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{{Short description|Honours in Australia in 1977}}
The '''1977 Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours''' for [[Australian honours system|Australia]] were appointments to recognise and reward good works by citizens of Australia and other nations that contribute to Australia to celebrate Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee and [[Queen's Official Birthday|birthday]]. The Silver Jubilee and [[Birthday Honours]] were announced on 14 June 1977 in Australia.<ref>{{cite web | title=Australian Government Gazette – Special | url=http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/QB77.pdf | publisher=Government House of The Commonwealth of Australia | access-date=12 June 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402040004/https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/QB77.pdf | archive-date=2 April 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour with grades and then divisions i.e. Civil, Diplomatic and Military as appropriate.
==Appointments==
*His Royal Highness [[Charles III|The Prince of Wales]] to be Colonel-in-Chief, [[Royal Australian Armoured Corps]].
*Her Royal Highness [[Anne, Princess Royal|The Princess Anne]] to be Colonel-in-Chief, [[Royal Australian Corps of Signals]].
*Her Royal Highness [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]] to be Colonel-in-Chief, [[Royal Australian Corps of Transport]].
==Order of Australia==
The following appointments were made in the [[Order of Australia]].
=== Knight (AK) ===
==== General Division ====
* Sir [[Colin Syme|Colin York Syme]]
===Companion (AC)===
====General Division====
*Sir [[Arthur Tange|Arthur Harold Tange]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|CBE}} – For eminent and meritorious public service.
*[[Colin Thiele|Colin Milton Thiele]] – For eminent and meritorious service to literature and education
*The Honourable [[John Tonkin|John Trezise Tonkin]] –  For eminent and meritorious service to politics and government.
===Officer (AO)===
====General Division====
*Alton McAllan Batty – For distinguished service to industry.
*[[Max Day|Maxwell Frank Cooper Day]] – For distinguished service in the field of biographical research.
*George Lionel Gray – For distinguished service to medicine, particularly ear, nose and throat surgery.
*Norman Walker Lawrence – For distinguished service to the motor industry.
*Dr. [[William McBride (doctor)|William Griffith McBride]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|CBE}} – For distinguished service to medicine and medical research, particularly on obstetrics and gynaecology.
====Military Division====
*Air Commodore John Ralph Anstee
*Rear Admiral Neil Ewen McDonald
*Major General John Malcolm McNeil {{postnominal|country=AUS|sep=,|OBE|ED}}
*Commodore [[Dacre Smyth|Dacre Henry Deudraeth Smyth]]
*Major General [[John Whitelaw (general, born 1921)|John Whitelaw]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|CBE}}
===Member (AM)===
====General Division====
*James Henry Anderson – For services to local government and the community.
*Benjamin Arthur Barnett – For services to cricket and tennis.
*[[Dulcie Holland|Dulcie Sybil Bellhouse]] – For services to music.
*Leonard Stanley Blease {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For services to the Merchant Navy War Service League and to the sport of swimming.
*Captain Phillip James Edward Brady – For services to the maritime industry.
*Colin William Branson – For services to industry.
*[[Anthony Buckley|Anthony David Buckley]] – For services to the film industry.
*Alderman Robert Wyndham Clampett – For services to local government.
*Frederick Albert Lorimer Connell – For services to the fishing industry.
*Jack Cottrill – For services to the community.
* Norman George Dalimore – For services to the community.
*Catherine Joyce Dundon – For services to women's sport.
*Dymphna Maureen Eszenyi – For services to the welfare of handicapped children.
*Charles Oscar Gardiner – For services to the [[Returned and Services League of Australia|Returned Services League]] and the community.
*Frederick Leonard Hall – For services to commerce and industry.
*Patrick John Hall – For services to the mining industry, local government and the community.
*Cecil Dengate Hensley – For services to the community and to athletics.
*John Hunter – For services to Rugby Union football.
*Ian George Hudson – For services to the community.
*Patrick Joseph Kelly – For services to athletics.
*Mary Best Lambie – For services to the [[Girl Guides Australia|Girl Guides Association of Australia]].
*John Lazarus – For services to local government and the community.
*Edna Josephine Luber-Smith – For services to the community.
*Alessandro Lutero – For services to the community, particularly Italian migrants.
*Barrie Raymond Miller – For services to hospital pharmacy.
*Elena Luisa Rubeo – For services to the welfare of Italian migrants.
*William Peter Sher – For services to industry.
*Ronald George Soundy – For services to local government.
*Francis Jackson Stewart – For services to the community, particularly in the field of Aboriginal welfare.
*Andrew Nowell Walls – For services to local government and municipal administration.
*Colin James Williams {{postnominal|country=AUS|ED}} – For services to local government, particularly to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women.
*Charles Frederick Wright – For services to the optometrical industry and to the community.
====Military Division====
;Army
*Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Eugen Abrahamffy – [[Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps]]
*Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Cricton Barrett – [[Royal Australian Armoured Corps]]
*Lieutenant Colonel John Fletcher Bertram – [[Royal Australian Artillery]]
*Colonel Edward James Compton – [[Australian Staff Corps]]
*Lieutenant Colonel John Howard Kemp – [[Royal Australian Engineers]]
*Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Mechtler {{postnominal|country=AUS|ED}} – [[Royal Australian Infantry Corps]]
;Navy
*Captain Ian Blyth James
*Captain John Lancaster
*Commander Norman Bruce Dickson
;Air Force
*Group Captain Donald Charles Mazlin
*Group Captain Edward Arundel Radford
*Group Captain Gordon Stanley Zantuck
===Medal (OAM)===
====General Division====
*Peter Colebrook Abbott-Young – For community service, particularly to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of S.A.
*Margaret Adeney – For voluntary services at the RAN Hospital, HMAS Cerberus.
*Richard Stanley Barwood – For community service.
*Amie Idella Hope Bishop – For community service.
*Thomas Andrew Brown – For public service.
*Pauline Coe – For service to Aboriginal children.
*Charles Vernon Joseph Dahi – For public service, particularly in providing assistance to migrants.
*Thelma Ruth Dearn – For community service.
*Mavis Merle Ebzery – For service to amateur athletics.
*Edward Condon Evans – For public service, particularly in the field of Aboriginal welfare.
*Margaret Grace Field – For service to nursing.
*John Jeffrey Foley – For public service
*Jessie Mildred Foster – For community service.
*Donald McNicol Fyfe – For service to local government.
*Phyllis Jean Gray – For community service.
*Ethel Mary Hancock – For community service.
*Henry Howard Hankin – For community service, particularly to retarded persons.
*Emanuel Linlay Harris – For service to water sport.
*Rita Howard – For community service.
*Dorothy Agnes Hughes – For community service.
*Michael Eugene Kartzoff – For community service.
*John Robert Langman – For services to local government.
*Kenneth Neilson Lincoln – For community service, particularly in the field of mental health.
*Claude Edgar McCarthy – For services to photography.
*Kenneth Laurence Payne – For service to technical education.
*Tom William Roberts – For public service.
*Louie Robertson – For community service.
*Wilfred Gordon Robinson – For community service.
*Anne Winifred Sansom – For community service.
*Betty Margaret Schofield – For service to nursing.
*Amy Schwartz – For community service.
*Archibald Llewellyn Sealey – For services to local government.
*John Barrass Thwaites – For service to conservation.
*Edwin James Vickery – For service to horticulture and community.
*Don Winton – For community service.
*Thora Wright – For service to Aboriginal children.
====Military Division====
==Knight Bachelor==
*[[Sam Burston|Samuel Gerald Wood Burston]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|OBE}} – For distinguished service to primary industry.
*Eustace John Cameron {{postnominal|country=AUS|CBE}} – For distinguished service to the community.
*[[Clarrie Harders|Clarence (Clarrie) Waldemar Harders]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|OBE}} – For distinguished public service.
*Donald James Hibberd {{postnominal|country=AUS|OBE}} – For distinguished service to primary industry.
*Professor Edward Stuart Reginald Hughes {{postnominal|country=AUS|CBE}} – For distinguished service to medicine in the field of surgery.
*The Honourable Justice [[Percy Joske|Percy Ernest Joske]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|CMG}} – For distinguished parliamentary service and services to law and to the community.
*Walter McElister Leonard {{postnominal|country=AUS|DFC}} – For distinguished service to industry.
*Dr Alan Walsh – For distinguished service to science.
==[[Order of St Michael and St George|Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George]]==
===Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)===
*The Right Honourable [[John Gorton|John Grey Gorton]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|CH}} – For eminent service to the Parliament and to Australia.
*The Right Honourable [[William McMahon]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|sep=,|CH|MP}} – For eminent service to the Parliament and to Australia.
