Appointments by King George VI of the United Kingdom to various orders and honours
The 1939 New Year Honours were appointments by King
George VI to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1938.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Richard Austen Butler, MP Member of Parliament for the Saffron Walden Division of Essex since May 1929. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since February 1938. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour, May 1937 to February 1938. Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for India, September 1932 – 1937.
Captain
Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, MP Member of Parliament for the Gainsborough division of Lincolnshire since October 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Mines Department since June 1935. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, June 1934 to June 1935.
Stanley Charles Wyatt, Representative of the Council of Foreign Bondholders on the Council of the Repartitioned Debt of the former Ottoman Empire.
Dominions
William Dixson, a well-known collector of Australiana. For public and philanthropic services in the State of New South Wales.
The Honourable
Walter Gordon Duncan, MLC President of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, State of South Australia.
The Honourable
George Louis Goudie, MLC Commissioner of Public Works, Minister in charge of Immigration, and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works, State of Victoria.
George Shaw Knowles, CBE Solicitor-General, Secretary to the Attorney General's Department and Parliamentary Draftsman, Commonwealth of Australia.
Rai Bahadur Pandit
Seetla Prasad Bajpai, CIE Judicial Minister and Chief Justice, Jaipur State, Rajputana.
Ardeshir Rustamji Dalai, Indian Civil Service (retired), Partner and Director, Messrs. Tata & Sons, and President, Indian Chamber of Commerce, Calcutta.
Henry Horsman, MC Managing Director of the Swadeshi Cotton Mills, Cawnpore, and President of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, United Provinces.
James Reid Kay, Partner, Messrs. James Finlay & Company, Calcutta, Bengal.
General Sir
Walter Mervyn St. George Kirke, KCBCMGDSO Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, Director General of the Territorial Army, The War Office.
Lieutenant-General
Walter King Venning, CBCMGCBEMC Colonel, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Quarter-Master-General to the Forces designate.
Lieutenant-General
Archibald Percival Wavell, CBCMGMC late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command.
Lieutenant-General
Clive Gerard Liddell, CBCMGCBEDSO late The Leicestershire Regiment, Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office.
Civil Division
Honorary Colonel
Benjamin Hansford, CBDL 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Edward Ettingdene Bridges, MC Secretary of the Cabinet and Permanent Secretary, Offices of the Cabinet, Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
Lieutenant-General Sir
Ronald Forbes Adam, BtDSOOBE late Royal Artillery, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office.
Major-General
Frederick Duke Gwynne Howell, DSOMC late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Surgeon to the King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Aldershot Command.
Major-General
Edmund Archibald Osborne, DSO Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals, Commander, 44th (Home Counties) Division, Territorial Army.
Major-General
Philip Neame, VCDSO late Royal Engineers, Commandant (Major-General, General Staff) Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
Major-General
George Guy Waterhouse, MC late Royal Engineers, Inspector-General and Military Adviser, Ministry of Defence, Iraq Army.
Major-General
James Syme Drew, DSOMC late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Commander, 5and (Lowland) Division, Territorial Army.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier)
Harold Cecil Harrison, DSO late Royal Marines, Royal Marine Artillery, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) and The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), Commander, I4th Infantry Brigade.
Colonel
Frank Noel Mason-MacFarlane, MC late Royal Artillery, Military Attache (graded as General Staff Officer, 1st grade), Berlin.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier)
John Fullerton Evetts, CBEMC late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and The Royal Ulster Rifles, Commander, 16th Infantry Brigade.
Major-General
Cyril Dupré Noyes, CIEMC Indian Army, Commander, 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, India.
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Sir
Campbell Stuart, KBE Chairman and United Kingdom Representative, Imperial Communications Advisory Committee. Treasurer of King George's Trust and of King George's Fields Foundation. For public services.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Philip Mortimer, Indian Army, Inspector, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Ernest Frederick Steell Dawson, MC British Service, Chief Engineer, Western Command, India.
Gerald Snowden Butler, FIC Indian Ordnance Services, Officiating Director of Ordnance Factories, India.
Louis Reginald Fawcus, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner of a Division, Bengal.
Ferdinand Blyth Wace, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner, Ambala, Punjab.
Lionel Westropp Jardine, Indian Civil Service, Revenue and Divisional Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province.
Anthony Lockhart Binney, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner, Berar Division, Central Provinces and Berar.
Panna Lall, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Allahabad Division, United Provinces.
Eric Rawlinson Wood, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Orissa, Orissa.
John Wardle Houlton, Indian Civil service, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Revenue Department, Bihar.
