1946 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Archibald William Blair – senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court.
• James Fletcher – of Wellington. For public services.
• The Honourable William Perry – member of the War Cabinet and of the War Council.

  Order of the Bath

Knight Commander (KCB)

• Lieutenant-General Edward Puttick – New Zealand Military Forces.

  Companion (CB)

• Brigadier Leonard George Goss – New Zealand Military Forces.

  Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• Carl August Berendsen – New Zealand Minister to the United States of America, formerly permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department, Secretary of External Affairs and Secretary to the War Cabinet.

  Companion (CMG)

• Bernard Carl Ashwin – Secretary to the Treasury.
• John Henry Boyes – Public Service Commissioner.
• Cyril George Collins – formerly Controller and Auditor-General.
• Ernest Marsden – Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Francis Raymond Picot – Commissioner of Supply.

  Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander (KBE)

• Alfred Clarke Turnbull – Administrator of the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa.

• Major-General Fred Thompson Bowerbank – New Zealand Medical Corps.
• Air Vice-Marshal Leonard Monk Isitt – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Commander (CBE)

• Andrew Henson Allen. For patriotic, and social welfare services during his period of office as mayor of Dunedin.
• John Andrew Charles Allum – mayor of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Ernest Herbert Andrews – mayor of Christchurch. For social welfare and patriotic services.
• Eugene Casey – formerly general manager, Railways Department.
• Denis Joseph Cummings – Commissioner of Police.
• George Andrew Duncan – director, Export Division, Marketing Department.
• David Emmet Fouhy – official secretary to the Governor-General.
• George Arthur Hayden – secretary, National Patriotic Fund Board.
• James Stanley Hunter – Director of National Service and of the Organisation for National Development.
• William Marshall. For services to industry and commerce.
• Frederick Millett Sherwood – private secretary to the Minister of Defence.
• The Honourable Vincent Aubrey Ward – a Member of the Legislative Council. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• John George Young – formerly Director-General, Post and Telegraph Department.

• Group Captain Trevor Watts White – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Group Captain Gordon Hamish Martin Pirie – Royal Air Force.

  Officer (OBE)

