1944 Birthday Honours

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.

The recipients of honours are shown here as they were styled before their new honour.

United Kingdom and British Empire

Earl

• The Right Honourable Edward Frederick Lindley, Viscount Halifax, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., T.D., H.M. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington.

Baron

• Sir Claud Schuster, G.C.B., C.V.O., K.C., Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.

Privy Counsellor

• James Chuter Ede, Esq., J.P., D.L., M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Education, since 1940. Member of Parliament for Mitcham, March–November, 1923; for South Shields, 1929–31, and since 1935.
• The Honourable Francis Michael Forde, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Army in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Baronet

• William Whytehead Boulton, Esq., D.L., M.P., Vice-Chamberlain of H.M. Household since March, 1942. A Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury, 1940–42. Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central Division since 1931.
• Robert Reid Bannatyne, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.

Knight Bachelor

• Major Jack Becke, C.B.E., Chief Constable of Cheshire.
• Ernest Edward Bird, Esq. For services as President of the Council of the Law Society.
• John Scoular Buchanan, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• Ernest Rock Carling, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.S., Consultant Adviser in Surgery and Adviser on Casualty Services to the Ministries of Health and Home Security.
• Air Commodore John Adrian Chamier, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., Executive-Controller of the Air League of the British Empire. Formerly Commandant of the Air Training Corps.
• Alfred William Clapham, Esq., C.B.E., F.B.A., Secretary, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. Lately President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries.
• William Henry Collins, Esq. For services to hospitals. Chairman of King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor.
• Alwyn Douglas Crow, Esq., C.B.E., Sc.D., Controller of Projectile Development, Ministry of Supply.
• William Allen Daley, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer, London County Council.
• William Llewelyn Davies, Esq., Librarian of the National Library of Wales.
• Colonel Arthur Evans, M.P., Member of Parliament for Leicester East Division, 1922–23 and for Cardiff South Division, 1924–29 and since 1931. For political and public services.
• Professor Alexander Fleming, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Professor of Bacteriology, University of London. Discoverer of Penicillin.
• Professor Howard Walter Florey, M.B., Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor of Pathology, University of Oxford. For services in the development of Penicillin.
• Percival Hartley, Esq., C.B.E., M.C., D.Sc., F.R.S., Director of Biological Standards, National Institute for Medical Research.
• Wing-Commander Eric John Hodsoll, C.B., Inspector-General of Civil Defence, Ministry of Home Security.
• Hubert Stanley Houldsworth, Esq., K.C., D.Sc., J.P., Controller-General, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Peter David Innes, Esq., C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc., Chief Education Officer, Birmingham.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Alexander Dunnington-Jefferson, D.S.O., Chairman of the East Riding War Agricultural Executive Committee.
• Lewis Jones, Esq., J.P., M.P., Parliamentary Charity Commissioner since 1937. Member of Parliament for Swansea West Division since 1931. For political and public services.
• Alexander Boyne King, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., Chairman, Scottish Advisory Committee, Ministry of Information.
• Mark Frank Lindley, Esq., C.B., LL.D., Comptroller-General, Patent Office.
• Albert Nöel Campbell Macklin, Esq., Managing Director, Fairmile Marine Company.
• Simon Marks, Esq., D.Sc., Chairman and Managing Director, Marks and Spencer, Limited.
• Harry Finlayson Methven, Esq., Director of the National Service Hostels Corporation, Ltd.
• Eustace James Missenden, Esq., O.B.E., General Manager, Southern Railway Company.
• Alfred James Munnings, Esq., President of the Royal Academy.
• John William Lambton Oliver, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Director-General, Equipment and Stores, Ministry of Supply.
• Charles Herbert Reilly, Esq., O.B.E., LL.D., F.R.I.B.A., Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Liverpool.
• Alexander Rowland Smith, Esq., Managing Director and Controller, Ford Motor Company, Ltd.
• Charles Aubrey Smith, Esq., C.B.E., Actor. A leading Member of the British community in California.
• Llewellyn Thomas Gordon Soulsby, Esq., Regional Director, Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs, Admiralty.
• Professor Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, F.R.S., Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society.
• Captain Ernest Hugh Thornton, R.D., R.N.R. (Retired), Commodore of the Union Castle Line Fleet.
• William Wavell Wakefield, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Swindon since 1935. For political and public services.
• Alexander Percival Waterfield, Esq., C.B., First Commissioner, Civil Service Commission.
• George Alexander Waters, Esq., LL.D., J.P., Editor of "The Scotsman."
• Garnet Douglas Wilson, Esq., Lord Provost of Dundee.
• Major Alfred Chad Turner Woodward, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S., J.P., Chairman of the Worcestershire County Council.
• Herbert Wragg, Esq., J.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for Belper, 1923–29, and since 1931. For political and public services.