William Burns, Indian Agricultural Service, Agricultural Expert to the Government of India in the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research Department.
Ralph Somerville Weir, Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction and Deputy Secretary, to the Government in the Education Department, United Provinces.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wolseley de Haga Haig, DSORE Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Buildings and Roads Branch, United Provinces.
Arthur Clifford Hiley, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Bombay.
Captain Ralph Montague Philby, RIN Nautical Adviser to the Government of India.
Horace Barratt Dunnicliff, Indian Educational Service, Chief Chemist, Central Revenues Chemical Service, and Principal, Government College, Lahore.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Bennett Hance, OBEFRCSELRCP Indian Medical Service, Residency Surgeon in Mysore, Bangalore.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Covell, DTM&H Indian Medical Service, Director, Malaria Survey of India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mathew George Platts, OBEMC Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer, Electricity Department, Madras.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Ernest William O'Gorman Kirwan, FRCSI Indian Medical Service, Professor of Ophthalmic Surgery, Medical College, Calcutta, Bengal.
John Frederick Gennings, CBE Commissioner of Labour, Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation and Director of Information, Bombay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Ewart Trounce Barbary, OBETD Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, Officer Commanding 56th (Cornwall) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Colonel John Bernard Gawthorpe, Territorial Army, (Major, retired pay, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)), late Officer Commanding 7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), Territorial Army.
Colonel (local Brigadier) Reginald Hewlett, DSOMC Inspector-General of the West Indian Local Forces, and Officer Commanding the Troops, Jamaica.
Colonel Arthur Morrell Johnson, MCTD Territorial Army, Assistant Director of Medical Services, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Territorial Army.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Hanbury Pawle, OBE Territorial Army, (Captain, retired pay, late The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)), Commander, 161st (Essex) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
Colonel William Albert Robertson, MC Territorial Army, Assistant Director of Medical Services, 51st (Highland) Division, Territorial Army.
Colonel
Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, DSOOBE Australian Staff Corps, Director of Staff Duties, Army Headquarters, Australian Military Forces.
Honorary Colonel George Lestock Thornton, MCTD 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army, (Colonel, retired, late Territorial Army).
Colonel
Ronald Morce Weeks, DSOMC Territorial Army, late Officer Commanding 5th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment, (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers), Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Boyle, MCDL For public services in Chelsea.
Westgarth Forster Brown, MInstCEMInstME Chief Mineral Adviser to the Commissioners of Crown Lands. Member of the Board of Governors of the
Imperial Institute and of the Institute's Advisory Council on Minerals.
Commander Harold Leopold Quick, RAN (Auxiliary Services).
Army
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Baron, TD Officer Commanding 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Harold Powell Crosland, MCTD Territorial Army, late Officer Commanding 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Stanley Herbert Crump, New Zealand Staff Corps. Deputy Quarter-Master-General and Director of Supplies and Transport, Army Headquarters, New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) (local Captain) Richard Element, DCM Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Staff Captain "Q", The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Allen Foulkes, TD late Officer Commanding, 2nd Cavalry Divisional Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Norman Gardner, MCTD Officer Commanding 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army.
Major Glyn Frank Jones, 18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry, Indian Army, attached Burma Frontier Force.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Lucy, TD Officer Commanding 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major John Oscar Lawrence Mason, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Harold Frederick Pearson, ED Ceylon Mounted Rifles Reserve.
Lieutenant-Colonel Rees Thomas Price, TD Royal Engineers, Territorial Army, Commander, Royal Engineers, 53rd (Welsh) Division, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Birnie Reid, Officer Commanding, 51st (Highland) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Major David St. Clair Riley, ED District Officer, No. 6 Military District Defence Force, Southern Rhodesia.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace Roderick Duncan Robertson, MCTD Officer Commanding, 86th (East Anglian) (Herts Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Keir Rodger, TD Officer Commanding, 7th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Territorial Army.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wise Richardson Scott, TD The Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own), Yeomanry, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Eric Ashley Shipton, MCTD Officer Commanding, 90th (City of London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Alick Drummond Buchanan Smith, Officer Commanding, 5th-7th (Buchan, Mar and Mearns) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Frank Smith, MC Australian Corps of Signals, Officer Commanding Signals 2nd Division, 2nd Military District, Australian Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Snowden Spencer, MCTD Officer Commanding, 6th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Douglas Sutcliffe, DSO Officer Commanding, 10th (3rd City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey George Hetley Symes, TD Officer Commanding, Dorsetshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major
Lechmere Cay Thomas, MC The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Officer Commanding, 2nd Battalion, The King's African Rifles.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Barker Ullman, MCTD Territorial Army, late Officer Commanding, 64th (7th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Charles Walker, TD retired, late Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
Major Douglas Leslie Oswald Woods, 2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, attached South Waziristan Scouts.
Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Christopher Parton Gabriel, Auxiliary Air Force.
Captain Francis Alonzo Abbott, JP For political and public services in Battersea.
Robert Alstead, JP Chairman of the Wigan Local Employment Committee.
Edna Haycroft Badock. For political and public services in Bristol.
Marie Anna Bell. For political and public services in Hendon.
William Burnett, Director of Stamping, Board of Inland Revenue.
Cyril Bertram Collins, Senior Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry.
George Lionel Darbyshire, Chief Officer for Labour and Establishment, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. On the occasion of the centenary of the Railway.
Eric Donaldson, Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
Robert Manfield Finch, MInstCE City Engineer and Surveyor, Nottingham. For services in connection with Air Raid Precautions.
William Mowll Frazer, Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool. For services in connection with Air Raid Precautions.
Charles Henry James Garland ISOMBE lately Organising Secretary, National Playing Fields Association.
George Metcalfe Gillies, Actuary, Government Actuary's Department.
Harper Bernard Harper, JP Chairman of the East Ham and Southend-on-Sea Joint Visiting Committee of the Runwell Mental Hospital.
Professor
Charles John Hawkes, Professor of Engineering, King's College, Newcastle. Member of the Departmental Committee on the Examination of Engineers in the Mercantile Marine, 1937.
William Allan Forsyth Hepburn, MC Director of Education for Ayrshire.
William Frederick Higgins, Secretary, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Richard John Humphreys, Chief Officer and Secretary of Trade Boards, Ministry of Labour.
Major Henry Humphrey Jackson, MCTDJP For political and public services in the Clay Cross division of Derbyshire.
William Clarence Johnson, Assistant Chief Constable of Birmingham.
William Kean, JP Vice-Chairman of the Sheffield Local Employment Committee.
Major William Campbell Kirkwood, MC General Manager, Scottish Development Council.
Captain Henry William Lance. For political and public services in King's Lynn.
John Laytham, JP For political and public services in Accrington.
John Joseph Mclntyre, Secretary of the Rural District Councils Association.
Commander Edwin Salisbury MacLeod, RNR (Retd.), Principal District Officer, London, Board of Trade.
Eva Marion Maguire, Organiser, Sandes' Homes for Soldiers and Airmen. Robert Mitchelhill Middleton, Town Clerk of Lancaster.
Robert Rose Milne. For political and public services in Midlothian.
Arthur Macdonell Morley, H.M. Inspector of Schools, Board of Education.
Major George Christopher Brooke Musgrave, JPDL For political and public services in Torquay.
Henry Daniel Olivier, President, Public Assistance Authority, States of Guernsey.
Harry Edward Piggott, Second Master, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
Reuben James Pugsley. For political and public services in Cardiff.
Arthur George Ramsey, MBEMInstCEMIEE Senior Engineer, H.M. Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Charles Penny Cook Robertson, MBE Press and Publicity Officer, Air Ministry.
Major Richard Atkinson Robinson, TD Air Raid Precautions Officer, Middlesex County Council.
Thomas Rowatt, MMMIMechE Director of the Royal Scottish Museum.
Charles Withers Sabin, Principal, Department of the Commissioner for the Special Areas (England and Wales).
Councillor Harold Wadsworth Sellers, Chairman of the Leeds Air Raid Precautions Committee.
Alderman John Edwin Shaw, JP Chairman of the Local Employment Committee and of the Juvenile Advisory Committee, Cradley Heath.
Emma Stevinson, Principal of the Rachel McMillan Training College for Teachers in Nursery Schools, Deptford.
William Frederick Taylor, Assistant Controller, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office.
David Thomas, Director of Education, Caernarvonshire.
Ralph Wade, Director of Office Administration, British Broadcasting Corporation.
Michael Ernest Waldman, JP For political and public services in Hackney.
William Walker, Member of the North Eastern Housing Association, Secretary of the Durham Miners' Approved Association.
Arthur Sidney Wilcockson, Captain, Imperial Airways.
Bertram Arthur George Willis, Chief Accountant and Financial Adviser and Auditor, China Command, War Office.
Alexander Wilson, Honorary Medical Officer, Scio House Hospital.
Frederick Wilson, JP For political and public services in Co. Durham.
