The Queen's Birthday Honours 1956 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 published for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, and New Zealand on 25 May 1956. 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.

UK and Colonies

Viscount

* The Right Honourable Frederick Alexander, Baron Cherwell, CH. Lately Professor of Experimental Philosophy, Oxford.

Paymaster General His Majesty's Paymaster General or HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom. The incumbent Paymaster General is Jeremy Quin MP. History The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the posit ...

, 1942-1945 and 1951–1953. For public services.

Baron

* Sir Henry Cohen, MD, FRCP, JP. For services to Medicine. * Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Morce Weeks, KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, TD, Chairman,

Vickers Ltd Vickers Limited was a British engineering conglomerate. The business began in Sheffield in 1828 as a steel foundry and became known for its church bells, going on to make shafts and propellers for ships, armour plate and then artillery. Entir ...

. Chairman, National Advisory Council for Education in Industry and Commerce; President, British Scientific Instrument Research Association.

Privy Counsellor

* Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, MP, Member of Parliament for

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

, 1931–1935, and for the High Peak Division since 1939; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, 1951–1953; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation since 1953.

Baronet

* Alderman Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd,

Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powe ...

. * Major William John Anstruther-Gray, MC, DL, MP, Member of Parliament for

North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire ( sco, North Lanrikshire; gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also ...

, 1931–1945, and for Berwick & East Lothian since 1951. Assistant

Postmaster-General A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a Ministry (government department), ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having ...

, May–July, 1945. For political and public services. * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, CBE, MP, Member of Parliament for Ayr Burgh, 1925-1950 and for the

Ayr Division #REDIRECT Shire of Burdekin The Shire of Burdekin is a local government area located in North Queensland, Australia in the Dry Tropics region. The district is located between Townsville and Bowen in the delta of the Burdekin River. It cover ...

since 1950. For political and public services. *

Henry Gray Studholme Sir Henry Gray Studholme, 1st Baronet CVO DL (13 June 1899 – 9 October 1987) was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life Studholme was the son of landowner William Paul Studholme and a grandson of New Zealand pioneer and politic ...

, CVO, MP, Member of Parliament for

Tavistock Tavistock ( ) is an ancient stannary and market town within West Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy from which its name derives. At the 2011 census the three electoral wards (North, South and South West) had a population of 13,028 ...

since 1942. A Conservative Whip, 1945–1951; Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household and a Government Whip, 1951–1956.

Knight Bachelor

* Austin Innes Anderson. For services to the British Shipping Industry. * William Francis Beale, OBE, Chairman, Board of Management,

Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI ) is a company created by the British government on 9 December 1920 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. It runs c ...

. * Brigadier Edward Henry Lionel Beddington, CMG, DSO, MC, DL, Chairman of the

Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire, in England, the United Kingdom. After the 2021 election, it consists of 78 councillors, and is controlled by the Conservative Party, ...

. * Samuel Phillips Bedson, MD, FRCP. Professor Emeritus of Bacteriology,

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 ...

. * Basil Henry Blackwell, JP, Bookseller and Publisher. *

John Burgoyne General John Burgoyne (24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792) was a British general, dramatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several batt ...

, OBE, JP. For political and public services in

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 ...

. *

Harry George Champion Sir Harry George Champion CIE (17 August 1891 – 20 June 1979) was a Geographer and forest officer in British India who created a classification of the forest types of India and Burma. He studied at New College, Oxford, and obtained a d ...

, CIE, Professor of Forestry,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. * Douglas Clarke, JP. For political and public services in

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 ...

. * Horace William Clarke, Chairman of the Aluminium Industry Council. * William Menzies Coldstream, CBE, Painter, and

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collecto ...

, University of London. * Cecil Brooksby Crabbe, Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies and Industrial Assurance Commissioner. * George Herbert Dowty, Chairman, Cheltenham & North Gloucestershire

Disablement Advisory Committee Disablement Advisory Committees were established in the United Kingdom by the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944. This was the first attempt to address the question of the employment of disabled people as a whole. One was established for each m ...

. * Geoffrey Upcott Farrant, CBE. For political and public services in Somerset. * Horace Stephen Gibson, CBE, Managing Director,

Iraq Petroleum Company The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq between 1925 and 1961. It is jointly owned by some of the world's ...

Ltd. and Associated Companies. * Frederic Collins Hooper. For services to Government Departments. *

Leonard Hutton Sir Leonard Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was an English cricketer. He played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1934 to 1955 and for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955. ''Wisden Cricketer ...

. For services to Cricket. *

James McKinnon James William McKinnon (April 7, 1932 – February 23, 1999) was an American musicologist most known for his work in the fields of Western plainchant, medieval and renaissance music, Latin liturgy and musical iconography. Life and career He s ...

, Chief Inspector, Board of Customs & Excise. * Arthur Massey, CBE, MD, Chief Medical Officer,

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance The Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (MPNI) was a British government ministry responsible for the administration and delivery of welfare benefits. It was headed by the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance. It was created in 19 ...

. * Walter Charles Norton, MBE, MC, President of

The Law Society The Law Society of England and Wales (officially The Law Society) is the professional association that represents solicitors for the jurisdiction of England and Wales. It provides services and support to practising and training solicitors, as ...

. * Frederic James Osborn, Chairman of the Executive Committee,

Town and Country Planning Association The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) is an independent research and campaigning charity founded and based in the United Kingdom. It works to enable homes, places and communities in which everyone can thrive. Through its research, tr ...

. *

Thomas Peacock Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

, CBE, JP, Chairman,

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 ...

. * Professor William John Pugh, OBE, Director,

Geological Survey of Great Britain The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS hea ...

and Museum of Practical Geology,

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 ...

. * Allan Stephen Quartermaine, CBE, MC. For services to civil engineering. President,

Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, whi ...

, 1951–1952. * James Jackson Robertson, OBE, JP,

Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...

Aberdeen Grammar School Aberdeen Grammar School is a state secondary school in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is one of thirteen secondary schools run by the Aberdeen City Council educational department. It is the oldest school in the city and one of the oldest grammar school ...

. * Alderman Stanley Graham Rowlandson, MBE, JP. For political and public services in Middlesex. * Brigadier Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith, CBE, TD, JP, DL. For political and public services in Scotland. * Alexander Mainwaring Spearman, MP, Member of Parliament for Scarborough & Whitby since 1941. For political and public services. * Gerard Spencer Summers, MP, Member of Parliament for

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...

, 1940–45 and for

Aylesbury Aylesbury ( ) is the county town of Buckinghamshire, South East England. It is home to the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery, David Tugwell`s house on Watermead and the Waterside Theatre. It is in central Buckinghamshire, midway between High Wy ...

since 1950. Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade, May–July 1945. For political and public services. * James William Tudor Thomas, MD, FRCS, Ophthalmic Surgeon, United Cardiff Hospitals. * Thomas Williamson, CBE, JP, General Secretary,

National Union of General and Municipal Workers The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 460,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National Health Service (N ...

. * Maurice Gordon Willmott, MC, Chief Chancery Master,

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 ...

. *

John Frederick Wolfenden John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE (26 June 1906, Swindon, Wiltshire – 18 January 1985, Guildford, Surrey) was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden Committee whose report, recommending the de ...

, CBE,

Vice-Chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

. ;State of Victoria * Norman Myer. For political and philanthropic services in the State of Victoria. * The Honourable Arthur George Warner, Minister of Transport, State of Victoria. ;Commonwealth services * George Alexander Strachan Sim, President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India, 1955–56. ;Oversea territories * Thomas Algernon Brown, Chief Justice,

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 ...

. *

Chau Tsun-nin Sir Tsun-nin Chau, CBE (; 22 December 1893 – 27 January 1971) was a prominent Hong Kong businessman and politician. Honours He was designated a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of ...

, CBE. For public services in Hong Kong. * Colonel Ralf Billing Emerson, CIE, OBE, Chairman,

Nigerian Railway Corporation Nigerian Railway Corporation (commonly abbreviated as NRC) is the state-owned enterprise with exclusive rights to operate railways in Nigeria. History and legislative background The Nigerian Railway Corporation traces its history to the year ...

. * Joseph Welsh Park Harkness, CMG, OBE, MB, ChB, Medical Adviser to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies. *

Guy Wilmot McLintock Henderson 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 unincor ...

, QC, Chief Justice, Bahamas. * Commander (S)

Robert Gillman Allen Jackson Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson, (8 November 1911 – 12 January 1991) was an Australian naval officer, public servant and United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world. Early life ...

, CMG, OBE, Chairman, Preparatory Commission, Volta River Project, Gold Coast. * Thomas Spurgeon Page, CBE. 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 ...

. * Ronald Lindsay Prain, OBE. For public services, in Northern Rhodesia. *

Ronald Ormiston Sinclair Sir Ronald Ormiston Sinclair, KBE, (2 May 1903 – 18 November 1996) was a New Zealand lawyer and judge who served in the British Colonial Service. Biography Sinclair was born in 1903. Sources differ whether the place of birth was Auckland or Dun ...

, Vice President, East African Court of Appeal.

Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division * Admiral Sir

Guy Grantham Admiral Sir Guy Grantham, (9 January 1900 – 8 September 1992) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth from 1957 to 1959. Naval career Educated at Rugby School,Eric Carden Robert Mansergh, KCB, KBE, MC (18612), 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 ...

; Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery. ;Civil Division * Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, GCMG, KCB, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Eric George Anderson Clifford, CB, CBE. * Vice-Admiral

Caspar John Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John (22 March 1903 – 11 July 1984) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was a pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm and fought in the Second World War in a cruiser taking ...

, CB. ;;Army * Lieutenant-General

Gerald William Lathbury General Sir Gerald William Lathbury, (14 July 1906 – 16 May 1978) was a senior British Army officer who fought during the Second World War, serving with distinction with the British Army's airborne forces, commanding the 1st Parachute Briga ...

, CB, DSO, MBE (34834), late Infantry. * Lieutenant-General William Pasfield Oliver, CB, OBE (18260), late Infantry; Colonel, The

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Quee ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal Richard Bowen Jordan, CB, DFC. * Air Marshal Theodore Neuman McEvoy, CB, CBE. ;Civil Division * Edward Francis Muir, CB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works. * Sir (William) Gordon Radley, CBE, Director-General,

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. ...

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear-Admiral Richard Allix Braine. * Rear-Admiral

Patrick Willet Brock Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or ...

, DSO. * Rear-Admiral Benjamin Bryant, DSO, DSC. * Rear-Admiral John Dent, OBE. * Rear-Admiral William Kaye Edden, OBE. * Rear-Admiral Henry John Bedford Grylls. * Surgeon Rear-Admiral (D) Leslie Bartlet Osborne, FDS, RCS(Ed.) * Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Thistleton-Smith, GM. * Rear-Admiral Robert Dymock Watson, CBE. * Rear-Admiral William Kenneth Weston, OBE. ;;Army * Major-General George Alexander Bond, CBE (37433), late

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 ...

. * Brigadier Arthur Evers Brocklehurst, DSO (34654), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major-General George Oswald Crawford, CBE (12462),

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 Wilfred George Fryer, CBE (6549), 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 ...

. * Major-General Charles Ernest Rickards Hirsch, CBE (27204), late Infantry. * Major-General Albert Edward Morrison, OBE (17226), late

Royal Corps of Signals The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS or R SIGS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communi ...

. * Major-General William Gregory Huddleston Pike, CBE, DSO (31590), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Colonel (acting) (Honorary Brigadier) George Rowland Patrick Roupell, VC, DL, Colonel, The

East Surrey Regiment The East Surrey Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot, the 70th ...

, South East Surrey Home Guard. * Major-General Thomas Patrick David Scott, CBE, DSO (30926), late Infantry. * Major-General Nigel Prior Hanson Tapp, CBE, DSO (30558), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Vice-Marshal Reginald Horace Stanbridge, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, (Retd.) * Air Vice-Marshal John Noel Tracy Stephenson, CBE. * Acting Air Vice-Marshal Frederick George Stewart Mitchell, CBE. * Air Commodore Henry Eeles, CBE. * Air Commodore

John Grandy Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Grandy, (8 February 1913 – 2 January 2004) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the only officer who fought and commanded a squadron during the Battle of Britain to reach the post of Chief ...

, DSO. * Air Commodore Douglas William Robert Ryley, CBE. * Acting Air Commodore Patrick Hunter Dunn, CBE, DFC, ADC. * Group Captain James Douglas Melvin, OBE. ;Civil Division * Louis Arnold Abraham, CBE, Principal Clerk of Committees, House of Commons. * John Anderson, CBE, Chief Scientist, Admiralty Signal & Radar Establishment, Portsdown, Cosham, Hampshire. * William Forbes Arbuckle, Under-Secretary,

Scottish Education Department The Scottish Government Education Directorates were a group of the civil service directorates in the Scottish Government. The Directorates were titled Children, Young People and Social Care; Schools; and Lifelong Learning. They were responsible ...

. * William Lethbridge Gorell Barnes, CMG, Assistant Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of col ...

. * Leonard Henry Curzon, Under-Secretary,

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 ...

. * Arthur Edward Miles Davies, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. * Harold Sidney Gilham, Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office,

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 ...

. * Gordon Grant, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. * Colonel Alfred Halkyard, MC, TD, DL, Chairman, Counties of Leicester and Rutland

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 ...

. * Ronald Montague Joseph Harris, MVO, Permanent Commissioner of Crown Lands; lately Under-Secretary, Cabinet Office. * Jonathan Edgar Keel, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. United Kingdom representative on the Council of the

International Civil Aviation Organization The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international sc ...

. * Joseph Irvine Macgowan, lately Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. * Albert Edward Hefford Masters, CBE, Director, Fighting Vehicles Research & Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Albert Gordon Newman, CBE, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator General & Treasury Solicitor. * Reginald Owen Mercer Nicholas, Secretary,

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, ...

. * Group Captain Marcus Robinson, AFC, DL, Chairman, County of the City of Glasgow

. *

Eric Roll Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden (born Erich Roll; 1 December 1907 – 30 March 2005) was a British academic economist, public servant and banker. He was made a life peer in 1977. Biography Roll was born in Nowosielitza, Austro-Hungarian Empir ...

, CMG, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Peter Humphrey St. John Wilson, CBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.

Order of Merit

* The Right Honourable William Malcolm, Baron Hailey, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake, KCMG, MC, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Athens.

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

* Air Commodore James Alfred Easton, GB, CBE, RAF (Retd.) For Official services. * Denis Hubert Fletcher Rickett CB, CMG, Third Secretary,

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 ...

. * Henry Steven Potter, CMG,

British Resident A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. A representative of his government, he officially has diplomatic functions which are often seen as a form of indir ...

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 ...

. *

Charles Beresford Duke Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

, CMG, CIE, OBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Amman. * Hugh Southern Stephenson, CMG, CIE, OBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Saigon. *

John Guthrie Ward Sir John (Guthrie) Ward GCMG (3 March 1909 - 12 January 1991) was a British diplomat. He was Ambassador to Argentina from 1957 to 1961, and Ambassador to Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Ital ...

, CMG, 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 ...

. ;Honorary Knight Commander * Raja Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, CMG, His Highness the

Raja of Perlis ''Raja'' (; from , IAST ') is a royal title used for South Asian monarchs. The title is equivalent to king or princely ruler in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being attested fr ...

, Federation of Malaya.

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

* Donald Harrison Black, Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Supply. * Charles Hubert Sebastian De Peyer, Under-Secretary,

Ministry of Fuel and Power The Ministry of Power was a United Kingdom government ministry dealing with issues concerning energy. The Ministry of Power (then named Ministry of Fuel and Power) was created on 11 June 1942 from functions separated from the Board of Trade. ...

. Minister in the United Kingdom Delegation to the High Authority of the

European Coal and Steel Community The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a European organization created after World War II to regulate the coal and steel industries. It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembo ...

. * Harold James Gray, Senior Trade Commissioner, Canberra, Board of Trade. * Cyril Edward Lucas, Director of Marine and Freshwater Fishery Research,

Scottish Home Department The Scottish Office was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1999, exercising a wide range of government functions in relation to Scotland under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland. Following the e ...

. * Leslie Robert Missen, MC, Chief Education Officer, East Suffolk County Council Member of the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. * Richard Orme Wilberforce, OBE, QC, Senior Legal Adviser, British Delegation to the International Civil Aviation Organization. * Heinerich Carl Meyer, ISO, MM, Commissioner and General Manager of the Harbours Board, State of South Australia. * Colonel Richard William Spraggett, CVO, CBE, MC, Royal Marines (retired), Private Secretary and Comptroller to the Governor of the State of Victoria since 1949. * Kenneth William Starr, OBE, ED, MS, Melb, FRCS, Councillor and Member of the Court of Examiners, Royal Australian College of Surgeons. For services to the Medical profession. * Leonard Edward Bishop Stretton, a Judge of County Courts, and Chairman of Courts of General Sessions, State of Victoria. * Martin Osterfield Wray, OBE, Resident Commissioner of the

Bechuanaland Protectorate The Bechuanaland Protectorate () was a British protectorate, protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (later the United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) in So ...

. * Arthur William Abbott, CBE, Secretary to the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations. * Theodore Farnworth Anderson, OBE, MB, BCh, Director of Medical Services, Kenya. * Julian Darrell Bates, CVO, Colonial Secretary,

Gibraltar ) , anthem = " God Save the King" , song = " Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg , map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe , map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green , mapsize = , image_map2 = Gib ...

. * Robert Porter Bingham,

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 ...

Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay ...

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 ...

. * Richard Charles Catling, OBE, Commissioner of Police, Kenya. * Alan Geoffrey Tunstal Chaplin, Colonial Secretary, Bermuda. * Joseph William Deegan, CVO, lately Commissioner of Police,

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

, now Deputy Inspector-General of Colonial Police. * Orlando Peter Gunning, Senior Resident,

Eastern Region, Nigeria The Eastern Region was an administrative region in Nigeria, dating back originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954. Its first capital was Calabar. The capital was later moved to Enugu and the second capital was Umuahia. ...

. * John Drew Higham, Director of Personnel,

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. * Arthur Hope-Jones, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Kenya. * Wallace Macmillan, Administrator,

Grenada Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...

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 ...

. * Kenneth Phipson Maddocks, Civil Secretary,

. * Arthur Crawford Maxwell, Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong. * Francis Arnold Montague, Administrative Secretary,

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

. * Wilfred Padley, OBE, Minister of Finance, Uganda. * Andrew Hamilton Pike, OBE, Member for Lands and Mines, Tanganyika (territory), Tanganyika. * Alistair Macleod-Smith, Financial Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission. * Thomas Douglas Vickers, Colonial Secretary,

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,

. * Stanley Arthur Walden, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika. * Frank Denry Clement, Williams Financial Secretary, Jamaica. * Charles Keith Wreford, Senior Resident, Northern Region, Nigeria. * George Ayton Aynsley, CBE, Foreign Office. * Trefor Ellis Evans, OBE, Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Cairo. * Frederick Charles Everson, lately Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Bonn. * Robert David John Scott Fox, Minister with the United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations, New York. * The Honourable John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, MC, Foreign Office. * Graham Dudley Lampen, CBE, lately Adviser in London to the Governor General of the Sudan. * Robert Whyte Mason, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Chicago. * Charles Frederick George Ransom, OBE, Foreign Office. * John Ogilvy Rennie, Foreign Office. * William Coxon Scott, OBE, Foreign Office. * Riversdale Garland Stone, OBE, Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Mexico City. * Gordon Coligny Whitteridge, OBE, lately Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Bangkok.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Professor Anthony Frederick Blunt, CVO. * Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Valentine Bache De Satgé, CMG, CVO, DSO.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* Seymour Joly de Lotbiniere, OBE. * Francis Galloway Leslie, MRCS, LRCP. * Colonel William Warren Shaw-Zambra, CBE, TD.

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

* Idris Evans. * Gwynedd Lloyd. * Henry John Wasbrough. * Horace Gildard White. * Stanley Arkell Williams, MVO.

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

* Thomas James Barnham. * Albert William Aylwin Smith. * Peter Alfred Wright.

Order of the British Empire

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

;Military Division * General Sir John Francis Martin Whiteley, KCB, CBE, MC (10235), late Corps of Royal Engineers, Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers. ;Civil Division * Sir John Maxwell Erskine, CBE, JP, DL, Chairman, Scottish Savings Committee. For public services.

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

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral John Willson Musgrave Eaton, CB, DSO, DSC. * Vice-Admiral William Geoffrey Arthur Robson, CB, DSO, DSC. ;;Army * Major-General Alexander Douglas Campbell, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (5768), late Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major-General (honorary) Harold Williams, CB, CBE (11947), late Corps of Royal Engineers (now retired); until recently on loan to the Government of India. * Major-General (temporary) William Robert Norris Hinde, CB, CBE, DSO, ADC (10830), late Royal Armoured Corps; lately Deputy Director of Operations in Kenya. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley, CB, CBE, AFC. * Air Marshal Gilbert Edward Nicholetts, CB, AFC. * Air Vice-Marshal John René Whitley, CB, CBE, DSO, AFC. ;Civil Division * The Right Honourable Thomas,

Baron Glentanar Baron Glentanar, of Glen Tanar in the County of Aberdeen, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The family owned the Glen Tanar Estate in Aberdeenshire., and also town houses in Edinburgh, and Aberdeen. The barony was created on 29 Ju ...

, JP, DL, Chief Scout's Commissioner for Scotland; Member of the Scottish Agricultural Advisory Council. * Colonel Sir (Frederick) Fergus Graham, Bt, TD, JP, MP, Member of Parliament for North Cumberland, 1926–1935, and for

Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...

since 1951. For political and public services. * Edmund George Harwood, CB, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Sir Edwin Savory Herbert. For public services. * Hubert Nutcombe Hume, CBE, MC, Deputy Chairman, Colonial Development Corporation, and for other public services. * Clifford George Jarrett, CB, CBE, Deputy Secretary, Admiralty. * Sir

Thomas Ralph Merton Sir Thomas Ralph Merton KBE, DSc, FRS (12 January 1888 – 10 October 1969) was an English physicist, inventor and art collector. He is particularly noted for his work on spectroscopy and diffraction gratings. Early life and education Born in ...

, Treasurer,

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

. * Victor Harry Raby, CB, MC, Deputy Under-Secretary of State,

Air Ministry The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State ...

. * John Kinninmont Dunlop, CMG, CBE, MC, TD, Her Majesty's Consul General at

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. *

Vyvyan Holt Captain Sir Vyvyan Holt (1896 – 2 July 1960) was a British soldier, diplomat, and Oriental scholar, who was held captive by North Korea for nearly three years during the Korean War. Biography Born in London in 1896, the son of Teresa and Ar ...

, CMG, MVO, lately Her Majesty's Minister at

San Salvador San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...

. * The Honourable

George Arthur Davenport 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 ...

, CMG, formerly Minister of Mines, Lands & Surveys,

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 public services. * Alexander McDonald Bruce Hutt, CMG, OBE, Administrator, East Africa High Commission.

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

;Military Division * Brigadier

Mary Railton Brigadier Dame Mary Railton, (28 May 1906 – 12 November 1992) was a senior British Army officer. She served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) from 1954 to 1957, and its Deputy Controller Commandant from 1961 to 1967. She had jo ...

, CBE, ADC (Hon.) (192959),

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 ...

. ;Civil Division *

Peggy Ashcroft Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was deter ...

, CBE, Actress.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Instructor Captain Ernest Frederick Byng (lately on loan to the Government of India.) * Kathleen Violet Chapman, RRC, QHNS, Matron-in-Chief,

Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) is the nursing branch of the British Royal Navy. The Service unit works alongside the Royal Navy Medical Branch. As of 1 January 2006, according to former Ministry of Defence junior minist ...

