The King's Birthday Honours 1943 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the British Empire. They were published on 2 June 1943 for the United Kingdom and Canada.
The recipients of 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.
British Empire
Baron Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, , Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, 1936–40.
Privy Councillor Harcourt Johnstone, , Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade; Member of Parliament for South Shields, 1931–35; for East Willesden, 1923–24; and for Middlesbrough West since 1940. Geoffrey William Lloyd, , Parliamentary Secretary (Petroleum), Ministry of Fuel and Power, and Chairman of the Oil Control Board; Member of Parliament for the Ladywood Division of Birmingham since 1931. Colonel Arthur Claud Spencer, Baron Templemore, , Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard; Lord-in-waiting to the King, 1929 and 1931–34. Joseph Westwood, , Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland; Member of Parliament for Peebles and South Midlothian, 1922–31, and for Stirling and Falkirk since 1935.
Baronet The Right Honourable John Milne Barbour, , lately Minister of Finance, Northern Ireland. Sir John Fraser, , Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, Edinburgh University; Honorary Surgeon in Scotland to the King.
Knight Bachelor Stanley Hugh Badock, . For services to the University of Bristol. Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, Director-General, Ministry of Works. Captain John Paul Black, Managing Director, Standard Motor Company Ltd., and Chairman, Joint Aero-Engine Committee. Daniel Alfred Edmond Cabot, , Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Alderman John William Catlow, , Chairman of the Middlesex Education Committee. Henry Cooper, Chairman, Merchants' Consultative Committee; Chairman, Chamber of Coal Traders. John Craig, , Chairman and Managing Director of Colvilles Ltd. Graham Cunningham, Controller-General of Munitions Production, Ministry of Supply. William Young Darling, , Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Herbert Davis, , Director of Oils and Fats, Ministry of Food. Herbert Lightfoot Eason, , President, General Medical Council. John Fox, , Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, and Industrial Assurance Commissioner. Cleveland Fyfe, , General Secretary, National Farmers' Union. Alderman Frederick Hindle. For public services in Lancashire. Captain Robert Beaufin Irving, , Royal Naval Reserve (Retd.), Commodore Captain of Cunard White Star Ltd. Harold Spencer Jones, , Astronomer Royal. William John Andrew Jones, , Deputy Chairman, West African Governors' Conference. Joint Secretary, War Council, Office of the Minister Resident in West Africa. John Macfarlane Kennedy, , Deputy Chairman, Electricity Commission. Eric Macfadyen. For services to agriculture in the Colonial Empire. Archibald McKinstry, , Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. Arnold Duncan McNair, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool. Alexander Hyslop Maxwell, Tobacco Controller, Board of Trade. Thomas Gillan Mitchell, , Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Professor John Linton Myres, . For services to learning. Harry Nell, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. Charles Henry Newton, Chief General Manager, London and North Eastern Railway Company. George Peat, Deputy Director, Liner Division, Ministry of War Transport. George Stanley Pott, President of the Council of The Law Society. Eustace Ralph Pulbrook, Chairman of Lloyd's. Eric Cecil Heygate Salmon, , Clerk of the London County Council. For services to Civil Defence. George Paget Thomson, , Professor of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology. William Whyte, General Manager, Royal Bank of Scotland.
Dominions The Honourable Allan Ross Welsh, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Southern Rhodesia.
India John Leonard Stone, , Barrister-at-Law, Chief Justice designate of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. The Honourable Mr. Justice Harilal Jekisondas Kania, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. The Honourable Mr. Justice Clifford Monmohan Agarwala, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Patna. Pheroze Merwan Kharegat, , Indian Civil Service, Vice-Chairman, Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. Captain Sardar Buta Singh, , Member of the Council of State, Landlord, Amritsar, Punjab. Robert Renwick Haddow, Member of the Council of State, Senior Partner, Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company, Bengal. Cyril Sankay Fox, , Director, Geological Survey of India. Raja Saiyid Ahmad Ali Khan Alvi, CBE, Member of the Legislative Assembly, Salempur, Lucknow, United Provinces. Frederick Anderson, , Indian Service of Engineers (Retd.), Public Works and Revenue Minister and Chief Engineer, Bahawalpur State. Rai Bahadur Oudh Narain Bisarya, President and Member-in-charge of the Revenue and Public Health Departments, Bhopal State, Central India. Robert Menzies, , Managing Director, British India Corporation, Cawnpore, United Provinces. Mathuradas Vissanji, Director, Wallace Flour Mills, Bombay.
Burma John Tait, General Manager, Messrs. Steel Brothers & Co. Ltd.
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc. Samuel Howard Ellis, , Director of Man Power National Service, Fiji. John Hutson, . For public services in Barbados. George Graham Paul, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Sierra Leone. William James Howard Trott, . For public services in Bermuda.
Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral (Acting Admiral) Sir Bruce Austin Fraser, . Vice-Admiral Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster, . Vice-Admiral Algernon Usborne Willis, . Engineer Vice-Admiral Frederick Richard Gordon Turner, .
Army Lieutenant-General Alexander Hood, , (18164), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-General Henry Charles Loyd, , (17960), late Coldstream Guards. Lieutenant-General (Acting) Ronald Morce Weeks, , (51084), Territorial Army.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, . Air Marshal Richard Hallam Peck, . Acting Air Marshal Roy Maxwell Drummond, . Acting Air Marshal John Cotesworth Slessor, .
Civil Division James Scott Pringle, . Nelson King Johnson, Director of the Meteorological Office. Sir Frederick Carl Bovenschen, , Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War. Sir William Scott Douglas, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply. Sir Geoffrey Granville Whiskard, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Arthur Malcolm Peters, . Rear-Admiral Irvine Gordon Glennie. Rear-Admiral Arthur Francis Eric Palliser, . Rear-Admiral Denis William Boyd, . The Venerable Archdeacon Thomas Crick, , Chaplain of the Fleet. Engineer Rear-Admiral John Kingcome. Surgeon Rear-Admiral William Harold Edgar, . Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) (Acting Colonel Commandant) (Temporary Brigadier) Leslie Chasemore Hollis, .
Army Major-General Frederick Vavasour Broome Witts, , (24225), late Royal Engineers. Major-General Albert Robert Valon, , (3976), Colonel Commandant, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major-General Richard Lawrence Bond, , (12212), late Royal Engineers. Major-General Oswald William McSheehy, , (15664), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Gerald Russell Smallwood, , (5238), late The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). Major-General Stanley Woodburn Kirby, , (8398), late Royal Engineers. Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) Frederick Edgworth Morgan (8223), late Royal Artillery. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Montagu George North Stopford, , (47658), late The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). Major-General Montagu Brocas Burrows, , (17658), late 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Philip James Shears (10498), late The Border Regiment. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Noel Galway Holmes, , (4842), late The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own). Colonel (temporary Major-General) Arthur Arnhold Bullick Dowler (8634), late The East Surrey Regiment. Colonel (temporary Major-General) (acting Lieutenant-General) Gerard Corfield Bucknall, , (5026), late The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own). Colonel (temporary Major-General) Hugh Tennent MacMullen, , (10010), late The East Lancashire Regiment. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Alexander Whitmore Colquhoun Richardson, , (4059), late Royal Tank Corps. Major-General Henry Hampden Rich (1105), Indian Army. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Cecil Wotton Toovey, , (53934), Indian Army. Major-General Alister Argyll Campbell McNeill, , (30412), Indian Army. Colonel (temporary Major-General) Gordon West Hodgen, , (183408), Indian Army.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Brian Edmund Baker, . Air Vice-Marshal Charles Roderick Carr, . Air Vice-Marshal John Beresford Cole-Hamilton, . Air Vice-Marshal Frank Cuninghame Cowtan, . Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Henry MacLeod Fraser. Air Vice-Marshal Alan Lees, . Air Vice-Marshal Charles Warburton Meredith, , Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Air Vice-Marshal Robert Dickinson Oxland, . Air Vice-Marshal Hugh William Lumsden Saunders, . Air Vice-Marshal Victor Hubert Tait, . Air Vice-Marshal Horace Ernest Philip Wigglesworth, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Harold Spencer Kerby, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Alfred Conrad Collier, . Air Vice-Marshal George Jones, , Royal Australian Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Robert Victor Goddard, , Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Civil Division Colonel William Philip Cutlack, , Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely. Colonel Paul Julius Gottlieb Gueterbock, , Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Gloucester. John Morrison Caie, Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. Thomas Sidney Chegwidden, , Under Secretary, Ministry of Production. Eric Francis Cliff, lately Principal Establishment Officer, Air Ministry; now Treasury Establishment Representative in Washington. Charles Blake Coxwell, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty. William Scott Farren, , Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Geoffrey Stuart King, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Assistance Board. David John Lidbury, , Assistant Director-General, General Post Office. Wilfred Alexander Marsden, Keeper of the Department of Printed Books, Maps, Charts and Plans, British Museum, and Honorary Curator of the King's Music Library, British Museum. Edward Vincent Thompson, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor. Sydney Herbert Wood, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Education.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) Lieutenant His Highness Maharaja Shri Sewai Tej Singhji Bahadur, Maharaja of Alwar. Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, , Indian Civil Service, Agent-General for India in the United States of America.
Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) Henry Carlos Prior, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Labour. Major-General Neville Godfray Hind, , Indian Army, Commander, Sind District. Ferdinand Blyth Wace, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)