1953 Coronation Honours

Appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours June 2021 thumb|Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip 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 1953.39863 1 June 1953 2939–2993 y The Times 1 June 1953 14 Queen's Coronation HonoursNew Zealand list: 39866 1 June 1953 3003–3006 y 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 GBR CH DL 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 GBR OBE JP MP 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 GBR Bt MC DL MP 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 GBR OBE 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: Sir Edward Bridges GBR GCB GCVO MC Sir Norman Brook GBR GCB John Edwards GBR OBE MP The Hon. Harold Holt The Hon. John McEwen Sir Patrick Spens GBR KBE QC MP Baronetcies Alfred Bossom GBR JP MP Sir Percy Mills GBR KBE Sir Henry Price Major-General Sir Edward Spears GBR KBE CB MC Sir Herbert Williams GBR MP Knights Bachelor Stephen Cecil Armitage GBR CBE Alderman, Nottingham City Council John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong GBR MVO Chester Herald Geoffrey Morris Barnett, For political and public services in Leicester. Dingwall Latham Bateson GBR CBE MC President of the Law Society Alderman John William Bowen GBR CBE JP 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 GBR CBE Director and Chief Designer, Hawker Aircraft, Ltd. Professor David Campbell GBR MC MD President of the General Medical Council George Norman Clark, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford. For services to the study of history. Bernard Henry Coode GBR CB Clerk of Committees, House of Commons Leonard Lumley Savage Dodsworth GBR JP For political and public services in York. Patrick William Donner GBR MP 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 GBR CBE Chief Constable, Kent County Constabulary Ernest Wensley Lapthorn Field GBR CBE Director, Scottish Engineering Employers' Association Lionel Wray Fox GBR CB MC Chairman of the Prison Commission for England and Wales Arthur John Gielgud, Actor Colonel Louis Halle Gluckstein GBR QC TD DL Conservative Member of Parliament for East Nottingham, 1931–45. For political and public services. Stuart Coldwell Goodwin GBR JP For political and public services in Sheffield David Edward Griffiths GBR OBE Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee, Royal Air Force Cinema Corporation Alderman William Josiah Grimshaw GBR JP For political and public services in Middlesex Kenneth George Grubb GBR CMG 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 GBR JP For political and public services in Lancashire. Hugh Nicholas Linstead GBR OBE MP Conservative Member of Parliament for Putney since 1942. For political and public services. George Donald Alastair MacDougall GBR CBE Chief Adviser, Statistical Branch, Office of the Paymaster General William Neil McKie GBR MVO Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey Major Sydney Frank Markham GBR MP 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 GBR JP DL For political and public services in Croydon. Frederick Messer GBR CBE JP MP Chairman, Central Health Services Council. Lately Chairman, North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board Charles Richard Morris, Vice-chancellor, University of Leeds John Spencer Muirhead GBR DSO MC TD DL President of the Law Society of Scotland Andrew Naesmith GBR CBE JP General Secretary, Amalgamated Weavers' Association James Henry Norritt GBR JP DL Lord Mayor of Belfast Lieutenant-Colonel Grismond Picton Philipps GBR CVO For political and public services in Carmarthenshire. Alderman Theodore Beal Pritchett GBR MC DL 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 GBR CBE Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue Francis Martin Rouse Walshe GBR OBE MD FRCP President, Royal Society of Medicine. Consulting Physician to University College Hospital, London George Alexander Williamson GBR DL 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.11 Australian Knights https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50563162 21 March 2020 The Courier-Mail 1 June 1953 South Australia The Honourable Shirley Williams Jeffries, of the State of South Australia. For public services. The Honourable Geoffrey Sandford Reed, Judge of the Supreme Court, State of South Australia Tasmania Eric Ernest von Bibra GBR OBE Agent-General in London for the State of Tasmania Southern Rhodesia Andrew Henry Strachan GBR CBE Secretary to the Treasury, Southern Rhodesia Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Malcolm Palliser Barrow GBR CBE For public services in Nyasaland. Ewen MacGregor Field Fergusson GBR JP 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 GBR CMG CBE lately Financial Secretary and Treasurer, British Guiana Charles MathewGBR CMG QC Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Federation of Malaya Roland Welensky GBR CMG JP For public services in Northern Rhodesia. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath Knights Grand Cross (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir George Elvey Creasy GBR KCB CBE DSO MVO General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley GBR KCB KBE DSO late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts GBR KCB KBE DSO ADC late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders GBR KCB KBE MC DFC MM Royal Air Force Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles GBR GCVO KCB CMG MC Private Secretary to The Queen Sir William Strang GBR GCMG KCB MBE Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office Knights Commander (KCB) Military Division Vice-Admiral Edmund Walter Anstice GBR CB Air Marshal Sir Francis Joseph Fogarty GBR KBE CB DFC AFC Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman GBR KBE CB DFC AFC Royal Air Force General (temporary) Sir Eric Garden Robert Mansergh GBR KBE CB MC late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery Lieutenant-General (temporary) Harold Redman GBR CB CBE late Infantry. Colonel, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Vice-Admiral Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett GBR CB CBE DSO Civil Division Sir John Douglas Cockcroft GBR CBE Chairman, Defence Research Policy Committee and Scientific Adviser to the Minister of Defence. Director, Atomic Energy Research Establishment Commander (S) Sir Dudley Colles GBR KCVO OBE Royal Navy (Retired), Deputy Treasurer to The Queen and Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse Gilbert Nicolson Flemming GBR CB Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education Sir Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox GBR KCVO DSO Ceremonial Officer, H.M. Treasury Sir Owen Frederick Morshead GBR KCVO DSO MC DL Librarian to The Queen, Windsor Castle Sir John Armitage Stainton GBR KBE QC Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords Companions (CB) Military Division Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Barnard GBR CBE DSO The Venerable Archdeacon Frank Noel Chamberlain GBR OBE Chaplain of the Fleet Major-General Richard Frank Cornwall GBR CBE Royal Marines Rear-Admiral Norman Vincent Dickinson GBR DSO DSC Rear-Admiral John Willson Musgrave Eaton GBR DSO DSC Rear-Admiral Arthur Gordon Voules Hubback GBR CBE Rear-Admiral (E) Alexander Davidson McGlashan GBR DSO Commodore Arthur Ian Robertson GBR RD RNR Rear-Admiral Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke GBR VC DSO Commodore Courtenay Alexander Rives Shillington GBR VRD RNVR Brigadier Alexander Meister Astruther GBR OBE late Corps of Royal Engineers Brigadier George Rowley Bradshaw GBR CBE late Royal Regiment of Artillery Major-General Edwyn Harland Wolstenholme Cobb GBR CBE late Corps of Royal Engineers Major-General Joseph Clinton Collins GBR CBE QHS late Royal Army Medical Corps Major-General Ralph Cyril Cruddas GBR DSO late Infantry Major-General William James Fitzpatrick Eassie GBR CBE DSO late Royal Army Service Corps Major-General Frederick Knowles Escritt GBR OBE QHS late Royal Army Medical Corps Major-General Cecil Llewellyn Firbank GBR CBE DSO late Infantry Major-General Reginald Peregrine Harding GBR DSO late Royal Armoured Corps Colonel Leslie Innes Jacques GBR CBE MC late Corps of Royal Engineers Major-General James Mansergh Wentworth Martin GBR CBE late Royal Armoured Corps The Reverend Canon Victor Joseph Pike GBR CBE QHC Chaplain-General to the Forces (53409), Royal Army Chaplains' Department Major-General (temporary) Walter Henry Dennison Ritchie GBR CBE late Royal Army Service Corps Major-General Dennis Charles Tarrant Swan GBR CBE late Corps of Royal Engineers Brigadier and Chief Paymaster Frederick Christian Williams GBR CBE MC Royal Army Pay Corps Air Vice-Marshal George David Harvey GBR CBE DFC Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Walter Hugh Merton GBR OBE Royal Air Force Air Commodore Adolphus Dan Davies GBR CBE Royal Air Force Air Commodore Hector Douglas McGregor GBR CBE DSO Royal Air Force Air Commodore John Marson GBR CBE Royal Air Force Air Commodore Thomas Bain Prickman GBR CBE Royal Air Force Group Captain David John Pryer Lee GBR CBE Royal Air Force Group Captain John Gilbert Davis GBR OBE 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 GBR CBE DFC DL Chairman, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association Robert Cockburn GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR CBE Foreign Office Ernest Turner Jones GBR OBE Principal Director of Scientific Research (Air), Ministry of Supply Evan Bonnor Hugh-Jones GBR MC Chief Engineer, Highways Engineering Staff, Ministry of Transport George Herbert Edmeston Parr GBR CBE 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 GBR CBE TD DL Lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Surrey Norman Egerton Young GBR CMG MC Comptroller-General, National Debt Office Royal Victorian Chain His Grace Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk GBR KG GCVO His Grace Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Beaufort GBR KG GCVO Royal Victorian Order Dames Grand Cross (GCVO) Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret GBR CI Her Highness Princess Marie Louise GBR CI GBE The Right Honourable Mabell Frances Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Airlie GBR GBE Knights Grand Cross (GCVO) Field Marshal the Right Honourable Alan Francis, Viscount Alanbrooke GBR KG G.CB O.M DSO The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury The Most Honourable George Horatio Charles, Marquess of Cholmondeley Admiral Sir John Hereward Edelsten GBR GCB CBE ADC Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot GBR KCB KBE DFC ADC Royal Air Force The Right Honourable Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe GBR QC MP Colonel Sir Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh GBR KCVO Major Sir Arthur Horace Penn GBR KCVO MC The Right Honourable Lawrence Roger, Earl of Scarbrough GBR KG GCSI GCIE TD Sir Harold Richard Scott GBR KCB KBE Dames Commander (DCVO) The Right Honourable Dorothy Evelyn Augusta, Countess of Halifax GBR CI The Right Honourable Patricia, Viscountess Hambleden The Right Honourable Cynthia Elinor Beatrix, Countess Spencer GBR OBE Knights Commander (KCVO) Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax The Honourable Sir George Rothe Bellew GBR CVO Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower GBR CVO Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley GBR KCMG CVO Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning GBR KBE CB DSO Colonel Geoffrey Ronald Codrington GBR CB CMG CVO DSO OBE TD Major The Honourable John Spencer Coke GBR CVO Sir Rupert de la Bère GBR JP MP Cedric Drewe GBR MP The Right Honourable David McAdam Eccles GBR MP Sir Harold Corti Emmerson GBR KC.B Major-General Randle Guy Feilden GBR CB CBE Major-General Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones GBR CMG CBE MC Sir Percivale Liesching GBR GCMG KCB Edgar William Light GBR CMG MVO OBE Major Philip Reginald Margetson GBR CVO MC Henry Austin Strutt GBR CB CVO Commanders (CVO) (William) Godfrey Agnew Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour GBR CIE CBE MC Roderick Edward Barclay GBR CMG Eric Bedford Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Charles Bingham GBR DSO Major Alastair Campbell Blair GBR TD W.S. John Dykes Bower Commander (S) Richard Colville GBR MVO DSC Royal Navy (Retired) Roger John Edward Conant GBR MP Captain Oliver Payan Dawnay Jean Frances, The Honourable Mrs. Andrew Elphinstone The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell GBR MVO Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes-Gaskell Lady Margaret Katherine Hay Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd GBR MVO MC John Nigel Loring GBR MRCS LRCP Ivison Stephenson Macadam GBR CBE MVO Walter Howard Nevill GBR RD Osborne Harold Peasgood David Bruce Pitblado William George Pottinger Alderman Charles Pearce Russell GBR JP Henry Gray Studholme GBR MP Lawrence Edward Tanner GBR MVO Burke St. John Trend Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Osbert Eustace Vesey GBR CMG CBE Anthony Richard Wagner Lady Victoria Alexandrina Violet Wemyss Fourth Class James Lawrence Bunting Ansell GBR MRCS LRCP The Reverend Prebendary Edward Harold Williams-Ashman William Bishop GBR MVO Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Martin Michael Charles Charteris GBR OBE Eugene John Cruft Percival Thorne Fielding GBR MVO Norman Bishop Hartnell Colonel Sir Edward Philip Le Breton Major James Rennie Maudslay GBR MBE Major Mark Vane Milbank GBR MC Oliver Millar Major Robert Alfred O'Brien GBR TD Lieutenant-Colonel (Director of Music) Meredith Roberts GBR MBE Major Charles Murray Kennedy St. Clair (The Master of Sinclair) Norman Leslie Swift GBR MVO Lieutenant-Colonel John Riddell Bromhead Walker GBR MC Major Charles Ernest Walter GBR MBE Fifth Class Margaret Barron Winifred Maud Bateson David Vincent Griffiths Buchanan Walter Harry Dobson GBR MBE MC MM TD William Frederick Fryer Edmund Frank Grove William John Hepburn GBR MBE Robert George Stegmaun Hoare GBR MBE 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 GBR CH The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knights Grand Cross (GCMG) Major-General Sir John Noble Kennedy GBR KCMG KCVO KBE CB MC Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite GBR KCMG KCIE CSI High Commissioner in Pakistan for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer GBR KCB KBE CMG DSO ADC High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya Honorary Knight Grand Cross Sultan Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-Mu'adzam Shah GBR KCMGG 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 GBR KCIE OBE Medical Adviser and President, Medical Board, Commonwealth Relations Office Harold Graham Vincent GBR CB CVO Secretary, Government Hospitality Fund Frederick Crawford GBR CMG OBE Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles Robert de Zouche Hall GBR CMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Sierra Leone Tom Hickinbotham GBR CMG CIE OBE Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Aden Stephen Elliot Vyvyan Luke GBR CMG Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies and British Co-Chairman of the Caribbean Commission Douglas Frederick Howard GBR CMG MC Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Montevideo Frank Kenyon Roberts GBR CMG Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office Sir James Wilson Robertson GBR KBE Civil Secretary, Sudan Government Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger GBR CMG Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bangkok Honorary Knight Commander Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin GBR CMG ibni Almerhom Sultan Mohamed Jemalulalam, His Highness the Sultan of Brunei. Companions (CMG) Major Edward Beddington-Behrens GBR MC 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 GBR OBE Secretary and Chief Executive, Air Registration Board George Macdonald GBR MD ChB 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 GBR OBE JP DL RE (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 GBR CBE Government Secretary, Basutoland The Honourable George Arthur Davenport, Minister of Mines and Transport, and Minister of Education, Southern Rhodesia Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick GBR DSO ED President of the South Australian Branch of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's League Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold GBR CIE 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 GBR MBE Official Secretary to the Governor, State of Tasmania, for many years James Thomson GBR OBE MM 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR OBE Colonial Administrative Service, President, City Council, Singapore Lionel Armine Mathias, Colonial Administrative Service, Labour Commissioner, Uganda John Archibald Mulhall GBR OBE Colonial Administrative Service, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Gold Coast Robert Newton, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Jamaica Cecil Rex Niven GBR MC Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria Geoffrey Walter Nye GBR OBE 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 GBR CBE Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett GBR OBE Historical Adviser to the Special Historical Section (Captured German Archives) of the Foreign Office Library Henry Norman Brain GBR OBE 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 GBR MC Sudan Agent in London Charles Howard Ellis GBR CBE Foreign Office William Harpham GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR Bt Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Paris Honorary Companion Alhaji the Honourable Usuman Nagogo GBR CBE Emir of Katsina, Nigeria. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire thumb|Queen Elizabeth II formally presenting Sultan Mohamoud Ali Shirreh his honors (Aden, 1954)McAteer William To be a nation: being the third part of The history of Seychelles, 1920–1976 2008 Pristine Books 978-9993180920 41 https://books.google.com/books?id=EMwwAQAAIAAJ 17 February 2018 Knights Grand Cross (GBE) Military Division Admiral The Honourable Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell GBR KCB CBE DSO General Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson GBR KCB KBE DSO ADC late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Royal Pioneer Corps Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd GBR KCB KBE MC DFC Royal Air Force Civil Division Sir Alexander Knox Helm GBR KCMG CBE Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Ankara Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood GBR KCMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Mauritius Honorary Knight Grand Cross Abubakar GBR KBE CMG Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria Dames Commander (DBE) Military Division Brigadier Mary Frances Coulshed GBR CBE TD ADC 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 GBR DCVO JP For social work, including services to the welfare of mothers and children. Catherine Fulford GBR MBE 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 GBR CB DSO Vice-Admiral Albert Lawrence Poland GBR CB DSO DSC Major-General Cecil Norbury Bednall GBR CB OBE MC Royal Army Pay Corps Lieutenant-General John Dane Woodall GBR CB OBE MC late Royal Regiment of Artillery Air Marshal Robert Owen Jones GBR CB AFC Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal James MacConnell Kilpatrick GBR CB OBE MB BCh QH.Tan Civil Division Robert John Graham Boothby GBR MP 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 GBR CBE Public Trustee The Honourable Arthur Jared Palmer Howard GBR CVO JP DL Chairman of the Teaching Hospitals Association Alexander Johnston GBR CB Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury Dudley Owen Lumley GBR CB OBE Deputy Director General, General Post Office Sir Greville Simpson Maginness, Chairman, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Ltd., Manchester Major-General William Godwin Michelmore GBR CB DSO MC TD JP DL Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Devon Sir Charles Johns Mole GBR MVO OBE Director-General of Works, Ministry of Works Sir Frederick Ernest Rebbeck GBR JP DL Chairman and Managing Director, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast John Garnett Lomax GBR CMG MBE MC Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in La Paz Norman Stanley Roberts GBR CMG OBE 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 GBR CMG Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Western Region, Nigeria Clement John Pleass GBR CMG 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 GBR CMG CBE bin Raja Muhammad, Mentri Besar, Selangor, Federation of Malaya Mallam Yahaya GBR CMG CBE Emir of Gwandu, Nigeria Commanders (CBE) Military Division Rear-Admiral (E) Robert Cobb GBR OBE Jeannie Kathleen Gillanders GBR RRC Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Colonel Joseph Thomas Hall GBR OBE ADC Royal Marines Captain Roy Carlton Harry GBR ADC Royal Navy Captain (E) Phillip Daniel Oliver, Royal Navy (Retired) Colonel John Markham Phillips, Royal Marines Superintendent Nancy Margaret Robertson GBR OBE 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 GBR MB BCh Royal Navy Captain (S) Albert Stanley Wiggett GBR ADC Royal Navy Brigadier (temporary) Richard Hugh Barry GBR OBE late Infantry Brigadier George Alexander Bond GBR OBE late Royal Army Service Corps Brigadier (temporary) Robert Gilbert Trimingham Collins, Employed List I (late The Gloucestershire Regiment) Brigadier Brian Daunt GBR DSO 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 GBR OBE late Infantry Brigadier (temporary) John Winthrop Hackett GBR DSO MBE MC late Royal Armoured Corps Colonel Richard Clarence Halse GBR OBE Brigadier Andrew George Heveningham GBR OBE late Royal Army Veterinary Corps Colonel (temporary) Godfrey Pennington Hobbs GBR MBE The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Colonel Hilary Leonard Lewis, late Royal Corps of Signals Lieutenant-Colonel (formerly Colonel (temporary)) Temple Morris GBR OBE MC Royal Army Ordnance Corps Brigadier Henry Albert Potter, late Royal Army Service Corps Colonel (acting) Dudley Gethin Bramley Ridout GBR OBE Army Cadet Force Brigadier (temporary) John Michael Kane Spurling GBR DSO late Infantry Colonel (temporary) Hugh Penry Whitefoord, Royal Regiment of Artillery Colonel Thomas Ernest Williams, late Infantry Brigadier (temporary) Reginald Edward Holloway GBR MBE late Corps of Royal Engineers, at present on loan to the Government of India Colonel Robert Edward Beaumont Long GBR OBE Southern Rhodesia Military Forces The Reverend Alan Stanley Giles GBR OBE QHC Royal Air Force Air Commodore Frederick Elvy Lipscomb GBR MRCS LRCP QHP Royal Air Force Air Commodore Patrick Brunton Lee Potter GBR OBE MD ChB Royal Air Force Acting Air Commodore Wilfrid Ewart Oulton GBR DSO DFC Royal Air Force Acting Air Commodore Walter Allan Stagg GBR OBE 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 GBR DSO AFC Royal Air Force Group Captain Noel Challis Hyde, Royal Air Force Group Captain Gwilym Laugharne Sloane Griffith-Jones GBR MA 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR MP 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 GBR JP lately City Treasurer, Edinburgh William George Barnard GBR FRCP Professor of Pathology, University of London Alderman Albert David Bartlett GBR JP 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 GBR OBE For political and public services in Devon. Joseph Bell, Chief Constable, Manchester City Police Force Alderman William James Bennett GBR JP 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 GBR JP For public services in Staffordshire. Herbert William Bowden GBR MP 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 GBR OBE JP 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions Clemence Dane (Miss Winifred Ashton), Author William Surrey Dane GBR MC Joint Managing Director, Odham's Press, Ltd. For services to King George's Jubilee Trust. Lieutenant-Colonel George Darby GBR OBE MC Head of the Commercial Treaties Branch, Colonial Office Gwendolen Florence Davies GBR MVO OBE Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Thomas Morris Davies GBR MRCS LRCP Deputy Director General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions John Donovan, Member, Docks and Inland Waterways Executive Arthur Drewry GBR JP 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 GBR OBE Director of Savings, General Post Office Edward Granville Gordon Fost, Alderman, Cambridgeshire County Council Edwin Maxwell Fry, Architect and Town Planner Caroline Selina Ganley GBR JP 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 GBR MC a Managing Director, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Harry Percy Gee GBR OBE Chairman, Leicester Savings Committee Mary Spencer Revell, Lady Graham. For political and public services in the North West John Robert Griffin GBR OBE General Secretary, British Legion Arthur Guilford, Director of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department Alderman Grierson James Gully GBR JP 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 GBR OBE Chief Administrator, Regional Department, Women's Voluntary Services John Norman Harmer, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service Major Horace Reginald Haslett GBR OBE Chairman, North Ireland War Pensions Committee John Hayward, Critic Harold Heady, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government Tom Hebron GBR MVO 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE lately Honorary Secretary, Treasurer, Amateur Athletic Federation George Frederick Thomas Hopkins GBR MVO OBE MC Superintendent, Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace Herbert Norman Howells, Composer John Francis Huntington, Assistant Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue James Edgar Hurst GBR JP 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 GBR MC DL 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 GBR JP DL 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 GBR OBE TD Director of British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association, Inc William Leslie GBR MC TD MB JP 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 GBR DSO MC TD DL Lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Counties of Huntingdon and Northampton Harry Lyne GBR OBE Area Secretary, YMCA. Southern Command Francis Charles McLean GBR MBE Deputy Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation Lieutenant-Colonel Norman MacLeod GBR CMG DSO JP DL Member, National Executive Council of the British Legion, Scotland Eva Marion Maguire GBR OBE Head Superintendent, Sandes Soldiers' and Airmen's Homes Keith Cranston Mann, Director of Works (Overseas), Air Ministry Carl Marshall GBR MBE Assistant Secretary, National Assistance Board Archibald Daniel Marston GBR FRCS lately Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetics, Royal College of Surgeons Arnold Ashley Miles GBR MD FRCP Director, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Horace William Minshull GBR OBE Head of the Finance Department, Foreign Office John Methven Mitchell GBR MBE Lately County Clerk of Fife Gilbert Richard Mitchison GBR QC MP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR OBE Director of the Norfolk Agricultural Station at Sprowston, Norwich Major John George Grey Rea GBR DSO JP 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE Chairman, Scottish Horticultural Advisory Committee Aileen Mona Scorrer, Chief Inspector, Children's Department, Home Office Lieutenant-Commander Peter Markham Scott GBR MBE DSC RNVR Director, Severn Wildfowl Trust William Goodwin Senior GBR OBE FDS RCS 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 GBR MVO OBE 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 GBR TD Secretary of Commissions of the Peace, Lord Chancellor's Office Charles Stanley Smallman, Director of Accounts, Ministry of Civil Aviation Dorothy Madge Smith GBR OBE 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR MC Head of Division, Ministry of National Insurance Gilbert Lines Strachan GBR MD FRCS For political and public services; and for services as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Wales. Joseph Summers GBR OBE 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 GBR MC MD FRCP 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 GBR DSM RD RNR (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 GBR OBE TD Chief Executive, Crawley New Town Development Corporation Michael Theodore Waterhouse GBR MC 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 GBR MBE TD 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 GBR JP Chairman, London Brick Company, Ltd. Hubert Stanley Young GBR TD Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence Albert Spencer Calvert GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Vienna Captain Christmas David Howell GBR OBE 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 GBR MB ChB of the State of South Australia. For services in the development of Anaesthetics. Maxwell Gordon Butcher GBR OBE For public services in the State of Tasmania. The Reverend Herbert Carter, General Superintendent of the Methodist Church of Southern Rhodesia Louis Samuel Glover GBR OBE Member of the European Advisory Council, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and a former Chairman of the Council Bevis Royal Graham GBR OBE President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Pakistan Major Ernest Sirdefield Harston GBR OBE Honorary Secretary, British Empire Service League Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm Henderson GBR CB CIE DSO RAF (Retired), Director-General of the Over-Seas League Richard Henry Maclure Lea, General Manager of the Electricity Trust, State of South Australia Albert Millin GBR OBE JP Member of the European Advisory Council of Swaziland since 1921 Charles Kingsley Murphy GBR JP Clerk of the House of Assembly, and Librarian to Parliament, State of Tasmania Ivan Herbert Pierce GBR JP 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 GBR OBE a prominent tea planter in South India. For services to the United Kingdom community. John Philip Attenborough GBR OBE 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 GBR MB BCh Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Tanganyika Kenneth Charles Jacobs GBR OBE Financial Secretary, Sierra Leone Percival Henry Jennings, Colonial Audit Service, Director of Audit, Hong Kong Rajabali Jumabhoy GBR JP For public services in Singapore. The Right Reverend Leonard Stanley Kempthorne, Bishop in Polynesia, Fiji Amar Nath Maini GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE JP 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR OBE 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 GBR DSC Royal Navy (Retired) Commander (S) Leonard Alphonso Jeffery, Royal Navy Instructor Commander Harold John Jessup, Royal Navy Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Price GBR DSO Royal Marines Surgeon Commander John Mansel Reese GBR MRCS LRCP Royal Navy Commander George Frederick Rutter GBR RD RNR (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 GBR MC 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 GBR MBE The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Cedric George Buttenshaw GBR DSO MBE Royal Regiment of Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Archibald Inglis Crawford GBR MC TD 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 GBR MC The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Vernon Denton GBR TD The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Anthony Henry George Dobson GBR MC 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 GBR DSO MC The Cheshire Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Pierse Francis Hayes, Corps of Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Edwin Holden GBR DSO MC 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 GBR MC TD The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) David Leonard Powell-Jones GBR MBE 6th Gurkha Rifles Major (Quartermaster) James Notman Keil GBR MBE 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 GBR MC The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Palmer Lloyd GBR DSO TD Royal Regiment of Artillery (now T.A.R.O.) Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Clarence Macdonald GBR DSO 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR TD Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.) Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Stevenson Pearson GBR DSO MC TD DL The Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Provis GBR TD DL 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 GBR MC Welsh Guards Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) John Cleave Simmons GBR TD Combined Cadet Force Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Stevenson GBR DSO The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Lieutenant-Colonel Giles Symonds GBR MC TD The Dorset Regiment, Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Thompson GBR MC TD The Border Regiment, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.) Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Nelson Turner GBR MBE TD Combined Cadet Force (now retired) Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie James Walker GBR MBE Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Noel Montague Harold Wall GBR MC 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Henry de Grey Warter GBR TD 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 GBR DSO 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 GBR MBE The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers), attached The Malay Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomson Edgar GBR MBE ED Federation of Malaya Volunteer Force Colonel Edward Ward Seymour Jacklin GBR AFC Southern Rhodesia Air Force Acting Group Captain Ronald Alan Campbell Barclay GBR AFC Royal Air Force The Reverend Gerald William Norris Groves, Royal Air Force Wing Commander Ronald Clarke Cobbe GBR DSO Royal Air Force Wing Commander Albert Edward Davies, Royal Air Force Wing Commander Gordon Hugh Everitt GBR DSO DFC Royal Air Force Wing Commander Robert Thomas Frogley GBR DFC Royal Air Force Wing Commander James Edward Holliwell GBR MBE 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC Royal Air Force Wing Commander Charles Douglas Tomalin GBR DFC AFC 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 GBR AFC 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MBE, Secretary, Cake and Biscuit Alliance, Ltd. John Gibb Ballingall, Principal Scientific Officer, Torpedo Experimental Establishment, Greenock Andrew Lindsay Barclay GBR MBE, 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 GBR DSO DFC, 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 GBR MM, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MD, 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 GBR JP, Vice-Chairman, Newburn Urban District Council Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett-Brown GBR MC TD, Secretary, Royal National Lifeboat Institution Alfred Willoughby Hope Brown, Deputy Chief Inspector (Planning), Ministry of Housing and Local Government George Chadwin Brown GBR MBE, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence William Brown GBR JP 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MS FRCS, lately Commandant, Star and Garter Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen, Richmond Eleanor Mary Beresford Butler GBR MBE, Vice-Chairman, Oxford Savings Committee William John Hughes Butterfield GBR BM MRCP, Member of the Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council The Reverend Lewis Legertwood Legg Cameron GBR MBE, 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 GBR TD, 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 GBR MBE, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MM, 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 GBR MC, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MC, Assistant to the Master in Lunacy, Supreme Court of Judicature Albert James Galpest GBR MVO, 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 GBR MB ChB, 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 GBR MBE, Chief Engineer, Siemens Brothers and Company, Ltd., Woolwich Cecil Brodrick Guthrie. For services to the Home Office. Major Eben Stuart Burt Hamilton GBR MC MB FRCSE, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MBE, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR DL, 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 GBR JP, Mayor of Chatham Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ledingham GBR MC TD, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MBE JP, 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 GBR TD, 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 GBR MD ChB, Medical Superintendent, Saxondale (Mental) Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire Enid Devoge McLeod GBR MBE, Deputy Controller, European Division, British Council James Carnegie McPetrie, Assistant Legal Adviser, Colonial Office George Menzie McTurk GBR JP, Chairman, Ayrshire Joint Probation Committee Philip Vibert Mauger GBR JP, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MC TD, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MC. For political and public services in Kent. Major Francis Ashley Phillips GBR DSO JP, 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 GBR DL, Chairman, Northern London War Pensions Committee John Pollock, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions Harry Royston Portman GBR MBE, Principal, Foreign Office Horace Clifford Potter, Principal, H.M. Treasury Henry Ray Powell GBR MBE, 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 GBR MC MB ChB, General Practitioner, Dundee Alfred William Rathbone GBR MS.M, Assistant Controller, Supplies Department, General Post Office Captain Percy Reay GBR MBE MC, Chairman, Lyme Green Settlement for Paraplegics, Macclesfield David Morgan Rees GBR JP, 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 Ridley, Viscountess Ridley. For public services in Northumberland. Archibald Colin Campbell Robertson GBR JP, 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 GBR TD, 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 GBR MBE MC, 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 GBR MC, For political and public services in Berkshire. William Smith GBR BEM 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 GBR DSO, Civil Assistant, War Office Claude Meyer Spielman GBR MC, Managing Director, Whessoe, Ltd., Darlington Constance Spry, Adviser on Floral Decoration Leonard Jacques Stein. For political and public services. Harold Stevens GBR MBE, 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 GBR JP, 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 GBR MBE, 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 GBR MBE, Principal, Commonwealth Relations Office Albert Ernest Tombs GBR JP, 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 GBR MBE, Chairman, Chelsea Savings Committee Bartholomew Walsh. For political and public services. Harry Ward GBR MBE, 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 GBR MBE, County Organiser, Essex, Women's Voluntary Services. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties. John Duncan White GBR MB ChB, 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 GBR MBE TD MRCS LRCP, Area Commissioner, St. John Ambulance Brigade, London. For services during the recent floods in the Eastern Counties. Alderman Daniel Thomas Williams GBR JP, For political and public services in Cardiff. William Sidney Gwynn Williams. For services to the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford Llewellyn Wilson GBR MC DL, 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 GBR JP, Headmaster, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School for Boys James Arthur Woodford GBR RA, 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 GBR MC Senior Control Officer, Dortmund, Control Commission for Germany (British Element) Leonard Arthur Frenken GBR MBE 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 GBR MB FRCS lately Medical Adviser to the British Political Resident and Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, Persian Gulf John Massey Morris GBR MBE Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Basra Port Charles Joseph Plumb, Principal, lately Control Commission for Germany (British Element) Henry Richards GBR MB BS Assistant Director (Public Health), Sudan Government Edward John Roberts, Senior Public Safety Officer, Carinthia, Austria. Ina Amelia Strong GBR MBE Her Majesty's Consul at Bergen Emrys Cadwaladr Thomas GBR LRCP LRCS Director of the Victoria Hospital, Damascus Allan Veitch GBR MBE 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR MB ChB 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 GBR PhD ChB Member of the Public Services Board, Southern Rhodesia William Wilson GBR JP 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 GBR MB ChB 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 GBR MD FRCP Colonial Medical Service, Senior Specialist, Gold Coast Ernest Cranfield Hicks, Colonial Education Service, Senior Inspector of Schools, Perak, Federation of Malaya 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 GBR FRCS FRCOG Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Hong Kong Kwok Chan GBR JP 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 GBR ED JP For services to planting in the Federation of Malaya. Charles Edward Snell. For public services in Nyasaland. James Stevenson GBR MBE 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR MD BCh 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 GBR RMFVR Lieutenant-Commander (E) Ronald William Brenton, Royal Navy Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Percy Roy Butler, Royal Navy (Retired) Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Hayward De Winton GBR RNVR Lieutenant (E) Alfred Louis Giordan GBR DSC Royal Navy Lieutenant-Commander (Sp.) Stanley Eastman Hills GBR RNVR (serving with the Indian Navy) Temporary Senior Commissioned Boatswain Leslie Lawrence Janaway, Royal Navy Lieutenant (E) Edgar Jack Johnston GBR DSC 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 GBR BEM 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 GBR RFA 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 GBR TD Combined Cadet Force Major Richard Thurstine Basset GBR MC 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 GBR TD 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 GBR MM 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 GBR TD 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 GBR BEM 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 GBR TD Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army Warrant Officer Class II Frank Larkin, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army Major Anthony David Lewis GBR DSO 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 GBR MM 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 GBR MC 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 GBR ED 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 GBR ED 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 GBR ED 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 GBR DSO DFC AFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR AFC 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 GBR AFC Royal Auxiliary Air Force Flight Lieutenant Ronald William Sparkes GBR DFC 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 GBR MM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MRCS LRCP Chairman of Committee, No. 135 (Reigate and Redhill) Squadron, Air Training Corps John Atkinson. For political and public services in Derbyshire. Thomas John Aven GBR DCM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MC 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 GBR MM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MM 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 GBR MM 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 GBR MM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MC 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 GBR RD RNR (Retired), Captain Superintendent, National Sea Training Schools, Gravesend Elizabeth Fotheringham Mckie, Principal, Logan and Johnstone Pre-Nursing College, Glasgow Thomas McLauchlan GBR MC 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR DCM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR BEM Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Force Joseph Aloysius Vincent O'Shea, Clerical Officer, Board of Trade William Kingdon Owen GBR JP Chairman, Neath Juvenile Advisory Committee Edith Annie Parker GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MRCS LRCP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR OM CH MP 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 GBR DCM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR DSO 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR MB ChB 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 GBR MB ChB 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 GBR MB Honorary Medical Officer, Chinese Maternity Hospital, Federation of Malaya Arthur Dudley Soutar GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP DL MP, 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 GBR CBE MP, 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 GBR DFC AFC Royal Air Force Wing Commander John