commander Lilian Gertrude Moore, MB, BCh (5291). * Wing Commander Walter Robinson, MBE (35122), (Retd.) * Wing Commander James Clarke Taylor, MB, ChB (23323). * Wing Commander Alistair Robert Cameron Young, MRCS, LRCP (23176). * Acting Wing Commander Alistair Milne Grant (90181),

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

Reserve of Officers. * Acting Wing Commander Albert Frederick Wallace, DFC (45463). * Acting Wing Commander Arthur Harry Wilkes (74319). * Squadron Leader Edmund Lionel Bloxham (45076). * Squadron Leader Frank Clifford Charles (44042), (Retd.) * The Reverend Ernest William Daly. * Squadron Leader John Henry Christian Dickie (116095). * Squadron Leader John McGuire, DFC, (155394). * Squadron Leader Derek Shannon Vaughan Rake, AFC (124494). * Squadron Leader Ernest Halliday Tidswell (86885). * Squadron Leader Arthur Harry Wilkes (74319). * Squadron Leader Donald Fraser Wilson (41891). * Acting Squadron Leader John Arthur McCorquodale, MBE (54801). ;Civil Division * George Lloyd Ackers, Chief Sanitary Engineer, Ministry of Works. * Reginald Thomas Alden, Member of the Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles, East Midland Area. * Andrew Alexander, Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. * William Alexander Macdonald Allan, Divisional Engineer, Main Drainage Division, London County Council. * Robert Stanley Allen, MBE, Honorary Secretary, Luton Rural District Savings Committee. * Lloyd William Ambrose, Chief Accountant, Board of Trade. * Reginald Virgo Atkinson, Works Director, Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd.,

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...

. * The Reverend Father Alfonsus George Attard, Officiating Chaplain to the Royal Air Force in Malta. * Victor Louis Austin, Deputy Controller, Supplies Department, General Post Office. * The Right Honourable Christopher William, Baron Barnard, CMG, MC, TD, DL. For services to the

Boy Scouts Association The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organisation in the United Kingdom and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement's recognised member for the United Kingdom. Following the origin of Scouting in 1907, the association was form ...

County Durham County Durham ( ), officially simply Durham,UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. is a ceremonial county in North East England.North East Assembly �About North East E ...

. * Dorothy Violet Bartlett, Deputy Controller of Export Licensing, Board of Trade. * Herbert Leslie Beards, Assistant Scientific Adviser, Air Ministry. * Bernard Nicolas Bebbington, Chief Constable, Cambridge City Police Force. * Walter Beesley, deputy chairman, Buckinghamshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Donald Arthur de Candt Bellamy, Senior Engineer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * William Ferguson Bennett, Senior Engineer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. * George Philip Billot, lately

Jurat The ''jurats'' () are lay people in Guernsey and Jersey who act as judges of fact rather than law, though they preside over land conveyances and liquor licensing. In Alderney, however, the jurats are judges of both fact and law (assisted by thei ...

and Lieutenant-Bailiff,

States of Jersey The States Assembly (french: Assemblée des États; Jèrriais: ) is the parliament of Jersey, formed of the island's 37 deputies and the Connétable of each of the twelve parishes. The origins of the legislature of Jersey lie in the system o ...

. * Jack William Gibbons Bird, MBE, DL, Chief Engineer, South Wales Electricity Board. * Ernest Sidney Blake, MBE, Vice Chairman, Eastern Regional Board for Industry. * Hugh Noel Blakiston, Assistant Keeper, First Class,

Public Record Office The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as ''the'' PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was m ...

. * John Charles Boyle. For political services. * Ursula Blanche Branston. For political services. * Ronald Dallas Brett, Principal, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Arthur Douglas Briggs, MB, ChB, Medical Superintendent,

Stobhill Hospital Stobhill Hospital is an Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Hospital, located in Springburn in the north of Glasgow, Scotland. It serves the population of North Glasgow and part of East Dunbartonshire. It is managed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. ...

, Glasgow. * Francis John Broad, Town Clerk, Borough of

Barnstaple Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...

North Devon North Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. North Devon Council is based in Barnstaple. Other towns and villages in the North Devon District include Braunton, Fremington, Ilfracombe, Instow, South Molton, Lynton and Lynmouth ...

. * Henry William Brookling, MBE, MC, Superintendent of Common Services, Admiralty. * Leonard Brooks, Honorary Treasurer,

Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...

. * Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne, DFC, lately Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, MP. * Captain Harold James Hine Bulford, Principal Officer, Mercantile Marine Survey Office,

Southampton Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...

. * The Honourable Vera Elizabeth Butler. For political and public services in Devon. *

Muriel St. Clare Byrne Muriel St. Clare Byrne OBE (1895–1983) was a historical researcher, specialising in the Tudor period and the reign of Henry VIII of England. Family Born Hoylake, Cheshire, England 31 May 1895. She was the granddaughter of the naval architect ...

, Lecturer at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen ...

. * Gathorne Hardy Cheyne, BEM, Chief Constable, Orkney Constabulary. * Rudolf Kynoch Clark, Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, Birmingham, Board of Trade. * William Joseph Clarke, MBE, Financial Adviser and Chief Auditor, Middle East Air Force. * William Clarkson, MBE, chief executive officer, Commonwealth Relations Office. * Sydney Dyson Cleveland, Director, City Art Galleries, Manchester. * Emma Frances Heather Clode, MBE, Head of Civil Defence Department,

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

. * Olga Kathleen Collett, Assistant Commissioner and Principal, Civil Service Commission. * James Courtney, Chief Engineer,

Ulster Transport Authority The Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) ran rail and bus transport in Northern Ireland from 1948 until 1966. Formation and consolidation The UTA was formed by the Transport Act 1948, which merged the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board (NIRTB ...

. * Samuel Campbell Cupples, JP, chairman, Down County Council. * Bertram Rees Davies, chief executive officer, Forestry Commission. * Evan Glyn Davies, JP, Alderman, Cardiganshire County Council. * Griffith Leonard Davies. For services to the Civil Service Commission. * Stephen John Davis, Foreign Exchange Adviser, Petroleum Division, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Arthur Dawkins, MBE, Command Secretary, Army General Headquarters, East Africa. * Nancy Meade De Mierre, Director, Service Hospitals Welfare Department, Order of St John of Jerusalem and British Red Cross Society. * William McLachlan Dewar, Member, Scottish Air Cadet Council. * John James Dobbin, County Inspector,

Royal Ulster Constabulary The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)Richard Doherty, ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal ...

. * William James Fullerton Donald, JP, chairman, County Antrim Education Committee. * Horace Norman Dove, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Robert Hugh Dyball, TD, Senior Science Master,

City of London School , established = , closed = , type = Public school Boys' independent day school , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Alan Bird , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = Ian Seaton , founder = John Carpenter , speciali ...

. * Frederick William East, Catering Administrative Officer, National Service Hostels Corporation Ltd. * Charles Aubrey Babington Elliott, JP, Member, Domestic Coal Consumers' Council. * Alfred George Evans, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Captain George Lewys Bennett-Evans, Member, Montgomery Agricultural Executive Committee. * Robert William Fair, deputy director of Patents, Ministry of Supply. * George Edward Firth, Director for Scotland,

. * Henry Elliot FitzGibbon, Senior Housing and Planning Inspector, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Major William Foster, MC, TD, JP. For political and public services in Nottingham. * Solomon Freedman, Principal, Board of Customs & Excise. * Robert Cotton Bruce Gardner, Secretary,

Royal Forestry Society The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is an educational charity and one of the oldest membership organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for those actively involved in woodland management. The RFS has a broad membership which includes woo ...

of England and Wales. * Arthur Havard Arnold Gem, MC. For services to Physical Education. * Jabez D'Arcy Glanville, Deputy Chief Engineer, Industrial Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. * Harold William Glenister, chairman, Eastbourne National Insurance Local Tribunal. * Alderman Kenneth Edward Boulton Glenny, JP. For political and public services in

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

. * Horace William Gooding, MBE. For public services in Belfast. * Gerald Grey, Waterguard Superintendent, Liverpool Board of Customs & Excise. * Ivy Lilian Habershon, JP. For public services in

Rotherham Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then merges with the River Don. The River Don then flows through the town centre. It is the main settlement of ...

, West Riding of Yorkshire. * William Harold Hale, chairman, Wolverhampton Local Employment Committee. * Derek Ivens Archibald Hamblen, attached War Office. * Grace Ellen Hamblin, Personal Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Sir

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

, KG, OM, CH, MP. * Richard Alexander Hamilton, Chief Scientist of the British North Greenland Expedition. * Stanley Baines Hamilton, Principal Scientific Officer, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * George Edward Hance, MBE, Grade 2 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Service, Foreign Office. * Thomas Percy Harris, MM, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Alderman Wilfred Harris. For public services in

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 167,446 in the 2011 census. The borough includes the towns of Scunthorpe, Brigg, Haxey, Crowle, Epworth, Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey and Barton ...

. * John George Arthur Harrow. For political services. * William Frank Haslop. For services in the preservation of mediaeval buildings. * Ronald Eugene Worrall Hastain, President, London Far East Prisoners of War Social Club. * George Hawkins, Chief Accountant, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Joseph Edwin Hawkins, chairman, Kingston Local Employment Committee. * Daphne Constance, Lady Heald. For services to Nursing. * Rennie Higson, Senior Chief Administrative Officer, Office of the Public Trustee. * Leslie Burgess Hobgen, Superintending Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Grade II, Air Ministry. * Frederick Charles Victor Holmes, Chief Chemist, Cunard Group of Shipping Companies. * Henry William Holmes, MBE, chief executive officer, War Office. * Alice Bridget Horan, National Woman Officer, National Union of General & Municipal Workers. * Sidney Aldolph Horstmann, MBE, lately managing director, Horstmann Ltd., Bath. * Albeit Edward Horton, Registrar of Assets and Head of Estates Branch,

National Coal Board The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "v ...

. * James Findlay Hosie, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Defence. * John Aspey Hough, Research Officer, Co-operative Union Ltd. * Alderman Joseph Edward Hughes, MM, JP, chairman, St Helens Civil Defence Committee, Lancashire. * Charles Balfour Clephan Hunter, JP, Member, Scottish After-Care Council. * Neville Donald Hyam, assistant director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty. * Hans Peter Juda, Publisher and Editor of '' The Ambassador''. * Clement Murray Kerr, Commandant,

Fire Service College The Fire Service College is responsible for providing leadership, management and advanced operational training courses for senior fire officers from the United Kingdom and foreign fire authorities. It is located at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucester ...

Dorking Dorking () is a market town in Surrey in South East England, about south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre. The High Street runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Pipp Br ...

. * James Turnbull Kidd, TD. For political and public services in Scotland. * Muriel Dewé Lake. For political and public services in Suffolk. * Dennis Alfred Lamb, General Manager, British Overseas Fairs Ltd. * Harry Lawrence, MM, Assistant Controller, Post Office Savings Department,

Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor at ...

, Yorkshire. * William John Cooper Lawrence, Head of the Department of Physiology and Plant Culture,

John Innes Horticultural Institution The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and B ...

, Hertfordshire. * Grace Wynifred Lodge, District Superintendent, West Riding of Yorkshire,

St John Ambulance Brigade St John Ambulance is the name of a number of affiliated organisations in different countries which teach and provide first aid and emergency medical services, and are primarily staffed by volunteers. The associations are overseen by the internat ...

. * Herbert Stanley Lofthouse, Deputy Chief Constable, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary. * Robert Elliott Lax Lovell, Technical Director, Vosper Ltd.,

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

. * Alderman Charles Henry Lucas, JP. For political and public services in Halifax. * John Campbell Macdonald, Chief Technical Officer,

British Sugar Corporation British Sugar plc is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods and the sole British producer of sugar from sugar beet, as well as medicinal cannabis. British Sugar processes all sugar beet grown in the United Kingdom, and produces about two-thir ...

Ltd. * John Campbell MacFarlane, Headmaster, Bellahouston Senior Secondary School, Glasgow. * The Reverend Robert Mackintosh, Secretary, Home Board of the Church of Scotland. * Archibald James McLelland, Principal, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * Alderman James Alexander McNab, MBE, chairman, Tunbridge Wells Borough Savings Committee. * James Barclay McNee, Director and General Manager of Engine Works, Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. * John Eusebius Madden, General Services Manager,

British Overseas Airways Corporation British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services throughout World War II. After the passi ...

. * John Colman Mann, County Agricultural Officer, Norfolk. * Alderman Jacquetta Marshall, chairman, Moorhaven Hospital Management Committee, Plymouth. * Edmund William Mason, Chief Mycologist,

Commonwealth Mycological Institute A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with " republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from t ...

, Kew. * Irene Massie, MBE, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Foreign Office. * John Carr Menzies, MM, Secretary and House Governor,

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) in Gobowen, near Oswestry, Shropshire, England is a specialist orthopaedic hospital which provides elective orthopaedic surgery. It is managed by the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthop ...

, Oswestry, Shropshire. * Claude Geoffrey Metson, Secretary, National Association of Corn & Agricultural Merchants Ltd. * Edward John Mitchell, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Hugh Gibb Mitchell, Higher Collector, Glasgow, Board of Customs & Excise. * Albert Joseph Moore, MBE, chief executive officer, Ministry of Health. * Ramsey Bignall Moore, chairman,

Manx Museum and National Trust Manx (; formerly sometimes spelled Manks) is an adjective (and derived noun) describing things or people related to the Isle of Man: * Manx people **Manx surnames * Isle of Man It may also refer to: Languages * Manx language, also known as Manx ...

. * Richard Arthur Philip Morgan, Superintendent,

Royal Ordnance Factory Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories during and after the Second World War. Until privatisation, in 1987, they were the responsibility of the Ministry of Supply, and later the Ministr ...

, Birtley, County Durham. * Cyril George Morris, MBE, Member, National Savings Assembly, representing

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...

. * George Alexander Moss, lately Postal Controller, Home Counties Region, General Post Office. * James Richard Frederick Moss, Constructor, Naval Construction Department, Admiralty,

Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body ** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe * Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities Plac ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Evelyn Edmunds Mulock, MC, DL, Secretary, County of Cornwall Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. * William Henry Oatley, Secretary and Treasurer, Church of England Pensions Board. * George Lionel Orchard, Governing Director, Colin MacAndrew & Partners Ltd., Edinburgh. * George Alfred Stanley Paines, Secretary, Croydon Hospital Management Committee. * James Williamson Park, General Manager, British Guiana Consolidated Goldfields Ltd. * Lionel Alfred Payne, Director and Manager,

Cooke, Troughton & Simms Cooke, Troughton & Simms was a British instrument-making firm formed in York in 1922 by the merger of T. Cooke & Sons and Troughton & Simms. Origins Thomas Cooke set up a business in York in 1837 making astronomical telescopes. One early notable ...

Ltd., York. * Arthur Albert Peachey, assistant director of Contracts, Ministry of Supply. * Richard Bruce Peddie, MC, JP, lately Area Manager,

National Dock Labour Board The National Dock Labour Board (NDLB), which administered the National Dock Labour Scheme, was an administrative board for the operation of British docks. Creation of National Dock Labour Board In 1947, Parliament introduced the "Dock Workers’ ...

, East Scotland. * Harold Ernest Robert Peers. For political and public services in Cheshire. * Mary Antonia Phillips,

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of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Chigwell Convent,

Woodford Bridge Woodford Bridge is part of the East London suburb of Woodford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located on an old road between Chigwell and Leytonstone. Notable features Its notable features include Claybury Asylum, a psychiatric hos ...

, Essex. * Algernon Harold Philpot, chairman, Milk Powder Pool. * Harold Pickford, Assistant Controller,

HM Stationery Office The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom. The OPSI is part of the National Archives (United K ...

. * Nancy Proctor, JP. For political and public services in Liverpool. * Thomas Proudlove, Assistant Accountant and Comptroller General, Board of Inland Revenue. * Lieutenant Commander Ronald Charles Quirk, RNVR, lately chairman,

Sea Cadet Corps Sea cadets are members of a sea cadet corps, a formal uniformed youth organisation for young people with an interest in waterborne activities and or the national navy. The organisation may be sponsored in whole or in part by the navy or a naval s ...

Unit, Croydon. * Norman Reay, chief executive officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Anne Redpath Michie, Artist Member of the Board of Management of the

Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, histor ...

. * Charles Edward Richardson, chief executive officer, Ministry of Works. * Elwyn Roberts, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Explosives Research & Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Charles Arthur Robinson, Divisional Air Traffic Control Officer, London and South Eastern Divisional Headquarters, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Philip Arthur Rodway, chairman, Midland Region, Wholesale Provisions & Groceries Committee. * Francis William Roger, JP, Member, Scottish Agricultural Advisory Council. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Landale Rollo, MC, TD. For political and public services in Fife. * Alfred William Ross, Chief Superintendent, Army Operational Research Group, War Office. * Lionel Edward Aston Rowson, deputy director, Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry, Cambridge,

Agricultural Research Council The Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) was a British Research Council responsible for funding and managing scientific and technological developments in farming and horticulture. History The AFRC was formed in 1983 from its predecessor, ...

. * Margaret Jean Roxburgh, Head Almoner,

Middlesex Hospital Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally clos ...

. * Thomas Harvey Searls, MC, Deputy Controller, Education Division,

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lan ...

. * John Whiteshand, Principal Information Officer,

Central Office of Information The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency. Its Chief Executive reported to the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It was a non-ministerial department, and became an executive agency and a t ...

. * Martin Fallas Shaw. For services to Church Music. * Gladys Anne Elizabeth Shee, BEM, Children's Officer,

Kesteven County Council Kesteven County Council was the county council of Parts of Kesteven in the east of England. It came into its powers on 1 April 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 1974. The county council was based at the County Offices in Sleaford. It was amalgama ...

, Lincolnshire. * Dorothy Amy Shortland, Assistant Regional Controller, Southern Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Frederick William Sidwell, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Cecil Douglas Smith. For political and public services in Southampton. * William Allan Smith, Assistant Keeper (First Class),

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. * Margaret Jane Smyth, Matron,

St Thomas' Hospital St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England. It is one of the institutions that compose the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. Administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foun ...

, London. * Captain George Walton Somerwill, lately Senior Isle of Wight District Pilot,

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Pilotage Service. * Philip Hylton Spagnoletti, Director and General Manager,

Kolster-Brandes Kolster-Brandes Ltd was an American owned, British manufacturer of radio and television sets based in Foots Cray, Sidcup, Kent. History The company was a descendant of ''Brandes'', a Canadian company founded in Toronto in 1908. Brandes became part ...

