1943 New Year Honours

The 1943 New Year Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 29 December 1942.United Kingdom and British Empire: Canada: United Kingdom (additional):

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

United Kingdom and British Empire

Baron Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O. The Right Honourable Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, G.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., H.M. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Cairo and High Commissioner for the Sudan. Sir Charles McMoran Wilson, M.C., M.D., President of the Royal College of Physicians.

Privy Counsellor Richard Kidston Law, Esq, M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office; Member of Parliament for South-West Hull since 1931. Osbert Peake, Esq., M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Member of Parliament for North Leeds since 1929. William Whiteley, Esq., M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Member of Parliament for the Blaydon Division of Durham, 1922-1931, and since 1935.

Baronet Arthur Malcolm Trustram Eve, Esq., M.C., T.D., K.C., Chairman, War Damage Commission. (Colonel, T.A.). William Macnamara Goodenough, Esq., J.P., D.L., Chairman, Nuffield Trust for the University Medical School, Oxford.

Knight Bachelor Thomas Baxter, Esq., Chairman of the Milk Marketing Board for England and Wales. Gerald Francis Carter, O.B.E., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Professor John Harold Clapham, C.B.E., Litt.D., F.B.A., Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge, President of the British Academy. Fred Clarke, M.A., Litt.D., Professor of Education, University of London. Walter Palmer Cobbett, C.B.E. For public services in Manchester. Major Jack Benn Brunel Cohen, Honorary Treasurer of the British Legion. Alderman John Edward Daw, J.P., Chairman of the Devon County Council. For services to Civil Defence. Alexander Dunbar, Controller General, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, F.R.S., Professor of Chemical Technology, Imperial College of Science and Technology. Joint Secretary of the Royal Society. Frank Minshull Elgood, C.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., Chairman of the Executive Board and Honorary Treasurer of the Church Army. Clifford Henry Figg, Business Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Archibald Finlayson Forbes, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production. William Kenrick Gibbons, C.B., Principal Clerk, Public Bill Office, and Clerk of the Fees, House of Commons. Edwin Savory Herbert, Director, Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, Ministry of Information. Summers Hunter, Managing Director of the North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company (1938) Limited. Regional Director (Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs), North-East of England. Alderman George Kenning, J.P. For public services in Derbyshire. Lieutenant-Colonel Hoël Llewellyn, D.S.O., D.L., Chief Constable of Wiltshire. Professor Stanley Robert Marchant, C.V.O., D.Mus., F.R.A.M., F.R.C.M., F.R.C.O., Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Ralph Ismay Metcalfe, Esq., Director, Tanker Division, Ministry of War Transport. William Murray Morrison, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, British Aluminium Company Limited. George Horatio Nelson, Esq., M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., Chairman and Managing Director, English Electric Company Limited. For services to the Ministry of Aircraft Production and to the Ministry of Supply. Frank Nicholson, C.B.E., D.L., Chairman of Sunderland Local Employment Committee. Cecil Oakes, C.B.E., Clerk of the East Suffolk County Council. Captain Arthur Lewis Owens, R.D., R.N.R. (Retd.), Master, Merchant Navy. Frank Platt, Esq., Cotton Controller, Ministry of Supply. Lieutenant-Colonel John Murray Reddie, C.B., J.P., D.L., Secretary, Council of County Territorial Associations. Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the Council of Voluntary War Work. Henry Ridpath, General Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food. Frederick James Sparks, Town Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller, Portsmouth. William Arthur Stanier, M.I.Mech.E., Chief Mechanical Engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. Arthur Stiebel, Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy, High Court of Justice. William Miles Webster Thomas, D.F.C., Vice-Chairman, Morris Motors Limited. Captain Thomas Watt, J.P., D.L., lately Convener of Lanark County Council. Arthur Benedict Winder, J.P., Director and General Manager, the English Steel Corporation Limited. Johnstone Wright, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Chief Engineer, Central Electricity Board.

Dominions The Honourable John Demetrius Morris, Chief Justice of Tasmania. The Honourable John Mellis Napier, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the State of South Australia.

India Diwan Bahadur Samuel Ebenezer Ranganathan, Adviser to the Secretary of State for India. The Honourable Mr Justice Dalip Singh, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab. The Honourable Mr Justice George Douglas McNair, M.B.E., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. The Honourable Mr Justice Vere Mockett, Barrister-at-Law, M.B.E., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St George, Madras. John Francis Sheehy, C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Central Board of Revenue, and Additional Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department. Rustom Pestonji Masani, J.P., Provincial Leader, National War Front, Bombay and lately Vice-Chancellor, University of Bombay. Robert Ecklin Marriott, General Manager, East Indian Railway, Calcutta. Arthur Cecil Griffin, O.B.E., General Manager, North-Western Railway, Lahore. Gerald Snowdon Butler, C.I.E., Deputy Director-General (Armaments Production), Directorate-General, Munitions Production, Department of Supply, Government of India. James Rennie Izat, V.D., Agent and General Manager, Bengal and North-Western Railway and Rohilkhand and Kumaon Railway, Gorakhpur, United Provinces. Archibald Douglas Gordon, C.I.E., Indian Police, Civil Security Adviser to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army, and lately Inspector-General of Police, Bengal. Stanley Herbert Howard, Indian Forest Service, Inspector-General of Forests and President, Forest Research. Institute, Dehra Dun. Brigadier Edward Oliver Wheeler, M.C., R.E., Surveyor-General of India. Maharaj Shri Ajit Singhji, Councillor to His Highness the Maharaja of Jodhpur, Rajputana. Jnanendra Chandra Ghosh, D.Sc., Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Gerald Hassall Hodgson, Member of the Legislative, Council, Managing Director, Messrs Parry & Company Limited, Madras. Francis Low, Editor, Times of India, Bombay. Lala Padampat Singhania, Industrialist, Cawnpore, United Provinces.

