The King's Birthday Honours 1923 were appointments in many of the

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s 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. Born duri ...

to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 1 and 29 June 1923. 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

Baron

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Charles Napier Lawrence, Chairman,

London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...

. * The Honourable Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, , Chairman of the City of London Unionist Association. For public and political services.

Privy Councillor

* Montagu Collet Norman, ,

Governor of the Bank of England The governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the bank, with the incumbent grooming their successor. The governor of the Ba ...

. * The Honourable

Stanley Melbourne Bruce Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, (15 April 1883 – 25 August 1967) was an Australian politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Australia from 1923 to 1929, as leader of the Nationalist Party. Born ...

, , Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. * The Honourable

William Stevens Fielding William Stevens Fielding, (November 24, 1848 – June 23, 1929) was a Canadian Liberal politician, the seventh premier of Nova Scotia (1884–96), and the federal Minister of Finance from 1896 to 1911 and again from 1921 to 1925. Early life ...

, , Minister of Finance, Canada. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Abraham Gibbs, , Member of Parliament for Bristol (West) since 1906. Treasurer of HM's Household since 1921. * Commander Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, Royal Navy, , Member of Parliament for

Evesham Evesham () is a market town and parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon. It lies within the Vale of Evesha ...

since January 1910,

Civil Lord of the Admiralty The Civil Lord of the Admiralty formally known as the Office of the Civil Lord of Admiralty also referred to as the Department of the Civil Lord of the Admiralty was a member of the Board of Admiralty who was responsible for managing the Royal N ...

, 1921–October 1922,

Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty also known as the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Board of Admiralty was a position on the Board of Admiralty and a civil officer of the British Royal Navy. It was usually ...

since October 1922.

Baronet

* Major-General Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, , President of the

Royal College of Surgeons The Royal College of Surgeons is an ancient college (a form of corporation) established in England to regulate the activity of surgeons. Derivative organisations survive in many present and former members of the Commonwealth. These organisations a ...

. * Thomas Hutchison,

Lord Provost of Edinburgh The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Edinburgh is the convener of the City of Edinburgh local authority, who is elected by City_of_Edinburgh_Council, the city council and serves not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the e ...

. * Sir William Plender, . For public services. *

Henry Lesser Rothband Sir Henry Lesser Rothband, 1st Baronet (died 1 November 1940), was a British public servant. Rothband was the author of ''The Rothband employment scheme for sailors and soldiers disabled in the war'', published in 1917. He was created a baronet ...

. For public services. *

George Alfred Wills Sir George Alfred Wills, 1st Baronet of Blagdon (3 June 1854 – 11 July 1928) was a President of Imperial Tobacco and the head of an eminent Bristol family. He was the son of Henry Overton Wills III and Alice Hopkinson and was educated at Mill ...

, . For public services. * Sir

William Watson Rutherford Sir William Watson Rutherford, 1st Baronet (1853 – 3 December 1927) was a Conservative party politician in the United Kingdom who was Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Rutherford was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1900 gener ...

, , Member of Parliament for Edge Hill Division of Liverpool, 1903-1922. * Major

Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell, 1st Baronet (19 April 1871 – 16 April 1956), known as Clive Morrison-Bell, was a British soldier and Conservative Party parliamentarian. Biography Arthur was the son of Sir Charles Morrison-Bell, 1st Baronet an ...

, , Member of Parliament for

Honiton Honiton ( or ) is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 11,822 (based on mid-year estimates for the two Honiton Ward ...

since 1910. * John Henry Brunel Noble, . For public services in the County of Northumberland. * Sir Arthur John Dorman, . For public services in Yorkshire. * Sir William Hannay Raeburn, , Member of Parliament for

Dumbartonshire Dunbartonshire ( gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann) or the County of Dumbarton is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the west central Lowlands of Scotland lying to the north of the River Clyde. Dunbartonshire borders P ...

since 1918.

Knight Bachelor

* Francis Robert Anderton, Late Chairman of the

London County Council London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ...

. * George Francis Blacker, , Dean of

University College Hospital Medical School UCL Medical School is the medical school of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. The School provides a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programmes and also has a medical educati ...

. * George Dance. For public services. * David Davis, ,

Lord Mayor of Birmingham This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham has had a mayor (and elected council) since 1838. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor when Queen Victoria issued letters pat ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Ellisse, , Controller and Financial Adviser,

Imperial War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...

. * Professor

Hermann Gollancz Sir Hermann Gollancz (30 November 1852 – 15 October 1930) was a British rabbi and Hebrew scholar. Gollancz was the first Jew to earn a doctor of literature degree from London University and the first holder of the degree to be ordained as a ra ...

, . In recognition of his contributions to learning. * His Honour Judge Herbert William Lush-Wilson, . For public services. * Henry Joseph Lynch, Managing Director of Messrs. Davidson, Pullen, Rio de Janeiro. Ex-President of Chamber of Commerce, Brazil. * Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen John Maclean, . For services to the Ministry of Health in Wales. * Arthur Copson Peake, , President of

The Law Society The Law Society of England and Wales (officially The Law Society) is the professional association that represents solicitors for the jurisdiction of England and Wales. It provides services and support to practising and training solicitors, as ...

. * Professor

William Matthew Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egypt ...

, , Edwards Professor of Egyptology,

University College, London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

. * Arthur Scott Quekett, , Parliamentary Draughtsman and Treasury Solicitor, Northern Ireland. * Guy Stephenson, , Assistant

Director of Public Prosecutions The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members o ...

. * John Fischer Williams, , British Legal Representative on the Reparations Commission. * Henry Maddocks, , Member of Parliament for

Nuneaton Nuneaton ( ) is a market town in the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth in northern Warwickshire, England, close to the county border with Leicestershire and West Midlands County.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : Nuneaton's ...

since 1918. * Lieutenant-Colonel

Martin Archer-Shee Sir Martin Archer-Shee CMG DSO (5 May 1873 – 6 January 1935) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician. Background He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee (1846-1913) and his wife Elizabeth Edith Dennistoun (1851-1890) ( n� ...

, , Member of Parliament for Finsbury Central, January and December, 1910, and

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since 1918. * Alfred Stephens, . For public and political services in Carmarthenshire. *

George Henry Morse Sir George Henry Morse (27 May 1857 – 1 April 1931) was an English brewer, administrator and mountaineer. He was Lord Mayor of Norwich and later President of the Alpine Club. Early life Morse was born in 1857, second son of Charles Morse of Ayls ...

, . For public and political services in Norwich.

Lord Mayor of Norwich This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the city of Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north ...

1923. * Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle, , Member of Parliament for Stratford 1918-1922. Chairman of Queen Mary Hospital for the East End of London since 1915. * Alderman Ernest Henry Cook, , For public and political services in Bristol.

Lord Mayor of Bristol The position of Lord Mayor of Bristol was conferred on the city in June 1899 (effective 15 November 1899) as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours and was confirmed by letters patent dated 1 April 1974. Prior to November 1899 the position of M ...

1921-22. *

John Priestman Sir John Priestman, 1st Baronet (22 March 1855 – 5 August 1941) was a British shipbuilder and charitable benefactor. Priestman was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the son of Robert Priestman (1824–1867), a baker, and Jane Smith (c.183 ...

, . For public and political services in Sunderland. * Daniel Thomas Keymer, . For public and political services in Hackney. * Herbert Lidiard. For public and political services in Paddington. Three times Mayor of

Paddington Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddi ...

. * Major Frederic Arthur Kelley, , Member of Parliament for

Rotherham Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then merges with the River Don. The River Don then flows through the town centre. It is the main settlement of ...

since 1918. * Pomeroy Burton. For public services. * Louis Frederick Pearson, . For public and political services in Nottingham. * Alderman Albert Edward Pritchard, . For public and political services in

Wednesbury Wednesbury () is a market town in Sandwell in the county of West Midlands, England. It is located near the source of the River Tame. Historically part of Staffordshire in the Hundred of Offlow, at the 2011 Census the town had a population of ...

. * Alderman Charles Henry Wilson, . For public and political services in Leeds. ;India * Maurice Henry Weston Hayward,

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 rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...

, Member of the Executive 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 ...

. *

Rai Bahadur RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy), Ministry of Eco ...

Kurma Venkata Reddi Nayudu Garu, Minister for Development,

Madras Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

. *

Moropant Vishvanath Joshi Sir Moropant Vishvanath Joshi (October 1861 – 1962) was a leading barrister, social reformer and politician from Amravati, Central Provinces and Berar. Joshi was born in an eminent Chitpavan Brahmin family, the son of Vishvanath Raghunath Jos ...

, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the

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. Its capital was Nagpur. ...

