The King's Birthday Honours 1934 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms 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 his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Qu ...

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 4 June 1934. 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.

United Kingdom and Colonies

Viscount

* Charles Cheers, Baron Wakefield, , Honorary Colonel, 2nd City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers). For public services, especially to Civil Aviation.

Baron

* The Right Honourable Robert, Lord Alness, , lately

Lord Justice Clerk The Lord Justice Clerk is the second most senior judge in Scotland, after the Lord President of the Court of Session. Originally ''clericus justiciarie'' or Clerk to the Court of Justiciary, the counterpart in the criminal courts of the Lord ...

and President of the Second Division, Court of Session. * Sir

Hugo Hirst Hugo Hirst, 1st Baron Hirst (26 November 1863 – 22 January 1943), known as Sir Hugo Hirst, Bt, between 1925 and 1934, was a German-born British industrialist. Born near Munich, Hugo Hirsch became a naturalized British subject in 1883 and chang ...

, , Chairman and Managing Director,

General Electric Company Ltd. The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and Arms industry, defence electronics, communications, and engineering. The company was founded in 1886, was Britain's largest private employe ...

For public services. *

Gerald Walter Erskine Loder Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst, JP DL LLB (25 October 1861 – 30 April 1936) was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for developing the gardens at Wakehurst Place, Sussex. B ...

, President of the

National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations The National Conservative Convention (NCC), is the most senior body of the Conservative Party's voluntary wing. The National Convention effectively serves as the Party's internal Parliament, and is made up of its 800 highest-ranking Party Office ...

1924-26. Member of Parliament for Brighton, 1889-1905. For political and public services. * Brigadier-General George Charles, Earl of Lucan, ,

Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a post in the Government of the United Kingdom that has been held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is th ...

, January–June 1929, and since 1931. Conservative Whip in the House of Lords 1920-31, and Government Chief Whip since 1931.

Knights of the Thistle

* Archibald Alexander, Earl of Leven & Melville. * Colonel

Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, (4 November 1876 – 11 October 1951) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was the 25th Lochiel of ...

, .

Privy Councillor

* Robert Anthony Eden, , Lord Privy Seal since January 1934.

Undersecretary of State Undersecretary (or under secretary) is a title for a person who works for and has a lower rank than a secretary (person in charge). It is used in the executive branch of government, with different meanings in different political systems, and is a ...

for Foreign Affairs 1931-33. Member of Parliament for Warwick & Leamington since 1923.

Baronet

* Sir

Julien Cahn Sir Julien Cahn, 1st Baronet (21 October 1882 – 26 September 1944) was a British businessman, philanthropist and cricket enthusiast. Early life and family Cahn was born in Cardiff in 1882 to parents of German Jewish descent. His father, Alber ...

. For services to agriculture and to a number of charitable causes. *

Herbert Brent Grotrian Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian, 1st Baronet, (1870 – 28 October 1951) was an English Member of Parliament from 1924 to 1929 who was created a baronet in 1934. Educated at Rossall School and Trinity College, Oxford, Grotrian was the second son of ...

, . For public services. * Major John Charles Harford, . For political and public services in Cardiganshire. * Sir David McCowan, , President of the Glasgow Unionist Association. For political and public services in Scotland. * Sir

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.1 ...

, . For services to many social organisations in Durham.

Knight Bachelor

* Major Robert George Archibald, , Royal Army Medical Corps (Retd.), Director, Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Sudan. * Alderman John Aspell, , Chairman of the Highways Committee, Lancashire County Council. * (George Harold Arthur) Comyns Berkeley, , Consulting Obstetric Surgeon,

Middlesex Hospital Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally clos ...

. Director of the London County Council Radium Centre, Hampstead. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Reginald Blake, . For political and public services in

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

. * Samuel Brighouse, His Majesty's Coroner for South-West Lancashire. * Edmund Ralph Cook, , Secretary to

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 ...

. * Commander Charles Worthington Craven, , Royal Navy (Retd.), Managing Director,

Vickers-Armstrongs Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, w ...

Ltd. * Major Albert James Edmondson, , Member of Parliament for

Banbury Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshir ...

since 1922. For political and public services. *

Alfred William Flux Sir Alfred William Flux (8 April 1867 – 16 July 1942) was a British economist and statistician. Flux was born in the Landport district of Portsmouth in 1867, the son of a cement maker. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School then studied ...

, , Honorary Vice-President (past President) of the

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

. * Captain William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, , Chairman of the Executive Council of St. Dunstan's. For services on behalf of the blind. * Alderman Thomas Edward Higham, . For political and public services in Accrington. * Jesse William Hind. For public services in Nottinghamshire. * John Edward Lloyd, , Emeritus Professor of History at the

University College of North Wales , former_names = University College of North Wales (1884–1996) University of Wales, Bangor (1996–2007) , image = File:Arms_of_Bangor_University.svg , image_size = 250px , caption = Arms ...

, Bangor. * (George) Ian MacAlister, Secretary to the

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supp ...

. * Ronald Wilfred Matthews, . For political and public services in Sheffield. * Ralph Millbourn. For political and public services. *

Walter Hamilton Moberly Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly (20 October 1881 – 31 January 1974) was a British academic. Life The son of the Rev. Robert Campbell Moberly and the grandson of George Moberly, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Moberly w ...

, , Vice-Chancellor,

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

. * Alderman Robert Pattinson, , Member of Parliament for

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

1922-23. For political and public services in Lincolnshire. * Francis Henry Pepper, . For political and public services in Birmingham. * Colonel John Archibald Roxburgh, , President of the

Boys' Brigade The Boys' Brigade (BB) is an international interdenominational Christian youth organisation, conceived by the Scottish businessman Sir William Alexander Smith to combine drill and fun activities with Christian values. Following its inception ...

1919-33. * Frederick William Pascoe Rutter, Chairman of the London & Lancashire Insurance Co., Ltd. Ex-President of the Insurance Institute. * Andrew Scott. For twenty-eight years Secretary to

Lloyd's Register of Shipping Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and ...

. *

Grafton Elliot Smith Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory. He believed in the idea that cultural innovations occur only once and ...

, , Professor of Anatomy in the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

(University College). * Robert Workman Smith, , Member of Parliament for Central Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire since October 1924. For political and public services. *

Waldron Smithers Sir Waldron Smithers (5 October 1880 – 9 December 1954) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a member of Parliament for more than 30 years and an active anti-communist. Early life and family Smithers was educated ...

, , Member of Parliament for Chislehurst since 1924. For political and public services. * John Wilson Taylor, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Pilgrims Association. * Hugh Robert Topping, General Director of the Conservative and Unionist Central Office since 1928. For political services. * Walter James Womersley, , a Lord Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury since 1931. Member of Parliament for

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of L ...

since 1924. ;Dominions * Robert Albert Anderson, . For public services to shipping, education and banking in the Dominion of New Zealand. * The Honourable David Gilbert Ferguson, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court, State of New South Wales; Chairman of the Federal Royal Commission on Taxation, Commonwealth of Australia. * Robert Wilson Knox, Chairman of the Australian National Committee,

International Chamber of Commerce The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC; French: ''Chambre de commerce internationale'') is the largest, most representative business organization in the world. Its over 45 million members in over 100 countries have interests spanning every sec ...

