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Deutsch1983 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 13 June 1983 by the office of the Governor-General.[1][2]
The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.
Order of Australia
[edit]Knight of the Order of Australia (AK)
[edit]General Division
[edit]| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ronald Gordon Jackson AC | For service to industry and to the community | [1][3] |
Companion (AC)
[edit]General Division
[edit]| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Honourable David Stirling Hogarth, QC | For service to the legal profession and to the community | [1][2] |
| The Honourable Geoffrey Arthur George Lucas, QC | For service to the law |
Officer (AO)
[edit]General Division
[edit]| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Andersons | For service to architecture | [1][2] |
| The Honourable Donald Hubert Louis Banfield | For service to the community and parliamentary services | |
| Professor John Makepeace Bennett | For service to computing science | |
| David Greenberg Block | For service to the community and commerce | |
| Richard Alan Bonynge, CBE | For service to music | |
| Robert Findlay Gibson | For service to architecture | |
| John Cobell Habersberger | For service to the community | |
| Dr Edward Frederick Henzell | For public service in the field of agricultural science | |
| Norman Grantham Hosking | For service to engineering | |
| Thomas Michael Keneally | For service to literature | |
| Mervyn Henry Parry, DFC AFC | For service to architecture | |
| Emeritus Professor Lindsay Dixon Pryor | For service to botanical science | |
| Professor Charles Cyril Renwick | For service to education and to science | |
| Grace Cossington Smith, OBE | For service to the visual arts | |
| Dr Reginald Claude Sprigg | For service to industry, particularly in the fields of geology and petroleum exploration | |
| Dr Robert Wall | For service to medicine and to the community |
Military Division
[edit]| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Rear Admiral Geoffrey John Humphrey Woolrych | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Chief of Naval Operations Requirements and Plans and as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff | [1][2] |
| Army | Major General John David Kelly, DSO | For service to the Australian Army |
Member (AM)
[edit]General Division
[edit]| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gennaro Alfonso Giuseppe Abignano | For services to the construction industry and to the community | [1][2] |
| Keith Frederick Alder | For services to the public service | |
| Dr Allan James Antcliff | For service to horticultural science | |
| John Edward Atkinson | For service to the Aboriginal arts | |
| Alfred Paget Beatty | For service to primary industry | |
| Dr Maurice Berah | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of pathology | |
| Raymond Berg | For service to architecture | |
| Phillip Walter Coles | For service to sport | |
| Peter Gregor Collins | For service to the Public Service | |
| Ronald John Cotton | For service to accountancy | |
| Dr William Evan Davies | For service to medicine, particularly the care and welfare of the disabled | |
| Anne Barbara Deveson | For service to the media | |
| Frederick Sinclair Dobbin | For service to the community and education | |
| Sydney James Donovan | For service to the media | |
| Dr John Henry Temple Ellard | For service to medicine, particularly in the field of psychiatry | |
| Keith Marshall Ethell | For service to the community, particularly the veterinary profession | |
| Emeritus Professor John Maxwell Freeland, DFC | For service to architecture, particularly as an historian | |
| Mary Mansell Gibson | For service to childhood education and to the community | |
| Henry Charles Gubler | For service to primary industry | |
| Murray David Haines | For service to education | |
| Dr Spyros Emanuel Halikis | For service to dentistry | |
| Staveley Frederick Norton Hickson | For service to commerce | |
| John Brettell Holliday | For public service | |
| Dr Roland Adrian Glennie Holmes | For service to the community | |
| Trevor John Kennedy | For service to the media | |
| The Reverend Douglas Frederick Kirkup | For service to religion and to the community | |
| Henry Arthur Llewellyn | For service to the community | |
| James Sinclair Millner | For service to industry and to the community | |
| Robert Edward Moors | For service to the arts and to the community, particularly as director of the Moomba Festival | |
| David Grantley Morgan | For service to education | |
| John Jackson Morris | For service to the film industry | |
| George William Muir | For service to education | |
| The Reverend James Alexander Murray | For service to religion and the community | |
| George Buchan Ogilvie | For service to the theatre and to the performing arts | |
| Elaine Phillipa Orr | For service to nursing | |
| Frederick Henry Phipps | For service to industry | |
| Dr Geoffrey Howard Pike | For community welfare service in Australia and overseas | |
| Lindsay Garfield Plane | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community | |
| Mervyn Morris Powell | For service to the horse racing industry and to the community | |
| Dr Charles Archibald Price | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Rex Thomas Reid | For service to the community, in particular to charities that focus on assisting women and children | |
| William Thomas Schmidt | For public service | |