Arthur Charles Wood, Assistant Accountant General, Board of Customs and Excise.
Edward Alway Young. For political services in the Thornbury division of Gloucestershire.
Evaline Sophie Robert Young. For services to the Beckenham Hospital.
Walter Young, Governor of H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs.
William Yule, Regional Finance Officer, Scottish Region, General Post Office.
Overseas Residents
Elena Boote, a British subject resident in Buenos Aires.
Maberly Esler Dening, MBE, one of His Majesty's Consuls at present employed in the Foreign Office.
Kaimakam George Naldrett-Jays Bey, Assistant Commandant, Alexandria City Police.
Xavier Licari, a British subject resident in Tunis.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Arthur Lilley, DSO District Commissioner, Equatoria Province, Sudan.
Francis Alfred Nixon, a British subject resident in Canton.
Major Reginald Sutton-Pratt, Royal Corps of Signals, formerly Acting Assistant Military Attache at His Majesty's Legation at Prague.
Herbert Leonard Setchell, Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Berne.
John Alexis Waite, until recently His Majesty's Consul-General at Helsingfors.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Wilfred Eade Agar, FRS Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne, State of Victoria.
Herbert Raleigh Angell, MS Senior Pathologist of Plant Industry, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Commonwealth of Australia.
Anna Bellette. For philanthropic services in the State of Tasmania.
Walter Gerard Brind, DFC Director of Public Works, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Alderman Charles Naples Brown, Mayor of the City of Geelong, State of Victoria.
Jabez Lewis Carnegie, President of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, State of Victoria.
Stuart Frederick Thomas Chandler, MICE Chief Road Engineer, Department of Roads, Southern Rhodesia.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Chisholm, DSOVD For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Henry Miles Cox, Reception Officer, Prime Minister's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
The Reverend Richard William Dobbinson, of Launceston Baptist Church, State of Tasmania. For social welfare services.
John Hyslop Gardner, AMInstCE Director of Public Works, Swaziland.
Jeannie Gunn. For literary services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
Sidney John Harrison, General Secretary, Returned Soldiers' Association, Dominion of New Zealand.
Eva Kolling. For philanthropic services in the State of New South Wales.
John Claude McPhee, Deputy Commissioner in Victoria, Repatriation Commission, Commonwealth of Australia.
Samuel Saltzman. For benefactions to humanitarian institutions in the Dominion of New Zealand.
Captain Walter Eric Thomas, MCKC Attorney General, Southern Rhodesia.
Mary Catherine Thomson. For social welfare services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Eric Ernest von Bibra. For services to ex-service men in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Ira Wild, a Deputy Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department, and lately Comptroller and Auditor-General, Newfoundland. For services to Newfoundland.
Doctor
Alice Woodward Horsley, Medical Practitioner, of Auckland, Dominion of New Zealand. For social welfare services.
Teik Tin Pyu, Extra Assistant Commissioner (retired), Mandalay, Burma.
Vernon Cecil Alexander. For public services in Jamaica.
Kenneth William Blackburne, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Commissioner, Palestine.
James Clendinning, Colonial Survey Service, Surveyor-General, Gold Coast.
Geoffrey Miles Clifford, Colonial Administrative Service, Senior District Officer, Nigeria.
Edward Caruana Dingli, Director, School of Art, and Teacher of Painting, Malta.
Khoo Sian Ewe. For public services in the Straits Settlements.
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Commissioner, Palestine.
Bryan Edwin Frayling, Colonial Mines service, Chief Inspector of Mines, Tanganyika Territory.
Percy Augustus Godwin, Colonial Survey Service, Director of Surveys and Lands, Sierra Leone.
Donald Keith Shaftesbury Grant, Colonial Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, Tanganyika Territory.
Captain Tom Hickinbotham, Civil Secretary, Aden.
John Gerald Hemus Hopkins, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
Georgina Rose Johnson, MBE Colonial Education Service, Superintendent of Female Education, Zanzibar.
Alexander Keir, Colonial Education service, Chief Inspector of English Schools, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.
Maurice Frederick Key. For public services in Hong Kong.
Angus McCallum, MC Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Somaliland Protectorate.
Thomas Arthur Owles, MInstCE Harbour Engineer, Colombo Port Commission, Ceylon.
Gregor McGregor Peter. For public services in Saint Lucia.
George Douglas Laurie Pile. For public services in Barbados.
James Huey Hamill Pollock, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Commissioner, Palestine.
Major Robert Alexander Torrance. For public services in Trinidad.
John Sutton Webster, Colonial Medical Service, Radiologist, Medical Department, Straits Settlements.
John Eric Alexander Wolryche-Whitmore. For services to agriculture in Kenya.
Robert Walker Yule. For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
India
Ethel Adelaide Douglas, (Lond.), Missionary doctor in charge, Lady Kinnaird Women's Hospital, Lucknow, United Provinces.
Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban, Indian Political Service, Political Agent, Sibi, Baluchistan.
Cecil Cuthbert Murrell Anderton, Indian Service of Engineers, Executive Engineer, North-West Frontier Province.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kombar Ramaswami Krishnaswami Iyengar, , Indian Medical Service (retired), lately Director Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor.
Major
Dawarka Prasad Bhargava, FRCS Indian Medical Service, Professor of Surgery, Prince of Wales' Medical College, Patna, Bihar.
Rai Bahadur Amarendra Nath Das, Bihar Provincial Civil Service, Secretary to the Board of Revenue, Bihar.
Donald Hamilton Elwin, Indian Civil Service, lately Private Secretary to the Governor of Madras.
Captain James Forsyth, Shipping Master, Calcutta.
Sardar Bahadur Sardar Gurdial Singh, Home Member, Council of Regency, Nabha, Punjab States.
Leslie Pascoe Hancox, Indian Civil service, Officiating Magistrate and Collector, United Provinces.
Denys Kilburn, Indian Police, Senior Superintendent of Police, Delhi.
Peter Lobo, Public Prosecutor (retired), Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.
Ganesh Chandra Mitter, Chief Assayer, His Majesty's Mint, Bombay.
Arthur Walter Pryde, Indian Police, Labour Officer for the City of Bombay and Bombay Suburban District, Bombay.
Joshua Forbes Russell, Indian Service of Engineers, Executive Engineer, Communications and Works Department, Irrigation Branch, Bengal.
Donald Langham Scott, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Presidency Postmaster, Calcutta.
George Henry Welford, Indian Ordnance Services, Superintendent, Rifle Factory, Ishapore.
John Stewart Wilcock, Indian Civil service, lately Secretary to the Governor of Orissa, Orissa.
Honorary Officers
Amir Haidara bin Nasr bin Shaif Seif. For public services in the Aden Protectorate.
Sheikh Said bin Ali El-Mugheiri, MBE For public services in Zanzibar.
Captain Mohamed Noor bin Shaik Ahmad, Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps, 3rd Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
Major Ernest George Baker, The Princess Beatrice's (Isle of Wight Rifles) Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. (Captain, retired pay, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Hampshire Regiment.)
Major George Sheldon Bayliss, 73rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Captain Noel Gordon Blake, ist Battalion The Herefordshire Regiment, Territorial Army. (Lieutenant, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).)
Major (Commissary) John Stacey Bolton, retired, late India Miscellaneous List, late Personal Assistant to the Master-General of the Ordnance, Headquarters of the Army in India.
Captain (Quarter-Master) Leonard Brindle, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) Douglas Buchanan, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
Major Edward Stephen Cadic, Thames and Medway Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Basil Charles Durkin, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, late Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance services, 43rd (Wessex) Division, Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major Walter Victor Dyson, 90th (City of London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Second Lieutenant Alexander Thomson Edgar, 1st (Perak) Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force.
Jemadar Kansipersad Gurung, 2nd Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, (Frontier Force), Indian Army.
Lieutenant (local Captain)
John Winthrop Hackett, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Squadron Officer, Trans-Jordan Frontier Force.
Major Kenneth Hargreaves, 66th (Leeds Rifles, The West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Alfred Ernest Heald, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant Adrian Everard Hedley, 4th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
Major Arthur Hemsley, TD 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Quarter-Master and Honorary Captain John Edward Hendry, Australian Instructional Corps, Instructor, School of Artillery, Sydney, Australian Military Forces.
Major Frank Wilkinson Hudson, 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major Edward William Claude Hurford, 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, The Welch Regiment, Territorial Army.
Quarter-Master and Honorary Lieutenant John Hutchison, Australian Instructional Corps, Staff Officer, Rifle Clubs, 2nd Military District, Australian Military Forces.
Major (Quarter-Master) William Jones, TD Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) Sydney George Kingham, MM London Irish Rifles, The Royal Ulster Rifles, Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Staff Sergeant-Major) George Ferguson MacCulloch, New Zealand Military Forces, Regimental Sergeant-Major, Army School of Instruction, Trentham, New Zealand.
Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) Alfred Cooke Metcalfe, The Liverpool Scottish, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Territorial Army.
