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,[1][2] and Dominions,[3] Canada,[4] the Union of South Africa,[5] and New Zealand.[6]
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.
Captain Horace Arthur Payne, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
Captain Kurt George Surbeck, Canadian Intelligence Corps.
Captain Byron Lester Willis, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
Captain Linton Blair Yule, MC, Canadian Infantry Corps.
Lieutenant (Acting Major) John Robert Dacey, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Douglas Lome Gibson, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Frederick Alfred Lypchuk, Canadian Intelligence Corps.
Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Leonard Matheson Norris, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Lieutenant Bertram George Day, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) Norah Deirdre Ross Hughes, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
Lieutenant Cecil Thomas, Canadian Intelligence Corps.
Second Lieutenant (Provisional Major) Joseph Phillippe Paul Lanctot, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
B.95556 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Alfred Mathew Bennett, Canadian Provost Corps.
G.44882 Warrant Officer Class I (Staff Sergeant-Major) Trueman Hatfield Clarke, Royal Canadian Army Service-Corps.
P.27682 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Charles Tilburne Edward Coleman, Canadian Provost Corps.
P.296 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) John Copeland, DCM, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
K.489001 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Walter Douglas, Canadian Infantry Corps.
D.81001 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Ralph Alfred Dynes, Canadian Infantry Corps.
H.51880 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) John George Fitzgerald, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
D.81154 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Cecil William Foam, Canadian Infantry Corps.
P.38770 Warrant Officer Class I (Staff-Sergeant-Major) James David Hayward, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
H.6234 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Daniel Illingworth, Canadian Provost Corps.
U.1528 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) George William Jelks, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
C.21086 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Thomas Miller Low, Canadian Infantry Corps.
C.96173 Warrant Officer Class I (Staff Sergeant-Major) Alexander Edward Macdonald, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
B.100033 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) James McCuish, DCM, Canadian Infantry Corps.
C.38411 Warrant Officer Class I (Conductor) Laurie Murdoch, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
P.38063 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Richard Prette, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
P.10080 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Henry William Slavin, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
B.73262 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Earl Edward Stoutley, Canadian Infantry Corps.
L.12416 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Roger Harold Strumm, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.584301 Warrant Officer Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Arthur Vidler, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
P.38137 Warrant Officer Class I (Sergeant-Major) Archibald Horace Wournell, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
B.76077 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Maurice Thomas Asselman, Canadian Infantry Corps.
E.22801 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Garrison Sergeant-Major) Dominique Boulay, Canadian Infantry Corps.
P.38252 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Albert Allison Fleming, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
P.10192 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) William Joseph Gamman, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
P.38159 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) William Campbell Mundell, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
P.40070 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) John Cyril Potts, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
P.10155 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Walter Smith, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
B.93715 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major) George Aspinall Stockwell, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
A.28002 Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Frederick Charles Tapson, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
K.90003 Warrant Officer Class II (Armament Quartermaster-Sergeant) (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Armament Sergeant-Major) Eric Albert Wood, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
B.485003 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) Oscar Pryor Ardagh, Canadian Infantry Corps.
L.247 Warrant Officer. Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) Clarence Hardy Barber, Royal Canadian Artillery.
A.3937 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) Kenneth James Buckle, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
E.15002 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Lucien Dagenais, MM, Canadian Infantry Corps.
P.27140 Warrant Officer Class II (Mechanist Quartermaster-Sergeant) Alexander Daley, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
P.147 Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant) Joseph Edward Desnoyers, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
B.18003 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Russell David Hamburgh, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.66508 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Harold Bennett Hardwick, Canadian Infantry Corps.
M.16195 Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant) Henry Wilson Hunter, Canadian Infantry Corps.
F.16152 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) Reginald Seymour Kingdon, Royal Canadian Artillery.
C.96386 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Raymond Albert Labonte, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
H.26519 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Alexander Flint Mclellan, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
W. 13324 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Helen Luella Machnee, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
W.15064 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) Millicent Alice Ogilvie, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
G.32229 Warrant Officer Class II (Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Kenelm Digby Sadleir, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.48868 Warrant Officer Class II (Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) John Malcolm Sargent, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
A.37185 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Frederick Charles Smith, Canadian Infantry Corps.
K. 22103 Warrant Officer Class II (Quartermaster-Sergeant) Charles Henry Peter Trappitt, Canadian Intelligence Corps.
K.29127 Warrant Officer Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) John Weeks, Canadian Infantry Corps.
Royal Canadian Air Force
Wing Commander Donald Anderson Archibald (C.2371).
Wing Commander Harry Clive Ashdown (C.1847).
Wing Commander Kenneth Edward Ball (C.2274).
Wing Commander John Ivar Murdock Beddall (C.938).
Wing Commander Lennox Gordon Bell (C.25773).
Wing Commander Thomas Frederick Leo Bellew (C.3857).
Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer James John Kenneth Robertson, RCNVR, V.30534.
Acting Petty Officer Margaret Elizabeth Robertson, WRCNS, W.967.
Sick Berth Petty Officer Karl Schnyder, RCNVR, V.33143.
Acting Petty Officer William Michael Thompson, RCNVR, V.22185.
Chief Petty Officer Steward John Anthony Roland Vaillancourt, 40420.
Telegraphist (So) Theodore Harry Vlachos, RCNVR, V.54941.
Convoy Leading Signalman Walter Andrew Walberg, RCNVR, V.9363.
Regulating Petty Officer James Henry Wheeler, RCNR, C.352
Chief Stoker William Wilkins, 21175.
Canadian Army
C.94405 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major) Alexander Carnegie Allan, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
B.94513 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) James William Hughes, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
C.91032 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Gordon Walter George McConnell, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
C.96126 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) William Faichnie Macmillan, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
M.41546 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Edward Martin, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
C.89501 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Walter Miohie Anderson, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
W.13407 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Beatrice Ansley, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
L.18048 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Alfred Charles Ayotte, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
K.70847 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Armament Quartermaster-Sergeant) George Francis Bone, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
D.76575 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Willie Brinkschulte, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.95618 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Arthur Daniels, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
C.94519 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff-Quartermaster-Sergeant) William Charles Gates, Royal Canadian Ordnance. Corps.
C.96360 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Harold Eric Hannum, Canadian Infantry Corps.
C.2993 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Cecil Charles Jourdain, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
W.2701 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Florence Stephen March, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
B.3699 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Hubert Kingdon Mimms, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
K.42873 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Herbert Ambrose Morris, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
B.31614 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Philip Henry Parker, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
C.96292 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) William Roderick Relyea, Canadian Intelligence Corps.
C.90062 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) William Lome Roy, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
F.16212 Staff-Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Maynard Stanley Sutherland, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
L.25326 Staff-Sergeant David Nathaniel Anderson, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
A.34820 Staff-Sergeant Albert Edward Bates, Canadian Provost Corps.
H.36876 Staff-Sergeant Charles John Bonser, Royal Canadian Artillery.
W.3309 Staff-Sergeant Bessie Bounsall, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
W.13253 Staff-Sergeant Alice Rita Cooper, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
B.35242 Staff Sergeant Carl Franklin Dougherty, Veterans Guard of Canada.
H.17197 Staff-Sergeant Jack Donniethorne Durrant, Canadian Provost Corps.
B.102565 Staff-Sergeant George Wesley Haney, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
W.1159 Staff-Sergeant Frances Johanna Gladys Hanlon, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
M.43574 Staff-Sergeant Warner Heisig, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
C.96054 Staff-Sergeant Wilfrid Joseph King, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
K.91676 Staff-Sergeant Frederick Arthur Knights, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
M.37259 Staff Sergeant Ian Chisholm McKenzie, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
K.35725 Staff-Sergeant Edward McIean, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
A.292 Staff-Sergeant George Webster Marr, Corps or Military Staff Clerks.
A.29172 Staff-Sergeant Daniel Neill, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
A.22646 Staff-Sergeant Harry Austin Olsen, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
K.92048 Staff-Sergearit Ernest Albert Pawsey, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
B.102032 Staff-Sergeant Tom Harold Proctor, Royal Canadian Artillery.
K.28401 Staff-Sergeant Paul Joseph Lucien Proulx, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
W.2017 Staff-Sergeant Sadie Margaret Quinn, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
D.16932 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Joseph Emile Victor Riel, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
L.23037 Staff-Sergeant William Thomas Roberts, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
F.812 Staff-Sergeant James William Ryan, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
A.57952 Staff-Sergeant Harry Shirley, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals.
M.3427 Staff-Sergeant Leonard Harry Siddons, Royal Canadian Artillery.
B.11466 Staff-Sergeant Arthur Charles Smith, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
B.82618 Staff-Sergeant Alexander McGrindle Thompson, Canadian Provost Corps.
M.41052 Staff-Sergeant Franklin Merton Tilley, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
W.7015 Staff-Sergeant Nora Winnifred Walker, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
B.63782 Staff-Sergeant George William Wells, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
M.25618 Staff-Sergeant John Williams, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
K.89402 Staff-Sergeant Frank William Wright, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
C.94913 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major) Allan Edward McIlhinney, General List.
K.77224 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Thomas Martin Britton, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
H.17501 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Kenneth Charles Brook, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.8270 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Kenneth James Brown, Royal Canadian Artillery.
A.104763 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Philip Byas Chapman, Canadian Provost Corps.
F.30792 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Robert Joseph Findlay, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
A.60159 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Alexander James Hanes, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
W.3279 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Sydney Eileen Howden, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
L.25002 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Donald Logan McLarty, Canadian Infantry Corps.
F.94109 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Qtiartermaster-Sergeant) John Reid Moir, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
D.26243 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant) Francis Edward Owen, Canadian Infantry Corps.
M.66385 Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) John Walker, Canadian Infantry Corps.
C.96430 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) George Arthur Bickerton, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
A.57288 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Joseph George Crackel, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.28649 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) David Arthur Patchell, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
E.28737 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Louis Bronson Pierce, Veterans Guard of Canada.
L.7197 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Frederic Ridsdale, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
C.96350 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Harold Percival Rule, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
P.27725 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Kenneth William Tatton, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
W.1532 Sergeant (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Lena Mary Thompson, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
M.50229 Sergeant John Camm Fielder Ashmore, Canadian Provost Corps.
B.3559 Sergeant William D'Oyly Astley, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
K.65798 Sergeant Philip John Baldwin, Canadian Intelligence Corps
C.15562 Sergeant Leo David Beaudry, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
B.80816 Sergeant William Henry Beckley, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
D.91363 Sergeant Frank Berry, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
G.17076 Sergeant Ronald Eugene Bovaird, Canadian Infantry Corps.
D.82361 Sergeant George Arthur Brickwood, Canadian Provost Corps.
W.1284 Sergeant Viola Fannie Bullock, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
D.82283 Sergeant Duncan Campbell, Canadian Infantry Corps.
M.40997 Sergeant Knut Henning Carlson, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
C.4200 Sergeant Ross Cronkwright, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.101666 Sergeant William Thomas Dudley, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
H.95307 Sergeant Albert Nicholas Durado, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
L.95632 Sergeant Joseph Fernetz, Canadian Provost Corps.
W.13581 Sergeant Phyllis Edna Finch, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
H.20380 Sergeant Lawrence William Fogg, Canadian Provost Corps.
D.13812 Sergeant Robert Georges Joseph Galipeau, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
W.6371 Sergeant Bertha Margaret Hinkley, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
G.29081 Sergeant Gordon Scott McKnight, Corps of Military Staff Clerks.
B.25639 Sergeant Alexander James McNeil, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
K.97776 Sergeant Charles Cecil Mavius, Canadian Provost Corps.
K.44611 Sergeant Kelvin Millen, Canadian Infantry Corps.
D.16351 Sergeant Alec Ernest Mitchell, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
G.32963 Sergeant John Ernest Munro, Canadian Infantry Corps.
B.515028 Sergeant Herman Opperman, Canadian Infantry Corps.
A.64201 Sergeant Charles Imeson Osborn, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
L.36217 Sergeant Ian Charles Paton, Canadian Infantry Corps.
L.19818 Sergeant Harry Rayner, Canadian Infantry Corps.
K.25844 Sergeant Edgar Cameron Reid, Royal Canadian Artillery,
L.441114 Sergeant William Bentley Shufflebotham, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
F.79300 Sergeant Donald William Tingley, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
B.3407 Sergeant John Roland Treloar, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
G.18453 Lance-Sergeant Joseph Vantassel, Canadian Infantry Corps.
W.7756 Corporal (Acting Sergeant) Margaret Mary Ida Beaupre, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
C.89902 Corporal (Acting Sergeant) Peter Muir Campbell, Veterans Guard of Canada.
W.40239 Corporal (Acting Sergeant) Freda Evelyn Notley, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
U.1699 Corporal Sidney Shearer Ball, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
L.32028 Corporal George Henry Burns, Veterans Guard of Canada.
M.42645 Corporal Joseph Wallace Gladstone, MM, Veterans Guard of Canada.
W.2311 Corporal Marie Jessie Hebert, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
F.77079 Corporal Murdock Matheson, Canadian Provost Corps.
C.6418 Corporal William James Orsborne, Canadian Infantry Corps.
G.27119 Corporal Richard Watkins, Veterans Guard of Canada.
A. 56696 Lance-Corporal Edward Clarence Haskell, Canadian Infantry Corps.
W.2350 Lance-Corporal Jessie Louise Smith, Canadian Women's Army Corps.
D.166837 Private (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant) Daniel Edward O'Connell, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.
M.37302 Private (Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major) Elmer Warren, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
E.33483 Craftsman (Acting Sergeant) Richard Ruttan Harcourt, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
K.30037 Sapper (Acting Sergeant) Roy Harry Morgan, Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.
G.18247 Private Earl Vernon Bartlett, Veterans Guard of Canada.
B.168369 Private Bruce Albert Cudmore, Veterans Guard of Canada.
A.114481 Craftsman Edward William Dawson, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
H.422230 Rifleman Arthur Garnett, Canadian Infantry Corps.
G.46809 Private Francis Charles Hawkins, Veterans Guard of Canada.
D.646920 Private Chment Himbeault, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.
A.56985 Private Frank McAiney, Canadian Infantry Corps.
K.582 Private Hubert Nelson Morey, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.
Royal Canadian Air Force
R.78455 Flight Sergeant William George Alexander.
R.53665 Flight Sergeant Robert George Alfred Atkins.
W.314244 Flight Sergeant Jean Muriel Barbour, RCAF (Women's Division)