1953 Coronation Honours

The 1953 Coronation Honours were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours on the occasion of her coronation on 2 June 1953. The honours were published in The London Gazette on 1 June 1953.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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

United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

Peerages

Viscounts

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Marquis, Baron Woolton Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 1952; Minister of Food, 1940–1943; Minister of Reconstruction and member of War Cabinet, 1943–1945; Lord President of the Council, 1945 and 1951–1952; by the name, title and style of Viscount Woolton, of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Barons

Sir Peter Bennett Unionist Member of Parliament for Edgbaston since 1940. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1951–1952. For political and public services; by the name, style and title of Baron Bennett of Edgbaston, of Sutton Coldfield in the County of Warwick.
Sir Ralph Glyn Unionist Member of Parliament for Abingdon since 1924 and for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire, 1918–1922. Chairman, Select Committee of House of Commons on Estimates since 1951. For political and public services; by the name, style and title of Baron Glyn, of Farnborough in the County of Berks.
Sir Alfred Suenson-Taylor President, London Liberal Party. For political and public services; by the name, style and title of Baron Grantchester, of Knightsbridge in the City of Westminster.

Privy Counsellors

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

Baronetcies

Knights Bachelor

Stephen Cecil Armitage Alderman, Nottingham City Council
John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong Chester Herald
Geoffrey Morris Barnett, For political and public services in Leicester.
Dingwall Latham Bateson President of the Law Society
Alderman John William Bowen Chairman of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and the National Health Service General Whitley Council
John Bevan Braithwaite, Chairman, Council of the Stock Exchange
Edward Crisp Bullard, Director, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Sydney Camm Director and Chief Designer, Hawker Aircraft, Ltd.
Professor David Campbell President of the General Medical Council
George Norman Clark, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. For services to the study of history.
Bernard Henry Coode Clerk of Committees, House of Commons
Leonard Lumley Savage Dodsworth For political and public services in York.
Patrick William Donner Conservative Member of Parliament for Basingstoke since 1935 and for West Islington, 1931–35. For political and public services.
Walter James Drummond, Deputy Chairman, National Coal Board
Edward Brown Ferguson, Chairman, British Insurance Association
Major John Frederick Ferguson Chief Constable, Kent County Constabulary
Ernest Wensley Lapthorn Field Director, Scottish Engineering Employers' Association
Lionel Wray Fox Chairman of the Prison Commission for England and Wales
Arthur John Gielgud, Actor
Colonel Louis Halle Gluckstein Conservative Member of Parliament for East Nottingham, 1931–45. For political and public services.
Stuart Coldwell Goodwin For political and public services in Sheffield
David Edward Griffiths Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee, Royal Air Force Cinema Corporation
Alderman William Josiah Grimshaw For political and public services in Middlesex
Kenneth George Grubb President of the Church Missionary Society
John Berry Hobbs, For services to cricket.
The Honourable Francis John Hopwood, Managing Director, Shell Transport and Trading Company, Ltd.
Harry Hyde For political and public services in Lancashire.
Hugh Nicholas Linstead Conservative Member of Parliament for Putney since 1942. For political and public services.
George Donald Alastair MacDougall Chief Adviser, Statistical Branch, Office of the Paymaster General
William Neil McKie Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey
Major Sydney Frank Markham Conservative Member of Parliament for Buckingham since 1951; for South Nottingham (National), 1935–1945; and for Chatham (Labour), 1929–31. For political and public services.
Alderman James Marshall For political and public services in Croydon.
Frederick Messer Chairman, Central Health Services Council. Lately Chairman, North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
Charles Richard Morris, Vice-chancellor, University of Leeds
John Spencer Muirhead President of the Law Society of Scotland
Andrew Naesmith General Secretary, Amalgamated Weavers' Association
James Henry Norritt Lord Mayor of Belfast
Lieutenant-Colonel Grismond Picton Philipps For political and public services in Carmarthenshire.
Alderman Theodore Beal Pritchett For political and public services in Birmingham.
Stanley Walter Rawson, Director-General of Machine Tools, Ministry of Supply
Gordon Richards, For services to horse racing in Great Britain.
Alfred Road Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
Francis Martin Rouse Walshe President, Royal Society of Medicine. Consulting Physician to University College Hospital, London
George Alexander Williamson For political and public services in Aberdeenshire.

Queensland, Australia

Raymond Douglas Huish, of Queensland, Australia, president of the Queensland Branch of the Returned Services League.^[4]

South Australia

The Honourable Shirley Williams Jeffries, of the State of South Australia. For public services.^[4]
The Honourable Geoffrey Sandford Reed, Judge of the Supreme Court, State of South Australia^[4]

Tasmania

Eric Ernest von Bibra Agent-General in London for the State of Tasmania

Southern Rhodesia

Andrew Henry Strachan Secretary to the Treasury, Southern Rhodesia

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

Malcolm Palliser Barrow For public services in Nyasaland.
Ewen MacGregor Field Fergusson For public services in Singapore.
Mehmed Halid Bey. For public services in Cyprus.
Donald Edward Jackson, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of the Windward and Leeward Islands.
Edwin Frank McDavid lately Financial Secretary and Treasurer, British Guiana
Charles Mathew Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Federation of Malaya
Roland Welensky For public services in Northern Rhodesia.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

Military Division

Admiral Sir George Elvey Creasy
General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders Royal Air Force

Civil Division

The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles Private Secretary to The Queen
Sir William Strang Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office

Knights Commander (KCB)

Military Division

Vice-Admiral Edmund Walter Anstice
Air Marshal Sir Francis Joseph Fogarty Royal Air Force
Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman Royal Air Force
General (temporary) Sir Eric Garden Robert Mansergh late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Lieutenant-General (temporary) Harold Redman late Infantry. Colonel, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Vice-Admiral Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett

Civil Division

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Chairman, Defence Research Policy Committee and Scientific Adviser to the Minister of Defence. Director, Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Commander (S) Sir Dudley Colles Royal Navy (Retired), Deputy Treasurer to The Queen and Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse
Gilbert Nicolson Flemming Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education
Sir Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox Ceremonial Officer, H.M. Treasury
Sir Owen Frederick Morshead Librarian to The Queen, Windsor Castle
Sir John Armitage Stainton Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords

Companions (CB)

Military Division

Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Barnard
The Venerable Archdeacon Frank Noel Chamberlain Chaplain of the Fleet
Major-General Richard Frank Cornwall Royal Marines
Rear-Admiral Norman Vincent Dickinson
Rear-Admiral John Willson Musgrave Eaton
Rear-Admiral Arthur Gordon Voules Hubback
Rear-Admiral (E) Alexander Davidson McGlashan
Commodore Arthur Ian Robertson
Rear-Admiral Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke
Commodore Courtenay Alexander Rives Shillington
Brigadier Alexander Meister Astruther late Corps of Royal Engineers
Brigadier George Rowley Bradshaw late Royal Regiment of Artillery
Major-General Edwyn Harland Wolstenholme Cobb late Corps of Royal Engineers
Major-General Joseph Clinton Collins late Royal Army Medical Corps
Major-General Ralph Cyril Cruddas late Infantry
Major-General William James Fitzpatrick Eassie late Royal Army Service Corps
Major-General Frederick Knowles Escritt late Royal Army Medical Corps
Major-General Cecil Llewellyn Firbank late Infantry
Major-General Reginald Peregrine Harding late Royal Armoured Corps
Colonel Leslie Innes Jacques late Corps of Royal Engineers
Major-General James Mansergh Wentworth Martin late Royal Armoured Corps
The Reverend Canon Victor Joseph Pike Chaplain-General to the Forces (53409), Royal Army Chaplains' Department
Major-General (temporary) Walter Henry Dennison Ritchie late Royal Army Service Corps
Major-General Dennis Charles Tarrant Swan late Corps of Royal Engineers
Brigadier and Chief Paymaster Frederick Christian Williams Royal Army Pay Corps
Air Vice-Marshal George David Harvey Royal Air Force
Air Vice-Marshal Walter Hugh Merton Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Adolphus Dan Davies Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Hector Douglas McGregor Royal Air Force
Air Commodore John Marson Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Thomas Bain Prickman Royal Air Force
Group Captain David John Pryer Lee Royal Air Force
Group Captain John Gilbert Davis Royal Air Force

Civil Division

John Anderson, Deputy Secretary, Scottish Home Department
Philip Austin Browne, Chief Inspector, Ministry of Education
Air Vice-Marshal Willett Amalric Bowen Bowen-Buscarlet Chairman, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association
Robert Cockburn Scientific Adviser to the Air Ministry
George Peter Humphreys-Davies, Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury
Martin Teall Flett, Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury
Isidore Graul Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food
John French Greenwood, Undersecretary, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission
John Hastings James, Under-Secretary, Admiralty
Eric Malcolm Jones Foreign Office
Ernest Turner Jones Principal Director of Scientific Research (Air), Ministry of Supply
Evan Bonnor Hugh-Jones Chief Engineer, Highways Engineering Staff, Ministry of Transport
George Herbert Edmeston Parr Comptroller and Auditor-General, Northern Ireland
John Edward Pater, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health
John Alfred Ralph Pimlott, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Materials
Jack Stafford, Director of Statistics, Board of Trade
William Thomas, Under-Secretary, Welsh Office, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Brigadier Alfred Cedric Cowan Willway Lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Surrey
Norman Egerton Young Comptroller-General, National Debt Office

Royal Victorian Chain

His Grace Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk
His Grace Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Beaufort

Royal Victorian Order

Commanders (CVO)

(William) Godfrey Agnew
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour
Roderick Edward Barclay
Eric Bedford
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Charles Bingham
Major Alastair Campbell Blair
John Dykes Bower
Commander (S) Richard Colville Royal Navy (Retired)
Roger John Edward Conant
Captain Oliver Payan Dawnay
Jean Frances, The Honourable Mrs. Andrew Elphinstone
The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell
Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes-Gaskell
Lady Margaret Katherine Hay
Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd
John Nigel Loring
Ivison Stephenson Macadam
Walter Howard Nevill
Osborne Harold Peasgood
David Bruce Pitblado
William George Pottinger
Alderman Charles Pearce Russell
Henry Gray Studholme
Lawrence Edward Tanner
Burke St. John Trend
Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Osbert Eustace Vesey
Anthony Richard Wagner
Lady Victoria Alexandrina Violet Wemyss

Fourth Class

James Lawrence Bunting Ansell
The Reverend Prebendary Edward Harold Williams-Ashman
William Bishop
Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Martin Michael Charles Charteris
Eugene John Cruft
Percival Thorne Fielding
Norman Bishop Hartnell
Colonel Sir Edward Philip Le Breton
Major James Rennie Maudslay
Major Mark Vane Milbank
Oliver Millar
Major Robert Alfred O'Brien
Lieutenant-Colonel (Director of Music) Meredith Roberts
Major Charles Murray Kennedy St. Clair (The Master of Sinclair)
Norman Leslie Swift
Lieutenant-Colonel John Riddell Bromhead Walker
Major Charles Ernest Walter

Fifth Class

Margaret Barron
Winifred Maud Bateson
David Vincent Griffiths Buchanan
Walter Harry Dobson
William Frederick Fryer
Edmund Frank Grove
William John Hepburn
Robert George Stegmaun Hoare
Mary Felicity Colquhoun Irvine
Victoria Florence Laflin
Margaret McKay MacDonald
Cyril Arnett Waud
Allan Green Wickens

Order of Merit (OM)

Walter John De La Mare

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

Major-General Sir John Noble Kennedy Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia
Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite High Commissioner in Pakistan for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom
General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya

Honorary Knight Grand Cross

Sultan Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-Mu'adzam Shah ibni Al-Marhum Al-Mu'tasim Billah Al-Sultan Abdullah. His Highness the Sultan of Pahang, Federation of Malaya.

Knights Commander (KCMG)

Lieutenant-General Sir James Bennett Hance Medical Adviser and President, Medical Board, Commonwealth Relations Office
Harold Graham Vincent Secretary, Government Hospitality Fund
Frederick Crawford Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles
Robert de Zouche Hall Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Sierra Leone
Tom Hickinbotham Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Aden
Stephen Elliot Vyvyan Luke Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies and British Co-Chairman of the Caribbean Commission
Douglas Frederick Howard Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Montevideo
Frank Kenyon Roberts Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office
Sir James Wilson Robertson Civil Secretary, Sudan Government
Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bangkok

Honorary Knight Commander

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin ibni Almerhom Sultan Mohamed Jemalulalam, His Highness the Sultan of Brunei.

Companions (CMG)

Major Edward Beddington-Behrens For services to the Economic League for European Co-operation
Amos John Cooke, Head of British Food Mission in the Argentine Republic
James Durward, Deputy Director, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry
Robert Ernest Hardingham Secretary and Chief Executive, Air Registration Board
George Macdonald Professor of Tropical Hygiene, University of London, and Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene
Christopher Thomas Saunders, Deputy Director, Central Statistical Office, Cabinet Office
Matthew Stevenson, Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury
Colonel Granville Walton (Retired), Oversea Commissioner, Boy Scouts Association
Kenneth Clinton Wheare, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford
Roger Boulton Willmot, Senior Trade Commissioner, New Zealand
George James Armstrong Government Secretary, Basutoland
The Honourable George Arthur Davenport, Minister of Mines and Transport, and Minister of Education, Southern Rhodesia
Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick President of the South Australian Branch of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's League
Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office and recently Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South Africa
Eric John Carl Stopp Official Secretary to the Governor, State of Tasmania, for many years
James Thomson Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Canada
Arthur Grenfell Clarke, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Hong Kong
Robert Herbert Keppel-Compton, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland
Walter Fleming Coutts Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator, St. Vincent, Windward Islands
Arthur Norman Galsworthy. Chief Secretary, West African Inter-Territorial Secretariat
Ronald Ernest German, Colonial Postal Service, Postmaster General, East African Posts and Telegraphs Department, East Africa High Commission
Noel Hedley Vicars-Harris, Colonial Administrative Service, Member for Lands and Mines, Tanganyika
Carruthers Melvill Johnston, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Kenya
Charles Ernest Lalbert, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office
Patrick Donald Macdonald, Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Leeward Islands
Thomas Percy Fergus McNeice Colonial Administrative Service, President, City Council, Singapore
Lionel Armine Mathias, Colonial Administrative Service, Labour Commissioner, Uganda
John Archibald Mulhall Colonial Administrative Service, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Gold Coast
Robert Newton, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Jamaica
Cecil Rex Niven Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria
Geoffrey Walter Nye Deputy Agricultural Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
David Charles Watherston, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Federation of Malaya
Edward Henry Windley, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Kenya
Colonel Arthur Edwin Young. For services as Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya
Richard Hugh Sedley Allen, Minister at Her Majesty's Embassy in Buenos Aires
Harold Beeley Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington
John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett Historical Adviser to the Special Historical Section (Captured German Archives) of the Foreign Office Library
Henry Norman Brain Inspector of Her Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments
Rolland Alfred Aimé Chaput de Saintonge, Head of the German Information Department, Foreign Office
Carlton Griffith Davies Sudan Agent in London
Charles Howard Ellis Foreign Office
William Harpham lately Head of the General Department, Foreign Office
Charles Hepburn Johnston, Political Director, Office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner, Wahnerheide
Richard Geoffrey Austin Meade, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Marseilles
John Bennet Lorimer Munro, lately Chief Administrative Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Cecil Cuthbert Parrott Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Brussels
Ivor Thomas Montague Pink, lately Deputy to the Permanent United Kingdom Representative on the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in Paris
Archibald David Manisty Ross, Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office
Sir Horace Anthony Claude Rumbold Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris

Honorary Companion

Alhaji the Honourable Usuman Nagogo Emir of Katsina, Nigeria.

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Queen Elizabeth II formally presenting Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shirreh his honors (Aden, 1954)^[5]

Knights Grand Cross (GBE)

Military Division

Admiral The Honourable Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell
General Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Royal Pioneer Corps
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd Royal Air Force

Civil Division

Sir Alexander Knox Helm Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Ankara
Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Mauritius

Honorary Knight Grand Cross

Abubakar Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria

Dames Commander (DBE)

Military Division

Brigadier Mary Frances Coulshed late Women's Royal Army Corps

Civil Division

Lady Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Past President of the Liberal Party Organisation and of the Women's Liberal Federation. For political and public services.
Lady Helen Cynthia Colville For social work, including services to the welfare of mothers and children.
Catherine Fulford For political and public services in London.
Flora MacLeod of MacLeod. For social and public services in Scotland
Enid Mary Russell Russell-Smith, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health

Knights Commander (KBE)

Military Division

Vice-Admiral Charles Thomas Mark Pizey
Vice-Admiral Albert Lawrence Poland
Major-General Cecil Norbury Bednall Royal Army Pay Corps
Lieutenant-General John Dane Woodall late Royal Regiment of Artillery
Air Marshal Robert Owen Jones Royal Air Force
Acting Air Marshal James MacConnell Kilpatrick

Civil Division

Robert John Graham Boothby Unionist Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire since 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1940–41. A delegate to Consultative Assembly of Council of Europe since 1949. For political and public services.
John Anthony Carroll, Deputy Controller (Research and Development), Admiralty
Frank Wyndham Hirst Public Trustee
The Honourable Arthur Jared Palmer Howard Chairman of the Teaching Hospitals Association
Alexander Johnston Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury
Dudley Owen Lumley Deputy Director General, General Post Office
Sir Greville Simpson Maginness, Chairman, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Ltd., Manchester
Major-General William Godwin Michelmore Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Devon
Sir Charles Johns Mole Director-General of Works, Ministry of Works
Sir Frederick Ernest Rebbeck Chairman and Managing Director, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast
John Garnett Lomax Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in La Paz
Norman Stanley Roberts Minister (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo
Professor Hugh Stott Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, United States of America
Charles Alexander Innes, President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India, 1952–53
Hugo Frank Marshall Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Western Region, Nigeria
Clement John Pleass Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Eastern Region, Nigeria

Honorary Knights Commander

Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Member for Home Affairs, Federation of Malaya
Raja Uda bin Raja Muhammad, Mentri Besar, Selangor, Federation of Malaya
Mallam Yahaya Emir of Gwandu, Nigeria

Commanders (CBE)

Military Division

Rear-Admiral (E) Robert Cobb
Jeannie Kathleen Gillanders Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Colonel Joseph Thomas Hall Royal Marines
Captain Roy Carlton Harry Royal Navy
Captain (E) Phillip Daniel Oliver, Royal Navy (Retired)
Colonel John Markham Phillips, Royal Marines
Superintendent Nancy Margaret Robertson Women's Royal Naval Service
Captain Raymond Maurice Trevelyan Taylor, Royal Navy (Retired) (serving with the Indian Navy as Commodore-in-Charge, Bombay)
Surgeon Captain Samuel Gerald Weldon Royal Navy
Captain (S) Albert Stanley Wiggett Royal Navy
Brigadier (temporary) Richard Hugh Barry late Infantry
Brigadier George Alexander Bond late Royal Army Service Corps
Brigadier (temporary) Robert Gilbert Trimingham Collins, Employed List I (late The Gloucestershire Regiment)
Brigadier Brian Daunt late Royal Regiment of Artillery
Brigadier Francis Charles Widenham Fosbery, late Corps of Royal Engineers
Major-General Philip Le Marchant Stonhouse Stonhouse-Gostling, late Royal Regiment of Artillery
Brigadier (formerly Major-General (temporary)) Cecil Hay Gurney late Infantry
Brigadier (temporary) John Winthrop Hackett late Royal Armoured Corps
Colonel Richard Clarence Halse
Brigadier Andrew George Heveningham late Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Colonel (temporary) Godfrey Pennington Hobbs The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Colonel Hilary Leonard Lewis, late Royal Corps of Signals
Lieutenant-Colonel (formerly Colonel (temporary)) Temple Morris Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Brigadier Henry Albert Potter, late Royal Army Service Corps
Colonel (acting) Dudley Gethin Bramley Ridout Army Cadet Force
Brigadier (temporary) John Michael Kane Spurling late Infantry
Colonel (temporary) Hugh Penry Whitefoord, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Colonel Thomas Ernest Williams, late Infantry
Brigadier (temporary) Reginald Edward Holloway late Corps of Royal Engineers, at present on loan to the Government of India
Colonel Robert Edward Beaumont Long Southern Rhodesia Military Forces
The Reverend Alan Stanley Giles Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Frederick Elvy Lipscomb Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Patrick Brunton Lee Potter Royal Air Force
Acting Air Commodore Wilfrid Ewart Oulton Royal Air Force
Acting Air Commodore Walter Allan Stagg Royal Air Force
Group Captain Cyril Edgar Joseph Baines, Royal Air Force
Group Captain Vyvian George Anthony Bennett, Royal Air Force
Group Captain Leslie Crocker, Royal Air Force
Group Captain Edward Mortlock Donaldson Royal Air Force
Group Captain Noel Challis Hyde, Royal Air Force
Group Captain Gwilym Laugharne Sloane Griffith-Jones Royal Air Force
Group Captain Bruce Robinson, Royal Air Force
Group Captain Richard Stephen Ryan, Royal Air Force
Group Captain Edward John Herbert Starling, Royal Air Force
Group Captain John Arthur Charles Stratton Royal Air Force

