1965 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1965 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1964 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1965.

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.

Recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours.

United Kingdom

Life peer

Baron

• George James Cole, Esq., Chairman, Unilever Ltd.
• Sir Howard Walter Florey, M.D. For services to Medicine.
• Sir Christopher Hinton, K.B.E., lately Chairman, Central Electricity Generating Board.
• Sir William Graham Holford, Professor of Town Planning, University College, London.

Privy Counsellor

• The Honourable Mr Justice Stable, M.C., Q.C. (Sir Wintringham Norton Stable), Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division.

Knight Bachelor

• John Bailey, Esq. For political and public services in Bradford.
• Professor Robert Vivian Bradlaw, C.B.E., D.D.Sc., D.D.S., President, General Dental Council.
• Alderman Dryden Brook. For political and public services in Halifax.
• His Honour Walker Kelly Carter, Q.C., Senior Official Referee, Supreme Court of Judicature.
• Charles Mills Cawley, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power.
• Leonard Cooke, Esq., O.B.E., President, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.
• David Paton Cuthbertson, Esq., C.B.E., M.D., Director, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire.
• Colonel William Lang Denholm, T.D., D.L., Chairman, Shipping Federation Ltd.
• Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Esq., Chairman, Davy and United Engineering Company, and for services to export.
• Alderman Nicholas Garrow, O.B.E. For political and public services in Northumberland.
• Alderman William Hemingway, J.P. For political and public services in Leeds.
• Alderman Mark Henig. For political and public services in Leicester.
• Alderman Gilbert Samuel Inglefield, T.D., Aldermanic Sheriff, City of London.
• John Kenneth Trevor Jones, Esq., C.B.E., Legal Adviser, Home Office.
• William Ross McLean, Esq., V.R.D., Q.C., Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles.
• John McMichael, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Medicine, University of London.
• Stanley Matthews, Esq., C.B.E. For services to Association Football.
• Peter Lowrie Meldrum, Esq., J.P., Lord Provost of Glasgow.
• Karl Raimund Popper, Esq., Professor of Logic and Scientific Method, University of London.
• Gilbert Roberts, Esq., Partner, Freeman, Fox and Partners, Consulting Engineers.
• Frederick Stratten Russell, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C., Secretary to the Council of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom and Director of the Plymouth Laboratory.
• Owen Alfred Saunders, Esq., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of Department, Imperial College, University of London.
• Nicholas Thomas Sekers, Esq., M.B.E., Founder and Manager of the Rosehill Theatre. Managing Director, West Cumberland Silk Mills Ltd.
• Harold Charles Shearman, Esq. For services to Education.
• Professor Laurence Dudley Stamp, C.B.E. President, Royal Geographical Society. For services to land use.
• Joseph Lincoln Spedding Steel, Esq., Chairman, Triplex Holdings Ltd.
• Cyril James Stubblefield, Esq., Director, Geological Survey of Great Britain and Museum of Practical Geology.
• Ronald George Thornton, Esq., Vice-Chairman, Barclays Bank Ltd, and for services to export.
• Theodore Henry Tylor, Esq., Chairman, Executive Council, Royal National Institute for the Blind.
• Charles Haynes Wilson, Esq., Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow.

Australian States

State of Victoria

• The Honourable Edward Herbert Hudson, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria.
• Eric Scott, Esq., O.B.E. For his services to pharmacy in the State of Victoria.

State of Queensland

• William Alfred Brand, Esq., C.B.E., of Childers, State of Queensland. For public services, particularly to the sugar industry.

State of South Australia

• Richard George Hawker, Esq., a leading industrialist and pastoralist in the State of South Australia.

State of Western Australia

• Ernest Thorley Loton, Esq., J.P. For public services in the State of Western Australia.

Commonwealth Relations

• Horace John Croot, Esq., C.B.E., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Senior Specialist and Surgeon, Uganda.
• The Honourable Albert Michael Margai, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone.
• Malin Sorsbie, Esq., C.B.E., Chairman, Munitalp Foundation, Kenya.

Overseas Territories

• Alfred Etienne Jerome Dupuch, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Bahamas.
• Richard Lyle Le Gallais, Esq., Chief Justice, Aden.

Order of the Bath

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

• Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, Bt., K.C.B.
• General Sir William Gurdon Stirling, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C. (Gen.), Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Sir Thomas Padmore, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral Ronald Vernon Brockman, C.S.I., C.I.E., C.B.E.
• Vice-Admiral Frank Roddam Twiss, C.B., D.S.C.
• Major-General George Sinclair Cole, C.B., C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of
• Artillery.
• Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Randolph Dixon Musson, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Colonel, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
• Acting Air Marshal Brian Kenyon Burnett, C.B., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal Peter Guy Wykeham, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Edmund Gerald Compton, K.B.E., C.B., Comptroller and Auditor General, Exchequer and Audit Department.
• William Arthur Harvey Druitt, Esq., C.B., H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Martin Teall Flett, Esq., C.B., Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State (Royal Air Force), Ministry of Defence.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Maurice Henry Adams, Q.H.S., M.B., B.Ch.
• Rear-Admiral Patrick Uniacke Bayly, D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Francis Brian Price Brayne-Nicholls, D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral David Granville Clutterbuck.
• Rear-Admiral Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes Gibson, D.S.C.
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral John Morley Holford, O.B.E., Q.H.P., M.B., M.R.C.S.
• Acting Major General Bertram George Ralfs.
• The Venerable Archdeacon Raymond William Richardson, Q.H.C.
• Rear-Admiral David Apthorp Williams, D.S.C.
• Major-General Edward John Hunter Bates, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Ewing Henry Wrigley Grimshaw, C.B.E., D.S.O., late infantry.
• Major-General William Herbert Hargreaves, O.B.E., F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Eustace John Blois Nelson, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., M.C., late Foot Guards.
• Major-General Marshall St John Oswald, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General John Anthony Jervis Read, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry.
• Major-General Robert Alexander Stephen, C.B.E., Q.H.S., M.D., Ch.M., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Francis Brian Wyldbore-Smith, D.S.O., O.B.E., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Air Vice-Marshal William Vernon Crawford-Compton, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Peter Carteret Fletcher, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Knowles, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Leonard Seabrook, Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Norman Colpoy Simpson Rutter, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore George Roy Gunn, O.B.E., M.B., Ch.B., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Ian Douglas Napier Lawson, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• William Eden Tatton-Brown, Esq., Chief Architect, Ministry of Health.
• The Right Honourable Ronald John Bilsland, Baron Clydesmuir, M.B.E., T.D., President, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Lanark.
• Frank John Doggett, Esq., Under-Secretary (Establishments and Organisation), Ministry of Aviation.
• Julian Clement Peter Elliston, Esq., T.D., Parliamentary Counsel.
• Alexander Thomas Kingdom Grant, Esq., C.M.G., Under-Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
• Peter Henderson, Esq., M.D., Principal Medical Officer, Department of Education and Science.
• Harold William Hobbs, Esq., C.B.E., Deputy Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence (Army).
• Kenneth Roderick Mackenzie, Esq., Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons.
• Frank Fiddes Main, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.P.Ed., Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Local Government for Northern Ireland.
• John Hayes Marriott, Esq., O.B.E., Attached Ministry of Defence.
• Charles James Maston, Esq., C.B.E., Under-secretary, Ministry of Labour.
• Antony Dillwyn Peck, Esq., M.B.E., Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Programmes and Budget), Ministry of Defence (Central Staff).
• Albert William Cecil Ryland, Esq., Director of Inland Telecommunications, General Post Office.
• John Hugh Street, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
• John Crighton Thompson, Esq., C.B.E., Director of Naval Electrical Engineering, Ministry of Defence (Navy).

Order of St Michael and St George

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

• Sir Joseph John Saville Garner, K.C.M.G., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E., lately Governor of Northern Rhodesia.

Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG)

• Miss Nancy Broadfield Parkinson, C.B.E., Controller, Home Division, British Council.

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

• Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands.
• Roger William Jackling, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
• Anthony Handley Lincoln, Esq., C.M.G., C.V.O., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Caracas.
• The Honourable John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, C.M.G., C.V.O., M.C., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Copenhagen.
• Archibald Duncan Wilson, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belgrade.

