The 1912 Birthday Honours were appointments in the

British Empire The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, colonies, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, mandates, and other Dependent territory, territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It bega ...

of King

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. George w ...

to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published on 11 June 1912. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate.

British Empire

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

;Military Division * General Sir

George Digby Barker General Sir George Digby Barker (Chinese Translated Name: 白加; 9 October 1833 – 15 April 1914) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Military career Barker was commissioned into the 78th Regiment of Foot in 1853. He served i ...

, , Colonel,

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The regiment existed from 1881 to 1961, and saw service ...

. * Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Tucker, , Colonel, The

South Staffordshire Regiment The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for only 68 years. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot a ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral the Honourable Stanley Cecil James Colville, . * Lieutenant-General William Charles Nicholls,

Royal Marine Artillery The history of the Royal Marines began on 28 October 1664 with the formation of the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot soon becoming known as the Admiral's Regiment. During the War of the Spanish Succession the most historic achi ...

. ;;Army * Lieutenant-General Sir James Bevan Edwards, , Colonel Commandant,

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is the engineering arm of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces ...

. * Surgeon-Major-General Alexander Frederick Bradshaw, KHP, (Retd). * Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, , Colonel Commandant, The

King's Royal Rifle Corps The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United Sta ...

. * Major-General Sir Ronald Bertram Lane, , (Retd). * Major-General Robert Bellew Adams, ,

Indian Army The Indian Army (IA) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Land warfare, land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head ...

(Retd). * Major-General James Keith Trotter, (Retd). * Lieutenant-General Lawrence Worthington Parsons, . * Lieutenant-General William Edmund Franklyn, , Colonel, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment), Military Secretary to the

Secretary of State for War The secretary of state for war, commonly called the war secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794 to 1801 and from 1854 to 1964. The secretary of state for war headed the War Offic ...

, and Secretary of the Selection Board. * Major-General Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, , Director of Personal Services,

War Office The War Office has referred to several British government organisations throughout history, all relating to the army. It was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, at ...

. ;Civil Division *

Frederic George Kenyon Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was an English palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy ...

DLitt Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or '), also termed Doctor of Literature in some countries, is a terminal degree in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In the United States, at universities such as Drew University, the degree ...

. * William Gibbons, . * Henry James Gibson, .

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division * Major-General George Frederick Gorringe, , Brigade Commander, Bombay Brigade. * Surgeon-General William Babtie, , Deputy Director-General, Army Medical Service. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Lionel Herbert, , Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Rangoon Brigade. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Henry Peregrine Leader, Brigade Commander, Sialkot Brigade. * Colonel Edward Hume Armitage, Colonel-in-charge of Records, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery. * Colonel Herbert Edward Watts, Commanding No.9 District, Eastern Command. * Colonel Gerald James Cuthbert, Commanding

Scots Guards The Scots Guards (SG) is one of the five Foot guards#United Kingdom, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Its origins are as the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced back to 1642 in the Ki ...

and Regimental District. * Colonel Felix Frederic Hill, , Commanding No.11 District, Irish Command. * Colonel George Francis Milne, , General Staff Officer, 1st grade, 6th Division, Irish Command. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Hubert de la Poer Gough, Brigade Commander, 3rd Cavalry Brigade, Irish Command. * Colonel Turville Douglas Foster, , Assistant Quartermaster-General, Staff College. * Colonel Colquhoun Grant Roche Thackwell, , Indian Army. * Colonel Francis Patrick Hutchinson, Indian Army. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) William Hugh Dobbie, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Mandalay Brigade. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Raleigh Gilbert Egerton, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Ferozepore Brigade. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert Vaughan Cox, , Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Rawalpindi Infantry Brigade. * Colonel Arnold Henry Grant Kemball, Indian Army. * Colonel Robert Maximilian Rainey-Robinson, Indian Army. * Colonel Robert Neil Campbell, ,

Indian Medical Service The Indian Medical Service (IMS) was a military medical service in British India, which also had some civilian functions. It served during the two World Wars, and remained in existence until the independence of India in 1947. Many of its officer ...

. ;Civil Division * Colonel Herman Le Roy-Lewis, , Brigade Commander,

1st South Western Mounted Brigade The 1st South Western Mounted Brigade was a formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army, organised in 1908. By 1915 its regiments had been posted away so it was broken up; it never saw active service as a brigade. The Headquarters ma ...