Civil Division

Alfred Agar, Chairman and Managing Director, Davidson and Company, Ltd., Belfast
John Russell Willis Alexander, Chairman, Westminster Local Employment Committee
Jeannette Eleanor Altwegg. For services to amateur skating.
Hugh Arrowsmith, Independent Member of the Raw Cotton Commission
Alice Martha Bacon Labour Member of Parliament for North-East Leeds since 1945. Chairman of the Labour Party, 1950. For political and public services.
Richard George Baker, Deputy Chairman, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board
Edmund Bruce Ball, Managing Director, Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., Kilmarnock
John Garnett Banks lately City Treasurer, Edinburgh
William George Barnard Professor of Pathology, University of London
Alderman Albert David Bartlett For political and public services in Lewisham.
Frederick Sherbrooke Barton, Principal Director of Electronic Research and Development, Ministry of Supply
Harry Bateman. For political and public services in Lincolnshire.
Edward Fetherstonhaugh Batten For political and public services in Devon.
Joseph Bell, Chief Constable, Manchester City Police Force
Alderman William James Bennett Chairman, Essex County Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
MacAlister Bexon, President, The British Furniture Manufacturers' Federated Associations
Jack Albert Billmeir. For political and public services.
Henry John Bostock For public services in Staffordshire.
Herbert William Bowden Labour Member of Parliament for South Leicester, 1945–50, and for South-West Leicester since 1950. Opposition Deputy Chief Whip since 1951. For political and public services.
Alexander Doveton John Brennan, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Major James Parry Brown For political and public services in South Wales.
John Norman Brown, Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office and Industrial Property Department, Board of Trade
Ralph Waldo Cheseore, Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Admiralty
David Kenneth Clarke. For political services.
Donovan Dennett Wilding Cole, Assistant Controller (Production), Atomic Energy Establishment, Risley, Ministry of Supply
Brian Eliot Common, Chairman, Tyne Improvement Commission. Director, Common Brothers, Ltd.
Roger Gresham Cooke, Director, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd.
William Oliver Copeman Chairman, Area Provisions and Grocery Committee for the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Isle of Ely and Bedford. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties
Robert Armstrong Corscadden, Chief Crown Solicitor, Northern Ireland
John Cranna. For political services.
Moss Dancyger Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions
Clemence Dane (Miss Winifred Ashton), Author
William Surrey Dane Joint Managing Director, Odham's Press, Ltd. For services to King George's Jubilee Trust.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Darby Head of the Commercial Treaties Branch, Colonial Office
Gwendolen Florence Davies Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Thomas Morris Davies Deputy Director General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions
John Donovan, Member, Docks and Inland Waterways Executive
Arthur Drewry President of the Football League
William Jolly Duncan, Mechan Professor of Aeronautics and Fluid Mechanics, University of Glasgow
Harvey John Dunkerley, Controller, Midland Region, British Broadcasting Corporation
Tom Eatough, Assistant Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department, Board of Trade
Herbert Cecil Ralph Edwards, Keeper, Victoria and Albert Museum
John Arthur Edwards, Deputy Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue
Willie Evans, Chairman and Managing Director of Chas. H. Challen and Son, Ltd.
Edward Henry Everson, Command Secretary, Far East Land Forces, War Office
Arthur Fage, Superintendent, Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
George Daniel Frazer Director of Savings, General Post Office
Edward Granville Gordon Fost, Alderman, Cambridgeshire County Council
Edwin Maxwell Fry, Architect and Town Planner
Caroline Selina Ganley Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Battersea South, 1945–51. President, London Co-operative Society, 1942–46. For political and public services.
Hugh Gardner, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Walter Frank Gardner, President of the Institute of Actuaries. General Manager of the Prudential Assurance Company, Ltd.
Neville Archibald Gass a Managing Director, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Harry Percy Gee Chairman, Leicester Savings Committee
Mary Spencer Revell, Lady Graham. For political and public services in the North West
John Robert Griffin General Secretary, British Legion
Arthur Guilford, Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department
Alderman Grierson James Gully Chairman, Kent River Board
Gerald Francis Gurrin, Handwriting expert. For services to the Home Office
Richard Lloyd Gwilt, President of the Faculty of Actuaries
Kathleen Mary Halpin Chief Administrator, Regional Department, Women's Voluntary Services
John Norman Harmer, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Major Horace Reginald Haslett Chairman, North Ireland War Pensions Committee
John Hayward, Critic
Harold Heady, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Tom Hebron Registrar and Chief Accountant, Westminster Abbey
Evelyn Mary Hews, Alderman. For political and public services in Canterbury
Jessie Emma Higson. For pioneer work in the field of Moral Welfare.
Major Morton Hiles Secretary-Treasurer, National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs
John Alexander Hillman, Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands
Edmund Albert Hogan, Registrar-General for Scotland
Ernest James Henry Holt lately Honorary Secretary, Treasurer, Amateur Athletic Federation
George Frederick Thomas Hopkins Superintendent, Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace
Herbert Norman Howells, Composer
John Francis Huntington, Assistant Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue
James Edgar Hurst President, British Cast Iron Research Association
Ivor Benjamin Hugh James, Professor of Violoncello, Royal College of Music. For services to Chamber Music.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Nevill Jennings For political and public services in the Isle of Wight.
Eric Alfred George Johnson, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Percy Marshall Johnson, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food
Barry William Thomas Kay, Regional Controller, Midland Region, Board of Trade
John Donald Kelly For political and public services in Glasgow.
Osbert Lancaster, Cartoonist
Thomas Alan Lane, Director of Expense Accounts, Admiralty
Francis Walsham Lawe, General Manager, Harrods, Ltd.
Thomas Lawrie, General Manager, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board
David Lean, Film Director
Louis le Couteur, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson Director of British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association, Inc
William Leslie For political and public services in Cornwall.
Rhys Gerran Lloyd, Secretary, Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors
Mervyn Lyster Longhurst, Assistant Legal Adviser, Ministry of Education
Colonel John George Lowther Lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Counties of Huntingdon and Northampton
Harry Lyne Area Secretary, YMCA. Southern Command
Francis Charles McLean Deputy Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation
Lieutenant-Colonel Norman MacLeod Member, National Executive Council of the British Legion, Scotland
Eva Marion Maguire Head Superintendent, Sandes Soldiers' and Airmen's Homes
Keith Cranston Mann, Director of Works (Overseas), Air Ministry
Carl Marshall Assistant Secretary, National Assistance Board
Archibald Daniel Marston lately Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetics, Royal College of Surgeons
Arnold Ashley Miles Director, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
Horace William Minshull Head of the Finance Department, Foreign Office
John Methven Mitchell Lately County Clerk of Fife
Gilbert Richard Mitchison Labour Member of Parliament for Kettering since 1945. For political and public services.
Allan McLeod Mooney, Deputy Director of Electrical Engineering, Admiralty
Sholto Douglas Morton, Regional Controller, East and West Ridings Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Charles William Moss, Director, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.
Colonel Robert Fallows Mottershead. For political and public services in Blackburn.
Edwin Muir, Author, Warden of Newbattle Abbey College, Midlothian
Alfred Ross Murison President, Educational Institute of Scotland
The Reverend Valentine Paul Nevill, Headmaster, Ampleforth College, York
Harry Porter Newman, Member of Council, National Association of Corn and Agricultural Merchants
Henry Nimmo, Chairman, Southern Electricity Board
Robert Noble, Regional Controller, East and West Ridings Region, Ministry of National Insurance
Brigadier Harry Naismith Obbard, Chief Administrative Officer, India, Pakistan and South-East Asia District, Imperial War Graves Commission
Donald Arthur Oliver, Metals Economy Adviser, Ministry of Supply
John Nelson Panes, Government Secretary and Treasurer, Isle of Man
Ernest George Peenman, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply
Nikolaus Bernard Leon Pevsner, Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of Cambridge
Margaret Evelyn Popham, Principal, Cheltenham Ladies College
Henry Charles Quincey Commander, Metropolitan Police Force
Marie Rambert (Mrs. Ashley Dukes), Founder and Directress of the Ballet Rambert
Joseph Rawlinson, Chief Engineer, London County Council
Douglas Norman Rayner, Director of Contracts, Ministry of Supply
Frank RAayns Director of the Norfolk Agricultural Station at Sprowston, Norwich
Major John George Grey Rea Chairman of the Northumberland Agricultural Executive Committee
Colonel George Ewart Rhodes, Senior Engineering Inspector, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Emile Victor Rieu, Editor of the Penguin Classics
Edward Charles Smith-Ross Foreign Office
James Eugene George Ruddin, President, National Federation of Cold Storage and Ice Trades
Edward Lionel Russell, Chief Education Officer, Birmingham
Arthur James Ryan, Regional Director, London Postal Region, General Post Office
Robert Lindsay Scarlett Chairman, Scottish Horticultural Advisory Committee
Aileen Mona Scorrer, Chief Inspector, Children's Department, Home Office
Lieutenant-Commander Peter Markham Scott Director, Severn Wildfowl Trust
William Goodwin Senior Principal Dental Officer, Ministry of Health
Harold Edward Sheardown, Chairman of Directors, Cook, Welton and Gemmell, Ltd.
Albert Theodore Shepherd, Deputy Receiver, Metropolitan Police Office
Reginald Harry Short Clerk Comptroller of the Household of Her late Majesty Queen Mary
Alastair Sim, Actor
William Vernor Squire Sinclair, lately Assistant Procurator General
William Thomas Charles Skyrme Secretary of Commissions of the Peace, Lord Chancellor's Office
Charles Stanley Smallman, Director of Accounts, Ministry of Civil Aviation
Dorothy Madge Smith Chairman, General Nursing Council for England and Wales, and Matron, Guy's Hospital
William Henry Smith, Chairman, Welsh National Opera Company, Ltd.
Reginald Bradbury Southall, Director and General Manager, National Oil Refineries, Ltd.
Robert Southern, General Secretary, Co-operative Union, Ltd.
Reginald Rowland Spears lately Deputy Inspector-General, Royal Ulster Constabulary
Robert Wilkie Stanton, Comptroller of Stamps and Taxes (Scotland), Board of Inland Revenue
Freya Madeline Stark (Mrs. Stewart Perowne), Writer and Traveller
Leslie Gordon Knowles Starke, Principal Actuary, Government Actuary's Department
Alan Stewart Head of Division, Ministry of National Insurance
Gilbert Lines Strachan For political and public services; and for services as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Wales.
Joseph Summers Chief Test Pilot, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.
Henry Richard Thomas, Chairman, Welsh Joint Education Committee
Francis William Thompson, Librarian and Keeper of Collections, Chatsworth
James Cyril Townsley. For political and public services in Kingston-upon-Hull.
Matthew Charles Tozer, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power
Richard Robertson Trail Medical Director, Papworth and Enham Alamein Village Settlements for the Tuberculous
Joseph Tumin, Clerk of Assize, Oxford Circuit, Supreme Court of Judicature
Captain Robert Ernest Tuearsley Tunbridge (Retired), lately Master, s.s. "Chusan", Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Cecil Francis Turner, Chairman and Managing Director, Stewart and Turner, Ltd. Chairman, the Antique Dealers Fair
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Arthur Carr Turner Chief Executive, Crawley New Town Development Corporation
Michael Theodore Waterhouse Architect
Michael Milne-Watson, Chairman, North Thames Gas Board
Geoffrey Fairbank Webb, Secretary, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
Denys Roger Hesketh Williams, Managing Director, John Taylors, Ltd., Huddersfield
Douglas James Willson Assistant Solicitor. Board of Customs and Excise
Lieutenant-Colonel George Robert Stewart Wilson, Royal Engineers, (Retired), Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Ministry of Transport
George Woodcock, Assistant General Secretary, Trades Union Congress
Arthur Thomas Worboys Chairman, London Brick Company, Ltd.
Hubert Stanley Young Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence
Albert Spencer Calvert Her Majesty's Consul-General at Tunis
William John Castle, Deputy Economic and Financial Adviser, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Sydney Ernest Henry Daw Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Vienna
Captain Christmas David Howell Royal Navy (Retired), British Council Representative in Egypt
Edward Thomas Lambert, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Geneva
Henry Brockholst Livingston, lately Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at San Jose
Edwin Patrick Moxey, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic
Thomas Richard Hornby Owen, Governor, Bahr-el-Ghazal Province, Sudan
Stanhope Rowton Simpson, Registrar General and Commissioner of Lands, Sudan Government
George Frederick Walpole, Director of Lands and Surveys under the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan
Gilbert Brown of the State of South Australia. For services in the development of Anaesthetics.
Maxwell Gordon Butcher For public services in the State of Tasmania.
The Reverend Herbert Carter, General Superintendent of the Methodist Church of Southern Rhodesia
Louis Samuel Glover Member of the European Advisory Council, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and a former Chairman of the Council
Bevis Royal Graham President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Pakistan
Major Ernest Sirdefield Harston Honorary Secretary, British Empire Service League
Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson (Retired), Director-General of the Over-Seas League
Richard Henry Maclure Lea, General Manager of the Electricity Trust, State of South Australia
Albert Millin Member of the European Advisory Council of Swaziland since 1921
Charles Kingsley Murphy Clerk of the House of Assembly, and Librarian to Parliament, State of Tasmania
Ivan Herbert Pierce a Member of the European Advisory Council of Swaziland since 1921
Thomas John Rooney, Chairman of the Land and Agriculture Bank, Southern Rhodesia
Robert Walker a prominent tea planter in South India. For services to the United Kingdom community.
John Philip Attenborough Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Tanganyika
Andrew Gordon Beattie, lately Inspector-General of Agriculture, Nigeria
Reginald Laing Brooks, Colonial Forest Service, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gold Coast
George Cabral. For public services in Trinidad.
Alan Taylor Howell Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Tanganyika
Kenneth Charles Jacobs Financial Secretary, Sierra Leone
Percival Henry Jennings, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Hong Kong
Rajabali Jumabhoy For public services in Singapore.
The Right Reverend Leonard Stanley Kempthorne, Bishop in Polynesia, Fiji
Amar Nath Maini For public services in Uganda.
Andre Lawrence Nairac. For public services in Mauritius.
Ralph Arthur Nicholson, Colonial Administrative Service, Economic Secretary, Northern Rhodesia
George William Kelly Roberts. For public services in the Bahamas.
Peter George Russo For public services in Gibraltar.
Philip Manderson Sherlock, Vice Principal and Director of Extra-Mural Studies, University College of the West Indies
Alexander Skinner, Director of Marine, Nigeria
Robert de Stapeldon Stapledon Colonial Administrative Service, Economic Secretary, East Africa High Commission
Nathaniel Henry Peniston Vesey. For public services in Bermuda.
Douglas Tremayne Waring. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
Lionel Digby Whitfield, Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Federation of Malaya

Honorary Commanders

Dato Syed Abdul Kadir bin Mohamed bin Yahya, Mentri Besar, Johore, Federation of Malaya
Vadake Menokil Narayana Menon For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
Mallam Ahmadu, Sardauna of Sokoto, Northern Regional Minister of Works, Nigeria

Officers (OBE)

Military Division

Lieutenant-Commander Charles Edward Stuart Basil St. George Beal, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Ashley Brown, Royal Marines
Commander (L) Albert Edward Chiverton, Royal Navy
Commander (E) Peter Laurence Cloete, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Vincent Corbett, Royal Navy
Commander Charles Edward Eckersley-Maslin, Royal Navy
The Reverend Edward George Dalton Fawkes, Chaplain, Royal Navy
Commander (E) John Noel Fisher Haigh, Royal Navy (Retired)
Commander (E) Trevor Sydney Hayes Royal Navy (Retired)
Commander (S) Leonard Alphonso Jeffery, Royal Navy
Instructor Commander Harold John Jessup, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Price Royal Marines
Surgeon Commander John Mansel Reese Royal Navy
Commander George Frederick Rutter (Retired), Captain R.F.A. Service
Commander Patrick Astor Trier, Royal Navy (Retired)
Commander (S) John Douglas Trythall, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Harry Allason, 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps
Major Alan Edward Bray Royal Regiment of Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel (T.O.T.) Albert Henry Britton, Royal Corps of Signals
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Thomas Richard Broughton, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
Major Ian Rupert Burrows The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cedric George Buttenshaw Royal Regiment of Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Archibald Inglis Crawford Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon John Cruddas, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.)
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Julius Deedes The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Vernon Denton The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Anthony Henry George Dobson Corps of Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bryan Gibbons, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Henry Pryce Gillespie, The South Wales Borderers
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Pepys Harington The Cheshire Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel Pierse Francis Hayes, Corps of Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Edwin Holden Westminster Dragoons (2nd County of London Yeomanry), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Walter George Holden, Employed List II (late Royal Army Service Corps)
Lieutenant-Colonel Whitaker Austin Holmes The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Leonard Powell-Jones 6th Gurkha Rifles
Major (Quartermaster) James Notman Keil The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Herbert Alfred Temple Jarrett-Kerr, Corps of Royal Engineers
The Reverend Canon John Robertson Hardie Knox, Chaplain to the Forces, Second Class (temporary), Royal Army Chaplains' Department
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel John Lamplugh, Employed List I (late Royal Regiment of Artillery)
Lieutenant-Colonel (Director of Music) Albert Lemoine, The Life Guards
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Godfrey Lerwill The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Palmer Lloyd Royal Regiment of Artillery (now T.A.R.O.)
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Clarence Macdonald The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Sir Edward William St. Lo Malet, Bt., 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel (O.E.O.) Gerald John Mitchell Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harold Arthur Olivier, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel John Reginald Henry Orr, Employed List I (late The Royal Welch Fusiliers)
Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Claude Manning Palmer Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Stevenson Pearson The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Provis Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Albert Harry Reading, Corps of Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Fergus Ivo Reid, Irish Guards
Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Alexander Rennie, Army Cadet Force
Lieutenant-Colonel Norman William Schenke, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel (local) Richard Christopher Sharples Welsh Guards
Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Cleave Simmons Combined Cadet Force
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Stevenson The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Lieutenant-Colonel Giles Symonds The Dorset Regiment, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Thompson The Border Regiment, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.)
Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Nelson Turner Combined Cadet Force (now retired)
Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie James Walker
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Noel Montague Harold Wall 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry de Grey Warter Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Hubert Graham Wathen, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Witheridge Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Desmond Patrick O'Brien, Corps of Royal Engineers, at present on loan to the Government of India
Lieutenant-Colonel George Edward Litchfield Rule, Rhodesian African Rifles, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces
Major David Burnett The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers), attached The Malay Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomson Edgar Federation of Malaya Volunteer Force
Colonel Edward Ward Seymour Jacklin Southern Rhodesia Air Force
Acting Group Captain Ronald Alan Campbell Barclay Royal Air Force
The Reverend Gerald William Norris Groves, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Ronald Clarke Cobbe Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Albert Edward Davies, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Gordon Hugh Everitt Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Robert Thomas Frogley Royal Air Force
Wing Commander James Edward Holliwell Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Edward Arthur Jackson, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander David Richard Spencer Bevan-John, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Norman Alfred Martin, Royal Air Force Regiment
Wing Commander William Gordon Oldbury Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Alan Richardson, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Denis Dart Rogers, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Walter Smith, Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Gerald Tate Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Charles Douglas Tomalin Royal Air Force
Acting Wing Commander Maurice Swainston Anthony, Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Squadron Leader Ian Robert Blair, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader George Dennithorne Castle, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Frederick Ellison Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Joseph Edward Lewis, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Leslie Arthur Popham, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Arthur Weaver, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Eric Robinson, Royal Air Force
Rab Khaila Zaia Gewergis Royal Air Force Levies, Iraq

