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1919 New Year Honours (OBE)
The 1919 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were published in ''The London Gazette'' and ''The Times'' in January 1919.* * * * *Reclassification of Civilian to Military Division of Order of the British Empire: Military Division Royal Navy *Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Henry Charles Anstey *Lieutenant-Commander Harold Gordon Atkinson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve *Lieutenant William Atkinson, Royal Naval Reserve *Commander Arthur Douglas Barff *Lieutenant John Holderness Bartlett, Royal Naval Reserve *Surgeon Commander Richard Francis Bate *Lieutenant-Commander Henry Baynham *Paymaster Lieutenant Norman Hugh Beall *Lieutenant Arthur Bean, Royal Naval Reserve *Commander Edward Morden Bennett *Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Martin Gilbert Bennett *Lieutenant Louis Charles Bernacchi, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve *Lieutenant Commander Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was the second son of Edward VII, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On Victoria's death in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became King-Emperor, king-emperor on his father's death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Grasett
Geoffrey William Grasett (28 July 1890 – 31 October 1934) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Grasett was born at Hereford in July 1890. He later studied at Brasenose College, Oxford where he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against H. K. Foster's XI at Oxford in 1912. He took 2 wickets in the match by dismissing Christopher Collier and Cecil Ponsonby in the H. K. Foster's XI first-innings. Grasett was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Oxford University Contingent of the Officers' Training Corps in March 1912. He served in the First World War with the Royal Army Service Corps. He was made a temporary lieutenant in May 1915, before being made a temporary captain in November of the same year. He gained the full rank of captain in September 1917. Grasett was made an OBE in the 1919 New Year Honours for services rendered during the war in France and Flanders. By August 1920, he was a temporary ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Wall (RAF Officer)
Squadron Leader Anthony Herbert William Wall (17 June 1888 – December 1989) was a British World War I flying ace credited with sixteen aerial victories. He returned to serve in the Royal Air Force in World War II. World War I Wall first served in the 17th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps to serve in No. 48 Squadron as an observer/gunner in a Bristol F.2 Fighter. Paired with Australian ace Lieutenant Fred Holliday as pilot, Wall gained his first victory on 6 April 1917, and then scored twice on 23 and 24 April to become an ace. On 9 May, he destroyed a German LVG reconnaissance aircraft, and later drove down three Albatros D.III fighters. He accounted for two more fighters on 11 May, and four more in June, finally closing out his tally with his 16th victory on 3 July 1917. On 18 July 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross. His citation read: :Temporary Captain Anthony Herbert William Wall, Middlesex Regiment and Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Kellam Tylee
Air Commodore Arthur Kellam Tylee OBE (24 April 1887 – 13 April 1961) was Canadian officer who served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. After the War, Tylee was the first Air Officer Commanding of the Canadian Air Force. Early life Tylee was born on 24 April 1887 in Lennoxville, Quebec (now Sherbrooke, Quebec),Compton Cemetery the son of Arthur Mailland Tylee and his wife Harriet F. Kellam. Tylee later studied at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertine Sutton
Air Marshal Sir Bertine Entwisle Sutton, (17 December 1886 – 28 September 1946) was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a senior officer in the Royal Air Force from the 1920s to the 1940s. Early life Bertine Sutton was born in Kensington, the son of the Reverend Alfred Sutton and his wife Bertha Frances Entwisle, and grandson of James Sutton of Shardlow. He was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford from where he gained his Bachelor of Arts in 1908. After graduation, Sutton worked in a solicitor's office in London until he was employed by Hutchinson the publishing company. Sutton had aimed to become a lawyer but the outbreak of the First World War resulted in him entering the Army. First World War Sutton had been an original members of the Oxford University mounted infantry and in 1914 when he joined the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps as a private soldier. By October of that year, Sutton had been commissioned as a second lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Vincent Sippe
Major Sydney Vincent Sippe (pronounced ''-ee'') (24 April 1889 – 17 November 1968) was a British pioneer aviator. He designed, built, and tested early aeroplanes, being the first pilot to take off from the sea in Britain. He flew many missions in World War I, including some of the first ever bombing raids. He won honours from several countries, particularly for his part in the 1914 bombing of a German Zeppelin factory. Early life Sippe's parents were Charles Henry Sippe (1842–1924), a shipping export agent (whose firm, C H Sippe & Sons Ltd, still existed until c.2013), and Elizabeth Jane Thornton (born 1846). They had moved to Britain from Australia, both families having originally emigrated from Liverpool. The youngest of nine children, Sydney Sippe was born in 1889 in Brixton, London, where his parents lived at 17 Lambert Road. He was educated at Dulwich College from May 1903 to December 1905. Name and title Sippe was named after Sydney, Australia, where both his paren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, (28 February 1873 – 11 January 1954), was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being Rab Butler and James Callaghan. He also served as Lord Chancellor, the most senior position in the British legal system. Beginning his career as a Liberal (identified initially with the left wing but later with the right wing of the party), he joined the National Government in 1931, creating the Liberal National Party in the process. At the end of his career, he was essentially a Conservative. Background and education Simon was born in a terraced house on Moss Side, Manchester, the eldest child and only son of Edwin Simon (1843–1920) and wife Fanny Allsebrook (1846–1936). His father was a Congregationalist minister, like three o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Shelmerdine
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Claude Shelmerdine (25 October 1881 – July 1945) was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a civil servant working in connection with civil aviation in the post-war years. Most significantly, he was Director-General of Civil Aviation during the 1930s. Early life Francis Claude Shelmerdine was born at Churchill, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire on 25 October 1881, son of the Rev. Nathaniel and Mrs Emma Shelmerdine. He had an older brother and sister, Nathaniel and Constance, and one younger sister, Edith. He was educated at Rugby School and then at Sandhurst. He was commissioned a second lieutenant from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in January 1901. He subsequently lived in South Africa, and worked as a cotton planter. First World War Shelmerdine served in France and in Egypt and in November 1915, was transferred from Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment (unofficially known as the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Lang (soldier)
William Henry Lang, OBE (27 February 1878 – 27 December 1959) was a British Army officer during the First World War. Biography Born in 1878 in Ottery St Mary, Lang was a Royal Air Force officer and recipient of the Order of the British Empire during the First World War. Lang moved to Woolwich in London in 1898 to work at the Royal Arsenal. While at the Royal Arsenal, Lang engaged in experimental work in connection with artillery equipment, along with facilitated repairs and assisting in the creation of general handbooks. Upon the outbreak of war in 1914, Lang was granted a commission into the British Army as a lieutenant. Upon the formation of the Royal Flying Corps, Lang changed branches. After being posted in Candas in France, Lang was promoted to major, and appointed as the park commander of the Greenwich Stores Depot in February 1917. Later that year, William Henry Lang was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and appointed as Depot Commander of RAF Kidbrooke. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Holloway
Sir Ernest Holloway (24 April 1887 – 27 February 1961) was a British civil engineer. As Assistant Director of Works at the Air Ministry from 1934 to 1937, Deputy Director of Works from 1937 to 1939, Director of Works from 1939 until his retirement in 1947, he oversaw a massive program of construction of airbases and facilities for the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force. He died in 1961 at the age of 73. Early life and war service Ernest Holloway was born on 24 April 1887. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and studied engineering at the Central Technical Institute. Between 1902 and 1906, he received technical training under T. H. Shipton, and stayed on as his assistant when he completed his training. Between 1908 and 1915, he worked for the Rural District Councils of Evesham in Worcestershire and Pebworth in Gloucestershire, where he worked on civil engineering projects, such as water supplies, sewers, bridges and roads. He oversaw five hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Goble
Air Vice Marshal Stanley James (Jimmy) Goble, CBE, DSO, DSC (21 August 1891 – 24 July 1948) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served three terms as Chief of the Air Staff, alternating with Wing Commander (later Air Marshal Sir) Richard Williams. Goble came to national attention in 1924 when he and fellow RAAF pilot Ivor McIntyre became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air, journeying in a single-engined floatplane. During World War I, Goble flew fighters on the Western Front with the British Royal Naval Air Service. He became an ace with ten victories, commanded No. 5 Squadron (later No. 205 Squadron RAF), and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Service Cross. Returning to Australia, Goble assisted in the formation of the RAAF as an independent branch of the Australian armed forces. On an exchange posting to Britain in the 1930s, he led No. 2 (Bomber) Group RAF. As Chief of the Air Staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Kidson
Edward Kidson (12 March 1882 – 12 June 1939) was a New Zealand meteorologist and scientific administrator. Early life and education Kidson was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, England, on 12 March 1882. his family moved to Nelson, New Zealand when he was aged three. Kidson was educated at Nelson College from 1896 to 1900, and at Canterbury College, from where he graduated MSc with first-class honours in electricity and magnetism in 1905, and MA in 1906. Military service Kidson served in the meteorological section of the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1919. He studied the application of wind and temperature measurements to gunnery as well as developing a forecasting service for artillery for the expeditionary force in Salonika. This proved successful and saw Kidson promoted to the rank of captain in 1917 and as well as being mentioned in dispatches. In the 1919 New Year Honours, Kidson was appointed an Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
