1944 Birthday Honours (MBE)
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The 1944 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 2 June 1944 for the United Kingdom and British Empire,[1][2] New Zealand,[3] and South Africa.[4]
It included a large number of people who were appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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.
Royal Navy
- Lieutenant-Commander Robert Edward Sanders, RNR.
- Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Alexander Dixon, RNVR. (Newcastle upon Tyne).
- Temporary Lieutenant-Commander William James Muddock, RNVR. (Kingston).
- Lieutenant-Commander Benjamin Whitcutt, Burma RNVR.
- Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (A) Geoffrey Hamilton Bates, RNVR. (East Sheen).
- Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (A) William Arthur Jevons Street, RNVR (Cheswerdine, Shropshire).
- Lieutenant-Commander (E) Raymond Hadyn Tribe. (Compton, Berkshire).
- Acting Engineer Lieutenant-Commander William McDonald, RNR (Retd).
- Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (E) Bernard Seymour Tharp, RNR.
- Acting Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Charles Joseph Richard Souhamy. (Plymouth).
- Acting Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Peter White. (Amersham).
- Acting Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Harry Watson, (Retd).
- Temporary Captain (Acting Temporary Major) John Morrice Cairns James, Royal Marines (Marlborough).
- Lieutenant (Acting Major) John Dane Henderson Salter, Royal Marines (Milton, Hampshire).
- The Reverend Geoffrey Phillips Beaumont, BA, Temporary Chaplain, RNVR.
- The Reverend David Herbert Booth, MA, Temporary Chaplain, RNVR.
- Lieutenant Richard Edmond John Fowler, (Retd). (Portsmouth).
- Lieutenant Frederick John Harding. (Glasgow).
- Lieutenant Peter John Stephen Hardinge. (Pitney, Somerset).
- Lieutenant Frank Leonard Leeder.
- Lieutenant Richard Francis McDermott, (Retd).
- Lieutenant Herbert Frank Short.
- Temporary Lieutenant Ernest Ronald Wray, RNR.
- Acting Lieutenant Raleigh Thomas Rowe, RNVR. (Cockfosters, Hertfordshire).
- Temporary Lieutenant John Ebner Glen, RNVR. (Glasgow).
- Temporary Lieutenant John Prys Williams, RNVR. (Bracknell, Berkshire).
- Lieutenant John Ernest Rimmer, Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve.
- Lieutenant (A) George Archibald Wycliffe Goodwin. (Bognor Regis).
- Lieutenant (A) Basil Sinclair. (Hexham).
- Lieutenant (E) Lewis Leslie Broad, RNR.
- Temporary Lieutenant (E) John Campbell Moody, RNR. (Biggar, Scotland).
- Paymaster Lieutenant Reuben Brampton Corkrey, (Retd). (Cowplain, Hampshire).
- Paymaster Lieutenant Owen Michael Lewin, RNR. (Minster, Sheppey).
- Skipper Lieutenant Edward Spencer Rilatt, RD, RNR (Retd) 2489 W.S. (Hull).
- Chief Boom Skipper Edward John Bracher, RNR.
- Temporary Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Frederick Victor Borrett, Royal Marines (Oxford).
- Jean Davies, First Officer, WRNS.
- Heather Hayes, First Officer, WRNS.
- Mr. Robert Hart Robertson, Commissioned Gunner. (Cardonald, Glasgow).
- Mr. Harold Richard Ben Smith, Gunner, Royal Military Navy (Stapleford Abbot, Essex).
- Mr. Frank Ebling, Acting Commissioned Photographer.
- Mr. John Henry Cook, Commissioned Shipwright. (Newcastle upon Tyne).
- Mr. Albert Edward Allcock, Commissioned Engineer. (Durban, South Africa).
- Mr. Leonard George Nathaniel Linder, Commissioned Engineer. (Purbrook).
- Mr. John Watkins Northwood, DSC, Commissioned Engineer. (Ludlow).
- Mr. Herbert William Lacon, Commissioned Wardmaster. (Weymouth).
- Mr. Reuben Daniel Wade, Warrant Shipwright. (Cosham, Hampshire).
- Mr. George Ernest Whittle, Temporary Warrant Master-at-Arms.
- Mr. Reginald Arthur Jackson, Temporary Warrant Engineer.
- Mr. Percy Frederick Hale, Warrant Mechanician.
- Mr. Samuel John Taylor, First Radio Officer, RNR, NAP/964525 (Herne Bay).
- Staff Sergeant Major Reginald James Brooks, Royal Marines (Deal).
- Superintending Clerk John William Johnson, Royal Marines.
- Lieutenant-Commander Neville Drake Pixley, Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
- Mr. Ralph Lane, Commissioned Telegraphist, Royal Australian Navy.
- Mr. Frederick Gardner, Temporary Gunner, Royal New Zealand Navy.
Army
- Captain (Quartermaster) Richard Abbott (77283), The Border Regiment, Territorial Army.
- Captain (temporary) Major John Amos, MB, (102123), Royal Army Medical Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Leonard Reginald Anderson (Quartermaster), Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Louis Douglas Ann (185142), General List.
- Major Laurence Wilfred Arnett, North Riding Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Joseph Asplin (319618), General List.
- Captain (Quartermaster) (temporary Major) Stanley Robert Astley, Indian Army.
- Regimental Sergeant-Major Ziyayi Banda, Northern Rhodesia Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Lindsay Barclay (176047), South African Medical Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Henry David Hardington Bartlett (93379), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
- Major (Quartermaster) Herbert Ralph Barton, MC, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.
- Lieutenant (Assistant Inspector of Armourers) Charles William Beardall (282872), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) George Gordon Bell (70643), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
- Lieutenant H. A. Bennet, Trinidad Home Guard.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Frank Albert Edmund Bjorseth (73259), South African Armoured Corps.
- Major (Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Staff Paymaster 1st Class) Cecil Charles Blackwell (6240), Royal Army Pay Corps.
- 7591424 Warrant Officer Class II Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert Sidney Bolton, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
- No. 7603434 Warrant Officer Class I Sub-Conductor Laurence Antoine Edward Butler Bourlay, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Reginald Brandon, AMInstCE, (181572), Royal Engineers.
- Lieutenant (acting Captain) Henry Hill Brewer, MC, (46531), Reserve of Officers, General List.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Arthur Brookes (245894), Royal Army Service Corps.
- No. 846872 Warrant Officer Class I Sergeant-Major Assistant Instructor Henry John Brown, Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Herbert Francis Granger-Brown (102540), The Devonshire Regiment.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Thomas Alfred Brown (75986), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant Gordon James Buck, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army.
- Major Arthur Clifford Howie Bull, Hertfordshire Home Guard.
- Major (Commissary) Bernard Burke, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Clifford Burton (144488), The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
- No. 3241 Battery Sergeant Major Emanuel Buttigieg (3241), Royal Malta Artillery.
- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Harold Ernest Caldwell (99119), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- No. 7588402 Sub-Conductor James Caldwell, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Charles Calder (76219), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
- Major (Quartermaster) Bertie Henry Capel, Indian Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) James Carreras (160321), Royal Artillery.
- Captain (temporary Major) Eric Archibald Catesby (99688), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Territorial Army.
- Major Edmund Cawkell, Essex Home Guard.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Jack Howarthe Paul Chadburn (202411), Intelligence Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Randolph Coningsby Chapman, MC, (21423), Territorial Army, Reserve of Officers, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
- Captain (Quartermaster) Frederick Charles Cheetham (92277), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army).
- Major Samuel John Chesser (101280), Royal Army Medical Corps.
- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Guy Chignell (74560), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) William Middleton Chrispin (127016), Royal Army Service Corps.
- Major George Smith Christie, Aberdeen and Kincardine Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Stanley William Clark (182533), Royal. Artillery.
- Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Frederick Clare, DCM, (31070), Extra Regimentally Employed List.
- Captain (Deputy Commissary) (temporary Major) Herbert Geoffrey Coates, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Henry James Ironside Coker (137699), The Durham Light Infantry.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Colin Richard James Connors (42192), Royal Engineers.
- Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Harry Edward Cook (181952), General List.
- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Eustace Haynes Peel Corbin (30019), The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (Territorial Army).
- Captain (temporary Major) John Bisp Cossens (89169), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) Territorial Army.
- Second-Lieutenant James Cottam, late West Riding Home Guard.
- Captain George Henry Cotton, Southern Railway Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Thomas James Cowen (121118), The Border Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Charles Burton Edward Cowie (161330), The East Surrey Regiment.
- No. 5766720 Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant Major William Thomas Crisp, Royal Army Service Corps.
- Lieutenant Andrew Basil Crosby, Surrey Home Guard.
- Captain (Quartermaster) (temporary Major) William John Patrick Croft (147934), The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Alexander William Thomas Cross (110599), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (Brevet Major) (temporary Major) Francis George Crozier (6504), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
- Major Aldington George Curphey, MC, Jamaica Medical Corps.
- No. 1862515 Company Sergeant Major Herbert Thomas Cypher, Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) William James Damerell, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
- Major Walter William Scott-Davidson, Kinross Home Guard.
- Captain Arthur William Davies, Surrey Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) James Runciman Denny (52948), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
- No. 1652623 Warrant Officer Class II (acting Warrant Officer Class I) John Denton, Army Educational Corps.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) John Henry Dirs (266333), Royal Corps of Signals.
- Lieutenant (Quartermaster) William Arthur Dixon (199891), The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Clifford Alfred Dove (108008), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) George Greig Dow (147011), Royal Artillery.
- Major Archibald James Macalpine-Downie (33678), late Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
- Temporary Major William Douglas Draffan, The King's African Rifles.
- No. 93654 Warrant Officer Class II Staff Quartermaster Sergeant (acting Warrant Officer Class I Staff Sergeant-Major) Norman Draper, Royal Army Service Corps.
- No. 5719502 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant-Major Frederick George Drew, The Dorsetshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Archibald Loraine Dunbar (224717), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Albert James Ede (60719), Royal Artillery, retired, reemployed.
- Regimental Sergeant-Major Samuel Arthur Edwards, Middlesex Home Guard.
- Captain Frank Stokes Ellis, Sussex Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Dennis Ewart Evans (151067), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Fairhurst, MA, (275397), Army Cadet Force (Berkshire).
- Captain (temporary Major) Robert Angus William Farmer, Indian Engineers, Indian Army.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Bellwood Farrer (283443), Army Cadet Force (Ayrshire).
- Major John Wilfred Joseph Faull, Glamorganshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Percy Alwyne Fellowes (75793), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Gorge Henry James Fleming (90663), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Territorial Army).
- Captain (temporary Major) Daniel Frederick Flood (111054), Royal Army Service Corps.
- Lieutenant (Quartermaster) (temporary Captain) Ernest Alban Fox (185659), Royal Army Service Corps.
- Major John Charles Freeman, Merionethshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Naval Dosabhoy Gandy, Indian Army Service Corps.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Leonard Morris Garwood (259703), Pioneer Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) George John Getley, Indian Army.
- Captain (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) John Houghton Gibbon (91397), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) James Adam Gilbert (167327), Royal Engineers.
- Subedar Major Janmeja Singh Gill, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
- No. 1057664 Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant Major (Assistant Instructor in Gunnery) George Girling, Royal Artillery.
- Captain (temporary Major) Geoffrey Edward Michael Godfrey (135148), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Subedar Muhammad Abdul Aziz Khan Gohanavi, Indian Army Medical Corps, Indian Army.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Stanley Gilbert Gover (137799), Royal Corps of Signals.
- Captain Stanley Graves, London Home Guard.
- No. 7610218 Sub-Conductor Herbert John Gray, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Major Hanmer Gethin Bodvel Griffith, Brecknockshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Anthony Gibbons Grinling, MC, (46744), The Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army, Reserve of Officers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Frank Wyatt Guenier (99847), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Peter Spencer Hadley (88627), The Royal Sussex Regiment (Territorial Army).
- Captain (temporary Major) Abdul Hamid, Kapurthala State Forces.
- Major William Reginald Clarence Hamlin, London Anti-Aircraft Home Guard.
- Major Harold Handley, Westmorland Home Guard.
- Major Thomas Winlack Harley, MC, Cheshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) William Richard Dobson Harris (92341), Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
- No. 3434565 Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant Major Albert Edward Hawkins, The Lancashire Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
- Junior Commander (temporary Senior Commander) Ida Winifred Hawley (192924), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- Lieutenant (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) (temporary Captain) James Arnold Hawley, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- No. 54414 Staff Sergeant Major Charles Edward Hayball, Royal Army Service Corps.
- Major (Quartermaster) John Joseph Heath, MC, DCM, MM, (44569), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
- Major (Quartermaster) William Henry Heath (34699), The Cheshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Gerald William Hedley (103453), General List.
- Captain (temporary Major) James Robertson Hendry, TD, (16104), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
- Captain (Quartermaster) Charles Henry David Henniker (102153), The Royal Ulster Rifles.
- Captain (temporary Major) Thomas William Price Hexley, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) John Jephson Hilary (149651), Royal Army Service Corps.
- No. 3710465 Warrant Officer Class I, Sub-Conductor Alfred Stanley Macnaughton Park-Hill, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
- No. 2186832 Warrant Officer Class II, Quarter-master Sergeant Reginald Ernest Hodgkins, Pioneer Corps.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Josiah John Honeybunn, 4th Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) Paul Hopkinson, 2nd Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
- Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) Joyce Eileen Acheson Hose (254364), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- No. 7718817 Warrant Officer Class II, Quarter-master Sergeant Instructor Charles Henry James Hosegood, Small Arms School Corps.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Ernest George Howe (143640), Lothian & Border Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) Leonard Cecil Hudson (116504), Royal Engineers.
- Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class the Reverend Owain Tudor Hughes, BA, (102494), Royal Army Chaplains Department.
- Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Wallace George Hulme (270175), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Luckin Alick Humphrey (137800), Royal Corps of Signals.
- Captain (temporary Major) Harry Vincent Hunt (161762), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Harold Lyle Hunter (169170), Army Educational Corps.
- Honorary Second Lieutenant Sidney Hurrell, The King's African Rifles.
- Major (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) Henry Charles Ingle, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Major Frank Louis Paul Jones (31628), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) Peredur Evans-Jones (227530), General List.
- Captain (temporary Major) Rajaram Vishwanath Karve, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Peter Whorlow Kenyon (68981), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
- Captain William Henry Kieffer, North Caribbean Force.
- Captain (temporary Major) Vincent King (126868), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) William Stanley King (166969), Royal Artillery.
- Captain (temporary Major) Geoffrey Cradock Knight (77238), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Kharshedji Kaikhoosru Lalkaka (175213), The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) James Ralph Lane (102936), Royal Army Service Corps.
- No. 750029 Warrant Officer Glass II Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Henry Lang, Royal Artillery.
- Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) Winifred Enid Lillian Lawrie (211300), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- No. 7584592 Warrant Officer Class I Sub-Conductor Henry Leach, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- No. 7584612 Warrant Officer Class I Sub-Conductor George Ledwidge, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Major Phillip Charles James Leigh, Hampshire Home Guard.
- Major Arthur Wilfred Lewis, Fiji Labour Corps.
- Major William Nathaniel Lindley, Coventry Home Guard.
- Lieutenant John Lindsay, Renfrewshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Alexander Godfrey Macdonald (39284), The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Territorial Army, Reserve of Officers).
- Captain (Quartermaster) Colin Robert Mackay (89106), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) William Gold Mackay (185450), Royal Army Service Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Ian Stuart Gruinard Mackenzie (74300), Royal Corps of Signals (Supplementary Reserve).
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Wilfred Manners (64097), Royal Corps of Signals (Supplementary Reserve).
- No. 1060858 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant-Major Jack Mansfield, Royal Horse Artillery.
- Major Edward Alfred Geoffrey Marlar, Staffordshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Henry Roy Marsh (5602), Queen's Own Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps.
- Lieutenant William Alfred Marshall, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
- Captain Harry Matthews, Devon Home Guard.
- No. 5239458 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant John Mayne, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
- Captain (temporary Major) Maxwell Hyslop Maxwell (89949), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army).
- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Louis Henry McCausland (119821), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- No. 5329816 Regimental Sergeant Major Leslie Thomas McColm, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
- Captain (temporary Major) Bernard McCormick, MIEE, (141161), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) William Laing McGregor (121066), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
- Subaltern (temporary Junior Commander) Gwendolin Drummond McKerrow, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- Major John Minchin, Derbyshire Home Guard.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Ronald Charles Eric Mines (77372), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Robert Calder Moles (108730), Royal Artillery.
- Captain (Brevet Major) (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Rupert Moxsy, MC, (8654), The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
- Risaldar (acting Risaldar Major) Niaz Muhammad, Indian Armoured Corps, Indian Army.
- Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) James Wildgoose Murdoch, Indian Army Corps of Clerks.
- Major James Broadfoot Murray, Glasgow Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Daniel Alfred Norton, MC, (145801), Royal Artillery.
- Captain Edwin Frederick Nott, Hertfordshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Michael Whittaker Carlton Oldfield, MB, FRCS, (44832), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
- No. 1525944 Warrant Officer Class II Battery Sergeant Major John Oliver, Royal Artillery.
- No. 6930 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant Major Anderea Opio, The King's African Rifles.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Charles Edward Page (193565), Royal Corps of Signals.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Richard Bentley Howard Page (217062), Royal Artillery.
- No. 1055245 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant Major George William Parritt, Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant Dillwyn David Llewellyn Parry (77302), Royal Engineers (Territorial Army).
- Captain (temporary Major) Frank Frederick Seymour Passmore (118661), Pioneer Corps.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Thomas William Perkins (137607), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant David John Petty (188478), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Herbert Robert Pillinger (106161), Royal Corps of Signals.
- Captain (Quartermaster) John Pincombe (161172), Royal Artillery.
- Junior Commander (temporary Senior Commander) Minnie Helen Pine (192780), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- Major Arthur Pond, Cornwall Home Guard.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Ernest Herbert Price (161174), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Alexander Robert Pride (87083), Royal Army Service Corps.
- Major Cyril Henry Wallace Pugh, Shropshire Home Guard.
- Senior Commander Kathlyn Gertrude Putnam, Women's Auxiliary Corps (India).
- Captain (temporary Major) Adrian Patrick Quaife (106858), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (Quartermaster) James Quinn (111593), Scots Guards.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Percy William Ransley (105988), The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
- No. 29741 Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant Major Ruby Elizabeth Relf, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- Captain (temporary Major) William Rennie (109358), The Lincolnshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) William James Riddell (205926), General List.
- Captain (temporary Major) James Alexander Rowland Robertson, 6th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army.
- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Edward Augustus Rodrigues, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
- Lieutenant (acting Captain) Alan Stuart Roger, 6th Rajputana Rifles, Indian Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) Henry Joseph Rothwell (100045), The Devonshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) George William Henry Ryland, FRIBA, (107714), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Elaine Margaret Catherine Salmond, MD, FRCS, (147752), Royal Army Medical Corps.
- No. 3849530 Warrant Officer Class II Battery Sergeant Major Charles Saunders, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army).
- No. 4741556 Warrant Officer Class I Staff Sergeant Major Herbert Mettham Saville, Royal Army Service Corps.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Edward Thompson Scott, (214400), Royal Artillery.
- Captain (temporary Major) Harold Kyle Scott, BSc, AMInstCE, (185140), Royal Engineers.
- No. 2608107 Warrant Officer Class II Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas William Scott, Grenadier Guards.
- Captain (temporary Major) Linley Morton Seaborn (132729), Royal Artillery.
- Captain (temporary Major) Hugh Brougham Sedgfield (152559), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Assistant Commandant Ivy Angela Seeley (588788), Voluntary Aid Detachment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Waqir Ali Shaikh, AMIME, Indian Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) Samuel George Maddox Shallard (59198234), Royal Artillery.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) William Tosh Sharpe (169612), Royal Engineers.
- Captain Willie Shaw, Wiltshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) John James Sheppard, DSO, MC, (16659), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).
- Captain (temporary Major) William Bertram Sheppard (145459), Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps (Territorial Army).
- Captain Edward John Galpin Shorter, Berkshire Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) Charles Rushton Shortt (29989), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
- Captain (Quartermaster) Charles William Silver (88782), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
- Subadar Atma Singh, Indian Army Medical Corps.
- No. 1397283 Warrant Officer Class II Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant John Singleton, Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Army).
- No. 7603236 Sub-Conductor Henry John Smart, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- No. 5721400 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant-Major Herbert Smith, The Dorsetshire Regiment.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain) John Smith (170097), Royal Artillery.
- No. 3854518 Warrant Officer Class II Battery Sergeant-Major John Smith, Royal Artillery.
- Major William Stanley Smith, TD, (7195), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, The Cheshire Regiment.
- No. 4914034 Warrant Officer Class II Mechanist Quartermaster Sergeant William Henry Snell, The South Staffordshire Regiment.
- No. 7574783 Warrant Officer Class I Sergeant-Major Arthur Spalding, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Captain (Quartermaster) John Edward Spooner (137694), The Devonshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Francis Leslie Standage (103926), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Kenneth Bridges Stanley (42519), Royal Armoured Corps.
- Lieutenant (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) (temporary Captain) Henry Ernest Jack Steed, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Captain (District Officer) W. Steel (152144), Royal Artillery.
- Captain (temporary Major) Douglas Stringfellow (135041), Royal Engineers.
- Major George Clifford Sugden, MC, East Riding Home Guard.
- Captain (Assistant Ordnance Mechanical Engineer) Thomas Heber Symonds, Indian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Lieutenant (temporary Captain, acting Major) Cecil Wortley Tait (185388), Intelligence Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) Richard Colin Trevithick Tangye (105364), Intelligence Corps.
- Lieutenant Ernest Thomas James Tapp, Hampshire Home Guard.
- No. 6077881 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Philip Tasker, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
- Captain (temporary Major) Frederick Hugh Thurnall Tatham (141454), The Royal Norfolk Regiment.
- Major Maurice Humphrey Taylor, Northumberland Home Guard.
- Senior Commander (temporary Chief Commander) Gladys Harriet Thompson (196016), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- Major. (Quartermaster) Cecil Herbert Townsend, 8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
- Captain (temporary Major) Leonard Eustace Upton (154262), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Philip Copley Varley (42496), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Stanley Robert Virgo (65763), Royal Corps of Signals.
- Lieutenant (acting Captain) Colin George Venables (127069), Royal Army Service Corps.
- No. 41087 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Ernest Vitel, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).
- Captain (temporary Major) Fakir Syed Waheed-ud-din, Indian Army.
- Chaplain the Reverend Thomas Walters, Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment, Indian Army.
- No. 773219 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant Major John Cole Watson, Royal Artillery.
- Junior Commander (temporary Senior Commander) Ruth Watson (192912), Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- Major Sydney George Watson (45096), The Army Dental Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) William Henry Cecil Wayte (119697), Royal Army Service Corps.
- Captain (temporary Major) John Westacott (118914), Royal Engineers.
- Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Leonard Wheeldon (106449), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Major Christopher Probart Whitaker, Norfolk Home Guard.
- Captain (temporary Major) (Electrical & Mechanical Engineer 3rd Class) Henry George White (97571), Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (Territorial Army).
- Captain (Quartermaster) (temporary Major) William Albert White (123522), Royal Artillery.
- Major Thomas MacFarlane Wilks, TD, (36338), Royal Corps of Signals (Territorial Army).
- Lieutenant Victor Norman Willard, Indian Engineers, Indian Army.
- Captain & Brevet Major (temporary Major) Frank Reuben Williams (19237), Reserve of Officers, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
- Captain (temporary Major) Philip Denys Wilson (70886), The Manchester Regiment, Territorial Army.
- Lieutenant Colonel William Wilson, Army Cadet Force (Middlesex).
- No. 4012 Company Sergeant Major Anne May Wren, Auxiliary Territorial Service.
- No. 6193751 Warrant Officer Class I Regimental Sergeant Major Albert Francis Wright, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own).
- Major (Ordnance Executive Officer 1st Class) Edward Wyatt (40445), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) George John Arnold, Australian Imperial Forces.
- Captain Everett William Bowden, Australian Military Forces.
- Major Ronald Neale Herford, Australian Military Forces.
- Temporary Lieutenant Stanley Toohey, Australian Military Forces.
- Captain & Quartermaster William Charles Hastings, New Zealand Military Forces.
- Captain Reginald George Hayward, New Zealand Military Forces.
- Captain Ronald Kennedy, New Zealand Military Forces.
- Second Lieutenant Frederick Douglas Sheppard, New Zealand Military Forces.
- Captain Alfred John Steele, New Zealand Military Forces.
- Second Lieutenant Leonard Roy Taylor, New Zealand Military Forces, attached Fiji Labour Corps.
Royal Air Force
- Acting Squadron Leader George William Jordan (44582).
- Acting Squadron Leader Horace Tilzey (48163).
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas William Arthur Allen (47520).
- Flight Lieutenant Sanford Baker (Can/C.6697), Royal Canadian Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Woolgrove Bryant (110866), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Christopher Cholmondeley (76363), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Arthur Claydon (43514).
- Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Edward William Davis (46857).
- Flight Lieutenant James Roy Duncan (11261), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Rupert Ambrose Percy Fison (86945), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Roderick Heazlewood (79114), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenants Michael Gilbert Tanner Hewlett (85823), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Kuring (Aus.267454), Royal Australian Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Trevor Morison (82419), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant John Parry (76080), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Stuart Nelson Pike, DFC, (81847), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas James Noel Rebbeck (48105).
- Flight Lieutenant William Henry Percival Smith (48276).
- Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Clive John Van Den Bergh (65425), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant David Owen Williams (88588), RAFVR.
- Flight Lieutenant Albert James Wilson (Aus.3054), Royal Australian Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant Percy Charles Wright (45393) Royal Air Force.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Frederick Vernon Armstrong (49140).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Reginald Banks (62045), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Frank William Burchell (66126), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Miles Edward Milne Day (108483), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant William Sidney Dundas (112103), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Arthur Evans (108356), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) John Steward Geary (68071), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Robert Girvan (124913), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Harold John Griffiths (117180), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant William Clement Hawken (48576).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Harold Holme (47561).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant (now Acting Squadron Leader) Henry Hansford Horsham (46052).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Elfred Lewis Jones (137804), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Walter Kilvington (106910), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles William Layton (46159).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Arthur Jesse Litchfield (104656), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Alfred Edward Mitchell (46995).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant James William McCombie (46751).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Leonard Martin Pankhurst (47022).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant George Perry (47711).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Noel George Quenet (68274), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Norman Radley (47682).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Ronald Revill-Johnson (111355), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Rawel Singh, Indian Air Force.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Edwin Goodrich Thorpe (66621), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Herbert Laurence Warner (101226), RAFVR.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Frederick George Weston (48852).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Cyril Thomas White (46972).
- Acting Flight Lieutenant David Chalmers Young (65665), RAFVR.
- Flying Officer Frank Frederick John Butler (49363).
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Martin Langdon Goodall (139289), RAFVR.
- Flying Officer Percival Frederick Hudson (50997).
- Flying Officer David Alexandra Inglis (63503), RAFVR.
- Flying Officer George Petrie Hay Munro (61141), RAFVR.
- Flying Officer John Padriac Weiffort Pollard (N.Z.403527), Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Flying Officer Mansel Clifford Morris Vaughan (52132).
- Flying Officer Edward Donald Watkins (123269), RAFVR.
- Acting Flying Officer Frederic Thomas Johnson (639348), RAFVR.
- Warrant Officer William Arthur Thomas Anderson (165021).
- Warrant Officer Michael Berenson (Can/R.71560), Royal Canadian Air Force.
- Warrant Officer Stanley William Bryant (542644).
- Warrant Officer Charles Chandler (362887).
- Warrant Officer Harry Norman Chislett (346626).
- Warrant Officer John Edwin Cooper (560069).
- Warrant Officer William Crosland (349220).
- Warrant Officer James Duncan (333198).
- Warrant Officer Reginald Henry Barton Gamble (330222).
- Warrant Officer John Lester Jarvis (357046).
- Warrant Officer George Jefferson (202208).
- Warrant Officer Reuben Lee (506238).
- Warrant Officer Sidney Albert Lucksford (590820).
- Warrant Officer John Richard Macdonald (505053).
- Warrant Officer Francis Edward Ferryman (591016).
- Warrant Officer Thomas. Freemantle Russell (359171).
- Warrant Officer Edward Charles Simmens (509371).
- Warrant Officer Kenneth Smith (355383).
- Warrant Officer Victor Alwyn Stanley (515247).
- Warrant Officer Arthur Edward Stevens (364174).
- Warrant Officer Walter John Towner (347753).
- Warrant Officer Charles Edward Waite (343890).
- Warrant Officer Adam Ward (346495).
- Acting Warrant Officer Clinton Walter Kidby (366134).
- Acting Warrant Officer William Anthony McGilp (561825).
- Acting Flight Officer Nellie Mary Evans (3088), Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
- Acting Flight Officer Mary Hodgson (5581), Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
- Acting Flight Officer Barbara Pemberton (1888), Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
- Acting Flight Officer Gladys Mary Shadbolt (1071), Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
- Warrant Officer Constance McLaughlin (887452), Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
- Squadron Leader William Marsel Higgins, Royal Australian Air Force.
- Acting Squadron Leader Percy Victor Feltham, Royal Australian Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur John Relf, Royal Australian Air Force.
- Flight Lieutenant James Bruce Dickey, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
- Acting Flight Lieutenant William John Fyfe, Royal New Zealand Air Force.