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.
It included a large number of people who were appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
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
Acting Captain Harry Thomas Strawbridge. (Bearsden, Scotland). Commander John Gordon Aitchison, (Retd). (Havant). Commander Thomas Kerr, (Retd). (Kitale, Kenya). Commander Gordon Vincent Knight, (Retd). Commander Mark Taylor. (Fareham). Commander Robert Dymock Watson. Acting Commander the Honourable Richard Duke Coleridge, (Retd). Acting Commander John Trevor Powell. Acting Commander William Lavallin Puxley. Acting Temporary Commander Ronald Arthur Foort, RNR. Commander Norman Thomas Patterson, Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve. Commander (E) Percival Hutchison Craven-Phillips. Commander (E) Norman Eric Dalton. Commander (E) John Darley Farrow. (Washington, Co. Durham). Commander (E) Richard Leslie Jordan. (Yelverton, Devon). Engineer Commander John William Renshaw, (Retd). (Twickenham). Acting Commander (E) Hector George Edmund Dobbs, (Retd). (West End, Hampshire). Acting Commander (E) Wilfred Mowbray Onyon, (Retd). Surgeon Commander John Gerrard Holmes, . Paymaster Commander Richard Mann Bolster. (Bedford). Paymaster Commander Maurice Hubert Knott. Paymaster Commander Jasper Parrott. Paymaster Commander Philip John Row. (Fareham). Paymaster Commander Dennis Shephard Wareham. (Newton Abbot). Acting Paymaster Commander Harold Garrett, RNVR. Captain (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) George Barclay Grant, Royal Marines (Eastbuorne). Captain (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) William Frank Paget Whitmarsh, Royal Marines (Brighton). Lieutenant-Commander George Fellowes Blaxland. (London). Lieutenant-Commander Walter John Rankine Campbell. (London). Lieutenant-Commander John Hubert Gretton. (Sydney, Australia). Lieutenant-Commander James Humphrey Walwyn. (St. John's, Newfoundland). Acting Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Charles Bicknell, (Retd). (Plymouth). Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander The Honourable Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, RNVR. Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Robert Archibald Nisbet, RNVR. (Hampton, Middlesex). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Frederick William Fitzjohn Oldham, RNVR. (Guildford). Major Arthur Henry Rede Buckley, Royal Marines (Plymouth). Major George Harvie Morris, Royal Marines. Captain Sydney Seward Chatres Thomson, Master, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary (Kingstone, Hereford). Chief Officer Gladys Octavia Snow, WRNS (Upham, Southampton). Acting Commander Rupert Basil Michel Long, Royal Australian Navy.
Army Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Burton Edward Abbott, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Monawar Khan Afridi, , Indian Medical Service. Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Henry Ludovici Anthonisz, Ceylon Medical Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Ernest Ashford (412), Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Malcolm Ashton, Indian Army. Captain (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert Henry Bacon (10316), retired pay, late The Devonshire Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel (Staff Paymaster 1st Class) (temporary Colonel and Chief Paymaster) Francis Talbot Baines (22885), Royal Army Pay Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Cecil Disney Barlow (31868), The King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Thomas Bass, , Lancashire Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Houstoun Douglas Bennie, , (34679), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). Lieutenant-Colonel Harold John Bensted, , (15778), Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Leonard Beswick (33426), Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Douglas Leonard Betts (34384), Royal Artillery. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Douglas Luke Halcomb Boycott, , (45584), Royal Army Service Corps. Senior Commander (temporary Chief Commander) Belinda Margaret Graeme Boyle (192091), Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colonel Reginald Womack Brooks, , (22349), Army Cadet Force (Suffolk). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Anthony Bull (111733), Royal Engineers. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (local Colonel) Richard Albert Arthur Byford, , (116071), Army Catering Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) William Tait Campbell (58085), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) John Charles Denton Carlisle, , (98734), Intelligence Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Charles Carrigan (15614), The Suffolk Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Muirhead Collins Clayton, , Isle of Ely Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) John James Burke Cole, , (135292), Pioneer Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) George Abel Collier (9654), Royal Army Medical Corps. Captain (temporary Major) (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Thomas Denner Corpe (36192), Royal Armoured Corps (Territorial Army). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) George Lyle Craig (14414), Royal Armoured Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) William Dale (112637), Royal Army Medical Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Francis Joseph Davis (15875), The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Reserve of Officers. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Christopher Robson Dudgeon, , (15374), Royal Army Medical Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Evert Johannes De Wet (87358), South African Defence Force. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Symon Duncan, Indian Engineers, Indian Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Denis Cuthbert Capel-Dunn (64026), The Essex Regiment, Territorial Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) (acting Colonel) John Henry Murray Edye, , (8320), The York and Lancaster Regiment. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Thomas James Fielding (79688), Royal Corps of Signals (Supplementary Reserve). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Leonard Barratt Shepherd-Folker (13342), The Lincolnshire Regiment. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Edward John Foord (36597), General List. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Craig Gibb (99192), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Colonel Newton Gott Gibson, , Anti-Aircraft, Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Argyle Henry Gillmore (33689), The Worcestershire Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Montague Goodall, , Leeds Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Nicholas Gosselin (6521), The Royal Scots Fusiliers. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Harry Greenwood, , (141511), Pioneer Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Norman Harrison (60433), Reserve of Officers, Royal Army Service Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Humphrey Haslam, , Hertfordshire Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Albert Henry Hawkins (86772), Royal Artillery, (Territorial Army). Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stanley Munro Heape, , (20654), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Peter Rivers Hicks (126452), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Charles Hill, , (23400), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). Senior Commander (temporary Chief Commander) Bridget Holmes a Court (192251), Auxiliary Territorial Service. Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Francis Hooper, , Kent Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Roland Hopewell, , Surrey Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel (Ordnance Officer 2nd Class) (temporary Brigadier) Gerald Tom Warlters Horne (14273), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Charles Storrs Howard (33685), The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Richard Hunting, , Lindsey Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) William Henry Hynes (13770), The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Harrison Jaques, , (24879), General List, Territorial Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Marcus Jelley, , (36358), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). Lieutenant-Colonel (local Colonel) Mervyn Robert Keene, 9th Jat Regiment, Indian Army. Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald East King, East African Pioneer and Labour Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Charles Moss King (28105), The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own). Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney James Kneale, Manx Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Lucien Austin William Braddon Lachlan (5246), Reserve of Officers, The Gloucestershire Regiment. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Eustace Vaughan Lang (28282), The Durham Light Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Henry Fitzroy Grace Langley (103732), Reserve of Officers, Royal Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Bertram John Leigh, , Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Patrick Lillie, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), Territorial Army, Reserve of Officers. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Edward Stewart Lindsay (39464), Royal Artillery. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) William Walter Linney, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Colonel Walwin Gerald Mack, Ceylon Light Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel (acting Colonel) George Mackie, , Worcestershire Home Guard. Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Edward Frank Maltby (35117), Royal Corps of Signals. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Hugh Pennycuick Maltby (9016), Royal Artillery. Captain (temporary Major) Wilfred Robert Manton (86242), Royal Artillery. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) William Woodward Manton, , (30491), The Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Army). Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Matthews, Indian Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Keith Grant McDonald (38854), Australian Imperial Forces. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert Samuel McLernon, , (41676), Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Keith Purvis-Russell-Montgomery (13734), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Territorial Army. Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Morgan, , Monmouthshire Home Guard. Captain (temporary Major) John Henry Mott (39288), The York and Lancaster Regiment. Colonel Sir Alfred Law Mowat, , Leeds Anti-Aircraft Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Dudley Culley Newport, Kent Home Guard. Major (temporary-Colonel) Leslie William Norfolk (52347), Royal Engineers (Territorial Army). Lieutenant-Colonel (local Colonel) William Neilson Powell, , Indian Armoured Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet Colonel) Montague Frederick Radclyffe, , (1301), Royal Armoured Corps. Captain (temporary Major, Staff Paymaster 2nd Class) Richard Walter Kimbel Randall, , (32989), Royal Army Pay Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) (temporary Brigadier) Ralph Anthony Riddell (14835), The Queen's Royal West Kent Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel John Ridley Robb, Northumberland Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Trevor Rogers, Hampshire Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Donald Ross, Indian Armoured Corps, Indian Army. Captain (temporary Major) Lawrence Sherwood (111445), Army Catering Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Thakur Ranjit Singh, Jaipur State Forces. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Harry Neville Smith, 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Samuel Harold Smith, , (104933), Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Special List. Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney Rodger Smith, Dundee Home Guard. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Augustus Courtney Spincer, , (26272), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Ernest Stanton (51351), Royal Engineers (Territorial Army).