• Annie Constance Affleck – inspector, Office of the Public Service Commissioner.
• Lillian Banks – matron, Palmerston North Public Hospital, and president of the Registered Nurses Association.
• Mary Jane Bentley – of Wellington. For services in organising women's war movements.
• John Balmain Brooke. For services in connection with the production of munitions.
• Cyril Blake Burdekin – a member of the staff of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London. For services to the New Zealand prisoners of war organisation.
• Colonel Frederick William Burton – field secretary, and secretary of the War Services Committee of the Salvation Army.
• Ronald Alan Candy – a member of the National Council of Primary Production.
• Hector Christie. For patriotic and social welfare services in connection with the organisation of the Boy Scouts movement.
• The Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas Frederick Connolly – chairman of the Catholic Services War Fund Board.
• Robert Darroch – secretary, Navy League War Council.
• David Alexander Ewen – a member of the Supply Council.
• Charles Stuart Falconer – chairman, War Services Committee, Young Men's Christian Association.
• Clarence Richard Charles Gardiner. For patriotic and social welfare work on behalf of members of the New Zealand Armed Forces in India during the war.
• Elizabeth May Knox-Gilmer – of Wellington; chairwoman of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild.
• Everard Robert Cranston Gilmour – chairman of the New Plymouth Patriotic Council.
• Israel Joseph Goldstine – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Len Joseph Greenberg – of the National Service Department.
• James Norman Greenland – a member of the Supply Council.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Campbell Hemphill. For valuable public service in relation to the Māori war effort.
• Thomas William Hercock – chairman of the Hawkes Bay Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Ailsa Craig Dalhousie Hislop – of Wellington. For services in connection with social welfare movements for women in the armed forces and industry.
• Alfred Joseph Hutchinson – of Auckland. For services to the blind.
• George Henry Jackson – a member of the Supply Council.
• Bertram Joseph Jacobs – president of the New Zealand Returned Services Association. For valuable services in connection with the welfare of servicemen.
• Alexander Howat Johnstone. For services in relation to the war effort.
• Arthur Selwyn Kempthorne – secretary of the Church of England Military Affairs Committee.
• John Craigie Kirkness – mayor of Oamaru. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Augustus Edward Mansford – mayor of Palmerston North. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Robert Whiteford Marshall – director of the New Zealand Supply Mission in the United States of America.
• William Walter Mulholland – president of the Farmers' Union.
• Charles Norman Machell Watson-Munro – director of the Radio Development Laboratory, Scientific and Industrial Research Department.
• Edgar Rollo Neale – chairman of the Nelson Provincial Patriotic Council and member of the Nelson Patriotic Fund Board.
• Walter Richard Newall – of Wellington. For services in connection with the national savings campaign.
• Robert Hamilton Nimmo. For patriotic and social welfare services during the war.
• Charles Henry Tarr Palmer – president of the Navy League in the City of Auckland.
• George Pascoe – of Wellington; factory controller.
• Robert Everett Price – a member of the Waterfront Control Commission.
• Algernon Instone Rainbow – chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Hastings.
• Barbara Reid – of Wellington. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the armed forces.
• Violet Agnes Russell. For honorary services rendered in connection with canteen and hospital work to members of the New Zealand forces in London during the war.
• Sidney Rattery Skinner – naval affairs officer for New Zealand in London.
• Thomas Norman Smallwood. For services in connection with the national savings campaign.
• Joseph Thomas Spears – of Wellington. For services to New Zealand prisoners of war.
• Kingi Tahiwi. For services in connection with the organisation of the Māori war effort.
• James Ewing Thomas – Foods Rationing Controller.
• Abraham Wachner – mayor of Invercargill. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Charles Gilbert White. For services to the New Zealand Red Cross Society.
• Leonard John Wild – principal of Feilding Agricultural High School, and a member of the National Council of Primary Production.
• Donald Macdonald Wilson. For services to the Casualty Clearing Hospital in the City of Wellington.
• Rupert Samuel Wogan. For public services throughout the war.

• Acting Commander John Churchill Elworthy – Royal Navy.
• Hermione Ruth Herrick – chief officer, Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas George Ball – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Colonel Arthur Bongard – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Archer Breach – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred John Coutts – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ernest Erridge – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Allen Hogan – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Mothes – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Caswall John Walter Parsons – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Hugh Phillipps – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Donald Swan – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Colonel Donald George Wallace – New Zealand Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Waine Washbourn – New Zealand Dental Corps.
• Matron Katherine Sybil Williams – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Group Captain Frederick Russell Chisholm – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Commander Edward Caradus – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Wing Commander John Matthias Gamble – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Wing Officer Elsie Naomi Carlyon – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

  Member (MBE)

