The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire.United Kingdom and British Empire:
The recipients of the Birthday 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 and British Empire
Baron Sir William Brass, MP. Member of Parliament for the Clitheroe division of Lancashire since 1922. For political and public services. Field-Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, Bt., GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Major Sir William Cope, Bt., KC, TD. Member of Parliament for Llandaff & Barry, 1918–1929. For political and public services in Wales. Major Sir (Albert) James Edmondson, DL, MP. Vice-Chamberlain of H.M. Household, 1939–1942, and Treasurer since 1942. Member of Parliament for Banbury since 1922. Sir Eugene Ramsden, Bt., OBE, MP. Member of Parliament for Bradford North, 1924–1929, and since 1931. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor Ben Chifley, Treasurer of Australia and Minister for Post-War Reconstruction, Commonwealth of Australia.
Baronet The Honourable Richard Douglas Denman, MP. Second Church Estates Commissioner, 1931–1943. Member of Parliament for Carlisle, 1910–1918, and for Leeds, Central division, since 1929. For political and public services. Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, GCB, DSO, MC. Lately Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Sir (Alfred) James Hawkey, JP. Chairman of the West Essex Unionist Association. Mayor of the Borough of Wanstead & Woodford. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Henry George Hill Mulholland, Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, 1929–1945. Member of Parliament, for County Down in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, 1921–1929, and for Ards since 1929.
Knight Bachelor Frederick John Alban, CBE, FSAA, JP, Secretary and Comptroller, King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association. Wilfrid Ayre, Chairman and Managing Director, Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd. Squadron Commander James Bird, OBE, FRAeS, MInstNA, RNAS (Retd.), General Manager, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. (Supermarine Works). Captain James Gordon Partridge Bisset, CBE, RD, RNR (Retd.), Commodore Master of Cunard White Star Fleet. Lewis Thomas Casson, MC, lately Drama Director for the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. Councillor William Hugh Stobart Chance, Chairman, Smethwick Education Committee. William Bertram Chrimes, CBE, JP. Director of Wartime Meals, Ministry of Food. James Douglas Cooke, FRCS, MP. Member of Parliament for South Hammersmith since 1931. For political and public services. Harold Stanford Cooper, FCA, Joint Managing Director, Ford Motor Co. James Temple Cotton, CB, CBE, lately Under-Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Herbert Henry Edmund Craster, DLitt, FSA, Bodley's Librarian. Roydon Englefield Ashford Dash, DFC, FSI, FAI, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. Thomas Arthur Eades, FCIS, FRSA, Managing Director, Automatic Telephone & Electric Co. Ltd. John Charles Fenton, KC, Sheriff principal of the Lothians and Peebles. Claude Dixon Gibb, CBE, Director General of Armoured Fighting Vehicles Production and Chairman of the Tank Board, Ministry of Supply. John Watson Gibson, OBE, Director, Pauling & Co. Ltd. Noel Barré Goldie, KC, MP, Member of Parliament for Warrington since 1931. For political and public services. Arthur Charles Hearn, Oil Adviser to the Fourth Sea Lord. Henry Thomas Holloway, Chairman of the Uniformity Joint Board in the Building and Civil Engineering Industries. Charles Edward Inglis, OBE, LLD, MInstCE, MInstME, FRS, lately Professor of Mechanical Sciences, University of Cambridge. John Johnston, DL, Member of Parliament for North Armagh in the Parliament of Northern Ireland since 1929. For political and public services. Reginald Watson Watson-Jones, MCh, MB, FRCS, LRCP, Civilian Consultant to the Royal Air Force. Gerald Festus Kelly, RA, Painter. Robert Letch, Regional Port Director, North Western Area, Ministry of War Transport. Hugh Mackenzie, CBE, Provost of Inverness. Arthur Croke Morgan, President of the Council of The Law Society. Albert Ralph Reed, Paper Controller, Ministry of Supply. Charles Carlow Reid, Production Director, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Gwilym Rowlands, CBE, JP, MP, Member of Parliament for Flint since 1935. For political and public services. Clarence Thomas Albert Sadd, CBE, JP, DL. Vice-Chairman and Chief of the Executive, Midland Bank Ltd. Edward William Salt, MP. Member of Parliament for the Yardley division of Birmingham since 1931. For political and public services. Andrew Denys Stocks, CB, OBE, Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson, CMG. Chairman of the Board of Governors, National Register of Industrial Art Designers. Professor Frank Tillyard, CBE, lately Chairman of Trade Boards, Ministry of Labour and National Service. Lieutenant-Colonel Myers Wayman, OBE, JP, Chairman of the Emergency Committee, Sunderland.
Dominions The Honourable Clifden Henry Andrew Eager, KC, President of the Legislative Council, and Member of the War Advisory Committee in the State of Victoria. Brigadier the Honourable George Hodges Knox, CMG, VD, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria. Brigadier-General Raymond Lionel Leane, CB, CMG, DSO, MC, VD, Commissioner of Police in the State of South Australia, 1920–1944. For public services. Sidney Valentine Sewell, MD, ChB, FRCP, a prominent consulting physician in the State of Victoria.
India The Honourable Mr. Justice Henry Benedict Linthwaite Braund, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces, and lately Chairman of the Bengal Food Grains Policy Committee. The Honourable Mr. Justice Alan Gerald Russell Henderson, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. Frederick Wynne Robertson, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service (retired), Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission. Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi, CSI, CIE, OBE, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the War Department. John Bartley, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary and Draftsman to the Government of India in the Legislative Department. The Honourable Mr. Kenneth William Mealing, Member of the Council of State, Chairman of Directors, Messrs. Andrew Yule and Company Ltd., Bengal. Noshirwan Phirozshah Engineer, Advocate-General of India and lately Advocate-General of Bombay. The Honourable Khan Bahadur Qazi Mir Ahmed, Judge of the Judicial Commissioner's Court, North-West Frontier Province. James Glasgow Acheson, CIE, Indian Political Service, Resident in Kashmir. Richard Marsh Crofton, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Prime Minister, Bahawalpur State. Commodore (2nd Class) Henry Aloysious Bruno Digby-Beste, CIE, OBE, RN, lately Deputy Principal Sea Transport Officer (India). William John Jenkins, CIE, Indian Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Bombay. Sri Diwan Bahadur Gopathy Narayanaswami Chetty, CIE, Merchant and Landlord and ex-Sheriff of Madras. Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly, Landlord, Lahore, Punjab. Robert George Allan, CIE, Commissioner of Agriculture, Baroda State. Har Govind Misra, OBE, Mill-owner, Cawnpore, United Provinces.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. David Callender Campbell, CMG, Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Malta. Charlton Adelbert Gustavus Lane, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Judge Mauritius. Clement Malone, OBE, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of the Windward and Leeward Islands. John Edward Siegfried Merrick, CMG, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Uganda. Reginald Edwin Robins, CMG, OBE, General Manager, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, KCB, DSO. Army Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, KCB, DSO (8742), late Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Colonel Commandant, Parachute Regiment. Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, KCB, OBE, AFC.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Lindsay Burnett, KBE, CB, DSO. Vice-Admiral Geoffrey John Audley Miles, CB. Vice-Admiral Denis William Boyd, CB, CBE, DSC. Vice-Admiral Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, CB, DSO. Army Lieutenant-General (temporary) Daril Gerrard Watson, CB, CBE, MC (9758), late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Colville Barclay Wemyss, KBE, CB, DSO, MC (14202), Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals. Lieutenant-General Ralph Bouverie Deedes, CB, OBE, MC, Indian Army. Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Charles Edward Hastings Medhurst, CB, OBE, MC. Air Vice-Marshal George Ranald Macfarlane Reid, CB, DSO, MC. Civil Division Colonel the Right Honourable Edmund Colquhoun, Earl of Limerick, DSO, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association for the County of the City of London. Sir Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, KBE, MC, Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War. Sir Frank Newton Tribe, KBE, CB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production, lately Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power. John Harold Edmund Woods, CB, MVO, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Production.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, CBE, MVO, DSC. Rear-Admiral Claud Barrington Barry, DSO. Rear-Admiral (Acting Vice-Admiral) Charles Saumarez Daniel, CBE, DSO. Rear-Admiral John Maurice Mansfield, DSO, DSC. Rear-Admiral Ernest Russell Archer, CBE. Rear-Admiral Harold Richard George Kinahan, CBE. Rear-Admiral Philip Esmonde Phillips, DSO. Rear-Admiral (E) John Benson Sidgwick. Engineer Rear-Admiral Dennis John Hoare. Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Edwin Howard Drayson, CBE. Rear-Admiral Arthur Rullion Rattray, CIE, Royal Indian Navy. Army Major-General (temporary) Richard Augustin Marriott Bassett, CBE, MC (22092), late The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Aide-de-Camp to The King. Major-General (temporary) Colin Bishop Callander, MC (10503), late The Leicestershire Regiment. Major-General (temporary) Lionel Howard Cox, CBE, MC (5085), late The Gloucestershire Regiment. Major-General (temporary) Brian Cuff, CBE (4529), late The Cheshire Regiment. Major-General (temporary) Philip George Saxon Gregson-Ellis, OBE (15399), late Grenadier Guards. Major-General (temporary) Arthur Leslie Irvine Friend, CBE, MC (20520), late 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant, Pioneer Corps. Major-General (temporary) John Malcolm Laurence Grover, MC (10337), late The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Major-General (temporary) James Francis Hare, DSO (9570), late The King's Royal Rifle Corps. Major-General (temporary) Henry Porter Wolseley Hutson, DSO, OBE, MC (8350), late Royal Engineers. Major-General (temporary) William Henry Buchanan Mirrlees, DSO, MC (8039), late Royal Artillery. Major-General Leopold Thomas Poole, DSO, MC, MB, KHP (4845), Royal Army Medical Corps. Brigadier (temporary) Walter Clavel Herbert Prichard, CBE, DSO (3700), late Royal Engineers. Major-General (temporary) John Alexander Sinclair, OBE (6886), late Royal Artillery. Colonel George James Paul St Clair, CBE, DSO (1050), late Royal Artillery. Major-General (temporary) Norman Vyvyan Watson, OBE (13478), late Royal Artillery. Major-General Frederick George Wrisberg, CBE (10125), late Royal Artillery. Major-General (temporary) Alan Bruce Blaxland, OBE, Indian Army.