Simon Claud Michael Bland. Commander Ian Rodney Bowden, Royal Navy. Colin Gilbraith. Major Arthur John Stewart Griffin. Bernard John Hesketh. Commander John Leonard Lees, Royal Navy. Olive Margaret Short, . Fifth Class Ernest William Cave. Sydney Samuel Haimes. Wing Commander Eric Edward Lake (187162), Royal Air Force. Roger Ivan Mutimer. George Jamieson Thomson. Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Silver Irene Ida Anthony. Edward George Bailey. Frank Bentley. Chief Shipwright Artificer Arthur Owen Brown, P/MX 77832. Walter Collier. Robert Davies. Chief Petty Officer William Anthony Dobson, P/JX 712999. John Samuel Gray. Alfred Harwood. Mary Emma Jones. Henry Thomas Mitchell. Stanley Wilfred Roblou. Cyril Simkins. Yeoman Bed Hanger John Edward Tomkins, Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard. Florence Wade. James Young. Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Military Division General Sir John Anderson, , (42399), Colonel, 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Educational Corps. Civil Division Sir Robert Ian Bellinger, Lord Mayor of London. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) Military Division Air Commandant Pauline Giles, , Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. Civil Division Margery Irene Corbett Ashby, Honorary President, International Alliance of Women. Honorary President, British Commonwealth League. The Right Honourable Marjorie Minna, Countess of Brecknock, Superintendent-in-Chief, St John Ambulance Brigade. Beryl Paston Brown, Principal, Homerton College of Education, Cambridge. Ivy Compton-Burnett, , Writer. Gladys Constance Cooper (Mrs Merivale), Actress. Helen Louise Gardner, , Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford. Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Military Division Vice Admiral John Michael Dudgeon Gray, . Vice Admiral Horace Collier Lyddon, . Major-General Raymond Douglas Coate, , (41435), Royal Army Pay Corps. Air Marshal George Roy Gunn, , Royal Air Force. Civil Division Professor Hedley John Barnard Atkins, , President, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Cecil Joseph Bateman, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland and Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service. Arthur James Stephen Brown, President, Confederation of British Industry. State of Queensland The Honourable William George Albert Mack, Chief Justice of the State of Queensland. Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Captain Hugh Latimer Cleave, , (now Retired). Commodore Kenneth Arthur Gadd, , Royal Naval Reserve. Captain Kenneth Roy Hickson, . Captain Desmond Bernard Law, , (now Retired). Captain