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

• Ewen Broadbent, Esq., formerly Assistant Secretary, Sovereign Base Areas Administration, Cyprus, Ministry of Defence (Air).
• Alexander Currall, Esq., Senior Trade Commissioner, Canada.
• Colonel Edgar Allen Griffin, O.B.E., E.D., Regional Director, Southern Region, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
• William Douglas Sweaney, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development
• John Arthur Briscoe Allan, Esq., Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya.
• David Lee Cole, Esq., M.C., British High Commissioner in Malawi.
• David John Coward, Esq., O.B.E., Registrar-General, Official Receiver and Public Trustee, Kenya.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Royal Dickenson, Postmaster General, Southern Rhodesia.
• Marcus Bertram Hoare, Esq., Q.C., of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For services to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women.
• Norman Stewart Carey Jones, Esq., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lands and Settlement, Kenya.
• Denis Owen Mathews, Esq., O.B.E., General Manager, East African Tourist Travel Association, Kenya.
• Clement Aubrey Pounsett, Esq., Public Service Commissioner and Chairman, Public Service Board, State of South Australia.
• The Honourable Arthur Gordon Rylah, E.D. Chief Secretary and Attorney-General, State of Victoria.
• Harold Smedley, Esq., M.B.E., British High Commissioner in Ghana.
• Peter Ernest Walters, Esq., Civil Secretary, Eastern Region, Kenya.
• Gavin Edward Wyatt, Esq., Managing Director, East African Power and Lighting Company Ltd, Kenya.
• Ewen Cameron Thomson, Esq., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Northern Rhodesia.
• Samuel Horatio Graham, Esq., O.B.E., Administrator, St Vincent.
• Lawrence John Hobson, Esq., O.B.E., Political Adviser to the High Commissioner for Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia.
• George Peter Lloyd, Esq., Colonial Secretary, Seychelles.
• Donald Alonzo Wiles, Esq., O.B.E., lately, Administrator, Montserrat.
• Michael Gerard Laurie Joy, Esq., M.C., lately Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Stockholm.
• John Ormsby McCormick, Esq., M.C., Foreign Office.
• Antony Ross Moore, Esq., lately Foreign Office.
• Norman Jordan-Moss, Esq., Counsellor, United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Peter Richard Oliver, Esq., lately Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Djakarta.
• Stephen John Linley Olver, Esq., M.B.E., lately Counsellor (Administration), Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington.
• Reginald Arthur Phillips, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Director-General, British Council.
• Alan Desmond Frederick Pemberton-Pigott, Esq., lately Foreign Office.
• Caryl Oliver Imbert Ramsden, Esq., Counsellor, Her Majesty Embassy, Brussels.
• Donald Claude Tebbit, Esq., Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Copenhagen.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• William Godfrey Agnew, Esq., C.V.O.
• The Reverend Maurice Frederic Foxell, C.V.O.
• Francis Galloway Leslie, Esq., C.V.O., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Professor Arthur Aspinall.
• Major-General Cyril Harry Colquhoun, C.B., O.B.E.
• The Right Honourable Ann Fortune, Countess of Euston, J.P.
• The Right Honourable Elizabeth Mary, Countess of Leicester.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Charles William Mackenzie Penn, O.B.E., M.C.
• Major Robert Stephens, E.R.D.
• Francis John Bagot Watson, Esq., M.V.O.
• Percy Arthur White, Esq.

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

• Commander James Morgan Child, Royal Navy.
• William Paul Oke Cleave, Esq.
• Commander Richard Lovell Hewitt, Royal Navy.
• Miss Enid Price Hill, M.V.O.
• Thomas Woodard, Esq.
• John Woodman, Esq.

Fifth Class

• Gordon Herbert Franklin, Esq.
• George Leslie Hawes, Esq.
• Philip Harold Venning, Esq.

Order of the British Empire

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

• Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire, K.C.B., C.B.E., A.D.C., Royal Air Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.L., Speaker of the Senate, Northern Ireland, 1961–1964. Minister in the Senate, 1951–1961.

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

• The Right Honourable Hester Agnes, Baroness Adrian, B.E.M. For services to health including mental health, and education.
• The Right Honourable Margaret, Baroness Wakehurst. For public services in Northern Ireland.

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

• Instructor Rear-Admiral Charles Roy Darlington.
• Major-General Christopher Earle Welby-Everard, C.B., O.B.E., late Infantry (now R.A.R.O.), General Officer Commanding, Nigerian Army.
• Acting Air Marshal Patrick Hunter Dunn, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal David John Pryer Lee, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, Bt, O.B.E., T.D., Chairman, British Sugar Corporation Ltd.
• Sir Henry Frank Harding Jones, M.B.E., Chairman of the Gas Council.
• John Walley, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
• Colonel John Edmund Hugh Boustead, C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., Political Agent, Abu Dhabi.
• Cornelius Ewen MacLean Greenfield, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Secretary to the Treasury, Southern Rhodesia.
• Alexander Falconer Giles, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Resident Commissioner, Basutoland.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• The Right Honourable Lewis, Baron Silkin, Labour Member of Parliament for the Peckham Division of Camberwell, 1936–1950. Minister of Town and Country Planning, 1945–1950. Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, 1958–1964. For political and public services.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• [[Edward Sayers (doctor)|Professor Edward George Sayers CMG MB FRCP]] – Dean of the Medical Faculty, Otago University.

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• [[Ian Morrison (RNZAF officer)|Air Vice-Marshal Ian Gordon Morrison CBE]] – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• George Burns – of Christchurch. For services to journalism.
• John Thomson Gilkison – Commissioner of Works.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

• [[William Stevenson (New Zealand politician)|William Alfred Stevenson OBE JP]] – of Auckland. For services to the community.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• (William) Henry Cooper – of Auckland. For services to education.
• [[Percy Dowse|Percy Dowse JP]] – Mayor of Hutt City.
• Alister Murray Linton – Mayor of Rotorua.
• Ernest Richard Toop JP – of Wellington. For services to local government.

Military Division

• Brigadier Robert Boyd Dawson DSO – New Zealand Regular Force.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Arthur Dudley Carson – director of the Fields and Marginal Lands Divisions, Department of Lands and Survey.
• [[Bertie Cooksley|Bertie Victor Cooksley MM]] – of Masterton. For services to the community.
• Donald Alexander Finlayson JP – of Northland. For services to the dairy industry.
• Alexander Kirkpatrick JP – of Hastings. For services to local government.
• Grant Raglan Milne – of Wellington. For services in the field of engineering, particularly as president of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers.
• Lawrence David Jose Nathan JP – of Auckland. For services to the community in the fields of philanthropy and local government.
• Robert Steele Pearson – superintendent of the Youth Centre, Prisons Department, Waikeria.
• Morton Sommerville Rennie – of Auckland. For services to agriculture.
• [[Peter Snell|Peter George Snell MBE]] – of Auckland. For his outstanding achievement in the field of athletics.
• Miss Winifred Sarah Train – lately matron, Palmerston North Public Hospital.
• Frederick Turnovsky – of Wellington. For services in the field of music.

Military Division

• Commander John Malcolm Fielder VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Rodney Ingle MVO ED – Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals (Regular Force).
• Wing Commander Melville Harry Scott Innes-Jones – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Victor Maxwell Anderson – of Eketahuna. For services to local government.
• Edward Stuart Bibby JP – of Waipawa. For services to the community.
• Miss Ada Clark – of Auckland. For services to the Missions to Seamen Harbour Lights Guild.
• Cyril James Cox JP. For services to the community, especially as chairman of the Nelson Health Camp Committee.
• Leo Vernon Farthing JP – of Timaru. For services to local government and welfare organisations.
• Hubert Menary Hammond – of Hamilton. For services to local government and horticulture.
• David Livingstone Holmes JP. For community welfare services, especially as chairman of the Chatham Islands County Council.
• Bruce Hutchen – of Taranaki. For services to the community.
• [[Laura May Cook Ingram|Miss Laura May Cook Ingram JP]] – of Motueka. For services in the fields of community welfare and local government.
• Herbert George Kemp JP – of Ashburton. For services to local government and the community.
• Miss Mabel Mahinarangi Kewene – matron, Te Puia Springs Hospital, Gisborne.
• Thomas McKenzie JP – of Invercargill. For services to farming.
• Albert Henry Nees – of Blenheim. For services to local body affairs.
• Edward Herbert Raymond JP – Mayor of Te Puke Borough Council.
• William John Richards – Mayor of Hokitika.
• [[Te Kiato Riwai|Miss Te Kiato Riwai BEM]] – of Christchurch. For services as a welfare officer to the Māori people.
• Martin Sydney Stanley Smith JP – deputy Mayor of Wanganui.
• Ernest Wilfred Turner JP – of Auckland. For services to local government.

Military Division

• Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Thomas Henry Logan – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class I Jack Douglas Flowerday – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Major James Frederick Moodie MC ED MB ChB MRCP – Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps (Regular Force).
• Squadron Leader Herbert Keele Horne – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Laurie Alexander Anderson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Brian Elliott Nye – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

For gallantry, Civil Division

• Andrew Robert McFarlane – Constable, New Zealand Police. For arresting a mentally unbalanced man armed with a rifle.
• Donald Kinloch White – Sergeant, New Zealand Police. For arresting a mentally unbalanced man armed with a rifle.

Civil Division

• James Gordon Mearns – Station Maintenance Overseer, Ministry of Works Staff, Royal New Zealand Air Force Station, Hobsonville.
• Hector Redvers Sear – chief guide, Waitomo Caves.
• Archibald Frederick Williams – group scoutmaster, 1st Karori Group.

Military Division

• Chief Petty Officer Writer Frederick Cozens – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Electrician Michael John Patrick Headley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Peter George Saunders – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer John Stokes – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant John Lawrence Rogers Lydiate – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Staff-Sergeant (temporary) John David Anson Wright – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Alan Conroy – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant James Walter Findlay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Matron Iris Frazer – Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps (Regular Force).

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Edmund Chester Arundel – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant William Edmund Hugh Bromley – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service (QFSM)

• Leslie Roy Joseph Osmond – Chief Fire Officer, Christchurch Fire Brigade.
• Hector Edward Braggins – lately Third Officer, Masterton Fire Brigade.

Queen's Police Medal for Distinguished Service (QPM)

• William Smith Craigie – Assistant Commissioner, New Zealand Police Force.
• Henry Mark Holmes – Detective Chief Superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flying Officer Gerald Ayre – Royal New Zealand Air Force.