. * Captain Herbert Lovegrove, (Retd.) * Acting Captain Harry Ernest Huston Nicholls, OBE, DSC. Senior Officer, Royal Malayan Navy. * Captain Jasper Parrott, OBE. * Rear-Admiral Howarth Seymour Walkey (Retd.) ;;Army * Colonel (acting) Henry Bardsley, OBE, TD, Manchester Garrison "B" Sector,

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 ...

. * Brigadier (temporary) Robert Hugh Bellamy, DSO (47518), late Infantry. * Colonel (acting) Robert Cooke, OBE, MC, Holland Sector, Home Guard. * Colonel Cecil James Corbin (26286), late Infantry (now RARO.). * Brigadier (temporary) Donald Maxwell Cornah, DSO (38591), late Infantry. * Brigadier (temporary) Cecil Martin Fothergill Deakin (49812), late Foot Guards. * Brigadier Hugh Edward Fernyhough, DSO (30526), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now RARO.) * Brigadier (temporary) Gerald Loftus Fitzgerald, DSO (36596), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier Desmond St. John Hoysted (34459), late Royal Corps of Signals. * Brigadier (temporary) John Edgar Frank Meadmore (26991), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major-General Alfred Henry Musson (6094), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Brigadier Arthur Raymond Purches, OBE (41257), late Royal Army Service Corps. * Colonel Mary Kathleen Crewe-Read, TD (192954), Women's Royal Army Corps (now RARO.) * Brigadier (temporary) James Alexander Rowland Robertson, DSO, OBE. (384323), late Infantry. * Colonel (acting) Stuart Reginald Moss Vernon, MC, TD (47892),

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 (temporary) Robert John Volkers, OBE (39205), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Vice-Marshal Michael Joseph Pigott, BDS, FDSRCS, QHDS. * Air Commodore Henry Bertram Wrigley. * The Reverend Esmond Whitehall Patrick Ainsworth. * Group Captain Richard Eric Burns, DFC. * Group Captain Desmond Patrick Hanafin, DFC, AFC. * Group Captain

Edward Gordon Jones Air Marshal Sir Edward “Tap” Gordon Jones, (31 August 1914 – 20 February 2007) was an officer in the Royal Air Force for 34 years, from 1935 to 1969. He commanded a squadron of obsolescent biplane Gladiator fighters during the Greek Campai ...

, DSO, OBE, DFC. * Group Captain Arthur Bookey Riall, OBE, Royal Air Force Regiment. * Group Captain Peter Wolryche Stansfeld, DFC. * Group Captain Ralph William Wallace, (Retd.) * Group Captain Edward George Watkins, AFC. * Group Captain Samuel Wroath, AFC. ;Civil Division * Captain John Steele Allan, DL, lately Chairman,

White Fish Authority The Sea Fish Industry Authority (or Seafish) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Established in 1981, and charged with working with the UK seafood indus ...

's Committee for Scotland and Northern Ireland. * William Beardoe Atkin, Director, General Manager and Secretary, Newcastle & Gateshead Water Company. * William Henry Bale, JP. For political and public services in

Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of Letter (alphabet), letters, symbols, etc., especially by Visual perception, sight or Somatosensory system, touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process invo ...

. * Raymond Percival Beddow, Executive Director,

British Electric Traction British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rent ...

Co. Ltd. * Leslie Herbert Bedford, OBE, Chief Engineer, Guided Weapons Division,

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. * Lewis Boddington, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Supply. *

Frank Philip Bowden Frank Philip Bowden CBE FRS (2 May 1903 – 3 September 1968) was an Australian physicist. Early life He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of telegraph engineer Frank Prosser Bowden. Bowden received his Bachelor of Science degree fro ...

, Reader in Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge. * Harry Archibald Brading, Superintendent, Operative Department,

Royal Mint The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's oldest company and the official maker of British coins. Operating under the legal name The Royal Mint Limited, it is a limited company that is wholly owned by His Majesty's Treasury and is under an exclus ...

. * Percival Laurence Leigh-Breese, JP. For services to Housing. * William Donald Wykeham Brooks, DM, FRCP, Consulting Physician to the Royal Navy. * Frank Collin Brown, Chief Housing and Planning Inspector,

Ministry of Housing and Local Government The Ministry of Housing and Local Government was a United Kingdom government department formed following the Second World War, covering the areas of housing and local government. It was formed, as the Ministry of Local Government and Planning, ...

. * Major the Honourable Robert Bruce, JP, DL, Member, Advisory Panel on

Highlands and Islands The Highlands and Islands is an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and Outer Hebrides (Western Isles). The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 ...

. * Captain

Edward Denman Clarke Captain Edward Denman Clarke (21 May 1898 – 5 September 1966) was a World War I flying ace. Although he was credited with six aerial victories, he was granted a Military Cross for his valour in a ground attack mission. In later life, Clar ...

, MC, Managing Director,

Saunders-Roe Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aero- and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. History The name was adopted in 1929 after Alliott Verdon Roe (see Avro) and John Lord took a co ...

Ltd.,

Cowes Cowes () is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east bank. The two towns are linked by the Cowes Floa ...

, Isle of Wight. * John Selby Clements, Actor, Manager and Producer. * Harold Conolly, County Architect,

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 ...

. * Theodore Constantine. For political and public services in

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 ...

. * Robert Keith Craig, Superintendent Engineer, Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd. * William Foy Cresswell, Senior Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, Board of Trade. * Russell Mackenzie Currie, Head of Work Study Department,

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. * Sidney James Dibble, Director of Supply and Transport, Home Office. * Edward William Ditchburn, OBE, Director, Fighting Vehicles Production, Ministry of Supply. * John Robert Vernon Dolphin, TD, Chief Engineer,

Atomic Weapons Research Establishment The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research ...

, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. * Leslie Newman Duguid, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * George Frank Edwards, Chief Land Agent, Agricultural Land Commission. * John Marten Llewellyn Evans, MBE, TD, Official Solicitor, Supreme Court of Judicature. * Thomas Evans, JP, Alderman,

Glamorgan County Council Glamorgan County Council was established in 1889 together with the administrative county of Glamorganshire under the Local Government Act 1888. The first elections to the council were held in January 1889. The council was abolished under the Local ...

; Chairman of the United Hospitals, Cardiff. * Henry Fazackerley. For political and public services in Preston. * Colonel John Charles Wynne Finch, MC, Chairman Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-Commission. * Samuel Alexander Sadler Forster, Chairman, North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd. * Allan Stewart Fortune, TD, Chief Inspector, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * George Matthew Fyfe, MB, FRCP(Ed.), Medical Officer of Health, Fife County. * Leonard Fonnereau Gibbon, HM Inspector of Schools (Staff Inspector), Ministry of Education. * William James Gilmore, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works. * Robert Yorke Goodden, Designer, Professor of Design, Department of Silversmithing,

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

. * Edward Thomas Green. For services to agriculture in Northern Ireland. * Alderman James Mantle Greenwood, JP. For political and public services in

Southwark Southwark ( ) is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark. The district, which is the oldest part of South London, developed ...

. * George Maurice Hann. Lately full-time member of the Industrial Court. * Brigadier Kenneth Hargreaves, MBE, TD, DL. For political and public services in Yorkshire. * Philip D'Arcy Hart, MD, FRCP, Director, Tuberculosis Research Unit, Medical Research Council. * Reginald George Hayden, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs & Excise. * Albert Heiser, Deputy Director of Stores, Admiralty. * Geoffrey Vernon Brooke Herford, OBE, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Pest Infestation Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * Tahu Ronald Pearce Hole, Editor, News,

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. * William Hughes, OBE,

Lord Provost of Dundee The Lord Provost of Dundee is the chair and civic head of the City of Dundee 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 and Lord Lieutenant for the city. T ...

. * Christopher Edward Clive Hussey. For services to Architecture. * Arthur Webb Isherwood, Director of Contracts (Air), Ministry of Supply. * Alfred Thomas Jones, Deputy Secretary, Exchequer & Audit Department. * John Kenneth Trevor Jones, Assistant Legal Adviser, Home Office. * Robert Kean, OBE, Director, Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors. * Claude Henry Leddra, OBE, Manager, Constructive Department, HM Dockyard Devonport. * Edwin Philip Le Masurier, OBE, lately Lieutenant Bailiff of Jersey. * George Roland Begley McConnell MBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland. * William McKinney, Vice-Chairman,

Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority Health and Social Care (HSC) ( ga, Sláinte agus Cúram Sóisialta, ) is the Publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare system in Northern Ireland. Although having been created separately to the National Health Service (NHS), it ...

. * Colonel Lachlan Mackinnon, DSO, TD. For political and public services in

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

. * Thomas Hogarth McLaren, MC, Managing Director, Baxter Bros. & Co. Ltd., Dundee. * Colin McLean. For political and public services in Norfolk. * Adrian Bernard Mann, OBE, Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Ministry of Works. * Harry Marshall, JP. For political and public services in Manchester. *

Kenneth Mather Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS (22 June 1911 – 20 March 1990) was a British geneticist and botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964. He was the second vice chancellor of the University of Sout ...

, Professor of Genetics,

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. *

John Megaw Sir John Megaw, (16 September 1909 – 27 December 1997) was a British judge who eventually rose to Lord Justice of Appeal and Irish international rugby union player. Early life and career Born in Dublin, Megaw was the son of Irish (later ...

, TD, QC, Member of the

Industrial Injuries Advisory Council Industrial may refer to: Industry * Industrial archaeology, the study of the history of the industry * Industrial engineering, engineering dealing with the optimization of complex industrial processes or systems * Industrial city, a city dominate ...

. * Charles Melville Melville, MC, Assistant Solicitor,

Metropolitan Police Force The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

. * Luther Frederick Milner, OBE, JP, Chairman, Sheffield Savings Committee. * James Kydd Moir, JP. For political and public services in

Angus Angus may refer to: Media * ''Angus'' (film), a 1995 film * ''Angus Og'' (comics), in the ''Daily Record'' Places Australia * Angus, New South Wales Canada * Angus, Ontario, a community in Essa, Ontario * East Angus, Quebec Scotland * An ...

. * George Vernon Northcott, Chairman, St. Loyes College for the Disabled, Exeter. * Maurice Oldfield, MBE, Assistant Secretary, Foreign Office. * Hugh Owen, JP, Chairman,

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Agricultural Executive Committee. * James McAlpine Owen, Regional Director, Home Counties Region,

. * Henry Edward Pardoe, lately President, Manchester Chamber of Commerce. * John Davidson Peattie, Chief Engineer,

Central Electricity Authority The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) was a body that managed and operated the electricity supply industry in England and Wales between 1 April 1955 and 31 December 1957. The CEA replaced the earlier British Electricity Authority (BEA) as a r ...

. * Elsa Rose Perkins, OBE, Chairman, National Street & Village Groups Advisory Savings Sub-Committee. * Sidney Percival Peters, Deputy Director (Forecasting),

Meteorological Office The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is led by CEO Penelope ...

, Air Ministry. * Mary Gladys Philpot, Headmistress, Coborn School for Girls, London. * Major Arthur William Pilgrim, OBE, Regional Representative for Greater London,

British Red Cross Society The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The society was formed in 1870, and is a registered charity with more ...

. * Anthony Dymoke Powell, Writer. * Edith Mary Price, BEM, Senior Registrar,

HM Land Registry His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. It reports to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ...

. * Herbert Spencer Price, OBE, Chief Constable,

Bradford City Police The Bradford City Police (Previously the Bradford Borough Police before 1897) was the municipal police department of the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. History Bradford Borough Charter was granted in 1847, and Bradford Corporat ...

Force. *

Ernest Read Ernest Read CBE (22 February 1879 – 9 October 1965) was an English conductor, organist, and music educator. He had a profound impact on the development of music education within England during the first half of the 20th century, and published ...

, Professor,

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...

. * David Morgan Rees, Chairman, South Western Division,

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 ...

. * Norman Charles Rowland, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. * Alexander Samuels, Chairman, London & Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee. * Charles Weatheritt Scott, Divisional Inspector of Mines & Quarries, North Eastern Division, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Hubert Arthur Secretan, OBE, JP. For services to Boys' Clubs. * Arnold Edward Sewell, Permanent Member of the Transport Tribunal, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Eustace Smith, TD, DL, Managing Director, Smith's Dock Co. Ltd., North Shields. * Hugh Stannus Stannus, MD, FRCP, Medical Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Bernard Donald Storey, OBE,

Town Clerk A clerk is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world. In some communities, including most in the United States, the position is elected, but in many others, the clerk is appointed to their post. In the UK, a To ...

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

. * John Sullivan, part-time member of the South of Scotland Electricity Board; Chairman, Electricity Consultative Council for the South of Scotland District. * Charles Sykes, Managing Director, Thomas Firth & John Brown Ltd. * William Gilbert Taplin, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Ernest Edward Taylor, Chairman of the Board of Governors,

Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (the RNTNEH) was a health facility on Gray's Inn Road in London. It closed in October 2019 when services transferred to the new Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals on Huntley Street, L ...

. * Captain Percival Chatterton Thompson, MC, Chairman, West Riding of Yorkshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Norman Walter Gwynn Tucker, Director and Opera Producer,

Sadler's Wells Theatre Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue next to New River Head. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site since 1683. It consists of two performance spaces: a 1,500-seat ...

. * Sydney George Turner, OBE, QC. For public services in Essex. * Thomas Henry Huxley Turner, lately Chairman,

Cwmbran Cwmbran ( ; cy, Cwmbrân , also in use as an alternative spelling in English) is a town in the county borough of Torfaen in South Wales. Lying within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, Cwmbran was designated as a New Town in 1949 to pro ...

Development Corporation, Monmouthshire. * Professor Frank Edward Tylecote, FRCP, Chairman, Public Health Committee, Association of Municipal Corporations. * Harry Ward, OBE, Head of Treaty & Nationality Department, Foreign Office. * Arthur Benjamin Watts, Director of

British Ropes British Ropes was a company established on 6 June 1924 through the merger of eight companies. The companies were: Gateshead * Haggie Brothers, Gateshead * Tyne Wire Drawing Co (a subsidiary of the above) Liverpool: * R. S. Newall and Son London: ...

(Southern Sales) Ltd,

. * George Campbell White. For political and public services in North-East England. * Ernest Wilkinson, OBE, Regional Controller, Outer London, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Frank Clare Wilkinson, MD, FDS, RCS, Director of

Eastman Dental Hospital The Eastman Dental Hospital was based on Gray's Inn Road until it co-located with the University College London ear, nose, throat, balance and hearing services on Huntley Street, London as the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals in Oc ...

and Dean of Institute of Dental Surgery, University of London. * Foster Neville Woodward, Director, Institute of Seaweed Research. * Ambrose William Wray, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Arthur Eber Sydney Charles, lately Director of Establishments, Sudan Government. * Arthur Edwin Crouchley, lately First Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Berne. * John Coles Eyre, Agricultural Adviser, Middle East Development Division (Lebanon). * Cecil Albert Good, President of the Court of Appeal for

Cyrenaica Cyrenaica ( ) or Kyrenaika ( ar, برقة, Barqah, grc-koi, Κυρηναϊκή ��παρχίαKurēnaïkḗ parkhíā}, after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya. Cyrenaica includes all of the eastern part of Libya between ...

. * James McDonald, OBE, Her Majesty's Consul at

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

. * Duncan Archibald Newby, British subject resident in Egypt. * Frank Collinge Ogden, Her Majesty's Consul-General at

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

. * William John Rayner, lately Counsellor (Regional Information Officer), Office of the Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia. * George Edgar Vaughan, OBE, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Amsterdam. * Louis Reginald Samuel Benjamin, General Superintendent,

Australian Newsprint Mills Australian Newsprint Mills (ANM) was an Australian newsprint manufacturer. History Australian Newsprint Mills was established in 1938 to build a newsprint manufacturing plant adjacent to the River Derwent at Boyer, Tasmania. Its founding ...

Ltd. For public services in the State of Tasmania. * Thomas Patrick Murray Cochran. For political and public services in the

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 ...

. * Nathaniel Bernard Freeman. For services to public and charitable organisations in the State of New South Wales. * Heiman Joseph Hoffman, Judge of the Water Court, and President of the Town Planning Court,

. * Charles Holly McKay. For services to the Victorian Branch of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers', & Airmen's Imperial League of Australia. * Leonard James Ternouth Pellew, MB, FRCS. For services to the Fire Brigade and other organisations in the State of South Australia. * Francis Ernest Piper, President of the Law Society, State of South Australia. * William John Smith, Managing Director, Australian Consolidated Industries Ltd. For public services in the State of New South Wales. * Robert Mackinlay Taylor, Secretary to the Treasury, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Robert Joseph Webster, MC, General Manager and Managing Director, Bradford Cotton Mills Ltd. For public services in the State of New South Wales. * Oba Adendi-Adeleii, Paramount Chief of Lagos, Federation of Nigeria. * Charles Barren Bisset, Director of Geological Survey, Tanganyika. * Frank Ernest Lovell Carter, OBE, Oversea Audit Service, Director of Audit, Hong Kong. * Sydney Theophilus Christian, OBE. For public services in Antigua, Leeward Islands. * Charles Edward Cousins, Labour Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia. * Oswald Vernon Garratt, OBE, Commissioner of Prisons, Federation of Malaya. * Roland Edwardes Hales. For public services in Brunei. * Umar Ibn Ibrahim El Kanemi, Emir of Dikwa, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Douglas Halford Lawson, lately Director of Public Works, Western Region, Nigeria. * The Right Reverend Ezra Douglas Martinson, MBE, Assistant Bishop of Accra, Gold Coast. * Hallam Grey Massiah, MD, CM. For public services in Barbados. * Graeme Mitchell Mill Menzies, MB, ChB, Deputy Chief Medical Adviser for the Federal Government, Federation of Nigeria. * Albert Jerome Alphonso Momoh, Member of Public Service Commission, Sierra Leone. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Paltridge, DSO, ED, Director of Posts & Telecommunications, Gold Coast. * James Erskine Peat, Deputy Senior Officer, Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, Tanganyika. * The Right Reverend Monsignor Carmelo Psaila. For services to the Arts in Malta. * Patrick Wimberley Dill-Russell, MRCS, LRCP, Director of Medical Services, Cyprus. * Geoffrey Haward Smellie. For public services in British Guiana. * Captain Malin Sorsbie, OBE, lately General Manager, East African Airways Corporation. * Henry Walter Stevens. For public services in Nyasaland. * Norman Wilfred Tang, Minister of Health & Local Government, Trinidad. * William Urquhart, OBE, Deputy General Manager, East African Railways & Harbours Administration. * Robert Bruce Wallace, DSO, MC, MB, ChB. For medical services in Kedah, Federation of Malaya. * Algernon Wear, Director of Public Works, Singapore. * Horace White, MBE, Director of Information, Uganda. * Grahame Williamson, OBE, Principal, Veterinary School, Federation of Nigeria. :;Honorary Commander * Kamaruddin bin Idris, Mentri Besar, Trengganu, Federation of Malaya.

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;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Instructor Commander Albert John Bellamy. * Commander Harold Clement Outram Bull. * Acting Captain Francis Jack Cartwright. * Lieutenant-Commander George Albert Collis. * Major Arthur Ernest Ebsworth, BEM, Royal Marines (Retd.) * Acting Commander Frederick James Hedges, Royal Malayan Navy. * Commander Cecil Walter Hillman. * The Reverend Walter Jeffreys Marson, Chaplain. * Commander Philip Dennis O'Brien, (Retd.) * Harold Marshall Pearson, Chief Engineer, RFA Service. * Lieutenant-Commander David Allan Robert Malcolm Ramsay, DSC. * Commander Alexander Gordon Reid. * Commander (E) Sidney George Taylor, (Retd.) * Commander (A) Bert Walwyn Vigrass, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. ;;Army * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Ronald Lewis Allen (125545), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Peter Marcus Allen, MC (63620),

The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), in 1881 as part of the Childers R ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Desmond Gerald Rowan Atkinson (50962),

The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. In 1968, the regiment was amalgamated with the Somerset and Cornwall ...

(Employed List (1)). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (local Colonel) Alexander Clare Cunningham Brodie, DSO, MC (53740),

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Robert Anderson Corby, TD (78219), The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Percival Cracknell, MBE, MC (168070), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Willoughby Frank Cubitt (67027), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Harold Joseph Dickins, TD, 3rd Derbyshire Battalion, Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Watson James Dryland (36513), Royal Corps of Signals * Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Kenworthy Gillson (44859), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Belford Arthur Glennie, DSO (63600), 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 ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (local Colonel) Rhys Anthony Gwyn (49853), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) (Employed List (1)). * Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland Graham Hill, MBE (50943), The

Dorset Regiment The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the county regiment of Dorset. Until 1951, it was formally called the Dorsetshire Regiment, although usually known as "The Dorsets". In 1 ...

(Employed List (1)). * Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Patrick Kelly, ERD (66460), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Edward George Aldred Kynaston, TD (102282),

Westminster Dragoons The Westminster Dragoons (WDs) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army Army Reserve, located in central London. Its lineage is continued by one of the Royal Yeomanry's six squadrons. Formed in the aftermath of Second Boer War as part of th ...

(2nd County of London Yeomanry), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Eric Frank Kyte, MBE (66044), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet Colonel) James Hastie Macleod, TD. (69671), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army (now TARO.). * Lieutenant-Colonel Donald MacLean Main, TD (57597), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * The Reverend Laurence William Mathews, TD (88478), Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class, Royal Army Chaplains' Department. * Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert William James Morrell, MC (68102), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * The Reverend John Basil Morson, MC, TD, (93368), Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (acting), Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Henry Jones Porter, TD (160353), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Henry Ross Power, 10th/11th Surrey Battalion, Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Edward Long-Price (69313), The

Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice David-Price, MBE (64554), Royal Corps of Signals. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Louis de Courcy Fitzpatrick Robertson, MBE (16649),

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 (now Colonel) Charles Portland Robinson, MC, TD (56501), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major Maurice Francis Ronayne, MBE, MB (135396), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Rowland, MBE, MC (105968), The

Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) The 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) was a Cavalry regiments of the British Army, cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was first raised in 1685 by the Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, Earl of Peterborough as the Earl of Peterborough' ...

, Royal Armoured Corps. * Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Herbert Margetson Rushmore, MBE (69748), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Salmon (47679), The

Highland Light Infantry The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fusi ...

(City of Glasgow Regiment). * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Deighton Egerton Egerton-Smith, MBE (65265), 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 ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Albert Smyth, MB, FRCS (70120), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Joseph Sullivan, MB (65521), Royal Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Warwick Tomes, MBE (73107), 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 ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (now Major) Peter Alfred Lincoln Vaux (73202), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Christopher Dalmahoy Waters, MBE (66053), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Lieutenant-Colonel John White (67932), Royal Army Service Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Harry Witchell, MC, TD, 9th Cheshire Battalion, Home Guard. * Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Frank Zealley, MBE (283540), Army Cadet Force. * Colonel (temporary) Reginald William Day (42464), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers; at present on loan to the Government of India. * Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Ritchie Fothergill, MC, Southern Rhodesia Artillery, Territorial Force. * Colonel Donald Roslyn Evan Owens, Basutoland Mounted Police. ;;Royal Air Force * Wing Commander George Craig (133755). * Wing Commander Robert Edward Craven, DFC (39859). * Wing Commander Peter Stanley Dundas, (21235). * Wing Commander John Ellis, DFC & Bar (37850). * Wing Commander Edward Hearl (44098). * Wing Commander George Augustus Hine (31302). * Wing Commander James Edward Manton (35371). * Wing Commander Danbigh Leon Norris-Smith (58789). * Wing Commander Gordon William Price (46484). * Wing Commander Frederick Martin Veasey (44611). * Wing Commander Alfred James Wild (35294). * Wing Commander Kenneth Burnett Shelton Willder (78313). * Acting Wing Commander John Nigel Carlyle Cooke, MD, BS (201232). * Acting Wing Commander John Denis Bernard Manning (62928), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). * Acting Wing Commander

John Frederick Powell Air Vice Marshal John Frederick Powell, (12 June 1915 – 24 November 2008) was a long-serving officer at RAF College Cranwell. RAF career Powell was born in Somerset, and was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, Lancing College and K ...