, Commonwealth of Australia. * Charles Edward Saunders, , lately Dominion Cerealist, Dominion of Canada; discoverer of Marquis, Ruby, Reward and Garnet Wheat. * Councillor Harold Gengoult Smith,

Lord Mayor of Melbourne This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a local government area of Victoria, Australia. Mayors (1842–1902) Lord mayors (1902–1980) The title of "Lord Mayor" was conferred on the position of mayor by Ki ...

, State of Victoria. * John Christian Ramsay Sturrock, ,

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 ...

, Basutoland. *

George Henry Wilson George Henry Wilson (December 12, 1893 – October 17, 1988) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hants West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1950 to 1963. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative ...

. For philanthropic services in the Dominion of New Zealand. ;India * Jwala Prasad Srivastava, Minister to the Governor of the United Provinces for Education. * Mr. Justice Gilbert Hollinshead Blomfield Jackson,

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 p ...

Puisne Judge A puisne judge or puisne justice (; from french: puisné or ; , 'since, later' + , 'born', i.e. 'junior') is a dated term for an ordinary judge or a judge of lesser rank of a particular court. Use The term is used almost exclusively in common law ...

of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. * Miles Irving, , Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Punjab. * Major-General James Drummond Graham, ,

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 ...

(Retd.), late Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India. * Maurice William Brayshay, Agent, Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway, Bombay. * Rai Bahadur Satya Charan Mukherjee ,

Zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as ...

, Bengal. * John Arnold Cherry, , Chairman of the Port Commissioners, Rangoon, Burma. *

Albert Howard Sir Albert Howard (8 December 187320 October 1947) was an English botanist. His academic background might have been botany. While working in India he was generally considered a Pathologist; this more than likely being the reason for his consist ...

, , lately Agricultural Adviser to the States in Central India and Rajputana. * William Owen Wright, , Director, Messrs. Parry & Co. Ltd., Madras. * Khan Bahadur Mahbubmiyan Imambaksh Kadri, , Retired District Judge, Bombay. * Rai Bahadur Upendra Nath Brahmachari, Medical Practitioner, Bengal. * Khan Bahadur Dosabhai Hormasji Bhiwandiwalla, Landlord, Bombay. * Maulvi Saiyid Liaqat Ali, Minister in Attendance on His Highness the Nawab of Bhopal, Central India. * Sohrabji Nusserwanji Pochkhanawala, Managing Director of the

Central Bank of India Central Bank of India (CBI) is an Indian public sector bank based in Mumbai. Despite its name, it is not the central bank of India; The Indian central bank is the Reserve Bank of India. History The Central Bank of India was established on ...

Ltd., Bombay. ;Colonies, Protectorates, &c. * Captain Maxwell Hendry Maxwell-Anderson, , Royal Navy (Retd.), Chief Justice, Fiji. * Crawford Douglas Douglas-Jones, , Colonial Secretary, British Guiana. * Brigadier-General Godfrey Dean Rhodes, , Royal Engineers (Retd.), General Manager, Railways & Harbours, Kenya & Uganda. * Arnold Percy Robinson, Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Straits Settlements. For public services. * Salisbury Stanley Spurling, , Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Bermuda. For public services.

Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division * General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd, , Colonel Commandant,

Royal Regiment of 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 ...

Aide-de-Camp General Aide-de-camp general is a senior honorary appointment for generals in the British Army. The recipient is appointed as an aide-de-camp general to the head of state, currently King Charles III. They are entitled to the post-nominals "ADC (Gen.)". T ...

to The King,

Chief of the Imperial General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) has been the title of the professional head of the British Army since 1964. The CGS is a member of both the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Army Board. Prior to 1964, the title was Chief of the Imperial G ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Admiral Lionel George Preston, . * Vice-Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, . * Engineer Vice-Admiral Harold Arthur Brown, . ;;Army * Lieutenant-General Bertram Richard Kirwan, , Retd. pay, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, late

Master-General of the Ordnance The Master-General of the Ordnance (MGO) was a very senior British military position from 1415 to 2013 (except 1855–1895 and 1939–1958) with some changes to the name, usually held by a serving general. The Master-General of the Ordnance was ...

, India. * Lieutenant-General William Henry Bartholomew, , (late Royal Artillery),

Chief of the General Staff, India The Chief of the General Staff, India was a senior military commander in the British Indian Army from 1906 to 1947, and in the independent Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Arme ...

. * Lieutenant-General George Alexander Weir, , Colonel,

3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) The 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was formed in 1922 as part of a reduction in the army's cavalry by the amalgamation of the 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) and the Carab ...

, General Officer Commanding, The

British Troops in Egypt British Troops in Egypt was a command of the British Army. History A British Army commander was appointed in the late 19th century after the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. The British Army remained in Egypt throughout the First World War and, after t ...

. * Lieutenant-General Antony Ernest Wentworth Harman, , Retd. pay, Colonel,

The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) The 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was first raised in 1685 by the Earl of Peterborough as the Earl of Peterborough's Regiment of Horse by merging four existing troops of horse. Renamed several t ...

, late General Officer Commanding, 1st Division. ;Civil Division * Brigadier-General Richard Beale Colvin, , President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Essex. * John Jeffrey, ,

Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Scotland This is a list of Permanent Under-Secretaries for Scotland in the Civil Service. It should not be confused with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. Office The political office of Secretary for Scotland was established in ...

. * Sir John Loader Maffey, , Permanent 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 c ...

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Rear-Admiral Noel Frank Laurence, . * Rear-Admiral

Andrew Browne Cunningham Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC". Cunningham ...

, . * Rear-Admiral

Max Kennedy Horton Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, (29 November 1883 – 30 July 1951) was a British submariner during the First World War and commander-in-chief of the Western Approaches in the later half of the Second World War, responsible for British particip ...

, . * Colonel William Henry Lainson Tripp, , Royal Marines. ;;Army * Major-General Patrick Hagart Henderson, , (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Physician to The King, Director of Hygiene, The War Office. * Major-General Baptist Barton Crozier, , (late Royal Artillery), Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, designate,

43rd (Wessex) Division The 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division was an infantry division of Britain's Territorial Army (TA). The division was first formed in 1908, as the Wessex Division. During the First World War, it was broken-up and never served as a complete formatio ...

, Territorial Army, Southern Command. * Major-General Octavius Henry Lothian Nicholson, , (late The

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. It served under various titles and fought in many wars and conflicts, including both the First and the Second World Wars, from 1680 to 1959. In 1959, the r ...

), Colonel, 1st/ 4th Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army, Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, designate, Deccan District, Southern Command, India. * Major-General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill, , (late The

Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (until 1921 known as the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Lancashire R ...

), Colonel, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Major-General in charge of Administration, Southern Command. * Major-General Llewellyn Isaac Gethin Morgan-Owen, , Colonel, The

South Wales Borderers The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years. It came into existence in England in 1689, as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot, and afterwards had a variety of names and headquarters. I ...

, Major-General in charge of Administration, Eastern Command. * Major-General Andrew Jameson McCulloch, , (late 14th King's Hussars), General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Territorial Army,

Scottish Command Scottish Command or Army Headquarters Scotland (from 1972) is a command of the British Army. History Early history Great Britain was divided into military districts on the outbreak of war with France in 1793. The Scottish District was comman ...

. * Major-General Percy Ryan Conway Commings, , (late The

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

), Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, designate,

56th (1st London) Division The 56th (London) Infantry Division was a Territorial Army infantry division of the British Army, which served under several different titles and designations. The division served in the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War. ...

, Territorial Army, London District. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Frederick Gordon Spring, , (late The

Lincolnshire Regiment The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments ...

