1951 Birthday Honours

British Empire

Baron

• Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg,, Governor-General of New Zealand.
• Alderman Valentine La Touche McEntee,, Member of Parliament for West Walthamstow, 1922-1924 and 1929-1950. For political and public services.
• Ernest Albert Whitfield,. For political and public services.

  Privy Councillor

• David Rhys Grenfell,, Member of Parliament for the Gower Division of Glamorganshire since 1922. Secretary for Mines, 1940-1942. For political and public services.
• The Honourable Kenneth Gilmour Younger,, Member of Parliament for Grimsby since 1945. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1947-50. Minister of State since 1950.

  Baronet

• Alderman Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, Lord Mayor of London.

  Knight Bachelor

• David Anderson,, Senior Partner, Mott, Hay and Anderson.
• George Wilfrid Anson,, Deputy Chairman, Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd.
• Gerald Reid Barry, Director-General, Festival of Britain, 1951.
• Ernest Bullock,, Gardiner Professor of Music in the University of Glasgow, and Principal, Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Glasgow.
• Christopher John Chancellor,, General Manager, Reuters Ltd.
• Osmund Somers Cleverly,, Permanent Commissioner of Crown Lands.
• Albert Cecil Dawes,, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Education.
• Roger Duncalfe, Chairman of the British Standards Institution.
• Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans,, Emeritus Professor of Physiology, University of London.
• Lieutenant-General John Fullerton Evetts, , Head of United Kingdom Ministry of Supply Staff in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Reginald Daniel Fennelly,, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Ernest Frederick Finch,. For services to surgery and medical education.
• Edward Otho Glover, Chairman, Cheshire County Council.
• George Rostrevor Hamilton, Presiding Special Commissioner of Income Tax, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Bernard Guy Harrison, Chairman, Harrison & Sons Ltd. Member of Council, London Master Printers Association.
• Reginald John Hodges, General Manager and Secretary, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
• Councillor William Ernest George Johnston,, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
• Sydney Charles Thomas Littlewood, Chairman, Legal Aid Committee of The Law Society.
• Lionel Harold Harvey Lowe,, Member of the National Coal Board.
• John William McNee,, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow.
• John Ure Primrose, Lord Provost of Perth.
• Eric Keightley Rideal,, Professor of Chemistry, King's College London. President of the Chemical Society.
• Richard Snedden,, General Manager, Shipping Federation and International Shipping Federation.
• Captain Henry Study,, Chief Constable, West Riding of Yorkshire.
• Godfrey Seymour Tearle. For services to the dramatic profession.
• Henry William Hugh Warren,, Managing Director, Associated Electrical Industries Ltd.
• Harold Herbert Williams,. For services to local government in Hertfordshire and to bibliography.
• John Lias Cecil Cecil-Williams, Honorary Secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.
• James Reid Young, Director, Vickers Ltd., and Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.

• The Honourable Albert Eli Lind,. For public services.

• Philip Santo Messent,, Director of Surgical Studies, Adelaide University.

• The Honourable Harold Seddon, President of the Legislative Council.

• Henry Ernest Turner,, Secretary of the Commonwealth Press Union.

• Oswald Lawrence Bancroft, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Bahamas.
• John William Cox,, Speaker of House of Assembly, Bermuda.
• Dudley Gordon Leacock. For public services in Barbados.
• Ernest Rex Edward Surridge,, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Tanganyika.
• Stafford William Powell Foster-Sutton,, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice designate, Federation of Malaya.

  Order of the Bath

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

• General Sir John Harding,,, late Infantry.

• Sir Norman Craven Brook,, Secretary of the Cabinet.

  Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral Alexander Cumming Gordon Madden,.
• General Sir Leslie Chasemore Hollis,, Royal Marines.

• General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, , late Infantry, Colonel, The Royal Irish Fusiliers.
• Major-General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, , late The Life Guards.

• Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot,.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd,.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir George Clark Pirie,.

• Thomas Downing Kendrick,, Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum.
• Sir Edwin Noel Plowden,, Chief Planning Officer, HM Treasury.

  Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Rear-Admiral Edward Michael Conolly Abel Smith,.
• Rear-Admiral Sydney Brown.
• Rear-Admiral Ian Murray Robertson Campbell,
• Rear-Admiral Archibald Day,.
• Rear-Admiral Hugh Webb Faulkner,.
• Rear-Admiral Reginald Maurice James Hutton,.
• Rear-Admiral Sydney Moffat Raw,.
• Rear-Admiral John Felgate Stevens,

• Brigadier Basil Charles Davey, , late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Brigadier Cecil Leonard Basil Duke, , late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Charles Edward Anson Firth, , late Infantry.
• Major-General George Frederick Johnson, , late Foot Guards.
• Major-General Stanley William Joslin, , Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Major-General John Mandeville Macfie, , late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Reginald Laurence Scoones, , late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major-General Anthony Gerald O'Carroll Scott, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Stephen Newton Shoosmith, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier Eric Keir Gilborne Sixsmith, , late Infantry.
• Major-General George Alexander Neville Swiney, , Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Major-General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, , late Infantry.
• Major-General Percival Napier White, , late Infantry.

• Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Geoffrey Bowler,,.
• Air Vice-Marshal Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth,.
• Air Vice-Marshal Somerled Douglas Macdonald,.
• Air Commodore Owen Washington de Putron,.
• Air Commodore Andrew McKee,.
• Air Commodore Wilfred Wynter-Morgan,.

• Ernest Edmond Bailey,, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Harold Robert Camp, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Ian Vincent Hamilton Campbell, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
• William Arthur Harvey Druitt, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Department of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Edward Michael Tyndall Firth, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health.
• Colonel John Linnaeus French,, Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Essex.
• Victor Martin Reeves Goodman,, Reading Clerk and Principal Clerk, Judicial Office, House of Lords.
• Thomas Emlyn Harris,, Chief Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factory, Woolwich.
• Colonel Frank Hibbert,, Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Lancaster.
• George Fletcher Riley Marsh, Director of Stores, Admiralty.
• Gilbert John Nash, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Hugh Ellis-Rees,, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury.
• William Thomas,, Chief Inspector for Wales, Ministry of Education.
• Hugh Edmund Watts,, HM Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office.
• John Robert Willis,, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.

  Order of Merit (OM)

• Professor George Edward Moore,.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye,, High Commissioner in India for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
• Sir Alexander Grantham,, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong.
• Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd,, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• Sir Edmund Leo Hall-Patch,, Permanent United Kingdom Representative on the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation at Paris.

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

• Geoffrey Fletcher Clay,, Agricultural Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Sir Herbert Ralph Hone,, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, North Borneo.
• Christopher Eden Steel,, Minister at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
• Christopher Frederick Ashton Warner,, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium.
• Michael Robert Wright,, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Oslo.

• Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah,, ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin, His Highness the Sultan of Terengganu, Federation of Malaya.

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

• Edgar Abraham Cohen, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Robert Stewart Crawford, Assistant Secretary, Foreign Office, German Section.
• Hubert Alexander Gill, Chartered Patent Agent. For services at international conferences on industrial property.
• Leslie Benton Green,, Tea Controller for India, Ministry of Food.
• Arthur Patterson, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance. For services in negotiating reciprocal agreements with other Governments.
• Herbert John Seddon,, Member of the Colonial Advisory Medical Committee. Clinical Director of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
• Robert Richardson Burnett,, Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
• Ferdinand Caire Drew,, Under-Treasurer, State of South Australia.
• Robert Gordon Aikman, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Sarawak.
• Robert Edmund Alford, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Zanzibar.
• Geoffrey Bernard Beckett, Member for Agriculture & Natural Resources, Northern Rhodesia.
• Wilfred Henry Chinn, Adviser on Social Welfare to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• John Merrill Cruikshank,, Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Fiji, and Inspector-General, South Pacific Health Service.
• William Evans. For public services in Kenya.
• John William Field,, Colonial Medical Service, Director, Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya.
• Hugh Brown Hamilton. For public services in Kenya.
• Eric Himsworth, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Nigeria.
• Reginald Harry Saloway,, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary and Minister of Defence & External Affairs, Gold Coast.
• Cyril Charles Spencer. Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Uganda.
• Ivor Herbert Evelyn Joseph Stourton,, Colonial Police Service, Commissioner of Police, Nigeria.
• Ambler Reginald Thomas, Establishment and Organisation Officer, Colonial Office.
• Brigadier James Francis Benoy,, Deputy Director-General, Foreign Office, Administration of African Territories.
• Colonel Geoffrey Ronald Codrington,, Head of the Conference and Supply Department, Foreign Office.
• Michael Cavenagh Gillett, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Peking.
• Paul Francis Grey, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Lisbon.
• Kenneth Davis Druitt Henderson, Governor, Darfur Province, Sudan.
• Charles Alan Gerald de Jussieu Meade, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
• Thomas Godric Aylett Muntz,, Head of the Economic Relations Department, Foreign Office.
• Harold Wilfrid Armine Freese-Pennefather, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Rangoon.
• Thomas Corney Ravensdale, Political Adviser to the British Resident, Benghazi, Cyrenaica, lately Oriental Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Cairo.
• John Walker,, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Tehran.
• George Peregrine Young, Head of the Western Department, Foreign Office.

• Sharif Husein,, bin Ahmed Am Muhsin Al Habili, Regent to the Sharif of Beihan, Aden.

  Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Major Michael Edward Adeane,.
• Sir Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter,.
• Geoffrey Sydney Todd,.

  Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Alexander Greig Anderson,.
• George Ritchie Mather Cordiner,.
• Harold Roberts.
• James William Watkins,.

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

• Major Michael Babington Charles Hawkins,.

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

• Charles George Drake.
• Lilian Edith Gascon Luker.

  Order of the British Empire

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

• General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, , late Infantry, Colonel, The Black Watch.

• The Right Honourable Robert Alexander, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. For services to the Arts.

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

• Florence May Hancock,, National Woman Officer, Transport & General Workers Union.
• Professor Hilda Nora Lloyd,, President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
• Professor Lillian Margery Penson,, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
• The Honourable Florence Cardell-Oliver, Minister for Health, and Supply and Shipping, State of Western Australia.

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

• Vice-Admiral Henry William Urquhart McCall,.
• Rear-Admiral William Scarlett Jameson,.

• Lieutenant-General Charles Falkland Loewen, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-General Euan Alfred Bews Miller, , late Infantry.
• Major-General Cecil Miller Smith, , late Royal Army Service Corps.

• Air Marshal Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman,.
• Acting Air Marshal John Nelson Boothman,.

• Sir Frederick William Leggett,. For services relating to the conditions of industrial employment.
• Alfred Sutherland Le Maitre,, Controller of Ground Services, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• Hamish Duncan Maclaren,, Director of Electrical Engineering, Admiralty.
• The Right Honourable Thomas Godfrey Polson, Baron Rowallan,, Chief Scout, British Commonwealth & Empire.
• William Kershaw Slater,, Secretary, Agricultural Research Council.
• Sir Percival Waterfield,, lately First Commissioner, Civil Service Commission.
• Charles Cecil George Cumings, Legal Secretary, Sudan Government.
• Robert Allason Furness,, British subject resident in Egypt.
• Alexander Swinton Paterson,, Senior Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments.
• Sir John Harry Barclay Nihill,, Colonial Legal Service, President of the East African Court of Appeal.
• John Leonard Worlledge,, Director General of Colonial Audit.

  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Acting Captain The Honourable Richard Duke Coleridge,,
• Colonel Richard Frank Cornwall,, Royal Marines.
• Captain Clement Edward Glenister,.
• Rear-Admiral Humfrey John Bradley Moore.
• Captain Kenyon Harry Terrell Peard,.
• Acting Captain Montague Christopher Teasdale-Buckell,

• Brigadier John Edmund Alexander Baird, , Employed List.
• Colonel Joseph Hector Dealy Bennett, , late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Brigadier Harry Haywood Blanchard, , Royal Pioneer Corps.
• Brigadier Henry Patrick Cavendish, DSO, , late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Brigadier William Thomas Cobb, , Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Colonel William Alexander Duncan Drummond, , late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Brigadier Cecil Llewellyn Firbank, , late Infantry.
• Brigadier Eneas Henry George Grant, , late Infantry.
• Colonel Cecil Tait Hutchison, , Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier Walter Watson Alexander Loring. Special List .
• Brigadier Alexander George Victor Paley,, , late Infantry.
• Brigadier Ernest Merrill Ransford, late Infantry.
• Colonel and Chief Paymaster Owen Patrick James Rooney, , Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Brigadier Edwin Kenneth Page, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Commander, Caribbean Area.

• Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Barnes,.
• Air Commodore Hugh Hamilton Brookes,.
• Air Commodore John Darcy Baker-Carr,.
• Group Captain Denis Ivor Coote.
• Group Captain John Norman Jefferson.
• Group Captain William Maxwell Cassilis Kennedy.
• Group Captain Ernest Lawrence Geoffrey Le Dieu,.
• Group Captain Mervyn Francis Douglas Williams,.

