1946 New Year Honours (Order of the Bath) explained

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.