Ltd., Sidcup, Kent. * Eileen Margaret Spelman, Member of the National Insurance Advisory Committee. * Frederic Stay, Alderman, Aldershot Borough Council. * Bertram Gilchrist Stone, Principal, Colonial Office. * Captain Alexander George Storkey, Master, The Clan Line Steamers Ltd. * William Laundon Streeton, Head of Programme Contracts Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Arthur Nesbitt Strong, Secretary, Colonial Civil Servants Association. * Joseph Sykes, Professor of Economics,

University College of the South West of England The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...

Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

. * Kenneth Ewart Tansley, Honorary Secretary, Wembley Savings Committee. * Albert George Tapster, Superintending Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade. * Harold Taylor, chairman, Kettering and District Local Employment Committee. * Brinley Thomas, Professor of Economics,

University College, Cardiff , latin_name = , image_name = Shield of the University of Cardiff.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms of Cardiff University , motto = cy, Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord , mottoeng = Truth, Unity and Concord , established = 1 ...

. * Cyril Thomas, Chief Officer, Monmouthshire Fire Brigade. * John Louis Benedict Todhunter, Senior Legal Assistant, Ministry of Education. * William Bertram Turrill, Keeper of the Herbarium and Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. * Major Harold Vincent Ward, chairman, Sheffield and District War Pensions Committee. * The Honourable Marjorie Watson. For services to

Young Women's Christian Association The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries. The World office is currently based in Geneva, Swi ...

of Great Britain. * William Henry Webb. For political services in County Down. * Major Herbert Egerton Whaley, JP, DL. For public services in

Rutland Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire. Its greatest len ...

. * Connolly Thomas Wilson, managing director, T. Wilson & Son Ltd., Building and Civil Engineering Contractors, Northampton. * Matthew Thomson Wilson, Principal, Department of Health for Scotland. * Victor Franklin Wood, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Walter William Wood, Chief of Police, South-Western Area, British Transport Commission. * Muriel May Woodiwiss, Headmistress, Rainsford Secondary Modern School for Girls,

Chelmsford Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Southend-on-Sea and Colchester. It is located north-east of London a ...

, Essex. * Henry William Woodruff, Principal, Air Ministry. * Reginald Arthur Wright, Works Manager, Skefko Ball Bearing Co. Ltd.,

Luton Luton () is a town and unitary authority with borough status, in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 census, the Luton built-up area subdivision had a population of 211,228 and its built-up area, including the adjacent towns of Dunstable an ...

. * John Edward Zimmer, Principal, Foreign Office. * Arthur Bennett, First Secretary (Labour) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Vienna. * Harold Gordon Bird, lately British Resident,

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, United Kingdom High Commission in Germany. * Lieutenant-Colonel Septimus Paul Brooke-Booth, MC, British subject resident in Belgium. * Geoffrey Renshaw Calvert, First Secretary (Labour) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo. * Ernest Wright Cooper, British subject resident in Egypt. * Reginald Charles-Maxwell-Darling, Chief of the Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Sudan Government. * Wilfred-Howard Fraser, Police Staff Officer, Grade 1, Hamburg. * Charles William Peter Godward, British subject resident in the

Argentine Republic Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. * Harold Godwin, Her Majesty's Consul at New York. * John Kirby House Harriman, British Council Representative in Peru. * Charles Albert Henshaw, British subject resident in Brazil. * Paul Philip Howell, lately Chairman of the Southern Development Investigation Team, Sudan. * John Simpson Owen, lately Commercial Manager, Ministry of Agriculture, Sudan Government. * Frank Stallwood, lately First Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Beirut. * James Vaughan, MC, lately British Resident,

Soltau Soltau () is a mid-sized town in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has around 22,000 inhabitants. The city is centrally located in the Lüneburg Heath and is known nationwide especially for its touri ...

, United Kingdom High Commission in Germany. * Albert Edward Watkins, Her Majesty's Consul at Turin. * Thomas Beauchamp Wildman, British Consul at

Santander Santander may refer to: Places * Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain * Santander Department, a department of Colombia * Santander State, former state of Colombia * Santander de Quilichao, a m ...

. * Demetrius Catsicas, of

Umtali Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 in the surr ...

Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally kn ...

. For municipal services. * Ulric St Vincent Earée, Honorary Treasurer, New Delhi Branch, United Kingdom Citizens' Association in India. * Percy James Hawkins, Director of Armament Supply, Naval Headquarters, India. * The Reverend Albert Charles Hill, Minister-in-Charge, Norwood Baptist Church, State of South Australia. * Rowland Hill, chief executive officer, Land Development Executive, State of South Australia. * John Lett Sealy Jeffares, a surveyor in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Wilson Laird. For public services in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Joseph Richard Lewis, Secretary of the New South Wales Branch, Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia. * James Hugh Marks, Mayor of

Mount Gambier Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with an estimated urban population of 33,233 . The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about south-east of the capital Ad ...

, State of South Australia. * Captain Ian Honnor Morten, Royal Navy (Retd.), Tobacco Representative in London for the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * George Munro, of

Gatooma Kadoma, formerly known as Gatooma, is a town in Zimbabwe. Location The city is located in Kadoma District, Mashonaland West Province, one of the 10 administrative provinces in Zimbabwe. This location lies approximately , by road, southwest of ...

, Southern Rhodesia. For public services. * Robert Everitt King Murray, Senior District Officer,

Basutoland Basutoland was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966 in present-day Lesotho. Though the Basotho (then known as Basuto) and their territory had been under British control starting in 1868 (and ruled by Cape Colony from 1871), th ...

. * Kathleen Stirling Scrymgour, Matron of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, State of South Australia. * The Reverend Alan Walker, lately Superintendent of the Waverley Methodist Mission, State of New South Wales. * Oscar Price Wheeler, of

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

. For public and municipal services. * Arthur Bell Ackland, MBE, ED. For services to the banana industry in

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

. * Alhaji Shehu Ahmadu, Madakin Kano, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Anthony Salmon Aldridge, MC, Senior Administrative Officer, Cyprus. * Khan Bahadur Muhammad Salim Ali. For public services in

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

. * Robert Henry Ardill, deputy director of Education, Mauritius. * Peter Herriott Balmer, Administrative Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. * Augustus Theodore Adu Beckley, ISO, JP. For public services in Sierra Leone. * Ernest Bellevue, Deputy Head of Finance Department, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. * Gordon Charles Bennett. For public services in Tanganyika. * Antis Theodore Bewes. For public services in Tanganyika. * William Roy Billington, MD, BCh. For medical services in Uganda. * Maurice Henry Cardiff, British Council Representative, Cyprus. * Frank Wingate Carpenter. Lately Labour Commissioner, Kenya. * Harold Charles Carter. For public services in Sierra Leone. * Sidney Beresford Chambers, Statistician, Federation of Nigeria. * Chee Swee Ee, JP. For public services in Penang, Federation of Malaya. * Robert George Patrick Nicholson Combe, Resident, West Coast, North Borneo. * Phaedon George Constantinides. For public services in Cyprus. * The Venerable Archdeacon Herewald Ramsbotham Davies, Lately Archdeacon of Tobago. For public services. * Arnarasingham Edward Duraisamy, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya. * Emmanuel Mbela Lifaffe Endeley. For public services in the Federation of Nigeria. * Henry Forrester, Comptroller of Customs and Excise,

Somaliland Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a ''de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still conside ...

. * Sandys Parker George, Commissioner,

Nigeria Police Force The Nigeria Police Force is the principal law enforcement and the lead security agency in Nigeria. Designated by the 1999 constitution as the national police of Nigeria with exclusive jurisdiction throughout the country, as at 2016 it has a s ...

. * John Welsby Drake Goodban, Director of Agriculture,

British Honduras British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,

. * Gordon Matthews Hector, Secretary to the Government,

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...

. * The Very Reverend Hugh Alexander Evan Hopkins. For public services in Kenya. * Stephen Thomas Hoyle, Chief Agricultural Research Officer, Nyasaland. * Charles Herbert Newton Jackson, Chief Entomologist, East African

Tsetse Tsetse ( , or ) (sometimes spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies), are large, biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa. Tsetse flies include all the species in the genus ''Glossina'', which are placed in their own family, Glo ...

and

Trypanosomiasis Trypanosomiasis or trypanosomosis is the name of several diseases in vertebrates caused by parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus ''Trypanosoma''. In humans this includes African trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease. A number of other diseas ...

Research and Reclamation Organisation. * Idwel Glyndwr Jones, Commissioner of Labour, Gold Coast. * John McCall Kidney. For services to sport in Barbados and the West Indies. * Hollupatherage James Caldera Kulasingha. For public services in Singapore. * John Russell Marshall, deputy director of Education, Gold Coast. * The Reverend Leslie Donald Mason, Principal, Christ's School,

Ado Ekiti Ado Ekiti is the capital city of Ekiti State, Nigeria. It is the headquarter of the Ekiti central senatorial district, southwest, Nigeria. History Ado Ewi is an ancient city, founded by Ewi Awamaro the son of Biritikolu. Awamaro (the restles ...

, Western Region, Nigeria. * David Eric Cameron Mekie, MB, FRCS(Ed), Professor of Surgery,

University of Malaya The University of Malaya ( ms, Universiti Malaya, UM; abbreviated as UM or informally the Malayan University) is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest and highest ranking Malaysian institution of highe ...

. * David Smellie Morrison, Harbour Engineer and Acting Harbour Master, Bahamas. * Charles Barcu Moses, Director of Prisons, Gold Coast. * James Patrick Mullins. For marine services in Fiji. * Ngan Shing-Kwan. For public services in Hong Kong. * Simon Ezievuo Onwu, MB, ChB, deputy director of Medical Services, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * John William Hamilton O'Regan, Under-Secretary (Administration), Jamaica. * Michael Symons Osborne. For public services in

Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...

Leeward Islands french: Îles-Sous-le-Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Leeward Islands. Clockwise: Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Saint kitts and Nevis. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth Atlantic Ocean , coor ...

. * Roy Philpott, Deputy Labour Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia. * John Bernard Prentis, TD, Official Assignee, Registrar of Companies, Societies and Trades Unions, Federation of Malaya. * Norman Frank Richards, Director of Public Works, Nyasaland. * Patrick Emile Ryan. For public services in

St Kitts Saint Kitts, officially the Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis cons ...

, Leeward Islands. * Cecil Francis Smith, JP. For public services in Singapore. * Cyril Hilton Smith, Director of Public Works,

Bermuda ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = National song , song = " Hail to Bermuda" , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , mapsize2 = , map_caption2 = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , e ...

. * Sydney Eric Smith. For public services in Province Wellesley, Federation of Malaya. * Woodford George Owen Owen-Smith, Comptroller of Customs, Northern Rhodesia. *

Charles Edward Michael Terry Charles Edward Michael Terry, CBE OStJ (1897 – 13 April 1980) was a Hong Kong businessman. He was an unofficial member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Terry was an appointed unofficial member of the Legislative C ...

. For public services in Hong Kong. * John Thomson. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. * Major Austin Cassar Torreggiani. For public services in Malta. * Edwin Alfred Trim, MD, deputy director of Medical Services, Kenya. * Colonel Arthur George Tubb, Financial Secretary,

St Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindia ...

, Windward Islands. * George Brunton Wallace. Lately Plant Pathologist, Tanganyika. * John Edgar Hutchinson White, deputy director of Education, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Guy Lancaster Bruce Wiehen. For services to Education in Jamaica. * John Vernon Wild, Establishment Secretary, Uganda. * John William Milner Williams, Regional Director, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. * Henry Eric Wilson, ED. For public services in the Northern Region, Nigeria.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Honorary Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Birnie, Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve. * Lieutenant-Commander Montague Keith Burnett. * Temporary Commissioned Stores Officer Frederick Anthony Cogger, (Retd.) * Commissioned Boatswain Stanley George Currie-Davis. * Temporary Commissioned Air Engineer Ronald George Daw. * Lieutenant Sidney Donovan, Royal Navy (Retd.) * Lieutenant-Commander Laurence Dudley Kilbee, VRD, Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Lieutenant-Commander Leslie Albert Victor Lawrence. * Lieutenant-Commander George Thomas Martin, (Retd.) * Wardmaster Lieutenant Walter Mark Mornement. * Temporary Acting Lieutenant (Sp) Sidney Arthur Strath, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Temporary Senior Commissioned Engineer Ronald John Wallace, Navy (on loan to the Indian Navy). * Senior Commissioned Bandmaster Alfred Owen White, Royal Marines. * Lieutenant (E) Sidney Tom Henry Winkworth, DSC, (Retd.) * Lieutenant-Commander Edgar John Woodget. ;;Army * 2101163 Warrant Officer Class II James Agnew, The

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until amalgamation into the Royal Regiment of Scotland on 28 March 2006. The regiment was created under the Child ...

, Territorial Army. * Major Ruth Dawson Allerton (192401),

Women's Royal Army Corps The Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC; sometimes pronounced acronymically as , a term unpopular with its members) was the corps to which all women in the British Army belonged from 1949 to 1992, except medical, dental and veterinary officers and cha ...

. * Captain Kevin Edward Patrick Andrews (349273), Royal Corps of Signals. * Major John Patrick Asher (85566), Corps of Royal Engineers. * 5492074 Warrant Officer Class II Cyril Edward Ayling, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Denis Ewing Ballantine, MC (85673), The

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

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (local) Geoffrey Lynes Brewster (64035), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 4384034 Warrant Officer Class II George Butterworth, The

South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) The South Lancashire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment, which recruited, as its title suggests, primarily from the South Lancashire area, was created as part of the Childers Ref ...

, Territorial Army. * 41231308, Warrant Officer Class II Jack Chambers, The

Cheshire Regiment The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by the Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and was able to boast an independent existence of over 300 years. T ...

. * Major Henry Charles Chinn (104316), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List). * Major (formerly Local Lieutenant-Colonel) Basil Constanduros (160385), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (Quartermaster) Harry Roberts Cotton (147468), The

. * Major Charles Warwick Daniel, TD (155526), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 21019262 Warrant Officer Class I William Davidson Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * Captain (acting) Charles Vernon Doe, 5th Devonshire Battalion, Home Guard. * Major Ronald Herbert Down (167845), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. * Captain Archibald Smythe Dunn (181109), Corps of Royal Military Police, Territorial Army. * Major Brian Reginald Emmett (71288), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major Cecil Ernest Esnouf, TD (2472), Combined Cadet Force. * Major Reginald Gilbert Bevan Evans (154593), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * The Reverend Thomas Dewi Theodore Jones-Evans, TD, Chaplain to Forces, Third Class (92855),

, Territorial Army. * Major (Quartermaster) ELobert Redvers Evelyn, TD (87889), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. * Captain John Frederick Everett, TD (69617), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. * 5387986 Warrant Officer Class II Sidney Ernest Favell, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Mariota Fetherstonhaugh, TD (192205), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. * Major (temporary) George Knowling Franklin (27532), The

Lancashire Fusiliers The Lancashire Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that saw distinguished service through many years and wars, including the Second Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, and had many different titles throughout its 28 ...

(Employed List). * Major (acting) Thomas Guy Newport Franklin, 15th Essex Battalion, Home Guard. * Major (Quartermaster) Charles Funnell (109844)

(now retired). * S/287629 Warrant Officer Class I Robert Marr Fyvie,

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

. * Major (acting) James Gibson (298495), Army Cadet Force. * 6853470 Warrant Officer Class II Roy Elmire Leslie Granger, The

King's Royal Rifle Corps The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United St ...

, Territorial Army. * 2320565 Warrant Officer Class II Alexander Grant, Royal Corps of Signals. * Major Cyril James Grindley (164382), The

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

. * Major (EMAE) Harold Alfred Grossman (85836), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * Major Sheila Anne Elizabeth Heaney, TD (192854), Women's Royal Army Corps. * Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Geoffrey Christopher Hensby (433536), Royal Armoured Corps. * Major Irene Holmes (402694), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. * Major Benjamin Howel Jones, TD (161696), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army,. * Major (Quartermaster) John William Jones (131467), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * 2865985 Warrant Officer Class II William Kean, The

Gordon Highlanders Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gordon, ...

, Territorial Army. * 815666 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Alfred King, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major Annie Gwynneth Learmouth, TD (244999), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. * Captain (Quartermaster) John MacDonnell (336792), The

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. It amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Al ...

, Territorial Army. * Major Adam Maitland, TD, (52373), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Walter Mantle (105783), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major James Maurice Marshall, TD (65913), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 7075638 Warrant, Officer Class II George Alexander Martin, The

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regimen ...

, Territorial Army. * Major Robert William Martin, TD, (75621), Corps of Royal Military Police. * Major (temporary) Henry Ernest McDermott (260657), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * Captain (temporary) Gilbert Edward George Lariston Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund (397319),

Scots Guards The Scots Guards (SG) is one of the five Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Its origins are as the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced back to 1642, although it was only placed on the ...

. * Major Arthur John Michelson (263338), Royal Army Dental Corps. * Major Samuel Sidney Moffett (178970), The

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

(Employed List). * 22209687 Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Mooney, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Clark Nicholson, MC, MB (394747), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * S/202239 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) (now Warrant Officer, Class II) Joseph Oakes, Royal Army Service Corps. * 22260915 Warrant Officer Class II Victor O'Neill, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Geraldine Anne Daphne Pearson, TD (257089), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. * Major James Robert Stevenson Peploe, MC (77546), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 4343099 Warrant Officer Class II John Marshall Porritt,

Small Arms School Corps The Small Arms School Corps (SASC) is a small corps of the British Army, established in 1853 by Lord Hardinge. Its personnel provide advice and instruction to infantry weapon trainers throughout the army, in order to maintain proficiency in th ...

. * Major (Quartermaster) Edward Leslie Gilbert Richards, MM (371932),

Welsh Guards The Welsh Guards (WG; cy, Gwarchodlu Cymreig), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. It was founded in 1915 as a single-battalion regiment, during the First World War, by Royal Warrant of George V ...

(Employed List). * 833917 Warrant Officer Class I Reginald James Rigelsford, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 7585557 Warrant Officer Class II William Burns Ritchie, The

Royal Scots The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland. The regimen ...

(The Royal Regiment), Territorial Army. * Major Malcolm Nigel Romer (62031), Scots Guards. * Major Kenneth Michael MacDonald Ross (112955),

7th Gurkha Rifles The 7th Gurkha Rifles was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army, before being transferred to the British Army, following India's independence in 1947 and after 1959 designated as the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. History F ...

. * 22529748 Warrant Officer Class II Alfred Rutherford, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * S/54884 Warrant Officer Class I Henry Edward Sadd, Royal Army Service Corps. * Major John Buchanan Spittal (259965), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 1497108 Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Thompson, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Harold Edward Roy Watson (153264), The

Royal Sussex Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot ...

. * Major (Quartermaster) George Joseph Francis White (169221), The

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. The regiment was formed as a consequence of th ...