• Patrick Aherne, Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department.
• James Alexander, General Manager and Secretary, Belfast Harbour Commissioners.
• Lionel George Helmore Alldridge,, Alderman, Birmingham City Council.
• Joseph Herbert Alpass, Member of Parliament for Bristol Central, 1929-1931, and for the Thornbury Division of Gloucestershire, 1945-1950. For political and public services.
• Stanley Anderson,, Engraver.
• Captain Albert Andrew Andrews,, Controller, Sailors', Soldiers' & Airmen's Families Association.
• Peggy Ashcroft, Actress.
• William George Askew,, Secretary, St. Dunstan's. For services to the blind.
• Charles Herbert Aslin,, County Architect of Hertfordshire.
• William Ringrose Gelston Atkins,, Head of Department of General Physiology, Plymouth Laboratory, Marine Biological Association.
• Isobel Baillie, Soprano.
• Thomas MacDonald Baker,, Solicitor to the Metropolitan Police.
• Frank Barraclough, Chief Education Officer, North Riding of Yorkshire.
• Thomas Beaton,, Medical Superintendent, St James' Hospital, Portsmouth.
• John Colburn Bennett, Director, Henry Gardner & Co. Ltd.
• Edmund Cecil Bevers,, lately Chairman, United Oxford Hospitals.
• Andrew Black, Director of Acquisitions, British Transport Commission.
• Harry Richard Blanford,, Editor-Secretary, Empire Forestry Association.
• Edmund Charles Blunden,, Author.
• Harry Bradley, Director of Research, British Boot, Shoe and Allied Trades Research Association.
• William Kenneth Brasher,, Secretary, Institution of Electrical Engineers.
• Alastair Henry Bruce,, President, British Paper & Board Manufacturers' Association.
• Hugh Hanton Burness,, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education.
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, Author.
• Air Commodore Richard Cadman,, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Vice-Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Glamorgan.
• Arthur Gemmell Carswell,, Chairman, Cheshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Harold Thomas Chapman,, Managing Director, Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd., Coventry.
• Henry Buckley Charlton,, Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester.
• Walter Henry Chatten,, Assistant Director of Dockyards, Admiralty.
• Walter George Clements,, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
• Alexander Cree,, Regional Controller, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Edward Crowther,, Chairman, Northern Gas Board.
• Professor Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson,, Reader in Meteorology, University of Oxford.
• George Foster Earle, Chairman and a Managing Director, Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd.
• Alan Neville East,, Chief Engineering Inspector, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Frank Sandford Eastwood, Chairman of the Licensing Authorities for Public Service and Goods Vehicles, Yorkshire Area, Ministry of Transport.
• John Wilson Elliott, Chairman, Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd.
• Arthur James Espley,. For services as a member of Courts of Inquiry under the Industrial Courts Act.
• Evan Stanley Evans,, Chairman, Queen Elizabeth Training College for the Disabled, Leatherhead.
• Alfred John Fairbank, Calligrapher.
• Margot Fonteyn. For services to the ballet.
• Colonel Jesse Gardiner, Regional Director, Scotland, General Post Office.
• George William Hoggan Gardner,, Director of Guided Weapons Research & Development, Ministry of Supply.
• Leslie Harold Gorsuch, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Alderman Archibald Cozens-Hardy. For public services in Norfolk.
• George William Harriman,, Deputy Managing Director, Austin Motor Co. Ltd.
• Frank Young Henderson,, Director, Forest Products Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Henry Andrews Hepburn,, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Professor Austin Bradford Hill,, Consultant in Medical Statistics to the Royal Air Force.
• Ernest John Holland,, Director of Army Contracts, War Office.
• Leonard James Hooper, Foreign Office.
• Alan Dudley Hough,, lately Senior Assistant Controller, Paper Control, Board of Trade.
• Leonard Howles,, Chairman, South Wales Electricity Board.
• Brigadier Reginald Vernon Hume,, Deputy Land Commissioner, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Professor Daniel Thomson Jack, Chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne Local Employment Committee and of Wages Boards and Councils.
• Gilbert Kemsley, Chairman, Essex County Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Robert Terence Kennedy,, Chief Planning Officer, Ministry of Local Government & Planning.
• Victor Albert George Lambert,, Director-General, Armament Production, Ministry of Supply.
• James Laver, Keeper of the Departments of Engraving, Illustration and Design, and of Paintings, Victoria & Albert Museum.
• John Henry Francis Ludgate, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions.
• Alexander MacDonald, Member, Central Land Board & War Damage Commission.
• William David Marshall, Regional Director, Manchester, Ministry of Works.
• Aubrey Rollo Ibbetson Mellor,, Member and former Chairman, Executive Committee, Colonial Employers' Federation.
• Joseph Stanley Mitchell,, Professor of Radiotherapeutics, University of Cambridge.
• John Elson Sinclair Nisbet, Vice Convener of Roxburgh County Council.
• Arthur Harold Noble. For public services in the County of Londonderry.
• Joseph Houldsworth Oldham,. For services to educational and religious organisations.
• Walter Thomas Ottway, Chairman and Managing Director, W. Ottway & Co. Ltd., Ealing.
• Sidney Parkinson, Secretary, Public Works Loan Board.
• David James Parry, Clerk of the County Council and Clerk of the Peace for the County of Glamorgan.
• George Richard Parsons, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office.
• William Edward Willoughby Petter,, Deputy Managing Director, Folland Aircraft Ltd., Hamble, Hampshire.
• Charles Frank Sidney Plumbley,, Deputy Controller, HM Stationery Office.
• James Samuel Richard Doke Rawcliffe, Senior Registrar, HM Land Registry.
• Richard Antony Rendall, Lately Controller of Talks, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Ernest Hamilton Richards, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Alexander Gordon Ritchie, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works.
• Hubert Oscar Roberts, Ministry of Transport, Freight Market Representative.
• Adrian Lynch-Robinson, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
• James Stiven Ross,, Principal of Westminster College.
• Owen Jenny Sangar,, Director of Forestry for England, Forestry Commission.
• James Jamieson Seager,, Managing Editor of the Edinburgh Evening News.
• Thomas Wilfrid Sharp,, President of the Institute of Landscape Architects.
• Alderman Andrew Smith,, Vice-Chairman, Lancashire Education Committee.
• Thomas George Edmond-Smith,, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Thomas Stanes, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Horace James Stevens, Senior Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Matthew John Stewart,, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Leeds.
• John Stirling,, Chief Accountant, Department of Health for Scotland.
• Robert Thompson Douglas Stoneham, Chairman, London Retail Milk Distributive Wartime Association.
• Philippa Strachey, Honorary Secretary, London and National Society for Women's Service.
• Edwin Lawrance Sturdee,, Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
• William Johnson Taylor,, Member of the Air Cadet Council, Chairman of Committee, No. 148 Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• Archibald Angus Templeton,, County Clerk of Dunbartonshire.
• Arnold Titherley, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Local Government & Planning.
• Alfred George Tomkins,, Joint Honorary Secretary, British Furniture Trade Joint Industrial Council.
• George Elmslie Troup, Chairman, Scottish Association of Boys' Clubs.
• Herbert Twinch,, lately Chief Livestock Husbandry Officer in the National Agricultural Advisory Service.
• William Harris Valentine, Jute Controller, Board of Trade.
• Professor James Mathewson Webster,, Director, West Midland Forensic Science Laboratory, Birmingham, Home Office.
• George Wood, Chairman, Thos W Ward Ltd., Sheffield.
• William Rogers Fanner,, British subject resident in Egypt.
• Frederick Hampton, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Athens.
• William James Moffatt, Director-General, Iraqi State Railways.
• David Travers Morgan, Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce, Buenos Aires.
• John Percival Summerscale, lately Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Warsaw.
• Kenneth James Macarthur White, His Majesty's Consul-General at Gothenburg.
• Lewis Ronald East,, Chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, State of Victoria.
• Vivien Frederic Ellenberger,, lately Deputy Resident Commissioner and Government Secretary, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• Fergus Munro Innes,. For services to the United Kingdom community in Pakistan.
• Arthur Geoffrey Strickland,, Chief Horticulturist, Department of Agriculture, State of South Australia.
• Sydney Hadyn Veats. For services to journalism in Southern Rhodesia.
• Alfred Francis Adderley. For public services in Bahamas.
• The Right Reverend Hugh Van Lynden Otter-Barry, the Bishop of Mauritius.
• Simon Bloomberg, lately Collector General of Customs, Jamaica.
• Archibald Campbell,, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
• Herbert Jeffery Collins, lately Sub-Regional Security Officer, Hong Kong.
• Eustace Henry Taylor-Cummings,. For services to the Municipality of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
• Charles Layard Edwards. For public services in Singapore.
• Hedley Humphrey Facer,. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• The Reverend Canon Robert Mortimer Gibbons,, Principal of St. Andrew's College, Minaki, Tanganyika.
• Lee Tiang Keng,. Member for Health, Federation of Malaya.
• Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw, Director of Antiquities, Cyprus.
• Robert Karl Nunes. For public services in Jamaica.
• Andrew Hamilton Young, Director of Marketing and Exports, Nigeria.

• Tunku Ismail bin Tunku Yahaya, State Secretary, Kedah and Acting Mentri Besar, Kedah, Federation of Malaya.
• The Reverend Okon Efiong,. For public services in Nigeria.
• Gaius Ikuobase Obaseki. For public service in Nigeria.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Commander James William Cable,.
• Mr. George Arthur Calvert, Chief Engineer Officer, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service.
• Commander Arthur Alan Chappell,, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Interim Surgeon Commander William Macfarlane Davidson,.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert James Freeman, Royal Marines Forces Volunteer Reserve.
• Commander Henry Reginald Harold.
• Surgeon Commander William Holgate,.
• Commander James Wallace Maulden.
• Instructor Commander Albert Harvey Miles.
• Commander Michael Donston Capel Meyrick,.
• Commander Bradwell Talbot Turner,.
• The Reverend Douglas James Noel Wanstall,, Chaplain.
• Commander Harry Ernest Huston Nicholls,, Senior Officer, Malayan Naval Force.
• Commander John Michael Dudgeon Gray, Royal Navy.

• Lieutenant-Colonel George Biddulph Aris, , Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Major Frederick James Bairsto, Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Maurice Alexander Chestnutt, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Herbert Collins, The Sherwood Foresters.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Angie Henry Davies, , Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Tancred Denaro, , The York & Lancaster Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Herbert Devas Dessain, , The Green Howards.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Charles Dyke, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Arthur Ross Fawcus, , Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Haddon, The Border Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Michael Hanmer, , The Durham Light Infantry.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Hargreaves, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Peele Holmes, , Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fitzgerald Hutchinson, Employed List.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Yvone Eustace Sutton Kirkpatrick, Combined Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Derek George Levis, , Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Frederick Luck, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Angus John MacIver, , Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Martyn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Douglas McKechnie, , Honourable Artillery Company, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hector John Finlay Munro, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Francis Bell Nott, , Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Odling, , Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ricardo Reginald Owens, Army Catering Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Edward Shepherd, Army Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Spence, , The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Cowan Stenhouse, , Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Charles Timmins, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Eustace Thomas Turner, , Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Peter Hugh Utley, Combined Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Rosemary Jennifer Wells, Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John William Channing Williams, , The Wiltshire Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Laurence Harry Wood, The Wiltshire Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Worsley, , The York & Lancaster Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Lavallin Wroughton, , Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.

• Group Captain Albert Archibald Newbury.
• Wing Commander Keith Horace Gooding.
• Wing Commander Francis Drake Luke, .
• Wing Commander Charles Baldwin Millett.
• Wing Commander Cecil Dunn Milne, .
• Wing Commander Brenus Gwynne Morris.
• Wing Commander Derek James Sherlock.
• Wing Commander Robert Higson Smith.
• Wing Commander Harold Stringer.
• Wing Commander John Hodgson Woffindin, .
• Acting Wing Commander Freeman Marshall Osborn, .
• Acting Wing Commander George Arthur Potter.
• Squadron Leader Robert Walter Adams.
• Squadron Leader Hilton Rex Hall, .
• Squadron Leader Arthur Sidney Harman.
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Holden, , Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
• Squadron Leader Cyril Harry Leese.
• Squadron Leader William Norrie, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

