The 1977 Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours for Australia were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia to celebrate Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee and birthday. The Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 1977 in Australia.
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.
Appointments His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to be Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Armoured Corps. Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne to be Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Corps of Signals. Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester to be Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Corps of Transport.
Order of Australia The following appointments were made in the Order of Australia.
Knight (AK) General Division Sir Colin York Syme
Companion (AC) General Division Sir Arthur Harold Tange – For eminent and meritorious public service. Colin Milton Thiele – For eminent and meritorious service to literature and education The Honourable John Trezise Tonkin – For eminent and meritorious service to politics and government.
Officer (AO) General Division Alton McAllan Batty – For distinguished service to industry. Maxwell Frank Cooper Day – For distinguished service in the field of biographical research. George Lionel Gray – For distinguished service to medicine, particularly ear, nose and throat surgery. Norman Walker Lawrence – For distinguished service to the motor industry. Dr. William Griffith McBride – For distinguished service to medicine and medical research, particularly on obstetrics and gynaecology.
Military Division Air Commodore John Ralph Anstee Rear Admiral Neil Ewen McDonald Major General John Malcolm McNeil Commodore Dacre Henry Deudraeth Smyth Major General John Whitelaw
Member (AM) General Division James Henry Anderson – For services to local government and the community. Benjamin Arthur Barnett – For services to cricket and tennis. Dulcie Sybil Bellhouse – For services to music. Leonard Stanley Blease – For services to the Merchant Navy War Service League and to the sport of swimming. Captain Phillip James Edward Brady – For services to the maritime industry. Colin William Branson – For services to industry. Anthony David Buckley – For services to the film industry. Alderman Robert Wyndham Clampett – For services to local government. Frederick Albert Lorimer Connell – For services to the fishing industry. Jack Cottrill – For services to the community. Norman George Dalimore – For services to the community. Catherine Joyce Dundon – For services to women's sport. Dymphna Maureen Eszenyi – For services to the welfare of handicapped children. Charles Oscar Gardiner – For services to the Returned Services League and the community. Frederick Leonard Hall – For services to commerce and industry. Patrick John Hall – For services to the mining industry, local government and the community. Cecil Dengate Hensley – For services to the community and to athletics. John Hunter – For services to Rugby Union football. Ian George Hudson – For services to the community. Patrick Joseph Kelly – For services to athletics. Mary Best Lambie – For services to the Girl Guides Association of Australia. John Lazarus – For services to local government and the community. Edna Josephine Luber-Smith – For services to the community. Alessandro Lutero – For services to the community, particularly Italian migrants. Barrie Raymond Miller – For services to hospital pharmacy. Elena Luisa Rubeo – For services to the welfare of Italian migrants. William Peter Sher – For services to industry. Ronald George Soundy – For services to local government. Francis Jackson Stewart – For services to the community, particularly in the field of Aboriginal welfare. Andrew Nowell Walls – For services to local government and municipal administration. Colin James Williams – For services to local government, particularly to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women. Charles Frederick Wright – For services to the optometrical industry and to the community.
Military Division Army Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Eugen Abrahamffy – Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Cricton Barrett – Royal Australian Armoured Corps Lieutenant Colonel John Fletcher Bertram – Royal Australian Artillery Colonel Edward James Compton – Australian Staff Corps Lieutenant Colonel John Howard Kemp – Royal Australian Engineers Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Mechtler – Royal Australian Infantry Corps Navy Captain Ian Blyth James Captain John Lancaster Commander Norman Bruce Dickson Air Force Group Captain Donald Charles Mazlin Group Captain Edward Arundel Radford Group Captain Gordon Stanley Zantuck
Medal (OAM) General Division Peter Colebrook Abbott-Young – For community service, particularly to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of S.A. Margaret Adeney – For voluntary services at the RAN Hospital, HMAS Cerberus. Richard Stanley Barwood – For community service. Amie Idella Hope Bishop – For community service. Thomas Andrew Brown – For public service. Pauline Coe – For service to Aboriginal children. Charles Vernon Joseph Dahi – For public service, particularly in providing assistance to migrants. Thelma Ruth Dearn – For community service. Mavis Merle Ebzery – For service to amateur athletics. Edward Condon Evans – For public service, particularly in the field of Aboriginal welfare. Margaret Grace Field – For service to nursing. John Jeffrey Foley – For public service Jessie Mildred Foster – For community service. Donald McNicol Fyfe – For service to local government. Phyllis Jean Gray – For community service. Ethel Mary Hancock – For community service. Henry Howard Hankin – For community service, particularly to retarded persons. Emanuel Linlay Harris – For service to water sport. Rita Howard – For community service. Dorothy Agnes Hughes – For community service. Michael Eugene Kartzoff – For community service. John Robert Langman – For services to local government. Kenneth Neilson Lincoln – For community service, particularly in the field of mental health. Claude Edgar McCarthy – For services to photography. Kenneth Laurence Payne – For service to technical education. Tom William Roberts – For public service. Louie Robertson – For community service. Wilfred Gordon Robinson – For community service. Anne Winifred Sansom – For community service. Betty Margaret Schofield – For service to nursing. Amy Schwartz – For community service. Archibald Llewellyn Sealey – For services to local government. John Barrass Thwaites – For service to conservation. Edwin James Vickery – For service to horticulture and community. Don Winton – For community service. Thora Wright – For service to Aboriginal children.
Military Division Army Warrant Officer Class One Allen John BAXTER, RAA Warrant Officer Class One Brian George BURNETT, RA Inf. Warrant Officer Class One William Cram LIDDELL, RAA Warrant Officer Class One Colin Henry SWINBOURNE, RA Inf. Warrant Officer Class One Wallace Talbot Claxton THOMPSON, RA Inf. Warrant Officer Class Two Charles James EAST, RAAC Warrant Officer Class Two Henry Arthur WEBB, RAE Navy Warrant Officer Timothy COLLINS Warrant Officer Ernest Ralph GRAHAM Warrant Officer Harold Edward WATLING Air Force Warrant Officer Peter Charles Robert BAKER Warrant Officer George Thomas CLARKE Warrant Officer Evan Clare JAMES Warrant Officer Malcolm Charles TUCKER
Knight Bachelor Samuel Gerald Wood Burston – For distinguished service to primary industry. Eustace John Cameron – For distinguished service to the community. Clarence (Clarrie) Waldemar Harders – For distinguished public service. Donald James Hibberd – For distinguished service to primary industry. Professor Edward Stuart Reginald Hughes – For distinguished service to medicine in the field of surgery. The Honourable Justice Percy Ernest Joske – For distinguished parliamentary service and services to law and to the community. Walter McElister Leonard – For distinguished service to industry. Dr Alan Walsh – For distinguished service to science.
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) The Right Honourable John Grey Gorton – For eminent service to the Parliament and to Australia. The Right Honourable William McMahon – For eminent service to the Parliament and to Australia.
Companion (CMG) The Honourable Kenneth William Aspery – For distinguished service to government. The Honourable Justice Robert Marsden Hope – For distinguished service to government. Dr. Robert James Furlong McInerney – For distinguished service to medicine. George Polites – For distinguished service to industrial relations.
Order of the British Empire Knight Commander (KBE) Civil Division His Eminence Cardinal James Darcy Freeman – For distinguished service to the church.
Military Division Air Marshal James Anthony Rowland – Chief of Air Staff
Commander (CBE) Civil Division Richard Bonynge – For meritorious service to the performing arts. William Callaghan – For meritorious public service and service to industry. Charles Kennedy Comans – For meritorious public service. Francis Eugene Galbally – For meritorious service to the community. Eber Frederick Lane – For meritorious public service. Thomas Molomby – For meritorious service to law. Isaac Richard Norman – For meritorious service to commerce in the field of banking. Dr Margery Scott-Young – For meritorious service to medicine.
Officer (OBE) Civil Division Dr Michael Anthony – For service to medicine. Reginald Edward Bailey – For public service. Barbara Mary Chisholm – For service to education. John Coombe – For public service. Roy Daniel – For public service. John Grant Denton – For service to the church. Leonard Bertram Dommett, – For service to the performing arts. Rolf Harris – For service to the performing arts. Revoked 2015. Dr Ian Conrad Heinz – For public service. Austin Stewart Holmes – For public service. Laurence Reginald Killeen – For public service. Edward Stanley Lightly – For public service. Yvonne McComb – For service to the community. Arthur William McMichael – For public service. Gwenyth Valmai Meredith (G. V. Harrison) – For service to the arts. The Reverend David Roy Merritt – For service to the community. Robert Money – For service to the community. Lyndon Charles Noakes – For public service. Dr Robert Cecil York Norton – For services to dentistry. Geoffrey Penwill Parsons – For service to the performing arts. John Gowar Ritchie – For service to technology. John Robson – For service to the community. William Sloan – For service to industry. Professor Derek Edward Tribe – For service to education. Peter Francis Underhill – For service to the community and to international relations. Gerald Unkles – For public service. Richard Minchin Ure – For public service. Peter Provis Warrick – For service to politics. Russell John Whitmont – For service to industry. Guthrie Edward Melville Wilson – For service to education. William Worth – For public service.
Member (MBE) Civil Division Alderman Henry Robert Seton Anderson – For service to local government and the community. Peter Nicholas Aroney – For service to the community. Werner Bae – For service to the performing arts. Matron Daphne Camilla Barrett (Mrs Frater) – For service to nursing. Alderman Ernest John Beaver – For service to local government and to the community. Eric Oscar Boyson – For service to the community. Sybil Joyce Boyson – For service to the community. John William Chegwyn – For service to sport. The Reverend Ronald Charles Coleman – For service to the church and to the community. Raymond Arthur Collins – For public service. John Bede Commins, of Braddon – For service to journalism. Dorothy Tidmarsh Coultas – For service to the community.