1946 New Year Honours (Order of the Bath)

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, KCB, MVO.
• Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, KCB, CVO, DSO.

Army

• General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, Bt, KCB, DSO, OBE, (1632), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery and Army Educational Corps.
• General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget, KCB, DSO, MC, (4112), late The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Colonel Commandant, Reconnaissance Corps, and Intelligence Corps, Aide-de-Camp to The King.
• General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster, KCB, DSO, (1505), late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

Royal Air Force

• Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas, KCB, MC, DFC.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, MC, ADC, (Retd).

Civil Division

• Sir Cyril William Hurcomb, KCB, KBE, Director-General, Ministry of War Transport.
• His Highness Maharaja Sir Sri Jaya Chamaraja-Wadiyar Bahadur, GCSI, Maharaja of Mysore.
• Sir Arthur William Street, KCB, KBE, CMG, CIE, MC, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry 1939-45. (Now Acting Permanent Secretary, Office of the Control Commission, Germany and Austria.)

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Vice-Admiral Arthur Malcolm Peters, CB, DSC.
• Vice-Admiral Harold Thomas Courtland Walker, CB.
• Vice-Admiral Clement Moody, CB.
• Engineer Vice-Admiral John Kingcome, CB.

Army

• Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye, KBE, CB, MC, (5851), late The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
• General Sir Edward Pellew Quinan, KCIE, CB, DSO, OBE, Indian Army (Retd).

Royal Air Force

• Air Vice-Marshal Alan Lees, CB, CBE, DSO, AFC.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal John Walter Cordingley, CB, CBE.

Civil Division

• Colonel Sir Henry Davies Foster MacGeagh, KBE, TD, KC, Judge Advocate-General of the Forces.
• Colonel Frank Garrett, CB, CBE, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Suffolk.
• Norman Craven Brook, CB, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet.
• Sir Godfrey Herbert Ince, KBE, CB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Sir Robert John Sinclair, KBE, lately Chief Executive, Ministry of Production. (Now Chief Executive, Board of Trade.)
• Sir Donald Edward Vandepeer, KBE, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Rear-Admiral John William Ashley Waller.
• Rear-Admiral Reginald Henry Portal, DSC.
• Rear-Admiral Piers Keane Kekewich (Retd).
• Rear-Admiral (E) John Leigh Bedale.
• Rear-Admiral (E) Bernard Wilberforce Greathead.
• Rear-Admiral (S) Noel Wright, OBE, (Retd).
• Rear-Admiral (S) Richard Arthur Hawkesworth, OBE, (Retd).
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral, Albert Edward Malone, MB, BCh, DPH.
• Acting Major-General Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, CMG, DSO, Royal Marines.
• Captain (Commodore 1st Class) Edward Malcolm Evans-Lombe.
• Captain (Acting Rear-Admiral) Matthew Sausse Slattery.

Army

• Major-General Arthur Branston Austin (15744), late Army Dental Corps, Honorary Dental Surgeon to The King.
• Major-General (temporary) John Arthur Mallock Bond, CBE, VD, (63454), General List, Cavalry.
• Major-General (temporary) William Pat Arthur Bradshaw, DSO, (22511), late Foot Guards.
• Major-General (temporary) Walter Joseph Cawthorn, CIE, CBE, 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
• Major-General (temporary) Evelyn Dalrymple Fanshawe, CBE, (9530), late The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps.
• Brigadier (temporary) John LeClerc Fowle, CIE, late Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
• Major-General Alexander Galloway, CBE, DSO, MC, late Infantry.
• Brigadier (temporary) George Alexander Kelly (4675), late Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
• Major-General (temporary) Alec Wilfred Lee, MC, (22040), late Infantry.
• Major-General (temporary) Ross Cairns McCay, CBE, DSO, Indian Army.
• Major-General David Carmichael Monro, CBE, MB, FRCS (Edin.), (14493), late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Surgeon to The King.
• Major-General (temporary) Alan John Keefe Pigott, CBE, (6614), late Infantry.
• Major-General (temporary) John Talbot Wentworth Reeve, CBE, DSO, (14839), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General (temporary) Sydney Fairbairn Rowell, CBE, Australian Military Forces.
• Major-General (temporary) George Neville Russell, CBE, (6072), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Reginald George Stanham (19499), Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Major-General (temporary) Douglas Stuart, CIE, OBE, late Infantry, Indian Army.
• Major-General (temporary) Robert Hallam Studdert, DSO, MC, (12232), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Treffry Owen Thomson, CBE, (4850), late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King.
• Major-General (acting) Peter Alfred Ullman, OBE, (13319), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General (temporary) Charles Brian Wainwright, (18120), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General (temporary) Walter David Abbott Williams, CBE, BA, (21149), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General (temporary) Edward Ambrose Woods, CBE, MC, (15076), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Royal Air Force

• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Hill Ambler, CBE, AFC, Auxiliary Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Francis Joseph Fogarty, DFC, AFC.
• Air Vice-Marshal Alan Filmer Rook, OBE, FRCP, MRCS, DPH, KHP.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Robert Stewart Blucke, CBE, DSO, AFC.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Dermot Alexander Boyle, CBE, AFC.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Alex Constantine, CBE, DSO.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Ernest John Cuckney, CBE, DSC.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Gilbert Harcourt-Smith, CBE, MVO.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Francis Frederic Inglis, CBE.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Albert Frank Lang, MBE, AFC.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Colin Winterbotham Weedon, CBE.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal John Rene Whitley, CBE, DSO, AFC.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal William Munro Yool, CBE.
• Air Commodore George Gaywood Banting, CBE.
• Air Commodore Allan Hesketh, CBE, DFC.
• Air Commodore Herbert William Heslop, OBE.
• Air Commodore George Stacey Hodson, CBE, AFC.
• Air Commodore Harold Douglas Jackman, CBE.
• Air Commodore John Lawrence Kirby, CBE.
• Air Commodore Francis William Long.
• Air Commodore Harold Jace Roach, CBE, AFC.
• Air Commodore Charles Gainer Smith, CBE.
• Air Commodore Gilbert Formby Smylie, DSC.
• Air Commodore Cecil George Wigglesworth, AFC.
• Air Commodore Harry Leonard Woolveridge, OBE.
• Acting Air Commodore Norman Stuart Allinson.
• Acting Air Commodore Francis Robert Banks, OBE.
• Acting Air Commodore Clayton Descou Clement Boyce, CBE.
• Acting Air Commodore Reginald Byrne, MC.
• Acting Air Commodore Henry Iliffe Cozens, AFC.
• Acting Air Commodore Edward Hedley Fielden, CVO, DFC, AFC.
• Acting Air Commodore Leslie Gordon Harvey.
• Acting Air Commodore Ronald Beresford Lees, CBE, DFC, ADC.
• Acting Air Commodore James Richard Mutch.
• Acting Air Commodore Noel Stephen Paynter.
• Acting Air Commodore Thomas Geoffrey Pike, CBE, DFC.
• Acting Air Commodore Laurence Frank Sinclair, GC, CBE, DSO, ADC.
• Acting Air Commodore Frank Woolley, OBE, DFC.
• Group Captain Frederick Charles Victor Laws, CBE.

Civil Division

• Lawrence Collingwood Williamson.
• Frederick Brundrett
• Colonel Sir Charles Leyshon Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, Bt., President and Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Radnor.
• Colonel Geoffry Christie-Miller, DSO, MC, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Chester.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Graham Percival Heywood, Bt, DSO, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Stafford.
• Colonel Harry Storey Tawse, TD, Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the City of Aberdeen.
• Colonel Henry Cecil Lloyd Howard, CMG, DSO, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Flint.
• Solly Zuckerman, Scientific Director, Royal Air Force Bombing Analysis Unit. In recognition of distinguished service.
• Reginald Victor Jones, Assistant Director of Intelligence (Science), Air Ministry. In recognition of distinguished service.
• Sidney Alfred Bailey, MBE, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of War Transport.
• Rex George Bennett, Director, Contracts Department, General Post Office.
• Maurice Joseph Dean, Principal Assistant Under Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
• Ernest Rowe-Dutton, CMG, Principal Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury.
• John James William Handford, OBE, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.
• Colonel Lawrence Whitaker Harrison, DSO, MB, ChB, FRCP.(Ed.), Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
• Arthur Sydney Hutchinson, CVO, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Alexander Johnston, Principal Assistant Secretary, Privy Council Office.
• Harold Simcox Kent, Parliamentary Counsel.
• John Vivian Kitto, CBE, Librarian, House of Commons.
• Rouxville Mark Lowe, Chief Land Registrar, HM Land Registry.
• Alexander Richardson McBain, OBE, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Edwin Henry Simon Marker, Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Frank Cyril Musgrave, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• Thomas Leslie Rowan, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
• Robert William Arney Speed, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Rear-Admiral George Pirie Thomson, CBE, Royal Navy (Retd.), lately Chief Press Censor, Ministry of Information.
• David Philip Walsh, Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.
• Arton Wilson, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.