, Southern Command. * John Webster Cawston. * Frederick John Dryhurst. * Edmund Waterton Farnall. *

Edmund Gosse Sir Edmund William Gosse (; 21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood ...

, LLD. * Captain Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Royal Marine Artillery. * William Vesey Harrel, . * Louis John Hewby. * Walter Tapper Jerred. * Thomas Milvain, . * Alexander Pulling. * Frank Pullinger. * Herbert Vincent Reade. * Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne. * Robert Henry Rew. * John Shuckburgh Risley. * Thomas William Leisk Spence. * George Joshua Stanley, . * Thomas Lonsdale Webster. * Roland Field Wilkins.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

Knight Commander (KCSI)

* John Nathaniel Atkinson, ,

Indian Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British Raj, British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 3 ...

, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George. * William Thomson Morison, , Indian Civil Service (Retd.), lately an Ordinary Member of the Council of the

Governor of Bombay Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. The date of city's founding is unclear—historians tr ...

Companion (CSI)

* Abbas Ali Baig, Member of the

Council of India The Council of India (1858 – 1935) was an advisory body to the Secretary of State for India, established in 1858 by the Government of India Act 1858. It was based in London and initially consisted of 15 members. The Council of India was dissolve ...

. * Oswald Campbell Lees, late Chief Engineer and Secretary to the

Government of Burma Myanmar (Names of Myanmar, formerly Burma) () operates ''de jure'' as a unitary state, unitary assembly-independent republic under its 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, 2008 constitution. On 1 February 2021, Tatmadaw, Myanmar's military took ove ...

, Public Works Department. * Paul Gregory Melitus, , Indian Civil Service, lately Member of the Board of Revenue,

Eastern Bengal and Assam Eastern Bengal and Assam was a Presidencies and provinces of British India, province of British India between 1905 and 1912. Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and North Bengal, ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Edward Woods, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner,

Naga Hills The Naga Hills, reaching a height of around , lie prominently on the border of India and Myanmar. They are part of a complex mountain system, and the parts of the mountain ranges inside the States and territories of India, Indian states of Naga ...

. * William Exall Tempest Bennett, Chief Engineer to the Government of the Punjab, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch. * Honorary Major Sahibzada Obaidullah Khan, Commandant,

Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...

Imperial Service Troops. * William Ogilvie Home, Indian Civil Service, Acting Third Member of the Board of Revenue and Commissioner of Land Revenue and Forests, and a Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George for making Laws and Regulations. * Pazhamarneri Sundaram Aiyar Sivaswami Aiyar, , an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George. * William Harrison Moreland, , Indian Civil Service, lately Director of Land Records and Agriculture,

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province ...

. *

Edward Albert Gait Sir Edward Albert Gait (1863–1950) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of the Bihar and Orissa Province in the Bengal Presidency of British India. He held that office for the years 1915–1 ...

, Indian Civil Service, Census Commissioner for India. * Dewan Bahadur Chaube Raghunath Das, Dewan of the Kotah State, Rajputana. * Colonel Lestock Hamilton Reid, Judge Advocate-General in India. * Surgeon-General Henry Wickham Stevenson, Indian Medical Service, Surgeon General to the Government of Bombay, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

* The Right Honourable Lord Chelmsford, , Governor of the State of New South Wales. ;Honorary Knights Grand Cross * Muhammad Said Pasha, President of the Council and

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

, Egypt.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

* The Honourable Sir William Portus Cullen, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. * The Honourable

Rodmond Roblin Sir Rodmond Palen Roblin (February 15, 1853 – February 16, 1937) was a businessman and politician in Manitoba, Canada. Early life and career Roblin was born in Sophiasburgh, in Prince Edward County, Canada West (later Ontario). The Robl ...

, Premier and President of Council of the Province of Manitoba. * The Honourable

Richard McBride Sir Richard McBride, (December 15, 1870 – August 6, 1917) was a British Columbia politician and is often considered the founder of the British Columbia Conservative Party. McBride was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1898 ...