Dominions

• The Honourable Robert James Hudson, C.M.G., M.C., Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia.

India

• The Honourable Mr Justice Machraj Bhawani Shanker Niyogi, C.I.E., LL.D., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.
• Charles Holditch Bristow, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.
• Henry Challen Greenfield, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar.
• Lakshmipati Misra, Esq., Member, Engineering, Railway Board, Government of India.
• The Honourable Sardar Bahadur Sardar Sobha Singh, O.B.E., Member of the Council of State, Delhi.
• The Honourable Mr John Henry Burder, Member of the Council of State, Senior Partner, Messrs Jardine, Skinner & Co., President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Associated Chambers of Commerce, India.
• Keith Cantlie, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Member, Assam Revenue Tribunal, Assam.
• Rai Bahadur Seth Bhagchand Soni, O.B.E., Member, Legislative Assembly (Central), Proprietor, Banking and Industrial firm of Seth Joharmal Gumbhirmal, Ajmer.
• Dhirendra Nath Mitra, Esq., C.B.E., Solicitor to the Government of India.
• Charles Edward Stuart Fairweather, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Police, Commissioner of Police (retired), Calcutta, Bengal.
• Godfrey George Armstrong, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., V.D., Chairman Madras Port Trust, Madras.
• Gangaram Kaula, Esq., C.I.E., Mushir-i-Khas, Jind State.
• Sri Diwan Bahadur Madura Balasundaram Nayudu, C.I.E., Merchant, Madras.
• James Nuttall, Esq., Director, Messrs Binny & Company (Madras) Limited, Madras.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• James Reginald Conyers, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in Bermuda.
• William James Fitzgerald, Esq., M.C., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Palestine.
• Tikiri Banda Panabokke, Esq. For public services in Ceylon.
• Claud Ramsay Wilmot Seton, Esq., M.C., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Nyasaland.
• Gerald Charles Whiteley, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner Western Provinces, Nigeria