| Ian Oswald Spicer | For service to industry and to the community | |
| Basil Holmes Travers, OBE | For service to education | |
| Arthur William John Voss | For service to technical education and to the community | |
| Suzanne Walker | For service to the arts, particularly in the field of crafts | |
| Florence May Wallace | For service to the community | |
| John Weir Wilson | For service to the blind | |
| Murray George Winders | For service to the motor industry | |
| Ronald John Yates | For service to the aviation industry | |
| Joan Margaret Young | For service to education and to the community |
Military Division
[edit]| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Commodore William James Crossley | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Director General of Naval Manpower and Director General of Facilities Branch Navy | [1][2] |
| Lieutenant John Thomas Goss | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Head of cooking staff of HMAS Cerberus | ||
| Principal Chaplain Monsignor Geoffrey Francis Mayne | For service to the Chaplaincy Branch of the Royal Australian Navy | ||
| Commander Richard John Perry Withycombe Perryman | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly in the field of military communications | ||
| Commander William Gray Ritchie | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Executive Officer, HMAS Stirling | ||
| Captain David Henry Thomson | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the Commanding Officer of HMAS Hobart | ||
| Army | Brigadier Richard Ernest Bird | For service to Army co-ordination and organisation | |
| Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Edward Coombes | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Director of the Junior Wing, Reserve Command and Staff College | ||
| Major John Patrick Dinan | For service to the Army Reserve in the field of Officer management | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Brian Patrick Green | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as 2nd in command of the Field Force Battle School | ||
| Major Ian William McQuire | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of equipment selection and procurement | ||
| Major Ronald Lewis James Northcott | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Ceremonial Officer and Chief Marshall for the XII Commonwealth Games | ||
| Colonel Barry Douglas Phillips | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of equipment procurement | ||
| Major Wayne Hayden Ripper | For service to the Army Reserve, particularly as Officer Commanding the 47th Transport Squadron | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Thomas Shambrook | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Australian Defence Force Project Officer for the XII Commonwealth Games | ||
| Captain Ronald Douglas Squires | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Quarter Master of the Armoured Centre | ||
| Major Ian Leighton Stewart | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Officer Commanding the Perth Workshop Company | ||
| Chaplain Second Class Lester Thompson | For service as Staff Chaplain, 2nd Military District and Senior Anglican Chaplain to Headquarters Field Force Command and Headquarters Training Command, Australian Army | ||
| Colonel Maxwell Bruce Tinkler | For service to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of equipment maintenance | ||
| Air Force | Squadron Leader David Andrew Collie | For service as an administrative officer in the Royal Australian Air Force | |
| Flight Lieutenant Allan Lindsay Davidson | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Office in Charge of the Mobile Air Terminal Unit | ||
| Group Captain Terence Holyoake | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer, Number 1 Stores Depot. | ||
| Group Captain John Burroughs MacNaughtan | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Commanding Officer of Number 481 Maintenance Squadron. | ||
| Air Commodore Bernard John Reynolds | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Officer Commanding, RAAF Air Base, Butterworth, Malaysia | ||
| Group Captain Douglas Hilton Sinclair | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Director of Personnel Airmen, Department of Defence, Air Force Office | ||
| Flight Lieutenant Hugh Osborne Trounson | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Chief Instructor at the Air Movements Training and Development Unit | ||
| Squadron Leader Geoffrey Parke Wade | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as a Staff Officer in the Directorate of Personnel Services, Department of Defence, Air Force Office | ||
| Wing Commander Francis Ian Walke | For service as Principal Reserve Dental Officer, Royal Australian Air Force Reserve Queensland | ||
| Wing Commander Terry Charles Arthur Wilson, AFC | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as Joint Force Commander, Australian Contingent Multinational Force and Observers |
Medal (OAM)
[edit]General Division
[edit]| Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Adikuiam Adidi | For service to Aboriginal welfare | [1][2] |
| Wilfred Percy Allinson | For service to the community as a volunteer worker for the XII Commonwealth Games | |
| Margaret Roblin Allwright | For service to nursing | |
| Glenys Fay Anderson | For service to the community and conservation | |
| Ethel May Anderson | For service to the community | |
| Neville Thomas Andrews | For service to industry and to trade unionism | |