(73348). * Acting Wing Commander James Thom (35247). * Squadron Leader Frank William Carter (50412). * Squadron Leader Douglas Henry Luck, DFC. (48662). * Squadron Leader Harold Charles Molyneux (46961). * Bimbashi Al Awal Ali Mohamed Aulaqi (2245),

Aden Protectorate Levies The Aden Protectorate Levies (APL) were an Arab military force raised for the local defence of the Aden Protectorate under British rule. The Levies were drawn from all parts of the Protectorate and were armed and officered by the British militar ...

. * Wing Commander Compton William Kemp (46575), Royal Air Force; at present on loan to the Government of Pakistan. * Squadron Leader Clifford Philpot (51156), Royal Air Force; lately on loan to the Government of Pakistan. ;Civil Division * Ronald Alderson, Chief Constable, Monmouthshire Constabulary. * Sidney Maurice Allen, Controller, Valuation Branch, Board of Customs & Excise. * Eleanor Gream Antrobus, Honorary Secretary, Overseas Nursing Association. * Edward Armstrong, MD, Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Health & Local Government, Northern Ireland. * Alderman Arthur Ashton, JP. For public services in

Leamington Spa Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following ...

. * Marguerite Frances Martin Atkinson Bishop, MBE, lately Director, British Leather Federation. * Margaret Avery, Senior Lecturer, Avery Hill Teacher Training College,

Eltham Eltham ( ) is a district of southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east-southeast of Charing Cross, and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. The three wards of Elt ...

. * Philip Hope Edward Bagenal, DCM, Architect. For services in the field of acoustics. * Geoffrey Barlow, Managing Director, Meters Ltd., Manchester. * Michael Barry, Head of Drama, Television Service, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Hugh Raymond Beer, Port Dried Fruits Officer, London, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Frank Belcher, Deputy Director, Supply Ground Services (Civil Aviation) Division, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * William Herbert Bennett, Assistant Staff Officer,

Ulster Special Constabulary The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men") was a quasi-military reserve special constable police force in what would later become Northern Ireland. It was set up in October 1920, shortly before the par ...

. * Leo Cyril Aloysius Benson, Senior District Inspector of Mines & Quarries, North Western Division, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * John Gibb Bothwell, Scottish 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 ...

. * Captain Malcolm Rene Bouquet, Chairman, Housing Committee,

Amersham Rural District Amersham Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the south-east of the county. Origins The district had its origins in the Amersham Poor Law Union, ...

Council, Buckinghamshire. * Florence Elizabeth Breakie, JP. For political and public services in

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

. * The Reverend Cyril James Brown, General Superintendent,

Missions to Seamen The Mission to Seafarers (formerly The Missions to Seamen) is a Christian welfare charity serving merchant crews around the world. It operates through a global Mission 'family' network of chaplains, staff and volunteers and provides practical, em ...

. * Isa Burns Brown, lately General Secretary, Women's Foreign Mission of the Church of Scotland. * Walter James Brown, Principal Regional Architect, South Western Region, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Reginald Arthur Browning, Director of Contracts,

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority is a UK government research organisation responsible for the development of fusion energy. It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ...

. * William Dover Way Buckell, MC, Chairman, Isle of Wight National Insurance Local Tribunal. * Hugh Sidney Bushell, Assistant Editor, ''Review of Applied Entomology'', Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. * Thomas Tucker-Edwardes Cadett, Chief Paris Correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation. * Vera Margaret Carmichael. For political services in Edinburgh. * Anne Beatrice Casement. For political and public services in

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...

. * Leonard Edward Caygill, Assistant Director, Directorate of Civil Aircraft Research & Development, Ministry of Supply. * Alderman John Wythe Salter Chalker, JP, Chairman, Headquarters Diseases of Animals Committee, National Farmers' Union. * Frederick Brown Chapman. For political and public services in the

County of Holland The County of Holland was a State of the Holy Roman Empire and from 1433 part of the Burgundian Netherlands, from 1482 part of the Habsburg Netherlands and from 1581 onward the leading province of the Dutch Republic, of which it remained a part ...

. * Reeves Charlesworth, Chairman, Reeves Charlesworth Ltd., Building Contractors, Sheffield. * Alderman Thomas Clayton. For public services in Cheshire. * Hamish Hustler Howard, Coates District Probate Registrar,

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...

. * Reginald Arthur Colwill. For services to the

Amateur Swimming Association Swim England is the national governing body for swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming in England. It forms part of British Swimming, a federation of the national governing bodies of England, Scotland ( Scott ...

. * Bertram Cope, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * John Cormack, Principal, Bootle Technical College, Lancashire. * Douglas Jack Craggs, Deputy Regional Controller, North Midlands, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Arthur Crawley, Superintending Naval Store Officer, HM Dockyard, Malta. * Alan John Pitts Crick, Deputy Assistant Director, Joint Intelligence Bureau, Washington, Ministry of Defence. * John Capel Croome, Superintending Armament Supply Officer, Royal Naval Armament Depot, Upnor, Kent. * William Newcomb Cryer, MBE, Chief Commissioner, National Savings Committee. * John Chisholm Davidson, Divisional Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Alan Warburton Davson, Senior Partner, Davson & Pritchard, Chartered Quantity Surveyors. * The Right Honourable Nina Marion, Baroness Deramore. For services as County President, East Riding of Yorkshire, British Red Cross Society. * Alan Fullforth Dobson, Superintending Civil Engineer (Higher Grade), Admiralty. * John Donald Douglas, Operations Planning 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 ...

. * Helen Drummond, Principal, Dunfermline College of Physical Education, Aberdeen. * William Duff, Principal Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. * Alexander Robert Dunbar, MBE, Assistant General Manager, North Eastern Region (York), British Railways,

British Transport Commission The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the se ...

. * Bertrand James Howell Eaton, Headmaster, Portchester Secondary School for Boys, Bournemouth. * James Henry Edmondson, General Manager and Engineer, Sewage Disposal Department, Sheffield. * Septimus John Emms, Superintending Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Enid Constance Evans, MRCS, LRCP, Senior Medical Officer, HM Treasury. * Alexander Bruce MacDonald Ferguson, Jute Controller, Board of Trade. * Albert Edward Fitness, Principal, Air Ministry. * Frederick Douglas Fitz-Gerald, Secretary, Traders Road Transport Association. * Robert Joseph Fitzmaurice, Assistant Director of Contracts, Ministry of Works. * John Denis Foreman, lately Director,

British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

. * George Frederick Forwood. For political and public services in Surrey. * Horace Frost, Chief Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Alastair Douglas Fyfe. For political and public services in Northumberland. * Major James Gardiner, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire. * William Glen. For services as Secretary and Treasurer, City of Glasgow Society of Social Service. * Edward William Golding, Head of the Department of Rural Electrification & Wind Power, Electrical Research Association. * Colonel Sydney Green, TD, Senior Civil Engineer, Metropolitan Division, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Frederick Greenwood, Senior Chief Executive Officer,

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. * William Birch Greenwood, Regional Controller,

National Assistance Board The National Assistance Board was established by the National Assistance Act 1948 and abolished in by the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966. It was preceded by the Unemployment Assistance Board (known from 1941 as the Assistance Board) and suc ...

. * George Clifford Ashman Greetham, Chief Structural Engineer, Ministry of Works. * Arthur Leslie Grinyer, lately Naval Constructor, Admiralty. * Captain Austin Grist, MBE, MC, Chairman,

Ryde Ryde is an English seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Wight. The built-up area had a population of 23,999 according to the 2011 Census and an estimate of 24,847 in 2019. Its growth as a seaside resort came af ...

Bembridge Bembridge is a village and civil parish located on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, leading to the implausible claim by some residents that Bembridge ...

Savings Committee. * Louis Auguste Guillemette, MBE. States Supervisor,

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

. * Frederick James Harlow, MBE, Assistant Educational Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. * Reginald George Harris, Deputy Chief Land Agent & Valuer, War Office. * Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Gowland Gaskell Harvey, DSO, Secretary, Counties of Londonderry, Tyrone & Fermanagh Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. * Clifford Heyes, Superintending Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Grade I, Air Ministry. * Allen Shepard Higlett, District Auditor, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * John Acland Hinks, JP, Chartered Surveyor to the Churches Main Committee. * Robert Norman Ellis Hinton. For political and public services in

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

. * Frank William Hitchinson, Chief Officer, Caernarvonshire Fire Brigade. * Captain Hartley Holmes, General Secretary, Officers' Christian Union. * Frederick John Hooker, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of Supply. * Cyril Onslow Horn, Deputy Regional Director, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. * Sidney Walter Ernest Horsman, Principal Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Kenneth Albert Horwood, Assistant Chief Constable,

Kent County Constabulary Kent Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the and approximately 1.8 million inhabitants of Kent, a county in the south east of England. History On 14 January 1857, a 222-strong 'Kent County Constabulary' was formed u ...

. * Alderman Reginald Spencer Howard. For political and public services in Brentford and Chiswick. * Alfred Bernard Howe, Assistant Head, Research Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Reginald Alfred Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * William Hunter, JP, Member of Governing Board, North of Scotland College of Agriculture. * James Leggat Hyslop, JP, Engineer and Manager, Belfast Gasworks. * Godfrey Phineas Godfrey-Isaacs. Chairman of the Managers, Park House

Approved School An approved school was a type of residential institution in the United Kingdom to which young people could be sent by a court, usually for committing offences but sometimes because they were deemed to be beyond parental control. They were modelle ...

Godalming Godalming is a market town and civil parish in southwest Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, at the confluence of the Rivers Wey and Ock. The civil parish covers and includes the settleme ...

. * Albert Richard Jackson, Chairman, Manchester Wing Committee,

Air Training Corps The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a British volunteer-military youth organisation. They are sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force. The majority of staff are volunteers, and some are paid for full-time work – including C ...

. * Allan Edward Moxham Janes, Secretary, High Wycombe Furniture Manufacturers' Society. * Marcus Lionel Jofeh, Deputy Chief Engineer, Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd.,

Brentford Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...

, Middlesex. * Ivor John, Senior Chief Executive Officer,

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 ...

. * Ernest Harris Jolley, Staff Engineer, Engineer-in-Chiefs Office, General Post Office. * Elwyn Owen Jones, JP, Member, Brecon Agricultural Executive Committee. * Eric Wynne-Jones Deputy Surveyor, New Forest,

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 ...

. * Thomas Walter Cynog-Jones, Head of Research Department,

Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is a trade union in the United Kingdom, consisting of around 360,000 members. Usdaw members work in a variety of occupations and industries including: shopworkers, factory and warehouse wo ...

. * Arthur Robert Judge, Principal, Home Office. * Warren Hastings Kaye, Chairman, Leeds Stock Exchange; President of the Council of Associated Stock Exchanges. * William Garnet Kent, Provincial Horticultural Advisory Officer, Grade I, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Allan Hugh King, Principal, Ministry of Health. * Alderman Cyril Sherwin Knight, JP, Chairman, Chatham Local Employment Committee. * Eric Vincent Knight, Farm Manager, Field Station, Compton, Berkshire Agricultural Research Council. * James Duncan Lawson, JP, Provost of the Royal Burgh of

Pittenweem Pittenweem ( ) is a fishing village and civil parish in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,747. Etymology The name derives from Pictish and Scottish Gaelic. "Pit-" represents Pictish ''pett'' 'pl ...

, Fife. * Arthur Henry Layhe Manager (Purchasing),

British Insulated Callender's Cables British Insulated Callender's Cables (BICC) was a 20th-century British cable manufacturer and construction company, now renamed after its former subsidiary Balfour Beatty. It was formed from the merger of two long established cable firms, Callen ...

Ltd. *

Gilbert Ledward Gilbert Ledward (23 January 1888 – 21 June 1960), was an English sculptor. He won the British Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1913, and in World War I served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and later as a war artist. He was professor of s ...

, RA, Sculptor. For services to the Royal Mint. * Frank Sidney Hume Lemon, The Joint Managing Director, Submarine Cables Ltd., Greenwich. * Arnold Herbert Lewis, Director, Jealott's Hill Research Station,

Ltd. * Commander John Henry Lewty, Royal Navy (Retd.), Chief Inspector, HM Coastguard, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Thomas Henry Longstaff, County Surveyor, and County Planning Officer,

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...

. * Evelyn Isabella Ada McCord. For public services in

Romford Romford is a large town in east London and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering. It is located northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. Historically, Romford ...

. * Michael McEnaney, Waterguard Superintendent, Newcastle upon Tyne, Board of Customs & Excise. * Martha McKee, Matron, City Hospital, Belfast. * Colin Lee McKenzie, Principal Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade. * Alderman Charles McVey, JP, Chairman, Birkenhead Local Employment Committee. * James Fitzgerald Malcolm, Head of Department and Lecturer in Bacteriology,

West of Scotland Agricultural College Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) is a public land based research institution focused on agriculture and life sciences. Its history stretches back to 1899 with the establishment of the West of Scotland Agricultural College and its current organi ...

. * Kathleen Martin, Matron, Hope Hospital, Salford, Lancashire. * Walter Harry Martin, Technical Adviser, London North Eastern & Eastern Regions, 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 ...

. * Herbert Maryon, Temporary Curator, Research Laboratory,

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 ...

. * Cyril Aubyn Masterman, Technical Director, Underground Gasification Trials, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Colonel Albert Jim Masterson, DL. For services as Secretary, County of Warwick Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association. * John Strachan Mearns, Chief Engineer, MV ''Sekondi'',

Elder Dempster Lines Elder Dempster Lines was a UK shipping company that traded from 1932 to 2000, but had its origins in the mid-19th century. Founders Alexander Elder Alexander Elder was born in Glasgow in 1834. He was the son of David Elder, who for many ye ...

Ltd. * Andrew Meldrum, Chief Constable,

Fife Constabulary Fife Constabulary was the territorial police force responsible for the Scottish council area of Fife. The area policed by Fife Constabulary had a resident population of just over 350,000, almost a third of whom lived in one of the three princ ...

. * Stanley Middleton, Senior Highways Officer,

Northern Army Group The Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) was a NATO military formation comprising four Western European Army Corps, during the Cold War as part of NATO's forward defence in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Army Group headquarters was established on ...

, War Office. * Harold Midgley, Deputy Chairman, South Western Electricity Board. * William Phillips Miller, JP, Director, James N. Miller & Sons Ltd., Boatbuilders, St. Monance, Fife. * Lennox Milne McLaren, Actress and Producer, Gateway Theatre Company, Edinburgh. * The Right Honourable Marion, Countess of Minto. For political and charitable services in Scotland. * Dennis Hugh Morgan, MBE, Deputy Controller for Wales, Board of Trade. * George Morton, General Manager, State Management Districts, Scotland. * William John Mould, Chairman, Birmingham Federation of Boys' Clubs. * John Mowat, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Ernest Illingworth Musgrave, Director,

Leeds City Art Gallery Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance" ...

and

Temple Newsam House Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), () is a Tudor- Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. The estate lends its name to the Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council, in which it ...

, Leeds. * Alderman Frank Charles Newling, JP, Chairman, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Experimental Farms Committee for Terrington St. Clement and Kirton. * Charles Eric Nicol, Secretary, North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. * Alfred Robert Nobes, JP, Alderman, Gosport Borough Council, Hampshire. * Henry Noble, Chairman, H. Noble (Coopers) Ltd., Bradford. * Joseph Harold Orrell, lately Chief Test Pilot, A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd. * Thomas William Owen, Regional House Coal Officer, Wales Region. * Humphrey Leslie Malcolm Oxley, Senior Legal Assistant,

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 ...

. * Thomas William Palmer Vice-President, British Goat Society. * Septimus Partington, DCM, Internal Head of Works, Salford Electrical Instruments Ltd., Lancashire. * Doris Winifred Pearson, MBE, Assistant Secretary,

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

. * George Edward Pegram, Chief Welfare Officer,

Essex County Council Essex County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Essex in England. It has 75 councillors, elected from 70 divisions, and is currently controlled by the Conservative Party. The council meets at County Hall ...

. * Thomas Pickering, Chief Geologist, Colonial Development Corporation. * Margaret Pilkington, Honorary Director,

Whitworth Art Gallery The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester. In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transfor ...

, Manchester. * William Alfred Pinkerton, Chairman, County Antrim Committee of Agriculture. * Herbert Harold Potter. Attached War Office. * Bertram Thomas Powell. For political services. * Cyril Seymour Coode Prance, MB, BS, JP, Commissioner,

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 Volunteering, volunteers. The associations are overseen b ...

for Plymouth, South West Devon and East Cornwall. * John Craven Pritchard, Director and Secretary, Furniture Development Council. * Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Moberly Pumphrey, TD, DL, MBE, Production Director, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division,

. * Paul Reed, Director, Information Department,

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 ...

. * Leslie Ernest Room. For political and public services in

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 ...

. * Alexander Noble Roxburgh, FRCS, Consultant Surgeon, Northern Regional Hospital Board. * Averil Russell, MBE, General Secretary,

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 ...

. * Kenneth Hugh Sachse, MBE, Assistant Secretary, Foreign Office. * Charles Ernest Salt, MB, ChB, JP. For public services in

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 ...

. * Christopher John Saltmarshe, lately Editor, Monitoring Service, British Broadcasting Service (now Editor, ''

London Calling ''London Calling'' is the third studio album by English rock band the Clash. It was originally released as a double album in the United Kingdom on 14 December 1979 by CBS Records, and in the United States in January 1980 by Epic Records. The C ...

''.) * Henry Sanders, JP, lately Head of Farnham Evening Institute, Surrey. * Elsie Schofield, Superintending Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * John Maurice Shaftesley, Editor of ''

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'', London. * Alexander Shanks, MC, lately Chairman, Birmingham Executive Council, National Health Service. * William Gordon Sharp, Director, Armour & Co. Ltd., Smithfield, London, EC. * Michael Edward Silberston, Chairman, Bethnal Green Savings Committee. * Muriel Sissons. For political and public services in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

. * Reginald Stanley Smart, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Alexander Smith, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Ernest Smith, lately Registrar,

. * Patricia Rosemary Smythe. For services to British Show Jumping. * Arthur Southway, MM, Director, R. W. Crabtree & Sons Ltd., London. * Henry George Sturgeon, Director and Chief Engineer, Ultra Electric Ltd., Acton. * Richard William Sutton, Member of the Food Standards Committee. * Francis Halford William Swallow. For political and public services in

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

. * Herbert Henry Swift, Chief Liaison Officer for National Savings, British Railways (South-Wales Area). * Captain Edward John Syvret, Commodore Master, MV ''Port Auckland'',

Port Line Port Line was a passenger and cargo shipping company, initially formed as the Commonwealth and Dominion Line in 1914, and in operation in one form or another until 1982. Formation The Commonwealth and Dominion Line was formed as an amalgamation ...

Ltd. * Arthur Henry Taylor, MBE, Principal Scientific Officer, Fuel Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * Captain Charles William Taylor, DSC, RD. For political services in

Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...

. * Cyril Taylor, MBE, JP, Chairman, Coventry Local Employment Committee,

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

. * Richard Thompson, JP, Deputy Chairman, Durham Agricultural Executive Committee. * Andrew Thomson, JP, General Manager, Savings Bank of Glasgow. * Walter Charles Tricker, MBE, Registrar, Foreign Office. * Sidney William Turner, MBE, Chairman, Coventry and Nuneaton War Pensions Committee, Warwickshire. * Isidore Isaac Ungar, Deputy Director of Housing,

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 ...

. * Vera Cecil Veitch, MB, ChB, Deputy Principal School Medical Officer,

Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement ...

, Staffordshire. * John Ricketts Vezey, Principal Scientific Officer,

Coastal Command RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was founded in 1936, when the RAF was restructured into Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands and played an important role during the Second World War. Maritime Aviation ...

, Royal Air Force. * Irwyn Ranald Walters, HM Inspector of Schools, Wales, Ministry of Education. * George Edwin Warren, MBE, DL. For political services in

County Fermanagh County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 a ...

. * Cyril John Webster, Honorary Secretary, Morpeth Borough Savings Committee. * John Weir. For public services in the

East End of London The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It does not have uni ...

. * William Douglas White, Assistant Regional Controller, Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * James Whiteside, Clerk to the Justices for the City of

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 ...

. * Alderman Vernon George Wilkinson, JP, Chairman, West Surrey District Advisory Committee of the London & South Eastern Regional Board for Industry. * Charles Henry Williams, Head Postmaster,

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

. * Francis George Willson, BEM, lately Assistant Director, Materials & Explosives Research & Development, Ministry of Supply. * Herbert Ewart Winn, Principal, Stranmillis Training College, Belfast. * Harry Vernon Witham, Higher Collector, Southampton, Board of Customs & Excise. * Arthur William Wood, Clerk and Solicitor, Yorkshire Ouse River Board. * Cyril Wood, lately Director, South Western Region,

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 ...

. * Arthur Joseph Woodall, Principal Lecturer, Royal Military College of Science,

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford Stanley Woodward, JP, DL, Chairman, Bridgend Disablement Advisory Committee. * James Candlish Young, Secretary, General Registry Office, Scotland. * Hans Berman, Temporary Chief Executive Officer, British Information Services, Bonn. * The Reverend Donald Blackburn, Church of England Chaplain in Amman. * Charlie Alistair Britton, General Manager, Sudan Light & Power Co. Ltd. * Geoffrey Clive Davies, lately British Consul at

Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...

. * John Locke Irvine, British subject lately resident in Chile. * James Lamb, MBE, First Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Vienna. * James Donald Lancaster, DSC, lately Second Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Saigon. * Albert James Martin, Trustee of the British Charitable Fund, Paris. * The Venerable Archdeacon George Herbert Martin, Archdeacon of the Northern Sudan. * Ralph Leslie Martin, British subject resident in Bolivia. * Cecil Thomas Albert Nealon, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture, Sudan Government. * Edgar Emil Manicus Nielsen, First Secretary (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Stockholm. * Arthur Henry Noble, MBE, lately British Consul at San Juan, Puerto Rico. * Cyril John Aloysius O'Kelly, FRCSI, LRCP, lately Surgeon at the Royal Hospital,

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...

. * Chantry Hamilton Page, MBE, lately Her Majesty's Consul at

Port Said Port Said ( ar, بورسعيد, Būrsaʿīd, ; grc, Πηλούσιον, Pēlousion) is a city that lies in northeast Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal. With an approximate population of 6 ...

. * Peter Anthony Ivan Tahourdin, Assistant British Council Representative in Yugoslavia. * The Reverend Canon Bertram James Townsend, Church of England Chaplain in

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

. * The Reverend Alexander John Boyd, Principal,

Madras Christian College Madras Christian College (MCC) is a liberal arts and sciences college in Chennai, India. Founded in 1837, MCC is one of Asia's oldest extant colleges. The college is affiliated to the University of Madras but functions as an autonomous institu ...