), Commander, Poona (Independent) Brigade Area, Southern Command, India. * Major-General Ernest Alexander Walker, , Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to The King, Director of Medical Services, India. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Betham Wilkins Shuttleworth, Indian Army, Commander, Ferozepore Brigade Area, Northern Command, India. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Lionel Peter Collins, , Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to The King, Commandant,

Indian Military Academy The Indian Military Academy (IMA) is one of the oldest military academies in India, and trains officers for the Indian Army. Located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, it was established in 1932 following a recommendation by a military committee set up ...

, India. ;Civil Division * Rear-Admiral Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford. * Surgeon Rear-Admiral

Percival Thomas Nicholls Percival (, also spelled Perceval, Parzival), alternatively called Peredur (), was one of King Arthur's legendary Knights of the Round Table. First mentioned by the French author Chrétien de Troyes in the tale ''Perceval, the Story of the ...

, . * Colonel Percy Reginald Owen Abel Simner, , Territorial Army. * Honorary Colonel Francis Killigrew Seymour Metford, , (Lieutenant-Colonel, Retd., Territorial Army), Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Gloucester. * Alfred Richard Ainsworth, Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Education. * William Barrowclough Brown, , Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. * Crawfurd Wilfrid Griffin Eady, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour. * Wing Commander Eric John Hodsoll, Royal Air Force, Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence. * Reginald Edward Stradling, , Director of Building & Road Research,

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, abbreviated DSIR was the name of several British Empire organisations founded after the 1923 Imperial Conference to foster intra-Empire trade and development. * Department of Scientific and Industria ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ralph Verney, , Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills and Taxing Officer, House of Commons. Acting Secretary to the Speaker. ;Additional Companion * Major the Honourable Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, , Equerry and Assistant Private Secretary to His Majesty The King since 1920.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

* Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir George Frederick Stanley, ,

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 b ...

and Acting

Governor-General of India The Governor-General of India (1773–1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom and after Indian independence in 1 ...

. * Field-Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, , Commander-in-Chief, India.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

* Sir Frank Noyce, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. * Major His Highness Raje Bahadur Shrimant Khem Savant Bhonsle, alias Bapu Saheb, Raja of

Savantvadi Sawantwadi is a taluka (a unit of administration) in the Sindhudurg district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The taluka headquarters is Sawantwadi which has a municipal council, which is a local civic body. Sawantwadi was formerly the capi ...

Deccan States Agency The Deccan States Agency, also known as the Deccan States Agency and Kolhapur Residency, was a political agency of British India, managing the relations of the British government of the Bombay Presidency with a collection of princely states and ...

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

* Maurice Garnier Hallett, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department. * Geoffrey Thomas Hirst Bracken, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras. * Philip Cubitt Tallents, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa. * Richard Henry Beckett, , Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, Bombay. * Paul Joseph Patrick, Assistant Secretary, Political Department (Internal), India Office.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* Sir Alfred Claud Hollis, , Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad & Tobago. * The Right Honourable Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary in Berlin.

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

* Sir Edward Davson, . For services in connection with the economic problems of the Colonies. * Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly, , Chief Commissioner, Resident, & Commander-in-Chief, Aden. *

Ambrose Thomas Stanton Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton (14 November 1875 – 25 January 1938) was a Canadian surgeon, entomologist and health administrator who helped to identify the cause of beri-beri. He later became Chief Medical Adviser to the British Secretary of State ...

, , Chief Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. *

Mark Aitchison Young Sir Mark Aitchison Young (楊慕琦, 30 June 1886 – 12 May 1974) was a British administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong during the years immediately before and after the Japanese occupation of the territory. Early life, service in ...

, , Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Barbados & its Dependencies. * Gerald Campbell, , His Majesty's Consul-General in New York. * The Honourable Sir

Edgar Rennie Bowring Sir Edgar Rennie Bowring (17 August 1858 – 23 June 1943) was a Newfoundland businessman and politician. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland the grandson of Benjamin Bowring and cousin of Charles R. Bowring. Between 1918 and 1922 ...

, , High Commissioner for Newfoundland 1918-22, and since 1933. * The Honourable John Cameron McPhee, lately Premier and Treasurer, State of Tasmania. * Claude Hill Reading, Chairman of the Board of the Commonwealth Bank, Commonwealth of Australia.

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

* The Reverend Canon Sidney Arthur Alexander, , Canon and Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral. For services in connection with the annual service of the Order of Saint Michael & Saint George. * Noel Gray Frere, Provincial Commissioner, Sierra Leone. * Edward Butler Home, , Provincial Commissioner, Kenya. * William Edgar Hunt, , Commissioner of the Colony and Commissioner of Lands, Nigeria. * Colonel Geoffrey Archibald Prentice Maxwell, , Royal Engineers (Retd.), General Manager, Railways,

Tanganyika Territory Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 to 1961. It was initially administered under a military occupation regime. From 20 July 1922, it was formalised into a L ...

. * Robert Howson Murray, Provincial Commissioner,

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 ...

. * Malcolm Bond Shelley, British Resident, Perak, Federated Malay States. * Roy Godfrey Bullen Spicer, , Inspector General of Police & Prisons, Palestine. * Professor Robert Scott Troup, , Professor of Forestry, Oxford University. For services to forestry in the colonies. * Major Hanns Vischer, , Joint Secretary and Member of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. * Arthur Evelyn Weatherhead, Provincial Commissioner,

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 Bri ...

. *

Laurence Collier Sir Laurence Collier KCMG (1890–1976) was the British ambassador to Norway between 1939 and 1950, including the period when Norway's government was in exile in London during the Second World War. Biography Laurence Collier was the son of the ar ...

, Counsellor in the Foreign Office. * Henry Fitzmaurice, , His Majesty's Consul-General at

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

. * John Berkeley Monck, , His Majesty's Assistant Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps. * Thomas Maitland Snow, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Madrid. * Reginald Keble Winter, Secretary for Education & Health, Sudan Government. * Arthur Clement Bagshawe, Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Lands,

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 kno ...

. * William James Clemens, , Commissioner, Public Services Board, Commonwealth of Australia. * James Christie, , Parliamentary Law Draughtsman, Dominion of New Zealand. * Reginald Malet de Carteret, Lieutenant Bailiff of Jersey and

Jurat The ''jurats'' () are lay people in Guernsey and Jersey who act as judges of fact rather than law, though they preside over land conveyances and liquor licensing. In Alderney, however, the jurats are judges of both fact and law (assisted by the ...

of the

Royal Court of Jersey The Royal Court is the principal and oldest court in Jersey, and exercises both criminal and civil jurisdiction. It can sit in a number of configurations, depending on the type of case and the powers to be exercised. History The Court has its ...

. * Noel Elmslie, His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in the Union of South Africa. * George William Hutchison,

Mayor of Auckland The Mayor of Auckland is the directly elected head of the Auckland Council, the local government authority for the Auckland Region in New Zealand, which it controls as a unitary authority. The position exists since October 2010 after the amal ...

, Dominion of New Zealand. * Alexander Johnston, lately Deputy Minister of Marine, Dominion of Canada. * David Crichton Lamb, Commissioner of the Salvation Army. For services in connection with emigration and Empire settlement. * Ernest Joseph Lemaire, Clerk of the King's Privy Council, Dominion of Canada. * Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Miltiades Mullen, , President of the Returned Sailors' & Soldiers' League, State of Tasmania. * Henry Arthur Pitt, , Director of Finance, State of Victoria. * The Honourable

William James Roche William James Roche, (30 November 1859 – 30 September 1937) was a Canadian politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for the Manitoba riding of Marquette in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1917. Born in Clandeboye, Ca ...