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

• General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Colonel Commandant, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), Aide-de-Camp General to The King.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Martin Burrough, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.
• Vice-Admiral Henry Bernard Rawlings, C.B., O.B.E.
• Vice-Admiral Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, C.B., D.S.O.
• Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) Edmond Charles Acton Schreiber, C.B., D.S.O., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) James Andrew Harcourt Gammell, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
• Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) John George des Reaux Swayne, C.B., C.B.E., late The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).
• General Ashton Gerard Oswald Mosley Mayne, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Indian Army.
• Acting Air Marshal Norman Howard Bottomley, C.B., C.I.E., D.S.O., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal Ralph Squire Sorley, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Ernest Holloway, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Director-General of Works, Air Ministry.
• The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G., M.C., Private Secretary to The King.
• Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly, D.S.O., D.Litt., Chairman, University Grants Committee.
• Sir David Taylor Monteath, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.V.O., O.B .E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, India Office.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Vice-Admiral Edward de Faye Renouf, C.V.O. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Richard James Rodney Scott, A.M. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Louis Vian, K.B.E., D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Arthur Duncan Read.
• Rear-Admiral Henry Clarmont Phillips.
• Rear-Admiral John Hereward Edelsten, C.B.E.
• Engineer Rear-Admiral Rene Charles Hugill, M.V.O., O.B.E. (Retired).
• Paymaster Captain Roger Ernest Worthington, D.S.C., A.D.C.
• Major-General Albert Edward Macrae, O.B.E., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General Horace Eckford Roome, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General (local Lieutenant-General) Gordon Wilson, C.B.E., M.C., M.B., K.H.S., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Gilbert Alan Blake, M.B., K.H.S., lat& Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Charles George Phillips, D.S.O., M.C., late The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own).
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Clement Arthur West, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Kenneth Noel Crawford, M.C., late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Donald Jay McMullen, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.I.Mech.E., late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) John Albert Charles Whitaker, C.B.E., late Coldstream Guards.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Philip Henry Mitchiner, C.B.E., T.D., M.D., M.S., F.R.C.S., K.H.S., late Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Army).
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, O.B.E. M.C., late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Roger Clayton Reynolds, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Artillery.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Charles Alexander Phipps Munson, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Artillery.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Reginald Francis Stewart Denning, late The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Edward Ian Claud Jacob, C.B.E., B.A., late Royal Engineers.
• Honorary Brigadier Vincent Raymond Kenny, M.B.E., late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Arthur Verney Hammond, D.S.O., Indian Army.
• Major-General John Geoffrey Bruce, D.S.O., M.C., Indian Army.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Roland Richardson, M.C., Indian Army.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Alfred Cyril Curtis, D.S.O., M.C., Indian Army.
• Air Vice-Marshal Ephraim William Havers, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Bernard McEntegart, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Reginald Baynes Mansell, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal William Charles Coleman Gell, D.S.O., M.C., Auxiliary Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Edwin Spencer Goodwin, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Victor Emmanuel Groom, O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Sturley Philip Simpson, C.B.E., M.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore George Cyril Bailey, D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore John Nelson Boothman, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Alexander Gray, M.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Harold Melsome Probyn, C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Commodore George Robert Beamish, C.B.E., A.D.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Commodore Stanford Cade, F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Major Charles Henry Scott Plummer, President, Territorial Army Assotiation of the County of Selkirk.
• Colonel Robert Chapman, C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Durham.
• Brevet Colonel Harold Septimus Burn, M.C., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Carmarthen.
• Air Commodore (Hon.) Vernon Sidney Brown, O.B.E., Chief Inspector of Accidents, Air Ministry.
• Oswald Coleman Allen, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Acting Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Security.
• Stanley Paul Chambers, Esq., C.I.E., Commissioner of Inland Revenue.
• Ralph Roscoe Enfield, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Reginald Daniel Fennelly, Esq., Under Secretary, Ministry of Production.
• Herbert Horace George, Esq., M.C., Principal Assistant Secretary and Accountant General, Ministry of Health.
• Charles Lawrence Kinloch Peel, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, General Post Office.
• George Lionel Pepler, Esq., F.S.I., A.R.I.B.A., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
• Professor Lionel Charles Robbins, F.B.A., Director of the Economic Section of the War Cabinet Secretariat.
• Harry Bernard Wallis, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Education.
• Richmond Walton, Esq., Acting Deputy Secretary, Admiralty.

Order of Merit (OM)

• The Right Honourable Sidney James, Baron Passfield, LL.B., Litt.D.
• Sir Henry Hallett Dale, G.B.E., F.R.S., M.A., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.C.P., President of the Royal Society.
• Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

• Henry Foley Knight, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

• Yeshwant Anant Godbole, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar.
• Harold Samuel Eaton Stevens, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Food and Civil Supplies Commissioner, Bengal.
• Colonel (Temporary Major-General) William Corson Holden, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., British Service, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, General Headquarters, India.
• Charles Gordon Herbert, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Resident at Gwalior and for the States of Rampur and Benares.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• Sir Eric Teichman, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., until recently Chinese Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Chungking.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