===Companion (CMG)===
*The Honourable [[Kenneth Asprey|Kenneth William Aspery]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|QC}} – For distinguished service to government.
*The Honourable Justice [[Robert Marsden Hope]] – For distinguished service to government.
*Dr. Robert James Furlong McInerney – For distinguished service to medicine.
*George Polites {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For distinguished service to industrial relations.
==[[Order of the British Empire]]==
===Knight Commander (KBE)===
====Civil Division====
*His Eminence Cardinal [[James Darcy Freeman]] – For distinguished service to the church.
====Military Division====
*Air Marshal [[James Rowland (RAAF officer)|James Anthony Rowland]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|sep=,|DFC|AFC}} – [[Chief of Air Force (Australia)|Chief of Air Staff]]
===Commander (CBE)===
====Civil Division====
*[[Richard Bonynge]] – For meritorious service to the performing arts.
*William Callaghan – For meritorious public service and service to industry.
*[[Charles Kennedy Comans]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|sep=,|OBE|QC}} – For meritorious public service.
*[[Frank Galbally|Francis Eugene Galbally]] – For meritorious service to the community.
*Eber Frederick Lane – For meritorious public service.
*Thomas Molomby {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For meritorious service to law.
*Isaac Richard Norman {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For meritorious service to commerce in the field of banking.
*Dr [[Margery Scott-Young]] – For meritorious service to medicine.
===Officer (OBE)===
====Civil Division====
*Dr Michael Anthony – For service to medicine.
*Reginald Edward Bailey {{postnominal|country=AUS|DSO|DFC}} – For public service.
*Barbara Mary Chisholm {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For service to education.
*John Coombe – For public service.
*Roy Daniel – For public service.
*John Grant Denton – For service to the church.
*[[Leonard Dommett|Leonard Bertram Dommett]], – For service to the performing arts.
*[[Rolf Harris]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For service to the performing arts. Revoked 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris stripped of CBE|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31711252|accessdate=5 January 2018|publisher=BBC News|date=3 March 2015}}</ref>
*Dr Ian Conrad Heinz – For public service.
*Austin Stewart Holmes – For public service.
*Laurence Reginald Killeen – For public service.
*Edward Stanley Lightly – For public service.
*Yvonne McComb – For service to the community.
*Arthur William McMichael –  For public service.
*[[Gwen Meredith|Gwenyth Valmai Meredith]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} (G. V. Harrison) – For service to the arts.
*The Reverend David Roy Merritt – For service to the community.
*Robert Money – For service to the community.
*Lyndon Charles Noakes – For public service.
*Dr Robert Cecil York Norton – For services to dentistry.
*[[Geoffrey Parsons (pianist)|Geoffrey Penwill Parsons]] – For service to the performing arts.
*John Gowar Ritchie – For service to technology.
*John Robson – For service to the community.
*William Sloan – For service to industry.
*Professor Derek Edward Tribe – For service to education.
*Peter Francis Underhill – For service to the community and to international relations.
*Gerald Unkles – For public service.
*Richard Minchin Ure {{postnominal|country=AUS|MBE}} – For public service.
*Peter Provis Warrick – For service to politics.
*Russell John Whitmont – For service to industry.
*[[Guthrie Wilson|Guthrie Edward Melville Wilson]] {{postnominal|country=AUS|MC}} – For service to education.
*William Worth – For public service.
===Member (MBE)===
====Civil Division====
*Alderman Henry Robert Seton Anderson – For service to local government and the community.
*Peter Nicholas Aroney – For service to the community.
*Werner Bae – For service to the performing arts.
*Matron Daphne Camilla Barrett (Mrs Frater) – For service to nursing.
*Alderman Ernest John Beaver – For service to local government and to the community.
*Eric Oscar Boyson – For service to the community.
*Sybil Joyce Boyson – For service to the community.
*[[Jack Chegwyn|John William Chegwyn]] – For service to sport.
*The Reverend Ronald Charles Coleman – For service to the church and to the community.
*Raymond Arthur Collins – For public service.
*John Bede Commins, of Braddon – For service to journalism.
*Dorothy Tidmarsh Coultas – For service to the community.
*Francis Hugh Cushing – For service to the community.
*Ann Patricia Dalgarno – For service to the community.
*Sister Mary Dorothea Devine – For service to nursing.
*Madena Davis Douglas – For service to the welfare of veterans
*Phillip Laurence Ferrier – For service to the community.