. * Mr. Justice Hugh Walmsley, Indian Civil Service, Judge, High Court, Calcutta, Bengal. * Mr. Justice Muhammad Rafiq, Puisne Judge, High Court, Allahabad, United Provinces. * Ernest Albert Seymour Bell, , Member,

Railway Board The Ministry of Railways is a ministry in the Government of India, responsible for the country's rail transport. The ministry operates the statutory body Indian Railways, an organisation that operates as a monopoly in rail transport and is h ...

. * Edward Mitchener Cook, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department. * Brigadier-General Charles Lane Magniac, , Agent,

Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway was a railway company that operated in southern India. It was founded on 1 January 1908 by merging the Madras Railway and the Southern Mahratta Railway. Initially, its headquarters was at Royapuram in Ma ...

, Madras. * Hugh Trowbridge Keeling, , Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Delhi. * Captain Thomas George Segrave, , Royal Naval Reserve, in charge of the management of the Indian Prize Ships. *

Diwan Bahadur Dewan Bahadur or Diwan Bahadur was a title of honour awarded during British rule in India. It was awarded to individuals who had performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special T ...

Sathappa Chettiar Ramanathan Chettiar Muthiah Chettiar Annainalai Chettiar Avargal, Banker, Madras. *

Gopal Das Bhandari, , Pleader and President, Municipal Committee,

Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...

, Punjab. * Purshotamdas Thakurdas, , Merchant, Bombay. * Adam Beattie Ritchie, Merchant, Messrs. Finlay, Fleming & Co., Burma. * Hector William Gavin Mackenzie, , Senior Censor, Royal College of Physicians. * Rayner Childe Barker, , Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Telegraph Department, India Office. ;Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates, etc. * The Honourable Frederick Revans Chapman, Judge of the

Supreme Court of New Zealand The Supreme Court of New Zealand ( mi, Te Kōti Mana Nui, lit=Court of Great Mana) is the highest court and the court of last resort of New Zealand. It formally came into being on 1 January 2004 and sat for the first time on 1 July 2004. It re ...

. * William Herbert Daw, for services in connection with the Oversea Dominions. * The Honourable Jean Etienne Reenen de Villiers, Judge President of the

Orange Free State The Orange Free State ( nl, Oranje Vrijstaat; af, Oranje-Vrystaat;) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeat ...

Provincial Division of the

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. * Charles James Griffin, Chief Justice of His Majesty's High Court of Uganda. *

George Handley Knibbs Sir George Handley Knibbs (13 June 1858 – 30 March 1929)Bambrick, S.. ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp. 620-621. Retrieved 24 August 2009 was an Australian scientist, the first Commonwea ...

, , Director of the Bureau of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia. * William Thorley Loton, of the City of Perth in the State of Western Australia, in recognition of his public services. * James Comyn Macgregor, ,

Resident Commissioner Resident commissioner was or is an official title of several different types of commissioners, who were or are representatives of any level of government. Historically, they were appointed by the British Crown in overseas protectorates (such ...

Bechuanaland Protectorate The Bechuanaland Protectorate () was a British protectorate, protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (later the United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) in So ...

. * William Macintosh, of

Port Elizabeth Gqeberha (), formerly Port Elizabeth and colloquially often referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Sou ...

, Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, in recognition of his public services. *

Ernest William Sanders Montagu Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, M ...

, Secretary for Mines and, Works,

Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally kn ...

. * Professor

William John Ritchie Simpson Sir William John Ritchie Simpson (27 April 1855 – 20 September 1931) was a Scottish physician and specialist in tropical medicine. Early years William John Ritchie Simpson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of John Simpson. He attended s ...

, , a Member of the Colonial Advisory Medical and Sanitary Committee. * John Warren Swanson, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria, in recognition of his public services.

Order of the Bath

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

;Civil Division * Sir

Eyre Crowe Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe (30 July 1864 – 28 April 1925) was a British diplomat, an expert on Germany in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is best known for his vehement warning, in 1907, that Germany's expansionism was mot ...

, ,

Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries in the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (and its predecessors) since 1790. Not to be confused with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Permanent Unde ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Sir Morgan Singer, . * Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Henry Darby Tothill, . ;;Army * Major-General

Charles Walker Robinson Major-General Sir Charles Walker Robinson, (April 3, 1836 – May 20, 1924) was a Canadian-born British Army officer and writer on military subjects. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of John Beverley Robinson, he attended Trinity College, before ...

, , retired pay. * Major-General Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd, , retired pay, Colonel Commandant,

Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. The RAMC, the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps a ...

. * Lieutenant-General Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea, ,

Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Vyell Vyvyan, . ;Civil Division *

Holberry Mensforth Sir Holberry Mensforth, KCB, CBE (1 May 1871 – 5 September 1951), engineer and engineering company executive. His second son Sir Eric Mensforth was a pioneer of the British helicopter industry. References * https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/ ...

, , Director-General of Factories, War Office.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear-Admiral

David Murray Anderson Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson, (11 April 1874 – 30 October 1936) was a British naval officer and governor. Anderson served in the Royal Navy from the age of 13 and served in many colonial wars and was given various Empire postings, rising ...

, . * Captain (Commodore, 2nd class) Alan Geoffrey Hotham, . * Captain Charles Andrew Fountaine. * Captain

Francis Arthur Marten Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Arthur Marten, KBE, CB, CMG, CVO (7 January, 1879 – 14 March, 1950) was a Royal Navy officer who saw action in both world wars. Biography The son of G. N. Marten, of Marshals Wick, St Albans, Francis Marten entered the ...

, . * Surgeon Rear-Admiral Joseph Chambers, . * Colonel Reginald Cecil Temple, , Royal Marine Artillery. ;;Army * Major-General

Arthur Grenfell Wauchope General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope (1 March 1874 – 14 September 1947) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Military career Educated at Repton School, Wauchope was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 189 ...

, . * Colonel Anthony Hudson Woodifield, , Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, the

British Army of the Rhine There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). Both were originally occupation forces in Germany, one after the First World War and the other after the Second World War. Both formations had areas of responsibility located a ...

. * Colonel Howard Alan Denholm Fraser, Commanding

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

Peshawar District Peshawar District ( ps, پېښور ولسوالۍ, hnd, , ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is located about 160 km west of the Pakistan's capital Islamabad. The district headquarter is ...

, India. * Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Alfred Edgar Glasgow, , Commanding 2nd Battalion,

The Royal Sussex Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot ...

. * Colonel Cecil De Sausmarez, , Officer in charge of Records,

Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) ...

. * Colonel Julian Mayne Young, , Assistant Quartermaster-General,

Aldershot Command Aldershot () is a town in Hampshire, England. It lies on heathland in the extreme northeast corner of the county, southwest of London. The area is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 37,131, while the Alders ...

. * Major-General Arthur Le Grand Jacob, , Indian Army, General Officer Commanding,

Kohat District Kohat District ( ps, کوهاټ ولسوالۍ , ur, ) is a district in Kohat Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Kohat city is the capital of the district. History Mughal era From the early sixteenth century the history of Ko ...

, India. * Colonel Walter Holland Ogilvie, ,

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 ...

, Assistant Director of Medical Services, Presidency and

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

District, India. * Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Etienne Ronald Partridge Boileau, , Indian Army, Brigade Commander,

11th Indian Infantry Brigade The 11th Indian Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was relocated from India to Egypt in the middle of August 1939 and trained at Fayed in Ismailia Governorate on the Great Bitter Lake. I ...

. * Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Harry Ross, , Indian Army, Commander, Rangoon Brigade Area, Southern Command, India. * Colonel Arthur William Hamilton May Moens, , Indian Army, General Staff, Officer, 1st Grade, India Office. * Colonel Edward Thomas Humphreys, , for valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Malabar, 1921-1922. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Commodore Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft, . ;Civil Division * Robert John Thompson, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture. * Captain John McInnes Borland, , Royal Naval Reserve. * William McClelland, . * Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Thomas Stokes George Hugh Robertson Aikman, late Commanding 4th Battalion (Militia), The

Highland Light Infantry The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fusi ...

. * Colonel Sir Robert Drummond Moncreiffe, , Honorary Colonel, 6th/7th (Perth & Fife) Battalion,

The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The regiment was created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, when the 42nd Regiment of Foot, 42nd (Roy ...

, Territorial Army. * Brevet Colonel Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, , Honorary Colonel, 61st (Carnarvon & Denbigh Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable

Charles John Coventry Colonel Charles John Coventry, CB (26 February 1867 – 2 June 1929) was a British Army officer and an amateur cricketer who played in two retrospectively-recognised Test matches for England in 1899. Those were his only first-class appearan ...

, , Commanding 100th (Worcestershire & Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade,

Royal Field Artillery The Royal Field Artillery (RFA) of the British Army provided close artillery support for the infantry. It came into being when created as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1899, serving alongside the other two arms of t ...

, Territorial Army. * Colonel George Ralph Charles, Baron Harlech, , Chairman of the Shropshire Territorial Army County Association.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

* His Highness Lieutenant-Colonel

Maharaja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, an ...

Shri Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, ...

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, , Maharaja

Jam Sahib Jam Sahib ( gu, જામ સાહેબ), is the title of the ruling prince of Nawanagar, now known as Jamnagar in Gujarat, an Indian princely state. Jam Sahibs of Nawanagar References External links Nawanagar History and Genealogyat '' ...

of Nawanagar, Bombay.

Knight Commander (KCSI)

Rao Bahadur __NOTOC__ Rao may refer to: Geography * Rao, West Sumatra, one of the districts of West Sumatra, Indonesia * Råö, a locality in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden Transport * Dr. Leite Lopes–Ribeirão Preto State Airport , IAT ...

Bayya Narasimheswara Sarma, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General. * Sir Ibrahim Rahimtoola, , Member of the Executive Council, Bombay.

Companion (CSI)

* Maharaja Shri Fateh Singh, Home Member of Council,

Jodhpur State Kingdom of Marwar, also known as the Jodhpur State under the British, was a kingdom in the Marwar region from 1226 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1947. It was established in Pali by Rao Siha, possibly a m ...

, Rajputana. * John Hullah, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture. * Steuart Edmund Pears, , Resident,

Waziristan Waziristan (Pashto and ur, , "land of the Wazir") is a mountainous region covering the former FATA agencies of North Waziristan and South Waziristan which are now districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Waziristan covers some . ...

North West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, ) was a Chief Commissioner's Province of British India, established on 9 November 1901 from the north-western districts of the Punjab Province. Followin ...

. * John Campbell, ,

, Representative of the Government of India on the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations. * George Frederick Paddison, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of Labour, Madras. * James Milne, lately serving with the Inchcape Committee.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokio.

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

Laurence Nunns Guillemard Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard (7 June 1862 – 13 December 1951) was a British civil servant who served as high commissioner in Malaya when it was under the British Empire. Career Guillemard entered the civil service in 1886 and joined the ...

, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and their Dependencies. *

Malcolm Stevenson Sir Malcolm Stevenson (15 March 1878 – 27 November 1927) was a British colonial administrator. He served as the Governor of Cyprus, and later as the Governor of the Seychelles. Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Ireland, and educated at Me ...

, , High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Cyprus. * The Honourable John George Bice, Member of the Legislative Council, Chief Secretary and Minister of Marine of the State of South Australia. * Charles Thomas Davis, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of col ...

. * James William Jamieson, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.

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

* John Ernest Adamson, Director of Education for the Province of Transvaal,

Union of South Africa The Union of South Africa ( nl, Unie van Zuid-Afrika; af, Unie van Suid-Afrika; ) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into existence on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the Cape, Natal, Trans ...

. * David Alexander, Director of Medical and Sanitary services,

Gold Coast Colony The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the ad ...

. * John Henry Butters, , Chief Engineer and General Manager, Hydro Electric Department, State of Tasmania. * Captain

Thomas Edward Donne Thomas Edward Donne (1860–1945) was a New Zealand civil servant, author, recreational hunter and collector of Māori antiquities and New Zealand fine art. Career Railways Department Donne was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1859, son of Willi ...

, Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for New Zealand. * Percy Hubert Ezechiel, one of the

Crown Agents for the Colonies A crown agency was an administrative body of the British Empire, distinct from the Civil Service Commission of Great Britain or the government administration of the national entity in which it operated. These enterprises were overseen from 1833 ...

. * The Reverend

Robert Laws Robert Laws FRGS FRSGS (1851–1934) was a Scottish missionary who headed the Livingstonia mission in the Nyasaland Protectorate (now Malawi) for more than 50 years. The mission played a crucial role in educating Africans during the colonial er ...

, , Principal of the Livingstonia Mission,

Nyasaland Protectorate Nyasaland () was a British protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasalan ...

, in recognition of his public services. * William Stewart Mowle, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the State of New South Wales. * Major Cecil William Chase Parr, , British Resident, Perak,

Federated Malay States )Under God's Protection , capital = Kuala Lumpur1 , religion = Islam , legislature = Federal Legislative Council , type_house1 = State level , common_languages = , title_leader = Monarch , leader1 ...

. * Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Reginald St. Johnston, Colonial Secretary of the

Leeward Islands french: Îles-Sous-le-Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Leeward Islands. Clockwise: Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Saint kitts and Nevis. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth Atlantic Ocean , coor ...

. *

John Scott John Scott may refer to: Academics * John Scott (1639–1695), English clergyman and devotional writer * John Witherspoon Scott (1800–1892), American minister, college president, and father of First Lady Caroline Harrison * John Work Scott (180 ...

, Deputy Chief Secretary to the Government of Nigeria. * Samuel Henry Slater, , Adviser to the Ministry of Finance, Iraq Government. * James William Tibbs, lately Headmaster of the

Auckland Grammar School Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...

in the Dominion of New Zealand, in recognition of services to Education. *

Thomas Trumble Thomas Trumble, (9 April 1872 – 2 July 1954) was a career Australian public servant who was appointed acting Departmental secretary, Secretary of the Department of Defence (Australia), Department of Defence during the First World War, and Secr ...

, , Secretary to the Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia. *

Charles Henry Bentinck Reverend Sir Charles Bentinck (23 April 1879 – 26 March 1955) was a British diplomat who served as Minister (diplomacy) to several countries. After retirement from the Diplomatic Service, he became an Anglican priest. He was the third of ...

, Counsellor at His Majesty's Legation at Athens. * Nevile Meyrick Henderson, Counsellor to His Majesty's High Commission at

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

. *

Gerald Campbell Sir Gerald Campbell, GCMG (1879–1964) was a British diplomat. He served as British High Commissioner to Canada from 16 May 1938 to 1941. He then was transferred in 1941 by Winston Churchill to serve as British consul general to the United Stat ...

, His Majesty's Consul General at San Francisco. ;Honorary Companion * His Highness Tunku Mahmud ibni Almerhum Sultan Ahmad Tajudin, Vice-President of the State Council,

Kedah Kedah (), also known by its honorific Darul Aman (Islam), Aman and historically as Queda, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The state covers a total area ...

, Malay States.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

* Sir Reginald Henry Craddock, , late Lieutenant-Governor of Burma.

Knight Commander (KCIE)

* Henry Fraser Howard, , late Controller of Finance,

India Office The India Office was a British government department established in London in 1858 to oversee the administration, through a Viceroy and other officials, of the Provinces of India. These territories comprised most of the modern-day nations of I ...

, and Secretary to the Inchcape Committee.

Companion (CIE)

Khan Bahadur Khan Bahadur – a compound of khan ('leader') and bahadur ('brave') – was a formal title of respect and honor, which was conferred exclusively on Muslim and other non-Hindu natives of British India. It was one degree higher than the title of K ...

Diwan

Abdul Hamid ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t ...

, , Chief Minister,

Kapurthala State Kapurthala State, with its capital at Kapurthala, was a former Princely state of Punjab. Ruled by Ahluwalia Sikh rulers, spread across . According to the 1901 census the state had a population of 314,341 and contained two towns and 167 village ...

, Punjab. *

Thakur Thakur may refer to: * Thakur (title), a feudal title and surname used by erstwhile nobility of India * Thakar (tribe), an Adivasi tribe of Maharashtra, India * Thakur village, a residential locality in Mumbai, India * Thakur Anoop Singh (born 198 ...

Hari Singh, , Military Member, State Council,

Bikaner Bikaner () is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. Bikaner city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division. Formerly the capital of ...

, Rajputana. * Wilfred Alder, ,

, Officiating Auditor-General, Government of India, Finance Department. * James Rea Martin, Indian Civil Service, Secretary, Development Department, Bombay. * David George Mitchell, Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to Government, Legal Department, and Secretary to the Legislative Council,

. * Eardley Garforth Bryan Peel, His Majesty's Consul at

Ahwaz Ahvaz ( fa, اهواز, Ahvâz ) is a city in the southwest of Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province. Ahvaz's population is about 1,300,000 and its built-up area with the nearby town of Sheybani is home to 1,136,989 inhabitants. It is home ...

, Persian Gulf. * Francis Farquhar Sladen, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, United Provinces. * Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Henry Chenevix-Trench, , Political Agent in

Zhob Zhob (; ) or Zhobak (), formerly known as Appozai or Fort Sandeman, is a city and district capital of Zhob District in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Zhob is located on the banks of Zhob River 337 km from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. T ...

Baluchistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

. * Albert Frederic Lucas Brayne, Indian Civil Service, Officer on Special Duty, Government of India, Finance Department. * Eric Charles Handyside, , Officiating Commandant,

Frontier Constabulary The Frontier Constabulary ( ur, ) is a federal paramilitary force of Pakistan under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, which is largely drawn from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but operates in several districts of Pakistan. It i ...

, North West Frontier Force. * Cecil Guy Barnett, Superintending Engineer, Burma, formerly Executive and Superintending Engineer, Delhi New Capital Works. * Lieutenant-Colonel Asher Leventon,

, Superintendent, Campbell Medical School and Hospital, Bengal. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hunter, Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon,

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

, United Provinces. * Lieutenant-Colonel Robert McCarrison, Indian Medical Service, on deputation to the Medical Research Department, India. * Joseph William Bhore, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom, lately acting as High Commissioner. * Harry Graham Haig, Indian Civil Service, late Secretary, Indian Fiscal Commission. * Khan Bahadur Muhammad Bazlullah Sahib, , Commissioner of the Corporation of Madras. * Reginald Maitland Maxwell, Indian Civil Service, Bombay. * James Herbert Hechle, late Registrar, High Court (Original Side), Bengal. * Major David Patrick Johnstone, , Surgeon to His Excellency the

Governor of Madras This is a list of the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947. English Agents In 1639, the grant of Madras to the English was finalized be ...

. * Khan Bahadur Muhammad Sher Baz Khan, Honorary Magistrate, Lahore District, Punjab. * Khan Bahadur Mian Muhammad Hayat Khan, Kureshi, of Sobbowal, Honorary Magistrate,

Shahpur District Shahpur District was a district in current day Pakistan from 1893, during the British Raj, till 1960. From 1893 to 1914 Shahpur was the district headquarters. In 1914 the district headquarters were moved from Shahpur to Sargodha, although the dis ...

, Punjab. * The Reverend George Dunsford Barne, , Principal, Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar (2nd in Command, Simla Rifles Auxiliary Force, India), Punjab. *

John Evershed John Evershed CIE FRS FRAS (26 February 1864 – 17 November 1956) was an English astronomer. He was the first to observe radial motions in sunspots, a phenomenon now known as the Evershed effect. Biography Evershed was born in Gomshall ...

, Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory, Madras. * Saw Hke, Sawba of

Hsipaw Hsipaw ( shn, သီႇပေႃႉ; Tai Nuea: ᥔᥤᥴ ᥙᥨᥝᥳ), also known as Thibaw ( my, သီပေါ), is the principal town of Hsipaw Township in Shan State, Myanmar on the banks of the Duthawadi River. It is north-east of Mandal ...

, Burma.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, (dated 30 May 1923.) * The Right Honourable Reginald, Earl of Meath, . * The Right Honourable Andrew, Baron Dunedin, .

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Arthur, Viscount Valentia, .

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* Lieutenant-Colonel John Chaytor Brinton, . * Philip Colville Smith.

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

* The Honourable Montague Charles Eliot, . * Major Richard Hasell Sheepshanks, , 5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse. * Herbert Arthur Previté Trendell, . * Major Henry Hudson Fraser Stockley, . * Harry Clifford Longden, . * John Lombard Hobson. * Henry Linnington Martyn, * Herbert Mitchell. * Francis Jeune Willans, (dated 3 February 1923.)

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)

* Jean Marie Claud Barlerin. * Charles Coleman. * Edward Septimus Courroux. * Henry John Thomas Joist.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

;Civil Division * Sir William Guy Granet. For public services. * Sir Harry Harling Lamb, , until recently His Majesty's Consul-General at

Smyrna Smyrna ( ; grc, Σμύρνη, Smýrnē, or , ) was a Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence, and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to promi ...

. * Major-General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, ,

Governor-General of the Sudan This is a list of Egyptian and European colonial administrators (as well as leaders of the Mahdist State) responsible for the territory of the Turkish Sudan and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, an area equivalent to modern-day Sudan and South Sudan ...

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

;Civil Division * Barbara, Lady Strickland. For public service, 1919-1922. * Belle, Lady Cox, , for services in Iraq.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Thomas Jackson, . ;;Army * Colonel Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey, . * Colonel Reginald Seaburne May, . * Major-General John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, , for valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Malabar, 1921-1922. ;Civil Division *

Arthur Balfour Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (, ; 25 July 184819 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As F ...

, . In recognition of his public services. President of Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Member of the Grand Council of the

Federation of British Industries The Federation of British Industries (FBI) was an employers' association in the United Kingdom. Founded by the Midlands industrialist Dudley Docker in 1916 as the United British Industries' Association, but renamed later that same year, it was ini ...

. * Walter Schroder, Coroner for Central London. * Percy Crosland Tempest, , General Manager, Southern Railway. * Major-General Wilkinson Dent Bird, , late Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary,

Royal Hospital Chelsea The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army. Founded as an almshouse, the ancient sense of the word "hospital", it is a site located on Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea. It is an in ...

. * Colonel (Honorary Major-General)

Ernest Dunlop Swinton Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, (21 October 1868 – 15 January 1951) was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. He was also a war correspondent and author of sev ...

, (retired pay). * Horace Dickinson Nugent, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Chicago, on retirement from the Consular Service. * Harry Gloster Armstrong, His Majesty's Consul-General at New York. * William Ford Coaker, lately Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Newfoundland, in recognition of his public services. * The Honourable Arthur Alfred Clement Cocks, Colonial Treasurer of the State of New South Wales. *

Hugh Denison Sir Hugh Robert Denison, originally Hugh Robert Dixson (11 November 1865 – 25 November 1940) was a businessman, parliamentarian and philanthropist in South Australia and later New South Wales. He was a member of the South Australian House ...

, of the City of Sydney, in recognition of his public services to the Commonwealth of Australia. * Alfred Theodore Hennessy, of the City of Cape Town, in recognition of his public services to the Union of South Africa. * The Honourable

William Murray McPherson Sir William Murray McPherson, KBE (17 September 1865 – 26 July 1932) was an Australian philanthropist and politician. He was the 31st Premier of Victoria. Early life and philanthropy He was born in Melbourne, the son of a prosperous Scottis ...

, Treasurer of the State of Victoria. * Robert Howard Nolan, , of the City of Auckland, Dominion of New Zealand, in recognition of his public services. *

Claud Severn Sir Claud Severn ( Chinese Translated Name: 施勳) (1869–1933) was a British colonial administrator. Severn joined the colonial civil service in British Malaya in 1894 and worked under the Governor of the Straits Settlements. In 1912, he beca ...

, , Colonial Secretary,

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Paymaster Captain Kenneth Sydney Hay. ;;Army * Lieutenant-Colonel

John Brown John Brown most often refers to: *John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to: Academia * John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Ir ...

, , 4th Battalion (Territorial),

The Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Ow ...

. * Colonel Ronald Bruce Campbell, . * Colonel Edward Henry Eley, , Territorial Army. * Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Bonham Faunce. * Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Leonard Kirke Smith, ,

The Royal Scots The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment line infantry, of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of England ...

, attached Egyptian Army. * Colonel John Beatson Bell,

. * Colonel (temporary Colonel on the Staff) George Montague Philip Hawthorn, , Inspector-General of the

King's African Rifles The King's African Rifles (KAR) was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from Britain's various possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s. It performed both military and internal security functions withi ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel (local Colonel) Austin Hubert Wightwick Haywood, , Royal Artillery, Inspector-General of the

West African Frontier Force The West African Frontier Force (WAFF) was a multi-battalion field force, formed by the British Colonial Office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia. In 1928, it received royal recognition ...

. * Major Robert Douglas Johnston,

The Hampshire Regiment The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The r ...

. * Major Basil Gerard Peel, , 1st Madras Pioneers, Indian Army. * Major Ernest Steuart Weldon, ,

The Dorsetshire Regiment The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the List of British Army regiments (1881), county regiment of Dorset. Until 1951, it was formally called the Dorsetshire Regiment, although ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Robert Caldwell Wyatt, , 4th Hazara Pioneers, Indian Army. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Commodore Frederick Crosby Halahan, . ;Civil Division * Max Julius Bonn. For services in connection with juvenile employment. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Southey Bostock, , Director of Medical Service,

Ministry of Pensions Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ...

. * Frederick Gatus Bowers, , Accountant General,

Ministry of Labour The Ministry of Labour ('' UK''), or Labor ('' US''), also known as the Department of Labour, or Labor, is a government department responsible for setting labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, training, a ...

. * David Caird, Director of Information Section,

War Office The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). This article contains text from ...

. * Colonel Robert Clark, , Chairman of City of Edinburgh Territorial County Association. * Harold Claughton, , Secretary of

Disposal and Liquidation Commission The Disposal and Liquidation Commission was a body set up in 1921 by the British government to sell off surplus war supplies and equipment, particularly those appertaining to the Ministry of Munitions following the First World War World War ...

