1957 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1957 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 28 December 1956 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1957.^[1][2][3]

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.^[2]

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

United Kingdom

Baron

• The Right Honourable Sir Edward Bridges, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., M.C., Permanent Secretary, H.M. Treasury and Official Head of H.M. Civil Service, 1945–1956.
• Sir Robert John Sinclair, K.C.B., K.B.E. For public services.

Privy Counsellor

• Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster, Q.C., M.P., Member of Parliament for York since 1950. Solicitor-General since 1954.
• The Honourable Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice, Federal Supreme Court, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

Baronet

• Commander Peter Garnett Agnew, Royal Navy (Retired), M.P., Member of Parliament for Camborne, 1931–1950, and for Worcestershire South since 1955. Conservative Whip, 1945–1950. For political and public services.

Knight Bachelor

• David Stirling Anderson, Esq., Director, Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow.
• George Lindor Brown, Esq., C.B.E., M.B., Jodrell Professor of Physiology, University College, London.
• Major Egbert Cadbury, D.S.C., D.F.C., J.P., D.L. For public services in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
• John Johnston Campbell, Esq., Chairman, Committee of Scottish Bank General Managers.
• Henry Channon, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Southend-on-Sea, 1935–1950, and for Southend West since 1950. For political and public services.
• Alderman Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen. Lately Sheriff of the City of London.
• Archibald James Dirom Crawford, Esq. For political services in the West of England.
• John Norman Dean, Esq., Chairman, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd.
• Josiah Eccles, Esq., C.B.E., M.M., Deputy Chairman (Operations), Central Electricity Authority.
• George Robert Edwards, Esq., C.B.E., Managing Director, Aircraft Division, Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd.
• James Frederick Emery, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Salford.
• Frank Guy Clavering Fison, Esq. For political and public services in Suffolk.
• Herbert John Gordon Griffin, Esq., C.B.E., Secretary, Council for the Preservation of Rural England.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Vaughan Gwynne, D.S.O., D.L. For public services in Sussex.
• Noel Frederick Hall, Esq., Principal of the Administrative Staff College, Henley-on-Thames.
• Samuel Hoare, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Edward George Warris Hulton, Esq. For services to journalism.
• Bertram Long, Esq., M.C., T.D., Senior Registrar, Principal Probate Registry.
• Charles Carnegie Martin, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable, Liverpool City Police Force.
• Colonel Jackson Millar, C.B.E., J.P., D.L. For political and public services in Scotland.
• Raymond Walter Needham, Esq., Q.C. For political and public services.
• Basil Edward Nield, Esq., C.B.E., Q.C., Member of Parliament for the City of Chester, 1940–1956. For political and public services.
• William Leonard Owen, Esq., C.B.E., Director of Engineering, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Industrial Group.
• Kenneth Wade Parkinson, Esq. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
• Frederick John Pascoe, Esq. For political services.
• Charles Edward Mott-Radclyffe, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Windsor since 1942. A Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury and a Government Whip, May-July 1945, and a Conservative Whip, 1945–1946. For political and public services.
• Charles David Read, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.S., President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
• Archibald Safford, Esq., M.C., Q.C., Deputy Commissioner under the National Insurance Acts, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
• John Roughton Simpson, Esq., C.B., Controller, H.M. Stationery Office.
• Charles Percy Snow, Esq., C.B.E., Commissioner and Scientific Adviser, Civil Service Commission.
• John Landale Train, Esq., C.B.E., M.C., Member, British Transport Commission.
• Hugh Watson, Esq., Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Signet.
• James Mann Wordie, Esq., C.B.E. For services to Polar exploration. Master, St John's College, University of Cambridge.

State of South Australia

• Mark Ledingham Mitchell, Esq., Professor of Biochemistry, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia.

State of Victoria

• William John Jungwirth, Esq., C.M.G., J.P., Permanent Head of the Premier's Department, State of Victoria; principal Liaison Officer for various Australian State Governments in connection with the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
• The Honourable John Gladstone Black McDonald, J.P., a former Premier and Treasurer in the State of Victoria; has rendered special services in connection with the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
• Professor George Whitecross Paton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, State of Victoria.

Commonwealth Relations

• John Crawford Burns, Esq., the representative in Bombay of James Finlay and Company, Limited, and a Director of other companies in India.

Oversea Territories

• Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola, Esq., Chief Justice, Western Region, Nigeria.
• Alfred John Ainley, Esq., M.C., Chief Justice, Eastern Region, Nigeria.
• Edward Baglietto Cottrell, Esq., C.B.E., J.P. For public services in Gibraltar.
• Leonard Courtney Hannays, Esq., Q.C. For public services in Trinidad.
• Amar Nath Maini, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in Uganda.
• Brigadier William Eric Halstead Scupham, C.M.G., M.C. For public services in Tanganyika.
• Douglas Tremayne Waring, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in the Federation of Malaya.
• Ernest Hillas Williams, Esq., Chief Justice, Sarawak, Brunei, and North Borneo.

Order of the Bath

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

• General Sir Charles Falkland Loewen, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery; Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry; Colonel, The Royal Sussex Regiment.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot Alexander Boyle, K.C.V.O., K.B.E., C.B., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral John Peter Lorne Reid, C.B., C.V.O.
• Lieutenant-General Campbell Richard Hardy, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Lieutenant-General William Henry Stratton, C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Air Marshal Andrew McKee, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Marshal Hubert Leonard Patch, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Sir James Ian Cormack Crombie, K.B.E., C.M.G., Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Sir Maurice Joseph Dean, K.C.M.G., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
• Edward Wilder Playfair, Esq., C.B., J.P. Permanent Under-Secretary of State, War Office.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral Philip Whitworth Burnett, D.S.O., D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral Robert Alexander Currie, D.S.C.
• Rear-Admiral George Verner Motley Dolphin, D.S.O.
• Major-General Halford David Fellowes, D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Ralph Lindsay Fisher, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.S.C.
• Major-General Frank Cyril Horton, O.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral John Gilchrist Thesiger Inglis, O.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral John David Luce, D.S.O., O.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Lancelot Arthur Babington Peile, D.S.O., M.V.O.
• Rear-Admiral William John Yendell.
• Major-General John D'Arcy Anderson, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major-General Richard Neville Anderson, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Major-General George Patrick Demaine Blacker, C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Robert Napier Hubert Campbell Bray, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Major-General Alfred Edward Campbell, Q.H.P., M.D., D.P.H., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Ronald Albert Bramwell Davis, D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Major-General John Robert Crosse Hamilton, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General William Gordon Roe, C.B.E., late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major-General and Chief Paymaster Owen Patrick James Rooney, C.B.E., Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Major-General Ralph Younger, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Armoured Corps; Colonel, 7tih Queen's Own Hussars.
• Air Vice-Marshal James Laurence Fuller Fuller-Good, C.V.O., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Maurice Lionel Heath, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal John Conrad Neely, C.B.E., D.M., B.Ch., Q.H.S., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Luis Worthington, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Eric Scott Butler, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Arthur Edmond Clouston, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Dudley Spencer Radford, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., A.D.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Alexander Mitchell Rodgers, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• William Armstrong, Esq., M.V.O., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Brigadier Euston Edward Francis Baker, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Middlesex.
• John Frederic Allan Baker, Esq, Chief Engineer, Highways Engineering Staff, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
• Bertie Kennedy Blount, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, Bt., D.M., F.R.C.P., lately Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
• Lindsay Gordon Davidson, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
• John Alexander Drew, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Ludovic James Dunnett, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Richard Lyons Alers Hankey, Esq., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
• William Andrew Hardie Hepburn, Esq., Under-Secretary, National Assistance Board.
• Alexander Currie Hill, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Victor Albert George Lambert, Esq., C.B.E., Director-General of Armaments Production, Ministry of Supply.
• Brigadier John Alexander Longmore, C.B.E., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Hertford.
• Graham Russell Mitchell, Esq., O.B.E., Attached War Office.
• Gerald Richard Paling, Esq., C.B.E., Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Sir Henry Campbell de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, Bt., Deputy Director-General, Forestry Commission.
• Bernard Frank Pool, Esq., C.B.E., Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty.
• Ronald Herbert Purcell, Esq., Chief Scientific Adviser, Home Office.

Order of Merit (OM)

• Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, K.C.B., C.B.E.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

• Tuanku Sir Abdul Rahman ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Muhammad, K.C.M.G., His Highness The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan.
• Sir Pierson John Dixon, K.C.M.G., C.B., Permanent United Kingdom Representative to the United Nations.

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

• Colonel Sir (Arthur) Stanley Angwin, K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Chairman, Commonwealth Telecommunications Board. Formerly Chairman, Cable and Wireless, Ltd.
• The Right Honourable William Edward, Viscount Harcourt, O.B.E., Financial Adviser and Minister Economic, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington.
• Oswald Raynor Arthur, Esq., C.M.G., C.V.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands. (Governor and Commander-in-Chief (designate), Bahamas.)
• Colville Montgomery Deverell, Esq., C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Windward Islands.
• Maurice Henry Dorman, Esq., C.M.G., Governor, Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral, Sierra Leone.
• Roger Allen, Esq., C.M.G., lately Minister at Her Majesty's Embassy in Bonn.
• Paul Henry Gore-Booth, Esq., C.M.G., lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rangoon.
• Eric Malcolm Jones, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Director of Government Communications Headquarters, Foreign Office.
• D'Arcy Patrick Reilly, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.

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

• John Harold Devine, Esq., O.B.E. For services as Director, Export Services Branch, Board of Trade.
• Reginald John Halsey, Esq., Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office.
• Guy Elwin Millard, Esq., Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
• Alun Michael Morgan, Esq., Assistant Secretary,. Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Arthur Kingscote Potter, Esq., C.B.E., Counsellor, United Kingdom Delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
• John Muir Anderson, Esq. For services in connection with political and charitable organisations in the State of Victoria.
• The Honourable Thomas Hugh William Beadle, O.B.E., a Judge of the High Court, and formerly a Minister, in Southern Rhodesia.
• John Adrian Fargher, Esq., Railways Commissioner, South Australian Railways.
• John Morrice Cairns James, Esq., M.B.E., Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Pakistan.
• Edward James Gregory Wilson, Esq. For public services in the State of Victoria.
• The Honourable Tom Ian Findlay Wilson, Speaker of the Federal Assembly, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
• Brigadier Geoffrey Harding Baker, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., Chief of Staff to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cyprus.
• Rennie Montague Bere, Esq., Director and Chief Warden of the Uganda National Parks.
• Douglas James Smythe Crozier, Esq., Director of Education, Hong Kong.
• Bernard de Bunsen, Esq., Principal, University College of East Africa, Makerere.
• Aaron Emanuel, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Thomas Mure Hart, Esq., Financial Secretary, Singapore.
• Kenneth Palmer Humpidge, Esq., Director of Federal Public Works, Nigeria.
• Eric Newton Griffith Jones, Esq., Q.C., Attorney General and Minister for Legal Affairs, Kenya.
• Henry Lawrence Lindo, Esq., Administrator, Dominica, Windward Islands.
• Colonel Reginald Townend Michelin, C.V.O., O.B.E., Commissioner of Police, Jamaica.
• Michael John Brew Molohan, Esq., M.B.E., Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika.
• Desmond O'Hagan, Esq., Provincial Commissioner, Kenya.
• Gilbert McMicking Roddan, Esq. Lately Director of Agriculture, Kenya, now Deputy Agricultural Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Arthur Colin Russell, Esq., E.D., Chief Regional Officer, Gold Coast.
• John Tennant Saunders, Esq. Lately Principal, University College, Ibadan, Federation of Nigeria.
• Peter Heathcote Guillum Scott, Esq., Financial Secretary, Northern Region, Nigeria.
• Mervyn Cecil ffrank Sheppard, Esq., M.B.E., Head of the Emergency Food Denial Organisation, Federation of Malaya.
• John Kinsmill Robert Thorp, Esq., M.B.E., Administrator, St Lucia, Windward Islands.
• Walter Ian James Wallace, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Arthur Trenham Weatherhead, Esq., Senior Resident, Northern Region, Nigeria.
• Maurice Frank Gerard Wentworth, Esq., O.B.E., Establishment Secretary, Gold Coast.
• John Edward Chadwick, Esq., lately Counsellor (Commercial) at Her Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo.
• Arthur James De La Mare, Esq., Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
• Charles Peter Hope, Esq., T.D., lately Counsellor of Her Majesty's Embassy in Bonn.
• Denis Seward Laskey, Esq., Foreign Office.
• Peter Northcote Lunn, Esq., O.B.E., lately Principal Executive Officer, British Military Government, Berlin.
• Geoffrey Lyster McDermott, Esq., Foreign Office.
• Herbert Stanley Marchant, Esq., O.B.E., Her Majesty's Consul-General at Dusseldorf.
• John Arthur Pilcher, Esq., Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Madrid.
• Leonard Arthur Scopes, Esq., O.B.E., Foreign Office.
• Michael Norman Francis Stewart, Esq., O.B.E., Counsellor at Her Majesty's Embassy in Ankara.
• The Right Honourable Milo John Reginald, Baron Talbot de Malahide, lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Vientiane.
• William Hilary Young, Esq., Foreign Office.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