*Barbara Frances Garrett – For service to the community.
*Allan Gray – For public service.
*Judith Green – For service to the community.
*George Daniel Harris – For public service.
*John Norman Harvey {{postnominal|country=AUS|DFC}} – For service to the community.
*Deaconess Winifred Margaret Hilliard – For service to Aboriginal welfare.
*Edward Henry Hincksman – For public service.
*Stanley Bland Hone – For service to aviation.
*Leonard Iles – For service to the community.
*Councillor Maurice George Jarvis – For service to local government and to the community.
*Lindsay Lewis Lock – For public service.
*Robert Emmanuel McClintock – For service to the community.
*Alderman Norman Lang McKellar – For service to local government, and to the community.
*Alderman Iris Ruby Macdonald – For service to local government and to the community.
*The Reverend George Stanley Martin – For service to the community.
*Henry Francis Monaghan – For service to technology.
*Wallis Whitefield Moore – For public service.
*Margaret Mort – For service to occupational therapy.
*Francis Claude Murphy – For service to the community.
*Jessie Ross Murray – For service to the performing arts.
*Gordon Henry Neill – For public service.
*Norman Etwell Newton – For public service.
*Alderman William Robert Nicholas – For service to local government and the community.
*Bruna Nobili – For service to the community.
*Theo Notaras – For service to the community.
*Dr Francis Sherlock Pearle – For public service.
*Dorothy Philp Pearce – For service to the community.
*The Reverend John Perkins – For service to the church.
*Leslie Phenna – For service to the welfare of veterans.
*Kevin Renton Power – For service to journalism.
*Henry Alfred Ruffell – For public service.
*Grahame Yorke Dalley Scarlett – For service to the community.
*William Charles Edward Shier – For public service.
*John McIlweaith Smith – For service to the community.
*[[Bill Sweeting|Alan John Sweeting]] – For public service.
*James Linsey Tandy – For public service.
*[[Tommy Tycho|Thomas Tycho]] – For service to the performing arts.
*John Robert Maxwell Walters – For service to the community and to local government.
*Mervyn Edward Werrell – For service to the community and to local government.
====Military Division====
'''Royal Australian Navy'''
*Superintendent Donald Copp
*Lieutenant Commander Frederick Anthony Bush
*Lieutenant Commander Jack William Levy
*Lieutenant Commander Rodney Trevor Nott
'''Royal Australian Army'''
*Major John Basson Humffray, [[Royal Australian Corps of Transport]].
*Major Alfred James Larson, [[Royal Australian Infantry]].
*Major Peter Edward Morriss McGuinness, Royal Australian Infantry.
*Major George Francis Powell, [[Royal Australian Signal Corps|Royal Australian Signals]].
*Major Gordon Kay Richardson, [[Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]].
*Major Terence John Smith, Royal Australian Infantry.
'''Royal Australian Air Force'''
*Captain Bruce Davies, Royal Australian Infantry
*Squadron Leader Donald Gordon Dickie
*Squadron Leader Hans Joachim Fuhrmann
*Squadron Leader Frank Korbl
*Squadron Leader Leslie Charles Watts
==[[Imperial Service Order|Companion of the Imperial Service Order]] (ISO)==
*Ronald Ralph Gray – For long and valuable public service, particularly as Deputy Commissioner of Taxation.
*John Langford Knight – For long and valuable public service, particularly as Deputy-Controller, Department of Productivity.
*Archibald Wallace Nelmes – For long and valuable public service, particularly as Assistant Secretary, Department of Administrative Services.
*John Thomas Smith – For long and valuable public service, particularly as Minister (Commercial) Washington, Department of Overseas Trade.
==[[British Empire Medal]] (BEM)==
===Military Division===
*Warrant Officer Raymond Laverty, [[Royal Australian Navy]].
*Chief Petty Officer Ralph Norman, Royal Australian Navy.
*Chief Petty Officer Norman William Swinnerton, Royal Australian Navy.
*Temporary Warrant Officer Class 2 Reginald Alexander Palmer, [[Royal Australian Armoured Corps]].
*Sergeant Alexander Francis Johns, Royal Australian Armoured Corps.
*Sergeant Kevin John Witherow, [[Royal Australian Army Medical Corps]].
*Lance Corporal Darryl Rex Miels, [[Royal Australian Engineers]].
*Flight Sergeant John Patrick Doran, [[Royal Australian Air Force]].