Civil Division

Frederick William Abraham, Motive Power Superintendent (London Midland Region), Railway Executive
Captain Marmaduke Johnathan Roland Alderson, Fleet Manager, Comets. British Overseas Airways Corporation
Thomas Allsop , Chairman, Derbyshire Executive Council, National Health Service
Frederick Victor Ames, Principal, Board of Trade
Alexander Anderson, Chairman, Wishaw and District Employment Committee
George Rowland Armstrong, Chief Engineer, M.V. Esso Bedford, Esso Transportation Company, Ltd.
Sydney George Bailey , Secretary, Cake and Biscuit Alliance, Ltd.
John Gibb Ballingall, Principal Scientific Officer, Torpedo Experimental Establishment, Greenock
Andrew Lindsay Barclay , Deputy Controller of Supplies, Ministry of Works
Brian Basil Philip Barker, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Works
John Barker, Member of the Council of the National Farmers' Union
Joanna Cecilia Barnard, Regional Administrator, South Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary Services
Albert Edward Barton, Principal Accountant, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board
Harold Thomas William Bateman, Waterguard Superintendent, Glasgow, Board of Customs and Excise
Charles Henry Bates, Grade 2 Officer, North Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Wing Commander Roland Prosper Beamont , Chief Test Pilot, English Electric Company, Ltd.
Edward Benjamin Bein, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
Alfred Charles Best, Principal Scientific Officer, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry
Harold Hoghton Best , Principal, War Office
Robert Beveridge, Chief Examiner, Estate Duty Office (Scotland), Board of Inland Revenue
Charles Wright Blasdale, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
James Alexander Vazeille Boddy , Chairman, Midland Area Council, British Legion
Fred Booth, Chairman and Managing Director, The Heckmondwike Flock Company, Ltd., Batley, Yorkshire
William Thomas Boston, Swordbearer, Corporation of London
Charles Anthony Boucher , Medical Officer, Ministry of Health
Andrew John Bowron, Managing Director, F.N.F., Ltd. Textile Engineers, Burton-on-Trent
Stanley Herbert Bright, Chief Executive Officer, Admiralty
Alderman Richard Browell , Vice-Chairman, Newburn Urban District Council
Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett-Brown , Secretary, Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Alfred Willoughby Hope Brown, Deputy Chief Inspector (Planning), Ministry of Housing and Local Government
George Chadwin Brown , Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence
William Brown Chairman, Huntingdonshire County Council
William Brown, Chairman, Wigan, Chorley and District War Pensions Committee
Harry James Browning, Deputy Chief Investigation Officer, Board of Customs and Excise
Robert Bruce, County Agricultural Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
William Buckie, Technical Manager, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne
John Gilby Bullen, General Manager, Highland Reduction Works, British Aluminium Company, Ltd.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick David Harold Burcher. For political and public services in Kidderminster.
Charles Frederick Burden, Deputy Director, Aeronautical Inspection Services, Air Ministry
Harry Burdge , For political and public services in Belfast.
Donald Henry Burgess Deputy Trade Director, Ministry of Food
Arthur Ulick Burke. For public services in Belfast.
Major Cecil Burnham , lately Commandant, Star and Garter Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen, Richmond
Eleanor Mary Beresford Butler , Vice-Chairman, Oxford Savings Committee
William John Hughes Butterfield , Member of the Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council
The Reverend Lewis Legertwood Legg Cameron , Director, Church of Scotland Committee on Social Service
Charles Stewart Campbell, Director of Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid Supplies, Ministry of Materials
Sidney Ronald Campion, Principal Information Officer, General Post Office
Harold James Cartwright, Principal Accountant, Ministry of Works
Eleanor Rosalie Lancashire Cave. For political and public services in Bristol.
Charles Chambers. Chief Engineer, Fighter Command, Royal Air Force
Walter William Chapman , Architect, Ministry of Education
Richard Chatterton, Chief Executive Officer, Home Office
Philip Boughton Chatwin, Archaeologist. For services to the Ministry of Works.
John Clancy, Managing Director, J.C. Hotels, Ltd.
Alexander Morton Clark, Chairman, Scottish Accident Prevention Council
Andrew Lewis Cochrane, Chairman and Managing Director. Cochrane and Sons, Ltd., Selby
George Frederick Congdon, Town Clerk, Harwich. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Reginald Thomas Cook, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise
Leslie Charles Coombes , Constructor, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Morton Vernon Cotterell, Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Chester
Alfred Henry Coulter , For political services in Northern Ireland
Robert Cousland, Shipbuilding Manager, J. Samuel White and Company, Ltd., Cowes
Herbert Maurice Cowell, Assistant Regional Controller, Eastern Region, Ministry of National Insurance
Thomas Alfred Methuen Croucher, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Hugh John Curnow, Assistant Director, Aircraft Production Supplies (Materials), Ministry of Supply
Katharine Hannay Barrs Da Vies. Independent Member of Wages Councils
William Robert Davies , Secretary of the Liberal Party Organisation. For political services.
John Edward Davis, Chief Technical Officer, South Eastern Gas Board
Charles Vivian Dawe, Principal Agricultural Economist, University of Bristol
Seymour Joly De Lotbiniere, Head of Television Outside Broadcasting, British; Broadcasting Corporation
Daniel Joseph Devlin, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
Frank Dickinson. For political and public services in Yorkshire.
Henry Dinsmore , Director of Education, County Down
Ernest Harvey Doubleday, County Planning Officer, Hertfordshire County Council
Irene Dowling. For political and public services in London.
William Henry Nassau Downer, General Secretary, Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (Northern Ireland)
Frederick Doy, Principal, Board of Trade
Harry Earnshaw, General Secretary, Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers
Richard Victor Eaton, Superintendent, Royal Naval Propellant Factory, Caerwent, Monmouthshire
John Charles Newport Eppstein, Director, British Society For International Understanding
Ida Mary Eugster , Regional Administrator, Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary Services
Raymond Ogier Falla, President States of Guernsey Committee for Horticulture
Darrell Fancourt (Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson), Opera singer, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Donald Gordon Farrow, Chief Education Officer, Great Yarmouth. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Frank Charles Fenton, Chief Commercial Officer, London Electricity Board
William Ferguson , For political services in North Down.
Horace Philip Finch, Aerodrome Commandant, Grade I. Ministry of Civil Aviation
Ernest Fleming, lately Chief Executive Officer, Agricultural Research Council
Percy Howard Ford, lately Works Manager, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., Birmingham
Norman William Frederick Fowler, Assistant Chief Constable, Kent County Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Richard Henry French , Assistant to the Master in Lunacy, Supreme Court of Judicature
Albert James Galpest , Assistant Secretary, Lord Chamberlain's Office
Herbert Washington Gamble, lately President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland
Frederick Augustus Gear, Assistant Director, Technical and Personnel Administration, Ministry of Supply
Jane Dorothy Ross Gibson, Matron, Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital
Captain Frank Newman Gilbey. For services to the Master of the Horse
Charles Wilfrid Scorr-Giles, Secretary, Institution of Municipal Engineers
Mary Gaskell Gillick, Sculptor and Medal Artist
Ernest Edward Gingell, Principal Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
John Charles Glover, Deputy Director, Oils and Fats Division, Ministry of Food
Cyril James Goad. Chief Officer, Gloucestershire Fire Brigade
John Fletcher Go Am An, Senior Marketing Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Strathearn Gordon, Librarian, House of Commons
James Thompson Graham, Employer Vice-Chairman, North Midland Regional Board for Industry
Kenneth John Grant , Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Thomas Forgie Gray, Secretary, Bradford Chamber of Commerce
William Ewart Greenhalgh, Chief Officer, Coventry Fire Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Berry Greenwood, Assistant Chief Constable, Lincolnshire County Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Sydney Gordon Griffin, Principal, Ministry of Transport
Captain Hugh Peary Griffiths, Assistant Commissioner, City of London Police Force
Francis Walter Grimes, Grade 2 Officer, Midlands Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Harold Charlesworth Grimshaw, Principal Scientific Officer, Safety in Mines Research Establishment, Ministry of Fuel and Power
William Herbert Grinsted , Chief Engineer, Siemens Brothers and Company, Ltd., Woolwich
Cecil Brodrick Guthrie. For services to the Home Office.
Major Eben Stuart Burt Hamilton , Commissioner, Duke of Lancaster's District, St. John Ambulance Brigade
Isa Hamilton, lately Superintendent, Queen's Institute of District Nursing
John Ireland Hamilton, Principal Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland
Henry Frank Hancock, Assistant Shipping Attache, H.M. Embassy in Washington
Kathleen Irene Hancock, Personal Private Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power
Louis Arthur Hanuy, Assistant Regional Controller, South Western Region, Ministry of National Insurance
Honoria Eugenie Harford, lately General Secretary, National Association of Girls' Clubs and Mixed Clubs
Frederick Louis Harris , Extramural Tutor, University College of the South-West
Natalie Muriel Harris, Foreign Office
James More Wood Harvey, Deputy City Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary, Londonderry
Robert William Harvey, Clerk to the Felixstowe Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
George Horace Hatherill , Deputy Commander, Metropolitan Police Force
Edwin Haward, lately Secretary, the India, Pakistan and Burma Association
John Ganly Heaslip, Senior Engineer, South Eastern Divisional Road Engineer's Office, Ministry of Transport
Cedric Hedderwick, Managing Director, Somerset Accredited Breeders Hatchery, Ltd.
William Heron, Staff Inspector for Further Education, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland
James Herbert Hewitt, Principal, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Anthony Ewart Ledger Hill, Chairman, Hampshire And Isle of Wight Association of Boys' Clubs
John Hill, Procurator Fiscal of Renfrewshire, Paisley
Edwin Russell Hooper, Assistant Secretary, Metropolitan Police Office
George Henry Augustus Hughes, Director, London Master Builders' Association
Frederick Arthur Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade
James Hyman, Principal, H.M. Treasury
Daniel Durnford Ivall, Assistant Chief Officer, Middlesex Fire Brigade
William Hart MacIndoe Jackson, Employers' Secretary, National Joint Industrial Council for the Electric Cable Slaking Industry
Robert Ian Johnson, Director of Canning, Ministry of Food
John Lees-Jones , Chairman, National Association of Discharged Prisoners Aid Societies
Joseph Jones, Labour Director, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board
Kenneth Latimer Jones, Chairman, Luton Savings Council
Phyllis Eveline Jones, Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party. For political services.
Major Thomas Ifpr Jones , For political and public services in Wales.
Frederick Joseph Kemp, Honorary Secretary, Association of Collecting Friendly Societies
The Right Honourable Edith, Viscountess Kemsley, Chairman, Mauritius Bureau
Wilfred Kershaw, Honorary Secretary of the Textile Institute
Evelyn Mary Killby. For political services.
Stanley Edwin King, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade
Harold James Kotch, County Welfare Officer, Warwickshire
John Privett Langston, Director, Films Division, Central Office of Information
Frank Harold Lawrence , Mayor of Chatham
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ledingham , For political services.
Walter Kelly Wallace Lees, Headmaster, Thornly Park Approved School, Paisley
Philip Le Feuvre, Senator of the States of Jersey
Cynthia Combermere Legh , For political and public services in Cheshire.
Thomas James Lester, Chief Executive Officer, Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands
Arthur Denis Carrington Le Sueur, Forestry Consultant
The Reverend Isaac Levy, Senior Jewish Chaplain to H.M. Forces
Alderman John Henry Lewis , For services to the Ministry of Fuel and Power.
Richard Vincent Lewis, Clerk to the Mablethorpe and Sutton Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Alexander Logan, Technical Manager, Marine Administration, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Ltd.
Janet Isabella Low. For political and public services in Fife.
Geoffrey Charles Lowry , Clerk to the Governors, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London
Anne Hutcheson McAllister, Principal Lecturer, Jordanhill Training College, Glasgow
James Sanderson McGregor , Medical Superintendent, Saxondale (Mental) Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
Enid Devoge McLeod , Deputy Controller, European Division, British Council
James Carnegie McPetrie, Assistant Legal Adviser, Colonial Office
George Menzie McTurk , Chairman, Ayrshire Joint Probation Committee
Philip Vibert Mauger , Chairman, Richmond Local Employment Committee
Clifford Edmund Mee, Assistant Chief Architect, Ministry of Works
George Herbert Mysl Miles, Chairman of the Executive Committee. Association of British Aero Clubs and Centres
Alan Gordon Mitchell, Commandant, Edinburgh Foot Special Constabulary
Anstace Helen Moore , Headmistress, Faringdon County Grammar School for Girls, Berkshire
Howard Stanley Morrison, Deputy Principal Executive Officer, War Office
Robert Howell Murphy, Employers' Representative, National Arbitration Tribunal (Northern Ireland)
Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Needell , Assistant Secretary (Investments), Church Commissioners
John Cuthbert Needham, Chairman, Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., London
James Lawrie Neill, Grade 2 Officer, Nottingham, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Alfred Edward Nelson, Chief Engineer, S.S. Kenya, British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd.
Harold Aubrey Parker, Principal, Board of Customs and Excise
John Abel Parkes , For public services in Staffordshire.
Edward Lewis Ellman Pawley, Head of Engineering Services Group, British Broadcasting Corporation
Douglas Henry Peacock, Member, Manchester Savings Committee
Stuart Philip Pepin. For public services in Jersey.
Leonard Lawrence Alfred Wheatley-Perry, Senior District Manager, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Malaya
Lieutenant-Colonel John Cecil Petherick . For political and public services in Kent.
Major Francis Ashley Phillips , lately Clerk to the Wye Board of Conservators
William Roy Piggott, Principal Scientific Officer, Radio Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Hubert Percival Lancaster Pitman , Chairman, Northern London War Pensions Committee
John Pollock, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions
Harry Royston Portman , Principal, Foreign Office
Horace Clifford Potter, Principal, H.M. Treasury
Henry Ray Powell , Secretary, Capital Issues Committee
Christopher Jonathan Pridmore, Administration Officer, Maintenance Command, Royal Air Force
Captain James Harrison Quick, Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, Mercantile Marine, Ministry of Transport
Gordon George Ramsay, Sheriff Clerk of Lanarkshire
George Rankine , General Practitioner, Dundee
Alfred William Rathbone , Assistant Controller, Supplies Department, General Post Office
Captain Percy Reay , Chairman, Lyme Green Settlement for Paraplegics, Macclesfield
David Morgan Rees , Member, Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-Commission
Robert Charles Reginald Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Welsh Board of Health
Captain Arthur Victor Richardson, lately Master, S.S. Gothic, Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd.
The Right Honourable Ursula, Viscountess Ridley. For public services in Northumberland.
Archibald Colin Campbell Robertson , General Secretary, Oldham Provincial Card Blowing and Ringframe Operatives Association
Charles Robins, Member, Central Management Committee, National Association of United Kingdom Oil and Oilseed Brokers, Ltd.
John Arthur Rodwell, Chairman, Durham and Chester-le-Street Local Employment Committee
Alfred Denys Strickland Rogers , For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Philip Docwra Rogers, lately Deputy Assistant Secretary and Clerk to the Council of the Royal Society
John Rose, Senior Lands Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland
Archibald Hugh Houstoun Ross, Conservator, Forestry Commission
Dudley Spencer Reeve Ryder, Principal, Admiralty
Rita Nimmo Sabey. For political and public services in Huntingdonshire.
Frederick Claude Savage, First Secretary at H.M. Embassy in Dublin
Bertram Cyril Scott, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions, Ministry of Pensions Representative in Australia and New Zealand
John Thomas Scoulding, Member, Appellate Tribunal under the National Service Acts
George William Shummacher, Principal Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland
John Simpson, Deputy Secretary to the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses
Robert James Simpson, Chief Executive Officer, Civil Service Commission
Geoffrey Roy Sisson, Head of Department of Mathematics, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
Nelson Sizer , Assistant Chief Engineer, Ministry of Works
Thomas Small, Plant Pathologist to the States of Jersey
Harold James Smith, Grade 2 Officer, London and South Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Captain John Joseph Smith, Commodore Captain, Elder Dempster Lines, Ltd.
Louis Victor Smith , For political and public services in Berkshire.
William Smith Chief Officer, Stoke-on-Trent Fire Brigade
Robert Henry Smyth, Principal, Ministry of Food
Edward Lionel Snell, Chief Engineer, Essex River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Edward Leslie Spencer , Civil Assistant, War Office
Claude Meyer Spielman , Managing Director, Whessoe, Ltd., Darlington
Constance Spry, Adviser on Floral Decoration
Leonard Jacques Stein. For political and public services.
Harold Stevens , Vice-Chairman, Sunderland Savings Committee
Arthur Gavin Stewart, lately Town Clerk of Motherwell and Wishaw
Quintin Andrew Stewart, Divisional Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Cecil Stonelake. For public services in Guernsey.
Thomas Leonard Sturges, Staff Controller, South West Region, General Post Office
William Sutherland, Area Secretary, British Legion, Northern Ireland
John Edward Swain , Chairman, Peterborough Local Employment Committee
The Right Honourable Gladys Helen Rachel, Dowager Baroness Swaythling, President of the Electrical Association for Women
William Charles Swift, Assistant Director, Engineering, Ministry of Supply
Frederick Joseph Talbot, Deputy Principal Regional Officer, Leeds, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Alderman Edward Taylor , Chairman, Bath Savings Committee
Matthew Templeton. For services to sheep breeding.
Commander Edward Terrell, late R.N.V.R. Chairman, General Committee of the Chevrons Club
Cecil Thomas, Sculptor and Medal Artist
Basil Duncan Tims , Principal, Commonwealth Relations Office
Albert Ernest Tombs , Alderman, Borough of Abingdon, Berkshire
Francis Henry Tomes, Chief Engineer, Lincolnshire River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ernest William James Towler, H.M. Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education
Clement John Tranter, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Royal Military College of Science, War Office
Ernest Trillwood, Lately Secretary, Jewellery and Silverware Council
Philip John Owen Trist, County Agricultural Officer, East Suffolk. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Harold Walker. For political and public services in Somerset.
Ulric Bertram Walmsley , Chairman, Chelsea Savings Committee
Bartholomew Walsh. For political and public services.
Harry Ward , Head of Treaty and Nationality Department, Foreign Office
Harold Joseph Hughes Wassell, Chief Radar Development Engineer, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd.
Oscar Samuel Watkinson, Clerk to the Hunstanton Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Nita Grace Mary Watts, Economic Adviser, Cabinet Office
Eileen Alexandra Waugh, lately Commissioner, Irish Division, Girls' Life Brigade
Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Geoffrey Gascoyne Webb, Royal Navy (Retired), Deputy Secretary and Appeals Secretary, King George's Fund for Sailors
Arthur Leslie Alabaster West, Treasurer, North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board
William West, Staff Engineer, Research Station, General Post Office
Elizabeth Mary Western , County Organiser, Essex, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Duncan White , Director, Radiodiagnostic Department, Hammersmith Hospital
Alan Paul Francis Whitworth, Director, Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, Ltd.
John Henry Wigglesworth, General Secretary, Iron, Steel and Metal Dressers' Trade Society
Charles Timothy Wilkins, Assistant Chief Designer, De Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd.
Major Thomas Macfarlane Wilks , Area Commissioner, St. John Ambulance Brigade, London. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Alderman Daniel Thomas Williams , For political and public services in Cardiff.
William Sidney Gwynn Williams. For services to the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen
Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford Llewellyn Wilson , County Director, Essex, British Red Cross Society. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
The Right Honourable Ivor Grosvenor, Viscount Wimborne. For political and public services.
Thomas Arnold Woodcock , Headmaster, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School for Boys
James Arthur Woodford , Sculptor
Constance Muriel Wyatt, Director, Civilian Welfare Department, British Red Cross Society

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

Aaron Abensur, British subject resident in Tangier
Hubert Thomas Booker, British subject resident in Peru
The Right Reverend George Alexander Chambers, Chaplain at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris
William Thomas Clark, Commissioner, Port Sudan
Frederick Barber Denham, Acting General Manager in Israel of the Ottoman Bank
Leonard Henry Dismore, lately Her Majesty's Consul at Medan
Rudolph Philip Elwes Senior Control Officer, Dortmund, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Leonard Arthur Frenken Attached to the United Kingdom Trade Commissioner, Singapore
Professor Edward Vivian Gatenby, Linguistics Adviser to the British Council in Turkey
Iain Archibald Gillespie, Senior Veterinary Inspector, Sudan Government
Conrad Frederick Heron, lately First Secretary (Labour) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Brussels
John Wynn Kenrick, District Commissioner, Omdurman, Sudan
Emile Philip Lecours, First Secretary (Information) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Mexico City
Colonel William Joseph Moody lately Medical Adviser to the British Political Resident and Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, Persian Gulf
John Massey Morris Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Basra Port
Charles Joseph Plumb, Principal, lately Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Henry Richards Assistant Director (Public Health), Sudan Government
Edward John Roberts, Senior Public Safety Officer, Carinthia, Austria.
Ina Amelia Strong Her Majesty's Consul at Bergen
Emrys Cadwaladr Thomas Director of the Victoria Hospital, Damascus
Allan Veitch Her Majesty's Consul at Shanghai
John Thorp Whittaker, Temporary Chief Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)

Colonies, Protectorates, etc

Ann Frances Ellen Adams, Matron, Lachlan Park Mental Hospital, State of Tasmania
Thomas Malcolm Arthur, Chairman of the Pakistan Tea Association, 1952–53
John Henry Belderson, Principal Auditor, Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland
John Bishop, Elder Professor of Music 'at the University of Adelaide, State of South Australia
Ferdinand Hugo Bosman, Director of Agriculture, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Edgar Esteban Cockram, Vice-Chairman of the Bombay Branch of the United Kingdom Citizens' Association in India
Mary Cumming. For services rendered under the auspices of the Victoria League in connection with hospitality to visitors from overseas
Mary Stuart Douglas, President of the Ex-Servicewomen's Association, and State Commissioner for Girl Guides, State of South Australia
William Llewellyn Garratt, Secretary for Mines and Transport, Southern Rhodesia
Gladys Ruth Gibson, Inspector, Education Department, and President of the National Council of Women, State of South Australia
Alfred Arthur Haylbs, Editor of The Mail, Madras. For services to the United Kingdom community in South India.
John George Maydon King Director of Livestock and Agricultural Services, Basutoland
Sydney Vernon Lawrenson, Administrative Officer, Staff Grade, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Henry Gerald Livingston, Secretary of the Beit Trust in Southern Rhodesia
Alan Campbell Mckay, Chairman of the Exchange Banks Association in Karachi. For services to the United Kingdom community in West Pakistan.
William Charles Morris, formerly Headmaster of the Launceston High School, State of Tasmania
Major Cecil John Somerset Paddon, Honorary Secretary and President, Society of the 1893 Column, Southern Rhodesia. For social welfare services, particularly to the pioneers and their families.
Eric Drew Palmer, Chairman of the Food Production Committee, Southern Rhodesia
Rex Whaddon Parsons, Principal, School of Mines and Industries, State of South Australia
Sarah Anderson Jamieson Rankine Medical Officer in charge of St. Margaret's Hospital, Poona, Bombay
Victor Lloyd Robinson, Attorney General, Southern Rhodesia
The Reverend Canon James Russel Robson, Priest-in-Charge of St. Paul's School Mission, Scott's Lane, Sealdah, Calcutta, India
George Robertson Ross Member of the Public Services Board, Southern Rhodesia
William Wilson Council Clerk of the Lilydale Municipality, and formerly Secretary of the Municipal Association, State of Tasmania

Colonial Service

Robert Patrick Baffour. For public and social services in the Gold Coast.
William Muir Bissell, Commissioner of Labour, British Guiana
Frank Stanley Blomfield, Deputy Chief Clerk and Deputy Establishment Officer, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies
Edward Justin Borron, Assistant General Manager, Nyasaland Railways
Herbert Colling Wood Algernon Bryant, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Western Pacific
Ratu George Cakobau, Fijian Chief, Fiji
Channes Gavril Chakarian. For public services in Cyprus.
Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt, Senior Malariologist, Nigeria
Ena Phyllis Clark, Colonial Education Service, Assistant Director of Education (Women and Girls), Gold Coast
Richard Alexander Seymour Cory Colonial Medical Service, Senior Medical Officer, Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Jamaica
Lionel Cresson. For public services in Singapore.
Maurice Herbert Davis. For public services in St. Kitts, Leeward Islands.
Anthony Falzon, Manager, Water and Electricity Department, Malta
Maurice William Ghersie, Director of Produce Disposal, East African Production and Supply Council
Richard Whalley Gill, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Uganda
Geoffrey Leicester Gray, Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chief Secretary, North Borneo
Robert William Green. For services to sport in Aden.
Albert Joseph Hawe Colonial Medical Service, Senior Specialist, Gold Coast
Ernest Cranfield Hicks, Colonial Education Service, Senior Inspector of Schools, Perak, Federation of Malaya
Sidney Walter Hockey, Director, The Eastern Caribbean Library Service, British Council, Trinidad
Patrick Hamilton Hutchison, Custodian of Enemy Property, Tanganyika
Effion Jones, Colonial Engineering Service, Senior Executive Engineer, Nigeria
Thomas George Clayton Vaughan-Jones, Director of Game and Tsetse, Control, Northern Rhodesia
Arthur Harry Kneller, Deputy Labour Commissioner, Kenya
Gordon King Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Hong Kong
Kwok Chan For public and social services in Hong Kong.
Alistair James Mcintosh, Political Officer, Western Aden Protectorate
Gabriel Martial. For public services in Mauritius.
Alexander Mercer, Head of Posts and Telegraphs Department and Member of Executive Council, Falkland Islands
William Morrissey Milliken, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior District Officer, Nigeria
Charles Frederick Mummery, Chief Dental Officer, Federation of Malaya.
George Edward Noel Oehlers. For services to Local Government in Singapore
Dudley Murray O'Neale, Colonial Engineering Service, Deputy Director of Works and Hydraulics, Trinidad
John Atta Opoku, Head of the Asantehene's Lands Department, Gold Coast
Douglas Alexander Pott, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Nigeria
Anthony Berthon Roche, Controller of Immigration, Federation of Malaya
Archdeacon Lewis John Rowe, Archdeacon and Rural Dean of Demerara, British Guiana
Diomedes Michael Skettos, Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Cyprus
Alfred Cecil Smith For services to planting in the Federation of Malaya.
Charles Edward Snell. For public services in Nyasaland.
James Stevenson Colonial Survey Service, Director of Surveys and Lands, Sierra Leone
Captain George Stivala, Commissioner for Malta in Australia
John Hollingsworth Tanner, Chief Aviation Officer, Tanganyika
Captain Leonard Maurice Thompson, Manager and Chief Pilot, Bahamas Airways
Alexander Hamilton Thomson. For services to Local Government in Northern Rhodesia.
Samuel Seward Toddings. For public services in Bermuda.
Ts-o Tsun On. For public services in Hong Kong.
Harold Maxwell Watson, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Fiji
James Kerr Watson, Deputy Director of Public Works, Uganda
Thomas Edwin Went lately Colonial Engineer, Barbados
Dennis Charles White, Colonial Administrative Service, Resident, Third Division, Sarawak
Jane Benyie Williams. For social services in Barbados.
Donald Bagster Wilson Colonial Medical Service, Director, East Africa Malaria Unit
Russell Storey Wollen. For services to the Dairy, Coffee and Pig Industries in Kenya.

Honorary Officers

Lee Ewe Boon, State Financial Officer, Kedah, Federation of Malaya
Dato Zainal Abidin Bin Haji Abbas, Deputy Chairman, Rural and Industrial Development Authority, Federation of Malaya
Mohammad, Wali of Bornu, Northern Regional Minister of Natural Resources, Nigeria
Mallam Aliyu, Makaman Bida, Northern Regional Minister of Education, Nigeria
Paulo Neil Kavuma, Katikiro, Uganda
Fazel Nasser Mawji. For public services in Zanzibar.

Members (MBE)

Military Division

Lieutenant Raymond Denzil Andrews
Lieutenant-Commander (E) Ronald William Brenton, Royal Navy
Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Percy Roy Butler, Royal Navy (Retired)
Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Hayward De Winton
Lieutenant (E) Alfred Louis Giordan Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Stanley Eastman Hills (serving with the Indian Navy)
Temporary Senior Commissioned Boatswain Leslie Lawrence Janaway, Royal Navy
Lieutenant (E) Edgar Jack Johnston Royal Navy (Retired)
Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Reginald Jones, Royal Navy
Captain William Lang, Royal Marines
Lieutenant Stanley Leonard, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Commander (L) Charles Henry Messenger, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Commander (S) George William Gundry Midlane Royal Navy
Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Daniel Joseph O'Leary, Royal Navy
Lieutenant Edgar Osborne, Royal Navy
Lieutenant (E) Frederick Charles Rowsell, Royal Navy
Commissioned Recruiter Frederick Henry Rudge, Royal Navy
Senior Commissioned Wardmaster William Percival Silk, Royal Navy
Lieutenant-Commander Horace Robinson Spedding, Royal Navy
Arthur Reginald Winter, Radio Officer Service
Temporary Acting Commissioned Engineer Albert Edward Wood, Royal Navy (lately on loan to the Government of India)
Major Charles William James Aldred, General List
Major (Quartermaster) Harold Vivian Alley, Royal Armoured Corps
Major (Quartermaster) Edwin Ashley, Royal Army Medical Corps
Warrant Officer Class II William Ashurst, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Major Malcolm Stewart Balmain, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Captain (acting) Eric Andrew Barnes Combined Cadet Force
Major Richard Thurstine Basset The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
Warrant Office Class II Harry Bell, Royal Army Pay Corps
Major Marcus Ernest Francis Bell, Corps of Royal Engineers
Major (Quartermaster) Thomas Benbow, The Devonshire Regiment
Warrant Officer Class I Albert Sidney Charles Blackshaw, 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Captain Robert Henry Bloomer, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
Major (Quartermaster) Arthur Leonard Bolt, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Ernest Laurence Briggs Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Major John Bywaters, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
Warrant Office Class H John Cardownie, Royal Regiment of Artillery Territorial Army
Captain Roland Ferguson Cole, Royal Pioneer Corps
Warrant Office Class II Norman Coleman, The Royal Ulster Rifles. Territorial Army
Major (Quartermaster) James Reginald Coles, Employed List II (late Royal Army Service Corps)
Major (temporary) David Craig. G.M., Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Clifford Claude Cross, Royal Corps of Signals
Major (Quartermaster) Thomas William Croucher, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Captain John Davies
Major (temporary) (now Captain) Frank Alan Day, The Royal Sussex Regiment
Major (O.E.O.) James Frederick De Grau, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Major (D.O.) Arthur William Dell
Major (acting) William Dickson, Combined Cadet Force
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Francis James Dodd, The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), Royal Armoured Corps
Major Alan Stanley Eccles Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class I Frederick George Farmer. Royal Army Service Corps
Major Paul Ernest Archer Folliss, Royal Army Service Corps
Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Andrew Hepburn Fraser, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
Major The Honourable Ralfe Evans-Freke, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
Warrant Officer Class II Harold Douglas French. Royal Army Service Corps
Major Gary William Fullbrook
Warrant Officer Class II Frederick John George, Corps of Royal Engineers
Captain (Quartermaster) Gordon Jack Gillings, Royal Corps of Signals
Captain Walter Kendal Gott, Royal Pioneer Corps
Captain (Quartermaster) George Alfred Stuart Graham, 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps
Warrant Officer Class II Harold Stanley Haden, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's),
Major Michael Stephen Hancock
Warrant Officer Class II Joan Mary Harris Women's Royal Army Corps
Major (temporary) Alfred Philip Holland Hartley, The Cheshire Regiment
Major (Quartermaster) John Henry Cornelius Hawkins, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Major (O.E.O.) Frederick Roy Horne, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Major (Quartermaster) William Edgar Hurst, Employed List II (late Royal Army Service Corps)
Captain Tom Jagger, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
Lieutenant-Colonel (local) Arthur John Ketley, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Major Frank Douglas King, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).
Major James John Lamb Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class II Frank Larkin, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Major Anthony David Lewis The Dorset Regiment
Major (Quartermaster) Leonard Henry Littlejohn, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps
Warrant Officer Class I Charles Black Macdonald Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army
Major (temporary) John Mackinnon-Little, Corps of Royal Engineers
Major Alfred Frederick Marich
Major Thomas Saunders Markham, General List, attached Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (now retired)
Major John Fitzgerald May, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
Captain (acting) William John Ferguson McWhor, Army Cadet Force
Warrant Officer Class I David Benjamin Morris, The Parachute Regiment
Honorary Major Francis Seward Neale, Combined Cadet Force (now retired)
Major (acting) Norman McDowell Nevin, Army Cadet Force
Major (Quartermaster) Francis Herbert Newland, Royal Army Medical Corps
Major Leonard James Oliver, Corps of Royal Engineers
Warrant Officer Class I Ralph Reginald Opie, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Major (temporary) Robert Linnaeus Peat, Royal Pioneer Corps
Major Edwin Seth Wolfe Perkins, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army
Major Charles James Phillips, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Warrant Officer Class I (Artillery Clerk) Albert Joseph Rayner, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Major Edgar Lynton Richards The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Frank Robb, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Captain (Quartermaster) Walter John Robertson, Royal Corps of Signals
Major (temporary) Arthur William Robinson, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
Major Stanley David Sharman, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Captain James Christopher Shaw, The East Lancashire Regiment
Major (temporary) Pauline Mary Shilton, Women's Royal Army Corps
Captain Bertram Donald Newton Siminson, Royal Army Educational Corps
Major John. Richard Guy Stanton, The Royal Sussex Regiment
Major Frederick Passmore Stewart, Royal Corps of Signals
Major George Charles Thompson, Army Catering Corps
Major (D.O.) Ernest Walter Walford, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Major (Quartermaster) David Clifford Watson, The South Staffordshire Regiment
Major (acting) (now Lieutenant-Colonel (acting)) Robert Watson, Army Cadet Force
Major (temporary) Sidney John Watson, Corps of Royal Engineers
Warrant Officer Class II (now Colour-Sergeant) Francis William Welch, The Gloucestershire Regiment
Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Thomas Weller, Corps of Royal Military Police
Warrant Officer Class II Charles Henry Williams, The Welch Regiment, Territorial Army
Captain (Quartermaster) George Samuel Thomas Woods, The Welch Regiment
Major Tom Pickering Salisbury Woods, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Warrant Officer Class I (acting) Eric Anthony Wright, Royal Army Pay Corps
Major (Quartermaster) Herbert John Ingle Wright, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps
Major Clarence Bavin Adams, Southern Rhodesia Territorial Forces
Captain Walter Frederick Smith Belton, Rhodesian African Rifles, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces
Major Cyril Richard Alick Blackwell Southern Rhodesia Territorial Forces
Warrant Officer Class I Alexander Thomson Robertson, Royal Corps of Signals, until recently on loan to the Government of India
Major Arthur Nathaniel Braude Royal Hong Kong Defence Force
Major John Charles Michael Grenham, Commanding Officer, Home Guard, Royal Hong Kong Defence Force
Warrant Officer Class I Mahmud bin Udin, The Malay Regiment
Major Colin Milton Officer Commanding, Singapore Army Service Corps
Major David Nicholls, Royal Army Service Coups, Adjutant, Federation of Malaya Volunteer Army Service Corps
Squadron Leader Allan John Laird Craig Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Herbert Ernest Hunt, Royal Air Force Regiment
Squadron Leader Dugald Thomas Moore Lumsden, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Charles Keith Street, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Samuel Gilchrist, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Ronald Charles Instrell Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Stanley James, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Cecil Thomas Nixon Moore, Royal Air Force Regiment
Acting Squadron Leader Robert James Reid, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Acting Squadron Officer Mary Hope Shaw, Women's Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant William Sanders Brokenshire, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Apostolos Contaris Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Carey Cottam, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Richard Page Hall, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Ernest Walter Hassall, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John David Jolly, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Henry Frederick Victor Marshall, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Roy Parsons, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Samuel Waters Pattinson, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Harold Coatsworth Robinson, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant George Wardrop Scott Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Ronald William Sparkes Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Richard Arthur Targett, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Clifford John Turner, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant George Edward Veasey, Royal Air Force
Acting Flight Lieutenant Horace William Gibbons, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Flying Officer William Laurence Lawrenson, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer William Stanley Carlile, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Ronald Dixon, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Wilfred Edward Elkins, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Archibald Hay Hamilton, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Reginald John Hole, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Sidney Edward Humphries, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer John Henry Large, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Samuel Lee, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Alfred John Lewis, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Frederick George Marsh, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Patrick Joseph O'Reilly, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Leslie Sanderson, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Enock Tempest Southorn, Royal Air Force
Warrant Officer Charley Henry Stanley, Royal Air Force
Acting Warrant Officer Tom Dawson, Royal Air Force

