1945 Birthday Honours
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The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.[1]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

United Kingdom and British Empire

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Baron

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Sir William Brass, MP. Member of Parliament for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire since 1922. For political and public services.

Field-Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, Bt., GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Major Sir William Cope, Bt., KC, TD. Member of Parliament for Llandaff & Barry, 1918–1929. For political and public services in Wales.

Major Sir (Albert) James Edmondson, DL, MP. Vice-Chamberlain of H.M. Household, 1939–1942, and Treasurer since 1942. Member of Parliament for Banbury since 1922.

Sir Eugene Ramsden, Bt., OBE, MP. Member of Parliament for Bradford North, 1924–1929, and since 1931. For political and public services.

Privy Councillor

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The Honourable Joseph Benedict Chifley, Treasurer and Minister for Post-War Reconstruction, Commonwealth of Australia.

Baronet

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The Honourable Richard Douglas Denman, MP. Second Church Estates Commissioner, 1931–1943. Member of Parliament for Carlisle, 1910–1918, and for Leeds, Central division, since 1929. For political and public services.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, GCB, DSO, MC. Lately Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production.

Sir (Alfred) James Hawkey, JP. Chairman of the West Essex Unionist Association. Mayor of the Borough of Wanstead & Woodford. For political and public services.

The Right Honourable Henry George Hill Mulholland, Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, 1929–1945. Member of Parliament, for County Down in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, 1921–1929, and for Ards since 1929.

Knight Bachelor

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Frederick John Alban, CBE, FSAA, JP, Secretary and Comptroller, King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association.

Wilfrid Ayre, Chairman and Managing Director, Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd.

Squadron Commander James Bird, OBE, FRAeS, MInstNA, RNAS (Retd.), General Manager, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. (Supermarine Works).

Captain James Gordon Partridge Bisset, CBE, RD, RNR (Retd.), Commodore Master of Cunard White Star Fleet.

Lewis Thomas Casson, MC, lately Drama Director for the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts.

Councillor William Hugh Stobart Chance, Chairman, Smethwick Education Committee.

William Bertram Chrimes, CBE, JP. Director of Wartime Meals, Ministry of Food.

James Douglas Cooke, FRCS, MP. Member of Parliament for South Hammersmith since 1931. For political and public services.

Harold Stanford Cooper, FCA, Joint Managing Director, Ford Motor Co.

James Temple Cotton, CB, CBE, lately Under-Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production.

Herbert Henry Edmund Craster, DLitt, FSA, Bodley's Librarian.

Roydon Englefield Ashford Dash, DFC, FSI, FAI, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.

Thomas Arthur Eades, FCIS, FRSA, Managing Director, Automatic Telephone & Electric Co. Ltd.

John Charles Fenton, KC, Sheriff principal of the Lothians and Peebles.

Claude Dixon Gibb, CBE, Director General of Armoured Fighting Vehicles Production and Chairman of the Tank Board, Ministry of Supply.

John Watson Gibson, OBE, Director, Pauling & Co. Ltd.

Noel Barré Goldie, KC, MP, Member of Parliament for Warrington since 1931. For political and public services.

Arthur Charles Hearn, Oil Adviser to the Fourth Sea Lord.

Henry Thomas Holloway, Chairman of the Uniformity Joint Board in the Building and Civil Engineering Industries.

Charles Edward Inglis, OBE, LLD, MInstCE, MInstME, FRS, lately Professor of Mechanical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

John Johnston, DL, Member of Parliament for North Armagh in the Parliament of Northern Ireland since 1929. For political and public services.

Reginald Watson Watson-Jones, MCh, MB, FRCS, LRCP, Civilian Consultant to the Royal Air Force.

Gerald Festus Kelly, RA, Painter.

Robert Letch, Regional Port Director, North Western Area, Ministry of War Transport.

Hugh Mackenzie, CBE, Provost of Inverness.

Arthur Croke Morgan, President of the Council of The Law Society.

Albert Ralph Reed, Paper Controller, Ministry of Supply.

Charles Carlow Reid, Production Director, Ministry of Fuel and Power.

Gwilym Rowlands, CBE, JP, MP, Member of Parliament for Flint since 1935. For political and public services.

Clarence Thomas Albert Sadd, CBE, JP, DL. Vice-Chairman and Chief of the Executive, Midland Bank Ltd.

Edward William Salt, MP. Member of Parliament for the Yardley division of Birmingham since 1931. For political and public services.

Andrew Denys Stocks, CB, OBE, Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.

Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson, CMG. Chairman of the Board of Governors, National Register of Industrial Art Designers.

Professor Frank Tillyard, CBE, lately Chairman of Trade Boards, Ministry of Labour and National Service.

Lieutenant-Colonel Myers Wayman, OBE, JP, Chairman of the Emergency Committee, Sunderland.

Dominions

The Honourable Clifden Henry Andrew Eager, KC, President of the Legislative Council, and Member of the War Advisory Committee in the State of Victoria.

Brigadier the Honourable George Hodges Knox, CMG, VD, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria.

Brigadier-General Raymond Lionel Leane, CB, CMG, DSO, MC, VD, Commissioner of Police in the State of South Australia, 1920–1944. For public services.

Sidney Valentine Sewell, MD, ChB, FRCP, a prominent consulting physician in the State of Victoria.

India

The Honourable Mr. Justice Henry Benedict Linthwaite Braund, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces, and lately Chairman of the Bengal Food Grains Policy Committee.

The Honourable Mr. Justice Alan Gerald Russell Henderson, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.

Frederick Wynne Robertson, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service (retired), Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission.

Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi, CSI, CIE, OBE, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the War Department.

John Bartley, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary and Draftsman to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.

The Honourable Mr. Kenneth William Mealing, Member of the Council of State, Chairman of Directors, Messrs. Andrew Yule and Company Ltd., Bengal.

Noshirwan Phirozshah Engineer, Advocate-General of India and lately Advocate-General of Bombay.

The Honourable Khan Bahadur Qazi Mir Ahmed, Judge of the Judicial Commissioner's Court, North-West Frontier Province.

James Glasgow Acheson, CIE, Indian Political Service, Resident in Kashmir.

Richard Marsh Crofton, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Prime Minister, Bahawalpur State.

Commodore (2nd Class) Henry Aloysious Bruno Digby-Beste, CIE, OBE, RN, lately Deputy Principal Sea Transport Officer (India).

William John Jenkins, CIE, Indian Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Bombay.

Sri Diwan Bahadur Gopathy Narayanaswami Chetty, CIE, Merchant and Landlord and ex-Sheriff of Madras.

Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly, Landlord, Lahore, Punjab.

Robert George Allan, CIE, Commissioner of Agriculture, Baroda State.

Har Govind Misra, OBE, Mill-owner, Cawnpore, United Provinces.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

David Callender Campbell, CMG, Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Malta.

Charlton Adelbert Gustavus Lane, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Judge Mauritius.

Clement Malone, OBE, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of the Windward and Leeward Islands.

John Edward Siegfried Merrick, CMG, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Uganda.

Reginald Edwin Robins, CMG, OBE, General Manager, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours.

Order of the Bath

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

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, KCB, DSO.

Army

Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, KCB, DSO (8742), late Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Colonel Commandant, Parachute Regiment.

Royal Air Force

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, KCB, OBE, AFC.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Lindsay Burnett, KBE, CB, DSO.

Vice-Admiral Geoffrey John Audley Miles, CB.

Vice-Admiral Denis William Boyd, CB, CBE, DSC.

Vice-Admiral Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, CB, DSO.

Army

Lieutenant-General (temporary) Daril Gerrard Watson, CB, CBE, MC (9758), late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Colville Barclay Wemyss, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (14202), Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals.

Lieutenant-General Ralph Bouverie Deedes, CB, OBE, MC, Indian Army.

Royal Air Force

Acting Air Marshal Charles Edward Hastings Medhurst, CB, OBE, MC.

Air Vice-Marshal George Ranald Macfarlane Reid, CB, DSO, MC.

Civil Division

Colonel the Right Honourable Edmund Colquhoun, Earl of Limerick, DSO, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association for the County of the City of London.

Sir Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, KBE, MC, Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War.

Sir Frank Newton Tribe, KBE, CB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production, lately Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.

John Harold Edmund Woods, CB, MVO, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Production.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Rear-Admiral Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, CBE, MVO, DSC.

Rear-Admiral Claud Barrington Barry, DSO.

Rear-Admiral (Acting Vice-Admiral) Charles Saumarez Daniel, CBE, DSO.

Rear-Admiral John Maurice Mansfield, DSO, DSC.

Rear-Admiral Ernest Russell Archer, CBE.

Rear-Admiral Harold Richard George Kinahan, CBE.

Rear-Admiral Philip Esmonde Phillips, DSO.

Rear-Admiral (E) John Benson Sidgwick.

Engineer Rear-Admiral Dennis John Hoare.

Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Edwin Howard Drayson, CBE.

Rear-Admiral Arthur Rullion Rattray, CIE, Royal Indian Navy.

Army

Major-General (temporary) Richard Augustin Marriott Bassett, CBE, MC (22092), late The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Aide-de-Camp to The King.

Major-General (temporary) Colin Bishop Callander, MC (10503), late The Leicestershire Regiment.

Major-General (temporary) Lionel Howard Cox, CBE, MC (5085), late The Gloucestershire Regiment.

Major-General (temporary) Brian Cuff, CBE (4529), late The Cheshire Regiment.

Major-General (temporary) Philip George Saxon Gregson-Ellis, OBE (15399), late Grenadier Guards.

Major-General (temporary) Arthur Leslie Irvine Friend, CBE, MC (20520), late 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant, Pioneer Corps.

Major-General (temporary) John Malcolm Laurence Grover, MC (10337), late The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Major-General (temporary) James Francis Hare, DSO (9570), late The King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Major-General (temporary) Henry Porter Wolseley Hutson, DSO, OBE, MC (8350), late Royal Engineers.

Major-General (temporary) William Henry Buchanan Mirrlees, DSO, MC (8039), late Royal Artillery.

Major-General Leopold Thomas Poole, DSO, MC, MB, KHP (4845), Royal Army Medical Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) Walter Clavel Herbert Prichard, CBE, DSO (3700), late Royal Engineers.

Major-General (temporary) John Alexander Sinclair, OBE (6886), late Royal Artillery.

Colonel George James Paul St Clair, CBE, DSO (1050), late Royal Artillery.

Major-General (temporary) Norman Vyvyan Watson, OBE (13478), late Royal Artillery.

Major-General Frederick George Wrisberg, CBE (10125), late Royal Artillery.

Major-General (temporary) Alan Bruce Blaxland, OBE, Indian Army.

Colonel Alexander Donald Powys Campbell, Indian Army.

Major-General (temporary) Reginald Blaxland Clarabut, Indian Army.

Major-General Eric Clive Pegus Plant, DSO, OBE, Australian Military Forces.

Brigadier (temporary) Albert Edward Conway, OBE, New Zealand Military Forces.

Royal Air Force

Air Vice-Marshal Kenneth Malise St. Claire Graeme Leask, MC.

Air Vice-Marshal George Holroyd Mills, DFC.

Air Vice-Marshal Henry Karslake Thorold, CBE, DSC, DFC, AFC.

Acting Air Vice-Marshal John Astley Gray, CBE, DFC, GM.

Air Commodore Cecil Arthur Bouchier, CBE, DFC.

Air Commodore Colin Peter Brown, CBE, DFC.

Air Commodore Henry Lumsden Crichton, MBE.

Air Commodore Lawrence Darvall, MC.

Air Commodore Walter Lloyd Dawson, CBE.

Air Commodore Henry Edward Forrow, OBE.

Air Commodore Francis Joseph Fressanges.

Air Commodore Herbert Bainbrigge Russell, DFC, AFC.

Brigadier James Thorn Durrant, DFC, South African Air Force.

Acting Air Commodore Geoffrey William Tuttle, OBE, DFC.

Civil Division

Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet Colonel) Rupert George Dawson, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army Association for the County of Perth.

Colonel Alan William Turnbull, MC, Vice-Chairman, Territorial Army Association for the County of Salop.

Isaac Frederick Armer, MC, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.

William Bertram Foden, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.

John Mackenzie Glen, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.

Geoffrey Dugdale Kirwan, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, lately Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Home Security.

Frank Warburton Lawton, OBE, Principal Assistant Treasury Solicitor.

Harvey Hugh Montgomerie, OBE, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works.

Edward Herbert Ritson, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

John Rowlatt, MC, Parliamentary Counsel.

Joseph Scholes, OBE, Director of Personnel, General Post Office.

Griffith Goodland Williams, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education.

Order of the Star of India

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Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

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The Honourable Sir Edward Charles Benthall, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.

The Honourable Khan Bahadur Sir Muhammad Usman Sahib Bahadur, KCIE, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

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Anthony Lockhart Binney, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the Central Provinces & Berar.

Arthur Vivian Askwith, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Delhi.

John Dawson Tyson, CBE, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health & Lands.

Colonel Henry Wynter Wagstaff, MC, Member, Establishment, Railway Board, New Delhi.

Marmaduke Robert Coburn, CIE, OBE, Additional Financial Adviser, Military Finance.

Duncan MacLachlan, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Central Division, Poona, Bombay.

John Wardle Houlton, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar.

John Whitcombe Hearn, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Additional Financial Commissioner, Revenue, and Secretary to Government, Transport Department, Punjab.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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Sir Frank Arthur Stockdale, KCMG, CBE, Development Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, late Comptroller, Development and Welfare, West Indies.

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

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Ernest Henry Murrant, MBE, lately Ministry of War Transport Representative in the Middle East.

Harold Handasyde Duncan, Legal Adviser, Colonial Office & Dominions Office.

Alexander William George Herder Grantham, CMG, Governor & Commander-in-Chief, Fiji, and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

Godfrey Arthur Fisher, CMG, His Majesty's Consul-General at San Francisco.

Richard Lysle Nosworthy, CMG, Minister (Commercial) in His Majesty's Foreign Service, Rome.

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

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Frederic Evelyn Harmer, Temporary Assistant Secretary, His Majesty's Treasury.

Francis William Musson, AFC, Controller of Programmes and Administration, British Air Commission, Washington.

Benjamin Stanley Platt, MSc, PhD, MB, ChB, Director, Human Nutrition Research Unit, Medical Research Council.

Guy Frederick Thorold, Temporary Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Economic Warfare.

Group Captain John Franklyn Venner, AAF, Civil Assistant, Air Ministry.

Henry William Allen Waring, Ministry of Supply Representative in Sweden.

James Douglas Craig, CBE, Assistant Secretary, Office of the United Kingdom Representative to Eire.

Leslie Claude Hunkin, Public Service Commissioner and Chairman of the Classification & Efficiency Board, State of South Australia.

Sir Arthur Shuldham Redfern, KCVO, lately Secretary to the Governor General of Canada.

Hugh Henry Dawes Simmonds, Chief Native Commissioner & Secretary for Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia.

Professor Albert Victor Bernard, CBE, MD, DPH, DTM&H, late Chief Government Medical Officer, Malta.

Arthur Edward Hamp, CBE, General Manager, Tanganyika Railways & Ports Services.

Harold Jowitt, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Uganda.

Arthur Frank Kirby, AMInstT, General Manager, Palestine Railways.

George Ernest Hugh Le Fanu, MD, ChM, late Consulting Physician at Liverpool to the Colonial Office.

Colonel Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron, Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Head of Malayan Planning Unit.

Lucius Nicholls, MD, Director, Bacteriological Institute, Ceylon.

Alexander Montgomery Wilson Rae, MD, ChB, DTM&H, Assistant Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, lately Deputy Director of Medical Service, Nigeria.

Samuel Robinson, Assistant Secretary & Establishment Officer, Colonial Office and Dominions Office.

Robert Scott, Colonial Administrative Service, Acting Chief Secretary, Palestine.

Ernest Albert Vasey. For public services in Kenya.

William Ernest Frank Ward, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Mauritius.

Reginald James Bowker, His Majesty's Chargé d'affaires at Madrid.

Harold Anthony Caccia, Minister (local rank) at His Majesty's Embassy at Athens.

Brigadier Henry Antrobus Cartwright, MC, Military Attaché to His Majesty's Legation at Berne.

Nigel de Grey, OBE, employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.

Captain Henry Mangles Denham, RN, Naval Attaché to His Majesty's Legation at Stockholm.

Maberly Esler Dening, OBE, Chief Political Adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command.

Alexander Knox Helm, CBE, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Angora.

Thomas Cecil Rapp, MC, His Majesty's Consul-General at Salonica.

Michael Robert Wright, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington, D.C.

Honorary Companion

Ademola II, CBE, Alake of Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Order of the Indian Empire

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Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

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Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, KCSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, lately Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

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His Highness Raja Anand Chand, Raja of Bilaspur.

Conrad Laurence Corfield, CSI, CIE, MC, Indian Political Service, lately Resident for the Punjab States.

Godfrey Ferdinando Stratford Collins, CSI, CIE, OBE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.

Sonti Venkata Ramamurty, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.

Sir Satyendra Nath Roy, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of War Transport.

Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Uday Chand Mahtab, of Burdwan, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, Zemindar, Bengal.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

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Mohamad Ali, OBE, Indian Audit & Accounts Service. Financial Adviser, War & Supply.

Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Coles Alexander Osborne, Indian Army, Commander, Kohat District.

William Alan Wright, AFC, Indian Civil Service, lately Officiating Joint Secretary, War Department, Government of India.

The Honourable (Horace) Somerset Edmond Butler, Commerce Adviser, Department of Food, Government of India.

Ronald Stuart Symons, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.

Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Walter Lewery Harvey, OBE, MC, Resident for Kolhapur and Deccan States.

Brigadier Noel Robert Charles Cosby, MC, Indian Army, Inspector-General, Frontier Corps, North-West Frontier Province.

Commodore Phillip Armitage Mare, Royal Indian Navy, Chief of Administration, Naval Headquarters, India.

Dennis George Watson, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Central Provinces and Berar.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Ross Cosens Howman, OBE, The Assam Regiment, Director of Security (India Command), General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Charles Henry Nicholas, 6th Rajputana Rifles, Commander, 152 L. of C. Sub-Area.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Frederick Hubert Vinden, The Suffolk Regiment, Director, Selection of Personnel, Adjutant-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India.

C. N. Chandra, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to Government, Finance Department, Punjab.

Motiram Khushiram Kirpalani, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Commerce, Labour & Industries Department, Bengal.

Satyendramohan Banerjee, Indian Civil Service, Secretary, Revenue, Forests & Excise Departments and Director of Civil Evacuation, Bengal.

Frederick Euson Cormack, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, Assam.

Thomas Arthur Wyness Foy, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Punjab, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.

Madhusudan Damodar Bhat, Indian Civil Service, Milk Commissioner, Bombay.

Captain (E.) Wilfred John Lifton, RIN, Chief Surveyor with the Government of India.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Evelyn Siegfried MacLeod Prinsep, OBE, Probyn's Horse, Assistant Quartermaster-General, Lucknow District.

Alexander George Milne, Administrative Officer & Chief Engineer, Cochin.

Harold Hinton Cooper, Chief Mechanical Engineer, North-Western Railway, Lahore.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) (Local Brigadier) Herbert Dryden Home Yorke Nepean, DSO, Deputy Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian States Forces, New Delhi.

Prafulla Chandra Chaudhuri, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Accountant-General, Bengal.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Frank William Edward Tydeman, Corps of Indian Engineers, Deputy Director of Transportation, Bombay Port War Reconstruction.

Herbert Cecil Stork, Indian Civil Service, Legal Remembrancer, Assam.

Walter Kirby, MIME, Chief Inspector of Mines in India, Department of Mines, Dhanbad.

Robert Hume, OBE, Indian Police, Commissioner of Police, Madras.

James Alexander Scott, OBE, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Lahore Range, Punjab.

Chandulal Chunilal Desai, Indian Civil Service, Controller-General of Civil Supplies.

Satyendru Nath Ray, Indian Civil Service, Financial Adviser, Department of Civil Supplies, Bengal.

Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Indian Political Service, lately Chief Minister, Rewa State.

Chintaman Govind Kale, Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer, Project Circle, Bombay.

John Curtis Wernher Eustace, Indian Civil Service, Director, War Information and Deputy Secretary to Government, Punjab, Home Department (War Front), and Provincial Organizer, National War Front, Punjab.

Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafoor Khan, MSc (Tech. MA.Ch.), MIEE (Lond.), MIE (India), Deputy Controller-General of Inspection (Civil Wing).

Bhadrasinhrao Anandrao Gaekwar, lately Dewan, Baroda State.

James Clark Molesworth Gardner, ARCS, DIC, FRES, Dip. For (Cantab.), Indian Forest Service, Forest Entomologist, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun.

Lieutenant-Colonel Kombar Ramaswami Krishnaswami Iyengar, OBE, Indian Medical Service (retired), Director, Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor, The Nilgiris, Madras.

Frank Aubrey Pope, lately Regional Port Director, Calcutta.

Rajkumar Ripjit Singh, Raja Kothi, Raja Nagar, Kheri District, United Provinces.

Anthony William Robertson, OBE, DFC, Indian Police (retired), Dewan, Bundi State.

Royal Victorian Order

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Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

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Louis Forbes Fergusson, CVO.

Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan, CBE, FSA.

Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, CVO, MC.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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Captain Sidney Charles Herbert, Lord Herbert.

Charles Joseph Henry O'Hara Moore, MC.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Edward Packe, MVO, OBE.

Charles Cornwallis Anderson Pelham-Welby (dated 26 April 1945).

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

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Vera Grenfell.

Mary Lilias Mackenzie.

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Miles Weeer-Brown.

Captain Peter Booth Clarke, OBE, DSC, Master, Merchant Navy (dated 17 April 1945)

Lieutenant-Colonel Louis William la Trobe Cockcraft, DSO.

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

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Beatrice Sarah Louisa Witt.

Albert James Galpin.

James René Alexis Kennedy.

Vincent Joseph Law (dated 21 February 1945).

Edmond Eustace Lloyd.

William McIntosh.

Order of the British Empire

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

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Civil Division

Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers, KCB, KBE, lately Senior Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence, London Region.

His Highness Maharaja Dhiraj Mirza Maharao Shri Vijayaraji, Savai Bahadur, Maharao of Cutch.

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

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Civil Division

Joan, the Honourable Mrs. Sydney Marsham, CBE, Chairman of the National Women's Auxiliary, Young Men's Christian Association. For public services.

Katherine Christie Watt, CBE, RRC, Chief Nursing Officer, Ministry of Health.

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

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Vice-Admiral Charles Edward Barrington Simeon, CB.

Major-General Robert Grice Sturges, CB, DSO, Royal Marines.

Instructor Rear-Admiral Arthur Edward Hall, CB, CBE.

Army

Lieutenant-General (acting) Charles John Stuart King, CB, CBE, MInstCE (5219), late Royal Engineers.

Major-General John Noble Kennedy, CB, MC (13614), late Royal Artillery.

Royal Air Force

Air Vice Marshal Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet, CB, CBE, DSO.

Air Vice-Marshal Lionel Douglas Dalzell McKean, CB, OBE.

Air Vice-Marshal Hugh William Lumsden Saunders, CB, CBE, MC, DFC, MM.

Civil Division

The Right Honourable Wykeham Stanley, Baron Cornwallis, MC, His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Kent and Chairman of the Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee.

Sir Edward Highton Hodgson, CB, OBE, Second Secretary, Board of Trade.

Otto Mundy, CB, Deputy Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise.

Henry Wilson Smith, Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles George Wickham, DSO, Inspector-General, Royal Ulster Constabulary.

The Honourable Sir Herbert Angas Parsons, Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, in the State of South Australia.

Colonel Sir Jamshedji Nasarvanji Duggan, CIE, OBE, DO, JP, Chairman, Bombay Provincial Joint War Committee of the Indian Red Cross Society and St. John Ambulance Association, Bombay.

Honorary Knight Commander

Adeyemo Alakija, CBE. For public services in Nigeria.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Acting Captain The Right Honourable John Hugo, Baron Ampthill (Retd.) (Bedford).

Captain Gerald Courtney Banister, OBE (Retd.).

Captain Claude Lindsay Bate, DSO (Retd.).

Acting Captain (S) Glendenning Blamey (Petersfield).

Agnes Jean Currie, Superintendent, WRNS.

Acting Captain Richard Charlie Donovan (Retd.).

Acting Surgeon Captain William Innes Gerrard, OBE, MD, FRCP, DPH (Retd.).

Acting Captain Harold Sinclair Hopkins.

Captain Hugh Meynell Cyril Ionides.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Major-General) Charles Robert Wharram Lamplough, DSC, Royal Marines.

Captain (E) The Honourable Denis Crichton Maxwell (London).

Captain Reginald Francis Morice (Retd.).

Engineer Rear-Admiral Harold Hepworth Perring, CB (Retd.).

Acting Captain (S) William Brian Canning Simpson, OBE.

Colonel Second Commandant (Acting Colonel Commandant) (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Nicholls Williams, OBE, Royal Marines.

Acting Captain Robert Bradshaw Wilmot-Sitwell (Retd.) (Winchester).

Commodore Charles Trevenen Wilson.

Commodore 2nd Class Henry Arthur Showers, Royal Australian Navy.

Army

Brigadier (temporary) Harold Henry Bateman, DSO, OBE, MC (4226), Reserve of Officers, Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Brian Boyle (53519), Reserve of Officers, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.

Colonel George Frederick Charles (15721), late Army Dental Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) Sydney Collingwood, MC (5411), late Royal Artillery.

Brigadier (temporary) Norman Richard Crockatt, DSO, MC (8225), retired pay, late The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).

Brigadier Eric Rouviere Day, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces.

Colonel (acting) William Duff Gibbon, DSO, MC (119776), Army Cadet Force.

Brigadier (temporary) Charles Granville Barry Greaves, OBE (6885), late Royal Engineers.

Brigadier (temporary) James Wilfred Lang Stanley Hobart, DSO, MC (6927), late The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).

Chaplain to the Forces 1st Class The Reverend Levi Gethin Hughes, MBE, KHC (22776), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.

Brigadier (temporary) Charles Ardagh Langley, MC (13390), Royal Engineers.

Brigadier (temporary) Roderick William McLeod (31581), Royal Artillery.

Brigadier (temporary) Forbes Lankester McNaughton, DSO (4914), late Royal Artillery.

Brigadier (temporary) George Murray, DSO, MC (8766), late The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's).

Brigadier (temporary) Cynric Puleston Prescot, MA, AMInstCE (20726), Royal Corps of Signals.

Colonel (temporary) Cedric Rhys Price, OBE (33361), Royal Engineers.

Colonel (temporary) George William Raby (106194), Royal Engineers

Colonel (temporary) Arthur Eaton Richmond, OBE (9946), Royal Army Medical Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) John Howard Stafford, OBE, MC (6675), late Royal Engineers.

Brigadier (temporary) James Storar (152167), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Harrison Wand-Tetley, OBE (13963), late The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).

Colonel (temporary) Samuel Torton Wills (909 IA), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) Cecil John Woolley, DSO, MC (23716), Royal Artillery.

Colonel (temporary) Ronald Ernest Stephen Yeldham (24451), The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment), Officer Commanding the Troops, Mauritius.

Brigadier Alfred Richard Baxter-Cox, ED, Australian Military Forces.

Royal Air Force

Air Vice-Marshal David Vaughan Carnegie, AFC.

Air Vice-Marshal John Whitworth-Jones, CB.

Acting Air Vice-Marshal Robert Stewart Blucke, DSO, AFC.

Acting Air Vice-Marshal Noel Lloyd Desoer.

Acting Air Vice-Marshal Thomas James Kelly, MC, MD, ChB.

Acting Air Vice-Marshal D'Arcy Power, MC, MRCS, LRCP.

Acting Air Vice-Marshal John René Whitley, DSO, AFC.

Air Commodore Gordon Arthur Ballantyne, DFC, LDS, RCS.

Air Commodore Kenneth Dowsett Gould Collier.

Air Commodore Harold Hunter Down, AFC.

Air Commodore Ralph Edward McBurney, RCAF.

Air Commodore Somerled Douglas Macdonald, DFC.

Air Commodore Alfred Randles Wardle, AFC.

Air Commodore Richard Whyte.

Acting Air Commodore Paul Sandland Blockey.

Acting Air Commodore Leslie William Cannon.

Acting Air Commodore William Daniel Disbrey, OBE, AFC.

Acting Air Commodore John Goodenough Elton, DFC, AFC.

Acting Air Commodore Theodore Neuman McEvoy, OBE.

Acting Air Commodore Hector Douglas McGregor, DSO.

Acting Air Commodore Thomas Bain Prickman, OBE.

Acting Air Commodore Barnabas Henry Cross Russell.

Acting Air Commodore Roland George Seymour.

Acting Air Commodore David John Waghorn, AFC, with effect from 31 March 1945 (since deceased).

Acting Air Commodore Geoffrey Luis Worthington.

Group Captain Francis Gerald Cator.

Group Captain Ralph Cleland.

Group Captain Henry James Gemmel.

Group Captain Arthur Pethick Revington, OBE.

Group Captain Cecil Stanley Riccard.

Group Captain Ronald Scott Sugden, AFC.

Group Captain Thomas Frederick Wailes Thompson, DFC.

Group Captain Wilfred Wynter Morgan, MC.

The Right Reverend Monsignor Henry Beauchamp, MC.

Colonel Alan Jack Marlden Mossop, SAAF.

Acting Group Captain David Samuel Jillings, MBE, MC, RAFVR.

Acting Group Captain Edward Albert Warfield, DFC, RAFO.

Acting Group Captain Lindsey Spence Weedon, RAFVR.

Group Officer Isobel Mary Campbell, WAAF.

Acting Air Commodore Ronald Burns Bannerman, DFC, RNZAF.

Civil Division

George William Barr, Joint Managing Director, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd.

Thomas Benfold, JP, Chairman of the Durham County Council.

Falconer Moffat Birks, OBE, Chief Engineer, Gas Light and Coke Company.

James Cochran Blair. Lately Deputy Controller General of Machine Tools, Ministry of Supply.

Reginald Samuel Brownell, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland.

Anne Margaret Bryans, Commissioner, Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John, Middle East.

Captain Joseph Kenneth Chaplin, Master, SS Strathmore, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.

Stephen Oswald Chivers, Honorary Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Food on Fruit & Vegetable Products.

William Percy Cowley, Second Deemster, Isle of Man.

Gerald John Cole-Deacon, Secretary, Railway Executive Committee.

James Boyd Douglas, Chairman, Kirkcudbright Agricultural Executive Committee.

Robert George Erskine, Deputy Chairman, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.

Geoffrey Upcott Farrant, Chairman, Air Raid Precautions Committee, Somerset.

Brevet Colonel Hugh Douglas Peregrine Francis, MC, TD, lately Deputy Director-General, Postal & Telegraph Censorship.

Colonel Louis Franck, Civil Assistant, War Office.

Kate Fraser, MD, ChB, DPH, Commissioner, General Board of Control, Scotland.

Hugh Todd-Naylor Gaitskell, Temporary Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.

Joseph Bramwell Graham, Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller, Bedfordshire County Council.

Bernard Hart, MD, FRCP, Consultant Adviser in Psychiatry to the Ministry of Health.

Captain Alfred Cyril Gordon Hawker, Master, SS Otranto, Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd.

Gilbert Hicks, JP, Registrar of Shoreditch County Court.

Cyril Noel Hooper, Clerk of the Fishmongers' Company.

Clifford George Jarrett, lately Principal Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.

William Clarence Johnson, OBE, Chief Constable of Birmingham.

Reginald Monk Jones, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.

Brevet Colonel Thomas Otto Jones, MBE, TD, DL, Secretary, Territorial Army and Air Force Association in the County of Glamorgan.

Brigadier-General Cecil Courtney Lucas, MC, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Home Security.

James Lythgoe, City Treasurer, Manchester.

James Wallace McDavid, DSc, FRIC, MIChemE, Managing Delegate Director, Explosives Division, Imperial Chemical Industries (Explosives) Ltd.

James Reid McGregor, MC, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War.

Agnes Mure Mackenzie, DLitt, for services to the study of history in Scotland.

Alexander McKinna, OBE, Member of the Council of Management, Scottish Special Housing Association, lately acting Chairman of the Association.

Harry William Magrath, MC, Chief Auditor and Secretary, National Insurance Audit Department.

Allen Gatenby Marsden, Director of Transport, Ministry of Food.

Loris Emerson Mather, Regional Controller, Ministry of Production.

Donald MacLeod Matheson, Secretary of the National Trust.

Eric Mensforth, MIMechE, FRAeS, MIPE, Vice-Chairman, Westland Aircraft Ltd.

John William Morris, KC, Deputy Chairman, Home Office Advisory Committee (Defence Regulation 18B).

William Mure, Joint Non-Ferrous Metals Controller, Ministry of Supply.

George William Odey, Chairman, Leather, Footwear & Allied Industries Export Corporation Ltd.

Air Commodore Henry Percy Smyth-Osbourne, CMG, DL, Commandant, South West Command, Air Training Corps.

Henry Mansell Piper, Secretary of the British Employers' Confederation.

Frederick Felix Potter, Director of Education for the County of Cheshire.

Arthur Reeder, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.

James Russell, MB, ChB, FRCSE, FRFPS, Surgical Director, Emergency Medical Service, Scotland.

Rowland Glave Saunders, MRCVS, JP. Chairman, War Emergency Committee, Exeter County Borough.

George Flett Sinclair, lately Transport Director, Middle East, United Kingdom Commercial Corporation.

Frank Osborne Stuart, Air Raid Precautions Controller, Moray and Nairn.

Alderman Frank Thraves, JP, Chairman of the Emergency Committee, Sheffield.

William Edwin Tidman, Chief Engineer Officer, MV Stirling Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd.

Joseph Hicks Langford Trevorrow, Deputy Chairman, Chesterfield Tube Co. Ltd.

Margaret Walker, OBE, Commandant, British Red Cross Society.

Alderman Richard Liddle Walker, Chairman of the West Riding War Agricultural Executive Committee and of the River Ouse Catchment Board.

Victor Michael Barrington-Ward, DSO, Assistant General Manager (Operating), London and North Eastern Railway Co.

Alderman Thomas Waterhouse, JP, for public services in Flintshire.

Trevor Creswell Lawrence Westbrook, Production Controller, de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.

William Will, Chairman, Newspaper & Periodical Emergency Council.

William Thomas Williams, OBE, lately Engineer Surveyor in Chief and Inspector of Testing Establishments, Ministry of War Transport.

John Wishart, FEIS, General Secretary, Educational Institute of Scotland.

John Ernest Yates, DCM, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office.

John Crandon Gridley, recently Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Paris.

Harold Allan Dilke Hoyland, MBE, His Majesty's Consul-General at Athens.

Norah Eva Lang Hunter, OBE, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.

Charles Henry Saxby, OBE, British subject resident in Egypt.

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Cyril Smith, OBE, MC, Director-General of Iraqi State Railways.

Cyril Robert Williams, General Manager of the Sudan Railways.

Eric Aubrey Bowring, For public services in Newfoundland.

Major Geoffrey Eastwood, Comptroller of the Governor-General's Household, Canada.

The Honourable Marcus Saltau, a Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. For public services.

Eva Mary Tilley, JP, President of the Women's Justices Association and of the Association of Benevolent Societies, State of Victoria.

Robert Standish-White, OBE, FRCSI. For valuable services as honorary consulting surgeon, Rhodesian Air Training Group.

Charles William Ayers, CIE, Excess Profits Tax Adviser to the Government of India.

Reginald George Gordon Baker, Chairman, Imperial Tobacco Company of India Ltd.

Raja Bahadur Thakurai Girivar Prasad Singh, of Ranka, Zamindar, Palamauo District, Bihar.

Arthur Frederick Richards, Manager for India, Burma & Ceylon, Eagle Star Insurance Co. Ltd., Bombay.

William Scarth Carlisle Tully, MBE, Director-General of Textile Goods in the Department of Civil Supplies, Government of Bengal.

Herbert Cecil Smith, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma.

Frederick Charles Courtenay Benham, Economic Adviser to the Comptroller of Development & Welfare in the West Indies.

Captain Frederick Burnett, MC, Commissioner of Lands, Jamaica.

Colonel Herbert William Ralph Chandler, OBE, MC, Director of Supplies, Gold Coast.

William Douglas MacGregor, Conservator of Forests, Sierra Leone.

Colin Raeburn, OBE, Water Engineer, Cyprus.

Robert Coleridge Scott. For public services in Ceylon.

Henry James Tucker. For public services in Bermuda.

Bernard Reader Wood, Colonial Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, British Guiana.

Honorary Commanders

Daniel Adesanya, Gbelegbuwa II, Awujali of Ijebu Ode, Nigeria.

Israel Rokach, Mayor of Tel Aviv, Palestine.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Eric Percy Alexander, RNVR (Southampton).

Lieutenant-Commander Wilfrid Gordon Axworthy (Retd.).

Marjorie Gillespy Bois, Chief Officer, WRNS.

Acting Commander Thomas William Botley.

Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stuart Simken Bowman, Royal Marine Engineers.

Temporary Acting Commander Douglas Vivian Laurence Cheeseman, RNR (Cardiff).

Commander (S) Norman Thomas Porteous Cooper.

Temporary Acting Commander George Dale Copeland, MBE, RNR (Blackwater, Surrey).

Commander James Godfrey Wood Deneys, DSO (Retd.).

Commander (S) Norman Edgar Denning.

Acting Commander Frederick Charles Fellows-Gordon, DSC (Retd.).

Surgeon Commander James Martin Flattery, RAN.

Acting Temporary Commander (A) Richard Exton Gardner, DSC, RNVR (Warlingham, Surrey).

Acting Lieutenant-Commander Dennis John Stoncy Westropp George, RANR.

Commander Edgar William Grace (Retd.) (Edinburgh).

Captain (Temporary Major) Leslie Alban Harris, DSC, Royal Marines.

Acting Captain (E) Sydney Alick Harrison-Smith.

Acting Commander Henry Treby Heale, RNR (Retd.) (London).

Engineer Commander Henry Alan Higgs (Sunbury-on-Thames).

Commander Alexander Scrope Hutchinson (Retd.).

Lieutenant-Commander John Augustin Ievers (East Grinstead).

Commander Charles Vincent Jack (Retd.).

Commander (E) Walter Sydney Corfield Jenks.

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) Edward Alfred Charles Kimpton, RNVR

Commander David Charles Kinloch, DSO.

Lieutenant-Commander Lancelot Charles Liddell.

Commander Richard Herbert Mack (Retd.) (Rothesay).

Commander Arthur Avalon Mackinnon (Retd.).

Commander (S) Morrice Alexander McMullen (Alverstoke).

Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (A) Anthony Horace Milward, RNVR

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Edgar Philip Stuart Parr, RNVR (Cardiff).

Acting Temporary Surgeon-Commander Clarence Lucan Gray Pratt, MB, ChB, MD, RNVR (Alverstoke).

Captain (Retd.) (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Kenneth Edward Previté, Royal Marines.

Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) Gilbert Hammer George Stratford Rayer, RNVR (Feltham).

Major (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Cosmo La Roche Salter, Royal Marines.

Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) John MacDonald Scott.

Lieutenant-Commander (A) Mayre Glen Sedorski.

Lieutenant-Commander (S) Thomas Charles Sherwin.

Acting Commander Eric Cardew Streatfield-James, Royal Indian Navy.

Commander Roger Henry George Talbot (Retd.) (Dunfermline).

Temporary Acting Commander Allan Patterson Wallace, RNR (Caithness).

Commander (S) George Arthur Patrick Webster, DSC (Retd.) (Westminster, Orange Free State).

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) Cyril Wilson, RNVR (Huddersfield).

Commander Frederick Gordon Wynne.

Acting Captain (S) John Edward Hehir, RAN.

Army

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Carl Douglas Aarvold (104391), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edward James Board Akerman, MC (110346), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).

Chief Commander Julian Philps Allan (192093), Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Arthur Roger Ames (15359), Reserve of Officers, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Geoffrey Atkinson (46509), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).

Major (temporary) Dennis William Babbage (110915), Intelligence Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Leslie Barkas (9651), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own).

Major (temporary) Guy Hiron Bartleet (31735), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Territorial Army.

Colonel (temporary) Paul Ker Benner (18029), Royal Engineers.

Colonel (acting) Samuel Leslie Bibby (272469), Army Cadet Force.

Colonel (temporary) John Ray Brown (IA 101), Indian Armoured Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Patrick Reginald Evelyn Browne (93747), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Beeley Burrows (IA 660), 2nd Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Walter Morier Jubb Carruthers (126886), General List.

Colonel (temporary) Herbert Carter (10445), The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment).

Colonel Norman George Roger Coats, Indian Army.

Major Joseph Connel, ED (25793), Royal Corps of Signals, Officer Commanding, Barbados Home Guard.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Kingsley Daniels (342709), The King's African Rifles.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Alexander Oakeley Dennistoun (48400), Reserve of Officers, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).

Colonel (temporary) Cecil Aubrey Dixon (805), The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Lionel Henry Godfrey Dorling, MC (4355), Reserve of Officers, Royal Artillery.

Deputy Chief Commander Mary Evered Douglas (WAC 29), Women's Auxiliary Corps (India).

Colonel the Right Honourable Richard, Viscount Downe (23806), Territorial Army.

Colonel (temporary) Arthur James Dunkerley (27498), Royal Malta Artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Kenneth Morton Channer Evans (62122), Royal Corps of Signals.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert Peter Fleming (47986), Reserve of Officers, Grenadier Guards.

Colonel (temporary) John Alexander Fraser, DSO, DCM (9194), retired pay, late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Arthur Cecil Frost, MBE (41418), Pioneer Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) Norman George Gane, MC, 6th Rajput Rifles, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) The Honourable Alexander Campbell Geddes, MC (88344), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.

Colonel (temporary) Keith Hatch (I.A.305), Indian Armoured Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Edward Hudson, MC, TD (70730), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, Territorial Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edwin Patrick Cusack Hughes (E.C.9081), Indian Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Taylor Hurrell (22780), 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Moffat Ireland, MBE (108076), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Colonel (temporary) John Cooksey Jones (I.A.763), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel Mervyn Joseph, ED, Chief Recruiting Officer, Ceylon.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Royden Islay Hamilton Kinloch (3957), retired pay, late Royal Artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Parsons Lappin, MB, ChB (M.Z.7978), Indian Army Medical Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Thomas Milner Lester (147708), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Brigadier (temporary) Geoffrey Leonard Lillies, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Richard Harry Barnes Longland (14468), Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edmund Douglas Jefferiss Mathews (35983), Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel John McGregor, MC (26444), The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Charles Vincent Merritt, East Africa Military Labour Service.

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lionel Moore, MC (89961), The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Territorial Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Clifford Morton (E.C.383), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

Colonel (temporary) David John Mull (23169), Army Dental Corps.

Major Harold Ockenden, MC, Northern Rhodesia Regiment.

Colonel (temporary) Reginald Shepperd Ollington (97501), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.

Colonel (temporary) Alfred Stanley Osborne (99169), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Colonel William Henry Ralston, DSO, MC, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Ernest Miller Richard (5782), Reserve of Officers, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Robin Palmer Ridgway (30376), Intelligence Corps.

Colonel John Rowe, MC, MB (8101), late Royal Army Medical Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Herbert Walter Russell (11418), Royal Artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Alfred Emery Harry Sayers (9313), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, MC, TD (38295), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.

Colonel (acting) John Patrick Shelley (761), Grenadier Guards.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Norman Lyon Shepperd, MB, FRCS (239062), Royal Army Medical Corps.

Lieutenant Colonel (temporary) Thomas Irvine Smith (E.G.2962), 8th Ghurka Rifles, Indian Army.

Colonel (temporary) Luther Gladstone Smith, MIMechE (31321), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Colonel (temporary) Arthur Edward Stevens (15491), Royal Engineers (Indian Army).

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Ronald Cankrien Thompson (36277), Royal Army Pay Corps.

Colonel (temporary) Alston Cranstoun Todd (757), Royal Artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Albert Edward Tyler (103384), Royal Corps of Signals.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Dickinson Walker (127592), The Durham Light Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Francis Ward (59183), Scots Guards.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Francis Seymour Williams, DSO (7658), Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate (146145), Intelligence Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cecil Woodhouse Wood (35), The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers).

Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Wotherspoon (31660), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Robert Wrathall (101522), Royal Army Service Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel Mervin Alfred Rodger Synnot, Australian Military Forces.

Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Wilson, VD, Australian Military Forces.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Morton Foster, New Zealand Military Forces.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Kemp, MC, ED, New Zealand Medical Corps, New Zealand Military Forces.

Royal Air Force

Acting Air Commodore John George Bryans, RCAF.

Acting Air Commodore Bernard Albert Chacksfield.

Group Captain Desmond John Alvey.

Group Captain Thomas Bruce Cooper, DFC.

Group Captain Wilfred Reseigh Cox, MC, AFC.

Group Captain Charles William Gore.

Group Captain Charles Austin Horn.

Group Captain Samuel Patrick Aylmer Patmore.

Group Captain Reginald Horace Stanbridge.

Group Captain Charles Herbert Algernon Stevens.

Group Captain Ernest Hildebrand Stevens.

Group Captain Collin Murray Stewart.

Group Captain John Arthur Charles Stratton.

Group Captain Peter William Mellor Wright.

Acting Group Captain John Derek Bisdee, DFC, RAFVR.

Acting Group Captain John Patrick Cave.

Acting Group Captain Paul Yettvart Davoud, RCAF.

Acting Group Captain William Eccles.

Acting Group Captain Patrick Shaw Foss.

Acting Group Captain Sir Archibald Philip Hope, Bt. DFC, AAF.

Acting Group Captain Alan Stewart Jackson, AAF.

Acting Group Captain Richard Gostwycke James, RAFO.

Acting Group Captain John Enfield Kirk.

Acting Group Captain Guy Kempton Lawrence, DSO, DFC, RAFO.

Acting Group Captain George Lionel Spencer Lightfoot, RAFVR.

Acting Group Captain Robert Heath Mason.

Acting Group Captain Ernest Hutchison Glenn Moncrieff, RCAF.

Acting Group Captain Thomas Frederick Dalton Morgan, DSO, DFC, RAFO.

Acting Group Captain Thomas Charlie Penna.

Acting Group Captain Walter John Pickard.

Acting Group Captain Harold Percival Pleasance, DFC, RAFO.

Acting Group Captain Reginald Charles Vaughan, MC, RAFVR.

Acting Group Captain Sidney George Walker.

Acting Group Captain Douglas Warner Williams.

Acting Group Captain Edmund Noel Digby Worsley.

Wing Commander Robert Alexander Barton, DFC (37664), RAFO.

Wing Commander George Robert Brady (37932), RAFO.

Wing Commander Robert St. Hill Clarke, AFC (03185).

Wing Commander Archibald Ernest Clayson (35077).

Wing Commander Jack Davison, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.

Wing Commander William Henry Day (75178), RAFVR.

Wing Commander Keeley Ian Goodman (75850).

Wing Commander Donald Salisbury Green (19136), RAFO.

Wing Commander Charles Douglas Griffiths, DFC (90234), AAF.

Wing Commander Victor Henry Paul Lynham, DSO (34128), RAFO.

Wing Commander George Mair Mackie (35118).

Wing Commander Eric John Moule (08005), RAFVR.

Wing Commander Subroto Mukerjee (Ind.1551), Royal Indian Air Force.

Wing Commander William Farquhar Murray (24191).

Wing Commander John Alexander Robinson (05250).

Wing Commander Donald Garth Ross (32161).

Wing Commander Rudolph Tibbey (35284).

Wing Commander Brian Darville Stratford Tuke (03085), RAFVR.

Wing Commander Conrad Edward Howe Verity (63137), RAFVR.

Wing Commander John Brown Wallace (23269).

Wing Commander Harold Robert Withers (21163).

Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Newman McBlain, DFC (202984V), SAAF.

Acting Wing Commander Clifford Aldridge (44282).

Acting Wing Commander Donald Frederick Allen (21277).

Acting Wing Commander Cyril Edgar Beer (44345).

Acting Wing Commander Sydney James Berry (72123).

Acting Wing Commander William Bradshaw, DFC (43413).

Acting Wing Commander William Francis Bryanton (80057), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Russell Edwin Osboume Carey (115044), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Charles Albert Case (86265), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Mark Cohen (77138), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander George Cruickshank, MBE (79096), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Dennis William Dobson (81793), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander James Jervis Dutton (31268).

Acting Wing Commander Thomas Arthur Francis Elsdon, DFC (33308).

Acting Wing Commander Frederick Arthur Boucher Fawssett (70211).

Acting Wing Commander Peter Carteret Fletcher, DFC, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.

Acting Wing Commander William Cyril Joseph Foster (73189), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Walter Bennett Frampton (84143), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Peter Michael Arthur Green (81169), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Joseph Albert Hatton (84141), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander William George Henry Hedges (90878), AAF.

Acting Wing Commander Edward James Glynn Hill (43859).

Acting Wing Commander Marcus Michael Kaye (70355), RAFO.

Acting Wing Commander Ewart Newman Lohmeyer, DFC (78328), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Stewart Mackenzie (43397).

Acting Wing Commander Joseph Rodney Moore (78080), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Jonn Richard Morgan (73539), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Ian McNaughton Parsons (77881), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Cyril Wolrick Passy, DFC (72028), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Kenneth Wright Pell (27140), RAFO.

Acting Wing Commander Frederick James Powell, MC (74207), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Singleton Powell Richards, AFC (27112), RAFO.

Acting Wing Commander Hugh Herbert Rose (77739), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Leslie George Scarman (82352), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton (83143), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Harry Patrick Shallard (73393), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Hanbury Knolys Dawson-Shepherd (41353).

Acting Wing Commander Percival Niger Shone (75751) RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Dennis Gordon Singleton (29180), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Maurice Joy Smith (87633), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Ronald Noel Smith (37025), RAFO.

Acting Wing Commander William Denis Ashley Smith (75706), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Maurice John Thomas (140205), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Charles Geoffrey Tipper (85523), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Arthur Frederick Trinder (72959), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Ronald Christopher Udall (79254), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Thomas Muir Warden (76426), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander David Temple Way, MBE (44573), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Richard Williams (31300).

Acting Wing Commander Philip Harold Seymour Wood (35298), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader John Ernest Ann (43663).

Squadron Leader William Cunniffe (44341).

Squadron Leader William Dixon (86929), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader William Harold Herbert (104785), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader Ronald Henry Johnson (72221), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader Herbert Thomas Legg (47237).

Squadron Leader Percy John Macduff (89247), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader James Taylor Main (44297).

Major John Helperos Ritzema Eastwood (53337V), SAAF.

Major William Frank Veitch (84026V), SAAF.

Acting Squadron Leader John Bedwell Batchelor (85444), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Edward Warwick Bloxham (105663), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Stanley George Briden (43649).

Acting Squadron Leader Richard Keniston Browning (77785), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Robert Gibson Clarkson (108353), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Quentin Curtis Craig (79262), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader John Baldwin Aston Fleming (43531).

Acting Squadron Leader John Frederick Ginnett (82854), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Thomas Day Griffin (84468), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader William Thomas Harrington (47005).

Acting Squadron Leader Harold Edward Howard (45032).

Acting Squadron Leader Hugh Owen Hughes (89042), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Edward Mervyn John (68943), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Fred Jullion (79448), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Stanley Norman Kettle (123210), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Harold Lodge (45385).

Acting Squadron Leader Henry Herbert Loveday (87491), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Alistair Henry Wilson MacBean (87246), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader David Napier Matthews (102257), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Alexander Russell (84839), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Robert John Sills (46666).

Acting Squadron Leader William Sykes (49411).

Acting Squadron Leader Percy Francis Trotter (81511), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Robert Bruce Waller (61454), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Charles William Fuglar Wavell (101136), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Norman Wilson (45108).

Group Officer Elspeth Barrie (198), WAAF.

Squadron Officer Louise Hilliard Rankin (563), WAAF.

Wing Commander Charles Osborne Fairbairn, AFC, RAAF.

Wing Commander Archibald Brownlow MacArthur, RAAF.

Wing Commander Miles Aylmer Barnett, RNZAF.

Civil Division

Daniel Francis Horseman Brickell, MBE, His Majesty's Consul at Montevideo.

Eric Arthur Cleugh, MVO, His Majesty's Consul-General at Havana.

Charles Maxwell Davidson, British Consul at Medellín.

William Charles Gentry, British subject resident in Spain.

George Allan Hardy, British subject resident in Egypt.

Horace Walter Rigden, British subject resident in Persia.

Minnie Smaggasgale, British subject resident in Brazil.

Benjamin Crewdson Thomas, British Information Services, New York.

Cyril Edward Wiles, British subject resident in Iraq.

Percy Evan Williams, MC, British subject resident in the Sudan.

Major Jasper William George Wyld, District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.

William Clark, Mayor of the City of Launceston, State of Tasmania.

Huntley James Clarke, a Civil Engineer and Surveyor of Queenstown, State of Tasmania. For municipal services.

George Cobb, Superintendent, Western Division, Newfoundland Railway.

Alan Biddulph Cowen, MIEE, Chairman and Chief Engineer, Electricity Supply Commission, Southern Rhodesia.

Walter Edward Curtis, formerly Head of the Department of Supply, Newfoundland.

John Duggan, JP, Councillor, Shire of Kara Kara, State of Victoria, for many years, and President on several occasions.

Nutting Stuart Eraser, MD. CM, MRCS. Consultant, St. John's General Hospital, Newfoundland. For public services.

Floris Visser Johnstone, Provincial Native Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia.

The Reverend George Willis Kendrew, VD. For public services in the State of South Australia.

John Andrew Michelsen, JP, Councillor, City of Bendigo, State of Victoria, for many years, and Mayor on three occasions.

Captain John Mitchell Moubray, a Member of the Food Production Committee, Southern Rhodesia.

Robert Thompson, Superintendent of Dockyard Operations, St. John's, Newfoundland.

Louis David Waterhouse. For municipal and social welfare services in the State of South Australia.

Joseph Booth, Indian Civil Service, Director of Civil Supplies (Districts), Bombay.

David Barrington Brow, MC, Chief Engineer, Karachi Port Trust.

Birendra Narayan Chakravarty, Indian Civil Service, Acting Secretary, Finance Department, Government of Bengal.

Asoka Kumar Chanda, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Joint Financial Adviser, Supply Finance, Government of India.

Sadhu Ram Chaudhri, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Ferozepore, Punjab.

Raja Chittar Singh Ju Deo, Rampura Estate, Jalaun District, United Provinces.

Lieutenant-Colonel Amar Nath Chopra, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Prisons and Director of Health, Orissa.

Edward Archibald Hickling Churchill, Indian Agricultural Service, Principal, Agricultural College, Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.

Reginald Alfred Collett, MBE, MInstCE, Public Health Engineer to the Government of Bombay.

Major George Humphrey Cooke, Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary, Political Department, India.

Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Fenwick Craster, IRRO, Commandant, Deoli Internment Camp.

Panangattri Ananthanarayanaiyar Gopala-Krishnan, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to Government, United Provinces Supply Finance Branch.

John Davies Gulick, Electrical Engineer, New Delhi Municipal Committee.

Frederick John Abt Hart, Indian Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, in charge of the Utilisation and Research Circle, Darjeeling, Bengal.

Eric Hodson, Indian Police, Controller, Chief Pioneer Force, Bengal.

Rai Bahadur Jai Behari Lal, Deputy Director-General (War), Posts & Telegraphs Directorate, New Delhi.

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Bowen Janson, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Commandant, Tochi Scouts, North Waziristan, North-West Frontier Province.

John Warren Tait Leith, MC, CA, Secretary, War Risks Insurance Advisory Committee, Bombay.

Tinichendurai Muthukrishna Subra Mani, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Planning & Development.

Henry Idris Matthews, MC, Director of Ordnance Factories (General).

Rabindra Kumar Mitra, Indian Civil Service, Controller of Printing & Stationery, India.

Probhat Chandra Neogi, Indian Service of Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineer, Bengal, Communications & Buildings Branch.

Roderick Wallis Parkes, Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Resident for the Punjab and lately Secretary to the Resident for Kolhapur and the Deccan States.

Khan Bahadur Sheikh Habibur Rahman, Member, Legislative Assembly (Central), Delhi.

John Stuart Reid, Indian Service of Engineers, Officiating Superintending Engineer, Southern Sind Circle, Sind.

Vere Norman Rowsell, Traffic Superintendent, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Ajmer.

David Clark Russell, ARCS, Director of Ordnance Laboratories, Cawnpore.

Bhagwan Sahay, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health & Lands.

Lieutenant Colonel Moses Sendak, MD, BS, MRCS, DPH, Indian Medical Service, Superintendent, Special Prison, Ahmednagar Fort, Bombay.

Edward Bonham Sim, Superintendent, Jorehaut Tea Co. Ltd., Assam.

Balaram Sivaraman, Indian Civil Service, lately Magistrate and Collector of Purnea, Bihar.

Reginald Sloan, Technical Engineering Representative of General Motors (India) Ltd., for liaison with the Military Authorities in India.

John Lawrence Commerell Stubbs, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Gorakhpur, United Provinces.

Ramaswami Meenakshi Sundaram, Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary to the Government of Madras, Development Department.

James Stanley Tilley, Deputy Red Cross Commissioner, War Supplies Depot, Bombay.

Joseph Aloysius Donatus Victoria, Landlord and Contractor, Manapad, Tinnevelly District, Madras.

Niranjan Nath Wanchoo, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Food.

Francis Watson, Director, Counter Propaganda.

Captain Archibald Wilfrid Tisdall Webb, Principal Refugee Officer, Commonwealth Relations Department, Government of India.

Henry Wheatley, Director, Cinchona Department, Madras.

Alfred Arthur Williams, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.

John Lamb Leyden, Burma Frontier Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of Burma, Home Department.

Rai Bahadur Prithvi Chand, Superintendent of Police, Straits Settlements, seconded to Special Branch in India.

Rupert Thomas Chicken, District Commissioner, Copperbelt, Northern Rhodesia.

James Crook, Deputy Head of Stores Department, Crown Agents for the Colonies.

Hampden Archibald Cuke. For public services in Barbados.

Judith De Cordova, MBE. For services in Jamaica during the War.

James Robert McDowell Elliot, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior District Officer, Uganda.

Laurence Wylie Fitzmaurice, MD, CM, Colonial Medical Service, Medical Officer and Bacteriologist, Bahamas.

Garnet Hamilton Gordon. For public services in the Windward Islands.

Gordon Hadow, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast.

Brian Joseph Hartley, MBE, Colonial Agricultural Service, Agricultural Adviser, Aden.

Henry Hastings, MB, BS, DTM&H. For medical and missionary services in Nigeria.

William Donald Havelock, Port Manager, Sierra Leone.

Robert Noel Henry, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Cyprus.

William Herbert Jackson, Assistant Director, Public Works Department, Nigeria.

Sydney Whitemore Dyer-Melville, Acting Director of Public Works, Zanzibar.

Thomas Henry Parsons, FLS, Curator, Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon.

Andrew Hamilton Pike, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory.

Frederick John Pound, PhD, Colonial Agricultural Service, Senior Agricultural Officer, Trinidad.

Royden Ernscliffe Taylor, MBE, Treasurer, St. Kitts-Nevis, Leeward Islands.

Charles Douglas Todd, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Gibraltar.

Herbert Watt Torrance, MC, MD. For medical services in Palestine.

Tsibu Darku IX, Omanhene of Asin Atandasu. For public services in the Gold Coast.

Frank Stanley Williams, Colonial Audit Service, Auditor, Nyasaland.

Honorary Officers

Jibrail Katul, MBE, Assistant Director of Education, Palestine.

Michael Moses, MBE. For public services in Uganda.

Khalil Touqan. For services in connection with the War Economic Advisory Council, Palestine.

Additional Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

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Military Division

Royal Navy

Acting Skipper Lieutenant Alexander Adamson, RNR.

Acting Wardmaster Lieutenant-Commander Ernest Walter Biddlecombe (Retd.).

Temporary Lieutenant-Commander John Grigor Brodie, RNVR.

Telegraphist Lieutenant Frederick George Bunker.

Elizabeth Mary Candy, Second Officer, WRNS.

Acting Lieutenant-Commander Hajee Mohammed Siddiq Choudri, Royal Indian Navy.

Mr. Sydney Cleburne, Temporary Warrant Telegraphist.

Temporary Lieutenant Donald Cole, RNVR (Leicester).

Nancie Margaret Conner, Second Officer, WRNS.

Temporary Lieutenant (A) James Robson Cowan, RNZNVR.

Temporary Lieutenant (E) Hilton Alfred Curnock, RNVR.

Esta Eldod, First Officer, WRNS.

Temporary Lieutenant Samuel James Norman Fenton, RNVR.

Mr. John Frazer, Temporary Warrant Writer Officer.

Mr. Arthur Crosby Gale, Temporary Warrant Writer Officer.

Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Gardner, RNVR

Mr. Douglas H. J. Hardy, Accredited Naval Correspondent, British Paramount News.

Mr. Frank Thomas Hatfield, Boatswain (Birmingham).

Temporary Lieutenant Douglas Valentine Hugonin, RNVR

Mr. Charles Edward John Jenner, Warrant Shipwright (Wimborne).

Mr. William Charles Judkins, Warrant Recruiter.

The Reverend Robert Kirkland, Temporary Chaplain.

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) James Caldwell Kole Kortright, RNVR.

Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Robert Arthur Lochner, RNVR.

Mr. Oliver Henry Mantle, Warrant Telegraphist, Royal Indian Navy.

Mr. Charles Frederick William McCoy, Temporary Warrant Stores Officer.

Temporary Electrical Lieutenant William McKenzie, RNVR.

Temporary Lieutenant William James Middlemiss, RNVR

Acting Temporary Lieutenant Frederick Albert Parsons, RNVR

Temporary Lieutenant (Acting Temporary Captain) Sidney Michael Peretz, Royal Marines (St. Peter Port, Guernsey).

Mr. Percy William Price, Senior Chief Officer, Shore Wireless Service.

Mr. Albert Edward Reddy, Warrant Ordnance Officer (Downderry, Cornwall).

Temporary Lieutenant Joseph William Cyril Robinson, RNVR (Barry, Glam.).

Mr. William George Scott, DCM, Warrant Recruiter, Royal Marines.

Mr. William Scorey, Gunner (T).

Temporary Lieutenant Stanley Gordon Sheppard, RNVR (London).

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Philip Smiles, RNVR (Belfast).

Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander James Frederick Somner, RNVR (Eton).

Mr. Albert Edward Spence, Commissioned Telegraphist, Royal Indian Navy.

Mr. John George Summers, Temporary Warrant Electrician (Herne Bay).

Mr. Kenneth Haseltine Summers, Warrant Writer Officer.

May Isobella Thomas, First Officer, WRNS.

Temporary Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (Acting Temporary Captain) Leslie Thomas Ludlow Tunnicliff, Royal Marines (Worthing).

Temporary Lieutenant Laurence Tuppen, RNVR (Shoreham).

Temporary Lieutenant William Peters Vannet, RNVR (Arbroath).

Lieutenant (E) Arthur Wallace Warner (Retd.).

Lieutenant-Commander (E) Robert Kerr Weir (Retd.).

Joan Mary Wiles, First Officer, WRNS.

Temporary Acting Commander (E) Guy Ernest Williamson, RNVR.

Lieutenant (A) Ronald Angus Wood, RNVR (Seven Kings).

Lieutenant John Albert Harte, RAN.

Temporary Lieutenant Frederick Johnston, RNZNVR.

Army

Major (temporary) Frederick Leonard Allan, MC (25826), Pioneer Corps.

Major (temporary) John Turner Allen (74717), Royal Army Service Corps.

Major Edward Ison Andrews (23231), The Cheshire Regiment.

Major (temporary) Arthur George Armstrong (63223), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Major (temporary) the Right Honourable Thomas Percy Henry Touchet, Baron Audley (193752), The Worcestershire Regiment.

Major Donald Creighton Balfour, Controller of Manpower, Gibraltar.

Major (temporary) Charles Bernard Ball (114826), Royal Army Medical Corps.

Major Edward Arthur Bamblett (A.I.768), 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.

Major (Commissary) James Barnett, Indian Engineers.

Captain (temporary) Bashir Nawaz Khan (I.E.C.551), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Leslie Hugh Bean (36290), The Gloucestershire Regiment.

Captain (temporary) Christopher Archibald Beatty, Indian Army.

Major (temporary) Philip Beverly (238), East Africa Intelligence Corps.

No. 7611750 Warrant Officer Class I (temporary) Edward Eric Brindle, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Major (temporary) Walter Hicham Brindle (92783), The Northamptonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.

No. 1031198 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Stoker Brown, Royal Corps of Signals.

No. 227154 Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Alfred William Brown, Royal Army Service Corps.

Captain (Quartermaster) John Money Brown (109335), General List.

Major (temporary) Denys Burton Buckley (118789), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Senior Commander (temporary) Helen Esme Burns (W.A.C.123), Women's Auxiliary Corps (India).

Major William Henry Burn Callander (6466), The Royal Scots Greys, Royal Armoured Corps.

Major (temporary) Duncan Campbell (143153), Royal Artillery.

Major (temporary) George Clement Cave (180621), The Worcestershire Regiment, attached Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

Major (temporary) Arthur Frederick Clark (E.C.5412), Intelligence Corps, Indian Army.

No. 227608 Warrant Officer Class I Hugh Cecil Clayton, Royal Army Service Corps.

Major (temporary) James Menzies Clow (24779), Royal Army Medical Corps.

Major (temporary) James Coates (O.S.153), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

Major (temporary) Alan Cooper (E.C.2690), Indian Engineers.

Major Frederick Walter Cooper (35274), Royal Army Pay Corps.

Major Stephen Hilary Cox (10579), Reserve of Officers, Royal Army Service Corps, Officer Commanding, Royal Army Service Corps, Bermuda.

Major (temporary) George Haskett Curry (99539), Royal Engineers.

No. 14701 Warrant Officer Class I Elizabeth Dagnall, Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Major (temporary) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Cajeton Sales De Andrade (R.O.2810), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

Captain (Quartermaster) Edward Eliseo Demarco (157975), The King's Own Malta Regiment.

Major Archibald Douglas, MC (20329), The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

Captain (temporary) John Gilbert Dowling (204115), Royal Army Service Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Brown Dryden (99608), Royal Army Service Corps.

Major (temporary) Thomas Gerrard Du Buisson, MC (10466), Royal Artillery.

No. 101309 Warrant Officer Class I Austin Christopher Duffield, Kenya Armoured Car Regiment.

Captain (temporary) William Burns Duthie (176103), Army Air Corps.

Major (temporary) William George Eaglen (75962), Royal Artillery.

Major (temporary) Thomas Evers (235378), The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)

Major (temporary) Geoffrey Charles Fardell (178667), Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Edward Martin Friend (99067), The Durham Light Infantry.

Major (temporary) Frederick Edgar Amato-Gauci (115559), Royal Malta Artillery.

Major (temporary) Patrick Somerset Gibbs (49152), The Welsh Guards.

Senior Commander Wendy Ellen Gibson (196228), Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Thomas Travers Gilbert (244093), General List.

Major (temporary) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Hugh Golding (48449), The Royal Sussex Regiment.

Major (temporary) Cecil Frederick Gravett (EC 8321), Indian Army.

Major (temporary) Irvine Egerton Gray (101883), Intelligence Corps.

Major (temporary) Horatio William Gregory, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Peter Brian Alexander Grieve (176126), The King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Major (temporary) Eli Evans Griffiths (138087), The Welch Regiment.

Major (Quartermaster) John Groombridge (40996), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)

Major (temporary) George Bernard Handley, TD (36969), The West Yorkshire Regiment, Territorial Army.

Major (temporary) Phineas John Hands (130522), Royal Engineers.

Major (temporary) Charles Robert Hardham (152395), Royal Engineers.

No. 6844658 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Edmond Albert Hanrahan, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.

No. 9146 Warrant Officer Class I Ismail Hansi, King's African Rifles.

Major (temporary) Charles Norman Harding (245154), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Major (Quartermaster) Phillip Alexandra Harding (45330), Royal Corps of Signals.

Major Humphrey le Fleming Fairfax Harvey (22816), Royal Artillery.

No. 2315033 Warrant Officer Class I John Henry Harrison, Royal Corps of Signals.

No. 13019092 Warrant Officer Class I James Hennessey, Pioneer Corps.