, , Member of the King's Privy Council, and Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Dominion of Canada. *

Duncan Campbell Scott Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets. A career ...

, , lately Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Dominion of Canada. ;Honorary Companion * His Highness Tengku Ibrahim ibni Almerhum Sultan Mohamed IV, Raja of Kelantan,

Malay States The monarchies of Malaysia refer to the constitutional monarchy system as practised in Malaysia. The political system of Malaysia is based on the Westminster parliamentary system in combination with features of a federation. Nine of the state ...

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

* Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din, , Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bengal. * Edward Arthur Henry Blunt, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the

Governor of the United Provinces This is a list of governors of the United Provinces and the precursor offices associated with that title from the provisional establishment of the Governor of Agra in 1833 until the province was renamed as Uttar Pradesh when India became offi ...

. * Sir Ernest Burdon, , Indian Civil Service,

Auditor-General A comptroller (pronounced either the same as ''controller'' or as ) is a management-level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization. A financial comptroller is a senior-level execut ...

in India. * Sir James Macdonald Dunnett, , Indian Civil Service, Reforms Commissioner, Government of India, on deputation to India Office. *

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 ...

Sir Bisheshar Das Daga, Head of the firm of Rai Bahadur Seth Bansilal Abirchand, Bankers,

Nagpur Nagpur (pronunciation: aːɡpuːɾ is the third largest city and the winter capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nagpur is projected to ...

, Central Provinces.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

* Raja Bahadur Jawahir Singh, Raja of Sarangarh,

Eastern States Agency The Eastern States Agency was an agency or grouping of princely states in eastern India, during the latter years of the Indian Empire. It was created in 1933, by the unification of the former Chhattisgarh States Agency and the Orissa States Agen ...

. * Rana Shri Chhatrasalji, Thakore of Kadana, Gujarat States Agency. *

Malcolm Lyall Darling Sir Malcolm Lyall Darling (10 December 1880 – 1 January 1969) was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) who was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Punjab, British India, in 1904. Having held numerous other posts, he became Financia ...

, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner,

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

. * Henry Challen Greenfield, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner,

Berar Berar may refer to: *Vidarbha, the eastern region of Maharashtra Province, India, historically known as Berar *Berar Sultanate (1490–1596), one of the Deccan sultanates *Berar Subah (1596–1724), a Subah of the Mughal Empire *Berar Province (1724 ...

, Central Provinces. * John William Kelly, Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Controller of the Currency,

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

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 ...

. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Raymond Somerville Scott, Indian Army, Director of Remounts, Army Headquarters, India. * Major Nawab Ahmed Nawaz Khan, , of

Dera Ismail Khan Dera Ismail Khan (; bal, , Urdu and skr, , ps, ډېره اسماعيل خان), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital of Dera Ismail Khan District, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 37th largest city of Pakistan ...

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. Followi ...

. * Hugh Meggison Hood, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras, Finance Department. * Stephen Harris Covernton, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Revenue Department. * Robert Niven Gilchrist, Indian Educational Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Commerce & Marine Departments, and Labour Commissioner, Bengal. * Frederick Canning,

Indian Forest Service The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India. The other two All India Services being the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service. It was constituted in the year 1966 und ...

, Chief Conservator of Forests, United Provinces. * Captain Edward Heath Dauglish, lately Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer Commanding,

Royal Indian Marine Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a c ...

. * John Matthew Blackwood Stuart, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Irrigation Branch,

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. * Patrick Edward Aitchison, Indian Forest Department, Chief Conservator of Forests, Bombay Presidency. * Lieutenant-Colonel John Alfred Steele Phillips, Indian Medical Service, Director of Public Health, Bihar and Orissa. * Frank Thomas de Monte, Chief Engineer, Posts & Telegraphs. * William McRae, , Indian Agricultural Service, Director and Imperial Mycologist, Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research, Pusa. * Captain Archie William Ibbotson, , Indian Civil Service, lately Revenue Minister,

Alwar State Alwar State was a kingdom from 1770 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1947. Initially its capital was Macheri and then the city of Alwar. The nobility of Alwar State belonged to the Naruka branch of the Kachwaha dynas ...

. * Albert James Mainwaring, Indian Civil Service, District Magistrate and Collector, Monghyr, Bihar and Orissa. * Major George Van Baerle Gillan, of the Political Department, Political Agent, Gilgit. * Brevet-Major Harry Hall Johnson, of the Political Department, Political Agent,

South Waziristan South Waziristan District ( ps, سويلي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) was a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before splitting in to Lower South Waziristan District and Upper South Waziristan District and ...

, North-West Frontier Province. * Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Holmes King, Indian Medical Service, Director, King Institute,

Guindy Guindy is one of the most important neighborhoods of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and is nicknamed as ''The Gateway to Chennai''. The Kathipara junction where Anna Salai, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Inner Ring Road, 100 Feet Road or Jawaharlal Nehru Ro ...

, Madras. * Archibald Douglas Gordon, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bakarganj Range,

Bengal Presidency The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William and later Bengal Province, was a subdivision of the British Empire in India. At the height of its territorial jurisdiction, it covered large parts of what is now South Asia and ...

. * Eric Llewellyn Marriott, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Northern Range, Bihar and Orissa. * Sydney Herbert Bigsby, Indian Service of Engineers, recently Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, and Trade Member of the Jaipur State Council, now Superintending Engineer, Punjab. *

John Matthai John Matthai CIE (1886–1959) was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister, taking office shortly after the presentation of India's first Budget, in 1948. He was born on January 10 ...

, Indian Educational Service, President, Indian Tariff Board, Madras. * Vincent Aubrey Stewart Stow, Indian Educational Service, Principal, Mayo College, Ajmer,

Ajmer-Merwara Ajmer-Merwara, also known as Ajmir Province and as Ajmer-Merwara-Kekri, was a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region. The territory was ceded to the British by Daulat Rao Sindhia by a treaty on 25 June 1818. It was u ...

. * William Roberts, Managing Director, British Cotton Growing Association, Khanewal,

Multan District Multan District ( ur, ), is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan it had a population of 3,116,851 (1.315 million or 42.2% in urban areas). Its capital is the city of Multan. The district of ...

, Punjab. * Alasdair Fraser Stuart, Manager, Kumbhir Tea Estate, Cachar, Chairman, Surma Valley Branch, Indian Tea Association,

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 ...

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* John Charles, Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, . * Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman, Viscount Allenby, . * Sir Milsom Rees, . * Edward Robert Peacock.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Sir Reginald Ward Edward Lane Poole. * The Honourable Montague Charles Eliot, . * Maurice Alan Cassidy, .

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* Brigadier-General Sir Smith Hill Child, . * Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Hamnet Holditch Share, . * Hubert Stanley Martin, . * Henry McGrady Bell, . * Louis Francis Roebuck Knuthsen, . * Charles Henry Collins Baker.

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

* Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Garnett Atkinson. * Major Douglas William Alexander Dalziel Mackenzie, . * Major Humphrey Butler, , (Dated 25 April 1934.) * Jean Marie Claude Barlerin, .

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

* John Robert Baxter Hayward, . * Fred Harry Casswell. * Arthur George Beckett.

Order of the British Empire

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

;Civil Division * Sir

Alan Garrett Anderson Sir Alan Garrett Anderson (9 March 1877 – 4 May 1952) was a British civil servant, politician and shipowner. Early life and career Anderson was born in 1877 to James George Skelton Anderson and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Anderson's father ...

