1946 New Year Honours

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. They were announced on 1 January 1946 for the United Kingdom,^[1] Canada,^[2] the Union of South Africa,^[3] New Zealand,^[4] and the Dominions,^[5] and on 9 January 1946 further appointments for the British Empire^[6] to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946.

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.

United Kingdom

The 1946 New Year Honours for the United Kingdom were announced on 1 January 1946.^[1]

Viscount

Field-Marshal the Right Honourable Alan Francis, Baron Alanbrooke, GCB DSO Aide-de-Camp General to the King.
Field-Marshal the Honourable Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, GCB CSI DSO MC Aide-de-Camp General to the King.
Admiral of the Fleet the Right Honourable Andrew Browne, Baron Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT GCB DSO
Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, GCB DSO
Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Right Honourable Charles Frederick Algernon, Baron Portal of Hungerford, GCB DSO MC

Baron

Admiral Sir Bruce Austin Fraser, GCB KBE
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur William Tedder, GCB
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cronyn Tovey, GCB KBE DSO First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King.
Field-Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, GCB GBE DSO Aide-de-Camp General to the King.

Knight Bachelor

Major-General Ralph Bignell Ainsworth, Director of Medical Services, the Joint War Organization

New Zealand

The 1946 New Year Honours for New Zealand were announced on 1 January 1946.^[4]

Knight Bachelor

The Honourable Archibald William Blair – Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court.
James Fletcher – of Wellington. For public services.
The Honourable William Perry MLC – a member of the War Cabinet and of the War Council.

Order of the Bath

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Lieutenant-General (temporary) Edward Puttick CB DSO – New Zealand Military Forces.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Brigadier (temporary) Leonard George Goss – New Zealand Military Forces.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

Carl August Berendsen CMG LLM – New Zealand Minister to the United States of America, formerly permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department, Secretary of External Affairs and Secretary to the War Cabinet.

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

Bernard Carl Ashwin – Secretary to the Treasury.
John Henry Boyes – Public Service Commissioner.
Cyril George Collins – formerly Controller and Auditor-General.
Ernest Marsden CBE MC DSc – secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Francis Raymond Picot – Commissioner of Supply.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

Alfred Clarke Turnbull – Administrator of the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa.

Military Division

Major-General (temporary) Fred Thompson Bowerbank OBE MC ED MD FRCPEd FRACP – New Zealand Medical Corps, New Zealand Military Forces.
Air Vice-Marshal Leonard Monk Isitt CBE – Royal New Zeaknd Air Force.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

Andrew Henson Allen. For patriotic and social welfare services during his period of office as mayor of Dunedin.
John Andrew Charles Allum – mayor of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Ernest Herbert Andrews – mayor of Christchurch. For social welfare and patriotic services.
Eugene Casey – formerly general manager, Railways Department.
Denis Joseph Cummings – Commissioner of Police.
George Andrew Duncan – director, Export Division, Marketing Department.
David Emmet Fouhy – official secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand.
George Arthur Hayden – secretary, National Patriotic Fund Board.
James Stanley Hunter – director of National Service and of the Organisation for National Development.
William Marshall. For services to industry and commerce.
Frederick Millett Sherwood – private secretary to the Minister of Defence.
The Honourable Vincent Aubrey Ward – a Member of the Legislative Council. For patriotic and social welfare services.
John George Young – formerly Director-General, Post and Telegraph Department.

Military Division

Group Captain Trevor Watts White ED – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Group Captain Gordon Hamish Martin Pirie – Royal Air Force.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