• George Sidney Abbey, British Resident, Gelsenkirchen, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Charles Penrhyn Ackers,. For services to discharged airmen of the Royal Air Force.
• Alderman Thomas Fred Adams,, lately Mayor of Torquay.
• John Forster Alcock,, Chief Scientist, Ricardo & Co. Ltd., Shoreham-by-Sea.
• Robert Guy Alexander, Principal, War Office.
• The Right Honourable Dorothy, Viscountess Arbuthnott, Vice-chairman of the Council, Scottish Branch, British Red Cross Society.
• Charles Arthur James Argent, Director of Duplicating & Distribution, HM Stationery Office.
• Robert Atkinson,, Architect. For services to the Admiralty.
• Stanley Robert Atwill,, Vice Chairman, Southampton Local Savings Committee.
• Charles Vernon Bailey, Senior Finance Officer, Headquarters, National Coal Board.
• George Edward David Ball, Principal, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Edith Ellen Ann Bargman, Superintendent Health Visitor, Surrey County Council.
• Alec Nevison Barnes, Regional Finance Officer, South Western Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• John James Stewart Barnhill,. For services as Official Arbitrator under the Administrative Provisions Act, 1928.
• George Smith Barry,, County Surveyor of Ayrshire.
• Edward Gordon Bell, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department.
• Thomas Birkett, National Secretary, Waterways & Fishing Section, Transport & General Workers Union.
• William Blood,, Chairman, Brook Green Disablement Advisory Committee.
• Alfred Henry James Bown,, General Manager and Clerk, River Wear Commissioners.
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Albert Brett,, Secretary, Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Monmouth.
• Alfred Frederick Wilfred Brewer, Superintendent Registrar, Hackney.
• Walter Bridge, Regional House Coal Officer, North Western Region.
• William Brown,, Chairman, Dumfriesshire Education Committee.
• William Harrison Buchanan, General Manager, R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd., Royal Albert Dock, London.
• William George Burrell, Headmaster, HM Dockyard School, Portsmouth.
• John Walker Burt, Higher Collector, London North, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Elizabeth Casson,, Founder and Medical Director of the Dorset House School of Occupational Therapy Ltd., Churchill Hospital, Oxford.
• Frank Carlos Catchpole, Deputy Regional Controller, North Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Frederic Robert Catty, Foreign Office.
• Edward George Chadder, Senior Superintendent Engineer, Sound, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Henry James Childs, Head of Branch, Ministry of National Insurance.
• George Geoffrey Clark, Director of Planning, Devon County Council.
• Alderman Lilian Mary Hart Clark,, Cambridgeshire County Council.
• Herbert Clarke, Assistant Regional Director, South Region, Ministry of Works.
• James William Clarke, Chief Inspector, Wages Boards and Councils, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Harry Cleaver,, Chairman, Nuneaton Savings Committee.
• Lionel Cleaver,, Harbour Engineer, Docks & Canals Division, Ministry of Transport.
• Harry Archibald Cochran,, Manager, Minerals Division, Colonial Development Corporation.
• Alderman Jack Cohen,. For political and public services in Sunderland.
• Charles Frederick Cooke, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Leonard Cooke,, Director of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.
• William Cotter, Member of the General Council, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.
• Councillor Walter Robert Cowen,, Managing Director, Walter Cowen Ltd.
• William James Cozens,, Superintending Civil Engineer, Air Ministry.
• Douglas Ernest Crickmay,, Actuary, Hull Savings Bank.
• Robert Stephenson Cripps, General Manager and Secretary, Londonderry Harbour Commissioners.
• Group Captain John Cunningham,, Chief Test Pilot, De Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.
• Councillor Minnie Cutler,. For political and public services in Southampton.
• Charles Edward Daniels,, Principal Officer, Marine Survey, West of Scotland District, Ministry of Transport.
• William Davies,, Superintending Civil Engineer, Ministry of Works.
• Adelina De Lara, Pianist.
• Cyril Thomas Demarne, Chief Officer, West Ham Fire Brigade.
• Barbara Mary Denis De Vitre, Assistant Inspector of Constabulary, Home Office.
• Robert Leonard Dixon,, Senior Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• George Edwards, Deputy Director, Oils & Fats Division, Ministry of Food.
• William Rowley Elliston,. For public services in Suffolk.
• Captain Jack Donald Fletcher Elvish, Principal Marine Superintendent, Clan Line Steamers Ltd.
• Lucy Gratia Fildes,, Senior Psychologist, London Child Guidance Training Centre.
• Gladys Vera Findlay, Honorary Secretary, Kent County Branch of the Forces Help Society & Lord Roberts Workshops.
• Alderman William Henry Freestone. For political and public services in Leicester.
• Ronald Frith,, Principal Scientific Officer, Air Ministry.
• Alfred Samuel Fromow, Past President of the Horticultural Trades Association.
• Percy Henry Fruin, Chief Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Harry Garratt, Principal, Chance Technical College, Smethwick, Staffordshire.
• Sidney Harold Gibb, Chief Executive Officer, General Post Office.
• Isobel Scott Gibson, Principal, Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science.
• Phillip Henry Goffey, Principal Patents & Awards Officer, Ministry of Supply.
• Alderman John Frederic Goode. For political and public services in Worcestershire.
• Alderman Isa Graham,, Chairman, East Cumberland War Pensions Committee.
• John Lauder Graham, Principal, Department of Health for Scotland.
• Colonel William Thornton Huband Gregg,, County Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
• Albert Griffin, Waterguard Superintendent, Cardiff, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Edward Charles Clifford Hamblin, Principal Regional Officer, Leeds, Ministry of Local Government & Planning.
• Alderman Joseph William Hammond, Chairman, County Planning Committee, Pembrokeshire.
• Herbert Edward Hancocke,, Assistant Director, Directorate-General of Aircraft Supplies, Ministry of Supply.
• William James Handy, Deputy Director of Contracts, Ministry of Supply.
• William Harding,, Lately, Chief Engineer Officer,, Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd.
• Councillor Miss Kathleen Agnes Mabel Harper,, Mayor of Bath.
• Cecil Stanley Harrison, Attorney-General of Jersey.
• Alderman George Douglas Hastwell,. For political and public services in Barrow-in-Furness.
• Helen Kathleen Hawkins,, Principal, Derby Diocesan Training College.
• William David Hay, Director, Experimental Husbandry Farm, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Hazell,, Lately Ministry of Transport Representative in Poland.
• Robert Stanley Heesom, General Secretary, British Sailors Society.
• Captain John Claudius Herdman,. For public services in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
• Edith Hesling Bradbury, Deputy Chairman, Rubber Manufacturing Wages Council.
• Leonard Sutton Higgins,, Headmaster, Porthcawl Secondary Modern School, Glamorganshire.
• Patrick Henry Michael Hoey, lately Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue Departmental Whitley Council.
• Ronald Herbert Acland Holbech. For public services in Warwickshire.
• Harold Rollings,, Controller of Research, North Thames Gas Board.
• Alderman Richard Thomas Holness. For political and public services in Ilford.
• Fred Howarth, Secretary of the Football League.
• Sidney Ralph Howes, Director and General Manager, Samuel Fox & Co. Ltd., Sheffield.
• Bramwell Hudson,. For public services in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
• Patrick Lawrence Hughes, Regional Controller, North Western Region, Ministry of Local Government & Planning.
• Thomas John Hunt, Principal Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
• John Frederick Hunter,, Senior Inspector, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland.
• Alderman Nellie Hyde,, Chairman of the Enforcement Sub-Committee of the Birmingham Food Control Committee.
• Robert John Jackson, Chairman, Local Price Regulation Committee, Northern Ireland.
• William Jackson,, Member, Ministry of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Sheep, Northern Ireland.
• Edward Brynmor Jenkins, Secretary, Newcastle Regional Hospital Board.
• William Blackwood Johnstone, Director, Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow.
• Harry Jones, Principal, Central Land Board & War Damage Commission.
• William Jordan, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Eleanor Mary Knowles,, Deputy Senior Dental Officer, Ministry of Health.
• William Douglas Lambie, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner for Newfoundland & Maritime Provinces, Canada.
• Eric John Lawman, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Sydney Lawrence,, Chief Constable, Kingston-upon-Hull.
• Alderman Charles Edward Leatherland,. For political and public services in Essex.
• Captain Walter Harold Leech,, Submarine Superintendent, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, General Post Office.
• Major Norman Allen Lewis,, lately Secretary of the Boys' Brigade for London.
• William Lewis. For political and public services in Glamorganshire.
• Leonard Thomas Leybourne,, Deputy Regional Controller, Eastern Region, National Assistance Board.
• James Livingstone, Deputy Director, Personnel Department, British Council.
• David Llewellyn,, Chairman, Bournemouth Wing Committee, Air Training Corps.
• William Lockhart,, Commodore Chief Engineer and Chief Engineer Officer, SS Edinburgh Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd.
• Miriam Lord. For services to the Margaret McMillan Memorial Fund in Bradford.
• Hugh Ralph Lupton,, lately Mechanical Engineer, Metropolitan Water Board.
• Albert George Lyon,, lately Civil Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel, Admiralty.
• Robert Andrew McElderry,. For services to the savings movement in Ballymoney, County Antrim.
• Alan Douglas McEwen,, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Animal Diseases Research Association.
• Thomas Mack, Deputy Principal Executive Officer, War Office.
• William Maclean, Chief Constable, Ross & Cromarty Constabulary.
• George Percy Male,, Veterinary Surgeon, Reading.
• William Marsh, Assistant to the Accountant, Railway Executive.
• Arthur Morel Massee,, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, East Mailing Agricultural Research Station.
• Alfred Edward Matthews, Actor.
• Harold John Newton Mattock, Assistant Director of Contracts, Air Ministry.
• Colin Alfred Meek,, Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Supply.
• George Henry Meir,. For political services in North Staffordshire.
• Harry Orlando Missenden, General Manager, Birmingham British Industries Fair.
• Graham Russell Mitchell, Civil Assistant, War Office Officer, Branch B of the Foreign Service, Foreign Office.
• Philip Joseph Sellier,, Regional Opencast Director, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Herbert Farrar Shaw, Chairman, Dewsbury Local Employment Committee, West Riding of Yorkshire.
• Squadron-Leader William Simpson,, Member, National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled.
• Gerard Hamilton Smith,, Chairman, Derby & Derbyshire Post Office Advisory Committee.
• Major William Henry Stephenson,, lately Army Welfare Officer, Southport. Member, West Lancashire Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Albert Stevenson,, Chairman, Lisburn Urban District Council, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• Harry George Stride,, Chief Clerk, Royal Mint.
• Albert Berina Sturgess, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
• Fairbank Howard Sutcliffe, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer to the Governors, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.
• James Frederick Tamblyn,, Principal, Ministry of Food.
• Cyril William Taylor, lately Head of the Siam Rice Unit.
• Sydney Taylor, Chairman, Lowestoft Local Tribunal, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Mark Hartland Thomas,, Chief Industrial Officer, Council of Industrial Design.
• Alexander Thomson, Secretary, Scottish Savings Committee.
• Alfred Alexander Thorpe,, Chairman, Cardiff Savings Committee.
• Herman Guy Collingwood Townsend, Senior Assistant Controller, Timber Control, Board of Trade.
• George Leonard Turney, Assistant Director, Directorate of Scientific Intelligence, Ministry of Defence.
• Florence Nellie Udell,, Chief Nursing Officer, Colonial Office.
• John Armston Vice,, Generation Operation Engineer, Headquarters, British Electricity Authority.
• John William Tudor Walsh,, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
• Kenneth Southwold Weston, Principal, HM Treasury.
• George Thomas William Whitehead,, Assistant General Manager, Johnson & Phillips Ltd., London.
• Henry Whittaker,, Chairman, Blackburn Savings Committee.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Frederick Wilcox, Chief Constable, Hertfordshire.
• George Thomas Wilkes,, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Francis Wilkins, Investment Adviser, Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
• John Withers Wilkinson,, lately Chief of Armament Design, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow.
• Albert Henry Willcocks, British Resident, Verden-Rotenburg, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Hugh Brown Wilson,, Scottish Representative on the Sea Cadet Council.
• Joseph William Wilson,, Divisional Veterinary Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Roderick George Young, Assistant Regional Controller, North Midland Region, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Victor Leslie Young,, General Manager, Ministry of Supply No. 2 Agency Factory, Westwood.
• William Norman Doley, British subject resident in Belgium.
• Reginald Henderson Eckford,, Acting British Consul-General at Tsingtao.
• Ronald Ward Fay, Senior Executive Officer, Information Office, British Embassy, Cairo.
• Christopher Leonard Patrick Gilshenan, Director, Legal Division, Allied Commission for Austria.
• William Robinson Innes, First Secretary, Office of the Commissioner-General for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South-East Asia.
• William Beauchamps de la Maziere Jamieson, Deputy Director of Education, Sudan Government.
• Peter Northcote Lunn, Second Secretary and Head of Visa Section at His Majesty's Legation in Berne.
• Captain James Humphrey Cotton Minchin, His Majesty's Consul at Kansas City.
• Arthur John Montague, British Council Representative in the Argentine Republic.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Riseley Proud, First Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Kathmandu.
• Richard Llewellyn Rees, British subject resident in Turkey.
• Andrew John Ronalds, His Majesty's Consul at Beira, formerly Consul at Venice.
• Gwenffrwd Mostyn Herbert-Smith, First Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy in Paris.
• Charles Thomas Underhill, Customs Adviser to the Government of Ethiopia.
• Commander Frederick Vivian Vaughan,, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Honorary Assistant Naval Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy, Santiago.
• Percy Reginald Williamson, First Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy in Stockholm.
• Eric Ormond Baker,. For public and social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
• David Douglas Brown, lately Chief Tobacco Officer, Southern Rhodesia.
• Councillor William Austin Comeadow,, of Kew City, State of Victoria.
• John Doyle, lately Commissioner of Police, State of Western Australia.
• The Right Honourable Victoria May, Baroness Dulverton. For services rendered under the auspices of the Victoria League in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseas.
• Herbert John Drummond Elliot, District Officer, Basutoland.
• The Right Honourable Mary Gertrude, Baroness Emmott. For services rendered in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseas.
• Bertram Howard Johnson, Chief Engineer, Rhodesia Railways.
• Gertrude Emily Johnson, of the State of Victoria, Honorary Director of the National Theatre Movement.
• Thomas William Jones,, a Member of the European Advisory Council, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• Milford Cormack Lee. For social welfare services, especially to ex-servicemen, in the State of South Australia.
• Angus Robertson Macgillivray, Chairman, Calcutta Import Trade Association.
• Francisca Adriana Paquita, Lady Mawson. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia.
• Canon Augustus James Moore, Anglican Missionary, Basutoland.
• Roy Francis Mullins, Honorary Secretary, Royal Hobart Regatta Committee, State of Tasmania.
• Anton Eric Romyn,, Secretary for Agriculture and Lands, Southern Rhodesia.
• James Anderson,, Colonial Veterinary Service, Assistant Director, Kenya.
• Arthur Joseph Boase,, Colonial Medical Service, Ophthalmologist, Uganda.
• John Edwin Piercy Booth, Colonial Agricultural Service, Agricultural Officer, Kenya.
• George Joseph Bridges. For services as Manager of the British Phosphate Commission, Ocean Island, Western Pacific.
• John Bathurst Brown, Accountant General, Northern Rhodesia.
• Cecil Frederick Charter, Chief Soil Scientist, Department of Agriculture, Gold Coast.
• Salako Ambrosius Benka-Coker, Crown Counsel, Sierra Leone.
• Norman Cook. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
• William Gerald Groves Cooper,, Director of Geological Surveys, Nyasaland.
• Hugh Copley, Fish Warden, Kenya.
• Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, General Secretary, British Guiana Labour Union, British Guiana.
• Frederick Eutrope Degazon,, Commissioner for Reconstruction, St. Lucia, Windward Islands.
• John Matthew Drennan,, Head of Department, Class B, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
• Major Sarel Eloff du Toit,. For public services in Tanganyika.
• Richard Freeman, Government Printer, Nigeria.
• Louis Galea,, Attorney-General, Malta.
• Oswald Vernon Garratt, Colonial Prisons Service, Commissioner of Prisons, Federation of Malaya.
• Charles Gray Gosling Gilbert, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Bermuda.
• John Douglas Claude Goddard. For services to sport, Barbados.
• Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Class II, Nigeria.
• Edward Harvey Griffiths, lately Chief Manager of Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Fiji.
• Geoffrey Campbell Gunter. For public services in Jamaica.
• The Reverend Canon Donald Rowland Knowles. For services in the Diocese of Nassau in the Bahamas.
• Nene Azzu Mate Kole II, Konor of Manya Krobo, Gold Coast.
• Gerald Beverley McLean Liddelow, Colonial Police Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Trinidad.
• James Leslie McLetchie,, Colonial Medical Service, Senior Medical Officer i/c Sleeping Sickness Service, Nigeria.
• George Marangos, Honorary Consulting Surgeon at Limassol Hospital, Cyprus.
• Gage Hall Hewett O'Dwyer. For public services in Nigeria.
• Roy Edgardo Parry, lately Director of Education, North Borneo.
• Lena Frances Gordon Priestman,, Medical Officer, Molai Leper Colony, Nigeria.
• Joeli Kete Ravai, Roko Tui Tailevu, Fiji.
• Michael Robert Raymer, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Falkland Islands.
• Frederick George Ritchie. For public services in Singapore.
• John Trevor Roper Curzon Rodger, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Tanganyika.
• Vincent Roth. For public services in British Guiana.
• William Simpson, Colonial Education Service, Principal, Education Department, Nigeria.
• Edward Francis Small. For public services in the Gambia.
• Philip Robert Stephenson, Colonial Agricultural Service, Director, Desert Locust Survey, East Africa High Commission.
• William Ngartse Thomas Tam,. For public services in Hong Kong.
• Norman Turner, Principal Accountant, Accountant General's Department, Nigeria.
• Henry Douglas Weatherhead,, lately Director of Medical Services, North Borneo.
• Eric Howard Wilson,, lately Principal of the Raffles Institution, Education Department, Singapore.

• Pengiran Haji Mohamed Yasin ibni Pengiran Omar Ali, Duli Pengiran Bendahara, Brunei.
• The Reverend Moses Odutola Dada, Chairman of Methodist Church, Western Nigeria District, Nigeria.
• Louis Philip Ojukwu. For public services in Nigeria.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Captain Cecil Henry Barnett, Royal Marines.
• Lieutenant Herbert Gibson Bradshaw.
• Lieutenant-Commander Anthony Vivian Miles Diamond.
• Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander William Henry Ferguson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Mr. William Henry Gill, Temporary Senior Commissioned Air Engineer.
• Lieutenant-Commander Harold Arthur Judkins,.
• Lieutenant William Richard George Knott,.
• Mr. William John Humphrey May, Temporary Acting Senior Commissioned Wardmaster.
• Acting Lieutenant-Commander George McCracken Rutherford,, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Mr. David Jenkin Wadey, Temporary Acting Senior Commissioned Electrical Officer.
• Communication Lieutenant Edwin John Webber.
• Lieutenant Stanley Charles Wiltshire,,.

• No.S/57271 Warrant Officer Class II Raleigh Berold Adams, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major Frederick Ernest Anfield, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• No.36642 Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Aslett, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Captain Gerald William Banton, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Major Richard Beggs, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• No.S/57366 Warrant Officer Class I Colin Blair, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major George Harper Brooks, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Stanley Alfred Buckmaster, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Captain Albert Daffurn Chilton, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment.
• Captain Mary Maude Church, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
• No.2611143 Warrant Officer Class I Harold Ernest Clarke, Grenadier Guards.
• No.1518247 Warrant Officer Class I Arthur William Coleman, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant Arthur Stanley Davis, Combined Cadet Force.
• No.2200163 Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Jack de Torre, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
• No.1870150 Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Royland Dollery, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.5381553 Warrant Officer Class, I Frank William Franklin, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
• Major Thomas Gibson, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
• Major Frederick Vernon Stuart Gray, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major William Bryce Greenfield, Army Cadet Force.
• Captain Charles Henry Gurney, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Frederick James Harman, Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Major Christopher Edwin Head, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.1423064 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Malcolm Henderson, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Major Anthony George Hewitt, , The Middlesex Regiment.
• Major Richard Charles Hughes, , The Cheshire Regiment.
• Major Richard Swinton Hunt, Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major Wallace Henry Irish, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• No.22279047 Warrant Officer Class I Gordon Jacobs, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• No.3306337 Warrant Officer Class I Charles William Johnstone, The Royal Scots.
• No.T/1662607 Warrant Officer Class I Ernest Everett Jones, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major Henry Robert Jordan, , Royal Corps of Signals.
• No.2718979 Warrant Officer Class II James Joseph Kelly, Irish Guards.
• Major Jack Kennard, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• No.T/2613236 Warrant Officer Class I William Henry Kibble, Royal Army Service Corps.
• No.W/29531 Warrant Officer Class II Sydney Mary Learmouth, Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Major Ralph Stanley Loveridge, , The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
• Major Douglas Guy Hastings Mackie, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Raymond Harold Meaker, Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major Clifford Clarence Norbury, , The Essex Regiment.
• Lieutenant Leonard Stanley North, Army Cadet Force.
• No.1863911 Warrant Officer Class I Henry James Pavey, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major Thomas Carruthers Payne, , Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Major John Ashton Pounder, , Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• No.1140732 Warrant Officer Class I Richard James George Price, Royal Army Educational Corps.
• Major William Price, Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major Henry Edward Victor Caleb Pryor, Army Cadet Force.
• Major Stephen Murfin Rose, The Royal Fusiliers.
• Major Frederick James Routledge, General List, Territorial Army.
• Captain Arthur Lionel Ruler, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major Frederick Herbert Margetson Rushmore, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major Percy Henry Segon, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.
• No.S/57772 Warrant Officer Class II David Alan Smith, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Captain John Hood Smith, The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
• Major Peter Bernard Stephenson, The King's Regiment.
• No.7582350 Warrant Officer Class I Charles Samuel Richard Sullivan, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
• Major Tom Middleton Sutton, Royal Horse Artillery.
• Major Sidney Frederick Thompson, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.S/215792 Warrant Officer Class I Charlie Tomison, Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major Albert Vernon Toy, , The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
• Major Arthur John Turner, , Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major Frank Raymond Walker, The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
• Major Frederick William Watson, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.4909985 Warrant Officer Class I Clifford Gordon Williams, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• No.1868480 Warrant Officer Class I Albert John Williamson, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major George David Young, Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

• Acting Wing Commander Arnison Stanley Dodd, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Wing Commander Denis Graham Smallwood, .
• Squadron Leader Robert Fernie.
• Acting Squadron Leader Robert John Mitchell, .
• Acting Squadron Leader George Watson Spiers.
• Acting Squadron Leader Jeremiah Joseph Tynan.
• Acting Squadron Leader Joseph Alfred West, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Flight Lieutenant Harold Berry.
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Birkett Clark.
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Kenneth Edwards.
• Flight Lieutenant Kazimierz Gierzod, .
• Flight Lieutenant William Hannant.
• Flight Lieutenant Clarence Leslie George Puncher.
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Smith.
• Flight Lieutenant John Henry Smyth.
• Flight Lieutenant John Edward Tompkins.
• Flight Lieutenant Walter Edward Wiseman, .
• Flying Officer Charles Galpin Lilley.
• Warrant Officer William Biggins.
• Warrant Officer Harold Dyche.
• Warrant Officer Francis George Ferris.
• Warrant Officer George Hicks.
• Warrant Officer Henry George William Howell.
• Warrant Officer Percy James Ingram.
• Warrant Officer Ivor John Leek.
• Warrant Officer Alfred Meller.
• Warrant Officer Cecil Herbert Oldridge Pearce.
• Warrant Officer Arthur Phillips Rees.
• Warrant Officer Lewis Stuart Way.
• Warrant Officer Edward Young.
• Acting Warrant Officer Leslie Harold Withers.