, , Premier of the Province of British Columbia. * Harry Newton Phillips Wollaston, , lately Comptroller-General, Department of Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia. * Lionel Edward Gresley Garden, His Majesty's

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary An envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, usually known as a minister, was a diplomatic head of mission who was ranked below ambassador. A diplomatic mission headed by an envoy was known as a legation rather than an embassy. Under the ...

to the Republics of Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador. * Everard Duncan Home Fraser, , His Majesty's

Consul-General A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries. A consu ...

, at

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

. * Colonel George Bohun Macauley, Royal Engineers, , Director-General of Egyptian State Railways. * His Honour Sir Thomas William Snagge, British Delegate at the International Conferences at Paris on the White Slave Traffic, 1902 and 1906. * Louis Mallet, , Assistant

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was a junior position in the British government, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (UK), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to ...

. * Walter Louis Frederick Goltz Langley, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

* Major Walter Guy, Baron Bentinck, , lately Assistant Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. * William Geoffrey Cahill, Commissioner of Police of the State of Queensland. * Edward Cleather Fraser, Nominated Member of the Council of Government of the Colony of Mauritius. * Herbert Symond Goldsmith, First Class

Resident Resident may refer to: People and functions * Resident minister, a representative of a government in a foreign country * Resident (medicine), a stage of postgraduate medical training * Resident (pharmacy), a stage of postgraduate pharmaceut ...

Protectorate of Northern Nigeria Northern Nigeria ( Hausa: ''Arewacin Najeriya'') was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914, and covered the northern part of what is now Nigeria. The protectorate spanned and included the emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate a ...

. * Noel Janisch, Provincial Secretary,

Cape of Good Hope Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (), commonly referred to as the Cape Province () and colloquially as The Cape (), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Co ...

Union of South Africa The Union of South Africa (; , ) was the historical predecessor to the present-day South Africa, Republic of South Africa. It came into existence on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the British Cape Colony, Cape, Colony of Natal, Natal, Tra ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel

James Gordon Legge Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge, (15 August 1863 – 18 September 1947) was an Australian Army senior officer who served in the First World War and was the Chief of the General Staff, Australia's highest ranking army officer between 1914 ...

, of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia. * John McDougald, Commissioner, Department of Customs, Dominion of Canada. * James Melville Macoun, Assistant Botanist and Naturalist, Geological Survey, Department of Mines, Dominion of Canada. * Major Percy Morris Robinson, Royal West Kent Regiment, in recognition of services in connection with the West African Frontier Force. * Frederic George Thomas, in recognition of services in connection with the reception of the Prime Ministers of the Self-Governing Dominions, 1911. *

Richard James Wilkinson Richard James Wilkinson (29 May 1867 – 5 December 1941) was a British colonial administrator, scholar of Malay, and historian. The son of a British consul, Richard James Wilkinson was born in 1867 in Salonika (Thessaloniki) in the Ottoman E ...

, Colonial Secretary of the

Straits Settlements The Straits Settlements () were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under control of the ...

. *

Charles Morris Woodford Charles Morris Woodford (30 October 1852 – 4 October 1927) was a British naturalist and government minister active in the Solomon Islands. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1896 (thr ...

, Deputy Commissioner and Resident,

British Solomon Islands Protectorate The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was first established in June 1893, when Captain Herbert Gibson of declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate.''Commonwealth and Colonial Law'' by Kenneth Roberts-Wray, London, St ...

. * Andrew Balfour, MD, Director of Government Research Laboratories,

Gordon Memorial College Gordon Memorial College was an educational institution in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It was built between 1899 and 1902 as part of Lord Kitchener's wide-ranging educational reforms. Named for General Charles George Gordon of the British army, who wa ...

, Khartoum. * Andrew Percy Bennett, Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Embassies at Vienna and Rome, and to His Majesty's

Legation A legation was a diplomatic representative office of lower rank than an embassy. Where an embassy was headed by an ambassador, a legation was headed by a minister. Ambassadors outranked ministers and had precedence at official events. Legation ...

at Athens. * Henry Alfred Constant Bonar, His Majesty's Consul-General at

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

. * Francis Edward Crow, His Majesty's Consul at

Basrah Basra () is a port city in southern Iraq. It is the capital of the eponymous Basra Governorate, as well as the third largest city in Iraq overall, behind Baghdad and Mosul. Located near the Iran–Iraq border at the north-easternmost exten ...