Major Egerton Royal Millard, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, 48th (South Midland) Division, Territorial Army.
Major Alfred Benjamin Milner, 92nd (5th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Thomas Henry Miller Murray, 5th (Dumfries and Galloway) Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Territorial Army.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Cyrus Watkin Milly Oorloff, Ceylon Light Infantry.
Captain Cecil William Gabriel Pike, 53rd (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) Hugh Michael Price, 61st Carnarvon and Denbigh (Yeomanry) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army,
Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major Norman Leslie Pullen, Devonshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Frederick Henry Rudd, l0th (3rd City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) Cyril George Saunders, 63rd (6th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) Thomas William Stevens, 70th (3rd West Lancashire) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major (Quarter-Master) Thomas John Stroud, 5th Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), Territorial Army, (Lieutenant, retired pay, late The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)).
Captain (Quarter-Master) Frederick George Verlander, 4th/5th Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), Territorial Army.
Major Victor Dunn Warren, 52nd (Lowland) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Charles Frederick William Wates, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, late 35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Quarter-Master) Charles Gloucester Wicks, 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army. (Lieutenant, retired pay, late The Durham Light Infantry.)
Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) William Henry Williams, retired, late 4th/5th (The Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness) Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's), Territorial Army.
Warrant Officer Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) William Edward Winter, 63rd (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Quarter-Master and Honorary Major Charles Robert Victor Wright, MC Australian Instructional Corps, Adjutant and Quarter-Master 43rd/48th Battalion, Australian Infantry, 4th Military District, Australian Military Forces.
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
John Henry Sigsworth Allison, JP Vice-Chairman of the Hartlepools Employment Committee.
George Fletcher Bagshaw, F.A.I. For political and public services in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
George James Biggs, FIAA.|Civil Engineer, Air Ministry.
Victor Leopold Bilbey, Higher Grade Clerk, Ministry of Health.
Elsie Grace Blackwell, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Unemployment Assistance Board.
Louisa Blair. For public services in Birkenhead.
Ernest Bosworth, Headmaster, Lancaster Road Senior Boys' School, Kensington.
Mary Gertrude Breton. For political and public services in Portsmouth.
George Robert Brown, Senior Staff Officer, General Post Office.
Adam Buchanan, Public Assistance Officer for the Burgh of Paisley.
Bertha Marie Louise Katherine Burge. For political and public services in Plymouth.
Walter Roland Butler, JP For political and public services in South Buckinghamshire.
Elinor Cadell, JP Convener, Children's Sub-Committee of the Lothians War Pensions Committee.
The Reverend Eustace Harold Carew, Chairman of the Old Contemptibles' Association.
Ruby May Carter. For political and public services in Watford.
Alderman George Ambrose Chadwick. For political and public services in Flintshire.
Dorothy Gladys Chambers, Technical Assistant, Grade 1, Air Ministry.
John Leonard Clarkson. For political and public services in Nottingham.
Olive Warren Crosse, Honorary Secretary, British Refugees from Spain Fund.
John Davidson Formerly Headmaster of Plockton Higher Grade School, Ross and Cromarty.
Benjamin Davies, Collector of Taxes, Cardiff, Board of Inland Revenue.
George Davis, Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Worcestershire Constabulary.
Ruth Annie Dawson, Headmistress, Marton Grove Senior Girls' School, Middlesbrough.
Cecil Edith Mary Dixon, Pianist on the Music Staff of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Arthur Oldfield Dowsett, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
William Alfred Dye, Staff Officer, Admiralty.
George Felton Edkins, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Trade.
George Edward Fawcett, Executive Officer, Leyton Juvenile Employment Committee.
Alderman Amos Ford, JP For services in East Barnet.
Oliver George Robert Fox, Staff Officer, Public Record Office.
The Reverend Canon Charles Edward Middleton Fry, Chairman of the Slough Local Employment Committee.
George William Giles, Secretary of the National Allotments Society.
George Chettle Green, Staff Officer, Dominions Office.
Harold Gregson, Investment Manager, Manchester Branch, Public Trustee Office.
Francis William Hamilton, Chief Clerk in the office of the Assistant Commissioner for England and Wales, Forestry Commission.
Thomas Henry Hammond, Staff Officer, Board of Trade.
Janet Harper, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Health for Scotland.
William Harry Harris, Clerk to the Walton and Weybridge Urban District Council. For services in connection with Air Raid Precautions.
Isabel Harrison, Assistant Accountant, Ministry of Labour.
James Alfred Hartopp. For political and public services in Leicester.
William John Haslett, Headmaster, Model Public Elementary School, Cliftonville, Belfast.
Henry Arthur Hayward, Staff Clerk, War Office.
Lucy Hickman, JP For political and public services in Wolverhampton.
Frederick William Hicks, Superintendent and Chief Clerk, Bristol City Police Force.
Arthur Rollings, Gardener-Instructor, Fylde Farm Approved School.
Captain Risden Waldemar Hollingworth. For political and public services in the Wallsend division of Northumberland.
Henry Edwin Honnor. For political and public services in Enfield, Middlesex.
Ada Kathleen Fanny Jessop, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Ministry of Health.
Bertram Barrington Jones, Director of the Cleansing Department of the Manchester City Corporation. For services in connection with Air Raid Precautions.
Thomas Gordon Jones, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Transport.
Edwin William Knight, Assistant Engineer, South Midland District, General Post Office.
Percy Thomas Lord, Chairman, Norwich and District War Pensions Committee.
William Mackie McKechnie, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Greenock Police Force.
Sydney James McVicar, Assistant Solicitor to the West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. For services in connection with Air Raid Precautions.
Marion Mann, JP For political and public services in Newport, Monmouthshire.
Winifred Martin, Matron, West Park
Hospital, Macclesfield. Francis Maxwell. For political and public services in Blackburn.
John Metcalfe, Chief Air Raid Warden for Newcastle.
Sydney Alfred Mitchell, Air Raid Pre.cautions Officer for Boots Pure Drug Company.
Harold Needham. For political and public services in Derby.
James Oliphant, Manager of the Fuze Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
Mary O'Sullivan, Postmistress, Smith-down Lane Sub-Office, Liverpool.
Horatio Hubert Palmer, Chief Clerk, Board of Customs and Excise.
Leonard Rivers Norman Percey. For political services in East Willesden.
Robert Petrie, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, East Lothian County Police.
Ernest Phillips. For political and public services in Doncaster.
Charles William Pink, Staff Officer, Offices of the Cabinet, Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council, and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
Annie Rankin, Headmistress, Selly Park Senior Girls' Council School, Birmingham.
Henry Crisp Rayner, Senior Staff Clerk, Ministry of Labour.
Annie Maud Mary Fowell Richards. For political services in Greenwich.
John Richards, Staff Officer, H.M. Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Agnes Brooknan Ross Ronald. For social services in Falkirk.
John Joseph Cecil Rowden, Assistant Controller, London Postal Region, General Post Office.
James Percy Russel, Communications Department, Foreign Office.
John Barrowcliff Scattergood, District Goods Manager at Birmingham, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. On the occasion of the centenary of the Railway.
Doris George Schwind, JP For political and public services in Grantham.
Henry Scott. For political and public services in the Isle of Ely division.
Alexander Francis Smith, Marketing Officer, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
Hilda Amy Smith, Honorary Directress of the Disabled Sailors and Soldiers Workshops, Bournemouth.
George Wogan Somers, Staff Officer, Post Office Stores Department, General Post Office.
Matilda Anne Southgate, JP For political and public services in North Islington.
Henry Steel, Chief Superintendent and Chief Clerk, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary.
Richard Charles Sugars, DCM Assistant to the Officers of Accounts, Treasury.
Donald Nevill Swanson, Naval Store Officer, Admiralty.
George William Thomas, Senior Staff Officer, Land Fertility Committee, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Margaret Gordon Thomson. For political and public services in Glasgow.
John Tibbs, Managing Clerk of Messrs. Harmood Banner and Son, Liverpool. For services to the provision trade.
Edgar James Turner. For political and public services in Leeds.
Edward John Reginald Walsh, lately Assistant Inspector, Board of Education.
Alderman William Charles Watkins, JP Chairman of the Ministry of Labour Juvenile Advisory Committee, Pontypool.
Harry Ernest Whiting, FSS Honorary Secretary of the Incorporated Association of Rating and Valuation Officers.
Sarah Whittle, Matron of the Stokesley Institution.
Alice Jane Williams, Chairman of the Women's Sub-Committee of the Swansea Local Employment Committee.
David Wilson, Waterguard Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise.
Amelia Wilson Winpenny. For political and public services in Stockton-on-Tees.
George Wallace Yandell, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
Baillie John Young. For political and public services in Glasgow.
Overseas Residents
Francis Louis Bougeya, Headmaster of the Maltese School, Suez.
Harry Bullock, British Vice-Consul at Bremen.
Antonio Ellul, formerly British Vice-Consul at Benghazi.
George William Minter Harpley, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at St. Jean de Luz.