Miss Annie Constance Affleck – inspector, Office of the Public Service Commissioner.
Miss Lillian Banks – matron, Palmerston North Public Hospital, and president of the Registered Nurses Association.
Mrs Mary Jane Bentley – of Wellington. For services in organising women's war movements.
John Balmain Brooke. For services in connection with the production of munitions in New Zealand.
Cyril Blake Burdekin MBE – a member of the staff of New Zealand High Commissioner in London. For services to the New Zealand prisoners of war organisation.
Colonel Frederick William Burton – field secretary, and secretary of the war services committee of the Salvation Army.
Ronald Alan Candy – a member of the National Council of Primary Production.
Hector Christie. For patriotic and social welfare services in connection with the organisation of the boy scouts movement.
The Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas Frederick Connolly – chairman of the Catholic Services War Fund Board.
Robert Darroch – secretary, Navy League War Council.
David Alexander Ewen MBE – a member of the Supply Council.
Charles Stuart Falconer – chairman, War Services Committee, Young Men's Christian Association.
Clarence Richard Charles Gardiner. For patriotic and social welfare work on behalf of members tof the New Zealand Armed Forces in India during the war.
Mrs Elizabeth May Knox-Gilmer – of Wellington, chairwoman of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild.
Everard Robert Cranston Gilmour – chairman of the New Plymouth Patriotic Council.
Israel Joseph Goldstine – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Len Joseph Greenberg – of the National Service Department.
James Norman Greenland – a member of the Supply Council.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Campbell Hemphill. For valuable public service in relation to the Māori war effort.
Thomas William Hercock – chairman of the Hawke's Bay Provincial Patriotic Council.
Mrs Ailsa Craig Dalhousie Hislop – of Wellington. For services in connection with social welfare movements for women in the armed forces and industry.
Alfred Joseph Hutchinson – of Auckland. For services to the blind.
George Henry Jackson – a member of the Supply Council.
Bertram Joseph Jacobs – president of the New Zealand Returned Services Association. For valuable services in connection with the welfare of servicemen.
Alexander Howat Johnstone KC. For services in relation to the war effort.
Arthur Selwyn Kempthorne – secretary of the Church of England military affairs committee.
John Craigie Kirkness – mayor of Oamaru. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Augustus Edward Mansford – mayor of Palmerston North. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Robert Whiteford Marshall – director of the New Zealand Supply Mission in the United States of America.
William Walter Mulholland – president of the Farmers' Union.
Charles Norman Machell Watson-Munro – director of the radio development laboratory, Scientific and Industrial Research Department.
Edgar Rollo Neale – chairman of the Nelson Provincial Patriotic Council and member of the Nelson Patriotic Fund Board.
Walter Richard Newall – of Wellington. For services in connection with the national savings campaign.
Robert Hamilton Nimmo. For patriotic and social welfare services during the war.
Charles Henry Tarr Palmer – president of the Navy League in Auckland.
George Pascoe – of Wellington, Factory Controller.
Robert Everett Price – a member of the Waterfront Control Commission.
Algernon Instone Rainbow – chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Hastings.
Mrs Barbara Reid – of Wellington. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the armed forces.
Miss Violet Agnes Russell. For honorary services rendered in connection with canteen and hospital work to members of the New Zealand forces in London during the war.
Sidney Rattery Skinner – Naval Affairs Officer for New Zealand in London.
Thomas Norman Smallwood. For services in connection with the national savings campaign.
Joseph Thomas Spears – of Wellington. For services to New Zealand prisoners of war.
Kingi Tahiwi. For services in connection with the organisation of the Māori war effort.
James Ewing Thomas – Foods Rationing Controller.
Abraham Wachner – mayor of Invercargill. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Charles Gilbert White. For services to the New Zealand Red Cross Society.
Leonard John Wild – principal, Feilding Agricultural High School, and a member of the National Council of Primary Production.
Donald Macdonald Wilson MC MB ChB. For services to the Casualty Clearing Hospital in Wellington.
Rupert Samuel Wogan. For public services throughout the war.

Military Division

Acting Commander John Churchill Elworthy – Royal Navy (Retired).
Miss Hermione Ruth Herrick – Chief Officer, Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Douglas George Ball – New Zealand Military Forces.
Colonel (temporary) Arthur Bongard MC – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Walter Archer Breach – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred John Coutts – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Henry Ernest Erridge – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Allen Hogan – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Frederick William Mothes MBE – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Caswall John Walter Parsons – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) John Hugh Phillipps – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Donald Swan – New Zealand Military Forces.
Colonel (temporary) Donald George Wallace MB ChB – New Zealand Medical Corps, New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harry Waine Washbourn – New Zealand Dental Corps, New Zealand Military Forces.
Matron Katherine Sybil Williams – New Zealand Army Nursing Service (attached to the Royal New Zealand Air Force).
Group Captain Frederick Russell Chisholm MD MRCS FRCP – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Wing Commander Edward Caradus – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Wing Commander John Matthias Gamble – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Wing Officer Elsie Naomi Carlyon – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

Joseph Abel. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Miss Rebecca Isobel Victoria Aitken. For services to the Red Cross.
Mrs Etta Elaine Allen. For services in connection with women's patriotic activities.
Mrs Annie Allum. For services in connection with women's patriotic activities.
Mrs Margaret Andrews. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Rose Appleton – a member of the Lady Gaiway Patriotic Guild.
Mrs Dorothy Annie Atmore. For patriotic and social welfare work.
George John Blake Barber. For public services during the war.
Miss Margaret Mills Barclay. For services to the munitions industry.
Mrs Doris Laura Barton. For services in organising women's war activities.
Miss Jean Blacker – of Auckland. For public services during the war.
Thomas Francis Patey Briggs – shipping officer, Naval Store Department, HM New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
Ernest Escort Brooking – a member of the National Patriotic Fund Board and of the Wellington Metropolitan Committee.
Miss Madeline Harriett Ledwell Browne – confidential typist, Prime Minister's Department.
Mrs Margaret Sheila Bull – of Gisborne. For patriotic and social welfare work.
Mrs Blanche Nima Burke. For voluntary services in London on behalf of New Zealand prisoners of war.
James Leslie Burnett – of Whakatane. For patriotic and social welfare work.
Mrs Margaret Campbell – of Auckland. For patriotic services.
Mrs Mabel Castle – organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
Charles Nicholas Cathie – of Wellington. For services to war industries.
Mrs Gladys Chapman. For services in connection with women's war movements in the Hamilton district.
Fred Evans Chappell – secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Trentham Military Camp.
Mrs Jean Olgar Christianson – of Christchurch. For services to the munitions industry.
Laurence Hugh Clapham. For patriotic and social welfare work during the war.
Mrs Ada Vera Cocker – of Auckland. For services in connection with women's war movements.
Mrs Agnes Connolly – of Dunedin. For services in connection with women's war activities.
Mrs Doris Crawford – of Hastings. For social welfare services.
Miss Helen Iris Crooke – head of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Division.
George William Dell – of Christchurch. For patriotic and social welfare work.
Mrs Annie Jean Dickinson. For services to the Casualty Clearing Hospital in Wellington.
Mrs Mary Manson Dreaver – of Auckland. For services in connection with recruiting for the Women's Land Army.
The Reverend Arthur Rowley Ebbs. For social welfare services rendered io members of the New Zealand forces in Australia.
Hewitt Edwards – of Auckland. For services to war industries.
Arthur Richard Elcock – chairman of the Westland Provincial Patriotic Council.
Mrs Mary Ann Ellen. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Annie Allan, Lady Elliott – of Wellington. For services to the Order of St John.
Mrs Beryl Inez Ellis. For services in connection with the Patriotic Hut, Hamilton.
Mrs Grace MacAdam Evans. For services to the Red Cross.
Mrs Elizabeth Maud Faithfull. For services to the Red Cross Emergency Precautions Service.
Mrs Linda Ferguson. For social welfare services rendered to members of the New Zealand forces in Australia.
Mrs Jeanie Gardner Fougere MB ChB. For services to women's war organisations.
Mrs Meta Frances Fussell. For social welfare and patriotic work during the war.
Mrs Ethel Marion Gould – of Auckland. For social welfare services to members of the New Zealand Military Forces.
Laurie Oliver Hall. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Arthur Merlin Harding – New Zealand Police Force. For services rendered in relation to aliens prior to, and during the period of the war.
Mrs Marie Henrietta Hargest – of Invercargill. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Miss Minnie Gregory Havelaar – of Christchurch. For services in organising women's war movements.
Mrs Mabel Roseline Heaphy. For services as organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
Mrs Ottoline Valerie Hole – commandant, Red Cross Transport Organisation, Wellington.
Mrs Elsie Mary Hyslop – of Upper Hutt. For patriotic services during the war.
Mrs Violet Ivy Inkster – chairman, Women's War Service Auxiliary.
William Montrose Jenkins – honorary secretary, Gisborne Provincial Patriotic Council.
Mrs Agnes Gilmour Kent-Johnston – of Hastings. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Frederick Johnson – assistant secretary, Department of Industry and Commerce, and deputy chairman of the Linen Flax Management Committee.
William Jones – mayor and chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Council, Whangarei.
Mrs Edith Miriam Jordan – of Masterton. For patriotic and social welfare services during the war.
Miss Betty Marion Kensington – records clerk, HM New Zealand Dockyard, Auckland.
Mrs Mary Josephine Killery – of Petone. For patriotic services.
Frederick Arthur Kitchingham – chairman of the Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Greymouth.
Mrs Ella Fernie Logie – of Lower Hutt. For social welfare services during the war.
Mrs Geraldine Emily Luckie – of Wellington, a member of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild.
Miss Marie Agnes Malempre – secretary, Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Mrs Laurel Grace Barker McAlister – of Timaru, a member of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Mrs Elizabeth Hazel McCaldon – of Kaiapoi. For public services during the war.
Mrs Ivy McCready – of Auckland. For patriotic and social welfare services.
James Duncan McGuire – an instructor at St Dunstans, Auckland.
Captain Francis Arthur McIndoe – of Wellington. For social welfare work on behalf of members of the Merchant Navy.
Mrs Christina McKane – of Greymouth. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Meek – of Napier. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Amy Gladys Miller – Dominion superintendent of Voluntary Aids, Order of St John.
Frank Mitchell – honorary secretary, Nelson Provincial Patriotic Council.
Miss Ellen Constance Morice – honorary secretary, Air Force Relations, Wellington.
Walter George Neild. For services in connection with patriotic movements.
Mrs Maisie Amelia Nobel. For public services.
William Henry Paul. For patriotic and social welfare services on behalf of members of the forces in the Hamilton district.
Miss Teresa Margaret Peckston. For services in connection with the organisation of the obstetrical section, St John Voluntary Aids Division.
Mrs Mary Victoria Cracroft Polson. For services in connection with recruiting of the Women's Land Army.
Reuben Charles Porter – of Auckland. For services to war industries.
Mrs Daisy Vida Chalmers Pottinger – of Dunedin. For services in connection with women's patriotic and social welfare activities during the war.
Mrs Julie Robertson – of Gisborne. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Helen Victoria Ross. For services as organiser of canteen workers at Trentham Military Camp.
Record Reign Ross – of Hamilton. For public services during the war.
William Douglas Sanders – of Blenheim. For services to the linen flax industry.
Mrs Ethel May Scott – of Wanganui. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Rose Elizabeth Seddon. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Mrs Mary Phyllis Franklyn Shallcrass – of Greymouth. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Eileen Mary Smith – of Blenheim. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Tom Smith. For services in organising entertainments for members of the armed forces in New Zealand.
George Sparry. For services in connection with ship repairs, Auckland.
Percy Vernon Esmond Stainton JP. For patriotic and social welfare services in the New Plymouth district.
Edward Albert Stevenson. For services in relation to the war effort.
Frank Emanuel Sutherland. For services in connection with the national savings campaign.
Tuoro Tango. For services in connection with Māori patriotic activities at Rotorua.
Percy Thomas – chairman, Provincial Patriotic Zone Committee, Stratford.
Mrs Olive Thorburn – honorary secretary, Waipukurau Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Mrs Hinehou Tureia – of Gisborne. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Mrs Hilda Tweedy – of Timaru. For services in connection with the reception and welfare of sick and wounded prisoners of war.
Mrs Flora Amy August Urquhart. For social welfare services on behalf of members of the forces at Papakura Military Camp.
Mrs Fay Vernon – of Christchurch. For services to the Red Cross.
Mrs Mary Karaka Waitioi – of Rotorua. For patriotic and social welfare services.
Edward George Walkinshaw. For public services during the war.
Miss Charlotte Eliot Warburton – chairwoman, Palmerston North branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Mrs Anne Whitaker – of Auckland. For patriotic services during the war, especially in connection with women's movements and the national savings campaign.
Charles Richardson White – town clerk, Wanganui.
Mrs Clementina Margaret Wilkinson – of Tauranga. For services to the Red Cross and other patriotic organisations.
Mrs Mabel Helen Wilson Wilkinson. For services in connection with women's patriotic organisations in the Eltham district.
Mrs Ada Kathleen Wilson. For services in connection with the Te Kuiti branch of the Women's' War Service Auxiliary.
Miss Jessie Banks Wilson – of Oamarau. For services in connection with women's war activities.

Military Division

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Richard Blampied – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.
Cyril Carr – Senior Master, Royal Navy.
Miss Mary Eleanor Chesney – Third Officer, Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service.
Lieutenant-Commander Leslie Cross VD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve (Retired).
Temporary Lieutenant Arthur Lovat Fraser DSC – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.
Leslie Samuel George Martin – Temporary Warrant Engineer, Royal New Zealand Navy.
Lieutenant-Commander Wybrante Olphert – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
John Norman Richards – Temporary Warrant Writer Officer, Royal New Zealand Navy.
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Richard Tudor Roberts VD – Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve.
Temporary Lieutenant William Williamson – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Captain (temporary) Robert William Borland – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) William Edmonds – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain (temporary) Percival Nowall Erridge – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain William Charles Francis – New Zealand Military Forces.
Lieutenant Arthur William Herbert Gally – New Zealand Military Forces.
Senior Commander Dorothy May Hawkins – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Major Geoffrey Hardurn Heal – New Zealand Military Forces.
Charge Sister Margaret Hitchcock – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
Major (temporary) (Quartermaster) Alan Holmes – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major (temporary) William James Birss Hunter – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major Francis John Martin – New Zealand Military Forces.
Warrant Officer Class I Thomas William Page – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major (temporary) Robert Harry Perrett – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major (temporary) (Quartermaster) Hans Christian Frithjof Peterson – New Zealand Military Forces.
Honorary Captain Charles Pike – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major Gavin Eugene Pollock – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain William Vincent Quane – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) James Laurence Oliphant-Rowe – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Harry Gordon Remshardt Sedgley – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain (temporary) (Quartermaster) William Frederick Sellen – New Zealand Military Forces.
Major Benjamin William Henry Smart – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain Eden William Smith – New Zealand Military Forces.
Captain (Quartermaster) Albert De Bolton Peel Steward MM – New Zealand Military Forces.
Senior Commander Mary Eulalie Whyte – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Major (temporary) John Albert Worsnop – New Zealand Military Forces.
Squadron Leader George Frederick Chippendale – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Squadron Leader Murray Davy Nairn – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Squadron Leader Alwyn Palmer – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Squadron Leader Bruce Robert Rae – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader Cecil William Franks – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader Philip Edward Laughton-Bramley – Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Acting Squadron Leader Rawlings William McSkimming – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Squadron Leader Maurice Leonard Pirie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant John Ronald Day – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Maurice Colin Kain – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant James Douglas Mackay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Acting Flight Lieutenant James Francis Sharkey – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flying Officer Claude Patrick Perrett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Warrant Officer William Arthur Everson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Warrant Officer Rex Bernard Robins – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

Albert William Andrews – shipwright, Naval Base, Auckland.
Mrs Helena Marian Barnard – of Island Bay, Wellington. For welfare services.
George William Conmee – chargeman, Naval Armament Depot, Naval Base, Auckland.
Miss Nancy Ellaby Cotterill – secretary, Women's Representative Committee, National Patriotic Fund, Gisborne.
Mrs Leone Gertrude de Zoete Coventry – secretary, Gore branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Mrs Kathaine Mary Deans – of Darfield. For welfare services to the Merchant Navy.
Miss Catherine Gaw – honorary secretary, Te Aroha branch of the Patriotic Committee.
Mrs Margaret Colleen Groom – of Wellington, assistant to the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board.
Miss Ophir Hallam – a member of the Women's War Service Auxiliary, Wanganui.
Mrs Pirihira Heketa – of Wellington. For welfare services.
Victor Hamilton Humphreys – process worker, Ellerslie.
William Percy Huggins – in charge of workshop, radio development laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Mrs Merva Sheldon Jeune – secretary, Fairlie branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Mrs Isabella Olive Grace Jones – secretary, Putaruru branch of the Women's War Service Auxiliary.
Eric Donald McRae – foreman of machine shop, Dominion Physical Laboratory, Auckland.
Mrs Eve Winifred Moore – of Auckland. For welfare services.
Sergeant Albert Edward Naulls – senior orderly, Government House.
Reginald Henry Nees – head storeman, radio development laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
John Penfold – of Ruatoria. For welfare services.
Peter John Hope Purvis – a member of the staff of the Governor-General.
Miss Kai Rewai, For services to the Ngati Ōtautahi Māori Club, Christchurch.
Mrs Gertrude Lucy Stitchbury – of Lowry Bay. For welfare services.
Mrs Hiria Tangaere – of Rangitukia. For welfare services.
William John Taylor – of Timaru. For welfare services.
Miss Joyce Alma Warner – chargehand, Ford factory, Karaka Creek, Thames.
Kenneth Wells – Motorman Able Seaman, New Zealand Barque Pamir.

Military Division

Chief Petty Officer Leslie James Elliott – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Temporary Petty Officer Arthur Robert Everitt.
Leading Signalman Reginald Percy Vincent Hayter.
Chief Petty Officer Writer Robert Turner Bywater Lutman.
Acting Leading Seaman Ernest Martin – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Chief Petty Officer Kennedy Welton Sparke.
Leading Seaman Walter Thomson.
Chief Petty Officer Ernest Alfred Tibbenham.
Staff Sergeant Walter Eric Appleby – New Zealand Military Forces.
Warrant Officer Class I (temporary) Albert Victor Calder – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant James Carson – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant William James Diack – New Zealand Military Forces.
Warrant Officer Class I (temporary) George Fitzgerald – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant John Reginald Hay – New Zealand Military Forces.
Sergeant James Higgins – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant Joy Higgins – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Sergeant Ambrose Charles Hurdsfield – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant Horace Haines McCullough – New Zealand Military Forces.
Sergeant Frederick Augustus Pitt – New Zealand Military Forces.
Warrant Officer Class I (temporary) Edward Arthur Preston – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant Matthew Spence – New Zealand Military Forces.
Staff Sergeant Leslie George Tyrie – New Zealand Military Forces.
Sergeant Raymond Metton Underwood – New Zealand Military Forces.
Sergeant (temporary) Robert Hay Watson – New Zealand Dental Corps, New Zealand Military Forces.
Acting Warrant Officer Raymond Leonard Woodfield – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Sergeant Charles William Cooper – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flijght Sergeant James McArthur Grant – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Sergeant John Curtise Henry – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Sergeant John Leonard Logan – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Sergeant John Errol McNeill – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Sergeant George Raymond Patton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Senior Sergeant June Purser – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Sergeant (now Warrant Officer) George Noel Dew – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Sergeant Percy Thomas Hurn – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Corporal Eileen Daisy Owen – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Leading Aircraftman Ian Burke – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Charge Sister Jane Kiritapu Nepia – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
Mrs Eva Jane Beales (Matron) – British Red Cross Society.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Acting Wing Commander Lloyd Hern Parry – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Squadron Leader Jonas William Henry Lett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Squadron Leader Graham Carrick Martin – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Frederick Jacobsen – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant Henry Keith Patience – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flight Lieutenant John Herbert Penney – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Flying Officer Charles Alexander McDonald – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

1 2 United Kingdom list: The London Gazette: no. 37407. pp. 1–132. 28 December 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ Canada list: The London Gazette: no. 37408. pp. 133–152. 28 December 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ Union of South Africa list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37409. pp. 153–156. 28 December 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
1 2 New Zealand list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37410. pp. 157–165. 28 December 1945. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
↑ Dominion list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37411. pp. 167–168. 28 December 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ British Empire list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37412. pp. 275–338. 28 December 1945. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

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New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of birthday honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)

Birthday Honours	1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 †Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937)

PM's Resignation Honours	1945 1951 1955 1957 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979 1990 1997 2007† †Not issued

Coronation Honours	1902 1911 1937 1953

Dissolution Honours	1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979† 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 †Not issued

Special Honours	2013 2014 2015 2016

Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)

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