The 1944 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the
Commonwealth realms of King
George VI to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 31 December 1943.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
Charles George Ammon, Esq., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for North Camberwell, February, 1922, to October, 1931, and since November, 1935. Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, 1924, and 1929–1931. For political and public services.
Colonel The Right Honourable
John Gretton, C.B.E., J.P., D.L., Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire, 1895–1906; for Rutland, 1907–1918; and for the Burton Division of Staffordshire, 1918–1943. For political and public services.
Ralph Assheton, Esq., M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1939–1942; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1942–1943. Member of Parliament for the Rushcliffe Division of Nottingham since 1934.
William Mabane, Esq., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food since 1942. Assistant Postmaster General, June, 1939; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Security, October, 1939. Member of Parliament for Huddersfield since 1931.
Wilfred Paling, Esq., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions since 1941. A Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury, 1929–1931 and 1940–1941. Member of Parliament for Wentworth since 1933.
Captain
Charles Waterhouse, M.C., D.L., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade since 1941. A Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury, 1937; Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1937–1939; Treasurer of H.M. Household, 1939–1941. Member of Parliament for South Leicester since 1924.
Charles Lee des Forges, Esq., C.B.E., Town Clerk,
Rotherham.
Professor
Jack Cecil Drummond, D.Sc., F.I.C., Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Food.
John Montague Eddy, Esq., C.B.E., Deputy Chairman, Prisoners of War Department, Joint War Organisation of the
British Red Cross Society and Order of St John.
Captain
George Sampson Elliston, M.C., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for Blackburn since October, 1931. For political and public services.
Professor
Frank Leonard Engledow, C.M.G., M.A., Professor of Agriculture, Cambridge University.
John Jacob Fox, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., Government Chemist.
The Honourable
John Cowan, Member of the Legislative Council of the State of South Australia for many years. For public services.
Lewis Edward Emerson, Esq., a Member of the Commission of Government, Newfoundland, since 1937, Commissioner for Justice, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Defence, Newfoundland.
India:
The Honourable Mr Justice James Harvey Monroe, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab.
The Honourable Mr Justice Navroji Jahangir Wadia, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
The Honourable Mr Justice Archibald John King, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St George, Madras.
The Honourable Mr Justice Harold James Collister, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces.
Archie William Ibbotson, Esq., C.I.E., M.B.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces and lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Civil Defence Department.
Charles Maclver Grant Ogilvie, Esq., C.S.I., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.
Denys Pilditch, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Police, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.
Kenneth John Nicolson, Esq., M.C., Chief Controller of Purchase (Munitions), Department of Supply, Government of India.
Lionel Bell Gasson, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Madras.
Khan Bahadur Nawab Makhdum Murid Hussain Qureshi, Member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Honorary Extra Assistant Commissioner and Sub-Registrar, Multan, Punjab.
Edward Matheson Souter, Esq., C.I.E., Controller of Supplies, United Provinces Circle, Cawnpore.
Sayyid Mehdi Husain Bilgrami, Nawab Mahdi Yar Jang Bahadur, Judicial and Education Member, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Executive Council, Hyderabad (Deccan).
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Governor, Reserve Bank of India.
Usha Nath Sen, Esq., C.B.E., Director and Managing Editor, Associated Press of India, New Delhi.
Burma:
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell, M.C., Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, Burma.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.:
Robert Harry Drayton, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Ceylon.
John Milner Gray, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Zanzibar.
Colonel George Wykeham Heron, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Palestine.
Charles Ramsdale Lockhart, Esq., C.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Chairman, East African Production and Supply Council.
Oliver Charles Harvey, Esq., C.M.G., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office; until recently Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State.
Percy Norman Harvey, Esq., Director of Statistics and Intelligence, Ministry of War Transport. Deputy Government Actuary.
Charles Nathan, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Courtenay Denis Carew Robinson, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
George David Roseway, Esq., C.B.E., Director of Finance, War Office.
George Lawrence Watkinson, Esq., M.C., Under Secretary, Board of Trade.
Robert William Wharhirst, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the Armament Supply Department, Admiralty.
Harold Herbert Wiles, Esq., M.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)
Sir Reginald Maitland Maxwell, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
General
Sir Alan Fleming Hartley, K.C.S.I., C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C., lately Deputy Commander-in-Chief in India.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)
David Norman Strathie, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
Sir Alexander Cameron Badenoch, C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Auditor-General of India.
Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
Evan Meredith Jenkins, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Governor-General (Personal), and Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy, and lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply.
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
Swaminatha Adutthurai Venkataraman, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply.
Saiyid Rashid-uz-Zamari, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Commerce.
Binay Ranjan Sen, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Direetor-General of Food, Government of India, and lately Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Revenue Department.
Colonel (Acting Major-General) Frederick Whitmore Burch, M.C., Indian Army, Director of Staff Duties, General Headquarters, India.
Graham Linsell Vivian, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces, and lately Commissioner, Allahabad Division, United Provinces.
Alfred Sloane Larkin, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Dacca Division, Bengal.
Donald Stewart, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Forest Service, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General of Supply, New Delhi.
Herbert John Todd, Esq., Indian Political Service, Resident for the Madras States.
Philip George Braye, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner, Berar Division, Central Provinces and Berar.
Jasper Fellowes Crofts Reynolds, Esq., M.C., Agent and General Manager, South Indian Railway, Trichinopoly.
Hubert George Salmond, Esq., A.M.I.C.E., A.C.G.I., Chief Government Inspector of Railways.
Norman Percival Arthur Smith, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bombay.
Commodore
John Talbot Savignac Hall, Royal Indian Navy, Chief Staff Officer, Naval Headquarters, India.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Henry Williams, M.C., Indian Army, Commandant, Infantry Schools, Saugor.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) James Ingram Muirhead, M.C., Indian Army, Commander, Delhi Area.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Andrew Hugh Mackie, Indian Army, Director of Remounts, General Headquarters, India.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Edgar William Rogers, Indian Army, Director of Armaments, General Headquarters, India.
Walter Watson Dalziel, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Orissa in the Law, Commerce and Labour Departments.
Kunwar Hajee Ismaiel Alikhan, O.B.E., Member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Rais of Asrauli Estate, Bulandshahr District, United Provinces.
William George Dench, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, Punjab.
Astad Dinshaw Gorwala, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Finance Department, and Director of Civil Supplies and Supply Commissioner, Bombay.
Colonel Reginald Henry Phillimore, D.S.O. (late R.E.), Superintendent, Survey of India.
Murtough Carbery, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Indian Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Bengal.
Sri Pattipati Hanimireddigari Rama Reddi, Indian Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Madras.
Kenneth Eustace Lee Pennell, Esq., M.C., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer (North), Assam.
Colonel Thomas Crawford Boyd, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, United Provinces.
Popatial Govindalal Shah, Esq., Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Accountant-General, Bombay.
Rai Bahadur Shyamnandan Sahay, Member of the Bihar Legislative Council, Zamindar, Baghi, Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
George Wilfred Turner, Esq., C.B., Joint Second Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
John Crompton Wrigley, Esq., C.B., Joint Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Douglas Newbold, Esq., C.B.E., Civil Secretary, Sudan Government.
Colonel
Edward Townley Peel, D.S.O., M.C., a British subject resident in Egypt.
Colonel the Honourable
Ernest Lucas Guest, O.B.E., Minister of Mines, Public Works and Air, Southern Rhodesia. For public services, especially in connection with the inauguration of the Empire Air Training Scheme in the Colony.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Edward Gibbons, T.D., The South Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ogilvie Blair Graham, D.S.O., Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) (temporary Brigadier) Laurence Douglas Grand, M.B.E., Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Riddell Musgrave Hanna, 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Norman Bassett Hart, T.D., Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Norman Synnot Hart, The Buffs (Royalo East Kent Regiment).
Captain (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Cecil Hoey.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alwyn Vesey Holt, D.S.O., The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
Major (Ordnance Officer 3rd Class) John Lawrence Hume, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class the Reverend Canon Alfred Vincent Hurley, M.A., Royal Army Chaplains Department, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Allan Hector Perera Jayawardana, M.B.E., E. D., Ceylon Light Infantry.
Major (Electrical and Mechanical Engineer 2nd Class) (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Electrical and Mechanical Engineer 1st Class) John Carnt Jefferson, A.M.I.E.E., Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Eric Malcolm Davies-Jenkins, The Welch Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel (acting Colonel) Charles Champion Jerome Kellie, 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) William Charles Kilvington, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Victor Knott, Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Eric Wilfred Langlands, Indian Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Herbert Lester, Carnarvonshire Home Guard.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) William Charles Likeman, Army Educational Corps.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) John Hedley Gallier Lillywhite, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (local Colonel) William Herbert Horatio Lindquist, M.C., 1st King George V.'s Own Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army.
Charles Merrill Schaffter, Esq., M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. (Ed.), Surgeon working in Church Missionary Hospitals in Persia.
Peter Frank Dalrymple Tennant, Esq., Press Attaché at His Majesty's Legation at Stockholm.
Maud, Mrs. Tiplady, a British subject resident in Brazil.
Thomas Wikeley, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Jedda.
George Richard Rich Nicholas, Esq. For philanthropic services in the State of Victoria.
Miss Jane Bell, President, Royal Victorian College of Nursing, State of Victoria.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable
Archibald Clifford Blacklow, D.S.O., V.D., Member of the Legislative Council, State of Tasmania. For public and municipal services.
William Andrew Burrell, Esq. For social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
Arthur Gilmour Cowling, Esq., M.C., Chief Education Officer, Southern Rhodesia.
Theodore Albert Edward Holdengarde, Esq., Chairman of the National Industrial Council for the Iron and Steel Manufacturing and Engineering Industries of Southern Rhodesia.
Dudley Mathews, Esq. For services in connection with charitable and patriotic movements in the State of South Australia.
Francis Martin O'Leary, Esq., a Member of the Finance Committee, Newfoundland Patriotic Association.
Eric Charles Price, Esq., Deputy Food Controller, Newfoundland, and formerly Chairman of the Board of Customs, Newfoundland.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alick Vernie Stark, E. D., late 15th Oxley Regiment, Official and Private Secretary to the Governor of the State of Queensland.
Alfred Herman Traeger, Esq., of the State of South Australia. For public services in connection with wireless inventions.
Augusta Maud, Lady Wallace, M.B.E., Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Scottish Branch of the Victoria League, and member of the Scottish Committee of the Empire Societies' War Hospitality Committee.
Margaret Wilkie, Lady Bhore, M.B.E., M.B., Ch.B. (wife of Sir Joseph Bhore, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Economic Adviser to the Govemment of Bhopal), Central India.
Pritamdas Bhojraj Advani, Esq., M.I.E., Director of Industries, Bombay.
Akhter Husain, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Sialkot, Punjab.
Ernest Brian Hindley Baker, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal.
Joseph Charles Brommage, Esq., M.B.E., Joint Financial Adviser (Munitions Production), Government of India.
Ivor Bull, Esq., Coffee Planter and Member of Coorg Legislative Council.
Reginald Glanville Burt, Esq., Assistant Controller-General of Inspection (Civil Wing), General Headquarters, India.
Hadden Hamilton Carleston, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Civil Representative, Indian Infantry Division, and lately Collector and District Magistrate, Civil and Military Station, Bangalore.
Leonard Alfred Chapman, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Joint Financial Adviser (Supply), Government of India.
George Alfred Davies Cochrane, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Superintendent of Works, Public Works Department, Central Provinces and Berar.
Major Leopold Henry Conville, Landholder, Deputy Recruiting Officer, Montgomery, Punjab.
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Faruque, Controller of Coal Distribution and Transport Advisory Officer.
Ramaswami Ayyangar Gopalaswami, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department and Secretary, National Defence Council.
Herbert Hawley, Esq., F.I.C., Government Analyst, King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Guindy, Madras.
Gordon Peace, Esq., F.I.C., Chief Inspector of Explosives in India and Chief Adviser, Factory A.R.P.
Cornelius James Pelly, Esq., Indian Political Service, Political Agent and His Majesty's Consul, Muscat, Persian Gulf.
Major Louis Alexander Gordon Pinhey, Indian Political Service, Political Agent and Deputy Commissioner, Sibi, and lately Wazir-i-Azam, Kalat State, Baluchistan.
John Erskine Pitcairn, Esq„ V.D., Assistant Manager, Messrs. Peirce Leslie and Company, Cochin.
Hugh Edward Richardson, Esq., Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Agent-General for India at Chungking.
Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Innes Shepherd, D.S.O., Indian Army (retired), Honorary Secretary, Indian Comforts Fund, London.
Hiranand Rupchand Shivdasani, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Agra, United Provinces.
John Gerald Simms, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Ahmedabad, Bombay.
Malcolm Moncrieff Stuart, Esq., Indian Civil Service, District Magistrate, Chittagong, Bengal.
Alexander Colin Burlington Symon, Esq., Secretary, Indian Purchasing Mission at Washington.
Sardar Shivrao Bhavanrao Thorat, Jahagirdar of Panodi, and First-Class Sardar of the Deccan, Ahmednagar District, Bombay.
Frederick Lewis Undenvood, Esq., Indian Police, District Superintendent of Police, Madras.
Charles Ernest Walze, Esq., District Magistrate and Collector of Gaya, Bihar.
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (E) David Butchart Simpson, R.N.R. (Bebington, Cheshire).
Acting Lieutenant-Commander Morgan Charles Giles, G.M., Royal Navy.
Captain (Quartermaster) Sidney Hamlett, The Cheshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant William George Hankin, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Arthur Richard Hanmer, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
Lieutenant William Hannah, West Lothian Home Guard.
Warrant Officer Class I, Robert Hannan, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Bernard Hanson, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (acting Captain) (Senior Assistant Surgeon) Eric Rudolph Hill, Indian Army Medical Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) Peter Norman Hitchman, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
Captain (temporary Major) Thomas Edwin Hodgson, General List.
Major (Quartermaster) John Samuel Hoppin, Royal Army Service Corps.
Miss Winifred Grace Houlding, Sister, Territorial Army Nursing Service.
Captain Henry Maurice Howell, Officers Training Corps.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Albert Henry Ingram, The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (Deputy Commissary) James Ingram, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) James Moffatt Ireland, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (Adjutant) George Douglas Izzett, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Major Jaswant Parmar, Indian States Forces.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Philip Sidney Keen, The Devonshire Regiment.
Captain Brevet Major (temporary Major) Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly, M.C., Royal Artillery.
Major (Mrs.) Ino Kennedy, A.R.R.C., Southern Rhodesia Women's Auxiliary Military Service.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) John Killey, The Devonshire Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) Robert Gordon Kitchen, Royal Corps of Signals.
Major (Quartermaster) Timothy Lane, T.D., The Manchester Regiment, Territorial Army.
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant William Henry Lavers, D.C.M., Grenadier Guards.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Edmund Philip Lempriere, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) Harold Lindsay,, M.M., The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Hugh Norton Lister, Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Ronald Selby Little, Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Douglas Plenderleath Lithgow, 1st The Royal Dragoons, Royal Armoured Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Eric Horton London, Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Duncan MacGregor, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).
Major Alexander Renshaw MacKay, Fifeshire Home Guard.
Lieutenant (acting Captain) Ian Louis Egerton Macmillan, The Gordon Highlanders.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Assistant Paymaster) James Michael Macnamara, Royal Army Pay Corps.
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Alfred Charles Mogridge, Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Majeed Malik, Indian Army.
Junior Commander Marion Charlotte Marling, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
Captain (Quartermaster) Charles King Mason, Royal Artillery.
Sub-Conductor (temporary Conductor) Frederick Victor Mason, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
Captain Robert Claude Matthews, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Ernest Frederick Tobin Maunsell, Royal Engineers.
Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class (temporary Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class) The Reverend Richard John Forrester Mayston, Royal Army Chaplains Department.
Major Herbert Joseph McCaffery, Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) Charles Patrick Home McCall) Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Henderson McDiarmid, Royal Engineers.
Company Sergeant-Major Donald McKay, Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) John Morris McKee, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Major Stanley Wayman Milburn, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant (Ouartermaster) Charles Arthur Milner, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Battery Sergeant-Major (acting Warrant Officer Class l) James McKenna Mitchell, Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Mohammed Hafiz, Indian Army.
Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class the Reverend William Wilson Morrell, Royal Army Chaplain's Department.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Henry Whittaker Morton, Royal Engineers.
Subadar Muhammad Sadiq, 1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
Captain John James Newbury, Glamorgan Home Guard.
Captain (Brevet Major) (temporary Major) Reginald Charles Norton, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
Captain (Quartermaster) Frederick William Oakes, Royal Corps of Signals.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles William Douglas O'Gorman, Royal Artillery.
Captain (Assistant Paymaster) (Temporary Major, Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) William Frederick Oram, Royal Army Pay Corps.
Honorary Captain William Edward Corbett Owen, E. D., Southern Rhodesia, Territorial Forces.
Major Frederick Arthur Paling, Southern Rhodesia Forces.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) John Blackall Palmer, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.
Captain (temporary Major) William Gregg Parker, B.Sc., Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) Bernard Lancelot Pavey, The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment.
Captain Andrew James Paviour, General List.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) the Honourable Peter George Penny, Royal Artillery.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Petero, East African Forces.
Captain Harry Clement Pollock, Royal Engineers.
Captain Francis Leslie Potter, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Captain (Assistant Paymaster) (temporary Major, Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) William Alfred Potter, Royal Army Pay Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Harry Allan Ross Powell, Royal Artillery.
Instructor Sergeant-Major Patrick Power, Army Physical Training Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) William England Price, M.C., D.C.M., The East Lancashire Regiment.
Major (Quartermaster) Charles . George Pyemont, T.D., Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Hugh John Reginald Joseph Radcliffe, Royal Artillery.
Captain (temporary Major) Philip Eugene Gerard Rathbone, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Subadar Major (Honorary Lieutenant) Ram Sing Rawat, Sardar Bahadur, 18th Royal Garkwal Rifles, Indian Army.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Sidney James George Regler, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
Lieutenant Claude Kenneth Revis, Royal Engineers.
Captain (temporary Major) Alfred James Patrick Ritchie, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's).
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (temporary Captain) Arthur Roe, Royal Army Service Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) Daniel Rogers, Royal Artillery.
Major Augustus Hugh Rootes, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
Captain (temporary Major) Charles Martin Row, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant (acting Staff Sergeant-Major) Geoffrey Lewin Rowe, Royal Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant Harry Robinson Rowntree, The East Lancashire Regiment.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Frederick Rush, Royal Army Service Corps. Captain Edwin Hill Ryley, General List.
Captain (temporary Major) Noel Graham Salvesen, Intelligence Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) Harry Scaife, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Felix Xavier Schreyeck, Army Catering Corps.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Arthur Walker Semple, Intelligence Corps.
Captain (temporary Major) (Commissary) John Charles Sharpe, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
Major Donald Archibald Pollock Shields, Worcestershire Home Guard.
Captain William Henry Simmonds, Gloucestershire Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) Dudley Cautley Stewart-Smith, Extra Regimentally Employed List.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Edward Smith, The Worcestershire Regiment.
Captain (Quartermaster) Robert Edwin Somes, Coldstream Guards.
Major John Clement Tabor, T.D., Gloucestershire Home Guard.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Herbert Oswald Taylor, Indian Army,
Staff Sergeant-Major William Leonard Taylor, The King's African Rifles.
Lieutenant Albert Edward Thompson, The South Staffordshire Regiment.
Captain (temporary Major) John Bernard Thompson, Royal Army Service Corps.
Captain Tikka Surindar Sind Bedi, Indian Army.
Captain (temporary Major) (Quartermaster) George Charles Tompsett, General List.
Regimental Sergeant-Major Saidu Turay, Sierra Leone Regiment, West African Frontier Force.
Squadron-Sergeant-Major John Verge, 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).
Staff Sergeant-Major Dungey Verran, Royal Army Service Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) Benjamin Victor James Vigrass, Reconnaissance Corps.
Major Aubrey Clifford Wadsworth, Army Cadet Force.
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Fred Walker, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Stanley Eric Walker, Royal Artillery.
Second-Lieutenant John Walsh, Hampshire Home Guard.
Major Andrew Benjamin Way, British Guiana Home Guard.
Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Gilbert Henry Way, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Major Donald Clarence Whitaker, Dorsetshire Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) Stanley Charles White, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
Major John Willatt, M.C., M.A., Army Educational Corps.
Company Sergeant-Major Ethel Williams, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
Captain (temporary Major) (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) Norman David Stuart Williams, Indian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Captain (local Major) Fred Wood, Jamaica Home Guard.
Captain (Quartermaster) Ernest James Woods, Royal Artillery.
Captain Edward John Wortley, M.M., Lancashire Home Guard.
Captain (temporary Major) Frank Rob Wray, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (local Captain) Arthur William. Wright, Indian Army.
Warrant Officer Class Il John Wright, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Zealley, Army Cadet Force.
Squadron Leader John Grimwood Earl, Royal Air Force.
Squadron Leader John Edward Marzorati, Southern Rhodesian Air Force and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Squadron Leader Bertie George Starr Burleigh, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Squadron Leader Donald Edward Gibbs, Royal Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader Archibald Harry Leslie Pearce, Royal Air Force.
The Reverend Herbert Elymor Dickson Ashford, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Charles Wilfred Crimmin, Royal Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Eric Vincent Cunliffe, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Clarke Dunn, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Eric Leonard Fenton, Auxiliary Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Richard Aylmer Frost, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant William Charles Graham, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant George Anderton Grant, Royal Australian Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Henry William Hughes, Royal Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Reginald Nelson Payne, Royal Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant John Wyndham Pope-Hennessey, Reserve of Air Force Officers.
Flight Lieutenant Hilaire Roberge, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Victor Rodgers, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Ronald Leslie Rossiter, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Thomas Walter Sherratt, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Herbert George Sparks, Royal Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Graham Russell Swanwick, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant Ronald George Wilsdon, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flight Lieutenant, (now Acting Squadron Leader) Frederick William Worley, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant William Billington, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Russell Mackie Bragg, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Philip Henry Burton, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant joseph Montague Caudle, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Arthur Henry Chapman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Eric Harvey Dickens, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Acting Flight Lieutenant Dudley Jack Ellery, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Bert Flannery, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Alexander John Forsyth, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles Robert Gooding, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant John Hinchliffe Gould, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Leslie John Hickman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Douglas Hughes, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Acting Flight Lieutenant George Henry Lambert, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Percival Lamey, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant George Edwin Ridd, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Cecil Raymond Shepherd, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Leslie James Snape, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) David Arnold Solomon, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Robert Dudley King Tallowin, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Flight Lieutenant William Thomas Wakeham, Royal Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant William Wrightson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flying Officer Ernest Trevor Corin Durrant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flying Officer Edward William Freeman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flying Officer Charles Frederick Gibson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flying Officer Ralph Edwin Newman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Flying Officer David Herbert Slater, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Warrant Officer George Wilson Wood Baker, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Alfred James Barlow, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Warrant Officer Henry Keith Heller, Royal Australian Air Force.
Warrant Officer James McCracken Mackie, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Hugh Lewis Parry, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Lewis John Peach, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Edward Gibson Rees, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Joseph Vernon Thompson, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Hugh Rodney Watkins, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Jack Whinnett, Royal Air Force.
Warrant Officer Joseph Wood, Royal Air Force.
Acting Warrant Officer Ernest Armstrong, Royal Air Force.
Acting Warrant Officer William Orice Gilbert, Royal Air Force.
Acting Warrant Officer Norman Stuart Robinson, Royal Air Force.
Flight Officer Audrey Louie Rundle, Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Flight Officer Margaret Evelyn Kirkham Wherry, Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Acting Flight Officer Irene Rose Cryer, Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Australia:
Lieutenant Commander Ronald Alexander Denovan, R.A.N.V.R.
Lieutenant John Charles Elley, Royal Australian Navy.
Captain James Burnett Carmody, Australian Military Forces.
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Stanley Robert Irving Clark, Australian Military Forces.
Lieutenant John Godfrey Saxton, Australian Military Forces.
Squadron Leader Alexander Charles Alfred McBride, Royal Australian Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant William Joseph Symons, Royal Australian Air Force.
Warrant Officer George Green, Royal Australian Air Force.
New Zealand:
Captain George Bartrum Baker, D.C.M., M.M., New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Arthur Douglas Cooper, New Zealand Territorial Forces.
Captain James Paumea Ferris, New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain and Quartermaster James Green Milne, New Zealand Military Forces.
Warrant Officer Class I Stuart Waters Richardson, New Zealand Military Forces.
Second Lieutenant Reginald Augustus Thomas, New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Keith Owen Tunnicliffe, New Zealand Military Forces.
Warrant Officer John Edward Keating McConnell, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Civil Division
Robert Douglas, Esq., a British subject resident in Turkey.
Winifred Amy, Mrs. Goodbody, a British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
Reginald Arthur Morrison Hughman, Esq., British Vice-Consul at Pernambuco.
Albert James Johnson, Esq., Archivist at His Majesty's Legation at Caracas.
Thomas Joseph McGurk, Esq., Clerical Officer at His Majesty's Embassy at Cairo.
Miss Tercia Decima Meek, a British subject resident in Egypt.
