Dated 17th January, 1945 : Flying Officer Jack Clarence Voss.
Dated 20th January, 1945 : Flying Officer George Malcolm
SMITH.

Dated 22nd January, 1945—
Flying Officer Ian Alexander MurDOCH.
Flying Officer Leo Lemuel WHITE.

Dated 24th January, 1945 : Flying Officer Walter George
NEEDHAM.

Dated 27th January, 1945 : Flying Officer William Geoffrey
WARREN.

Dated 29th January, 1945 : Flying Officer Horatio Nairn
FREEMAN.

Dated 30th January, 1945 : Flying. Officer Arthur Herbert
COUCH.

Dated 3rd February, 1945 : Flying Officer Donald Edgar
WHITE.

Dated 6th February, 1945 : Flying Officer Trevor Walter OAKS.

Dated 7th February, 1945 : Flying Officer Howard Galpin
VILES.

Dated 12th February, 1945 : Flying Officer James Oscar
McCABE.

Dated 13th February, 1945 : Flying Officer Allan William
JACKSON.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Awards approved by His Majesty the King

Office of the Minister of Defence,
Wellington, 1st February, 1945.

THE following awards to personnel of the New Zealand Military
Forces, which have been approved by His Majesty the King,
and published from time to time in the London Gazette, have not
previously appeared in the New Zealand Gazette :-

To be an Additional Member of the Third Class or Companion of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Military Division)

Brigadier William George Stevens, C.B.E. (6356).

To be Additional Commanders of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire

Major-General Howard Karl Kippenberger, D.S.O. (7128).

Colonel James Roberts Boyd; M.C., M.D., M.R,C.P., F.R.A.C.P.
(31442).

The Right Reverend George Vincent Gerard, M.C., Chaplain, 2nd
Class (23704).

To be Additional Officers of the Military Division of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire

Lieut.-Colonel Eardley Lorimer Button, M.B., Ch.B. (31206).
Lieut.-Colonel Leonard Whitmore Thornton (20010).
Lieut.-Colonel James Ferris Fuller, B.D.S. (6069).
Lieut.-Colonel Robert Lamb Crosbie Grant, B.Sc. (4542).
Major James Edward Fitzgerald Vogel (5086).
Major Donald Victor Thomas (38570).
Major George Herbert Thomson, M.B., Ch.B. (1526).

To be an Additional Officer of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire

Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Fred Waite, D.S.O., V.D. (40017).

To be Additional Members of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire :

Major David Adamson Clarke (27765).
Major George Stanley Forbes (3426).
Major Alban Vincent Knapp (31491).
Major Donald Stuart Gore Marchbanks (11849).
Major Ian Emerson Stock (7130).
Captain (temp. Major) Keith Owen Tunnicliffe (34549).
Captain Alston Macomish (38826).
2nd Lieutenant Aubrey Thomas Watson (9510).
7941 W.O. II Robert May.
11672 W.O. I Herbert Sherwood King.

To be Additional Members of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire

38188 Mr. Charles Basil Bennett, N.Z. Y.M.C.A.
40020 Mrs. Olive Margaret Blackford, N.Z. Forces Club.
19523 Mr. Geoffrey Maitland Gray, N.Z. Y.M.C.A.
34834 Mr. Herbert James Steptoe, Comr., N.Z. Y.M.C.A.
25803 Mr. Gordon Nathaniel Lewis Watson, N.Z. Y.M.C.A.

British Empire Medal (Military Division)

23463 Sergeant William George Bailey.
37293 Sergeant John Llewellyn Dorrian Davis.
34537 Lance-Sergeant Murray Reginald Waddell.

Bar to Distinguished Service Order

Brigadier Graham Beresford Parkinson, D.S.O. (1522).
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Michael McElroy, D.S.O. (20045).
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Donald John Stott, D.S.O. (20681).

Distinguished Service Order

Lieut.-Colonel Robert Leslie McGaffin, E.D. (9321).
Lieut.-Colonel Clive Lochiel Pleasants, M.C. (5214).
Major (temp. Lieut.-Colonel) Cecil Edward Barnes, M.C. (38289).
Major (temp. Lieut.-Colonel) Edwin Ernest Richards (9224).
Major (temp. Lieut.-Colonel) Russell Richard Thomas Young (35024).
Major Kelvin Lloyd Brown (2585).
Major John Burns Ferguson, M.C. (20037).

Major Herbert Ellery Gilbert (23245).
Major Donald Stuart Gore Marchbanks, M.B.E. (11849).
Major John Wilson Reynolds (23098).
Major John Ingle Thodey (5414).
Captain (temp. Major) Victor Joseph Tanner (23153).
Captain (temp. Major) Duncan Urquhart White (11489).
Captain (temp. Major) James Rutherford Williams (13672).

Royal Red Cross

To be Additional Members of the Royal Red Cross, First Class
Matron Doris Irene Brown (1426).
Matron Edith Mary Lewis (42593).

To be Additional Associates of the Royal Red Cross, Second Class
Sister Muriel Jessie Jackson (38596).
Sister Margaret Cathrine Macrae (38609).
Sister Edith Jo Wilson (31573).

Bar to Military Cross

Captain (temp. Major) Angus Ross, M.C. (13086).
Captain Colin Norman Armstrong, M.C. (5091).

Military Cross

Captain (temp. Major) Douglas Percy William Harvey (13161).
Captain (temp. Major) Stamford Martin Hewitt (6980).
Captain (temp. Major) Paul Wilfred Robertshaw (31673).
Captain George Kent Armstrong (34131).
Captain Alexander William Huntly Borrie (17781).
Captain Patrick John Brennan (4578).
Captain Campbell Newman D'Arcy (38675).
The Reverend Reginald Frank Judson, Chaplain, 4th Class (31604).
Captain Robert Reid Knox (6968).
Captain James Matehaere (4198).
Captain Peter Fredrick Te Heuheu Ornberg (62556).
Captain Daniel Johnston Riddiford (23248).
The Reverend John Kellett Watson, Chaplain, 4th Class (37735).
Captain Kenneth John White (626).
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Matarehua Wikiriwhi, D.S.O. (39282).
2nd Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Frank Rowland Coe (14032).
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) James Geoffrey Furness (48649).
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Henry Colton Arundel Lambert (29357).
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Peter Wight de Bretherton Morgan
(2390).
Lieutenant Collier Cunningham Beswick (1125).
Lieutenant Clifford William Hawkins (2623).
Lieutenant Hendry Bruce Hay (73150).
Lieutenant Reginald Ernest Hermans (27138).
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Charles Irving (10943).
Lieutenant Donald Kerr (19316).
Lieutenant Thomas George Stratton Morrin (1243).
Lieutenant William Robert O'Brien (623985).
Lieutenant Alfred John Voss, D.C.M. (29835).
2nd Lieutenant John Sonny Baker (64195).
2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Goddard Christy (68371).
2nd Lieutenant James Gerard Gowan (34139).
2nd Lieutenant James Michael Hennessy (13655).
2nd Lieutenant David McCormick (582614).
2nd Lieutenant Samuel Mitchell Frederick Martin (72563).
2nd Lieutenant Georgé Austin O'Leary (141013).
2nd Lieutenant Ernest George Prosser (60281).

Distinguished Conduct Medal

39098 W.O. I Martin Te Takahi McRae, M.B.E.
410329 Sergeant George Kenneth Babe.
3617 Sergeant Bruce Joshua Crowley.
802053 Sergeant Joseph Whakekura Mataira.
22884 Sergeant Robert McDonald Morton.
35163 Sergeant Thomas William Tulloch.
19863 Sergeant David Caldwell Welsh.
17108 Sergeant Robert John Wilson.
60074 Lance-Sergeant Lewis Albert William Davis.
60106 Lance-Sergeant Geoffrey George Mason.
188487 Corporal Edwin Frank Carr.
8028 Corporal John Denvir.
25813 Corporal Henry Kokoro Barrett.
7793 Private Eric Lawrence Baty.
81425 Trooper Stanley Edward Lawson.
10855 Private Stanley Wilfred John Schroder.
5977 Driver Walter James Siely.

Bar to Military Medal

35484 Sergeant John Walter Churton, M.M.

Military Medal

2898 W.O. I Jack Longton Richards.
24858 W.O. II Bryan Knowles Bassett.
14866 Sergeant (temp. W.O. II) Desmond Patrick Corrigan.
36336 Staff-Sergeant Harold William Burley.
61590 Sergeant Fenton Benjámin Burke.
529144 Sergeant Noel Kingsland Chapman.
28486 Sergeant Frank Stanley Dacey.
36099 Sergeant Herbert Alfred Heley.
6789 Sergeant Patrick John Kane.
48685 Sergeant Charles Lilley.
30836 Staff Sergeant John Alexander Redpath, D.C.M.
45231 Sergeant August Digby Rockell.
17419 Sergeant Francis Paton Sanders.
62350 Sergeant Leslie Graham Scott.
429581 Sergeant John Cornelius Sullivan.
12388 Sergeant Ronald Athol Sweet.
8053 Sergeant Alexa der McMillan West.