The 1953 Coronation Honours were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours on the occasion of her coronation on 2 June 1953. The honours were published in The London Gazette on 1 June 1953.
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.
The Rt. Hon. Frederick Marquis, Baron Woolton CH DL Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 1952; Minister of Food, 1940–1943; Minister of Reconstruction and member of War Cabinet, 1943–1945; Lord President of the Council, 1945 and 1951–1952; by the name, title and style of Viscount Woolton, of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster.Sir Peter Bennett OBE JP MP Unionist Member of Parliament for Edgbaston since 1940. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1951–1952. For political and public services; by the name, style and title of Baron Bennett of Edgbaston, of Sutton Coldfield in the County of Warwick.Sir Ralph Glyn Bt MC DL MP Unionist Member of Parliament for Abingdon since 1924 and for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, 1918–1922. Chairman, Select Committee of House of Commons on Estimates since 1951. For political and public services; by the name, style and title of Baron Glyn, of Farnborough in the County of Berks.Sir Alfred Suenson-Taylor OBE President, London Liberal Party. For political and public services; by the name, style and title of Baron Grantchester, of Knightsbridge in the City of Westminster.The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Sir Edward Bridges GCB GCVO MCSir Norman Brook GCBJohn Edwards OBE MPThe Hon. Harold HoltThe Hon. John McEwenSir Patrick Spens KBE QC MPAlfred Bossom JP MPSir Percy Mills KBESir Henry PriceMajor-General Sir Edward Spears KBE CB MCSir Herbert Williams MPStephen Cecil Armitage CBE Alderman, Nottingham City CouncilJohn Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong MVO Chester HeraldGeoffrey Morris Barnett, For political and public services in Leicester.Dingwall Latham Bateson CBE MC President of the Law SocietyAlderman John William Bowen CBE JP Chairman of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and the National Health Service General Whitley CouncilJohn Bevan Braithwaite, Chairman, Council of the Stock ExchangeEdward Crisp Bullard, Director, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchSydney Camm CBE Director and Chief Designer, Hawker Aircraft, Ltd.Professor David Campbell MC President of the General Medical CouncilGeorge Norman Clark, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. For services to the study of history.Bernard Henry Coode CB Clerk of Committees, House of CommonsLeonard Lumley Savage Dodsworth JP For political and public services in York.Patrick William Donner MP Conservative Member of Parliament for Basingstoke since 1935 and for West Islington, 1931–35. For political and public services.Walter James Drummond, Deputy Chairman, National Coal BoardEdward Brown Ferguson, Chairman, British Insurance AssociationMajor John Frederick Ferguson CBE Chief Constable, Kent County ConstabularyErnest Wensley Lapthorn Field CBE Director, Scottish Engineering Employers' AssociationLionel Wray Fox CB MC Chairman of the Prison Commission for England and WalesArthur John Gielgud, ActorColonel Louis Halle Gluckstein QC TD DL Conservative Member of Parliament for East Nottingham, 1931–45. For political and public services.Stuart Coldwell Goodwin JP For political and public services in SheffieldDavid Edward Griffiths OBE Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee, Royal Air Force Cinema CorporationAlderman William Josiah Grimshaw JP For political and public services in MiddlesexKenneth George Grubb CMG President of the Church Missionary SocietyJohn Berry Hobbs, For services to cricket.The Honourable Francis John Hopwood, Managing Director, Shell Transport and Trading Company, Ltd.Harry Hyde JP For political and public services in Lancashire.Hugh Nicholas Linstead OBE MP Conservative Member of Parliament for Putney since 1942. For political and public services.George Donald Alastair MacDougall CBE Chief Adviser, Statistical Branch, Office of the Paymaster GeneralWilliam Neil McKie MVO Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster AbbeyMajor Sydney Frank Markham MP Conservative Member of Parliament for Buckingham since 1951; for South Nottingham (National), 1935–1945; and for Chatham (Labour), 1929–31. For political and public services.Alderman James Marshall JP DL For political and public services in Croydon.Frederick Messer CBE JP MP Chairman, Central Health Services Council. Lately Chairman, North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital BoardCharles Richard Morris, Vice-chancellor, University of LeedsJohn Spencer Muirhead DSO MC TD DL President of the Law Society of ScotlandAndrew Naesmith CBE JP General Secretary, Amalgamated Weavers' AssociationJames Henry Norritt JP DL Lord Mayor of BelfastLieutenant-Colonel Grismond Picton Philipps CVO For political and public services in Carmarthenshire.Alderman Theodore Beal Pritchett MC DL For political and public services in Birmingham.Stanley Walter Rawson, Director-General of Machine Tools, Ministry of SupplyGordon Richards, For services to horse racing in Great Britain.Alfred Road CBE Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland RevenueFrancis Martin Rouse Walshe OBE FRCP President, Royal Society of Medicine. Consulting Physician to University College Hospital, LondonGeorge Alexander Williamson DL For political and public services in Aberdeenshire.The Honourable Shirley Williams Jeffries, of the State of South Australia. For public services.The Honourable Geoffrey Sandford Reed, Judge of the Supreme Court, State of South AustraliaEric Ernest von Bibra OBE Agent-General in London for the State of TasmaniaAndrew Henry Strachan CBE Secretary to the Treasury, Southern RhodesiaMalcolm Palliser Barrow CBE For public services in Nyasaland.Ewen MacGregor Field Fergusson JP For public services in Singapore.Mehmed Halid Bey. For public services in Cyprus.Donald Edward Jackson, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Windward and Leeward Islands.Edwin Frank McDavid CMG CBE lately Financial Secretary and Treasurer, British GuianaCharles Mathew CMG QC Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Federation of MalayaRoland Welensky CMG JP For public services in Northern Rhodesia.Knights Grand Cross (GCB)
Military Division
Admiral Sir George Elvey Creasy KCB CBE DSO MVOGeneral Sir Charles Frederic Keightley KCB KBE DSO late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon GuardsGeneral Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts KCB KBE DSO ADC late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal EngineersAir Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders KCB KBE MC DFC MM Royal Air ForceCivil Division
The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles GCVO KCB CMG MC Private Secretary to The QueenSir William Strang GCMG KCB MBE Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign OfficeKnights Commander (KCB)
Military Division
Vice-Admiral Edmund Walter Anstice CBAir Marshal Sir Francis Joseph Fogarty KBE CB DFC AFC Royal Air ForceAir Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman KBE CB DFC AFC Royal Air ForceGeneral (temporary) Sir Eric Garden Robert Mansergh KBE CB MC late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryLieutenant-General (temporary) Harold Redman CB CBE late Infantry. Colonel, The King's Own Yorkshire Light InfantryVice-Admiral Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett CB CBE DSOCivil Division
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft CBE Chairman, Defence Research Policy Committee and Scientific Adviser to the Minister of Defence. Director, Atomic Energy Research EstablishmentCommander (S) Sir Dudley Colles KCVO OBE Royal Navy (Retired), Deputy Treasurer to The Queen and Assistant Keeper of the Privy PurseGilbert Nicolson Flemming CB Permanent Secretary, Ministry of EducationSir Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox KCVO DSO Ceremonial Officer, H.M. TreasurySir Owen Frederick Morshead KCVO DSO MC DL Librarian to The Queen, Windsor CastleSir John Armitage Stainton KBE QC Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of LordsMilitary Division
Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Barnard CBE DSOThe Venerable Archdeacon Frank Noel Chamberlain OBE Chaplain of the FleetMajor-General Richard Frank Cornwall CBE Royal MarinesRear-Admiral Norman Vincent Dickinson DSO DSCRear-Admiral John Willson Musgrave Eaton DSO DSCRear-Admiral Arthur Gordon Voules Hubback CBERear-Admiral (E) Alexander Davidson McGlashan DSOCommodore Arthur Ian Robertson RD RNRRear-Admiral Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke VC DSOCommodore Courtenay Alexander Rives Shillington VRD RNVRBrigadier Alexander Meister Astruther OBE late Corps of Royal EngineersBrigadier George Rowley Bradshaw CBE late Royal Regiment of ArtilleryMajor-General Edwyn Harland Wolstenholme Cobb CBE late Corps of Royal EngineersMajor-General Joseph Clinton Collins CBE QHS late Royal Army Medical CorpsMajor-General Ralph Cyril Cruddas DSO late InfantryMajor-General William James Fitzpatrick Eassie CBE DSO late Royal Army Service CorpsMajor-General Frederick Knowles Escritt OBE QHS late Royal Army Medical CorpsMajor-General Cecil Llewellyn Firbank CBE DSO late InfantryMajor-General Reginald Peregrine Harding DSO late Royal Armoured CorpsColonel Leslie Innes Jacques CBE MC late Corps of Royal EngineersMajor-General James Mansergh Wentworth Martin CBE late Royal Armoured CorpsThe Reverend Canon Victor Joseph Pike CBE QHC Chaplain-General to the Forces (53409), Royal Army Chaplains' DepartmentMajor-General (temporary) Walter Henry Dennison Ritchie CBE late Royal Army Service CorpsMajor-General Dennis Charles Tarrant Swan CBE late Corps of Royal EngineersBrigadier and Chief Paymaster Frederick Christian Williams CBE MC Royal Army Pay CorpsAir Vice-Marshal George David Harvey CBE DFC Royal Air ForceAir Vice-Marshal Walter Hugh Merton OBE Royal Air ForceAir Commodore Adolphus Dan Davies CBE Royal Air ForceAir Commodore Hector Douglas McGregor CBE DSO Royal Air ForceAir Commodore John Marson CBE Royal Air ForceAir Commodore Thomas Bain Prickman CBE Royal Air ForceGroup Captain David John Pryer Lee CBE Royal Air ForceGroup Captain John Gilbert Davis OBE Royal Air ForceCivil Division
John Anderson, Deputy Secretary, Scottish Home DepartmentPhilip Austin Browne, Chief Inspector, Ministry of EducationAir Vice-Marshal Willett Amalric Bowen Bowen-Buscarlet CBE DFC DL Chairman, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces AssociationRobert Cockburn OBE Scientific Adviser to the Air MinistryGeorge Peter Humphreys-Davies, Under-Secretary, H.M. TreasuryMartin Teall Flett, Under-Secretary, H.M. TreasuryIsidore Graul OBE Under-Secretary, Ministry of FoodJohn French Greenwood, Undersecretary, Central Land Board and War Damage CommissionJohn Hastings James, Under-Secretary, AdmiraltyEric Malcolm Jones CBE Foreign OfficeErnest Turner Jones OBE Principal Director of Scientific Research (Air), Ministry of SupplyEvan Bonnor Hugh-Jones MC Chief Engineer, Highways Engineering Staff, Ministry of TransportGeorge Herbert Edmeston Parr CBE Comptroller and Auditor-General, Northern IrelandJohn Edward Pater, Under-Secretary, Ministry of HealthJohn Alfred Ralph Pimlott, Under-Secretary, Ministry of MaterialsJack Stafford, Director of Statistics, Board of TradeWilliam Thomas, Under-Secretary, Welsh Office, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentBrigadier Alfred Cedric Cowan Willway CBE TD DL Lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of SurreyNorman Egerton Young CMG MC Comptroller-General, National Debt OfficeThe Most Noble Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk KG GCVOThe Most Noble Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Beaufort KG GCVODames Grand Cross (GCVO)
Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret CIHer Highness Princess Marie Louise CI GBEThe Right Honourable Mabell Frances Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Airlie GBEKnights Grand Cross (GCVO)
Field Marshal the Right Honourable Alan Francis, Viscount Alanbrooke KG DSOThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Lord Archbishop of CanterburyThe Most Honourable George Horatio Charles, Marquess of CholmondeleyAdmiral Sir John Hereward Edelsten GCB CBE ADCAir Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot KCB KBE DFC ADC Royal Air ForceThe Right Honourable Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe QC MPColonel Sir Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh KCVOMajor Sir Arthur Horace Penn KCVO MCThe Right Honourable Lawrence Roger, Earl of Scarbrough KG GCSI GCIE TDSir Harold Richard Scott KCB KBEDames Commander (DCVO)
The Right Honourable Dorothy Evelyn Augusta, Countess of Halifax CIThe Right Honourable Patricia, Viscountess HambledenThe Right Honourable Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix, Countess Spencer OBEKnights Commander (KCVO)
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor BaxThe Honourable Sir George Rothe Bellew CVOSir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower CVORear-Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley KCMG CVOLieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning KBE CB DSOColonel Geoffrey Ronald Codrington CB CMG CVO DSO OBE TDMajor The Honourable John Spencer Coke CVOSir Rupert de la Bère JP MPCedric Drewe MPThe Right Honourable David McAdam Eccles MPSir Harold Corti EmmersonMajor-General Randle Guy Feilden CB CBEMajor-General Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones CMG CBE MCSir Percivale Liesching GCMG KCBEdgar William Light CMG MVO OBEMajor Philip Reginald Margetson CVO MCHenry Austin Strutt CB CVOCommanders (CVO)
(William) Godfrey AgnewLieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour CIE CBE MCRoderick Edward Barclay CMGEric BedfordLieutenant-Colonel Ralph Charles Bingham DSOMajor Alastair Campbell Blair TDJohn Dykes BowerCommander (S) Richard Colville MVO DSC Royal Navy (Retired)Roger John Edward Conant MPCaptain Oliver Payan DawnayJean Frances, The Honourable Mrs. Andrew ElphinstoneThe Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell MVOLady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes-GaskellLady Margaret Katherine HayCaptain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd MVO MCJohn Nigel Loring MRCSIvison Stephenson Macadam CBE MVOWalter Howard Nevill RDOsborne Harold PeasgoodDavid Bruce PitbladoWilliam George PottingerAlderman Charles Pearce Russell JPHenry Gray Studholme MPLawrence Edward Tanner MVOBurke St. John TrendLieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Osbert Eustace Vesey CMG CBEAnthony Richard WagnerLady Victoria Alexandrina Violet WemyssJames Lawrence Bunting Ansell MRCSThe Reverend Prebendary Edward Harold Williams-AshmanWilliam Bishop MVOLieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Martin Michael Charles Charteris OBEEugene John CruftPercival Thorne Fielding MVONorman Bishop HartnellColonel Sir Edward Philip Le BretonMajor James Rennie Maudslay MBEMajor Mark Vane Milbank MCOliver MillarMajor Robert Alfred O'Brien TDLieutenant-Colonel (Director of Music) Meredith Roberts MBEMajor Charles Murray Kennedy St. Clair (The Master of Sinclair)Norman Leslie Swift MVOLieutenant-Colonel John Riddell Bromhead Walker MCMajor Charles Ernest Walter MBEMargaret BarronWinifred Maud BatesonDavid Vincent Griffiths BuchananWalter Harry Dobson MBE MC MM TDWilliam Frederick FryerEdmund Frank GroveWilliam John Hepburn MBERobert George Stegmaun Hoare MBEMary Felicity Colquhoun IrvineVictoria Florence LaflinMargaret McKay MacDonaldCyril Arnett WaudAllan Green WickensWalter John De La Mare CHKnights Grand Cross (GCMG)
Major-General Sir John Noble Kennedy KCMG KCVO KBE CB MC Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern RhodesiaSir John Gilbert Laithwaite KCMG KCIE CSI High Commissioner in Pakistan for Her Majesty's Government in the United KingdomGeneral Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer KCB KBE CMG DSO ADC High Commissioner, Federation of MalayaSultan Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-Mu'adzam Shah ibni Al-Marhum Al-Mu'tasim Billah Al-Sultan Abdullah. His Highness the Sultan of Pahang, Federation of Malaya.Knights Commander (KCMG)
Lieutenant-General Sir James Bennett Hance KCIE OBE Medical Adviser and President, Medical Board, Commonwealth Relations OfficeHarold Graham Vincent CB CVO Secretary, Government Hospitality FundFrederick Crawford CMG OBE Governor and Commander-in-Chief, SeychellesRobert de Zouche Hall CMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Sierra LeoneTom Hickinbotham CMG CIE OBE Governor and Commander-in-Chief, AdenStephen Elliot Vyvyan Luke CMG Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies and British Co-Chairman of the Caribbean CommissionDouglas Frederick Howard CMG MC Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in MontevideoFrank Kenyon Roberts CMG Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign OfficeSir James Wilson Robertson KBE Civil Secretary, Sudan GovernmentGeoffrey Arnold Wallinger CMG Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at BangkokSultan Omar Ali Saifuddin CMG ibni Almerhom Sultan Mohamed Jemalulalam, His Highness the Sultan of Brunei.Major Edward Beddington-Behrens MC For services to the Economic League for European Co-operationAmos John Cooke, Head of British Food Mission in the Argentine RepublicJames Durward, Deputy Director, Meteorological Office, Air MinistryRobert Ernest Hardingham OBE Secretary and Chief Executive, Air Registration BoardGeorge Macdonald Professor of Tropical Hygiene, University of London, and Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical HygieneChristopher Thomas Saunders, Deputy Director, Central Statistical Office, Cabinet OfficeMatthew Stevenson, Assistant Secretary, H.M. TreasuryColonel Granville Walton OBE JP DL RE (Retired), Oversea Commissioner, Boy Scouts AssociationKenneth Clinton Wheare, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of OxfordRoger Boulton Willmot, Senior Trade Commissioner, New ZealandGeorge James Armstrong CBE Government Secretary, BasutolandThe Honourable George Arthur Davenport, Minister of Mines and Transport, and Minister of Education, Southern RhodesiaBrigadier Thomas Charles Eastick DSO ED President of the South Australian Branch of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's LeagueHorace Algernon Fraser Rumbold CIE an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office and recently Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South AfricaEric John Carl Stopp MBE Official Secretary to the Governor, State of Tasmania, for many yearsJames Thomson OBE MM Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in CanadaArthur Grenfell Clarke, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Hong KongRobert Herbert Keppel-Compton, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, NyasalandWalter Fleming Coutts MBE Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator, St. Vincent, Windward IslandsArthur Norman Galsworthy. Chief Secretary, West African Inter-Territorial SecretariatRonald Ernest German, Colonial Postal Service, Postmaster General, East African Posts and Telegraphs Department, East Africa High CommissionNoel Hedley Vicars-Harris, Colonial Administrative Service, Member for Lands and Mines, TanganyikaCarruthers Melvill Johnston, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, KenyaCharles Ernest Lalbert, Assistant Secretary, Colonial OfficePatrick Donald Macdonald, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Leeward IslandsThomas Percy Fergus McNeice OBE Colonial Administrative Service, President, City Council, SingaporeLionel Armine Mathias, Colonial Administrative Service, Labour Commissioner, UgandaJohn Archibald Mulhall OBE Colonial Administrative Service, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Gold CoastRobert Newton, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, JamaicaCecil Rex Niven MC Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, NigeriaGeoffrey Walter Nye OBE Deputy Agricultural Adviser to the Secretary of State for the ColoniesDavid Charles Watherston, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Federation of MalayaEdward Henry Windley, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, KenyaColonel Arthur Edwin Young. For services as Commissioner of Police, Federation of MalayaRichard Hugh Sedley Allen, Minister at Her Majesty's Embassy in Buenos AiresHarold Beeley CBE Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in WashingtonJohn Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett OBE Historical Adviser to the Special Historical Section (Captured German Archives) of the Foreign Office LibraryHenry Norman Brain OBE Inspector of Her Majesty's Foreign Service EstablishmentsRolland Alfred Aimé Chaput de Saintonge, Head of the German Information Department, Foreign OfficeCarlton Griffith Davies MC Sudan Agent in LondonCharles Howard Ellis CBE Foreign OfficeWilliam Harpham OBE lately Head of the General Department, Foreign OfficeCharles Hepburn Johnston, Political Director, Office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner, WahnerheideRichard Geoffrey Austin Meade, Her Majesty's Consul-General at MarseillesJohn Bennet Lorimer Munro, lately Chief Administrative Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Cecil Cuthbert Parrott OBE Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in BrusselsIvor Thomas Montague Pink, lately Deputy to the Permanent United Kingdom Representative on the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in ParisArchibald David Manisty Ross, Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign OfficeSir Horace Anthony Claude Rumbold Bt Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in ParisAlhaji the Honourable Usuman Nagogo CBE Emir of Katsina, Nigeria.Knights Grand Cross (GBE)
Military Division
Admiral The Honourable Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell KCB CBE DSOGeneral Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson KCB KBE DSO ADC late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Royal Pioneer CorpsAir Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd KCB KBE MC DFC Royal Air ForceCivil Division
Sir Alexander Knox Helm KCMG CBE Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in AnkaraSir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood KCMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief, MauritiusAbubakar KBE CMG Sultan of Sokoto, NigeriaDames Commander (DBE)
Military Division
Brigadier Mary Frances Coulshed CBE TD ADC late Women's Royal Army CorpsCivil Division
Lady Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Past President of the Liberal Party Organisation and of the Women's Liberal Federation. For political and public services.Lady Helen Cynthia Colville DCVO JP For social work, including services to the welfare of mothers and children.Catherine Fulford MBE For political and public services in London.Flora MacLeod of MacLeod. For social and public services in ScotlandEnid Mary Russell Russell-Smith, Under-Secretary, Ministry of HealthKnights Commander (KBE)
Military Division
Vice-Admiral Charles Thomas Mark Pizey CB DSOVice-Admiral Albert Lawrence Poland CB DSO DSCMajor-General Cecil Norbury Bednall CB OBE MC Royal Army Pay CorpsLieutenant-General John Dane Woodall CB OBE MC late Royal Regiment of ArtilleryAir Marshal Robert Owen Jones CB AFC Royal Air ForceActing Air Marshal James MacConnell Kilpatrick CB OBE Royal Air ForceCivil Division
Robert John Graham Boothby MP Unionist Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire since 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1940–41. A delegate to Consultative Assembly of Council of Europe since 1949. For political and public services.John Anthony Carroll, Deputy Controller (Research and Development), AdmiraltyFrank Wyndham Hirst CBE Public TrusteeThe Honourable Arthur Jared Palmer Howard CVO JP DL Chairman of the Teaching Hospitals AssociationAlexander Johnston CB Third Secretary, H.M. TreasuryDudley Owen Lumley CB OBE Deputy Director General, General Post OfficeSir Greville Simpson Maginness, Chairman, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Ltd., ManchesterMajor-General William Godwin Michelmore CB DSO MC TD JP DL Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of DevonSir Charles Johns Mole MVO OBE Director-General of Works, Ministry of WorksSir Frederick Ernest Rebbeck JP DL Chairman and Managing Director, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., BelfastJohn Garnett Lomax CMG MBE MC Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in La PazNorman Stanley Roberts CMG OBE Minister (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in TokyoProfessor Hugh Stott Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, United States of AmericaCharles Alexander Innes, President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India, 1952–53Hugo Frank Marshall CMG Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Western Region, NigeriaClement John Pleass CMG Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Eastern Region, NigeriaDato Onn bin Ja'afar, Member for Home Affairs, Federation of MalayaRaja Uda CMG CBE bin Raja Muhammad, Mentri Besar, Selangor, Federation of MalayaMallam Yahaya CMG CBE Emir of Gwandu, NigeriaCommanders (CBE)
Military Division
Rear-Admiral (E) Robert Cobb OBEJeannie Kathleen GIillanders RRC Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing ServiceColonel Joseph Thomas Hall OBE ADC Royal MarinesCaptain Roy Carlton Harry ADC Royal NavyCaptain (E) Phillip Daniel Oliver, Royal Navy (Retired)Colonel John Markham Phillips, Royal MarinesSuperintendent Nancy Margaret Robertson OBE Women's Royal Naval ServiceCaptain Raymond Maurice Trevelyan Taylor, Royal Navy (Retired) (serving with the Indian Navy as Commodore-in-Charge, Bombay)Surgeon Captain Samuel Gerald Weldon Royal NavyCaptain (S) Albert Stanley Wiggett ADC Royal NavyBrigadier (temporary) Richard Hugh Barry OBE late InfantryBrigadier George Alexander Bond OBE late Royal Army Service CorpsBrigadier (temporary) Robert Gilbert Trimingham Collins, Employed List I (late The Gloucestershire Regiment)Brigadier Brian Daunt DSO late Royal Regiment of ArtilleryBrigadier Francis Charles Widenham Fosbery, late Corps of Royal EngineersMajor-General Philip Le Marchant Stonhouse Stonhouse-Gostling, late Royal Regiment of ArtilleryBrigadier (formerly Major-General (temporary)) Cecil Hay Gurney OBE late InfantryBrigadier (temporary) John Winthrop Hackett DSO MBE MC late Royal Armoured CorpsColonel Richard Clarence Halse OBEBrigadier Andrew George Heveningham OBE late Royal Army Veterinary CorpsColonel (temporary) Godfrey Pennington Hobbs MBE The Royal Northumberland FusiliersColonel Hilary Leonard Lewis, late Royal Corps of SignalsLieutenant-Colonel (formerly Colonel (temporary)) Temple Morris OBE MC Royal Army Ordnance CorpsBrigadier Henry Albert Potter, late Royal Army Service CorpsColonel (acting) Dudley Gethin Bramley Ridout OBE Army Cadet ForceBrigadier (temporary) John Michael Kane Spurling DSO late InfantryColonel (temporary) Hugh Penry Whitefoord, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryColonel Thomas Ernest Williams, late InfantryBrigadier (temporary) Reginald Edward Holloway MBE late Corps of Royal Engineers, at present on loan to the Government of IndiaColonel Robert Edward Beaumont Long OBE Southern Rhodesia Military ForcesThe Reverend Alan Stanley Giles OBE QHC Royal Air ForceAir Commodore Frederick Elvy Lipscomb MRCS QHP Royal Air ForceAir Commodore Patrick Brunton Lee Potter OBE Royal Air ForceActing Air Commodore Wilfred Ewart Oulton DSO DFC Royal Air ForceActing Air Commodore Walter Allan Stagg OBE Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Cyril Edgar Joseph Baines, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Vyvian George Anthony Bennett, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Leslie Crocker, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Edward Mortlock Donaldson DSO AFC Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Noel Challis Hyde, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Gwilym Laugharne Sloane Griffith-Jones Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Bruce Robinson, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Richard Stephen Ryan, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain Edward John Herbert Starling, Royal Air ForceGroup Captain John Arthur Charles Stratton OBE Royal Air ForceCivil Division
Alfred Agar, Chairman and Managing Director, Davidson and Company, Ltd., BelfastJohn Russell Willis Alexander, Chairman, Westminster Local Employment CommitteeJeannette Eleanor Altwegg. For services to amateur skating.Hugh Arrowsmith, Independent Member of the Raw Cotton CommissionAlice Martha Bacon MP Labour Member of Parliament for North-East Leeds since 1945. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1950. For political and public services.Richard George Baker, Deputy Chairman, North Eastern Division, National Coal BoardEdmund Bruce Ball, Managing Director, Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., KilmarnockJohn Garnett Banks JP lately City Treasurer, EdinburghWilliam George Barnard FRCP Professor of Pathology, University of LondonAlderman Albert David Bartlett JP For political and public services in Lewisham.Frederick Sherbrooke Barton, Principal Director of Electronic Research and Development, Ministry of SupplyHarry Bateman. For political and public services in Lincolnshire.Edward Fetherstonhaugh Batten OBE For political and public services in Devon.Joseph Bell, Chief Constable, Manchester City Police ForceAlderman William James Bennett JP Chairman, Essex County Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.MacAlister Bexon, President, The British Furniture Manufacturers' Federated AssociationsJack Albert Billmeir. For political and public services.Henry John Bostock JP For public services in Staffordshire.Herbert William Bowden MP Labour Member of Parliament for South Leicester, 1945–50, and for South-West Leicester since 1950. Opposition Deputy Chief Whip since 1951. For political and public services.Alexander Doveton John Brennan, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesMajor James Parry Brown OBE JP For political and public services in South Wales.John Norman Brown, Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office and Industrial Property Department, Board of TradeRalph Waldo Cheseore, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, AdmiraltyDavid Kenneth Clarke. For political services.Donovan Dennett Wilding Cole, Assistant Controller (Production), Atomic Energy Establishment, Risley, Ministry of SupplyBrian Eliot Common, Chairman, Tyne Improvement Commission. Director, Common Brothers, Ltd.Roger Gresham Cooke, Director, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd.William Oliver Copeman OBE Chairman, Area Provisions and Grocery Committee for the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Isle of Ely and Bedford. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern CountiesRobert Armstrong Corscadden, Chief Crown Solicitor, Northern IrelandJohn Cranna. For political services.Moss Dancyger OBE Assistant Secretary, Ministry of PensionsClemence Dane (Miss Winifred Ashton), AuthorWilliam Surrey Dane MC Joint Managing Director, Odham's Press, Ltd. For services to King George's Jubilee Trust.Lieutenant-Colonel George Darby OBE MC Head of the Commercial Treaties Branch, Colonial OfficeGwendolen Florence Davies MVO OBE Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime MinisterThomas Morris Davies MRCS Deputy Director General of Medical Services, Ministry of PensionsJohn Donovan, Member, Docks and Inland Waterways ExecutiveArthur Drewry JP President of the Football LeagueWilliam Jolly Duncan, Mechan Professor of Aeronautics and Fluid Mechanics, University of GlasgowHarvey John Dunkerley, Controller, Midland Region, British Broadcasting CorporationTom Eatough, Assistant Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department, Board of TradeHerbert Cecil Ralph Edwards, Keeper, Victoria and Albert MuseumJohn Arthur Edwards, Deputy Chief Valuer, Board of Inland RevenueWillie Evans, Chairman and Managing Director of Chas. H. Challen and Son, Ltd.Edward Henry Everson, Command Secretary, Far East Land Forces, War OfficeArthur Fage, Superintendent, Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchGeorge Daniel Frazer OBE Director of Savings, General Post OfficeEdward Granville Gordon Fost, Alderman, Cambridgeshire County CouncilEdwin Maxwell Fry, Architect and Town PlannerCaroline Selina Ganley JP Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Battersea South, 1945–51. President, London Co-operative Society, 1942–46. For political and public services.Hugh Gardner, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesWalter Frank Gardner, President of the Institute of Actuaries. General Manager of the Prudential Assurance Company, Ltd.Neville Archibald Gass MC a Managing Director, Anglo-Iranian Oil CompanyHarry Percy Gee OBE Chairman, Leicester Savings CommitteeMary Spencer Revell, Lady Graham. For political and public services in the North WestJohn Robert Griffin OBE General Secretary, British LegionArthur Guilford, Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit DepartmentAlderman Grierson James Gully JP Chairman, Kent River BoardGerald Francis Gurrin, Handwriting expert. For services to the Home OfficeRichard Lloyd Gwilt, President of the Faculty of ActuariesKathleen Mary Halpin OBE Chief Administrator, Regional Department, Women's Voluntary ServicesJohn Norman Harmer, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceMajor Horace Reginald Haslett OBE Chairman, North Ireland War Pensions CommitteeJohn Hayward, CriticHarold Heady, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentTom Hebron MVO Registrar and Chief Accountant, Westminster AbbeyEvelyn Mary Hews, Alderman. For political and public services in CanterburyJessie Emma Higson. For pioneer work in the field of Moral Welfare.Major Morton Hiles OBE Secretary-Treasurer, National Federation of Young Farmers' ClubsJohn Alexander Hillman, Assistant Commissioner of Crown LandsEdmund Albert Hogan, Registrar-General for ScotlandErnest James Henry Holt OBE lately Honorary Secretary, Treasurer, Amateur Athletic FederationGeorge Frederick Thomas Hopkins MVO OBE MC Superintendent, Royal Mews, Buckingham PalaceHerbert Norman Howells, ComposerJohn Francis Huntington, Assistant Secretary, Board of Inland RevenueJames Edgar Hurst JP President, British Cast Iron Research AssociationIvor Benjamin Hugh James, Professor of Violoncello, Royal College of Music. For services to Chamber Music.Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Nevill Jennings MC DL For political and public services in the Isle of Wight.Eric Alfred George Johnson, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Percy Marshall Johnson, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of FoodBarry William Thomas Kay, Regional Controller, Midland Region, Board of TradeJohn Donald Kelly JP DL For political and public services in Glasgow.Osbert Lancaster, CartoonistThomas Alan Lane, Director of Expense Accounts, AdmiraltyFrancis Walsham Lawe, General Manager, Harrods, Ltd.Thomas Lawrie, General Manager, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric BoardDavid Lean, Film DirectorLouis le Couteur, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceColonel Bruce Hamer Leeson OBE TD Director of British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association, IncWilliam Leslie MC TD JP For political and public services in Cornwall.Rhys Gerran Lloyd, Secretary, Royal Commission on Awards to InventorsMervyn Lyster Longhurst, Assistant Legal Adviser, Ministry of EducationColonel John George Lowther DSO MC TD DL Lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Counties of Huntingdon and NorthamptonHarry Lyne OBE Area Secretary, Young Men's Christian Association. Southern CommandFrancis Charles McLean MBE Deputy Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting CorporationLieutenant-Colonel Norman MacLeod CMG DSO JP DL Member, National Executive Council of the British Legion, ScotlandEva Marion Maguire OBE Head Superintendent, Sandes Soldiers' and Airmen's HomesKeith Cranston Mann, Director of Works (Overseas), Air MinistryCarl Marshall MBE Assistant Secretary, National Assistance BoardArchibald Daniel Marston FRCS lately Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetics, Royal College of SurgeonsArnold Ashley Miles FRCP Director, Lister Institute of Preventive MedicineHorace William Minshull OBE Head of the Finance Department, Foreign OfficeJohn Methven Mitchell MBE Lately County Clerk of FifeGilbert Richard Mitchison QC MP Labour Member of Parliament for Kettering since 1945. For political and public services.Allan McLeod Mooney, Deputy Director of Electrical Engineering, AdmiraltySholto Douglas Morton, Regional Controller, East and West Ridings Region, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceCharles William Moss, Director, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.Colonel Robert Fallows Mottershead. For political and public services in Blackburn.Edwin Muir, Author, Warden of Newbattle Abbey College, MidlothianAlfred Ross Murison JP President, Educational Institute of ScotlandThe Reverend Valentine Paul Nevill, Headmaster, Ampleforth College, YorkHarry Porter Newman, Member of Council, National Association of Corn and Agricultural MerchantsHenry Nimmo, Chairman, Southern Electricity BoardRobert Noble, Regional Controller, East and West Ridings Region, Ministry of National InsuranceBrigadier Harry Naismith Obbard, Chief Administrative Officer, India, Pakistan and South-East Asia District, Imperial War Graves CommissionDonald Arthur Oliver, Metals Economy Adviser, Ministry of SupplyJohn Nelson Panes, Government Secretary and Treasurer, Isle of ManErnest George Peenman, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of SupplyNikolaus Bernard Leon Pevsner, Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of CambridgeMargaret Evelyn Popham, Principal, Cheltenham Ladies CollegeHenry Charles Quincey MBE Commander, Metropolitan Police ForceMarie Rambert (Mrs. Ashley Dukes), Founder and Directress of the Ballet RambertJoseph Rawlinson, Chief Engineer, London County CouncilDouglas Norman Rayner, Director of Contracts, Ministry of SupplyFrank RAayns OBE Director of the Norfolk Agricultural Station at Sprowston, NorwichMajor John George Grey Rea DSO JP Chairman of the Northumberland Agricultural Executive CommitteeColonel George Ewart Rhodes, Senior Engineering Inspector, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentEmile Victor Rieu, Editor of the Penguin ClassicsEdward Charles Smith-Ross OBE Foreign OfficeJames Eugene George Ruddin, President, National Federation of Cold Storage and Ice TradesEdward Lionel Russell, Chief Education Officer, BirminghamArthur James Ryan, Regional Director, London Postal Region, General Post OfficeRobert Lindsay Scarlett OBE Chairman, Scottish Horticultural Advisory CommitteeAileen Mona Scorrer, Chief Inspector, Children's Department, Home OfficeLieutenant-Commander Peter Markham Scott MBE DSC RNVR Director, Severn Wildfowl TrustWilliam Goodwin Senior OBE Principal Dental Officer, Ministry of HealthHarold Edward Sheardown, Chairman of Directors, Cook, Welton and Gemmell, Ltd.Albert Theodore Shepherd, Deputy Receiver, Metropolitan Police OfficeReginald Harry Short MVO OBE Clerk Comptroller of the Household of Her late Majesty Queen MaryAlastair Sim, ActorWilliam Vernor Squire Sinclair, lately Assistant Procurator GeneralWilliam Thomas Charles Skyrme TD Secretary of Commissions of the Peace, Lord Chancellor's OfficeCharles Stanley Smallman, Director of Accounts, Ministry of Civil AviationDorothy Madge Smith OBE Chairman, General Nursing Council for England and Wales, and Matron, Guy's HospitalWilliam Henry Smith, Chairman, Welsh National Opera Company, Ltd.Reginald Bradbury Southall, Director and General Manager, National Oil Refineries, Ltd.Robert Southern, General Secretary, Co-operative Union, Ltd.Reginald Rowland Spears MBE lately Deputy Inspector-General, Royal Ulster ConstabularyRobert Wilkie Stanton, Comptroller of Stamps and Taxes (Scotland), Board of Inland RevenueFreya Madeline Stark (Mrs. Stewart Perowne), Writer and TravellerLeslie Gordon Knowles Starke, Principal Actuary, Government Actuary's DepartmentAlan Stewart MC Head of Division, Ministry of National InsuranceGilbert Lines Strachan FRCS For political and public services; and for services as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Wales.Joseph Summers OBE Chief Test Pilot, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.Henry Richard Thomas, Chairman, Welsh Joint Education CommitteeFrancis William Thompson, Librarian and Keeper of Collections, ChatsworthJames Cyril Townsley. For political and public services in Kingston-upon-Hull.Matthew Charles Tozer, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and PowerRichard Robertson Trail MC FRCP Medical Director, Papworth and Enham Alamein Village Settlements for the TuberculousJoseph Tumin, Clerk of Assize, Oxford Circuit, Supreme Court of JudicatureCaptain Robert Ernest Tuearsley Tunbridge DSM RD RNR (Retired), lately Master, s.s. "Chusan", Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation CompanyCecil Francis Turner, Chairman and Managing Director, Stewart and Turner, Ltd. Chairman, the Antique Dealers FairLieutenant-Colonel Charles Arthur Carr Turner OBE TD Chief Executive, Crawley New Town Development CorporationMichael Theodore Waterhouse MC ArchitectMichael Milne-Watson. Chairman, North Thames Gas BoardGeoffrey Fairbank Webb, Secretary, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)Denys Roger Hesketh Williams, Managing Director, John Taylors, Ltd., HuddersfieldDouglas James Willson MBE TD Assistant Solicitor. Board of Customs and ExciseLieutenant-Colonel George Robert Stewart Wilson, Royal Engineers, (Retired), Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Ministry of TransportGeorge Woodcock, Assistant General Secretary, Trades Union CongressArthur Thomas Worboys JP Chairman, London Brick Company, Ltd.Hubert Stanley Young TD Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of DefenceAlbert Spencer Calvert OBE Her Majesty's Consul-General at TunisWilliam John Castle, Deputy Economic and Financial Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Sydney Ernest Henry Daw OBE Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in ViennaCaptain Christmas David Howell OBE Royal Navy (Retired), British Council Representative in EgyptEdward Thomas Lambert, Her Majesty's Consul-General at GenevaHenry Brockholst Livingston, lately Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at San JoseEdwin Patrick Moxey, British subject resident in the Argentine RepublicThomas Richard Hornby Owen, Governor, Bahr-el-Ghazal Province, SudanStanhope Rowton Simpson, Registrar General and Commissioner of Lands, Sudan GovernmentGeorge Frederick Walpole, Director of Lands and Surveys under the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of the JordanGilbert Brown of the State of South Australia. For services in the development of Anaesthetics.Maxwell Gordon Butcher OBE For public services in the State of Tasmania.The Reverend Herbert Carter, General Superintendent of the Methodist Church of Southern RhodesiaLouis Samuel Glover OBE Member of the European Advisory Council, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and a former Chairman of the CouncilBevis Royal Graham OBE President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of PakistanMajor Ernest Sirdefield Harston OBE Honorary Secretary, British Empire Service LeagueAir Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson CB CIE DSO RAF (Retired), Director-General of the Over-Seas LeagueRichard Henry Maclure Lea, General Manager of the Electricity Trust, State of South AustraliaAlbert Millin OBE JP Member of the European Advisory Council of Swaziland since 1921Charles Kingsley Murphy JP Clerk of the House of Assembly, and Librarian to Parliament, State of TasmaniaIvan Herbert Pierce JP a Member of the European Advisory Council of Swaziland since 1921Thomas John Rooney, Chairman of the Land and Agriculture Bank, Southern RhodesiaRobert Walker OBE a prominent tea planter in South India. For services to the United Kingdom community.John Philip Attenborough OBE Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, TanganyikaAndrew Gordon Beattie, lately Inspector-General of Agriculture, NigeriaReginald Laing Brooks, Colonial Forest Service, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gold CoastGeorge Cabral. For public services in Trinidad.Alan Taylor Howell Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, TanganyikaKenneth Charles Jacobs OBE Financial Secretary, Sierra LeonePercival Henry Jennings, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Hong KongRajabali Jumabhoy JP For public services in Singapore.The Right Reverend Leonard Stanley Kempthorne, Bishop in Polynesia, FijiAmar Nath Maini OBE For public services in Uganda.Andre Lawrence Nairac. For public services in Mauritius.Ralph Arthur Nicholson, Colonial Administrative Service, Economic Secretary, Northern RhodesiaGeorge William Kelly Roberts. For public services in the Bahamas.Peter George Russo OBE JP For public services in Gibraltar.Philip Manderson Sherlock, Vice Principal and Director of Extra-Mural Studies, University College of the West IndiesAlexander Skinner, Director of Marine, NigeriaRobert de Stapeldon Stapledon OBE Colonial Administrative Service, Economic Secretary, East Africa High CommissionNathaniel Henry Peniston Vesey. For public services in Bermuda.Douglas Tremayne Waring. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.Lionel Digby Whitfield, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Federation of MalayaDato Syed Abdul Kadir bin Mohamed bin Yahya, Mentri Besar, Johore, Federation of MalayaVadake Menokil Narayana Menon OBE For public services in the Federation of Malaya.Mallam Ahmadu, Sardauna of Sokoto, Northern Regional Minister of Works, NigeriaMilitary Division
Lieutenant-Commander Charles Edward Stuart Basil St. George Beal, Royal NavyLieutenant-Colonel Edward Ashley Brown, Royal MarinesCommander (L) Albert Edward Chiverton, Royal NavyCommander (E) Peter Laurence Cloete, Royal NavyLieutenant-Commander Godfrey Vincent Corbett, Royal NavyCommander Charles Edward Eckersley-Maslin, Royal NavyThe Reverend Edward George Dalton Fawkes, Chaplain, Royal NavyCommander (E) John Noel Fisher Haigh, Royal Navy (Retired)Commander (E) Trevor Sydney Hayes DSC Royal Navy (Retired)Commander (S) Leonard Alphonso Jeffery, Royal NavyInstructor Commander Harold John Jessup, Royal NavyLieutenant-Colonel Martin Price DSO Royal MarinesSurgeon Commander John Mansel Reese MRCS Royal NavyCommander George Frederick Rutter RD RNR (Retired), Captain R.F.A. ServiceCommander Patrick Astor Trier, Royal Navy (Retired)Commander (S) John Douglas Trythall, Royal NavyLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Harry Allason, 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured CorpsMajor Alan Edward Bray MC Royal Regiment of ArtilleryLieutenant-Colonel (T.O.T.) Albert Henry Britton, Royal Corps of SignalsLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Thomas Richard Broughton, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)Major Ian Rupert Burrows MBE The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cedric George Buttenshaw DSO MBE Royal Regiment of ArtilleryLieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Archibald Inglis Crawford MC TD Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel Gordon John Cruddas, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.)Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Julius Deedes MC The King's Own Yorkshire Light InfantryLieutenant-Colonel Francis Vernon Denton TD The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Anthony Henry George Dobson MC Corps of Royal EngineersLieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bryan Gibbons, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Henry Pryce Gillespie, The South Wales BorderersLieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Pepys Harington DSO MC The Cheshire RegimentLieutenant-Colonel Pierse Francis Hayes, Corps of Royal EngineersLieutenant-Colonel Ronald Edwin Holden DSO MC Westminster Dragoons (2nd County of London Yeomanry), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Walter George Holden, Employed List II (late Royal Army Service Corps)Lieutenant-Colonel Whitaker Austin Holmes MC TD The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Leonard Powell-Jones MBE 6th Gurkha RiflesMajor (Quartermaster) James Notman Keil MBE The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Herbert Alfred Temple Jarrett-Kerr, Corps of Royal EngineersThe Reverend Canon John Robertson Hardie Knox, Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains' DepartmentLieutenant-Colonel Samuel John Lamplugh, Employed List I (late Royal Regiment of Artillery)Lieutenant-Colonel (Director of Music) Albert Lemoine, The Life GuardsLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Godfrey Lerwill MC The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Palmer Lloyd DSO TD Royal Regiment of Artillery (now T.A.R.O.)Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Clarence Macdonald DSO The Royal Warwickshire RegimentLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Sir Edward William St. Lo Malet, Bt., 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured CorpsLieutenant-Colonel (O.E.O.) Gerald John Mitchell MBE Royal Army Ordnance CorpsBrevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harold Arthur Olivier, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryLieutenant-Colonel John Reginald Henry Orr, Employed List I (late The Royal Welch Fusiliers)Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Claude Manning Palmer TD Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.)Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Stevenson Pearson DSO MC TD DL The Parachute Regiment, Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel Charles William Provis TD DL Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Albert Harry Reading, Corps of Royal EngineersLieutenant-Colonel Percy Fergus Ivo Reid, Irish GuardsLieutenant-Colonel (acting) Alexander Rennie, Army Cadet ForceLieutenant-Colonel Norman William Schenke, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersLieutenant-Colonel (local) Richard Christopher Sharples MC Welsh GuardsLieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Cleave Simmons TD Combined Cadet ForceBrevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Stevenson DSO The Queen's Own Cameron HighlandersLieutenant-Colonel Giles Symonds MC TD The Dorset Regiment, Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Thompson MC TD The Border Regiment, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.)Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Nelson Turner MBE TD Combined Cadet Force (now retired)Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie James Walker MBELieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Noel Montague Harold Wall MC 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured CorpsLieutenant-Colonel Henry de Grey Warter TD Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyLieutenant-Colonel Alfred Hubert Graham Wathen, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Witheridge DSO Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured CorpsLieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Desmond Patrick O'Brien, Corps of Royal Engineers, at present on loan to the Government of IndiaLieutenant-Colonel George Edward Litchfield Rule, Rhodesian African Rifles, Southern Rhodesia Military ForcesMajor David Burnett MBE The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers), attached The Malay RegimentLieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomson Edgar MBE ED Federation of Malaya Volunteer ForceColonel Edward Ward Seymour Jacklin AFC Southern Rhodesia Air ForceActing Group Captain Ronald Alan Campbell Barclay AFC Royal Air ForceThe Reverend Gerald William Norris Groves, Royal Air ForceWing Commander Ronald Clarke Cobbe DSO Royal Air ForceWing Commander Albert Edward Davies, Royal Air ForceWing Commander Gordon Hugh Everitt DSO DFC Royal Air ForceWing Commander Robert Thomas Frogley DFC Royal Air ForceWing Commander James Edward Holliwell MBE Royal Air ForceWing Commander Edward Arthur Jackson, Royal Air ForceWing Commander David Richard Spencer Bevan-John, Royal Air ForceWing Commander Norman Alfred Martin, Royal Air Force RegimentWing Commander William Gordon Oldbury DFC Royal Air ForceWing Commander Alan Richardson, Royal Air ForceWing Commander Denis Dart Rogers, Royal Air ForceWing Commander Walter Smith, Royal Air ForceWing Commander Gerald Tate DFC Royal Air ForceWing Commander Charles Douglas Tomalin DFC AFC Royal Air ForceActing Wing Commander Maurice Swainston Anthony, Royal Auxiliary Air ForceSquadron Leader Ian Robert Blair, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader George Dennithorne Castle, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Frederick Ellison AFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Joseph Edward Lewis, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Leslie Arthur Popham, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Arthur Weaver, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Eric Robinson, Royal Air ForceRab Khaila Zaia Gewergis MBE Royal Air Force Levies, IraqCivil Division
Frederick William Abraham, Motive Power Superintendent (London Midland Region), Railway ExecutiveCaptain Marmaduke Johnathan Roland Alderson, Fleet Manager, Comets. British Overseas Airways CorporationThomas Allsop JP Chairman, Derbyshire Executive Council, National Health ServiceFrederick Victor Ames, Principal, Board of TradeAlexander Anderson, Chairman, Wishaw and District Employment CommitteeGeorge Rowland Armstrong, Chief Engineer, M.V. Esso Bedford, Esso Transportation Company, Ltd.Sydney George Bailey MBE Secretary, Cake and Biscuit Alliance, Ltd.John Gibb Ballingall, Principal Scientific Officer, Torpedo Experimental Establishment, GreenockAndrew Lindsay Barclay MBE Deputy Controller of Supplies, Ministry of WorksBrian Basil Philip Barker, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of WorksJohn Barker, Member of the Council of the National Farmers' UnionJoanna Cecilia Barnard, Regional Administrator, South Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary ServicesAlbert Edward Barton, Principal Accountant, Mersey Docks and Harbour BoardHarold Thomas William Bateman, Waterguard Superintendent, Glasgow, Board of Customs and ExciseCharles Henry Bates, Grade 2 Officer, North Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceWing Commander Roland Prosper Beamont DSO DFC Chief Test Pilot, English Electric Company, Ltd.Edward Benjamin Bein, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceAlfred Charles Best, Principal Scientific Officer, Meteorological Office, Air MinistryHarold Hoghton Best MM Principal, War OfficeRobert Beveridge, Chief Examiner, Estate Duty Office (Scotland), Board of Inland RevenueCharles Wright Blasdale, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland RevenueJames Alexander Vazeille Boddy JP Chairman, Midland Area Council, British LegionFred Booth, Chairman and Managing Director, The Heckmondwike Flock Company, Ltd., Batley, YorkshireWilliam Thomas Boston, Swordbearer, Corporation of LondonCharles Anthony Boucher Medical Officer, Ministry of HealthAndrew John Bowron, Managing Director, F.N.F., Ltd. Textile Engineers, Burton-on-TrentStanley Herbert Bright, Chief Executive Officer, AdmiraltyAlderman Richard Browell JP Vice-Chairman, Newburn Urban District CouncilColonel Alexander Denis Burnett-Brown MC TD Secretary, Royal National Lifeboat InstitutionAlfred Willoughby Hope Brown, Deputy Chief Inspector (Planning), Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentGeorge Chadwin Brown MBE Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of DefenceWilliam Brown JP Chairman, Huntingdonshire County CouncilWilliam Brown, Chairman, Wigan, Chorley and District War Pensions CommitteeHarry James Browning, Deputy Chief Investigation Officer, Board of Customs and ExciseRobert Bruce, County Agricultural Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesWilliam Buckie, Technical Manager, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Wallsend-on-TyneJohn Gilby Bullen, General Manager, Highland Reduction Works, British Aluminium Company, Ltd.Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick David Harold Burcher. For political and public services in Kidderminster.Charles Frederick Burden, Deputy Director, Aeronautical Inspection Services, Air MinistryHarry Burdge JP For political and public services in Belfast.Donald Henry Burgess Deputy Trade Director, Ministry of FoodArthur Ulick Burke. For public services in Belfast.Major Cecil Burnham FRCS lately Commandant, Star and Garter Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen, RichmondEleanor Mary Beresford Butler MBE Vice-Chairman, Oxford Savings CommitteeWilliam John Hughes Butterfield Member of the Scientific Staff, Medical Research CouncilThe Reverend Lewis Legertwood Legg Cameron MBE Director, Church of Scotland Committee on Social ServiceCharles Stewart Campbell, Director of Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid Supplies, Ministry of MaterialsSidney Ronald Campion, Principal Information Officer, General Post OfficeHarold James Cartwright, Principal Accountant, Ministry of WorksEleanor Rosalie Lancashire Cave. For political and public services in Bristol.Charles Chambers. Chief Engineer, Fighter Command, Royal Air ForceWalter William Chapman TD Architect, Ministry of EducationRichard Chatterton, Chief Executive Officer, Home OfficePhilip Boughton Chatwin, Archaeologist. For services to the Ministry of Works.John Clancy, Managing Director, J.C. Hotels, Ltd.Alexander Morton Clark, Chairman, Scottish Accident Prevention CouncilAndrew Lewis Cochrane, Chairman and Managing Director. Cochrane and Sons, Ltd., SelbyGeorge Frederick Congdon, Town Clerk, Harwich. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Reginald Thomas Cook, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs and ExciseLeslie Charles Coombes MBE Constructor, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Lieutenant-Colonel John Morton Vernon Cotterell, Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of ChesterAlfred Henry Coulter JP For political services in Northern IrelandRobert Cousland, Shipbuilding Manager, J. Samuel White and Company, Ltd., CowesHerbert Maurice Cowell, Assistant Regional Controller, Eastern Region, Ministry of National InsuranceThomas Alfred Methuen Croucher, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Hugh John Curnow, Assistant Director, Aircraft Production Supplies (Materials), Ministry of SupplyKatharine Hannay Barrs Da Vies. Independent Member of Wages CouncilsWilliam Robert Davies MM Secretary of the Liberal Party Organisation. For political services.John Edward Davis, Chief Technical Officer, South Eastern Gas BoardCharles Vivian Dawe, Principal Agricultural Economist, University of BristolSeymour Joly De Lotbiniere, Head of Television Outside Broadcasting, British; Broadcasting CorporationDaniel Joseph Devlin, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland RevenueFrank Dickinson. For political and public services in Yorkshire.Henry Dinsmore MC Director of Education, County DownErnest Harvey Doubleday, County Planning Officer, Hertfordshire County CouncilIrene Dowling. For political and public services in London.William Henry Nassau Downer, General Secretary, Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (Northern Ireland)Frederick Doy, Principal, Board of TradeHarry Earnshaw, General Secretary, Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and DrawersRichard Victor Eaton, Superintendent, Royal Naval Propellant Factory, Caerwent, MonmouthshireJohn Charles Newport Eppstein, Director, British Society For International UnderstandingIda Mary Eugster JP Regional Administrator, Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary ServicesRaymond Ogier Falla, President States of Guernsey Committee for HorticultureDarrell Fancourt (Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson), Opera singer, D'Oyly Carte Opera CompanyDonald Gordon Farrow, Chief Education Officer, Great Yarmouth. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Frank Charles Fenton, Chief Commercial Officer, London Electricity BoardWilliam Ferguson JP For political services in North Down.Horace Philip Finch, Aerodrome Commandant, Grade I. Ministry of Civil AviationErnest Fleming, lately Chief Executive Officer, Agricultural Research CouncilPercy Howard Ford, lately Works Manager, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., BirminghamNorman William Frederick Fowler, Assistant Chief Constable, Kent County Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Richard Henry French MC Assistant to the Master in Lunacy, Supreme Court of JudicatureAlbert James Galpest MVO Assistant Secretary, Lord Chamberlain's OfficeHerbert Washington Gamble, lately President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern IrelandFrederick Augustus Gear, Assistant Director, Technical and Personnel Administration, Ministry of SupplyJane Dorothy Ross Gibson, Matron, Newcastle upon Tyne General HospitalCaptain Frank Newman Gilbey. For services to the Master of the HorseCharles Wilfrid Scorr-Giles, Secretary, Institution of Municipal EngineersMary Gaskell Gillick, Sculptor and Medal ArtistErnest Edward Gingell, Principal Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland RevenueJohn Charles Glover, Deputy Director, Oils and Fats Division, Ministry of FoodCyril James Goad. Chief Officer, Gloucestershire Fire BrigadeJohn Fletcher Go Am An, Senior Marketing Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesStrathearn Gordon, Librarian, House of CommonsJames Thompson Graham, Employer Vice-Chairman, North Midland Regional Board for IndustryKenneth John Grant Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Thomas Forgie Gray, Secretary, Bradford Chamber of CommerceWilliam Ewart Greenhalgh, Chief Officer, Coventry Fire Brigade.Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Berry Greenwood, Assistant Chief Constable, Lincolnshire County Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Sydney Gordon Griffin, Principal, Ministry of TransportCaptain Hugh Peary Griffiths, Assistant Commissioner, City of London Police ForceFrancis Walter Grimes, Grade 2 Officer, Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceHarold Charlesworth Grimshaw, Principal Scientific Officer, Safety in Mines Research Establishment, Ministry of Fuel and PowerWilliam Herbert Grinsted MBE Chief Engineer, Siemens Brothers and Company, Ltd., WoolwichCecil Brodrick Guthrie. For services to the Home Office.Major Eben Stuart Burt Hamilton MC FRCSE Commissioner, Duke of Lancaster's District, St. John Ambulance BrigadeIsa Hamilton, lately Superintendent, Queen's Institute of District NursingJohn Ireland Hamilton, Principal Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern IrelandHenry Frank Hancock, Assistant Shipping Attache, H.M. Embassy in WashingtonKathleen Irene Hancock, Personal Private Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and PowerLouis Arthur Hanuy, Assistant Regional Controller, South Western Region, Ministry of National InsuranceHonoria Eugenie Harford, lately General Secretary, National Association of Girls' Clubs and Mixed ClubsFrederick Louis Harris JP Extramural Tutor, University College of the South-WestNatalie Muriel Harris, Foreign OfficeJames More Wood Harvey, Deputy City Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary, LondonderryRobert William Harvey, Clerk to the Felixstowe Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.George Horace Hatherill MBE Deputy Commander, Metropolitan Police ForceEdwin Haward, lately Secretary, the India, Pakistan and Burma AssociationJohn Ganly Heaslip, Senior Engineer, South Eastern Divisional Road Engineer's Office, Ministry of TransportCedric Hedderwick, Managing Director, Somerset Accredited Breeders Hatchery, Ltd.William Heron, Staff Inspector for Further Education, Ministry of Education, Northern IrelandJames Herbert Hewitt, Principal, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceAnthony Ewart Ledger Hill, Chairman, Hampshire And Isle of Wight Association of Boys' ClubsJohn Hill, Procurator Fiscal of Renfrewshire, PaisleyEdwin Russell Hooper, Assistant Secretary, Metropolitan Police OfficeGeorge Henry Augustus Hughes, Director, London Master Builders' AssociationFrederick Arthur Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, Board of TradeJames Hyman, Principal, H.M. TreasuryDaniel Durnford Ivall, Assistant Chief Officer, Middlesex Fire BrigadeWilliam Hart MacIndoe Jackson, Employers' Secretary, National Joint Industrial Council for the Electric Cable Slaking IndustryRobert Ian Johnson, Director of Canning, Ministry of FoodJohn Lees-Jones JP Chairman, National Association of Discharged Prisoners Aid SocietiesJoseph Jones, Labour Director, West Midlands Division, National Coal BoardKenneth Latimer Jones, Chairman, Luton Savings CouncilPhyllis Eveline Jones, Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party. For political services.Major Thomas Ifpr Jones DL For political and public services in Wales.Frederick Joseph Kemp, Honorary Secretary, Association of Collecting Friendly SocietiesThe Right Honourable Edith, Viscountess Kemsley, Chairman, Mauritius BureauWilfred Kershaw, Honorary Secretary of the Textile InstituteEvelyn Mary Killby. For political services.Stanley Edwin King, Chief Executive Officer, Board of TradeHarold James Kotch, County Welfare Officer, WarwickshireJohn Privett Langston, Director, Films Division, Central Office of InformationFrank Harold Lawrence JP Mayor of ChathamLieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ledingham MC TD For political services.Walter Kelly Wallace Lees, Headmaster, Thornly Park Approved School, PaisleyPhilip Le Feuvre, Senator of the States of JerseyCynthia Combermere Legh JP For political and public services in Cheshire.Thomas James Lester, Chief Executive Officer, Office of the Commissioners of Crown LandsArthur Denis Carrington Le Sueur, Forestry ConsultantThe Reverend Isaac Levy, Senior Jewish Chaplain to H.M. ForcesAlderman John Henry Lewis MBE JP For services to the Ministry of Fuel and Power.Richard Vincent Lewis, Clerk to the Mablethorpe and Sutton Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Alexander Logan, Technical Manager, Marine Administration, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Ltd.Janet Isabella Low. For political and public services in Fife.Geoffrey Charles Lowry TD Clerk to the Governors, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of LondonAnne Hutcheson McAllister, Principal Lecturer, Jordanhill Training College, GlasgowJames Sanderson McGregor Medical Superintendent, Saxondale (Mental) Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent, NottinghamshireEnid Devoge McLeod MBE Deputy Controller, European Division, British CouncilJames Carnegie McPetrie, Assistant Legal Adviser, Colonial OfficeGeorge Menzie McTurk JP Chairman, Ayrshire Joint Probation CommitteePhilip Vibert Mauger JP Chairman, Richmond Local Employment CommitteeClifford Edmund Mee, Assistant Chief Architect, Ministry of WorksGeorge Herbert Mysl Miles, Chairman of the Executive Committee. Association of British Aero Clubs and CentresAlan Gordon Mitchell, Commandant, Edinburgh Foot Special ConstabularyAnstace Helen Moore JP Headmistress, Faringdon County Grammar School for Girls, BerkshireHoward Stanley Morrison, Deputy Principal Executive Officer, War OfficeRobert Howell Murphy, Employers' Representative, National Arbitration Tribunal (Northern Ireland)Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Needell MC TD Assistant Secretary (Investments), Church CommissionersJohn Cuthbert Needham, Chairman, Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., LondonJames Lawrie Neill, Grade 2 Officer, Nottingham, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceAlfred Edward Nelson, Chief Engineer, S.S. Kenya, British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd.Harold Aubrey Parker, Principal, Board of Customs and ExciseJohn Abel Parkes JP For public services in Staffordshire.Edward Lewis Ellman Pawley, Head of Engineering Services Group, British Broadcasting CorporationDouglas Henry Peacock, Member, Manchester Savings CommitteeStuart Philip Pepin. For public services in Jersey.Leonard Lawrence Alfred Wheatley-Perry, Senior District Manager, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, MalayaLieutenant-Colonel John Cecil Petheaick MC For political and public services in Kent.Major Francis Ashley Phillips DSO JP lately Clerk to the Wye Board of ConservatorsWilliam Roy Piggott, Principal Scientific Officer, Radio Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchHubert Percival Lancaster Pitman DL Chairman, Northern London War Pensions CommitteeJohn Pollock, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of PensionsHarry Royston Portman MBE Principal, Foreign OfficeHorace Clifford Potter, Principal, H.M. TreasuryHenry Ray Powell MBE Secretary, Capital Issues CommitteeChristopher Jonathan Pridmore, Administration Officer, Maintenance Command, Royal Air ForceCaptain James Harrison Quick, Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, Mercantile Marine, Ministry of TransportGordon George Ramsay, Sheriff Clerk of LanarkshireGeorge Rankine MC General Practitioner, DundeeAlfred William Rathbone Assistant Controller, Supplies Department, General Post OfficeCaptain Percy Reay MBE MC Chairman, Lyme Green Settlement for Paraplegics, MacclesfieldDavid Morgan Rees JP Member, Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-CommissionRobert Charles Reginald Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Welsh Board of HealthCaptain Arthur Victor Richardson, lately Master, S.S. Gothic, Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd.The Right Honourable Ursula, Viscountess Ridley. For public services in Northumberland.Archibald Colin Campbell Robertson JP General Secretary, Oldham Provincial Card Blowing and Ringframe Operatives AssociationCharles Robins, Member, Central Management Committee, National Association of United Kingdom Oil and Oilseed Brokers, Ltd.John Arthur Rodwell, Chairman, Durham and Chester-le-Street Local Employment CommitteeAlfred Denys Strickland Rogers TD For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.Philip Docwra Rogers, lately Deputy Assistant Secretary and Clerk to the Council of the Royal SocietyJohn Rose, Senior Lands Officer, Department of Agriculture for ScotlandArchibald Hugh Houstoun Ross, Conservator, Forestry CommissionDudley Spencer Reeve Ryder, Principal, AdmiraltyRita Nimmo Sabey. For political and public services in Huntingdonshire.Frederick Claude Savage, First Secretary at H.M. Embassy in DublinBertram Cyril Scott, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions, Ministry of Pensions Representative in Australia and New ZealandJohn Thomas Scoulding, Member, Appellate Tribunal under the National Service ActsGeorge William Shummacher, Principal Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern IrelandJohn Simpson, Deputy Secretary to the Commissioners of Northern LighthousesRobert James Simpson, Chief Executive Officer, Civil Service CommissionGeoffrey Roy Sisson, Head of Department of Mathematics, Royal Military Academy, SandhurstNelson Sizer MBE MC Assistant Chief Engineer, Ministry of WorksThomas Small, Plant Pathologist to the States of JerseyHarold James Smith, Grade 2 Officer, London and South Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceCaptain John Joseph Smith, Commodore Captain, Elder Dempster Lines, Ltd.Louis Victor Smith MC For political and public services in Berkshire.William Smith BEM Chief Officer, Stoke-on-Trent Fire BrigadeRobert Henry Smyth, Principal, Ministry of FoodEdward Lionel Snell, Chief Engineer, Essex River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Edward Leslie Spencer DSO Civil Assistant, War OfficeClaude Meyer Spielman MC Managing Director, Whessoe, Ltd., DarlingtonConstance Spry, Adviser on Floral DecorationLeonard Jacques Stein. For political and public services.Harold Stevens MBE Vice-Chairman, Sunderland Savings CommitteeArthur Gavin Stewart, lately Town Clerk of Motherwell and WishawQuintin Andrew Stewart, Divisional Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesCecil Stonelake. For public services in Guernsey.Thomas Leonard Sturges, Staff Controller, South West Region, General Post OfficeWilliam Sutherland, Area Secretary, British Legion, Northern IrelandJohn Edward Swain JP Chairman, Peterborough Local Employment CommitteeThe Right Honourable Gladys Helen Rachel, Dowager Baroness Swaythling, President of the Electrical Association for WomenWilliam Charles Swift, Assistant Director, Engineering, Ministry of SupplyFrederick Joseph Talbot, Deputy Principal Regional Officer, Leeds, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentAlderman Edward Taylor MBE Chairman, Bath Savings CommitteeMatthew Templeton. For services to sheep breeding.Commander Edward Terrell, late R.N.V.R. Chairman, General Committee of the Chevrons ClubCecil Thomas, Sculptor and Medal ArtistBasil Duncan Tims MBE Principal, Commonwealth Relations OfficeAlbert Ernest Tombs JP Alderman, Borough of Abingdon, BerkshireFrancis Henry Tomes, Chief Engineer, Lincolnshire River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ernest William James Towler, H.M. Inspector of Schools, Ministry of EducationClement John Tranter, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Royal Military College of Science, War OfficeErnest Trillwood, Lately Secretary, Jewellery and Silverware CouncilPhilip John Owen Trist, County Agricultural Officer, East Suffolk. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Harold Walker. For political and public services in Somerset.Ulric Bertram Walmsley MBE Chairman, Chelsea Savings CommitteeBartholomew Walsh. For political and public services.Harry Ward MBE Head of Treaty and Nationality Department, Foreign OfficeHarold Joseph Hughes Wassell, Chief Radar Development Engineer, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd.Oscar Samuel Watkinson, Clerk to the Hunstanton Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Nita Grace Mary Watts, Economic Adviser, Cabinet OfficeEileen Alexandra Waugh, lately Commissioner, Irish Division, Girls' Life BrigadeLieutenant-Commander Arthur Geoffrey Gascoyne Webb, Royal Navy (Retired), Deputy Secretary and Appeals Secretary, King George's Fund for SailorsArthur Leslie Alabaster West, Treasurer, North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital BoardWilliam West, Staff Engineer, Research Station, General Post OfficeElizabeth Mary Western MBE County Organiser, Essex, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Duncan White Director, Radiodiagnostic Department, Hammersmith HospitalAlan Paul Francis Whitworth, Director, Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, Ltd.John Henry Wigglesworth, General Secretary, Iron, Steel and Metal Dressers' Trade SocietyCharles Timothy Wilkins, Assistant Chief Designer, De Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd.Major Thomas Macfarlane Wilks MBE TD MRCS Area Commissioner, St. John Ambulance Brigade, London. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Alderman Daniel Thomas Williams JP For political and public services in Cardiff.William Sidney Gwynn Williams. For services to the International Eisteddfod at LlangollenLieutenant-Colonel Clifford Llewellyn Wilson MC County Director, Essex, British Red Cross Society. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.The Right Honourable Ivor Grosvenor, Viscount Wimborne. For political and public services.Thomas Arnold Woodcock JP Headmaster, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School for BoysJames Arthur Woodford RA SculptorConstance Muriel Wyatt, Director, Civilian Welfare Department, British Red Cross SocietyAaron Abensur, British subject resident in TangierHubert Thomas Booker, British subject resident in PeruThe Right Reverend George Alexander Chambers, Chaplain at Her Majesty's Embassy in ParisWilliam Thomas Clark, Commissioner, Port SudanFrederick Barber Denham, Acting General Manager in Israel of the Ottoman BankLeonard Henry Dismore, lately Her Majesty's Consul at MedanRudolph Philip Elwes MC Senior Control Officer, Dortmund, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Leonard Arthur Frenken MBE Attached to the United Kingdom Trade Commissioner, SingaporeProfessor Edward Vivian Gatenby, Linguistics Adviser to the British Council in TurkeyIain Archibald Gillespie, Senior Veterinary Inspector, Sudan GovernmentConrad Frederick Heron, lately First Secretary (Labour) at Her Majesty's Embassy in BrusselsJohn Wynn Kenrick, District Commissioner, Omdurman, SudanEmile Philip Lecours, First Secretary (Information) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Mexico CityColonel William Joseph Moody FRCS lately Medical Adviser to the British Political Resident and Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, Persian GulfJohn Massey Morris MBE Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Basra PortCharles Joseph Plumb, Principal, lately Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Henry Richards Assistant Director (Public Health), Sudan GovernmentEdward John Roberts, Senior Public Safety Officer, Carinthia, Austria.Ina Amelia Strong MBE Her Majesty's Consul at BergenEmrys Cadwaladr Thomas Director of the Victoria Hospital, DamascusAllan Veitch MBE Her Majesty's Consul at ShanghaiJohn Thorp Whittaker, Temporary Chief Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Ann Frances Ellen Adams, Matron, Lachlan Park Mental Hospital, State of TasmaniaThomas Malcolm Arthur, Chairman of the Pakistan Tea Association, 1952–53John Henry Belderson, Principal Auditor, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and SwazilandJohn Bishop, Elder Professor of Music 'at the University of Adelaide, State of South AustraliaFerdinand Hugo Bosman, Director of Agriculture, Bechuanaland ProtectorateEdgar Esteban Cockram, Vice-Chairman of the Bombay Branch of the United Kingdom Citizens' Association in IndiaMary Cumming. For services rendered under the auspices of the Victoria League in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseasMary Stuart Douglas, President of the Ex-Servicewomen's Association, and State Commissioner for Girl Guides, State of South AustraliaWilliam Llewellyn Garratt, Secretary for Mines and Transport, Southern RhodesiaGladys Ruth Gibson, Inspector, Education Department, and President of the National Council of Women, State of South AustraliaAlfred Arthur Haylbs, Editor of The Mail, Madras. For services to the United Kingdom community in South India.John George Maydon King MBE Director of Livestock and Agricultural Services, BasutolandSydney Vernon Lawrenson, Administrative Officer, Staff Grade, Bechuanaland ProtectorateHenry Gerald Livingston, Secretary of the Beit Trust in Southern RhodesiaAlan Campbell Mckay, Chairman of the Exchange Banks Association in Karachi. For services to the United Kingdom community in West Pakistan.William Charles Morris, formerly Headmaster of the Launceston High School, State of TasmaniaMajor Cecil John Somerset Paddon, Honorary Secretary and President, Society of the 1893 Column, Southern Rhodesia. For social welfare services, particularly to the pioneers and their families.Eric Drew Palmer, Chairman of the Food Production Committee, Southern RhodesiaRex Whaddon Parsons, Principal, School of Mines and Industries, State of South AustraliaSarah Anderson Jamieson Rankine Medical Officer in charge of St. Margaret's Hospital, Poona, BombayVictor Lloyd Robinson, Attorney General, Southern RhodesiaThe Reverend Canon James Russel Robson, Priest-in-Charge of St. Paul's School Mission, Scott's Lane, Sealdah, Calcutta, IndiaGeorge Robertson Ross Member of the Public Services Board, Southern RhodesiaWilliam Wilson JP Council Clerk of the Lilydale Municipality, and formerly Secretary of the Municipal Association, State of TasmaniaRobert Patrick Baffour. For public and social services in the Gold Coast.William Muir Bissell, Commissioner of Labour, British GuianaFrank Stanley Blomfield, Deputy Chief Clerk and Deputy Establishment Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for the ColoniesEdward Justin Borron, Assistant General Manager, Nyasaland RailwaysHerbert Colling Wood Algernon Bryant, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Western PacificRatu George Kadavulevu Cakobau, Fijian Chief, FijiChannes Gavril Chakarian. For public services in Cyprus.Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt, Senior Malariologist, NigeriaEna Phyllis Clark, Colonial Education Service, Assistant Director of Education (Women and Girls), Gold CoastRichard Alexander Seymour Cory Colonial Medical Service, Senior Medical Officer, Tuberculosis Sanitorium, JamaicaLionel Cresson. For public services in Singapore.Maurice Herbert Davis. For public services in St. Kitts, Leeward Islands.Anthony Falzon, Manager, Water and Electricity Department, MaltaMaurice William Ghersie, Director of Produce Disposal, East African Production and Supply CouncilRichard Whalley Gill, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, UgandaGeoffrey Leicester Gray, Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chief Secretary, North BorneoRobert William Green. For services to sport in Aden.Albert Joseph Hawe FRCP Colonial Medical Service, Senior Specialist, Gold CoastErnest Cranfield Hicks, Colonial Education Service, Senior Inspector of Schools, Perak, Federation of MalayaSidney Walter Hockey, Director, The Eastern Caribbean Library Service, British Council, TrinidadPatrick Hamilton Hutchison, Custodian of Enemy Property, TanganyikaEffion Jones, Colonial Engineering Service, Senior Executive Engineer, NigeriaThomas George Clayton Vaughan-Jones, Director of Game and Tsetse, Control, Northern RhodesiaArthur Harry Kneller, Deputy Labour Commissioner, KenyaGordon King FRCS FRCOG Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Hong KongKwok Chan JP For public and social services in Hong Kong.Alistair James Mcintosh, Political Officer, Western Aden ProtectorateGabriel Martial. For public services in Mauritius.Alexander Mercer, Head of Posts and Telegraphs Department and Member of Executive Council, Falkland IslandsWilliam Morrissey Milliken, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior District Officer, NigeriaCharles Frederick Mummery, Chief Dental Officer, Federation of Malaya.George Edward Noel Oehlers. For services to Local Government in SingaporeDudley Murray O'Neale, Colonial Engineering Service, Deputy Director of Works and Hydraulics, TrinidadJohn Atta Opoku, Head of the Asantehene's Lands Department, Gold CoastDouglas Alexander Pott, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, NigeriaAnthony Berthon Roche, Controller of Immigration, Federation of MalayaArchdeacon Lewis John Rowe, Archdeacon and Rural Dean of Demerara, British GuianaDiomedes Michael Skettos, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, CyprusAlfred Cecil Smith ED JP For services to planting in the Federation of Malaya.Charles Edward Snell. For public services in Nyasaland.James Stevenson MBE Colonial Survey Service, Director of Surveys and Lands, Sierra LeoneCaptain George Stivala, Commissioner for Malta in AustraliaJohn Hollingsworth Tanner, Chief Aviation Officer, TanganyikaCaptain Leonard Maurice Thompson, Manager and Chief Pilot, Bahamas AirwaysAlexander Hamilton Thomson. For services to Local Government in Northern Rhodesia.Samuel Seward Toddings. For public services in Bermuda.Ts-o Tsun On. For public services in Hong Kong.Harold Maxwell Watson, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, FijiJames Kerr Watson, Deputy Director of Public Works, UgandaThomas Edwin Went MBE lately Colonial Engineer, BarbadosDennis Charles White, Colonial Administrative Service, Resident, Third Division, SarawakJane Benyie Williams. For social services in Barbados.Donald Bagster Wilson Colonial Medical Service, Director, East Africa Malaria UnitRussell Storey Wollen. For services to the Dairy, Coffee and Pig Industries in Kenya.Lee Ewe Boon, State Financial Officer, Kedah, Federation of MalayaDato Zainal Abidin Bin Haji Abbas, Deputy Chairman, Rural and Industrial Development Authority, Federation of MalayaMohammad, Wali of Bornu, Northern Regional Minister of Natural Resources, NigeriaMallam Aliyu, Makaman Bida, Northern Regional Minister of Education, NigeriaPaulo Neil Kavuma, Katikiro, UgandaFazel Nasser Mawji. For public services in Zanzibar.Military Division
