N.Z. RECIPIENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 1, 2 January 1945, Page 4

N.Z. RECIPIENTS

NAVAL CHIEFS C.B.

REWARDS TO ALL ARMS p.A. WELLINGTON, Monday. The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, announced that the King has been pleased on the occasion of the New Year to confer the following honours, Military Division: — C.B. (Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath) Commodore Sir Ativell Henry lake, Royal Navy, Chief of the Naval Staff, WeiHngtOn - C.B.E. (Commander .of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Colonel Bertram Sibbald Finn, New Zealand Dental Corps, of Auckland, Director of Dental Services. Group Captain Keith Caldwell, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Cambridge. 0.8. E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) i Colonel Prank Leslie Hunt, New Zealand I Staff Corps, of Wellington. Major Alfred 1/orimer Hogg, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East and afterwards in the Pacific, of Dunedin. Squadron-Leader Hugh Tempello Grigg, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Wellington. M.B.E. (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) Captain and Quartermaster Harold George Salt, Royal New Zealand Artillery, of Auckland. Captain Wilfred Free, New Zealand Temporary Staff, of Masterton. Captain Kenneth Godfrey Chamberlain, New Zealand Temporary Staff, of Palmerston North. Captain Edward William Desmond Unwin, New Zealand Temporary Staff, of Timaru. Captain Lawrence Patrick Kavanagh, New Zealand Temporary Staff, of Auckland. Warrant-Officer Robert James Eaglesham Hetrick, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Christchurch. Warrant-officer Aubert William Arthur Crook, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Auckland. AIR FORCE CROSS (AH of Royal New Zealand Air Force) Acting-Wing-Commander Robert George liinklater, of Feilding. Squadron-Leader Richard James Robert Haldane Makgill, of Nelson. Acting-Squadron-Leader Douglas Alexander Greig, of Auckland. Acting-Squadron-Leader Thomas Drummond Webster, of New Plymouth. Flight-Lieutenant Horace Alexander Nash, of Auckland. Flight-Lieutenant William Good Weir Burgess, of Wellington. ROYAL RED CROSS (Second Class) (A.R.R.C.) Sister Zona May Haworth, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, of Wanganui. AIR FORCE MEDAL Pilot-Officer (formerly Sergeant) Frederick AValter Mayer, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Auckland. BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL Temporary-Warrant-Offieer (First Class) R. W. Collins, New Zealand Permanent Staff, of Trentham; Staff-Sergeant A. G. Reynolds, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, of New Plymouth; StaffSergeant (Miss) E. M. Burnett, New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, of Wellington; Flight-Sergeant M. T. B. Harris, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Auckland; Flight-Sergeant H. B. Green, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Gisborne; Flight-Sergeant D. H. McGowan, Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Nelson; Petty-Officer E. Clark, Royal New Zealand Navy, of Auckland; Temporary-Sergeant M. J. Paterson, New Zealand Temporary Staff, of Thames. COMMENDATION (For valuable service in the air, all Royal New Zealand Air Force) Acting - Wing - Commander P. A. Matheson. of Middlemarch; Acting-Wing-Commander I. R. Salmond, of Wellington; Squadron-Leader K. B. Robinson, of Auckland; Flight-Lieutenant W. R. Esquilant of Dunedin; Acting-Flight-Lieutenant E. C. Robson, of Hokitika; Flying Officer C D. Lett, of Levin.