. * Charles Henry Colson, , Deputy Director of Works, Admiralty. * John Ainsworth Dale, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland. * The Reverend Canon Frederick Charles Davies, . In recognition of his public services as Vice-Chairman of the

Consultative Council on National Health Insurance The Consultative Council on National Health Insurance was established under the Ministry of Health Act 1919 along with the National Health Insurance Joint Committee. Sir Thomas Neill was chair until 1924 and was knighted for his services in the 1 ...

. * Rachel Annie Cox-Davies, Late Matron,

Royal Free Hospital The Royal Free Hospital (also known simply as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barn ...

, and late Principal Matron of the

Territorial Army Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as ''the QAs'') is the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services. History Although an "official" nursing service was not established until 1881, the corps traces its heritage t ...

. Member of

General Nursing Council The General Nursing Council for England and Wales was established by the Nurses Registration Act 1919 to administer the register of nurses. It was responsible for deciding the rules for admission to the register. There were nine lay members an ...

. * Walter Davies, , Chairman, Manchester Hospitals Voluntary Committee. * Francis Lindsay Fisher, , Member of Disposal Board. * Walter Miller Gaul, Assistant Secretary, War Office. * John Fitzhugh Gelston, Deputy Inspector General and Commissioner of Police, Northern Ireland. * James Scott Gordon, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. * Douglas Houstoun, Solicitor to HM

Duchy of Lancaster The Duchy of Lancaster is the private estate of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster. The principal purpose of the estate is to provide a source of independent income to the sovereign. The estate consists of ...

. * William Henry Kendal, , Secretary of the Office of Commissioner of

Metropolitan Police The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

. * John Lee, Controller of Central Telegraph Office,

General Post Office The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Before the Acts of Union 1707, it was the postal system of the Kingdom of England, established by Charles II in 1660. ...

. * Gertrude Margaret McCowan, . For public services in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. * Lewis McQuibban, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland. * William Thomas Madden, . In recognition of his services as Honorary Manager, State Liquor Undertaking at Enfield from 1916 to 1922. * Alderman Charles Henry Margrett, . For public services. * George Torrance Milne, , Senior Trade Commissioner, Montreal. * Ernest Tom Neathercoat, , President of the Pharmaceutical Society. In recognition of his services in connection with Dangerous Drugs Regulations. * Agnes Helen Harty (Agnes Nicholls), A leading Soprano in both

Oratorio An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is mus ...

and Opera. * Francis George Nutt, , Assistant Secretary,

Air Ministry The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State ...

. * Walter Peel, , , Member of the Central Advisory Committee, Ministry of Pensions. For public services. * Herbert Ward, Chief Inspector of Training College, Board of Education. * Samuel Watt, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. * Francis Bernard Bourdillon, a Member of the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Commission. * Captain Ulick de Burgh Charles, Commercial Secretary (Grade I) at His Majesty's Embassy at Madrid. * Reginald Gerard Leigh, ,

Assistant Private Secretary A private secretary (PS) is a civil servant in a governmental department or ministry, responsible to a secretary of state or minister; or a public servant in a royal household, responsible to a member of the royal family. The role exists in ...

to the

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel James Procter, for valuable services in connection with the relief of refugees from Russia and Anatolia. * Hubert Wilberforce Wilson, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Buenos Aires. * Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, . * Jamsetji Framjee Madan, , Merchant, Bengal. * Alexander Richard Chancellor, Inspector-General of Police and Official Member of the Legislative Council,

Straits Settlements The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Headquartered in Singapore for more than a century, it was originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Comp ...

. * James Richard Collins, , Secretary to the Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia. * Edwin Mortimer Drower, Adviser to the Ministry of Justice, Iraq. * John Thomas Easterbrook, of Manly, New South Wales, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia. * Honorary Colonel Edward James Hayward, , formerly Officer Commanding

Ceylon Garrison Artillery Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. * Cornewall Lewis Warwickshire Mansergh, , lately Secretary of the Provincial Council of the

Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...

. * Major Robert McKeeman Oakley, , Deputy Comptroller-General,

Department of Trade and Customs The Department of Trade and Customs was an Australian government department that existed between 1901 and 1956. It was one of the inaugural government departments of Australia established at federation. History The department was one of the fir ...

, Commonwealth of Australia. * Arthur James Philbrick, Chief Commissioner, Northern Territories,

Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G ...

. * Reginald Arthur Roberts, Senior Resident, Southern Provinces, Nigeria. *

Alfred Allen Simpson Alfred Allen Simpson (15 April 1875 – 27 November 1939) was an industrialist in South Australia and a partner in the firm A. Simpson & Son, founded by his grandfather Alfred Simpson. He was the mayor of Adelaide from 1913 to 1915. History ...

, of the City of Adelaide, in recognition of his public services to the Commonwealth of Australia. ;Honorary Commander * His Highness Syed Alwi ibni almerhum Syed Safi,

Raja of Perlis ''Raja'' (; from , IAST ') is a royal title used for South Asian monarchs. The title is equivalent to king or princely ruler in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The title has a long history in South Asia and Southeast Asia, being attested fr ...

, Malay States.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Engineer Commander Ernest William Roberts. ;;Army * Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel

Ralph Bignell Ainsworth Major-General Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth, (20 September 1875 – 27 January 1952) was a British physician, surgeon, and British Army officer. From 1930 to 1935, he was Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College. During World War II, he served ...

, ,

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Alleyne Percival Boxall, , 57th (Home Counties) Brigade,

, Territorial Army. * Commissary of Ordnance and Major Frederic Harold Buckland,

Royal Army Ordnance Corps The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equip ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel St. John Augustus Cox, , Extra Regimentally Employed List. * Quartermaster and Major Edward Henry Dinham,

The Gloucestershire Regiment The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994. It traced its origins to Colonel Gibson's Regiment of Foot, which was raised in 1694 and later became the ...

. * Deputy Commissary of Ordnance and Captain (temporary Major) John William Dunne, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frecheville Hubert Ballantine-Dykes, , 5th Battalion (Territorial),

The Border Regiment The Border Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot. After service ...

(Major, Regular Army Reserve of Officers). * Major Frederick William Fraser, , 4th Battalion (Territorial), The Cameron Highlanders. * Major Algernon Clement Fuller,

Royal Corps of Signals The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS or R SIGS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communi ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Francis Goode, , 48th (South Midland) Divisional Train,

Royal Army Service Corps The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...

, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Francis Hill Greenwood, , 22nd London Regiment, Territorial Army. * Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Thomas Hynes, , Extra Regimentally Employed List. * Captain and Brevet Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Lionel Manton, ,

. * Inspector of Ordnance Machinery, 1st Class, and Major Bertie Howard Penn, , Royal Army Ordnance Corps (employed

Tank Corps An armoured corps (also mechanized corps or tank corps) is a specialized military organization whose role is to conduct armoured warfare. The units belonging to an armoured corps include military staff, and are equipped with tanks and other armo ...

). * Quartermaster and Major Edward Pickard, ,

The Green Howards The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division. Raised in 1688, it served under vario ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Rimmer, , 89th (3rd West Lancashire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Ridley Ritson, , 8th Battalion (Territorial), The Durham Light Infantry. * Captain George Lewis Stanley Smith, ,

. * Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Drummond Cospatrick Spencer-Smith, Royal Artillery. * Captain Frederick Noble Syms, 5th Battalion (Territorial), The Northumberland Fusiliers. * Captain George Vere Taylor, ,

The Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

. * Winifred Mary Aldridge, , Senior Nursing Sister, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India. * Captain John Clark, 3rd Battalion,

18th Royal Garhwal Rifles The 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army, moving away from single-battalion regiments to multi-battalion regiments. They were th ...

, Indian Army. * Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Irvine Davys, , Indian Medical Service. * Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Friedrich Rawson Lumby, 2nd Battalion,

2nd Punjab Regiment The 2nd Punjab Regiment was a British Indian Army regiment from 1922 to the partition of India in 1947. The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of other regiments: *1st Battalion, from the 67th Punjabis The 67th Punjabis were an infantry ...

, Indian Army. * Major Frank Alan Macartney, , 3rd Battalion,

12th Frontier Force Regiment The 12th Frontier Force Regiment was formed in 1922 as part of the British Indian Army. It consisted of five regular battalions; numbered 1 to 5 and the 10th (Training) Battalion. During the Second World War a further ten battalions were raised. ...

, Indian Army. * Major David Guy Porteous, 2nd Battalion,

8th Punjab Regiment The 8th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947 and merged with the Baluch Regiment in 1956. History Madras Infantry The 8th Punjab Regim ...

, Indian Army. * Captain Evelyn Seigfried MacLeod Prinsep, 5th Probyns Horse, Indian Army. * Major Henry Jocelyn Kennedy Wallis,

9th Royal Deccan Horse The Deccan Horse or 9 Horse is one of the oldest and most decorated armoured regiments of the Indian Army. The Royal Deccan Horse (9th Horse), which was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army was formed from the amalgamation of t ...

, Indian Army. * Captain and Brevet Major Victor Charles Micallef, Royal Malta Artillery, Colonial Aide-de-Camp to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta and its Dependencies. ;;Royal Air Force * Squadron Leader Lionel Douglas Dalzell McKean. * Flight Lieutenant

Francis John Linnell Air Marshal Sir Francis John Linnell, (16 March 1892 – 3 November 1944) was a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War. He was Controller of Research and Development of the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the devel ...

. * Flight Lieutenant Christopher Thomas O'Neill, . ;Civil Division * Harold Frederic Andorsen, Parliamentary and General Branch, Disposals Board. * John William Bloe, , Senior Investigator,

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) was a government advisory body responsible for documenting buildings and monuments of archaeological, architectural and historical importance in England. It was established in 19 ...

. * Frederick Ambrose Britten, County Inspector,

Royal Ulster Constabulary The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)Richard Doherty, ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal ...

. *

Oscar Browning Oscar Browning OBE (17 January 1837 – 6 October 1923) was a British educationalist, historian and ''bon viveur'', a well-known Cambridge personality during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. An innovator in the early development of p ...

, Scholar and author. * Alfred William Clapham, , Technical Editor, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. * David Lionel Clarke, Accountant, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. * George Eades, Deputy Director of Stores and Transport, Disposals Board. * Richard Dale Winnett Harrison, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * John Blake Harrold, , Registrar-General of Shipping, Board of Trade. * Major David Alfred William Ker, County Commandant, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Henry Benson Wyndham Ball Lenthall, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * John McNally, County Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Captain Cyril Hamley Petherick, Principal Clerk, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. * Bertram Roskruge Seagrave, Principal, HM Office of Works. * Charles James Gerrard Tate, Controller, Pension Issue Office, Ministry of Pensions. * Matthew Tearle, Secretary, Cardiff Branch of Sailors' and Firemen's Union. For public services. * William Donald McDonald Cruickshank, a Member of the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Commission. * Reginald Eustace Richard Chandos Brinsley Richards, an Assistant Director at the Department of Overseas Trade. * Leonard Arthur de Lacey Meredith, a Senior Intelligence Officer at the Department of Overseas Trade. * Ernest Gabriel Lomas, His Majesty's Consul at

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

. * Thomas Emanuel Kavanagh Cormac, honorary Legal Adviser to His Majesty's Consulate-General at San Francisco. * Robert William Urquhart, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at

. * Charles Buckmaster,

Foreign Office Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * Unit ...

. * Mary Birch Mitchell, , Foreign Office. * Philip Crawford Vickery, of the Punjab Police. * Khan Bahadur Sardar Liakat Hayat Khan, Superintendent of Police in the Punjab. * Rao Bahadur Keshav Vithal Kokje, Honorary Deputy Superintendent of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bombay. * Robin Lescher, Planter, Madras. * Charles Frederick Belcher, , Attorney-General,

. * Major Frederick William Bewsher, , Commandant of the Palestine Gendarmerie. * Captain Robert Ernest Cheesman, Private Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq. * Charles Francis Clarkson, Member of the Provincial Council of Natal,

. * Leonard Hawthorn Darlot, in recognition of his public services to the State of Western Australia. * Edwin Evans, Assistant Director of Education,

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

, in recognition of his services to Education. * Frederick William Flanagan, Permanent Head of the Valuation Department, Dominion of New Zealand. * Captain Thomas John Hallinan, Royal Army Medical Corps, Medical Officer of Health,

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...

. * Eldon Harvey, Medical Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum and Health Officer, Western District,

Bermuda ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = National song , song = " Hail to Bermuda" , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , mapsize2 = , map_caption2 = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , e ...

. * Joseph Huber, Treasurer, Malta. * The Reverend Brother James, Manager, St. Xaviers Branch School,

Pulau Tikus Pulau Tikus is a northwestern suburb of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. Situated between the city centre and Tanjung Tokong, this upper class suburb was named after a rock just off the coast of Penang Island. It is home to small minorities of ...

, and Visitor, St Xaviers Institution, Penang,

, in recognition of his services to Education. * Major John Walter McLean, Brigade Major of Railways and Harbours Brigade, Union of South Africa. * Captain Frederick Gerald Peake, Inspector General of Gendarmerie, Trans-Jordan. * The Reverend Thomas William Pearce, , in recognition of his services to Education in the Colony of Hong Kong. * Ralph Henry Pinhorn, Headmaster of the

Penang Free School , motto_translation = Strong and Faithful , streetaddress = Green Lane, , city = George Town , state = Penang , postcode = 11600 , country = Malaysi ...

, Straits Settlements, in recognition of his services to Education. * Benjamin William Quartey-Papafio, , Member of the Legislative Council of the

and formerly Assistant Colonial Surgeon. * Francis Ernest Reed, Secretary of the Jamaica Schools Commission, in recognition of his services to Education. * Rose Lilian Vintcent, , in recognition of her services in connection with the aftercare of blinded soldiers in the Union of South Africa. * The Reverend Canon Herbert Thomas Candy Weatherhead, Head of the Buddo High School, Uganda, in recognition of his services to Education.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division ;;Army * No.1020669 Battery Sergeant-Major William James Asquith,

. * Lieutenant Frederick Charles Avis, ,

. * Lieutenant (DO) William James Ball,

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

. * Assistant Commissary of Ordnance and Captain Frederick Barley,

. * Lieutenant Frederick Church, Extra Regimentally Employed List (Employed Indian Signal Service). * Lieutenant Percy Howard Cocks,

Army Educational Corps The Royal Army Educational Corps (RAEC) was a corps of the British Army tasked with educating and instructing personnel in a diverse range of skills. On 6 April 1992 it became the Educational and Training Services Branch (ETS) of the Adjutant Gene ...

. * Captain John Kynock Gumming, The Cameron Highlanders, Adjutant, 10th Battalion (Territorial),

The King's Regiment The King's Regiment, officially abbreviated as KINGS, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division. It was formed on 1 September 1958 by the amalgamation of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) which had been raised in 1685 ...

. * Temporary Lieutenant James Cochrane Houston,

. * Temporary Captain Hubert Eyton Husey,

General List The General Service Corps (GSC) is a corps of the British Army. Role The role of the corps is to provide specialists, who are usually on the Special List or General List. These lists were used in both World Wars for specialists and those not allo ...

. * Lieutenant Frederick Harry Jones, Army Educational Corps. * Captain Thomas Otto Jones, 5th Battalion (Territorial),

The Welch Regiment The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch", an archaic spelling of "Welsh") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1969. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of ...

. * Quartermaster & Lieutenant John William Jordan, , Extra Regimentally Employed List. * Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Percy Edwin Keller, Royal Army Service Corps. * 2nd Lieutenant Edward Mauleverer Lindesay,

. * Captain William Frederick Lindsell, 4/5th Battalion (Territorial),

The Cheshire Regiment The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by the Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and was able to boast an independent existence of over 300 years. T ...

. * Quartermaster & Captain Andrew Lockie, 8th Battalion (Territorial),

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

. * Captain Thomas Picton, ,

, Adjutant, 7th Battalion (Territorial),

The Royal Welch Fusiliers The Royal Welch Fusiliers ( cy, Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales' Division, that was founded in 1689; shortly after the Glorious Revolution. In 1702, it was designated ...

. * Quartermaster & Captain Frank Pigden, 5/7th Battalion (Territorial),

. * Captain Robert Alexander Reddie, , 3rd Battalion (Militia),

(Lieutenant, retired pay). * No.5038839 Company-Sergeant-Major John Alfred Russell,

The North Staffordshire Regiment The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was in existence between 1881 and 1959. The 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot was created on 21 April 1758 from the 2nd Battalio ...

. * No.7574282 Sub-Conductor Joseph Bland Sedgwick, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. * Quartermaster & Lieutenant James Sutherland, 2nd Battalion,

The Gordon Highlanders ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...

. * Lieutenant Edward Noel Callis Symonds, , Royal Garrison Artillery. * Captain Philip Henry Tanner, , 17th London Regiment, Territorial Army. * Captain Ralph Ernest Vyvyan, ,

. * Captain Philip Geoffrey Whitefoord, , Royal Artillery. * Lieutenant Hugh Wilkin, ,

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Queen' ...

. * Assistant Commissary & Lieutenant Evan Victor Creak, Indian Miscellaneous List. * Assistant Commissary & Lieutenant John William Danskin, Indian Miscellaneous List. * Commissary & Major David Drysdale, Indian Miscellaneous List. * Deputy Commissary & Captain James Fox, Indian Miscellaneous List. * Captain Alexander Thomas Gammon, The Rangoon Battalion, Auxiliary Force, India. * Assistant Commissary & Lieutenant Henry Berton Grimley, Supply and Transport Corps, Indian Army. * Captain Antonelli Francisco Bartholomeu Saldanha,

. * Commissary & Major John Christopher Swinnerton, Indian Miscellaneous List. * Commissary & Major George William Twiddy, Indian Miscellaneous List. * Captain

Alexander Vass Anderson Major-General Alexander Vass Anderson (17 November 1895 – 17 October 1963) was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War. Military career Anderson was born in Poona, India, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vass Anderson (1 ...

, Royal Engineers, attached 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army. ;;Royal Air Force * Flying Officer Rowland John Divers. * Flying Officer Leslie Hamilton, . * Observer Officer Louis James Chandler. * No.531 Sergeant-Major, 1st Class, Clarence Herbert Baker. ;Civil Division * William Allen, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland. * William Atteridge, District Inspector,

. * Captain Harry John Aukett, Adjutant in County Tyrone, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * William John Cairns, Assistant Principal, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland. * Henry Jackson Clark, District Commandant, Special Constabulary, Northern Ireland. * Captain Hope Crisp, Regional Awards Officer, Ministry of Pensions. * Samuel George Fenton, District Commandant, Special Constabulary, Northern Ireland. * Rowland Herbert Fisher, Acting Principal, Disposals Board. * Thomas Henry Fletcher, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Captain Horace Ash Gaussen, Adjutant in Belfast, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Ewing Gilfillan, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Donal Charles Blake Jennings, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Douglas Egerton Keatinge. In charge of Lahore Depot, Disposals Board. * Edward David Kerr, District Commandant, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Charles Magill Kirkpatrick, Assistant Principal, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland. * Sydney Richard Lamb, Secretary, Sheffield Joint Hospitals Council. * James McBrien, Superintendent,

. * John McCarthy, Late Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. * Louis James Mason, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. * John William Nixon, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Guy Carleton Richardson, Adjutant in County Fermanagh, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Richard Gray Ronaldson, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. * James Ross, Paymaster to County Down Special Constabulary. * Captain Raymond Sheppard, First Class Clerk,

. * Kathleen Maria Margaret Sissmore, Administrative Assistant, General Staff,

. Cover description: actually in

MI5 The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...

. * Reginald Rowland Spears, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Henry Taylor, District Commandant, Special Constabulary, Northern Ireland. * George Charles Gillespie Young, District Commandant, Special Constabulary, Northern Ireland. * Mary Frances Casson,

. * Charles John Gibbons, Foreign Office Press. * Eleanor Harriet Fulcher, Foreign Office. * Mabel Palling, Foreign Office. * Emily Townsend, Foreign Office. * Clarence Rose Macaulay Schmidt, Director of Office Systems,

. * Harold Mackenzie Browne, Inspector of the Bombay City and Harbour Veterinary Department,

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

. *

Syed Allah Band, Indian Attaché,

Meshed Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a po ...

. *

Sardar Sardar, also spelled as Sardaar/Sirdar ( fa, سردار, , 'commander', literally 'headmaster'), is a title of royalty and nobility that was originally used to denote princes, noblemen, chiefs, kings and other aristocrats. It has also been u ...

Bahadur Diwan Singh Duggal, Civil Surgeon, Punjab. *

Rao Sahib Rai Sahib / Rao Saheb / Roy Sahib / Rao Sahib abbreviated R.S., was a title of honour issued during the era of British rule in India to individuals who performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was ac ...

Raghunath Balkrishna Rajadhyaksha, Head Clerk to the Inspector General of Police, Bombay. * Rai Sahib Nelson Charles Bose, Confidential Assistant to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal. * Agnes Henderson, Lady Doctor,

. * Elsie Evelyn Crocker, of the City of

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

, in recognition of her public services. * Charles Henry Dowsett, of the City of

Durban Durban ( ) ( zu, eThekwini, from meaning 'the port' also called zu, eZibubulungwini for the mountain range that terminates in the area), nicknamed ''Durbs'',Ishani ChettyCity nicknames in SA and across the worldArticle on ''news24.com'' from ...

, in recognition of his public services. * Dikran Ekmekjian, Secretary to the Ministry of Justice, Iraq. * Alexander James Gill, of

Oudtshoorn Oudtshoorn (, ), the "ostrich capital of the world", is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located between the Swartberg mountains to the north and the Outeniqua Mountains to the south. Two ostrich-feather booms, during 1865–1 ...

, Union of South Africa, in recognition of his public services. * Claude Reuben Grice, Personal Assistant to the Director of Health Services, Iraq. * Lee Peck Hock, of Singapore,

, in recognition of his public services. * Rashid Khamis, in recognition of his services to the

Uganda Protectorate The Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962. In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the Brit ...

. * Oliver Lea, of the City of Durban, in recognition of his public services. * Phyllis Bruce Lys, of the City of Johannesburg, in recognition of ex-public services. * Alice Mary McClure, Acting Matron of the

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second large ...

Civil Hospital, Iraq. * Engela Elizabeth Mackenzie, of the City of Johannesburg, in recognition of her public services. * George Douglas Mackie, Treasurer and Collector of Customs of the Island of

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

. * Robert Albert James Mathieson, Press Superintendent, Ministry of Interior, Iraq. * Ada Pitts, in recognition of her services to Education in the Colony of Hong Kong. *

Nevins Selvadurai Nevins Selvadurai ( ta, நெவின்ஸ் செல்வதுரை; 15 October 1863 – 28 April 1938) was a Ceylon Tamil teacher, principal of Jaffna Hindu College and a member of the State Council of Ceylon. Early life and family ...

, Principal of the Hindu College,

Jaffna Jaffna (, ) is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most ...

, Ceylon, in recognition of his services to Education. * William Henry James Turner, Sub-Engineer, Ministry of Communications and Works, Iraq. * Robert Ward, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens,

British Guiana British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...

. * Sinnatamby Welayden, Chief Inspector, Vernacular Schools, Ceylon, in recognition of his services to Education.

Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typ ...
(DSO)

* Captain Alan Wilson Duncan, 2nd Battalion,

8th Gurkha Rifles The 8th Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army. It was raised in 1824 as part of the British East India Company and later transferred to the British Indian Army after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The regiment served in World War I ...

, Indian Army.

Bar to the Distinguished Service Order

* Captain Patrick McEnroy, ,

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. The regiment was formed as a consequence of th ...

(formerly

Leinster Regiment The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot and the 109th Regiment of Foot ...

) (DSO gazetted 1 January 1919). For distinguished service rendered in connection with military operations in Malabar, 1921-1922.

Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM)

* 7177145 Private J. Cahill, , 2nd Battalion,

Manchester Regiment The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th ...

(formerly 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment). (Kilnaganny) * 7178031 Private G. Ryan, 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment (Clonmel)

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Home Civil Service * Frederick Charles Bagley, Chief Clerk and Finance Office,

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Department,

Southampton Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...

. * Henry William Batten, Accountant (Second Class), Disposal and Liquidation Commission. * Tom Berry Burgess, Accountant (First Class), Army Audit Staff, War Office. * Thomas John Cheater, BSc, Superintending Chemist, Custom House Laboratory. * Harry Adolphus Clark, Assistant Secretary and Chief Clerk,

Public Works Loan Board The Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) ( cy, Bwrdd Benthyciadau Gwaith Cyhoeddus) was a statutory body of the UK Government that provided loans to public bodies from the National Loans Fund. In 2020, the PWLB was abolished as a statutory organisation, a ...

. * George Davis, Superintending Clerk, Department of the Accountant-General,

Admiralty Admiralty most often refers to: *Admiralty, Hong Kong *Admiralty (United Kingdom), military department in command of the Royal Navy from 1707 to 1964 *The rank of admiral *Admiralty law Admiralty can also refer to: Buildings * Admiralty, Traf ...

. * John Gritton, , Staff Officer,

. * John Robert James Johnston, Chief Bankruptcy Clerk,

Board of Trade The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade. Its full title is The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of ...

. * Frederic Henry Lewis, Accountant, Official Trustees Department,

Charity Commission , type = Non-ministerial government department , seal = , seal_caption = , logo = Charity Commission for England and Wales logo.svg , logo_caption = , formed = , preceding1 = , ...

. * John Mackintosh, Surveyor, Prison Commission for Scotland. * Frederick John Pearson, Senior Assistant Accountant-General, Post Office. * David Joseph Scourfield, Chief Clerk,

Royal Mint The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's oldest company and the official maker of British coins. Operating under the legal name The Royal Mint Limited, it is a limited company that is wholly owned by His Majesty's Treasury and is under an exclus ...

. * William Francis Stone, Accountant, Finance Branch, Ministry of Labour. * Nathan Thompson, , Inspector General of Waterguard,

Board of Customs and Excise HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise at the time of its dissolution) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was th ...

. * Albert Samuel Twort, Principal Inspector of Taxes,

Inland Revenue The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation ta ...

Department. ;Overseas Dominions * Walter David Bingle, Secretary to the

Department of Works and Railways The Department of Works and Railways was an Australian government department that existed between November 1916 and April 1932. At its abolition, its functions were absorbed into the Department of the Interior. Scope Information abou ...

, Commonwealth of Australia. * Lancelot Frederick Campbell, Supervisor of Customs,

Bonthe Bonthe is a coastal town located on Sherbro Island in Bonthe District in the southern Province of Sierra Leone. The town lies on the eastern shore of Sherbro Island, on the Sherbro River estuary. Bonthe is about 60 miles south-west of Bo and 187 ...

, Sierra Leone. * Robert James Clinckett, , Official Assignee,

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...

. * Maurice Gallagher, , District Superintendent,

Uganda Railway The Uganda Railway was a metre-gauge railway system and former British state-owned railway company. The line linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya. After a series of mergers and splits, the lin ...

, Kenya. * Walter Garden Hutchinson, Treasurer of the Island of Saint Vincent, Acting Administrator. * Gilbert Owen-Smith, Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Union of South Africa. * Oguntola Sapara, Medical Officer, Nigeria. * John Douglas Story, Public Service Commissioner of the State of Queensland. ;Indian Civil Services * William Hayward, , Assistant Secretary to the Political Resident, Persian Gulf,

Bushire Bushehr, Booshehr or Bushire ( fa, بوشهر ; also romanised as ''Būshehr'', ''Bouchehr'', ''Buschir'' and ''Busehr''), also known as Bandar Bushehr ( fa, ; also romanised as ''Bandar Būshehr'' and ''Bandar-e Būshehr''), previously Antioc ...

. * Lieutenant Charles Archibold Webb, Superintendent, Office of Commissioner,

Rawalpindi Division Rawalpindi Division, also known as Pothohar Division, is an administrative division of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Rawalpindi city is the capital of the division. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan, the total population of division was 10 mi ...

, Punjab * Rao Bahadur Wasudeo Ramchandra Dhoble, Central Provinces Civil Service (Judicial). * Khan Bahadur Abdul Hamid Khan, Extra Assistant Commissioner (retired),

. * Albert Benjamin George Snesdell, Assistant to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Railways and CID, Madras. * Shearman Edward Bird, Personal Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Explosives with the Government of India. * Shaikh Faqir-Ulla, Honorary Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab. * John de Mello, Superintendent, Office of the Surgeon-General with the Government of Bombay. * Jivanji Hormasji, Training Master and Official Referee, High Court,

Rangoon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

, Burma.

Imperial Service Medal

;Indian Civil Services * Kattamanchi Krishnaswami, retired Duffadar, District and Sessions Court,

Chittoor Chittoor is a city and district headquarters in Chittoor district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is also the mandal and divisional headquarters of Chittoor mandal and Chittoor revenue division, respectively. The city has a popul ...

, Madras. * Ashgar Khan, Jamadar to the Inspector General of Forests, India. * Muhammad Ghouse Sahib, attender to the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature, Madras.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

;Military Division ;;For Gallantry :For services rendered in connection with military operations in Malabar, 1921-1922. * No.5718784 Private Frederick Chant, 2nd Battalion,

. * No.5718234 Sergeant William George Hand, , 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment. * No.5718907 Private Thomas Miller, 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment. * No.5719290 Private Frederick Henry Troake, 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment. * Assistant Surgeon, 3rd Class, George David Rodriques, Indian Medical Department. ;;For Meritorious Service. * No.7177147 Company-Quartermaster-Sergeant John Christie, 1st Battalion,

The Lancashire Fusiliers The Lancashire Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that saw distinguished service through many years and wars, including the Second Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, and had many different titles throughout its 280 ...

(formerly 1st Battalion, The Leinster Regiment). * Staff Sergeant H.A. Joy, Indian Ordnance Department. ;Civil Division * Alexander Brown, Chancery Servant at HM Legation and Consulate-General, Panama. * Henry William Fontaine, Head Office Keeper at the India Office. * Subadar Major Gurmukh Singh, Straits Settlements Police, 1885-1923. * Ato Retta Wassi, Head Syce of HM Legation, Addis Ababa. * Said Shahwan, Chief Kavas to the High Commissioner for Palestine. * Hsia Yung-chi, Coxwain of the Government Steam Launch ''Alexandra'' at

Weihaiwei Weihai (), formerly called Weihaiwei (), is a prefecture-level city and major seaport in easternmost Shandong province. It borders Yantai to the west and the Yellow Sea to the east, and is the closest Chinese city to South Korea. Weihai's popula ...

Military Cross (MC)

* Lieutenant William Benjamin Whitaker, 2nd Battalion,

70th Burma Rifles The Burma Rifles were a British colonial regiment raised in Burma. Founded in 1917 as a regiment of the British Indian Army, the regiment re-used the name of an unrelated earlier unit, the 10th Regiment (1st Burma Rifles) Madras Infantry, which evo ...

, Indian Army.

Military Medal (MM)

;2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment :For bravery in connection with military operations in Malabar, 1921-1922. * 5719280 Private G. Alexander. (Jersey) * 5718697 Private L. Churchill. (Poole) * 5719133 Corporal R. Collins. (Brixton) * 5718387 Sergeant H. Fairman. (Semley) * 5719354 Private C. Trueman. (Shanklin)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Squadron Leader John Kilner Wells. * Squadron Leader Harold James Payn.

Air Force Medal (AFM)

* 248043 Corporal Herbert Valentine Hughes.

Kaisar-i Hind Medal

* Begum Saheba Fatima Sidhika, Regent of Manawadar,

. * The Reverend Canon Arthur Crosthwaite, S.P.G.

Moradabad Moradabad () is a city, commissionary and municipal corporation in Moradabad district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Moradabad is situated on the banks of the Ramganga river, at a distance of from the national capital, New Delhi and 344 ...

, United Provinces. * The Reverend Father Theophilus Van Der Schueren, Priest, Society of Jesus,

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

. * The Reverend Father Ernest Francois Auguste Loubière, of Paris Society of Foreign Missions,

Cuddalore Cuddalore, also spelt as Kadalur (), is the city and headquarters of the Cuddalore District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Situated south of Chennai, Cuddalore was an important port during the British Raj. While the early history of Cudda ...

, South Arcot District, Madras. * Ann Elizabeth Banks, late Lady Principal of the Bevenshaw Girls High School,

Cuttack Cuttack (, or officially Kataka ) in Odia is the former capital and the second largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised form of ''Kataka'' which literall ...

Bihar and Orissa Province Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India, which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha. The territories were conquered by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and were governed by the then Indian Ci ...

. * Eleanor McDougall, Principal of the Women's Christian College, Madras. * Bai Bahadur Lala Tara Chand, Honorary Magistrate,

Bhiwani Bhiwani is a city and a municipal council in Bhiwani district in the state of Haryana, Bhiwani was also known as "Gate of Rajputana". Besides being a seat of spiritual learning, the city is at the centre of regional politics and hometown of t ...

Hissar District Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of H ...

, Punjab. * Williamena Johan Meiklejohn, Nursing Superintendent, General Hospital,

, Burma. * Bhola Nath Barooah, Merchant,

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

;First Class * Lilian Agnes Starr, Matron-in-charge of the

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Mission Hospital,

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

, North West Frontier Province.

Mention in Despatches

:For distinguished services rendered in connection with military operations in Malabar, 1921-1922. * Captain A. W. Duncan, 2nd Battalion,

, Indian Army. * Colonel E. T. Humphreys, . * Captain P. McEnroy, ,

(formerly

Promotions

:To the rank of Air Marshal in the Royal Air Force * Air Vice Marshal Sir

John Maitland Salmond Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, (17 July 1881 – 16 April 1968) was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps and then the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served as a squ ...

, , in recognition of his distinguished service in Command of the Forces in Iraq.

Honorary rank

;Honorary Major * Honourable Captain His Highness Raj Rajeshwar

Maharajadhiraja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, an ...

Sir

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Bahadur, ,

Maharaja of Jodhpur Kingdom of Marwar, also known as the Jodhpur State under the British, was a kingdom in the Marwar region from 1226 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1947. It was established in Pali by Rao Siha, possibly a m ...

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Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typ ... (DSO)

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Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typ ...
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