• Brigadier-General Sir Harold Hartley, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., M.C.
• Brigadier Sir Charles Alfred Howard, K.C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Sir Ernest Henry Pooley, Bt., K.C.V.O.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Air Marshal Sir John Henry D'Albiac, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.
• Sir James Gow Mann.
• Sir Arthur Espie Porritt, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., M.B., M.Ch.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Lady Alice Egerton.
• Group Captain John Evelyn Grindon, D.S.O., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Lady Jean Margaret Florence Rankin.

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 Robert Henry Graham, D.S.C., Royal Navy.
• James René Alexis Kennedy, Esq., M.V.O.
• Flight Lieutenant George Charles McCarthy, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Geoffrey Owen Peskett, Esq., M.V.O.

Fifth Class

• Lily Caroline Ada, Mrs Bell.
• Senior Commissioned Engineer Victor John Way Crompton, Royal Navy.
• William Charles Ellis, Esq.
• Lieutenant-Commander (E) Edward John Sawdy, M.B.E., Royal Navy (Retired).
• Miss Olive Margaret Short.
• John Edward Powis Titman, Esq.

Order of the British Empire

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

• Admiral Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Francis Joseph Fogarty, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., A.D.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Archibald Finlayson Forbes, Chairman, Iron and Steel Board.
• Sir Geoffrey Harington Thompson, K.C.M.G., lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro.

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

• Commandant Nancy Margaret Robertson, C.B.E., Hon. A.D.C, Director, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• The Right Honourable Sylvia, Viscountess Kilmuir, Vice-chairman of the Conservative Party Organisation, 1951-54. For political services.
• Miss Janet Maria Vaughan, O.B.E., D.M., F.R.C.P. (Mrs Gourlay), Principal, Somerville College, Oxford.

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

• Vice-Admiral John Wilson Cuthbert, C.B., C.B.E.
• Lieutenant-General Roger Herbert Bower, C.B., C.B.E., late Infantry.
• Lieutenant-General William Alexander Duncan Drummond, C.B., C.B.E., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Air Marshal The Right Honourable Percy Ronald Gardner, Earl of Bandon, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal Geoffrey William Tuttle, C.B., O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Christopher Hinton, Member of the Board, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
• Arthur Richard Manktelow, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Sir George Robert Mowbray, Bt., Alderman, Berkshire County Council. For services to Local Government.
• Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders. For services as Director, London School of Economics.
• George Foster Stedman, Esq., C.B., M.C., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation.
• Sir (Edward) Raymond Streat, C.B.E., Chairman, Cotton Board.
• Leslie Charles Kemp, Esq., C.B.E., British subject resident in Greece.
• George Clinton Pelham, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Prague.
• The Honourable Richard Kenneth Green, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, State of Tasmania.
• The Honourable Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes, M.V.O., O.B.E., M.C., E.D., Minister for the Interior and for Works, Commonwealth of Australia, 1951-55; Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games in Melbourne, State of Victoria, since 1951.
• Sir James Henley Coussey, President, West African Court of Appeal.
• Arthur Frank Kirby, Esq., C.M.G., General Manager, East African Railways and Harbours Administration.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• The Very Reverend John Baillie. Lately Professor of Divinity, Principal of New College and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Joseph Stanton – Second Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court
• Leonard Morton Wright – Mayor of the City of Dunedin