Honorary Members

Warrant Officer Class II Abdul Manap bin Abdullah, The Malay Regiment
Warrant Officer Class II Amat bin Idris, The Malay Regiment
Captain Ariffin bin Jamail, The Malay Regiment
Major Ismail bin Tahar, The Malay Regiment
Captain Khalid bin Hashim, The Malay Regiment
Warrant Officer Class II Mohamed Shah bin Mohamed Aris, The Malay Regiment
Warrant Officer Class I Mohammed Arriff bin Ariffin, The Malay Regiment
NWarrant Officer Class II Mohammed Yassin bin Ahmad, The Malay Regiment

Civil Division

John Adams lately Adjutant, Ulster Special Constabulary
Nolan Harris Aldersley, Radio Officer, M.V. Australia Star, Siemens Brothers and Company, Ltd.
James Lauchland Alexander, Actuary of the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank
William George Allen, Senior Experimental Officer, Directorate of Electronics Research and Development (Air), Ministry of Supply
Dorothy Alston, County Secretary, Somerset, Women's Voluntary Services
Dorothy Lucy Anderson, Centre Organiser, Brentwood, Essex, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Hay Anderson, Purser, S.S. City of Exeter, Ellerman Lines, Ltd.
Richard Oakley Andrews Member, Bedfordshire Agricultural Executive Committee
Robert Henry John Angus, Superintendent of Stores, Board of Customs and Excise
Albert Anslow, Production Manager, Joseph Sankey and Sons, Ltd., Wellington, Shropshire
Victoria Armstrong, Honorary Secretary and Collector, School Savings Group, Ballymena
Margaret Rachel Arrowsmith. For political and public services in Ebbw Vale.
Edward Wilkinson Ashby, Chief Tanker Designer, Joseph L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., Sunderland
Thomas McMinn Ashford, Chief Smoke Inspector and Technical Engineer, Glasgow Corporation
Henry Sidney Atkinson Chairman of Committee, No. 135 (Reigate and Redhill) Squadron, Air Training Corps
John Atkinson. For political and public services in Derbyshire.
Thomas John Aven Higher Executive Officer, National Assistance Board
Egon Benedict Babler, Chief of Metallurgic and General Research Laboratory, Allen West and Company, Ltd., Brighton
Horace Charles Baldwin, Senior Executive Officer, Foreign Office
Harold Barbrook, Food Executive Officer, Ministry of Food. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ronald Renton Barker, Senior Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department
Samuel John Barlow, Honorary Secretary, Bridport Savings Committee, Dorset
Sidney George Barnes, Superintendent, Lincolnshire County Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Elsa Barratt. For public services in Skegness.
Robert Nathan Bates. For political and public services in Norfolk.
Lewis George Baum, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary
Archibald Baxter, Assistant Manager, Shipbuilding Department, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness
Sidney John Bayliss, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office
Alderman Ernest George Bearcroft. For political and public services in Yorkshire.
Edwin Alfred Walter Beasant. For political and public services in Swindon.
Zoe Daphne Morrison Beaton Area Organiser, East Central Lancashire, Women's Voluntary Services
Charles William Bellerby, Executive Officer, War Office
Neil Benson, Foreign Office
Phyllis Mabel Betts, Assistant Establishment Officer, Church Commissioners
Leslie Alfred Bird Senior-Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply
William George Bird, Senior Executive Offiqer, Ministry of Works
Margaret Mackenzie Black, Executive Officer, Crown Office, Scotland
Harold Blackburn, Chairman, Bournemouth Savings Committee
Arthur Henry Blackwell, Director and Works Manager, David Brown Companies, Meltham, Yorkshire
Florence Ada Blackwell, Executive Officer, Ministry of Education.
John Alan Blake. For services as Area Supervisor, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, British Army of the Rhine
Major Henry Rokeby Bond. For services in a civilian capacity in Malaya
Alfred Edward Booth, District Officer, H.M. Coastguard, Ministry of Transport
Leslie George Bourne, Convoy Officer, Midland Region Food Flying Squads. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
James McGown Bowes, Honorary Secretary, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Glasgow, Savings Group
Grace Mary Darbyshire-Bowles, County Organiser, Norfolk, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Gertrude Lyford Born. For political and public services in Ayrshire.
Victor Henry Bradley, Deputy Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland
Cyril Alfred Brazier, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Frederick Christian Bridges, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply
Ann Brooks, Higher Executive Officer, Forestry Commission (Scotland)
Harry James Brooks, Honorary Secretary, Louth Savings Committee, Lincolnshire
Walter Frank Brooks, Production Superintendent, Alfred Graham and Company, Ltd., Halifax
Charles John Brown, Grade 3 Officer, Foreign Office
Frederick Ernest Francis Brown Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions
Thomas Brown, lately Forester, Dartington Hall, Totnes, South Devon
Anna Fullerton Bruce, Head of Young Women's Christian Association Service Centre, Bad Oyenihausen, British Army of the Rhine
William Sandy Bryant, Senior Architect, Ministry of Works
James Bryce, Manager, Shipyard Plant Department, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast
James Buckley, Works Manager, Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd., Rochdale
Nellie Elizabeth Budge, Chief Superintendent of Typists. Board of Trade
Alan Durtnall Bullock, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Harold James Bullock, Secretary, Bristol Port Area Grain Committee
Arthur Newman Bunce, Clerical Officer, Admiralty
Emily Isabel Bunce, Matron, Moss Side Hospital, Ministry of Health
Harold Francis Burnell, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade
Percy Beard Frank Burr, Inspector of Kitchen Waste Collections, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Moses Busby, Chairman, Dungannon Rural District Council, Co. Tyrone
Charles Paul Byrne, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue
Cicely Cardew, Voluntary Worker, Wormwood Scrubs Boys' Prison
Alfred Herbert Carding, Works Director, Smart and Brown (Machine Tools), Ltd., Biggleswade
Thomas Johnstone Lipton Carmichael, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport
Joseph King Carson, General Secretary, Ulster Teachers' Union
Albert Harry Carter, Assistant Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Constabulary
William Carter, Departmental Manager, Alfred Dunihill, Ltd.
Arthur Sidney Cartwright, Director and Secretary, Oak Tanning Company, Ltd.
William Cater, Executive Officer Cabinet Office
Augustus Cave, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office
Charles Chadwick, Honorary Secretary, Milnrow Savings Committee, Lancashire
Walter Robert Chamberlain, Chairman, Nuneaton Local Employment Committee
Claude Edwin Channing, Higher Executive Officer, Government Actuary's Department
Frederick Charles Chapman, Manager, Beamish Mary, Handen Hold, Twizell Burn and Alma Collieries, Durham Division, National Coal Board
Marjorie Joan Chenhalls, Civil Assistant, War Office
Isidore Civval, Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
Frank Clapham, Trade Union Vice-Chairman, Wolverhampton District Advisory Committee, Midlands Regional Board for Industry
Duncan Walker Clark. For services to Drama in Falkirk
Robert Noel Lightfoot Clarke, Plant Manager, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Alkali Division
Doris Marian Cleland, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
Harold Cocker, Works Manager, Beatson, Clark and Company, Ltd., Rotherham
Catherine Mary Codling, Senior Clerk, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association
Kenneth Barrett Colam, Chief Officer, Wakefield Fire Brigade
Llewellyn Lancelot Cole, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Works
Bert Coulson Coles Headmaster, Alford Secondary Modern School, Lincoln-shire. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Charles Stratum Colley, Housing Manager, Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council
Dorothy Joan Collihole, Director, Periodicals Department, British Council
Joseph Walker Collinson. For political and public services in Thornaby-on-Tees.
Ayleen Finlay Conway, Head of the Probation and Prison Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary Services
John Herbert Cooke, Chairman, Thornbury Rural District Council, Gloucestershire
Leslie Arthur Coombs. For political services.
Denis Edward James Cooper, Chairman, Lochbroom District Council. For services during the hurricane in North-West Scotland
James Cormack, Superintendent, Society for Welfare and Teaching of the Blind (Edinburgh and South-East Scotland)
Arthur Edmund Cotton, Deputy Superintendent, Directorate General of Works, Air Ministry
Kenneth Edgar Cotton, Chief Engineer, East Suffolk and Norfolk River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Albert Walter Cox, Principal Assistant, Legal and Parliamentary Department, London County Council
Herbert David Cox, Principal Surveyor, Tithe Redemption Commission
Vera Cox, Marketing Organiser, National Federation of Women's Institutes
Frederick John Baker Craighill, Senior Executive Officer. Government Hospitality Fund
Captain Quentin Charles Alexander Craufurd, Royal Navy (Retired), Honorary Secretary, Dungeness Lifeboat Station
Ada Gertrude Creegan, Chairman, Lewisham Street Groups Savings Subcommittee
William Henry John Crees, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport
Sidney Cresswell Superintendent, Staffordshire Constabulary
Charles Henry Cribbes, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
Harry Critchley, Training Service Officer I, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Mabel Winifred Cross, Local Representative
Surbiton. Forces Help Society And Lord Roberts Workshops
Edith Annie Crossley. For political and public services in Barkston Ash.
Frederick George Crouch, lately Chief Male Nurse, Tooting Bee Mental Hospital
Ada Crozier, Personnel Manager, Wm. Ewart and Son, Ltd., Belfast
Douglas Cruden, Senior Fishery Officer, Scottish Home Department
Harold Archibald Gray Curtis, Higher Executive Officer. Ministry of National Insurance
Wilfred John Curtis, Surveyor, City District (London), Board of Customs and Excise
Herbert John Cutler, Head of Furniture Department, High Wycombe College of Further Education
William Henry Daniels, Vice-Chairman, Southampton Local Employment Committee
Arthur Ernest Davies, Musical Director, Luton Girls' Choir
John Lewis Eavies, Engineer and Surveyor, Leatherhead Urban District Council
Gertrude Debrit Deave. For political and public services in Lewisham.
Dorothy Annie Denny, Grade 3 Officer, Foreign Office
Charles Montagu Dering, Senior Experimental Officer, Admiralty
Sydney Edgar Devonald, lately Chairman, London and Southern England District, Joint District Scrap Drive Committee, British Iron and Steel Federation
George Richard Septimus Dixon, Producer, School Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation
Major John Robert Donnelly, Administrative Secretary, Ex-Services Welfare Society
Mary Emma Masterton Dougans, Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary, Admiralty
Thomas Scatchard Drake, Warden, Queen Elizabeth Home of Recovery for the Blind, Torquay
Alfred Lever Duggan. For political and public services in Bristol.
Alderman Thomas Dunn, Chairman, Barn-staple District Committee, Devon Agricultural Executive Committee.
Squadron Leader William Harry Dunton, Civilian Substitution Officer, Royal Air Force School of Photography
Alexander Haldon Dykes, Chief Engineer, M.V. Hibernian Coast, Coast Lines, Ltd.
Catherine Dynes, Night Superintendent, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
John Goslett Edwards, Assistant Civil Engineer, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Reginald William Elkins, Regional Collector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
Jeannie Elliott. For political and public services in Nottingham.
Albert Wilfrid Ellis. For political and public services in Essex.
Stanley George Elmer, Executive Officer, War Office
Albert Josiah Evans, Headmaster, Benfleet Secondary Modern School, Essex. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Evan Rees Evans, Farmer, Llandyssul, Cardiganshire
Gladys May Everett, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health
Charles Henry Exley Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
Basil Grenville Fairbrother, Commissioner for the Church Army with the British Army of the Rhine
Geoffrey Thomas Berridge Fall, Chief Accountant, Shipping Federation, Ltd.
Fraser Farquharson, Chief Superintendent, City of Glasgow Police
Harry Farrer, Skipper of a Fishing Vessel
Catherine Jeanne Felton, Executive Officer, Cabinet Office
Daisy Fenwick, Grade IV Clerk, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner's Office, Winnipeg
William Nicol Forrest, Assistant Director of Supplies, H.M. Stationery Office
Arnold Percy Forster, Placing Officer, Treforest Trading Estate, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Marjorie Beatrice Forster, Personal Secretary, Colonial Development Corporation
Sidney Charles Hudson Fossett, Works Manager, Carriage and Wagon Works, North Eastern Region, Railway Executive
Donald Max Fountain, Agent, John Mowlem and Company, Ltd.
Victor Reginald-Fox, Assistant Waterguard Superintendent, Newhaven, Board of Customs and Excise
Dorothy Violet Franklin, Ward Sister, St. Bernard's (Mental) Hospital, Southall
Albert Marskell Freeman, Headmaster, 1 Welling Secondary School for Boys, Kent
Margaret Wilson Frew, Organising Secretary, the Erskine (Paraplegic) Coach and Comforts Fund, Renfrewshire
William Garner Superintendent, Norfolk Constabulary. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Samuel James Garton, Chief Investigator, Historic Buildings, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Minnie Gatenby, Sister Midwife, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth
James Gayler, Chairman, London Regional Schools Advisory Savings Committee
George Faimilo Gibson For public services in Nottinghamshire.
Grace Gidley, lately Head Assistant, Southern Grove Lodge, London County Council Welfare Department
Arthur Edgar Gilbert, Local Fuel Overseer for the City of Birmingham
William Joseph Montague Gladden, Higher Executive Office, Air Ministry
Joseph James Cecil Goulder, Clerk to the South Kesteven Rural District Council
Edith Amy Gray. Headmistress, Bisbrooke Church of England School, Rutland
Victor Gray, Naval Architect, Cochrane and Sons, Ltd., Selby
William Llewelyn Alexander Gray, Chairman. North-East Wales War Pensions Committee
Alec Alfred Green, Senior Experimental Officer, Pest Infestation Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Leslie William Green, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation
Stephen Herbert Green, G.M|Engineer and Manager, Drainage Department, Thurrock Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William Henry Green, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
Rosalys Joan Griffith, Examiner of Acts, House of Lords
Jack Griffiths, Clerk to the Sheerness Urban District Council. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Horace Frederick Griggs, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation
Arthur Thomas Grimer, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
George Groves, Manager, Clipsham Stone Quarries, Oakham
Leonard Arthur Grudgings, Chairman, Regional Schools Advisory Savings Committee, East Midlands Region
William Joseph Gwilliam Alderman, Pembroke Borough Council
Hubert Charles Langley Hackney, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions
Ernest Nelson Hall, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply
Robert Joseph Reed Hancock, Senior Structural Engineer, Ministry of Works
William Hanke. For political and public services in the West Midlands.
Captain Thomas Jewitt Hansen, Master, S.S. Cormount, Wm. Cory and Son, Ltd.
William Hudson Birrell Harley, Finance Secretary, British Broadcasting Corporation
Ralph Hart, Assistant Regional Food Officer, Northern Region, Ministry of Food
Hattie Dorinda Hartley. Senior Executive Officer. Ministry of Food
Thomas George Haughton, Lately Secretary and Director, Churches Youth Welfare Council, Northern Ireland
George William Haw, lately Secretary-Manager, Pocklington Co-operative Society
John Allen Hawkins, Grade 3 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Winefride Hayes, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Works
Richard Heath, Resident Warden, Claremont Rehabilitation Centre for Dock Workers. National Dock Labour Board
Peter Henderson Area Labour Officer, East Fife Area, Scottish Division, National Coal Board
Walter Henderson, Executive Officer, London Museum
Francis Austin Henley, Sales Manager, Reinforced Shuttlecocks, Ltd.
Constance Habbegell Henry, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport
Harold Ernest Henson, Executive Officer, Regional Office, Leeds, Board of Trade
Joseph Gordon Higgins, lately Superintendent, Carmarthenshire Constabulary
Joseph Edward Hilder, Manager, Watford Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Charles Biglin Hill, Farmer, Easington, Yorkshire. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Frederick William Hill, Joint Managing Director, F. W. Hill (Bognor Regis), Ltd., Builders and Contractors
Harry Charles Hill, Superintendent, War Department Constabulary
Henry Joseph Arthur Hill, Sales Manager, London, British European Airways
John Frederick Hilton, Secretary, Trade Union Side, Departmental Joint Industrial Council
Victor Arthur Hinde, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Civil Aviation
Edward Charles Histed, Chief Draughtsman, Admiralty
Charles Stansfield Kitchen, Resident Geologist, Tanganyika Coalfields and Iron Investigation, Colonial Development Corporation
Wilfred John Hobbs, Works Manager, Drayton Regulator and Instrument Company, Ltd., West Drayton, Middlesex
Enid Sidney Hobson, Executive Officer, London Hostels Association, Ltd.
Albert Edward Hocking, Member, National Executive Council, British Legion
Brian Holmes, Assistant Constructor, Admiralty. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Cecil William Hopkins, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade), Board of Inland Revenue
William Watson Hopkinson, Station Engineer, Dartford and Belvedere, South Eastern Gas Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Frederick Alfred Horton, Steward, H.M. Prison, Wandsworth
William Houghton, lately General Manager, Ipswich Beet Sugar Factory
Sydney Charles Edward Howard, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport
William Roy Howells, Chief Officer, Herefordshire Fire Brigade
Cyril Frank Howes, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade
Harold Hoyle, Assistant to Operating Superintendent (Freight Trains), Eastern and North Eastern Regions, Railway Executive
Charles Henry Hudson Chairman, King's Lynn and District Local Employment Committee
Alfred David Hull, Costing Secretary, British Federation of Master Printers
Noel Kathleen Hunnybun, Senior Psychiatric Social Worker, Child Guidance Department, Tavistock Clinic, London
Mary Roy Hunter, Production Manager, Ethicon Suture Laboratories, Edinburgh
Thomas Chalmers Hunter, Distribution Engineer, Fife Sub-Area, South East Scotland Electricity Board
William Imlach, Skipper of steam trawler Loch Awe. For services during the hurricane in North-West Scotland
Robert Rhudd Innes. For political services in Edinburgh.
Morris Isaacs, Supervisor of Factories, Jackson Associated Manufacturers, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne
Ernest Samuel James, Higher Clerical Officer, Admiralty
Celia Jarratt, Senior Major, Salvation Army. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Doris Gertrude Jarvis, Clerical Officer, Home Office
Arthur Ernest Jaynes, lately Chief Clerk, Gloucester District Probate Registry
Francis Robert Jefford, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Municipal Borough of Cheltenham
Aileen Machenry Johnston (Lady Fraser-Tytler), lately Chief Officer of the National Institute of Houseworkers
Alan Edgar Johnston, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Transport
Bessie Patience Johnston, County Director, City of Glasgow Branch, British Red Cross Society
Anna Jones, School Meals Organiser, Denbighshire
William Emlyn David Jones, Assistant County Agricultural Officer (Advisory), Pembrokeshire, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Wilfred Harold Jupe, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply
William George Keable, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply
Arthur Stanley Keeling, Midland District Engineer, South Western Division, Docks and Inland Waterways Executive
Robert Kerr, Deputy Accountant, North Western Gas Board
Francis William Ernest King, Vice-Chairman, Amersham Rural District Council
George King, Senior Research Chemist, Albright and Wilson, Ltd.
Harold Alfred King, Depot Superintendent, Stockport, North Western Road Car Company, Ltd.
Frank Oliver Kitteringham, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Trade
Harold Frederick Knell, Sub-Area Manager (Kent), South Eastern Electricity Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Captain William Anthony Kyne, Master, S.S. Ramsay, Bolton Steam Shipping Company, Ltd.
Mary Marguerite Lace, Regional Organiser, North-Eastern Region, Women's Voluntary Services
Albert Haynes Laidlaw, Chief Draughtsman, Vosper, Ltd., Portsmouth
Ralph Thornton Lakin, Chief Engineer, Whiteley Electrical Radio Company, Ltd., Mansfield
Alfred Dupear Lambert, Chief Engineer, S.S. Gardenia, Stag Line, Ltd.
David Noble Lang, Area General Manager, South Western Division, National Coal Board
John Henry Last, Chief Passport Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South Africa
Herbert Vincent Laurie, Headmaster, Thorparch Grange Approved School, Boston Spa, Yorkshire
James Russell Lawrie, Headmaster, Kingsland School, Peebles
William Leitch General Manager, Clydebank Co-operative Society
Ceridwen Lewis, Matron, Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Rockwood, Llandaff, Cardiff
Grace Lewis, Senior Adviser in Dairying and Poultry-keeping, North Region, Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture
Mary Dorothy Lewis Chairman, Cardiff Street Groups Savings Sub-Committee
Reginald Gwyn Leyshon, Secretary and Comptroller, Anglo-Celtic Watch Company, Ltd., Ystradgynlais, Swansea
Richard Henry Linnell, Factory Superintendent, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., Leicester
Leonard Edmund Reuben Loader, Chief Officer, Anglesey Fire Brigade
Albert William Lovelock, Development and Production Manager, S. G. Brown, Ltd. Watford
Reginald Lowen, Establishment Officer, National Maritime Museum
George Joseph Lunnon, Senior Executive Officer, Colonial Office
William Arthur McAdam Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary
Anne Montgomery MacArthur, Headmistress, Coleridge Road Secondary Modern School for Girls, Sheffield
Annie McCallum. For political services in Glasgow.
Edith Margaret McClintock, Superintendent of Typists, Supreme Court of Judicature, Northern Ireland
Doris McDonald, Honorary Secretary, Street Savings Group, South Shields, and Chairman, South Shields Street Groups Sub-Committee
James MacGregor, Works' Manager, Thermotank, Ltd., Glasgow
Bernard McGuirk, Manager, Liverpool (Leece Street) Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Lieutenant-Commander Robert Mckellar (Retired), Captain Superintendent, National Sea Training Schools, Gravesend
Elizabeth Fotheringham Mckie, Principal, Logan and Johnstone Pre-Nursing College, Glasgow
Thomas McLauchlan Chief Traffic Superintendent, North Eastern Region, General Post Office
Kenneth Macleod, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable. Renfrew and Bute Constabulary
Gordon McLoughlin, Senior Executive Officer, National Debt Office
Euphemia MacMillan, Matron. Dunclutha Children's Home, Kirn, Argyll
Norman McNeilly, Principal, Boys' Model Primary School, Belfast
David Henry McVeigh, District Manager, Lincoln District, Road Haulage Executive. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Leonard Emile Magnusson, Senior Executive Engineer, General Post Office
Thomas Walter Marchant, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Supply
Richard Harry Wakeling Marks, Member, Devonport Local Committee of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust
Florence Marsden, Member, Hull Savings Committee
Albert William John Martin, Accountant, Ministry of Fuel and Power
Frederick Martin, Deputy Clerk of the Crown and Peace, Belfast and County Antrim
Leonard Frank Martin, Manager, Government Shipping Department, Hogg Robinson and Capel-Cure, Ltd.
William Martin Member, National Union of Agricultural Workers
Elsie Maskell, Clerical Assistant, Board of Trade
John Patrick Matthews, Maintenance Master, R.A.S.C. Fleet, Sheerness. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Florrie Wright Maxim, lately Ward Sister, Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale, Lancashire
Herbert George Maybury, Records Officer, Imperial War Graves Commission
Percy William Bell Mayes Chairman, Erith Local Employment Committee
Florence Mary Mears, Senior Executive Officer, General Post Office
Francis Arnold Meldrum, Area Engineer, Telephone Manager's Office, Liverpool, General Post Office
Charles Percival Menday, Food Executive Officer, Ministry of Food
Alexander Mennie Chairman, Glasgow Central Disablement Advisory Committee
John Harold Middleton, Secretary of the Civil Service Sports Council
Robert Headley Miers, Drainage Engineer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ronald Mildenhall, Higher Executive Officer, H.M. Treasury
Celia Blair Miller, Joint Honorary Secretary, Henley and District Housing Trust
William Alexander Pyper Milne Area Cold Storage Officer, Ministry of Food
Alderman Henry Rawson Milner, Chairman, Bridlington Youth Employment Committee
Observer Commander Frank William Mitchell, Deputy Commandant, Southern Area, Royal Observer Corps
John Christopher Morgan, Chairman, Atcham District Committee, Salop Agricultural Executive Committee
Percy Morrell, lately Generation Engineer (Operation), Northern Group, British Electricity Authority
Frank Moss, Maintenance Superintendent, Garringtons, Ltd., Darleston
John Frederick Michael Mowat For political and public services in Wrexham.
Edward Arthur Moxey, Chief Officer, Great Yarmouth Fire Brigade
George Frederick Mullinger, Surveyor, Grade I, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Robert Charles Mundy, Bulk Contracts Manager, Ericsson Telephones Ltd.
Margaret Macartney Murray, Matron, Herrison (Mental) Hospital, Dorchester, Dorset
Captain Alexander Naismtth, Master, M.V. Anshun, China Navigation Company, Ltd.
John Henry Naylor, District Commercial Engineer, Barnsley District, Yorkshire Electricity Board
John Rowan Nesbit, Chief Cashier and Head Office Manager, Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd.
Observer Commander Herbert George Newman, Commandant, No. 15 Group, Royal Observer Corps, Cambridge
Winifred Curtis Nichols, Senior Executive Officer, Office of the Public Trustee
William John Northmore, lately General Foreman of Works, Admiralty
Evelyn Jessie Blackett-Ord, National Vice-Chairman. Women's Section. British Legion
Edward William James Osborne Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force
Joseph Aloysius Vincent O'Shea, Clerical Officer, Board of Trade
William Kingdon Owen Chairman, Neath Juvenile Advisory Committee
Edith Annie Parker For political and public services in Salford.
Carl Pater Parkinson, Skipper of the Fishing Vessel Apt
Louis Emanuel Parsons, Senior Experimental Officer, British Museum (Natural History)
Samuel John Partridge, County Welfare Officer, East Riding of Yorkshire. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Hubert Newton Peake, Chairman, Banbury Committee, Air Training Corps
Bertram Wilson Pearce, Temporary Clerk, Grade I, Ministry of Works
William Donald Pearce, Superintendent of Works, Office of the Receiver for Metropolitan Police
Frank Pearson, Manager, Heavy Duty Cooking Apparatus Department, Wm. Green and Company (Ecclesfield), Ltd., Sheffield
William Henry Pearson Kent County Organiser, National Union of Agricultural Workers
Isabella Agnes Pettitt, Assistant Honorary Secretary, Essex, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Families Association. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Geoffrey Elisha Phillippo, Clerk to the Lincolnshire River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Melbourne Griffith Phillips, Superintendent, Bristol City Police Force
Sydney Pitt Headmaster, Russell Scott County Primary School, Denton, Lancashire
Cyril Marks Plowman, Adviser to the Industrial Relations Committee of the Gas Council
Lilian Alice Plowman, Grade 4 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Robert George Pointer, Manager, Mile Cross Silk Mills, Francis Hinde and Sons, Ltd., Norwich
Aubrey Franklyn Pool, Employer Member, Cornwall District Advisory Committee, South Western Regional Board for Industry
George Arthur Henry Edward Poole, Factory Manager, Joseph Lucas, Ltd., Birmingham
James Arthur Porter. For political and public services in Liverpool.
Isabel Muriel Potts. For political and public services in Middlesex.
Ernest Baden Powell, Honorary Secretary, Brecon and District Savings Committee, South Wales
Ronald Rees Powell Chairman, Reigate Unit Committee, and Southern Area Representative, Sea Cadet Council
Stanley Prissick, Director and Secretary, Henry Scarr, Ltd., Hessle, East Yorkshire
Phyllis Mary Helen Pritchard, County Organiser, Lindsey, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Edith May Hedley-Prole, Centre Organiser, Lambeth, Women's Voluntary Services
Margaret Joan Pryer, Higher Executive Officer, H.M. Treasury
John Herbert Quayle, Divisional Engineer, Lincolnshire River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
George Frederick Quilter, Brigade Secretary, St. John Ambulance Brigade
Joseph Rea, Divisional Officer, Wiltshire Fire Service
Iden Robert Reed, London Outdoor Representative, Passenger Department, Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.
John Reginald Reed, Branch Accountant and Office Manager, English Electric Company, Ltd., Preston
Harry Hepburn Reid Headmaster, St. Helena Boys' Secondary Modern School, Colchester
James Reid. For political and public services in Dumfries-shire.
James Ernest Reid, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary
Herbert Pinder Reynolds, Head Postmaster, Weymouth, Dorset, General Post Office
Arthur Richards, Chief Draughtsman, Admiralty
George Tilghman Richards, Senior Research Assistant, Science Museum
John William Rigby, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue
Ernest Armstrong Ritchie, Traffic Superintendent, Belfast Corporation Transport Department
Chambers Edward Ritson, Member, North West Area Seedcrushers' Committee
Austin Horace Cecil Roberts, Senior Executive Officer, Charity Commission
Frank Roberts, Cleansing Superintendent, Birkenhead County Borough
Thomas Herbert Roberts, Higher Executive Officer, War Office
Robina Robertson, Superintendent, District Nurses' Association, Londonderry
Donald Goodall Roper, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Oswald Stafford Rose, Agricultural Development Officer to the British Sugar Corporation
Alexandrina Ross, Nursing Sister, Casualty Ward and Radiotherapy Ward, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Jeannette Susannah Gertrude Rowe, Honorary Secretary, Schools Savings Committee, Belfast
William Francis Rowland For political and public services in Glamorgan.
Ivor Robertson Roy, Column Officer, South Eastern Area Fire Brigade, Scotland
Francis Walter Ruzbridge, Chief Clerk, South Eastern Divisional Road Engineer's Office, Ministry of Transport
Ralph Ernest Sadler, Assistant Engineer (New Works), Eastern Region, Railway Executive
Reginald Dennis Salmon, Chief Development Engineer, Creed and Company, Ltd.
Ethel Alice Sampson, Matron, Old People's Home, The Laurels, Oxford
Mary Bell Sanderson, Honorary Secretary, Women's Voluntary Services, Scotland
Alice Ada Saville, Technical Nursing Officer, Reading Nursing Appointments Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service
James Watson Scholes Chairman, Dumfriesshire Savings Committee
Alfred Edward Scott, Assistant Regional Manager, London North-West Regional Office, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission
Alfred Trotter Scott, Honorary Secretary, Ayr and South Ayrshire Committee, St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
Dorothy Edith Scott, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Materials
Harry Neill Scott, Manager, Outside Engineering Department. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Glasgow
Arthur Richard Sculthorpe, General Secretary, National Deaf-Blind Helpers' League
Isabel Frances Teresa Shallcrass, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Education
Frank Hamblyn Sharpe, Inspector of Taxes (Higher Grade). Board of Inland Revenue
William Shaw, Flax Grader, Ministry of Materials
Francis Ernest Shippobotham, Manager, Claims Department, Western Welsh Omnibus Company, Ltd.
Mary Elizabeth Short Alderman, East Suffolk County Council and Eye Borough Council
Donald George Henry Simmonds, Principal Cost Officer, War Office
Abe Simpson, Divisional Officer, Fife Area Fire Brigade
Margaret Beryl Skelly, Private Secretary to the Rt. Hon. C. R. Attlee For political services.
Henry Atkinson Slater. For political and public services in Lancashire.
Beatrice Emma Slocombe. For political and public services in Keighley.
Madeline Small. For political and public services in Belfast.
Captain Albert Smedley Secretary, Civil Defence Technical Training School, Taymouth Castle, Perthshire
Charles Smith, Senior Sales Executive, Cooper and Roe, Ltd.
Elsie Emma Margaret Smith, Superintendent, Metropolitan Women Police
Everitt Barnard Smith, Skipper of the Fishing Vessel Sir Lancelot
Frederick William Stephen Smith, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Food
Jessie Gladys Smith, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Fulham and Hammer-smith Division, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
Mabel Georgina Smith, Headmistress, Longford Park Open Air School, Stretford
Thomas Alfred Smith, Chief Engineer, Alley and MacLellan, Ltd., Glasgow
Walter Wilson Smith, Chief Technician, Plastic Surgery Department, Ballochmyle Hospital, Ayrshire
Joseph James John Smythe, Non-Technical Grade I, Royal Ordnance Factory, Swynnerton
Jeannie Spence, Vice-President, Dundee and District Union of Jute and Flax Workers
William Harry Spice, Control Officer, Grade I, British Mission to Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany
Ernest Francis Spillan, Telecommunications Technical Officer I, Ministry of Civil Aviation
Frank Edward Grant Spokes, Senior Executive Officer, No. 25 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Hartlebury
Charles Mervyn Stanford, Executive Officer, Central Office of Information
Bertram Dean Stanley, Secretary and Accountant. East Kent Road Car Company, Ltd.
James Dawson Steel, Chief Area Milk Officer, Scotland, Ministry of Food
Muriel Emia Stephens, Postmistress, Pontnewydd Sub-Post Office (S), Newport, Monmouthshire
Thomas Stephenson, Senior Executive Officer, Scottish Education Department
Betty Ellen May Stern, Welfare Member. Women's Voluntary Services, Korea
Donald Arnott Stewart, Consulting Engineer. For services to the Ministry of Works.
George Alexander Stewart, Assistant Secretary and Librarian, Royal Society of Edinburgh
James Ramsay Stirling, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Food
Sarah Story. For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
George Burder Stratton, Librarian. Zoological Society of London
John William Strydom, Cashier, The Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd., Coryton Refinery. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Nina Edith Sturdee, lately Personal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Margaret Hilda Talbot. For political and public services in Preston.
Sidney Cyril Tarry, Chairman, St. Dunstan's Physiotherapy Advisory Committee
Cyril Balfour Taylor. For political and public services in Kingston-upon-Hull.
Frances Mary Graham-Taylor. For political and public services in Wessex.
James Ingram Taylor, Deputy Chief Engineer, Kent River Board. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Samuel Ewart Taylor, Deputy Principal Officer, Ministry of Health and Local Government, Northern Ireland
Henry Thomas Chairman, Barry and Penarth Joint Food Control Committee
Margaret Louisie Thomas, Alderman, County Borough Organiser, Wakefield, Women's Voluntary Services
William Albert Thomas, Honorary Secretary, Pontardulais Choral Society, South Wales
Captain William Evan Thomas Member, Pembroke County Agricultural Executive Committee
Annie Nicol Thompson, Lady Superintendent
Charles Thompson's Mission, Birkenhead
George Thompson, District Secretary for Canada and the United States of America, National Union of Seamen
John Seymour Thompson, Chief Metallurgist and Production Manager, Durham Chemicals, Ltd., Birtley
Mary Elizabeth Thomson, County Organiser, Fife. Women's Voluntary Services
William Henry Tichbon, Chief Inspector, British Overseas Airways Corporation
Augusta Annie Tomlinson, Methodist Welfare Worker, Middle East Land Forces
Captain Philip Henry Trimmer Royal Navy (Retired), Honorary Secretary, Guildford Unit Committee, Sea Cadet Corps
Helen Millicent Troup, Social Worker, Edinburgh
Stanley Christopher Tucker, Higher Executive Officer, Board of Inland Revenue
David Tudor For political and public services in North Wales.
Raymond Tuft, Divisional Superintendent, Leicester Division, Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, Ltd.
Henry Turner, Foundry Manager, International Combustion, Ltd., Derby
Nelly Turner, Works Manageress, E. Ulingworth and Company, Ltd., Suttonin-Ashfield
Janie Tweed, lately Honorary Secretary, Larne Music Festival Association
Louie Tweedy County Borough Organiser, Tynemouth, Women's Voluntary Services
Francis George Valentine Vincent, Plant Engineer, Supermarine Works, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Swindon
James Eric Vine, Intelligence Officer, War Office
Charles George Vokes, Senior Executive Officer, War Office
Grace Mary Wacey, Secretary, University of London Institute of Education
George Benjamin James Wadley, Higher Executive Officer, Admiralty
Doris Walker, Controller of Typists (Outstations), Air Ministry
John William Walker, Senior Executive Officer, Air Ministry
James Wallbey. For public services in Penclawdd, Glamorganshire.
Fanny Walwyn, Higher Executive Officer, Commonwealth Relations Office
Catherine Waterhouse, Domiciliary Midwife, King's Lynn, Norfolk
Doris Prudence Waters, Head of Old People's Welfare Department, Women's Voluntary Services
Dilys Mary Francis-Watkins, Higher Executive Officer, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
Fred Akeroyd Watson, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions
John Smith Watson, Chief Sanitary Inspector and Housing Officer, Border Rural District Council
Stanley Gordon Strange Watts, Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise
Edwin Webb, Secretary-Manager, Church of England Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Institute, Aldershot
Charles Thomas Webster, Senior Experimental Officer, Joint Fire Research Organisation, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Edward Marshall Wells, Assistant Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue
Alba Gladys Ivy Colchester-Wemyss, Borough Organiser, Chesterfield, Women's Voluntary Services
Francis West, Skipper of the Motor Drifter Honeydew
Thomas Whalley, Chairman, Northwich Savings Committee, Cheshire
Vernon Whitaker, Senior Technical Superintendent (Engineer), No. 10 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Hullavington
John Thomas Wiggans, Station Master, Manchester (Victoria, Exchange and Salford), Railway Executive
David Watkin Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Wales Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power
Frank Williams, Vice-Chairman, Chesterfield and District Local Employment Committee
George Richard Williams, Clerical Officer, Ministry of National Insurance
Major Conrad Thomas Wilson, Branch Secretary, Officers' Association
Esther Wilson, Honorary Assistant Secretary, Carlisle Savings Committee
Frank Baxter Wilson, Technical Adviser, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., Darlaston
Arthur Edgar John Wood, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power
Dorothy Rose Wood, Assistant, Music Department, British Broadcasting Corporation
Frederick George Wood, Headmaster, South Benfleet Primary School. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Gwendolin Blanche Wood, lately County Officer, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Nottinghamshire
Frank Cecil Woolcott, Senior Executive Officer, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
Leopold Adrian Worswick, Vice-Chairman, Barnstaple Local Employment Committee
Charles Cowley Worters, Secretary, Hire Purchase Trade. Association
Ernest Wright, Higher Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department
Daniel Llewelyn Wynn, Slaughterhouse Agent, North Eastern Area, Ministry of Food