*Sergeant Ronald Feudoloff, Royal Australian Air Force.
*Sergeant John Alexander Henson, Royal Australian Air Force.
===Civil Division===
*Reginald Wallace Bailey – For public service.
*Florence Caroline Ballhausen – For service to the community.
*Martha Margaret Susan Barany – For service to the community.
*Donald Keeling Berridge – For public service.
*Leslie William Joseph Bond – For public service.
*Eileen Marjorie Bowker – For public service.
*Paul Martin Boyce – For public service.
*Irene Mary Burke – For public service.
*Amy May Byriel – For service to the community.
*John Douglas Chamberlain – For public service.
*Harrold Owen George Chappell – South Australia. For public service.
*Sister Mary Sabina (Miss Conway) – For service to education.
*Heather Ray Coogan – For service to the community.
*Lyle Adele Dart – For service to the community.
*[[Wendy Ey|Wendy Marie Ey]] – For service to sport.
*Stephen Thomas Filmer – For service to the community.
*Keith Memory Firth – For public service.
*Margaret Eileen Fry – For public service.
*Mabel Lucretia Fuller – For public service.
*Annie Aileen Gaffney – For public service.
*Emily Mary Greenhalgh – For public service.
*Mavis Jean Hammersley – For public service.
*Lilian Emily Hillyer – For service to the community.
*Raymond Arthur Hoffman – For service to primary industry and to the community.
*Walter William Edward Honey – For public service.
*Kenneth George Lanham – For public service.
*Cecil Henry Luckhurst – For public service.
*John Walter Macauley – For public service.
*Joyce Rita McCombe – For service to the community.
*Alexander Wray McDonald – For public service.
*Albert Ernest Magor – For public service.
*Bernard Curren Masterson – For public service.
*Victor James Meehan -For public service.
*Desma Lorraine M'Eek – For public service.
*John William Seymour Mitchell – For public service.
*Ross Moody – For public service.
*Roger Clifton Moore – For service to the community.
*David Neagle – For service to the community.
*Lillian Margaret Nichols – For service to the community.
*Athol Wilson Noble – For service to the community.
*Andrew William Palm – For public service.
*Leslie James Hulbert Parker – For public service.
*Eric Thomas Parr, of Campbell – For public service.
*Imelda Theresa Payne – For public service.
*Norma Catherine Pitscheneder – For service to the community.
*Beryl Ellen Quartel – For service to the community.
*Vincent Trevor Ranson – For public service.
*Kenneth Ivan Watson Roberts – For public service.
*Gertrude Emily Salcole – For public service.
*Leslie Arthur Sayers – For service to the community.
*Janet Strang Stevenson – For public service.
*Colin Cyril Telfer – For public service.
*Councillor Kevin Bertram John Thomas – For service to the community and to local government.
*Edna Mary Thompson, of Reid – For public service.
*Maud Beatrice Turley – For service to the community.
*Lily Wainwright – For service to the community.
*William Alfred George Watson – For service to the community.
*Francis Werner – For public service.
*Mervyn Williams – For service to the welfare of veterans.
*Henry William Wiltshire – For public service.
==Royal Red Cross (RRC)==
*Group Officer Joan Dorothy Kirwin {{postnominal|country=AUS|ARRC}}, Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service.
===Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)===
*Lieutenant Colonel Helen Francis Adamson, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.
*Major Alma Therese Straube, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.
==Air Force Cross (AFC)==
*Lieutenant Commander Robert Reran Waldron, Royal Australian Navy.
*Major Graeme Roderick Maughan, Australian Army Aviation Corps.
*Wing Commander Baillie John McKenny, Royal Australian Air Force.
*Squadron Leader Reginald John Meissner, Royal Australian Air Force.
*Squadron Leader Allen Alfred Page, Royal Australian Air Force.
*Flight Lieutenant Christopher Tames Hancock, Royal Australian Air Force.
*Flight Lieutenant Ian Mallett, Royal Australian Air Force.
*Flight Lieutenant John Randolph Sampson, Royal Australian Air Force.
==Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air==
*Captain Peter Allan Muir, Australian Army Aviation Corps.
==[[Queen's Police Medal]] (QPM)==
*Senior Inspector Fred Samuel Luther – For long and distinguished service with the [[Commonwealth Police]].
==[[Queen's Fire Service Medal]] (QFSM)==
*William Charles Harris – For long and distinguished services particularly as Director, Fire Services, Department of Transport.
==References==
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