• Professor Reginald Coupland, C.I.E., D.Lit., Beit Professor of Colonial History. University of Oxford.
• Percivale Liesching, Esq., C.M.G., Second Secretary, Board of Trade.
• The Honourable Sir William Henry Horwood, Chief Justice of Newfoundland.
• Laurence Collier, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Norway.
• Donald St Clair Gainer, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil.
• William Thomas Matthews, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Director-General of the Middle East Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
• Paymaster-Commander Edward Wilfred Harry Travis, C.B.E., R.N., Director of a Department of the Foreign Office.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Alexander McCulloch Campbell, Esq., lately representative of the Ministry of War Transport in South Africa.
• John Henry Hambro, Esq., a Managing Director, United Kingdom Commercial Corporation.
• Maurice Inglis Hutton, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food; for services with the British Food Mission to the United States of America.
• The Honourable John Scott Maclay, M.P., for services with the British Merchant Shipping Mission, Washington.
• Richard John Rupert Measham, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Postal Services, General Post Office (now Regional Director in Scotland).
• Charles Buxton Anderson, Esq., I.S.O., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.A., Railways Commissioner for the State of South Australia.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Aubrey Denzil Forsyth Thompson, C.B.E., Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• Geoffrey Miles Clifford, Esq., O.B.E., E.D., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar.
• Christopher William Machell Cox, Esq., Adviser on Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Launcelot William Gregory Eccles, Esq., M.C., Colonial Survey Service, Commissioner for Lands, Mines and Surveys, Northern Rhodesia.
• John James Emberton, Esq., M.C., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
• Joseph Burtt Hutchinson, Esq., Geneticist, Cotton Research Station, Trinidad, and Cotton Adviser to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies.
• Alfred Travers Lacey, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Kenya.
• Robert Springett Mackilligan, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., Inspector of Mines and Petroleum Technologist, Trinidad.
• Ralph William Richardson Miller, Esq., A.I.C., Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture and Sisal Controller; Tanganyika Territory.
• Andre Espitalier-Noel, Esq., Controller of Supplies, Mauritius.
• John Gordon Read, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia.
• George Frederick Seel, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Philip Mainwaring Broadmead, Esq., M.C., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Rio de Janeiro.
• Frederick George Coultas, Esq., one of His Majesty's Consuls.
• Robert Dunbar, Esq., M.C., Head of the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office.
• Professor Robert Allason Furness, C.B.E., Deputy Public Censor, Anglo-Egyptian Censorship.
• Douglas Frederick Howard, Esq., M.C., Head of the Southern Department of the Foreign Office.
• Redvers Opie, Esq., Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
• Jose Campbell Penney, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., Commissioner of Police and Prisons, Sudan Government.
• Alec Walter George Randall, Esq., O.B.E., Head of the Refugee Department of the Foreign Office.
• Robert William Urquhart, Esq., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at New Orleans.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

• Major His Highness Alijah Farzand-I-Dilpazir-I-Daulat-I-Inglishia Mukhlis-ud-Daula Nasirul-Mulk Amir-ul-Umara Nawab Sir Saiyid Raza Ali Khan Bahadur Musta'id Jang, K.C.S.I., LL.D., D.Litt., Nawab of Rampur.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

• Robert Francis Mudie, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Acting Governor of Bihar.
• Cyril Edgar Jones, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Van Baerle Gillan, C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Resident for Rajputana.
• Lieutenant-General William Henry Goldney Baker, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., Indian Army, lately Adjutant-General in India.
• Lieutenant-General Thomas Jacomb Hutton, C.B., M.C., Secretary, War Resources, and Reconstruction Committees of Council, Government of India.
• Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Industries and Civil Supplies.
• James Drummond Anderson, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Revenue, and Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Punjab.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