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral John Edwin Home McBeath DSO DSC – on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• Herbert Edgar Evans – Solicitor-General
• Alister Donald McIntosh – permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department and Secretary of External Affairs

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• John Andrew – of Hyde, Central Otago. For services to farming.
• The Honourable William Edward Barnard – of Tauranga. For political and public services.
• Herbert Victor Searle – Principal of Nelson College, 1933–56
• The Honourable Tupua Tamasese – a member of the Executive Council of Western Samoa
• The Honourable Malietoa Tanumafili – a member of the Executive Council of Western Samoa

Military Division

• Air Commodore Ian Gordon Morrison OBE – Royal New Zealand Air Force

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Frederick Norman Ambler – a member of the Auckland City Council
• Miss Elizabeth Scally Brown – secretary of the Registered Nurses' Association
• John Gilkison – chairman of the Board of Directors, Southland Frozen Meat Company
• Thomas Douglas Baird Hay – of Auckland. For services to sport.
• The Reverend Canon Poihipi Mokena Kohere – of Tikitiki. For services to the Māori people.
• William Calder Mackay MC – a member of the Auckland City Council
• Lachlan MacLean – of Hastings. For services to farming.
• The Reverend Thomas Arthur Pybus – of Dunedin. For services as a minister of the Methodist Church in Otago and Southland for over 40 years.
• Henry Hamilton Wauchop (Senior) – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Donald Frederick Sandys Wunsch – chairman of the Advisory Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Military Division

• Acting Captain Brian Edmund Turner DSC – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Frederick Catchpole MC ED – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force)
• Squadron Leader Maurice Beehan Furlong – Royal New Zealand Air Force

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Miss Vida Mary Barron – senior lecturer at the University of Otago, and a former Dominion president of the New Zealand Federation of University Women
• William Bell – of Invercargill. For services to the community in local body activities, especially educational.
• Robert Bruce – Mayor of Akaroa
• Llewellyn John Collins – County Clerk and Treasurer of the Waimate County Council
• Raymond James George Collins – of Christchurch, a prominent philatelist
• Mrs Rangitiaria Dennan – a prominent guide in the Rotorua district. For services to the tourist movement.
• Miss Annie Dundon. For services to the Marlborough Hospital Board.
• Hanson Home Fraser – chairman of the Timaru High School's board of governors, and secretary of the Timaru Fire Board
• Sydney Freeman – Dominion organising secretary, Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs
• Mrs Norah Gibbons – president of the Kindergarten Association
• Mrs Catherine Goodsir – of Taumarunud. For social welfare services.
• William Charles Kennedy – of Te Aroha. For services to the community in local body work.
• Leonard Albert McIntosh – secretary of the Kaitaia Dairy Company
• Jack Meltzer – general secretary of the Police Association
• William Herbert Sandford – of Raetihi. For services to the community in local body work.
• William Thomas Strand – of Lower Hutt. For services to local government.

Military Division

• Supply Lieutenant John Harper Craig – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Warrant Officer Class II Lindsay Easter Pallister ATKIN, Royal New Zealand Infantry (Territorial Force)
• Warrant Officer Class II Noel McLennan – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force)
• Major Douglas Stewart Ross – Royal New Zealand Infantry (Territorial Force)
• Major Richard James Holden Webb – Royal New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force)
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Francis Laloli DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Ernest Baird Papps DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

• Edward Buckley – Constable, New Zealand Police Force, Waiuku
• William George Wood – Constable, New Zealand Police Force, Winton

Military Division

• Chief Engine Room Artificer Arthur Malcolm Roxborough Bennett – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Chief Shipwright James Patrick Dobbyn – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Chief Petty Officer Fredrick George Heath – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Acting Chief Petty Officer Donald Edward Tuck – Royal New Zealand Navy
• Sergeant Ronald Alexander Watson – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps (Regular Force)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth James Clark – Royal New Zealand Air Force
• Sergeant William Henry O'Byrne – Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Wing Commander Douglas Fitzclarence St George DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force
• Squadron Leader William Medworth Golden – Royal New Zealand Air Force

References

1. United Kingdom list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 40960. pp. 1–39. 28 December 1956.
2. Australia list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 40961. pp. 41–44. 28 December 1956.
3. New Zealand list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 40962. pp. 45–47. 28 December 1956.