. * Major Frank Eric Wilkins, TD (166787), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major (temporary), James Hector MacDonald Williams (426589),

General List The General Service Corps (GSC) is a corps of the British Army. Role The role of the corps is to provide specialists, who are usually on the Special List or General List. These lists were used in both World Wars for specialists and those not allo ...

. * Major Paul Fry Williams, TD (70383), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * S/6399199 Warrant Officer Class I Arthur St John Wright, Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain Percy Yates, TD (220607), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 2039077 Warrant Officer Class I George Ayling,

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

; at present on loan to the Government of India. * 4743815 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Ernest Horace Orton, The

York and Lancaster Regiment The York and Lancaster Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was created in the Childers Reforms of 1881 by the amalgamation of the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of ...

; attached 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The

King's African Rifles The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from Britain's various possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s. It performed both military and internal security functions withi ...

. * Captain William Furlong Cox, Fiji Artillery. * Major John Evelyn Gabain, Singapore Volunteer Corps (In recognition of services in Korea during the period 1 August 1954 to 31 January 1955.). * Lieutenant Geoffrey John Garvey (390351), Intelligence Corps. * 4339673 Warrant Officer Class I (

Bandmaster A bandmaster is the leader and conductor of a band, usually a concert band, military band, brass band or a marching band. British Armed Forces In the British Army, bandmasters of the Royal Corps of Army Music now hold the rank of staff s ...

) Sidney Wilson Ord-Hume, The

Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Ow ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * Acting Wing Commander George Henry Currall, MM (73635), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. * Squadron Leader Ronald Collier (145133), Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment. * Squadron Leader Charles Geoffrey White, BM, BCh (203500). * Acting Squadron Leader William John Walsh (54755). * Flight Lieutenant Leslie John Ayling (201938). * Flight Lieutenant James Oliver Bradley (46594). * Flight Lieutenant John Francis Daly (570433). * Flight Lieutenant William John Gear (50291). * Flight Lieutenant Harry Webster-Grinling (128078), Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers. * Flight Lieutenant Alan Mervyn Humphreys (54502). * Flight Lieutenant Maurice George Hunn (45395). * Flight Lieutenant William Basil Lawrence Leary (167955). * Flight Lieutenant James Nelson (185268). * Flight Lieutenant Leslie Pearman, MM (180073). * Flight Lieutenant William Percy (52552). * Flight Lieutenant Reginald Ivor Perry, DFC (45445). * Flight Lieutenant Gordon William Smith (161059). * Flight Lieutenant Keith Alan Edmund Smith (194264). * Flight Lieutenant John Donald Symonds (567982). * Flight Lieutenant Edgar Weeks (56776). * Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Wood (1475216). * Flight Lieutenant John William Woolfries (129720). * Flight Lieutenant George William Wright (51258). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Patrick Meehan (2680003), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Flying Officer Clifford Walter Orriss (54391). * Flying Officer John Peter Whitehead, AFM (365988). * Warrant Officer Lewis Stanley Abbott (568429). * Warrant Officer Kenneth Ashton (517996). * Warrant Officer Henry William Frank George Burchell (623577). * Warrant Officer Gilbert Reynold Davies (514645). * Warrant Officer George William Hall (566014). * Warrant Officer Harold Kinsey (564247). * Warrant Officer Francis Norman Lamb (988801). * Warrant Officer Donald Philip Joel Lean (590910). * Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Mantle (590073). * Warrant Officer Edward Arthur Morgan (512511). * Warrant Officer John Morgan (515370). * Warrant Officer Sidney Alfred Motte (513900). * Warrant Officer Leslie Donald Rose (149910). * Warrant Officer Stanley James Spall (514111). * Warrant Officer Kenneth James Taylor (513771). * Warrant Officer Robert Waggett (509480). * Warrant Officer William Gilroy Robinson Whitmore (509376). * Warrant Officer George Alexander Wren (615579). * Acting Warrant Officer Brian Charles Partridge (577406). * Acting Warrant Officer Eric Stow (506741), Royal Air Force Regiment. ;Civil Division * Bessie Margaret Ainley Norman, Honorary Secretary, West Wight Savings Committee, Isle of Wight. * Catharine Euphemia Anderson, Ward Sister, Medical Ward,

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

. * Mary Myfanwy Andrews, Headmistress, Llangwyryfon County Primary School,

Aberystwyth Aberystwyth () is a university and seaside town as well as a community in Ceredigion, Wales. Located in the historic county of Cardiganshire, means "the mouth of the Ystwyth". Aberystwyth University has been a major educational location in ...

Cardiganshire Ceredigion ( , , ) is a county in the west of Wales, corresponding to the historic county of Cardiganshire. During the second half of the first millennium Ceredigion was a minor kingdom. It has been administered as a county since 1282. Cere ...

. * Arthur Edward Ashton, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Arthur Ronald Gibbins Ashworth, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Eli Ayland, Works Manager, Engineering Division, John Curran Ltd., Cardiff. * Edward Cecil Baker, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office. * George Belfield Baker, Civilian Workshop Officer, Didcot, Berkshire, War Office. * Mary Louisa Lawson Baker, Higher Executive Officer, Tithe Redemption Commission. * John Gordon Bamber, Charge Nurse, Brockhall Hospital,

Langho Langho is a small rural village north of Blackburn in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. It is part of the parish of Billington and Langho. The village is linked with Blackburn and Clitheroe by the A666 road and is served by Langho railw ...

, near

Blackburn Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...

. * Francis Arthur Buchanan Barnard, Civil Substitution Officer, Headquarters,

Flying Training Command Flying Training Command was an Command (military formation), organization of the Royal Air Force; it controlled flight training units. The command's headquarters were at Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire, Reading in Berkshire. History Flying ...

, Royal Air Force. * William Newland Barrington, Inspector, Immigration Branch, Home Office. * Stuart Barry, Manager, Middlesbrough Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Alfred Edward Batchelor, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Fred Walshaw Bateman, Director, Morton Engineering Services Ltd.,

Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensi ...

. * William Stanley Bates, Director and Secretary, Philip & Son Ltd., Dartmouth, Devonshire. * Frank Baxter, Manager, N. Corah (St Margaret) Ltd.,

Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l ...

. * John Henry Baxter. Secretary, Police Training Centre,

. * Sidney Bayliss, Chief Warden, Bristol Civil Defence Corps. * Ralph Beal, Chief Marine Superintendent, William Cory & Son Ltd. * Thomas Balfour Beattie, Vice-chairman, Huddersfield and District Local Employment Committee. * Jessie Allan Wherrie Beatty, chairman, Belfast County Borough Schools Savings Committee. * Douglas Dunbar Bell, Refinery Engineer,

Tate & Lyle Tate & Lyle PLC is a British-headquartered, global supplier of food and beverage ingredients to industrial markets. It was originally a sugar refining business, but from the 1970s it began to diversify, eventually divesting its sugar business i ...

Ltd., Liverpool. * Katherine Lennox Bennett, lately Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * Leslie Woodbridge Bennett, JP, chairman, Letchworth Local Employment Committee and Disablement Advisory Committee. * William Gibson Bennett, Works Manager, Climax Rock Drill & Engineering Works Ltd.,

Redruth Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also inc ...

, Cornwall. * Frederick William Bird, Laboratory Manager, Fullers Earth Union,

Redhill, Surrey Redhill () is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead within the county of Surrey, England. The town, which adjoins the town of Reigate to the west, is due south of Croydon in Greater London, and is part of the London commuter belt. The ...

. * Richard William Henry Biss, Honorary Secretary, Wood Green Savings Committee. * William Harrison Blacklock, Higher Executive Officer,

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's Department. * Kathleen Nancy Bleakley, Honorary Secretary, Bangor, County Down, Branch, Dr Barnardo's Helpers League. * Frederick William Bleeze, Senior Executive Officer,

Passport Office His Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO) is an agency of the Home Office in the United Kingdom. It provides British passport, passports for United Kingdom national, British nationals worldwide and was formed on 1 April 2006 as the Identity and Passp ...

. * Ivor Louis Hugh Bolt, Divisional Officer, Hampshire Fire Brigade. * Arthur Gordon Boniface, Grade 3 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Service, Foreign Office. * Margaret Elizabeth Bonnar, Transport Officer, Scottish Headquarters, Women's Voluntary Services. * William Frederick George Bonner, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. * Thomas Beresford Boothman, Secretary, Bolton Master Cotton Spinners' Association. * John Arthur Borron, Regional Information Officer, Office of the Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Madras, India. * William Bowen. For public services in

Salford, Lancashire Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

. * Blanche Bowles, Honorary Secretary, Poole Savings Committee. * Frank Bowtell, Chief Office Clerk, House of Commons. * Elizabeth Gordon Boyd, Home Teacher of the Blind, Fermanagh County Welfare Committee. * John Malcolm Boyd, Chief Switch Designer, Electric Construction Co. Ltd.,

Wolverhampton Wolverhampton () is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunian ...

. * Stuart Harley Wallis Boyns, Station Engineer, Brentford Works, North Thames Gas Board. * John Henry Breeze, Member, Isle of Ely Agricultural Executive Committee. * Philip Anthony Brennan, Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Cecil Rhodes Brewer, Chief Draughtsman, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * William Ernest Brittle, Superintendent, Fulham Bulk Plant, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. * Helen Mary Katherine Wright Brown, lately County Organiser, Cumberland, Women's Voluntary Services. * Henry Brown, Chief Engineer, Reads Ltd., Liverpool. * Hugh Brown, Engineering Chief Draughtsman, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. * Leslie Buchan, deputy director of Accounts, British Council. * Walter Daniels Burton, Headmaster, Grangetown Junior County School, Boys' Department, Yorkshire. * Catherine Cameron, Head Teacher, Oa Primary School,

Isle of Islay Islay ( ; gd, Ìle, sco, Ila) is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Known as "The Queen of the Hebrides", it lies in Argyll just south west of Jura and around north of the Northern Irish coast. The island's capital i ...

Argyll Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland. Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...

. * James Campbell, Secretary and Treasurer, Mission to Mediterranean Garrisons. * Winifred Kate Cardozo. For services to the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry. * Grace Ellen Cartlidge, Higher Executive Officer, Foreign Office. * Hilda Marion MacDpnald Cashell. For political and public services in Reading. * Ceinwen Chapman, Centre Organiser, Ilford Women's Voluntary Services. * George Alfred Chapman, Head of Operational Section, Meat Importers' National Defence Association Ltd. * Gilbert John Chapman, JP. For political services in Belfast. * Herbert George Cheel, General Manager, General Electric Co. Ltd.,

Wembley Wembley () is a large suburbIn British English, "suburb" often refers to the secondary urban centres of a city. Wembley is not a suburb in the American sense, i.e. a single-family residential area outside of the city itself. in north-west Londo ...

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

. * Harry Cheetham, Chief Assistant Engineer, Trent River Board. * Thomas Henry Chicken, lately chairman, West Cumberland War Pensions Committee. * The Reverend William Edward Clapham. For public services in

Bow, East London Bow () is an area of East London within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is primarily a built-up and mostly residential area and is east of Charing Cross. It was in the traditional county of Middlesex but became part of the County o ...

. * Frederick William Clark, Brickworks Manager, Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd., Belton and

Crowle, Lincolnshire Crowle is a market town in the civil parish of Crowle and Ealand, on the Isle of Axholme in North Lincolnshire, England. The civil parish had a population at the 2011 census of 4,828. The town lies on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal. Notable bu ...

. * Sheila Grace Ellice-Clark, County Quartermaster, Kent, British Red Cross Society. * Annie Hilda Clews. For political and public services in

Poole Poole () is a large coastal town and seaport in Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east. Since 1 April 2019, the local authority is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Counc ...

. * Harold James Coleman, Principal Executive Officer,

New Scotland Yard Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs, but not the City of London, the square mile that forms London's ...

. * Reginald Charles Comerford, Assistant (Scientific), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * John Connolly, Warden, Forhill House Remand Home, Birmingham. * Ina Lindsay Cook Assistant Secretary,

Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...

. * Ernest Cooper. For services to Music in

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

. * Rose Ellen Coulson, lately Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Christina Young Coutts. For political and public services in

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

. * Harold Walter Cox, Electrical Engineer, Electrical & Musical Industries Engineering Development Ltd.,

Hayes, Middlesex Hayes is a town in west London, historically situated within the county of Middlesex, and now part of the London Borough of Hillingdon. The town's population, including its localities Hayes End, Harlington and Yeading, was recorded as 83,564 i ...

. * John Craig, Divisional Officer (Grade III), Western No.2 Area Fire Service, Scotland. * Observer Officer Frederick Harry Crane, Group Officer, No.14 Group,

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

Royal Observer Corps The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 December ...

. * Mary Catherine Crane, Secretary, Melton Mowbray Branch, National Farmers' Union. * Andrew Crighton, Manager, Howden Flax Mill, near

Goole Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the 2011 UK census, Goole parish had a population of 19,518, an increa ...

, Yorkshire. * Eric Croft, Fishery Officer, Lancashire & Western Sea Fisheries Committee. * Henry Albert Crouch, Senior Executive Officer,

Cabinet Office The Cabinet Office is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet. It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and which co-ordinate the delivery of government objecti ...

. * Herbert Crump, Works Manager, Engineering and Shell Division, Beans Industries Ltd.,

Tipton Tipton is an industrial town in the West Midlands in England with a population of around 38,777 at the 2011 UK Census. It is located northwest of Birmingham. Tipton was once one of the most heavily industrialised towns in the Black Country, w ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

. * Alfred Thomas Cullen, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Southampton Borough Police Force. * Doris Margaret Gumming, Senior Instructress in Rural Domestic Economy, Berkshire County Council. * Thomas Cunningham, Honorary Secretary, Cregagh Branch, Belfast

British Legion The Royal British Legion (RBL), formerly the British Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants, as well as all others in ne ...

. * John Ronald Currington, Deputy Commissioner, National Savings Committee. * Elizabeth Mary Dagley, lately, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Sidney Thomas Danby, Assistant District Postmaster,

Battersea Battersea is a large district in south London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and extends along the south bank of the River Thames. It includes the Battersea Park. History Batter ...

. * Jane Davidson, Lady Superintendent, Birkwood Mental Deficiency Institution,

Lesmahagow Lesmahagow ( ; sco, Lismahagie or ''Lesmahagae'', gd, Lios MoChuda) is a small town in the historic county of Lanarkshire on the edge of moorland, near Lanark in the central belt of Scotland. Lesmahagow was also a civil parish. It lies west o ...

Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannraig; sco, Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scotlan ...

. * Hilda Dawson, Sister,

St Luke's Hospital, Bradford St Luke's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on Little Horton Lane to the s ...

. * Kemp Day, Leading Draughtsman, John I. Thornycroft Ltd., Southampton. * Fred Dent, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Alice Elizabeth Dewar, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Jpseph Henry Dixon, lately Accountant, Medical Research Council. * Henry Walter Thomas Dodd, District Officer, HM Coastguard, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Stanley Swainson Donaldson, Clerk to the Maryport Urban District Council, Cumberland. * Lilian Anna Doolan, Higher Clerical Officer, Foreign Office. * Donald Gordon Duff, MC, MB, FRCS(Ed), Surgeon-Superintendent,

Belford Hospital Belford Hospital, locally known as The Belford, is a rural general hospital in Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland. History The original hospital, which was financed by a legacy from Andrew Belford and designed by ...

, Fort William. * George William Duncan, chairman, Mull District Council,

. * Bryn Morgan Dyer, Principal Youth Employment Officer, Bristol Local Education Authority. * Edith Annie Eames, Out-Patient Midwifery Sister,

City of London Maternity Hospital The City of London Maternity Hospital was a healthcare facility in London. Founded in 1750, it was closed and amalgamated with the Obstetric Unit at the Whittington Hospital in 1983. History In 1750, the Governors appointed “for erecting a Lyi ...

, Islington. * Joseph Allen Earthy, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * John Wilfred Easton, Deputy Armament Supply Officer, Admiralty. * James Douglas Eddy, Manager, Long Eaton Government Training Centre, Derbyshire, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * John Edwards, Executive Officer, British Museum. * Dorothy Elsie Ellingford, Higher Executive Officer, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission. * Leslie John Elliott, Superintending Measurer and Recorder, Admiralty, HM Dockyard Devonport. * Horace Dudley McDonogh Ellis, Engineer, Designs Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * James Ellis, Divisional Officer, Essex Fire Brigade. * Gertrude Mary Elton. For political and public services in

. * Andrew Parish, Area Superintendent, Northern Area (Carlisle),

Ribble Motor Services Ribble Motor Services was a large regional bus operator in the North West England based in Preston. History Ribble Motor Services commenced operating in 1919, and grew to be the largest operator in the region, with a territory stretching f ...