, , a former President of the Chamber of Shipping and of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Has rendered valuable services to Government Departments. * Sir

John Charles Walsham Reith John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, (; 20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971), was a British broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922, he was employed by th ...

, , Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation. * Colonel

Nawab Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب; bn, নবাব/নওয়াব; hi, नवाब; Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ; Persian, Punjabi , Sindhi, Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, ...

Malik Sir

Umar Hayat Khan ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate o ...

, Tiwana, , lately Member of the Council of India.

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

;Civil Division * Elizabeth Mary Cadbury, . For educational and social services. * Alicia Frances Jane Lloyd Still, , President of the

International Council of Nurses The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations. It was founded in 1899 and was the first international organization for health care professionals. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerl ...

. Matron of St Thomas' Hospital.

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

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral Barry Edward Domvile, . ;;Army * Major-General Leopold Charles Louis Oldfield, , Retd. pay (late Royal Artillery), late General Officer Commanding, Malaya. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Marshal Robert Hamilton Clark-Hall, . ;Civil Division * Sir Thomas Robinson, , until recently Chairman of the Dyestuffs Advisory Licensing Committee under the Dyestuffs (Import Regulation) Act. Chairman of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority. * Frederick Grant Banting, , of the Dominion of Canada, discoverer of insulin. * Philip Henry Macarthur Goldfinch, lately Chairman of the British Settlers' Welfare Committee, State of New South Wales.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Engineer Rear-Admiral John Henry Hocken, (Retd.) ;;Army * Colonel William Shand Mackenzie, , Royal Army Pay Corps, Chief Paymaster, Aldershot Command. * Colonel George Parson, , Commandant, Defence Force, Southern Rhodesia. * Colonel Thomas Charles Sinclair (late Royal Artillery), Commandant, School of Anti-Aircraft Defence. * Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel William Benjamin Butler Thorns, , Regular Army Reserve of Officers (late

New Zealand Staff Corps The New Zealand Staff Corps was a corps of professional officers in the regular New Zealand Military Forces which, in peacetime, administered the Territorial Force. During the First and Second World Wars, many members of the corps commanded b ...

), late Commandant, Shanghai Volunteer Corps. ;;Royal Air Force * Air Commodore

John Tremayne Babington Air Marshal Sir John Tremayne Babington, (20 July 1891 – 20 March 1979) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he retired and the following year changed his name to Tremayne, his mother's maiden name, to avoid confusion with ...

, . * Group Captain Edward Cecil Clements, . ;Civil Division * John Crosthwaite Bridge, , Senior Medical Inspector of Factories, Home Office. * Beatrice Anna Cartwright, . For political and public services in Northamptonshire. * Captain

Geoffrey de Havilland Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. The aircraft company he founded produced the Mosquito, which has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built, ...

, , Director and Designer, The

de Havilland Aircraft Company The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited () was a British aviation manufacturer established in late 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome Edgware on the outskirts of north London. Operations were later moved to Hatfield in H ...

. * Elsie Fogerty, , Founder and Principal of the Central School of Speech Training & Dramatic Art. * Clayre Anstruther-Gray, , ex-Chairman, Central Council,

Scottish Women's Rural Institutes The Scottish Women's Institutes (SWI), informally called ''"the Rural"'', is a registered charity which promotes the preservation of Scotland's traditions and rural heritage, particularly in the sphere of household activities. It does so by means ...

. * John Peter Hilton, Manager of the Birmingham Municipal Savings Bank. * Cyril Arthur Liddon Lewis, Registrar,

HM Land Registry His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. It reports to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strateg ...

. * Loughnan St. Lawrence Pendred, Editor-in-Chief of '' The Engineer''. * Albert Reginald Powys, , Secretary of the

Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) (also known as Anti-Scrape) is an amenity society founded by William Morris, Philip Webb, and others in 1877 to oppose the destructive 'restoration' of ancient buildings occurring in ...

. * John Thomas Richards, , Chairman of the Cardiff Court of Referees under the Unemployment Insurance Acts. * Richard Jefferson Simpson, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. * Leonard James Spencer, , Keeper of Minerals,

British Museum (Natural History) The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

. * Charles James Gerrard Tate, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions. * Henry Milnes Walker, . For political and public services in Barnsley. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Abbot, a British resident in Paris. * William Lawrence Balls, , Chief Botanist, Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture. * Herbert George Chick, , lately His Majesty's Consul-General at

Salonica Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

. * Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison, , lately

Dean of Women The dean of women at a college or university in the United States is the dean with responsibility for student affairs for female students. In early years, the position was also known by other names, including preceptress, lady principal, and adviser ...

, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Dominion of Canada. * Mary Elizabeth Waagen Allan. For services in connection with crippled children, public health and welfare in the Dominion of Canada. * William Henry Chase, , Chief Veterinary and Agricultural Officer,

Bechuanaland Protectorate The Bechuanaland Protectorate () was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) in Southern Africa. It became the Republi ...

. * Colonel the Honourable Harold Edward Cohen, , Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. * Mary Winnifred Kydd, , President of the National Council of Women, Dominion of Canada. * Alice Mabel Moss, , President of the National Council of Women, Commonwealth of Australia. * Très Honorée Mère Marie-Anna Piché, Supérieure Générale des Soeurs de la Charité de l'Hôpital Général, "Soeurs Grises" de Montreal, Dominion of Canada. * John Reid Rowland, Mayor of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. * Margaret Marshall Saunders, . In recognition of services for the Humane Society, Dominion of Canada. * Robert Percy Ward, lately Under Secretary, Justice Department, Dominion of New Zealand. * Frederick William Brunton, Surveyor General,

British Honduras British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,

. * Sydney Herbert Fazan, , Senior District Commissioner,

Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...

. * Frederick Claud Marriott, , lately Director of Education, Trinidad. * William Henry Peacock, , Deputy Director of Health Services, Nigeria. * Brevet-Colonel Percy Reginald Worrall, , Officer Commanding,

King's Own Malta Regiment The King's Own Malta Regiment was a territorial infantry regiment on the British Army colonial list prior to Malta's independence. It was formed in 1801 as the "Regiment of Maltese Militia", existing only until the following year. It was reformed ...

. For services as Island Commissioner, Boy Scouts, Malta. ;Honorary Commander * Abdullahi Bayero,

Emir of Kano Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cerem ...

, Nigeria.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Commander Robert Collet Woollerton. * Lieutenant-Commander Robert Foley Knight. * Lieutenant-Commander Frank Percival Busbridge, . * Engineer Commander Robert Harry Withey. * Paymaster Commander David Sidney Lambert. * Captain Eric Elgood, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. ;;Army * Captain & Brevet Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) John Edmund Hugh Boustead, , The

Gordon Highlanders Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gord ...

, attached Sudan Defence Force. * Captain (local Major) John Agutta Brawn, 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 ...

, Officer Commanding, The Gambia Company,

Royal 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 recognitio ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel & Brevet Colonel William Moncrieff Carr, , Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Honorary Colonel, 55th West Lancashire Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * Ethel Rose Collins, , Principal Matron,

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military 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 ...

, Army Medical Directorate, The War Office. * Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Valence Comyn, ,

Indian Army Service Corps The Indian Army Service Corps (IASC) is a corps and an arm of the Indian Army which handles its logistic support function. It is the oldest and the largest administrative service in the Indian Army. While the history of supply and transport serv ...

, Assistant Director of Supplies & Transport,

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 i ...

, India. * Temporary Captain Bernard Coombs, Royal Engineers, attached Royal Corps of Signals, Western Command. * Captain John Mervyn Cox, , Royal Army Service Corps, Assistant Military Landing Officer,

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

. * Major Harold Somerville Gordon, 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 ...

. * Major Leonard Horace Charles Hatton, , Retd. pay, Reserve of Officers, 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, attached Egyptian Army, Officer Commanding, Camel Corps and Car Patrols, Frontiers Administration. * Major (Quarter-Master) Frederick Judge, 4th/5th Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers, Territorial Army. * Captain Denis Patrick Joseph Kelly, ,

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 ...

, Chief Instructor, Army School of Education, India. * Major & Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Douglas Lidderdale, , late 94th (

Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response to the growing threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars. It gained its first ro ...

), Army Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. * Colonel Walter Lister, , late Assistant Director of Medical Services,

49th (West Riding) Division The 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army. The division fought in the First World War in the trenches of the Western Front, in the fields of France and Flanders. During the Second World War, the divis ...

, Territorial Army. * Major (Quarter-Master) William Henry Lowe, 1st Battalion, The

Durham Light Infantry The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and t ...

. * Major Paul Anthony Meade, , 3rd Battalion (Sikhs), 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Officer-in-Charge, Baluchistan Intelligence Bureau. * Lieutenant-Colonel George Christian Meredith, , Officer Commanding, 1st Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force. * Major (Quarter-Master) Frederick Montague Augustus Morris, , Extra Regimentally Employed List, Camp Commandant, Egypt. * Major (Quarter-Master) John William Porter, , 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army. * Major (Quarter-Master) Charles Frederick Schoon, , 7th City of London Regiment (

Post Office Rifles The Post Office Rifles was a unit of the British Army, first formed in 1868 from volunteers as part of the Volunteer Force, which later became the Territorial Force (and later the Territorial Army). The unit evolved several times until 1921, aft ...

), Territorial Army. * Major & Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, 2nd Class, William Auchinleck Stack, ,

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 ...

, Chief Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, Malta. * Major Douglas Henry Steers, Royal Engineers, Staff Officer to Chief Engineer, Eastern Command. * Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Matthias Arthur Ward, , Commanding, Suffolk Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. ;;Royal Air Force * Wing Commander Alexander Shekleton, . * Wing Commander Francis Percival Don. * Squadron Leader Robert Jope-Slade, . * Squadron Leader Robert Parker Musgrave Whitham, . * Squadron Leader William Forster Dickson, . ;Civil Division * Andrew Newton Anderson, Permanent Secretary to the Supreme Court of Judicature, Northern Ireland, and Clerk of the Crown, Northern Ireland. * Percy Stanley Brandon, Chief Accountant,

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 ...

. * Major Crossley St. John Broadbent, , Chairman of the Blackburn, Clitheroe & District War Pensions Committee. * Alderman Richard Brodie. For political and public services in

Mile End Mile End is a district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London, England, east-northeast of Charing Cross. Situated on the London-to-Colchester road, it was one of the earliest suburbs of London. It became part of the m ...

. * Clement Guy Caines, , Principal,

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 ...

. * Ina Marjorie Gwendolin, Lady George Cholmondeley, Secretary of the National Birthday Trust Fund. * Arthur Disbrowe Cotton, Keeper of the Herbarium and Library,

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...

. * Isabella Martha Drummond, , Head Mistress,

North London Collegiate School North London Collegiate School (NLCS) is an independent school with a day school for girls in England. Founded in Camden Town, it is now located in Edgware, in the London Borough of Harrow. Associate schools are located in South Korea, Jeju I ...

. * Robert Broomfield Dyer, , ex-Provost of Stranraer. For public services. * Emily Helen Ekins, , Principal of Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women. * Harold Fieldhouse, Public Assistance Officer, City of Leeds. * Edgar Hamilton Frazer, , His Majesty's Divisional Inspector of Mines, Scotland Division. * James Glen, , Assistant Chief Valuer (Scotland),

Board of 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 ...

. * Stanley Vernon Goodall, , Assistant

Director of Naval Construction The Director of Naval Construction (DNC) also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Construction and Directorate of Naval Construction and originally known as the Chief Constructor of the Navy was a senior principal civil officer resp ...

. * Alderman Joseph Crookes Grime, . For political and public services in Manchester. * Stanley Albert Hector, Chief Constable, Coventry City Police. * Harry Hughes Herman, Chief Constable, York City Police. * Harry Edward Hewitt, , Second Medical Officer, General Post Office. * John Douglas Johnstone, Head Master, Staffordshire Boys' School, Werrington, a Home Office School. * George Arthur Jones, Principal,

. * John Henry Jones, Finance Officer & Accountant, Department of Overseas Trade. * Lancelot Herman Keay, , Director of Housing of the City of Liverpool. * William Dow Kennedy, , , Director of Education to the Banff Education Authority. * William Louis Lawton, , Representative of the Trustee Savings Banks' Association on the National Savings Committee. * George Leigh, , Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages for Bucklow. * Thomas Mann, , Chairman of the Dumbarton War Pensions Committee. * Tasman Millington, Area Superintendent (Eastern District) (Gallipoli),

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 ...

. * John Moir, Depute, and until recently Interim Principal, Clerk of Session. * Kevern Ivor Morgan, . For political and public services in Swansea. * John Oliver, , Chairman of the Gateshead Juvenile Advisory Committee. * John Beaumont Phelps, lately Secretary to the Irish Lights Commissioners. * Hester Robins. For political and public services in Devonshire. * George Edward Shepherd, Principal, India Office. * Captain Donald Petrie Simson, Honorary Secretary, British Empire Service League, an organisation for assisting ex-Servicemen throughout the Empire. *

Annie Lorrain Smith Annie Lorrain Smith (23 October 1854 – 7 September 1937) was a British lichenologist whose ''Lichens'' (1921) was an essential textbook for several decades. She was also a mycologist and founder member of the British Mycological Society, wh ...

, . For contributions to

mycology Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogen ...

and

lichenology Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a filamentous fungus. Study of lichens draws knowledge from several ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Percy Smith, Royal Engineers (Retd.), Technical Adviser to the Director General of the Territorial Army. * Archie Roberts Stevens, Head Master, Jarrow Secondary School. * Alderman George James Thrasher, , Chairman of the Aylesbury Guardians Committee of the Buckinghamshire

Public Assistance Committee A Public Assistance Committee (PAC), in the UK, was a body locally created after the abolition of the boards of guardians in 1930 by the Local Government Act 1929, when their powers and responsibilities for poor relief were passed to county and ...

. * James Gumming Wynnes, , Architect, His Majesty's Office of Works and Public Buildings. * The Reverend John Irwin Brown, , Scots Presbyterian Minister at Rotterdam. * Henry Cave Ayles Carpenter, , Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Berne. * Donald St. Clair Gainer, His Majesty's Consul-General at Munich. * Katherine Stewart MacPhail, , member of the British community in Belgrade. * Thomas Hildebrand Preston, His Majesty's Consul and Chargé d'Affaires ''ad interim'' at Kovno. * Frank Edmund Stafford, Financial Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Bagdad. * Harold Couch Swan, His Majesty's Consul-General at

Léopoldville Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of ...

