1949 New Year Honours

The 1949 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. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1948 for the British Empire,^[1] New Zealand,^[2] India^[3] and Ceylon^[4] to celebrate the past year and mark the beginning of 1949.

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

British Empire

Baron

• John Jackson Adams, Esq., O.B.E., J.P., Director and General Manager, The West Cumberland Industrial Development Company. For political and public services.
• Major-General Sir Winston Joseph Dugan, G.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Governor of Victoria since 1939.
• Sir John Boyd Orr, D.S.O., M.C., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., lately Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

Privy Counsellor

• The Right Honourable William Malcolm, Baron Hailey, G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., Chairman, Colonial Research Committee. For services to the Colonial Empire.
• Hilary Adair Marquand, Esq., D.Sc., M.P., Member of Parliament for East Cardiff since 1945. Secretary for Overseas Trade, 1945–1947. Paymaster-General, 1947 to July, 1948. Minister of Pensions, since July, 1948.
• Dr Edith Summerskill, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.P., (Mrs Samuel). Member of Parliament for West Fulham since 1938. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food, since 1945.

Knight Bachelor

• Ernest Charles Adams, Esq., C.B.E., Comptroller-General, Export Credits Guarantee Department, Board of Trade.
• Bronson James Albery, Esq. For services to the Theatre.
• John Davidson Beazley, Esq., M.A., Litt.D., D.Litt, F.B.A., Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford.
• Edward Clare Bligh, Esq., Chief Officer of the Welfare Department, London County Council.
• Professor Henry Cohen, M.D., F.R.C.P., J.P., Professor of Medicine, University of Liverpool.
• Charles Sidney Foulsham, Esq., Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Archibald Joseph Gill, Esq., M.I.E.E., Assistant Director-General (Engineering), General Post Office.
• William Alan Gillett, Esq., President of the Law Society.
• Edmund Henry Gilpin, Esq., Member, Export Guarantees Advisory Council, Board of Trade.
• Joseph Holland Goddard, Esq., President, Machine Tool Trades Association.
• Harcourt Gilbey Gold, Esq., O.B.E. For services to rowing. Chairman of the Committee of the Henley Royal Regatta Stewards.
• Hugh Ernest Griffiths, Esq., C.B.E., M.S., F.R.C.S. For services in the industrial rehabilitation of disabled persons.
• Henry Lewis Guy, Esq., C.B.E., D.Sc., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.S., Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Research Organisation, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Secretary, Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
• John Hacking, Esq., M.I.E.E. For services to the electricity supply industry.
• John James William Handford, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., lately Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.
• Frank Neville Harby, Esq., C.B.E., Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department.
• William Lawther, Esq., J.P., President, National Union of Mineworkers.
• Andrew Hunter Arbuthnot Murray, Esq., O.B.E., J.P., Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
• William Gammie Ogg, Esq., Ph.D., Director, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
• Anthony Frederick Ingham Pickford, Esq., Town Clerk of the City of London.
• Raymond Edward Priestley, Esq., M.C., D.Sc., LL.D., D.L., Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham.
• Stanley Ford Rous, Esq., C.B.E., Secretary of the Football Association.
• Alan Arthur Saunders, Esq., O.B.E., lately Co-ordinator of Building Supplies, Ministry of Health.
• John Lionel Simonsen, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.I.C., F.R.S., Director of Research, Colonial Products Research Council.
• Donald MacLean Skiffington, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., Director, John Brown and Company, Ltd, Clydebank.
• Professor Sydney Alfred Smith, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine, University of Edinburgh.
• William Ling Taylor, Esq., C.B.E., F.R.I.C.S., Commissioner, lately Director-General, Forestry Commission.
• James Turner, Esq., President, National Farmers' Union of England and Wales.
• John Hubert Worthington, Esq., O.B.E., A.R.A., F.R.I.B.A., Architect.
• Thomas Eric Boswell Young, Esq., M.Inst.M.E., M.I.C.E. For services to the coalmining industry.