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, Scottish Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Jean Walker Ferguson, Superintendent, School of Rural Domestic Economy, Craibstone, North of Scotland College of Agriculture. * William Ferguson Secretary and Finance Member, Leith Port Area Grain Committee. * William Harold Fielding, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. * Albert Maurice Ford, Senior Executive Officer, Paymaster General's Office. * Erik Oscar Forsberg, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * William Kermick Forsyth, Chief Stations Engineer, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Charles Foster, Mechanical Engineer,

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Accounting Machines Ltd., Croydon. * Ruth Mary Fountain, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Education. * Arthur Hubert French, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Lizzie Gageby, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland. * John William Edward Gardner, Chief New Development and Process Engineer, D. Napier & Son Ltd., Liverpool. * Catharine Mackinnon Gavin, Woman Inspector, Board of Control and Ministry of Health. * Samuel Walker Gerrie, Ophthalmic Optician, Glasgow. * Frederick Joseph Gibbs, Area Cold Storage Officer, Grade I,

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, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Ernest George Gilbert, Higher Executive Officer, War Office. * Richard Curtis Gilham, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office. * Ronald Lionel Gillham, Signals Officer, Air Navigational Services, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Elizabeth Anne Gilliatt, Personal Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, MP. * John Moore Gillon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * John William Goldsack, Superintendent, Civil Aviation Constabulary, London Heathrow Airport, London Airport. * Ernest Walter Good, MM, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Works. * Thomas Bertram Goodman, Assistant Chief Officer, Kent Fire Brigade. * George Ernest Goodwin, Higher Executive Officer, Radar Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Davis Ingle Gotch, MC, TD, Senior Estate Surveyor, Ministry of Works. * Phyllis Norton Graham, Founder and chairman, St Mary's Pioneer Mothercraft Training Centre, Dundee. * Frederick Gray. For political and public services in Liverpool. * Frederick Richard Gray, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force. (Recently appointed Assistant Chief Constable, Newcastle upon Tyne). * James Green, chairman, Clitheroe Rural District Council, Lancashire. * George Paxton Greenlaw, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Ayr County Council. * Amy Grey, JP. For political and public services in Gateshead. * Elizabeth Griffin, Assistant Teacher, Harding Memorial Primary School, Belfast. * Observer Lieutenant Robert Alfred Grimmer, Deputy Commandant, No.7 Group, Bedford, Royal Observer Corps. * Thomas William Guy, Member, Richmond District Committee, North Riding of Yorkshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Leslie Dean Hadler, Senior Station Radio Officer, Middle East Land Forces. * Herbert Preston Hale, Senior Experimental Officer, Low Temperature Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * Amy Lily Elizabeth Hamer, Home Help Organiser, Leicestershire. * James Nuttall Hamer, District Manager for Scotland and Northern Ireland, Export Credits Guarantee Department. * Thomas Craig Hamilton, Labour Officer, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Stevenston, Ayrshire; Vice-chairman, British Legion (Scotland). * Alice Mary Hammond. For political and public services in Deptford. * Laura Hannam. For political and public services in Worksop. * David Harris, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Frederick George Harris, Higher Executive Officer, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission. * Frederick Ernest Harrison, chairman, Liverpool and District Air Training Corps Committee. * Frederick Adolph Hartman. For services to the Civil Service Sports Council. * Alfred Haslam, Vice-chairman, Reading and District Employment Committee. * Henry John Hawkes, Chief Foreman (Crimpsall), Doncaster, Eastern Region, British Railways. * Phyllis Way Hayter, Organising Secretary, Essex County Association for the Blind. * Lilly Clough Herring, Honorary Vice President, Belfast Branch, British Red Cross Society. * Samuel Maurice Barklie Hill, MB, BCh, Regional Medical Officer, Northern Region, British European Airways. * William Dodd Hill, lately Clerk to the Haverfordwest Rural District Council, Pembrokeshire. * Colton Richard Hinds, Locomotive Works Manager, Darlington, North Eastern Region, British Railways. * John Harold Hinson, deputy director of Accounts, HM Stationery Office. * John Hodgkinson, Member, Flintshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Henry Hogg. For services as Chief Engineer, , Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd. * Reginald Roy Hogsden, Civil Engineer, Headquarters Flying Training Command, Royal Air Force. * David Hood, Grade 6 Officer, Scottish Area, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Thomas Frederick Hopkins, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Captain Arthur Alexander Horn, Assistant Secretary, County of London Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. * Ernest Horn, managing director, Curtis & Horn, Machinery Dealers, Oxford. * Edward Albert Hughes, Manager, Long Lane Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board. * Archibald Hunter, Actuary, Wigan Savings Bank. * Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * James Hutton, Fitting and Assembly Shop Superintendent, Albion Motors Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow. * Alfred John Jackson, General Secretary, National Federation of Meat Traders Associations. * Frederick Bernard Jacomb, JP, chairman, Martley Rural District Council. * William Percy Jaeger, Area Meat Grader, North Western Area, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * William James, Honorary Secretary, Runswick Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. * John Jardine, JP. For political and public services in Dumfries. * Marjorie Lilian Jenkins, Headmistress, Pound Hill County Primary (Infants) School, Crawley, Sussex. * Sidney Harold Jewitt, Surveyor, Rochester District, Board of Customs & Excise. * Oswald Frusher Johnson, JP, chairman, Rawmarsh Savings Committee,

, Yorkshire. * Geoffrey Herbert Jolly, Special Officer, Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations Ltd. * David Samuel Jones, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Captain Hilton John Jones, Master, RFA ''Saucy''. * Walter Jones, lately Assistant Manager, Plate Glassmaking Department, Pilkington Brothers Ltd., St Helens, Lancashire. * Helen Kaplan, lately Honorary Secretary, Glasgow Corporation Transport Department Savings Group. * John Brayshaw Kay, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Robert Kay, Staff Officer, Scottish Command, War Office. * George Keddie, Senior Accountant, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Willoughby Frederick Kelly, Experimental Officer, Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Maud Lilian Kelsall, Higher Clerical Officer, Admiralty. * Maud Kent, lately Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Robert Glen Kerr, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. * James Edwin Lambert, Senior Assistant Engineer, North Eastern Electricity Board. * Jeremiah William James Lambeth, Acting Foreman of Wharf, Royal Victoria Yard, Deptford, Admiralty. * Dorothy Lammin Lammin. For political and public services in Folkestone and Hythe, Kent. * Frederick Charles Lawrence, JP, chairman, Strood Rural District Council, Kent. * Redvers Roberts Henry Laws, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Edith Lawton, Secretary, St Edward's Hospital Management Committee, Cheddleton, Staffordshire. * Charles Richard Leigh, Works Manager, Portals (John Allen & Sons) Ltd., Ivybridge, Devonshire. * Maurice Lemberger, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office. * George Alexander Lemen, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Greenock Burgh Police, Renfrewshire. * John Anthony Lewis, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Maggie Miriam Lewis, Matron, St David's Hospital, Carmarthen, St David's (Mental) Hospital, Carmarthen. * Richard Walter Lewis, Chief Chemist, Burndept Ltd., Dundee. * Dora Tertia Liebenthal, Honorary Organiser, National Galleries of Scotland Lunch Hour Concerts in Edinburgh. * Frederick William Light, Senior Executive Officer, Admiralty. * Jack Livings, Detective Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force. * Frederick William Lloyd, TD, chairman, South West Wales War Pensions Committee. * Hedley Lloyd, Director and Supervisory Export Manager, Marsh Brothers & Co. Ltd., Sheffield. * Charles Wheeler Locke, Chief Warden, Manchester Civil Defence Corps. * Andrew Morrison Logue, County Sanitary Officer, County Londonderry. * Henry Edward London, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Elizabeth Lund. For political and public services in Nelson, Lancashire, Nelson and Colne. * Alderman Herbert James Lowton Lygoe, JP, chairman, Holloway Disablement Advisory Committee. * William Heymer McCallum, Station Superintendent, Warrington Power Station, North West, Merseyside and North Wales Division, British Electricity Authority. * Alderman Norman McCretton, Organiser, National Union of General & Municipal Workers, Tyneside District. * Janet MacGregor Macdonald, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Culcabock School Savings Group, Inverness-shire. * Margaret McKeown, Municipal Midwife, Liverpool. * Rose Robinson McLernon, Vice-Principal, Victoria College, Belfast. * Thomas Smith McMain, Traffic Manager, W. Alexander & Sons, W. Alexander & Sons Ltd. (Scottish Omnibuses Group), British Transport Commission. * John McQuiggan, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Lahore, Pakistan. * Lamont Mahaffy, District Inspector,

. * Captain Frederick Mara, Master, MV ''Pacific Coast'', Coast Lines, Coast Lines Ltd. * John Anthony Markland, Chief Clerk, Westminster County Court. * John Harrison Marshall, Ground Communications Manager, British European Airways. * Lewis Gerton Marshall, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Joshua Stoker Marwood, Traffic Superintendent and Chief Assistant to General Manager, River Wear Commissioners. * Cecil Mason. Head Postmaster, Ormskirk, Lancashire. * Stanley Herbert Matthews, Assistant Programme Accountant, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Horace Mayson, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * William Henry Mercer, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary. * Eric Merrill, Senior Information Officer, Southern Command, War Office. * James Michie, Manager, Keiller's marmalade, James Keiller & Son Ltd., Dundee. * Frederic Charles Morris, Conductor, Shrewsbury Choral, Operatic and Orchestral Societies. * Catherine Flett Matheson Mowat. For political and public services in Caithness. * Kathleen Muir, Manageress, Papworth Poultry Farm, Cambridgeshire. * Ernest Henry Munnion, managing director, E. H. Munnion Ltd., Builders, Sussex. * Thomas Murphy, General Secretary, Showmen's Guild of Great Britain. * George Henry Neale, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Harry Lingwood Neate, Bullion Clerk, Royal Mint. * Gladys Maud Newcombe, Senior Major, Salvation Army, in charge of Mayflower Training Home for Neglectful Mothers. * Harold Henry Newell, Superintendent, Rehabilitation Workshop, Vauxhall Motors Ltd.,

, Bedfordshire. * Isabella Nicolson, Headmistress, Boleskine Primary School, Gorthleck, Inverness-shire. * Nicholas Hiram Richards Normington. For political and public services in Cornwall. * Arthur Joseph Maurice Ozmond, Assistant Head of Television Design, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Edward Llewellyn Panes, chairman, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge District Committee, Kent Agricultural Executive Committee. * William Henry Park, JP. For political services in Northern Ireland. * Irvine Parker, Bailie Irvine Theodore Parker, MC, JP, Secretary, Kilmarnock Grange School Savings Group, Ayrshire. * Robert James Parker, Senior Telecommunications Superintendent, Cable and Wireless, Birmingham, General Post Office. * John Comer Parkinson, assistant director, Eggs Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * John Paterson, Works Manager, Winsor Engineering Co. Ltd., Hillington, Glasgow. * John Ritchie Patterson, JP. For political and public services in Dundee. * Robert Jarvie Patterson, President, St Andrew's and Red Cross Scottish Ambulance Service, Wishaw. * Pamela Evelyn Payne, Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Anthony Wadham Knatchbull Peacock, lately Senior Executive Officer, Principal Probate Registry. * Gladys Elizabeth Pegler, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Medley John Pellow, Assistant Dockmaster, Southampton. * Clarence Penson, Superintendent of Managed Houses, State Management District, Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle. * John Eric Leslie Peters, Division Officer, Reproduction Branch, Ordnance Survey, Southampton. * Captain William Pirrie, Commander, Fishery Cruiser ''Brenda'', Scottish Fishery Protection Service. * Hilda Mary Porter, Secretary, Methodist Committee for the Care of Overseas Students. * Sidney Arthur Potter, Honorary Secretary, Coventry Savings Committee. * William Preston. For political services. * Arthur Granville Ravensdale, chairman, East Midland Regional Schools Advisory Savings Committee. * George William Raymond, Chief Welfare Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * William Stratton Rea. For political services in South Tyrone. * George Reeve, JP, Area Organiser, United Patternmakers' Association. * William Ridley, Surveyor, Chester-le-Street, Urban District Council,

. * John Roberts, JP, chairman, Wallasey Local Employment Committee and Disablement Advisory Committee, Cheshire. * Lizzie Roberts, Headmistress, Infants' Department, Windsor Street County Primary School, Liverpool. * Mavis Rose Roberts, Accounting Equipment Supervisor, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Edward Walter Rope, Senior Purser, SS ''Oronsay'', Orient Steam Navigation Company, Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. * Isabel Myrtle Rowley, Honorary Secretary, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, Cumberland. * Ernest Evelyn Ryder, Principal Assistant, Public Health Department, London County Council. * Frank Sidney Salter, Chief Designer, Hydraulic Department, Loewy Engineering Co. Ltd.,

, Dorset. * Thomas Edward Salvin, Staff Officer (Planning), Southern Command, War Office. * Elizabeth Jessie Sayer, Assistant in the Prime Minister's Office. * John Frederick Sayer, Executive Officer,

. * Alderman Tom Markley Scotney, JP. For political and public services in Huntingdonshire. * Florence Mary Sears, Temporary Clerk, Grade II, Senior Trade Commissioner's Office, New Delhi, India. * Florence Ethel Seed, Principal, School for Officers' Children, Aldershot. * John Farrar Shackleton, MC, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Ethel Nora Sprake Sharp. For political and public services in Ipswich. * George Hallett Shelley. Lately Honorary Organiser, Citizens Advice Bureau, Reigate and

. * Doris Mildred Sheridan, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. * Harry Simpson. For political and public services in Birmingham. * William Leslie Simpson, Chief Works Engineer, Newey Brothers Ltd., Birmingham. * James Ernest Sitch, Manager, Smethwick Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Edith Elise Smith, JP. For political and public services in Eccles, Greater Manchester, Eccles. * Captain Sidney Bedford Smith, Master, MV ''Catford'', South Eastern Gas Board. * William Lees Smith, Senior Vehicle Examiner, South Eastern Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * William Percy Smith, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * William Alfred Smithdale. Lately Senior Shop Superintendent, Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. * Winifred Mary Smy, Headmistress, Bramfield Primary School, East Suffolk (county), East Suffolk. * Thomas Austen Edwin Spearing, Deputy Controller Designate, Hammersmith Civil Defence Organisation. * William Arthur Stace, MC, Area Manager, Brighton, Southdown Motor Services Ltd. * Henry Taylor Stead, Assistant Works Manager, Horbury railway works, Charles Roberts and Co. Ltd., Wakefield. * Charles Arthur Steedman, Executive Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Southampton, General Post Office. * Francis John Stephens, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence. * George Douglas Stephens, Senior Chief Steward, , British-India Steam Navigation Company, British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. * Robert James Stepney, Assistant Chief Officer, Berkshire and Reading Fire Brigade. (Recently appointed Chief Officer of the Cambridgeshire Fire Brigade). * James Steptoe, Clerk to the Sturminster Rural District Council, Dorset. * Florence Louise Stevens. For political and public services in East Ham. * Robert Nelson Stevenson, Deputy Principal Officer, National Assistance Board, Northern Ireland. * William Stewart, DSC, RD, JP, Skipper-Owner MB ''Sireadh''. * Dorothy Stokes, Chief Clerk, Telephone Manager's Office, South East Area, General Post Office. * George Stott, Manager, Remploy factories at Newcastle-on-Tyne and Jarrow. * James Strachan, Crop Husbandry Officer, Grade II, National Agricultural Advisory Service. * William Carter Styan, Engineer Designer,

Ltd., Crayford, Kent. * Helen Isabel Sutherland, Secretary, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. * Charles Frank Sutton, Senior Experimental Officer, Air Ministry. * Albert Sweet, Chief Clerk, Stockport, Cheshire, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Edith Marie Taylor, lately District Officer, South West Area, National Institute of Houseworkers Ltd. * Hubert Arthur Carnelley Thomas. For political and public services in Llanelly. * Emma Mary Thorneloe. For political and public services in Coventry. * Elsie Louise Titchener, Executive Officer, War Office. * George Herbert Todd, Shipyard Manager, Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hawthorn Leslie (Shipbuilders) Ltd., Hebburn-on-Tyne, County Durham. * Ivo Townsend, Clerk to the Licensing Authority, Scottish Traffic Area, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Frederick Tucker, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Ernest Tyrie, Senior Assistant (Scientific), Porton Down, Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton, Ministry of Supply. * Percival Ernest Vidler, Deputy Secretary, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. * Captain George Godfrey Vinnicombe, chairman, Suffolk County British Legion. * Edna Wadsworth, lately Librarian of the Royal Astronomical Society. * Mary Walker, Headmistress, Redhill Junior Mixed School, Castleford, Yorkshire. * Thomas William Walker, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Works. * Ivy Mary Walton, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Mary Irene Warren, Manageress, Salvation Army Red Shield Canteen, Tobruk. * Richard Wragby Waterfield, Headmaster, Broughton County Primary School, Broughton, Northamptonshire. * Captain Percy Thomson Watson, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. * Walter Harold Webb, Chief Fire Officer and Accident Prevention Officer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain) Ltd.,

. * Frederick James West, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Wilfrid Richard Wharton, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue. * Samuel Horsfield Wheeldon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Edward Eric Carrall Wilcocks, Manager, Kasungu Tobacco Estates, Nyasaland. * Gwilym George Wilcox, Honorary Secretary, Rhondda Savings Committee. * John Percival Willey, County Ambulance Superintendent, Bedfordshire. * George William Henry Williams, Local Fuel Overseer, City and Rural District of Hereford. * Harold Boswarick Williams, Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. * Norman Harry Williams, Senior Executive Officer, War Office. * Norma Gwen Wilson, lately Area Organiser, Hong Kong, Women's Voluntary Services. * Frederick Stanley Withers, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Leonard Woodhouse, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Stoke-on-Trent City Police Force. * Frederick Bradley Wray, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Ellen Louisa Wright, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Central Office of Information. * Eric Wright, JP, Senior Draughtsman, Industrial Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Atomic Energy Authority, ROF Risley, Risley, Lancashire. * Henry Reginald Wright, lately Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Robert Young, Sub-Area Production Manager, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. * William Forbes Young, Director, Resistance Welders Ltd., Inverness. * Nora Margaret Ziegler Lane. For services as Alexandra Nursing Sister, SSAFA, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association. * James Donald Addison, Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer to the State of Kuwait. * Dennis Charles Caldecourt, lately Temporary Senior Executive Officer, United Kingdom High Commission in Germany. * Bertram Francis Louis Camous, Second Secretary (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Madrid. * Trevor Herbert Ellis Cash, lately British Vice-Consul at Oulu. * Jean Rosie Cormack, Matron of the Royal Hospital, Baghdad. * Thomas Joseph Dunne, Director of the Anglo-Argentine Cultural Institute at Mendoza, Argentina, Mendoza. * Ellinor Dunsterville, British subject resident in Venezuela. * Ernest James Wolfgang Stetson Foote, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Cleveland. * Stephen William Garbutt, British Vice Consul at Messina. * Lily Florence Godwin, British subject resident in Egypt. * Donald Hawley, Donald Frederick Hawley, Chief Registrar of the Judiciary, Sudan. * Doris Theresa Hood, Shorthand typist at Her Majesty's Embassy in Buenos Aires. * Jacob Joseph Jacob, Chief Translator at Her Majesty's Embassy in Baghdad. * George William Ladley, Accountant at Her Majesty's Embassy in Buenos Aires. * Thomas Greig Lauder, British subject resident in Chile. * Derek Reginald Masters, Temporary Senior Executive Officer, British Military Government, Berlin (British Sector). * Frederick Moore, Communications Office, Office of the Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia. * Elizabeth Craig Patch, Senior Stenographer at Her Majesty's Consulate-General, Chicago. * Winifred Desmond Paton, British subject resident in the United States of America. * Adam Macfarlane Petrie, lately Divisional Engineer, Sudan Government. * Harold Baty Rider, British subject resident in Egypt. * George William Scroggs, First Secretary (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Rangoon. * Wilfred Thomas, Comptroller in the Palace of the Governor-General of the Sudan, Khartoum. * Donald Thurmer, British subject resident in Peru. * William Tidman, Director of the ''Sociedade Brasileirade Cultura Inglesa'', Curitiba. * Elizabeth Christina Wallis, Administrative Assistant, United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations, New York. * Althea Violet Chanut-Wheeler, British subject resident in France. * Harold Mosley Wigley, lately Senior Temporary Assistant, United Kingdom High Commission in Germany. * Albert Roy Black, Honorary President and Organiser, Church Girls' Club for Physical Culture, State of South Australia. * George Walter Bryan. For services to the United Kingdom community in the North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955), North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. * Geoffrey Cyril Fletcher, President, Bengal Hockey Association, India. * The Reverend Charles William Haskell, lately Principal, Karachi Grammar School, Pakistan. * Nora Ivy Hodgson, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Guild of Loyal Women,