Lieutenant Raymond Denzil AndrewsLieutenant-Commander (E) Ronald William Brenton, Royal NavyShipwright Lieutenant-Commander Percy Roy Butler, Royal Navy (Retired)Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Hayward De Winton RNVRLieutenant (E) Alfred Louis Giordan DSC Royal NavyLieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Stanley Eastman Hills RNVR (serving with the Indian Navy)Temporary Senior Commissioned Boatswain Leslie Lawrence Janaway, Royal NavyLieutenant (E) Edgar Jack Johnston DSC Royal Navy (Retired)Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Reginald Jones, Royal NavyCaptain William Lang, Royal MarinesLieutenant Stanley Leonard, Royal NavyLieutenant-Commander (L) Charles Henry Messenger, Royal NavyLieutenant-Commander (S) George William Gundry Midlane BEM Royal NavyActing Lieutenant-Commander (S) Daniel Joseph O'Leary, Royal NavyLieutenant Edgar Osborne, Royal NavyLieutenant (E) Frederick Charles Rowsell, Royal NavyCommissioned Recruiter Frederick Henry Rudge, Royal NavySenior Commissioned Wardmaster William Percival Silk, Royal NavyLieutenant-Commander Horace Robinson Spedding, Royal NavyArthur Reginald Winter, Radio Officer RFA ServiceTemporary Acting Commissioned Engineer Albert Edward Wood, Royal Navy (lately on loan to the Government of India)Major Charles William James Aldred, General ListMajor (Quartermaster) Harold Vivian Alley, Royal Armoured CorpsMajor (Quartermaster) Edwin Ashley, Royal Army Medical CorpsWarrant Officer Class II William Ashurst, Royal Army Ordnance CorpsMajor Malcolm Stewart Balmain, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured CorpsCaptain (acting) Eric Andrew Barnes TD Combined Cadet ForceMajor Richard Thurstine Basset MC The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)Warrant Office Class II Harry Bell, Royal Army Pay CorpsMajor Marcus Ernest Francis Bell, Corps of Royal EngineersMajor (Quartermaster) Thomas Benbow, The Devonshire RegimentWarrant Officer Class I Albert Sidney Charles Blackshaw, 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured CorpsCaptain Robert Henry Bloomer, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)Major (Quartermaster) Arthur Leonard Bolt, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryMajor (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Ernest Laurence Briggs TD Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial ArmyMajor John Bywaters, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)Warrant Office Class H John Cardownie, Royal Regiment of Artillery Territorial ArmyCaptain Roland Ferguson Cole, Royal Pioneer CorpsWarrant Office Class II Norman Coleman, The Royal Ulster Rifles. Territorial ArmyMajor (Quartermaster) James Reginald Coles, Employed List II (late Royal Army Service Corps)Major (temporary) David Craig. G.M., Royal Regiment of Artillery.Warrant Officer Class 1 Clifford Claude Cross, Royal Corps of SignalsMajor (Quartermaster) Thomas William Croucher, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersCaptain John Davies MMMajor (temporary) (now Captain) Frank Alan Day, The Royal Sussex RegimentMajor (O.E.O.) James Frederick De Grau, Royal Army Ordnance CorpsMajor (D.O.) Arthur William DellMajor (acting) William Dickson, Combined Cadet ForceLieutenant (Quartermaster) Francis James Dodd, The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), Royal Armoured CorpsMajor Alan Stanley Eccles TD Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class I Frederick George Farmer. Royal Army Service CorpsMajor Paul Ernest Archer Folliss, Royal Army Service CorpsWarrant Officer Class I (acting) Andrew Hepburn Fraser, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured CorpsMajor The Honourable Ralfe Evans-Freke, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)Warrant Officer Class II Harold Douglas French. Royal Army Service CorpsMajor Gary William FullbrookWarrant Officer Class II Frederick John George, Corps of Royal EngineersCaptain (Quartermaster) Gordon Jack Gillings, Royal Corps of SignalsCaptain Walter Kendal Gott, Royal Pioneer CorpsCaptain (Quartermaster) George Alfred Stuart Graham, 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured CorpsWarrant Officer Class II Harold Stanley Haden, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's),Major Michael Stephen HancockWarrant Officer Class II Joan Mary Harris BEM Women's Royal Army CorpsMajor (temporary) Alfred Philip Holland Hartley, The Cheshire RegimentMajor (Quartermaster) John Henry Cornelius Hawkins, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryMajor (O.E.O.) Frederick Roy Horne, Royal Army Ordnance CorpsMajor (Quartermaster) William Edgar Hurst, Employed List II (late Royal Army Service Corps)Captain Tom Jagger, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)Lieutenant-Colonel (local) Arthur John Ketley, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryMajor Frank Douglas King, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).Major James John Lamb TD Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class II Frank Larkin, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial ArmyMajor Anthony David Lewis DSO The Dorset RegimentMajor (Quartermaster) Leonard Henry Littlejohn, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured CorpsWarrant Officer Class I Charles Black Macdonald MM Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial ArmyMajor (temporary) John Mackinnon-Little, Corps of Royal EngineersMajor Alfred Frederick MarichMajor Thomas Saunders Markham, General List, attached Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (now retired)Major John Fitzgerald May, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)Captain (acting) William John Ferguson McWhor, Army Cadet ForceWarrant Officer Class I David Benjamin Morris, The Parachute RegimentHonorary Major Francis Seward Neale, Combined Cadet Force (now retired)Major (acting) Norman McDowell Nevin, Army Cadet ForceMajor (Quartermaster) Francis Herbert Newland, Royal Army Medical CorpsMajor Leonard James Oliver, Corps of Royal EngineersWarrant Officer Class I Ralph Reginald Opie, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryMajor (temporary) Robert Linnaeus Peat, Royal Pioneer CorpsMajor Edwin Seth Wolfe Perkins, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial ArmyMajor Charles James Phillips, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersWarrant Officer Class I (Artillery Clerk) Albert Joseph Rayner, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyMajor Edgar Lynton Richards MC The Parachute Regiment, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class I (acting) Frank Robb, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersCaptain (Quartermaster) Walter John Robertson, Royal Corps of SignalsMajor (temporary) Arthur William Robinson, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured CorpsMajor Stanley David Sharman, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryCaptain James Christopher Shaw, The East Lancashire RegimentMajor (temporary) Pauline Mary Shilton, Women's Royal Army CorpsCaptain Bertram Donald Newton Siminson, Royal Army Educational CorpsMajor John. Richard Guy Stanton, The Royal Sussex RegimentMajor Frederick Passmore Stewart, Royal Corps of SignalsMajor George Charles Thompson, Army Catering CorpsMajor (D.O.) Ernest Walter Walford, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryMajor (Quartermaster) David Clifford Watson, The South Staffordshire RegimentMajor (acting) (now Lieutenant-Colonel (acting)) Robert Watson, Army Cadet ForceMajor (temporary) Sidney John Watson, Corps of Royal EngineersWarrant Officer Class II (now Colour-Sergeant) Francis William Welch, The Gloucestershire RegimentWarrant Officer Class II Frederick Thomas Weller, Corps of Royal Military PoliceWarrant Officer Class II Charles Henry Williams, The Welch Regiment, Territorial ArmyCaptain (Quartermaster) George Samuel Thomas Woods, The Welch RegimentMajor Tom Pickering Salisbury Woods, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryWarrant Officer Class I (acting) Eric Anthony Wright, Royal Army Pay CorpsMajor (Quartermaster) Herbert John Ingle Wright, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured CorpsMajor Clarence Bavin Adams, Southern Rhodesia Territorial ForcesCaptain Walter Frederick Smith Belton, Rhodesian African Rifles, Southern Rhodesia Military ForcesMajor Cyril Richard Alick Blackwell ED Southern Rhodesia Territorial ForcesWarrant Officer Class I Alexander Thomson Robertson, Royal Corps of Signals, until recently on loan to the Government of IndiaMajor Arthur Nathaniel Braude ED Royal Hong Kong Defence ForceMajor John Charles Michael Grenham, Commanding Officer, Home Guard, Royal Hong Kong Defence ForceWarrant Officer Class I Mahmud bin Udin, The Malay RegimentMajor Colin Milton ED Officer Commanding, Singapore Army Service CorpsMajor David Nicholls, Royal Army Service Coups, Adjutant, Federation of Malaya Volunteer Army Service CorpsSquadron Leader Allan John Laird Craig DSO DFC AFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Herbert Ernest Hunt, Royal Air Force RegimentSquadron Leader Dugald Thomas Moore Lumsden, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Charles Keith Street, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Samuel Gilchrist, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Ronald Charles Instrell DFC Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Stanley James, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Cecil Thomas Nixon Moore, Royal Air Force RegimentActing Squadron Leader Robert James Reid, Royal Air Force Volunteer ReserveActing Squadron Officer Mary Hope Shaw, Women's Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant William Sanders Brokenshire, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Apostolos Contaris AFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Carey Cottam, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Richard Page Hall, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Ernest Walter Hassall, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John David Jolly, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Henry Frederick Victor Marshall, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Roy Parsons, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Samuel Waters Pattinson, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Harold Coatsworth Robinson, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant George Wardrop Scott AFC Royal Auxiliary Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Ronald William Sparkes DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Richard Arthur Targett, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Clifford John Turner, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant George Edward Veasey, Royal Air ForceActing Flight Lieutenant Horace William Gibbons, Royal Air Force Volunteer ReserveFlying Officer William Laurence Lawrenson, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer William Stanley Carlile, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Ronald Dixon, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Wilfred Edward Elkins, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Archibald Hay Hamilton, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Reginald John Hole, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Sidney Edward Humphries, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer John Henry Large, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Samuel Lee, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Alfred John Lewis, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Frederick George Marsh, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Patrick Joseph O'Reilly, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Leslie Sanderson, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Enock Tempest Southorn, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Charley Henry Stanley, Royal Air ForceActing Warrant Officer Tom Dawson, Royal Air ForceWarrant Officer Class II Abdul Manap bin Abdullah, The Malay RegimentWarrant Officer Class II Amat bin Idris, The Malay RegimentCaptain Ariffin bin Jamail, The Malay RegimentMajor Ismail bin Tahar, The Malay RegimentCaptain Khalid bin Hashim, The Malay RegimentWarrant Officer Class II Mohamed Shah bin Mohamed Aris, The Malay RegimentWarrant Officer Class I Mohammed Arriff bin Ariffin, The Malay RegimentNWarrant Officer Class II Mohammed Yassin bin Ahmad, The Malay RegimentCivil Division
John Adams MM lately Adjutant, Ulster Special ConstabularyNolan Harris Aldersley, Radio Officer, M.V. Australia Star, Siemens Brothers and Company, Ltd.James Lauchland Alexander, Actuary of the Devon and Exeter Savings BankWilliam George Allen, Senior Experimental Officer, Directorate of Electronics Research and Development (Air), Ministry of SupplyDorothy Alston, County Secretary, Somerset, Women's Voluntary ServicesDorothy Lucy Anderson, Centre Organiser, Brentwood, Essex, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Hay Anderson, Purser, S.S. City of Exeter, Ellerman Lines, Ltd.Richard Oakley Andrews JP Member, Bedfordshire Agricultural Executive CommitteeRobert Henry John Angus, Superintendent of Stores, Board of Customs and ExciseAlbert Anslow, Production Manager, Joseph Sankey and Sons, Ltd., Wellington, ShropshireVictoria Armstrong, Honorary Secretary and Collector, School Savings Group, BallymenaMargaret Rachel Arrowsmith. For political and public services in Ebbw Vale.Edward Wilkinson Ashby, Chief Tanker Designer, Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., SunderlandThomas McMinn Ashford, Chief Smoke Inspector and Technical Engineer, Glasgow CorporationHenry Sidney Atkinson MRCS Chairman of Committee, No. 135 (Reigate and Redhill) Squadron, Air Training CorpsJohn Atkinson. For political and public services in Derbyshire.Thomas John Aven DCM Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance BoardEgon Benedict Babler, Chief of Metallurgic and General Research Laboratory, Allen West and Company, Ltd., BrightonHorace Charles Baldwin, Senior Executive Officer, Foreign OfficeHarold Barbrook, Food Executive Officer, Ministry of Food. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ronald Renton Barker, Senior Auditor, Exchequer and Audit DepartmentSamuel John Barlow, Honorary Secretary, Bridport Savings Committee, DorsetSidney George Barnes, Superintendent, Lincolnshire County Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Elsa Barratt. For public services in Skegness.Robert Nathan Bates. For political and public services in Norfolk.Lewis George Baum, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Cumberland and Westmorland ConstabularyArchibald Baxter, Assistant Manager, Shipbuilding Department, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow-in-FurnessSidney John Bayliss, Senior Executive Officer, General Post OfficeAlderman Ernest George Bearcroft. For political and public services in Yorkshire.Edwin Alfred Walter Beasant. For political and public services in Swindon.Zoe Daphne Morrison Beaton JP Area Organiser, East Central Lancashire, Women's Voluntary ServicesCharles William Bellerby, Executive Officer, War OfficeNeil Benson, Foreign OfficePhyllis Mabel Betts, Assistant Establishment Officer, Church CommissionersLeslie Alfred Bird MC Senior-Executive Officer, Ministry of SupplyWilliam George Bird, Senior Executive Offiqer, Ministry of WorksMargaret Mackenzie Black, Executive Officer, Crown Office, ScotlandHarold Blackburn, Chairman, Bournemouth Savings CommitteeArthur Henry Blackwell, Director and Works Manager, David Brown Companies, Meltham, YorkshireFlorence Ada Blackwell, Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.John Alan Blake. For services as Area Supervisor, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, British Army of the RhineMajor Henry Rokeby Bond. For services in a civilian capacity in MalayaAlfred Edward Booth, District Officer, H.M. Coastguard, Ministry of TransportLeslie George Bourne, Convoy Officer, Midland Region Food Flying Squads. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.James McGown Bowes, Honorary Secretary, Rolls Royce, Ltd., Glasgow, Savings GroupGrace Mary Darbyshire-Bowles, County Organiser, Norfolk, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Gertrude Lyford Born. For political and public services in Ayrshire.Victor Henry Bradley, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern IrelandCyril Alfred Brazier, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentFrederick Christian Bridges, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of SupplyAnn Brooks, Higher Executive Officer, Forestry Commission (Scotland)Harry James Brooks, Honorary Secretary, Louth Savings Committee, LincolnshireWalter Frank Brooks, Production Superintendent, Alfred Graham and Company, Ltd., HalifaxCharles John Brown,Grade 3 Officer, Foreign OfficeFrederick Ernest Francis Brown MM Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of PensionsThomas Brown, lately Forester, Dartington Hall, Totnes, South DevonAnna Fullerton Bruce, Head of Young Women's Christian Association Service Centre, Bad Oyenihausen, British Army of the RhineWilliam Sandy Bryant, Senior Architect, Ministry of WorksJames Bryce, Manager, Shipyard Plant Department, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., BelfastJames Buckley, Works Manager, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., RochdaleNellie Elizabeth Budge, Chief Superintendent of Typists. Board of TradeAlan Durtnall Bullock, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentHarold James Bullock, Secretary, Bristol Port Area Grain CommitteeArthur Newman Bunce, Clerical Officer, AdmiraltyEmily Isabel Bunce, Matron, Moss Side Hospital, Ministry of HealthHarold Francis Burnell, Higher Executive Officer, Board of TradePercy Beard Frank Burr, Inspector of Kitchen Waste Collections, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesMoses Busby, Chairman, Dungannon Rural District Council, Co. TyroneCharles Paul Byrne, Staff Officer, Board of Inland RevenueCicely Cardew, Voluntary Worker, Wormwood Scrubs Boys' PrisonAlfred Herbert Carding, Works Director, Smart and Brown (Machine Tools), Ltd., BiggleswadeThomas Johnstone Lipton Carmichael, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of TransportJoseph King Carson, General Secretary, Ulster Teachers' UnionAlbert Harry Carter, Assistant Chief Constable, Gloucestershire ConstabularyWilliam Carter, Departmental Manager, Alfred Dunihill, Ltd.Arthur Sidney Cartwright, Director and Secretary, Oak Tanning Company, Ltd.William Cater, Executive Officer Cabinet OfficeAugustus Cave, Senior Executive Officer, General Post OfficeCharles Chadwick, Honorary Secretary, Milnrow Savings Committee, LancashireWalter Robert Chamberlain, Chairman, Nuneaton Local Employment CommitteeClaude Edwin Channing, Higher Executive Officer, Government Actuary's DepartmentFrederick Charles Chapman, Manager, Beamish Mary, Handen Hold, Twizell Burn and Alma Collieries, Durham Division, National Coal BoardMarjorie Joan Chenhalls, Civil Assistant, War OfficeIsidore Civval, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland RevenueFrank Clapham, Trade Union Vice-Chairman, Wolverhampton District Advisory Committee, Midlands Regional Board for IndustryDuncan Walker Clark. For services to Drama in FalkirkRobert Noel Lightfoot Clarke, Plant Manager, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Alkali DivisionDoris Marian Cleland, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceHarold Cocker, Works Manager, Beatson, Clark and Company, Ltd., RotherhamCatherine Mary Codling, Senior Clerk, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces AssociationKenneth Barrett Colam, Chief Officer, Wakefield Fire BrigadeLlewellyn Lancelot Cole, Senior iBxecutive Officer, Ministry of WorksBert Coulson Coles JP Headmaster, Alford Secondary Modern School, Lincoln-shire. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Charles Stratum Colley, Housing Manager, Ruislip-Northwood Urban District CouncilDorothy Joan Collihole, Director, Periodicals Department, British CouncilJoseph Walker Collinson. For political and public services in Thornaby-on-Tees.Ayleen Finlay Conway, Head of the Probation and Prison Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary ServicesJohn Herbert Cooke, Chairman, Thornbury Rural District Council, GloucestershireLeslie Arthur Coombs. For political services.Denis Edward James Cooper, Chairman, Lochbroom District Council. For services during the hurricane in North-West ScotlandJames Cormack, Superintendent, Society for Welfare and Teaching of the Blind (Edinburgh and South-East Scotland)Arthur Edmund Cotton, Deputy Superintendent, Directorate General of Works, Air MinistryKenneth Edgar Cotton, Chief Engineer, East Suffolk and Norfolk River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Albert Walter Cox, Principal Assistant, Legal and Parliamentary Department, London County CouncilHerbert David Cox, Principal Surveyor, Tithe Redemption CommissionVera Cox, Marketing Organiser, National Federation of Women's InstitutesFrederick John Baker Craighill, Senior Executive Officer. Government Hospitality FundCaptain Quentin Charles Alexander Craufurd, Royal Navy (Retired), Honorary Secretary, Dungeness Lifeboat StationAda Gertrude Creegan, Chairman, Lewisham Street Groups Savings SubcommitteeWilliam Henry John Crees, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of TransportSidney Cresswell MM Superintendent, Staffordshire ConstabularyCharles Henry Cribbes, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceHarry Critchley, Training Service Officer I, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceMabel Winifred Cross, Local RepresentativeSurbiton. Forces Help Society And Lord Roberts WorkshopsEdith Annie Crossley. For political and public services in Barkston Ash.Frederick George Crouch, lately Chief Male Nurse, Tooting Bee Mental HospitalAda Crozier, Personnel Manager, Wm. Ewart and Son, Ltd., BelfastDouglas Cruden, Senior Fishery Officer, Scottish Home DepartmentHarold Archibald Gray Curtis, Higher Executive Officer. Ministry of National InsuranceWilfred John Curtis, Surveyor, City District (London), Board of Customs and ExciseHerbert John Cutler, Head of Furniture Department, High Wycombe College of Further EducationWilliam Henry Daniels, Vice-Chairman, Southampton Local Employment CommitteeArthur Ernest Davies, Musical Director, Luton Girls' ChoirJohn Lewis Eavies, Engineer and Surveyor, Leatherhead Urban District CouncilGertrude Debrit Deave. For political and public services in Lewisham.Dorothy Annie Denny, Grade 3 Officer, Foreign OfficeCharles Montagu Dering, Senior Experimental Officer, AdmiraltySydney Edgar Devonald, lately Chairman, London and Southern England District, Joint District Scrap Drive Committee, British Iron and Steel FederationGeorge Richard Septimus Dixon, Producer, School Broadcasting, British Broadcasting CorporationMajor John Robert Donnelly, Administrative Secretary, Ex-Services Welfare SocietyMary Emma Masterton Dougans, Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary, AdmiraltyThomas Scatchard Drake, Warden, Queen Elizabeth Home of Recovery for the Blind, TorquayAlfred Lever Duggan. For political and public services in Bristol.Alderman Thomas Dunn, Chairman, Barn-staple District Committee, Devon Agricultural Executive Committee.Squadron Leader William Harry Dunton, Civilian Substitution Officer, Royal Air Force School of PhotographyAlexander Haldon Dykes, Chief Engineer, M.V. Hibernian Coast, Coast Lines, Ltd.Catherine Dynes, Night Superintendent, Royal Victoria Hospital, BelfastJohn Goslett Edwards, Assistant Civil Engineer, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Reginald William Elkins, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland RevenueJeannie Elliott. For political and public services in Nottingham.Albert Wilfrid Ellis. For political and public services in Essex.Stanley George Elmer, Executive Officer, War OfficeAlbert Josiah Evans, Headmaster, Benfleet Secondary Modern School, Essex. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Evan Rees Evans, Farmer, Llandyssul, CardiganshireGladys May Everett, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of HealthCharles Henry Exley MM Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceBasil Grenville Fairbrother, Commissioner for the Church Army with the British Army of the RhineGeoffrey Thomas Berridge Fall, Chief Accountant, Shipping Federation, Ltd.Fraser Farquharson, Chief Superintendent, City of Glasgow PoliceHarry Farrer, Skipper of a Fishing VesselCatherine Jeanne Felton, Executive Officer, Cabinet OfficeDaisy Fenwick, Grade IV Clerk, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner's Office, WinnipegWilliam Nicol Forrest, Assistant Director of Supplies, H.M. Stationery OfficeArnold Percy Forster, Placing Officer, Treforest Trading Estate, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceMarjorie Beatrice Forster, Personal Secretary, Colonial Development CorporationSidney Charles Hudson Fossett, Works Manager, Carriage and Wagon Works, North Eastern Region, Railway ExecutiveDonald Max Fountain, Agent, John Mowlem and Company, Ltd.Victor Reginald-Fox, Assistant Waterguard Superintendent, Newhaven, Board of Customs and ExciseDorothy Violet Franklin, Ward Sister, St. Bernard's (Mental) Hospital, SouthallAlbert Marskell Freeman, Headmaster, 1 Welling Secondary School for Boys, KentMargaret Wilson Frew, Organising Secretary, the Erskine (Paraplegic) Coach and Comforts Fund, RenfrewshireWilliam Garner MM Superintendent, Norfolk Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Samuel James Garton, Chief Investigator, Historic Buildings, Ministry of Housing and Local GovernmentMinnie Gatenby, Sister Midwife, West Middlesex Hospital, IsleworthJames Gayler, Chairman, London Regional Schools Advisory Savings CommitteeGeorge Faimilo Gibson JP For public services in Nottinghamshire.Grace Gidley, lately Head Assistant, Southern Grove Lodge, London County Council Welfare DepartmentArthur Edgar Gilbert, Local Fuel Overseer for the City of BirminghamWilliam Joseph Montague Gladden, Higher Executive Office, Air MinistryJoseph James Cecil Goulder, Clerk to the South Kesteven Rural District CouncilEdith Amy Gray. Headmistress, Bisbrooke Church of England School, RutlandVictor Gray, Naval Architect, Cochrane and Sons, Ltd., SelbyWilliam Llewelyn Alexander Gray, Chairman. North-East Wales War Pensions CommitteeAlec Alfred Green, Senior Experimental Officer, Pest Infestation Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchLeslie William Green, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil AviationStephen Herbert Green, G.M|Engineer and Manager, Drainage Department, Thurrock Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William Henry Green, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceRosalys Joan Griffith, Examiner of Acts, House of LordsJack Griffiths, Clerk to the Sheerness Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Horace Frederick Griggs, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil AviationArthur Thomas Grimer, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceGeorge Groves, Manager, Clipsham Stone Quarries, OakhamLeonard Arthur Grudgings, Chairman, Regional Schools Advisory Savings Committee, East Midlands RegionWilliam Joseph Gwilliam JP Alderman, Pembroke Borough CouncilHubert Charles Langley Hackney, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of PensionsErnest Nelson Hall, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of SupplyRobert Joseph Reed Hancock, Senior Structural Engineer, Ministry of WorksWilliam Hanke. For political and public services in the West Midlands.Captain Thomas Jewitt Hansen, Master, S.S. Cormount, Wm. Cory and Son, Ltd.William Hudson Birrell Harley, Finance Secretary, British Broadcasting CorporationRalph Hart, Assistant Regional Food Officer, Northern Region, Ministry of FoodHattie Dorinda Hartley. Senior Executive Officer. Ministry of FoodThomas George Haughton, Lately Secretary and Director, Churches Youth Welfare Council, Northern IrelandGeorge William Haw, lately Secretary-Manager, Pocklington Co-operative SocietyJohn Allen Hawkins, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceWinefride Hayes, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of WorksRichard Heath, Resident Warden, Claremont Rehabilitation Centre for Dock Workers. National Dock Labour BoardPeter Henderson JP Area Labour Officer, East Fife Area, Scottish Division, National Coal BoardWalter Henderson, Executive Officer, London MuseumFrancis Austin Henley, Sales Manager, Reinforced Shuttlecocks, Ltd.Constance Habbegell Henry, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of TransportHarold Ernest Henson, Executive Officer, Regional Office, Leeds, Board of TradeJoseph Gordon Higgins, lately Superintendent, Carmarthenshire ConstabularyJoseph Edward Hilder, Manager, Watford Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceCharles Biglin Hill, Farmer, Easington, Yorkshire. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Frederick William Hill, Joint Managing Director, F. W. Hill (Bognor Regis), Ltd., Builders and ContractorsHarry Charles Hill, Superintendent, War Department ConstabularyHenry Joseph Arthur Hill, Sales Manager, London, British European AirwaysJohn Frederick Hilton, Secretary, Trade Union Side, Departmental Joint Industrial CouncilVictor Arthur Hinde, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil AviationEdward Charles Histed, Chief Draughtsman, AdmiraltyCharles Stansfield Kitchen, Resident Geologist, Tanganyika Coalfields and Iron Investigation, Colonial Development CorporationWilfred John Hobbs, Works Manager, Drayton Regulator and Instrument Company, Ltd., West Drayton, MiddlesexEnid Sidney Hobson, Executive Officer, London Hostels Association, Ltd.Albert Edward Hocking, Member, National Executive Council, British LegionBrian Holmes, Assistant Constructor, Admiralty. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Cecil William Hopkins, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland RevenueWilliam Watson Hopkinson, Station Engineer, Dartford and Belvedere, South Eastern Gas Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Frederick Alfred Horton, Steward, H.M. Prison, WandsworthWilliam Houghton, lately General Manager, Ipswich Beet Sugar FactorySydney Charles Edward Howard, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of TransportWilliam Roy Howells, Chief Officer, Herefordshire Fire BrigadeCyril Frank Howes, Higher Executive Officer, Board of TradeHarold Hoyle, Assistant to Operating Superintendent (Freight Trains), Eastern and North Eastern Regions, Railway ExecutiveCharles Henry Hudson JP Chairman, King's Lynn and District Local Employment CommitteeAlfred David Hull, Costing Secretary, British Federation of Master PrintersNoel Kathleen Hunnybun, Senior Psychiatric Social Worker, Child Guidance Department, Tavistock Clinic, LondonMary Roy Hunter, Production Manager, Ethicon Suture Laboratories, EdinburghThomas Chalmers Hunter, Distribution Engineer, Fife Sub-Area, South East Scotland Electricity BoardWilliam Imlach, Skipper of steam trawler Loch Awe. For services during the hurricane in North-West ScotlandRobert Rhudd Innes. For political services in Edinburgh.Morris Isaacs, Supervisor of Factories, Jackson Associated Manufacturers, Ltd., Newcastle upon TyneErnest Samuel James, Higher Clerical Officer, AdmiraltyCelia Jarratt, Senior Major, Salvation Army. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Doris Gertrude Jarvis, Clerical Officer, Home OfficeArthur Ernest Jaynes, lately Chief Clerk, Gloucester District Probate RegistryFrancis Robert Jefford, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Municipal Borough of CheltenhamAileen Machenry Johnston (Lady Fraser-Tytler), lately Chief Officer of the National Institute of HouseworkersAlan Edgar Johnston, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of TransportBessie Patience Johnston, County Director, City of Glasgow Branch, British Red Cross SocietyAnna Jones, School Meals Organiser, DenbighshireWilliam Emlyn David Jones, Assistant County Agricultural Officer (Advisory), Pembrokeshire, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesWilfred Harold Jupe, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of SupplyWilliam George Keable, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of SupplyArthur Stanley Keeling, Midland District Engineer, South Western Division, Docks and Inland Waterways ExecutiveRobert Kerr, Deputy Accountant, North Western Gas BoardFrancis William Ernest King, Vice-Chairman, Amersham Rural District CouncilGeorge King, Senior Research Chemist, Albright and Wilson, Ltd.Harold Alfred King, Depot Superintendent, Stockport, North Western Road Car Company, Ltd.Frank Oliver Kitteringham, Higher Executive Officer, Board of TradeHarold Frederick Knell, Sub-Area Manager (Kent), South Eastern Electricity Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Captain William Anthony Kyne, Master, S.S. Ramsay, Bolton Steam Shipping Company, Ltd.Mary Marguerite Lace, Regional Organiser, North-Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary ServicesAlbert Haynes Laidlaw, Chief Draughtsman, Vosper, Ltd., PortsmouthRalph Thornton Lakin, Chief Engineer, Whiteley Electrical Radio Company, Ltd., MansfieldAlfred Dupear Lambert, Chief Engineer, S.S. Gardenia, Stag Line, Ltd.David Noble Lang, Area General Manager, South Western Division, National Coal BoardJohn Henry Last, Chief Passport Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South AfricaHerbert Vincent Laurie, Headmaster, Thorparch Grange Approved School, Boston Spa, YorkshireJames Russell Lawrie, Headmaster, Kingsland School, PeeblesWilliam Leitch JP General Manager, Clydebank Co-operative SocietyCeridwen Lewis, Matron, Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Rockwood, Llandaff, CardiffGrace Lewis, Senior Adviser in Dairying and Poultry-keeping, North Region, Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of AgricultureMary Dorothy Lewis JP Chairman, Cardiff Street Groups Savings Sub-CommitteeReginald Gwyn Leyshon, Secretary and Comptroller, Anglo-Celtic Watch Company, Ltd., Ystradgynlais, SwanseaRichard Henry Linnell, Factory Superintendent, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., LeicesterLeonard Edmund Reuben Loader, Chief Officer, Anglesey Fire BrigadeAlbert William Lovelock, Development and Production Manager, S. G. Brown, Ltd. WatfordReginald Lowen, Establishment Officer, National Maritime MuseumGeorge Joseph Lunnon, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial OfficeWilliam Arthur McAdam MC Commandant, Metropolitan Special ConstabularyAnne Montgomery MacArthur, Headmistress, Coleridge Road Secondary Modern School for Girls, SheffieldAnnie McCallum. For political services in Glasgow.Edith Margaret McClintock, Superintendent of Typists, Supreme Court of Judicature, Northern IrelandDoris McDonald, Honorary Secretary, Street Savings Group, South Shields, and Chairman, South Shields Street Groups Sub-CommitteeJames MacGregor, Works' Manager, Thermotank, Ltd., GlasgowBernard McGuirk, Manager, Liverpool (Leece Street) Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceLieutenant-Commander Robert Mckellar RD RNR (Retired), Captain Superintendent, National Sea Training Schools, GravesendElizabeth Fotheringham Mckie, Principal, Logan and Johnstone Pre-Nursing College, GlasgowThomas McLauchlan MC Chief Traffic Superintendent, North Eastern Region, General Post OfficeKenneth Macleod, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable. Renfrew and Bute ConstabularyGordon McLoughlin, Senior Executive Officer, National Debt OfficeEuphemia MacMillan, Matron. Dunclutha Children's Home, Kirn, ArgyllNorman McNeilly, Principal, Boys' Model Primary School, BelfastDavid Henry McVeigh, District Manager, Lincoln District, Road Haulage Executive. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Leonard Emile Magnusson, Senior Executive Engineer, General Post OfficeThomas Walter Marchant, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of SupplyRichard Harry Wakeling Marks, Member, Devonport Local Committee of the Royal Naval Benevolent TrustFlorence Marsden, Member, Hull Savings CommitteeAlbert William John Martin, Accountant, Ministry of Fuel and PowerFrederick Martin, Deputy Clerk of the Crown and Peace, Belfast and County AntrimLeonard Frank Martin, Manager, Government Shipping Department, Hogg Robinson and Capel-Cure, Ltd.William Martin JP Member, National Union of Agricultural WorkersElsie Maskell, Clerical Assistant, Board of TradeJohn Patrick Matthews, Maintenance Master, R.A.S.C. Fleet, Sheerness. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Florrie Wright Maxim, lately Ward Sister, Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale, LancashireHerbert George Maybury, Records Officer, Imperial War Graves CommissionPercy William Bell Mayes JP Chairman, Erith Local Employment CommitteeFlorence Mary Mears, Senior Executive Officer, General Post OfficeFrancis Arnold Meldrum, Area Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Liverpool, General Post OfficeCharles Percival Menday, Food Executive Officer, Ministry of FoodAlexander Mennie DCM Chairman, Glasgow Central Disablement Advisory CommitteeJohn Harold Middleton, Secretary of the Civil Service Sports CouncilRobert Headley Miers, Drainage Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ronald Mildenhall, Higher Executive Officer, H.M. TreasuryCelia Blair Miller, Joint Honorary Secretary, Henley and District Housing TrustWilliam Alexander Pyper Milne Area Cold Storage Officer, Ministry of FoodAlderman Henry Rawson Milner, Chairman, Bridlington Youth Employment CommitteeObserver Commander Frank William Mitchell, Deputy Commandant, Southern Area, Royal Observer CorpsJohn Christopher Morgan, Chairman, Atcham District Committee, Salop Agricultural Executive CommitteePercy Morrell, lately Generation Engineer (Operation), Northern Group, British Electricity AuthorityFrank Moss, Maintenance Superintendent, Garringtons, Ltd., DarlestonJohn Frederick Michael Mowat JP For political and public services in Wrexham.Edward Arthur Moxey, Chief Officer, Great Yarmouth Fire BrigadeGeorge Frederick Mullinger, Surveyor, Grade I, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesRobert Charles Mundy, Bulk Contracts Manager, Ericsson Telephones, Ltd.Margaret Macartney Murray, Matron, Herrison (Mental) Hospital, Dorchester, DorsetCaptain Alexander Naismtth, Master, M.V. Anshun, China Navigation Company, Ltd.John Henry Naylor, District Commercial Engineer, Barnsley District, Yorkshire Electricity BoardJohn Rowan Nesbit, Chief Cashier and Head Office Manager, Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd.Observer Commander Herbert George Newman, Commandant, No. 15 Group, Royal Observer Corps, CambridgeWinifred Curtis Nichols, Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Public TrusteeWilliam John Northmore, lately General Foreman of Works, AdmiraltyEvelyn Jessie Blackett-Ord, National Vice-Chairman. Women's Section. British LegionEdward William James Osborne BEM Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police ForceJoseph Aloysius Vincent O'Shea, Clerical Officer, Board of TradeWilliam Kingdon Owen JP Chairman, Neath Juvenile Advisory CommitteeEdith Annie Parker JP For political and public services in Salford.Carl Pater Parkinson, Skipper of the Fishing Vessel AptLouis Emanuel Parsons, Senior Experimental Officer, British Museum (Natural History)Samuel John Partridge, County Welfare Officer, East Riding of Yorkshire. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Hubert Newton Peake, Chairman, Banbury Committee, Air Training CorpsBertram Wilson Pearce, Temporary Clerk, Grade I, Ministry of WorksWilliam Donald Pearce, Superintendent of Works, Office of the Receiver for Metropolitan PoliceFrank Pearson, Manager, Heavy Duty Cooking Apparatus Department, Wm. Green and Company (Ecclesfield), Ltd., SheffieldWilliam Henry Pearson JP Kent County Organiser, National Union of Agricultural WorkersIsabella Agnes Pettitt, Assistant Honorary Secretary, Essex, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Families Association. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Geoffrey Elisha Phillippo, Clerk to the Lincolnshire River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Melbourne Griffith Phillips, Superintendent, Bristol City Police ForceSydney Pitt JP Headmaster, Russell Scott County Primary School, Denton, LancashireCyril Marks Plowman, Adviser to the Industrial Relations Committee of the Gas CouncilLilian Alice Plowman, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceRobert George Pointer, Manager, Mile Cross Silk Mills, Francis Hinde and Sons, Ltd., NorwichAubrey Franklyn Pool, Employer Member, Cornwall District Advisory Committee, South Western Regional Board for IndustryGeorge Arthur Henry Edward Poole, Factory Manager, Joseph Lucas, Ltd., BirminghamJames Arthur Porter. For political and public services in Liverpool.Isabel Muriel Potts. For political and public services in Middlesex.Ernest Baden Powell, Honorary Secretary, Brecon and District Savings Committee, South WalesRonald Rees Powell MRCS Chairman, Reigate Unit Committee, and Southern Area Representative, Sea Cadet CouncilStanley Prissick, Director and Secretary, Henry Scarr, Ltd., Hessle, East YorkshirePhyllis Mary Helen Pritchard, County Organiser, Lindsey, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Edith May Hedley-Prole, Centre Organiser, Lambeth, Women's Voluntary ServicesMargaret Joan Pryer, Higher Executive Officer, H.M. TreasuryJohn Herbert Quayle, Divisional Engineer, Lincolnshire River Board. For services diuring the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.George Frederick Quilter, Brigade Secretary, St. John Ambulance BrigadeJoseph Rea, Divisional Officer, Wiltshire Fire ServiceIden Robert Reed, London Outdoor Representative, Passenger Department, Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.John Reginald Reed, Branch Accountant and Office Manager, English Electric Company, Ltd., PrestonHarry Hepburn Reid JP Headmaster, St. Helena Boys' Secondary Modern School, ColchesterJames Reid. For political and public services in Dumfries-shire.James Ernest Reid, District Inspector, Royal Ulster ConstabularyHerbert Pinder Reynolds, Head Postmaster, Weymouth, Dorset, General Post OfficeArthur Richards, Chief Draughtsman, AdmiraltyGeorge Tilghman Richards, Senior Research Assistant, Science MuseumJohn William Rigby, Staff Officer, Board of Inland RevenueErnest Armstrong Ritchie, Traffic Superintendent, Belfast Corporation Transport DepartmentChambers Edward Ritson, Member, North West Area Seedcrushers' CommitteeAustin Horace Cecil Roberts, Senior Executive Officer, Charity CommissionFrank Roberts, Cleansing Superintendent, Birkenhead County BoroughThomas Herbert Roberts, Higher Executive Officer, War OfficeRobina Robertson, Superintendent, District Nurses' Association, LondonderryDonald Goodall Roper, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesOswald Stafford Rose, Agricultural Development Officer to the British Sugar CorporationAlexandrina Ross, Nursing Sister, Casualty Ward and Radiotherapy Ward, Glasgow Royal InfirmaryJeannette Susannah Gertrude Rowe, Honorary Secretary, Schools Savings Committee, BelfastWilliam Francis Rowland JP For political and public services in Glamorgan.Ivor Robertson Roy, Column Officer, South Eastern Area Fire Brigade, ScotlandFrancis Walter Ruzbridge, Chief Clerk, South Eastern Divisional Road Engineer's Office, Ministry of TransportRalph Ernest Sadler, Assistant Engineer (New Works), Eastern Region, Railway ExecutiveReginald Dennis Salmon, Chief Development Engineer, Creed and Company, Ltd.Ethel Alice Sampson, Matron, Old People's Home, The Laurels, OxfordMary Bell Sanderson, Honorary Secretary, Women's Voluntary Services, ScotlandAlice Ada Saville, Technical Nursing Officer, Reading Nursing Appointments Office, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceJames Watson Scholes JP Chairman, Dumfriesshire Savings CommitteeAlfred Edward Scott, Assistant Regional Manager, London North-West Regional Office, Central Land Board and War Damage CommissionAlfred Trotter Scott, Honorary Secretary, Ayr and South Ayrshire Committee, St. Andrew's Ambulance AssociationDorothy Edith Scott, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of MaterialsHarry Neill Scott, Manager, Outside Engineering Department. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., GlasgowArthur Richard Sculthorpe, General Secretary, National Deaf-Blind Helpers' LeagueIsabel Frances Teresa Shallcrass, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of EducationFrank Hamblyn Sharpe, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade). Board of Inland RevenueWilliam Shaw, Flax Grader, Ministry of MaterialsFrancis Ernest Shippobotham, Manager, Claims Department, Western Welsh Omnibus Company, Ltd.Mary Elizabeth Short JP Alderman, East Suffolk County Council and Eye Borough CouncilDonald George Henry Simmonds, Principal Cost Officer, War OfficeAbe Simpson, Divisional Officer, Fife Area Fire BrigadeMargaret Beryl Skelly, Private Secretary to the Rt. Hon. C. R. Attlee OM CH MP For political services.Henry Atkinson Slater. For political and public services in Lancashire.Beatrice Emma Slocombe. For political and public services in Keighley.Madeline Small. For political and public services in Belfast.Captain Albert Smedley DCM Secretary, Civil Defence Technical Training School, Taymouth Castle, PerthshireCharles Smith, Senior Sales Executive, Cooper and Roe, Ltd.Elsie Emma Margaret Smith, Superintendent, Metropolitan Women PoliceEveritt Barnard Smith, Skipper of the Fishing Vessel Sir LancelotFrederick William Stephen Smith, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of FoodJessie Gladys Smith, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Fulham and Hammer-smith Division, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families AssociationMabel Georgina Smith, Headmistress, Longford Park Open Air School, StretfordThomas Alfred Smith, Chief Engineer, Alley and MacLellan, Ltd., GlasgowWalter Wilson Smith, Chief Technician, Plastic Surgery Department, Ballochmyle Hospital, AyrshireJoseph James John Smythe, Non-Technical Grade I, Royal Ordnance Factory, SwynnertonJeannie Spence, Vice-President, Dundee and District Union of Jute and Flax WorkersWilliam Harry Spice, Control Officer, Grade I, British Mission to Soviet Occupation Forces in GermanyErnest Francis Spillan, Telecommunications Technical Officer I, Ministry of Civil AviationFrank Edward Grant Spokes, Senior Executive Officer, No. 25 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, HartleburyCharles Mervyn Stanford, Executive Officer, Central Office of InformationBertram Dean Stanley, Secretary and Accountant. East Kent Road Car Company, Ltd.James Dawson Steel, Chief Area Milk Officer, Scotland, Ministry of FoodMuriel Emia Stephens, Postmistress, Pontnewydd Sub-Post Office (S), Newport, MonmouthshireThomas Stephenson, Senior Executive Officer, Scottish Education DepartmentBetty Ellen May Stern, Welfare Member. Women's Voluntary Services, KoreaDonald Arnott Stewart, Consulting Engineer. For services to the Ministry of Works.George Alexander Stewart, Assistant Secretary and Librarian, Royal Society of EdinburghJames Ramsay Stirling, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of FoodSarah Story. For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.George Burder Stratton, Librarian. Zoological Society of LondonJohn William Strydom, Cashier, The Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd., Coryton Refinery. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Nina Edith Sturdee, lately Personal Private Secretary to the Prime MinisterMargaret Hilda Talbot. For political and public services in Preston.Sidney Cyril Tarry, Chairman, St. Dunstan's Physiotherapy Advisory CommitteeCyril Balfour Taylor. For political and public services in Kingston-upon-Hull.Frances Mary Graham-Taylor. For political and public services in Wessex.James Ingram Taylor, Deputy Chief Engineer, Kent River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Samuel Ewart Taylor, Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Health and Local Government, Northern IrelandHenry Thomas JP Chairman, Barry and Penarth Joint Food Control CommitteeMargaret Louisie Thomas, Alderman, County Borough Organiser, Wakefield, Women's Voluntary ServicesWilliam Albert Thomas, Honorary Secretary, Pontardulais Choral Society, South WalesCaptain William Evan Thomas JP Member, Pembroke County Agricultural Executive CommitteeAnnie Nicol Thompson, Lady SuperintendentCharles Thompson's Mission, BirkenheadGeorge Thompson, District Secretary for Canada and the United States of America, National Union of SeamenJohn Seymour Thompson, Chief Metallurgist and Production Manager, Durham Chemicals, Ltd., BirtleyMary Elizabeth Thomson, County Organiser, Fife. Women's Voluntary ServicesWilliam Henry Tichbon, Chief Inspector, British Overseas Airways CorporationAugusta Annie Tomlinson, Methodist Welfare Worker, Middle East Land ForcesCaptain Philip Henry Trimmer DSO Royal Navy (Retired), Honorary Secretary, Guildford Unit Committee, Sea Cadet CorpsHelen Millicent Troup, Social Worker, EdinburghStanley Christopher Tucker, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland RevenueDavid Tudor JP For political and public services in North Wales.Raymond Tuft, Divisional Superintendent, Leicester Division, Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, Ltd.Henry Turner, Foundry Manager, International Combustion, Ltd., DerbyNelly Turner, Works Manageress, E. Ulingworth and Company, Ltd., Suttonin-AshfieldJanie Tweed, lately Honorary Secretary, Larne Music Festival AssociationLouie Tweedy JP County Borough Organiser, Tynemouth, Women's Voluntary ServicesFrancis George Valentine Vincent, Plant Engineer, Supermarine Works, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., SwindonJames Eric Vine, Intelligence Officer, War OfficeCharles George Vokes, Senior Executive Officer, War OfficeGrace Mary Wacey, Secretary, University of London Institute of EducationGeorge Benjamin James Wadley, Higher Executive Officer, AdmiraltyDoris Walker, Controller of Typists (Outstations), Air MinistryJohn William Walker, Senior Executive Officer, Air MinistryJames Wallbey. For public services in Penclawdd, Glamorganshire.Fanny Walwyn, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations OfficeCatherine Waterhouse, Domiciliary Midwife, King's Lynn, NorfolkDoris Prudence Waters, Head of Old People's Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary ServicesDilys Mary Francis-Watkins, Higher Executive Officer, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury SolicitorFred Akeroyd Watson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of PensionsJohn Smith Watson, Chief Sanitary Inspector and Housing Officer, Border Rural District CouncilStanley Gordon Strange Watts, Accountant, Board of Customs and ExciseEdwin Webb, Secretary-Manager, Church of England Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Institute, AldershotCharles Thomas Webster, Senior Experimental Officer, Joint Fire Research Organisation, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchEdward Marshall Wells, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland RevenueAlba Gladys Ivy Colchester-Wemyss, Borough Organiser, Chesterfield, Women's Voluntary ServicesFrancis West, Skipper of the Motor Drifter HoneydewThomas Whalley, Chairman, Northwich Savings Committee, CheshireVernon Whitaker, Senior Technical Superintendent (Engineer), No. 10 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, HullavingtonJohn Thomas Wiggans, Station Master, Manchester (Victoria, Exchange and Salford), Railway ExecutiveDavid Watkin Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Wales Region, Ministry of Fuel and PowerFrank Williams, Vice-Chairman, Chesterfield and District Local Employment CommitteeGeorge Richard Williams, Clerical Officer, Ministry of National InsuranceMajor Conrad Thomas Wilson, Branch Secretary, Officers' AssociationEsther Wilson, Honorary Assistant Secretary, Carlisle Savings CommitteeFrank Baxter Wilson, Technical Adviser, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., DarlastonArthur Edgar John Wood, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel and PowerDorothy Rose Wood, Assistant, Music Department, British Broadcasting CorporationFrederick George Wood, Headmaster, South Benfleet Primary School. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Gwendolin Blanche Wood, lately County Officer, St. John Ambulance Brigade, NottinghamshireFrank Cecil Woolcott, Senior Executive Officer, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury SolicitorLeopold Adrian Worswick, Vice-Chairman, Barnstaple Local Employment CommitteeCharles Cowley Worters, Secretary, Hire Purchase Trade. AssociationErnest Wright, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Home DepartmentDaniel Llewelyn Wynn, Slaughterhouse Agent, North Eastern Area, Ministry of FoodSyed Sager Ali, Accountant at Her Majesty's Embassy in BangkokHarold Blood, Deputy Assistant Civil Secretary (Personnel), Sudan GovernmentErnest Thomas Castro, lately British Pro-Consul at MalagaJohn Christie, British subject resident in UruguayLeslie Clarke, lately Temporary Assistant, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Robert Arthur Clarke, Superintendent of Police, Tripoli, Western Province, LibyaCharles Levinge Clayton MC Travel Officer at Her Majesty's Consulate-General at New YorkJudith Mary Cotton, Personal Secretary to Her Majesty's Ambassador in AthensNorman Matthew Darbyshire, Attached to the British Middle East OfficeWalter Victor Deacock, Second Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in ParisArthur George Dovey, British subject resident in ChileJohn Spenser Ritchie Duncan, Deputy Assistant Civil Secretary (Political), Sudan GovernmentEdward George Dunckley, Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Henry Fletcher Ellis, British subject lately resident in EgyptJack Evans, Acting Director General of Forestry, Iraq GovernmentHector Ernest Floridia, British subject resident in EgyptSamuel Fullman, Senior Temporary Assistant, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Ada Louisa Gulliver, Medical Missionary of the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society resident in BurmaJessie Harvey, British subject resident in DenmarkArthur Cyril Walter Hayday, lately Trade Officer, Department of Economics and Trade, Sudan GovernmentBarbara Hayes, Head of the Speakers' Section, British Information Services, New YorkMargaret Kate Henry, Archivist at Her Majesty's Embassy in SantiagoArthur Jean Janssens, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at AntwerpMiriam Jennings, British subject resident in the Argentine RepublicMannfield Blanche Johnston, Typist at Her Majesty's Embassy in PekingAlbert Thomas Lamb DFC lately Third Secretary at Her Majesty's Legation in BucharestFederigo Lelli, British Pro-Consul at FlorenceJohn Lumsden, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at CasablancaThe Reverend Father Michael Joseph Mceleney, lately Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Control Commission for Germany (British Element)Elizabeth Susan Olive Parsons, lately Clerical Officer at Her Majesty's Embassy in TehranMajor Eric Pritchard, Superintendent of Prisons in Tripolitama, LibyaFrederick Ricks, lately Inspector of Water Supply, Public Works Department, Sudan GovernmentLucy Hilda Rowcliffe, British subject resident in FranceCharles Bertram Longmore Ryland, General Manager of the Western Telegraph Company Limited, Porto AlegreThomas Albert Frederick Savile Stamper, Secretary, Sudan Government Agency in LondonOnslow Joseph John Tuckley, Functional Officer, British Council, EgyptKenneth Douglas Whitmarsh, Senior Temporary Assistant, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)George Patten Adams, of Westbury, State of Tasmania. For services to philanthropic and charitable movements.Isobel Mary Carter, Secretary of the Three Services Entertainment Committee in Calcutta, IndiaAlexander Cave, Officer in Charge of the Fire Rescue Services attached to the Kolar Gold Field Mining Companies in Southern IndiaLionel Deary, General Secretary, Mine Workers' Union, Southern RhodesiaFrank Robert Dowse, Superintendent of Reserves, Launceston City Council, State of TasmaniaMargaret Bryden Fearn. For services to women's welfare organisations in Umtali, Southern Rhodesia.George Dennis Augustine Fitzgerald, Honorary Treasurer, Karachi Branch. United Kingdom Association in PakistanKenneth Harold Greager, Chief Engineer, Central African Airways, Southern RhodesiaGeorge Louis Harvey. For services to the United Kingdom community in Bangalore, India.Josie Herbst. For social welfare services in Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia.Rachel Hlazo. For social welfare services to the African women of Southern Rhodesia.Christine Barclay Hoole. For services to the Red Cross Society in Southern Rhodesia.Helen Louisa Hubbard. For services to the Memorable Order of Tin Hats Women's Association (Mothwas) in Southern RhodesiaEnid Frances Jones, Secretary of the Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement
Katherine Isabel Kewley, Matron of the Lady Victoria Buxton Girls' Club, State of South AustraliaJohanna Sophia Klopper, a school teacher in the Bechuanaland ProtectorateMary Evangelist Lamp, of Launceston, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services.Mary Julia Lawes. For services to the Red Cross in the State of South Australia.Raymond Bernhard Leonard. For services rendered under the auspices of the Bombay European Relief Association.Juliet Kathleen Maccaw. For services rendered in Calcutta under the auspices of the East India Charitable Trust.Mabel Gertrude MacGowan, Confidential Secretary to the Director-General, and the Chairman of the Central Council, of the Over-Seas LeagueCatherine McLaren. For social welfare services to the United Kingdom community in Lahore and elsewhere in the Punjab.Philadelphia Margaret Noakes, Commissioner for Training, Girl Guides Association, Southern RhodesiaIda Josephine Isabell Norton. For social welfare services, especially to the Royal Hobart Hospital, State of TasmaniaSamuel Alexander Bernard Polglase, Chairman of the East Pakistan Branch of the United Kingdom Association m PakistanThe Reverend David Leslie Scott, Principal of Murray College, Sialkot, PakistanLeslie Hart Stewart, Secretary, Natural Resources Board, Southern RhodesiaAlbert Baden Thompson, a prominent Trade Unionist, and a member of the Board of Management of the State Bank, in the State of South AustraliaHenry John Ranger Tyrrell. For services to charitable organisations in Southern Rhodesia.Benjamin Watkins. For public and philanthropic services in the State of Tasmania.Cecil Hobart Webster. For services to patriotic and philanthropic organisations in the State of Tasmania.Ernest Kynaston Weeden. For services to the National Youth Council and the Holiday Association, Southern Rhodesia.Albert Robert Allen, Emergency Administrative Officer (Resettlement Officer), Federation of MalayaJames Robert Norton-Amor, Clerk to the Justices, Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, GibraltarRupert Stanley Bastin, lately Chief Wireless Officer, Gilbert and Ellice IslandsHenry Herbert Brazier, Chief Computer, Directorate of Colonial SurveysFrederick James Broadway. For public services in St. Helena.Dillet Hartman Burrows, Commissioner, Georgetown, Exuma, BahamasMona Eileen Byer. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in the Windward IslandsRuth Camplin. For nursing services in Uganda.Terence Ashton Dupont Clarke, Headmaster, Wesley Hall Junior School, BarbadosThe Reverend Erasmus William Benjamin Cole. For services to education in Sierra Leone.James Walter Collins, Water Superintendent, Public Works Department, KenyaAlfred Curmi, Executive Officer, MaltaWallestine Godwin Dako, Senior Collector of Customs and Excise, Gold CoastVictor Akintunde Davies, Accountant, Public Works Department, NigeriaDorothy Delbridge For medical services in Fiji.Patrick Joseph Dominique, Senior Agricultural Assistant, TrinidadEdward John Downes, Superintendent of Public Gardens, JamaicaPhilippe Dupavillon, Manager and Secretary to the Tobacco Board, MauritiusBessie Mary East. For services to education in Tanganyika.Claude Anthony Eber, Architect, Federation of MalayaEdwin Edgar Eusey. For public services in Belize, British Honduras.Doris Mary Evans, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Principal Matron, NigeriaRosamond Arorunkah Fowlis, Domestic Science Organiser, GambiaDouglas Francis Fromings. For services to the Tobacco industry, NyasalandPercy Richard Fuller, Establishment Officer, Northern RhodesiaWilliam Peter Gaskell. For services to the Boy Scout Movement in NigeriaLeslie Francis Gill. For public services in the British Solomon Islands.Major Goh Guan Hop, E.D. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.Christoffel Goosen. For services to the Trade Union Movement in Northern RhodesiaEleanora Minnie Hall, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, TanganyikaJessie Cameron Hallett. For public services and social work in Bermuda.James Martin Hallpike, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Antigua, Leeward IslandsKeith Jefferson Henderson, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Penang, Federation of MalayaMajor Sydney William Kenwood, Director of Music, British Guiana Militia BandOsmond John Ward-Horner, Postmaster, SeychellesRamadan Jemil. For public services in Cyprus.Albert Jillott, Superintendent of Prisons, Hong KongEdward Jones, Chief Inspector of Works, NigeriaWilliam Bertram Arnold Joost Keppel, Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation, NigeriaHubert Forrester Knowles, Superintendent, Bahamas General HospitalAhmed Abdulrasul Mohamed Lakha Kanji. For public services in Zanzibar.Costas Charalambus Lap As, Inspector of Elementary Schools (Greek), CyprusJames Wilfred Leach, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, NigeriaLeung Fung Ki, Education Officer, Hong KongLi Chik-Nung, Assistant Social Welfare Officer, Hong KongKenneth Denham Lloyd, Education Officer, SomalilandEdward Jackson McCormack, Assistant Master and Registrar, Supreme Court, Sierra LeoneJoseph Darnley Maloney, Administrative Officer and Magistrate, Anguilla, Leeward IslandsLieutenant-Colonel Ernest Marston. For public services in Kenya.Clare Elizabeth Lumsden Milne, Headmistress, Government English Preparatory School, Muar, Federation of MalayaClarence Michael Miranda, Telephone Engineer, Posts and Telephones Department, AdenAlbert Edward Monteiro, Chief Clerk, Chief Accountant's Department, Singapore Harbour BoardMarjorie Helen Murray. For services to education in KenyaJames Stevenson Nelson, Establishment Officer, East African Posts and Telecommunications AdministrationAmbrose Michael Ofafa. For public services in Kenya.Alfred Olajide, Assistant Secretary, NigeriaHenry Arthur Oliver, Colonial Administrative Service. Administrative Officer. GambiaAnthony Pape. For public services in Kenya.Chaturbhai Khushalbhai Patel. For public and welfare services in Tanganyika.William Oliver Petrie Colonial Medical Service, Medical Officer, NyasalandWilliam Durham Petty, Fire Chief, Hamilton Volunteer Fire Brigade, BermudaAlbert Russell Games Prosser, Assistant Director (Mass Education and Community Development), Gold CoastSanmugan Ramalingam, lately Technical Assistant, Survey Department, SingaporeRamjuttan Ramdass, Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, MauritiusChristina Agnes Séguin. For services to education in Northern Rhodesia.Joseph Kenneth Shepherd, Superintendent, Buildings, Prisons Department, UgandaSoo Hoy Mun Honorary Medical Officer, Chinese Maternity Hospital, Federation of MalayaArthur Dudley Soutar JP Principal Assistant Secretary, Secretariat, JamaicaAnnette Irene Greer Spence, Colonial Education Service, Education Officer, NigeriaMyra Annie Elizabeth-Spurr. For services to education in Uganda.Charles Payne Sutcliffe, Colonial Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police, TanganyikaDatu Abang Abu Talip-bin Datu Abang Haji Buassan. For public services in Sarawak.William Richardson Tatem JP For public services in the Turks and Caicos Islands.Eileen Urich. For social welfare work in Trinidad.Elizabeth Affuah Vanderpuye, Health Officer, Red Cross Society, Gold CoastJohn Voon Yin Kui, lately Chief Clerk, Resident's Office, Jesselton, North BorneoVythilingam Sithambaram V'Thaver, lately Financial Assistant, Medical Headquarters, Penang, Federation of MalayaClaude Hamilton Walcott, Harbourmaster, British GuianaFlorence Mary Walker. For services to education in Nyasaland.Wallace Wynter Warden JP For public services in Fiji.Ernest Philip Wharton, Deputy Inspector of Stores, Office of the Crown Agents for the ColoniesHerbert Whittaker, Assistant Engineer, Civil Engineering Department, Office of the Crown Agents for the ColoniesDunstan Matthew William, Telegraph Inspector, North BorneoVincent Bpwen Williams. For social services in Barbados.Gerald Hugh Wilson, Director, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland Publications BureauLeonie Mary Wright. For public and social services in British Honduras.Felix Durocher-Yvon, lately Director of Agriculture, Seychelles, now Agricultural Officer, Northern RhodesiaHaji Zahwi Bin Haji Musa, Headman in Mukah and Chairman, Mixed Local Authority, SarawakElias Zammit. For public services in Malta.Seiyid Umar Al Mihdhar Bin Alawi Al Kaf. For public services in the Aden Protectorate.Thong Jin Hin. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.Dato Kamaruddin Bin Haji Ibrahim, Territorial Chief, Ulu Selangor, Federation of MalayaMohamed Yusoff Bin Ahmad. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.Abdul Majid Bin Haji Mohamed Shahid, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Federation of MalayaAhmadu, Emir of Misau, NigeriaThe Reverend Amos Sodunola Solarin. For social and welfare services in Nigeria.Jacob Maduegbunam Onyechi, Assistant Secretary (Finance), NigeriaEffiong Etim Ekeng, Health Superintendent, NigeriaIgnatius Alexander Arudimma Idigbe, Administrative Assistant, NigeriaChief Henry Ekpo Enyenihi, Chairman, Eket County Council, NigeriaMichael Eledumo Ojomo, Senior Registrar, Supreme Court of NigeriaAfotanju Ogedegbe, lately Auditor, NigeriaJames Theophilus Ayodele Dixon, Assistant Superintendent of Police, NigeriaBai Koblo, Paramount Chief, Marampa, Sierra LeoneMohamoud Ali Shirreh, Senior Akil of the Warsangeli tribe, SomalilandHaji Bahanan Hersi. For services to the Local Government in Somaliland.Besweri Kisalita Mulyanti, lately Saza Chief of Kyaggwe, UgandaAlexander Kironde, Saza Chief of Buddu County, UgandaZefania Nabikamba, County Chief, Bugabula, Busoga, UgandaMatayo Lamot, Lawirwodi, UgandaYovani Kiwanuka, Clerk of Works, Kigezi African Local Government, UgandaEdward Benjamin Britten, ComposerThe Right Honourable James Chuter Ede JP DL MP Labour Member of Parliament for Mitcham, 1923, and for South Shields, 1929–31 and since 1935. Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1945–51 ; Leader of the House of Commons, March–October, 1951. For political and public services.Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (William Jocelyn) Ian Fraser CBE MP Unionist Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lonsdale since 1950; for Lonsdale, 1940–50 ; and for North St. Pancras, 1924–29 and 1931–36. Chairman, Executive Council of St. Dunstan's since 1921. National President of British Legion since 1947. For political and public services.The Right Honourable Thomas Johnston. For public services in Scotland.Richard Clement AllenbyPercival Frank AshGeorge Henry BignellRobert BissettCharles Henry BrownLeopold Isaac Noah BrownAlfred James ColeThomas FraserEdward Victor GreenerStanley Edgar HooksStanley William Lionel Rivers LuckingErnest George MoffatJessie Wilson Massie RobertsonWilliam RobsonJoseph Charles SheffordSidney Albert SpongEdwin StuartWilliam UrquhartInspector Ronald Douglas Wells, Metropolitan PoliceBeatrice Anne WilliamsCaptain Richard Rymer, Training Captain, Viscount Flight, British European AirwaysActing Group Captain Richard Irvin Knight Edwards DFC AFC Royal Air ForceWing Commander John Barraclough DFC AFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Derek Clare DFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Harold Cecil Flemons, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Stanley Richard Hodge, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Henry William Lamond, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Alastair Cavendish Lindsay Mackie DFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader William John McLean DSO DFC AFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Philip Richard Robinson, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Kenneth Barnes, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Robert Anthony Carson MC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Barry Nigel Byrne, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Carvosso, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant James Leslie Stuart Crawford, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant William Snowdon Douglas, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant William Edwards, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Horrobin Elliott, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Thomas Philip Fargher DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Mane Feldman, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Ernest Derek Glaser DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Caryl Ramsay Gordon, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant James Nicoll Gracie, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Robert McConnell Hamilton, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Robert Herrick, Royal Air Force (Deceased)Flight Lieutenant Paul Albert Hunt, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Ian Richard Iddison, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Justin Michael McCann, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Thomas Walter Monaghan, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Horatio Ogilvie, Royal Air Force Reserve of OfficersFlight Lieutenant James Ernest Petty, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Eric Phillips DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Wladyslaw Jan Potocki DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Rex David Roe, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Kenneth William Rogers, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant David Rankin Scott DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Denis John Thomas Sharp DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Jack Alan Shelley, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Stephen, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant William Notman Trimble, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Frederick John Wheeler DFC Royal Air ForceFlying Officer John Bruce, Royal Air ForceFlying Officer Bedrich Froehlich, Royal Air ForceMaster Engineer Eric Russell Mears, Royal Air ForceMaster Engineer Master Signaller Raymond Edward Drake, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Ian Robertson Craig, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Hugh Edward Henry Wood, Royal Air ForceSergeant Raymond Arthur Barnes, Royal Air ForceSergeant Christopher David Humphreys, Royal Air ForceSergeant Ronald Sidney Jackson, Royal Air ForceSergeant Harry Watt Mackenzie, Royal Air ForceKathleen Violet Chapman ARRC Principal Matron, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing ServiceMajor Nancy Hope Hodgman, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing CorpsMajor Edith Adrienne Horrocks, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing CorpsWing Officer Emily Martha Marfleet ARRC Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing ServiceMarjorie Smith, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing ServiceMargaret Gallagher Bonar, Supervising V.A.D. Nursing MemberMajor Ruth Constance Davis, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing CorpsMajor Carrie Trahair De Rouffignac, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing CorpsMajor Eva Thorpe, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing CorpsFlight Officer Olwen Cecilia Rees, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing ServiceFlight Officer Annie Laura Greenwell Robertson, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing ServiceWing Commander George Hubert Newbourne Shiells DFC Royal Australian Air ForceActing Wing Commander Konrad Bazarnik Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader John Hanbury Smith-Carington, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Lionel Harwood Casson DFC Royal Auxiliary Air ForceSquadron Leader Henry Moresby Chinnery, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Ernest Leonard David Drake DFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Terence Helper DFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Donald Ridgewell Howard DFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Denis Seymour Leete, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Sidney James Perkins, Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Dunham Hodgson Seaton DFC Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader James Leslie Barlow, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Frederick Clark Barter, Royal Air-ForceActing Squadron Leader John Gascon Claridge DFC Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader David John Fowler, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Clifford Laurence Godwin, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader John Miller DFC Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Anthony Archibald Smafles, Royal Air ForceActing Squadron Leader Leslie Morris Whittington, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Brian Spencer Adlington, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant George Brooks Bell, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Beaumont Blackett, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Anthony Brown, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Roland Louis Ernest Burton, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Ronald Desmond Campbell DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Josef Hugo Cermak, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Peter George Coulson, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Henry Silvester Horth, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Thomas Lawrie Kennedy, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant David Langford, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Gilbert Matthews, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Charles John Morgan, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Jaroslav Muzika, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Kendall Cecil Douglas Nixon, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Trevor Winston Oakey, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Stanley Owen,.Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Douglas Price, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Keith Bernard Rogers DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Maldwyn Roy Sisley, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Michael Clement Nevil Smart, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Charles Michael Stavert, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant George Stephenson DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Charles Donald Thieme, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Anthony Philip Trowbridge, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Geoffrey Victor Wadams, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Kelly Aerial Whynacht DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant John Robert Wilcock, Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Richard Thomas Glyndwr Williams, Royal Auxiliary Air ForceFlight Lieutenant David Wright, Royal Air ForceFlying Officer Ivan Cardwell, Royal Air ForceFlying Officer Maurice Arthur Joseph St. Pierre, Royal Air ForceFlying Officer Jindrich Petr Skirka, Royal Air ForceMaster Pilot George Henry Owen, A.F.M Royal Air ForceLieutenant Commander Cecil Ernest Price, Royal NavyLieutenant Frank Cawood, Royal NavyLieutenant Thomas Guy Innes, Royal NavyLieutenant Robert Wooton Jaggard, Royal NavySquadron Leader Jim Lomas DFC AFC Royal Air ForceSquadron Leader Leslie George Press AFC Royal Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Neil Currie Thorne AFC Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Benjamin Roy Bradley, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant James Dougan, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Alfred John Fairbairn, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Alistair Bruce Fraser, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Kazimierz Gorny, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Terence Maxwell Hamer, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant (now Master Signaller) William Frederick Joseph Hills, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Austen Brian Howes, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Thomas McHugh DFC Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Alexander Henry Shelton, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Henry Frederick John Thorpe, Royal Air ForceSergeant Zivan Atanackovig, Royal Air ForceSergeant Richard Eric Bowler, Royal Air ForceSergeant Geoffrey Ashwell Hall, Royal Air ForceSergeant William Sidney Jones, Royal Air ForceSergeant John Patrick McCarthy, Royal Air ForceSergeant Daniel Victor Sutton, Royal Air ForceSergeant Richard Thomas Vane, Royal Air ForceSergeant (acting) Isabella Galder Arbuthnot, Women's Royal Army CorpsSergeant Thomas Albert Ash, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial ArmyStaff-Sergeant (acting) William Baxter, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersStaff-Sergeant Harold Edward Berry, Royal Army Service CorpsWarrant Officer Class II (acting) Dorothy Mary Bisson, Women's Royal Army CorpsColour Sergeant (acting) John Arthur Charles Britnell, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)Staff-Sergeant Malcolm Burns, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class I (acting) George Leonard Walter Carrington, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersStaff-Sergeant (acting) George Henry Smith-Carter, Corps of Royal EngineersSergeant Edward Thomas Chapman VC The Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial ArmySergeant Thomas Henry Chapman, Corps of Royal EngineersWarrant Officer Class II (acting) (Artillery Clerk) Thomas Victor Childs, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryWarrant Officer Class II (acting) Daniel Comrie, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)Sergeant Edwin Cookey, The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier ForceStaff-Sergeant (acting) Steven Frederick Cotterill, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersSergeant Walter Albert Dawkins, Army Catering CorpsWarrant Officer Class II (acting) John Densham, Corps of Royal EngineersWarrant Officer Class I (acting) William Edward Dimond, Corps of Royal Military PoliceSergeant Frederick Alfred Dodd, Corps of Royal Military PoliceWarrant Officer Class II (acting) Reginald Percival Fisher, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryRegimental Sergeant-Major Araba Fulani, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier ForceCharles Sidney Gayler, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersColour-Sergeant Robert Gibson, Scats GuardsStaff-Sergeant Anthony Bruce Gillmore, Corps of Royal Military PoliceSergeant Alan George Harfield, Royal Corps of SignalsCorporal Audrey Alice Harris, Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial ArmySergeant Ernest Harris, London Irish Rifles, Royal Ulster Rifles, Territorial ArmyBattery Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Herbert, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Substantive) Douglas Lloyd Hill, Royal Army Ordnance CorpsSergeant William Hopkinson, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Substantive) James Thomas Hutson MM Royal Army Ordnance CorpsSergeant James Hyndman, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured CorpsRegimental Sergeant-Major Ali Kanjarga, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier ForceStaff-Sergeant (acting) Jack Keighley, Royal Army Service CorpsSergeant George Edward Kirk, The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial ArmySergeant (acting) William Knights, Army Catering CorpsStaff-Sergeant (Instructor) William Francis Lane, Army Physical Training CorpsStaff-Sergeant (acting) Alfred Gordon Littlewood, Royal Army Pay CorpsWarrant Officer Class II (acting) William MacDonald, Royal Army Service CorpsBattery Sergeant-Major Ngomoli Malombe, East Africa ArtilleryLance-Corporal (acting) Alfred William Marshall, Royal Army Service CorpsWarrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Substantive) Robert Sydney Martin, Royal Regiment of ArtillerySergeant Charles Edward Meacham, Corps of Royal EngineersSergeant (acting) Samuel Alfred Moore, Royal Regiment of ArtillerySergeant William Thomas Morris, Army Catering CorpsSergeant William Moses, The Border RegimentSergeant (Artillery Clerk) Norman Pass, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryStaff-Sergeant (acting) Reginald Frederick Patten, Royal Army Pay CorpsStaff-Sergeant (now Warrant Officer Class II) (Artillery Clerk) Joseph Edward Pearson, Royal Regiment of ArtilleryWarrant Officer Class II (acting) David Radin, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)Sergeant Walter Rathbone, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class II (acting) Edward Robeson Rodger, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial ArmySergeant Dennis Harold Rose, Royal Army Service CorpsWarrant Officer Class II (acting) John Russell, Royal Army Medical CorpsStaff-Sergeant Johnson Scott, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial ArmyWarrant Office Class II (acting) George Everard Slater, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, formerly attached The Kenya Regiment, Territorial ArmyCorporal (acting) Linnette Adelie Small, Women's Royal Army CorpsSergeant James Alfred Smith, North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial ArmyStaff-Sergeant Marguerite Sylvia Smith, Women's Royal Army CorpsStaff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) James Neil Tierney, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial ArmyWarrant Officer Class II (acting) George Frederick Trodd, The Dorset RegimentColour-Sergeant John Voce, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Territorial ArmyStaff-Sergeant George John William Walter, Royal Army Service CorpsSergeant (Bugle Major) Harold Ewart Wiltshire, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), Territorial ArmySergeant Alfred George Young, Royal Corps of Signals.Flight Sergeant John Dennis, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant William Lockwood Gardner, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Geoffrey Fairweather Hankinson, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Ronald Heather, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Thomas Arthur William Kinzett, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant William Frederick Lane, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Leonard Mallinson, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Joseph O'Rourke, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Ronald Palin, Royal Auxiliary Air ForceFlight Sergeant Robert Richard Livesy Peers, Royal Air ForceFlight. Sergeant Frederick Norman Ratliff, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant David William Sarbutt, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Henry Schofield, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Andrew Cooper Scott, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Leslie Frank Vanderson, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Isaac Christmas Webb, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Henry William Wright, Royal Air ForceFlight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Young, Royal Air ForceActing Flight Sergeant Graham Briggs, Royal Air ForceActing Flight Sergeant Leonard James Cross, Royal Air ForceActing Flight Sergeant Laura Elizabeth Lee, Women's Royal Air ForceActing Flight Sergeant John William Warren, Royal Air ForceSergeant Frederick William Brie Day, Royal Auxiliary Ah" ForceSergeant Alfred Samuel Huggett, Royal Air ForceSergeant Walter Lippiatt, Royal Air ForceSergeant Gilbert Noel Lipscomb, Royal Air ForceSergeant Duncan Reid Macintosh, Royal Air ForceSergeant Frank Albert Monks, Royal Air ForceSergeant Albert Edward Nash, Royal Air ForceSergeant Frank Todman Spencer, Royal Air ForceActing Sergeant Frederick Braggs, Royal Air ForceActing Sergeant Leonard Jenkins, Royal Air ForceActing Sergeant Arthur Francis Gabriel Phillips, Royal Air ForceActing Sergeant Wilfred Edmond Thompson, Royal Air ForceChief Technician Donald Thompson, Royal Air ForceCorporal Frederick Bennett, Royal Air ForceCorporal Philip George Bowerman, Royal Air ForceCorporal Eric Chatt, Royal Air ForceCorporal Arthur Swail, Royal Air ForceActing Corporal Keith Ashmore, Royal Air ForceSenior Aircraftman Clive Alfred Bates, Royal Air ForceSenior Aircraftman John Francis Smith-Woodward, Royal Air ForceChief Petty Officer Telegraphist John George AdamsonChief Petty Officer Cook (O) Salvatore AgiusRadio Electrician (Air) Geoffrey George BarkerChief Petty Officer Writer Richard William BeamishRegimental Sergeant Major Leslie John Boote, Royal MarinesOrdnance Artificer 1st Class William BrownQuartermaster Sergeant Albert James Brunsdon, Royal MarinesChief Petty Officer Joseph ChircopChief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Leonard Reginald ChristopherChief Petty Officer Walter Samuel ClementsPetty Officer Harold Robert CookChief Petty Officer William George CosensAircrewman I Sidney CraigPetty Officer Wren Steward (G) Nellie Crawford, Women's Royal Naval ServiceRadio Electrician (Air) Herbert CrossleySick Berth Chief Petty Officer Alfred Thomas DaviesChief Petty Officer Alfred Jeffrey DobsonQuartermaster Sergeant Frederick Farrar, Royal MarinesChief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Henry Charles FletcherMechanician 1st Class Loder Offord Alfred ForsdykeChief Electrician Bethuel Henry GriffithsChief Engine Room Artificer Frank Ernest Vincent HarrisChief Yeoman of Signals Charles Dennis HollettChief Engine Room Artificer Frank HowellsPetty Officer Wren Irene Ivy Jeffery, Women's Royal Naval ServiceQuartermaster Sergeant William George Jenkins, Royal MarinesLeading Seaman Frederick James JohnsonChief Electrician Henry James Justice DSMColour Sergeant Herbert Roy Kent, Royal MarinesMaster-at-Arms William Terence LittlefordStores Chief Petty Officer (V) Frederick George Albert LloydChief Engine Room Artificer Albert Douglas McmillanChief Wren Jean Love Maltman, Women's Royal Naval ServiceChief Petty Officer Writer Archibald William Charles ParfittChief Petty Officer George Dobson Procter RNVRChief Petty Officer William Thomas RandallChief Airman Fitter (A) Keith Walter Bancroft RobertsonChief Radio Electrician (Air) George Henry RoutleffSick Berth Chief Petty Officer Abdul Ghani Bin Mohamed Sheriff, Royal Malayan Naval Volunteer ReserveChief Petty Officer Albert Victor SmithColour Sergeant James Taggert, Royal MarinesChief Engine Room Artificer Albert Henry Charles TaylorMaster-at-Arms Alfred George Rex TuckerChief Engine Room Artificer John Charles Warham DSMSick Berth Attendant Donald WilsonAlfred John Abbott, Foreman, Rotax Ltd. (South Harrow, Middlesex)Arthur Adkins, General Yard Foreman, Litchurch Gasworks, East Midlands Gas Board (Derby)Elizabeth Allard, Commandant, Jay-wick Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Qacton-on-Sea, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Thomas Edward Allen, Working Burner and Machine Caulker, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Walker-on-Tyne (Wallsend-on-Tyne)Herbert James Emmanuel Andrews, Electrician, Littlebrook Power Station, British Electricity Authority, South Eastern Division (Dartford, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Lilian Mary Armstrong, Senior Chief Supervisor, Birmingham Trunk and Toll Exchange (Tipton, Staffordshire)William Ashford, Site Foreman, Steel Scaffolding Company Ltd. (Worcester Park, Surrey)Stanley Victor Attewell, Temporary Technical Assistant, Ministry of Works (Bradmore, Nottingham). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Victoria May Babbs, Canteen Supervisor, Tyrell Heath Primary School (Grays, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Howard Bacon, Deputy, Teversal Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal, Board (Sutton-in-Ashfield)Arthur Baker, Underground Repairer, Birch Coppice Colliery, West Midlands Division1; National Coal Board (Atherstone, Warwickshire)Henry James Baker, Resident Plumber Turn-cock, H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William Baker, Craftsman, Wallace Collection (Clapham Common, S.W.ll)Frederick Thomas Balderstone, Civil Defence Instructor, Purfleet, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Alfred Ball, Electrical Section Leader, Saunders-Roe Ltd., CowesEileen Christine Bannerman; Commandant, Roxburgh No. 12 Detachment, British Red Cross SocietyHelen Edna Barbour, Manageress, N.A.A.F.I., Felixstowe (Leicester). For services during the recent floods' in the Eastern Counties.Andrew Barker, Senior Assistant (Scientific), Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply (Salisbury)Frederick Stephen Barnes, Craftsman Sheet Metal Worker, Department of Chief Mechanical Engineer (Road Services), London Transport Executive (Harrow, Middlesex)Bertha Bauer, Assistant Supervisor (Telegraphs), Wealdstone Branch Post Office, Harrow, MiddlesexMaria Beauchamp (Sister Maria Edith), Superintendent, Les Cotils Nursing Hostel for Old People, GuernseyAlbert William Beazley, Clerk of Works, Great Ouse River Board (Downham Market, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Jean Margaret Belding, Firewoman, Norfolk Fire Service, King's Lynn (Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Bell JP Checkweighman, Randolph and Gordon House Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board (Bishop Auckland)Frederick Arthur Gale Bentley, Foreman, Ministry of Works (Rawreth, Essex)Frederick Dennis Berry, Overseer, Padding-ton District Post Office (Upper Edmonton, N.18)Robert William Spears Bigg, Leading Architectural Assistant, War Office, Salisbury Plain (Amesbury, Wiltshire)Kenneth John Bird, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, South Baling, W.5Evelyn Bisley, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Queenbprough (Minster, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Stanley John Bissell, Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force (Westminster, S.W.I)John Blakey, Stores Class Grade II, Ministry of Supply (Thorp Arch, Yorkshire)Louis Gerald Blanc, Mechanic Examiner, Directorate of Inspection of Electrical and Mechanical Equipment, Ministry of Supply (Erith, Kent)Thomas George Bland, Timekeeper, John Mowlem & Company Ltd. (Palmers Green, N.13)Frederick William Bliss, Deputy Head Foreman, Hull and East Yorkshire River Board (Hull). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Charles Redfern Bond, Head Chancery Messenger, H.M. Embassy, CairoBertie Leon Bowden, Divisional Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Harwich, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Harold Bowling, Constable, North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary (Whitby). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William Thomas Boxall, Farm Worker, North Mundham, ChichesterFrank Bradbury, Foreman, North Eastern Electricity Board (Newcastle upon Tyne)John Brazington, Inspector of Park-keepers, Ministry of Works (Hyde Park, W.I.)George Albert Brett, Leading Engine Room Hand, S.S. Andes, Royal Mail Lines, Ltd., (Southampton)William Henry Brickwood, Foreman of Laboratory, R.N. Armament Depot, Priddy's Hard (Gosport)Ronald Frank Brooks, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, Holyhead Unit, Sea Cadet CorpsWalter Brooks, Shop Foreman, Belvedere, Kent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.George Brown, lately Assistant Foreman Gas Fitter, North Thames Gas Board (Tilbury)Herbert Sidney Stephen Brown, Technical Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service (Southgate, N.14)James Charles Frederick Brown, Chief Inspector, Kent County Constabulary (Maid-stone, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John R. Brown, Construction Foreman, South West Scotland Division, British Electricity Authority (Glasgow)Matthew Brown, Leading Capstanman, Queen's Dock, Clyde Navigation Trust (Glasgow)Thomas Richard Brown, Underground Repairer, Barnsley Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Barnsley)William Henry Brown, Foreman Toolmaker, Ernest Stevens Ltd. (Cradley Heath)Charles Bruce, Member, Coast Life Saving Corps, Balta Sound, ShetlandWalter Bruce, Goods Guard, Eastern Region, Railway Executive (King's Lynn, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Albert Burdon, Chargehand, Sigmund Pumps Ltd., Gateshead-on-Tyne (Dunston, Co. Durham)Andrew Cameron Burnett, Manager, Lord Roberts Workshops, BelfastNorman Richmond Cail, Station Master, Bedlington, Railway Executive, North Eastern RegionWilliam Campbell, Laboratory Mechanic, R.N. Torpedo Experimental Establishment (Greenock, Renfrewshire)William Nyren Card, Senior Supplies Superintendent, General Post Office (Crofton Park, S.E.4)Emily Cass, Centre Organiser, Driffield, Women's Voluntary ServicesHarry Catlow, Chief Loom Inspector, British Northrop Loom Company Ltd., BlackburnLena Madeline Chaplin, Manageress, N.A.A.F.I., Grays (Braintree, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Po Cheng, Chargehand, War Office, Hong KongJohn Frederick Cocker, Temporary Storekeeper, Grade III, Ordnance Survey Department (Southampton)Elsie Cocking, Centre Organiser, downe Rural District, Derbyshire, Women's Voluntary Services (Creswell)Frank Basil Coker, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, HovePercy Samuel Colleypriest, Assistant Engineer (Electrical Planning), South Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority (Hove)John Collijns, Supervisor, London County Council Rest Centre (Chingford, E.4)Frederick Harold Cook, Inshore Fisherman, Grimaby (Cleethorpes)Albert George Cooke, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, KidderminsterRaven Robert Eyland Cooper, Electrician, Weyboume Camp, War Office (Holt, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Edward Cowley, Inspector, Liverpool City Police ForceHerbert Alvin Cox, Inspector, War Department Constabulary (Woolwich, S.E.I8)William Thomas James Cox, Radar Chain Installation Engineer, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd., Chelmsford (Pembroke)Albert Edmund John Craske, Mess Steward I, Air Ministry, Felixstowe, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Edward James Crouch, Staff Instructor, Mill Hill School (Hendon, N.W.4)Charles Edward Cunliffe, Postman, Head Post Office, ChesterEna Cunningham, Honorary Collector, Works Savings Group, William Strain & Sons, Ltd., Belfast (Holywood, Co. Down)Harold Welby Curtis, Depot Superintendent, Sheerness Depot, Medway Group, British Road Services (Minster, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Graham Frederick Flaxman Daniels, Detective Inspector, Norfolk County Constabulary (King's Lynn). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Audrey Gertrude Daubrah, Commandant, North Lincolnshire Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Alford, Lincoln-shire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Hannah Davies, Forewoman, Simmonds Aerocessories Ltd., Treforest (Cardiff)William Walter Davis, Chargeman of Painters, H.M. Dockyard, Portland (Weymouth)Ernest Dean, lately Tool Room Miller, Renold & Coventry Chain Company Ltd., ManchesterHugh Delvin, Chief Observer, Post J.3, No. 34 Group, Royal Observer Corps, GlasgowWalter Douglas Denholm, Principal Smith, N. Hingley & Sons Ltd., Dudley, WorcestershireWilliam John Dew, Warden, Territorial Army Drill Hall, BristolWilfred Frank Digby, Chief Paper Keeper, Tithe Redemption Commission (Leytonstone, E.11)John Michael Dobson, Coastguard-in-Charge, H.M. Coastguard Station, Felixstowe, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Edward Willie Dodd, Mechanic Examiner, Ministry of Supply (West Wickham, Kent)Dorothy Kathleen Double, Assistant Supervisor, Telephone Exchange, Stow-market, SuffolkCharles Archibald Downes, Chief Inspector, Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Ltd. (Bristol)Geoffrey Stephen Drewery, Motor Vehicle Fitter, Snettisham Depot, British Road Services (Snettisham, Norfolk). For services during, the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.David Clark Dunlop, Section Leader, Southwestern Area Fire Brigade, Scotland (Irvine, Ayrshire)Mary Jeanne Edwards, Restaurant Superintendent, N.A.A.F.I., MalayaRobert William Edwards, Mess Steward. War Office, LarkhillWilliam Edwards JP Safety and Training Officer, East Walbottle Colliery, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board (Newcastle upon Tyne)Joseph Elkington, Store-keeper, Leeds Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National ServiceEdith Ellen Elloway, Manageress, Refreshment Club, Head Post Office, NewportWalter Elton, Underground Datal Worker, Clipstone Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Mansfield)Sidney Horace Empson, General Foreman, East Suffolk and Norfolk River Board (Great Yarmouth). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Albert Joseph English, Senior Messenger, Cabinet Office (South Lambeth, S.W.8)The Reverend Leslie Abbott Erving, Warden and Civil Defence Instructor, Easington, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Edwin Stanley Evans, Chargehand Process Worker, Grade I, Royal Ordnance Factory, Pembrey (Llanelly, Carmarthenshire)William Hugh Evans, Chief Steward, R.M.S. Cambria, British Transport Commission (Holyhead)James Fairley, Underground Repairer, Northfield Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Shotts, Lanarkshire)Harold Edward Farwell, School Caretaker, Essex Local Education Authority (Thundersley, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Hilda Folwell, Convoy Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire (Cropston, Leicestershire). For service during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Evelyn W. Foote, Verger and Sub-Sacrist, Westminster Abbey (Holborn, E.C.I)John Fulton, Head Foreman Plumber, Harland & Wolff, Ltd., London (Eltham, S.E.9)Walter Vincent Furness, Chief Observer, Post E.I. No. 7 Group, Royal Observer Corps, Manchester (Altrincham)Edith May Garlick, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, StockportFrank Gee, Chief Inspector, Lancashire Constabulary (Preston)Thomas Watkin George, Sub-Postmaster, Greengates Town -Sub-Office, Bradford (Leeds)Frank Thomas Gerrish, Foreman, Brentford, Railway Executive, Western Region (West Ealing, W.13)George William Henry Gibson, Senior Foreman, Remploy Factory, Radcliffe (Hollin-jwood, Lancashire)Richard Gilbert, Foreman, Holman Brothers Ltd., Camborne, CornwallGeorge Thomas Gill, Pumping Attendant, Sewage Works, Thurrock Urban District Council (Grays, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.George Glaysher, Mechanic, National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, Middlesex)Derek Daniel Glover, Member, British Red Cross Society (Belvedere, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Joseph Glover, lately Chief Steward, Trinity House Vessel Patricia (Dovercourt, Essex)Harry Hare Goodhand, Lineman, Class II, Railway Executive (Immingham, Lincolnshire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Harold Goodson, Head Foreman Boilersmith, United Steel Structural Company Ltd. (Scunthorpe)Walter Gothard, Smallholder, Tilbury, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ada Gough, Chief Closing Room Supervisor, J. A. Sabin, Ltd., LeicesterEvelyn Gwendoline Grange, Centre Organiser, Herne Bay, Women's Voluntary Services, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Mona Grant, Assistant County Organiser, County of London, Women's Voluntary Services (South Kensington, S.W.7)Norah Patricia Gray, Woman Chief Inspector, Birmingham City Police ForceRonald Gray, Foreman, Great Ouse River Board (Thetford, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Percy Edward Green, Technician, Class II(A), Engineering Department, General Post Office (Brentwood, Essex)Howard William Greenaway, Sub-Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary (Wimbledon, S.W.19)Bertrand Griffiths, Engraver and Chaser, Pearson Page Jewsbury Company Ltd. (Dudley, Worcestershire)Frank Albert Griffiths, Sub-Officer, Essex Fire Brigade (Canvey Island, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Horace Edward Griggs, Works Superintendent, Kent River Board (Aylesford, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William Henry Grindrod, Station Officer, Warwickshire Fire Brigade (Kenilworth)Cecil Grout, Crane Driver, R.N. Air Station, Lee-on-Solent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Frederick Midgley Guest, Honorary Collector, Carriage and Wagon Department, H.2. Shop Savings Group, British Railways, DerbyRonald Francis Gurney, Mobile Canteen Driver, N.A.A.F.I. Colchester (Honington, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ernest Charles Guy, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, Carlisle Unit, Sea Cadet CorpsThomas Charles Hackett, Foreman Bricklayer, Phillips Cycles Ltd., SmethwickJames Alexander Hadden, Foreman, Barry Ostlere & Shepherd Ltd., KirkcaldyThomas Hagart, Mess Steward, Grade I, (Royal Air Force Station, Andover (Am-port, Hampshire)Harold Hall, Custodian of Ancient Monuments, Ministry of Works (Muchelney Abbey, Somerset)Hilda Hall, Honorary Collector, New Tredegar (Village) Savings Group (Aberbargoed)Charles Hampton, Omnibus Driver, Thames Valley Traction Company Ltd. (Reading)Alice Hanks, Centre Organiser, Sheerness, Women's Voluntary Services, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Doris Hardy, Member, Women's Voluntary Services, East Suffolk (Aldeburgh, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ernest Victor Harker, Senior Assistant (Scientific), Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Mossley Hill, LiverpoolCecil James Harris, Clerk of Works (Electrical), War Office, MaltaThomas Harris, Chief Instructor, Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service (Barking, Essex)James Arthur Harrison, Foreman, H. Sullen & Sons Ltd., Cromer, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.James Harte, Honorary Collector, Drumaness Mill Savings Group, Ballynahinch, Co. DownAda Ellen Harvey, Divisional Nursing Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Grays, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Percy Harvey, Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Tilbury, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Hassin Bin Ahmad, Mobile Cinema Operator and Driver, Army Kinema Corporation, MalayaRaymond Hasthorpe, Lorry Driver, Waithe, Lincolnshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Roland Henry Hastings, Installation Inspector, Sheffield District, Yorkshire Electricity Board (Sheffield)Walter Charles Hatcher, Greaser, M.V. Stirling Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd. (Southampton)Leonora Hayne, Deputy County Organiser, Kent, Women's Voluntary Services (Langton, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Charles Higgs JP Warden, Civil Defehce Corps, Isle of Grain, Kent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Alfred Holding, Boilermaker, R. & H. Green & Silley Weir, Ltd., Royal Albert Docks (Custom House, E.16)Rene Stanger Holland, Canteen Supervisor, Gee, Walker and Slater Ltd. (Derby). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Clarence Montague Hollis, Inspector, City of London Special Constabulary (Bush Hill Park, Middlesex)John Cormack Hood, Principal Officer, H.M. Prison, AberdeenDavid William Hopkin, Linesman, South Wales Electricity Board (Pontyclun)Alfred Hopkinson, School Catiretaker, Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Local Education Authority (Cleethorpes). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Susan Horan, Centre Organiser, Chepstow Urban District, Women's Voluntary ServicesHerbert Horton, Smallholder, Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Thomas David Horton, Chargehand Coal Plant Operator, South Wales Division, British Electricity Authority (Pontypridd)William Edward' Howes, Sergeant, Essex County Constabulary (Canvey Island). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Elizabeth Howorth, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Groups, West Denton, Newcastle upon TyneFrederick Payne Hudson, Maintenance Fitter, British Industrial Solvents, Ltd. (Hull)Marjorie Hughes, Centre Organiser, Barnstaple, Women's Voluntary ServicesRobert Edwin Hughes, Checkweighman, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Doncaster)William Hughes, Manager, Group Training Centre (Whitwood Colliery), North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Normanton)William John Hughes, Chargeman of Caulkers, H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Henry Charles Hunt, Leather Sorter, Dent, Allcroft and Company, Ltd. (Worcester)John Husbands, Electrical Fitter, Electric Construction Company, Wolverhampton (Wednesfield)Robert Stephen Irwin, Detective Sergeant, Royal Ulster Constabulary (Hillsborough, Co. Down)Phyllis Katherine James, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, BristolGeorge Nicol Jarvis, Carpenter, M.V. Wairangi, Shaw Sawill and Albion Company, Ltd. (East Ham, E.6)Jasper Sidney Jeal, Centre Lathe Turner, Dewrance and Company, Ltd., London (Bexley Heath, Kent)August Thomas Jensen, Licensee, Lowestoft, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Helen Ada Jerome, Rest Centre Leader, Erith, Kent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Robert John, Underground Repairer, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Rhondda)Harold Raine Johnson, Engineering and Maintenance Foreman, Whessoe Ltd., DarlingtonHarry Johnson, Surface Labourer, Silverdale Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Silverdale,)Daniel Jones, Leading Hand, Zinc Distillation Plant, National Smelting Company, Ltd., Swansea (Neath)Ernest Jones, Shift Supervisor, Bradford Road Station, Manchester Group, North Western Gas Board (Manchester)Maud H. Jones, Personal Assistant, Headquarters, Women's Voluntary Service (Bethnal Green, E.2)Sidney Richard Jones, Mechanical Fitter, Midlands Electricity Board (Birmingham)Thomas Roger Jones, Skilled Labourer, R.N. Hospital Chatham (Gillingham, Kent)William Henry Jones, Foreman, Hemp Small Splicing Department, Wrights' Ropes, Ltd. (Birmingham)William Thomas Jones, Head Driver, Vange Ambulance Station, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Richard Judd, Gas Fitter, Distribution Department, Salisbury Gas Undertaking, Southern Gas Board (Salisbury)Harold Juniper, Works Supervisor, Whitstable Urban District Council, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Alexander Frederick King, Telephone Operator, War Office, Sheerness, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Allen Kirby, Artificer, R.N. Engineering Laboratory (Hounslow, Middlesex)George Christopher Kirton, Skilled Setter, Royal Ordnance Factory, Birtley (Sunderland)John William Kyle, Radio Mechanic, Grade I, Telecommunications Section, Ministry of Civil Aviation (Glasgow)William Bertie Land, Reclamation Foreman, H.M. Borstal Institution, North Sea Camp (Frieston, Lincolnshire)Arthur Langfield, Engineer, Walter Pollard (1923) Ltd. (Nelson)Albert Edward Langford, Technician, Class I, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Tiverton, Devon (Wellington, Somerset)Jane Laverty, Auxiliary Postwoman, Priestland Sub Office, Co. AntrimWilliam Edward Lawrence, Senior Assistant, Zoological Society of London (Northold, Middlesex)Leonard Leach, Process Foreman, Magnesium Elektron, Ltd. (Manchester)Hannah Dorothea Leeman, Centre Organiser, Spilsby, Women's Voluntary Services (Addlethorpe, Lincolnshire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Alfred Henry Leonard, Overseer, General Post Office (Honor Oak Park, S.E.23)William Lewis, Senior Storeman, Proof and Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply (Pendine, Carmarthenshire)Leslie George Ling, Special Constable, East Suffolk County Constabulary (Iken, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ernest Colin McArthur, Transport Foreman and Deputy Fitting Foreman, Stockton Unit, Northern Gas Board (Stockton-on-Tees)Percy James Thompson Macaulay, Leading Draughtsman, Cammell Laifd and Company, Birkenhead (Wallasey, Cheshire,)Alexander McCulloch, Chargehand, Drysdale and Company, Ltd., GlasgowCharles Alfred Mace, Underground Repairer, Llanharan Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Pencoed)John MacFarlane, Blind Telephone Operator, Export Credits Guarantee Department (Ilford, Essex)James McGowan, Repairer and Pumper, Gate-side Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire)Annie McIntosh, Senior Leading Fire-woman, North-Eastern Fire Brigade, Scotland (Aberdeen)Philip McKeever, Able Seaman, S.S. Esso Bedford, Esso Transportation Company, Ltd. (Belfast)John Turnley McKinley, Sergeant, Londonderry Harbour PoliceGilbert McKirdy, Boatswain, Fishery Board for Scotland (Rothesay, Bute)David Mcruvie, Deckhand, Fishing Vessel William Wilson (Cellardykes, Fife)Walter Makepeace, Boiler House Maintenance Engineer, Southport Power Station, Mersey-side and North Wales Division, British Electricity Authority (Southport)Edwin Martin, Surface Workman, Oxcroft Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Chesterfield)Royston Henry Massey, Station Warden, Royal Air Force Station, Pembroke DockRobert Mayne, Boatswain, S.S. Baron Elgin, H. Hogarth and Sons (Edinburgh)William Ivor Merrett, Chief Steward, Falfield Civil Defence Technical Training School, GloucestershireJames Mew, Leading Hand of Pensioners, H.M.S. Victory (Ship) (Southsea)Evaline Miller, Assistant Billeting Officer, Glasgow, Women's Voluntary ServicesWilliam James Miller, Coastguard, H.M. Coastguard Station, Felixstowe, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Elizabeth Lily Mills, School Meals Organiser, Great Yarmouth County Borough, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John William Mills, Foreman, Robert Fletcher and Sons, Ltd. (Greenfield, Yorkshire)Albert Mitchell, Farm Worker, Dunsden, near ReadingErnest John Monk, Ganger, Essex River Board (Rochford, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.George Francis Henry Moore, Cigarette Machine Operator, Carreras, Ltd. (Highbury, N.5)Hopkin Morris, Underground Overman, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Glamorgan)William George Morris, Foreman, Craftsman Vellum and Parchment Maker, H. Band and Company, Ltd. (Isleworth, Middlesex)Bruce Mosley, Driver, Nottingham Depot, Trent Motor Traction Company, Ltd. (Nottingham)Ernest Mountford, Assistant Superintendent, Head Post Office, Stoke-on-Trent (Newcastle, Staffordshire)James Muir, District Manager, Gas Works, Galston, Scottish Gas BoardEdward W. Mumford, Fisherman, Great Wakering, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Isaac Murphy, Technician, Class II (B), Belfast Telephone AreaJoseph Murray, Foreman Armature Winder, Tuscan Engineering Company, Ltd., BndgendEileen Mary Musgrove, Postal and Telegraph Officer, Head Post Office, Richmond, YorkshireDorothy Mary Newell, Commandant, Claydon Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Claydon, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Dorothy Newsam, Centre Organiser, Hoddesdon Urban District, Women's Voluntary Services (Broxbourne)William Edward Nutting, Hot Saw Grinder, Round Oak Steel Works, Ltd., Brierley HillFrank Alfred Oliver, General Foreman, Turriff Construction Corporation, Ltd. (Croydon, Surrey)George Oxenbredge, Head Gardener, North-West European District, Imperial War Graves CommissionReginald George Pain, Setter-Operator, AC-Delco Division of General Motors, Ltd., Dunstable (Luton)Richard Harold Parker, Chief Inspector, South Western District Post Office (Worcester Park, Surrey)Elizabeth Parry, Screenhand, Nook Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Tyldesley, Lancashire)Alice Pateman, Press Operator, E. S. Perry, Ltd. (Edmonton, N.I8)Joseph William Percival Payton, General Foreman, Surveyor's Department, Sheerness Urban District Council, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Ernest Edward Peach, Foreman Electrician, Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, Ltd., WednesburyJoan Peacock, Spinner, Finlayson, Bousfield and Company, Ltd., Johnstone, RenfrewshireJames Pearce, Chargehand Installation Inspector, Canvey Island, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Robert Lennie Pearson, Assistant Divisional Officer, Norfolk Fire Brigade (King's Lynn). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Thomas William Pestell, Foreman and Bacon Drier, I. Beer and Sons, Ltd. (Walthamstow, E.17)Sidney George Phillips, Chief Engineer of a steam trawler (Milford Haven)Henry William Philpott DSM lately Vocational Training Instructor, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham (Gillingham, Kent)John Peter William Pilkington, Foreman Labourer, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., BarnoldswickMargaret Pitcher, Centre Organiser, Maidenhead, Women's Voluntary ServicesEmily Pitkin, Catering Supervisor, Erith, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Frederick Platt, Fitter, Ede and Ravenscroft, Ltd., Robemakers (Ashford, Middlesex)Alice Mary Pleasants, Honorary Collector, Ranspme Sims and Jefferies Savings Group, IpswichArthur Plowman, Foreman Dyer, Edward and James Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle upon TyneNorah Porritt, Centre Organiser, Basford Rural District (South) Nottinghamshire, Women's Voluntary ServicesFrederick Albert Potter, Telephone Mechanic, Factories Department, General Post Office (Kenton, Middlesex), ?Lincolnshire Fire Brigade (Louth, Lincolnshire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Joseph Edwin Prothero, Electrical Fitter, English Electric Company, Ltd., StaffordErnest Prout, Machine Shop Foreman, Priestman Brothers, Ltd., HullSydney Lawrence Purse, Mechanic, Ministry of Supply (Stockwell, S.W.9)Roger Richard Quinn, Head Storekeeper, Sea Transport Stores, Ministry of Transport, Bristol (Yate, Gloucestershire)Leonard Raven, Farm Foreman, Tillingham, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Charles Edward Reddin, Sub-Officer, North Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade (Northallerton)Charles William Redford, Head Forester, Forestry Commission (Santon Downham, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Robert William George Rees, Chief Officer, Class I, H.M. Prison, LiverpoolJames Henry Reid, Inspector, Birmingham City Police ForceFrederick James Richards, Engineering Craftsman. Chatwood Safe and Engineering Company, ShrewsburyTrevor Richards, Dock Worker, National Dock Labour Board (Swansea)Charles Thomas Richardson, Transport Foreman, Hadfields, Ltd., SheffieldMaureen Riley, Voluntary Worker, Canvey Island (Sheffield). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.James Gordon Lennox Robertson, Postman, Higher Grade, Head Post Office, PerthCorneille Robinson, Centre Organiser, Whitstable, Women's Voluntary Services, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Henry Robson, Foreman Glass Blower, Hartley Wood and Company, SunderlandJames Alfred Rudling, lately Works Superintendent, St. Mary Cray Gasworks (Ramsgale)Frances Marion Rundle, Centre Organiser, Dovercourt, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern CountiesJohn Rushton, Overman, Sandhole Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Walkden, Lancashire)George Sanday, Staff Instructor, Rossall School, FleetwoodFrederick Sandcraft, Mess Superintendent, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Camberley, Surrey)Frank William Sargisson, Senior Driver, Lincolnshire Road Car Company, Ltd. (Lincoln)Walter Frank Savage, Baker and Confectioner, M.V. Carnarvon Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, Ltd. (Southampton)William Sayner, Works Engineer, Grimsiby Gas Undertaking, East Midlands Gas Board (Grimsby)Spiro Scerri, Supervisor (Mechanical and Electrical), Air Ministry Works Repair Depot, Suez Canal ZoneHarold Scobey, Station Master, Parkeston, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Michael Scott, Driller and Roof Sealer, Anhydrite Mine, Imperial Chemical Industries, BillinghamArthur Edward Searle, Chargeman of Skilled Labourers, H.M.S. Fisgard (Torpoint, Cornwall)Anthony Segui, Principal Foreman, War Office, GibraltarCharlie William Thomas Setterfield, Inspector, Kent County Constabulary, Maidstone (Herne Bay). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William James Sewell, Electrician, North Thames Gas Board (Westcliff on Sea). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Emmanuel Shimon, Clerk, Grade I, Royal Air Force Levies, IraqEva Lena Shipley, Welfare Supervisor, Ferodo, Ltd., Stockport (Buxton)Edward Simmons, Chargeman Coppersmith, J. Russell and Company, Ltd., LiverpoolArthur Nicol Simpson, Head Forester, Tulliallan Nursery, Kincardine-on-Forth, Forestry CommissionGeorge Sinclair, Deckhand, Steam Trawler Gilmar (Aberdeen)Alfred Arthur Singer, Bandmaster, Duke of York's Royal Military School, DoverWilliam Singleton JP Station Foreman (Tickets), Preston, Railway Executive, London Midland Region (Preston)Charles Leonard Smith, Machinist, Littleton Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Cannock)Lucy Mary Smith, Chief Supervisor, Telephone Training School, Clerkenwell Telephone Exchange (Honor Oak Park, S.E.23)Robert William Smith, Divisional Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Hunstanton, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Wilfred Smith, Divisional Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Selby, Yorkshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Spelman MM Principal Doorkeeper, House of Lords (Kennington, S.E.ll)James Spowart, Inspector, Perthshire and Kinrossshire Constabulary (Perth)Firth Squire, Warehouseman, British Belting and Asbestos, Ltd. (Cleckheaton)Reginald Stuart Steadman, Resident Inspector, North Thames Gas Board, Grays, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Cyril Herbert Stedman, Depot Manager, Dart-ford, Kent, House Coal Distribution (Emergency)Scheme (Dartford, Kent)Arthur Leonard Stent, Staff Instructor, Royal Grammar School, GuildfordHarold Richard Stephens, General Handyman, Tilbury, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Lina Stephenson, Honorary Collector, Street and Village Savings Group, Patrington, HullSeptimus Stobbart, Coal Filler, Pegswood Colliery, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board (Morpeth)Edward George Joseph Stokes, Boatswain, Admiralty (Dovercourt). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.David Edward Stringer, Station Officer, H.M. Coastguard Station, Lizard, CornwallThomas Bernard Strong, Foreman of Trades, Royal Air Force Station, Hawarden (Chester)Edward Bradstock Tanner, Overseer of Birds, Zoological Society of London (Finchley, N.3)Wilfred Arthur Tanner, General Foreman, Richard Costain, Ltd. (Carshalton, Surrey)Samuel Taylor, Foreman, Lincolnshire River Board (Grimsby). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Arthur Thelwell, Permanent Way Inspector, Reading, Railway Executive, Western Region (Reading)Edward James Thomas, Staff Foreman, Morris Motors, Ltd., LlanellyFrank Thomas, Head Foreman Loftsman, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow-in-FurnessLydia Olwen Thomas, Group Officer, Glamorganshire Fire Brigade (Llanelly)William Thomas, Underground worker, Hafod Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Wrexham)Thomas Charles Thompson, Boiler Shop Plater, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., BelfastCharles Trego, Coal Conveyor Attendant, South Western Division, British Electricity Authority (Weston-super-Mare)William Oliver Trotman, Distribution Superintendent, Stratford-upon-Avon District Undertaking, West Midlands Gas Board (Stratford-upon-Avon)Frederick Tunstall, Salvage Worker, Clifton Colliery, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland) Division, National Gas Board (Workington)Frank Turner JP Underground Repairer, Snowdon Colliery, South Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Canterbury)Harry Ernest Edward Wade, Works Foreman, West Minster Works, Sheerness, South Eastern Gas Board, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Henry Wady, Production Foreman, Humber Works, G. and T. Earle, Ltd., Cement Manufacturers (Melton)Charles Geoffrey Walker, Carpenter, War Office, Humfoer Sea Forts (Barnetby, Lincolnshire)Percival Walton, Publications Storekeeper, Victoria and Albert Museum (Walham Green, S.W.6)William Walton, Checbweighman and Lodge Secretary, Medomsley Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board (Consett)Charles Warde, Tool Shop Assistant Foreman, Automatic Telephone and Electric Company, Ltd., Liverpool (Prescot)Harry Wardle, Chief Foreman Fitter, Walmsleys (Bury) Ltd., BuryWilliam Watkiss, Hotel Manager, Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Lilian Dorothy Watts, Draughtswoman, Highways Engineering Department, Ministry of Transport (Norbury, S.W.I6)Annie Webber, Leader of First Aid Post, St. John Ambulance Nursing Division, South-end, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William John Webber, Foreman, Aluminium Wire and Cable Company, Ltd., Port Tennant, SwanseaArthur Charles Stanley Wescott, Foreman, Royal Observatory (New Eltham, S.E.9)Eileen May West, Manageress N.A.A.F.I., Weybourne (Epsom Downs, Surrey). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.Mark Randall Wheatley, Foreman Turbine Driver, Spondon Power Station, East Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority (Hkeston, Derbyshire)Jack Whyman, Shop Foreman, Royal Air Force Station, Quedgeley (Gloucester)Lawrence Gerald Wickham, Station Officer, Kent Fire Brigade (Sheerness). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Walter Wilding, Head Cheesemaker, Minsterley Creameries, Ltd., Minsterley, ShropshireOwen Williams, Honorary Collector, Marchwiel Village Savings Group (Wrexham)William Williams, Surface Worker, Woodend Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Maddiston, Stirlingshire)Harry Willsmer, Farm Foreman, Great Wakering, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.John Willsmer, Farm Worker, Great Wakering, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.William Andrew Wilson, Sub-Postmaster, Tynron, Thornhill, DumfriesshireCecil Frederick Witt, Head Gardener, French District, Imperial War Graves CommissionNorman John Wood, Inspector, Essex County Constabulary (Harwich). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.George Woodcock, Chief Inspector, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary (Wakefield)Arthur Clifford Wragg, Coal Plant Supervisor, Rotherham Power Station, Yorkshire Division, British Electricity Authority (Rotherham)Edward Thomas Wright, Warden, Territorial Army Drill Hall, NorwichErnest Wright, Carpenter, Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (New Haw, Weybridge)Frank Arthur Wright, Yard Foreman, Leeds District Distribution and Transport Department, North Eastern Gas Board (Leeds)Alfred Wyatt, Kiln Burner, Tondu Brickworks Company, Ltd., Aberkenfig, BridgendThomas Henry Young, Mate in Charge, R.A.S.C. Vessel Fusee (Weymouth)Walter Muggleton, Messenger, Department of the Premier, State of South AustraliaCharles Samuel Thorne, Head Keeper, South Point Lighthouse, BarbadosDonald Abrams, Engineer, Georgetown Fire Brigade, British GuianaAlexander Bertfield Clarke, lately Sergeant Major, British Honduras Police ForceHussein Zihni Mehmed, Senior Compositor, Printing Department, CyprusKyriacos Nicolaides, Mukhtar at Peyia, CyprusDharam Dev Mayor, Station Master, Kampala, East Africa High CommissionZainal Abidin Bin Mohamed Lati, Penghulu of Lenggeng Mukim, Federation of MalayaAbu Bakar Bin Tahir, Engineman, Marine Department, Federation of MalayaKrishnaswamy Iyer Balasubramaniam, Clerk, Police Clerical Service, Federation of MalayaChow Fong, Headman of Sikamat New Village, Federation of MalayaLouis Victor John, Technical Assistant, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Selangor, Federation of MalayaKeow Chong Ghee, Station Master, Malayan Railway, Federation of MalayaLim Swee Hun, Chief Clerk, Penang Library, Federation of MalayaMohamed Bin Awang Noh, Penghulu of Temerloh District, Federation of MalayaPhang Mok Sen, Interpreter, Integrity Commission, Federation of MalayaTam Chin Siong, Chairman, M.C.A., Kuala Pilah Branch, Federation of MalayaVoon Wan, Assistant Mechanical Superintendent, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Federation of MalayaYahya Bin Haji Abdul Aziz, Penghulu, Mukim of Bakri, Johore, Federation of MalayaHaji Yusof Bin Haji Nordin, Storekeeper, Federal Police Stores, Federation of MalayaBenjamin Allassan, Chargeman, Works Department, Gold CoastKojo Kessie, Chief Warder, Prison Service, Gold CoastParmenas Kiritu Njagi, President, Naivasha African Court, KenyaJustus Muema Nzau, Hospital Assistant, Kitui Native Civil Hospital, KenyaTiamiyu Aminu Bolaji, Tax Collector, NigeriaChief Mukobela, Chief of the Ila tribe, Northern RhodesiaDason Stokes Mukupa, Head Master, Lunzuwa Primary School, Northern RhodesiaFranklin Temba, African Clerk, Provincial Administration, Northern RhodesiaKotali Stephen McLaren Masseah, Head Clerk, District Headquarters, Cholo, Nyasaland ProtectorateIshmael Mwale, Member, African Protectorate Council, Nyasaland ProtectorateAbdi Dualeh, Broadcaster Clerk, Information Department, Somaliland ProtectorateHaji Mohamoud Jama, Akil of the Dolbahanta tribe, Somaliland ProtectorateJama Mohamoud, Akil of the Habr Toljaala tribe, Somaliland ProtectorateDavid Mkome, son of Nyamhagata, Clerk, Junior Service, TanganyikaOmari, son of Nghanyanga, Sergeant Major, Tanganyika Police ForceBarnaba Leslie Reginald Saitte, Cashier, Junior Service, TanganyikaAli, son of Keni, Chief Warder, Luzira Central Prison, UgandaFrank Douglas Slocombe, Senior Messenger, Office of the Comptroller, Development and Welfare Organisation, West IndiesSuleiman Mussa, Nurse, Ziwani Police Lines, Zanzibar ProtectorateHome Civil ServiceRobert Alexander MC Principal Examiner, Board of Trade (Welwyn Garden City)Edgar James Allies OBE Accountant-General, Commonwealth Relations office (South Woodford, E.18)William Hales Ballard, Chief Executive Officer, Home Office (Norbury, S.W.16)Cecil John Bruce OBE Assistant Controller, H.M. Stationery Office (Wallhigton, Surrey)Gilbert Henderson Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department (Edinburgh)James Austin Clarke, Deputy Director, Warehousing Division, Ministry of Food (North Harrow, Middlesex)John Thomas Darling, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department (Barnet, Hertfordshire)Frederick Raine Ennos, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Government Chemist's Department (Croydon, Surrey)Sidney Stephen John Evans, Principal, War Office (Cricklewood, N.W.2)William Owen Forth, Assistant Director, Finance Division, Ministry of Transport (New Maiden, Surrey)Harold Charles Hawkins, Principal, Ministry of Fuel and Power (Surbiton, Surrey)George Francis Hendy, Chief Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise (Bromley, Kent)Charles William Grove Hull, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of National Insurance (Mortlake, S.W.14)James Henry Jones, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland (Belfast)Arthur Henry Keighley, Grade 2 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office (Forest Hill, S.E.23)David Chalmers Lamont, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Hanwell, W.7)Edmund Hicks McCormack, Deputy Superintendent, Royal Mint (Ickenham, Middlesex)Kenneth McFarlane, Chief Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue (Ruislip, Middlesex)Bernard Patrick McGuinness, Principal, Ministry of Food (Muswell Hill, N.10)Charles Edgar Matthews, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health (Lancing, Sussex)James Leslie Moffat, Regional Manager, Midland Regional Office, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission (Nottingham)James Fraser Montgomerie DCM Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service (Glasgow)John Coombes Nerney, Librarian and Head of Air Historical Branch, Air Ministry (Wandsworth, S.W.18)John Gilbert Orr, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works (Watford)Frederick Arthur Phillips MBE Chief Organisation Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Epsom Downs, Surrey)Leonard Road OBE Deputy Director of Stores, Admiralty (Bromley, Kent)Edward Ben Ruber, Director, Ministry of Pensions (Thornton, Lancashire)William Alfred Simester, Regional Finance Officer, Wales and Border Counties, General Post Office (Cardiff)George Arthur Sizmur, Chief Executive Officer, Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor's Office (Ruislip, Middlesex)Leslie Stephen Smith MBE Chief Executive Officer, Colonial Office (Woodside Park, N.12)William George Stedman, Senior Principal Clerk, Paymaster General's Office (Streatham, S.W.16)Frederick George Thompson, Principal, Ministry of Materials (Bromley, Kent)Clarence Roy Waterer, Chief Clerk in Bankruptcy, Board of Trade (Brighton)John Wilson, Assistant Director, Ministry of Supply (Faraham, Surrey)Kenneth John Wilson MBE Commissioner, National Savings Committee (Sanderstead, Surrey)Australian States and Southern RhodesiaHarold Bruce Bennett MBE ED JP Director of Industrial Development, State of TasmaniaArthur Edward Cowie, Marketing Officer, and Chairman of the Grain Marketing Board, Department of Agriculture and Lands, Southern RhodesiaWilliam Richard Penhall, Secretary, Aborigines Protection Board, State of South AustraliaColonial Civil ServiceGeorge Horace William Annells, Assistant Commissioner of Lands, KenyaArthur Ernest Fuller, Accountant General and Collector of Customs, Gilbert and Ellice IslandsThomas Buchanan Low, Assistant Director of Marine, Hong KongEdward Finch Peck, Colonial Veterinary Service, Director of Agriculture and Veterinary Services, SomalilandConstantinos Loannou Stephani, Acting Comptroller of Inland Revenue, CyprusKing's Police and Fire Services Medals (KPFSM)
For Distinguished ServiceJesse Lawrence, Chief Constable, Reading Borough Police ForceCecil Haydn Watkins, Chief Constable, Glamorgan ConstabularyMajor Edgar Hare MC Chief Constable, Cornwall ConstabularyGeorge Parfitt BEM Chief Constable, Barnsley Borough Police ForceRichard Gill, Assistant Chief Constable, Hampshire ConstabularyGeorge Strachan MacDonald, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Middlesbrough Borough Police ForceWilliam Griffiths, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Halifax Borough Police ForceFrancis John Rawbone, Superintendent, Birmingham City Police ForceWilliam Elford, Chief Superintendent, West Riding of Yorkshire ConstabularyRalph George Buckingham, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Oxfordshire ConstabularyThomas Allen Roberts, Detective Superintendent, Surrey ConstabularyLewis Henry Bearne BEM Superintendent, Metropolitan PoliceSidney George Wells MBE Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan PoliceJohn Adam Ross Murray OBE Chief Constable, Motherwell and Wishaw Burgh Police ForceThomas Meikle, Superintendent, Lothians and Peebles ConstabularyArthur John Probert, Assistant Chief Officer, Birmingham Fire and Ambulance ServiceThomas Arthur Kelly, Chief Officer, Liverpool Fire BrigadeInd Edward Richmond, Divisional Officer, Grade II, London Fire BrigadeJoseph Caceres, Chief Officer, Lincolnshire (Ondsey) Fire BrigadeThomas McCorkindale MBE Divisional Officer (Deputy Firemaster), Western Area Fire BrigadeJames Richard Henry Burns CPM Superintendent of Police, Federation of MalayaEdwin William Hunt OBE Superintendent of Police, Federation of MalayaDesmond Stephen Palmer CPM Superintendent of Police, Federation of MalayaPeter Irwin Montgomery Irwin, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hong KongGeorge Ricarde Hodgson Gribble CPM Senior Superintendent of Police, KenyaIan Stewart MacWalter Henderson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, KenyaSandys Parker George CPM Commissioner of Police, NigeriaJames Alexander MacDonald CPM Commissioner of Police, NigeriaDonald Evan Nickels CPM Superintendent of Police, SingaporeAlastair Robert Anderson CPM Assistant Commissioner, Malayan Police, SingaporeGeorge Herbert Robins MBE Assistant Commissioner of Police, TanganyikaArthur James Poppy CPM Senior Superintendent of Police, TanganyikaLauraeston Sharp CPM Senior Superintendent of Police, UgandaThomas Stewart Anderson CPM Superintendent of Police, SomalilandBechuanaland ProtectorateBernard Robert Sands, Assistant Superintendent, Basutoland Mounted Police, at present seconded to Bechuanaland Protectorate PoliceSwazilandCaptain Patrick Charles Temple, Superintendent, Swaziland PoliceColonial EmpireArthur Leslie Abraham, Superintendent, British Honduras Police ForceAli, son of Qsman Noor, 1st Sergeant, Kenya Police ForceMohamed Ali, Force Sergeant Major, Nyasaland Police ForceMohamecl Ali Bin Dasib, Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police ForceAlwi bin Debok, Lance Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police ForceAttan Bin Makaran, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceAyob Bin Othnian, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceJacob Burnett Baidoo, Inspector, Gold Coast Police ForceVigilant Belfon, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police ForceOsmond Frederick Bower, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police ForceBernard Brunton MBE Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Volunteer ReserveThomas Herbert Bush, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police ForceCheng Hui Eng, alias J. Cheng, Inspector, Singapore Police ForceHarry Conway, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Aden Police ForceDaud bin Abu, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special ConstabularyMichael Henry Day, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police ForceStanley Drapkin MBE Assistant Superintehdent, Federation of Malaya Police ForceHarold Patrick Duke, Superintendent, Gold Coast Police ForceErnest Camm Field, District Commandant, Kenya Police ReserveNeville Anthony Ramon Fortune, Chief Inspector, Trinidad Police ForceDijara Grumah, Sergeant Gold Coast Police ForcesAmadu Hadeija, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police ForceMohamed Haris Bin Abdul Ghani, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special ConstabularyHenry Wylfle Edwards Heath, Assistant Commissioner, Hong Kong Police ForceEdgar Robert Hill JP Commandant, Hong Kong Special ConstabularyJohn, Ernest Hodge, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police ForceEdgar Ewan Horne, Superintendent, Kenya Police ForceFrancis Gerard Howell, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police ForceNasmith Baliol Livingstone Hughes, Sergeant, British Guiana Police ForceStylianos Iacovou, District Sergeant Major, Cyprus Police ForceBenjamin Igwah, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police ForceTomasi Isingoma, Sub-Inspector, Uganda Police ForceIsmail Bin Abdullah, Company Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police ForceMohamed Ismail son of Meerasah, Detective Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceTrevor Westover Jenkins, Acting Senior Superintendent, Kenya Police ForceClaude Randolph Keats DSO Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of MalayaEugene Kenneth Keazor, Assistant Superintendent, Nigeria Police ForceCharles Herbert Keir, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Tanganyika Police ForceAdetunji Kester, Chief Inspector, Nigeria Police ForceBen Bulam Khan Khanizaman, Inspector, North Borneo Police ForceWainwright Hilton Earl King, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police ForceKok Soo, Inspector, Singapore Police ForceLee Keng Jin, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceEric Hugh Lindsey, Acting Superintendent, Kenya Police ForceStephen Montague Locke, Senior Superintendent, Uganda Police ForceMajor John William Elliott Mackenzie DSO Senior Superintendent, Tanganyika Police ForceHaitham Abdulla Maisari, Chief Inspector, Aden Armed Police ForceDonald Matheson, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police ForceWilliam George Morrison, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police ForceMuslim Bin Mohamed Som, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police ForceMustafa Bin Kassim, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police ForceJameson Mweu Musyoki, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police ForceBernard Harold Nealon, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police ForceNo Chew Shee, Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Volunteer ReserveYakobo Olwenyi, son of Pkum, Head Constable Major, Uganda Police ForceOthman Bin Abdullah, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special ConstabularyLeslie Howard Outram, Superintendent, Trinidad Police ForceFombe Pacha, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police ForceBrigadier Patrick John Tottenham Pickthall MC Superintendent, Grenada Police ForceLeslie Thomas Pridgeon, Acting Superintendent, Kenya Police ForceIan Saxby Proud, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police ForcePeter Audley Delme Radcliffe, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of MalayaAbdul Rahman Bin Kamaludin, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceRoy James Randell, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police ForceGerald Clunies-Ross, Assistant Commandant, Singapore Volunteer Special ConstabularyAlbert Alexander Shaw, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police ForceGurbachan Singh, son of Sucha Singh, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceJodh Singh, son of Sundar Singh, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police ForceSardar Singh, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police ForcePeter Romanov Sokolov, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of MalayaAthanassis Stavrou, Sergeant, Cyprus Police ForcePeter Stephen Albert Steenkamp, Superintendent, Kenya Police ForceIan Turnbull Stevenson DFC Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of MalayaMajor Ronald Audley Stoute, Deputy Commissioner, Barbados Police ForceMohamed Taha Bin Abdul Jalil, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceMikili Tembo, Sub-Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police ForceKrishnan Theavathasan, Detective Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police ForceRobert Clifton Thom, Acting Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police ForceMervyn Douglas Alwyne Thomson, Superintendent, Nyasaland Police ForceVoon Kian Len, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of MalayaWilliam Joseph Wall, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police ForceMusa Wangara, Sergeant, Gold Coast Police ForceLubert Watkins, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police ForceJohn Weekley OBE ED Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of MalayaEdward John Hugo Colchester-Wemyss, Superintendent, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Police ForceFrank James Wilson, Staff Officer to the Commissioner of Police, Federation of MalayaFrederick Edward Woodriffe, Superintendent, Jamaica ConstabularyYa'acob Bin Bakri, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police ForceMohamed Yusof Bin Salleh, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police ForceHer Majesty The Queen, to be Captain General, Royal New Zealand ArtilleryHer Majesty The Queen, to be Captain General, Royal New Zealand Armoured CorpsHer Majesty The Queen, to be Colonel-in-Chief, Royal New Zealand EngineersHer Majesty The Queen, to be Colonel-in-Chief, Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own)Her Majesty The Queen, to be Colonel-in-Chief, Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own)William Goodfellow, of Auckland. For service to the dairy industry.Enoch Bruce Levy OBE, formerly Director of the Grasslands Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchMilitary Division
Rear-Admiral Frank Arthur Ballance DSO Chief of Naval Staff, Royal New Zealand NavyCompanions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Richard Mitchelson Campbell, Chairman of the Public Service CommissionPhilip Stanley Foster FRCS of Christchurch, a prominent surgeonThe Honourable Robert Masters, of Stratford. For public services.Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
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Francis Gordon Bell MC FRCS, formerly Professor of Surgery, University of OtagoCommanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
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Andrew Linton, a member of the Dairy Board for many yearsJohn Thomas Martin, of Wellington. For public services, especially in the field of commerce.Oswald Chettle Mazengarb, of Wellington. For charitable and public services, especially in the field of law.Kenneth Mathison Sleight, Chief Private Secretary to the Prime MinisterHarvey Turner, Chairman of the Auckland Harbour BoardMilitary Division
Group Captain George Henry Procter, Royal Air ForceCivil Division
George Bruce Bolt, of Auckland. For services to aviation.Arthur James Dickson, City Engineer, Auckland, and Chairman of the Auckland Metropolitan Planning CommitteeAlfred Hildus Hansen, of Dannevirke. For services to local government.Joseph Auty Harley, Mayor of NelsonMiss Noeline Mary Knight, Matron-in-Chief, Wellington HospitalWilliam Thomas Lester JP of Lyttelton. For services to local government.Melville Edwin Lyons, of Christchurch. For services to local government and agriculture.Charles James Parlane, of Hamilton. For services to the dairy industry and farming.Frederick Martyn Renner ED of Lower Hutt. For services to education.Helena, Lady Sidey, of Dunedin. For social welfare services, especially in connection with women's organisations.Charles James Strongman JP of Greymouth. For services to the coal-mining industry.Frederick Ernest Sutton JP of Lyttelton. For services to local government.Henry Te Reiwhati Vercoe, Chairman of the Arawa Trust BoardFrancis William Ward, Chief Commissioner, St John Ambulance BrigadeMilitary Division
Commander Peter John Knowling, Royal Navy (on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy)Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander William Huntly Borrie MC New Zealand Territorial ForceLieutenant-Colonel Francis Reid, Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance CorpsSquadron Leader Thomas Gerald Harpur, Royal New Zealand Air ForceCivil Division
George Richard Ashbridge JP Secretary, New Zealand Educational InstituteAlfred Ernest Bedford JP of Napier. For services to the community.Albert Raymond Blank, of Christchurch. For services to primary education.Frederick Ernest Bognuda, of Wellington. For services to the community in the field of public transport.Margaret Ann Selena Brown, of Invercargill. For social welfare services.Whina Cooper, of Auckland. For services to the Māori people.Alan Percival Day. For services to Franklin County Council and to patriotic movements.Eric Charles Day. For services in promoting rehabilitation activities in the South Auckland area.Sidney Ensor JP Mayor of ThamesMiss Thelma Ruth Faulconbridge, Matron of the Wilson Home for Crippled Children, AucklandStewart William Gaspar, a member of the Rehabilitation BoardJohn Septimus Hawkes, Secretary, Canterbury Automobile AssociationPaul Joseph Hintz, of Auckland. For public services.Stanley Clarence Hyndman, of Blenheim. For services to the community, especially in connection with education.Amy Kasper JP of Auckland. For social welfare services.Jessie Elizabeth Mackay JP of Christchurch, a prominent social welfare worker and a member of the North Canterbury Hospital BoardThe Reverend Alexander McNeur, a Presbyterian minister, of Waiau, Amuri CountyWilliam James O'Connell, Clerk of the Hawkes Bay County CouncilGeoffrey Buckland Orbell , of Invercargill. For scientific work.Emilie Mary Gladys Ormond, of Hawkes Bay. For social welfare services.Mark Edwin Perreau JP of Foxton. For services to local government.Albert Eden Russell JP of Dunedin. For services to the community.Henry Piet Drury van Asch, of Havelock North. For services to civil aviation, especially in connection with aerial survey.Florence Webb, of Cromwell. For social welfare services.Elizabeth Maria Wilkinson, of Auckland. For social welfare services, especially in connection with the Returned Soldiers' Association.Military Division
Warrant Officer First Class Robert John Barr Allan, The New Zealand RegimentMajor (temporary) Geoffrey James Austin, New Zealand Territorial ForceMajor Clifford Allen Borman, New Zealand Territorial ForceMajor Denis Alfred Caughley, Royal New Zealand Armoured CorpsLieutenant (temporary) Joseph Robb Harrison, New Zealand Territorial ForceFlight Lieutenant Alfred Charles Gordon Baldwin, Royal New Zealand Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Francis Maitland Bissett George, Royal New Zealand Air ForceWarrant Officer Victor Leonard Vivian Crawshay, Royal New Zealand Air ForceWarrant Officer Claude Francis Halkett, Royal New Zealand Air ForceFrancis Raymond Callaghan, Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial ResearchDavid George Sawers, Comptroller of CustomsChief Petty Officer Joe Dykes, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer ReserveFlight Sergeant Gordon Robert Homer, Royal New Zealand Air ForceFlight Sergeant Alfred Spencer Price, Royal New Zealand Air ForceSergeant Charles Milford Jennings, Royal New Zealand Air ForceSergeant Eric Slinn, Royal New Zealand Air ForceRobert Waddell, Chargeman of Labourers, Naval Dockyard, AucklandFlight Lieutenant Geoffrey Reid Burton Highet DFC Royal New Zealand Air ForceFlight Lieutenant Thomas Robin Rabone, Royal New Zealand Air ForceSergeant David Scott Galloway, Royal New Zealand Air ForceMatron Christina McDonald ARRC New Zealand Army Nursing Service, attached the Royal New Zealand Navy 1953 Coronation Honours Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA