At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.[2]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Right Honourable Sir Austin Richard William Low, KCMG, CBE, DSO, TD, MP, Member of Parliament for Blackpool North since 1945. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1951–1954; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1954–1957. Deputy Chairman, Conservative Parity Organisation since 1959. For political and public services.
Sir (George) Leighton Seager, Bt, CBE, JP, Chairman of the National Liberal Organisation. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor
Herbert William Bowden, CBE, MP, Member of Parliament for Leicester South, 1945–1950 and for Leicester South-West since 1950. An Assistant Government Whip, 1949–1950; A Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1950–1951; Opposition Deputy Chief Whip, 1951–1955; Opposition Chief Whip since 1955.
Sir (George) Richard Hodges Nugent, Bt, MP, Member of Parliament for Guidford since 1950. Joint Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1951–1957, and to Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1957–1959.
Captain Andrew Colin Paul Johnstone, OBE, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
Muriel Mure.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.
Fourth Class
John Charlton.
John William Paulin Dundas.
Squadron Leader Kenneth James Ernest Hannah, Royal Air Force.
Robert Meredydd Wynne-Edwards, DSO, OBE, MC, chairman, Building Research Board and Road Research Board, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Myles Landseer Formby, TD, MB, BS, Honorary Consultant in Otorhinolaryngology to the War Office.
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Derek Swift Mangnall, TD, (89582), Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army (now T.A.R.O.).
Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Passingham Peirce (74538), Royal Regiment of Artillery (now R.A.R.O.).
Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Edward Ralli Robinson (64590), Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (Now R.A.R.O.).
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard George Satterthwaite (378606), 17th/21st Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Jack Stehr (129049), Royal Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Claude Hugh Morley Toye, MBE, (186806), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Alexander Norman-Walker, MBE, MC, (106703), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel George William Wallis, TD, (249552), Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Wray Whitcher, TD, MB, (65389), Royal Army Medical Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Willcocks, MBE, (77502), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Reginald Wood, MBE, TD, (85465), Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Gilbert Charles Cecil Wood (211124), Royal Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Young (198301), Corps of Royal Engineers, Army Emergency Reserve.
Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) David Ralph Horsfield (69078), late Royal Corps of Signals; formerly on loan to the Government of the Federation of Malaya.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Richard Stanley MacGregor Laird, MBE, (69125), Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Filmer George Evan Walford, MBE, (100418), Gordon Highlanders; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Norman Albert Fairweather, MBE, ED, Commandant, British Honduras Volunteer Guard.
Royal Air Force
Wing Commander (Acting Group Captain) Thomas Malcolm Grahame Bury (48546).
Wing Commander John Francis Jerome Dewhurst, DFC, AFC, (130872).
Clive Edward Millington Adams, General Manager (Sales), British European Airways Corporation.
Charles Reginald Adlam, MBE, lately chief executive officer, Air Ministry.
Frederick Denison Campbell Allen. For services to the Church of England.
Arthur James Amos, Partner in the firm of Kent-Jones & Amos, Analytical and Consulting Chemists.
Mary Anderson. For political and public services in Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Alderman Barbara Andrews. For political and public services in Luton.
Herbert Wellard Archer, Finance Officer National Headquarters, British Red Cross Society.
Wilfred James Armstead, JP, Alderman, Andover Borough Council, Hampshire.
Edward Lionel Ashley, Chief Construction Engineer (Works & Buildings), Risley, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
Leslie Henry Atwell, chairman and managing director, Lesme Ltd. and President of the Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance.
James Henry Awbery, lately Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence.
Alfred Richard Leslie Aylward, Farmer and Corn Merchant, Alton, Hampshire.
Francis Harrold Banfield, lately Director of Research, British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association.
Frank Bannister. For political services in Rochester and Chatham.
James Walter Edward Bates, Senior Chief Executive Officer, HM Stationery Office.
James Bell, managing director, Mullard-Osram Valve Co. Ltd., Hammersmith.
Joseph Jackson Bell, JP. For political and public services in Carlisle.
Alderman George Stanley Bellerby, chairman, York Festival Society.
Frederick John Bentley, chief executive officer, Government Communications Headquarters.
Joan Maud Hartley Berwick, HM Inspector, Ministry of Education.
William Percy Bingham, Senior Engineer, Ministry of Works.
Cecil Harold Blatch. For political services in Finchley.
Charles Robert Bossom, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Works.
Wilfred Bowles, Director and General Manager, Era Ring Mill Ltd., Rochdale.
Robert Alston Brockbank, Staff Engineer, Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, London.
James Geoffery Seddon-Brown, chairman, Lancaster Savings Committee.
Robert Brown, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour.
Thomas Edward Brownsdon, JP, Head of Regional Services, Independent Television Authority.
Edward Spence Calvert, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Royail Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aviation.
William Hooton Carlile, chairman, Doncaster Local Employment Committee.
Reverend Ian Carmichael, DSO, MC, chairman, Argyll and Bute Advisory Committee, National Assistance Board.
Charles Francis Catt, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
Robert McClelland Cavaye. For political services in Edinburgh.
Harold William Clarke, MBE, Senior Chief Executive Officer, Board of Trade.
Alfred Alexander Collins, JP, chairman, Scottish Veterans' Garden City Association.
Herbert Charles Clive Collis, MC, chairman, Stoke-on-Trent War Pensions Committee.
Arthur Manser Daniels, Principal District Officer, Marine Survey (East of England District), Ministry of Transport.
Evan William Davies, Regional Controller, Midland Region, National Assistance Board.
Idris Lewis Davies, MBE, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner for Alberta and North West Territories, Board of Trade.
Thomas Maelgwyn Davies, Registrar, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Stanley Sidney Dawes, President Emeritus, Institute of the Motor Industry. (Died 17 December 1961.)
Frederick Maddick Dawson, Clerk, Billingham Urban District Council, County Durham.
John Maurice Benjamin Donaldson, MB, BCh, chairman, Northern Ireland Building Fund Appeal Executive Committee, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Robert Swanston Duncan, MBE, chairman, Salisbury, Trowbridge and District War Pensions Committee.
Godfrey Henry Stebbing Du Pontet, TD, Principal, Ministry of Power.
Alderman Arthur Thomas Edmonds. For public services in Winchester.
Harold Johanri Thomas Ellingham, Secretary and Registrar, Royal Institute of Chemistry.
Donald McKay Elliot, Director, Scottish Film Council.
Stanley Arthur Wesley Evans, MBE, chief executive officer, Air Ministry.
Edward Victor Eves, Grade 1 Officer, Ministry of Labour.
Ronald William Payers, chief executive officer, Board of Customs and Excise.
John Stewart Fifield, DFC, AFC, Chief Test Pilot, Martin Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd., Denham.
Henry Rowland Fisher, Head of Long Term Studies, Iron and Steel Board.
Peter Aloysius Fitzpatrick. For services to agriculture in Northern Ireland.
Eric Richard Leman Fitzpayne, General Manager, Glasgow Corporation Transport Department.
Alfred Stephen Fosh, vice-president, lately President, Motor Agents' Association.
Stephen Freeman, Alderman, Berkshire County Council.
Jack Galloway. For political services.
Joseph Perry Gee, lately chairman, Liverpool Rent Tribunal.
Robert Gordon Thomson Gildard, Head of Programmes, Scotland, British Broadcasting Corporation.
Sanderson Henry Briggs Gill, chairman, Wakefield National Insurance Local Tribunal.
Cyril Cobham Griffith, MC, chairman, Slough Local Savings Committee.
Major John William Griffith, JP. For political and public services in Denbighshire.
Robert Emrys Griffith, Director, Urdd Gobaith Cymru (Welsh League of Youth).
Mumiel Ratohleen Grindrod, Editor of World Today.
David Gulland Gunn, London Metropolitan Regional Secretary, Young Men's Christian Association.
Henry Charles Horton Gurney, Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff.
Anthony Halhead, Divisional Land Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Arthur James Codhrane Hamilton, MB, FRCS (Ed.), Senior Consultant Surgeon, Northern Regional Hospital Board.
James Donald Mackintosh Hardie, JP, Crown Estate Factor in Moray and Banff.
Thomas Harrison, JP, chairman and managing director, J. & A. Jackson, Ltd., Manchester.
George Vernon Sims, Director, Council of British Manufacturers of Petroleum Equipment.
Harold Arthur Skerrett, Honorary Secretary, Northampton Savings Committee.
Alexander Stewart Smith, First Class Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
Clifford Horton-Smith, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Houghton Poultry Research Station, Houghton, Huntingdonshire.
David Pollock Smith, JP, DL, lately Member, Lanark County Council.
Herbert Smith, JP. For political and public services in Walsall.
Philip John Stevens, Superintendent Registrar for the Croydon Registration District.
Captain Charles William Gordon Stock, lately Commodore Master, SS British Queen, B.P. Tanker Co. Ltd., London.
Leslie Victor Store, Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factory, Llanishen, Cardiff, Ministry of Aviation.
Walter John Tabner, Assistant to the Master of the Court of Protection, Supreme Court of Judicature.
Frances Mary Graham-Taylor, MBE. For political and public services in Hampshire.
Owen Charles Terry, Principal Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
Brian Dick Lauder Thomas, Artist in stained glass. For services in the embellishment of the Chapel of the Order of the British Empire in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Keith Henry Westcott Thomas, Constructor, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth.
Major Edwin Thompson, deputy chairman, Cumberland Agricultural Executive Committee.
Andrew Thomson, Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
Lionel Lawrence Tolley, Chief Regional Engineer, Midland Region, General Post Office.
Ralph George Tracey, MBE, Deputy Accountant General, Commonwealth Relations Office.
Brenda Muriel Howard Tripp, Director, East Europe Department, British Council.
Theodore Frederic Tucker, General Superintendent, Dr Barnardo's Homes.
Anthony Thomas Voyce. For services to sport and for public services in Gloucestershire.
Frederick James Wakelin, lately Regional Representative of the British Council, Lahore. (Now Regional Representative, Amman).
Alice Martha Walker. For political and public services in Leicestershire.
Robert Wilson Wallace, Inspector, Grade I, Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.
Zinaida Waloff, Principal Scientific Officer, Anti-Locust Research Centre.
Major Francis James Walters, lately chairman, Surrey County Civil Defence Committee.
Norman Walton, chief executive officer, Foreign Office.
Lieutenant-Commander Reginald Kitto Waters, Royal Navy (Retired), Senior Chief Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
William Watt, Deputy Commander, Metropolitan Police.
Austin George Webb. For political and public services in Finsbury and Hertfordshire.
William Edward Webb, JP, chairman, Hounslow and Staines Local Employment Committee.
Gordon Ewart Thomas Whiting, Grade 2 Officer, Ministry of Labour.
John Pearce Wilson, Clerk to the Sunderland Borough Justices.
Ian Cyril Alexander, lately Her Majesty's Consul, Stanleyville.
Charles Wilfred Arning, MBE, Her Majesty's Consul, St. Paul-Minneapolis.
Raymond Meredith Beavan, lately British Council Representative, Norway.
Edward Howard Eustace Bourchier, British subject resident in Mexico.
Reverend Harold John Casebow, Field Secretary for the Congo, Baptist Missionary Society.
Ralph Mirrielees Cazalet, First Secretary, United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Sydney John Chesterton, British subject resident in Peru.
Richard Radcliffe Darlington, MBE, Headmaster, Sheikh Secondary School, Somali Republic.
John Casson Dickinson, British subject resident in Sweden.
Robin Antony Hare Duke, lately British Council Representative, Chile, and Cultural Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Santiago.
Joan Mary Findlay, British subject resident in Argentina.
Ethelbert Terence Grew, British subject resident in Denmark.
John George Macfarlane, British Consul, Antofagasta.
Kenneth Charles Parsons, lately First Secretary, Her Majesty's Embassy, Rangoon.
Leonard Unthank Salkield, British subject resident in Spain.
John Sidney Augustus Selwyn, MBE, First Secretary (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Beirut.
Ian Monteith Vallentine, lately Joint Headmaster, Bishop's School, Amman.
Professor Henry Ingham Ashworth, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, State of New South Wales.
John Speir Baird, MB, BS, President of the Dental Board, State of New South Wales.
Colonel Leslie Hugh Bean, MBE, General Manager of the Ghana Chamber of Mines.
Lady Moyna Blanche Madeleine Browne, chairman, Hospitality Committee, Victoria League.
Richard Joseph Wauchope Craig, MC, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya.
Joseph Victor Danckwerts, chairman, Land Settlement Board, Southern Rhodesia.
Desmond Nigel Davies, Director of Geological Survey and Commissioner of Mines, Swaziland.
Idris Talog Davies, Senior Federal Counsel, Attorney-General's Chambers, Federation of Malaya.
Donald Robert Day, Director of Education, Basutoland.
Sydney Clarence French. For public services in the State of Tasmania.
James Halliday, formerly deputy director of Public Works, Federation of Malaya.
Marshall Hamer, chairman, Chittagong Branch, United Kingdom Association of Pakistan.
Philip Bellair Hayes. For services to ex-servicemen, in the State of Victoria.
Robert Arthur Hughes, MB, FRCS, Senior Medical Officer, Klhasi Hills, Welsh Mission Hospital, Shillong, Assam, India. For services to the British community.
Merlin Kay Neil Johansen, Engineer for the Shire of Midura, State of Victoria.
Jocelyn Amy Ashley Kingsley, chairman, Commonwealth Students Committee, Victoria League.
Gordon Leckie. For public services in the State of Victoria.
Robert Bowden Madgwick, Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, State of New South Wales.
Walter Wilson Mayne. For services to the British community in South India.
John Alexander Hughes McGeorge, MB, ChM, a consultant psychiatrist in the State of New South Wales.
James Francis McGill. For services to charitable organisations in the State of Queensland.
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (S.C.C.) Jack Rupert Boulton, Royal Naval Reserve.
Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Albert James Bravery, DSM, (Retired).
Major (S.D.) Clarence Merrifield Carter, Royal Marines.
First Officer Phyllis Cooper, Women's Royal Naval Service.
Lieutenant-Commander Charles Edward Dewey, VRD, Royal Naval Reserve.
Lieutenant-Commander John Arthur Douglas.
Lieutenant-Commander Richard Cecil Dumas, DSC.
Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Edwin William Gurney, (Retired).
Lieutenant-Commander Nigel Elmore Carr Hammond.
Recruiting Officer Herbert Henry Harris, Royal Marines.
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (C.C.F.) George Richardson McConnell, Royal Naval Reserve.
Instructor Lieutenant-Commander Cyril Alfred Sinfield, (Retired).
Supply Lieutenant-Commander Stanley William Walker, (Retired).
Army
Major (Q.G.O.) Bagbir Limbu, MVO, MC, (388494), 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles.
Captain Joseph Frederick Luther Bailey (338174), King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
22982918 Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Samuel Baynham, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), Territorial Army.
Major Vivian James Henry Bennett (105952), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Major Joseph Birks (385010), Corps of Royal Military Police, Territorial Army.
Major George Mather Bridge, TD, (75205), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Lieutenant Bernard William Britnell (467460), Royal Army Dental Corps.
Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) John Brough, DSO, MC, (345091), King's Own Royal Border Regiment.
Major (Quartermaster) David John Brunton (182510), 3rd Carbiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps.
Captain (Quartermaster) Leslie Edward Burrell (431483), Grenadier Guards.
Major (acting) John Henry Chambers (290999), Army Cadet Force.
Major John Wells Chittock (357192), Army Catering Corps.
Major Eric Albert Clark (199069), Corps of Royal Military Police.
Major (acting) Alan Cree, ERD, (34049), Combined Cadet Force.
Major (Staff Quartermaster) Charles George Cresswell (244467), Employed List 2.
22255414 Warrant Officer Class II William Ernest Davidson, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
Major Gordon Thomas Edgar Dawe (264058), Royal Army Service Corps.
3652549 Warrant Office Class I Arthur Emmett, Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers).
6292014 Warrant Officer Class I Douglas Fairbanks, Queen's Own Buffs, Royal Kent Regiment.
Major (Quartermaster) George Foster (423393), York and Lancaster Regiment.
T/62432 Warrant Officer Class II Charles Edward Graves, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
Major Thomas Jesse Howard Hall (266266), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Major Philip Handfield Haslett (357006), Grenadier Guards.
Major Desmond Eric Higgins (304738), Royal Corps of Signals.
Major Patrick John Jackson (325745), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
22543573 Warrant Officer Class II Leonard Jacobs, Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Reverend William Jamieson, Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class (380410), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
37177 Warrant Officer Class I Stephen Johnson, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major Gwyneth Fleetwood Fleetwood-Jones (270222), Women's Royal Army Corps.
Major (Quartermaster) Ronald George Lambert (265366), Corps of Royal Engineers.
Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Mortimer Cecil Lanyon, MC, (105881), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
2821652 Warrant Officer Class I David Booth Stewart Macdonald, Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment).
22267754 Warrant Officer Class II George Herbert Machen, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), Territorial Army.
Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)) James Herbert Samuel Majury (193883), Royal Ulster Rifles.
1443592 Warrant Officer Class II William Brown Marshall, MM, Parachute Regiment, Territorial Army.
Captain (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer) William Richard Meadows (428257), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Kenneth Melley (461587), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Captain (Electrical Mechanical Assistant Engineer) Clifford Kenneth Mobbs (451407), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Major John Colin Moore (377590), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Major (temporary) Joseph David Mostyn (397994), 1st Green Jackets, 43rd and 52nd.
Captain (Quartermaster) Walter John Murray (448122), 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles.
Wakil Qaid Awal (acting) Abdulla Nasser (3506), Aden Protectorate Levies.
Major Frank Shields Petrie (258923), Royal Corps of Signals.
Major (Quartermaster) William Edward Phillpotts (317410), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (now retired).
21181369 Warrant Officer Class I Richard Rafferty, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Major Sidney Park Robertson (143056), Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
Captain (Quartermaster) Alexander Edward Robinson (355338), Parachute Regiment.
Major Patrick Brian Thomas Ross (334625), King's Own Royal Border Regiment.
813004 Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Henry Sheppard, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Barry Graham Simpson (304028), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Major (Quartermaster) Douglas Smith (291684), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List 4).
Major Denis Cecil Blomfield-Smith (151342), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
1652231 Warrant Officer Class I Eric Allan Smith, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
22206109 Warrant Officer Class II Hector George Sterling, North Somerset Yeomanry/44th Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
Major John Strelley (365369), Royal Army Service Corps.
949497 Warrant Officer Class I Johnson Tattersall, Army Catering Corps.
Major Alfred Thomas Taylor (132469), Durham Light Infantry.
7650010 Warrant Officer Class I Walter Dixon Taylor, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
21001392 Warrant Officer Class II George Wallace, Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick's Own), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
Major Thomas Francis Watling (368784), Corps of Royal Engineers.
Major (acting) Francis Vincent Augustine Wells (401123), Combined Cadet Force (Now retired).
Reverend Frederick William Hartland White, Chaplain to the Forces, Third Class (406756), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
Major (acting) Hubert Cyril Whiteside (319232), Army Cadet Force.
Captain Ronald Duncan Winton (170138), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Employed List 3).
22519985 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Walter Wright, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
Captain Margaret Amy Boyle (412904), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps; formerly on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Major (temporary) John Ruddiman Buchanan (411900), King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool); formerly on loan to the Government of Ghana.
14092042 Warrant Officer Class I (acting) (now Warrant Officer Class II) Charles Lionel Golder, Corps of Royal Engineers; formerly on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Captain John Michael Howlett Johnson (421201), Royal Sussex Regiment; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
2697365 Warrant Officer Class II Murdo McLeod Leitch, Scots Guards; formerly on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Major Lemarquis John Long (363825), Royal Army Medical Corps; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Captain Martin Anthony Melsom, MB, BS, (466295), Royal Army Medical Corps; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Major William Jackson Pallister (314054), Royal Army Pay Corps; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Captain Ronald John Gordon Panton (239683), Corps of Royal Engineers; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
2548587 Warrant Officer Class II Robert Rodney Skipp, Corps of Royal Engineers; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Captain Ronald Augustine Thompson, MB, BS, (464278), Royal Army Medical Corps; on loan to the Government of Ghana.
5771470 Warrant Officer Class II Henry Ward, 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk); formerly on loan to the Government of Ghana.
Major (temporary) Thomas Michael Dillon-White (253632), Corps of Royal Military Police; formerly on loan to the Government of the Federation of Malaya.
Royal Air Force
Squadron Officer Marjorie Bennion (8457), Women's Royal Air Force.
Squadron Leader George Mallory Braid (144048), (Retired).
Squadron Leader Herbert John Lloyd Cash (361935).
Squadron Leader Gordon Neville Victor Chignall (52036).
Harry Francis Clifton, Boatswain, Ocean Weather Ship Weather Reporter, Air Ministry. (London SW.14).
Philip James Collier, Craftsman, National Museum of Wales. (Cardiff).
Kathleen Gertrude Connor, Woman Observer, Post No. F/1, No. 11 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (Truro, Cornwall).
John James Cook, First Hand Steel Melter, Brown, Lenox & Co. Ltd., Pontypridd.
Henry Court, Surveyor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Guildford, Surrey).
George Alfred Coventry, Office Keeper, Grade II, National Assistance Board. (London E.2).
Edward John Cox, Civilian Warrant Officer, No. 359 (Bexleyheath) Squadron, Air Training Corps. (Dartford, Kent).
Allen Crookes, Foreman Electrician, Samuel Osborn & Ltd. (Sheffield).
Anthony Cunningham, Overman, Bold Colliery, North Western Division, National Coal Board. (St Helens).
Catherine Dempster, Collector, Street Savings Groups, Badenoch District, Invernessshire.
Simeon Dimmock, Labourer, Royal Air Force, Upwood. (Ramsey).
John William Dixon, lately Grade 1 Officer, Branch D, Foreign Office. (Isle of Man).
George Benjamin Dover, Assistant Preventive Officer, London Waterguard, Board of Customs and Excise. (Newbury Park, Essex).
Charles Frederick Driver, Engineer, Davey, Paxman & Co. Ltd., Colchester.
Norman Drewett Duell, Collector, Street Savings Groups, Feltham.
Arthur Duncan, Sub-District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary. (Brookeborough).
Margaret Dunlop, Collector, Street Savings Group, Hyde, Cheshire.
Archibald Ernest England, Master, Light Vessel Service, Harwich District, Corporation of Trinity House. (Romford).
Ernest Edward Fancy, Forester, Grade I, Forestry Commission. (Wareham, Dorset).
John Cyril Fitchett, Machinist and Setter-up, Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
John Edwin Fradley, District Deputy, Hem Heath Colliery, West Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Stoke-on-Trent).
Albert Edward Fricker, Foreman of Manufacture, Royal Naval Propellant Factory, Caerwent. (Poole, Dorset).
Nellie Friend, Production Planner, Wireless Telephone Co. Ltd., Sheffield.
William Thomas George, Fire Marshal, Fawley Refinery, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd.
Rose Emma Elizabeth Goldsworthy, Telephone Switchboard Operator Supervisor, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. (Kingston Hill, Surrey).
Reginald George Henry Gough, Collector, Street Savings Group, Great Yarmouth.
