1963 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 8 June 1963.[1]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Knight Bachelor

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Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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Companion (CMG)

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Order of the British Empire

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Knight Commander (KBE)

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Civil division

Commander (CBE)

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Civil division
Military division

Officer (OBE)

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Civil division
Military division
  • Surgeon Commander (D) Alexander Colin Horne BDS LDSRoyal New Zealand Navy.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Wallace Bateman MM ED – 1st Divisional Signals Regiment (Territorial Force).
  • Group Captain Arthur Percy Gainsford DSO DFC AFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

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Civil division
  • Prudens Lillian Burrowes Blunden – of Waikari. For social-welfare services.
  • Edward James Bradshaw JP – a former mayor of Riccarton.
  • Nora Kathleen Braithwaite – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
  • Gordon Leonard Brown – of Auckland. For services with the St John Ambulance movement.
  • William Alexander Gault – of Ōpōtiki. For services to local government.
  • Wilfred Douglas Gorman – of Wellington. For services to the community, especially in connection with the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps (Search and Rescue Organisation).
  • Jessie Jackson – a librarian at Her Majesty's New Zealand Dockyard in Auckland.
  • Mavis Gwendolen Kealy – of Auckland. For services to local government and social welfare.
  • Alfred Sydney Kinsman – of Timaru. For services to local government.
  • Robert McCallum – major, Salvation Army, Rotoroa Island, Auckland.
  • Archibald Aloysius McDonald – of Ashburton. For services to local government.
  • Mary Ellen Reid – of Greymouth. For social-welfare services, especially in connection with women and children.
  • Wilfrid Aaron Rushton JP – mayor of Morrinsville.
  • Gladys Anne Sandford – matron of the Lower Hutt Maternity Annexe.
  • Willis Alan Scaife JP – of Wānaka. For services to farming.
  • Harold Reginald Street – of Taumarunui. For services to local government.
  • Herbert Lea Towers – of Auckland. For services to athletics, especially in connection with the New Zealand Olympic and British Empire Games Association.
  • Ronald Philip Wakelin ED JPmayor of Carterton.
  • Gwendoline Edna Borrie Wilson – matron of Ashburn Hall, Dunedin.
Military division

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

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British Empire Medal (BEM)

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Civil division, for gallantry
  • Raymond Piper – ambulance driver, Auckland. For courage at the time of a shooting tragedy in the Auckland district.
  • Joseph Walker – constable, New Zealand Police, Auckland. For courage at the time of a shooting tragedy in the Auckland district.
Civil division
  • Edward Fitzgerald Barry – constable, New Zealand Police, Auckland.
Military division
  • Shipwright Artificer 1st Class Oliver Maxwell Cox – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Chief Radio Electrical Artificer Cyril Neil Jeffries – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Chief Petty Officer Gordon Thomas Lawrence – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Chief Radio Electrician Kenneth Robinson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
  • Staff-Sergeant Clifford Melrose Kennedy – New Zealand Regiment (Regular Force).
  • Staff-Sergeant Gavin Stanley Milne – Royal New Zealand Engineers (Territorial Force).
  • Warrant Officer Class II (temporary) John O'Brien – Royal New Zealand Signals (Regular Force).
  • Sergeant Geoffrey Millard Castle – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
  • Sergeant Edward Sims – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

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  • Squadron Leader Donald Benjamin Pollard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
  • Flight Lieutenant Arthur David Malcolm Winkelmann – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

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  • Charles Edward Tanner – chief inspector, New Zealand Police.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

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  • Flight Lieutenant Frederick Barry Flavall – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

References

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  1. ^ "No. 43012". The London Gazette. 8 June 1963. pp. 4831–4833.