Joseph Todd Mulvenny, Esq., British Vice-Consul at Baltimore.
William Percy Taylor Nurse, Esq., British Vice-Consul at New Orleans.
Miss Kathleen Mary Potts, Shorthand-typist at His Majesty's Embassy at Cairo.
Cyril Jackson Rogers, Esq., Employed at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Loanda.
Miss Gladys Rebecca Winifred Routh, Clerk at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Smyrna.
Joseph David Salamah, Esq., Chief Translator at His Majesty's Embassy at Bagdad.
John Henry Toovey, Esq., Superintendent of the Central Prison at Port Sudan.
Maud, Mrs. Whitton, a British subject resident in the Argentine Republic.
Raymond Charles Wilkins, Esq., a British subject resident in Paraguay.
Henry Charles Arnold, Esq., Manager of the Government Agricultural Experimental Station at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
James Arthur Banks, Esq., Vice-Chairman, West of Scotland Branch, Empire Societies' War Hospitality Committee.
Ernest Warren Blackbeard, Esq., a trader in Serowe, Bechuanaland Protectorate. For public services.
Anthony Drinkwater Chataway, Esq., Civil Commissioner and Magistrate, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
Frank Cox, Esq., an officer of the Southern Rhodesia Civil Service attached to the Office of the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia in London.
Joseph Michael Curran, Esq., lately Technical Officer, Newfoundland Oversea Forestry Unit.
Miss Margaret Rice Davies. For work in connection with the Newfoundland Forces oversea.
Joyce Meeres, Mrs. Fry. For services in connection with the Dominion and Allied Services' Hospitality Scheme.
Cornelius Ewen MacLean Greenfield, Esq., Bookkeeper to the Treasury, Southern Rhodesia.
Miss Frances Lindsay. For services in the care of torpedoed survivors landed at St. John's, Newfoundland.
David Jaines Masterton Mackenzie, Esq., M.B., Ch.B.(Edin.), Acting Principal Medical Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Miss Daisy Muriel Millhouse, Matron of the Home for Incurables, State of South Australia.
Richard Hugh de Camborne Paynter, Esq., Superintendent, British South Africa Police Reserve, Officer Commanding the Police Reserve Division at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
The Honourable
Leslie Arthur Procter, Member of the Legislative Council, and President of the Municipal Association, State of Tasmania.
John Rankin, Esq., Station Master, Glasgow Central Station. For services in connection with the movement of oversea troops.
Norman Frederick Shillingford, Esq., Superintendent, British South Africa Police Reserve, Officer Commanding the Police Reserve Division at Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Gladys Mary, Mrs. Woollcombe. For services in connection with hospitality to oversea troops in Aldershot and Glasgow.
Miss Lilian Godfreida Lutter, Superintendent, American Baptist Mission, Morton Lane Girls' School and Normal School, Moulmein, Burma.
Frederick William Thompson Bodeker, Esq., Extra Assistant Conservator, Forest Department.
Oyinkan Morunke, Mrs. Abayomi. For social welfare work in Nigeria.
Clement Anderson Akrofi, Esq. For services to education in the Gold Coast.
Eric Hutton Allinson, Esq., Sleeping Sickness Surveyor, Tanganyika Territory.
Henry John Bolsom, Esq., Chief Storekeeper, Tanganyika Territory Railways.
The Very Reverend Archpriest Monsignor Emmanuel Brincat. For public services in Malta.
John Lewis Chapman, Esq., Chief Sanitary Inspector, Health Department, St. Vincent.
Vera, Mrs. Crompton, President of the Fiji Red Cross and War Appeals Committee.
Herbert Henderson Fraser, Esq., Private Secretary to the Governor of the Leeward Islands.
Violet Grace Lilian, Mrs. Gladwell. For services at the Red Cross Depot, Nairobi, Kenya.
Francis Raban Johnson, Esq., M.Sc., F.I.C., Colonial Chemical Service, Government Chemist, Gold Coast.
Flora Annie, Mrs. Jones. For social welfare services in Nigeria.
Walter Stanley Jones, Esq. For public services in the Turks Islands.
John Kitching, Esq., Divisional Irrigation Engineer, Ceylon.
George Angel Douglas Lavarello, Esq., Office Superintendent, Colonial Secretariat, Gibraltar.
Miss Eliza Ann McGill, Colonial Nursing Service, Lady Superintendent of Nurses, Uganda.