• Hilda Charlotte Adams, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• William Allen, Assistant Commissioner, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Belfast Division, Northern Ireland.
• George Alley, Assistant Production Engineer, Air Ministry, Cardington.
• George Stewart Burns Anderson, Manager, Maryhill Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Thomas Hedley Anderson, Organiser for the Tyneside Area, National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
• James Hozier Archibald, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food.
• Winifred Leah Armstrong, Children's Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
• Elizabeth Mary Hunter-Arundell, County Secretary, Dumfriesshire, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Raymond Howard Austin,, Divisional Engineer, Western Division, City Engineer's Department, City of Westminster.
• Frank George Axmann, Establishment Officer, County Courts Branch, Lord Chancellor's Department.
• Edward Lockyer Baddeley, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• John Baillie, Member, Berwickshire Savings Committee.
• Ernest Baines, Senior Assistant District Auditor, Ministry of Local Government & Planning.
• Bernard Barber, Superintendent of Capenhurst Grange Remand Home, Wirral, Cheshire.
• David Murray Barclay, Manager, Mountstuart Dry Dock Ltd., Avonmouth.
• Ernest Barker, Chief Foreman, Boiler Department, Locomotive Works, Gorton, Railway Executive.
• Russell Charles Samuel Barnett,, lately Chairman, Beckenham & Penge Local Employment Committee.
• Charles Basham, President, Newport Horticultural Society.
• Frederick David Baxter, Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• William Beaton, Member, Aberdeen Local Employment Committee.
• John Bebb,, Member, Montgomeryshire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Commander Ernest Wright Beetham, Royal Navy, Secretary, Royal Navy Football Association.
• Jennie Martin Benn, Executive Officer, Home Office.
• Henry Arthur Bennett, Chief Clerk, United Kingdom Embassy, in the Republic of Ireland.
• Joseph Henry Bennetts. For political and public services in Cornwall.
• George Edward Bevens, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
• Harold Charles Birch, Chief Executive Officer, National Savings Committee.
• Ernest Frederick Bishop, Executive Officer, Cabinet Office.
• Herbert Robinson Blyth, Passenger Trade Group Secretary, Transport & General Workers' Union.
• Charles Frederick Bolton,, Divisional Transmission Engineer, South Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority.
• Doris Elizabeth Bonell, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Metropolitan Police Office.
• George Sim Bonnyman. For services to the Scottish Clans Association of London.
• Eleanor Milford Booker, Information Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Clement Ernest Borrie, Secretary, Cashier, Store Officer and Librarian, Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
• Elizabeth Ann Brace, Headmistress, Queen Mary's Hospital School, Carshalton, Surrey.
• Albert John Brely, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Abram Broadfoot, County Agricultural Adviser for West Perth, West of Scotland Agricultural College.
• Margaret Merry Brotherston,, Organising Secretary and Honorary Treasurer, Voluntary Health Workers Association, Edinburgh.
• Dorothy Helen Brown, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
• George William Brown, Higher Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
• Maurice Butter, Chairman of Committee, No. 398 Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• Leslie John Cannon, Supervisor, South East England Wholesale Meat Supply Association.
• John Spencer Carr, Commercial Manager, EMI Factories Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex.
• Phyllis Winifred Cassidy, Senior Assistant, Board of Trade.
• Frank Stevenson Cathro, Secretary, Association of Jute Spinners & Manufacturers.
• John William Chadwick, Honorary Secretary, Halifax Savings Committee.
• Joseph Challinor, Secretary, North Regional Association for the Blind.
• Frederick William Clifton,, General Secretary, London Transport Sports Association, London Transport Executive.
• Leonard Cluett, Deputy Director of Bacon Imports, Ministry of Food.
• James Tooke Coe,, Organiser for Norfolk, National Union of Agricultural Workers.
• Isaiah George Trevor Cokayne, Foreign Office.
• Ruby Victoria Colley, Higher Executive Officer, Foreign Office, German Section.
• Louisa Mary Collinson, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department.
• Henry Charles Coote, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Janet McCulloch Coupland, Provost of the Royal Burgh of Wigtown.
• Henry James Cousley,, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
• Edward James Cox,, lately Chief Draughtsman, Admiralty.
• James Norman Stewart Craig, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
• Cyril Leslie Crocker, Higher Clerical Officer, Admiralty.
• John Cullen. For public services in County Durham.
• John James Cullion, Vice-Chairman, Lanarkshire District Committee of the Scottish Board for Industry.
• Herbert Duncan Cumming,, Chairman of Committee, No. 95F Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• Reginald Joseph Currey, Control Officer, Grade I, Kiel, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Phoebe Ellen Cusden,. For political and public services in Reading.
• Alexander William Cussans, Adjutant, Ulster Special Constabulary.
• Francis William Daniels, Head of Tractor Sales Department, Ford Motor Co. Ltd.
• Albert Davenport, General Works Manager, Salford Electrical Instruments Ltd., Heywood.
• William Alexander Davey, Farmer, West Sussex. For services to agriculture.
• Margaret Beatrice Davies, Private Secretary to the Librarian, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• William George Davies. For political and public services in Lewisham.
• Edgar James Dawes, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Francis Moorhouse Dean,, Senior Architect, Ministry of Works.
• Mabel Matilda Deed,. For public services in Kent.
• Charles Brand Dickins, Head of Purchasing Department, Richard Johnson & Nephew Ltd., Manchester.
• John Thomas Burke Donnellan, Senior Draughtsman, Post Office, Birmingham.
• Alfred George Freeman Dorling, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Alderman Margaret Douglas. For political and public services in Dartford.
• Henry Trestrail Dyer, Surveyor, Southampton, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Frederick John Dykes, Mechanical Engineer, Grimethorpe, Ferrymore & Brierley Collieries, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
• Gertrude Mary Eadie, Chairman, Paisley Joint Committee for Day Nurseries.
• Bernard Louis Ecob, Deputy Chief Constable, Leicester.
• David Edward Edwards, Engineer and Surveyor to Wrexham Rural District Council.
• John Edwards, Chairman, Ellesmere Rural Parish Council.
• Andrew James Ellis, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Thomas Hubert Endersby, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
• William John English, Vice-Chairman, Somerset District Committee of South Western Regional Board for Industry.
• James Bryce Esslemont, Honorary Secretary, Aberdeen City Savings Committee.
• Alderman William Evans,. For political and public services in Swansea.
• Iris Elizabeth Evered, County Borough Organiser, Bournemouth, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Matthew Feaks, Woods Manager, Moray Estates Development Co. Ltd.
• Henry Alexander Fells,, Industrial Fuel Consultant.
• Clifford Pratt Fenner, Chief Accountant, Essex Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Cyril Ernest Flitton, Vice-Chairman, Loughborough Local Employment Committee.
• Dorothy Fox, Welfare Officer, Ministry of Health.
• George Philip Fox, Representative of the British Broadcasting Corporation in Leeds.
• Cyril Comerford Francis, Furnishings Buyer, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
• Arthur Charles Franklin,, Chief Engineer, Worthington-Simpson Ltd., Newark, Nottinghamshire.
• Frederick Gardiner,, Commandant, No. 4 Group, Royal Observer Corps.
• John Edgar Gerard, Regional Chief Clerk of Works, Ministry of Works.
• Rose Gibson,, Headmistress, Whinney Banks Junior Mixed School, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire.
• Phyllis Mary Gidman, County Borough Organiser, Nottingham, Women's Voluntary Service.
• Arthur Gill, General Secretary, National Society of Street Masons, Paviors and Road Makers.
• John Stewart Gillies, Assistant Engineer, Manager, William Doxford & Sons Ltd., Sunderland.
• Edith Kate Golledge, Member, Yeovil Local Employment Committee.
• William John Gower, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.
• William Graham, Personnel Manager, Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Ltd., Darlington.
• William Henry Graham, Hostel Warden, National Assistance Board.
• Major Elsie Green, Salvation Army, with the British Forces of Occupation in Germany.
• Harry Green, Works Services Planning Officer, Headquarters, Western Command, War Office.
• Thomas Joseph Green, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Works.
• Alexander James Greenslade, Chief Officer, Bootle Fire Brigade, Lancashire.
• Una Rosina Laura Greenwood, Headmistress, Globe Road Junior Mixed & Infants School, Bethnal Green.
• Dorothy Adelaide Gresham, Typist, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Fanny Grimes, Supervisor, London Ambulance Service.
• Dorothy Jane Gunn, Headmistress, Old Hale Way Secondary Modern Girls School, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
• Walter Frederick Hall, Vice-Chairman, Derby Savings Committee.
• Ruth Hand, Headmistress, Fawfieldhead Newton Church of England School, Staffordshire.
• Selina May Harding, District Nurse, Singleton, West Sussex.
• Frances Eileen Hardy, Secretary, Northern Ireland Council of Social Service.
• Thomas William Harkes, Feedingstuffs Officer, Lancashire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Joseph Edward Harland, Chief Engineer Officer, SS Rowanbank, Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd.
• Frederick John Harlow, Rehabilitation Officer, Sheffield, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Tom Evelyn Harris, Police Staff Officer, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Freda Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Hygiene & Tropical Diseases.
• Mabel Ellen Henderson,, County Organiser, West Sussex, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Sarah Jane Dill Henderson, Junior Staff Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
• Ruth Hendry, Welfare Officer, Yardley & Co. Ltd.
• Frederick Charles Henry, General Secretary, Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union.
• Joseph Edward Herbert, Chief Press Officer, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Alfred Percival Hickey, Deputy Superintendent, Admiralty Gunnery Equipment Depot, Coventry.
• Claude Charles Hidden, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
• Una Gertrude Ada Hobson, Controller of Typists, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Elsie Kathleen Hoddinott, Ward Sister, Feilding Palmer Hospital, Lutterworth, near Rugby.
• Walter Hogarth,, Director, North Western Federation of Building Trades Employers.
• Charles William Hooton, Chairman of Committee, No. 204 Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• Henry Samuel Bennett Hore, Chairman, Torquay Savings Committee.
• James Milne Howie, lately Area Livestock Supervisor, Aberdeen, Ministry of Food.
• Tom Howse, lately Higher Clerical Officer, British Museum.
• William Arthur Hoy, Experimental Officer, National Institute for Research in Dairying.
• William Spencer Hudson,. For services as Regional Fuel Engineer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Ethel Hilda Hughes,, County Organiser, South Middlesex Women's Voluntary Services.
• Reginald Lord Heyworth Hulme, Head Postmaster, Lancaster.
• George Maclaren Humphreys,, Senior Experimental Officer, Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Boscombe Down.
• Annie Ironside, Poultry Advisory Officer, Grade II, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Margaret Emily Irwin, Matron, Miners' Rehabilitation Centre, Talygarn, South Western Division, National Coal Board.
• Kathleen Margaret Jackson, Staff Officer, Ministry, of Health & Local Government, Northern Ireland.
• Vera Bronwen May James, Senior Nursing Sister, Ministry of Supply Factory, Windscale, Cumberland.
• Sidney George Jemmett, Assistant for Special Duties to the Restaurant Car Superintendent, Hotels Executive, British Transport Commission.
• Nelson Jerram, Engineer Superintendent, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• George Williams John, Headmaster, Camrose South Primary School, Pembrokeshire.
• George Frederick Albert Johnson, Chief Clerk, "Q" Branch, Headquarters, British Troops in Egypt.
• John Thornburn Johnson, Senior Divisional Planning Officer, Lancashire County Council.
• Thomas Francis Johnson, Senior Executive Officer, Prison Commission.
• George Bishop Jones,, Chairman, Huddersfield & Halifax District Committee of the East and West Ridings Regional Board for Industry.
• Walter Crawford Jones, Manager, Tottenham Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Captain Alfred Wallace Kay, lately Master, SS Granta, Witherington & Everett.
• John Keir, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Stirling & Clackmannan Police Force.
• David Keirs, Colliery Manager, Whitburn Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board.
• Alfred Daniel Kerr, Chief Draughtsman, Drysdale & Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
• Florence May Turner Kidd, Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Health.
• Lucille Kime, Member of the Corset Advisory Panel, Board of Trade.
• Major Edward Thomas King,, Senior Assistant Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Mary Elizabeth Kirkby, District Nurse, West Suffolk.
• John Charles Kirkpatrick, Chief Welfare Officer, English Electric Co. Ltd., Liverpool.
• Alfred Joseph Knight,, Senior Wages Inspector, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• John Henry Lamb, Surveyor and Manager, George Armitage & Sons Ltd., Wakefield.
• Charles John William Legry, Intelligence Officer, Grade I, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Ralph Montague Leman, Senior Radiographer, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• Alderman Ernest Thomas Lenderyou, Vice Chairman, Dartford Local Employment Committee.
• Francis Meredith Lewis, Senior Executive Officer, National Debt Office.
• Joseph Lomax, Works Manager, United Glass Bottle Manufacturers Ltd., St. Helens.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert George McCall, Deputy Regional Food Officer, South-Eastern Region, Ministry of Food.
• Mary Hossack McCartney, Honorary Secretary, City of Londonderry & District Horticultural Society.
• Norman McInnes, Inspector of Works, RAF Henlow.
• Ernest Osman McIntosh, Drawing Superintendent, Survey Production Centre, War Office.
• Captain John McKinlay, Master, SS Ahshun, China Navigation Co. Ltd.
• Alexander Alfred Lambert MacManus, a District Manager, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
• Jessie McNally, Secretary, National Association of Creamery Proprietors & Wholesale Dairymen, Incorporated.
• Henry Charles Mansfield, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Arthur Marsden,, Area Scientist, South Western Gas Board.
• Councillor John Marshall,, Tees-side District Delegate, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.
• Lily Constance Marx, lately Vice Chairman, Executive Council of the Institute of Almoners.
• Sydney Morton Mason,, Chief Town Planning Assistant, Bradford.
• Harold Meldrum, lately Area Bread Officer, North Midland Region.
• Michael John Melvin. For services to ex-Service men in Scotland.
• William Christopher Meredith, Foundry Manager, Hadfields Ltd., Sheffield.
• Lilian Blanche Victoria Merritt, Clerical Officer, General Post Office.
• Marguerita Evangeline Merrylees, General Secretary, National Federation of Housing Societies.
• John Richard Milborrow, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel & Power.
• Percival Stanley Millington, Member, Paisley Appeal Tribunal, National Assistance Board.
• Mildred Dora Millman, Matron, St. John Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem.
• Frank Mitchell, Flight Radio Officer, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Robert William Moger,, Chairman of Committee, No. 282 Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• Elizabeth Margaret Monie, Head Instructress in Dairying, Somerset County Council.
• Robert Main Moore, Town Clerk of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.
• Thomas Moore, Superintendent, Nottinghamshire Constabulary.
• Cecelia Morris, Matron, Bodeys Park Hospital for Mental Defectives, Chertsey.
• Cedric George Morris, HM Inspector, Immigration Branch, Home Office.
• Arthur Frederick Moss, District Operating Superintendent, Glasgow, Railway Executive.
• Captain John McColl Murray, Commander, Fishery Cruiser Vigilant, Scottish Fishery Protection Service.
• Florence Needs, Director, James Davies Ltd.
• Alexander Neill,, Headmaster, Niddrie Marischal Junior Secondary School, Edinburgh.
• Henry William Newall, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Herbert Newman, South Wales & Bristol District Secretary of the National Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics & Electrical Workers.
• Arthur Coates Newton, Foreign Office.
• Eric Newton,, Chief Investigating Officer, Accidents Investigation Branch, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• Ernest Hilton Niblett, Technical & Works Director, Wright & Weaire Ltd., South Shields.
• William Stanley Nicholls, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office.
• John Rowlands Nicholson, Fishery Officer, Lancashire & Western Sea Fisheries Committee.
• Mary Askey Nixon, Matron, Robson Maternity Home, Stockton-on-Tees.
• Gwynedd Hallam Nutter, Head of Accounts Section, Royal Society.
• William O'Neill,, Vice-Chairman, Dundee Local Employment Committee.
• William Onions,, Councillor, Manchester City Council.
• Gertrude Orton, Chairman, Cannock & District Youth Employment Committee.
• Archibald Wright Howard Osborne, Senior Information Officer, Central Office of Information.
• Arthur Charles Owen,, lately Manager, Cornwall Sub-Area, South Western Electricity Board.
• John Oldnall Page, Grade II Officer, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Stanley Herbert Parker, Supervising Clerk, Headquarters, Southern Command, War Office.
• Reginald Parkes, Managing Director, Whites-Nunan Ltd., Manchester.
• George Frederick William Patterson, Chief Metallurgist, Murex Ltd., Rainham, Essex.
• Trevor Gordon Pearce, Works Manager, C. H. Bailey Ltd., Newport, Monmouthshire.
• Frederick Pearkes, Chief Sales Superintendent, East Telephone Area, London, General Post Office.
• Rosina Maude Pearson, Member of the Board of Trade Committee on Weights & Measures Legislation.
• James Peggie, General Manager, Leith Provident Co-operative Society.
• Joseph Ernest Peirson, Group Manager, Bermondsey Group, South Eastern Division, Road Haulage Executive.
• Ernest Perry, Severn District Engineer, South Western Waterways Division, Docks & Inland Waterways Executive.
• Captain James Laurence Peterson, Dockmaster, Barry, Docks & Inland Waterways Executive.
• John Pickard, Foreign Office.
• Alfred Ernest Pickering, Chief Engineer, Design and Drawing Office, Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co. Ltd.
• Joseph Marie Pisharello, Engineer Clerk, Grade I, War Department, Gibraltar.
• Thomas Platt. For political and public services in Cheshire.
• John Powdrill, General Manager and Engineer, Pontypool, Wales Gas Board.
• Timothy Lawrence Price. For services to education in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
• John Surtees Pringle, Deputy Admiralty Regional Officer, North Western Region.
• John Robert Procter, lately Honorary Secretary of the Association of Superintendents of School Attendance Departments.
• William Prothero, Deputy Chief Constable, Carmarthenshire.
• Charles George Purkis, Labour Officer, Harland & Wolff, North Woolwich.
• Charles James Quinton, Senior Auditor, Exchequer & Audit Department.
• Alice Margareta Read, lately County Borough Organiser, Leeds, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Edward John Cecil Reed,, Senior Resident Engineer, Civil Engineer's Department, Railway Executive.
• Minne Rees. For public services in Carmarthenshire.
• Paul Lennox Rex, Senior Executive Officer, Passport Control Department, Foreign Office.
• Robert Osmond Reynolds, Sea Transport Stores Officer, Southampton, Ministry of Transport.
• Noel Melville Richards, Head of Photographic & Reproductions Branch, Air Ministry.
• George Riding, Senior Administration Officer, Ministry of Supply, Tropical Testing Establishment, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
• James Riding, Superintendent, Hinwick Hall School for Crippled Boys, Wellingborough.
• Matthew Ridley, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• William Howard Ritch, Chief Radio Officer, SS Mahronda, Thos. & Jno. Blocklebank Ltd.
• Telfar Ritchie, Commercial Manager, Barclay Curle & Co. Ltd.
• Arthur Ernest Roberts, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
• Herbert Edward Romain. For services to the Bacon Importers National Association Ltd.
• Margaret May Rowe, lately Deputy to the Head of the Old People's Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Alexander McDonald Bower Rule,, Principal, City of Birmingham Commercial College.
• Arthur Edward William Rumbold, Deputy Director of Accounts, HM Stationery Office.
• William Henry Scott, Honorary Secretary, Birmingham Savings Committee.
• John Barren Sheehan, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport.
• George Ledger Shephard, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
• John Reginald Shipley, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Arthur Edward Singleton, Farmer, Oxton, Nottinghamshire. For services to agriculture.
• Edith Maria Smee, Founder Member of the Women's Section, British Legion, and Chairman, Metropolitan Area.
• Frederick Humphrey-Smith, Honorary Secretary, Burgess Hill Savings Committee.
• Thomas Haddow Smith, General Secretary, National League of the Blind.
• Walter Rawson Snell, Production Manager, Main Diesel Works, Ruston & Hornsby Ltd., Lincoln.
• Dorothy Elizabeth Soper,, Senior Assessor in charge, Coventry Technical Centre, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission.
• John Southern, lately Colliery Manager, Wingfield Manor Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• Captain John Spencer,, Clerk, Shardlow Rural District Council, Derbyshire.
• Montague Henry Spicer, Principal Clerk, Taxing Office, Supreme Court of Judicature.
• Eric Pemble Stevens, Works Manager, Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd., Higher Denham.
• Donald Henry Stevenson,, Honorary Secretary, County Armagh Savings Committee.
• George Harry Stevenson, Chairman, Market Harborough District Committee, Leicester Agricultural Executive Committee.
• John Stevenson, Chairman, Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs.
• Lilian Ann Stroud, Controller of Typists, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Charles Rowell Stuart, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Local Government and Planning.
• Captain William John Swan, Lay Administrator, Ministry of Pensions Polish Convalescent Home, Chudleigh, Devon.
• John Swanson, Assistant Firemaster, Glasgow Fire Brigade.
• Catherine Ellen Swettenham, County Commissioner for Armagh, Ulster Girl Guides.
• Harry Augustus Syms, Higher Executive Officer, Admiralty.
• John Tatlock, Senior Draughtsman, Atomic Energy Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Risley.
• Sidney Charles Taylor, Clerical Officer, Ministry of Transport.
• Alfred William Thompson, Divisional Officer, Middlesex Fire Brigade.
• Anstace Mary Austin-Thompson, Church Army Voluntary Worker with the British Army of the Rhine.
• Frederick Arnold Thompson, Assistant Postmaster, Redhill, Surrey.
• Ernest Thornton. For political and public services in Rochdale.
• Frederick Henry Thornton,. Lately Chairman of Wallasey, Cheshire, Food Control Committee.
• Janet Willock Thornton, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Austin Leonard Thorogood, Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Arthur Joseph Thorp, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
• Thomas Tinning, Station Master, Glasgow Central, Railway Executive.
• Leonie Dora Trouteaud, Representative of the Red Cross on the Guernsey Council of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
• James Gabriel Tucker, South West District Organiser, National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
• Harold William Turner, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply.
• Nora May Turner, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
• Thomas Albert Turner, Records Officer, North West European District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Olive Ingleton Turney, Honorary Secretary, Wainford Savings Committee, Suffolk.
• Harry Tweedale,. Lately Divisional Accountant, North Western Division, British Electricity Authority.
• Councillor Samuel Usher,. For public services in County Durham.
• Arthur David Wadey, Control Officer, Grade I, Hanover, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Thomas Wainwright, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Norman William Wakelam, Deputy Manager, West Bromwich Local Office, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Reginald Charles Walker, Accounts Officer, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• William Fulton Walker, Chairman, Argyll, Renfrew & Bute War Pensions Committee.
• Gertrude Walley, Honorary Officer in charge of Stepney Savings Centre.
• Robert James Watson, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Alfred George Way, Manager, Film Coating Department, Ilford Ltd.
• Charles Gordon Weatherley, Senior Office Clerk, House of Commons.
• Stanley Cecil Wells, Traffic Manager, East Yorkshire Motor Services.
• John White, Lands Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
• Alderman Mary Whitmore. For political and public services in Ipswich.
• Harry Wilcox, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
• Alfred Llywelyn Williams, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Thomas Williams, Senior Chief Clerk, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Walton Allen Williams, Works Manager, Perry Chain Co. Ltd., Abercrave, South Wales.
• Margaret Emily Wilmot, Sister, West London Hospital.
• Amelia Evangeline Wilson, lately Matron, Lisburn Hospital, County Antrim.
• Frederick Percival Wootton, Superintendent of Boot and Shoe Instruction, Northamptonshire Local Education Authority.
• Frank Wright. For services in the production of worsted and other yarns.
• James Wright, Chief Superintendent, Staffordshire Constabulary.
• Percy Wright, Director, A. G. Jones & Co. Ltd., Derby.
• Archibald Wylie, Sales and Service Manager, East Midlands Gas Board.
• Ralph Richmond Yerburgh,, Regional Production Engineer, North Midland Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Frank Bede Young, Clerk to the Preston Rural District Council.
• Elizabeth Jean Yule, Matron, Ross Memorial Hospital, Dingwall.
• Dimitri Balascheff, Interpreter, Allied Commission for Austria.
• John Moodie Clague, Archivist at the United Kingdom Liaison Mission in Japan.
• Gerald Geoffrey Vincent Coleman, British Vice-Consul at Tela.
• Rene Bernard Diacono, District Commissioner, British Administration, Tripolitania.
• Phyllis Mary Dickens, Principal Matron, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government.
• Margaret Isobel Dunlop, Acting Passport Control Officer and British Vice-Consul at Tangier.
• Margaret Mary Eccles, Headmistress, British School, Madrid.
• Isobel Mary Easie Elkington, British subject resident in Egypt.
• Beatrice Winifred Flynn, Personal Assistant to His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow.
• Frederick George Green, Deputy Commissioner of Police, British Administration, Eritrea.
• Edward Hawthorn, British subject resident in France.
• John Houlden, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
• Monica Mabel Jennings, lately Cypher Officer at His Majesty's Legation in Budapest.
• Francis Paul List, Honorary British Consul at Luxembourg.
• James McKay, Inspector, Sudan Veterinary Service.
• Onko Jalmar Tjardo Nyegaard Domela-Nieuwenhuis, British subject resident in the Netherlands.
• Ronald George Peele, Assistant Information Officer, British Administration, Eritrea.
• Margaret Jane Robbie, British subject resident in the Sudan.
• Olive Saywell, Headmistress, Kindergarten School, Bagdad.
• Stuart Elliot Sword, British Pro-Consul at Antofagasta.
• Thomas John Vivian Usher, Assistant Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Copenhagen.
• Charles Verity Waite, Establishment Officer, Public Works Department, Sudan Government.
• Frederick Herbert Watts, Second Secretary and Administration Officer at His Majesty's Embassy at Rangoon.
• James Thomas Weir, His Majesty Consul at Havana.
• Phoebe Faull Anderson, of Horsham, State of Victoria. For social welfare services.
• Rose Elizabeth Baker, Matron of the Echuca District Hospital, State of Victoria.
• John Horwood Bastick, lately Secretary for Public Works, State of Tasmania.
• Muriel Eliza Bridgland. For services in connection with the Soldiers' Home League, State of South Australia.
• Ella Cleggett, Secretary of the Tubercular Soldiers' Aid Society, State of South Australia.
• Phillip Abraham Cremer, lately Principal of the Johannesrust School, Melsetter, Southern Rhodesia.
• Margaret Phyllis Dry, Nursing Sister and Midwife at Waddilove Mission, Southern Rhodesia.
• Gertrude Annie Fraser, of Launceston, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services.
• Rufus Frederick Green. For social welfare services on behalf of the Coloured community in Southern Rhodesia.
• Minnie Ethel Hines. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia.
• Alexander James Jenkins. For municipal services in Mildura, State of Victoria.
• Lawson William Lane, Deputy Chief Transportation Officer, Rhodesia Railways.
• Margaret Keddie Latta, Principal of the Nazarene Secondary School, Bremersdorp, Swaziland.
• Bruce Sidney Leahy. For services in connection with patriotic and charitable organisations in the State of Victoria.
• Harold Joseph Barrington Martin, Secretary of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce, Pakistan.
• Gladys Emily Mills, Matron in the Nursing Service, Southern Rhodesia.
• Griffith Monaheng, Adviser to the Paramount Chief, Basutoland.
• Rhoda Coker Musson, lately Officer-in-charge of Records, Income Tax Department, Southern Rhodesia.
• Gerald Austin William Piesse, of Wagin, State of Western Australia. For public services.
• Kathleen Mary Poile, Social Organiser, Royal Empire Society.
• Mervyn Noel Courtney St. Quintin, lately Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
• Helen Cicely Radcliff, Senior Physiotherapist, Wingfield House, Royal Hobart Hospital, State of Tasmania.
• Alfred Sandover. For public services in the State of Western Australia.
• The Honourable Mary Harriet Hepburne-Scott,, Principal of the Institution for the Blind, Kalimpong, India.
• Vincent de Paul Siebert, Chief President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, State of South Australia.
• Chief Inspector Kenneth McRae Smith, British South Africa Police Reserve.
• Muriel, Lady Taylor. For services in connection with the Victoria League's scheme for the linking of schoolchildren throughout the Commonwealth.
• Maurice Emanuel Zeffert. For voluntary services, especially to ex-servicemen and their dependants, in the State of Western Australia.
• Charles William Adamson, Senior Works Supervisor, Public Works Department, Nyasaland.
• Asbollah bin Haji Arsat, Deputy Assistant District Officer, Kota Belud, North Borneo.
• Samuel Lauchland Athill,. For public services in Antigua, Leeward Islands.
• Francis Nettleton Balme. For services as Manager, Barotseland Witwatersrand Native Labour Association Ltd., Northern Rhodesia.
• Graburn Stanley Barrack, Chief Accountant, Western Pacific High Commission.
• Lancelot Alexander Barton, Senior Executive Officer, Class I, Treasury Revenue Branch, Hong Kong.
• Arthur Beatty, Workshops and Timber Seasoning Manager, Public Works Department, Kenya.
• Margaret Annie Bell, Meteorological Assistant, East African Meteorological Service.
• Walter Randolph Bertrand, Acting Assistant Superintendent of Public Works, Grenada, Windward Islands.
• Edna Bishop. For welfare services in Barbados.
• Joseph Mifsud Bonnici, Assistant Treasurer, Malta.
• Henry Bromley. For services as Officer-in-Charge of Curieuse Leper Settlement in the Seychelles.
• Lilian Burwash, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, Nigeria.
• Frederick George Caldwell, Accountant, Accountant-General's Department, Uganda.
• Kenneth Stephen Collins, Colonial Audit Service, Principal Auditor, Gambia.
• Myra Isabelle Cresson. For social services in Singapore.
• Emmanuel Ebenezer Dadzie. For public services in the Gold Coast.
• Augusta Elvira Darmanie. For voluntary welfare services in Trinidad.
• Mehmed Nazif Denizer. For public services in Cyprus.
• Theophilus Modjabeng Dowuona, Academic Registrar of the University College, Gold Coast.
• Gregor Andrew Duruty, Supervisor, Class I, Customs and Excise Department, Trinidad.
• Harry Wright Fraser, lately Assistant Social Welfare Worker, Hong Kong.
• George Furlong. For services to Railway Department, Mauritius.
• Winifred Gladys Gibbons. For welfare services in Bermuda.
• Olga Giraldi, Administrative Assistant, Education Department, Gibraltar.
• Persis Greig, Superintending Shorthand Typist, Office of the Comptroller for Development and Welfare, West Indies.
• Francis Vere Dewhurst Griffith. For meteorological services in Antigua, Leeward Islands.
• Sybil Harrison, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Health Sister, Klang, Federation of Malaya.
• John Hetherington, Chief Pharmacist, Medical Department, Uganda.
• The Reverend George Oughton Walder Hicks, Presbyterian Minister, Cayman Islands, Jamaica.
• John George Hooper, Superintendent of Sanitary Services, Hong Kong.
• Captain Robert Ingham. For services in connection with the Malta Memorial District Nursing Association, Malta.
• Ivan Denys Irvine, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer Class III, Federation of Malaya.
• Herbert Anglin Jones, Headmaster, Rollington Pen Elementary School, Jamaica.
• John Nicholas Abisodun Jones, Acting Accountant, Post Office, Sierra Leone.
• John Jenkyn Keigwin, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Northern Rhodesia.
• Khoo Kim Lian. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Narasimhaiyengar Krishnaswami, Office Superintendent, Posts and Telegraphs Department, British Somaliland.
• Charles Tristan Lagaite, Police Pay and Quarter Master, Mauritius.
• Arthur Charles Langlois, Deputy Director of Public Works, Bahamas.
• Francis Alfred Loyd, Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Fort Hall, Kenya.
• Irene Blanche Havergal MacDougall, Matron, Nakuru War Memorial Hospital, Kenya.
• James Hunter McGregor, Tobacco Officer, Tanganyika.
• Ian Vaudin Gordon Mackay, Colonial Audit Service, Senior Auditor, North Borneo.
• Alfred James Randall Master, Assistant Superintendent, East African Railways and Harbours.
• James Nathaniel Meighan, District Commissioner, British Honduras.
• Olive Agnes Menezes. For voluntary social welfare services, Aden.
• Elizabeth Moody. For services to the Red Cross Society in Uganda.
• Manibhai Bhailalbhai Pandya, Senior Accounts Clerk, East African Customs and Excise Department.
• Peh Wah Kok, Clerk, Volunteer Forces Record Office, Singapore.
• Christodoulos Georghiou Pelaghias, lately Agricultural Superintendent, Department of Agriculture, Cyprus.
• Arthur Henry Bruce Robey, Senior Livestock Officer, Veterinary Department, Northern Rhodesia.
• Marjorie Sands. For voluntary social services in the Bahamas.
• Arthur Charles Herbert Sewell, Higher Executive Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
• Sheik Mohammed Shakoor. For services to the Trade Union movement in British Guiana.
• Victor John Shearwin, Assistant Treasurer and Collector of Customs, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
• Somnath Maganlal Shukla, Assistant Clerk of Councils, Tanganyika.
• George Richard Bertram Soltau, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Nyasaland.
• Jacomina Stoffberg, Missionary-in-Charge of the Nsadzu Leper Colony, Northern Rhodesia.
• Adele Evelina Johnson Tucker. For welfare services in Bermuda.
• Andrew Urquhart, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Nigeria.
• Rarikua Stephen Vera, Livestock Officer, Veterinary Department, Fiji.
• Sydney Herbert Wilson. For public services in Fiji.
• Cecil George Wimbush. For services as Manager of the Union Jack Club, Singapore.

