23 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, i JANUARY, 1944 Petty Officer Telegraphist Arthur George Smith, CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS P/J.53095 (Purbrook, Hampshire). OF KNIGHTHOOD. Petty Officer Telegraphist Cyril James Sparkes, St. James's Palace, S.W.I. C/JX. 138877 (Chatham). ist January, 1944. Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class John Clarkson, D/MX.60023 (Warrington). The KING has been graciously pleased to Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class Kenneth approve the award of the British Empire Medal Lewis Norton, C/MX. 61709 (Welling- (Military Division) to the undermentioned: — borough). No. 542094 Nursing Member Grade i Heather Stoker Petty Officer William Alfred Smith, Maureen Adair, Voluntary Aid Detachment. P/K.I7I38 (Hereford). No. 174953 Sergeant John Edward Adams, Stoker Petty Officer Harry Tilson, P/K.63601 Royal Army Service Corps. (Waldron, Sussex). No. 5/1879941 Staff-Sergeant George William Petty Officer Motor Mechanic Thomas Henry Henry Aggett, Royal Army Service Corps. Leach, C/MX.71427 (Henton, Middlesex). Sergeant John Reginald Akerman, M.M., Buck- Petty Officer Motor Mechanic Elesdon Basil inghamshire Home Guard. Rafter, P/MX.583355 (Pietermaritzburg, Sergeant Andrew Allan, Stirlingshire Home Natal). Guard. Petty Officer Motor Mechanic James Reid, Colour Sergeant (Company Quartermaster- D/MX.67277 (Bowerham, Lancashire). Sergeant) the Reverend Charles Orford Petty Officer Air Mechanic (A) Alfred Anthony Allan, B.D., Midlothian Home Guard. Frederick Janes, FAA/FX.76096. No. 5664586 Sergeant Sydney Ashman, The Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Robert Smith, Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). C/JX. 132704. No. 2021182 Sergeant Instructor Frederick Petty Officer Writer Edward Charles Leslie Austin, Army Physical Training Corps. Hosking, D/MX.60915. No. 6465964 Private Frank Ayres, Army Air Petty Officer Writer Jasper Henry Streeter, Corps. P/MX.53522 (Gosport). No. 7916420 Corporal (Lance-Sergeant) Fred Regulating Petty Officer William Charles Ball, Royal Armoured Corps. Gibbings, R.A.F.R. Melbourne 9557. Sergeant Edgar Barber, Herefordshire Home Petty Officer Cook Jack Moyle, D/MX.47476. Guard. Petty Officer Wren Mrs. Annie Knowles, 1214 No. 2647932' Staff Sergeant Thomas Robert (Plymouth). Barnard, Royal Army Pay Corps. Petty Officer Wren Edith Pargeter, 6963 No. W/17447 Lance-Sergeant Joyce Alix (Dawley, Shropshire). Barnham, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Leading Seaman Martin Thomas Butler, No. 13050707 Corporal John Tynan Belger, R.N.P.S., LT/JX.I9228 (Whitfield, Pioneer Corps. Cumberland). Sergeant Edwin Dick Blizard, Gloucestershire Temporary Leading Seaman Leonard Henry Home Guard. Marchant, P/JX.204I36 (Brentford). No. W/39267 Corporal Muriel Ada Boreham, Temporary Acting Leading Seaman Jack Auxiliary Territorial Service. Bernard Tarbun, C/JX.154395 (Brentwood). No. 7599326 Sergeant Norman Bradbury, Royal Leading Telegraphist Louis Littlejohn Roberts, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. P/JX.i8423o. No. 10531226 Company Sergeant Major George Temporary Leading Telegraphist Ernest Wesley William Bridge, Royal Army Ordnance Robinson, C/SSX.26208 (Barrow-in- Corps. Furness). Sergeant (Acting Company Sergeant-Major) Leading Signalman Frederick William Charles David Brown, Kent Home Guard. Macey, C/J.23247 (Rochester). No. 11978 Staff Sergeant Florence Dorothy Leading Stoker Arthur Trivett, D/KX.88&76 Browne, Women's Auxiliary Corps (India). (Bristol). No. 5/6098779 Corporal (Acting Staff-Sergeant) Temporary Acting Leading Stoker Joseph Reginald Gordon James Bryant, Royal Army Tonge, C/KX. 103054 (Morley, Yorkshire). Service Corps. Leading Supply Assistant Leslie Tattersfield, No. 7686828 Corporal Thomas Alfred Buck, P/MX.8I264. Intelligence Corps. Able Seaman John Alexander Proctor, C/JX. No. 394272 Colour-Sergeant Charles Leslie I44939- Bustard, The Durham Light Infantry. Able Seaman Thomas Bertram Wait, P/J. No. 2931692 Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant 107731 (Portsmouth). Alexander Macdonald Cameron, Royal Artil- Able Seaman Edward Robert Ward, C/'J. lery. 108946 (Wellington). No. 1036095 Gunner Harold Sidney Carey, Able Seaman Jack Williamson, P/JX.271848. Royal Artillery. Telegraphist Ernest Berry, P/WRX.787 Sergeant Walter Charles William Cartwright, (Harrow Weald). Hertfordshire Home Guard. Telegraphist Frederick James Gregory, C/JX. No. 7592040 Staff-Sergeant William Herbert 184214. Charlton, Royal Electrical and (Mechanical Marine (Acting Temporary Corporal) Harold Engineers. Victor Dudman, Royal Marines, Ply.i7203 Sergeant Walter Leslie Christian, Manx Home (Fulham). Guard. Seaman Hjalmar Ragnar Bjornsson, R.N.P.S., No. 850710 Sergeant John Albert Clovis, Royal LT/JX.280928. Artillery. Carpenter Samuel Cox, N. A. P./R. 223839. No. 3393663 Sergeant (Acting Company Ser- Marine Ernest George Martin Chinnock, geant-Major) Alfred Collens, D.C.M., The Po/X. 100479 (Hampstead). East Lancashire Regiment.