. * James Currie, Principal of the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. * William James Downer, , Assistant Secretary, His Majesty's

Office of Works The Office of Works was an organisation responsible for structures and exterior spaces, first established as part of the English royal household in 1378 to oversee the building and maintenance of the royal castles and residences. In 1832 it be ...

. * Herbert Goffe, lately Acting Consul General at

Hankow Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wolseley Haig, Indian Army, His Majesty's Consul at

Kerman Kerman (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kerman County), Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. History Kerman was founded as a def ...

. * John Carey Hall, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Yokohama. * Captain George Gillett Hunter, Director General of the Coastguard Administration in Egypt. * Alfred Irwin, Interpreter and

Dragoman A dragoman was an Interpreter (communication), interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish language, Turkish-, Arabic language, Arabic-, and Persian language, Persian-speaking countries and polity, polities of the Middle East and ...

to His Majesty's Legation at

Tangier Tangier ( ; , , ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the capital city, capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah Prefecture of Moroc ...

. * Captain Macdougall Ralston Kennedy, late Royal Engineers, , Director of the Public Works Department of the

Sudan Government Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

. * The Honourable Ernest Stowell Scott, , First Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at

Peking Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city by urban area after Shanghai. It is l ...

. * Frederick Edgar Wilkinson, His Majesty's Consul at

Nanking Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yan ...

. * Lieutenant Arnold Talbot Wilson, Indian Army, recently Acting British Consul at Mohammerah. ;Honorary Companion: * Dato Mohamed bin Mahbob, State Secretary,

Johore Johor, also spelled Johore,'' is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore to the south and Indonesia to the east and ...

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

Knight Commander (KCIE)

* John Twigg, Indian Civil Service (Retd.), lately Acting First Member of the Board of Revenue and Commissioner of Salt, Abkari and Separate Revenue. *

George Abraham Grierson Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Service but an interest in philology and linguistics led him to pursue studies in the languag ...

, , Indian Civil Service (Retd.) *

Marc Aurel Stein Sir Marc Aurel Stein, (; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at Indian universities. ...

, D.Sc, Archaeological Department, Superintendent, North-West Frontier Circle. * Major-General Francis Henry Rutherford Drummond, , Indian Army (Retd.), lately Inspector-General of Imperial Service Troops. * His Highness Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal-Sri Bijai Singh Bahadur, of

Dungarpur Dungarpur is a city in the southernmost part of Rajasthan, India. History Dungarpur is the seat of the elder branch of the Guhilot of Mewar family. The seat of the younger branch is that of the Maharana of Udaipur. The city was founded in ...

, Rajputana. * Nawab Bahrain Khan, , Head of the Mazari Tribe in

Dera Ghazi Khan Dera Ghazi Khan, abbreviated as D.G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, 16th most-populous city in Punjab and List of most p ...

, a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations. * Henry Alexander Kirk, , India Office, Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Telegraph Department.

Companion (CIE)

* Pierce Langrishe Moore, Indian Civil Service, President of the Municipal Corporation of Madras. * Alfred Chatterton, Indian Educational Service, Superintendent of Industrial Education, Madras. * Major Arthur Abercromby Duff, lately Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras. * Major John Lawrence William ffrench-Mullen, Indian Army, Commandant, Myitikyina Military Police Battalion, Burma. *

Bernard Coventry Bernard Coventry (10 December 1859 – 26 January 1929) was a British agronomist who served as the founding director of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa, Bengal Presidency, India from 1904. Coventry was the son of Reverend Jo ...

, Imperial Agricultural Service, Director of the Agricultural Research Institute, Officiating Inspector General of Agriculture. * Albert John Harrison. * Richard Hamilton Campbell, Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore. * Rao Bahadur Bangalore Perumal Annaswami Mudaliar, Member of the Municipal Commission of the Civil and Military Station of

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

. * Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats, Accountant-General, Posts and Telegraphs, India. * Frederick George Wigley, Barrister-at-Law, Assistant Secretary, Legislative Department, Bengal Government. * Prafulla Chandra Ray, D.Sc, Educational Service, Professor,

Presidency College, Calcutta Presidency University, formerly Presidency College, is a public state university located in College Street, Kolkata. Established in 1817 as the ''Hindoo College'', it was later renamed ''Presidency College'' in 1855 and functioned as a leadi ...

