1946 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
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The 1946 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. They were announced on 1 January 1946.
Bill Jordan
Walter Nash
Sir Edward Puttick
Bernard Ashwin
Edward Puttick
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Lieutenant General Sir Edward Puttick, was an officer who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during the First and Second World Wars. The first New Zealand-born soldier to reach the rank of lieutenant general, he was Chief of the General Staff of the New Zealand Military Forces from 1941 to 1945.
Lieutenant General Edward Puttick in Italy, May 1944
General Sir John Dill, British Chief of the Imperial General Staff, visits Maadi Camp, Egypt. From left to right: Brigadiers R. Miles and E. Puttick, Major General Freyberg and General Dill, Brigadiers J. Hargest and H. E. Barrowclough.
Lieutenant General Edward Puttick in the Volturno Valley area in Italy, talking with men of the Supply and Petrol Companies, 2nd New Zealand Division, 30 May 1944.