| Vivienne Ashcroft | For service to youth welfare and to the community | |
| Ernest Askew | For service to the community | |
| Alfred Fredress Bennett | For service to the community | |
| James Sylvester Bennie | For service to the community | |
| Maynard Harding Bills | For service to the deaf | |
| Owen Fendick Blattman | For service to the community | |
| Harold Patrick Boland | For service to the community and the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Dr James Hugh Bray | For service to the poultry industry | |
| Alan George Bray | For service to the community | |
| Richard Paull Septimus Burt | For service to the community | |
| Dorothy Joan Louise Caelli | For service to the sport of gymnastics | |
| Alderman George Albert Edward Cayley | For services to the community and local government | |
| Councillor Alan Reginald Clark | For service to the local government and to the community | |
| Robert Bruce Comben | For service to the community and local government | |
| Kevin Richard Coombs | For service to sport for the disabled and to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Graham Studley Cornes | For service to the sport of Australian rules football | |
| Kevin Craik | For service to the welfare of youth | |
| Ernest Alfred Crome | For service to the community, particularly as a benefactor of historical objects | |
| Jean Davenport | For service to the community | |
| Brian Kilmaine De Courcy-Ireland | For service to the community and local government | |
| Alderman Julie Barbara Dearing | For service to the community and local government | |
| Allan Temple Dingle | For service to the community | |
| Elsie May Drummond | For service to the sport of ladies bowls | |
| Geoffrey Dymock | For service to the sport of cricket | |
| Nellie Mary Escott | For service to the community | |
| Henry Edwin Fairall | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Isobel Fulton | For service to the media as a journalist and writer in the field of cookery | |
| John Alexander Selwyn Geddes | For service to the community and to local government | |
| Alfred Yule Llewellyn Gillam | For service to the community | |
| Albert John Goggins | For service to local government and the community | |
| Martin Joseph Gooley | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Green | For service to disabled children | |
| Ernest Donald Hackney | For service to the community | |
| Lillian Ruth Harrison | For service to education | |
| John Pinkerton Hayes | For service to disabled children | |
| Vincent Patrick Heffernan | For service to local government and to the community | |
| William James Hodgins | For service to junior football and to the community | |
| Dr Ernest Pease Hodgkin | For service to natural science and to the community | |
| Bernard Augustine Hodgman | For service to the community | |
| Kevin John Hogan | For service to the sports of cricket and football | |
| Robert Malcolm Hooper | For service to sport, particularly cricket and football, and to the community | |
| Oliver James Hughan | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| Senior Sergeant Carolus Isua | For public service in the field of Aboriginal welfare | |
| John William George Joel, BEM | For service to the community | |
| Marjorie Gowling Johnson | For service to the arts, particularly the field of crafts | |
| Ronald Samuel Johnston | For service to the furniture industry | |
| Ronald Norman Jones | For service to the community | |
| Pelagia Peter Kakulas | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| David Anthony Keating | For service to sport during the XII Commonwealth Games | |
| The Reverend Father Michael Kelly | For service to the community | |
| Margaret Johannah Kelsh | For service to the community | |
| Thomas Albert David Kennedy | For service to the horseracing industry | |
| Frederick Kirkland | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community | |
| Leonard James Kittle | For service to the community | |
| Paraskevi Vivi Koutsounadis | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Marjorie Lina Ladkin | For service to nursing | |
| Dorothy Yvonne Laver | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Giuseppe Lo Schiavo | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Mary Linton Thorne Loder | For service to nursing | |
| Ian Francis Martin | For service to the maize industry | |
| Donald Robert Muir Mason | For service to legal government and the community | |
| Norman Alfred Vale May | For service to the media | |
| Robert Thomas McAnally | For service to the disabled | |
| Dr Amy Gladys McGrath | For service to the theatre | |
| Marea Victoria Meyers | For service to the community | |
| Peter John Murphy | For service to the community | |
| Eric Leonard Myatt | For service to the sport of junior cricket | |
| Jeanie Merry Nash | For service to the community | |
| Nora Nelligan | For service to the sport of swimming | |
| Doris Eleanor Nicholls | For service to scouting | |
| Rita Jane Nightingall | For service to education, particularly speech development by the disabled | |
| Ernest Joseph O'Donnell | For public service | |
| Peter Joseph O'Halloran | For service to education, particularly in the field of mathematics | |
| John Archibald Owens | For service to the disabled | |
| Frederick Eugene Peterson | For service to trade unionism | |
| William Arthur Prenzler | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel | |
| John Ward Rees | For service to local government and to the community | |
| Kathleen Mary Barbara Ridley | For service to the community | |