Dominions

• John Clifford Valentine Behan, Esq., M.A., LL.D., formerly Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, State of Victoria.
• Donald George Bradman, Esq., State of South Australia. In recognition of his services over many year,s as cricketer and captain of the Australian Test Team and for public services in several directions.
• Walter Dwyer, Esq., LL.B., formerly President of the State of Western Australia Arbitration Court.
• Professor Bernard Thomas Heinze, F.R.C.M., Ormond Professor of Music, University of Melbourne, State of Victoria.
• Errol Galbraith Knox, Esq., M.B.E. For public services, State of Victoria.
• The Honourable Norman Martin, Agent-General for the State of Victoria in London.
• Claude Plowman, Esq. For services to engineering and building, State of Tasmania.
• The Honourable Albert Joseph Walsh, K.C., Vice-Chairman of the Commission of Government, Newfoundland.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Cecil Furness-Smith, Esq., K.C., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Leslie Ernest Vivian M'Carthy, Esq., lately Puisne Judge in the Gold Coast.
• Sidney Bacon Palmer, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Sydney Phillipson, Esq., C.M.G., Commissioner on special duty in Nigeria.
• Captain Frank O'Brien Wilson, C.M.G., D.S.O., Chairman of the Board of Agriculture, Kenya.

Order of the Bath

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

• Admiral Sir Harold Martin Burrough, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O.
• General Sir William Duthie Morgan, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, K.C.B., A.F.C., F.R.S., Chairman, Defence Research Policy Committee, Ministry of Defence.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral George Elvey Creasy, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O.
• Vice-Admiral Reginald Henry Portal, C.B., D.S.C.
• Lieutenant-General Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry.
• General Sir James Stuart Steele, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., LL.D., late Infantry.
• Acting Air Marshal John Wakeling Baker, C.B., M.C., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal Aubrey Beauclerk Ellwood, C.B., D.S.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal John Whitworth Jones, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force. ,
• Colonel Paul Gottlieb Julius Gueterbock, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., T.D., J.P., D.L., A.D.C., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Gloucester.
• Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd, K.C.M.G., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• Frederic William Metcalfe, Esq., C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons.
• Sir Henry Wilson Smith, K.B.E., Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral Stephen Harry Tolson Arliss, D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Clifford Caslon, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Philip King Enright, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins, M.V.O., D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Henry William Urquhart McCall, D.S.O.
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Lionel Frederick Strugnell, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
• Major-General Vivian Davenport Thomas, C.B.E., Royal Marines.
• Rear-Admiral Douglas Young-Jamieson.
• Major-General and Chief Paymaster Cecil Norbury Bednall, O.B.E., M.C., Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Major-General Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Alexander Douglas Campbell, C.B.E, D.S.O., M.C., B.A., late Corps o£ Royal Engineers.
• Major-General (local) Algernon Edward Cottam, C.B.E., M.C., late Infantry.
• Major-General Ernest Edward Down, C.B.E., late Infantry.
• Major-General (temporary) Frederick Harris, C.B.E., M.C., M.B., K.H.S., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Gerard William Egerton Heath, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Frank St David Benwell Lejeune, C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Francis Raymond Gage Matthews, D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Major-General Euan Alfred Bews Miller, D.S.O., M.C., A.D.C., late Infantry.
• Major-General Hetman Jack Parham, C.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General (temporary) Alfred Eryk Robinson, D.S.O., late Infantry.
• The Reverend John Arthur Jagoe, C.B.E., D.D., M.A., K.H.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Philip Herbert Mackworth, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Eric Delano Barnes, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Christopher Neil Hope Bilney, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Gilbert Edward Nicholetts, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Adam Henry Robson, O.B.E., M.C., M.Sc., Ph.D., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Harold Vivian Satterly, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Commodore Arthur William Baynes McDonald, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Francis Sheed Anderson, Esq., J.P., Under-secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Gilbert Tomkins Anstey, Esq., Comptroller and Accountant-General, General Post Office.
• Eric Strickland Bertenshaw, Esq., C.B.E., Commissioner and Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Walter Carter, Esq., C.B.E., lately Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• George Phillips Coldstream, Esq., Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, Lord Chancellor's Department.
• Bernard Henry Coode, Esq., Principal Clerk, House of Commons.
• Cyril George Dennys, Esq., M.C., Under-secretary, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Brevet Colonel Ernest Edward Green, T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Glamorgan.
• Colonel North Victor Cecil Dalrymple Hamilton, C.V.O., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Ayr.
• Samuel Hoare, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Clifford George Jarrett, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Admiralty.
• William Frank Jenkins, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• David Lowe Macintyre, Esq., V.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works.
• Wilfred John Neden, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• George North, Esq., M.C., LL.D., Registrar-General.
• Gerald Hume Saverie Pinsent, Esq., C.M.G., Comptroller-General, National Debt Office.
• Edward Wilder Playfair, Esq., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• John Cecil Glossop Pownall, Esq., Chief Charity Commissioner.
• Colonel Granville Brian Chetwynd-Stapylton, O.B.E., T.D., J.P., D.L., lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Surrey.
• Alfred Buyers Valentine, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