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

Syed Sager Ali, Accountant at Her Majesty's Embassy in Bangkok
Harold Blood, Deputy Assistant Civil Secretary (Personnel), Sudan Government
Ernest Thomas Castro, lately British Pro-Consul at Malaga
John Christie, British subject resident in Uruguay
Leslie Clarke, lately Temporary Assistant, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Robert Arthur Clarke, Superintendent of Police, Tripoli, Western Province, Libya
Charles Levinge Clayton Travel Officer at Her Majesty's Consulate-General at New York
Judith Mary Cotton, Personal Secretary to Her Majesty's Ambassador in Athens
Norman Matthew Darbyshire, Attached to the British Middle East Office
Walter Victor Deacock, Second Secretary at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris
Arthur George Dovey, British subject resident in Chile
John Spenser Ritchie Duncan, Deputy Assistant Civil Secretary (Political), Sudan Government
Edward George Dunckley, Executive Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Henry Fletcher Ellis, British subject lately resident in Egypt
Jack Evans, Acting Director General of Forestry, Iraq Government
Hector Ernest Floridia, British subject resident in Egypt
Samuel Fullman, Senior Temporary Assistant, Information Services Division, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Ada Louisa Gulliver, Medical Missionary of the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society resident in Burma
Jessie Harvey, British subject resident in Denmark
Arthur Cyril Walter Hayday, lately Trade Officer, Department of Economics and Trade, Sudan Government
Barbara Hayes, Head of the Speakers' Section, British Information Services, New York
Margaret Kate Henry, Archivist at Her Majesty's Embassy in Santiago
Arthur Jean Janssens, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Antwerp
Miriam Jennings, British subject resident in the Argentine Republic
Mannfield Blanche Johnston, Typist at Her Majesty's Embassy in Peking
Albert Thomas Lamb lately Third Secretary at Her Majesty's Legation in Bucharest
Federigo Lelli, British Pro-Consul at Florence
John Lumsden, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Casablanca
The Reverend Father Michael Joseph Mceleney, lately Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Control Commission for Germany (British Element)
Elizabeth Susan Olive Parsons, lately Clerical Officer at Her Majesty's Embassy in Tehran
Major Eric Pritchard, Superintendent of Prisons in Tripolitama, Libya
Frederick Ricks, lately Inspector of Water Supply, Public Works Department, Sudan Government
Lucy Hilda Rowcliffe, British subject resident in France
Charles Bertram Longmore Ryland, General Manager of the Western Telegraph Company Limited, Porto Alegre
Thomas Albert Frederick Savile Stamper, Secretary, Sudan Government Agency in London
Onslow Joseph John Tuckley, Functional Officer, British Council, Egypt
Kenneth Douglas Whitmarsh, Senior Temporary Assistant, Control Commission for Germany (British Element)

Colonies, Protectorates, etc

George Patten Adams, of Westbury, State of Tasmania. For services to philanthropic and charitable movements.
Isobel Mary Carter, Secretary of the Three Services Entertainment Committee in Calcutta, India
Alexander Cave, Officer in Charge of the Fire Rescue Services attached to the Kolar Gold Field Mining Companies in Southern India
Lionel Deary, General Secretary, Mine Workers' Union, Southern Rhodesia
Frank Robert Dowse, Superintendent of Reserves, Launceston City Council, State of Tasmania
Margaret Bryden Fearn. For services to women's welfare organisations in Umtali, Southern Rhodesia.
George Dennis Augustine Fitzgerald, Honorary Treasurer, Karachi Branch. United Kingdom Association in Pakistan
Kenneth Harold Greager, Chief Engineer, Central African Airways, Southern Rhodesia
George Louis Harvey. For services to the United Kingdom community in Bangalore, India.
Josie Herbst. For social welfare services in Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia.
Rachel Hlazo. For social welfare services to the African women of Southern Rhodesia.
Christine Barclay Hoole. For services to the Red Cross Society in Southern Rhodesia.
Helen Louisa Hubbard. For services to the Memorable Order of Tin Hats Women's Association (Mothwas) in Southern Rhodesia
Enid Frances Jones, Secretary of the Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement
Katherine Isabel Kewley, Matron of the Lady Victoria Buxton Girls' Club, State of South Australia
Johanna Sophia Klopper, a school teacher in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
Mary Evangelist Lamp, of Launceston, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services.
Mary Julia Lawes. For services to the Red Cross in the State of South Australia.
Raymond Bernhard Leonard. For services rendered under the auspices of the Bombay European Relief Association.
Juliet Kathleen Maccaw. For services rendered in Calcutta under the auspices of the East India Charitable Trust.
Mabel Gertrude MacGowan, Confidential Secretary to the Director-General, and the Chairman of the Central Council, of the Over-Seas League
Catherine McLaren. For social welfare services to the United Kingdom community in Lahore and elsewhere in the Punjab.
Philadelphia Margaret Noakes, Commissioner for Training, Girl Guides Association, Southern Rhodesia
Ida Josephine Isabell Norton. For social welfare services, especially to the Royal Hobart Hospital, State of Tasmania
Samuel Alexander Bernard Polglase, Chairman of the East Pakistan Branch of the United Kingdom Association m Pakistan
The Reverend David Leslie Scott, Principal of Murray College, Sialkot, Pakistan
Leslie Hart Stewart, Secretary, Natural Resources Board, Southern Rhodesia
Albert Baden Thompson, a prominent Trade Unionist, and a member of the Board of Management of the State Bank, in the State of South Australia
Henry John Ranger Tyrrell. For services to charitable organisations in Southern Rhodesia.
Benjamin Watkins. For public and philanthropic services in the State of Tasmania.
Cecil Hobart Webster. For services to patriotic and philanthropic organisations in the State of Tasmania.
Ernest Kynaston Weeden. For services to the National Youth Council and the Holiday Association, Southern Rhodesia.