Major (temporary) Peter Henry Hobbs (190792), Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

Major (temporary) Jack Hodgkiss (191047), Royal Engineers.

Major (temporary) Frederick Robert Hornby (115085), Royal Corps of Signals.

Major (temporary) Charles Leslie Howard (127021), Royal Army Service Corps.

Major Rupert Howard (11251), Royal Army Pay Corps.

No. 7262376 Warrant Officer Class II Alexander Hunter, Royal Army Medical Corps.

No. 3766211 Warrant Officer Class I William Baldwin Hudson, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.

Yuzbashi Zein El Abdin Eff Ibrahim, Sudan Defence Force Medical Corps.

No. 17729 Warrant Officer Class I Mohamed Bin Indem, East Africa Corps of Military Police.

Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Alan Alfred Isaac (275929), Army Cadet Force.

Major (temporary) Eric Standish Jackson, MC (102355), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Captain (Quartermaster) Ivan Ernest Jacques (120649), The East Lancashire Regiment.

Major (temporary) William Emrys Jones (149322), The Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Major (acting) Max Karo (283065), Army Cadet Force.

No. 4383993 Warrant Officer Class I Raymond Kirk, Coldstream Guards.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cyril Denzil Milner Kitchin (109802), Royal Artillery.

Major (temporary) Philip Harold Knighton (191374), Royal Engineers.

Captain (temporary) Peter Law (124515), Army Air Corps.

Captain Charles Robert Leach (31533), New Zealand Military Forces.

Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class The Reverend Donald Rathbone Lee (230883), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Sir Christopher Robert Lighton, Bt (98612), retired pay, late the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Major (temporary) Lionel Popham Lock (139251), The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).

Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) Frederick Lowry (CC 114), Indian Army Corps of Clerks.

Major (Quartermaster) George Lucioni (104935), Royal Army Service Corps.

Major (temporary) John William Lupton (107648), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Junior Commander Anne Dick Macdonald (192441), Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Major (temporary) John White MacGillivray, General List, East Africa Forces.

No. 7885194 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Lloyd Horace Mackintosh, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.

Subadar Major and Honorary Lieutenant Mahsud Gul Khan, Sardar Bahadur, OBI, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.

Captain (Quartermaster) Frank Percy Malyon (137689), Royal Artillery.

Major (temporary) Donald Frederick Marshall (EC 6985), Indian Army.

No. 1847805 Warrant Officer Class II Herbert Hector Mason, Royal Engineers.

Captain (acting) John Glassford McMillan (215155), Union Defence Force.

Major (temporary) William Percy Meldrum (65133), Army Educational Corps.

Captain (Quartermaster) Archibald William Miller (131713), Royal Artillery.

Major (temporary) James King Miller (42178), Army Educational Corps.

Jemadar Mohd Khalid (24387-10), Indian Signal Corps, Indian Army.

Major (temporary) William Francis Morgan (185915), Royal Engineers.

No. 1694751 Warrant Officer Class II James Creed Morris, Intelligence Corps.

Major (temporary) David Kinnell Morrison (75310), Royal Engineers.

Captain Cyril Kaye Moseley, Superintendent of Police, Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Major Edgar William Moyes, MC, ED (AF 1008), The Madras Guards, Auxiliary Force (India).

No. 17836 Warrant Officer Class I Charles George Murr, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Captain (temporary) Ghulam Nabi (IEC 4554), 6th Rajputana Rifles, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Patrick Hay Montgomery Nelson (EC 347), Royal Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

No. 2745398 Warrant Officer-Class II William Henry Oliver, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).

Major George Evelyn Lucas Pardington, TD (7527), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Lieutenant Victor Robert Parker (236160), The Royal Corps of Signals.

Captain (temporary) Edwin John Pateman (EC 1651), Intelligence Corps, Indian Army.

Major (temporary) Ernest Arthur Pearce (70259), Royal Army Service Corps.

Major (Commissary) Robert Stanley Peverley (ST 26), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

Major (temporary) George John Phillips (106767), Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Emanuel Sam Philpott (EC 7759), Indian Army.

Major (temporary) Frederick Thomas Pitt (103548), Royal Corps of Signals.

Chief Commander Isobel Powell (192095), Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Major (temporary) James Arthur Ramsay (101400), Royal Artillery.

Major (temporary) the Right Honourable Robert John Farquharson, Baron Remnant (48289), Reserve of Officers, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).

Major (temporary) Charles Vezey Edward Rooker, MM (89887), Royal Army Pay Corps.

Major Cyril Arthur Rowland (13240), Royal Indian Army Service Corps.

Major (temporary) Herbert James Saunders (E.C.2412), 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.

Captain Stanley Scudamore, Jamaica Home Guard.

Major (temporary) Gervase Bruce Seaton (E.C.3604), Indian Engineers.

No. 2066380 Warrant Officer Class II Vincent Havelock Sedgwick, Royal Corps of Signals.

Lieutenant Harold Shacklady (154277), Royal Engineers.

Subadar Major Sher Sing Rana (I.O.5972), 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army.

Major (temporary) Denys Hunter Aubrey-Smith (99950), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).

Captain (temporary) Cecil Roland Heathcote-Smith (231598), Intelligence Corps.

Major (temporary) (Deputy Commissary) John Smith (M.E.S.678), Indian Engineers.

Captain J. Snee, MC, Commander of Trinidad Home Guard Unit.

Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Ralph Alfred Erskine Somerville, MC, MM (11975), Reserve of Officers, Royal Artillery.

Major Harold Cecil Soundy, MC, TD (7017), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.

Major Frederick Albert Spencer, MC (4817), Royal Armoured Corps.

No. 159343 Warrant Officer Class I Alan Hewson Steel, Royal Army Service Corps.

No. 103831 Warrant Officer Class I Reginald Tom Stocker, Royal Army Service Corps.

Captain William George Stray (137631), The Durham Light Infantry.

Major (temporary) John Henry Sturgeon (168576), Royal Engineers.

Major (temporary) George William Talbot, BEM (110057), General List.

Captain Hugh Cameron Temple, Superintendent of Police, Swaziland.

Major (temporary) Hugh Berners Thacker (101820), Royal Artillery.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thakar Jawahir Singh, Jodhpur State Forces, Indian Army.

Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) James William Thompson, DCM (275164), Army Cadet Force.

No. 2917 Warrant Officer Class I Walter Henry Thornborough, Royal Army Service Corps.

No. 1859607 Warrant Officer Class I James Alfred Percival Tilsley, Royal Engineers.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Henry John Underhill (EC 1472), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

Major (temporary) William Henry Vickers, AMICE, MIStructE (151501), Royal Engineers.

Captain (Quartermaster) Francis Waddell Waddell (199757), The Essex Regiment.

No. 1059594 Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Walker, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.

Major (temporary) Cecil Victor Wattenbach, MC (100057), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).

No. 725729 Warrant Officer Class I Frederick James West, Pioneer Corps.

Major (temporary) Wilfred Henry White (51780), Reserve of Officers, The Lincolnshire Regiment.

Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Bertie St. Clair Wilks, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

Major (temporary) Gerald Wills (97617), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.

Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Peterkin Charnock-Wilson (62196), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Captain (temporary) Michael Douglas Wimbush (161433), Royal Engineers.

No. 30588 Warrant Officer Glass I May Florence Wise, Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Captain (temporary) Maurice Lascelles Wood (269287), Royal Engineers.

Junior Commander (temporary) Rosamond Helen Woodburn (196346), Auxiliary Territorial Service.

Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Commissary) Thomas Woodcock (O.S. 12), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.

No. 34560 Warrant Officer Class I Stanley Woods, Indian Engineers.

Major Ernest Victor Cash, Australian Military Forces.

Captain Reginald Horace Eades, Australian Military Forces.

Major Henry Lawrence Foster, MC, Australian Military Forces.

Major John Channon Rishworth, Australian Military Forces.

Senior Commander Jean Neill Erwin, New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

Major John Robert Griffin, New Zealand Military Forces.

Warrant Officer Class I John Narbey, New Zealand Military Forces.

Major (temporary) Frank Leonard Rees, New Zealand Military Forces.

Royal Air Force

Wing Commander Thomas Sutherland Mackay (Can/C.6540), RCAF.

Wing Commander William Steele (35246).

Wing Commander Alfred Victor Tarlton (44234).

Wing Commander George Alfred Wells (74835), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Eric Shipworth Benson (81815), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Reginald Chadwick, MC, DCM (113708), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander David Lawrence Clackson (90087), AAF.

Acting Wing Commander John Hector Currie (73865).

Acting Wing Commander Robert Camille Samuel Levy (114363), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Alfred Harold Love (15153), RAFO.

Acting Wing Commander Claude Jess Metcalfe (81497), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander William Herbert Moyles (44240).

Acting Wing Commander Edward May Nicol, DSM (73469), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Cyril William North Raymond (73361), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander Norman Spencer Roupell (183691), RAFVR.

Acting Wing Commander William Osbert Whittick (75376), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader Derek Charles Loseby Chidell (83262), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader Charles Harold Dyson, DFC (40172).

Squadron Leader Frederic Hubert Finnis (115733), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader John Holt (23106).

Squadron Leader John Thompson Lean (74163), RAFVR.

Squadron Leader Albert Lionel Southey, Rhodesian Air Askari Corps.

Acting Squadron Leader John Carruthers Archibald (85438), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Reginald Wesson Ashford (101740), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Monty Morris Berman (101767), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Ernest Richard Bolton (46262).

Acting Squadron Leader Dennis Booth, DFC (117355), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Harold Sydney Clark (44960).

Acting Squadron Leader John Alan Cope (100753), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Reginald Maurice Cracknell (87177), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Maurice Henry Disney (62737), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Robert William Draper (83317), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Norman Cunningham Farries (46745).

Acting Squadron Leader Francis Edward Frayn (77203), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader William Goodridge (45267).

Acting Squadron Leader Higford Singer Griffiths, DFC (106846), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader John Samuel Herring, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.

Acting Squadron Leader Geoffrey Dirk Stewart Horsfall (77958).

Acting Squadron Leader John William Prince Kipps (105917), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader David Livingston (68304), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Hector Munro Louch (84685), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Ernest Arthur Luce (103335), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader John Robert Macgregor (89018), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Lawrence Malec (70442), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Cyril Henry Mathias (74533), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Jack Moore (46379).

Acting Squadron Leader William Richard Morgans (46752).

Acting Squadron Leader Leonard Pagram (47190).

Acting Squadron Leader Charles Henry Palmer (44244).

Acting Squadron Leader Francis Mervyn Panzetta (66412).

Acting Squadron Leader William Albert Redverse Pepper (60408), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Johnstone Bolton Robertson, DFM (44752).

Acting Squadron Leader Arnold Paul Robinson (Can/C.16013), RCAF.

Acting Squadron Leader Cyril William Roebuck (85320), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Herbert Thomas Rushton (64151), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Walter Savory (71865), RAFO.

Acting Squadron Leader Harry Shaw (102324), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Eric Montague Cooper Shipp (73396), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Eric Coupland Spencer (63161), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Robert Taylor (44389).

Acting Squadron Leader Oliver Stuart Todd (78125), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Claude Tokry (78489), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Thomas Ure (82099), RAFVR.

Acting Squadron Leader Edgar James Watts (45034).

Acting Squadron Leader Henry Wilson (136581), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant John Darral Ackerman (N.Z.404113), RNZAF.

Flight Lieutenant James William Archer (63876), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant George Rutherford Damant Atherstone (126840), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cumming Barclay, Southern Rhodesian Air Force.

Flight Lieutenant Christopher Henry Brock (71109), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Charles Edward Brooks (178379), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Gilbert Hamilton Campbell (65433), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant George Douglas Cooper (47600).

Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Cyril Earl (129002), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Ieuan Lynn Richard Evans (109117), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Robert Logan Ewing (138360), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Wilson Gordon Fell (122815), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Vergil Leroy Fiksdal (Can/C.21681), RCAF.

Flight Lieutenant Alan Geoffrey Hardy (137263), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant John Bonar Hodgson (Can/C.9221), RCAF.

Flight Lieutenant James Hood (118125), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Stewart Lockie (85829).

Flight Lieutenant William Mathew Lower (Can/C.8042), RCAF.

Flight Lieutenant William McFaull (Can/C.8116), RCAF.

Flight Lieutenant Stanley Edward Malouf (Can/C.4994), RCAF.

Flight Lieutenant Edward William Merriman, DFM (137289), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant James Robert Mitchell (48859), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Francis William Morgan (86966), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Ross Emil Salvesen (87748), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant Willie Snowden (45611).

Flight Lieutenant Lionel Robert Traill Wasey (120368), RAFVR.

Flight Lieutenant John Whitaker (48998).

Flight Lieutenant Robert Hugh Finlay Whiteside (81531).

Captain Stanley Norman Brace (P.408V), SAAF.

Captain William Albert Gillham (P.763V), SAAF.

Acting Flight Lieutenant William John Bell (Can/C.15953), RCAF.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Stephen Archbold Bergen (52437), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Jack Reginald Blackford (135851), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Alexander George Brand (124375), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Henry Lees Buckley (102949), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Eric Burchmore (49361).

Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles Henry Burder (138674), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Alfred James Cleasby (69032), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant William Edwin Collins (46362).

Acting Flight Lieutenant William Friend (143525), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Anthony Fry (102636), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Alexander Morrison Hearn (120002), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Jack Edward Higgins (48574).

Acting Flight Lieutenant Roy George Huxtable (110381), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Douglas Samuel Jones (110236), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Robert Angus Kerr (112176), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Hugh McGilvray McBryde (108730), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant David William McEwEn (50087).

Acting Flight Lieutenant Joseph Bernard Mahony (51764).

Acting Flight Lieutenant George Edward Marx (66097), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Frederick Norman Maskell (117270), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Edward Joseph Mason (49130).

Acting Flight Lieutenant Arnold Pounds Obank (143636), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant John Frederick Rae (50216).

Acting Flight Lieutenant Frederick Roman (48809).

Acting Flight Lieutenant William Alfred Rumble (139766), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles Abbott Smith (68256), RAFVR.

Acting Flight Lieutenant Ronald Henry Ward (50 80).

Acting Flight Lieutenant Harry Haslam Woodglover (121755), RAFVR.

Acting Captain Vivian Voss (123307V), SAAF.

Flying Officer Roland Millhouse (134878), RAFVR.

Flying Officer David Colyer Nutting (102641), RAFVR.

Flying Officer John Clement Perkins (138579), RAFVR.

Flying Officer Theodore Grimmer Raynham (49523).

Lieutenant Johan Hendrik Dragt (P.449V), SAAF.

Lieutenant Denis Anthony Greyvensteyn (81978V), SAAF.

Warrant Officer William Bennett (366023).

Warrant Officer Eric George Bowden (514439).

Warrant Officer Brian de Burton (590997).

Warrant Officer Cecil James Butler (364478).

Warrant Officer Victor Cecil Carey (506729).

Warrant Officer Frank John Reed Clegg (343916).

Warrant Officer Arthur Leonard Cockerline (248608).

Warrant Officer John James Deslauriers (Can/C.2455), RCAF.

Warrant Officer John Frederick David Godden (560171).

Warrant Officer Norman William Howlett (330861).

Warrant Officer Robert Preston Nelson (364916).

Warrant Officer Edwin Roberts (365610).

Warrant Officer Stanley Frederick Smith (331121).

Warrant Officer James William Sutherland (350265).

Acting Warrant Officer Chriss Alan Higham (513319).

Acting Warrant Officer Ronald George Thomas (551182).

Wing Officer Frances Agnes Joynson Wreford (549), WAAF.

Squadron Officer Lady Dorothy Bowhill (392), WAAF.

Squadron Officer Norah Louise McNeil Warren (241), WAAF.

Flight Officer Agnes Emily Davies (2761), WAAF.

Flight Officer Stella Roy Taylor (1310), WAAF.

Flight Officer Anne Beatrice Walker (1465), WAAF.

Acting Flight Officer Joan Bradbury (4902), WAAF.

Acting Flight Officer Betty Rose Bradford (5570), WAAF.

Squadron Leader Gordon McLeod Andrews, RAAF.

Squadron Leader Robert Barbour, RAAF.

Squadron Leader William Charles Thompson, RAAF.

Flight Lieutenant Henry Charles Hudson, RNZAF.

Section Officer Mary Katrine Loughnan, Royal New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Civil Division

Helen Marion Arbuthnot, British Information Services, New York.

Harvey Donald Barlow, British subject resident in the Belgian Congo.

Eileen Daggett, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office.

Charles Joseph Devey, Head Staff Clerk, Sudan Government.

Violet Froom, British subject resident in Switzerland.

Frederick William John Gale, Managing Director, S.G. Brown Ltd, Watford.

Christos Nicholas Halkias, British Vice-Consul at Salonica.

Madge Hinds, Assistant Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.

Philippa Creighton Levicky, attached to a Department of the Foreign Office.

Lewis Arthur Oates, British Vice-Consul at Miami.

Wilfred Winchester Puleston, British Vice-Consul at La Plata.

Ernest Edward Spurgeon, MVO, Head Chancery Servant at His Majesty's Embassy at Paris.

Estelle Thompson, Headmistress of the English Girls' School at Istanbul.

Francis Herbert Trethewey, British Vice-Consul at Horta.

Herbert William Whyman, British subject resident in Persia.

Richard Edward Wilkinson, British Vice-Consul at Smyrna.

Grace Jardine Balfour, President, Corner Brook Branch, Women's Patriotic Association, Newfoundland.

Margaret Ellen Brittan, Principal, St. Catherine's School, Maseru, Basutoland.

Alice Elizabeth Cheale, Assistant Secretary, Victoria League.

Captain Alfred George Cook. For services in connection with the Branch of the British Empire Service League in Southern Rhodesia.

Henry Burton Crawford, Foreman of Ship repairs, St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland, and formerly Chief Engineer of Coastal Steamers and Refrigerator Engineer, Newfoundland Railway.

Bevis George Gundry, Agricultural Engineer, Department of Agriculture, Southern Rhodesia.

Walter Hughes Halls. For services in connection with the British South Africa Police Regimental Association, Southern Rhodesia.

Lucy Hone, a Member of the Children's Welfare Board, State of South Australia.

Agnes Gait Houston. For services in connection with the work of the Empire Societies War Hospitality Committee in Scotland.

Mabel Charlotte White Jarvis, Honorary Secretary, Salisbury Branch, National War Fund, Southern Rhodesia.

Iris Evelyn McLaggan, of Mahalapye, Bechuanaland Protectorate. For voluntary services on behalf of war charities and women's organisations.

Doris Pemberton Methuen. For valuable work in connection with unofficial Service organisations in Southern Rhodesia.

Wilfred Wallace Osborne, JP. For public and philanthropic services in the City of Hobart, State of Tasmania.

Major Herbert Hubert Rochester, Officer Commanding, British South Africa Police Reserve.

Thomas Henry Woollacott. For municipal and patriotic services in the District of Burra, State of South Australia.

The Reverend Alexander Tulloch Robertson Yuille. For services in connection with the work of the Empire Societies War Hospitality Committee in Scotland.

Dev Priya Bali, LRCP, MRCS, DMRE, Women's Medical Service, Deputy Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals (Women), United Provinces.

Nella Bartlett (Wife of Mr. L. H. Bartlett, OBE, MLA, of the Central Provinces Manganese Ore Co. Ltd.), Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.

Homai Jal Batliwala (Wife of Mr. Jal J. Batliwala, Deputy Chief Accounts Officer (officiating), Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway), Madras.

May Wilson Cox, Queen's Army Schoolmistress, British Army Children's School, Bombay.

Marjorie Beatrice Elphinston (Wife of Mr. C. Elphinston, Messrs. Parry & Co. Ltd.), Madras.

Hope Lucas, Nursing Superintendent, Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospitals, Bangalore.

Deirdre Macfarlane (Wife of Lieutenant Colonel W. Macfarlane of the Seaforth Highlanders), Lady Commandant, Central Command Leave Hostel, Naini Tal, United Provinces.

Solomon David Aaron, Assistant Field Controller of Military Accounts.

John Baldwin, Deputy Superintendent of Police (retired), ARP Controller, Bombay.

Bibhuti Bhushan Banarji, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police (officiating), Orissa.

William Francis Bennett Beale, Superintendent, Special Jail, Berhampore, Murshidabad, Bengal.

William Berry, Professor, Punjab College of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Punjab.

Probhat Kumar Biswas, Civil Assistant Surgeon, Bengal.

William Carruthers, Works Manager, Barsi Light Railway, Kurduwadi, Sholapur District, Bombay.

Subramanian Chakravarthi, Indian Civil Service, Under-Secretary, to the Government of India in the War Transport Department.

Washeswar Nath Datta, Commandant, British Evacuee Camp, Coimbatore.

Frank Arthur Dignum, District Commandant, Hare Street Civic Guards, Bengal.

Captain Fateh Muhammad, Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly, Assistant Recruiting Officer, Gujrat, Punjab.

George Feakins, Officer Supervisor, Quartermaster-General's Branch, General Headquarters, India.

Major Charles Ernest Fox, Deputy Controller of Army Factory Accounts, Calcutta.

Babu Saroj Kumar Ghosh, Provincial Secretary, Boy Scouts Association, Bengal.

Sudhamoy Ghosh, Professor of Chemistry and Physics, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, Bengal.

Charles Hoyle, General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India.

Gordon Noel Jackson, Indian Political Service, lately Political Agent, Kuwait, Persian Gulf.

Thomas Kidd, Deputy Director, Railway Board, New Delhi.

Kunja Behari Mohan Lal, Indian Forest Service, Divisional Forest Officer, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Assam.

Reginald Albert Labern, Officer for War Services Work, Higher Executive Grade, Office of the High Commissioner for India, London.

Madandhari Singh, Zamindar, Village Dharahra, Dinapore Sub-division, Patna District, Bihar.

Ernest William Matthew, Director, Department of Food, Government of India.

Tribhovandas Bhagwandas Merchant, Deputy Controller of Purchase in the Office of the Chief Controller of Purchase (Munitions), Department of Supply, Government of India.

Mohammed Nazir Mirza, BSc. Divisional Engineer, Telephones, Delhi Division, Posts & Telegraphs, New Delhi.

Belmar Krishnamurthy Nanjunda Rao, Tata Air Lines.

Khan Sahib Maulvi Nur Bakhsh, Pleader, Administrator, Dera Ismail Khan Municipality, North-West Frontier Province.

Kenneth Parbery, General Staff Branch, General Headquarters, India.

Khan Bahadur Rustomji Pestonji Patel, Merchant and Contractor, Jamshedpur, Bihar.

Captain Francis Fenwick Pearson, Indian Political Service, lately Under-Secretary, Political Department, India.

Beni Pershad, Advocate, Ambala City, Punjab.

Frank Harold Pomphrey, Director of Music, His Excellency the Governor's Band, Madras.

Vilhelm Schielderup Risoe, Director, Electrical Engineering, Department of Supply, Govern