• Joseph Abel. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Rebecca Isobel Victoria Aitken. For services to the Red Cross.
• Etta Elaine Allen. For services in connection with women's patriotic activities.
• Annie Allum. For services in connection with women's patriotic activities.
• Margaret Andrews. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Rose Appleton – a member of the Lady Gaiway Patriotic Guild.
• Dorothy Annie Atmore. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• George John Blake Barber. For public services during the war.
• Margaret Mills Barclay. For services to the munitions industry.
• Doris Laura Barton. For services in organising woman's war activities.
• Jean Blacker – of Auckland. For public services during the war.
• Thomas Francis Patey Briggs – shipping officer, Naval Store Department, His Majesty's New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
• Ernest Escort Brooking – a member of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the Wellington Metropolitan Committee.
• Madeline Harriett Ledwell Browne – confidential typist, Prime Minister's Department.
• Margaret Sheila Bull – of Gisborne. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• Blanche Nima Burke. For voluntary services in London on behalf of New Zealand prisoners of war.
• James Leslie Burnett – of Whakatāne. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• Margaret Campbell – of Auckland. For patriotic services.
• Mabel Castle – organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
• Charles Nicholas Cathie – of Wellington. For services to war industries.
• Gladys Chapman. For services in connection with women's war movements in the Hamilton district.
• Fred Evans Chappell – secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Trentham Military Camp.
• Jean Olgar Christianson – of Christchurch. For services to the munitions industry.
• Laurence Hugh Clapham. For patriotic and social welfare work during the war.
• Ada Vera Cocker – of Auckland. For services in connection with women's war movements.
• Agnes Connolly – of Dunedin. For services in connection with women's war activities.
• Doris Crawford – of Hastings. For social welfare services.
• Helen Iris Crooke – head of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Division.
• George William Dell – of Christchurch. For patriotic and social welfare work.
• Annie Jean Dickinson. For services to the Casualty Clearing Hospital in the City of Wellington.
• Mary Manson Dreaver – of Auckland. For services in connection with recruiting for the Women's Land Army.
• The Reverend Arthur Rowley Ebbs. For social welfare services rendered to members of the New Zealand forces in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Hewitt Edwards – of Auckland. For services to war industries.
• Arthur Richard Elcock – chairman of the Westland Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Mary Ann Ellen. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Annie Allan, Lady Elliott – of Wellington. For services to the Order of St John.
• Beryl Inez Ellis. For services in connection with the Patriotic Hut, Hamilton.
• Grace Mac Adam Evans. For services to the Red Cross.
• Elizabeth Maud Faithfull. For services to the Red Cross Emergency Precautions Service.
• Linda Ferguson. For social welfare services rendered to members of the New Zealand forces in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Jeanie Gardner Fougere. For services to women's war organisations.
• Meta Frances Fussell. For social welfare and patriotic work during the war.
• Ethel Marion Gould – of Auckland. For social welfare services to members of the New Zealand Military Forces.
• Laurie Oliver Hall. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Arthur Merlin Harding – New Zealand Police Force. For services rendered in relation to aliens prior to, and during the period of the war.
• Marie Henrietta Hargest – of Invercargill. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Minnie Gregory Havelaar – of Christchurch. For services in organising women's war movements.
• Mabel Roseline Heaphy. For services as organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
• Ottoline Valerie Hole – commandant, Red Cross Transport Organisation, City of Wellington.
• Elsie Mary Hyslop – of Upper Hutt. For patriotic services during the war.
• Violet Ivy Inkster – chairman, Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• William Montrose Jenkins – honorary secretary, Gisborne Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Agnes Gilmour Kent-Johnston – of Hastings. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Frederick Johnson – assistant secretary, Department of Industry and Commerce, and deputy chairman of the Linen Flax Management Committee.
• William Jones – mayor and chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Council, Whangārei.
• Edith Miriam Jordan – of Masterton. For patriotic and social welfare services during the war.
• Betty Marion Kensington – records clerk, HM New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
• Mary Josephine Killery – of Petone. For patriotic services.
• Frederick Arthur Kitchingham – chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Greymouth.
• Ella Fernie Logie – of Lower Hutt. For social welfare services during the war.
• Geraldine Emily Luckie – of Wellington, a member of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild.
• Marie Agnes Malempre – secretary, Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Laurel Grace Barker McAlister – of Timaru; a member of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Elizabeth Hazel McCaldon – of Kaiapoi. For public services during the war.
• Ivy McCready – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• James Duncan McGuire – an instructor at St Dunstans, City of Auckland.
• Captain Francis Arthur McIndoe – of Wellington. For social welfare work on behalf of members of the Merchant Navy.
• Christina McKane – of Greymouth. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Margaret Elizabeth Meek – of Napier. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Amy Gladys Miller – Dominion superintendent of voluntary aids, Order of St John, New Zealand.
• Frank Mitchell – honorary secretary, Nelson Provincial Patriotic Council.
• Ellen Constance Morice – honorary secretary, Air Force Relations, City of Wellington.
• Walter George Neild. For services in connection with patriotic movements.
• Maisie Amelia Nobel. For public services.
• William Henry Paul. For patriotic and social welfare services on behalf of members of the forces in the Hamilton district.
• Teresa Margaret Peckston. For services in connection with the organisation of the obstetrical section, St John Voluntary Aids Division.
• Mary Victoria Cracroft Polson. For services in connection with recruiting of the Women's Land Army.
• Reuben Charles Porter – of Auckland. For services to war industries.
• Daisy Vida Chalmers Pottinger – of Dunedin. For services in connection with women's patriotic and social welfare activities during the war.
• Julie Robertson – of Gisborne. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Helen Victoria Ross. For services as organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
• Record Reign Ross – of Hamilton. For public services during the war.
• William Douglas Sanders – of Blenheim. For services to the linen flax industry.
• Ethel May Scott, of Wanganui. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Rose Elizabeth Seddon. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Mary Phydlis Franklyn Shallcrass – of Greymouth. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Eileen Mary Smith – of Blenheim. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Tom Smith. For services in organising entertainments for members of the armed forces.
• George Sparry. For services in connection with ship repairs, Auckland.
• Percy Vernon Esmond Stainton. For patriotic and social welfare services in the New Plymouth district.
• Edward Albert Stevenson. For services in relation to the war effort.
• Frank Emanuel Sutherland. For services in connection with the national savings campaign.
• Tuoro Tango. For services in connection with Māori patriotic activities at Rotorua.
• Percy Thomson – chairman, Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Stratford.
• Olive Thorburn – honorary secretary, Waipukurau Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Hinehon Tureia – of Gisborne. For patriotic and social, welfare services.
• Hilda Tweedy – of Timaru. For services in connection with the reception and welfare of sick and wounded prisoners of war.
• Flora Amy August Urquhart. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the forces at Papakura Military Camp.
• Fay Vernon, of Christchurch. For services to the Red Cross.
• Mary Karaka Waitioi – of Rotorua. For patriotic and social welfare services.
• Edward George Walkinshaw. For public services during the war.
• Charlotte Eliot Warburton – chairwoman, Palmerston North branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Anne Whitaker – of Auckland. For patriotic services during the war, especially in connection with women's movements and the national savings campaign.
• Charles Richardson White – town clerk, Wanganui.
• Clementina Margaret Wilkinson – of Tauranga. For services to the Red Cross and other patriotic organisations.
• Mabel Helen Wilson Wilkinson. For services in connection with women's patriotic organisations in the Eltham district.
• Ada Kathleen Wilson. For services in connection with the Te Kuiti branch of the Women's' War Service Auxiliary.
• Jessie Banks Wilson – of Oamaru. For services in connection with women's war activities.

• Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Richard Blampied – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.
• Cyril Carr – senior master, Royal Navy.
• Mary Eleanor Chesney – third officer, Women's Royal New Zealand Navy Service.
• Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Leslie Cross – Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• Temporary Lieutenant Arthur Lovat Fraser – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.
• Leslie Samuel George Martin, – temporary warrant engineer, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Commander Wybrante Olphert – Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• John Norman Richards – temporary warrant writer officer, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Richard Tudor Roberts – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.
• Temporary Lieutenant William Williamson – Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• Captain Robert William Borland – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain William Edmonds – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain Percival Nowall Erridge – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain William Charles Francis – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant Arthur William Herbert Gally – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Senior Commander Dorothy May Hawkins – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Major Geoffrey Hardurn Heal – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Charge Sister Margaret Hitchcock – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Major Alan Holmes – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major William James Birss Hunter – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Francis John Martin – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Warrant Officer Class I Thomas William Page – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Robert Harry Perrett – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Hans Christian Frithjof Peterson – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Honorary Captain Charles Pike – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Gavin Eugene Pollock – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain William Vincent Quane – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain James Laurence Oliphant-Rowe – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain Harry Gordon Remshardt Sedgley – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain William Frederick Sellen – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major Benjamin William Henry Smart – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain Eden William Smith – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain Albert De Bolton Peel Steward – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Senior Commander Mary Eulalie Whyte – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Major John Albert Worsnop – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Squadron Leader George Frederick Chippendale – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Murray Davy Nairn – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Alwyn Palmer – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Bruce Robert Rae – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Cecil William Franks – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Philip Edward Laughton-Bramley – Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Squadron Leader Rawlings William McSkimming – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Maurice Leonard Pirie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant John Ronald Day – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice Colin Kain – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant James Douglas Mackay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Flight Lieutenant James Francis Sharkey – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Claude Patrick Perrett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer William Arthur Everson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Rex Bernard Robins – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Albert William Andrews – shipwright, naval base, City of Auckland.
• Helena Marian Barnard – of Island Bay. For welfare services.
• George William Conmee – chargeman, Naval Armament Depot, naval base, City of Auckland.
• Nancy Ellaby Cotterill – secretary, Women's Representative Committee, National Patriotic Fund, Gisborne.
• Leone Gertrude de Zoete Coventry – secretary, Gore branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Kathaine Mary Deans – of Darfield. For welfare services to the Merchant Navy.
• Catherine Gaw – honorary secretary, Te Aroha branch of the Patriotic Committee.
• Margaret Colleen Groom – of Wellington; assistant to the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board.
• Ophir Hallam – member of the Women's War Service Auxiliary, Wanganui.
• Pirihira Heketa – of Wellington. For welfare services.
• Victor Hamilton Humphreys – process worker, Ellerslie.
• William Percy Huggins – in charge of workshop, Radio Development Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Merva Sheldon Jeune – secretary, Fairlie branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Isabella Olive Grace Jones – secretary, Putāruru branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
• Eric Donald McRae – foreman of machine shop, Dominion Physical Laboratory, Auckland.
• Eve Winifred Moore – of Auckland. For welfare services.
• Sergeant Albert Edward Naulls – senior orderly, Government House.
• Reginald Henry Nees – head storeman, Radio Development Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• John Penfold – of Ruatoria. For welfare services.
• Peter John Hope Purvis – member of the staff of the Governor-General.
• Kai Rewai. For services to the Ngāti Ōtautahi Māori Club, City of Christchurch.
• Gertrude Lucy Stitchbury – of Lowry Bay. For welfare services.
• Hiria Tangaere – of Rangitukia. For welfare services.
• William John Taylor – of Timaru. For welfare services.
• Joyce Alma Warner – chargehand, Ford Factory, Karaka Creek, Thames.
• Kenneth Wells – motorman able seaman, New Zealand Barque Pamir.

• Chief Petty Officer Leslie James Elliott – Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• Temporary Petty Officer Arthur Robert Everitt – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Leading Signalman Reginald Percy Vincent Hayter – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Writer Robert Turner Bywater Lutman – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Acting Leading Seaman Ernest Martin – Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Petty Officer Kennedy Welton Sparke – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Leading Seaman Walter Thomson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Ernest Alfred Tibbenham – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff Sergeant Walter Eric Appleby – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Warrant Officer Class I Albert Victor Calder – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant James Carson – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant William James Diack – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Warrant Officer Class I George Fitzgerald – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant John Reginald Hay – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Sergeant James Higgins – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant Joy Higgins – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Sergeant Ambrose Charles Hurdsfield – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant Horace Haines McCullough – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Sergeant Frederick Augustus Pitt – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Warrant Officer Class I Edward Arthur Preston – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant Matthew Spence – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff Sergeant Leslie George Tyrie – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Sergeant Raymond Metton Underwood – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Sergeant Robert Hay Watson – New Zealand Dental Corps.
• Acting Warrant Officer Raymond Leonard Woodfield – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Charles William Cooper – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flijght Sergeant James McArthur Grant – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant John Curtise Henry – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant John Leonard Logan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant John Errol McNeill – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant George Raymond Patton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Senior Sergeant June Purser – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
• Sergeant George Noel Dew – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Percy Thomas Hurn – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Eileen Daisy Owen – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
• Leading Aircraftman Ian Burke – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

  Royal Red Cross

Associate (ARRC)

• Charge Sister Jane Kiritapu Nepia – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
• Eva Jane Beales – British Red Cross Society.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Acting Wing Commander Lloyd Hern Parry – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Jonas William Henry Lett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Graham Carrick Martin – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Frederick Jacobsen – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Henry Keith Patience – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant John Herbert Penney – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Charles Alexander McDonald – Royal New Zealand Air Force.