Hill have been made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Maj. Benjamin, 78, of Khyber Pass, Warwick is honoured for service to the community, and Mrs. Hill, of Spice Hill Road, Warwick, receives her award for service to the arts.

Maj. Benjamin, a graduate of Southampton Glebe School, completed an electrical engineering apprenticeship at the Royal Naval Dockyard and during the Second World War helped maintain American landing craft. He then became a refrigeration service engineer.

He and his late wife Ruth were awarded a joint Queen's Certificate and Badge of Honour in 1980 for their work in the Salvation Army.

The couple ran day care centres in three parishes, helping about 50 children a day for many years. From 1956 to 1972, they ran the Sarah Kempe corrective training school for teenage girls.

From 1972 to 1981, they were "parents'' to more than 300 children who passed through the Salvation Army's foster homes at Cedar Hill and White Hill. They then operated the Benjamins' boys' home for several years, taking boys into their own home when it closed for lack of funds.

Maj. Benjamin retired as divisional secretary, second in command of the Salvation Army in Bermuda, in 1980.

He served as a Hood associate on the body set up by Governor Hood to assist offenders in prison and on release, and is also known for his work on the Treatment of Offenders Board.

Following the riots in 1977 he was appointed deputy chairman of the Race Relations Council and chairman of the school committee.

A preacher in 126 churches in Bermuda and overseas, he is also a past president of the Bermuda Ministerial Association and the Bermuda Bible Society. As chairman of the Panel of Clergy, he advised Government on spiritual, moral and ethical matters.

He is a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary and a founding member and director of the Arthritis Foundation of Bermuda.

Mrs. Hill was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from the Girls Latin School in the city. She then studied fine art at the Massachusetts College of Art. She met her husband Hilton while he was at Boston University. They married in 1940 and she moved to Bermuda the next year.

The couple's two children are Mr. Hilton (Buddy) Hill and Dr. June Hill-Butler, and they have two grandsons, Jay, 10, and Russel, seven.

Mrs. Hill started and helped organise the art programme in Government schools.

An art teacher in schools for more than 20 years, she helped set up annual children's art exhibitions. At one time she taught art at both Prospect Secondary School for Girls and St. George's Secondary School.

She was a founding member of the Bermuda Art Association and later served as vice-president of the Bermuda Society of Arts.

She recently retired from the Teen Services Board after more than 20 years of involvement, including several years as chairwoman.

Mrs. Hill is a member of Keep Bermuda Beautiful, the National Trust and the Lady Cubitt Compassionate Association.

Details of other Queen's Birthday honours awarded to Bermudians were unavailable from Government.

Major Albert Benjamin Mrs. Georgine Hill.