Colonial Service

Albert Robert Allen, Emergency Administrative Officer (Resettlement Officer), Federation of Malaya
James Robert Norton-Amor, Clerk to the Justices, Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Gibraltar
Rupert Stanley Bastin, lately Chief Wireless Officer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Henry Herbert Brazier, Chief Computer, Directorate of Colonial Surveys
Frederick James Broadway. For public services in St. Helena.
Dillet Hartman Burrows, Commissioner, Georgetown, Exuma, Bahamas
Mona Eileen Byer. For services to the Girl Guide Movement in the Windward Islands
Ruth Camplin. For nursing services in Uganda.
Terence Ashton Dupont Clarke, Headmaster, Wesley Hall Junior School, Barbados
The Reverend Erasmus William Benjamin Cole. For services to education in Sierra Leone.
James Walter Collins, Water Superintendent, Public Works Department, Kenya
Alfred Curmi, Executive Officer, Malta
Wallestine Godwin Dako, Senior Collector of Customs and Excise, Gold Coast
Victor Akintunde Davies, Accountant, Public Works Department, Nigeria
Dorothy Delbridge For medical services in Fiji.
Patrick Joseph Dominique, Senior Agricultural Assistant, Trinidad
Edward John Downes, Superintendent of Public Gardens, Jamaica
Philippe Dupavillon, Manager and Secretary to the Tobacco Board, Mauritius
Bessie Mary East. For services to education in Tanganyika.
Claude Anthony Eber, Architect, Federation of Malaya
Edwin Edgar Eusey. For public services in Belize, British Honduras.
Doris Mary Evans, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Principal Matron, Nigeria
Rosamond Arorunkah Fowlis, Domestic Science Organiser, Gambia
Douglas Francis Fromings. For services to the Tobacco industry, Nyasaland
Percy Richard Fuller, Establishment Officer, Northern Rhodesia
William Peter Gaskell. For services to the Boy Scout Movement in Nigeria
Leslie Francis Gill. For public services in the British Solomon Islands.
Major Goh Guan Hop, E.D. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
Christoffel Goosen. For services to the Trade Union Movement in Northern Rhodesia
Eleanora Minnie Hall, Queen Elizabeth's Colonial Nursing Service, Matron, Tanganyika
Jessie Cameron Hallett. For public services and social work in Bermuda.
James Martin Hallpike, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Antigua, Leeward Islands
Keith Jefferson Henderson, Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Penang, Federation of Malaya
Major Sydney William Kenwood, Director of Music, British Guiana Militia Band
Osmond John Ward-Horner, Postmaster, Seychelles
Ramadan Jemil. For public services in Cyprus.
Albert Jillott, Superintendent of Prisons, Hong Kong
Edward Jones, Chief Inspector of Works, Nigeria
William Bertram Arnold Joost Keppel, Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation, Nigeria
Hubert Forrester Knowles, Superintendent, Bahamas General Hospital
Ahmed Abdulrasul Mohamed Lakha Kanji. For public services in Zanzibar.
Costas Charalambus Lap As, Inspector of Elementary Schools (Greek), Cyprus
James Wilfred Leach, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, Nigeria
Leung Fung Ki, Education Officer, Hong Kong
Li Chik-Nung, Assistant Social Welfare Officer, Hong Kong
Kenneth Denham Lloyd, Education Officer, Somaliland
Edward Jackson McCormack, Assistant Master and Registrar, Supreme Court, Sierra Leone
Joseph Darnley Maloney, Administrative Officer and Magistrate, Anguilla, Leeward Islands
Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Marston. For public services in Kenya.
Clare Elizabeth Lumsden Milne, Headmistress, Government English Preparatory School, Muar, Federation of Malaya
Clarence Michael Miranda, Telephone Engineer, Posts and Telephones Department, Aden
Albert Edward Monteiro, Chief Clerk, Chief Accountant's Department, Singapore Harbour Board
Marjorie Helen Murray. For services to education in Kenya
James Stevenson Nelson, Establishment Officer, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration
Ambrose Michael Ofafa. For public services in Kenya.
Alfred Olajide, Assistant Secretary, Nigeria
Henry Arthur Oliver, Colonial Administrative Service. Administrative Officer. Gambia
Anthony Pape. For public services in Kenya.
Chaturbhai Khushalbhai Patel. For public and welfare services in Tanganyika.
William Oliver Petrie Colonial Medical Service, Medical Officer, Nyasaland
William Durham Petty, Fire Chief, Hamilton Volunteer Fire Brigade, Bermuda
Albert Russell Games Prosser, Assistant Director (Mass Education and Community Development), Gold Coast
Sanmugan Ramalingam, lately Technical Assistant, Survey Department, Singapore
Ramjuttan Ramdass, Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Mauritius
Christina Agnes Séguin. For services to education in Northern Rhodesia.
Joseph Kenneth Shepherd, Superintendent, Buildings, Prisons Department, Uganda
Soo Hoy Mun Honorary Medical Officer, Chinese Maternity Hospital, Federation of Malaya
Arthur Dudley Soutar Principal Assistant Secretary, Secretariat, Jamaica
Annette Irene Greer Spence, Colonial Education Service, Education Officer, Nigeria
Myra Annie Elizabeth-Spurr. For services to education in Uganda.
Charles Payne Sutcliffe, Colonial Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Tanganyika
Datu Abang Abu Talip-bin Datu Abang Haji Buassan. For public services in Sarawak.
William Richardson Tatem For public services in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Eileen Urich. For social welfare work in Trinidad.
Elizabeth Affuah Vanderpuye, Health Officer, Red Cross Society, Gold Coast
John Voon Yin Kui, lately Chief Clerk, Resident's Office, Jesselton, North Borneo
Vythilingam Sithambaram V'Thaver, lately Financial Assistant, Medical Headquarters, Penang, Federation of Malaya
Claude Hamilton Walcott, Harbourmaster, British Guiana
Florence Mary Walker. For services to education in Nyasaland.
Wallace Wynter Warden For public services in Fiji.
Ernest Philip Wharton, Deputy Inspector of Stores, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies
Herbert Whittaker, Assistant Engineer, Civil Engineering Department, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies
Dunstan Matthew William, Telegraph Inspector, North Borneo
Vincent Bpwen Williams. For social services in Barbados.
Gerald Hugh Wilson, Director, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland Publications Bureau
Leonie Mary Wright. For public and social services in British Honduras.
Felix Durocher-Yvon, lately Director of Agriculture, Seychelles, now Agricultural Officer, Northern Rhodesia
Haji Zahwi Bin Haji Musa, Headman in Mukah and Chairman, Mixed Local Authority, Sarawak
Elias Zammit. For public services in Malta.

Honorary Members

Seiyid Umar Al Mihdhar Bin Alawi Al Kaf. For public services in the Aden Protectorate.
Thong Jin Hin. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
Dato Kamaruddin Bin Haji Ibrahim, Territorial Chief, Ulu Selangor, Federation of Malaya
Mohamed Yusoff Bin Ahmad. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
Abdul Majid Bin Haji Mohamed Shahid, Assistant Conservator of Forests, Federation of Malaya
Ahmadu, Emir of Misau, Nigeria
The Reverend Amos Sodunola Solarin. For social and welfare services in Nigeria.
Jacob Maduegbunam Onyechi, Assistant Secretary (Finance), Nigeria
Effiong Etim Ekeng, Health Superintendent, Nigeria
Ignatius Alexander Arudimma Idigbe, Administrative Assistant, Nigeria
Chief Henry Ekpo Enyenihi, Chairman, Eket County Council, Nigeria
Michael Eledumo Ojomo, Senior Registrar, Supreme Court of Nigeria
Afotanju Ogedegbe, lately Auditor, Nigeria
James Theophilus Ayodele Dixon, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Nigeria
Bai Koblo, Paramount Chief, Marampa, Sierra Leone
Mohamoud Ali Shirreh, Senior Akil of the Warsangeli tribe, Somaliland
Haji Bahanan Hersi. For services to the Local Government in Somaliland.
Besweri Kisalita Mulyanti, lately Saza Chief of Kyaggwe, Uganda
Alexander Kironde, Saza Chief of Buddu County, Uganda
Zefania Nabikamba, County Chief, Bugabula, Busoga, Uganda
Matayo Lamot, Lawirwodi, Uganda
Yovani Kiwanuka, Clerk of Works, Kigezi African Local Government, Uganda

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Edward Benjamin Britten, Composer
The Right Honourable James Chuter Ede , Labour Member of Parliament for Mitcham, 1923, and for South Shields, 1929–31 and since 1935. Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1945–51; Leader of the House of Commons, March–October 1951. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (William Jocelyn) Ian Fraser , Unionist Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lonsdale since 1950; for Lonsdale, 1940–50 ; and for North St. Pancras, 1924–29 and 1931–36. Chairman, Executive Council of St. Dunstan's since 1921. National President of British Legion since 1947. For political and public services.
The Right Honourable Thomas Johnston. For public services in Scotland.

Royal Victorian Medals

Silver

Richard Clement Allenby
Percival Frank Ash
George Henry Bignell
Robert Bissett
Charles Henry Brown
Leopold Isaac Noah Brown
Alfred James Cole
Thomas Fraser
Edward Victor Greener
Stanley Edgar Hooks
Stanley William Lionel Rivers Lucking
Ernest George Moffat
Jessie Wilson Massie Robertson
William Robson
Joseph Charles Shefford
Sidney Albert Spong
Edwin Stuart
William Urquhart
Inspector Ronald Douglas Wells, Metropolitan Police
Beatrice Anne Williams

Queen's Commendations for Valuable Service in the Air

Captain Richard Rymer, Training Captain, Viscount Flight, British European Airways
Acting Group Captain Richard Irvin Knight Edwards Royal Air Force
Wing Commander John Barraclough Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Derek Clare Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Harold Cecil Flemons, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Stanley Richard Hodge, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Henry William Lamond, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Alastair Cavendish Lindsay Mackie Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader William John McLean Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Philip Richard Robinson, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Kenneth Barnes, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Robert Anthony Carson Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Barry Nigel Byrne, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Carvosso, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant James Leslie Stuart Crawford, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant William Snowdon Douglas, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant William Edwards, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Horrobin Elliott, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Thomas Philip Fargher Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Mane Feldman, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Ernest Derek Glaser Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Caryl Ramsay Gordon, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant James Nicoll Gracie, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Robert McConnell Hamilton, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Robert Herrick, Royal Air Force (Deceased)
Flight Lieutenant Paul Albert Hunt, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Ian Richard Iddison, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Justin Michael McCann, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Thomas Walter Monaghan, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Horatio Ogilvie, Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers
Flight Lieutenant James Ernest Petty, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Eric Phillips Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Wladyslaw Jan Potocki Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Rex David Roe, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Rogers, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant David Rankin Scott Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Denis John Thomas Sharp Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Jack Alan Shelley, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Stephen, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant William Notman Trimble, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Frederick John Wheeler Royal Air Force
Flying Officer John Bruce, Royal Air Force
Flying Officer Bedrich Froehlich, Royal Air Force
Master Engineer Eric Russell Mears, Royal Air Force
Master Engineer Master Signaller Raymond Edward Drake, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Ian Robertson Craig, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Hugh Edward Henry Wood, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Raymond Arthur Barnes, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Christopher David Humphreys, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Ronald Sidney Jackson, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Harry Watt Mackenzie, Royal Air Force

Royal Red Crosses

First Class (RRC)

Kathleen Violet Chapman Principal Matron, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Major Nancy Hope Hodgman, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Major Edith Adrienne Horrocks, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Wing Officer Emily Martha Marfleet Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Second Class (ARRC)

Marjorie Smith, Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Margaret Gallagher Bonar, Supervising V.A.D. Nursing Member
Major Ruth Constance Davis, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Major Carrie Trahair De Rouffignac, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Major Eva Thorpe, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Flight Officer Olwen Cecilia Rees, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service
Flight Officer Annie Laura Greenwell Robertson, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Air Force Crosses (AFC)

Wing Commander George Hubert Newbourne Shiells Royal Australian Air Force
Acting Wing Commander Konrad Bazarnik Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader John Hanbury Smith-Carington, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Lionel Harwood Casson Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Squadron Leader Henry Moresby Chinnery, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Ernest Leonard David Drake Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Terence Helper Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Donald Ridgewell Howard Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Denis Seymour Leete, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Sidney James Perkins, Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Dunham Hodgson Seaton Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader James Leslie Barlow, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Frederick Clark Barter, Royal Air-Force
Acting Squadron Leader John Gascon Claridge Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader David John Fowler, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Clifford Laurence Godwin, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader John Miller Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Anthony Archibald Smafles, Royal Air Force
Acting Squadron Leader Leslie Morris Whittington, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Brian Spencer Adlington, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant George Brooks Bell, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Beaumont Blackett, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Anthony Brown, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Roland Louis Ernest Burton, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Ronald Desmond Campbell Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Josef Hugo Cermak, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Peter George Coulson, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Henry Silvester Horth, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Thomas Lawrie Kennedy, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant David Langford, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Gilbert Matthews, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Charles John Morgan, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Jaroslav Muzika, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Kendall Cecil Douglas Nixon, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Trevor Winston Oakey, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Stanley Owen,.Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Douglas Price, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Keith Bernard Rogers Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Maldwyn Roy Sisley, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Michael Clement Nevil Smart, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Charles Michael Stavert, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant George Stephenson Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Charles Donald Thieme, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Anthony Philip Trowbridge, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Victor Wadams, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Kelly Aerial Whynacht Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant John Robert Wilcock, Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Richard Thomas Glyndwr Williams, Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Flight Lieutenant David Wright, Royal Air Force
Flying Officer Ivan Cardwell, Royal Air Force
Flying Officer Maurice Arthur Joseph St. Pierre, Royal Air Force
Flying Officer Jindrich Petr Skirka, Royal Air Force
Master Pilot George Henry Owen, A.F.M Royal Air Force
Lieutenant Commander Cecil Ernest Price, Royal Navy
Lieutenant Frank Cawood, Royal Navy
Lieutenant Thomas Guy Innes, Royal Navy
Lieutenant Robert Wooton Jaggard, Royal Navy

Awarded a Bar to the Air Force Cross (AFC*)

Squadron Leader Jim Lomas Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Leslie George Press Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Neil Currie Thorne Royal Air Force

Air Force Medals (AFM)

Flight Sergeant Benjamin Roy Bradley, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant James Dougan, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Alfred John Fairbairn, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Alistair Bruce Fraser, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Kazimierz Gorny, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Terence Maxwell Hamer, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant (now Master Signaller) William Frederick Joseph Hills, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Austen Brian Howes, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Thomas McHugh Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Alexander Henry Shelton, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Henry Frederick John Thorpe, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Zivan Atanackovig, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Richard Eric Bowler, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Geoffrey Ashwell Hall, Royal Air Force
Sergeant William Sidney Jones, Royal Air Force
Sergeant John Patrick McCarthy, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Daniel Victor Sutton, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Richard Thomas Vane, Royal Air Force

British Empire Medals (BEM)

The British Empire Medal for meritorious service

Military Division

Sergeant (acting) Isabella Galder Arbuthnot, Women's Royal Army Corps
Sergeant Thomas Albert Ash, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army
Staff-Sergeant (acting) William Baxter, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Staff-Sergeant Harold Edward Berry, Royal Army Service Corps
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Dorothy Mary Bisson, Women's Royal Army Corps
Colour Sergeant (acting) John Arthur Charles Britnell, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
Staff-Sergeant Malcolm Burns, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class I (acting) George Leonard Walter Carrington, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Staff-Sergeant (acting) George Henry Smith-Carter, Corps of Royal Engineers
Sergeant Edward Thomas Chapman The Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial Army
Sergeant Thomas Henry Chapman, Corps of Royal Engineers
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (Artillery Clerk) Thomas Victor Childs, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Daniel Comrie, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
Sergeant Edwin Cookey, The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force
Staff-Sergeant (acting) Steven Frederick Cotterill, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Sergeant Walter Albert Dawkins, Army Catering Corps
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) John Densham, Corps of Royal Engineers
Warrant Officer Class I (acting) William Edward Dimond, Corps of Royal Military Police
Sergeant Frederick Alfred Dodd, Corps of Royal Military Police
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Reginald Percival Fisher, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Regimental Sergeant-Major Araba Fulani, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force
Charles Sidney Gayler, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Colour-Sergeant Robert Gibson, Scats Guards
Staff-Sergeant Anthony Bruce Gillmore, Corps of Royal Military Police
Sergeant Alan George Harfield, Royal Corps of Signals
Corporal Audrey Alice Harris, Women's Royal Army Corps, Territorial Army
Sergeant Ernest Harris, London Irish Rifles, Royal Ulster Rifles, Territorial Army
Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Herbert, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Substantive) Douglas Lloyd Hill, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Sergeant William Hopkinson, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Substantive) James Thomas Hutson Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Sergeant James Hyndman, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Regimental Sergeant-Major Ali Kanjarga, The Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force
Staff-Sergeant (acting) Jack Keighley, Royal Army Service Corps
Sergeant George Edward Kirk, The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army
Sergeant (acting) William Knights, Army Catering Corps
Staff-Sergeant (Instructor) William Francis Lane, Army Physical Training Corps
Staff-Sergeant (acting) Alfred Gordon Littlewood, Royal Army Pay Corps
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) William MacDonald, Royal Army Service Corps
Battery Sergeant-Major Ngomoli Malombe, East Africa Artillery
Lance-Corporal (acting) Alfred William Marshall, Royal Army Service Corps
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) (now Substantive) Robert Sydney Martin, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Sergeant Charles Edward Meacham, Corps of Royal Engineers
Sergeant (acting) Samuel Alfred Moore, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Sergeant William Thomas Morris, Army Catering Corps
Sergeant William Moses, The Border Regiment
Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Norman Pass, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Staff-Sergeant (acting) Reginald Frederick Patten, Royal Army Pay Corps
Staff-Sergeant (now Warrant Officer Class II) (Artillery Clerk) Joseph Edward Pearson, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) David Radin, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Sergeant Walter Rathbone, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) Edward Robeson Rodger, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army
Sergeant Dennis Harold Rose, Royal Army Service Corps
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) John Russell, Royal Army Medical Corps
Staff-Sergeant Johnson Scott, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army
Warrant Office Class II (acting) George Everard Slater, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, formerly attached The Kenya Regiment, Territorial Army
Corporal (acting) Linnette Adelie Small, Women's Royal Army Corps
Sergeant James Alfred Smith, North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army
Staff-Sergeant Marguerite Sylvia Smith, Women's Royal Army Corps
Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) James Neil Tierney, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army
Warrant Officer Class II (acting) George Frederick Trodd, The Dorset Regiment
Colour-Sergeant John Voce, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Territorial Army
Staff-Sergeant George John William Walter, Royal Army Service Corps
Sergeant (Bugle Major) Harold Ewart Wiltshire, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), Territorial Army
Sergeant Alfred George Young, Royal Corps of Signals.
Flight Sergeant John Dennis, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant William Lockwood Gardner, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Fairweather Hankinson, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Ronald Heather, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Thomas Arthur William Kinzett, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant William Frederick Lane, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Leonard Mallinson, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Joseph O'Rourke, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Ronald Palin, Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Flight Sergeant Robert Richard Livesy Peers, Royal Air Force
Flight. Sergeant Frederick Norman Ratliff, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant David William Sarbutt, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Henry Schofield, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Andrew Cooper Scott, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Leslie Frank Vanderson, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Isaac Christmas Webb, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Henry William Wright, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Leslie Gordon Young, Royal Air Force
Acting Flight Sergeant Graham Briggs, Royal Air Force
Acting Flight Sergeant Leonard James Cross, Royal Air Force
Acting Flight Sergeant Laura Elizabeth Lee, Women's Royal Air Force
Acting Flight Sergeant John William Warren, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Frederick William Brie Day, Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Sergeant Alfred Samuel Huggett, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Walter Lippiatt, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Gilbert Noel Lipscomb, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Duncan Reid Macintosh, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Frank Albert Monks, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Albert Edward Nash, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Frank Todman Spencer, Royal Air Force
Acting Sergeant Frederick Braggs, Royal Air Force
Acting Sergeant Leonard Jenkins, Royal Air Force
Acting Sergeant Arthur Francis Gabriel Phillips, Royal Air Force
Acting Sergeant Wilfred Edmond Thompson, Royal Air Force
Chief Technician Donald Thompson, Royal Air Force
Corporal Frederick Bennett, Royal Air Force
Corporal Philip George Bowerman, Royal Air Force
Corporal Eric Chatt, Royal Air Force
Corporal Arthur Swail, Royal Air Force
Acting Corporal Keith Ashmore, Royal Air Force
Senior Aircraftman Clive Alfred Bates, Royal Air Force
Senior Aircraftman John Francis Smith-Woodward, Royal Air Force
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist John George Adamson
Chief Petty Officer Cook (O) Salvatore Agius
Radio Electrician (Air) Geoffrey George Barker
Chief Petty Officer Writer Richard William Beamish
Regimental Sergeant Major Leslie John Boote, Royal Marines
Ordnance Artificer 1st Class William Brown
Quartermaster Sergeant Albert James Brunsdon, Royal Marines
Chief Petty Officer Joseph Chircop
Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Leonard Reginald Christopher
Chief Petty Officer Walter Samuel Clements
Petty Officer Harold Robert Cook
Chief Petty Officer William George Cosens
Aircrewman I Sidney Craig
Petty Officer Wren Steward (G) Nellie Crawford, Women's Royal Naval Service
Radio Electrician (Air) Herbert Crossley
Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Alfred Thomas Davies
Chief Petty Officer Alfred Jeffrey Dobson
Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Farrar, Royal Marines
Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic Henry Charles Fletcher
Mechanician 1st Class Loder Offord Alfred Forsdyke
Chief Electrician Bethuel Henry Griffiths
Chief Engine Room Artificer Frank Ernest Vincent Harris
Chief Yeoman of Signals Charles Dennis Hollett
Chief Engine Room Artificer Frank Howells
Petty Officer Wren Irene Ivy Jeffery, Women's Royal Naval Service
Quartermaster Sergeant William George Jenkins, Royal Marines
Leading Seaman Frederick James Johnson
Chief Electrician Henry James Justice
Colour Sergeant Herbert Roy Kent, Royal Marines
Master-at-Arms William Terence Littleford
Stores Chief Petty Officer (V) Frederick George Albert Lloyd
Chief Engine Room Artificer Albert Douglas Mcmillan
Chief Wren Jean Love Maltman, Women's Royal Naval Service
Chief Petty Officer Writer Archibald William Charles Parfitt
Chief Petty Officer George Dobson Procter
Chief Petty Officer William Thomas Randall
Chief Airman Fitter (A) Keith Walter Bancroft Robertson
Chief Radio Electrician (Air) George Henry Routleff
Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Abdul Ghani Bin Mohamed Sheriff, Royal Malayan Naval Volunteer Reserve
Chief Petty Officer Albert Victor Smith
Colour Sergeant James Taggert, Royal Marines
Chief Engine Room Artificer Albert Henry Charles Taylor
Master-at-Arms Alfred George Rex Tucker
Chief Engine Room Artificer John Charles Warham
Sick Berth Attendant Donald Wilson

