For security reasons relating to the New Zealand Defence Force, the identity of the recipient of the following award was not made public in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021, as published in the New Zealand Gazette, 8 June 2021, Notice No. 2021-vr2227, dated 7 June 2021:

The New Zealand Distinguished Service Decoration

The Queen has been pleased, on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to make the following award of The New Zealand Distinguished Service Decoration:

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Captain Matthew Gordon Carey, of Upper Hutt. For services to the New Zealand Defence Force.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of March 2023.

RACHEL HAYWARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.