. * Colonel Francis Raymond, Principal, Veterinary College,

Belgachia Belgachia is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their ...

, Bengal. * Colonel Michael Joseph Tighe, , Commandant,

56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) The 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1849 as the 2nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry. It was designated as the 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) in 1906 and became 2nd Battal ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Bernard James, , lately on duty with the Coronation Durbar Committee. * Major Sydney D'Aguilar Crookshank, , Royal Engineers, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. * Edward Denison Boss, in charge of the Records of the Government of India, and ex-officio Assistant Secretary, Education Department, Government of India. * John Hugh Cox, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of Excise in Central India. * Khan Bahadur Muhammad Israr Hasan Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Judicial Minister, Bhopal State, Central India. * Major Reginald O'Bryan Taylor, lately Commandant of the Imperial Cadet Corps. * David Wann Aikman, Public Works Department, Sanitary Engineer, Punjab. * Rai Bahadur Pandit Hari Kishan Kaul, Uncovenanted Civil Service, Punjab, Deputy Commissioner, 3rd Grade, and Superintendent of Census Operations. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Wodehouse, Bombay Political Department, Resident at

Kolhapur Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kolhapur is one of the most significant cities in South Maharashtra and has been a hub of historical, religious, and cultural a ...

, and Political Agent, Southern Mahratta Country. * Colonel Richard Henry Ewart, , Indian Army, lately Director of Farms. * Colonel Maitland Cowper, Indian Army, late General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 1st Burma Division. *

Thomas Walker Arnold Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a British orientalist and historian of Islamic art. He taught at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College), later Aligarh Muslim University, and Government College Un ...

, India Office, Educational Adviser to Indian Students. * Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry James, Indian Medical Service, Medical Adviser,

Patiala State Patiala State was a kingdom and princely state in Presidencies and provinces of British India, British India, and one of the Phulkian States, that Instrument of Accession, acceded to the Dominion of India, Union of India upon Indian independence ...

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* Admiral Sir

Archibald Berkeley Milne Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, 2nd Baronet, (2 June 1855 – 4 July 1938) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet at the outbreak of the First World War. Naval career Milne was the son of distinguished admi ...

, .

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Professor Alexander Ogston, MD.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* George Lenthal Cheatle, . * Colonel Henry Streatfeild, . * Percival Horton-Smith Hartley, MD. * Major James Evan Baillie Martin, . * Inspector-General

Belgrave Ninnis Inspector-General Belgrave Ninnis (1 September 1837 – 18 June 1922) was a Royal Navy surgeon, surveyor, Arctic explorer, and leading Freemason, from London. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of St Andrews in 1861, an ...

, Royal Navy (Retd.), MD.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

* Willie Netterville Barren, . * Major Edward Boustead Cuthbertson.

Companions of the
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Home Civil Service In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government, which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen b ...

: * William David Barber, Chief Civil Assistant to the

Hydrographer Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary ...

, Admiralty. * Frederick Charles Davison, late Chief Accountant,

. * John Duff, Consul,

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

. * Charles Edward Fagan, Assistant Secretary,

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

. * Lumley Arnold Marshall, Principal Clerk,

Post Office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

. * John Thomas Mulqueen, Collector of Customs and Excise, Dublin. * Hugh Malcolm Robinson, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories. * John Emilius Ernest Steigen Berger Sharp, Assistant Record Keeper, Record Office. * Joseph Simpson, Assistant Secretary and Comptroller, Dublin Inland Revenue. ;Colonial Civil Service: * Louis Adams, Chief Cashier, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies. * Edward Ernest Evelyn, Senior Assistant Colonial Secretary,

Colony of Sierra Leone The Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part of the British Empire from the Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, abolitionism era un ...

. * Algernon Bernard Harcourt, Assistant Provincial Commissioner and Provincial Secretary, Eastern Province, Southern Nigeria. * John William Holliman, Under Secretary for Finance and Trade, State of New South Wales. * Robert Johnstone, Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Island of Jamaica. * Charles William Langford, Excise Officer,

Colony of Trinidad and Tobago The history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Indigenous First Peoples. Trinidad was visited by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498, (he never landed in Tobago), and claimed in the name of Spain. ...