• The Right Honourable Wyndham Raymond, Viscount Portal, D.S.O., M.V.O. For services as President of the Olympic Games.
• Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, K.C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Nanking.

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

• Maurice Joseph Dean, Esq., C.B., lately Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office (German Section). (Now Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence.)
• The Honourable Sir John Patrick Dwyer, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Western Australia.
• Cecil George Lewis Syers, Esq., C.M.G., C.V.O., a Deputy Under Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Sir Gilbert McCall Rennie, C.M.G., M.C., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Northern Rhodesia.
• Kenneth Owen Roberts-Wray, Esq., C.M.G., Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Edward Francis Twining, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, North Borneo.
• Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., United Kingdom Representative on the Brussels Treaty Permanent Commission and United Nations Adviser, Foreign Office.
• Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar, Esq., C.M.G., C.V.O., Minister at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
• Alec Walter George Randall, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen.
• Geoffrey Harington Thompson, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bangkok.

Honorary Knight Commander

• H.H. Sultan Yussuf Izzudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Jalil, O.B.E., Sultan of Perak, Federation of Malaya.

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

• Vincent Boyle, Esq., M.R.C.V.S., Superintending Inspector, Animal Health Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• John Eaton Griffith, Esq., O.B.E. For services to the Olympic Games Organisation.
• Guy Erskine Hughes, Esq., Chief, Food, Agriculture and Forestry (British) Bi-partite Control Office, Frankfurt, Control Commission for Germany (British Element).
• Brigadier Arthur Thomas Cornwall-Jones, C.B.E., Senior Assistant Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet.
• Montagu Travers Morgan, Esq., M.C., M.D., Medical Officer of Health, Port of London.
• Eric Roll, Esq., Ph.D., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Arthur Frederick Rouse, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Anthony Edward Welch, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Arthur Barton Pilgrim Amies, Esq., L.R.CP., L.R.C.S.Edin., F.R.S.Edin., Professor of Dental Science, University of Melbourne, State of-Victoria.
• Colonel The Honourable Sir Ernest Lucas Guest, K.B.E., C.V.O., Minister of Defence and Air, Southern Rhodesia.
• John Arnold Seitz, Esq., Director of Education, State of Victoria.
• John McKellar Stewart, Esq., M.A., D.Phil., formerly Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia.
• Thomas Aitken Austin, Esq., L.RlC.P., L.R.C.S., Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Uganda.
• William Lethbridge Gorell Barnes, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• Edward Barry, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, lately, Chief Secretary, Somaliland Protectorate.
• Richard Brunel Hawes, Esq., M.B., B.S., F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office.
• Brigadier Martin Hotine, C.B.E., Director of Colonial Surveys and Surveys Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Seymour Argent Sandford Leslie, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Tanganyika.
• William Alexander Macnie, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Secretary, Leeward Islands.
• Captain Arthur Francis Newbolt, Director of Recruitment (Colonial Service), Colonial Office.
• Ambalal Bhailalbhai Patel, Esq. For public services in Kenya.
• Geoffrey Martin Puckridge, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Gold Coast.
• Commander James Grenville Pyke-Nott, Royal Navy (Retired), Colonial Administrative Service, Administrative Officer, Nigeria.
• Major Basil William Seager, O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, British Agent, Western Aden Protectorate.
• Arthur Sleep, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, British Adviser, Johore, Federation of Malaya.
• James David Maxwell Smith, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Singapore.
• Matthew Thomas Audsley, Esq., Labour Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy and British Middle East Office, Cairo.
• Paul Henry Gore Booth, Esq., Head of the European Recovery Department of the Foreign Office.
• Arthur Gaitskell, Esq., Sudan Manager, Sudan Plantations Syndicate Limited.
• Alfred John Gardener, Esq., C.B.E., Head of the Establishment and Organisation Department of the Foreign Office.
• Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison, Esq., Minister at His Majesty's Embassy at Moscow.
• George Clinton Pelham, Esq., Until recently Counsellor (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy at Bagdad.
• D'Arcy Patrick Reilly, Esq., O.B.E., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Athens.
• Peter William Shelley Yorke Scarlett, Esq., Head of the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office.
• Richard Langford Speaight, Esq., Until recently Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Cairo.
• Bertram Sidney Thomas, Esq., O.B.E., Ph.D., D.Litt., D.Sc., Lately Director of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Shemlan.
• Charles Wodehouse Williams, Esq., M.B.E., Director of Education, Sudan Government.

Honorary Companion

• Haji Mohamed Sheriff bin Osman, C.B.E., Mentri Besar, Kedah, Federation of Malaya.

Royal Victorian Chain

• The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

• Major-General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, Bt., K.C.V.O., T.D.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Commander (S) Ernest Dudley Colles, C.V.O., O.B.E., Royal Navy (retired).
• Sir William Gilliatt, C.V.O., M.D., M.S., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Marion Kirk, Mrs Buthlay, M.V.O.

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

• Major Edward William Spencer Ford.
• William Weir, Esq., F.C.I.S.

Fifth Class

• Acting Flight Lieutenant Alan John Lee, Royal Air Force.
• Lieutenant (S) Robert Thompson, Royal Navy (retired).
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Brian Trubshaw, Royal Air Force.

Order of the British Empire

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

• Sir (William) Wilson Jameson, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P., K.H.P., Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education.

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

• Matron-in-Chief Miss Gladys Taylor, C.B.E., R.R.C., Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (Retired).
• Miss Myra Curtis, C.B.E., Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. Lately Chairman of the Committee on Children deprived of a normal home life.
• Miss Anne May Curwen, C.B.E., National General Secretary, Young Women's Christian Association of Great Britain.
• Miss Alix Hester Marie Kilroy (Lady Meynell), Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.

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

• Engineer Rear-Admiral Sydney Oswell Frew, C.B.
• Vice-Admiral Harold Richard George Kinahan, C.B., C.B.E.
• Lieutenant-General Gerald Walter Robert Templer, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., late Infantry.
• Lieutenant-General Frederick George Wrisberg, C.B., C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Vice-Marshal John Whitford, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Michael Francis Joseph McDonnell, Chairman, English Division of the Appellate Tribunal for Conscientious Objectors.
• Donald Cyril Vincent Perrott, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Bernard Kerr White, Esq., Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies and Industrial Assurance Commissioner.
• Griffith Goodland Williams, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Education.
• Brigadier (retired) Iltyd Nicholl Clayton, C.B.E., lately Political Adviser to the Head of the British Middle East Office, Cairo.
• Arthur Ronald Fraser, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Minister (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy in Paris.
• Brigadier Gerald Thomas Fisher, C.S.I., C.I.E., lately British Military Governor of Somaliland Protectorate.
• Khan Bahadur Muhammed Abdul Kader Makawi, O.B.E. For public service in Aden.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Lord (Edward Christian) David Gascoyne Cecil, Writer. Goldsmith Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford.
• Arthur Deakin, Esq., C.B.E., General Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Robert Kennedy – Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• William George Baird – New Zealand Public Trustee.
• Reverend James John Riordan – of Wellington. For services to the Māori people.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

• Arthur Telford Donnelly BL – Crown Solicitor, Christchurch.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• Bernard Cracroft Aston – of Wellington. For services to agriculture and botany.
• Mrs Emily Hancock McKinnon MB BCh – of Dunedin. For services in the field of medicine and welfare of women.
• Miss Mary Elizabeth Richmond – of Wellington. For services in education and welfare work.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Claude Wilfred Batten – of Wellington. For services to returned servicemen of both wars.
• Eric Hattaway Bridgman MB BCh – superintendent of Rotorua Hospital.
• Alfred Puataata Grace – of Lake Taupo. For services to Māori people in connection with education and development of native lands.
• Joseph Linklater – of Manawatu. For services in connection with the supervision of disabled servicemen's farms.
• Wi Hapi Love – of Petone, chairman of Taranaki Māori Trust Board.
• William Ross McCulloch – secretary of the administration of Western Samoa.
• Victor Clement Peters – of Christchurch, founder and conductor of Christchurch Harmonic Society.
• Stanley Belton Pilcher – of San Francisco. For services in his capacity as honorary representative of the New Zealand government at San Francisco.
• Miss Margaret Mary Pryde – of Dunedin. For services in connection with the Otago Early Settlers' Association.
• William Henry Rice JP – of Auckland, president of the Auckland District Council for Horticulture and vice-president of the Dunedin Executive Council.

Military Division

• The Venerable Archdeacon Harold Mayo Harris RD – chaplain, Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Squadron Leader Hugh Gordon Wilson MM – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Wing Officer Frances Ida Kain – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Miss Ann Buckley – of Christchurch. For services in connection with organisation and training of nurses.
• John Daniel Campbell JP – of Invercargill, chairman of Southland Centre of the Red Cross Society.
• Mrs Catherine Falconer Cameron – of Dunedin, president of Dunedin National Council of Women.
• Miss Effie Julia Margaret Cardale JP – of Christchurch. For services in connection with the Society for the Protection of Women and Children.
• Frederick Carson – of Kaitangata. For services to the mining community in the Kaitangata district.
• Patrick Doyle – of Wellington, chief detective. For services with the Police Force.
• John Goodyer – of Motueka. For services to returned servicemen.
• John Henry Hall – of Gisborne. For services to local government.
• Miss Mary Hamilton Harrison – of Wellington, secretary of the Lady Galway Guild. For patriotic and welfare activities.
• Edward Clarke Isaacs – of Dunedin. For long services in many fields of sport.
• Miss Euphemia Ethel Law – of Wellington, formerly national president of the YWCA of New Zealand.
• Mrs Ada McMahon JP – of Hastings. For services in connection with the settlement of returned servicemen.
• William Brinsley Nicholson – of Lower Hutt. For long services in local government and education.
• John Barr Paterson JP – of Auckland, member of Auckland City Council, president of New Zealand Federation of Justices of the Peace.

Military Division

• Instructor Lieutenant John Edward Holt – Royal Navy.
• Senior Commander Elsie Gray – New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
• Lieutenant and Quartermaster Richard John Healey – New Zealand Regular Force.
• Warrant Officer 1st Class Hugh Reginald Sigley – New Zealand Regiment.
• Flight Lieutenant Edgar William Geil Perry – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer John William Prideaux Cook – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Joseph Whittaker – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

• Leonard Charles Enchmarch – tailor, naval base HMNZS Philomel.

Military Division

• Chief Mechanician Joseph Kendal Croft – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Master at Arms Charles Victor Harris – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer William Harold Johnston – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Reginald Walter Coe – Royal New Zealand Artillery.
• Staff-Sergeant (temporary Warrant Officer 2nd Class) Florence Eugene Donovan – New Zealand Regiment.
• Sergeant Charles Edward Gleeson – Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Sergeant Bernard Richard Crean – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Phillip George Deibert – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Annie Marshall Pettigrew – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader George Robert Brabyn – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Keith Walker – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Colin James Fraser – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Robert Emry Weston – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

1. British Empire: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38493. pp. 1–32. 31 December 1948. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
2. New Zealand: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38494. pp. 33–36. 31 December 1948. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
3. India: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38495. pp. 37–38. 31 December 1948. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
4. Ceylon: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38496. pp. 39–40. 31 December 1948. Retrieved 5 March 2015.