The 1944 King's Birthday Honours, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 2 June 1944 for the United Kingdom and British Empire, New Zealand, and South Africa.

They included a large number of people awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM).

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.

Military Division Royal Navy

Chief Petty Officer Albert Arrum, C/J.28885. Chief Petty Officer David Ashenden, C/239819. Chief Petty Officer John Henry William Baker, , D/J.102296 (Higher St. Budeaux, Plymouth). Chief Petty Officer Arthur Sidney Braddy, P/J.17972. Chief Petty Officer Horace Bryan, D/JX.152152. Chief Petty Officer Samuel George Bryant, P/J.27765. (Southsea). Chief Petty Officer Boatswain William Edward Donnelly, RTP/R.238507. Chief Petty Officer Walter George Durand, P/234315 (Southampton). Chief Petty Officer William Earle, , P/231443. Chief Petty Officer Horace Joseph Fletcher, P/226599 (Maidenhead). Chief Petty Officer Frederick Albert French, , D/J.94677 (Mutley, Plymouth). Chief Petty Officer Robert John Green, C/J.7805 (Ilford). Chief Petty Officer Francis Joseph Harding, P/J.43808. Chief Petty Officer Wilfred Hurditch, D/J.1614 (Plymouth). Chief Petty Officer Leonard Jenner, C/J.21933. Chief Petty Officer Leonard Pentlow, C/J.97501 (Kettering). Chief Petty Officer Reginald Arthur Wilson, P/J.114170 (Portsmouth). Acting Chief Petty Officer William Hinton, D/JX.126626. Temporary Chief Petty Officer Benjamin Matthew Huntingford, C/J.14882 (Thetford). Temporary Chief Petty Officer Leonard Walter Scott, P/JX.148321. Chief Petty Officer Airman Leslie Sullivan, FAA/FX.77395 (Chatham). Chief Yeoman of Signals Frederick William Henry Chatten, P/JX.129765 (Lowestoft). Chief Yeoman of Signals John Cecil Proud, D/J.4495 (Newcastle upon Tyne). Chief Yeoman of Signals George Henry Richards P/J.3111 (London, SE.6). Chief Yeoman of Signals Richard Charles Turner, P/J.104366 (Hove). Chief Engine Room Artificer Edwin Oliver Bedford, P/M.11540 (Weston-super-Mare). Chief Engine Room Artificer John William Buswell, P/MX.47892. Chief Engine Room Artificer Raymond Ernest Hart, P/MX.48917 (East Wittering). Chief Engine Room Artificer Albert George Histed, P/M.23489 (Stockport). Chief Engine Room Artificer George Harry Freeman Pickering, D/MX.51427 (Basingstoke). Chief Engine Room Artificer John Wright, C/M.2923 (Felixstowe). Temporary Acting Chief Mechanician Harry Salt, D/KX.76464 (St. Austell). Chief Stoker John Henry Boynton, C/KX.76956 (Cambois, Northumberland). Chief Stoker Edward Budgen, P/347893 (Iver, Buckinghamshire). Chief Stoker William Henry Dixon, D/K.2558 (Barry, Glamorganshire). Chief Stoker John Evans, D/K.5815 (Manchester). Chief Stoker Harold Arthur Udell, P/K.63735. Chief Electrical Artificer William James Coleman, P/M.13983. Chief Electrical Artificer John Grassland Haigh, D/M.38281 (Rosyth). Chief Electrical Artificer Colin Stevens Westaway, D/MX.47235 (Plymouth). Chief Electrical Artificer James Henry Williams, C/M.39319. Acting Chief Electrical Artificer Leonard Frank Marcel Horn, P/MX.52654. Chief Ordnance Artificer Ronald Edward Lillington, D/MX.47810 (Plymouth). Chief Armourer Henry William Baker, C/M.5486 (Welling). Chief Engineman John Robert Scott Bulmer, LT/X.10383 S. (Sunderland). Chief Engineman Tasker Brier Scott, LT/X.4018 T. (Hull). Acting Chief Engineman Alexander William Gibson, L/X.426 E.U. (Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire). Second Hand John William Leask, LT/JX.265406 (Hamna Voe, Shetland). Chief Shipwright Herbert William Holwell, D/MX.46922 (Plymouth). Chief Shipwright Edwin Jesse Perrin, C/346899 (Horley, Surrey). Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Charles Henry Cossins, P/M.5846 (Ryde, Isle of Wight). Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Percy Francis Gisbert Harling, P/M.51944 (Dumfries). Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Clifford John Scoble, D/M.39283 (Billacombe, Plymouth). Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer John Stranks, C/M.3527. Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer Bertram Ellwood Stubbs, P/M. 18411 (Douglas, Isle of Man). Chief Petty Officer Writer Norman Ayre, C/MX.47547. Chief Petty Officer Writer Frederick John Bossom, D/MX.45833 (Devonport). Chief Petty Officer Writer Charles Arthur Genge, C/347964. Chief Petty Officer Writer Aubrey MacGregor Oakford, P/MX.46369. Chief Petty Officer Writer John Henry Pearcy, C/M.27007 (Windsor). Chief Petty Officer Writer Frederick Sidney Perrott, D/MX.45463 (Plymouth). Chief Petty Officer Writer Arthur Joseph Smith, C/M.37181. Chief Petty Officer Writer Reginald Herbert Tomlin, C/M.25560 (Rochester). Chief Petty Officer Writer Charles Tunstall, P/MX.47195 (Portsmouth). Supply Chief Petty Officer Frederick James Clark, D/M.39183 (St. Budeaux, Plymouth). Supply Chief Petty Officer Edward Thomas Finlay Jezzard, 6/343412 (London, N.8). Supply Chief Petty Officer Ernest Sidney Johnson, R.C.N. 40432 (Victoria, B.C.). Supply Chief Petty Officer Edward Winston Kimber, P/MX.47415 (Gosport). Supply Chief Petty Officer Joseph Eric White, P/MX.450673. Supply Chief Petty Officer (now Warrant Supply Officer) Charles Thomas Wright, C/M.38241 (Streatham). Master-at-Arms Frank George Bowman, P/M. 35739 (Warsash, Hampshire). Master-at-Arms Percy Scargill Burton, P/M 35783 (Sheffield). Master-at-Arms Leonard Charles Chappell, P/M.39817 (Portsmouth). Master-at-Arms Frank Joseph Dahl, C/M.36383 (East Ham). Master-at-Arms William George Miller, P/M.39163 (Gosport). Master-at-Arms Walter Geoffrey Phillips, P/M.40186 (Edinburgh). Master-at-Arms James Walsh, C/M.39723. Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) Ernest John Cooke, D/MX.49356. Chief Petty Officer Cook (S) William James Wing, D/MX.57291 (Liskeard, Cornwall). Chief Petty Officer Cook Ernest Francis Symons, D/M.12282. Chief Petty Officer Steward William Stephen Fincher, C/L.13845 (Gillingham). Chief Petty Officer Steward Emmanuel Zahra, Malta E/LX.21160. Engine Room Artificer Third Class George William Hockney, P/MX.61611 (Peterborough). Chief Wren Clare Ellen Vaughan, 11540, WRNS. Chief Wren Cook (S) Kathleen May Kimber, 619, WRNS. (Portsmouth). Chief Wren Cook Mary Buchan Matches, 9208, WRNS. Sergeant (Acting Regimental Sergeant Major) Ernest John Belcher, Royal Marines, Po.X.252. Colour Sergeant (Acting Temporary Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant) Edward William Syrett, Royal Marines, Ch.X.180. Colour Sergeant George Robert Burden, Royal Marines, Ply.X.92 (Deal). Temporary Sergeant (Acting Temporary Colour Sergeant) Frederick Hunt, Royal Marines, Po.212897 (Tunbridge Wells). Sergeant (Acting Temporary Colour Sergeant) Albert Edwin Best, Royal Marines, Ply.X.189 (Hayling Island). Sergeant (Acting Temporary Colour Sergeant) Tames Gardner, Royal Marines, Po.19435 (Mill Hill East). Temporary Corporal (Acting Temporary Colour Sergeant) Thomas Robinson, Royal Marines, Po.X.101324. Petty Officer William Edisbury, D/J.111416. Petty Officer Oliver Conway Edwards, P/J.15490 (Fleet). Petty Officer Robert Greig, R/JX.177411 (Stromness, Orkney). Petty Officer Harry George Hoskins, P/JX.130516 (Porchester). Petty Officer William Archie Keeler, P/238093 (Swingfield, near Dover). Petty Officer William Thomas Millman, D/JX.133595. Petty Officer John Henry Mulley, C/213050 (Sidcup). Petty Officer William Reay, D/6823 C. (Maryport, Cumberland). Petty Officer Alec John Smith, P/JX.127372 (Bedhampton). Petty Officer Sydney Horace Tonkin, P/J 109981 (Copnor). Petty Officer James Henry Warran, D/JX.134002. Petty Officer Albert James Webb, P/J.112438 (Warminster). Temporary Petty Officer Robert Stanley Childs, P/SSX.23352 (Woking). Temporary Petty Officer Dennis Fitzsimmons, X.18678 A. (Donaghadee, Co. Down). Temporary Petty Officer Walter Victor Hold way, D/J.107038 (Newton Abbot). Acting Petty Officer (A) Arthur John Scott Neller, P/J.106844 (Bury). Temporary Yeoman of Signals Joseph Hothersall, C/JX.230749 (Preston). Petty Officer Telegraphist William Compton, C/J.40692 (Streatham). Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class Leonard Nash, P/MX.79287 (Hampton, Middlesex). Stoker Petty Officer Leslie Alfred Baker, P/KX.92971 (Porchester). Stoker Petty Officer Clement Byrne Delany, D/KX.79177 (Bristol). Stoker Petty Officer Ernest Richard Relland Lock, P/K.13654 (Totnes). Mechanician First Class Arthur John Barber, C/K.66942 (Chatham). Mechanician First Class William George Welch, P/K.66735 (Gosport). Petty Officer Air Mechanic Joseph Boyle, FAA/FX.75213 (Littlehampton). Petty Officer Wireman Ronald Douglas Lee, C/MX.65247 (Sheerness). Sick Berth Petty Officer William Hodgson, D/SBR.2436 (Adlington, Lancashire). Sick Berth Petty Officer Reginald George Young, P/M.21585 (Hackbridge, Surrey). Temporary Sick Berth Petty Officer Herbert Ernest Brice, D/SBR/X.6117 (Bristol). Supply Petty Officer George James Walford, C/MX.59765 (Witham, Essex). Temporary Supply Petty Officer Irwin Henry Binnington, P/MX.50199 (Birmingham). Temporary Regulating Petty Officer Thomas Alfred Dickinson, C/MX.52432 (Sheffield). Petty Officer Wren Henrietta Cameron, 2105, WRNS. (Glasgow). Petty Officer Wren Anna Lang Leithead, 12925, WRNS. (Kirn, Argyllshire). Petty Officer Wren Rosalind Kathleen Stratford, 1545, WRNS. (Plymouth). Petty Officer Wren Steward (O) Agnes Moyes, 2247, WRNS. (Cardenden, Fife). Quartermaster Sergeant (Temporary) William Robert Ransome, Royal Marines, Po.215507 (Broadstone). Sergeant (Temporary) (Acting Temporary Quartermaster Sergeant) Walter Henry Lewis, Royal Marines, Ex.4756 (Newport, Monmouthshire). Sergeant Frederick Charles Barker, Royal Marines, Po.X.404 (Sheerness). Sergeant Herbert William Belson, Royal Marines, Ch.24384 (Bishop Sutton). Sergeant Raymond George Cook, Royal Marines, Ch.24385. Sergeant William Darton Deeble, Royal Marines, Ply.X.569 (St. Austell). Sergeant (Temporary) John James Longwell, Royal Marines, Ch.24818 (Glasgow). Corporal (Temporary) (Acting Sergeant) Cecil Raymond Damage, Royal Marines, Ply.21802 (Lower Willingdon, Sussex). Corporal (Temporary) (Acting Temporary Sergeant) Harold Roy Edmondson, Royal Marines, Ex.556 (Wigan). Corporal (Acting Temporary Sergeant) Edward James Hardy, Royal Marines, Po.X.100398 (London). Temporary Corporal (Acting Temporary Sergeant) Samuel Shaw, Royal Marines, Po.X.104771 (Bradford). Temporary Corporal (Acting Temporary Sergeant) Victor Harold Sproston, Royal Marines, Ply.X.101415 (St. Judes, Plymouth). Temporary Acting Leading Seaman George Richard Swift, C/JX.125902 (London, N.I). Leading Telegraphist Stanley James Martin, C/J.20891 (Hawking). Temporary Acting Leading Stoker Humphrey Hicks, D/KX.111967 (St. Albans). Temporary Acting Leading Stoker Patrick McDonnell, P/KX.127431 (Stirling). Leading Wren Amy Allan Patoh, 11281, WRNS. (Shanklin). Marine (Acting Temporary Corporal) John Thomas Moore, Royal Marines, Ply.X.120402 (T) (Dudley). Able Seaman Alban Joseph Barnes, D/JX.201715 (St. Mary's, Newfoundland). Able Seaman Owen Brooks, C/J.55464 (Manningtree, Essex). Able Seaman William James Jackson, P/JX.182187 (Boston, Lincolnshire). Telegraphist Bertie John Wheatley, C/JX.248191 (South Norwood). Stoker First Class Thomas Atherton, LT/KX.105630 (Stockport). Stoker Robert Bernard Wilson, LT/KX.140882 (Colne, Lancashire). Sick Berth Attendant William Ogden, P/MX.80664 (Peacehaven). Ordinary Seaman George Walton, D/JX.345076 (Manchester). Ordinary Telegraphist Dan Glyndwr Powell, D/JX.247065 (Pontypridd). Marine Thomas Nelson, Royal Marines, Ply.X.102809 (Wishaw). Master-at-Arms Thomas William Hughes, Royal New Zealand Navy.

Army No. 2062242 Staff Sergeant Albert Thomas Adams, Royal Artillery. No. 7690412 Sergeant (acting Regimental Sergeant Major) George Agass, Corps of Military Police. No. 73307 Corporal Joseph Henry Allen, Royal Army Service Corps. No. 2651901 Sergeant William Alston, Royal Army Medical Corps. Sergeant John Ammonds, Radnor Home Guard.