. * Sydney George Barker, . For research services to the Empire Marketing Board. * Edwin Lister Brittain. For honorary services for the Patriotic Fund of the Dominion of Canada. * The Reverend James Henry Cain. For social welfare work in the State of Victoria. * William James Coogan. For services in connection with Roman Catholic social movements in the State of New South Wales. * Mabelle Grant Cooper, Member of the British Settlers' Welfare Committee, State of New South Wales. * Lilian Airee Foster, formerly Secretary to the Welfare Committee of the New Settlers' League, State of Victoria. * Theophilus Cecil Fynn, Magistrate and Civil Commissioner of

Bulawayo Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council ...

, Southern Rhodesia. * The Reverend Canon David John Garland, Director of Immigration for the Church of England, and President of the New Settlers' League, State of Queensland. * The Honourable Abraham Kean. For services in connection with the sealing industry of Newfoundland extending for over sixty years. * Lorna Priscilla Leatham, Honorary Treasurer of the Yorkshire Voluntary Migration Committee. * Ada Florence Manning, President of the Women's Immigration Auxiliary Council, and Member of the Executive of the Victoria League, State of Western Australia. * Nancy Consett Stephen, . For services in connection with the

Red Cross Society The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the world's largest group of non-governmental organizations working on humanitarian aid, is composed of the following bodies: *The ''International Committee of the Red Cross'' (ICRC), a comm ...

and blinded ex-soldiers in the Commonwealth of Australia. * Khan Bahadur Elatt Valiagath Amu Sahib Bahadur, Indian Police, Officiating District Superintendent of Police, Madras. * Arthur Alexander Bryant, Assistant General Superintendent, The Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Jamshedpur, Bihar and Orissa. * Evan Victor Creak, , lately Officer Supervisor, Adjutant-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India. * Mark Daniels, Controller, India Store Department, London. * Rai Bahadur Shambhu Chandra Dutta, Vice-Chairman, District Board, Midnapore,

. * Philip Edmund Stanley Finney, Indian Police, Superintendent, Detention Jail, Deoli (

). * Lachlan Colvile Patrick MacAlpine Grant, Divisional Engineer, Telegraphs,

Patna Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

. * Khan Bahadur Muhammad Abdul Kader Makawi, Merchant, Aden. * Llewellyn Charles Fletcher Mathieson, Railway Concentration Officer, Army Headquarters, India. * Walter Henry Meyrick, Planter and Estate Manager, Bihar and Orissa. * Khan Bahadur Khwaja Abdur Rahman, Director of Public Health,

. * William Norman Richardson, , Bombay Civil Service, City Magistrate,

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...

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-m ...

. * Robert Baker, Manager and Chief Engineer,

Kowloon–Canton Railway The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR; ) was a railway network in Hong Kong.Legislative Council information paper CB(1)357/07-08(0 THB(T) CR 8/986/00, CB(1)1749/07-08(0/ref> It was owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCR ...

, Hong Kong. * Joseph Terence de la Mothe, Nominated Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Grenada,

Windward Islands french: Îles du Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Windward Islands. Clockwise: Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean Sea No ...

. For public services. * George Gaggero, , Member of the City Council and formerly Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of

Gibraltar ) , anthem = " God Save the King" , song = " Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg , map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe , map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green , mapsize = , image_map2 = Gib ...

. For public services. * Harold George Hitchcock, , formerly Chairman of the Railway Commission,

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...

. For public services. * John Arthur Stuart Jennings, . For public and charitable services in the Federated Malay States. * Hugh Llewelyn Jones. For public services in

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ge ...

. * Charles Norman Lewis, lately Member of the Expenditure Advisory Committee,

Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...

. For public services. * John Walker MacGillivray, Surveyor-General and Sub-Intendant of Crown Lands,

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

. * George Maclean, , Sleeping Sickness Officer,

. * Charles Victor Magill, Director of Posts & Telegraphs, Somaliland Protectorate. * Henry Mason, Chief Accountant, Railway,

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 ...

. * Ernest Alfred Nattriss, Deputy Head of the Shipping Department of the Crown Agents for the Colonies. For services as Shipping Officer to the

Discovery Committee The Discovery Committee was a popular name for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands established by the British Government to carry out scientific investigations (which became known as ‘Discovery Investigati ...

. * Colin Raeburn, , Assistant Director, Geological Survey Department,

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

. * Harry Patrick Rice, Deputy Inspector General, Criminal Investigation Department, Palestine. * Major Hubert Craddock Stevenson, , District Officer, Nigeria. * John Trimingham Trimingham, Colonial Treasurer,

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 = , es ...

. * James Turner, Collector of Customs,

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

. * Captain Percy Redesdale Wardroper, , Commissioner of Police, Northern Rhodesia. * George Williams, Unofficial Member of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council of

St. 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 Amerin ...

. For public services. * Charles Campbell Woolley, , Officer of Class II of the Ceylon Civil Service. ;Honorary Officer * Selim Effendi Hanna, MBE, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Signal Lieutenant William Thomas Burt. *

Boatswain A boatswain ( , ), bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a deck boss, or a qualified member of the deck department, is the most senior rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull. The boatswain supervise ...

Henry Havelock Cook. * Warrant

Master-at-Arms A Master-at-Arms (US: MA; UK & some Commonwealth: MAA) may be a naval rating, responsible for law enforcement, regulating duties, security, anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP) for/of a country's navy; an army officer responsible for physical ...

Albert Briggs Jenkins. * Commissioned Engineer James Douglas Garden Bonham, . * Paymaster Lieutenant George Henry Iles, (Retd.) ;;Army * Captain Stanley Acheson, Royal Army Service Corps. * Captain (Deputy Commissary) Frederick William Austin, India Miscellaneous List, Quarter-Master-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India. * Captain Edwin Maurice Blake, Royal Engineers, Adjutant,

Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners The Bombay Engineer Group, or the ''Bombay Sappers'' as they are informally known, are a regiment of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Bombay Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Bombay Presidency army of the British Raj. ...

. * No. 7718812 Warrant Officer, Class I, Superintending Clerk George Cody, Small Arms School Corps, Netheravon. * No. 3434840 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major Thomas Augustine Cusack, 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 28 ...

, late Instructor, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force. * No. 5429106 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major William Bartlett Fife, late 2nd Battalion, The

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, by the merger of the 32nd (Cornwall Light ...

. * No. 5094464 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant James Gibbs, 1st Battalion, The

Royal Warwickshire Regiment The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. The regiment saw service in many conflicts and wars, including the Second Boer War ...

. * No. 1852854 Warrant Officer, Class II, Mechanist Quartermaster-Sergeant Charles Francis Brind Green, Royal Engineers, Egypt. * No. 5174418 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Albert William Gregory, 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army. * No. 5610627 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major George Charles Grimes, 4th Battalion, The

Devonshire Regiment The Devonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served under various titles and served in many wars and conflicts from 1685 to 1958, such as the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. In 1958 ...

, Territorial Army. * No. 2208084 Warrant Officer, Class II, Mechanist Quartermaster-Sergeant Henry Edward Harris, 27th (London) Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army. * No. S/7249 Warrant Officer, Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major George Harry Heathcote, late Royal Army Service Corps, China. * Conductor Bertram Holmes, Indian Corps of Clerks, India Unattached List, Superintending Clerk, Lucknow District, India. * No. 2555438 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major William Henry Hooper, 54th (East Anglian) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army. * No. 1412943 Warrant Officer, Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant Artillery Clerk Charles Joseph Lawrence, Royal Artillery, Eastern Command. * No. 528320 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Henry Albert Lee, The

Northumberland Hussars The Northumberland Hussars was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, transferred to the Royal Artillery for the duration of the Second World War. It was disbanded as an independent Territorial Army unit in 1967, a time when the strength of t ...