Barraclough GBR DFC AFC Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Derek Clare GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC Royal Air Force Squadron Leader William John McLean GBR DSO DFC AFC 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 GBR MC 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 GBR DFC Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Mane Feldman, Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Ernest Derek Glaser GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Wladyslaw Jan Potocki GBR DFC Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Rex David Roe, Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Kenneth William Rogers, Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant David Rankin Scott GBR DFC Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Denis John Thomas Sharp GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR ARRC 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 GBR ARRC 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 GBR DFC Royal Australian Air Force Acting Wing Commander Konrad Bazarnik GBR MB ChB Royal Air Force Squadron Leader John Hanbury Smith-Carington, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Lionel Harwood Casson GBR DFC Royal Auxiliary Air Force Squadron Leader Henry Moresby Chinnery, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Ernest Leonard David Drake GBR DFC Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Terence Helper GBR DFC Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Donald Ridgewell Howard GBR DFC Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Denis Seymour Leete, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Sidney James Perkins, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Dunham Hodgson Seaton GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR DFC AFC Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Leslie George Press GBR AFC Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Neil Currie Thorne GBR AFC 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 GBR DFC 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) thumb|right|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 GBR VC 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 GBR MM 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 GBR DSM 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 GBR RNVR 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 GBR DSM Sick Berth Attendant Donald Wilson Civil Division United Kingdom 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR JP 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 GBR DSM 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 GBR JP 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 GBR MM 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 Coal Board (Workington) Frank Turner GBR JP 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) State of South Australia Walter Muggleton, Messenger, Department of the Premier, State of South Australia Colonial Empire 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 GBR MC Principal Examiner, Board of Trade (Welwyn Garden City) Edgar James Allies GBR OBE Accountant-General, Commonwealth Relations office (South Woodford, E.18) William Hales Ballard, Chief Executive Officer, Home Office (Norbury, S.W.16) Cecil John Bruce GBR OBE 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 GBR DCM 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 GBR MBE Chief Organisation Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Epsom Downs, Surrey) Leonard Road GBR OBE 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR MBE Commissioner, National Savings Committee (Sanderstead, Surrey) Australian States and Southern Rhodesia Harold Bruce Bennett GBR MBE ED JP 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 Police – England and Wales Jesse Lawrence, Chief Constable, Reading Borough Police Force Cecil Haydn Watkins, Chief Constable, Glamorgan Constabulary Major Edgar Hare GBR MC Chief Constable, Cornwall Constabulary George Parfitt GBR BEM 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 GBR BEM Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Sidney George Wells GBR MBE Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Police – Scotland John Adam Ross Murray GBR OBE Chief Constable, Motherwell and Wishaw Burgh Police Force Thomas Meikle, Superintendent, Lothians and Peebles Constabulary Fire Service – England and Wales 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 Fire Service – Scotland Thomas McCorkindale GBR MBE Divisional Officer (Deputy Firemaster), Western Area Fire Brigade Police – Colonies, Protected States and Trust Territories James Richard Henry Burns GBR CPM Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya Edwin William Hunt GBR OBE IPM Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya Desmond Stephen Palmer GBR CPM Superintendent of Police, Federation of Malaya Peter Irwin Montgomery Irwin, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong George Ricarde Hodgson Gribble GBR CPM Senior Superintendent of Police, Kenya Ian Stewart MacWalter Henderson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kenya Sandys Parker George GBR CPM Commissioner of Police, Nigeria James Alexander MacDonald GBR CPM Commissioner of Police, Nigeria Donald Evan Nickels GBR CPM Superintendent of Police, Singapore Alastair Robert Anderson GBR CPM Assistant Commissioner, Malayan Police, Singapore George Herbert Robins GBR MBE Assistant Commissioner of Police, Tanganyika Arthur James Poppy GBR CPM Senior Superintendent of Police, Tanganyika Lauraeston Sharp GBR CPM Senior Superintendent of Police, Uganda Thomas Stewart Anderson GBR CPM 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 GBR MBE 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 GBR MBE 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 Wylde Edwards Heath, Assistant Commissioner, Hong Kong Police Force Edgar Robert Hill GBR JP 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 GBR DSO 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 GBR DSO 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 GBR MC 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 GBR DFC 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 GBR OBE ED 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 1953 Coronation Honours (New Zealand) Ceylon 1953 Coronation Honours (Ceylon) Pakistan 1953 Coronation Honours (Pakistan) References 1953 Category:1953 awards Honours Category:June 1953 in the United Kingdom