| Dianne Roberts | For service to Aboriginal welfare | |
| Alfred Schulmeister | For service to medicine, particularly as a prosthetist | |
| Edith Irene Seymour-Hudak | For service to the community | |
| Peter John Patrick Shield | For service to the dry-cleaning industry | |
| Antonina Skoroszewski | For service to ethnic welfare | |
| Hilda Mary Spicer | For service to the welfare of ex-service personnel and to the community | |
| Len Clem Stevens | For service to the honey industry | |
| Patricia Jean Walker | For service to the sport of squash | |
| Donald Eric Wallin | For public service | |
| James Wilfred Warburton | For service to the community | |
| David Watson | For service to the plumbing industry | |
| Dorothy Ann Watters | For service to the community | |
| Shirlee Catherine Williams | For public service | |
| Dulcie Jean Wilson | For service to nursing and to the community |
Military Division
[edit]| Branch | Recipient | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy | Warrant Officer Max Berger | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Deputy Marine Engineer Officer, HMAS Canberra | [1][2] |
| Warrant Officer James Edwin Burton | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Works Property Officer, HMAS Watson | ||
| Warrant Officer Robert William Gale | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Divisional Officer in the Supply School, HMAS Cerberus | ||
| Chief Petty Officer Christopher Donald Gallagher | For service to Fleet Tactical Communications in the Royal Australian Navy and as an instructor in the Communications School, HMAS Cerberus | ||
| Warrant Officer Geoffry Alan Russell | For service in the training of musicians in the Royal Australian Navy School of Music | ||
| Chief Petty Officer WRAN Maureen Ann Weir | For service to the Royal Australian Navy, particularly as Motor Transport Controller, HMAS Albatross | ||
| Army | Sergeant Malcolm Raymond Bishop | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a radio operator with 6th Battalion, RAR | |
| Warrant Officer Class One David Laurence Cave | For services to the Australian Army, particularly in the field of personnel management in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Philip John Clark | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as an instructor at the School of Army Health | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One William Hugh Dempster | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Manning Section Supervisor, Central Army Records Office, Melbourne | ||
| Sergeant Stephen Charles Facer | For service to the Royal Australian Infantry | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two John William Gillan | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Cadet Group Liaison Warrant Officer with the 1st Cadet Group | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Raymond Barrett Hartigan | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as the Regimental Sergeant Major Army Apprentice School | ||
| Corporal Kristeen Ann Lewis | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a personal driver to senior army commanders | ||
| Sergeant Daniel Robert McIver | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a technical storeman in support of the XII Commonwealth Games | ||
| Warrant Officer Class Two Eileen Pritchard | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as a Clerk Administration with the 49th Battalion The Royal Queensland Regiment | ||
| Warrant Officer Class One Walter Raymond Robinson | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Training Warrant Officer, 14th Field Squadron, 4th Field Engineer Regiment | ||
| Corporal Lynne Veronica Sage | For service to the Australian Army, particularly as Unit Pay Representative and Chief Clerk of the 1st Base Workshop Battalion | ||
| Air Force | Warrant Officer Donald Leslie Bray | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as a mess supervisor | |
| Warrant Officer Allen Richard Burgess | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an engineer | ||
| Sergeant David William Gardner | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an airframe fitter at No 2 Squadron | ||
| Sergeant Barry Norris Haskins | For service to Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an airframe fitter at Number 2 Flying Training School | ||
| Flight Sergeant Robert Hogan | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as an instructor at the RAAF School of Technical Training | ||
| Warrant Officer Brian Clifford Jones | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly at No 2 Stores Depot | ||
| Warrant Officer Anthony Charles Muspratt | For service to the Royal Australian Air Force, particularly as a Warrant Officer Engineer with the Australian Contingent to the Multinational Force Observers in the Sinai |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i "QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 1983 HONOURS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No. S113. Australia. 11 June 1983. p. 1. Retrieved 25 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List". The Canberra Times. Vol. 57, no. 17, 422. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 June 1983. p. 11. Retrieved 25 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Three new knights in honours list". The Canberra Times. Vol. 57, no. 17, 422. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 June 1983. p. 1. Retrieved 25 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.