David Graham, JP, Goods Checker, Liverpool Road, Manchester, British Railways.
Alison Lorraine Grant, Commandant, County of Dunbarton Branch, British Red Cross Society. (Bearsden).
Harold Henry Hackett, Temporary Assistant Fatstock Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Wolverhampton).
John William Hartley, Overman, South Kirkby Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board. (Pontefract).
George Hawkins, Permanent Way Inspector, Special Category "B", Bristol, British Railways.
Harold William Charles Helley, Instructor, Civil Defence Corps, Gloucestershire Division. (Bristol).
Arthur Helliwell, Handyman, Coal and Coke Testing (Class I), Firkshall, Bradford Division, North Eastern Gas Board.
George Edmund Holden, Research and Development Craftsman, Armament Research and Development Establishment, War Office. (Horsham, Sussex).
Francis Herbert Holland, Commandant, Detachment WL/59 (Huyton) West Lancashire Branch, British Red Cross Society. (Liverpool).
Ernest Edward Holloway, Chargehand II, Weapons Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. (Basingstoke).
Ethel Hopwood, Senior Chief Supervisor, Salford, General Post Office. (Manchester).
Oliver Otto Hornby, Process Worker, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Billingham).
William James Horne, General Foreman, Wellingborouigh Undertaking, East Midlands Gas Board.
John Hunter, Pipe Band Instructor, Boys' Brigade, Inverness.
Edmond Joseph Jackson, Manager, NAAFI Canteen, HMS Meon.
Harry Jeans, Sergeant Major Instructor, 6th (Glos.) Cadet Regiment. (Bristol).
Hebe Jenkinson, Collector, Westmoor Street Savings Group, Rawdon, near Leeds.
Richard George Jewell, Depot Superintendent, Plymouth Parcels Depot, Western Division, British Road Services.
Frederick Jode, Staff Instructor, St. John's School Combined Cadet Force, Leatherhead.
Albert Edward John, Head Land Warden, RAC Ranges, Castlemartin, War Office. (Pembroke).
Reginald Johnson, Supervisor (Telephones), Bedford, General Post Office.
Islwyn Jones, Deputy, Seven Sisters Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board.
Robert Thomas King, Head Foreman Plumber, Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast.
Heung Lun Lam, Local Clerk Grade "A", Admiralty, Hong Kong.
James William Lambert, Leading Illustrator, Air Ministry. (London, N.22).
Mavis Sinclair Lawrey. For social and charitable services in Penzance and district.
William James Leach, Chargehand, Ministry of Works. (London, SE.23).
Arthur George Lee, Local Chargeman of Shipwrights, Admiralty. (Plymouth).
Frederick Lovett, Senior Medical Room Attendant, Crookhall Colliery, Durham Division, National Coal Board.
John Gordon Lyon, Works Technical Officer III, Torry Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. (Aberdeen).
William McAdam, Adviser on Welding, Brown Bros. & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh.
Daniel McAlinden, Inspector, Telephone Manager's Office, Salford, General Post Office. (Stockport).
Robert McCormick, Superintendent, Pithead Baths, Fauldhead Colliery, Scottish Division, National Coal Board. (Kirkconnel).
Catherine Mary Mackenzie, Woman Chief Inspector, Surrey Constabulary. (Guildford).
John William Mackenzie, Bar Officer, Sheriff Court, Edinburgh.
Alexander McLean, Foreman Boiler Cleaner, South of Scotland Electricity Board. (Paisley).
Eugene Patrick McManus, Cable Foreman, HMTS Monarch, General Post Office. (Rochester, Kent).
Margaret McMinn, Youth Leader, Thorndyke Street Girls' Club, Belfast.
Roderick Macrae, Head Inspector and Stamper, Harris Tweed Association, Ltd., Inverness. (Stornoway).
William Manson, Postman, Head Post Office, Thurso, Caithness.
David James Anderson Massie, Civilian Warrant Officer, No. 1295 (Peterhead) Squadron, Air Training Corps. (Peterhead).
Ivor Fred Mold, Leader, Bridgnorth Boys' Club, Shropshire.
Edward George Moore, Fitter Shipkeeper, Solent Division, RNVR, Admiralty. (Chandler's Ford, Hampshire).
Joseph Morrison, lately Attendant to the Lord Mayor of Belfast.
Robert Nicol Muir, Station Officer, South Western Scotland Area Fire Brigade. (Kilmarnock).
Mary Niblock, Member, Women's Voluntary Service, Prestwick.
Edward Tomkin Nicholls, Foreman, 6 Command Workshop, War Office. (Alresford, Essex).
William Nicholls, Press Tool Setter, Stampings Alliance Ltd. (Birmingham).
Joseph Noden, Installation Inspector, North Western Electricity Board. (Ashton-under-Lyne).
Nora O'Brien, Stewardess, SS Andes, Royal Mail Lines Ltd. (Wirral, Cheshire).
Ann Oliphant, Centre Organiser, Bridport, Women's Voluntary Service.
George Oughton, Linesman, Bishop Auckland District, North Eastern Electricity Board.
Patrick James Perry, Chief Officer, Class I, HM Prison, Wormwood Scrubs. (London, W.12).
Richard Henry Pettit, Manager, Buffer Depot Group 339, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Hildenborough).
George Henry James Pilliner, Head Furnaceman and Consultant Furnaceman, Whitehead Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Newport, Monmouthshire).
Percival Victor Pooley, Assistant Divisional Officer, Wolverhampton Fire Brigade.
George Alfred Charles Pyne, Civilian Sports and Physical Training Instructor, Dartford Sea Cadet Corps.
William Henry Quayle, Caulker-Burner, Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness.
Philip Quinn, Machinist Tradesman, Leyland Motors Ltd. (Chorley).
George Randle, Temporary Chief Inspector, Head Post Office, St. Petersgate, Stockport, Cheshire.
Walter James Reeve, Sub-Postmaster, Woodhouse Lane Sub-Post Office, Leeds.
Samuel Reid, lately Town Foreman, Donaghadee, County Down.
Harry Rhodes, Underground Contractor, Bolsover Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board.
David Evans Richards, R. & D. Craftsman (Special) Chargehand, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Aberporth. (Newcastle Emlyn).
Frederick William Maurice Richards, Technical Officer, Long Distance Area, General Post Office. (London, E.17).
Walter Dundonald Symon Richards, Foreman, Serck Radiators, Ltd., Birmingham.
Ellen Doris Riley, Chief Supervisor, Vale Telephone Exchange, Stoke-on-Trent.
Alexander Robinson, Sergeant, Royal Ulster Constabulary. (Enniskillen).
Elmer John Rose, Bailiff and Pinder to the Court Leet of the Manor of Laxton, Nottinghamshire.
Ernest Sidney Ruff, Radio Supervisor, Government Communications Headquarters, Foreign Office. (Shaftesbury, Dorset).
Amy Annie Russell, Sub-Postmistress, Long Itchington, Rugby.
Alfado Alexander Scott, Clerk, Grade I, Caribbean Area, War Office. (Jamaica).
Herbert Henry Scott, Inspector, Head Post Office, Croydon.
James Scott, Manager, Glenochar Farm, Crawford, Lanarkshire.
Gordon Charles Simms, Chargehand Fitter "A", Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham, War Office.
George Simons, Telephone Mechanic, General Post Office, Edinburgh.
Richard Cowlishaw Smedley, Station Officer, Derbyshire Fire Brigade. (Ashbourne).
Frederick Francis Festubert Smith, Foreman of Trades (Engines), No. 5 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force, Kemble. (Cirencester).
Matthew Smith, Chargehand Labourer, Aircraft Torpedo Development Unit, Ministry of Aviation. (Helston, Cornwall).
George Smithson, Senior Marine Survey Assistant, Hull, Ministry of Transport.
Albert Frank Sparks, Chief Inspector of Postmen (Plymouth), General Post Office.
Horace Mark Garrett Stagey, Draughtsman, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Southampton).
Bernard Cyril Andrews Stone, Technical Officer, Brighton Telephone Area, General Post Office. (Lewes).
Samuel Strickfuss, Refrigerating Greaser, MV Northumberland, New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. (London, E.16).
John Sutherland, Established Fitter, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire.
Edgar Henry Tatnall, Instructor, Princess Christian Homes and Training Centre, Knaphill, Brookwood. (Surrey).
Abraham James Henry Thompson, Building Supervisor, New Cross General Hospital. (Tenterden, Kent).
John Thompson, Chief Observer, Post K/3, No. 22 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (Carlisle).
Cyril Freeman Tolliday, Engineering Technical, Grade II, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. (Farnham, Surrey).
Beatrice Ellen Tonks, Home Help, West Bromwich City Borough Council.
John Trees, Foreman Apprentice Instructor, Bold Power Station, North West, Merseyside and North Wales Region, Central Electricity Generating Board. (Salford).
Charles Wolfred Tricker, Deputy Station Superintendent, Ipswich Power Station, Eastern Division, Central Electricity Generating Board.
Alderman Ronald Starke Luke, of Mosman, New South Wales. For services to local government.
The Reverend Mother Mary Marion, Mother Superior, Convent of the Sisters of the Order of the Sacred Heart, East Arm Leprosarium, Darwin, Northern Territory.
The Very Reverend Monsignor James Francis McCosker, of Harris Park, New South Wales. For services in the field of child care.
John Maurice Mills, Deputy Crown Solicitor, Sydney, New South Wales.
Rabbi Herman Max Sanger, Chief Minister, Temple Beth Israel, Melbourne, Victoria.
Gladys Aroha Schott, MBE, President of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation.
Harry Temple Watts, formerly deputy director, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
William Weatherly, DFC, chairman, Australian Woolgrowers' Council.
Godfrey Westacott, of Rockhampton, Queensland. For services to Journalism.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Military Division
Royal Australian Navy
Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Bertie Stephen Martin.
Electrical Lieutenant-Commander Henry Macdonald Pittaway.
Australian Military Forces
Captain (temporary) John Patrick Brown (615254), Royal Australian Army Education Corps.
33419 Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Arthur Capp, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
Major Kenneth Tebbet Johnson, ED (520571), Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
21432 Warrant Officer Class II Bain Mackay, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
Major John Alan McCrory (237524), Australian Staff Corps.
Major William Frederick Robeson (2213), Australian Staff Corps.
1716 Warrant Officer Class I Dallas Jarvis Wilschefski, Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Royal Australian Air Force
Squadron Leader William John Neilsen, BEM, (022006).
Warrant Officer William John Carlson (A.3960).
Warrant Officer Ronald Bruce Gibbons (A.2835).
Civil Division
Beulah Alice Bolton, of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales. For social welfare services.
John Brackenreg, of Artarmon, New South Wales. For services in the promotion of Australian Art.
Cyril Sabine Warner-Bubb, Executive Officer, Medical and Hospital Section, Department of Health.
Alderman Thomas Cavill, JP, Ashfield Municipality. For public services.
Joseph Coates, of Manilla, New South Wales. For services to ex-servicemen.
Frank Charles Day, Principal Naval Architect, Department of the Navy.
Arthur Robert Cameron Draper, formerly assistant director of Postal and Transport Services, Postmaster-General's Department, Victoria.
Frederick Henry James Fry, Representative of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Launceston.
Harry Michael Gibson, of Bondi Beach, New South Wales. For public and social welfare services.
Ella Mona Green, of Clarence Park, South Australia. For social welfare services.
John Frederick Hughes, Command Paymaster, Southern Command, Department of the Army.
Robert Charles Jones, Assistant Director-General (Construction), Department of Works.
Margaret Annie Kerr, of Coogee, New South Wales. For social welfare services.
Clara Watohorn Lelean, of Elsternwick, Victoria. For services to Nursing.
Catherine Margaret Mackenzie, Matron of the Australian Presbyterian Mission Hospital, Pusan, Korea.
Helen Pearl Mackenzie, Medical Officer-in-Charge of the Australian Presbyterian Mission Hospital, Pusan, Korea.
Robert McEwan, of Ashfield, New South Wales. For services to young people especially under the auspices of the Boys' Brigade.
Ida Messenger, of Randwick, New South Wales. For services in the interests of ex-servicemen.
John James Nathaniel Nevill, Secretary, Australian Shipbuilding Board.
Charlotte Quinn Pond, of Geraldton, Western Australia. For charitable and public services.
Edith Mary Robinson, of Manly, New South Wales. For services to Nursing.
Alan John Strevens Scott, formerly Director of Finance and Stores, Department of Civil Aviation.
Walter Peden Joyce Skelton, JP, of Belmore, New South Wales. For services to elderly people.
Roy Charles Tancred, JP, of Narromine, New South Wales. For services to the community.
Lena Elizabeth Trevenan, of Ballarat, Victoria. For social welfare services.
Frank Elliot Samuel Trigg, Honorary Secretary, Industrial Fund for the Advancement of Science in Independent Schools.
Elizabeth White, of Red Hill, Australian Capital Territory. For services to elderly people.
Nina Hazel Woodward, of Glen Iris, Victoria. For public and social welfare services.
British Empire Medal (BEM)
Military Division
Royal Australian Navy
Chief Mechanician James Edward Reid, R21132.
Chief Engine Room Artificer Stanley Alexander Russell, R32351.
Australian Military Forces
26950 Staff-Sergeant Bruce Albert Atherton, Royal Australian Armoured Corps.
2645 Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) George William Cousins, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
41706 Sergeant (temporary) Peter Dolan, Australian Intelligence Corps.
246281 Staff-Sergeant Leonard Munro Jack Lyneham, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
21796 Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) William Mullaney, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
275817 Staff-Sergeant Walter William Smith, Royal Australian Infantry Corps.
5640 Staff-Sergeant (temporary) Ronald William Taylor, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.
Royal Australian Air Force
A.22905 Flight Sergeant Donald Vincent Smith.
A.2536 Flight Sergeant Antony Thompson.
A.36435 Sergeant Ian Thomas Waters.
Civil Division
Charles William Frederick Carthew, Training School Instructor, Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia).
Rose Bellatti Crow, Archivist, Australian Embassy, Washington.