. * Douglas Edward Hopkins, of Hobart, State of Tasmania. For public services. * Natalie Kate Jackson, lately Woman Inspector and Senior Woman Officer, Public Services Board, Southern Rhodesia. * Cornelius Frederick Jamieson. For services to Rugby football in Southern Rhodesia. * Janet Ada Johnson, a Clerk in the Office of the High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland. * George Scott Jolly, Rural Officer of the Treasury, State of New South Wales. * Phyllis Frieda Kabot, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia For social welfare services, especially to the British Red Cross Society. * Cissie Gladys Leigh. For services to the United Kingdom community in Poona, India. * Gertrude Margaret Lucas. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia. * Annie May Madden. For public and charitable services in the State of Tasmania. * Venketsami Subramany Naidoo, Headmaster of the Louis Mountbatten School, Southern Rhodesia. * Linden Kevin Rath, Officer-in-Charge, Social Welfare Branch, Department of Labour and Industry and Social Welfare, State of New South Wales. * Joan Harcourt Sargeant, Matron, St John's Park Hospital, State of Tasmania. * Ian Harry Robertson Shand, Chief Hydrological Engineer, Irrigation Department, Southern Rhodesia. * Mary Eileen Stenson, formerly Principal of the Piggs Peak European School, Swaziland. * John William Treloggen, JP. For services to local government in the State of Tasmania. * Alice Evelyn Tuck, Matron of the South Coast District Hospital, State of South Australia. * Dorothy Mary Ward, Matron of the Northfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, State of South Australia. * Captain Ronald Stretton Webb, Royal Field Artillery (Retd.), cartographer. For services to the Basutoland Administration. * Joseph Harris White, MM, a stock inspector. For services to the Bechuanaland Protectorate Administration. * George Adamson, George Alexander Graham Adamson, Senior Game Ranger, Kenya. * Joy Annesley Alcock. For public services in Singapore. * Kathleen Enid Albury, Clerk to the Health Board and Secretary to the Chief Medical Officer, Bahamas. * Allaudin Alibhai. For public services in Tanganyika. * Joan Allan, Matron, King George V Merchant Seamen's Memorial Hospital, Malta. * Percival Frank Aroozoo. Lately Principal, Gan Eng Seng School, Singapore. * James Emmanuel Kojo Attram. lately Divisional Court Registrar, Supreme Court, Gold Coast. * Hassan Bacchus, Judicial Officer, Deeds Registry, British Guiana. * Sule Agboola Balogun, Education Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. * Maurice John Bennion, Administrative Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Thomas Hilton Bedson, Development Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. * Paul Haycroft Berry, District Officer, Kikuyu Home Guard, Kikuyu Guard, Kenya. * Violet Bryce, Education Officer, Tanganyika. * George Alfred Byam, Senior Inspector of Schools, Trinidad. * Lady Angeliki Cacoyanni. For public services in Cyprus. * Margaret Florence Cade, Clerk, Office of the Council of Ministers, Federation of Nigeria. * Neville George David Campbell, BM, BCh, Medical Officer, Sierra Leone. * Felix Yinmasu Carrena, Chief Inspector, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Federation of Nigeria. * Chew Jin Bee Lately Assistant Controller of Posts, Postal Services, Perak, Federation of Malaya. * Edward Stanislaus Chiappe, Civil Engineer, Lands and Works Department, Gibraltar. * Florence Allene Cleare. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in British Guiana. * Claude Algernon Collard, Provincial Labour Officer, Nyasaland. * Wilfred Ernest Ashdown Cook, Livestock Superintendent, Tanganyika. * Gladys Cook. For public and social services in Antigua, Leeward Islands. * Philip Gordon Coutts, District Officer, Provincial Administration, Uganda. * James Warrender Craig. For missionary services in the Gold Coast. * Robert Egerton Crookall, Education Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. * George Errolde Gama, Supervisor, Customs and Excise Department, Trinidad. * Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Noel Dennis, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Dogo, Chief of Jaba Independent District, Zaria Province, Northern Region, Nigeria. * The Reverend John Rafferty Augustine Duffy. For services to Education in the Northern Region, Nigeria. * Francis Edward Demontmorency Edmonson, Assistant Town Engineer, Freetown City Council, Sierra Leone. * Benedict Enwonwu, Art Supervisor, Federal Information Service, Nigeria. * William Howard Biddlecombe Etheridge, Passage Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. * Evelyn Jane Alice Evans, Director, Library Services, Gold Coast Library Board. * Mohamed Faquir, Medical Officer, Uganda. * Samuel Fischer. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. * Kathleen Mary Foord, Matron, Lady Grigg African Maternity Hospital, Pumwani, Kenya. * Edwin Peter Foster, DCM, Plant Inspector, North Borneo. * Alexander Stoddard Frankson, District Commissioner, British Honduras. * The Reverend George Robson Fraser. For missionary services in Northern Rhodesia. * Gordon Francis Gammer, Superintendent of Works, St Helena. * William James Gatward. For services to agriculture in Fiji. * Lawrence Theodore Gay, District Inspector, Education Department, Barbados. * Sayid Mohamed Abdu Ghanem, Education Officer, Aden. * Mary Glasgow, Principal, Bukit Bintang Girls' School, Federation of Malaya. * George Alexander Grant, Director of Works, Dominica, Windward Islands. * Thomas Vivian Greenwood, Engineer, East African Malaria Unit, Amani. * Georgina May Grogan, Regional Matron, Queen Elizabeth's Oversea Nursing Service, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Irene Harley. For public services in Aden. * George Alphonso Headley. For services to sport in Jamaica and the West Indies. * Harold Edward Heath. For public services in Zanzibar. * John Franklin Hindle, Regional Director of Information, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Ali Ratip Irigoghlou. For public services in Cyprus. * Michael Jacovides. Lately Assistant Conservator of Forests, Cyprus. * Jivanji Framji Jasavala, Legal Assistant, Legal Department, Zanzibar. * The Reverend Mother Marie John. For services to Education in the Seychelles. * Walter Kendrick. For medical and missionary services in the Bahamas. * Abiezeri Kyabasinga Kibaya, Medical Officer, Uganda. * Bia Kur, Paramount Chief, Kholifa Mabang Chiefdom, Sierra Leone. * Lee Syn Hon, Superintendent, Drawing Office, Survey Department, North Borneo. * William Leonard Lewis, Senior Livestock Officer, Department of Veterinary Services, Kenya. * Gwendoline Marguerite Lizarraga. For public services in British Honduras. * James Lloyd McGairl, Social Development Officer, Tanganyika. * Ivan Carl Evans McLean. For public services in British Guiana. * Ellen Douglas Manning. For public services in Barbados. * The Venerable Archdeacon Erisa Kabiti Masaba, Archdeacon of Masaba Native Anglican Church, Mbale. For public services in Uganda. * Freda Miles. For welfare and social services in the Northern Region, Nigeria. * Patrick Nwaokocha Christian Molokwu, Education Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. * George Henry Abel Morris, Chief Health Inspector, Hong Kong. * Vishwanath Sitaram Nijasure, Senior Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Tanganyika. * Alieu Badara N'Jie, Registrar, Supreme Court, Gambia. * Joseph Oke Nwankwo. Lately Administrative Assistant, Western Region, Nigeria. * Francis Chukuka Nwokedi, President, Onitsha Native Court, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Charles Symon Ogilvie, Game Warden and Superintendent, King George V National Park, Federation of Malaya. * Isaya Ogwanguji, County Chief of Erute County, Lango District, Uganda. * Gilbert Oko. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Bassey Eyibio Okoro, Assistant Secretary, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Robert Okafor Okuta. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Jean Rene Gabriel Orian, Plant Pathologist, Department of Agriculture, Mauritius. * Dorothy Outerbridge. For public services in Bermuda. * Charles Stewart Panton, Superintendent of Police, Jamaica. * Foluseke Adewunmi Olajide Phillips, Senior Assistant Works Manager, Nigerian Railway. * Edward Oliver Pilgrim, Master, Queen's College, Guyana, Queen's College, British Guiana. * John Pinney, District Commissioner, Murang'a, Fort Hall, Kenya. * Abdul Rashid, Clerk, East African Railways and Harbours. * William Belcher Greaves Raynor, MC, District Commissioner, Meru, Kenya. * Ethlyn Maud Rhodd, JP, Head Teacher, Central Branch School, Kingston, Jamaica. * Eduardo Albert Ribeiro, Assistant Controller of Posts, Hong Kong. * Anthony Gerald Saville, Administrative Officer, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Emily Clara Louise Scott. For welfare services in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. * Henry Horace Sedgwick, Head Printer, Government Printing Office, Falkland Islands. * Sinnadurai Selvanayagam, Headmaster, Sultan Sulaiman School, Kuala Terengganu, Federation of Malaya. * Ruth Service For nursing services in Northern Rhodesia. * Ethelbert Fitzroy Shurland. For public services in Trinidad. * Vera Dorothy Alexandra Silcocks, Headmistress, Ying Wa Girls' School, Hong Kong. * Sim Hung Liang, Assistant Archivist, Special Branch, Police Department, Singapore. * Christine Mary Simango. For public services in the Gold Coast. * Fred Farbridge Smithyman, Principal Agricultural Supervisor, Nyasaland. * Fela Sowande, Senior Music Assistant, Nigerian Broadcasting Service. * Nellie Stead. For services to Girls' Education in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. * John Leonard Steven, Engineer, Public Works Department, Somaliland. * James Stewart, Permanent Way Inspector, East African Railways and Harbours. * James Arnold Sweeney, Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kenya. * John Mellis Tasker, Colony Commissioner, Gambia. * Shyamji Trikamji Thanki. For public services in Tanganyika. * Hugh Haldane Thomson, District Officer, Northern Rhodesia. * Thomasina Thomson, Matron, Queen Elizabeth's Oversea Nursing Service, Uganda. * John Todd (aviator), John Todd, MC, DFC, MB, ChB. For medical and missionary services in Northern Rhodesia. * Janet Tomblin, Assistant Representative, British Council, Hong Kong. * Chief Udo Ekong Umana. For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Namasivayam Manicka Vasagam, Financial Assistant, Public Works Department, Selangor, Federation of Malaya. * Edwin Joseph Vass, Financial Assistant, Police Department, Singapore. * Tom Andrew Watts, District Commissioner, Central Nyanza Province, Nyanza, Kenya. * Wee Eric Sian Beng. For services to the Youth Movement in Singapore. * Kathleen Hickson-Wood. For public services in Tanganyika. :;Honorary Members * Ang Keh Toh. For public services in Selangor, Federation of Malaya. * Yang Teramat Mulia Tunku Baharom binti Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah. For public services in Kedah, Federation of Malaya. * Goh Tiong Tan. For public services in Malacca, Federation of Malaya. * Datin Shariffah Hawa binte Khalid. For public services in Johore, Federation of Malaya. * Ow Kheng Law, Film Director, Malayan Film Unit, Federation of Malaya.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

* Henry Spencer Moore, Sculptor.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Home Civil Service * Harold Charles Birch, MBE, chief executive officer, National Savings Committee (Winchmore Hill, N21). * Henry Bray, Principal, Ministry of Fuel & Power (Streatham, SW16). * Albert Edward Carter, Lately Regional Finance Officer, London Postal Region, General Post Office (Leigh-on-Sea, Essex). * William Alexander Davidson, Lately Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food (Edinburgh). * Cyril Thornton Dean, Deputy Regional Controller, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance (Manchester). * John Morgan Evans, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs & Excise (Cobham, Surrey). * Walter James Fletcher, MBE, Head of Branch, Ministry of Works (Palmers Green, N13). * Sidney Herbert Gellatly, MBE, Grade 2 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office (Coulsdon, Surrey). * Henry John Hitchcock, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade (Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire). * Walter Humphrey, chief executive officer, Air Ministry (Dartford, Kent). * Colwell Iddon, OBE, Principal Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office (Hythe, Kent). * William Bryce Johnston, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue (Edinburgh). * Ernest Long, Lately Comptroller of Income Tax, Jersey, Channel Islands. * Bertram Arthur Nettleton, deputy director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department (Gidea Park, Essex). * Rowley Thelwell North, Principal, Ministry of Supply (Upper Warlingham, Surrey). * Bernard Peel, chief executive officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation (Southgate, N14). * George Alfred Pepper, chief executive officer, National Assistance Board (Wallington, Surrey). * Reginald Gordon Sheppard, chief executive officer, HM Treasury (Surbiton, Surrey). * Francis Thomas Stobart, chief executive officer, General Register Office (Southport, Lancashire). * William Charles Marshall Third, General Inspector, Department of Health for Scotland (Edinburgh). * Arthur Clifford Turner, Assistant Regional Controller, East and West Ridings Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service (Leeds). * Ernest Waldron, MBE, Acting Superintending Electrical Engineer, Admiralty (Bath). * Arthur James Watson, Principal, Ministry of Housing & Local Government (Epsom, Surrey). * William Harold Welkin, Lately Principal Executive Officer, Ministry of Food (Chiswick, W4). * Edward George Yeo, chief executive officer, Ministry of Education (Finchley, N3). ;Australian States * Francis William Hicks, Superintendent, Extension and Technical Services, Department of Agriculture, State of Tasmania. * Frederick Balfour McBryde, Master of the Supreme Court and Registrar of Probates, State of South Australia. ;Oversea Civil Service * Pierre Cantin, General Manager, Railways, Mauritius. * Wilbur Edmund James Donovan, Accountant-General, Treasury, Fiji. * Ronald Eustace Grant Ferguson, deputy director, Public Works Department, Western Region, Nigeria. * Harry Handforth, Lately Assistant Works Manager, Public Works Department, Western Region, Nigeria. * Hubert Easton Jackson, Senior Accountant, Accountant-General's Department, Uganda. * Louis Reginald Barnett-Smith, Commissioner of Trade & Customs, North Borneo. * Daniel Charles Arthur John Thomas, Lately Secretary to the General Manager, Sierra Leone Government Railway, Railways, Sierra Leone.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Quartermaster Sergeant Leslie Barker, Ch.X.834, Royal Marines. * Chief Electrical Artificer Charles William Barnwell, C/MX.46103. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Frederick Cecil Barratt, C/MX.48911. * Chief Shipwright Percival William Brenton, D/MX.55111. * Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Charles Briars, Ply.X.989, Royal Marines. * Chief Wren Grace Mary Brown, 1081, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Norman Herbert Anthony Brown, P/MX.50010. * Chief Petty Officer Cook (O) William Henry Crowther, D/MX.50455. * Chief Engineering Mechanic Francis Ralph Davenport, D/KX.86547. * Colour Sergeant Thomas Henry Duffield, Ch.X.370, Royal Marines. * Chief Engine Room Artificer William Thomas Fedrick, D/MX.56725. * Master-at-Arms Claud Thompson Foster D/MX.48937. * Petty Officer James Greenshields, C/JX.135163. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Harold Percy Hill, W.R.2006, RNV(W)R. * Chief Petty Officer Husein Ibrahim, No Kai, Royal East African Navy. * Chief Airman Fitter (E) Sidney James Jenkins L/FX.79745. * Chief Petty Officer William Alfred Keeler, C/JX.125086. * Chief Ordnance Artificer Albert George Kelsey, P/MX.54858. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Arthur William John Layer, D/JX.130726. * Chief Petty Officer Frank Kenneth Lewis L/FX.76295. * Chief Wren Marie Isabella McLachlan, 47462, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Chief Electrician William Vernon Mersh Moore, P/MX.803894. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Harry Edward Pook, P/MX.48728. * Chief Petty Officer Writer George Vivian Richards, C/MX.60902. * Chief Petty Officer Wilfred Ernest Sketchell, D/JX.251323. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Maurice George Strevens Skinner, D/MX.59207. * Engine Room Artificer1st Class Cyril Alfred Sothcott, D/MX.55214. * Chief Petty Officer Walter Arthur Francis Thompson, C/JX129481. * Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Bernard John Townsend, C/MX.50451. * Chief Petty Officer Writer James Edward Triscott, D/MX.50618. * Chief Petty Officer Cecil Trounce, C/J.96950. * Stores Chief Petty Officer (S) Douglas Henry Hamblyn Tuckett, D/MX.57970. ;;Army * Colour-Sergeant (acting) Roch Alexander Aeria, Federation of Malaya Volunteer Reconnaissance Corps. * 65250 Sergeant Kossah Affel, Sierra Leone Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. * 4388414 Staff-Sergeant James Hall Albertson, Corps of Royal Military Police. * 22237714 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) William James Allen, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * W/206355 Sergeant Ellen Mary Arnold, Women's Royal Army Corps. * 1814657 Sergeant Frederick Charles Baker, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 840378 Sergeant Arthur Frank Barker, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Sergeant Frank Thomas David Barton, 2nd Huntingdonshire Battalion, Home Guard. * W/360597 Sergeant (acting) Elizabeth Blythan, Women's Royal Army Corps. * 22261061 Sergeant John Thomas Bowes, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 893715 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Frank Bowles, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 22258246 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Peter William Bryant, Royal Army Medical Corps. * 2717570 Sergeant Richard Burke, Irish Guards. * ZBK.12019 Warrant Officer Jameson Moses Bweteka, 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles. * S/22280085 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Joseph Francis Carter, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. * 1547532 Sergeant Joseph Collett, Army Catering Corps. * 22566223 Staff-Sergeant Ernest James Cooper, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army. * T/5123307 Sergeant John Hunter Cummings, Royal Army Service Corps. * W/7602 Sergeant Hannah Mary Dent, Women's Royal Army Corps. * 1374581 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Thomas Roye Dinsdale, Corps of Royal Engineers. * 2067823 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Roland Henry Goldsmith, Corps of Royal Engineers. * 7343610 Staff-Sergeant Charles Ralph Gregory, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 7601448 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Ronald James Hart, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * 6010999 Staff-Sergeant (acting) (local Warrant Officer Class II) Percy Heard, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 7666672 Staff-Sergeant John Hull, Royal Army Pay Corps. * 3446319 Sergeant Richard Johnson, Corps of Royal Military Police. * 5330187 Sergeant Alfred Nelson May, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), Territorial Army. * 22309646 Sergeant John McCaffrey, Corps of Royal Engineers. * 22271881 Sergeant David McDonald, The Royal Ulster Rifles, Territorial Army. * 22149169 Armament Staff-Sergeant Robert Brian Millgate, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * Band-Sergeant Arthur Sullivan Nibbs, Jamaica Military Band. * 21005277 Sergeant Thomas Patrick Nicholls, Royal Corps of Signals. * 21130836 Colour-Sergeant Herbert Frank Oliver, The Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial Army. * 4855022 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) George Herbert Parker, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 3652055 Colour-Sergeant (acting) Eric Percival, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers). * 14315766 Staff-Sergeant Leslie Powdrell, Royal Army Pay Corps. * Armourer Rajiman bin Ali, Singapore Volunteer Corps. * 22266362 Staff-Sergeant (acting) William Rhodes, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * 22253241 Sergeant Cook Robert Rodgers, Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army. * 408684 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Patrick Michael Rooney, Army Catering Corps. * 1507419 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Harry Challis Sandford, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * W/69659 Staff-Sergeant Vera Schofield, Women's Royal Army Corps. * 2331857 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Frederick Sidney Shepherd, Royal Corps of Signals. * 5723836 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Cecil Lewis Arthur Siegel, The Dorset Regiment. * S/14446352 Sergeant (acting) Charles Harry Sorensen, Royal Army Service Corps. * 6139081 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Gerald Sidney Taylor, Corps of Royal Military Police. * 22540914 Sergeant Ernest Thomas, Royal Corps of Signals. * W/367953 Sergeant Olive Thompson, Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. * 2590110 Sergeant Robert George Upton, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. * 22529382 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Thomas Varty, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 22566405 Sergeant (acting) (local Warrant Officer Class II) Frank James William Vingoe, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * 22224223 Staff-Sergeant Frederick Penistan Wiley, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * Na/27952 Company-Sergeant-Major Yako Yerwa, The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force. * 1882128 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Edmond Francis Rouen Young, Corps of Royal Engineers. :; In recognition of services in Korea during the period 1 August 1954 to 31 January 1955. * S/11252946 Staff Sergeant George Alexander Wilson, Royal Army Service Corps. * 22844618 Sapper (Acting Lance Corporal) William Norritt Stewart Lawson, Royal Engineers. ;;Royal Air Force * 2683530 Flight Sergeant John Bell, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * 518510 Flight Sergeant John Kitchener Crowther. * 564666 Flight Sergeant Thomas Glassbrook. * 637983 Right Sergeant Harry Ronald Grimes. * 512721 Flight Sergeant George William Hearn. * 1100484 Flight Sergeant Roy Hewitt. * 958812 Flight Sergeant Stanley Banyard Hicks. * 576422 Flight Sergeant William John Hill. * 564263 Flight Sergeant John Felix Moore. * 519189 Flight Sergeant Thomas Henry Phillis. * 428346 Flight Sergeant Dorothy Gladys Rice, Women's Royal Air Force. * 566891 Right Sergeant Anthony Scriven. * 565961 Right Sergeant Ronald David Stephens. * 564848 Right Sergeant George Turner. * 517678 Right Sergeant Frank Denzil Ward. * 2682547 Flight Sergeant Wilfred Frederick Webb, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * 524504 Flight Sergeant Jack Windebank. * 639429 Chief Technician Thomas Flynn. * 574728 Chief Technician George Walter Lambert. * 582354 Acting Right Sergeant Jack Graham Nicholson. * 1269002 Sergeant Stanley George Blacklock. * 613177 Sergeant Tegwyn Brice. * 4027099 Sergeant Alfred Callis. * 2262852 Sergeant Walter Derek Cooksey. * 645038 Sergeant Sydney John Cornwall. * 550622 Sergeant Arthur Richard Darnell. * 914548 Sergeant Raymond West Dennis. * 545604 Sergeant Frederick Hugh England. * 568553 Sergeant Leslie Gwynne Evans. * 592075 Sergeant Henry John Foster. * 1188259 Sergeant Ronald Albert Colder. * 1340629 Sergeant John Boyd Nicol. * 578089 Sergeant Eric Cadwaladr Owen. * 1200298 Sergeant William Rush. * 628330 Sergeant John Ronald Wright. * 4025035 Senior Technician Edward Frederick Bull. * 2352126 Acting Sergeant Stanley Hawkes. * 3501242 Acting Sergeant Arthur Charles Miles. * 1202177 Corporal Leonard Usher Burrows. * 2207386 Corporal James Henry McLeod Kerr. * 4089345 Corporal James Mitchell Paterson. * 4029710 Corporal Cyril Potter. * 4028023 Corporal Gordon Frederick Spittal. * 540187 Corporal Andrew Archibald Wilson. * 2131353 Senior Aircraftwoman Ivy Lilian Ellen Hunt, Women's Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division :;United Kingdom * Frederick Pattinson Agar, Divisional Superintendent, St John Ambulance Brigade, County of Durham. * Sydney Francis Alexander, Technical Officer, Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill. (Cricklewood, NW2). * Ada Allcorn, County Clothing Officer, Durham, Women's Voluntary Services. (Hetton-le-Hole). * George Trail Allen, Foreman Fitter, British Aluminium Co. Ltd., Falkirk. (Grangemouth). * William Thomas Andrews, Colliery Overman, International Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board. (Aberkenfig, Glamorgan). * James Harbron Archbold, MM, Deputy Overman, Eppleton Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Houghton-le-Spring). * William John Arkinstall, Millwrights Foreman, Universal Grinding Wheel Co. Ltd. (Stafford). * Sam Auty, Engine Driver, Royston, North Eastern Region, British Railways. (Barnsley). * Alfred Christopher Bagnall, Welfare Assistant, Steel, Peech and Tozer, United Steel Companies Ltd. (Rotherham). * Douglas Francis Ball, Chief Inspector, Kirkstall Forge Engineering Ltd., Leeds. * Frank William Barlow, Foreman, Morris Motors Ltd., Coventry. * Harry Barnes, Weaving Manager, Birtwistle & Oddie Ltd. (Blackburn). * John Patrick Barrett, Mechanic Examiner, Naval Ordnance Inspection Department, Admiralty. (Portsmouth). * Cecil Frederick Bedford, Office Keeper, Grade II, HM Treasury. (Morden Park, Surrey). * Ernest Birket, Foreman Cutter, Royal Marines Clothing Centre, Chatham, Kent, Chatham. (Gillingham). * Bernard Boam, Brickmaker, Butterley Company, Butterley Co. Ltd., Ripley, Derbyshire. * George Brown, Cookery Instructor, Grade I, School of Cookery, RAF Halton. (Tring, Hertfordshire). * James Philip Bullen, Chief Officer, Class II, HM Prison Edinburgh. * George Burn, Stoneman, Mainsforth Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Ferryhill Station). * Ella Dora Alma Caley, Collector, Street Savings Group, Durham City. * Angus Cameron, Watchman, SS ''Largs Bay'', Donaldson Atlantic Lines Ltd. (Glasgow). * Sidney Carr, Coal Filler, Bates Colliery, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board. (Blyth). * Walter Charles Casey, Foreman Shipwright, Cardiff Channel Dry Docks & Pontoon Co. Ltd., Cardiff. * Edith Maud Cason, Deputy County Organiser, Yorkshire West Riding, Women's Voluntary Services. (Leeds). * Alfred Chalk, Inspector of Flushing, London County Council. (Clapham, SW4). * James Edward Challons, Technical Officer, Grade III, Foreign Office. * Percy William Charles, General Foreman, de Havilland Engine Company, De Havilland Engine Co. Ltd. (Stanmore, Middlesex). * Azariah Clarke, Overman, Holditch Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Newcastle-under-Lyme). * Annie Coleman, Collector, Street Savings Group, Belfast. * Francis Henry Collett, Non-Technical Class, Grade II, Royal Arsenal, Royal Ordnance Factory, Woolwich. (Welling, Kent). * Ernest Seaford Cook, Works Superintendent, Johnson & Phillips Ltd. (Redhill, Surrey). * John Cookson, Chief Tester, Unit Tool & Engineering Co. Ltd., Blackpool. * Alexander Fraser Cross, Linesman, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. (Lanbryde, Moray). * Margaret Isabel White Curtis, Supervisor (F), Cardiff Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. * James Davidson, Chief Inspector, Head Post Office, Aberdeen. * Catherine Davies, Collector, Street Savings Group, Llandudno. * George Davies, Suede Buffing Foreman, Treforest Chrome Leather Works. (Pontypridd). * Harry Southcott Davies, Grid Main Supervisor, Wales Gas Board. (Caerphilly, Glamorgan). * John Davies, Chief Officer, HM Prison Birmingham. * Charles Denny, Tanker Driver, Express Dairies, Express Dairy Co. Ltd. (Kentish Town, NW5). * Dora Beatrice Derham, Ward Sister, St Crispin's Hospital, St Crispin's Hospital (Mental), Duston, Northampton. * Frederick Dowell, First Aid Attendant, Leicester Generating Station, East Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority. * Ernest Stanley Drake, Inspector, Birmingham City Police Force. * Henry Robert Dudley, Postman, London Parcel Section, General Post Office. (Morden, Surrey). * Robert Beattie Dunnett, Sergeant, Caithness-shire Constabulary. (Wick). * Ernest Walter Dunster, Office Keeper, Grade II, Scottish Office. (Upper Norwood, SE19). * Weldon Earl, Operating Assistant, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. (Shell Haven, Essex). * Ernest Eaton, Night Supervisor, Rossie Farm School, Montrose, Angus, Montrose. * William Fairhurst, Foreman, Electronic Tubes Ltd., High Wycombe. (Enfield, Middlesex). * Joseph Henry Fell, School Staff Instructor, Nottingham High School. * Albert Spring Westlake Fenwick, Head Foreman Shipwright, J. I. Thornycroft Ltd., Southampton. * James Foster, Established Engine Fitter, Admiralty. (Glasgow). * Mena Gay French, Collector, Savings Group, Odhams Press. (Thornton Heath, Surrey). * Archibald Frost, Leading Stoker, Dunston Power Station, Dunston "B" Power Station, North Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority. (Gateshead). * William Thomas Futcher, Supervisor, Admiralty Telephone Exchange, Portsmouth. * Julian Elias Gage, Civilian Warrant Officer, No.56 (Woolwich) Squadron, Air Training Corps. (Plumstead, SE18). * Frank William Gale, Foreman Blacksmith, Aldwarke Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Rotherham). * Horace Robert Gale, JP, Signalman (Special Class" A"), Warrington, London Midland Region, British Railways. * William Gibbison, Detective Chief Inspector, Bootle Borough Police Force. * William Richard Gibbs, Sewage Treatment Foreman, London County Council. (Belvedere, Kent). * Edward William Gittins, Boatswain, SS ''Crofter'', Harrison Line, T. & J. Harrison Ltd. (Liverpool). * Irene Goodwin, Home Help, County Borough of Rotherham. * Thomas William Gough, Craftsman I, Tate Britain, Tate Gallery. (East Ham, E6). * Leonard Brammer Gould, Technician, Class I, Telephone Manager's Office, Stoke-on-Trent. * Wilfred Gregg, Acting Engineer, Wm. Ewart & Sons Ltd., Belfast. * Catherine Hague, Manageress, War Department Laundry, Netley Hospital, Netley. (Southampton). * Charles Leslie Hampton, Inspector, Class I, Western Region, British Railways. (Hayes, Middlesex). * Cordelia Harris, Collector, Upper Lime Street Savings Group, Gorseinon, Glamorganshire. * James Norman Harrison, Inspector of Electrical Fitters, Admiralty. (Gillingham, Kent). * John Arthur Lawrence Harrison, Shop Foreman, Robert Jenkins & Co. Ltd., Rotherham. * Thomas Harvey, Surface Screenhand, Coppice Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Ilkeston, Derbyshire). * Jane Tweddle Herron, Manageress, NAAFI Other Ranks' Club, Berlin. * John Heveran, Donkeyman, Greaser, MV ''Wayfarer'', Harrison Line, Thos. & Jas. Harrison Ltd. (Liverpool). * George Hewitt, Stoneman, Brandon Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. (Brandon). * Priscilla Kirby Hewlett, Welfare Supervisor, J. Cawthra & Co. Ltd., Bradford. * George Hilderley, Foreman, National Fruit Trials, Wisley. (Woking, Surrey). * Charles Reuben Hill, Charging Machine Driver, Avon Street Gasworks, Bristol, South Western Gas Board. * John McGregor Hislop, Sub-Officer, Central Fire Brigade, Stirling. * Thomas Harrison Hobkirk, Foreman Instructor, North Eastern Electricity Board. (Newcastle upon Tyne). * William Harry Hodges, Ammunition Foreman, Proof and Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Shoeburyness. * Percy James Holdaway, Chief Baker, MS Alcantara (1927), SS ''Alcantara'', Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Royal Mail Lines Ltd. (Southampton). * Mary Irene Holland, Canteen Manageress, War Office. (London, W1). * Ernest James Horscroft, Station Officer, HM Coastguard Station, St Ives, Cornwall. * George Horsley, Laboratory Mechanic, Admiralty Fuel Experimental Station, Haslar, Hampshire. (Portsmouth). * Robert Fearne Hughes, Station Officer, Anglesey Fire Brigade. * Robert Jackson, Custodian, Caernarvon Castle, Ministry of Works. * Herbert John Jarvis, Travelling Superintendent Gardener, French District Imperial War Graves Commission. * John Herbert Jenkins, Draughtsman, General Post Office. (Homsey, N8). * Robert John Wilfred Johnson, Engineering Superintendent, Reading Gas Works, Southern Gas Board. * Walter Johnston, Estate Mechanic, Hillsborough Castle, Government House, Hillsborough, County Down. * Glynne William Jones, Clerk of Works (Works Technical Grade II), RAF Wattisham. * Walter Charles Jouhning, Chief Warder, Geological Survey and Museum, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. (Abbey Wood, SE2). * Stephen Henry Kelcey, Seaman, Northern Lighthouse Board. (Edinburgh). * Thomas Gilbert Kenvyn, Commandant, Newport Borough Special Constabulary. * Charles Key, Foreman Joiner (Surface), Babbington Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Cinderhill, Nottinghamshire). * Thomas Ernest Kirk, River Foreman, Nene River Board, Lincolnshire (Holland) and Northamptonshire. (Wisbech). * Reginald George Knights, Chief Engineer, Steam Trawler ''Leonard'', East Coast Fish Sales Co. Ltd., Lowestoft. (Oulton Broad, Norfolk). * George William Thomas Lacey, Leading Chargehand, City Engineer's Department, Bristol. * Frederick William Rowsill Lee, Instrument Maker, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply. (Farnham, Surrey). * Leonard Joseph Lee, Works and District Foreman, Billingshurst, South Eastern Gas Board. * John Percival Leslie, Sergeant (CID) Dock Police, Port of London Authority. (Dagenham, Essex). * John Duffield Lisher, JP, Signalman, Hardham Junction Signal Box, Pulborough, Southern Region, British Railways. (Pulborough, Sussex). * Samuel Littlewood, Foreman Meter Collector, Derby Undertaking, East Midlands Gas Board. * Eric Lloyd, Commandant, Warwick Detachment, British Red Cross Society. (Coventry). * Henry Lloyd, Semi-Skilled Operative (Storeman II), Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich. (Laindon, Essex). * William David Henry Lockerby, Technical Officer, Radio Telephony Terminal, General Post Office. (St Albans). * Basil John Campbell Longden, Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary. (Chislehurst, Kent). * Alice Mary Macdonald, Member, Women's Voluntary Services, Eastern District Headquarters, Scotland. (Newtyle, Angus). * George Russell Mackenzie. For public and social services in Morayshire. (Forres). * Charles Edward Maidment, Inspector, Yorkshire (East Riding) Constabulary. (Beverley). * Norman Mallinson, General Foreman, Samuel Wilkinson & Sons Ltd. (Elland, Yorkshire). * Frederick Ernest Maltby, Senior Assistant (Scientific), Long Ashton Research Station. (Bristol). * Charles Marriott, Stoneworker, Sutton Colliery, East Midlands Division National Coal Board. (Sutton-in-Ashfield). * Alfred Marrison, Chief Officer, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. * John Mason, Foreman of Stores, No.3 Maintenance Unit, RAF West Ruislip, RAF Ruislip. (Hayes End, Middlesex). * Roderick Matheson, Chief Inspector, War Department Constabulary, ROF Swynnerton, Royal Ordnance Factory, Swynnerton. (Stone, Staffordshire). * Frederick William Matthews, Foreman Fitter, London Division, British Electricity Authority. (Southall, Middlesex). * Reginald Robert Middleton, Driver, Norwich Group, Eastern Division, British Road Services Board of Management. * Harry Miller, Chief Warden, Swansea Civil Defence Corps. * James Veitch Miller, Warehouseman, William Sim & Sons, Leith. * James Milligan, Foreman, Stevenson & Son Ltd., Dungannon, County Tyrone. * James Philip Mills, Passenger Guard, King's Cross, Eastern Region, British Railways. (Old Southgate, N14). * Thomas Hamilton Monk, Collector, Carsington Gardens Street Savings Group, Dartford. * Sarah Elizabeth Moore, Supervisor (Telephones), Head Post Office, Doncaster, Yorkshire. * Peter Barlow Morris, Chief Inspector, George Mann & Co. Ltd., Leeds. * James Morrison, Head Foreman Plumber, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast. * Cyril Russell Myford, Foreman-Storekeeper, Hertfordshire County Agricultural Executive Committee. (Enfield). * Frank Henry Nash, Regimental Sergeant Major, Cadet Battalion,

. (Chichester, Sussex). * Thomas Ralph Nelson, Observer, No.11 Group, Truro,

. (St Columb, Cornwall). * Donald Bradley Nicholson, Chargehand Meter Mechanician, Yorkshire Electricity Board. (Kingston-upon-Hull). * Norman North, Maintenance Engineer, British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd., Erith. (Bexley Heath, Kent). * Ernest Palmer, Canteen Manager, NAAFI, RNAS Arbroath, Royal Naval Air Station, Arbroath. (Battersea, SWll). * Kathleen Mary Pearce, Chief Supervisor (F), Temple Bar Telephone Exchange, General Post Office. (Ilford, Essex). * Norman Alfred Pearce, Communications Officer, Northampton Civil Defence Corps. (Little Billing). * John Peter Pearson, Stonemason, W. Woodsend Ltd., Nottingham. * William Henry Peplow, Compositor, Wilding & Son Ltd. (Shrewsbury). * Lawrence Peterson, Chargeman Boilermaker, William Gray & Company, Wm. Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool. * Idris Pope, Haulage-engineman and Rope Splicer, Aberbeeg South Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board. (Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire). * Frank Prime, Driller, Yarrow Shipbuilders, Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow. * Robert S. Ramsey, Head Yardman and Chief Marker, Perth Auction Market, Macdonald, Fraser & Co. Ltd. (Perth). * George Herbert Reasbeck, Papermaker's Help, John Rostron & Sons Ltd., Selby. * Laurence Smith Reid, Member, Coast Life Saving Corps, Walls, Shetland. (Lerwick). * Horace Stanley Reynolds, Distribution Foreman, Keighley, North Eastern Gas Board. * William Richardson, Senior Blacksmith, Birtley Co. Ltd., Birtley, Tyne and Wear, Birtley. (Gateshead). * John Ritchie, Chargehand Linesman, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. (Cove Bay, Kincardineshire). * Frank Roberts, Underground Repairer, Emley Moor Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Huddersfield). * Harold Henry Roberts, Inspector (Mechanical), Wilts & Dorset Motor Service Ltd. (Tilling Group). (Salisbury). * Harry Roberts, Warden, Territorial Army Headquarters St Helens. * Marjorie Roberts, JP, Centre Organiser, Denbigh Borough, Women's Voluntary Services. * Thomas Edward Roberts, Farm Foreman, Llysfasi Farm Institute, Ruthin, Denbighshire. * Harold Robertson, Radio Technician, No.20 Maintenance Unit, RAF Aston Down. (Cirencester, Gloucester). * Thomas Rogers, Mess Steward Grade I, Headquarters, No.23 Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard. (Wein, Shropshire). * John Watson Rogerson, Foreman, Stead McAlpin & Co. Ltd. (Carlisle). * John Cameron Ross, Training Officer, Balgonie Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Balgonie, Fifeshire). * Jabez Rostance, Shop Foreman and Maintenance Engineer, John Jardine Ltd., Nottingham. * Sydney Albert Rowley, Foreman, Newton Bros (Derby) Ltd. (Derby). * Andrew Jacob Sandison, Sub-Postmaster, Mid Yell, Lerwick, Shetland. * Walter Scott, Engineer-in-Charge, Lots Road Pumping Station, London County Council. (West Brompton, SW10). * Walter Henry Shacklady, Tank Wagon Driver, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. (Poplar, E14). * Rupert Eric George Simcox, Mains Foreman, North Western Electricity Board. (Alderley Edge, Cheshire). * George Alfred Smith, Engineering Fitter, Ministry of Works. (Norbury, S W16). * Harold Samuel Smith, Engine Room Foreman, Nechells "A" Station, Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority. (Birmingham). * William Smith, Linesman, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. (Thurso). * Cecil Kenneth Spencer, Technical Officer, Post Office, Bournemouth. (Christchurch). * Thomas William Spencer, Quarry Engineering Worker, Derbyshire Stone Ltd., Matlock, Derbyshire, Matlock. * William Alexander Starritt, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. (Londonderry). * Earnest William Alfred Steadman, Station Warden, RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. * David Stirling, Sub-District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. (Muckamore, County Antrim). * Ethel Louise Stubbs, Collector, Brunts Grammar School Savings Group, Mansfield. * Neil David Sutherland, Inspector and Deputy Chief Constable, Caithness-shire Constabulary. (Wick). * James Swan, MM, Foreman and Development Manager, George MacLellan & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. * George Henry Tanner, Mains Foreman, Hastings District, South Eastern Electricity Board. * Charles Taylor, Craftsman, Imperial War Museum. (Southfields, SW18). * Charles Taylor, Head Loftsman, Blyth Shipbuilding Company, Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Blyth. * Gwendoline Laura Taylor, Supervisor (F) Telephones, Head Post Office, Walsall, Staffordshire. * Ernest Temperley, Collector, Street Savings Group, Middleton, Greater Manchester, Middleton, Lancashire. * Henry Thompson, Sub-Postmaster, Barlborough, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. * Florence Mary Ann Thorp, Forelady, Cellular Clothing Co. Ltd. (Nottingham). * John Thomas Toplis, Foreman Pests Operator, Derbyshire Agricultural Executive Committee. (Wirksworth). * Wilfred Henry Trant, Established Recorder, Admiralty. (Plymouth). * Rose Elizabeth Tuck. For public and social services in Banbury, Oxfordshire. * Frederick Charles Unwin, Able Seaman of Yard Craft, Admiralty. (Southsea). * Alfred Robert George Varndell, Assistant Divisional Officer, London Fire Brigade. (Clerkenwell, EC1). * Samuel Vaughan, JP, Ripper (Underground), Gresford Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board. (Wrexham). * Thomas John Walker, Drainer, Breconshire Agricultural Executive Committee. (Sennybridge). * William Wallace, Steward, Royal Engineers Headquarter Mess, War Office, Chatham. * David Mitchell Wardlaw, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Whitrigg Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Whitburn, West Lothian). * John William Waterhouse, Supervisor II, Administrative Detachment, Control Commission for Germany. * Charles Webb, Surface Worker, Lucy No.4 Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board. (Merthyr Tydfil). * James Walter Webb, Superintendent of Ambulance Room, Firth Vickers Stainless Steels Ltd., Sheffield. * William Wesson, Research and Experimental Mechanic (Special) Chargehand, Proof and Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Melton Mowbray. * Charles Percival West, Foreman, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Workshop, War Office. (Lenton, Nottinghamshire). * Elizabeth White, Matron, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, Greenmount Agricultural College, Muckamore, County Antrim. * John Henry Whittaker, Inspector (Postal), Head Post Office, Rochdale. * Donald George Wickenden, Laboratory Worker "A", Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Fort Halstead, Kent. * Robert Hutchison Wilkie, Manager, Central Scottish Branch, Lord Roberts Workshops. (Dundee). * Elsie Wilkins, Postal and Telegraph Officer (F), Head Post Office, Wimborne, Dorset. * Elizabeth Mary Williams, Sub-Postmistress, St Weonards, Hereford. * Morgan Lindsay#Marriage and children, Ellen Blanche Wilson, Member, Nottinghamshire County Staff, Women's Voluntary Services. (Nottingham). * George Bradbury Wright, Instructional Officer, Grade 1, Felling Industrial Rehabilitation Centre, Ministry of Labour & National Service. (Sunderland). * William John Wright, Retort House Foreman, Poplar Works, North Thames Gas Board. (East Ham, E6). * George Alfred Wyatt, Overseer, Head Post Office, Redhill, Surrey. :;State of South Australia * Herman Behrndt, lately. Foreman, Adelaide Botanic Garden, Botanic Garden, Adelaide. :;Swaziland * Dabede Dlamini, Native Court President, Swaziland. * John Mfundza Brighton Sukati, Rural Development Officer, Swaziland. :;Oversea Territories * Sylvia Geraldine Richardson, Nurse, Public Health Department, Bermuda. * Claude Frederick Torrezao, Chief Inspector, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, British Guiana. * Christodoulos Mouscos, Mukhtar, Cyprus. * Lai Khan, Leading Artisan, East African Railways and Harbours Administration. * Harold Jordan Willoughby, Works Superintendent (Roads), Fiji. * Samuel Kotei Djanie, Artisan, Koforidua, Gold Coast. * Hau Ho, Forester, Hong Kong. * Lydia Eugenie Pringle, Acting Sister, Government Nursing Service, Jamaica. * Chief Chrysostom s/o Kihage, Chief of Screening Team, Bahati Resistance Centre, Kenya. * Sebi Fadamulla, Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Jones Samuel Fondo, Secretary/ Treasurer, Giriama African District Council, Kilifi, Kenya. * Elizabeth Fraser Kydd, Radio Operator, Kenya Police Reserve. * Eli Okwaro Ochieng, Chief Warder, Prison Service, Kenya. * Ira Averson Smith, Local Constable and Government Agent, Anegada, British Virgin Islands, Leeward Islands. * Agnes Bong, Telephone Supervisor, Federal Police Headquarters, Federation of Malaya. * Ism Ibin Ismail, lately State Elections Officer, Johore, Federation of Malaya. * Low Yoke Cheng, Junior Civil Liaison Officer, Negri Sembilan, Federation of Malaya. * Mah Thai Lak, Police Clerk and Interpreter, Federation of Malaya. * Mohammed Abdul Maud, Technician, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Federation of Malaya. * Mat Yunus (Puteh) bin Awang, Senior Assistant, Department of Aborigines, Federation of Malaya. * Sinnathamby s/o Periathamby, Head Overseer, Anti-Malarial Works, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya. * Sudin bin Kamaludin, lately Forest Ranger, Forest Department, Federation of Malaya. * Tam bin Mat Aras, Earth Moving Plant Operator, Federation of Malaya. * Haji Yakim bin Haji Kari, Adjutant, Batu Kurau Home Guard, Perak, Federation of Malaya. * Sooadick Ameer Maudarbaccus, Sub-Inspector Mauritius Police Force. * John Afolabi Arokodare, Chief Clerk, Ekiti Divisional Native Authority, Western Region, Nigeria. * Obong Anwan Obong, Assistant Nursing Sister, Medical Department, Western Region, Nigeria. * Samat bin Mohamed Noor, Chargehand Wireman, Kota Kinabalu, Jesselton Electrical Undertaking, North Borneo. * Chimputu Shilling, Head Messenger, Gwembe, Northern Rhodesia. * Henry Knight, Acting Chief Roads Supervisor, Public Works Department, Nyasaland. * Haji Mohamed Nur bin Mohamed Ghous, Herbarium and Museum Assistant, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Botanic Gardens, Singapore. * Hersi Dualeh, Agricultural Assistant, Agricultural Department, Somaliland. * Haji Deria Mohamoud, Assistant Interpreter, District Administration, Somaliland. * Rebecca d/o Noah, Village Midwife, Upare Native Authority, Pare District, Tanganyika. * Juma bin Khamis, Head Messenger, Public Works Department, Zanzibar.

Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

;Gold * Fred Naylor. ;Silver * Alfred Ernest Giles. * Victor St. Clair Habgood. * Chief Petty Officer Douglas Henry Hawkins, P/J105891. * Chief Electrical Artificer Albert Percy Jones, P/M35413. * Alexander Grant McPherson. * Albert Harry Riches. * Alfred Herman Soen. * Edward James Sturgess. * Police Constable Walter Stanley Tompkins, Metropolitan Police Force. * Police Constable James Young, Metropolitan Police Force.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

* Major Edith Constance Long (206282), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

* Ada Agnes Elizabeth Burman, Superintending Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. * Vera Ellen Ponter, Voluntary Aid Detachment, VAD Commandant. * Captain Ardudfyl Jones (336813), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. * Major Gweneth Elisabeth Jones (206250), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. * Major Margaret Mary Morris (257800), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. * Squadron Officer Doris Mary Trick (405532), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. * Flight Officer Dorothy Wilcox (406583), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

;Wing Commander * Robert Brian Morison, DFC (33516). ;Squadron Leaders * Sidney Charles Dunmore (53194). * Henri Joseph Franklin (127335). * William Harbison (133668). * Cyril Raymond Johnson (153413). * David Charles Saunders (125573). * John Adam Sowrey, DFC (33551). * William Proctor Swaby (55115). ;Flight Lieutenants * Kenneth James Chase (578613). * Edmund Cheek, DFM (54132). * Michael Wellinger Cross (1582107). * Peter Morgan Fletcher (500413). * Dennis Percy Francis McCAi G (155772). * Horatio Ogilvie (59357). * Maurice Short (579101). * The Honourable Peter Beckford Rutgers Vanneck (205378), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Norman Alexander Wickes, DFC (501546). * Francis Richard Wood (1593551). * Philip Michael Woodward (151689). ;Flying Officer * Bryn William Lewis (1803949). ;Lieutenant * William Noble, DSC, Royal Navy.

Bar to Air Force Cross

;Wing Commanders * Frank Leslie Dodd, DSO, DFC, AFC (89766). * Dennis George Lyster, DSO, DFC, AFC (43149). ;Squadron Leader * Dunham Hodgson Seaton, DFC, AFC (46705).

2nd Bar to Air Force Cross

* Wing Commander Andrew Henry Humphrey, OBE, DFC, AFC* (33543).

Air Force Medal (AFM)

;Flight Sergeants * 1802031 Arthur Henry Hyland. * 2257192 Frank William Leach. * 1332879 George Henry Pope. * 1624027 John Emmerson Sowerby. * 1833880 Kenneth Walter Prowse Symonds. * 1432641 Jack Westwell. ;Acting Flight Sergeant * 636119 Alfred Walter Card. ;Sergeant * 3043287 Ernest Whitaker.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

;Wing Commander * John Hubert Lempriere Blount, DFC (33471). ;Squadron Leaders * Harry Bennett, AFC (169108). * Ivor Broom, Ivor Gordon Broom, DSO, DFC (112392). * David George Evans (164718). * Hugh Ogilvie Forth (40688). * Bernard Handley Howard, DFC (52715). * Thomas Dixon Sanderson, AFC (131619). * Francis Ercole Zaccheo (178326). ;Flight Lieutenants * Francis Gordon Agnew (164965). * William Albert Bell (1620518). * James Stirling Crawford (197655). * Basil D'Oliveira (2238415). * George Frederick Gill (150523). * Cameron Fraser Green, AFC (59436). * Alan John Harris (1585528). * William Edward Hedley (162245). * William Herbert Johnson (201632). * Kenneth Geoffrey Jones (186124). * Robert Thornton Jones (172453). * John William Charles Judge (142533), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Frank Richard Lockyer (607090). * Ian Neil Maclaren (173514). * Frederick Mandeville (57739). * William Kerr Moncur (91303), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Arthur Richard Munday (167176). * Frank Alan Nicholls (163980). * Richard Michael Oliver (64924), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Francis Dunstan Reacroft (199968), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Donald Hamilton Smith, DFC (501762), Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers. * Frank Charles Sumner (195209). * Eric Winterbottom, DFC (47559). ;Flying Officers * Peter Robert Ernest McLeland (3509640). * Arnold Bert Thompson (4047115). ;Flight Sergeants * 1591208 Robert Derek Butcher. * 745304 Ernest Wilfred Dunkling. * 575609 James Robert John Hole. * 705558 Stefan Jankowski. * 1571507 John Ross Ritchie. ;Sergeants * 1629505 Denzil Courtney Haycock. * 4041407 John Frederick Taylor. ;United Kingdom * Albert Frederick Henry Brown, Experimental Officer, Radar Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Captain John Walter William Cooke, Junior Captain, British European Airways Corporation. * Captain Reginald William Lee Mulliner, DFC, Chief Pilot, Hunting-Clan Air Transport Ltd., Field Aircraft Services Ltd. * Captain Richard Rudd, OBE, Aircraft Captain, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Captain Archibald Wilson, DFC, Senior Captain, Second Class, Viscount Flight, British European Airways Corporation. ;Oversea Territories * Phillip Elvy Henn, Pilot, East African Airways Corporation. * Captain John Bernard Walter Pugh, OBE, AFC, Chief Pilot, Cyprus Airways. * Patrick Anthony Travers, Pilot, East African Airways Corporation.

Queen's Police Medal

;England and Wales * Sydney Lawrence, OBE, Chief Constable, Kingston-upon-Hull City Police Force. * Norman Walter Goodchild, OBE, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton Borough Police Force. * Melbourne Thomas, Chief Constable, Merthyr Tydfil Borough Police Force. * Harry Ambler, Assistant Chief Constable, Bradford City Police Force. * Thomas Berkeley Wheeler, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Herefordshire Constabulary. * John Arnold Clayton, Detective Superintendent, Leicestershire and Rutland Constabulary. * William Arthur Ham, Superintendent (Grade I), Metropolitan Police. * Reginald Hubert Osborne Owen, Superintendent (Grade I), Metropolitan Police. * Horace Robert Norman, Superintendent (Grade I), Metropolitan Police. * Alfred Stephen Bowkett, Superintendent, Monmouthshire Constabulary. * Stanley Lawrence Simmonds, Superintendent, West Sussex Constabulary. * Herbert Burton Goult, Superintendent, Leeds City Police Force. ;Scotland * John Smith Ramage Muir, Chief Constable, Ayr Burgh Police Force. * William Wilson Wait, Superintendent, Berwick, Roxburgh and Selkirk Constabulary. ;Northern Ireland * William Robert Whitcroft, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;Southern Rhodesia * Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Sydney Ablitt Rolfe, CPM, Assistant Commissioner, British South Africa Police. ;Oversea Territories * Arthur Lewin Alexander, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast. * Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard Agabeg Sturge, OBE, Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya. * Cecil Maurice John Kirke, Acting Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. * Frederick Walter Underwood, Chief Inspector, HM Dockyard Police, Malta. * John Ernest Hodge, Commissioner of Police, Federation of Nigeria. * Bernard Harold Nealon, Senior Superintendent of Police, Sierra Leone. * Douglas Keith Broadhurst, DSO, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Singapore.

Queen's Fire Service Medal

;England and Wales * Francis Mees, BEM, Chief Officer, East Sussex Fire Brigade. * George Hamilton Cramp, MM, Divisional Officer, Middlesex Fire Brigade. * Reginald John Smith, MBE, Assistant Chief Officer, Suffolk and Ipswich Fire Brigade. * Ernest George Harmer, GM, Chief Officer, Blackpool Fire Brigade. * Jesse William Hasted, Chief Officer, Lincolnshire (Holland) Fire Brigade. ;Oversea Territory * James Fendley Read, Superintendent, Jamaica Fire Brigade, Kingston and St Andrew Fire Brigade, Jamaica.

Colonial Police Medal

;Southern Rhodesia. * Captain Frank Eric Barfoot, British South Africa Police. * Cecil George Bennett, Staff Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. * Major Harry Branton Blowers, British South Africa Police. * John Anthony Hardman Brereton, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. * Chiwota, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. * Major Leslie Blumenthal Goodall, British South Africa Police. * Major George Mervyn Harries, British South Africa Police. * Donald Vincent McGovern, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police. * Muleta, Detective Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. * Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Cecil Rogers, British South Africa Police. ;Swaziland. * Captain Duff Stanford Hellet, Swaziland Police Force. ;Oversea Territories. * Theophilus Adjabeng Adjirackor, Assistant Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Ahmad bin Mohammed Noh, Acting Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Ajie bin Basinau, Inspector, North Borneo Police Force. * Julius Amadi, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police Force. * James Aw, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya. * Major Gilbert Roy Williamson Bane, Commandant, Special Reserve Police, British Guiana. * Peter Michael Becker, Senior Reserve Police Officer, Kenya Police Reserve. * Edward Belsoi, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Robert Wallace Calderwood, OBE, Assistant Commissioner, Singapore Police Force. * Michael James Homersham Cartlidge, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Donald Cartwright, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * John Frederick George Coles, Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Peter Frederic Collyer, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Dambarbahadur Gurung, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * John Henry Davies, Deputy Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Patrick Gronow Davis, Acting Senior Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Dolmat bin Tambi Ahmad, Corporal, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary. * Noel Brian Dudgeon, Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Lovain Thomas Dunman, Assistant District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve. * Edwin Everett, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * John Derek Fairhead, TD, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Sydney Roy Follows, Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * William Ford, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Percy France, Inspector, British Guiana Police Force. * Aubrey Noel Francombe, DSO, MBE, Deputy Provincial Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve. * Gan Kok-Leong, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * David Brodie Goodsir, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Sidney Cecil Grimley, Deputy Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. * Salifu Grumah, Sergeant Major, Gold Coast Police Force. * Abdul Hamid bin Abu, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Abdul Hamid bin Sulong, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Samuel Benjamin Hull, Station Sergeant, Leeward Islands Police Force. * Ignatius Ikenwewi, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police Force. * George William Jackson, Acting Senior Assistant Commissioner, Singapore Police Force. * Johari bin Abdul Shukor, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Philip Nzuke Jacob Kaloki, Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Reginald Laity, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya. * Lam Hon, Detective Staff Sergeant, Hong Kong Police Force. * Alfred Gordon Langdon, Assistant Commissioner, Jamaica Constabulary. * Lim Choon Seng, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Ronald George Lock, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * William Alfred Luscombe, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * David Robert Andrew McCorkell, MC, Acting Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * John Malcolm McNeil Maclean, Assistant Commissioner, Singapore Police Force. * Erasmus Ranford Tawia Madjitey, Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Stanley William Robert Marsden, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Maulud bin Idris, Corporal, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Geoffrey Dupuis Maydon, Superintendent, Gambia Police Force. * Mahandrese Ginderese Martin Mendis, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * George Arnold Miles, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya. * Mohamed bin Hassan, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * George William Mukasa, Detective Corporal, Uganda Police Force. * William Neell, DSO, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Charles Arthur Alan Nicol, Acting Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * James Norris, Sergeant, Falkland Islands Police Force. * Gideon Mumo Nzoika, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Ngalu O'Brien, Sub-Inspector, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Armed Constabulary. * Oguma son of Kirahi, Inspector, Tanganyika Police Force. * Gilbert Okpara, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police Force. * Jeremiah Nwdfafor Maduguba Oli, Chief Inspector, Nigeria Police Force. * Oloo son of Meso, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Omar bin Awang, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Michael Onigbo, Sergeant, Nigeria Police Force. * James Myles Oswald, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Robert Lawrence Ako Otchere, Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force. * Haji Pawanchee bin Mohamed Yusoff, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Thomas Peters, Chief Inspector, Sierra Leone Police Force. * Kesava Subramonya Pillai, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * John Vincent Prendergast, Senior Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Panes Prodromitis, Chief Inspector, Cyprus Police Force. * Chinaya Naidoo Purseeramen, Sub-Inspector, Mauritius Police Force. * Abdul Rahman bin Dalbasah, Acting Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Appudhurai Thurai Rajah, Deputy Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Frank Thomas Reader, Deputy Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. * Matendechero Rinyulu, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * William Segrue, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Hong Kong Police Force. * Shabani son of Msaweka, Detective Sergeant Major, Tanganyika Police Force. * Richard Pelham Hart Shelmerdine, Acting Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Stephen Lloyd Sherriff, Inspector, Leeward Islands Police Force. * Jaimal Singh son of Roor Singh, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * William Jerry Spearman, Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Robert William Spooner, Senior Reserve Police Officer, Kenya Police Reserve. * Herbert Ramsey Terrett, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. * Chephorriah Thom, Inspector, British Guiana Police Force. * Tong Sam Poy, Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Volunteer Reserve. * Vellasamy son of Narayanasamy, Sergeant, Special Constabulary, Federation of Malaya. * Thomas Burrup Voice, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * John Gidion Wales, Assistant Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police Force. * Charles Reginald Warwick, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Wong Heckling, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Wong Tuck Yoon, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * John Basil Wyatt, Acting Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Ya'acob bin Abdul Manan, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Yahya bin Abdul Hadi, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary. * Yee Joon Toh, Senior Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Zainalabidin bin Andak, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary.

Australia

Knight Bachelor

* The Honourable Thomas Stuart Clyne, Judge of the Bankruptcy Court. * Albert Coates (surgeon), Albert Ernest Coates, OBE, MD, MS. For services to the medical profession. * Professor Harold Robert Dew, MB, BS. For services to Medicine. * Eugene Aynsley Goossens. For services to Music. * Edward Henry Bruce Lefroy. For services to the agricultural and pastoral industries. * Edwin McCarthy, CBE, Deputy High Commissioner in London for the Commonwealth of Australia. * John Proctor Tivey. For services to engineering, science and industry.

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division * Rear-Admiral Roy Dowling, Roy Russell Dowling, CBE, DSO.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* William Archer Gunn. For services to the pastoral industry. * Benjamin Keith Rank, MB, MS, Chief Plastic Surgeon, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Heidelberg Military Hospital, Victoria. * Alan Robert Stanley Vickers, OBE, ChM, MB. For services to the Flying Doctor Service.

Order of the British Empire

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

;Civil Division * William Hudson (engineer), William Hudson, chairman, Snowy Hydro, Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority. * Major-General Jack Edwin Stawell Stevens, CB, DSO, ED, chairman, Australian Atomic Energy Commission. * The Honourable Alan Russell Taylor, Justice of the High Court.

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

;Civil Division * Mabel Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, Lady Brookes, CBE. For charitable and social welfare services.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division * Captain Edward Hamilton Leitch, Royal Australian Navy. * Major-General (temporary) Hector Edgar, Hector Geoffrey Edgar (3/24), Australian Staff Corps. * Major-General Reginald George Pollard, DSO (2/14), Australian Staff Corps. :;In recognition of services in Korea during the period 31 July 1954 to 31 January 1955. * Brigadier Ian Thomas Murdoch, OBE, 3/66, Australian Staff Corps. ;Civil Division * Lewis Charles Burne, President, Victorian Employers' Federation. For public services. * Rita Buxton, Rita Mary Buxton, OBE. For charitable services. * Walter Crocker, Walter Russell Crocker, Her Majesty's Australian Ambassador to Indonesia. * John Angus Lancaster Gunn. For services in the field of taxation. * Thomas Joseph Hawkins, Secretary, Department of the Navy (Australia), Department of the Navy. * William C. McClelland, William Caldwell McClelland, MB, ChB. For services to Sport. * Charles Hector McFadyen, Secretary, Department of Shipping and Transport. * Francis Joseph McKenna, OBE, Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister's Department (Australia), Prime Minister's Department. * Frederick Grantley Morgan, MB, ChB, Director, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories. * James Lockie Wilson. For services to the pastoral and agricultural industries.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division * Instructor Commander Haydn Guest, Royal Australian Navy. * Lieutenant-Colonel Humphrey George Bates (2/106), Australian Staff Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Roy George Lawrence (2/85), Australian Staff Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Austin Mackell, MC (2/78997), Royal Australian Infantry Corps (now Reserve of Officers). * The Reverend Raymond Charles Russell, Royal Australian Air Force. * Wing Commander Edward Thomas Pickerd, DFC (033123), Royal Australian Air Force. :;In recognition of services in Korea during the period 31 July 1954 to 31 January 1955. * Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney Hamilton Buckler, 3/159, The Royal Australian Regiment. ;Civil Division * Isabella Julia Annand. For charitable work. * Joseph William Brophy. For services to the Customs Department. * Councillor John Macpherson Caldwell. For services to local government. * John Qualtrough Ewens, Commonwealth Parliamentary Counsel, Parliamentary Draftsman. * William Douglass Forsyth, Australian Minister to the United Nations in New York. * Robert Hartford Gilbert. For services to the dried fruits industry. * Susan Agnes Jean Haines, RRC. For services to Nursing. * Sydney Randal Heymanson. For services in connection with commercial relations with the United States of America and in promoting international commerce. * Thomas Victor Maker. For public services. * Jack Mitchell. For services to the Returned and Services League of Australia, Returned Soldiers' League of Australia, Queensland Branch. * The Reverend William Perry French Morris, founder and first Headmaster, Anglican Church Grammar School, Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane. For public services. * Charles Pearcy Mountford. For services to Anthropology. * Percival Bartlett Nye, Director, Geoscience Australia, Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources. * Norman Stanley Osborne. For services to the Returned Soldiers' League of Australia, Victoria Branch. * Roy Rowling Pavia. For services to Education. * Henry Presley Pride, formerly Honorary Treasurer, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. For public services. * Daphne Anne Roberts. For public and charitable work. * Constance Robertson. For services to Journalism. * Nea Josephine Rodway. For public and charitable services. * Eric Smart, Eric Fleming Smart. For pioneering services to Agriculture. * Norman William Strange. For services to the Postmaster-General's Department. * Edward Waldemar Timcke, Director of Meteorology, Department of the Interior (1939–1972), Commonwealth Department of the Interior.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division * Lieutenant Arthur Alfred Andrews, Royal Australian Navy. * Lieutenant Edward Blatchford, Royal Australian Navy. * 2/1723 Warrant Officer Class II Leslie Baich, Royal Australian Armoured Corps. * Captain Merton Charles Gardner (2/490), Australian Staff Corps. * 6/72 Warrant Officer Class II Elvin William Hale, Royal Australian Artillery. * Major George Kerr (3/181), Australian Staff Corps. * Captain (temporary) Leonard Montague Montgomerie, MC (4/400059), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Major Arthur Roy Thorburn (1/21206), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Major (temporary) Raymond Arthur Truman (4/21005), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Captain Jack Sidney Whittle (2/75632), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Squadron Leader Eric Clarence Mogensen (03475), Royal Australian Air Force. * Warrant Officer Leonard Vivian Douglas Dolphin (A3845), Royal Australian Air Force. * Warrant Officer Charles Grenville Smith (A3940), Royal Australian Air Force. ;Civil Division * Ellen Anders. For charitable and public work. * Lionel Charles Balmanno. For services to the Commonwealth Lighthouse Steamer Service. * Frank Malcolm Basden. For services to the Flying Doctor Service. * John Hounslow Burchett. For services on behalf of deaf children. * Gilbert Leslie Cameron, MM. For services in the interest of hospitals. * Maude Martha Cameron, Headmistress, Firbank Girls' Grammar School, Firbank Church of England Grammar School for many years. For public services. * James Bentley Corbin. For services to the community during 1955 Hunter Valley floods, the recent floods. * Richard John Gainey. For services in the interests of Australian ex-servicemen and in other public fields. * Frederick William Ross Godden. For services in connection with the economic development of Papua and New Guinea. * Robert Arthur Vivian Grant. For services to Music, especially in connection with the playing of brass instruments. * Ellen Margaret Hall. For social welfare services on behalf of Service personnel and their families. * Mary Josephine Healion. For public services. * The Reverend James William Thomas Henderson. For services to the community, especially during the recent floods. * Harold Charles Hinckfuss, MM. For services to the Postmaster-General's Department. * Kenneth Garth Jackson. For services to civil aviation. * Eva Elizabeth Carlyle Jacobs. For philanthropic and charitable services. * Nancy Jobson. For services to Education. * May Gibbs, Cecilia May Ossoli Kelly, author and artist. * Aubrey Koch, Aubrey Albert Koch. For services to civil aviation. * Charles Victor Leyonjelm. For services to local government and agricultural development. * Alfred John Mason. For services to Education. * Ernest John McDonald. For services in the field of education. * Allan McKenzie. For services rendered in connection with Immigration. * The Reverend Samuel Whiteside McKibbin. For services rendered in the interests of aged persons. * James Hugh David Millar. For voluntary services rendered in connection with the Australian Red Cross, Red Cross, particularly the Ambulance Services. * Ebenezer Minnis. For public services, especially in the interests of deaf, dumb and blind children. * Albert Philip Harold Oke, Commonwealth Public Service Inspector, Adelaide. * Reginald Francis Patterson. For services to the Department of Supply, Commonwealth Supply Department. * Ernest Arthur Pleydell. For services in connection with the administration of life saving organisations. * Herbert Lorraine Port, Assistant Secretary, Department of Defence (Australia), Department of Defence. * Vincent William Quealy, Assistant Secretary, Department of Defence. * Helen Ryan, founder and Commandant of the Women's National Emergency Legion. * Harold Urquhart Shepherdson, a lay missionary in Northern Australia. * Keith Allison Virtue. For services to civil aviation. * Clive Harold Voss. For services in connection with the development of commercial relations between Australia and France. * Ada Beatrice Webb. For charitable services.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Australian Public Service, Australian Civil Service. * Ernest Percy Eltham, Director, Industrial Training Division, Department of Labour and National Service. * Joseph William Robert Hughes, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, Sydney.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division * Chief Engineering Mechanic John Whittaker Wall,35596, Royal Australian Navy. * Petty Officer Raymond Campbell Foord, 28204, Royal Australian Navy. * 2/1516 Staff-Sergeant Aubrey Rueben Wesby Cramp, Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * 3/82484 Staff-Sergeant John William Duncan, Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * 2/701 Corporal Nicholas Rundle, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. * 2/139443 Staff-Sergeant Bruce Maxwell Sawyer, Royal Australian Armoured Corps. * 2/10600 Sergeant (temporary) Thomas Shacklady, Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * 1/55569 Sergeant (temporary) Arturo Vipiana, Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * 2/2660 Sergeant Francis Leonard Whitting, Royal Australian Army Service Corps. * A.34506 Sergeant Henry Ernest Sayers, Royal Australian Air Force.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

* Captain Joan Elms (Fl/2), Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps. * Captain Cecilie Catherine Moulton (F3/4), Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps. * Major (temporary) Beatrice Joan Paige (F2/269), Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps. * Matron Norah Maker (N33302), Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Dollisson, DFC (013094), Royal Australian Air Force.

New Zealand

Ceylon

Knight Bachelor

* The Honourable Cyril De Zoysa, President of the Senate of Ceylon, President of the Senate. * Ernest Peter Arnold Fernando, CBE. For public services. * S. Pararajasingam, Sangarapillai Pararajasingam. For services to Agriculture.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* Sir Ukwatte Acharige Jayasundera, KBE, QC. For political and public services. * The Honourable Sir Alan Rose, Alan Edward Percival Rose, QC, Chief Justice of Ceylon, Chief Justice.

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

* E. J. Cooray, Edmund Joseph Cooray, OBE, chairman, Co-operative Wholesale Establishment.

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Civil Division * Naganather Canaganayagam, Suriyakumara Nichinga Senathiraja Ambalavaner Naganather Thandigai Canaganayagam, OBE. For public services. * Victor Manuel De Mel. For services to Commerce. * Adeline Molamure, Adeline, Lady Molamure, OBE, Deputy President of the Senate.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division * Commander Adalbert Vance Frugtniet, VRD, Royal Ceylon Volunteer Naval Force. * Lieutenant Colonel Rasanayagam Sabanayagam, MBE, ED, Ceylon Cadet Corps. ;Civil Division * The Reverend James Cartman, Education Officer, Office of the Ceylon High Commissioner in London. * Ivan Dassanayake, Hewananarachchige Ivan Tiddy Dasanaike, Member of Parliament for Wariyapola. For political services. * Theodore Alexander Dunuwille, Crown Advocate, Kandy. * Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze, Douglas St. Clive Budd Janszé, Acting Solicitor-General. * S. de Silva Jayasinghe, Nanayakkara Atulugamage Stephen de Silva Jayasinghe, Member of Parliament for Wellawatte-Galkissa Electoral District, Wellawatte-Galkissa. For political services. * Ramachandran Alaghoopillai Nadesan. For public services. * Kanahala Bandaralage Lawrence Perera. For services to Transport. * M. Srikantha, MBE, Government Agent, Northern Province. * A. R. M. Thassim, Abdul Rahaman Mohamed Thassim, MBE. For public services in Galle.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division * Captain Ceada Felix Fernando, Ceylon Artillery. * Captain Weerawarnasuriya Patabendige Jinadasa Silva, Ceylon Army. ;Civil Division * Ethel De Kretser, Matron, Central Hospital. * Walter Harris De Kretser. For services to Commerce. * Talpe Gamage Bernard De Silva, Government Printer. * Debramandadige Jason Fernando, managing director, Jason Fernando & Sons Ltd. * Oliver Phoenix Charles Baden-Powell Forbes, Deputy Controller of Establishments, General Treasury. * Jack McLennan Godefroy, Assistant Manager, Firestone (Ceylon) Ltd, Colombo. * Maganlal Kuberdas Kapadia. For services to Commerce. * Joachim Rosario Machado. For services to Commerce. * Carthigasu Nadesan, Chief (Guarantee) Shroff, Indian Overseas Bank Ltd., Colombo. * Sundaram Pathmanathan, Banker, Shroff, Imperial Bank of India Ltd., Colombo. * Titus Walter Perera. For political services. * Muthiahpillai Rajendram. For services to Commerce. * Donald Jasen Ranaweera. For public services. * David Robert Waller, Manager, Building & Construction Department, Walker Sons & Company Ltd., Colombo. * Don Fredrick Wijenarayana. For public services in Galle.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

* Edgar Alexander Van der Straaten, Shipping Master, Sri Lanka Customs, Customs Department.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Civil Division * Malcolm Hugh Jayasekera, Sub-Inspector, Ceylon Police Force. * Daniel Sepala Seneviratne Jayatilake, Officer-in-Charge, Police Central Garage. * Vidane Aratchilage Peter Linus Jayawardena, Stenographer, Higher Grade, Prime Minister's Office (Sri Lanka), Department of the Prime Minister. * Edmund Henry Vernon Joseph, Chief Clerk, Cabinet Office (Sri Lanka), Cabinet Office.

Pakistan

Order of the British Empire

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

;Civil Division * Sir William Ivor Jennings, QC, Constitutional Adviser to the Government.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division * Brigadier (temporary) Alan Jolly, DSO, OBE, late

. ;Civil Division * Hugh Godfrey Stuart Bivar, Secretary, Judicial and Legislative Department, and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, Government of East Bengal. * James Douglas Hardy, OBE, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Communications.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division * Acting Captain Romuald Nalecz-Tyminski, DSC, Royal Pakistan Navy. * Acting Commander George Denys Gregory, DSC, Royal Navy. * Commander Neville Townley McHarg, DSO, Royal Navy. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harold Lewis Edwards, Royal Army Education Corps. * Acting Wing Commander Ronald Bradshaw (74593), Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division * John Roland Chitham, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, East Bengal. * Norman Francis Edmunds, Administrator-General and Official Trustee, Punjab, British India, Punjab. * Alfred Sills, General Manager, Khairpur, Pakistan, Khairpur Textile Mills. * Donald Vernon Sladen, MBE, Director, Armament Supply, Royal Pakistan Navy.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division * Major Anne Flanagan, ARRC, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. * Warrant Officer Class I John Ray, Coldstream Guards. * Squadron Leader Reuben George Thomas Williams (54590), Royal Air Force. * Squadron Leader William Francis George Withers (47949), Royal Air Force. * Acting Squadron Leader Cyril Tribe (58702), Royal Air Force. * Warrant Officer Robert Henry Watts (562351), Royal Air Force. ;Civil Division * Abel Leslie Beech, Superintendent, Non Ferrous Factory, Pakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah. * Norah Bedford Findley, Nursing Superintendent, Lady Aitchison Hospital, Lahore. * Lionel Philip Healy, Manager, Steel and General Mills, North Western Railway (British India), North Western Railway. * Eric Frank Smith, Civil Radar Officer, General Headquarters.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division * 540199 Sergeant Norman Brian Johnstone Pellew, Royal Air Force.

References

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