, India. * The Venerable Archdeacon Arthur Leslie Bulbeck, of Adelaide, State of South Australia. * George Herbert Challoner, Chairman, Salisbury Polytechnic School, Southern Rhodesia. For services to Education in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Cecil George Damant. For services to returned soldiers and their dependents in Basutoland. * George James Dean, formerly Town Clerk, Melbourne City Council, State of Victoria. * Leslie James Goddard, Rector of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, India. * The Reverend Robert Grinham. For services to Education in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, particularly in Southern Rhodesia. * Asher Alexander Joel. For services to social welfare and charitable organisations in the State of New South Wales. * Frederick John Lovatt, Town Clerk 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 ...

. * John MacIntyre. For services to Agriculture in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Moore McBean, ED, formerly Surveyor-General, Southern Rhodesia. * Alexander Charles Parsons, JP, Warden of the Huon Municipality in the State of Tasmania. * Jacobus Johannes Prinsloo, MBE, JP, a Member of the European Advisory Council, Swaziland, and President of the Southern Swaziland Farmers' Association. * John Ritchie, Chairman of the United Kingdom Association (Punjab and North West Frontier Branch), Pakistan. * Francis Farewell Roberts, Civil Commissioner and Magistrate,

Bulawayo Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council cl ...

, Southern Rhodesia. * John Edward Riley Roe, Director of Veterinary Services,

. * Harold John Steward, First Assistant Secretary, Government Secretariat,

Mbabane Mbabane (; ss, ÉMbábáne, ) is a city in Eswatini (previously called Swaziland), and is one of the two capitals (along with Lobamba), serving as the executive capital. With an estimated population of 94,874 (2010), it is located on the Mbaba ...

, Swaziland. * Frederick Storer, Honorary Secretary, Totally & Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association, State of Victoria. * The Reverend Gerard Kennedy Tucker, Superior of the

Brotherhood of St Laurence The Brotherhood of St Laurence is an Australian not-for-profit organisation working toward an Australia free of poverty. The Brotherhood (as it is colloquially known) has its headquarters in Melbourne but provides services and programs across Au ...

in the State of Victoria. * John Peter Richard Wallis. For public services to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, especially in the editing of documents published by the Central African Archives. * Daisy Ellen Rebecca Weeks, JP, a Councillor in the

Shire of Alexandra The Shire of Alexandra was a local government area located about northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1868 until 1994. History Alexandra was first incorporated as a ...

, State of Victoria. For public services. * Lawrence Napier Welch, formerly Senior Divisional Engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, State of Victoria. * Leslie James Wilmoth, a Deputy Chairman of Council, The

Royal Empire Society The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) is a non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote the value of the Commonwealth and the values upon which it is based. The Society upholds the values of the Commonwealth Charter, promoting confli ...

. * Dudley Atherton Wilson, until recently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Fraser Memorial Nursing Home, Colombo, Ceylon. * Herbert Hedley Woods, a Councillor of the North-East Riding of the

Shire of Warracknabeal The Shire of Warracknabeal was a local government area about west-northwest of Bendigo and north of Horsham, in western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1891 until 1995. History The Warracknabeal area was ...

, State of Victoria, for nearly 40 years. * The Right Reverend Monsignor Stephen Fagade Adewtjyi, Parish Priest, Ado, Egbado Division, Abeokuta Province,

Western Region, Nigeria The former Western State of Nigeria was formed in 1967 when the Western Region was subdivided into the states of Lagos and Western State. Its capital was Ibadan, which was the capital of the old region. In 1976, the state was subdivided into thre ...

. * James Otto Ajrd. For public services in

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. * The Reverend John Allen Angus. For services to Religious Education in Nigeria. * Francis Anjo. For public services in

Antigua Antigua ( ), also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Bar ...

, Leeward Islands. * Vincent Apap. For services to Art in Malta. * Norman Irving Archibald, MBE, Acting Deputy Director of Education, Nyasaland. * Thillaiampalm Balasingham, Senior Lecturer in Pathology,

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 ...

. * Francis Lodpwic Bartels. For services to Education in the Gold Coast. * Hilary Alberic Maughn Beckles, Deputy Principal, Queen's College,

British Guiana British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...

. * Oliver Bosshardt Bennett. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. * Henry Thomas Anthony Bowman, JP. For public services in

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,

. * Andrew Kerr Briant, Director of Education, Zanzibar. * Owen Douglas Brisbane. For public services in St. Vincent, Windward Islands. * William Muckle Bristow. For services to Education in the Northern Region, Nigeria. * Gordon Priestley Burdett. For services to Agriculture in Northern Rhodesia. * Frederick Barnaby Carter, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cyprus. * Warren Frederick Martin Clemens, MC, Senior Administrative Officer, Cyprus. * Dennis Alfred Cornish, Government Printer, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Grant Desbordes, Senior Accountant, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Cyril Lupius Duprey. For public services in Trinidad. * George Edmond, City Engineer, City Council, Singapore. * Rex Warren Ennis, Administrative Officer, Western Region, Nigeria. * William Robert Forbes, Accountant General, Uganda. * Horace Primrose Smith Gillette, MB, ChB, Superintendent Medical Officer (Specialist) Malariologist, Trinidad. * Llewellyn Griffiths, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kenya. * Kenneth Page Hadingham, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kenya. * Arthur John Inskip Hawkins, Lately Assistant Commissioner of Police, Northern Rhodesia. * Harold Heys, Accountant-General, Nyasaland. * James Kellock Hunter, MB, ChB, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Uganda. * Vithal Krishna Josshi. For public services in Aden. * John Harris Keast, Director of Surveys, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * William Arnold Knight, Oversea Audit Service, Director of Audit, British Guiana. * Xavier Koenig, Executive Engineer for Development & Welfare Works, Mauritius. *

Kofi George Konuah Dr. Kofi George Konuah (19 August 1904 – 6 June 1996) was a Ghanaian educationist, public servant and elder statesman who served as Chairman of the Public Services Commission of Ghana from 1962 to 1969. Early life Konuah was born on 19 Augus ...

, Member, Public Service Commission, Gold Coast. * George Macleod Levack, Administrative Officer, Gold Coast. * Russell Elliott Lewars, Town Clerk, Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, Jamaica. * John Gordon Liverman. For services to the Volta River Project Preparatory Commission, Gold Coast. * William Charles Donald Lovett, MD, BCh, Senior Medical Officer, Somaliland. * James Mackay. For services to Agriculture in Kenya. * Harry Miller, Assistant Editor, ''

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'', Federation of Malaya. * Donald Parker. For public services in Tanganyika. * Kakubhai Kalidas Radia. For public services in Uganda. * Hugh Aime Ragg, Director of Public Works, Fiji. * Anthony Andrew Russo, LRCS, LRCP. For medical and public services in Gibraltar. * Mallam Muhammadu Shehe, Emir of Argungu, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Alexander Woodrow Stuart Sim, Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Federation of Malaya. * Tan Kai Choon. For public services in Sarawak. * Stuart Mathias Taylor, Director of Commerce and Industry, Sierra Leone. * Charles Paxton Thompson, Administrative Officer, Federation of Nigeria. * Eric James Thompson, Accountant-General, Tanganyika. * George Gray Thomson, Public Relations Officer, Singapore. * Captain Kenneth John Tomlin, MBE, Director of Public Works, Barbados. * Hope Trant, MBE, MD, BCh. Lately Medical Research Officer, East African Medical Survey & Research Institute. * William Frew Watson, Commissioner of Inland Revenue & Estate Duty, Hong Kong. * Arthur Thomas Wedgwood. For public services in Sarawak. * Stuart Ireland White, Deputy Chief Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Department, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations. * Mohammed Yassin bin Haji Hashim, MBE, Member of the Executive Council,

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 ...

. :;Honorary Officers * See Khoon Lim. For public services in

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 ...

, Federation of Malaya. * Haji Che Ahmad bin Ismail, JP. For public services in

Kelantan Kelantan (; Jawi: ; Kelantanese Malay: ''Klate'') is a state in Malaysia. The capital is Kota Bharu and royal seat is Kubang Kerian. The honorific name of the state is ''Darul Naim'' (Jawi: ; "The Blissful Abode"). Kelantan is located in the ...

, Federation of Malaya.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Lieutenant-Commander (E) Henry Seymour Bromby, (Retd.) * Senior Commissioned Engineer Gordon Leslie Bruty. * Recruiting Officer Frederick Chadwick, Royal Marines. * Lieutenant-Commander Allan Healey. * First Officer Beatrice Marjorie Hooppell, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Lieutenant Ronald Leonard, DFC. * Lieutenant Richard Roberts Frederick Liddall, (Retd.) * Temporary Senior Commissioned Boatswain John George Passey, (Retd.) * Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander John Stuart Pepys Rawlins, BM, BCh. * Senior Commissioned Catering Officer William Sydney Gaius Tanner. * Captain John Aubrey Taplin, Royal Marines. * Temporary Acting Commissioned Engineer William Clifford James Williams, (on loan to the Government of India). * Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Leon Harold Willson, MC, RNVR. ;;Army * Major (temporary) Andrew Ainslie (117417), 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) (AOER.) (Re-employed). * Major Winifred Mary Backhouse, TD (192381), Women's Royal Army Corps. * Major Charles Norman Barker, MC (95654), 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, ...

. * 14942005 Warrant Officer Class II Colin Islwyn Barnes, Intelligence Corps. * Major (temporary) William Gerald Hugh Beach, MC (251023), Corps of Royal Engineers. * 879467 Warrant Officer Class II Andrew Beattie, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major (Quartermaster) John Hubert Bradbury, TD (91393) Royal Regiment of Artillery (now Retd.) * Major (acting) Philip Brocklesby, 43rd West Riding Battalion, Home Guard. * Captain (Director of Music) Lewis Doyle Brown (384328) Royal Army Medical Corps. * Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) (Technical Officer, Telecommunications) Holroyd Ernest Hugh Clements (105592), Royal Corps of Signals. * 22292964 Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Charles Beresford Coldicott, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * 22531083 Warrant Officer Class II Eric Gordon Lennox Craik, The

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The regiment existed from 1881 to 1961, and saw servic ...

. * Captain (Quartermaster) Herbert Samuel Dafforn (353960), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major (Quartermaster) Edward Reginald Davidson (248924), Royal Army Service Corps (nowRetd.) * Captain (QGO) Dhanbahadur Gurung, MC. (388456),

6th Gurkha Rifles The 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army, before being transferred to the British Army following India's independence. Originally raised in 1817 as part of the army of the British East India Compa ...

. * 1871328 Warrant Officer Class I Harold Emment, Corps of Royal Engineers. * 22294439 Warrant Officer Class I (Bandmaster) Charles Sydney Evans, The

South Staffordshire Regiment The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for only 68 years. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot an ...

, Territorial Army. * Major (acting) James Lawrence Evans (304612), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * 2042659 Warrant Officer Class II James Herbert Faizey, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * Major (acting) Kenneth Flin, 57th Kent Battalion, Home Guard. * Major (acting) Leonard Miller Frazer, South Antrim Battalion, Home Guard. * Major (acting) Edward George Gardner, 5th Dorset Battalion, Home Guard. * 812419 Warrant Officer Class I John Owen Gifford, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Captain Charles Edward Godbold (279378), General List (Section A), Territorial Army, Adjutant-Quartermaster, 3rd Shropshire Battalion, Home Guard (now Retd.) * 1466230 Warrant Officer Class II Ewell Frederick Green, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major (temporary) John Alan Griffiths (201484), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * 6347103 Warrant Officer Class II John England Grubb, The

. * Major Michael Guy Harris (129750), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major William Clare Harrison (232045), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Major Anne Mary Hine-Haycock (244885), Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army. * W/11074 Warrant Officer Class I Alys Hillyard, Women's Royal Army Corps. * Major Mervyn Ingledew Hore (235880), 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 operation ...

. * Captain (Quartermaster) George Nelson Howe (415867),

Irish Guards The Irish Guards (IG), is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and is part of the Guards Division. Together with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish infantry regiments in the British Army. The regiment has parti ...

. * 828265 Warrant Officer Class I William Edward Jaine, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * Major William Geoffrey Juckes, TD (74799). The

Royal Hampshire Regiment The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The reg ...

, Territorial Army. * Major Leo William Karn (121061), 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 Travers Richard King (322284), The

Royal Ulster Rifles The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot and the 86th (Royal County ...

(Employed List (4)). * 558174 Warrant Officer Class II Harold Lamb, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. * Major Frederick Jacques Leon Lang, TD, FRCS, LRCP (37420), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * Major Reginald Hume Last (120532), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) (Employed List (4)). * 1667137 Warrant Officer Class II William Thomas Lee, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. * Major (Quartermaster) Harry Cornelius Loveridge (137401),

Army Catering Corps The Army Catering Corps (ACC) was a corps of the British Army, responsible for the feeding of all Army units. It was formed in 1941 and amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993. History In 1938 Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of St ...

. * Major (Quartermaster) Charles James Lusher (211703), Royal Armoured Corps (Employed List (4)). * 3185339 Warrant Officer Class II John Norman Lyall, 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. * Major (acting) Ralph Fielding Maughan, 7th North Riding Battalion, Home Guard. * Major Thomas Bellingham Smith McMain (240820), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. * Captain Robert Maurice Merrell (277516), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Captain (acting) William Henry Milsom (181809), Army Cadet Force. * Major Philip Clive Mitford (74693), The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's). * 21015349 Warrant Officer Class II Alma Rufus Moore,

Special Air Service The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling and in 1950, it was reconstituted as a corps. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terro ...

Regiment, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant James Sidney Nobbs (412026), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Captain Mary Noonan (386120),

Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as ''the QAs'') is the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services. History Although an "official" nursing service was not established until 1881, the corps traces its heritage t ...

. * Major (acting) Maurice Norton (283961),

. * Major Archibald William Nutt (113261), Royal Army Service Corps (Employed List (4)). * Major Brian Harold John Anthony O'Reilly (112902), Royal Army Service Corps. * 2718568 Warrant Officer Class I Walter Pestell, The Parachute Regiment. * Major (temporary) Fred Raine (359150), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Captain William Arthur Daniel Ranger (350603), General List (Section A), Territorial Army, Adjutant-Quartermaster, 21st Sussex Battalion, Home Guard. * Captain (acting) Percival Douglas Read, 14th Hampshire Battalion, Home Guard. * Major (Quartermaster) William Christopher Roberts (238506), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List (4)), seconded to

Officers' Training Corps The Officers' Training Corps (OTC), more fully called the University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), are military leadership training units operated by the British Army. Their focus is to develop the leadership abilities of their members whilst ...

. * Major (Quartermaster) Christopher John Robinson (167474), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). * 2216942 Warrant Officer Class I Robert Roy, DCM, The

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd Regiment of Foot, 42nd (Roy ...

. * W/111976 Warrant Officer Class II Olive Annie Rutter, Women's Royal Army Corps. * 7882551 Warrant Officer Class II Harold Smith, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. * Captain Alfred Edward Solly (6901), General List (Section A), Territorial Army, lately Adjutant-Quartermaster, Armagh Battalion, Home Guard (now Retd.) * Captain (Quartermaster) Arthur James Spratley, MM (405735),

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

. * Major (temporary) Alan Norman Stacey (233619), Corps of Royal Engineers. * Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) (acting) Frederick Kenneth Theobald, TD (52188), Army Cadet Force. * Major Hardress Jocelyn De Warrenne Waller, MC (71010), Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 318813 Warrant Officer Class II Stephen Wardrope, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 22513907 Warrant Officer Class II Stephen Lea Webb, Intelligence Corps, Territorial Army. * Major (acting) (Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel) Berend George Wennink, TD (66276), Combined Cadet Force (now Retd.) * Major George Widdowson, TD (49397), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * Captain Thomas Henry Wilkinson (406750), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * 11269804 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Wright, The Parachute Regiment. Territorial Army. * Major (temporary) Bernard David Morgan (355652), Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers; at present on loan to the Government of India. * Captain Cyril Austin Taylor, Commanding Officer, Montserrat Defence Force. :;In recognition of services in Korea during the period 28 July 1955 to 31 January 1956 * Major John Charles Chase (194755), Royal Army Service Corps. ;;Royal Air Force * Squadron Leader Nathaniel Bangs (48461), (Retd.) * Squadron Leader William Hubert James Daw (43679). * Squadron Leader Leslie Ewart Farrell (45013). * Squadron Leader Basil Robert William Forster, DFC, AFC (124611). * Squadron Leader James Allen Boyed Mounsey, MRCS, LRCP (202837). * Acting Squadron Leader Roy Thomas Cahill (129067). * Acting Squadron Leader Robert Kenworthy (129866), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). * Flight Lieutenant Arthur Adamson (59956). * Flight Lieutenant David Stevenson Dolbear (565507). * Flight Lieutenant Leslie Herbert Cyril Gayfer, DFM (47082). * Flight Lieutenant Herbert Edward Green (50679). * Flight Lieutenant Peter Trevor Hall (198721). * Flight Lieutenant Hector Ernest Hammett (54917). * Flight Lieutenant Edmund Courtney Henderson (58393). * Flight Lieutenant Thomas James Howard (58445). * Flight Lieutenant Henry John King (49237). * Flight Lieutenant Frank Moses Noel Lewis (57300). * Flight Lieutenant John Anthony Louis (571747). * Flight Lieutenant Thomas Lancaster Milner (169057). * Flight Lieutenant Raymond Frederick Pearson (55135). * Flight Lieutenant William John Thomas Smith, AFC (45189). * Flight Lieutenant Harry Staples (52630). * Flight Lieutenant James Swainston (59033). * Flight Lieutenant William Robert Watts (58805). * Flight Lieutenant Harold Webb (59227). * Acting Flight Lieutenant Leslie Arthur Montgomery (203565), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch). * Warrant Officer Alfred Ayres (2686005), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Warrant Officer Douglas John Arthur Brooke-Webb (509568). * Warrant Officer Joseph Edward Butcher (356545). * Warrant Officer Thomas William Catton (550233). * Warrant Officer Bernard Vickers Cooper (563075). * Warrant Officer Edwin Richard Fountain (630116). * Warrant Officer Lancelot Ingledew Harvey (359841). * Warrant Officer Cyril Leslie Hickling (551120). * Warrant Officer Alfred Robert Jukes (348792). * Warrant Officer Thomas Lillie (517452). * Warrant Officer Walter Denis Macgregor (531148). * Warrant Officer Charles Joseph Mansford (364921). * Warrant Officer Isaac Redpath (639302). * Warrant Officer Roger Sandford (633027). * Warrant Officer Frederick Charles Thomas (512934). * Warrant Officer Thomas William Thurston (565034). * Warrant Officer Alexander Paterson Walker (540585). * Warrant Officer Class I Carlos Alberto de Jesus Vieira Ribeiro, Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force. * Acting Warrant Officer Alfred Harold Burkey (528069). * Acting Warrant Officer Leslie George Ward (611045). * Squadron Leader Francis Eustace Edmund Truscott (49714), Royal Air Force; at present on loan to the Government of Pakistan. ;Civil Division * William David Mabon Abraham, Commissioner and Brigade Secretary,

, Priory for Wales of the Order of St. John. * James Arthur Aked, Transmission Engineer,

South of Scotland Electricity Board The South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB) generated, transmitted and distributed electricity throughout the south of Scotland, including the former regions of Strathclyde, Lothian, Fife, Central, Borders and Dumfries and Galloway and a few t ...

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, Derbyshire. * Horace George Amer, Area Livestock Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Mary Anderson. For public services in Northumberland. * Frederick Gray Arklie, Chairman, Aberdeen Fish Curers' and Merchants' Association. * Edith Betty Armitage. For political and public services in

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. * George Henry Baggott, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * James Balfour, JP, Honorary Secretary, Joint Industrial Advisory Council for Scottish Institutions for the Blind. * William Arthur Ball, Manager of Decorating Department, Ashby & Homer Ltd., Builders. * Leonard Harker Barton, Senior Technical Officer, Ministry of Health. * Albert Edward Basford. For political and public services in Hayes and Harlington. * Charles Cecil Birch, Higher Executive Officer, Export Credits Guarantee Department. * William Blenkin, Superintendent, Durham County Constabulary. * Elsie Blest. For political and public services in

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. * Henry James Blighton. For political services. * David Bogie, Chief Engineer, MV ''Soochow'', China Navigation Co. Ltd. * Doris Flora Bore. For political and public services in

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. * Alice Maud Boutell, Higher Executive Officer Board of Trade. * Edward Bowles, Works Manager, Churchill Components (Coventry) Ltd.,

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, near Nuneaton. * Alderman William Boyson, JP, Chairman,

Haslingden Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is north of Manchester. The name means 'valley of the hazels' or 'valley growing with hazels'. At the time of the 2011 census the town (including Helmshore) had a population of 15,96 ...

Local Employment Committee, Lancashire. * John Basil Brennan, General Secretary,

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. * Edward Vincent Locke Briggs, Staff Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland. * Ashley James Brown, Senior Inspector, Inspectorate of Clothing, Ministry of Supply. * Florence Jane Brown, JP, Member,

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. * Violet Marshall Burdett, Mental Health Officer, Ipswich County Borough. * Harry Frost Burrell, lately Manager, General Engineering Department,

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Ltd.,

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. * Stanley Ebenezer Burrows, Market Superintendent, Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd. * May Campbell, Honorary Secretary, Belfast Musical Festival. * Horace Reginald Canning, Manager, Marine Department,

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. * John Marriott Cole, Lately Principal Clerk, Supreme Court Taxing Office. * David Reid Colquhoun, Purser and Chief Steward, SS ''City of Port Elizabeth'',

Ellerman Lines Ellerman Lines was a United Kingdom, UK cargo and passenger shipping company that operated from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. It was founded in the late 19th century, and continued to expand by acquiring smaller sh ...

Ltd. * James Goudie Colville, Assistant Shipyard Manager,

Harland & Wolff Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It specialises in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the Wh ...

Ltd., Belfast. * Irene Helen Combs, Vice-President and Honorary Treasurer, "The Watch Ashore". For services to the Merchant Navy. * Henry Coward, Generation Engineer (Operation), North West, Merseyside & North Wales Division,

. * Harold Charles Cowie, Deputy Chief Officer, Berkshire & Reading Fire Brigade. * Lawrence John Cox, Station Master, Waterloo, Southern Region, British Railways, British Transport Commission. * Harry Pollard Crabtree, Senior Coaching Adviser, Marylebone Cricket Club Youth Cricket Association. * James Argo Craig, Senior Experimental Officer, Admiralty. * Oswald Pilkington Cronshaw, North Wales Grid Manager and Chairman, Clwyd and Deeside Group, Wales Gas Board. * Alfred Charles Croot, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Huntingdonshire Constabulary. * George Francis Coleman-Cross,

Toc H Toc H (also TH) is an international Christian movement. The name is an abbreviation for Talbot House, "Toc" signifying the letter T in the signals spelling alphabet used by the British Army in World War I. A soldiers' rest and recreation centre ...

Commissioner, Middle East. * William Henry Grossman, BEM, JP, Chairman of Committee, No. 406 (Willesden) and No. 1906 (Neasden) Squadrons,

. * James Crowther, Chief Metallurgist, James Booth & Co. Ltd., Birmingham. * Henry Edward Middleton Cushing, lately Executive Officer, Northern Ireland District, War Office. * Mildred Mary Stevens Darvell, Superintendent of Typists, Board of Trade. * Evan Davies, JP, Member, Cardiganshire Smallholdings Committee. * Albert Leslie Dawson, Civil Defence Officer, Sheffield. * Cyril Herbert Dee, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Frank Dew, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * John Dickie, Chief Engineer, SS ''Baron Elgin'', H. Hogarth & Sons Ltd. * Elizabeth Nicholas Dickson, JP. For political and public services in

Perthshire Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...

. * Leslie Reginald Dougal, Deputy Sales Manager, London,

British European Airways British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974. BEA operated to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from airports around the United Kingdom. The a ...

. * Robert Jackson Dowding, Burgh Surveyor, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Burgh Engineer and Manager of Works Department, Denny and Dunipace, Lanarkshire. * Charles Henry, Herbert Drain Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Elsie Jean Duffy, Headmistress, Margaret Barclay Residential School for Physically Handicapped Children,

Mobberley Mobberley is a village in Cheshire, England, between Wilmslow and Knutsford, which in 2001 had a population of 2,546, increasing to 3,050 at the 2011 Census. Mobberley railway station is on the Manchester to Chester line. Manchester Airport lie ...

, Cheshire. * Mary Edna Dunne, Intelligence Officer, Grade I, Joint Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Defence. * Ernest Alfred Dutton, Higher Executive Officer, War Office. * Colin Ecclestone, Honorary Treasurer, Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops,

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. * Annie Evelyn Edwards. For charitable work in the

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. * David Richard Edwards, JP. For philanthropic services in Wales. * Thomas Edwards, Manager, Flint Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Roy Gilbert Ellen, Performance Control Engineer,

Standard Telephones and Cables Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd (later STC plc) was a British manufacturer of telephone, telegraph, radio, telecommunications, and related equipment. During its history, STC invented and developed several groundbreaking new technologies incl ...

Ltd.,

North Woolwich North Woolwich is an area in the London Borough of Newham in East London. It is located on the northern bank of the River Thames, across the river from Woolwich. It is connected to Woolwich by the Woolwich Ferry and Woolwich foot tunnel. Des ...

. * Hubert Alexander Malcolm Ellsley, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Leonard Sidgwick Elton, MC, Regional Officer, Commonwealth Department, British Council. * William Thomas Emery, Member, Lincoln Local Employment Committee and Disablement Advisory Committee. * John Noel Evans, Manager, Mountstuart Dry Dock Co. Ltd.,

Avonmouth Avonmouth is a port and outer suburb of Bristol, England, facing two rivers: the reinforced north bank of the final stage of the Avon which rises at sources in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset; and the eastern shore of the Severn Estuar ...

. * Constance Everett, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Works. * Robert Leonard Fagg, Assistant Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office,

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, General Post Office. * Edwin Faraday, Chief Supply Official, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes, Egypt. * Joseph Edward Farrell, Engineering Assistant, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. * Brigadier Richard Hugh Farren. For political and public services in Hastings and St. Leonards. * Clifford-Henry George Filer, Executive Officer, War Office. * Archibald Fletcher, Principal Sheriff Clerk Depute of Renfrewshire at Greenock. * Thomas James Flint, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Euphemia Mowat Beith Forrest, Member, Scottish Savings Committee and Lanarkshire Local Savings Committee. * John Archibald Forrest, Principal Senior Lecturer, Birmingham College of Technology. * Fred Fowler, Headmaster, Thorne Moorends County Junior School near Doncaster. * Alexander James Frame, Assistant Chief Officer, Hertfordshire Fire Brigade. * Edward Freedman, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance, Manchester. * John Galbraith, Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. * Mary Henrietta Stranack Gaskell, Assistant County Director, Glamorgan, British Red Cross Society. * Sidney Harry George, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Arthur Gibbons, Higher Executive Officer, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. * Elizabeth Gray Gibson. For political services in Edinburgh. * Dorothy Frances Sutherland Gill, Secretary of the Croydon Guild of Social Service. * William Gill, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue. * Frances Isabel Gillett. For political and public services in the

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. * James Alexander Gilliland, Shipyard Manager,

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& Co. Ltd.,

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. * Robert Gilmour, Chairman, Hospital Auxiliary Committee, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. * Frederick Walter Goodchild, Accountant and Secretary, National Institute of Houseworkers. * Violet Eiffel Goodwin, Member, Dewsbury Local Employment Committee. * Gordon Sutherland Grant, Air Traffic Control Officer in Charge, Kirkwall Aerodrome, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Captain Ian Crawford Grant, General Manager,

Scottish Airlines Scottish Airlines (Prestwick) Limited was formed in 1946 as a subsidiary of Scottish Aviation Limited. The airline commenced worldwide passenger and cargo charter flights from bases at Prestwick and Stansted. It also participated in the Berlin ...

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. * Sidney Patrick Holland, Departmental Civilian Officer, Malta, War Office. * Mary Horan, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * William Arthur House, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Frederick Standen Howell, Secretary and Registrar, Forth District, The

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. * Joseph Grey Hutton Manager, Melville Hall Estate, Dominica, Windward Islands. * Lena Mabel Innes, Sister-in-Charge, Out Patient Department,

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. * James Herbertson Jackman, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Alexander Jamieson, Group Manager, Western Group,

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. * Kenneth Edmund Brian Jay, Principal Scientific Officer, Scientific Administration Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment. * Wilfrid Harry Jenkins, Higher Clerical Officer,

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. * John Henry John, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Doris May Johnson, Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * Matthew Johnson. For political and public services in

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. * Maud Jessie Johnson, JP, Divisional Director, British Red Cross Society,

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. * Charles Walter Johnstone, BEM, lately Engineer Technical I,

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, Farnborough, Ministry of Supply. * John Allen Rowlatt-Jones, Chief Technician,

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. * Alfred Kelly, lately Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable,

Isle of Man Constabulary The Isle of Man Constabulary ( gv, Meoiryn-Shee Ellan Vannin) is the national police service of the Isle of Man, an island of 85,000 inhabitants, situated approximately equidistant from Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England. Structures a ...

. * William John Moffett Kennedy, lately Senior Committee Clerk,

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. * Arthur Edwin Kent, Senior Executive Officer, National Assistance Board. * Annie Alice Flutter Key. For political and public services in

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. * Martin Killin, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Works. * Ralph Stewart Kinnaird, Clerk, Grade 2, Foreign Office. Lately Queen's Foreign Service Messenger. * Stanley Ewart Kippax, Member, Lancashire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Arthur John Kurn, Chief Photographer, Central Office of Information. * Marie Ford Laidlaw. For political services in the West of Scotland. * Lizzie Julia Barton Land, County Secretary, Staffordshire Association for the Welfare of the Blind. * Henry Richard Lane, Chief Engineer,

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Ltd. * James Phillips Lanyon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * Albert George Jasper Latoy, Chief Steward, SS ''Andes'', Royal Mail Lines Ltd. * Frederick Lee, BEM, Inspector of Works, Royal Air Force, Martlesham Heath, Suffolk. * Edwin Lees, District Traffic Superintendent, Ayr, Scottish Region, British Railways, British Transport Commission. * Alfred William Lennard, Chairman, Sussex War Pensions Committee. * Ethel Lewis, Grade 3 Officer, Branch B of the Foreign Service, Foreign Office. * Morgan James Lewis, Chief Clerk, University of Cambridge Officers Training Corps (Territorial Army). * Ernest Linington, Chief Clerk, County of Sussex Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association. * Charles William Edward Litchfield, lately Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade. * Frederick Guthrie Lobb, Senior Executive Officer, Savings Department, General Post Office. * Frank Berti Lydall, Chairman, Dewsbury, Batley, Wakefield and Mirfield District Advisory Committee of the East and West Ridings Regional Board for Industry. * Dorothy Sarah Lyndsay, Honorary Secretary and Collector, School Savings Group, Model School, Londonderry. * Jean Babington Macaulay, Home Nurse, Essex County Council. * Iris MacDermott, Chairman, Lambeth Streets Savings Committee. * Isabel Macdonald, Secretary, Royal British Nurses Association. * Harold Gilmore Mace, Regional Chief Executive Officer, Northern Region, Ministry of Fuel & Power. * James McFetridge, JP, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. * Kathleen Philomena McGreevy, Ward Sister, Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Maidstone. * John Alexander Furnivall MacKean, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Christina Mackenzie, JP, Warden, Atholl House Mother and Baby Hostel, Glasgow. * Jessica Moffat Rankin Maclean, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Angus MacLeod, Agricultural Adviser for Lewis and Harris, North of Scotland College of Agriculture. * Clementina Ferguslie McQuaker, Senior Executive Officer, Foreign Office. * Alfred Madle. For political and public services in Middlesex. * Richard Edward Manly, Air Traffic Control Officer II, London Airport. * Benjamin William Manning. For political and public services in Suffolk. * Margaret May Marpole, Home Nurse, Llanelly, South Wales. * Alderman Harold Rupert Marshall, Chairman, Birmingham Disablement Advisory Committee. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Norman Marshall, MC, TD, lately Civil Defence Officer, West Midlands Gas Board; now Civil Defence Officer, Staffordshire County Council. * Percy Martin, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. * Roy William Ferrier-May, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Hilda Meadows, Higher Executive Officer, Admiralty. * Agnes Henderson Meldrum, Secretary,

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. * Alexander Wilson Menzies, Process Development Manager, Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd., Coventry. * Gertrude Mary Miller, Assistant, Home Presentation Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Mabel Agatha Moorhouse, lately Ward Sister,

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, Coulsdon, Surrey. * Stanley Morton, JP, Member,

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Council, Cheshire. * George Wyville Moses. For services as Honorary Secretary, Hemsworth Savings Committee, West Riding of Yorkshire. * Amy Mary Musther, Tutor to Houseparent Courses, Home Office Central Training Council. * Frank Stephen Newborn, JP. For political and public services in the

. * William Harold Newsome, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * Grace Elliott Nicholson, lately Head

Almoner An almoner (} ' (alms), via the popular Latin '. History Christians have historically been encouraged to donate one-tenth of their income as a tithe to their church and additional offerings as needed for the poor. The first deacons, mentioned ...

, United Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals. * Gerald Nixon, Executive Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Coventry, General Post Office. * Wilfred Ivor Maxwell Nixon, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. * Wing Commander Edward William Norris, Chief Divisional Organiser,

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. * William Edward Norwood, Assistant Fire Service Inspector, Home Office. * Charles Patrick Oakshott, Senior Executive Officer, No. 4 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Ruislip. * Mervyn Cecil Oliver, Calligrapher. * Dudley Ronald Edward O'Neill, Technical Sales Manager, The London Aluminium Co. Ltd., Birmingham. * John Griffith Owen, Committee Land Agent, Anglesey Agricultural Executive Committee. * Gerald Stanley Palmer, Manager, Titanium Melting Plant, William Jessop & Sons Ltd. * Wing-Commander William Richard Parkhouse, Managing Director, Exeter Airport Ltd. For services to civil aviation. * Jessie Hamilton Paxton, Honorary Superintendent, Methil Nursery School, Fife. * Arthur William Payne, Higher Executive Officer, General Post Office. * Dora Lilian Pearce, Centre Organiser, Hove, Women's Voluntary Services. * Dorothy Caroline Pearce, Grade 3 officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Harold Leslie Pease, Works Surveyor, Imperial War Graves Commission. * James Pedley, Secretary, Plymouth Local Productivity Committee, Transport & General Workers' Union. * Francis Alexander Peters, Senior Executive Officer, War Office. * Major William Pettigrew, MC, JP, Secretary, South Western Division, Earl Haig Fund. * Reginald Vernon Phillips, Deputy Commissioner, South Eastern Region, National Savings Committee. * Daisy Clarissa Plummer, General Secretary, National Children Adoption Association. * Charles Edward Pooley, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office. * Hilda Ivy Port, Headmistress, Oakwood Church of England Primary School. * Martha Potts, Head Teacher, High Southwick Primary Girls' School, Sunderland. * Wilfred Poulsom, TD, Manager, Newcastle Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Leonard John Quelch, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Oxford City Police Force. * Alfred Radford, Superintending Inspector, Aeronautical Inspection Service, No. 7. Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Quedgeley. * Charles Travell Read, Borough Engineer and Surveyor,

Maidenhead Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames. It had an estimated population of 70,374 and forms part of the border with southern Bu ...

. * Frederick Charles Read, BEM, Manager, Ordnance Board Printing Press, Ministry of Supply. * David Graham Reavey Dock Engineer Manager, John Brown & Co. (Clydebank) Ltd., Clydebank. * Francis David Rees, MM, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government. * George Scouller Munn Rhodes, City Factor,

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. * Ernest Albert Richards, Inspecting Officer of Shipfitting Work, Admiralty. * Lorna Marion Ridgway, Headmistress, William Forster County Junior Mixed and Infants' School,

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ar ...

. * Ronald Ernest Ridgwell, Headquarters Superintendent and Chief Instructor, Civil Defence Training, London Ambulance Service. * James Robert Rimmer, JP, Chairman, Formby Urban District Council. * William George Risbridger, Higher Executive Officer, School of Military Engineering, War Office. * Griffith Thomas Roberts, Member, representing Caernarvonshire, National Savings Assembly. * Herbert Robinson, Horticulturist,

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, Leicestershire. * Mary Elizabeth Robinson, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs & Excise. * Robert John Roddick, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. * Anne Kyle Roe. For public services in Londonderry. * Sarah Jane Rowland. For political and public services in

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. * Andrew Sinclair Roxburgh, JP, Master of Works, Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd. * John Rue, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * William George Tilden Russell, Manager, Motor Transport Department,

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Co. Ltd. * Norman Amos, Sales Second Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Ottawa. * Kathleen May Sanders, Senior Telecommunications Superintendent, Headquarters Inland Telecommunications Department, General Post Office. * Evelyn Frances Savill. For political and public services in

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. * Gwendolen Maude Saye. For services to welfare organisations in

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. * Arthur Turner Scarisbrick, Officer, Belfast, Board of Customs & Excise. * Elsie Winifred Scott, Headmistress, Huntingdon County Primary School. * William Scott, MB, ChB, Admiralty Surgeon and Agent and Medical Officer, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory,

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. * Robert Humphry Sears, Honorary Secretary, Soldiers' Sailors' & Airmen's Families Association, New Forest Division. * Arthur Harold Selby, Production Manager, George W. King Ltd., Stevenage. * John Senior, Member, Northern Regional Board for Industry. * Alfred Shaw, Battery Division Sales Manager,

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Ltd., Aldwych. * Charles Henry Shaw, Chief Cashier, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Wilton Works, Middlesbrough. * James Lymburn Shaw, District Officer, Grade I, Forestry Commission. * John Bailey Shelton, City Chamberlain, Coventry, Warwickshire. * Wilfred George Short, Colliery Manager, Crumlin Navigation and Aberbeeg South Collieries, South Western Division, National Coal Board. * Sydney Edgar Shotter, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Kenneth Wilson Silverthorne, Assistant County Agricultural Officer, Wiltshire. * Ernest Simpson, Chairman and Managing Director, Berry Hill Brickworks Ltd. * William Charles Sinclair, Secretary, Manchester & District Engineering Employers' Association. * Sarah Smith, Chairman, Burnley, Nelson & District War Pensions Committee, Lancashire. * Nathalie Rose May Smythe, Head Occupational Therapist, Medical Rehabilitation Unit, Royal Air Force,

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. * Captain Valentine Charles Soggee, lately Assistant Secretary,

Royal Tournament The Royal Tournament was the world's largest military tattoo and pageant, held by the British Armed Forces annually between 1880 and 1999. The venue was originally the Royal Agricultural Hall and latterly the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. In its l ...

. * Alexander Welsh Somerville, Youth Welfare Worker, Edinburgh. * Victor Christopher Sonnex, Attached War Office. * James Murray Spey, Senior Information Officer, Central Office of Information. * William Temple Spittle, lately Station Superintendent, West Ham Generating Station, London Division, Central Electricity Authority. * William Stanton, Deputy Chief Officer, Northamptonshire Fire Brigade. * Lady Helen Maud Stead, Assistant, Drama Booking Section, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Charles Howard Steel, Chairman, Lydney Savings Committee, Gloucestershire. * Gordon Henry Steer, Cabin Services Officer, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Samuel Fulton Strang, Chairman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Club (Scotland). * Margaret Ann Sutherland, Head Teacher, Costa Primary School,

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, Orkney. * George Percy Sutton, Assistant Chief Constable, Essex Constabulary. * Wallace Ivor Roy Symes, Senior Survey Clerk, Marine Survey Office, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Mary Ruth Tabor, Housing Manager, Stevenage Development Corporation. * Alice Tasker, Member, representing South West Hertfordshire, National Savings Assembly. * Arthur Taylor, Chief Safety Engineer and Civil Defence Controller for Richard Thomas & Baldwins Steel Company of Wales. * Frederick Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply. * John William Taylor, Grimsby Representative, British Trawler Owners Association. * Owen John Thomas, Trade Union Organiser, National Association of Operative Plasterers. * Harold Thornton, Tees District Secretary,

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. * Tracy Philip Tilbrook, Chairman, Reigate & District Local Employment Committee. * Eleanor Winefride Tindall. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in Norfolk. * John Todd, Chairman, Penrith District Committee, Cumberland Agricultural Executive Committee. * Henry Toon, Chairman, Stone & Newcastle District Committee, Staffordshire Agricultural Executive Committee. * Major William De la Court Topley, TD, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office. * James Treadgold, BEM, lately Principal Station Radio Officer, Admiralty Civilian Shore Wireless Service. * George Edward Tregoning, JP, Chairman, Chester Sea Cadet Corps Unit. * Edward William Tuck, Head of Supply Group, Engineering Equipment Department, British Broadcasting Corporation. * Denys William Tucker, Assistant Principal Clerk and Press Officer, Board of Inland Revenue. * Ralph Edward Tugman, Safety Officer, Alkali Division, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., * James Kennedy Turnbull, Chief Financial Officer, South Shields District Hospital Management Committee. * Ernest Leslie Turnock, Chief Committee Clerk,

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. * The Reverend Kenneth Hope Tyson, Church of Scotland Minister,

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, Switzerland. * Herbert Willan Wadge, Member, National Schools Advisory Committee, National Savings Committee. * Charles George Harry Walker, Works Manager, HM Stationery Office. * Margaret Crichton Walker, Burgh Organiser, Ayr, Women's Voluntary Services. * Norman John Jamieson Walker, Honorary Secretary, Aberdeenshire Local Savings Committee. * Joseph Michael Anthony Wall, Assistant Regional Manager, South Eastern Region, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission. * Randolph Warburton, Grade 5 Officer, Selby Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Charles Walter Benjamin Watford, Higher Executive Officer, Air Ministry. * Samuel Watts, Manager, Plane Department, C. & J. Hampton Ltd., Sheffield. * John Ivor Webb, Civil Defence Officer, A. Guinness, Son & Co. Ltd. * William James Weightman, Senior Executive Officer, Tithe Redemption Commission. * Ronald Victor Welch, Superintendent, Reproduction Staff, Ordnance Survey Department, Southampton. * Basil Edward Wells, Chief Male Nurse, Royal Naval Hospital, Great Yarmouth. * William Whale, Technical Officer,

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, Monmouthshire. * Katherine Marie Whelan. For political services in

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. * Elizabeth Alice Maud Whitehouse. For political and public services in Rowley Regis and Tipton. * George Whitley, Engineering Labour Supply Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Insurance, Northern Ireland. * Edith Jean Whittaker, Honorary Secretary,

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and

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Savings Committee, Lancashire. * Ottilia Louisa Wiles, Centre Organiser, Beddington and Wallington, Women's Voluntary Services. * Horace Oxley Wilkin, Partner, Cruso & Wilkin, King's Lynn, Norfolk. * Samuel Augustine Wilkins, Assistant Postmaster, Head Post Office, Bournemouth. * Frederick Oliver Wilks, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service. * Ewart Harrod Williams, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Works. * John Owen Williams. For services to Welsh Literature. * Richard Jones Williams, Senior Experimental Officer,

, Air Ministry. * Captain Thomas John Willis, Master, MS ''Sonority'', F. T. Everard & Sons Ltd. * Helen Primrose Wilson, Vice-President, Alva and Menstrie Division, Clackmannan County, British Red Cross Society (Scottish Branch). * Robert Hugh Winder District Inspector,

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. * Albert Edward Winslade, Principal Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty. * Observer Lieutenant Clifford Marshall Wolstenholme, Group Officer, No. 19 Group,

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, Manchester. * Charles Ernest Wood, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. * William Wright, lately Senior Executive Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. * Thomas Young, Honorary Treasurer, Scottish Youth Hostels Association. * David Younger, District House Coal Officer, Dundee Area, Scottish Region. * Joan Inman Franklin-Adams, MB, BS. For services in Jordan under the

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Fund. * Victor Alazrachi, British subject resident in Morocco. * Doris Marion Angell, Principal of the Maddox Academy, Mexico City. * Lilian Anthea Clayton, lately Head of Welfare Section, Sudan Government Agency in London. * Alec Crackston, lately Head of Accounts Section, Sudan Government Agency in London. * Edith Siems Davies, Her Majesty's Vice Consul at

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. * Margery Elspeth Alice Ewing, Shorthand typist at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington. * John Robert Giles, Assistant Permanent Way Engineer,

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. * Geoffrey William Greenacre, British subject resident in Venezuela. * Stephen Howell Griffith, Schoolmaster at the Victoria College, Cairo. * Philip William Raymond Chatterton Haley, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at

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. * Frederick George Hewitt, British subject resident in Paraguay. * Albert Ernest Howell, Director of the British Institute, Turin. * Ada Alwine Louise Johnson, British subject resident in Portugal. * Frederick Thomas Henry Kempson, Archivist at Her Majesty's Consulate General,

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. * Veronica Lorentzen, Grade III Clerk at Her Majesty's Consulate,

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. * Charles Sinhuber Lottermoser, British subject resident in Argentina. * Lilian Bernice Lynch, British subject resident in France. * Esther Gwendoline Macfarlane, British subject resident in Switzerland. * Sheikh Mansourbin Mohammed Abdul Rahim, Branch Manager of Messrs A. Besse & Co.,

Harar Harar ( amh, ሐረር; Harari: ሀረር; om, Adare Biyyo; so, Herer; ar, هرر) known historically by the indigenous as Gey (Harari: ጌይ ''Gēy'', ) is a walled city in eastern Ethiopia. It is also known in Arabic as the City of Saint ...

. * Charles William Martin, lately Administration Officer at Her Majesty's Embassy in Saigon. * Owen Robert O'Rafferty, Head of Communications Section, United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations, New York. * Cornelia Julia Polak, Her Majesty's Consul at Paris. * James Ralph Shaw, lately Office Manager, Governor-General's Office,

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. * Marjorie Julie Simpson, Books Officer, British Council, Madrid. * Captain Clarence Oswald Tucker, Superintendent Marine Operations, Kuwait Oil Co. Ltd. * Anthony Lucrezio Francis Cajetan Vella, British Pro-Consul at Tunis. * Alice Joyce Wingate, lately Personal Assistant to Her Majesty's Ambassador in Washington. * William Frederick Baillie, formerly Chief Industrial Officer, Southern Rhodesia. * Olive Gwendolyn Ballance. For services to Nursing in Southern Rhodesia. * John Baulch. For municipal services in the State of Victoria. * The Honourable Phyllis Jean Benjamin, JP, a Member of the Legislative Council, State of Tasmania. For political and social welfare services. * Gordon Ross Chalmers, Wool and Mohair Officer, Basutoland. * Bessie Champion. For services to mentally retarded children in the State of South Australia. * George William Crittle, Honorary Treasurer, Limbless Soldiers' Association, State of Victoria. * The Very Reverend Father Edward Enright, Superior of the

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, and a Member of the Native Education Advisory Board, in Southern Rhodesia. * Alfred Gilbert. For services to the United Kingdom community in Pakistan. * Marion Hay, District Nurse, Hobart, State of Tasmania. * Martha Beatrice Hayward. For public and social welfare services in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. * Richard Gibb Leven, Senior Works Superintendent, Public Works Department, Swaziland. * Kathleen Rose McKillop. For services to Nursing, especially on behalf of those mentally ill, in the State of New South Wales. * Dorothy Cora Eulalia Mearns, Confidential Secretary to the Resident Commissioner of Swaziland. * Ernest Henry Midgley, District Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate. * Mona Rooksby, Chairman, British Women's Association, Bombay, India. * Ellis Mary Agatha Fane-Saunders, until recently a member of the United Kingdom community in Karachi, Pakistan. * Eleanor Ida Seitz, President of the Yopralla Hospital School for Crippled Children, State of Victoria. * William Alexander Sloss, MB, FRCS(Ed), a Member of the Committee of Management of the Ballarat and District Base Hospital, State of Victoria. For public services. * Frances Wilson, a resident of the Port Cygnet Municipality, State of Tasmania. For services to the community. * The Reverend Francis St. Quintin Wyld, Church of England Chaplain of Darrang,

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, Assam, India. * Paul Abisheganaden, Assistant to the Organiser of Music, Education Department, Singapore. * William Rex Lancelot Addison, MC, Assistant Secretary, Administrator's Office, East Africa High Commission. * Charles Emanuel Agate, JP, For social welfare services in Jamaica. * Okon Uwe Akan, Draughtsman (Senior Technical Staff Grade I), Survey Department, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Jacob Ojo Akinlami, Accountant, Marine Department, Federation of Nigeria. * Abdul Hameed Alapafuja, Assistant Superintendent of Press, Printing Department, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * John Kenneth Allen, Archivist, Federal Special Branch, Police Headquarters, Federation of Malaya. * Marjorie Allinson, JP, Woman Labour Officer, Hong Kong. * Sheikh Azzani,

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, Hadhrami Bedouin Legion,

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. * Evadne Louise Bailey, Nursing Supervisor, Jamaica. * Theophilus Abiodun Bankole, Assistant Map Production Officer, Federal Survey Department,

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. * Owen Barnett Barton, Community Development Officer, Gold Coast. * Michael Wales Bearcroft, Superintendent of Police, Kenya. * Alhaji Bello, Legal Adviser,

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's Council, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Mallam Muhammadu Bello. For public services in the Northern Region, Nigeria. * Francis George Bernasko, Education Officer, Education Department, Gold Coast. * Edward Murrell Blackman, Superintendent of the Leeward Islands Printing Office. * Alice Boase. For public services in Uganda. * Christiana Muriel Lightfoot-Boston, Senior Nursing Sister, Sierra Leone. * William Brown, Assistant Works Manager, Public Works Department, Federation of Nigeria. * William McLaren Campbell, Superintendent of Prisons, Kenya. * Gerald Carey, Senior Master, St. Edwards College, Malta. * Phoebe Hyacinthe Cave-Browne-Cave. For services to Education in Uganda. * Chin Tsun Nyen, Broadcasting Assistant, Federation of Malaya. * Ernest Landers Cooke, Chief Process Engraver, Federation of Nigeria. * Eugene Felix Cornilliac, Executive Engineer, Works and Hydraulic Department, Trinidad. * John Wheeler Court, Education Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. * James Kenneth Craig, MD, BCh, Provincial Medical Officer, Central Province, Kenya. * Rosina Gwen Dabb, MB, ChB, Medical Officer in Charge of Church of Scotland Mission Hospital,

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, Nyasaland. * Vera Marian Davies, Woman Welfare Officer, Zanzibar. * Archibald Charles Oluwole Dawodu, Senior Accountant, Federal Medical Service, Federation of Nigeria. * Frank Sapenne Delisle. For public services in Montserrat, Leeward Islands. * Colin Hampden Dickson, Lately Associate Secretary, Jamaica Civil Service Association. * John Kwadwo Donkor. For services to the Co-operative movement in the Gold Coast. * The Reverend Richard Preston Dyer, Headmaster of

Queen's College, Nassau Queen's College (QC) is a coeducational institution located in Nassau, Bahamas, operating under the auspices of the Bahamas Conference of the Methodist Church. Founded in 1890, Queen's College Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

. * Samson Mutekanga Iga, Senior Engineering Assistant, Kampala Technical Institute, Uganda. * George Obonna Ihenacho, Senior Interpreter, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Venkateswara Madhusudhana Iyer, Assistant Superintendent, Registration Branch, Secretariat, Tanganyika. * Harold Stormouth Jackson. For services to Education in British Guiana. * Eric Roy Robert James, Chief Accountant, Trinidad Government Railways. * Alice Marie Jones, Supervisor, Public Health Nursing Service, Bahamas. * Sister Mary Joseph (Ann Beck), Sister-in-charge, Government Leprosarium, Tetere, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. * Caroline Mary Veronica Kent, Organiser and Supervisor, Infants' and Junior Schools, Gibraltar. * William Kimemia s/o Githu, Assistant Education Officer, Fort Hall District Education Board, Kenya. * James Edward Knight, Station Manager, West African Council for Medical Research, Federation of Nigeria. * Poh Cheng Kok. For public services in Kuantan, Federation of Malaya. * Moletoba Jaga Peter Koledade, Headmaster, Sudan Interior Mission Central School, Kabba Province, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Yu Siung Kong, Group Supervisor, Education Department, Sarawak. * Machimanda Ganapathy Kushalappa, Statistical Assistant, Department of Mines, Tanganyika. * Allan Anthony Lagrenade, Inspector of Schools, Grenada, Windward Islands. * Dennis Hazeidene Lakin, District Officer, Kenya. * William Berkley Lambert, District Officer, Kenya. * The Reverend Harold Lane. For public services in Antigua, Leeward Islands. * Hah Liong Lee. For social welfare services in Hong Kong. * Lee Swee Ling. For social welfare services in Sarawak. * James Francis Leembruggen, Electrical Engineer Central Electricity Board, Federation of Malaya. *

Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long, CMG, CBE (2 January 1919 – 31 July 2019) was a British colonial administrator. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on the 24th February 1940. He was the Administrator, then Governor of the Cayman Island ...

, Administrative Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Elsie Ludlow, Acting Matron, Wesley Guild Hospital,

Ilesha Ilesa () is an ancient town located in the Osun State, southwest Nigeria; it is also the name of a historic kingdom (also known as Ijesha) centred on that village. The state is ruled by a monarch bearing the title of the Owa Obokun Adimula of Ij ...

, Western Region, Nigeria. * Margaret Robertson Mackenzie. For public services in the Federation of Malaya. * Malcolm Alexander McLaren, Acting Road Traffic Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia. * Walubita Makele, Lately Ngambela, Barotse Native Government, Northern Rhodesia. * William Aubrey Manuel, Colonial Postmaster, Bermuda. * Hasham Mitha. For public services in Uganda. * Abdool Sakoor Sulliman Moos, Assistant Establishment Officer, Mauritius. * Brother Cuthman (Charles Wolstan Morgan). Lately Senior Lecturer, Malta Government Training College for Men. * Justino Daniel Mponda, Liwali of

Newala Newala is one of the five districts of the Mtwara Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the west by the Masasi District, to the east by the Tandahimba District, to the south by Newala Town, and to the north by the Tandahimba and Masasi ...

, Tanganyika. * Suleiman Dan Alhaji Nuhu, District Head,

Dutse Dutse is the capital city of Jigawa State in northern Nigeria. It is home to Federal University, Dutse established in November 2011. In addition to the Federal University Dutse, there is also a Research Institute for Date Palm (Sub-Station) and ...

District, Kano, Northern Region, Nigeria. * Chief Rwot Yona Odida, Langol Kop Madit, Acholi African Local Government, Uganda. * Juliana Adeyinka Okunsanya. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria. * Clare Parnell. For welfare services to lepers in North Borneo. * Robert Dean Pearson, Chief Health Inspector, Medical Department, Kenya. * Andrew Blasius Pinto. For services to the Co-operative Movement in Singapore. * George Chinniah Proctor, JP. For public services in Klang, Federation of Malaya. * Ramaiyer Ramalingam, District Surveyor, Survey Department, Singapore. * May Clementine Rodrigues. For services to the YWCA movement in British Guiana. * Gilbert Frederick Roebuck, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations. * Max Peter Rohan. For public services in Mauritius. * Margaret Sherrard Russell, Senior Education Officer, Sierra Leone. * Ebenezer Ajayi Samuel, Assistant Superintendent of Press, Printing Department, Western Region, Nigeria. * George McIntosh Sandy, JP. For services to Education in St. Vincent, Windward Islands. * Chief Kundai Ole Sangale, Senior Chief of the Purko Section of the Masai tribe, Kenya. * George Savva Savvides, Administrative Officer, Cyprus. * George William Sims. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. * Mohan Singh Gulab Singh, Clerk-Storekeeper, East African Railways & Harbours Administration. * Isobel Slater, Organising Secretary, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Tanganyika. * Hubert Walter Smith, Telephone Engineer, Department of Information & Communications, British Honduras. * Eleni Soper, Labour Officer, Cyprus. * Esther Oladunni Soyanwo. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria. * Nora Stoute. For nursing services in Barbados. * Enche Sudin bin Abdul Rahman, JP. For public services in

Malacca Malacca ( ms, Melaka) is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, next to the Strait of Malacca. Its capital is Malacca City, dubbed the Historic City, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site si ...

, Federation of Malaya. * Julie Symes, Queen Elizabeth's Oversea Nursing Service, Matron,

Kingston Public Hospital Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) is a public general hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. It is the oldest public hospital in Jamaica and is the main hospital in south eastern Jamaica. The hospital is operated by the South East Regional Health Authority ...

, Jamaica. * Squadron Leader Albert Richard Townsend. For services to the Malayan Air Training Corps, Singapore. * Louis Francis Valantine, Secretary to the Minister of Works, Gambia. * Winifred Annie Milnes-Walker. For nursing services in Uganda. * Edward Frank Warburton, Chief Health Inspector, Hong Kong. * Eliza Galloway Watson. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. * Stanley Duncan Watson, Chief Draughtsman, Lands & Surveys Department, Tanganyika. * Christian Charles Wienand. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. * John Henry Willmott, Lately Town Clerk, Tanga Town Council, Tanganyika. * John Leslie Malcolm Winter, Agricultural Superintendent,

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, Leeward Islands. * Yew Sui Chang (known as Simon C. Yew). For services to the Boy Scout Movement in North Borneo. :;Honorary Members * Sallehuddin bin Awang Pekan. For public services in Pahang, Federation of Malaya. * Lee Ah Soo, BEM, Chinese Affairs Officer, Federation of Malaya. * Mohamed Ramly bin Haji Tahir, Assistant Agricultural Officer, Department of Agriculture, Federation of Malaya. * Mohamedali Dhalla Kermali. For public services in Zanzibar.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

* Edward Henry Gordon Craig. For services to the Theatre. * Professor

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Arnold Joseph Toynbee (; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's Colleg ...

, lately Director of Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Lately Research Professor of International History, University of London.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Home Civil Service * Herbert James Blewett, OBE, Senior Chief Executive Officer,

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(Totteridge, N20.) * Mark Brooks, Chief Executive Officer, Ottawa, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance (Ottawa, Canada.) * Kay Colvin, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade (Brondesbury Park, NW6.) * Henry David Kingsley Davies, MC, Principal, Ministry of Labour & National Service (Bayswater, W2.) * Albert Noel Dodson, Regional Director, Midland Region, Ministry of Fuel & Power (Birmingham.) * Lawrence Frederick Field, Assistant Chief Inspector, Immigration Branch, Home Office (Wandsworth, SW18.) * Leslie Alfred Griffith, Director of Stamping, Board of Inland Revenue. (Potters Bar, Middlesex.) * Cedric Howarth, Assistant Director, Royal Engineer Equipment Branch, Ministry of Supply (Pimlico, SW1.) * William George Jago, MBE, TD, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Foreign Office (Bonn, Germany.) * Alexander Jolly, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works (Lower Edmonton, N9.) * Percival Frank Jupe, OBE, Chief Executive Officer, HM Treasury (New Maiden, Surrey.) * James Cockburn Mathison, Controller, Investigation Branch, Personnel Department, General Post Office (Palmers Green, N13.) * Allan Milligan, Senior Inspector, Board of Customs & Excise (Epsom, Surrey.) * Thomas Reginald Parsons, MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Colonial Office. (Send, Surrey.) * Sidney Gilbert Pennells, OBE, Principal, Commonwealth Relations Office. (Coulsdon, Surrey.) * Richard Stanley Perkins, TD, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department (Cheam, Surrey.) * Percy Frederick George Robinson, MM, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health. (Letchworth, Hertfordshire.) * John Francis Sinclair, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. (Harrow, Middlesex.) * Philip Sydney Montague Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing & Local Government (Birmingham.) * James Joshua Somper, Assistant Director of Finance, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission (Harrow, Middlesex.) * Sydney Stanes, Deputy Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty (Bath.) * Frederic William Teare, Chief Accountant, Public Trustee Office (Sutton, Surrey.) * John Williamson Thompson, lately Principal District Officer, Marine Survey Office, Belfast, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Reginald Iredale Wells, Principal Scientific Officer, Air Ministry (Medmenham, Buckinghamshire.) * Harold Surridge Wren, Principal, War Office (Amersham, Buckinghamshire.) ;State of South Australia and Bechuanaland Protectorate * Reginald George Bailey, Office Superintendent, Government Secretariat, Bechuanaland Protectorate. * Alex James Baker, Director of the Government Publicity and Tourist Bureau, State of South Australia. ;Oversea Civil Service * George Bond, Assistant Director of Electricity & Telephones, Mauritius. * Frederick Caxton Johnson, Accountant, Post & Telegraphs Department, Federation of Nigeria. * Frank Jones, lately Assistant Director (Marketing), Department of Marketing & Exports, Federation of Nigeria. * Devon Francis McCaig, ED, Superintendent of Prisons, Fiji. * Joseph Jonathan Meheux, lately Senior Accountant, Posts & Telegraphs Department, Sierra Leone. * William Lavender Mussett, lately Chief Accountant, Malayan Railway, Federation of Malaya. * Hugh Miller Williamson Nicholson, Chief Pharmacist, Medical Department, Tanganyika. * Frederick Sander, Chief Accountant, Nigerian Railway, Federation of Nigeria. * William Sprague, Assistant Director of Marine, Hong Kong. * Richard Woolfall, Deputy Regional Director, East African Posts & Telecommunications Administration. * Alfred Henry Zollner, Senior Accountant, Treasury Department, Federation of Nigeria.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Regulating Petty Officer Adam bin Ahmad, S/M.60, Royal Malayan Navy. * Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Henry George Barnett, D/Mx.50792. *

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Harold Thomas Bowden, PlyX.2556, Royal Marines. *

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George Leonard Bream, PlyX.3273, Royal Marines. * Chief Aircraft Artificer Frank Brown, L/Fx.75113. *

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Paolo Bugelli, Malta E/Jx.141818. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Charles Alfred Burton, D/Mx.60027. * Chief Petty Officer Frederick John Butters, P/Jx.131146. * Chief Engineering Mechanic Edward Richard John Chisell, D/Kx.84202. * Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Harry James Charles Cooper, P/Mx.52603. * Stores Chief Petty Officer (V) Stanley Alfred Cranch, D/Mx.51157. * Chief Aircraft Artificer John Greig Dewar, L/Fx.75608. * Chief Petty Officer Thomas Eaton, P/J.22559. * Chief Electrical Artificer Kenneth Hubert Hall, D/Mx.66236. * Mechanician1st Class Arthur Denis Halls, P/Kx.578570. * Chief Petty Officer Steward Leonard Pontifex Harrison, P/LI3562. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist James Jervois, P/J.31778. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist Duncan Murdoch McInnes, P/Jx.144238. * Chief Wren Writer Joan Evelyn McManus, 2933, Women's Royal Naval Service. * Chief Electrician Cyril Alfred Mixer, C/Mx.803721. * Chief Electrical Artificer Harry Stephen Old, D/Mx.62284. * Chief Petty Officer Arthur Isaac Poolman, D/J.35242. * Chief Petty Officer Charles William Sharp, C/J.107835. * Colour Sergeant James Short, PoX. 6358, Royal Marines. * Chief Ordnance Artificer George Victor Sole, DSM, P/Mx.48584. * Petty Officer Telegraphist (S) George Malcolm Stoot, D/Jx.646163. * Chief Engine Room Artificer Leslie John Lloyd Syborn, D/Mx.50726. * Chief Engineering Mechanic William John Toms, D/Kx.94399. * Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist William George Tuckwell, P/Jx.140076. * Chief Airman Fitter (O) Arthur Wilfrid Wayman, L/Fx.76280. * Chief Petty Officer Stanley John West. D/J.115421. ;;Army * 22258743 Staff-Sergeant (acting) (formerly

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(local)) William Frank Arnold, Royal Army Medical Corps. * 832657 Sergeant Thomas Nicholas Ballantyne, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army. * T/22234557 Sergeant Edward Byrne, Royal Army Service Corps. * 1622871 Colour-Sergeant George James Alfred Cleak, The

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. * 7595181 Sergeant Eric Noel Clifford, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 2714831 Sergeant (local) James Doran,

. * 5183476 Sergeant (acting) Leslie Donald Field, The

Gloucestershire Regiment The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its origins to Colonel Gibson's Regiment of Foot, which was raised in 1694 and later became the ...

. * 7588320 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) William John Frederick Fletcher, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 85154 2 Battery-Quartermaster-Sergeant James Frederick Gregory, Royal Regiment of Artillery. * 14480236 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Robert Stuart Hay, The

. * S/860784 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Hugh Hodgett, Royal Army Service Corps. * S/64992 Staff-Sergeant Donald Richard Hordle, Royal Army Service Corps. * S/14826036 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Norman Howells, Royal Army Service Corps. * Sergeant (acting) Leonard Eric Irwin, Fermanagh Battalion, Home Guard. * Warrant Officer Class II Karoti Shaibu, 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The

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. * S/22293977 Staff-Sergeant Jack Edwin Kingsbury, Royal Army Service Corps. * T/280876 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Frederick George Lewis, Royal Army Service Corps. * 7366339 Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Frederick John Linde, Royal Army Medical Corps. * 22512166 Staff-Sergeant Francis Xavier Magee, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army. * 22211461 Staff-Sergeant Peter McGinley, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * 7888254 Staff-Sergeant William Thomas Menhenick, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 345 Waqueel Saeed Mihsin,

Trucial Oman Scouts The Trucial Oman Scouts was a paramilitary force that the British raised in 1951 as the Trucial Oman Levies, to serve in the Trucial States. In 1956, the Levies were renamed the Trucial Oman Scouts. In 1971, upon the formation of the United Arab ...

. * 6002755 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Harold Benjamin Moore, Royal Army Pay Corps. * Company-Quartermaster-Sergeant (acting) Robert Moyse, 9th West Lancashire Battalion, Home Guard. * 22263595 Sergeant Lionel Francis Mundy, Army Catering Corps, Territorial Army. * Regimental-Sergeant-Major (acting) Arthur Murphy, 15th West Lancashire Battalion, Home Guard. * T/75757 Sergeant Ronald Bertram Nash, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. * NA/29731 Company-Sergeant-Major Titus Wanini Numan, The

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Royal West African Frontier Force The West African Frontier Force (WAFF) was a multi-battalion field force, formed by the British Colonial Office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia. In 1928, it received royal recognition ...

. * GC/62991 Sergeant Samuel Osafo, Gold Coast Engineers, Royal West African Frontier Force. * Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Eric James Painting, 16th/17th Kent Battalion, Home Guard. * 6460456 Sergeant Kenneth Colin Watson Paterson, Army Catering Corps. * Sergeant Thomas James Phillips, 42nd West Riding Battalion, Home Guard. * 2613077 Colour-Sergeant (acting) William Price,

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

. * 22559493 Sergeant (acting) Gerard Joseph Quigley, Royal Army Veterinary Corps. * 22281854 Warrant Officer Class II (local) Philip Edward Robbins, Corps of Royal Military Police. * 7588787 Staff-Sergeant Victor Jack Rose, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 22548994 Staff-Sergeant (acting) Thomas Albert Stephenson, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. * 14994359 Colour-Sergeant Ian Wilson Swanston, Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps. * 14442733 Colour-Sergeant Reginald Chamberlain Vine, The

. * Staff-Sergeant (acting) James McKerrow Walker, 1st/2nd Northumberland Battalion, Home Guard. * Company-Sergeant-Major (acting) George Charles Fuller Waters, MM, 18th Sussex Battalion, Home Guard. * 1415337 Sergeant George Webster, Army Catering Corps. * S/14266606 Sergeant Stanley Williams, Royal Army Service Corps. * 2329442 Squadron-Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Reginald Wilson, Royal Corps of Signals. :;In recognition of services in Korea during the period 28 July 1955 to 31 January 1956 * 2082596 Colour Sergeant William Watson Donaldson, 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 ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * 528872 Flight Sergeant Alfred Albert Bailes. * 566583 Flight Sergeant William Gordon Denny Brooks. * 2682099 Flight Sergeant Raymond George Bryan,

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 ...

. * 565695 Flight Sergeant John Charles Burdett. * 890580 Flight Sergeant Doris Emma Cooper,

Women's Royal Air Force The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was the women's branch of the Royal Air Force. It existed in two separate incarnations: the Women's Royal Air Force from 1918 to 1920 and the Women's Royal Air Force from 1949 to 1994. On 1 February 1949, the ...

. * 576099 Flight Sergeant John Lyon Copeland. * 552850 Flight Sergeant Donald Thomas Davies. * 570766 Flight Sergeant William Gordon Dawson. * 643543 Flight Sergeant (now Warrant Officer) Godfrey George Eldridge. * 518434 Flight Sergeant Malcolm Geddes. * 545336 Flight Sergeant Thomas William Hall. * 812106 Flight Sergeant Humphrey George Fitzgerald Hogg. * 562743 Flight Sergeant John Ernest Horning. * 591341 Flight Sergeant Leonard Albert Lintern. * 567726 Flight Sergeant Leslie Preston Martin. * 567094 Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Norms. * 567794 Flight Sergeant (now Acting Warrant Officer) Donald Sims. * 539109 Flight Sergeant Frederick George White. * 544043 Chief Technician John Robert Clinton. * 569693 Chief Technician Ronald Murphy. * 534887 Chief Technician William George Pullen. * 573876 Chief Technician Harold Wilson. * 560227 Chief Technician Donald Thomas Yule. * 1366944 Acting Flight Sergeant John Arthur. * 771659 Acting Flight Sergeant Frederick James Conway. * 525752 Acting Flight Sergeant Lewis Duffield. * 435564 Acting Flight Sergeant Elsie Elizabeth Howe, Women's Royal Air Force. * 629681 Acting Flight Sergeant Samuel McMaster. * 614784 Acting Flight Sergeant Harold Edward Simpson. * 2028702 Acting Flight Sergeant Denise Tom, Women's Royal Air Force. * 2009384 Sergeant Kate Elizabeth Amos, Women's Royal Air Force. * 652068 Sergeant Frederick Albert Baker. * 2088056 Sergeant Bertha Barke, Women's Royal Air Force. * 584744 Sergeant Robin Ellis Cooper. * 577963 Sergeant Henry Hunter Cousins. * 591914 Sergeant Peter Gascoigne. * 611011 Sergeant Harry Hunter. * 1282588 Sergeant Jeffrey Dowell Hunter. * 2058890 Sergeant Rose Langley, Women's Royal Air Force. * 533552 Sergeant Melville Keith McCandless. * 525372 Sergeant Gordon Mutch. * 2230383 Sergeant Samuel Roberts. * 1647891 Sergeant William Robert Rose. * 2651046 Sergeant Edwin Scott, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * 4005500 Corporal Patrick Creaney. ;Civil Division :;United Kingdom * Stanley Ackland, Farm Foreman, Somerset Farm Institute, Cannington, Somerset. * William Joseph Adnitt, Charge Hand Fitter, East Midlands Division, Central Electricity Authority (Northampton.) * John Applegath, Driver and Chancery Guard, Her Majesty's Consulate,

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. * Alick Walter Bates, Boatswain, ''Maid of Orleans'', British Transport Commission. (Dover.) * Thomas Bennett, Lineman (Telegraph), Class I, Crewe, London Midland Region, British Railways, British Transport Commission. * John Wade Birkbeck, Blind Telephonist, South Western Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service (St Austell, Cornwall.) * Victor George Blewdon, Assistant Divisional Officer,

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. * Emma Bolton, Centre Organiser, Chester-le-Street Rural District, Women's Voluntary Services (Birtley, County Durham.) * George Albert Boxall, Laboratory Mechanic, Underwater Countermeasures & Weapons Establishment, Admiralty (Portchester, Hampshire.) * Arthur Chamberlain Boyce, Civilian Warrant Officer, No. 2185 (Wareham) Squadron, Air Training Corps (Wareham, Dorset.) * James Boyd, Bridgemaster, Kincardine-on-Forth Bridge, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. * Edwin Briers, Smith, Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co. (Birmingham.) * Christopher Henry Charles Brown, Foreman, Read & Partners, Electrical Engineering Contractors (Newbury, Berkshire.) * Mary Bruce. For charitable services in

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, County Durham. * James Burkett, Foreman Electrician, Brigham & Cowan Ltd.,

South Shields South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically, it was known in Roman times as Arbeia, and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages. According to the 20 ...

. * Charles Burn, Apprentice Instructor, Marshall Richards Machine Co. Ltd. (Chester-le-Street, County Durham.) * Charles Burns, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Borstal Institution, Portland. * William Charles Campbell, Setter "A", Chargehand,

Royal Small Arms Factory The Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) was a UK government-owned rifle factory in Enfield (though some parts were in Waltham Abbey), adjoining the Lee Navigation in the Lea Valley. The factory produced British military rifles, muskets and swords f ...

, Ministry of Supply, Enfield (Chingford, E4.) * George Tail Cargill, Head Chancery Guard, Her Majesty's Embassy, Paris. * Samuel Caudwell, Ripper, Kiveton Park Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Sheffield.) * Radcliffe Chapman, Telephonist (M), Rossendale Telephone Exchange, Lancashire. (Bury.) * Sidney Frederick Clark, Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary (West Baling, W13.) * Thomas Welch Clark, Instructor,

Civil Defence Corps The Civil Defence Corps (CDC) was a civilian volunteer organisation established in Great Britain in 1949 to mobilise and take local control of the affected area in the aftermath of a major national emergency, principally envisaged as being a Col ...

, Gloucester. * Gerald Ernest Charles Clarke, Sergeant,

Admiralty Constabulary The Admiralty Constabulary was a police force in the United Kingdom formed under the Special Constables Act 1923 which existed from 1949 to 1971. History The Constabulary can trace its history back to 1686 when the Royal Navy needed an organisati ...

(Yeovil.) * Charles Clegg, Overman, Wath Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Rotherham.) * Mary Alexa Cockburn, Chief Supervisor, Post Office, Edinburgh (Portobello.) * Albert Henry James Colenutt, Foreman Electrician, J. I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd., Southampton. * John Willie Cook, Chief Inspector, War Department Constabulary, Central Ordnance Depot, Didcot. * Henry Cooley, Hand Clicker and Upper Leather Sorter, Manfield & Sons Ltd., Northampton. * Emma Cooper, Auxiliary Postwoman, Ramsey, Huntingdon. * George Henry Cooper, Exhauster Man, Wolverhampton District, West Midlands Gas Board (Wolverhampton.) * Christie Louisa Cornelius, Mess Supervisor, Government Hostel, Singapore. * John Brown Robb Danks, Technical Officer, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, General Post Office (Rugby.) * George Davies, Repairer, Tymawr Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Pontypridd.) * John Thomas Daye, Foreman Pests Operator, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. (Clarbeston Road, Pembrokeshire.) * Alston Desborough, Instrument Assembler, Painton & Co. Ltd., Northampton. * Thomas George Devine, Stores Superintendent, No. 61 Maintenance Unit, RAF

Handforth Handforth is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, south of Manchester city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 6,266. In the 1960s and 1970s, two overspill housing estates, Spath Lane in Handforth, and Colshaw Farm nearby in Wi ...

. (Gatley, Cheshire.) * Thomas Reginald Dew, Foreman Cleaner, British Broadcasting Corporation (Eltham, SE9.) * Sister Mabel Alice Doncaster, Youth Leader, Church Army Youth Centre, Chelsea. * William Eric Downes, Traffic Supervisor,

Shell-Mex & BP Shell-Mex and BP Ltd was a British joint venture between petroleum companies Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and BP. It was formed in 1932 when both companies decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations,Reference and contact details: GB ...

, Fulham (Thames Ditton, Surrey.) * William John Dyment, Development Engineer, W. & F. Wills Ltd., Bridgwater. * Francis Joseph East, Handyman, Shrodells Hospital, Watford. * William Albert Eaton, Head. Foreman, Bullet Proof & Armour Plate Shop,

Hadfields Limited Hadfields Limited of Hecla and East Hecla Sheffield, Yorkshire was a British manufacturer of special steels in particular manganese alloys (which were discovered by the founder's son and often known as Hadfield steel) and the manufacture of steel ...

. (Sheffield.) * Alfred Elwin, Office Keeper, Board of Customs & Excise (Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.) * Violet May Emms, Drawing Office Assistant, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. (Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.) * Edwin Henry Finch, Printing Office Manager, Ministry of Works. * Eva Fleming, Sister-in-Charge, Geriatric Ward, Hackney Hospital, London. * Domenico Formosa, Principal Keeper, Red Sea Lighthouse Service. * Dorothy Wilson Foxwell, Dispensing Assistant, West Herts Hospital. * Albert Victor Funnell, Deputy Distribution Superintendent, Brighton Corporation Waterworks. * William Richard Taylor-Gaskell, Mule Spinner, Talbot Spinning & Weaving Co. Ltd., Chorley. * Jean Gately, British subject resident in Marysville, United States of America. For services during the flooding of the

Feather River The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about long. Its length to its most distant headwater tributary is just over . The main stem Feather R ...

. * Sydney Herbert Geoghan, Station Warden,

RAF Tangmere RAF Tangmere was a Royal Air Force station located in Tangmere, England, famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, and one of several stations near Chichester, West Sussex. The famous Second World War aces Wing Commander Douglas Bader, a ...

(Chichester.) * George Georgiadis, Sub-Inspector,

RAF Police The Royal Air Force Police (RAFP) is the service police branch of the Royal Air Force, headed by the provost marshal of the Royal Air Force. Its headquarters are at RAF Honington and it deploys throughout the world to support RAF and UK defence ...

Auxiliaries,

RAF Fayid RAF Fayid (LG-211) is a former military airfield in Egypt, approximately south of Ismailia (Al Isma`iliyah) and northeast of Cairo. It was formerly a major Royal Air Force airfield built before World War II, and later used by the Egyptia ...

(Alexandria.) * Andrew Gibson, Colliery Lampman and Ambulance Attendant, Gartshore 3/12 Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Stirling.) * Harry James Goodman, Head Attendant,

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(South Harrow, Middlesex.) * William Cairn Gordon, Head Foreman, Rowan & Boden Ltd., Glasgow. * James Herbert Gow, Technical Officer Grade II (Clerk of Works), Department of Health for Scotland (Juniper Green, Midlothian.) * Hairy Cecil Greaves, Inspector (Engineering), Telephone Manager's Office, Sheffield. * William Thomas Green, 2nd Class Engineer of Yard Craft, Admiralty (Portchester, Hampshire.) * Albert Gregg, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary (Coleraine, County Londonderry.) * Cecil Henry Hailstone, Sergeant, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary (Huddersfield.) * Edith Haley, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Egremont, Cumberland. * Howard Septimus Hallett, Senior Assistant (Scientific), National Institute for Research in Dairying (Reading.) * Alexander McLean Hamilton, Underground Development Worker, Bestwood Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Nottingham.) * Joseph Hancock, General Maintenance Man, Exeter Gas Works, South Western Gas Board (Exeter.) * William Arthur Harvey, Storekeeper, South Eastern Division, Central Electricity Authority (Southwick, Sussex.) * Harry George Hemson, Detective Chief Inspector, Southend-on-Sea Constabulary. * Alfred Hesler, Checkweighman, East Hetton Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board (Ferryhill.) * Florence Maggie Higgins, Assistant Manageress, War Office Luncheon Club, London (Battersea, SW11.) * William Higman, Station Officer, Cornwall Fire Brigade (St Columb.) * Frank Higson, Weighman, Deane Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Bolton.) * Albert Edward George Holding, Group Office Assistant, Explosives Research & Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Waltham Abbey (Enfield.) * Albert Holloway, Able Seaman, SS ''San Fernando'', Eagle Oil & Shipping Co. (Liverpool.) * John Hopper, Crane Driver, North Eastern Division, Central Electricity Authority. (Newcastle upon Tyne.) * John Edward Hughes, Chief Instructor and Technical Reconnaissance Officer, Civil Defence Corps, Brighton. * Cecil George Humphreys, Head Gardener, French District, Imperial War Graves Commission. * Charles Harry Humphries, Grinder, Experimental Department,

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Ltd., Gloucester. * Henry Hymers, Grade1, Office Keeper, Foreign Office (Twickenham, Middlesex.) * John Irwin, Fitter, Sirocco Engineering Works, Davidson & Co. Ltd., Belfast. * Richard William Jackson, Chargehand, Allbright & Wilson Ltd. (Worcester.) * Beatrice Ellen Grail James, Superintendent, Tenby Central School Meals Kitchen, Pembrokeshire. * Ethel Annie Jenkins, Honorary Collector, Chargot Road Savings Group, Cardiff. * William Charles Jennings, Assistant Inspector, Postmen's District Office, Hampton. Middlesex. * Robert John Johnston, Head Messenger, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. (Belfast.) * Henry John George Jones, Depot Chargeman, Boom Defence Depot, Admiralty,

Aultbea Aultbea (Gaelic: ''An t-Allt Beithe'') is a small fishing village in the North-West Highlands of Scotland. It is situated on the southeast shore of Loch Ewe, about 30 km west of Ullapool. The village has a Primary School and a small Post Off ...

, Ross-shire. * Thomas Howard Kingston, Carpenter,

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, Ministry of Supply, Woolwich (Plumstead, SE18.) * Harry Kitchin, Mechanic, Safety in Mines Research Establishment, Ministry of Fuel & Power (Buxton, Derbyshire.) * May Lane, Honorary Collector, Billet Lane Street Savings Group, Slough, Buckinghamshire. * Walter Sword Lang, Boatswain, Fishery Cruiser ''Freya'', Fishery Board for Scotland (Edinburgh.) * Hugh Lavery, Checkweighman, Chester Moor Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board (Chester-le-Street, County Durham.) * Chad Henry Law, Fittings Superintendent, Cardiff Undertaking, Wales Gas Board. (Cardiff.) * George Arthur Daniel Lawrence, Shop Officeman, British Transport Docks, British Transport Commission (Newport, Mon.) * Albert Edwin Lawrenson, Inspector (Postal), Head Post Office, Chorley, Lancashire. * Ernest Lee, Purifier. Foreman, Salford Works, Manchester Group, North Western Gas Board (Pendlebury, Lancashire.) * Eric Frank Lefort, Club Manager,

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, Korea. * Horace Lewin, Chief Officer, Class II, HM Prison Sudbury Park. * John William Little, Honorary Collector, Allerton Road Savings Group, Stoke Newington, N16. * Doris Joyce Annie Longman, Assistant Supervisor, Central Telegraph Office, General Post Office (Putney, SW15.) * Edward Pattison Lovell, Clerk of Works, War Office, Bedford. * Hugh Lusk, Overseer, Head Post Office, Belfast. * Hugh McCorquodale, Boatswain's Mate, SS ''Empire Clyde'', Anchor Line Ltd. (Glasgow.) * Andrew MacDonald, Head Shepherd, Glasgow Corporation Water Department's Farms, Callander. * William McIntyre, Honorary Group Collector, Works Savings Group, Bessbrook Spinning Co. Ltd., County Armagh. * James Mackenzie, Sub-Officer, Perth and Kinross Fire Brigade (Blairgowrie, Perthshire.). * Jean Mackie, Centre Organiser,

Peterculter Peterculter ( sco, Petercouter), also known as Culter (Scots: ''Couter''), is a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, about inland from Aberdeen city centre. Peterculter is on the northern banks of the River Dee, near the confluences with Crynoch ...

, Women's Voluntary Services. * Thomas McMynn, Curator of

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, Ayr. * William Lusk McNeill, Postman, Tarbert, Kintyre, Tarbert, Argyll. * James Alexander Marsden, lately Chief Office Keeper, Admiralty (Brixton, SW2). * Frank Arthur Moody, Electrician's Mate, SS ''Pretoria Castle'', Union-Castle Line. (Southampton.) * Frederick Peter Mowles, Chargehand, R. & D. Craftsman (Painter), Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Farnborough. * Christopher Neary, Chargeman Fitter, Ashford Works, Ashford Locomotive Works, Southern Region, British Railways, British Transport Commission. * Ralph Edgar Newman, Chief Observer, Post 6/J1, No.6 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (Fakenham, Norfolk.) * Harry Nicholls, School Staff Instructor, Hulme Grammar School, Oldham. * Mansoor Bin Haji Noor, Foreman Waterman, War Department Fleet, Singapore. * George Olsen, Horizontal Borer, Dawson & Downie Ltd., Clydebank (Glasgow.) * Thomas Edward Ormond, Honorary Collector, Pine Grove Street Savings Group, Sheringham, Norfolk. * Herbert Curtis Page, Fitter, East Midlands Division, Central Electricity Authority. (Nuneaton, Warwickshire.) * Alfred de Burgh Parkman, Chief Steward, MV ''British Soldier'', British Tanker Co. Ltd. (Huddersfield.) * Leonard Parry, Meter Department Foreman, South Eastern Electricity Board (Mitcham, Surrey.) * Robert Peart, General Foreman, Stanley Works and District, Northern Gas Board. (Stanley, County Durham.) * Harry Pocock, General Foreman, Thames Conservancy (Reading.) * Lionel Ivor Pope, R. and, D (Special) Joiner, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Farnborough. * Ellen Victoria Povoas, Driver, Grade II, Government Car Service, Ministry of Works. (Tottenham, N15.) * Fred Pringle, Custodian, Byland Abbey, Yorkshire, Ministry of Works. * Griffith Richard Pritchard, Surface Labourer, Aberaman Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Aberdare.) * John Warren Pullen, Sub-Postmaster, Chorleywood Town Sub Office, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. * George Graham Purvis, Inspection Foreman, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne. * Robert George William Read, Research and Development Mechanic (Special) Chargehand, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (Basingstoke, Hampshire.) * Ogle Waite Redpath, Filler, Stobswood Colliery, Northern (Northumberland & Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board. * Robert Smith Reid, First Aid Instructor, Civil Defence Corps, Greenock Division. * Frank Leonard Relf, Instructional Officer, Grade III, Admiralty (Rosyth, Fife.) * George William Richardson, Toolroom Inspector, Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., Weymouth. * Harold Roberts, Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant, Army Cadet Force,

(Altrincham.) * Clifford Llewellyn Roe, Technician, Class I, Post Office Telephones, Carmarthen. * Edward Thomas Rogers, Warden, Territorial Army Centre, Sevenoaks. * Sydney Fison Rogers, Postman, Higher Grade, Plymouth, * Sevilla Lily Romet, Floor Manageress, Bonder Ltd., Pentrebach, Glamorganshire. * Marjorie Ross, Deputy County Borough Organiser, Doncaster, Women's Voluntary Services' * Horace James Scambler, Driver, Saltley Motive Power Depot, London Midland Region, British Transport Commission. (Birmingham.) * John William Alfred Scanlon, Engine Fitter, Vosper & Company, Vosper Ltd., Portsmouth (Southsea, Hampshire.) * Margaret Eleanor Scholfield, JP, Honorary Collector, Sandhall Savings Group, Howden, East Yorkshire. * Reginald Seabrook, Works Technical Officer, Grade IV, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (Bushey, Hertfordshire.) * Mabel Alice Shaw, Sub-Postmistress, High Cross Street Post Office, Leicester. * Leonard Shears, Manager, Kidlington, Oxford, Silo, Government Grain Silo Co. (Oxford.). * Daniel Harold Smith, Foreman, Shell Refining & Marketing Co. Ltd., Stanlow Refinery, Stanlow. (Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.) * Herbert Smith, Foreman Dyer, Kangol Wear Ltd. (Moor Row, Cumberland.) * Joseph Smith, Storeman, Grade II, Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply, Swynnerton, Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent.) * Percy Stanley Smith, Leading Storeman, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Supply, Woolwich (Plumstead, SE18.) * Thomas Smith, Marine Rigger, No. 238 Maintenance Unit, RAF Calshot (Gosport.). * Victor Claude Albert Smithers, Gardener Caretaker, Anzac Agency, Imperial War Graves Commission, Melbourne. * Walter Starr, Toolroom. Foreman, Pulsometer Engineering Co. Ltd., Reading. * William Charlesworth Stead, Underground Road Repairer, Old Roundwood Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Wakefield.) * William Frederick Steers, Inspector, Telephone Manager's Office, City Area, London. (Barnehurst, Kent.) * James Stephenson, Training Face Supervisor, Tanfield Lea Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board. * Arthur James Thomas, Member, Coast Life Saving Corps, and Volunteer-in-Charge, Broadhaven L.S.A. Company, Pembrokeshire (Haverfordwest.) * Percy Leonard Thomas, Pithead Baths Superintendent, Princess Royal Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board. (Lydney, Gloucestershire.) * Gavin Thomson, Tipper and Coal Checker, Clyde's Mill Generating Station, South of Scotland Electricity Board (Carmyle, Lanarkshire.) * Margaret Grosvenor Tomkinson, Technical Reconnaissance Officer and Instructor, Civil Defence Corps, Shropshire (Tenbury.) * Joseph Henry Trevaskis, Office Keeper, Grade I, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance (Gateshead.) * Judith Marjorie Trist, Centre Organiser, Wellington Rural District, Women's Voluntary Service. * Lydia Eliza Alice Trow, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Willenhall (Staffordshire.) * Harry Turner, Traffic Inspector, Class 'B', British Transport Waterways, British Transport Commission (Bow, E3.) * Herbert Alfred Turner, Foreman Fitter, Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. (Barnstone, Nottinghamshire.) * Thomas Richard Tutt, Chief Supervisor (Telephones), General Post Office, Eastbourne. * Richard Twells, Chargehand, Litchurch Works, Derby Undertaking, East Midlands Gas Board (Derby.) * Elijah Twigger, JP, Goods Guard, Nuneaton (Trent Valley), London Midland Region, British Railways, British Transport Commission. * Harold George Upton, Divisional Officer, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Northamptonshire. (Weedon.) * Roderick Alexander Urquhart, Laboratory Attendant, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. * Percy Ridgeley Nash Ward, Warden, The David Bruce Laboratories, War Office, Marlborough. * George Edward Warters, Senior Inspector, Corps of Custodians, Offices of the House of Lords (Balham, SW17.) * Arthur Raymond Way, Deputy Commandant, Swansea Special Constabulary. * George William West, Foreman Printer, Office of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District (Camberwell, SE5.) * George Victor White, Supervising Instructor, 8 Basic Trade Training Battalion, War Office (Taunton.) * Thomas Williamson, Fore-Overman, Whitburn Colliery, Durham Division National Coal Board. * Arthur Benjamin Winsor, Supervising Instructor, Grade I, No. 4 School of Technical Training, RAF St Athan. (Glamorgan.) * Sidney Benjamin Woodhouse, lately Superintendent, Distribution Repair Shops, Tottenham Division, Eastern Gas Board (Tottenham, N17.) * Arthur Wright, Ripper, Savile Colliery (Methley), North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Leeds.) * Mabel Amelia Wulff, Caretaker of the English Church, Hamburg. * Bertie Herbert Young, Foreman Quay Supervisor, Fyffes, Elders & Fyffes,

, (Bristol.) * William Young, Inspector, Head Post Office, Luton. :;Australia * William Goward, Chief Guard, Yatala Labour Prison, State of South Australia. * Joseph Newman, Housekeeper, Department of Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria. :;Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. * Angus Wyper, lately Foreman, Department of Public Works, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. :;Southern Rhodesia * Johannes Thomas Nicholas Meyer, Inspector, British South Africa Police Reserve :;Basutoland * Elliott Beibi Ramaqabe, lately Supervisor of Schools, Education Department, Basutoland. :;Swaziland * Makhabane Bhembe, Paramount Chiefs Representative, Usutu Forests, Swaziland. :;Oversea Territories * Livingstone Fitzgerald Glasgow, Engine Driver, Waterworks Department, Barbados. * Arlington Colin Levi Van Gronigen, Government Sicknurse-Dispenser, North West District, British Guiana. * Moustafa Tewfik Ali, Chief Foreman, Public Works Department, Cyprus. * Mehmed Ali Rouhi, Tugmaster, Customs & Excise, Cyprus. * George Biggs, Foreman, East African Railways & Harbours Administration, East Africa High Commission. * Violet Alice Mayne, Head of Department Telephone Exchange, East African Income Tax Department, East Africa High Commission. * Yokana Asafu Nsubuga, Telegraphist, East African Posts & Telegraphs Administration, East Africa High Commission. * Edwin Thomas Lee, Head Shepherd, Falkland Islands. * Sister Maria Sesarina, Member of the Society of Little Sisters of Mary, Fiji. * Daniel Teye Mensah, Chargeman, Public Works Department, Gold Coast. * Solomon Rafeek, Officer-in-Charge, Demonstration Team, Civil Aid Services, Hong Kong. * Leslie Bunting Williams, Supervisor, Steam Section, Locomotive Branch, Government Railway, Jamaica. * Gurdit Singh Johl, Forester, Forest Department, Kenya. * Frederick George Bailey Peace, Field Intelligence Officer, Kenya. * Mahomed Muthihiri, Chairman, Pumwani Village Committee, Kenya. * Hezekiah Nyaga s/o Njeroge, 1st Grade Tribal Police Constable, Kenya. * Leonora Adina Greenaway, Matron, Monserrat Infirmary, Leeward Islands. * Haji Ahim bin Katek, Penghulu, Jasin District, Malacca, Federation of Malaya. * Sellappah Elankanayagam, Overseer, Public Works Department, Federation of Malaya, * Mohamed Ibrahim bin Kassim Ali, Technical Assistant, Telecommunications Department, Kelantan, Federation of Malaya. * Joseph Philip, Chief Storekeeper, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Federation of Malaya. * Mohamed Rani bin Haji Abdul Salim, Caretaker and Storekeeper, King's House, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya. * Enid Surin, Telephone Supervisor, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya. * Wong Ah Lum, Financial Assistant, General Clerical Service, Federation of Malaya Police. * Yeo Seng Lee, Laboratory Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Federation of Malaya. * Haji Yusope bin Aman, Demang, Jasin District, Malacca, Federation of Malaya. * Stephen Adeyemi, Waterguard Officer, HM Customs & Excise, Federation of Nigeria. * Ben Uyanwune Mbonu, Chief Warder, Lagos Prison, Federation of Nigeria. * Stephen Chukwunweuba Balonwu, Assistant Agricultural Officer, Agriculture Department, Eastern Region, Nigeria. * Okoedon Alenewose Alihu, Chief Ranger, Forest Department, Western Region, Nigeria. * Josephine Olabopo Durojaiye, Principal Midwife, Egba Native Authority Infant Welfare Service, Western Region, Nigeria. * Samson Locha Ngambela, lately Head Messenger, Mankoya District, Northern Rhodesia. * Edward Kaiwonanga Gondwe, Inspector of Schools, Education Department, Nyasaland. * Morlai Koroma, Foreman Mechanic, Chrome Mines, Sierra Leone. * Ahmad bin Hassan, Seed Collector, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Botanic Gardens, Singapore. * John Arthur Dragon, Technical Assistant, Public Works Department, Singapore. * Mohamoud Hassan, Sergeant Major, Protectorate Tribal Police, Somaliland. * Herbert Thomas Browne, Assistant Inspector, Roads, Public Works Department, Tanganyika. * Ramathani Kanuwa, Minister to the Chiefs of Unyanyembe, Tanganyika. * William Manning, Medical Assistant, Medical Department, Tanganyika. * William Mashimbi Humba, Chief of Mwakarundi, Tanganyika. * John Harrison Armstrong, lately Government Messenger, Sub-Treasury and Post Office, Tobago, Trinidad. * Maega'Asia Salathiel Salana, Member of the Malaita District Council, Western Pacific High Commission. * Yusef bin Abdulla el Baluchi, Bailiff, Pemba Island, Pemba, Zanzibar.

Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

;In Gold * Walter Hodges. ;In Silver * Police Constable Ernest Albert Andrews, Metropolitan Police * Frederick Bradshaw. * William Aldridge Burkmar. * Henry Walter Camm. * George Disbury. * Chief Petty Officer John Charles Griffin, P/J.110473. * Richard Thomas Joslin. * Albert George Key. * James Harper Macdonald. * William MacGregor. * Francis Leonard Mainwood. * Petty Officer Cook (O) John Garratt Matthews, P/L.12679. * Martin Edward Warne, lately Police Constable, Metropolitan Police.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

* Kathleen Mary Greenwood, ARRC, Principal Matron,

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Phyllis Eva Wilkins, ARRC (206523),

. * Squadron Officer Pauline Giles, ARRC. (405105), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

* Ruth Stone, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. * Captain Ann O'Garra (329864), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. * Captain Enid Thomas (306000), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. * Squadron Officer Agnes Williamson McMillan Limerick (405445), Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Air Commodore George Augustus Walker, CBE, DSO, DFC, ADC. * Wing Commander Ivor Broom, Ivor Gordon Broom, DSO, DFC (112392). * Wing Commander Rowland John Dempsey, DFC (59074). * Wing Commander Ronald George Knott, DSO, DFC (39442). * Wing Commander Rupert Gordon Westley Oakley, DSO, DFC, DFM (61011). * Wing Commander Frank Geoffrey Woolley, DFC (105174). * Squadron Leader Desmond Fitzalan Monteagle Browne (163501). * Squadron Leader Harry Dashwood Byrne (500168). * Squadron Leader Michael Edward Hobson (58309). * Squadron Leader Allan James Houston (124486). * Squadron Leader Robert Arthur Seymour (158892). * Squadron Leader Edward Barnes Sismore, DSO, DFC (130208). * Flight Lieutenant Ronald Maurice Dubock (151108). * Flight Lieutenant Hugh Harrison (3041680). * Flight Lieutenant George Perryman Jones (155413). * Right Lieutenant William Kay (171099). * Flight Lieutenant James Alexander Kennedy (655853). * Flight Lieutenant Arthur John Mills (54154). * Flight Lieutenant Ivor Bennett Webster (1890026). * Flight Lieutenant Andrew Leighton Wilson (188411). * Flight Lieutenant Robert Ian Young (3012399). * Flying Officer William Charles King (4032244).

Bar to Air Force Cross

* Air Vice-Marshal John René Whitley, CB, CBE, DSO, AFC. * Wing Commander Donald Kingston Warburton, AFC, (110802). * Squadron Leader Arthur Ashworth, DSO, DFC, AFC (43699). * Squadron Leader Norman Edward Hoad, AFC (143275).

Air Force Medal (AFM)

* 1431384 Flight Sergeant Douglas Malcolm Colman. * 591493 Flight Sergeant (now Master Engineer) George Oliver Dalgarno. * 1321034 Flight Sergeant (now Master Pilot) William Thomas Jackson. * 1387472 Flight Sergeant (now Master Pilot) Richard Livermore. * 3001427 Flight Sergeant Stanley Nicholls. * 654676 Flight Sergeant (now Master Pilot) Frederick Ormonde Robertson. * 1604985 Flight Sergeant William James Ryall. * 1590778 Flight Sergeant Leonard West Shout. * 1323588 Flight Sergeant (now Master Pilot) Arthur William Vine. * 628807 Acting Flight Sergeant Arthur Coad.

Queen's/King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

;Royal Air Force * Wing Commander Edgar James, DFC, AFC (87346). * Squadron Leader Douglas Alaric Boards, DFM (156327). * Squadron Leader Alistair Donald Boyle (128557). * Squadron Leader John Eric Burton (200893). * Squadron Leader Harry George Currell, DFC, AFC (153944). * Squadron Leader Arthur Harper (57079). * Squadron Leader Frederick Samuel Hazlewood, AFC (55087). * Squadron Leader Hugh Lionel Jones (153766). * Squadron Leader Robert Alec Charles Kendell (150657). * Squadron Leader Keith Bernard Rogers, DFC, AFC (59741). * Squadron Leader Robert Sidney Salmon (178280). * Squadron Leader William JamesSwift (41494). * Acting Squadron Leader Cecil Alan Tomlinson, AFC (150683). * Acting Squadron Leader Ronald Stuart Wambeek, DFC, MRCS, LRCP (138668). * Flight Lieutenant George Michael Bailey (180527). * Flight Lieutenant John Stanley Francis Blundell, DFC (153641). * Flight Lieutenant Roland Francis Chandler (126720). * Flight Lieutenant John Martin Crowley (3039748). * Flight Lieutenant George Frederick Gill (150523). * Flight Lieutenant Tadeusz Hemsley (501627). * Flight Lieutenant Ernest Eugene Owen Irish, DFC (126541). * Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Geoffrey Jones, (186124). * Flight Lieutenant Edmund Andrzej Ladro, DFC (500233). * Flight Lieutenant Lachlan Mackinnon, DSC (501655). * Flight Lieutenant Henry Alan Merriman (3108403). * Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Arthur Newbon (136505). * Flight Lieutenant AndrewNoble (173453). * Flight Lieutenant Roy Alvin Osborne (185437). * Flight Lieutenant Charles Richard Shanks, DFC (177689). * Flight Lieutenant Erazm Wardzinski (500070). * Flying Officer John Atkinson (578987). * Flying Officer Thomas Reginald Gribble (607239). * Flying Officer John Alexander Matheson (55054). * Flying Officer Michael Richard Merrett (3510758). * Flying Officer Gordon Ian Smith (2689557), Royal Auxiliary Air Force. * Master Pilot James Lionel William Gresham (567560). * Master Pilot Thomas Robinson (568712). * Master Navigator James Henry Sabourin (570197). * 1812778 Flight Sergeant David Ernest Wanstall. ;United Kingdom * Captain Donald Anderson, Flight Superintendent, Stratocruiser Fleet,

. * Douglas Haigh, DFM, First Officer, British European Airways. * Captain Harry James Rose, Senior Captain, First Class, Constellation Fleet, British Overseas Airways Corporation. * Oliver Beauchamp St. John, Senior Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Dennis Graham William Tayler, DFC, Civilian Test Pilot, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply. * Captain Eric Ronald Watts, Senior Captain, Second Class,

. * Captain Stanley George Websper, Senior Captain, Transair (UK), Transair Ltd. ;Oversea Territory * Derek Charles Hellens, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Reserve Air Wing. * Colin Alexander Prichard, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Reserve Air Wing.

Queen's Police Medal

;England and Wales * Major Sir Philip Reginald Margetson, KCVO, MC, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. * William Ewart Pitts, Chief Constable, Derbyshire Constabulary. * Alexander James Paterson, BEM, Chief Constable Salford City Police Force. * George James Blackborow, Assistant Chief Constable, Birmingham City Police Force. * James Bertram Clifford Harris, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Coventry City Police Force. * George Thwaite, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary. * George James Sheppard, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Hastings Borough Police Force. * John Hartley Newstead, Superintendent (Grade 1), Metropolitan Police. * Hugh Ernest Jannaway, Superintendent (Grade 1), Metropolitan Police. * Charles Frederick Large, Superintendent Gloucestershire Constabulary. * Douglas Frank Benstead, Superintendent, Surrey Constabulary. * Frederick James Thurley, Superintendent, Warwickshire Constabulary. ;Scotland * Allister McInnes, OBE, Chief Constable, City of Perth Police Force. * Alexander Munro, Chief Superintendent, City of Glasgow Police Force. ;Northern Ireland * Robert Eakin, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. ;Southern Rhodesia * Lieutenant-Colonel William Hampden Dawson Walker, MBE, Senior Assistant Commissioner of the British South Africa Police. ;Oversea Territories * Alexander John Waterfield Slater, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. * Hugh Blackburn Jervoise Donaldson, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. * Talif bin Lisut, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. * Julian Canning Day, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Northern Rhodesia. * Charles James Anthony Haines, Superintendent of Police, Singapore. * Brinley Lewis, Superintendent of Police, Singapore. * Frederick Vincent Boswell, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police, Tanganyika. * James Bruce Gordon Austin, Chief of Police, Grenada, Windward Islands.

Queen's Fire Services Medal

;England and Wales * Leonard Philip Wright, Divisional Officer, London Fire Brigade. * William Collow, MBE, Chief Officer, Norfolk Fire Brigade. * Leslie Garside, Chief Officer, York Fire Brigade. * Percy Albert Bloom, Assistant Chief Officer, Nottinghamshire Fire Brigade. * Arthur Hallsworth, Divisional Officer, Derby County Borough Fire Brigade. ;New Zealand * Albert William Taylor, Chief Officer, Blenheim Volunteer Fire Brigade. * John Wilson Kane, Chief Fire Officer, Gisborne Fire Brigade. ;Oversea Territory * Arthur Benjamin, Inspector, New Amsterdam, Guyana, New Amsterdam Fire Brigade, British Guiana.

Colonial Police Medal

;Southern Rhodesia * Captain Samuel Verney Brewer, British South Africa Police. * Captain Stanley Edwards, British South Africa Police. * Captain Herbert Charles LomasBritish South Africa Police. * Mgambiwa, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. * Muchenje, Station Sergeant, British South Africa Police. * Captain Richard John Parry, British South Africa Police. * Captain Jack Redfern, British South Africa Police. * Captain Richard Henry Sobey, British South Africa Police. * Captain Roger Leslie Southgate, British South Africa Police. * Captain James Spink, British South Africa Police. * Captain Robert StokerBritish South Africa Police. ;Bechuanaland * James Bokowe, Sergeant-Major, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police Force. * Edward Hugh Dalrymple Warren, Assistant Superintendent, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police Force. ;Oversea Territories * Raja Adnan bin Raja Abdullah, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Mark Akaluka, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police Force. * Jama Ali, Inspector, Somaliland Police Force. * Sam Danso Amaning, Assistant Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Ariffin bin Long, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Arsat, Sergeant-Major, Sarawak Constabulary. * Arthur Owen Bather, Senior Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Edward Godwin Beckley, Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force. * Theodore Kenneth Belton, Deputy-Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Makau Bmuta, Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Thomas Fordham Brown, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Dahir Caine, Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Barry AlfredHarvey Cartwright, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Chan Heng Kooi, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Richard Gibbon Chater, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Reserve. * Chembee bin Mohammed Zain, Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Caution Chiluba, Detective Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. * Alfred Ross Collett, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. * Frederick Charles Constant, Assistant Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Richard Joseph Wanchope Craig, MC, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Ivor Wynne Yorke-Davies, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Reserve. * Arthur Leonard Davis, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Tanganyika Police Force. * John Richard Cheatle Davis, BEM, Assistant Superintendent, Kenya Police Reserve. * Mohamed Din s/o Sheik Ahmad, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Elias bin Omar, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Joseph Etiu, Corporal, Uganda Police Force. * Jean Riccard Factotum, Constable, Mauritius Police Force. * Ali Faik, Sergeant, Cyprus Police Force. * Ebenezer Mibiawogorme Gborsongu, Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force. * Alexander Lundie Gordon, Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. * Yakubu Grunshie, Sergeant-Major, Gold Coast Police Force. * Hamid bin Abdullah, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Basil St.John Hickman, Deputy Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Hitam bin Abdul Talib, Corporal, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Donald William Howell, Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Volunteer Reserve. * John Kenneth Humphreys, Assistant Superintendent, Nyasaland Police Force. * Alfred Ikechebelu, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police Force. * Mohamed Isa bin Ja'aniat, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary. * Issa s/o Mohanied, Sergeant-Major, Tanganyika Police Force. * Jalaluddin bin Abu Bakar, Detective Sub Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Johari bin Sakun, Corporal, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Michael Kanu, Sergeant, Nigeria Police Force. * Patrick John Kenny, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Harped Abdul Karim Khan, Assistant Superintendent, Aden Police Force. * George Arthur Kirwan, Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Koh Lian Wah, Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Leong Wan Sang, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Oswald Lewis, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * George McGarry, Deputy Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Mahat bin Haji Noor, Sergeant-Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Campbell Alleyne Mahon, Superintendent, Jamaica Constabulary. * Salim Malelemba, Sergeant, Zanzibar Police Force. * Abdul Manap bin Abu, Staff Sergeant, Singapore Police Force. * Leon Marcel, Constable, Mauritius Police Force. * Reginald David Milne, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force. * Mohamed (bin All, Sergeant-Major, Zanzibar Police Force. * Mohamed bin Jemain, Sergeant-Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * James Vincent Mulligan, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force. * Kiema Munyalo, Assistant Inspector, Kenya Police Force. * Bmirio Musoke, Head Constable-Major, Uganda Police Force. * Cyril Frank Norton, Acting Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force. * Philip Shokare Obor, Chief Inspector, Nigeria Police, Force. * Yosefu Okwal s/o Rasan, Head Constable, Uganda Police Force. * Omar bin Hassan, Sergeant-Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Apostolos Papaconstantinou, Chief Inspector, Cyprus Police Force. * Ernest Robert Pierre, Inspector, Trinidad Police Force. * Shuk Deo Prasad, Detective Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force. * Joseph Wrench Prosper, Inspector, Leeward Islands Police Force. * Apputhurai Ananda Rajah, Deputy Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Ponniah Rajaratnam, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force. * Basoodeo Ramessur, Sub-Inspector, Mauritius Police Force. * Thomas William Sackey, Assistant Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force. * Safai bin Alwi, Corporal, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary. * Morroh Sanneh, Station Sergeant, Gambia Police Force. * Ernest Arnold Siebs, Inspector, British Guiana Police Force. * Edward James Stewart, Chief Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force. * Noorul Haq Sufaarali, Sergeant, North Borneo Constabulary. * John Mathew Sullivan, Senior Superintendent, Uganda Police Force. * Michael William Turner, Commandant, Hong Kong Special Constabulary. * Arthur Albert Waters, Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Roland Terence Mytton Watson, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Reserve. * John Maurice Cahill Wheeler, Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force. * Francis Spencer Wigley, Superintendent, Fiji Police Force. * Yahaya bin Ahmad, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary. * Yau So, Sergeant, Hong Kong, Police Force.

Australia

Knight Bachelor

*Harold Alderson, Harold George Alderson, MBE, of Sydney. For services to amateur sport. * Edward Ritchie Knox, MC, of Bellevue Hill, New South Wales. For services to commerce and industry. *Daryl Lindsay, Ernest Daryl Lindsay, of South Yarra, Victoria. For services to art. * Frank Samuel Tait, of Toorak, Victoria. For services to the theatre.

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division * Lieutenant-General Eric Winslow Woodward, CBE, DSO (2/9), Australian Staff Corps.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* The Honourable Kenneth Whistler Street, Chief Justice of New South Wales, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. For public services to the Commonwealth of Australia.

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

* Rabbi Jacob Danglow, OBE, VD, of St. Kilda, Victoria. For services to the community in Australia. * David Roy McCaughey, of Narrandera, New South Wales. For services to the pastoral industry in Australia. * Ronald James Samuel Muir, of East Brisbane. For services to the sugar industry in Australia.

Order of the British Empire

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

;Civil Division * Lieutenant-General William Bridgeford, CB, CBE, MC, of Melbourne, Chief Executive Officer, XVI Olympiad, since 1953. * Ivan Nello Holyman, MC, of Toorak, Victoria. For his contribution to transportation.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division * Commodore James Cairns Morrow, DSO, DSC, Royal Australian Navy. * Brigadier Lawrence George Canet, OBE, ADC (3/42), Australian Staff Corps. * Group Captain William Norman Gibson, DFC, Royal Australian Air Force. ;Civil Division * Alfred George Brown, MC, of Kew, Victoria. For services to the Red Cross. * Edwin William Hicks, of Elsternwick, Victoria, Secretary, Department of Air. * John Silvester Hutcheon, QC, of Albion, Queensland. For services to cricket. * Sydney Smith, OBE, of Chatswood, New South Wales. For services to cricket. * Brigadier Charles Chambers Fowell Spry, DSO, of Toorak, Victoria. For distinguished public service. * George Gribbon Sutcliffe, of Canberra. For distinguished public service. * Edward Ronald Walker, Australian Permanent Representative to the United Nations. For distinguished public services.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division * Acting Captain James Kenneth Walton, Royal Australian Navy. * Colonel Charles Victor Anderson, ED (3/37577), Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. * Colonel John Matthew Dwyer, ED (4/35213), Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Treyelyan Eldridge (3/164), Australian Staff Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Henry Fawcett (4/19), Australian Staff Corps. * Wing Commander Reginald Bruce Burrage, DFC (0365), Royal Australian Air Force. * Wing Commander Percy Stuart Kennedy (03441), Royal Australian Air Force. ;Civil Division * John Harold Ahearn, of Port Moresby, New Guinea. For community services in New Guinea. * James Clarence Archer, of Canberra. For outstanding public service. * Robert William McGregor Boswel, of Salisbury, South Australia. For outstanding public service in the guided weapons field. * Brigadier Athol Earle Brown, of Toorak, Victoria, Secretary-General, Anzac Agency, Imperial War Graves Commission. * The Reverend Canon Ernest Richard Buhner Gribble, of Palm Island, Queensland. For services to aboriginal missions. * Patrick Joseph Hannaberry, of Melbourne. For conspicuous public service. * William Rayner Hebblewhite, of Middle Cove, New South Wales, General Secretary of the Standards Association, 1924–1953. * Francis Patrick Joseph Kelly, of Ivanhoe, Victoria. For valuable public service. * The Reverend Sydney Alexander Mcdonald, MBE, of Chatswood, New South Wales. For social welfare services. * Beryl McFadyen, of Sydney. For services to children of deceased servicemen. * Councillor Roy Sydney Tyson Matthews, MC, of Hay, New South Wales. For services to the community. * Ernest John Pitchford, of Launceston, Tasmania. For service to public and political affairs in Tasmania. * Edith Mary Royle, of Mosman, New South Wales. For public services. * Alice Thorburn, Matron, European Hospital, Port Moresby, New Guinea. For services to nursing. * Ella Agnes Westwood, of Kirribilli, New South Wales. For services to the community. * Rupert John Williams, of Launceston, Tasmania. For contribution to Journalism. * Reginald Benjamin Williamson, of Dale River, via Beverley, Western Australia. For services to the meat industry.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division * Lieutenant-Commander Elford Bartlett Hopkins, VRD, Royal Australian Naval Reserve. * Senior Commissioned Boatswain Alfred Joseph Hayter, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve. * Captain Mostyn Reginald Beaglehole (4/20975), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Captain (Quartermaster) David Allan Danson (3/294), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Captain Joseph Alexander George Davey (3/37692), Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. * Major (temporary) Frederick Bruce Haigh (1/18351), Royal Australian Engineers. * Captain (temporary) Harold Ernest McHenry (3/92529), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Major Brenden Stanislaus Savage (2/380), Australian Staff Corps. * Major John Anthony Springhall (2/79011), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Captain Frederick Browning Wood (3/40017), Australian Staff Corps. * Squadron Leader William Carlyle Keritz (033150), Royal Australian Air Force. * Squadron Leader James Waller White (03532), Royal Australian Air Force. * Warrant Officer Frank Henry Mobberley (A3726), Royal Australian Air Force. ;Civil Division * Clarice Kathleen Andrews, JP, of Sydney. For service to war veterans. * John William Joseph Byrne, of Sydney. For public service. * Kathleen Coffey, of Melbourne. For public service. * Reginald Michael Collins, of Melbourne. For honorary services to personnel of the Royal Australian Navy. * Reginald Joseph Coombe of Adelaide. For social welfare services. * Muriel Alice Ebeling, of Melbourne. For charitable work. * Mary Ruth Flockart, of Melbourne. For services to music. * Florence May Grant, of Sydney. For public service . * The Reverend John Hope, of Sydney. For community service. * Thomas Francis Hourigan of Melbourne. For public service in the Navy Department. * The Reverend Thomas Edward Jones, of Sydney. For services to the people of the outback. * Walter Geoffrey Jones of Swansea, New South Wales. For community service. * Walter Cliye Kynaston of Cairns. For community service. * Jean McGregor-Lowndes, JP, of Toowong, Queensland, For social welfare services. * Doris Irene Magee, of Sydney. For services to women's amateur athletics and social welfare. * Ernest Andrew Park JP, of Northbridge, New South Wales. For social welfare services. * Agnes Purcell, of Melbourne. For charitable work. * Annie Simpson Wise, of Sydney. For services to the Red Cross. * Alfred Ernest Young of Melbourne. For service to ex-servicemen.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Australian Civil Service * Frank Gerald Cummins of Melbourne, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Navy.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division * Chief Petty Officer Phillip Reginald Herington, 21906, Royal Australian Navy. * Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) Douglas Hubert Bell (2/720), Royal Australian Engineers. * Sergeant John Patrick Hevey (3745113), Royal Australian Army Service Corps. * Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) Edward Walter Jackson (2/62270), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * Staff-Sergeant Alan Texas King (3/2019), Royal Australian Army Dental Corps. * Warrant Officer Class II (provisional) Keith Leslie Reeve (3/4337), Royal Australian Engineers. * Staff-Sergeant William Alfred Sawyer (5/9023), Royal Australian Infantry Corps. * A.3125.8 Flight Sergeant Stanley Walter Roe, Royal Australian Air Force. ;Civil Division * Kathleen Mary Rourke, Supervisor, Telephone Branch, Postmaster General's Department, Victoria. * Squire Lancelot Williams, Principal Attendant, Department of Defence, Melbourne.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

* Captain Margaret Grace Caterson (F2/3), Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Squadron Leader David Victor Hahn (05874), Royal Australian Air Force. * Flight Lieutenant Charles Alexander Voces (03482), Royal Australian Air Force.

References

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UK and Colonies

Viscount

Baron

Privy Counsellor

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

Order of the Bath

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

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Order of Merit

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

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

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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

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

Order of the British Empire

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

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

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

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Bar to Air Force Cross

Air Force Medal (AFM)

Queen's/King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

Queen's Police Medal

Queen's Fire Services Medal

Colonial Police Medal

Australia

Knight Bachelor

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

Order of the British Empire

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

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

See also

References