• Mullath Kadingi Vellodi, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Textile Commissioner, and ex-officio Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Industries and Civil Supplies.
• Prem Nath Thapar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Information and Broadcasting.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Richardson Burnett, O.B.E., Indian Political Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
• Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Fred Buckley, Indian Army, Commander, Waziristan District.
• Henry Mend Mathews, Esq., A.M.I.E.E., Electrical Commissioner with the Government of India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Cosmo Grant Niven Edwards, Indian Political Service, Resident for Kolhapur and the Deccan States.
• Edward Owen Lee, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Bhagalpur Division, Bhagalpur, Bihar.
• Brigadier Mathew Henry Cox, O.B.E., M.C., Deputy Director-General, Ordnance Factories Division, Department of Supply, Government of India.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Arthur Douglas Magnay, Indian Army, lately Commander, Allahabad Area.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Lionel Arthur Stuart, M.C., Indian Army, lately Director, Pay and Pensions, General Headquarters (India).
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred William Nicholls, O.B.E., R.I.A.S.C., lately Director of Movements, General Headquarters, India.
• Lieutenant (War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel) (Temporary Brigadier) Ivor Stewart Jehu, Indian Army (Emergency Commission), Director, Inter-Services Public Relations. General Headquarters, India.
• Frank Fraser Haigh, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, Punjab.
• Charles Frederick Victor Williams, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras, Home Department.
• Ali Ahmed, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department and Secretary to the Government of Assam.
• William Gerald Came, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, Bihar.
• Edgar William Holland, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary, Public Health and Local Self-Government Department, Bengal.
• Sukumar Basu, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Department of Agriculture, and lately Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health and Lands.
• Harold Alexander Reid, Esq., Chief Mechanical Engineer, South Indian Railway.
• Pyare Kishan Wattal, Esq., Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Accountant-General, Punjab.
• Captain Joseph Noel Metcalfe, O.B.E., D.S.C., Royal Indian Navy (retired), Director of Equipment, Naval Headquarters.
• Ahmed Shah Bokhari, Esq., Director-General, All-India Radio.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (local Colonel) Geoffrey Cartaret Strahan, O.B.E., Indian Army, Recruiting Officer for Gurkhas, Kunraghat.
• Major Frank James Salberg, M.B.E., V.D., Engineer, Dibru-Sadiya Railway, and late Chief Engineer, Assam-Bengal Railway.
• Sydney Thomas Hensman Munsey, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer to Government, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, United Provinces.
• Harold Edwin Butler, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Police, Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
• Elmer Hargreaves Chave, Esq., Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (General, Buildings and A.R.P.), Madras.
• Captain (Commodore) Charles Ford Hammill, Royal Navy, Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf Division.
• Mahabir Prasad, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers (retired), Additional Chief Engineer to Government, United Provinces.
• Ram Gopal, Esq., Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Chief Controller of Supply Accounts, New Delhi.
• Herbert Ludlow Davis, Esq., Nautical Adviser to the Government of India, and Additional Controller of Indian Shipping.
• Khan Bahadur Muhammad Azimatullah Khan Sahib Bahadur, Collector and District Magistrate (retired), Madras.
• Frederick William O'Gorman, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Police, Officiating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bombay.
• Syed Amjad Ali, O.B.E., Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly, Lahore, Punjab.
• George Rainald Henniker-Gotley, Esq., D.S.O., Indian Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, North-West Frontier Province.
• Robert George Manson, Esq., Deputy General Manager, Bengal and Assam Railway, Bengal.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Murray, Indian Medical Service, Professor of Midwifery, Medical College, and Superintendent, Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, Bengal.
• Ivan Ellis Jones, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Director of Food Purchases and Deputy Secretary to Government, Punjab (Supplies), and lately Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Lahore, Punjab.
• Robert John Mathison Inglis, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Divisional General Manager, London & North-Eastern Railway.
• The Reverend John McKenzie, D.D., Principal, Wilson College, Bombay.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Brigadier Charles Alfred Howard, D.S.O.
• Owen Frederick Morshead, Esq., C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Lionel Logue, Esq., M.V.O.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

• Alfred Trego Butler, Esq., M.C., F.S.A.
• Henry Bromley Derry, Esq., D.Mus., F.R.C.O.
• Thomas Macpherson Stanier, Esq.
• Louis Leopold Victor Wulff, Esq.
• Robert Walter Burbidge, Esq.
• George Albert Conyard, Esq.
• Percival Thorne Fielding, Esq.
• Miss Gwendoline Logan.
• James Arthur Masters, Esq.
• Norman Leslie Swift, Esq.
• Stanley Arkell Williams, Esq.

Order of the British Empire

Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

• Stella, Dowager Marchioness of Reading, D.B.E., Chairman, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

• Miss Doris Winifred Beale, R.R.C.
• Miss Lilian Charlotte Barker, C.B.E., J.P. For services in connection with the welfare of women and girls.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

• Vice-Admiral Frank Arthur Marten, C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O. (Retired).
• Vice-Admiral Theodore John Hallett, C.B., C.B.E. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Aubrey Thomas Tillard, D.S.O. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Kenelm Everard Lane Creighton, M.V.O. (Retired).
• Major-General Guy de Courcy Glover, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The South Staffordshire Regiment.
• Major-General Claude Francis Liardet, C.B., D.S.O, T.D., late Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) Archibald Edward Nye, C.B., M.C., late The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
• Air Vice-Marshal William Tyrrell, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., Royal Air Force.
• Harold Leslie Boyce, Esq., J.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for Gloucester since 1929. For political and public services.
• Herbert Brittain, Esq., C.B., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Thomas Gilmour Jenkins, Esq., C.B., M.C., Deputy Director-General, Ministry of War Transport.
• Lancelot Carrington Royle, Esq., Chairman, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
• Thomas Herbert Sheepshanks, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Security, seconded to the Office of the Minister of Reconstruction.
• Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas, C.I.E., M.B.E., Chairman, East India Cotton Association, Bombay.
• William Marston Logan, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Sir Henry Joseph Wood, Mus.D., D.Mus., F.R.A.M., F.R.C.M. For services to music.

Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Dominion Civil Services

• George Richard Cake, Esq., First Clerk in the Department of Home Affairs, Newfoundland.
• Gerald Albert William Pope, Esq., General Manager, Government Produce Department, State of South Australia.

Indian Civil Services

• Jubilee Alfred Victor Foregard, Esq., Superintendent Central Telegraph Office, Simla.
• Harry Walter Martin, Esq., Deputy Chief Accounting Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for India, London.
• Sri Rao Bahadur Vaidyanatha Ayyar Natesa Ayyar, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Madras.
• Erach Byramji Patell, Esq., Senior Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General and Educational Departments, Secretariat, Bombay.

Colonial Service

• Vernon Eugene Frederick Arndt, Esq., Administrative Assistant, Department of Government Electrical Undertakings, Ceylon Civil Service.
• Frank Arthur Cottage, Esq., Clerk, Storekeeper and Registrar, Veterinary Department, Uganda.
• John de Nobriga, Esq., Warden, St George, District Administration, Trinidad.
• Victor Campbell Mackay, Esq., Chief Inspector of Stamps, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
• Louis Maxime Mesle, Esq., Customs Officer (Special Grade), Seychelles.
• Donaisami Stanmukham Pillai, Esq., 1st Grade Clerk, Accountant-General's Department, Tanganyika Territory.
• Benjamin Victoz Sethukavaler, Esq., Office Assistant, Trincomalee Kachcheri, Ceylon.
• Gerald Wickremasinghe, Office Assistant, Galle Kachcheri, Ceylon.

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal for public services in India

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

• Miss Winifred Spicer, Matron, Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian Railway Hospital, Ajmer, and Lady Superintendent, Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association, Rajputana Branch.

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

• Ann, Lady Dow (wife of Sir Hugh Dow, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Governor of Sind).
• Alice Margaret Rose, Lady Lewis (wife of Sir Hawthorne Lewis, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Governor of Orissa).
• Miss Evangeline Booth Crann, Sister-in-Charge, A.R.P. Emergency Hospital, Behala, 24-Parganas District, Bengal.
• Miss Esther Brigham Fowler, Senior Missionary, American Marathi Mission, Sholapur, Bombay.
• The Right Reverend Timothy John Crowley, C.S.C., Roman Catholic Bishop of Dacca, Bengal.
• Paul William Harrison, Esq., Member, Arabian Mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of America at Bahrain, Persian Gulf.
• The Reverend James Watson Runciman, Church of Scotland Mission, Udaipur, Rajputana.