. * Edwin Faunce Lonsdale, Secretary for Justice (Legal), Department of Justice, Union of South Africa. * Donald Robertson, Secretary, Post Office and Telegraph Department, Dominion of New Zealand. * John Strauchon, Surveyor-General, Lands and Survey Department, Dominion of New Zealand. * William Henry Walker, Chief Clerk, Department of External Affairs, Dominion of Canada. ; Office of the Secretary of State for India: * Thomas Charles Fenton, Barrister-at Law, Staff Clerk-in-charge of the Parliamentary Branch of the Record Department. * William Edmondson Phelps, Deputy Superintendent of the India Store Depot. * Sir Richmond Thackeray Ritchie, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India. ;Civil Services in India: * Sir Charles Bayley, , Lieutenant Governor of Behar and Orissa. * Babu Charu Chandra Goswami, Registrar, Assam Secretariat, Revenue and General Departments. * William James Drake, Registrar to the Government of India, Public Works Department. * Maung Po Sa, Additional District Judge,

Thaton Thaton (; ) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains. Thaton lies along the National Highway 8 and is also connected by the National Road 85. It is southeast of Yangon and north of Mawlamyine. Thaton was the capit ...

, Burma. * John Charles Clancey, , Assistant Director of Land Records, Burma. * Nawab Saiyid Mahammad, Khan Bahadur, Provincial Executive Service, Inspector General of Registration, Bengal. * George Joseph Rogers, Extra Assistant Resident, Kashmir, and Superintendent, Kashmir Residency Office. * Mohammad Aziz-ud-din Hussain Sahib Bahadur, Khan Bahadur, Collector and Magistrate of South Arcot, Madras Presidency. * Francis George Marshall, Deputy Commissioner of Salt, Abkari and Customs, Central Division, Madras Presidency. * M. R. Ry. Chingleput Ratna Mudaliar Avergal, Chief Interpreter, Presidency Magistrate's Court,

Egmore Egmore is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India. Situated on the northern banks of the Coovum River, Egmore is an important residential area as well as a commercial and transportation hub. The Egmore Railway Station was the main terminus of the ...

, Madras. * Andrew Peter Mitchell, Provincial Educational Service, Inspector of Schools,

Central Provinces The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Nagpur was the primary ...

. * Babu Ram Smaran Lai, Provincial Executive Service, Deputy Collector, Farrakhabad, United Provinces. * Leonard Charles Dixon Bean, Traffic Superintendent, North-Western State Railway. * Rao Bahadur Kashinath Keshav Thakur, MA, LLB, Provincial Civil Service, Divisional and Sessions Judge,

Nagpur Nagpur (; ISO 15919, ISO: ''Nāgapura'') is the second capital and third-largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is called the heart of India because of its central geographical location. It is the largest and most populated city i ...

. * Conly James Dease, Superintendent of Post Offices,

North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010. It was established on 9 November ...

. * Isa Charan Chandu Lal, Punjab, Provincial Civil Service, Settlement Officer,

Gujranwala Gujranwala is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, fourth most-populous city in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Located in northern-central Punjab's Rachna Doab, it serves as the headquarters of its Gujranwala District, epony ...

, Punjab. * Henry Raynor Goulding, , Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioners, Punjab. * Rao Bahadur Vithalrai Himatram, Daftardar,

Kathiawar Kathiawar (), also known as Saurashtra, is a peninsula in the south-western Gujarat state in India, bordering the Arabian Sea and covering about . It is bounded by the Kutch district in the north, the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest, and by the ...

Agency, Bombay Presidency. * Henry Alfred Hall, late Superintendent, Deccan Extramural Gang, Bombay Presidency. * Khan Bahadur Saiyed Shams-ud-din Saiyed Mian Kadri, Provincial Service, Oriental Translator to Government, Bombay Presidency. * Robert George Girard, Collector of Income Tax, Bengal. * Godrez Dorabjee Pudumjee, Deputy Accountant-General, Bombay.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

* Amy Nixon, Matron,

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as ''the QAs'') was the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services. In November 2024, the corps was amalgamated with the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Army Dental Corps ...

. * Mary Wilson, Matron, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.

Honorary Ranks

;Honorary Major: * Nawab Muhammad Nasrulla Khan of Bhopal ;Honorary Chaplain to His Majesty: * Reverend Philip Foster Raymond, MA, Senior Chaplain to the Forces, Aldershot, and Chaplain, First Class.

References

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