• Dr. Abdul Latif bin Abdul Razak,, Medical Officer, Federation of Malaya.
• Abdul Manan bin Haji Yacob, Colonisation Officer, Tanjung Karang, Federation of Malaya.
• Patrick Acholonu, Member of Orlu Divisional Native Authority, Nigeria.
• Omosanya Adefolu, the Base of Ake, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
• Jackson Ikot Amah. For services to the Government of Nigeria.
• Galadima Boi, District Head, Gwoza District, Dikwa Emirate, Bornu Province, Nigeria.
• The Reverend Seth Irunsewe Kale, Dean of the Anglican Colleges, Nigeria.
• Azariah Olusegun Ransome-Kuti, Assistant Medical Storekeeper, Nigeria.
• Isaac Anieka Mbanefo. For public services in Nigeria.
• Haji Yassin Mohamed, Chief of the Habr Awal, Mohamed Esa, Derian, British Somaliland.
• Chief Adam Sapi, Chief of Uhehe, Tanganyika.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Stanley Vincent Beattest, Chief Executive Officer, Air Ministry.
• Frank Herbert Bell, Principal, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Herbert Vinson Bransgrove, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
• Henry Forbes Calder,, Ministry of Pensions Representative in Australia and New Zealand.
• Cyril George Chinn, Assistant Director, Ministry of Supply.
• Hugh Clausen,, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Admiralty.
• Arthur Herbert Elliott, Controller, Estate Duty Office, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
• Stanley Gilbert, lately Director of Accounts, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Wilfrid Archibald Goddard, lately General Manager, Carlisle State Management District, Home Office.
• Albert William Gould, Superintending Examiner, Board of Trade.
• Hugh Kinghorn Grey,, Grade II Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office.
• Percival Charles Ingram, Staff Controller, London Postal Region, General Post Office.
• Fred Johnston, Regional Director, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• William Millington Limb, lately Chief Administrative Officer, Office of the Public Trustee.
• Frank Spinks Lumbard, General Inspector, Department of Health for Scotland.
• George Charles Shepherd Machon, Assistant Secretary, War Office.
• John Henry Phillips,, Principal, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
• Frederick Walter Shiner,, Assistant Chief Quantity Surveyor, Ministry of Works..
• Philip Stratton,, Provincial Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Arthur Herbert Thieme, Principal, Ministry of Food.
• Andrew Thom, Principal, War Damage Commission and Central Land Board.
• William Henry Umfreville, Assistant Accountant and Comptroller General, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Frank Whitham, Collector, Dover, Board of Customs and Excise.
• John Ernest Whiting, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Local Government and Planning.
• Thomas Wooddisse, Secretary, British Museum.

• Charles Claus Gale,, Secretary and Permanent Head of the Public Works Department, State of Victoria.
• Danby Eugene McLoughlin, lately Chief Agriculturist, Department of Agriculture and Lands, Southern Rhodesia.
• Arthur Henry Peters, Director of Lands and Permanent Head of the Lands Department, State of South Australia.

• Valentine Charles George Gatrell, Government Printer, Singapore.
• John Laird Dawson Gibson, lately Collector of Customs, Shipping Master and Registrar of Shipping, Bermuda.
• Walter Organ, Workshop Manager, Public Works Department, Tanganyika.
• Graham Worthington, Government Printer, Gold Coast.

  Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• The Right Honourable Sidney George Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Petty Officer John Walter Noel Bain, C/JX.126741.
• Quartermaster Sergeant Charles Henry Barrett, PO.X.2296, Royal Marines.
• Petty Officer Arthur Alfred Frederick Betts,, C/JX.134446.
• Chief Petty Officer Leslie Brain, D/JX.132051.
• Master-at-Arms Alfred James Cutler, D/MX.65792.
• Air Artificer David Vincent Date, L/FX.100850.
• Chief Electrical Artificer John Ernest Denney,, C/MX.45614.
• Chief Petty Officer Charles Frank Guyatt, C/JX.127177.
• Chief Engine Room Artificer Arthur Hall, P/MX.60160.
• Quartermaster Sergeant Albert Edward Small Hartland, Ply.X.391, Royal Marines.
• Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Frederick Charles Hawker, P/KX.87827.
• Petty Officer Leslie Alan Herbert Hawkey, D/JX.145039.
• Chief Wren Cook Peggy Gladys Heard, 19519, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Stores Chief Petty Officer William Henry Hibberd, P/M.37250.
• Petty Officer Frederick Robert Hipkins, D/JX.157.124.
• Chief Petty Officer Writer Leonard George Archibald Jenner, P/MX.45728.
• Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist James Joseph Kennett, D.S.M., P/JX.127822.
• Chief Wren Quarters Assistant Janet Nield Logan, 2024, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Chief Engine Room Artificer Charles George Mills, C/MX.768900.
• Chief Petty Officer Steward Hiram Wyndham Morgan, P/L.14753.
• Chief Yeoman of Signals Frederick Joseph Rainsbury, D/JX.130447.
• Chief Petty Officer William Henry Rodwell, D/JX.130871.
• Corporal Frederick James Sankey, Po.X.3886, Royal Marines.
• Acting Chief Petty Officer Steward Joseph Schembri, Malta/LX.21298.
• Stores Chief Petty Officer Henry Frederick George Sheppard, P/MX.54611.
• Chief Electrical Artificer Thomas Albert Sparkes, D/MX.56259.
• Chief Air Artificer Walter John Revill Stocks, L/FX.75183.
• Chief Petty Officer Joseph Bernard Donald Alphonso Towell, D/J.106521.
• Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Albert Lewis Walker, D/MX.47903.
• Chief Petty Officer George Frederick Williams, Mauritius Naval Volunteer Force.
• Marine Fred Beever, Ch.X.118708, Royal Marines.

• No.22258011 Private Alfred William Bairstow, Royal Army Medical Corps.
• No.GC.13566 Company-Sergeant-Major Oseini Bazabarimi, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force.
• No.5947082 Sergeant William Beale, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
• No.926330 Battery-Quartermaster-Sergeant John Beattie, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• No.21143085 Sergeant Bhokbahadur Gaining, 6th Gurkha Rifles.
• No.6135668 Colour Sergeant Walter Henry Bowles, The East Surrey Regiment.
• No.1920542 Staff-Sergeant Leonard John Buck, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.2877756 Battery-Quartermaster-Sergeant John Morrison Burgess, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• No.1878094 Staff-Sergeant Harold William Edwin Caplin, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.7662582 Staff-Sergeant Albert Sidney Clay, Royal Army Pay Corps.
• No.2874852 Staff-Sergeant William Crighton, Intelligence Corps.
• No.15002407 Sergeant Harold Joseph Crocker, Royal Corps of Signals.
• No.309477 Sergeant Alexander Dickson, Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
• Sergeant-Major Joseph Dinku, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police.
• No.54753 Warrant Officer Class II Leslie William Dobbs, Army Catering Corps.
• No.NA.128201 Sergeant Francis Fajuyi, Nigeria Signal Squadron, Royal West African Frontier Force.
• No.SLA.26032 Sergeant James Foya, Sierra Leone Regiment Training Centre, Royal West African Frontier Force
• No.6711216 Sergeant John Richard Franklin, London Irish Rifles, The Royal Ulster Rifles, Territorial Army.
• No.22283286 Sergeant John Thomas Freeley, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• No.S/214506 Staff-Sergeant Peter Lincoln Fussell, Royal Army Service Corps.
• No.W/31435 Sergeant Anne Elsie Hoar, Women's Royal Army Corps.
• No.W/215135 Sergeant-Cook Emma Hurt, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
• No.5883042 Sergeant William Kirton, Army Catering Corps.
• No.21004088 Corporal Herbert Lucas, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.1878080 Staff-Sergeant Herbert Moor, Corps of Royal Engineers.
• No.305158 Squadron Quartermaster-Corporal Arthur Stanley Mundon, Royal Horse Guards.
• No.U.466 Company-Sergeant-Major Jeremiya Odokpira, East African Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• No.KML/307089 Regimental Sergeant-Major Joseph Adhiambo Ondwas, East African Construction Forces.
• No.1079984 Sergeant Frank Oulsnam, Army Catering Corps.
• No.21018249 Lance-Corporal Robert Henry Parrish, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• No.7585508 Staff-Sergeant Arthur Henry Quick, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• No.4192146 Sergeant Edwin Roberts, Intelligence Corps.
• No.3445305 Sergeant Stanley Smith, The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
• No.21002086 Sergeant Harold Spencer, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Band Sergeant-Major Eldon Leigh Stewart, Jamaica Military Band.
• No.22228116 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Samuel Stewart, Corps of Royal Military Police, Territorial Army.
• No.4802017 Sergeant Frank Stockdale, Royal Corps of Signals.
• No.5249919 Sergeant George Alfred Tanner, The Worcestershire Regiment.
• No.4270089 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Marshall Joseph Wild, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
• No.3852544 Sergeant Sidney Williams, Army Catering Corps.
• No.790698 Warrant Officer Class II George Wright, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

• 563021 Flight Sergeant Reginald Oscar Arthur Abbott.
• 516911 Flight Sergeant Rex Holmes Colyer.
• 517381 Flight Sergeant John William Craig.
• 2683515 Flight Sergeant Charles Elliott Erskine, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
• 561555 Flight Sergeant George Todd Griffiths.
• 517426 Flight Sergeant Albert John Hammond.
• 562726 Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Jack Wilson Hare.
• 563558 Flight Sergeant Frederick Arthur Hawkins.
• 560989 Flight Sergeant Richard Farquharson Hewlett.
• 549708 Flight Sergeant Thomas Glynn James.
• 891151 Flight Sergeant Helen Miller, Women's Royal Air Force.
• 520922 Flight Sergeant William Octovius Morgan.
• 510313. Flight Sergeant James Parkin Oxley.
• 518353 Flight Sergeant Ernest Frederick Townsend.
• 516712 Flight Sergeant Frederick Young.
• 1473858 Acting Flight Sergeant Charles Douglas Collyer.
• 539934 Acting Flight Sergeant James Alfred Taylor.
• 922292 Sergeant Geoffrey Roy Dawes.
• 896358 Sergeant Lorenza Dowdeswell, Women's Royal Air Force.
• 527410 Sergeant Edward George Ellis.
• 1725042 Sergeant Frederick George Froud.
• 1310242 Sergeant Nicholas Garvey Kelly.
• 566279 Sergeant Arnott McIvor.
• 591930 Sergeant Howard Royston Thomas.
• 644409 Sergeant William Edward Weatherill.
• 579751 Acting Sergeant Eric Clive Dunn.
• 1155544 Corporal Edward Albert Chapman.
• 574254 Corporal William Patrick Megraw.
• 578972 Corporal Bruce Peter Rowden.
• 1015290 Corporal Sydney Herbert Dimeny Seek.
• 611783 Corporal Leslie Chapman Thurston.