Civil Division

Alfred John Abbott, Foreman, Rotax Ltd. (South Harrow, Middlesex)
Arthur Adkins, General Yard Foreman, Litchurch Gasworks, East Midlands Gas Board (Derby)
Elizabeth Allard, Commandant, Jay-wick Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Clacton-on-Sea, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Thomas Edward Allen, Working Burner and Machine Caulker, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Walker-on-Tyne (Wallsend-on-Tyne)
Herbert James Emmanuel Andrews, Electrician, Littlebrook Power Station, British Electricity Authority, South Eastern Division (Dartford, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Lilian Mary Armstrong, Senior Chief Supervisor, Birmingham Trunk and Toll Exchange (Tipton, Staffordshire)
William Ashford, Site Foreman, Steel Scaffolding Company Ltd. (Worcester Park, Surrey)
Stanley Victor Attewell, Temporary Technical Assistant, Ministry of Works (Bradmore, Nottingham). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Victoria May Babbs, Canteen Supervisor, Tyrell Heath Primary School (Grays, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Howard Bacon, Deputy, Teversal Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal, Board (Sutton-in-Ashfield)
Arthur Baker, Underground Repairer, Birch Coppice Colliery, West Midlands Division1; National Coal Board (Atherstone, Warwickshire)
Henry James Baker, Resident Plumber Turn-cock, H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William Baker, Craftsman, Wallace Collection (Clapham Common, S.W.ll)
Frederick Thomas Balderstone, Civil Defence Instructor, Purfleet, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Alfred Ball, Electrical Section Leader, Saunders-Roe Ltd., Cowes
Eileen Christine Bannerman; Commandant, Roxburgh No. 12 Detachment, British Red Cross Society
Helen Edna Barbour, Manageress, N.A.A.F.I., Felixstowe (Leicester). For services during the recent floods' in the Eastern Counties.
Andrew Barker, Senior Assistant (Scientific), Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply (Salisbury)
Frederick Stephen Barnes, Craftsman Sheet Metal Worker, Department of Chief Mechanical Engineer (Road Services), London Transport Executive (Harrow, Middlesex)
Bertha Bauer, Assistant Supervisor (Telegraphs), Wealdstone Branch Post Office, Harrow, Middlesex
Maria Beauchamp (Sister Maria Edith), Superintendent, Les Cotils Nursing Hostel for Old People, Guernsey
Albert William Beazley, Clerk of Works, Great Ouse River Board (Downham Market, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Jean Margaret Belding, Firewoman, Norfolk Fire Service, King's Lynn (Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Bell Checkweighman, Randolph and Gordon House Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board (Bishop Auckland)
Frederick Arthur Gale Bentley, Foreman, Ministry of Works (Rawreth, Essex)
Frederick Dennis Berry, Overseer, Padding-ton District Post Office (Upper Edmonton, N.18)
Robert William Spears Bigg, Leading Architectural Assistant, War Office, Salisbury Plain (Amesbury, Wiltshire)
Kenneth John Bird, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, South Baling, W.5
Evelyn Bisley, Centre Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Queensborough (Minster, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Stanley John Bissell, Inspector, Metropolitan Police Force (Westminster, S.W.I)
John Blakey, Stores Class Grade II, Ministry of Supply (Thorp Arch, Yorkshire)
Louis Gerald Blanc, Mechanic Examiner, Directorate of Inspection of Electrical and Mechanical Equipment, Ministry of Supply (Erith, Kent)
Thomas George Bland, Timekeeper, John Mowlem & Company Ltd. (Palmers Green, N.13)
Frederick William Bliss, Deputy Head Foreman, Hull and East Yorkshire River Board (Hull). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Charles Redfern Bond, Head Chancery Messenger, H.M. Embassy, Cairo
Bertie Leon Bowden, Divisional Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Harwich, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Harold Bowling, Constable, North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary (Whitby). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William Thomas Boxall, Farm Worker, North Mundham, Chichester
Frank Bradbury, Foreman, North Eastern Electricity Board (Newcastle upon Tyne)
John Brazington, Inspector of Park-keepers, Ministry of Works (Hyde Park, W.I.)
George Albert Brett, Leading Engine Room Hand, S.S. Andes, Royal Mail Lines, Ltd., (Southampton)
William Henry Brickwood, Foreman of Laboratory, R.N. Armament Depot, Priddy's Hard (Gosport)
Ronald Frank Brooks, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, Holyhead Unit, Sea Cadet Corps
Walter Brooks, Shop Foreman, Belvedere, Kent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
George Brown, lately Assistant Foreman Gas Fitter, North Thames Gas Board (Tilbury)
Herbert Sidney Stephen Brown, Technical Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service (Southgate, N.14)
James Charles Frederick Brown, Chief Inspector, Kent County Constabulary (Maid-stone, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John R. Brown, Construction Foreman, South West Scotland Division, British Electricity Authority (Glasgow)
Matthew Brown, Leading Capstanman, Queen's Dock, Clyde Navigation Trust (Glasgow)
Thomas Richard Brown, Underground Repairer, Barnsley Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Barnsley)
William Henry Brown, Foreman Toolmaker, Ernest Stevens Ltd. (Cradley Heath)
Charles Bruce, Member, Coast Life Saving Corps, Balta Sound, Shetland
Walter Bruce, Goods Guard, Eastern Region, Railway Executive (King's Lynn, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Albert Burdon, Chargehand, Sigmund Pumps Ltd., Gateshead-on-Tyne (Dunston, Co. Durham)
Andrew Cameron Burnett, Manager, Lord Roberts Workshops, Belfast
Norman Richmond Cail, Station Master, Bedlington, Railway Executive, North Eastern Region
William Campbell, Laboratory Mechanic, R.N. Torpedo Experimental Establishment (Greenock, Renfrewshire)
William Nyren Card, Senior Supplies Superintendent, General Post Office (Crofton Park, S.E.4)
Emily Cass, Centre Organiser, Driffield, Women's Voluntary Services
Harry Catlow, Chief Loom Inspector, British Northrop Loom Company Ltd., Blackburn
Lena Madeline Chaplin, Manageress, N.A.A.F.I., Grays (Braintree, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Po Cheng, Chargehand, War Office, Hong Kong
John Frederick Cocker, Temporary Storekeeper, Grade III, Ordnance Survey Department (Southampton)
Elsie Cocking, Centre Organiser, downe Rural District, Derbyshire, Women's Voluntary Services (Creswell)
Frank Basil Coker, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Hove
Percy Samuel Colleypriest, Assistant Engineer (Electrical Planning), South Eastern Division, British Electricity Authority (Hove)
John Collijns, Supervisor, London County Council Rest Centre (Chingford, E.4)
Frederick Harold Cook, Inshore Fisherman, Grimaby (Cleethorpes)
Albert George Cooke, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Kidderminster
Raven Robert Eyland Cooper, Electrician, Weyboume Camp, War Office (Holt, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Edward Cowley, Inspector, Liverpool City Police Force
Herbert Alvin Cox, Inspector, War Department Constabulary (Woolwich, S.E.I8)
William Thomas James Cox, Radar Chain Installation Engineer, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd., Chelmsford (Pembroke)
Albert Edmund John Craske, Mess Steward I, Air Ministry, Felixstowe, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Edward James Crouch, Staff Instructor, Mill Hill School (Hendon, N.W.4)
Charles Edward Cunliffe, Postman, Head Post Office, Chester
Ena Cunningham, Honorary Collector, Works Savings Group, William Strain & Sons, Ltd., Belfast (Holywood, Co. Down)
Harold Welby Curtis, Depot Superintendent, Sheerness Depot, Medway Group, British Road Services (Minster, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Graham Frederick Flaxman Daniels, Detective Inspector, Norfolk County Constabulary (King's Lynn). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Audrey Gertrude Daubrah, Commandant, North Lincolnshire Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Alford, Lincoln-shire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Hannah Davies, Forewoman, Simmonds Aerocessories Ltd., Treforest (Cardiff)
William Walter Davis, Chargeman of Painters, H.M. Dockyard, Portland (Weymouth)
Ernest Dean, lately Tool Room Miller, Renold & Coventry Chain Company Ltd., Manchester
Hugh Delvin, Chief Observer, Post J.3, No. 34 Group, Royal Observer Corps, Glasgow
Walter Douglas Denholm, Principal Smith, N. Hingley & Sons Ltd., Dudley, Worcestershire
William John Dew, Warden, Territorial Army Drill Hall, Bristol
Wilfred Frank Digby, Chief Paper Keeper, Tithe Redemption Commission (Leytonstone, E.11)
John Michael Dobson, Coastguard-in-Charge, H.M. Coastguard Station, Felixstowe, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Edward Willie Dodd, Mechanic Examiner, Ministry of Supply (West Wickham, Kent)
Dorothy Kathleen Double, Assistant Supervisor, Telephone Exchange, Stow-market, Suffolk
Charles Archibald Downes, Chief Inspector, Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Ltd. (Bristol)
Geoffrey Stephen Drewery, Motor Vehicle Fitter, Snettisham Depot, British Road Services (Snettisham, Norfolk). For services during, the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
David Clark Dunlop, Section Leader, Southwestern Area Fire Brigade, Scotland (Irvine, Ayrshire)
Mary Jeanne Edwards, Restaurant Superintendent, N.A.A.F.I., Malaya
Robert William Edwards, Mess Steward. War Office, Larkhill
William Edwards Safety and Training Officer, East Walbottle Colliery, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Joseph Elkington, Store-keeper, Leeds Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service
Edith Ellen Elloway, Manageress, Refreshment Club, Head Post Office, Newport
Walter Elton, Underground Datal Worker, Clipstone Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Mansfield)
Sidney Horace Empson, General Foreman, East Suffolk and Norfolk River Board (Great Yarmouth). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Albert Joseph English, Senior Messenger, Cabinet Office (South Lambeth, S.W.8)
The Reverend Leslie Abbott Erving, Warden and Civil Defence Instructor, Easington, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Edwin Stanley Evans, Chargehand Process Worker, Grade I, Royal Ordnance Factory, Pembrey (Llanelly, Carmarthenshire)
William Hugh Evans, Chief Steward, R.M.S. Cambria, British Transport Commission (Holyhead)
James Fairley, Underground Repairer, Northfield Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Shotts, Lanarkshire)
Harold Edward Farwell, School Caretaker, Essex Local Education Authority (Thundersley, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Hilda Folwell, Convoy Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire (Cropston, Leicestershire). For service during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Evelyn W. Foote, Verger and Sub-Sacrist, Westminster Abbey (Holborn, E.C.I)
John Fulton, Head Foreman Plumber, Harland & Wolff, Ltd., London (Eltham, S.E.9)
Walter Vincent Furness, Chief Observer, Post E.I. No. 7 Group, Royal Observer Corps, Manchester (Altrincham)
Edith May Garlick, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Stockport
Frank Gee, Chief Inspector, Lancashire Constabulary (Preston)
Thomas Watkin George, Sub-Postmaster, Greengates Town -Sub-Office, Bradford (Leeds)
Frank Thomas Gerrish, Foreman, Brentford, Railway Executive, Western Region (West Ealing, W.13)
George William Henry Gibson, Senior Foreman, Remploy Factory, Radcliffe (Hollin-jwood, Lancashire)
Richard Gilbert, Foreman, Holman Brothers Ltd., Camborne, Cornwall
George Thomas Gill, Pumping Attendant, Sewage Works, Thurrock Urban District Council (Grays, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
George Glaysher, Mechanic, National Physical Laboratory (Teddington, Middlesex)
Derek Daniel Glover, Member, British Red Cross Society (Belvedere, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Joseph Glover, lately Chief Steward, Trinity House Vessel Patricia (Dovercourt, Essex)
Harry Hare Goodhand, Lineman, Class II, Railway Executive (Immingham, Lincolnshire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Harold Goodson, Head Foreman Boilersmith, United Steel Structural Company Ltd. (Scunthorpe)
Walter Gothard, Smallholder, Tilbury, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ada Gough, Chief Closing Room Supervisor, J. A. Sabin, Ltd., Leicester
Evelyn Gwendoline Grange, Centre Organiser, Herne Bay, Women's Voluntary Services, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Mona Grant, Assistant County Organiser, County of London, Women's Voluntary Services (South Kensington, S.W.7)
Norah Patricia Gray, Woman Chief Inspector, Birmingham City Police Force
Ronald Gray, Foreman, Great Ouse River Board (Thetford, Norfolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Percy Edward Green, Technician, Class II(A), Engineering Department, General Post Office (Brentwood, Essex)
Howard William Greenaway, Sub-Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary (Wimbledon, S.W.19)
Bertrand Griffiths, Engraver and Chaser, Pearson Page Jewsbury Company Ltd. (Dudley, Worcestershire)
Frank Albert Griffiths, Sub-Officer, Essex Fire Brigade (Canvey Island, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Horace Edward Griggs, Works Superintendent, Kent River Board (Aylesford, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William Henry Grindrod, Station Officer, Warwickshire Fire Brigade (Kenilworth)
Cecil Grout, Crane Driver, R.N. Air Station, Lee-on-Solent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Frederick Midgley Guest, Honorary Collector, Carriage and Wagon Department, H.2. Shop Savings Group, British Railways, Derby
Ronald Francis Gurney, Mobile Canteen Driver, N.A.A.F.I. Colchester (Honington, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ernest Charles Guy, Chief Petty Officer Instructor, Carlisle Unit, Sea Cadet Corps
Thomas Charles Hackett, Foreman Bricklayer, Phillips Cycles Ltd., Smethwick
James Alexander Hadden, Foreman, Barry Ostlere & Shepherd Ltd., Kirkcaldy
Thomas Hagart, Mess Steward, Grade I, (Royal Air Force Station, Andover (Am-port, Hampshire)
Harold Hall, Custodian of Ancient Monuments, Ministry of Works (Muchelney Abbey, Somerset)
Hilda Hall, Honorary Collector, New Tredegar (Village) Savings Group (Aberbargoed)
Charles Hampton, Omnibus Driver, Thames Valley Traction Company Ltd. (Reading)
Alice Hanks, Centre Organiser, Sheerness, Women's Voluntary Services, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Doris Hardy, Member, Women's Voluntary Services, East Suffolk (Aldeburgh, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ernest Victor Harker, Senior Assistant (Scientific), Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Mossley Hill, Liverpool
Cecil James Harris, Clerk of Works (Electrical), War Office, Malta
Thomas Harris, Chief Instructor, Government Training Centre, Ministry of Labour and National Service (Barking, Essex)
James Arthur Harrison, Foreman, H. Sullen & Sons Ltd., Cromer, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
James Harte, Honorary Collector, Drumaness Mill Savings Group, Ballynahinch, Co. Down
Ada Ellen Harvey, Divisional Nursing Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Grays, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Percy Harvey, Warden, Civil Defence Corps, Tilbury, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Hassin Bin Ahmad, Mobile Cinema Operator and Driver, Army Kinema Corporation, Malaya
Raymond Hasthorpe, Lorry Driver, Waithe, Lincolnshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Roland Henry Hastings, Installation Inspector, Sheffield District, Yorkshire Electricity Board (Sheffield)
Walter Charles Hatcher, Greaser, M.V. Stirling Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd. (Southampton)
Leonora Hayne, Deputy County Organiser, Kent, Women's Voluntary Services (Langton, Kent). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Charles Higgs Warden, Civil Defehce Corps, Isle of Grain, Kent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Alfred Holding, Boilermaker, R. & H. Green & Silley Weir, Ltd., Royal Albert Docks (Custom House, E.16)
Rene Stanger Holland, Canteen Supervisor, Gee, Walker and Slater Ltd. (Derby). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Clarence Montague Hollis, Inspector, City of London Special Constabulary (Bush Hill Park, Middlesex)
John Cormack Hood, Principal Officer, H.M. Prison, Aberdeen
David William Hopkin, Linesman, South Wales Electricity Board (Pontyclun)
Alfred Hopkinson, School Catiretaker, Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Local Education Authority (Cleethorpes). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Susan Horan, Centre Organiser, Chepstow Urban District, Women's Voluntary Services
Herbert Horton, Smallholder, Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Thomas David Horton, Chargehand Coal Plant Operator, South Wales Division, British Electricity Authority (Pontypridd)
William Edward' Howes, Sergeant, Essex County Constabulary (Canvey Island). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Elizabeth Howorth, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Groups, West Denton, Newcastle upon Tyne
Frederick Payne Hudson, Maintenance Fitter, British Industrial Solvents, Ltd. (Hull)
Marjorie Hughes, Centre Organiser, Barnstaple, Women's Voluntary Services
Robert Edwin Hughes, Checkweighman, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Doncaster)
William Hughes, Manager, Group Training Centre (Whitwood Colliery), North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Normanton)
William John Hughes, Chargeman of Caulkers, H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Henry Charles Hunt, Leather Sorter, Dent, Allcroft and Company, Ltd. (Worcester)
John Husbands, Electrical Fitter, Electric Construction Company, Wolverhampton (Wednesfield)
Robert Stephen Irwin, Detective Sergeant, Royal Ulster Constabulary (Hillsborough, Co. Down)
Phyllis Katherine James, Honorary Collector, Street Savings Group, Bristol
George Nicol Jarvis, Carpenter, M.V. Wairangi, Shaw Sawill and Albion Company, Ltd. (East Ham, E.6)
Jasper Sidney Jeal, Centre Lathe Turner, Dewrance & Co. Ltd, London (Bexley Heath, Kent)
August Thomas Jensen, Licensee, Lowestoft, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Helen Ada Jerome, Rest Centre Leader, Erith, Kent, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Robert John, Underground Repairer, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Rhondda)
Harold Raine Johnson, Engineering and Main
Tenance Foreman, Whessoe Ltd., Darlington
Harry Johnson, Surface Labourer, Silverdale Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Silverdale)
Daniel Jones, Leading Hand, Zinc Distillation Plant, National Smelting Company, Ltd., Swansea (Neath)
Ernest Jones, Shift Supervisor, Bradford Road Station, Manchester Group, North Western Gas Board (Manchester)
Maud H. Jones, Personal Assistant, Headquarters, Women's Voluntary Service (Bethnal Green, E.2)
Sidney Richard Jones, Mechanical Fitter, Midlands Electricity Board (Birmingham)
Thomas Roger Jones, Skilled Labourer, R.N. Hospital Chatham (Gillingham, Kent)
William Henry Jones, Foreman, Hemp Small Splicing Department, Wrights' Ropes, Ltd. (Birmingham)
William Thomas Jones, Head Driver, Vange Ambulance Station, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Richard Judd, Gas Fitter, Distribution Department, Salisbury Gas Undertaking, Southern Gas Board (Salisbury)
Harold Juniper, Works Supervisor, Whitstable Urban District Council, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Alexander Frederick King, Telephone Operator, War Office, Sheerness, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Allen Kirby, Artificer, R.N. Engineering Laboratory (Hounslow, Middlesex)
George Christopher Kirton, Skilled Setter, Royal Ordnance Factory, Birtley (Sunderland)
John William Kyle, Radio Mechanic, Grade I, Telecommunications Section, Ministry of Civil Aviation (Glasgow)
William Bertie Land, Reclamation Foreman, H.M. Borstal Institution, North Sea Camp (Frieston, Lincolnshire)
Arthur Langfield, Engineer, Walter Pollard (1923) Ltd. (Nelson)
Albert Edward Langford, Technician, Class I, Post Office Telephone Exchange, Tiverton, Devon (Wellington, Somerset)
Jane Laverty, Auxiliary Postwoman, Priestland Sub Office, Co. Antrim
William Edward Lawrence, Senior Assistant, Zoological Society of London (Northold, Middlesex)
Leonard Leach, Process Foreman, Magnesium Elektron, Ltd. (Manchester)
Hannah Dorothea Leeman, Centre Organiser, Spilsby, Women's Voluntary Services (Addlethorpe, Lincolnshire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Alfred Henry Leonard, Overseer, General Post Office (Honor Oak Park, S.E.23)
William Lewis, Senior Storeman, Proof and Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Supply (Pendine, Carmarthenshire)
Leslie George Ling, Special Constable, East Suffolk County Constabulary (Iken, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ernest Colin McArthur, Transport Foreman and Deputy Fitting Foreman, Stockton Unit, Northern Gas Board (Stockton-on-Tees)
Percy James Thompson Macaulay, Leading Draughtsman, Cammell Laifd and Company, Birkenhead (Wallasey, Cheshire)
Alexander McCulloch, Chargehand, Drysdale and Company, Ltd., Glasgow
Charles Alfred Mace, Underground Repairer, Llanharan Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Pencoed)
John MacFarlane, Blind Telephone Operator, Export Credits Guarantee Department (Ilford, Essex)
James McGowan, Repairer and Pumper, Gate-side Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire)
Annie McIntosh, Senior Leading Fire-woman, North-Eastern Fire Brigade, Scotland (Aberdeen)
Philip McKeever, Able Seaman, S.S. Esso Bedford, Esso Transportation Company, Ltd. (Belfast)
John Turnley McKinley, Sergeant, Londonderry Harbour Police
Gilbert McKirdy, Boatswain, Fishery Board for Scotland (Rothesay, Bute)
David Mcruvie, Deckhand, Fishing Vessel William Wilson (Cellardykes, Fife)
Walter Makepeace, Boiler House Maintenance Engineer, Southport Power Station, Mersey-side and North Wales Division, British Electricity Authority (Southport)
Edwin Martin, Surface Workman, Oxcroft Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Chesterfield)
Royston Henry Massey, Station Warden, Royal Air Force Station, Pembroke Dock
Robert Mayne, Boatswain, S.S. Baron Elgin, H. Hogarth and Sons (Edinburgh)
William Ivor Merrett, Chief Steward, Falfield Civil Defence Technical Training School, Gloucestershire
James Mew, Leading Hand of Pensioners, H.M.S. Victory (Ship) (Southsea)
Evaline Miller, Assistant Billeting Officer, Glasgow, Women's Voluntary Services
William James Miller, Coastguard, H.M. Coastguard Station, Felixstowe, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Elizabeth Lily Mills, School Meals Organiser, Great Yarmouth County Borough, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John William Mills, Foreman, Robert Fletcher and Sons, Ltd. (Greenfield, Yorkshire)
Albert Mitchell, Farm Worker, Dunsden, near Reading
Ernest John Monk, Ganger, Essex River Board (Rochford, Essex). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
George Francis Henry Moore, Cigarette Machine Operator, Carreras, Ltd. (Highbury, N.5)
Hopkin Morris, Underground Overman, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Glamorgan)
William George Morris, Foreman, Craftsman Vellum and Parchment Maker, H. Band and Company, Ltd. (Isleworth, Middlesex)
Bruce Mosley, Driver, Nottingham Depot, Trent Motor Traction Company, Ltd. (Nottingham)
Ernest Mountford, Assistant Superintendent, Head Post Office, Stoke-on-Trent (Newcastle, Staffordshire)
James Muir, District Manager, Gas Works, Galston, Scottish Gas Board
Edward W. Mumford, Fisherman, Great Wakering, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Isaac Murphy, Technician, Class II (B), Belfast Telephone Area
Joseph Murray, Foreman Armature Winder, Tuscan Engineering Company, Ltd., Bridgend
Eileen Mary Musgrove, Postal and Telegraph Officer, Head Post Office, Richmond, Yorkshire
Dorothy Mary Newell, Commandant, Claydon Detachment, British Red Cross Society (Claydon, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Dorothy Newsam, Centre Organiser, Hoddesdon Urban District, Women's Voluntary Services (Broxbourne)
William Edward Nutting, Hot Saw Grinder, Round Oak Steel Works, Ltd., Brierley Hill
Frank Alfred Oliver, General Foreman, Turriff Construction Corporation, Ltd. (Croydon, Surrey)
George Oxenbredge, Head Gardener, North-West European District, Imperial War Graves Commission
Reginald George Pain, Setter-Operator, AC-Delco Division of General Motors, Ltd., Dunstable (Luton)
Richard Harold Parker, Chief Inspector, South Western District Post Office (Worcester Park, Surrey)
Elizabeth Parry, Screenhand, Nook Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Tyldesley, Lancashire)
Alice Pateman, Press Operator, E. S. Perry, Ltd. (Edmonton, N.I8)
Joseph William Percival Payton, General Foreman, Surveyor's Department, Sheerness Urban District Council, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Ernest Edward Peach, Foreman Electrician, Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, Ltd., Wednesbury
Joan Peacock, Spinner, Finlayson, Bousfield and Company, Ltd., Johnstone, Renfrewshire
James Pearce, Chargehand Installation Inspector, Canvey Island, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Robert Lennie Pearson, Assistant Divisional Officer, Norfolk Fire Brigade (King's Lynn). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Thomas William Pestell, Foreman and Bacon Drier, I. Beer and Sons, Ltd. (Walthamstow, E.17)
Sidney George Phillips, Chief Engineer of a steam trawler (Milford Haven)
Henry William Philpott lately Vocational Training Instructor, H.M. Dockyard, Chatham (Gillingham, Kent)
John Peter William Pilkington, Foreman Labourer, Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Barnoldswick
Margaret Pitcher, Centre Organiser, Maidenhead, Women's Voluntary Services
Emily Pitkin, Catering Supervisor, Erith, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Frederick Platt, Fitter, Ede and Ravenscroft, Ltd., Robemakers (Ashford, Middlesex)
Alice Mary Pleasants, Honorary Collector, Ranspme Sims and Jefferies Savings Group, Ipswich
Arthur Plowman, Foreman Dyer, Edward and James Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne
Norah Porritt, Centre Organiser, Basford Rural District (South) Nottinghamshire, Women's Voluntary Services
Frederick Albert Potter, Telephone Mechanic, Factories Department, General Post Office (Kenton, Middlesex), ?Lincolnshire Fire Brigade (Louth, Lincolnshire). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Joseph Edwin Prothero, Electrical Fitter, English Electric Company, Ltd., Stafford
Ernest Prout, Machine Shop Foreman, Priestman Brothers, Ltd., Hull
Sydney Lawrence Purse, Mechanic, Ministry of Supply (Stockwell, S.W.9)
Roger Richard Quinn, Head Storekeeper, Sea Transport Stores, Ministry of Transport, Bristol (Yate, Gloucestershire)
Leonard Raven, Farm Foreman, Tillingham, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Charles Edward Reddin, Sub-Officer, North Riding of Yorkshire Fire Brigade (Northallerton)
Charles William Redford, Head Forester, Forestry Commission (Santon Downham, Suffolk). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Robert William George Rees, Chief Officer, Class I, H.M. Prison, Liverpool
James Henry Reid, Inspector, Birmingham City Police Force
Frederick James Richards, Engineering Craftsman. Chatwood Safe and Engineering Company, Shrewsbury
Trevor Richards, Dock Worker, National Dock Labour Board (Swansea)
Charles Thomas Richardson, Transport Foreman, Hadfields, Ltd., Sheffield
Maureen Riley, Voluntary Worker, Canvey Island (Sheffield). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
James Gordon Lennox Robertson, Postman, Higher Grade, Head Post Office, Perth
Corneille Robinson, Centre Organiser, Whitstable, Women's Voluntary Services, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Henry Robson, Foreman Glass Blower, Hartley Wood and Company, Sunderland
James Alfred Rudling, lately Works Superintendent, St. Mary Cray Gasworks (Ramsgale)
Frances Marion Rundle, Centre Organiser, Dovercourt, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties
John Rushton, Overman, Sandhole Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Walkden, Lancashire)
George Sanday, Staff Instructor, Rossall School, Fleetwood
Frederick Sandcraft, Mess Superintendent, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Camberley, Surrey)
Frank William Sargisson, Senior Driver, Lincolnshire Road Car Company, Ltd. (Lincoln)
Walter Frank Savage, Baker and Confectioner, M.V. Carnarvon Castle, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, Ltd. (Southampton)
William Sayner, Works Engineer, Grimsiby Gas Undertaking, East Midlands Gas Board (Grimsby)
Spiro Scerri, Supervisor (Mechanical and Electrical), Air Ministry Works Repair Depot, Suez Canal Zone
Harold Scobey, Station Master, Parkeston, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Michael Scott, Driller and Roof Sealer, Anhydrite Mine, Imperial Chemical Industries, Billingham
Arthur Edward Searle, Chargeman of Skilled Labourers, H.M.S. Fisgard (Torpoint, Cornwall)
Anthony Segui, Principal Foreman, War Office, Gibraltar
Charlie William Thomas Setterfield, Inspector, Kent County Constabulary, Maidstone (Herne Bay). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William James Sewell, Electrician, North Thames Gas Board (Westcliff on Sea). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Emmanuel Shimon, Clerk, Grade I, Royal Air Force Levies, Iraq
Eva Lena Shipley, Welfare Supervisor, Ferodo, Ltd., Stockport (Buxton)
Edward Simmons, Chargeman Coppersmith, J. Russell and Company, Ltd., Liverpool
Arthur Nicol Simpson, Head Forester, Tulliallan Nursery, Kincardine-on-Forth, Forestry Commission
George Sinclair, Deckhand, Steam Trawler Gilmar (Aberdeen)
Alfred Arthur Singer, Bandmaster, Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover
William Singleton Station Foreman (Tickets), Preston, Railway Executive, London Midland Region (Preston)
Charles Leonard Smith, Machinist, Littleton Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board (Cannock)
Lucy Mary Smith, Chief Supervisor, Telephone Training School, Clerkenwell Telephone Exchange (Honor Oak Park, S.E.23)
Robert William Smith, Divisional Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Hunstanton, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Wilfred Smith, Divisional Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade, Selby, Yorkshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Spelman Principal Doorkeeper, House of Lords (Kennington, S.E.ll)
James Spowart, Inspector, Perthshire and Kinrossshire Constabulary (Perth)
Firth Squire, Warehouseman, British Belting and Asbestos, Ltd. (Cleckheaton)
Reginald Stuart Steadman, Resident Inspector, North Thames Gas Board, Grays, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Cyril Herbert Stedman, Depot Manager, Dart-ford, Kent, House Coal Distribution (Emergency)
Scheme (Dartford, Kent)
Arthur Leonard Stent, Staff Instructor, Royal Grammar School, Guildford
Harold Richard Stephens, General Handyman, Tilbury, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Lina Stephenson, Honorary Collector, Street and Village Savings Group, Patrington, Hull
Septimus Stobbart, Coal Filler, Pegswood Colliery, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland) Division, National Coal Board (Morpeth)
Edward George Joseph Stokes, Boatswain, Admiralty (Dovercourt). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
David Edward Stringer, Station Officer, H.M. Coastguard Station, Lizard, Cornwall
Thomas Bernard Strong, Foreman of Trades, Royal Air Force Station, Hawarden (Chester)
Edward Bradstock Tanner, Overseer of Birds, Zoological Society of London (Finchley, N.3)
Wilfred Arthur Tanner, General Foreman, Richard Costain, Ltd. (Carshalton, Surrey)
Samuel Taylor, Foreman, Lincolnshire River Board (Grimsby). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Arthur Thelwell, Permanent Way Inspector, Reading, Railway Executive, Western Region (Reading)
Edward James Thomas, Staff Foreman, Morris Motors, Ltd., Llanelly
Frank Thomas, Head Foreman Loftsman, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness
Lydia Olwen Thomas, Group Officer, Glamorganshire Fire Brigade (Llanelly)
William Thomas, Underground worker, Hafod Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board (Wrexham)
Thomas Charles Thompson, Boiler Shop Plater, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast
Charles Trego, Coal Conveyor Attendant, South Western Division, British Electricity Authority (Weston-super-Mare)
William Oliver Trotman, Distribution Superintendent, Stratford-upon-Avon District Undertaking, West Midlands Gas Board (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Frederick Tunstall, Salvage Worker, Clifton Colliery, Northern (Northumberland and Cumberland) Division, National Gas Board (Workington)
Frank Turner Underground Repairer, Snowdon Colliery, South Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Canterbury)
Harry Ernest Edward Wade, Works Foreman, West Minster Works, Sheerness, South Eastern Gas Board, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Henry Wady, Production Foreman, Humber Works, G. and T. Earle, Ltd., Cement Manufacturers (Melton)
Charles Geoffrey Walker, Carpenter, War Office, Humfoer Sea Forts (Barnetby, Lincolnshire)
Percival Walton, Publications Storekeeper, Victoria and Albert Museum (Walham Green, S.W.6)
William Walton, Checbweighman and Lodge Secretary, Medomsley Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board (Consett)
Charles Warde, Tool Shop Assistant Foreman, Automatic Telephone and Electric Company, Ltd., Liverpool (Prescot)
Harry Wardle, Chief Foreman Fitter, Walmsleys (Bury) Ltd., Bury
William Watkiss, Hotel Manager, Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Lilian Dorothy Watts, Draughtswoman, Highways Engineering Department, Ministry of Transport (Norbury, S.W.I6)
Annie Webber, Leader of First Aid Post, St. John Ambulance Nursing Division, South-end, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William John Webber, Foreman, Aluminium Wire and Cable Company, Ltd., Port Tennant, Swansea
Arthur Charles Stanley Wescott, Foreman, Royal Observatory (New Eltham, S.E.9)
Eileen May West, Manageress N.A.A.F.I., Weybourne (Epsom Downs, Surrey). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
Mark Randall Wheatley, Foreman Turbine Driver, Spondon Power Station, East Midlands Division, British Electricity Authority (Hkeston, Derbyshire)
Jack Whyman, Shop Foreman, Royal Air Force Station, Quedgeley (Gloucester)
Lawrence Gerald Wickham, Station Officer, Kent Fire Brigade (Sheerness). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Walter Wilding, Head Cheesemaker, Minsterley Creameries, Ltd., Minsterley, Shropshire
Owen Williams, Honorary Collector, Marchwiel Village Savings Group (Wrexham)
William Williams, Surface Worker, Woodend Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board (Maddiston, Stirlingshire)
Harry Willsmer, Farm Foreman, Great Wakering, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
John Willsmer, Farm Worker, Great Wakering, Essex, For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
William Andrew Wilson, Sub-Postmaster, Tynron, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire
Cecil Frederick Witt, Head Gardener, French District, Imperial War Graves Commission
Norman John Wood, Inspector, Essex County Constabulary (Harwich). For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties.
George Woodcock, Chief Inspector, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary (Wakefield)
Arthur Clifford Wragg, Coal Plant Supervisor, Rotherham Power Station, Yorkshire Division, British Electricity Authority (Rotherham)
Edward Thomas Wright, Warden, Territorial Army Drill Hall, Norwich
Ernest Wright, Carpenter, Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (New Haw, Weybridge)
Frank Arthur Wright, Yard Foreman, Leeds District Distribution and Transport Department, North Eastern Gas Board (Leeds)
Alfred Wyatt, Kiln Burner, Tondu Brickworks Company, Ltd., Aberkenfig, Bridgend
Thomas Henry Young, Mate in Charge, R.A.S.C. Vessel Fusee (Weymouth)

