1946 New Year Honours (Canada)

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. They were announced on 1 January 1946 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list (1): United Kingdom list (2): and Dominions,Dominions list: Canada,Canada list: the Union of South Africa,Union of South Africa list: and New Zealand.New Zealand list:

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.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division Royal Canadian Navy Rear-Admiral Victor Gabriel Brodeur, . Engineer Rear-Admiral George Leslie Stephens, .

Canadian Army Major-General Charles Philip Fenwick, . Major-General Ralph Burgess Gibson, . Major-General Harry Farnham Germain Letson, . Major-General Alfred Ernest Walford, . Major-General Ernest Geoffrey Weeks, . Major-General James Vernon Young, .

Royal Canadian Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, (C.71).

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Military Division Royal Canadian Navy Captain Wallace Bourchier Creery. Temporary Acting Captain Jean Maurice Barbe Pougnet De Marbois, . Commodore Harry DeWolf, . Captain Paul Whitney Earl, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. Captain Harold Taylor Wood Grant, . Commodore Second Class Godfrey Musgrave Hibbard. Captain Bernard Leitch Johnson, , Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (Retd). Captain Thomas Douglas Kelly, Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (Retd).

Canadian Army Brigadier (Acting Major-General) Daniel Charles Spry, . Brigadier Donald Robert Agnew. Brigadier Joseph Paul Emile Bernatchez, . Brigadier Kenneth Gault Blackader, . Brigadier Noel Osmond Cars. Brigadier Douglas Gordon Cunningham, . Brigadier John Pollands Girvan, . Brigadier Leslie Charles Goodeve, . Brigadier Howard Douglas Graham, . Brigadier Milton Fowler Gregg, . Honorary Brigadier Channell Galbraith Hepburn, . Brigadier Orville Montague Miles Kay, . Brigadier Hercule Lefebvre, . Brigadier Sherwood Lett, . Honorary Brigadier Ronald Cameron MacGillivray, . Brigadier Wilfrid Mayor, . Brigadier James Learmonth Melville, . Brigadier Ralph Otter Geoffrey Morton. Brigadier Henry Grattan Nolan, . Brigadier Lorraine Patrick. Brigadier John Meredith Rockingham, . Brigadier Armand Armstrong Smith, . Brigadier Harold Edward Taber. Brigadier William Carson Thackray. Brigadier Albert Edward Duncier Tremain, . Brigadier Wilfred Parsons Warner, . Colonel (Acting Brigadier) George Alexander Ferguson, . Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Brigadier) Walter Alexander Bean, . Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Brigadier) Allen James Creighton, .

Royal Canadian Air Force Air Commodore Joseph Edouard Allyre Charest (C.1825). Air Commodore Henry Gordon Clappison (C.2047). Air Commodore William Ewart Cockram (C.1701). Air Commodore Russell Charles Gordon (C.133). Air Commodore George Norman Irwin (C.450). Air Commodore Alan Lawrence Johnson (C.77). Air Commodore Neron Frederick Mossop (C.38). Air Commodore Geoffrey Stuart O'Brian, , (C.593). Air Commodore John Lawrence Plant (C.140). Air Commodore Arthur Herbert Keith Russell (C.640). Acting Air Commodore Harold John Collins (08246), RAF.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Military Division Royal Canadian Navy Captain (S) William Edward Adamson, RCNR. Commander (Electrical) Frederick William Robert Angus, RCNVR (Retd). Acting Commander (A) John Henry Arbick, RCNVR. Commander (SB) Alfred Cecil Bethune, RCNVR. Captain Paul Barbour Cross, , RCNVR. The Reverend Ernest Gordon Blair Foote, Chaplain of the Fleet (P). Captain Conan Rudyard Prayer, RCNVR. Acting Shipwright Commander Ernest John Gilhen. Temporary Commander Ernest Haines, . Acting Commander William Charles Halliday, RCNR. Constructor Captain Albert Norman Harrison. Commander (E) Cecil Irving Hinchcliffe, , RCNR. Commander (S) Herbert Edwin Hubbard. Acting Captain John Rooke Hunter, RCNVR. Captain (S) Joseph Jeffery, RCNVR (Retd). Acting Commander Francis Bevans Latchmore, RCNR. Acting Temporary Captain James McCulloch. Commander (S) Donald Robertson McRosie, RCNVR (Retd). Captain (SB) Duncan Kenneth MacTavish, RCNVR (Retd). Surgeon Commander John Wendell MacLeod, RCNVR. Commander (S) William James Marshall, RCNR. Commander (S) Ross Alfred Maynard, RCNVR. Acting Commander (E) Douglas Keith Miller, RCNR. Surgeon Commander Harry Stafford Morton, RCNVR (Retd). The Reverend Cecil Henry Moreau, Temporary Chaplain, Class III (R.C.). Captain (S) Robert Arthur Pennington, RCNVR. Commander (SB) Francis Leslie Philpott, RCNVR (Retd). Captain (E) William Walter Porteous. Commander (SB) Hubert Ernest Williams Strange, RCNVR. Acting Commander (S) George Raymond Razavet, RCNVR. Commander (E) Hugh Gordon Seybold, RCNVR (Retd). Captain Edwin Alexander Thompson, Royal Canadian Navy (Retd). Acting Commander (SB) George Frederick Todd, RCNVR. Commander (E) Alexander Victor Wells, RCNR. Lieutenant-Commander Richard Paul White, RCNVR. Temporary Acting Captain George Arthur Worth.

Canadian Army Colonel Hugh Reginald Wriothesley Allan, , Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Colonel Dwight S. Coons, , Canadian Dental Corps. Colonel Archer Fortescue Duguid, , Royal Canadian Artillery. Colonel Lorne Miller Firth, General List. Colonel Paul Charles Gaboury, , Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Colonel Guy Vincent Gurney, , Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Colonel Walter Wallace Johnson, , General List. Colonel Bernard Russell Ker, , Royal Canadian Artillery. Colonel Burt Lake, , Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. Colonel William Line, Canadian Infantry Corps. Colonel John Coming Mackenzie, , Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Colonel Francis Gibson Malloch, , Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. Colonel William Blight Megloughlin, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Colonel John George Pope, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical- Engineers. Colonel Joseph Gavan Power, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Colonel James Percival Richards, , Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers. Colonel Robert Douglas Roe, Canadian Forestry Corps. Colonel Charles Perry Stagey, General List. Colonel James Gowan Kirkpatrick Strathy, General List. Colonel Pierre Tremblay, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Colonel Edward James Underwood, Canadian Postal Corps. Colonel William Elgin Van Steenburgh, Royal Canadian Artillery. Colonel Charles Harold Walker, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Colonel) Frederick Isaac Andrew, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Colonel) Ronald Wallace Catto, , Veterans Guard of Canada. Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Colonel) Robert Lawrence Franklin, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Colonel) Charles Malim Harding, Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting Colonel) Ernest Gambier Pullen, Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Walter Kitchener Abraham, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel John Alexander Adamson, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Martin Ansell, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Einar Arnason, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick George Bird, , Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Bourassa, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Brosseau, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Day Carrick, General List. Lieutenant-Colonel Hartley Ernest Chater, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Van Emery Conover, , Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Leslie Coote, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Isabel Cronyn, Canadian Women's Army Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas George Leopold Cunnington, , Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel William Samuel Dingley, , Canadian Provost Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Henry Evans, , Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Peter John Alexander Fleming, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene Joseph Gignac, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel John Bayley Hardinge, , Veterans Guard of Canada. Lieutenant-Colonel (D.O.) John James Harris, Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Eric Harris, Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Teryl Alfred Johnston, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel William Martin King, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Haider Smith Kirby, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Percival Lailey, General List. Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Ernest Leighton, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Edward Lemasurier, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Elswood Lewis, Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel John James MacKenzie, , Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Wightman Belyea Manzer, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas James Maxwell, , Royal Canadian Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Jules Mercier, , Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Merle Musgrove, , Royal Canadian. Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Gilchrist Peat, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Willard Gordon Thomas Roach, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Daisy Isabel Royal, Canadian Women's Army Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Hector Denis Saint-Pierre, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Macintosh Roe Sinclair, , Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Taylor, , General List. Lieutenant-Colonel John Earl Turnbull, Canadian Infantry Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Eldon Wilkins, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Arnauld Leonard Wright, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Younger, , General List. Major (Acting Colonel) Kenneth Hadley Tremain, Royal Canadian Artillery. Major (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Ross Gourley, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. Major (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Stephen Johnson, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Major (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) William Evan Sutherland, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.

Royal Canadian Air Force Group Captain Alan Kinzie Aspden (C.1387). Group Captain Harold Hartley Atkinson (C.966). Group Captain Wilfred Winter Bean (C.1014). Group Captain William Isaac Clements (C.138). Group Captain Maynard Leonce Colp (C.960). Group Captain Clarence Arthur Cook (C.1388). Group Captain Sydney Godwin Cowan (C.158). Group Captain Ralph Cargill Davis (C.183). Group Captain Henry Russell Dowie (C.884). Group Captain Cecil George Durham, (C.1774). Group Captain John Alvin Easton (C.160). Group Captain John Henry Ferguson (C.119). Group Captain Cyril Cuthbert Porter Graham (C.1251). Group Captain Carl Herbert Hall (C.4417). Group Captain Gilbert Ord Lightbourn (C.1871). Group Captain Edward Corbus Luke (C.508). Group Captain Thomas Crawford MacFarlane (C.1114). Group Captain William Vincent McCarthy (C.1807). Group Captain Hartland De Montarville Molson (C.1226). Group Captain Walter Allan Murray (C.544). Group Captain Edward Clark Noble (C.4063). Group Captain Valance Heath Patriarche, , (C.602). Group Captain Donald Stewart Patterson (C.1393). Group Captain Henry Gordon Richards (C.959). Group Captain Robert Campbell Ripley (C.189). Group Captain Herbert Hugh Carvell Rutledge (C.149). Group Captain Frank Augustus Sampson (C.101). Group Captain Ernest Clare Tennant (C.1010). Group Captain Thomas Carlyle Thompson (C.2667). Group Captain Charles Herbert Tighe, , (05111), RAF.