1939 New Year Honours (New Zealand) Explained
See also: 1939 New Year Honours.
The 1939 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1938 and the beginning of 1939, and were announced on 3 January 1939.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
Knight Bachelor
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Companion (CMG)
Order of the British Empire
Commander (CBE)
- Civil division
- Military division
Officer (OBE)
- Civil division
- Military division
- Major Stanley Herbert Crump – New Zealand Staff Corps; deputy quartermaster-general and director of supplies and transport, Army Headquarters, Wellington.
Member (MBE)
- Civil division
- Military division
- Warrant Officer Class II (Staff Sergeant-Major) George Ferguson MacCulloch – regimental sergeant-major, Army School of Instruction, Trentham.
British Empire Medal (BEM)
- Military division
Notes and References
- News: New Year honours . 3 January 1939 . Horowhenua Chronicle . 4 . 19 December 2020.