Walter Muggleton, Messenger, Department of the Premier, State of South Australia

Charles Samuel Thorne, Head Keeper, South Point Lighthouse, Barbados
Donald Abrams, Engineer, Georgetown Fire Brigade, British Guiana
Alexander Bertfield Clarke, lately Sergeant Major, British Honduras Police Force
Hussein Zihni Mehmed, Senior Compositor, Printing Department, Cyprus
Kyriacos Nicolaides, Mukhtar at Peyia, Cyprus
Dharam Dev Mayor, Station Master, Kampala, East Africa High Commission
Zainal Abidin Bin Mohamed Lati, Penghulu of Lenggeng Mukim, Federation of Malaya
Abu Bakar Bin Tahir, Engineman, Marine Department, Federation of Malaya
Krishnaswamy Iyer Balasubramaniam, Clerk, Police Clerical Service, Federation of Malaya
Chow Fong, Headman of Sikamat New Village, Federation of Malaya
Louis Victor John, Technical Assistant, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Selangor, Federation of Malaya
Keow Chong Ghee, Station Master, Malayan Railway, Federation of Malaya
Lim Swee Hun, Chief Clerk, Penang Library, Federation of Malaya
Mohamed Bin Awang Noh, Penghulu of Temerloh District, Federation of Malaya
Phang Mok Sen, Interpreter, Integrity Commission, Federation of Malaya
Tam Chin Siong, Chairman, M.C.A., Kuala Pilah Branch, Federation of Malaya
Voon Wan, Assistant Mechanical Superintendent, Drainage and Irrigation Department, Federation of Malaya
Yahya Bin Haji Abdul Aziz, Penghulu, Mukim of Bakri, Johore, Federation of Malaya
Haji Yusof Bin Haji Nordin, Storekeeper, Federal Police Stores, Federation of Malaya
Benjamin Allassan, Chargeman, Works Department, Gold Coast
Kojo Kessie, Chief Warder, Prison Service, Gold Coast
Parmenas Kiritu Njagi, President, Naivasha African Court, Kenya
Justus Muema Nzau, Hospital Assistant, Kitui Native Civil Hospital, Kenya
Tiamiyu Aminu Bolaji, Tax Collector, Nigeria
Chief Mukobela, Chief of the Ila tribe, Northern Rhodesia
Dason Stokes Mukupa, Head Master, Lunzuwa Primary School, Northern Rhodesia
Franklin Temba, African Clerk, Provincial Administration, Northern Rhodesia
Kotali Stephen McLaren Masseah, Head Clerk, District Headquarters, Cholo, Nyasaland Protectorate
Ishmael Mwale, Member, African Protectorate Council, Nyasaland Protectorate
Abdi Dualeh, Broadcaster Clerk, Information Department, Somaliland Protectorate
Haji Mohamoud Jama, Akil of the Dolbahanta tribe, Somaliland Protectorate
Jama Mohamoud, Akil of the Habr Toljaala tribe, Somaliland Protectorate
David Mkome, son of Nyamhagata, Clerk, Junior Service, Tanganyika
Omari, son of Nghanyanga, Sergeant Major, Tanganyika Police Force
Barnaba Leslie Reginald Saitte, Cashier, Junior Service, Tanganyika
Ali, son of Keni, Chief Warder, Luzira Central Prison, Uganda
Frank Douglas Slocombe, Senior Messenger, Office of the Comptroller, Development and Welfare Organisation, West Indies
Suleiman Mussa, Nurse, Ziwani Police Lines, Zanzibar Protectorate

Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Home Civil Service

Robert Alexander Principal Examiner, Board of Trade (Welwyn Garden City)
Edgar James Allies Accountant-General, Commonwealth Relations office (South Woodford, E.18)
William Hales Ballard, Chief Executive Officer, Home Office (Norbury, S.W.16)
Cecil John Bruce Assistant Controller, H.M. Stationery Office (Wallhigton, Surrey)
Gilbert Henderson Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Home Department (Edinburgh)
James Austin Clarke, Deputy Director, Warehousing Division, Ministry of Food (North Harrow, Middlesex)
John Thomas Darling, Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department (Barnet, Hertfordshire)
Frederick Raine Ennos, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Government Chemist's Department (Croydon, Surrey)
Sidney Stephen John Evans, Principal, War Office (Cricklewood, N.W.2)
William Owen Forth, Assistant Director, Finance Division, Ministry of Transport (New Maiden, Surrey)
Harold Charles Hawkins, Principal, Ministry of Fuel and Power (Surbiton, Surrey)
George Francis Hendy, Chief Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise (Bromley, Kent)
Charles William Grove Hull, Assistant Accountant General, Ministry of National Insurance (Mortlake, S.W.14)
James Henry Jones, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland (Belfast)
Arthur Henry Keighley, Grade 2 Officer, Branch B, Foreign Office (Forest Hill, S.E.23)
David Chalmers Lamont, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Hanwell, W.7)
Edmund Hicks McCormack, Deputy Superintendent, Royal Mint (Ickenham, Middlesex)
Kenneth McFarlane, Chief Examiner, Board of Inland Revenue (Ruislip, Middlesex)
Bernard Patrick McGuinness, Principal, Ministry of Food (Muswell Hill, N.10)
Charles Edgar Matthews, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health (Lancing, Sussex)
James Leslie Moffat, Regional Manager, Midland Regional Office, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission (Nottingham)
James Fraser Montgomerie Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour and National Service (Glasgow)
John Coombes Nerney, Librarian and Head of Air Historical Branch, Air Ministry (Wandsworth, S.W.18)
John Gilbert Orr, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works (Watford)
Frederick Arthur Phillips Chief Organisation Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Epsom Downs, Surrey)
Leonard Road Deputy Director of Stores, Admiralty (Bromley, Kent)
Edward Ben Ruber, Director, Ministry of Pensions (Thornton, Lancashire)
William Alfred Simester, Regional Finance Officer, Wales and Border Counties, General Post Office (Cardiff)
George Arthur Sizmur, Chief Executive Officer, Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor's Office (Ruislip, Middlesex)
Leslie Stephen Smith Chief Executive Officer, Colonial Office (Woodside Park, N.12)
William George Stedman, Senior Principal Clerk, Paymaster General's Office (Streatham, S.W.16)
Frederick George Thompson, Principal, Ministry of Materials (Bromley, Kent)
Clarence Roy Waterer, Chief Clerk in Bankruptcy, Board of Trade (Brighton)
John Wilson, Assistant Director, Ministry of Supply (Faraham, Surrey)
Kenneth John Wilson Commissioner, National Savings Committee (Sanderstead, Surrey)

Australian States and Southern Rhodesia

Harold Bruce Bennett Director of Industrial Development, State of Tasmania
Arthur Edward Cowie, Marketing Officer, and Chairman of the Grain Marketing Board, Department of Agriculture and Lands, Southern Rhodesia
William Richard Penhall, Secretary, Aborigines Protection Board, State of South Australia

Colonial Civil Service

George Horace William Annells, Assistant Commissioner of Lands, Kenya
Arthur Ernest Fuller, Accountant General and Collector of Customs, Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Thomas Buchanan Low, Assistant Director of Marine, Hong Kong
Edward Finch Peck, Colonial Veterinary Service, Director of Agriculture and Veterinary Services, Somaliland
Constantinos Loannou Stephani, Acting Comptroller of Inland Revenue, Cyprus

King's Police and Fire Services Medals (KPFSM)

For Distinguished Service

Jesse Lawrence, Chief Constable, Reading Borough Police Force
Cecil Haydn Watkins, Chief Constable, Glamorgan Constabulary
Major Edgar Hare Chief Constable, Cornwall Constabulary
George Parfitt Chief Constable, Barnsley Borough Police Force
Richard Gill, Assistant Chief Constable, Hampshire Constabulary
George Strachan MacDonald, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Middlesbrough Borough Police Force
William Griffiths, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Halifax Borough Police Force
Francis John Rawbone, Superintendent, Birmingham City Police Force
William Elford, Chief Superintendent, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary
Ralph George Buckingham, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Oxfordshire Constabulary
Thomas Allen Roberts, Detective Superintendent, Surrey Constabulary
Lewis Henry Bearne Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
Sidney George Wells Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police

John Adam Ross Murray Chief Constable, Motherwell and Wishaw Burgh Police Force
Thomas Meikle, Superintendent, Lothians and Peebles Constabulary

Arthur John Probert, Assistant Chief Officer, Birmingham Fire and Ambulance Service
Thomas Arthur Kelly, Chief Officer, Liverpool Fire Brigade
Ind Edward Richmond, Divisional Officer, Grade II, London Fire Brigade
Joseph Caceres, Chief Officer, Lincolnshire (Ondsey) Fire Brigade

Thomas McCorkindale Divisional Officer (Deputy Firemaster), Western Area Fire Brigade

James Richard Henry Burns Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya
Edwin William Hunt Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya
Desmond Stephen Palmer Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya
Peter Irwin Montgomery Irwin, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong
George Ricarde Hodgson Gribble Senior Superintendent of Police, Kenya
Ian Stewart MacWalter Henderson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kenya
Sandys Parker George Commissioner of Police, Nigeria
James Alexander MacDonald Commissioner of Police, Nigeria
Donald Evan Nickels Superintendent of Police, Singapore
Alastair Robert Anderson Assistant Commissioner, Malayan Police, Singapore
George Herbert Robins Assistant Commissioner of Police, Tanganyika
Arthur James Poppy Senior Superintendent of Police, Tanganyika
Lauraeston Sharp Senior Superintendent of Police, Uganda
Thomas Stewart Anderson Superintendent of Police, Somaliland

Colonial Police Medals for Meritorious Service

Bechuanaland Protectorate

Bernard Robert Sands, Assistant Superintendent, Basutoland Mounted Police, at present seconded to Bechuanaland Protectorate Police

Swaziland

Captain Patrick Charles Temple, Superintendent, Swaziland Police

Colonial Empire

Arthur Leslie Abraham, Superintendent, British Honduras Police Force
Ali, son of Qsman Noor, 1st Sergeant, Kenya Police Force
Mohamed Ali, Force Sergeant Major, Nyasaland Police Force
Mohamecl Ali Bin Dasib, Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Alwi bin Debok, Lance Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Attan Bin Makaran, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Ayob Bin Othnian, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Jacob Burnett Baidoo, Inspector, Gold Coast Police Force
Vigilant Belfon, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police Force
Osmond Frederick Bower, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force
Bernard Brunton Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Volunteer Reserve
Thomas Herbert Bush, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force
Cheng Hui Eng, alias J. Cheng, Inspector, Singapore Police Force
Harry Conway, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Aden Police Force
Daud bin Abu, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary
Michael Henry Day, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Stanley Drapkin Assistant Superintehdent, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Harold Patrick Duke, Superintendent, Gold Coast Police Force
Ernest Camm Field, District Commandant, Kenya Police Reserve
Neville Anthony Ramon Fortune, Chief Inspector, Trinidad Police Force
Dijara Grumah, Sergeant Gold Coast Police Forces
Amadu Hadeija, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police Force
Mohamed Haris Bin Abdul Ghani, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary
Henry Wylfle Edwards Heath, Assistant Commissioner, Hong Kong Police Force
Edgar Robert Hill Commandant, Hong Kong Special Constabulary
John, Ernest Hodge, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force
Edgar Ewan Horne, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force
Francis Gerard Howell, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Nasmith Baliol Livingstone Hughes, Sergeant, British Guiana Police Force
Stylianos Iacovou, District Sergeant Major, Cyprus Police Force
Benjamin Igwah, Sergeant Major, Nigeria Police Force
Tomasi Isingoma, Sub-Inspector, Uganda Police Force
Ismail Bin Abdullah, Company Sergeant Major, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Mohamed Ismail son of Meerasah, Detective Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Trevor Westover Jenkins, Acting Senior Superintendent, Kenya Police Force
Claude Randolph Keats Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya
Eugene Kenneth Keazor, Assistant Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force
Charles Herbert Keir, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Tanganyika Police Force
Adetunji Kester, Chief Inspector, Nigeria Police Force
Ben Bulam Khan Khanizaman, Inspector, North Borneo Police Force
Wainwright Hilton Earl King, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police Force
Kok Soo, Inspector, Singapore Police Force
Lee Keng Jin, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Eric Hugh Lindsey, Acting Superintendent, Kenya Police Force
Stephen Montague Locke, Senior Superintendent, Uganda Police Force
Major John William Elliott Mackenzie Senior Superintendent, Tanganyika Police Force
Haitham Abdulla Maisari, Chief Inspector, Aden Armed Police Force
Donald Matheson, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force
William George Morrison, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Muslim Bin Mohamed Som, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force
Mustafa Bin Kassim, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Jameson Mweu Musyoki, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Force
Bernard Harold Nealon, Senior Assistant Superintendent, Sierra Leone Police Force
No Chew Shee, Honorary Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Volunteer Reserve
Yakobo Olwenyi, son of Pkum, Head Constable Major, Uganda Police Force
Othman Bin Abdullah, Sergeant, Federation of Malaya Special Constabulary
Leslie Howard Outram, Superintendent, Trinidad Police Force
Fombe Pacha, Sergeant-Major, Nigeria Police Force
Brigadier Patrick John Tottenham Pickthall Superintendent, Grenada Police Force
Leslie Thomas Pridgeon, Acting Superintendent, Kenya Police Force
Ian Saxby Proud, Senior Superintendent, Nigeria Police Force
Peter Audley Delme Radcliffe, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya
Abdul Rahman Bin Kamaludin, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Roy James Randell, Superintendent, Northern Rhodesia Police Force
Gerald Clunies-Ross, Assistant Commandant, Singapore Volunteer Special Constabulary
Albert Alexander Shaw, Assistant Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force
Gurbachan Singh, son of Sucha Singh, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Jodh Singh, son of Sundar Singh, Chief Inspector, Kenya Police Force
Sardar Singh, Assistant Superintendent, Singapore Police Force
Peter Romanov Sokolov, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya
Athanassis Stavrou, Sergeant, Cyprus Police Force
Peter Stephen Albert Steenkamp, Superintendent, Kenya Police Force
Ian Turnbull Stevenson Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya
Major Ronald Audley Stoute, Deputy Commissioner, Barbados Police Force
Mohamed Taha Bin Abdul Jalil, Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Mikili Tembo, Sub-Inspector, Northern Rhodesia Police Force
Krishnan Theavathasan, Detective Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force
Robert Clifton Thom, Acting Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Mervyn Douglas Alwyne Thomson, Superintendent, Nyasaland Police Force
Voon Kian Len, Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya
William Joseph Wall, Assistant Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Musa Wangara, Sergeant, Gold Coast Police Force
Lubert Watkins, Sub-Inspector, British Guiana Police Force
John Weekley Honorary Inspector, Auxiliary Police, Federation of Malaya
Edward John Hugo Colchester-Wemyss, Superintendent, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Police Force
Frank James Wilson, Staff Officer to the Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya
Frederick Edward Woodriffe, Superintendent, Jamaica Constabulary
Ya'acob Bin Bakri, Sub-Inspector, Federation of Malaya Police Force
Mohamed Yusof Bin Salleh, Sub-Inspector, Singapore Police Force
Mohammed Yusuf, Senior Superintendent Inspector of Police, Tanganyika Police Force

New Zealand

Ceylon

Pakistan

References

^ "No. 39863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1953. pp. 2939–2993.
^ "Queen's Coronation Honours". The Times: 14. 1 June 1953.
^ New Zealand list: "No. 39866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1953. pp. 3003–3006.
^ ^a ^b ^c "11 Australian Knights". The Courier-Mail. 1 June 1953. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
^ McAteer, William (2008). To be a nation: being the third part of The history of Seychelles, 1920–1976. Pristine Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-9993180920. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

[1] "No. 39863". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1953. pp. 2939–2993.

[2] "Queen's Coronation Honours". The Times: 14. 1 June 1953.

[3] New Zealand list: "No. 39866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1953. pp. 3003–3006.

[AustralianKnights-4] "11 Australian Knights". The Courier-Mail. 1 June 1953. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

[McAteer41-5] McAteer, William (2008). To be a nation: being the third part of The history of Seychelles, 1920–1976. Pristine Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-9993180920. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

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1953 Coronation Honours

United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

Peerages

Queensland, Australia

South Australia

Tasmania

Southern Rhodesia

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

Military Division

Civil Division

Knights Commander (KCB)

Military Division

Civil Division

Companions (CB)

Military Division

Civil Division

Dames Grand Cross (GCVO)

Knights Grand Cross (GCVO)

Dames Commander (DCVO)

Knights Commander (KCVO)

Commanders (CVO)

Fourth Class

Fifth Class

Order of Merit (OM)

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

Knights Commander (KCMG)

Companions (CMG)

Knights Grand Cross (GBE)

Military Division

Civil Division

Dames Commander (DBE)

Military Division

Civil Division

Knights Commander (KBE)

Military Division

Civil Division

Commanders (CBE)

Military Division

Civil Division

Officers (OBE)

Military Division

Civil Division

Members (MBE)

Military Division

Civil Division

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Silver

First Class (RRC)

Second Class (ARRC)

Air Force Crosses (AFC)

Awarded a Bar to the Air Force Cross (AFC*)

Air Force Medals (AFM)

British Empire Medals (BEM)

Military Division

Civil Division

Imperial Service Order (ISO)

King's Police and Fire Services Medals (KPFSM)

Colonial Police Medals for Meritorious Service

New Zealand

Ceylon

Pakistan

References