Queen's Honours List Recognises Australian Leaders in Industry Sport and Service
The 1950s queen's honours list features William Geoffrey Gerard of Medindie as a business leader and industrial figure, plus Kenneth Mackay the cricketer, Frank Cush and William Woodfull honored for sport. Also noted are scientists, educators, public servants, and military officers from across Australia and abroad receiving CBE OBEs and other distinctions for contributions to education industry diplomacy and national service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Geoffrey Gerard
Medindie
South Australia
Gerard Industries Ltd
Associated Chambers of Manufactes of Australia
South Australian Chamber of Manufactures
South Austran Metal Industries Association
Commonwealth Immigration: Planning Council
Manufacturing Industries Advisory Council
Kenneth Donald
Mackay
Mh.fe
Frank Cush
Rookdale
Nos.w
William Woodfull
Mount Eliza
Victoria
Mr. Cush
Australian Board of Control For International Cricket
N.S.W. Cricket Association
Geelong and District Nursing Society
Geelong
Frederick Augustus Hickman
Julia Creek
Queensland
Harald Edward Hurst
Scout Movement
Nauru
Phillis Knox Jones
Washington
D.S.A
America
Spird Peter Tsiculas
Penrith
N.S.W
Williamtown
No. 81
Australia
Laurence Henry Hicks
R A.A.F
Laverton
The
Black Watch
O.B.E
Heroism of Servicemen Remembered in New Year Honours
Queen honours service members for acts of courage and skill. Corporal Richard Durrans saved four homes during January bushfires in the Dandenongs and earned the British Empire Medal. Other recipients include Acting Petty Officer Douglas Moore for deep water naval diving work at Lake Fucumbene and Dr. Russell Pardoe for brain surgery related to the Australian Antarctic expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Morris Miller
Hobart
Tasmania
University of Tasmania
Australia
Order OF the British Empire
O.B.F
Alexander Frederick Reid
M.B.E
Wodonga
Victoria
Returned Servicemen’s League
Thomas Angelo Rodriguez
M.C.R.A.A
Canberra
Frank Maitland Cash
Rochdale
N.S.W
Australian Board of Controls
Henry Alphonsaxy de Cassel
Surrey
England
Commonwealth Telecommunications Board
London
Ronald Arthur Irish
F.C.A
Castle Hill
Institute of Chartered Accountants
George Henry Morling
M.A
Pennant Hills
Baptist Theological College of
Gladys Edith Pendred Rose
Col
Mua
Australian Pre
Hay
Alc.t
Northern Territory
Territory of Papua
New Cumea
Department of Immigration
David Thomas Rogers
New Town
Tas
Walter Trenry Steel
Surfers Paradise
Queensland
Repatriation Generall Hospital
Greenslopes
Andrew Thomson
Tiroona
A. G. Webster and Woolcrowers’ Ltd
Harry Stanley Warren
Safety Beach
Frank Arthur Weates
Nedhind
Western Australia
Fo HO Pauldying and Co. Ltd
Ptet Totes
ORDER
Leslie William Hamilton de Rune Barclay
Harbound
Nsw
Sydney
Department of Air
John Cleary
Bombay
India
April Summers
Challen
Evandale
South Auistralia
Aloura Baptist
Homes For the Sued
Norwood
John Rollo Koldi
Mol.l of
Rabaul
Dora Phoebe Garr
Geelong
Victona
Geelong and Western District Padres Benevolent Association
Dorothea Margaret Lyons
Darwin
Convent School
Lila Irene Morgan
Lidcombe
Ns.w
Harold William McDonald
Caulfield
Vic
Williamstown Naval Dockyard
Henry ‘ Vernon’ Moss
Cootamundra
N.S. W
Trans
Philip John Self
Turramurra
Employers’ Federation of New
Australian Red Cross Society
Gilgandra Ranch
Red Cross
Gilgandra
Frick Itecioe Flint
Cammeray
Garden Island
Jesse Herbert Gregory
West Coburg
High Court of Australia
John Henry Hartwicke
Kirrawee
Niven Leslie Jones
Kew
Anset A,n.a. Pty, Ltd
Jane Graham McCook
Newmarket
Brisbane
Richard Wellseley Stormer
Pymble
Department of the Navy
Elsie Margaret Vogt
Department of Defence
Order OF the Bath
Charles Douglas Candy
Melbourne
Roacap
Europe
South West Pacific
No. 10
Advanced Command
R.a.alp
New Guinea
Far East Air Force Headquarters
Royal Air Force
Headquarters Support Command
C.B.E
Dixie Robison Chapman
R.A.A.F
Donald Ross Kerr
R.A.A
Thomas Sydney Taylor
Military Board
O.B.E
Alfred Maurice Clift
R.A.N
Rose Bay
East Australia
Gordon Glasgow
E.D
R.aalc
Potts Point
Eastern Command
Antarctic
Richard Arthur Durrans
Rlava S.C
Healesville
Dandenongs
Durrans
Douglas Moore
RAN
Preston
S.E.M
Naval
Lake Fucumbene
Russell Pardoe
M.B
B.S
Dee Why
Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition
R.ava.p
Michael Knight
Royal Australian Infantry
Mornington
Army School of
Muse
Army
Queen honours wide range of UK and Commonwealth figures
The Queen awarded knighthoods and other honours to diplomats, artists, and sports figures. Sir Frank Roberts and Derek Riches receive high orders. Herbert Merchant and Arthur Porett gain senior titles. Australian painter Sidney Nolan is made a CBE. Joe Davis and Walter Winterbottom receive OBEs for contributions to snooker and football.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Herbert Stanley Marchant
Ken
Carbbean Island
Ows
Derek Kurt Lares Riches
Reishi Ambassader
Feopoldwille
Dreuched Congo
Youlu Ed-Bor
Arthur Poreit
Royal Pollees of Surgeons
Royal I Household
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pinim
Je Full
Melbourne High School
United Kingdom
Sidney Nolan
Trevor Smith
Melbourne Herald
Kabua Gairdl
Supreme Court of
Papua
New Crimea
Order OF the British, Empire
Frederick Oliver Chilton
D.S.C
South Yarra
Ronald Rannatyne Lewis
B.C.E
M.lc.e
Commonwealth Department — of Works
William Scott Lonnie
M.V.Q
Daglish
Returned Soldiers, Sailors and Airmens
Imperial Lescue
David Osborne Hay, Dso
Mle
Ottawa
Canada
Bangkok
Department of External Affairs
Stanley Edward Chatterton
Point Piper
New South
William John Kenny
Naval Personnel
Naval Accounts
Naval Personnel Branch
Henrz Guenter Kuhlsdorf
Cooma
Snowy Mountains Hydro - Electric Authority
Postal Telecommunications Technicians’ Association
Julius Clive Pollack
Malvern
Australian Amateur Fencing Federation
MR. W. J. Kenny
Gen
Taylor
Mawson
Harry Joseph Darling
Woomera
Air Force Cross
Darling
Norman George Newcombe
Vanime
New Cruines
John Donald
Central Command
Arnhem Land
Harrison
Frederick John Inger
Lake Eyre District
Inger
Cornelius Desmond Murphy
D.F.C
R.aa.f
A.F.C
Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts
Soviet Union
West Germany
St Michael and St. Creoroe
NLA
Paris
Amsterdam
International Olympic Committee
British Empire Fund
Ans
Herbert James Crunn
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Sidney Robert Nolan
Oan Trish
Nolin
Windsor Castle
Britain
Joe Davis
Walter Winterbottom
Mwe
Chile
Central Council of Physical Education
MR. Nolan