• Walter George Allen, Cable Room Assistant Supervisor, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office.
• Francis George Alsop, Erector, National Smelting Co. Ltd., Avonmouth.
• Albert Appleby, Shop Convenor, Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby.
• Robert Thirlway Arkley, Tool Maker, Projectile & Engineering Co. Ltd., Battersea.
• Arthur Walter Askew, Senior Security Officer, Foreign Office.
• Christopher Sidney Aveson, Assistant Foreman, Southern Gas Board.
• Mary Lilian Janet Ayling, Supervisor, Telephone Exchange, Brighton.
• Frank Baker, Honorary Collector, Savings Group, Huthwaite, Mansfield.
• Albert Alfred Battes, Warehouse Checker, North Thames Gas Board.
• Alexander Black, Mail Contractor, Taynuilt Post Office, Argyll.
• Laura Blackburn, Weaver, John Halliday & Sons, Bradford.
• Michele Bonnici, Shipwright Supervisor, HM Dockyard, Malta.
• Edith Boustead, Weaver, Weaving Training Centre, Ferguson Bros. Ltd., Carlisle.
• Doris Hilda Bowen, Sub-Postmistress, Clare Street Post Office, Cardiff.
• Harry Boyd, Trench Inspector, East Midlands Gas Board.
• Thomas Frank Bray, Blacksmith, Royal Naval Air Station, St. Merryn, Cornwall.
• Harry Brinsdon, Tube Drawer, Tubes Ltd., Birmingham.
• Arthur Harper Brown, Chief Officer, Edinburgh Depot, Scottish Ambulance Service,
• James Hamilton Brown, Foreman Linesman, South West Scotland Electricity Board.
• William Bruce, Assistant Harbourmaster, Crinan Canal.
• John Waller Buffam, Assistant Inspector, Head Post Office, Leeds.
• Madge Bullock, Weaver, George Walmsley & Sons Ltd., Burnley.
• William James Campbell, Section Leader, Northern Area Fire Brigade, Scotland.
• Nathaniel Cank, Outdoor Superintendent, Stormont Estate, Belfast.
• Albert Henry Chambers, Chargehand Jointer, Midlands Electricity Board.
• William Stanley Chant, Head Herdsman, Wherwell, Andover.
• Sydney William Saxton Cockram, Works Inspector, Treforest Repair Factories, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Anthony Conlan, Overman, Whitehill Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board.
• George William Cooke, Instructor, Government Training Centre, Leeds.
• Emily Courteney, Honorary Collector and Secretary, Street Savings Group, Bootle.
• Ellen Daglish, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Morpeth.
• Gwilym Idris David, Colliery Repairer, Cwm Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board.
• Hubert Lewis Davies, Tool Room Grinder, Folland Aircraft Ltd., Southampton.
• Thomas Davies, Foreman, Sheppard & Sons Ltd., Bridgend.
• Harry Percival Day, Works Technical Grade III, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Farnborough.
• Osmond George Dellenty,, Chief Inspector, War Department Constabulary.
• Frederick Dorrington, Fitter, Birmingham Factory, General Post Office.,
• William Edmunds, Chargehand, Ministry of Supply Storage Depot, Coleford.
• Archibald Felix Edwards, Sub-Officer, Berkshire and Reading Fire Brigade.
• William Elliot, Mechanical Foreman, Eastfield Motive Power Depot, Railway Executive, Scottish Region.
• James Gordon Ellis, Omnibus Driver, W. Alexander & Sons Ltd., Scottish Omnibuses Ltd.
• George Loudon Findlay, Foreman Sheet Iron Worker, Thermotank Ltd., Glasgow.
• Adam Eraser, Boatswain, SS Rora Head, North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company, Aberdeen.
• Wilfred Francis Friend, Head Gardener, North-West European District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
• Alfred Edward Fryer, Supervisor , Telephone Manager's Office, Sheffield.
• Hilda Ethel Garwood, Forewoman, E. N. Mason Ltd., Colchester.
• Edward David Gay, Sergeant, Plymouth City Police.
• John Gent, Byeworker, Thorne Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
• Albert Vernon Gibson, Machinist, Crewe Locomotive Works. For services to the Ambulance Movement.
• Robert Glen, Oncost Worker, Carberry Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board.
• William Thomas Greaves, Foreman Bread Baker, A.D. Wimbush & Son Ltd., Birmingham.
• Joshua Green, Senior Manual Attendant, Science Museum.
• Frederick Greenaway, Chargehand Fitter, Southern Division, British Electricity Authority.
• David Henry Griffiths, Linesman, Merseyside & North Wales Electricity Board.
• Harry Reginald Guley, Chief Inspector, Thames Valley Traction Co. Ltd.
• Alexander Haggart, Foreman Steel Erector, Alex. Findlay & Sons Ltd., Motherwell.
• Harry Haigh, Yard Foreman, Wood Bros. Glass Co. Ltd., Barnsley.
• Samuel Henshaw, Coal Face Worker, Butterley Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• Thomas John Heskett, Honorary Organiser and Collector, Street Savings Group, Upper Edmonton, London, N.18.
• Joseph Reay Heslop, Traffic Manager, Burradon Colliery, Northern Division, National Coal Board.
• Thomas Hey, Chief Inspector, Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd., Leeds.
• Isaac William Ernest Hill, Truck Weighman, North Eastern Gas Board.
• Harold Hindle, Depot Manager, Accrington House Coal Distribution Scheme.
• Arthur Hinks, Colliery Deputy, Holly Bank Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• Nathaniel James Hiscock, School Staff Instructor, Haileybury & Imperial Service College, Combined Cadet Force.
• Margaret Emily Hoare, Superintendent Storewoman, Supplies Department, General Post Office.
• Jonathan Hodgson, Distribution Foreman, Workington Unit, Northern Gas Board.
• Mary Holdsworth, Deputy County Organiser, Yorkshire, East Riding, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Ronald Holmes, Mechanic-in-Charge III, Post Office Garage, Buxton.
• Hubert Walton Hope, Foreman Electrician, Cowan, Sheldon & Co. Ltd., Carlisle.
• Edward Hopkins, Civil Warrant Officer, No. 254 Squadron, Air Training Corps.
• John Stanhope Howarth, Foundry Chargehand, Magnesium Elektron Ltd., Manchester.
• John William Jackman, Office Keeper, Cabinet Office.
• Christine Jackson, Warden of the Nurses Home, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
• Wilfred Joseph Jenkin, Station Officer, Cornwall Fire Brigade.
• Albert John Jennens, Master Craftsman, Stevens & Williams Ltd., Brierley Hill.
• Florence Jevons, Drawing Frame Operator, Carpet Trades Ltd., Kidderminster.
• Octavious Hiley Jones, Inspector, Post Office Engineering Department, Pontypool.
• Percy McDonald Jones,, Technician, Class I, Telephone Manager's Office, Bristol.
• Winifred Judd, Centre Organiser, Abercarn, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Leonard George Juniper, Chief Photoprinter, Principal Probate Registry, Supreme Court of Judicature.
• George Wesley Keith, Postal and Telegraph Officer, Head Post Office, Belfast.
• Edwin Thomas Lancey. Regulating Leading Hand of Labourers, Admiralty.
• Felix Harry Lax, Band Sergeant, Queen Victoria School for the Sons of Scottish Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen, Dunblane.
• Frederick Augustus Lovett, Superintendent, Insulation Factory, British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.
• John MacIsaac, Quartermaster, SS Mahseer, Thos. and Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool.
• William McMillan, Leading Hand Fitter, David Rowan & Co. Ltd., Glasgow.
• Usuman Marua, Grade I Battalion Imam, 2nd Battalion, The Nigeria Regiment.
• James George Edward Massey, Safety Officer, South Leicester Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• Robert Mather, Haulage Engine Driver, Bold Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board.
• Fred Mellington, Haulage Engine Driver, Silverhill Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• Gordon Mitchell, Constable, Coatbridge Burgh Police. For services to the Scottish Police Federation.
• Harold Mitchell, Postman, Head Post Office, Dover.
• George Henry Moore, Member, Coast Life Saving Corps, Douglas, Isle of Man.
• Clement Gladstone Moores, Senior Leading Patrolman, Ministry of Supply Storage Depot, Wortley, Yorkshire.
• Helen Morgan, Assistant, Centre Staff, Aberdeen, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Samuel Morgan, Underground Switchman, Newdigate Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
• Anthony Padua Morris, Station Warden, RAF Changi, Singapore.
• Peter Mulheron, Brusher, Southfield Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board.
• Francis Mulryan, Mechanical Foreman, North Western Electricity Board.
• George Murray, Foreman of Trades, No. 12 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kirkbride.
• Henry Percival Musk, Storehouseman, Royal Naval Hospital Haslar.
• Patrick Myers, Chief Blast Furnace Foreman, Gjers Mills & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough.
• Percy Russel Nicholson, Senior Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty.
• George Henry Norton, Tool Room Foreman, Brecknell, Munro & Rogers Ltd., Bristol.
• George Painter, Wire Flattening Mill Foreman, Stourbridge Rolling Mills Ltd.
• Jonathan Parkinson, Head Foreman Shipwright, William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool.
• Gertrude Pearce, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Sheffield.
• James Pettigrew, Quartermaster, MV Port MacQuarrie, Port Line Ltd., London.
• William George Griffin Pinfold, Temporary Mechanic, National Physical Laboratory.
• Wiliam Pinnell, Registered Dock Worker, Newport.
• George Edward Pritchard, Checkweighman, Blackball Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board.
• Arthur James Puttock, Works Technical Grade II, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Farnborough.
• Thomas Ramsey Rainey, Chief Inspector, Ulster Transport Authority.
• Harvey Richard George Reeve, Station Engineer, Aeronautical Inspection Directorate Test House, Ministry of Supply, Harefield.
• Thomas Reynolds, Storekeeper, Granton Gas Works, Scottish Gas Board.
• Edith Maud Richardson, Overseer, Head Post Office, Cumbergate, Peterborough.
• Walter Richardson, Draughtsman, Senior Grade, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries..
• Sydney Richens, Laboratory Worker "A", Armament Research Establishment, Ministry of Supply, Sevenoaks.
• Robert Powell Robertson, Manager, Machynlleth Undertaking, Wales Gas Board.
• Albert Robinson, Donkeyman greaser, SS Baron Dunmor, Temple Steamship Co., London.
• Eutychus Edwin Robinson, Class A III Litho Prover, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton.
• Harry Robinson, Checkweighman, Lofthouse Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
• John Robinson,, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Borstal Institution, Feltham.
• Robert Rodger, Senior Assistant, HM Underwater Detection Establishment, Portland.
• Joseph Richard Rowell, Storekeeper, HM Coastguard Store Depot, Pitsea.
• William Richard Savage, Custodian at Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk.
• William Shakespeare, Dope Shop Foreman, Percival Aircraft Ltd., Luton.
• John Sinclair, Farm Manager, Dalmeny Home Farm, near Edinburgh.
• Fred Smith, Assistant Overseer Grade I, Admiralty.
• John Greer Smith, Driller, Albion Motors Ltd., Glasgow.
• Eileen Sowden, Deputy County Borough Organiser, Scunthorpe, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Hugh Gordon Steele, Foreman, J. Mackie & Son Ltd., Belfast
• Adam Storey, Inshore Fisherman, Newbiggin, Northumberland.
• George Hipolite Sullivan, Workshop Foreman, War Office Establishment, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Doris Grace Susans, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Gillingham.
• Henry Daniel Swann, Foreman, Laurence, Scott & Electrometers Ltd., Norwich.
• William Swinnerton, Shift Foreman, John Summers & Sons Ltd., Shotton, Chester.
• John Graham Taylor, Foreman Leading Stoker, North Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority.
• John Thompson, Chargehand Fitter, Lostock Gralam Works, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.
• Frederick George Timberlake, Fitter Chargehand, South Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority.
• Charlton Todd, Coal Filler, Prestwick Colliery, Northern Division, National Coal Board.
• Sidney Turner, Head Dock Foreman, Hull Port Association for Imported Fruit and Vegetables.
• Frank James Walker, Mains Foreman, South Eastern Gas Board.
• Walter Ward, Coal Sampler, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
• Frank Wealthy, Assistant Switchboard Attendant, South Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority.
• Henry William Weatherall, Donkeyman, SS Arawa, Shaw, Savill & Albion Co. Ltd., London.
• Margaret F. Wilkinson,, Centre Organiser, Berwick-on-Tweed, Women's Voluntary Services.
• Walter Wilkinson, Underground Enginewright, Snowdown Colliery, South Eastern Division, National Coal Board.
• Wyndham Goulds Williams, Shunter, Class I, Barry Docks.
• Howard William Winslow, Supervisor I, Maintenance, Dortmund, Control Commission for Germany.
• John William Winterson,, Chief Paper Keeper, Air Ministry.
• William Wright, Assistant Foreman Bricklayer, Workington Iron & Steel Co., Sheffield.
• John Young, Traffic Superintendent, No. 14 Maintenance Unit, RAF Carlisle.
• Mabel Georgina Young, Chief Supervisor, London Directory Enquiry, General Post Office.

• Charley DeLongville. For services in collecting for charities in Port MacDonnell, South Australia.

• Ignatius John Sexton, Jailor, Aden Prison, Aden.
• Demetrios Theocleous Piyiotis, Inspector of Water Supplies, Water Supply and Irrigation Department, Cyprus.
• Joseph Karapet Karapetian, Inspector of Water Supplies, Water Supply and Irrigation Department, Cyprus.
• Abdullah bin Haji Jalil, Clerical Officer, Class III, General Clerical Service, Federation of Malaya.
• George Austin Hay, Locomotive Driver, Malayan Railway, Federation of Malaya.
• Abu Bakar bin Haji Omar, Penghulu Special Grade, Ulu Ring, Federation of Malaya.
• Krishnan s/o Vengadasalam, Linesman, Telecommunications Department, Federation of Malaya.
• Abdul Rahman bin Haji Othman, Malay Teacher, Federation of Malay.
• To Yee, 1st Class Clerk, Junior Clerical Service, Hong Kong.
• Jaswant Singh s/o Satbachan Singh, Assistant District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve, Kenya.
• Kithinji Njage, Laboratory Assistant, Medical Research Laboratory, Kenya.
• Joseph Lewis Bonnici, Enforcement Officer, Department of Labour, Malta.
• Paul Agius, Nurse, Isolation Hospital, Malta.
• Simon Onyekwelu Ofoedu, Works Superintendent, Onitsha Rural Areas, Native Authority, Nigeria.
• Taliban bin Dandiong, lately Native Chief, Grade I, Tambunan, North Borneo.
• Haji Sardheed Ismail, Somali Assistant, British Somaliland.
• Ismail Gulaid, Judge of the Berbera Subordinate Court, British Somaliland.
• Petro Itossi Marealle, Chief of Vunjo, Moshi District, Tanganyika.
• Wabu Musa, Adviser, Nyasa Council, Songea District, Tanganyika.
• Gulamali Juma Natha, Senior Produce Examiner, Agricultural Department, Zanzibar.

  Royal Red Cross (RRC)

• Major Dorothy Olive Wakeham, , Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

  Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Lucy Phyllis Dewey, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Reserve.
• Dorothy Haigh, Head Nursing Member, Voluntary Aid Detachment.

• Captain Margaret Gibb Davidson, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
• Captain Winifred Mary Hall, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

• Flight Officer Marjorie Marion McLaren, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
• Flight Officer Grace Evelyn Kirby Walker, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

  Air Force Cross

• Squadron Leader Peter Reginald Casement, .
• Squadron Leader Leonard Henry Cherry, .
• Squadron Leader John Chegwyn Thomas Downey, .
• Squadron Leader George Gray, .
• Squadron Leader Elvin Darley Pennington.
• Squadron Leader Derek Shannon Vaughan Rake.
• Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Edward Callard, .
• Acting Squadron Leader Jack Ratcliff Robinson.
• Acting Squadron Leader Robert Horace Smyth.
• Acting Squadron Leader George Walter Vowles.
• Flight Lieutenant Stanislan Jan Andrzejewski.
• Flight Lieutenant Harry Bennett.
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald James Brain.
• Flight Lieutenant Anthony George Brown, .
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Campey.
• Flight Lieutenant David Dattner.
• Flight Lieutenant Basil Dorian Brett Lewis, .
• Flight Lieutenant Stuart Munro Mackay.
• Flight Lieutenant Joseph Keith Maddison.
• Flight Lieutenant William Patrick Peedell.
• Flight Lieutenant Bertram Guy Roberts.
• Flight Lieutenant Alan James Sharman.
• Flight Lieutenant John Alexander Simpson, .
• Flight Lieutenant Wallace Haig Woodgate Spencer.
• Flight Lieutenant Russell Reay Waughman, .
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Kenneth Wilson.
• Master Pilot Wladyslaw Grobelny.
• Master Pilot Bernard William Thomas Horn.

• Acting Commander Peter Summer Wilson.
• Lieutenant Joseph Elliot.

• Captain Harold Hawkins, SRAF.

  Bar to Air Force Cross

• Group Captain Thomas Gilbert Mahaddie, .
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Donald Thorne, .

  Air Force Medal

• 578390 Flight Sergeant Gordon Acklam.
• 651365 Flight Sergeant John Smith Cadden,.
• 1419299 Flight Sergeant Edison Arthur Corbett.
• 1620761 Flight Sergeant Norman Cross.
• 1672028 Flight Sergeant Eric Davies.
• 1713743 Flight Sergeant John Alister Eliston.
• 1623501 Flight Sergeant George William Ford.
• 1586631 Flight Sergeant Lawrence Frank Gapper.
• 2209306 Flight Sergeant William Edmund Lowther.
• 1458998 Flight Sergeant William Joseph MacAusland.
• 536134 Flight Sergeant Robert John McFadden.
• 578190 Flight Sergeant Donald George Munro.
• 574514 Flight Sergeant Richard John Snell.
• 1892228 Sergeant Cecil Raymond Colkin.
• 1852123 Sergeant Frank Christopher Slee.