Burma The Honourable Mr Justice Herbert Francis Dunkley, Barrister-at-Law, Judge, High Court of Judicature and Legal Adviser to the Governor of Burma. U Htoon Aung Gyaw, Barrister-at-Law, Minister of Finance to the Governor of Burma.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Ernest Allan Collymore, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of Barbados. Justin Louis Devaux, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Judge, Mauritius. Ratnajoti Saravanamuttu, M.B., C.M., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. For public services in Ceylon. John Verity, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of British Guiana.

Order of the Bath

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Vice-Admiral Lionel Victor Wells, C.B., D.S.O. Vice-Admiral William Eric Campbell Tait, C.B., M.V.O. Vice-Admiral William Frederic Wake-Walker, C.B., C.B.E. Vice-Admiral Stuart Sumner Bonham-Carter, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O. Lieutenant-General Harold Edmund Franklyn, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Colonel, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment). Lieutenant-General Thomas Ralph Eastwood, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., late The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Colonel (Honorary Brigadier-General) Sir Edward Thomas Le Marchant, Bt., C.B., C.B.E., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Nottingham. Air Marshal Philip Babington, C.B., M.C., A.F.C. Air Marshal Douglas Claude Strathern Evill, C.B., D.S.C., A.F.C. Air Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory, C.B., D.S.O. Sir (William) Wilson Jameson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H., Chief Medical Officer of the. Ministry of Health and Board of Education. Sir Eric Gustav Machtig, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office. Sir Arnold Edersheim Overton, K.G.M.G., M.C., Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear-Admiral Charles Edward Barrington Simeon. Rear-Admiral Frank Henderson Pegram, D.S.O. Rear-Admiral Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, D.S.O. Acting Rear-Admiral George Hector Creswell, D.S.O., D.S.C. Engineer Rear-Admiral Gerald George Percy Burt. Paymaster Rear-Admiral William Evelyn Hatten Jolly. Colonel Second Commandant (Brevet Colonel) (Acting Major General) Robin Hasluck Campbell, M.C. Lieutenaht-General Sir Noel Monson de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, K.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Artillery. Major-General Robert Cotton Money, M.C., late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Major-General Eric Grant Miles, D.S.O., M.C., late The King's Own Scottish Borderers. Major-General Charles John Stuart King, C.B.E., late Royal Engineers. Major-General John Alexander Manifold, D.S.O., M.B., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Reginald Henry Lorie, C.B.E., late The Royal Ulster Rifles. Major-General Ian Stanley Ord Playfair, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Engineers. Major-General John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, C.B.E., late The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). Major-General John Edward Utterson-Kelso, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late The Royal Scots Fusiliers. Major-General Leslie Hamlyn Williams, M.C., late Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Alexander Frank Philip Christison, M.C., late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Major-General Harry Willans, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Territorial Army. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Leslie Gordon Phillips, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Corps of Signals. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, D.S.O., late Grenadier Guards. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Robert Frederick Edward Whittaker, O.B.E., T.D., late Royal Artillery. Major-General George Ledsam Seymour Hawkins, M.C., Indian Army. Major-General Charles Reginald Cambridge Lane, M.C., Indian Army. Major-General Gerald Michael Fitzgerald, M.C., Indian Army. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Frederick Cromie de Butts, D.S.O., M.C., Indian Army. Lieutenant-General Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, C.B.E., D.S.O., Australian Military Forces. Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, M.C., D.F.C. Air Vice-Marshal the Hon. Ralph Alexander Cochrane, C.B.E., A.F.C. Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Graham, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.S.C., D.F.C. Air Vice-Marshal Alfred Samuel Morris, O.B.E. Air Vice-Marshal George Clark Pirie, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C. Air Vice-Marshal Robert Peel Willock. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet, C.B.E., D.S.O. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Arthur John Capel, D.S.O., D.F.C. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Matthew Brown Frew, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Harries, A.F.C. Air Commodore John Walter Cordingley, C.B.E. Air Commodore John Charles Quinnell, D.F.C.

Civil Division Honorary Colonel Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho, D.S.O., President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Cornwall. Honorary Colonel Francis John Carruthers, President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Dumfries.