Doris Mary Dean, Mrs. Macqueen, Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary, Palestine.
Paul Joseph Mercieca, Esq., Engineer, Demolilion and Clearance Department, Malta.
Mary, Mrs. Modera. For social welfare services in Kenya.
Oscar Paris, Esq., Superintendent of Public Gardens, Malta.
Mohamed Ali Rana, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. For public services in Kenya.
Company Sergeant-Major Leonard Sharpe, Senior Instructor and Superintendent, Air Raid Precautions Department, Malta. (Seconded from the Rifle Brigade.)
Alastair Malcolm Smith, Esq., Pilot, Harbours Department, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours Administration.
Elizabeth Saltenstall, Mrs. Wright. For social welfare services in Ceylon.
Captain Seraphim Salvatore Xuereb, Controller of Labour, Malta.
Honorary:
Muhammudu, Emir of Fika, Nigeria.
Sheikh Qaddal Said Qaddal, Educational Assistant to the Resident Adviser, Mukalla, Aden Protectorate.
Samuel Julian Hadawi, Esq., Land Officer, Palestine.
Gad Levinson, Esq., Inspector, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Palestine.
Juda Mazow Tocatly, Esq. For public services in Palestine.
Marjory Mackellar, Mrs. Prendergast (wife of Colonel M. H. Prendergast, D.S.O., M.V.O., Assistant Adjutant-General, General Headquarters, India), Red Cross Commissioner's Office, Simla.
Khan Bahadur Saiyid Ali Zamin, Vice-President, Council of Administration and Chief Secretary, Benares State.
Major James Gold, I.E., Works Manager, Engineering Workshops, Madras & Southern Mahratta Railway, Arkonam.
Lieutenant-Colonel Haider Khan, Professor of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University and Officer Commanding, 2nd Battalion (United Provinces), U.T.C., I.T.F., United Provinces.
Major
Patrick John Keen, Indian Political Ser vice, lately Assistant Director in the Quetta Branch of the Intelligence Bureau, Government of India.
Khan Bahadur Seth Kikabhai, General Merchant and Honorary Magistrate, Raipur, Central Provinces and Berar.
Archibald Solomon Kyte, Esq., Assistant Collector of Salt Revenue, Kharaghoda.
Elwyn Byron Lewis, Esq., Chief Mining Engineer, Salt Range Division, Central Excises and Salt Department, North-Western India.
Dugald McAlpine, Esq., Resident Engineer, Oudh and Tirhut Railway, Mansi.
Thomas McIntyre, Esq., Officiating Deputy Chief Engineer, Bridges, Bengal and Assam Railway, Calcutta.
George Elphinstone Miller, Esq., Zamindar and Honorary Magistrate, Digha, Patna District, Bihar.
Muhammad Abdul Hamid Khan, Esq., Assistant Postmaster-General, Madras Circle, Madras.
Duraiswami Narayanamurti, Esq., A.I.C., F.Inst.P., Wood Preservation Officer, Forest Research Institute.
Frank Noble, Esq., Superintendent, Dacca Central Jail, Bengal.
Alfred Henry Nunn, Esq., Officer-in-Charge, A.R.P. Rescue Service, Calcutta, Bengal.
Rai Bahadur Pandit Lachhmi Dat Pande, Advocate and President, Bar Association, Almora, United Provinces.
Muriel Hearson, Lady Twynam (wife of Sir Henry Twynam, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar).
Grace Steele, Lady Glancy (wife of Sir Bertrand Glancy, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Governor of the Punjab).
Heather, Mrs. Bourne (wife of Mr. F. C. Bourne, C.I.E., I.C.S., Chief Secretary to Government), Punjab.
Miss Dora Chadwick, Principal Matron, Surgeon-General's Office, Madras.
Miss Jean Murray Orkney, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Women's Medical Service, Director, Maternity and Child Welfare Bureau, Indian Red Cross Society, New Delhi.
Sir Hugh Clayton, C.I.E., Indian Civil service (retired), Chairman, The Hospitality Committee for British and Indian Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen, Bombay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Franklin Eminson, Indian Medical Service (retired), Civil Surgeon, Karachi, Sind.
Major Reginald Arthur Haythornthwaite, Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon, Khasi and Jantia Hills, Assam.
John Lowe, Esq., M.D., M.B., Ch.B., Coordinator of Research, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta.