1946 New Year Honours (Order of the Bath)

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

 * Military Division
 * Royal Navy
 * Admiral Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham,.
 * Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore,.


 * Army
 * General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam,, (1632), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery and Army Educational Corps.
 * General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget,, (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,, (1505), late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).


 * Royal Air Force
 * Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas,.
 * Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt,, (Retd).


 * Civil Division
 * Sir Cyril William Hurcomb,, Director-General, Ministry of War Transport.
 * His Highness Maharaja Sir Sri Jaya Chamaraja-Wadiyar Bahadur,, Maharaja of Mysore.
 * Sir Arthur William Street,, 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,.
 * Vice-Admiral Harold Thomas Courtland Walker,.
 * Vice-Admiral Clement Moody,.
 * Engineer Vice-Admiral John Kingcome,.


 * Army
 * Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye,, (5851), late The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
 * General Sir Edward Pellew Quinan,, Indian Army (Retd).


 * Royal Air Force
 * Air Vice-Marshal Alan Lees,.
 * Acting Air Vice-Marshal John Walter Cordingley,.


 * Civil Division
 * Colonel Sir Henry Davies Foster MacGeagh,, Judge Advocate-General of the Forces.
 * Colonel Frank Garrett,, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Suffolk.
 * Norman Craven Brook,, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet.
 * Sir Godfrey Herbert Ince,, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
 * Sir Robert John Sinclair,, lately Chief Executive, Ministry of Production. (Now Chief Executive, Board of Trade.)
 * Sir Donald Edward Vandepeer,, 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,.
 * Rear-Admiral Piers Keane Kekewich (Retd).
 * Rear-Admiral (E) John Leigh Bedale.
 * Rear-Admiral (E) Bernard Wilberforce Greathead.
 * Rear-Admiral (S) Noel Wright,, (Retd).
 * Rear-Admiral (S) Richard Arthur Hawkesworth,, (Retd).
 * Surgeon Rear-Admiral, Albert Edward Malone,.
 * Acting Major-General Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks,, 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,, (63454), General List, Cavalry.
 * Major-General (temporary) William Pat Arthur Bradshaw,, (22511), late Foot Guards.
 * Major-General (temporary) Walter Joseph Cawthorn,, 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army.
 * Major-General (temporary) Evelyn Dalrymple Fanshawe,, (9530), late The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps.
 * Brigadier (temporary) John LeClerc Fowle,, late Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
 * Major-General Alexander Galloway,, late Infantry.
 * Brigadier (temporary) George Alexander Kelly (4675), late Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
 * Major-General (temporary) Alec Wilfred Lee,, (22040), late Infantry.
 * Major-General (temporary) Ross Cairns McCay,, Indian Army.
 * Major-General David Carmichael Monro,, (14493), late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Surgeon to The King.
 * Major-General (temporary) Alan John Keefe Pigott,, (6614), late Infantry.
 * Major-General (temporary) John Talbot Wentworth Reeve,, (14839), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
 * Major-General (temporary) Sydney Fairbairn Rowell,, Australian Military Forces.
 * Major-General (temporary) George Neville Russell,, (6072), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
 * Major-General Reginald George Stanham (19499), Royal Army Pay Corps.
 * Major-General (temporary) Douglas Stuart,, late Infantry, Indian Army.
 * Major-General (temporary) Robert Hallam Studdert,, (12232), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
 * Major-General Treffry Owen Thomson,, (4850), late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King.
 * Major-General (acting) Peter Alfred Ullman,, (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,, (21149), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
 * Major-General (temporary) Edward Ambrose Woods,, (15076), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.


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


 * Civil Division
 * Lawrence Collingwood Williamson.
 * Frederick Brundrett
 * Colonel Sir Charles Leyshon Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn,, President and Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Radnor.
 * Colonel Geoffry Christie-Miller,, Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Chester.
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Graham Percival Heywood,, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Stafford.
 * Colonel Harry Storey Tawse,, Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the City of Aberdeen.
 * Colonel Henry Cecil Lloyd Howard,, 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,, 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,, Principal Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury.
 * John James William Handford,, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.
 * Colonel Lawrence Whitaker Harrison,, Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
 * Arthur Sydney Hutchinson,, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
 * Alexander Johnston, Principal Assistant Secretary, Privy Council Office.
 * Harold Simcox Kent, Parliamentary Counsel.
 * John Vivian Kitto,, Librarian, House of Commons.
 * Rouxville Mark Lowe, Chief Land Registrar, HM Land Registry.
 * Alexander Richardson McBain,, 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,, 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.