ROYAL HONOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25423, 3 January 1944, Page 2

ROYAL HONOURS

NEW YEAR AWARDS MILITARY DIVISION ONLY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 2. The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) announced to-day that the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the New Year, to confer the following honours: — MILITARY DIVISION Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath [C.B.] Major-general Peter Harvey Bell, D. 5.0., New Zealand Staff Corps, Auckland.

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [0.8.E.] Acting Captain Douglas Alfred Blngley, R.N. (retired), Auckland. Miss Ida Grace Willis, matron-in-chief, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, Wellington. Lieutenant - colonel (Temporary Colonel) Claude Spence White, V.D., New Zealand Temporary Staff, Auckland. Squadron Leader Reginald James Gibbs, R.N.Z.A.F., Christchurch. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [M.B.E.] Captain and Quartermaster James Green Milne, New Zealand Permanent Staff, Paeroa. Captain James Paumea Ferris, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Gisborne. Captain Arthur Douglas Cooper, New Zealand Territorial Force, Christchurch. Captain George Bartrum Baker, D.C.M., M. New Zealand Temporary Staff, Cave, South Canterbury. Second-lieutenant Reginald Augustus Thomas, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Claudelands, Hamilton. W.O. (I) Stuart Waters Richardson, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Lower Hutt. W.O. John Edward Keating McConnell, R.N.Z.A.F., Auckland. Royal Red Cross [R.R.C.] Matron Gladys Lillian Thwaites, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, Trentham Military Camp Hospital. Air Force Cross Acting Squadron Leader Arthur Montague Harvie, R.N.Z.A.F., Wanganui. Acting Squadron Leader Robert Fletcher, R.N.Z.A.F, Wellington. British Empire Medal [B.E.M.] Staff-sergeant (Temporary W.O. I) Eric Rowland Firth, New Zealand Permanent Staff, Trentham. Staff-sergeant Francis Joseph Horby Brown, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Whangarei. Staff-sergeant Harry Tavendale, New Zealand Temporary Staff, Christchurch. Sergeant James Gordon Free, New Zealand Military Forces, Kaponga. Sergeant Leslie Marchant Amos, 2nd N. Auckland. Sergeant Alick William Nathan, New Zealand Territorial Force, Auckland. Corporal Walter Lloyd Fairweather, R.N..ZA.F., Otahuhu. Awards for Forestry Unit The King has also conferred the following honours on members of the New Zealand Forestry Unit who are at present serving overseas. These four awards are included in the United Kingdom section of the New Year’s honours list:— O.B.E.—Major Donald Victor Thomas, New Zealand Military Forces, Wellington. M.B.E.—Captain Keith Owen Tunnicliffe, New Zealand Military Forces, Pongokawa Valley, Te Puke. B.E.M.—Sergeant William George Bailey, New Zealand Engineers, Greymouth. Lance-sergeant Murray Reginald Waddell, New Zealand Engineers, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga.