The 1942 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 30 December 1941.United Kingdom and British Empire:
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
United Kingdom and British Empire
Baron The Right Honourable Sir (Albert) Charles Clauson, C.B.E., a Judge of the High Court. 1926–38. A Lord Justice of Appeal, 1938–41. Brigadier-General The Right Honourable Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., T.D., M.D., LL.D. For public services.
Baronet Commander Sir Charles Worthington Craven, O.B.E., R.N. (Retd.), Controller General, Ministry of Aircraft Production, chairman and managing director, Vickers-Armstrongs, Limited. Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, C.B., C.M.G., lately Chairman of the Railway Executive Committee.
Knight Bachelor Alderman Frank Samuel Alexander, lately Sheriff of the City of London, Chairman of the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange Limited. Richard William Allen, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., D.L., Chairman of Messrs W.H. Allen Sons and Company Limited. Gilbert Archer, Esq. For public services, Civil Defence Commissioner for the South Eastern District of Scotland. George Aylwen, Esq., Treasurer of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Horace Louis Petit Boot, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., lately Sheriff of the City of London. Chairman and managing director of Horace Boot and Partners Limited and Eastwoods Limited. Henry Francis Brand, Esq., President of the British Employers' Confederation. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Brook, D.S.O., M.C., H.M. Inspector of Constabulary. George Mowlem Burt, Esq., Chairman of Messrs John Mowlem and Company, Limited. Alderman William Bramwell Cartwright, J.P., Chairman of the West Riding County Council and of the West Riding Emergency Committee. Frederick Charles Cook, Esq., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer, Highways, Ministry of War Transport. Colonel Jonathan Roberts Davidson. C.M.G., M.Inst.C.E., lately Chief Engineer, Metropolitan Water Board. Samuel Gurney-Dixon, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., J.P., Chairman of the Hampshire Education Committee and Chairman of the Education Committee of the County Councils Association. George Tristram Edwards, Esq,. Chairman of the Ship Repairers' Central Council. Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden, Esq., M.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.Ae.S., Chief Engineer, Bristol Aeroplane Company, Limited. John Fisher, Esq., Director of Coastal and Short Sea Shipping, Ministry of War Transport. Thomas Dalkin Harrison, Esq., Solicitor and Legal Adviser, Ministry of Health. Hubert Douglas Henderson, Esq., Member of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Consultative Council. Robert Stuart Hilton, Esq., O.B.E., Deputy Chairman of the United Steel Companies, Limited. President of the British Iron and Steel Federation. Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse, Esq., J.P., Chairman of the Somerset County Council. Professor Bennett Melvill Jones, C.B.E., A.F.C., F.R.S., Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Cambridge University. For services to aircraft development. Guy Harold Locock, Esq., C.M.G., Director, Federation of British Industries. Percy Herbert Mills, Esq., Controller-General of Machine Tools, Ministry of Supply. Sydney Oswald Nevile, Esq. For services to the State Management Scheme. George Riddle, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the Co-Operative Wholesale Society. William James Rook, Esq., Director of Sugar, Ministry of Food. Percy Joseph Sillitoe, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police Force. George Clemens Usher, Esq., Director-General of Tank Supply, Ministry of Supply. Bertrand Watson, Esq., Chief Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis.
Dominions Arthur George Barrett, Esq., lately Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide, State of South Australia. The Honourable William Flood Webb, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, State of Queensland.
India Rajivaranjan Prashad Sinha, Esq., President, Bihar Legislative Council, Bihar. Bertie Munro Staig, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, lately Financial Commissioner, Railways. Ahmed Fazlur Rahman, Esq., LL.D.. Member. Federal Public Service Commission. Major-General Frederick Gwatkin, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Indian Army, Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian States Forces. Shantidas Askuran, Esq., Member of the Council of State. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy, Esq., Member of the Legislative Council, Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University, Waltair, Madras. Hugh Arbuthnot Inglis, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces. Ratanji Dinshaw Dalal, Esq., C.I.E., L.R.C.P. (Lond.), & D.P.H. (Lond.), Member of the Central Legislative Assembly. Harold Matthew Glover, Esq., Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Punjab. Khan Bahadur Nawab Fazal Ali, O.B.E., Landlord and Member of the Legislative Assembly, Gujrat, Punjab. Sidney Turner, Esq., C.B.E., F.I.A., Accountant-General and Controller of Pension Funds, India Office. Rao Bahadur Tiruvadi Sambasivaiyer Venktaraman, C.I.E., Indian Agricultural Service, Sugarcane Expert, Imperial Sugarcane-breeding Station, Coimbatore. Khan Bahadur Kavasji Hormusji Katrak, O.B.E., Merchant and Landlord, Sind. Chunilal Bhaichand Mehta, Esq., Merchant, Bombay. George Bond Morton, Esq., O.B.E., Partner, Messrs. Bird & Co., Calcutta, Bengal. Raghunath Purshottam Paranjpye, Esq., Poona, Bombay.
Burma U Maung Gyee, Barrister-at-Law. Counsellor to the Governor of Burma.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Chalinor Grenville Alabaster, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General, Hong Kong. John Curtois Howard, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Ceylon. George Ernest London, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast. Walter Kingsbury Moore, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in the Bahama Islands. Gilbert Cochrane Wainwright, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Jamaica.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Field-Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel, The Lancashire Regiment Sir Frank Edward Smith, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.Sc., LL.D., Controller of Telecommunications Equipment. For services to the Ministry of Aircraft Production and to the Ministry of Supply.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Vice-Admiral Sir Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford, K.B.E., C.B. Vice-Admiral Ralph Leatham, C.B. Lieutenant-General the Honourable Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., M.C., late Irish Guards, Colonel, 3/2nd Punjab Regiment. Lieutenant-General Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster, C.B., D.S.O., late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Lieutenant-General Bernard Charles Tolver Paget, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Kt., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Australian Military Forces. Honorary Colonel John Cavendish, Viscount Cobham, C.B., T.D., President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Worcester. Air Marshal Arthur William Tedder, C.B. Sir (Crawfurd) Wilfrid Griffin Eady, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., chairman, Board of Customs and Excise. Sir Henry Leon French, K.B.E., C.B., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Food.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear-Admiral Cyril Gordon Sedgwick (Retired). Rear-Admiral Francis Hugh Walter (Retired). Rear-Admiral Cosmo Moray Graham (Retired). Rear-Admiral Douglas Adams Budgen (Retired). Engineer Rear-Admiral Frederick Richard Gordon Turner, O.B.E. Temporary Surgeon Rear-Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor, O.B.E., M.S., M.B., F.R.C.S. Colonel Commandant (Acting Major-General) Robert Grice Sturges, Royal Marines. Lieutenant-General Alexander Hood, C.B.E., M.D., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant General Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell, K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery. Major-General Malcolm Neynoe MacLeod, D.S.O., M.C., Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers. Major-General Richard Talbot Snowden-Smith, C.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., late Royal Army Service Corps. Major-General Arthur Harold Loughborough, O.B.E., late Royal Artillery. Major-General Robert Hall Allen, M.C., late Royal Artillery. Major-General Gordon Nevil Macready, C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Engineers. Major-General William Wyndham Green, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Artillery. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Henry Beresford Dennitts Willcox, D.S.O., M.C., late The East Lancashire Regiment. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Edmund Charles Acton Schreiber, D.S.O., late Royal Artillery. Major-General Kenneth Marten Body, C.M.G., O.B.E., Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Chaplain-General to the Forces the Reverend Charles Douglas Symons, M.C., M.A., D.D., K.H.C., Royal Army Chaplains' Department. Major-General Kenneth Morley Loch, M.C., late Royal Artillery. Colonel (temporary Major-General) John Noble Kennedy, M.C., late Royal Artillery. Colonel (local Brigadier) Stewart Graham Menzies, D.S.O., M.C., retired pay, late The Life Guards. Major-General Roland Dening, M.V.O., M.C., Indian Army. Major-General Henry Finnis, M.C., Indian Army. Major-General John Fagan Henslowe Nugent, D.S.O., Indian Army. Major-General (temporary Lieutenant-General) Henry Douglas Wynter, C.M.G., D.S.O., Australian Military Forces. Air Vice Marshal George Brindley Aufrere Baker, M.C. Air Vice Marshal Wilfred Ashton McClaughry, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C. Air Vice Marshal Lionel Douglas Dalzell McKean, O.B.E. Air Vice Marshal Charles Edward Hastings Medhurst, O.B.E., M.C. Air Vice Marshal John Cotesworth Slessor, D.S.O., M.C. Acting Air Vice Marshal Leslie Norman Hollinghurst, O.B.E., D.F.C. Acting Air Vice Marshal Hugh Pughe Lloyd, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C. Air Commodore William Alec Coryton, M.V.O., D.F.C. Air Commodore Hugh Leedham, O.B.E. Air Commodore Robert Parker Musgrave Whitham, O.B.E., M.C. Air Commodore William Dowling Bostock, O.B.E., Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division Honorary Brigadier-General Sir Norman Archibald Orr-Ewing, Bt., D.S.O., D.L., chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Stirling. Honorary Colonel Henry Evan Pateshall Pateshall, D.S.O., D.L., chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Hereford. Brevet Colonel MacDonald Barkley, D.L., chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Huntingdon. Ernest Gold, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., F.R.S., deputy director of the Meteorological Office. Eric St John Bamford, Esq., C.M.G., Principal Assistant Secretary and Controller of Administration, Ministry of Information. Edward Gordon Bearn, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary and Controller of Health Insurance and Pensions, Ministry of Health. William Guy Nott-Bower, Esq., C.B.E., Deputy Under-Secretary for Mines. William Vincent Bradford, Esq., Secretary, and Member of the Board of Inland Revenue. Norman Craven Brook, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Privy Council Office, and Personal Assistant to the Lord President of the council. Charles Glyn Evans, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. Edwin Charles Jubb, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty. Guy William Lambert, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Rupert Churchill Gelderd-Somervell, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Charles John Stewart, Esq., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., Director-General of Production of Engines and Aircraft Equipment, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
Order of Merit (OM) Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, K.C.I.E., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., D.C.L., LL.D., President of the Royal Academy.
Order of the Star of India
Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) Edward Richard John Ratcliffe Cousins, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar. Eric Cecil Ansorge, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, late Adviser to His Excellency Governor of Orissa.