  King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Acting Group Captain Brian James Roberts Roberts.
• Wing Commander Anthony Douglas Forster, .
• Squadron Leader Henry David Archer, .
• Squadron Leader Robert Sidney Radley, .
• Acting Squadron Leader Gordon Hampton, .
• Flight Lieutenant Rodney Allen.
• Flight Lieutenant David Lawson Arthy.
• Flight Lieutenant Anthony John Couchman.
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Alfred John Haskett.
• Flight Lieutenant John Bryce Ferguson Keddie.
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Gordon Marman.
• Flight Lieutenant Dugald Cameron Matheson.
• Flight Lieutenant William Ovington Mitchell, .
• Flight Lieutenant Horace Gerald Munday.
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Netherwood, .
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur James Robert Robson, .
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Michael Sparrow, .
• Flight Lieutenant Sydney Wilkinson.
• Flying Officer Ronald Geoffrey Bainbridge.
• Flying Officer Peter William Gee.
• Flying Officer Walter George Woods.
• 1605277 Flight Sergeant John Herbert William King.
• 4016214 Flight Sergeant James Slaven Muir,.
• 524268 Flight Sergeant William Wallace Simpson.
• 2238497 Sergeant Nicholas Calvert Bennett.
• 1606257 Sergeant Leslie George Revell.
• 575730 Sergeant Roy Frederick Stacey.

  King's Police and Fire Services Medal

• Harry Hughes Herman,, Chief Constable, York City Police Force.
• Alan Frederick Plume, Chief Constable, Norwich City Police Force.
• Reginald Ernest Breffit, Chief Constable, East Sussex Constabulary.
• Herbert Spencer Price,, Chief Constable, Bradford City Police Force.
• William Rees, Chief Constable, Stockport Borough Police Force.
• Adolphus Worthington Fothergill, Second Assistant Chief Constable, Liverpool City Police Force.
• Robert Charles Wainwright,, Chief Superintendent, City of London Police Force.
• John Stanley McCrone, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary.
• Cyril Mervyn Millward Cook, Superintendent, Bristol City Police Force.
• George Frederick Hickinbotham, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
• William Alfred Morley, Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police.
• William Bertram Richards,, Chief Officer, British Transport Commission Police.

• Arthur Hedley Johnstone,, Chief Officer, Surrey Fire Brigade.
• William Edward Sweet,, Chief Officer, Smethwick and West Bromwich Fire Brigade.
• William Francis Redman, Chief Officer, Swansea Fire Brigade.
• James Thomas Hole, Divisional Officer, Birmingham Fire and Ambulance Service.
• Herbert Alfred Charles Smith, Chief Officer, Derby Fire Brigade.

• Gilbert McIlwrick, Chief Superintendent, Glasgow City Police Force.
• Alexander George Roy, Chief Superintendent, Edinburgh City Police Force.

• George Albert Crawford, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary.

• Herbert Cyril Raymond Randall, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force.
• James Cornelius Norman Devenish, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force.
• William Lindsay Creswell Alford, Superintendent, 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force.
• George Laing Smith, Superintendent 2nd Class, New South Wales Police Force.
• James Wiley, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force.
• Gilbert Edward Leary, Superintendent 3rd Class, New South Wales Police Force.

• Edward James Griffiths, Chief Officer of Fire Brigades, New South Wales Fire Service.
• Gerald Patrick Condon, Deputy Chief Officer of Fire Brigades, New South Wales Fire Service.

• Captain Henry James Killick, British South Africa Police.

• Edward John George Brown,, Senior Superintendent of Police, Uganda.
• Cecil Penfold,, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kenya.

  Colonial Police Medal

• Ratholo Noke, Sergeant, Bechuanaland Protectorate Police.

• William Howard, Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police.
• John Sebastian Young, Detective Chief Inspector, British South Africa Police.

• Makabane Bhembe, Warrant Officer, Class I, Swaziland Police.
• Captain Lindsay Paton Pretious, Superintendent, Swaziland Police.

• Jirdeh Ahamed, Sub-Inspector, British Somaliland Police Force.
• Arthur Lewin Alexander, Assistant Commissioner, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Leonard Nanco Alfonso, Inspector, St. Lucia Police Force.
• Peter Duncan Aphiri, Detective Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Samuel Aphiri, Detective Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Wilmot Sylvester Ashley, Assistant Superintendent, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Raymond Barnes, Constable, Fire Brigade, Antigua, Leeward Islands Police Force.
• Roseul Clarke Beckford, Inspector, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Stanhope Billyeald, Detective Superintendent, British Guiana Police Force.
• Edmond Joseph Blaize, Inspector, Leeward Islands Police Force.
• Captain Hugh Fitzherbert Bloxham, Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Auxiliary Police Federation of Malaya.
• Harris Lowell Bodden, Sergeant, Cayman Islands Constabulary.
• William Frederick Borg, Superintendent, Malta Police Force.
• Conrad Swire Kerr Bovell, Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Charles Moore Breen, Assistant Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Edward Stanley Brooks, Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Samuel Birikorang Bimpong Buta, Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Raj Nath Caushica, Inspector, Uganda Police Force.
• Louis Evanoe Chasle, Sergeant, Mauritius Police Force.
• Richmond Chintoh, Chief Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Llewellyn Malcolm Clark, Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Raymond Cole, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police Force.
• Richard Byrne Corridon, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force.
• Baba Damagaram, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police Force.
• Thomas Middleton Davidson, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Donald Vernon Davis, Police Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Julian Canning Day, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Joseph Albert Jupin de Fondaumiere, Superintendent, Mauritius Police Force.
• Mohamed Din bin Mohamed Shariff, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Haji Emran bin Haji Ahmad, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• John Edwin Fairbairn, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force.
• Stanley Marchmont Fortt, Senior Superintendent, Uganda Police Force.
• Clyde Wilfred Foster, Sergeant, St. Lucia Police Force.
• Ginsus bin Kaio, Sergeant, North Borneo Armed Constabulary.
• Goh Ah Pok, Special Grade Detective, Singapore Police Force.
• Joseph Benjamin Gooden, Sub-Inspector, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Adamu Grunshi, Sergeant-Major, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Neil Patrick Hadow, Commissioner, Mauritius Police Force.
• Edmund Ronald Harrison, Inspector, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Stephen Harry, Chief Inspector, Sarawak Constabulary.
• Frederick Charles Henley, Assistant Superintendent, Kenya Police Force.
• Lawson Augustine Hicks, Assistant Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• William Joseph Guy Holland, Deputy Commissioner, Fiji Police Force.
• Hsu Feng Li, son of Hsu Tsi Ho, Staff-Sergeant, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Ibrahim Ikaramtulla, Sergeant, Kenya Police Force.
• Eric Clinton Johnson, Pay and Quartermaster, British Guiana Police Force.
• Lotimus Joseph, lately Inspector, Grenada Police Force.
• Yozefu Kasuja Kasaja, Inspector, Uganda Police Force.
• Abbas Khan, son of Ghulam Mohamed, Staff Sergeant, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Shamsher Khawas, Bandmaster, Nyasaland Police Force.
• Johnny Kumbo, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police Force.
• Lau Siew Foo, Detective Inspector, Singapore Police Force.
• Leong Boon Swee, Chief Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Michael John Macoun, Senior Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force.
• Khwaja Abdulaziz Majid, Chief Inspector, Zanzibar Police Force.
• Francis Norman Miles, Superintendent, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Nolan Knighton Millett, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force.
• Charles Mottram, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Timbilla Mosm, Sergeant, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Anam Nyandianga, Senior Inspector, Kenya Police Force.
• Joachim Omile, Sergeant, Nigeria Police Force.
• Charles Stewart Panton, Assistant Superintendent, Jamaica Constabulary.
• Alexander Phillips, Police Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• George Cuthbert Reed,, Provincial Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve.
• William Robert Reeve, Assistant Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force.
• Ferminus Olatokumbo Reis, Sub-Inspector, Nigeria Police Force.
• Edward Reginald John Richards, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Walter Venia Samuels, Inspector, Leeward Islands Police Force.
• Edward Albert Shaw, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Force.
• Kitukp Siengo, Assistant 'Inspector, Kenya Police Force.
• Harbans Singh, Inspector, Kenya Police Force.
• Jiwan Singh, son of Paal Singh, Sergeant, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Mahain Singh, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Geoffrey Ernest Frederick Southey, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Henry Donald Stevenson, Assistant Superintendent, Kenya Police Force.
• Charles Hugh Kent Strike, Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force.
• William George Syer, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force.
• Tan Ghim Kheng, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Ibrahim Hakki Tayyar, Inspector, Cyprus Police Force.
• John Dick Thomson, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Uganda Police Force.
• Tsui Po Ying, Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Roy Vincent Francis Turner, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force.
• Wan bin Sheikh Abdul Rahman, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force.
• Trevor Alfred Wright, Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force.
• Yeop Mahideen bin Muhamed Shariff,, Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya.
• Yubong bin Sadipan, Sergeant-Major, North Borneo Armed Constabulary.
• Ibrahim Yusuf, lately Inspector, British Somaliland Police Force.

  Australia

Knight Bachelor

• John Robert Kemp,. For public services.
• Thomas Malcolm Ritchie,. For political and public services.
• John Smith Teasdale,, Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board.

  Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Air Vice-Marshal John Patrick Joseph McCauley,.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• The Right Honourable Arthur William Fadden,, Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer.

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

• Lieutenant-Colonel William Roy Hodgson,, an Australian diplomat, at present British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Control Council for Japan.
• Dudley Charles Turner,. For service to the Australian Red Cross and hospitals.

  Order of the British Empire

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

• Mary Dora Daly,. For outstanding service to social welfare.

  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Captain John Malet Armstrong,.

• Brigadier Thomas Neil Gooch, Australian Military Forces.

• Air Vice-Marshal Ellis Charles Wackett,.

• Raymond Spencer Goward,, formerly Chief Commissioner of the Australian Comforts Fund.
• Douglas Frank Hewson Packer, Managing Director of Consolidated Press Ltd., and lately President of the Australian Newspapers Council.
• George Percival Norman Watt, Chairman of the Australian National Airlines Commission.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Sheila Mary Kenworthy, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve, Lately Director, Women's Royal Australian Naval Service.
• Acting Captain Alvord Sydney Rosenthal,.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Neville Lucas Argent, , Commonwealth Military Forces.
• Major Alfred Robert Etheredge, Australian Military Forces.

• Group Captain Henry George Acton.
• Wing Commander Norman Ford, .

• The Reverend Clarence Irving Benson,, Superintendent of the Wesley Church Central Mission, Melbourne, and a prominent ecclesiastic.
• James Gordon Hardman, Principal Registrar of the High Court.
• Rita May Harris. For social welfare services, especially on behalf of children.
• Herbert Wilmot Heskett. For services to electrical engineering.
• Charles Norman McKenzie,. For social welfare services.
• Charles Wheeler,. For services to Art.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Lieutenant Harry Reginald Giles.
• Leonard Douglas Martyn Roberts,, Senior Commissioned Boatswain, Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
• Acting Ordnance Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Rupert Venus.

• Captain Alfred John Barnett, , Australian Military Forces.
• Captain Joseph Ross Fletcher, Commonwealth Military Forces.
• Captain Thomas Erlsford Hayes, Australian Military Forces.
• Captain Henry Walter Samuel Jackson, , Australian Military Forces.
• Captain Andrew John Gibb Maitland, Commonwealth Military Forces.
• Captain David Ashley Williams, Commonwealth Military Forces.

• Squadron Leader John Mann.
• Acting Squadron Leader Sydney James Barrow.
• Flight Lieutenant William James Ryan.
• Flight Lieutenant Oliver Studley.

• Bethia Kilgour. For social welfare services.
• Robert Douglas Leitch. For public services.
• Septimus Lillywhite. For services to munitions production.
• Roberta Sinclair Reid. For services in connection with the training of blind children.
• Joseph Gordon Robinson, Lay Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.
• Ernest James Taylor. For services to Journalism.
• Dudley Ackerley Tregent. For services to ex-service men.

  British Empire Medal (BEM)

• Chief Shipwright Fernley Thomas Barron.
• Able Seaman John Francis McMahon.

• No. 2/46894 Staff-Sergeant Arthur Bernard Bentley, Australian Military Forces.
• No. 3/1818 Sergeant Sydney James Mills, Australian Military Forces.
• No. 2/45484 Corporal Eric Edward Sarchfield, Australian Military Forces.
• No. 5/20737 Sergeant George Stewart, Commonwealth Military Forces.
• No. 4/259 Sergeant Hurtle Murdock Zilm, Commonwealth Military Forces.

• Acting Flight Sergeant Michael Patrick Freeman.

  Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant Jack Marshall Cairns.
• Flight Lieutenant John Wilkins Hubble.
• Warrant Officer Angus Arthur Swinbourn.

  Bar to Air Force Cross

• Squadron Leader Kenneth Victor Robertson, .

  King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant Leslie George Christofis.
• Flight Lieutenant Reginald John Emmerson.

  New Zealand

Ceylon

Knight Bachelor

• Ukwatte Acharige Jayasundera,, Senator.
• Razik Fareed,, Senator.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• Ralph Henry Bassett,, lately Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Industries, Industrial Research and Fisheries.
• Henry William Howes,, Director of Education.

  Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Alice Elizabeth Kotelawala,. For social work and services to rural development.
• Sidney Arnold Pakeman,, Member of Parliament. Previously Professor of Modern History and Economics, Ceylon University College.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Nandasara Wijetilaka Atukorala,, Secretary to the Prime Minister.
• Sooriyakumara Wannisinghe Punchi Bahda Bulankulame,, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands.
• Gerald Samuel William de Saram,, lately Judicial Medical Officer, Colombo.
• Warusahennedige Leo Fernando, Member of Parliament for Buttala.
• Paul Alfred John Hernu, Chairman, Colombo Port Commission.
• Oswald Phillip Rust, Managing Director, Darley Butler & Co. Ltd. For services to the Tea Commissioner.

  Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Captain Harold Erastue Pineo Vantwest,, Ceylon Volunteer Force.
• Captain Edward Charles Young,, 2nd Coast Artillery Regiment, Ceylon Artillery.
• Regimental Sergeant-Major Rothschild Henry Salvador, 2nd Battalion, Ceylon Light Infantry.

• John Arthur Amaratunge, Member, Gal Oya Development Board.
• Modestus Fernando Chandraratna,, Botanist and Senior Agricultural Research Officer, Department of Agriculture.
• Rajakaruna Wanigasekara Mudiyariselage Ukku Banda Dedigama, Rate Mahatmaya, Beligal Korale, Kegalle District.
• Dhanusekera Bandara Ellepola, Acting Director, Rural Development.
• Christogu Juan Fernandopulle. For public and social services in Chilaw District.
• Dunuwilagedera Haramanis Jayewickreme. For public and social services in Kandy.
• Roger Collin Kerr, Chairman, Toc H Club, Colombo.
• Abeyratne Cudah Leonard Ratwatte, Shroff, Mercantile Bank, Kandy.
• William Floris de Alwis Seneviratne. For public services in the Kalutara District.
• Samuel Muthuvaloe Tamby Raja. For public and social services in Matale District.
• Reginald Hugh Wickramasinghe, Controller of Establishments.
• John Wilson, Proctor of the Supreme Court.
• John Richard Wilson,, Visiting Physician, Tuberculosis Hospital, Welisara, and Consultant to the Chest Hospital, Ragama.

  Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• James Ernest Victor Peiris, lately Headmaster, Royal College.
• Jayakariyawasange Aloysius Leon Perera Wijewardene, Drawing Office Assistant, Public Works Department.

  King's Police and Fire Services Medal

• William Thomas Brindley, Deputy Inspector-General of Police.

  Pakistan

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

• Group Captain Douglas Lloyd Amlot,, Royal Air Force.

  Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Major Robert Herbert Long, Special List.