Hugh Ravenhill Hulbert, a British subject resident at El Obeid, Sudan.
Jonathan Emmanuel Jones, a British subject resident in Uruguay.
William Leverkus, British Pro-Consul at Cartagena.
Annabella Wilkinson Macintosh, Matron of the British Hospital at Buenos Aires.
Kenneth Courage Macray, British Vice-Consul at Maceio, Brazil.
Lucy Sharp, Clerk at His Majesty's Consulate at Valencia.
Henry Victor Spraggs, Inspector of Ordnance and Explosives, Sudan Government.
Maurice Encyl Taylor, Archivist at His Majesty's Legation at Prague.
India and Burma
Caroline Mary Edwards, Lady Superintendent of Women's and Children's work in the Hubli Industrial Settlement, Hubli, Dharwar District, Bombay.
Winifred Park, Madras. Educational service, Lecturer in Domestic Science for European Schools, Madras.
Khan Sahib Sheikh Alam Ali, Provincial Civil Service, Supervisor, Jail Manufactures, Punjab Jail Department, Punjab.
Robert Thomas Mansfield Hayter, Indian Medical Department, 1st Class, Assistant Director, School of Tropical Medicine and Resident Medical Officer, Carmichael Hospital, Calcutta, Bengal.
Rowland Alfred Kirkman Hill, Assistant Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
Eric John Hart Jacobson, Superintendent, Transportation, East Indian Railway.
Khan Bahadur Mirza Jafar Ah' Khan, Provincial Civil Service (Executive Branch), United Provinces.
Jagdishwar Dayal, Superior Service of the Military Accounts Department, Assistant Military Accountant-General.
Caleb St. John Lawrence, Military Accounts Department, Deputy Assistant Controller of Military Accounts.
Rai Bahadur Lala Shankar Das Luthra, Provincial Civil Service, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.
John MacLachlan Maclntyre, Indian Service of Engineers (Punjab), Executive Engineer, Quetta City, Baluchistan.
Peter Donald Macpherson, lately Financial Adviser to the Co-operative Department, Punjab.
William McLean, Registrar, University of Madras, Madras.
Mellville Owen Marchant, Bombay Customs Department, Chief Accounts Officer of Customs and Officiating Assistant Collector of Customs, Bombay.
Desraj Mehta, Indian Service of Engineers, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department and Under-Secretary to the Government of Bihar, Public Works Department, Bihar.
William Arthur Myatt, lately Editor, Daily Gazette Karachi, Sind.
Rai Bahadur Kharag Narayan, Banker, Merchant and Zamindar, Begusarai, Monghyr District, Bihar.
Henry Joseph Newham, Officer Supervisor, Adjutant-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India.
Dattatraya Laxman Nirokhekar, Law Lecturer at the Police Training School, Nasik, Bombay.
Rai Sahib Puran Chand, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, Civilian Gazetted Officer, Supply Personnel Depot, Ambala.
John Sidney Augustus Selwyn, Indian Police, Officer-in-Charge, Police Training Centre, Hangu, North-West Frontier Province.
Oscar Henry Clive Shelswell, Indian Forest Service (retired), lately Personal Assistant to the Chief Conservator of Forests, Madras.
Alexander Key Thorns, General District Superintendent of Begg Dunlop Jute Mills, Bengal.
Ida Sophia Scudder, Principal, The Missionary Medical College for Women, and Superintendent, The Missionary Medical College Hospital, Vellore, North Arcot District, Madras.
First Class
Deaconess Miriam Coulthurst, Saint Faith's Society, Madras.
Irene Harper (wife of the Reverend A. E. Harper, American Mission Training School for Village Teachers, Moga, Ferozepur District), Punjab.
Hilda Margaret, Lady Sachse (wife of Sir F. A. Sachse, CSICIE Bengal.
Nilakanta Sivakamu, (Rotunda, Dublin), Principal Zenana Medical Officer, Bikaner State, Rajputana.
Norah Ethel Whitfield, Principal, Cathedral and John Connon Girls' High School, Fort, Bombay.
The Reverend Canon Malcolm George Goldsmith, Church Missionary Society, Madras.
Alfred Donald Miller, Secretary, Mission to Lepers, India, Bihar.
The Very Reverend Monsignor Piego Remedies, JP Dean of Bombay and Principal of the St. Teresa's High School, Girgaum, Bombay.
Senior Sister Lilla Eliza Taylor, in recognition of the special devotion and competency displayed by them in the nursing and care of the sick in Royal Air Force hospitals at home and abroad.