, Territorial Army. * Captain (Director of Music) George John Miller, ,

Grenadier Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , colors = , colors_label = , march = Slow: " Scipio" , mascot = , equipment = , equipment ...

. * Captain (Deputy Commissary) Eugene William Newman,

, No. 13 District Supply Company, Bombay. * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Patrick Edward Nolan, Royal Corps of Signals (Indian Army), 1st Indian Divisional Signals, Rawalpindi. * No. 4601997 Warrant Officer, Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant (Orderly Room Sergeant) Thomas Norman, 1st Battalion, The

Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division. In 1702, Colonel George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was authorised to raise a new regiment, which he di ...

. * Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major George Thomas Padgett,

Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) (RHKR(V)) ()), formed in May 1854, was a local auxiliary militia force funded and administered by the colonial Government of Hong Kong. Its powers and duties were mandated by the Royal Hong Kong R ...

. * Captain Arthur Cyril Lawes Parry, , 2nd Battalion,

The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) 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 (Quarter-Master) John Pemberton, half-pay, late attached The

. * No. 7720735 Warrant Officer, Class I, Instructor (Educational) William McEwan Pirie,

, Malta. * No. 7574188 Warrant Officer, Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Sidney Edward Richardson, 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisional Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army. *

Risaldar Risaldar, meaning the commander of a ''risala'' or ''risalah'' (a body of horse, regardless if troop or regiment) in Persian, is a mid-level rank in cavalry and armoured units of the Indian and Pakistan Army. In other arms, such as the infantry, t ...

& Honorary Captain Sardar Khan, 20th Lancers, Adjutant and Quarter-Master, Prince of Wales's Royal Indian Military College,

Dehra Dun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislativ ...

, India. * No. 4961495 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Arthur Stevenson, late 1st Battalion, The

Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to ...

. * Sub-Conductor Gerald Bryan Urquhart, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, India Unattached List. * No. T/27447 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major or (Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major) Charles Francis Vanderwerff, 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army. * No. 2646398 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles Edward Vaughan, 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). * Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) David Abraham Warman, 5th Battalion, The

, Territorial Army. * No. S/3045 Warrant Officer, Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major John William Whelan, Royal Army Service Corps, Southern Command. * Lieutenant Martin William Helenns White, 2nd Battalion,

9th Gurkha Rifles The 9th Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha infantry regiment of the Indian Army and, previously, the British Army. The regiment was initially formed by the British in 1817, and was one of the Gurkha regiments transferred to the Indian Army after independe ...

. * No. 724515 Warrant Officer, Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major Reginald Frederick Wilson, 63rd (6th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. * No. 743676 Warrant Officer, Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major John Hugh Woolhouse, 11th (Honourable Artillery Company & City of London Yeomanry) Brigade,

Royal Horse Artillery The Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) was formed in 1793 as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (commonly termed Royal Artillery) to provide horse artillery support to the cavalry units of the British Army. (Although the cavalry link r ...

, Territorial Army. ;Honorary Member *

Kaid Qaid ( ar , قائد ', "commander"; pl. '), also spelled kaid or caïd, is a word meaning "commander" or "leader." It was a title in the Norman kingdom of Sicily, applied to palatine officials and members of the ''curia'', usually to those ...

Abdul Rahman Arekat,

Trans-Jordan Frontier Force The Trans-Jordan Frontier Force was formed on 1 April 1926, to replace the disbanded British Gendarmerie. It was a creation of the High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan, British High Commissioner for Palestine whose intention was tha ...

. ;;Royal Air Force * Flight Lieutenant Alexander Hutchinson Montgomery. * Flight Lieutenant Francis Wilfrid Peter Dixon, . * Flight Lieutenant Thomas Henry Jolley, (Retd.) * Warrant Officer Charles William Baker. * Warrant Officer Herbert James Crane. * Quartermaster (Honorary Flight Lieutenant) John Joseph Swift,

Royal Australian Air Force "Through Adversity to the Stars" , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = RAAF Anniversary Commemoration ...

. ;Civil Division * Charles Adams, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. * Allan Arneil, Inspector, Department of Health for Scotland. * Henry Tweedale Ashworth, , Registrar, Colonial Office. Lately Registrar,

Dominions Office The position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British cabinet-level position created in 1925 responsible for British relations with the Dominions – Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa South Africa, officially t ...

. * William Thomas Begley, First Class Clerk, Ministry of Health. * William Baldwin Benham, Superintendent of Traffic, London Telephone Service. * Harry Bolton, Clerk to the Sutton & Cheam Urban District Council. * Alderman Walter Hineson Bowskin, Chairman of the Finance Committee, Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. * Archibald James Brinkley, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, West Suffolk Constabulary. * Leslie George Brown, Establishment Officer and Accountant,

HM Passport Office His Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO) is an agency of the Home Office in the United Kingdom. It provides passports for British nationals worldwide and was formed on 1 April 2006 as the Identity and Passport Service before being renamed HM Pass ...

. * Margaret Jane Campbell, Mrs. Burnley Campbell. For services to Gaelic culture. A member of '' An Comunn Gàidhealach'' (The Highland Association). * Joy Mary Barbara Carey, Clerical Officer,

HM Treasury His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and ...

, and Personal Assistant to the Permanent Secretary. * Ambrose Henri Chandler, Accountant,

. * John Elder Crofts, Superintendent, Wolverhampton Borough Police. * Fannie Amelia Cullwick, Matron, Monyhull Mental Deficiency Colony. * Florence Rose Davies, , Chairman of the Aberdare Juvenile Advisory Committee. * Leonora Davies, , Joint Honorary Secretary of the South Wales Mining Areas Relief Fund. An active worker on behalf of the blind in South Wales. * John Patrick Ferriss, District Inspector, Royal Ulster Constabulary. * Maud Fitzwilliams, , Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the South West Wales War Pensions Committee. * Henry Fry, Senior Foreman, Engineering Department, Admiralty Dockyard, Devonport. * Major Martin Glynn, lately Secretary of the Scottish Society for the Employment of Regular Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen. * Cecil Charles Wemyss Goodale, Staff Officer, HM Office of Works & Public Buildings. * James Gordon, Clerical Officer, India Office. * Gifford Gray, Superintendent, Zetland County Police Force. * James Gray, Chief Area Officer, Ministry of Pensions, Edinburgh. * Frank Hardy, , Member of the National Savings Committee. Chairman of the Mansfield Local Savings Committee. * Alderman Arthur William Hiscox, Chairman of the Lewisham Juvenile Advisory Committee. * Alberta Elsie May Hopgood, Superintendent of Typists, Board of Trade. * Lawrence Charles Jackson, Staff Officer, Grade II,

Ministry of Transport A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government ag ...

. * Sarah Jane Lambert, , County Nursing Superintendent and Inspector of Midwives,

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a Counties of England, county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the List of islands of England#Largest islands, largest and List of islands of England#Mo ...

. * Constance Mary Leckenby, Superintendent of Typists,

Scottish Office The Scottish Office was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1999, exercising a wide range of government functions in relation to Scotland under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland. Following the es ...

. * Eliza Loftus, Head Mistress, Foggathorpe Council School, East Riding. * John William Macaree, Staff Clerk,

Lord Chancellor's Department The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department answerable to the Lord Chancellor with jurisdiction over England and Wales. Created in 1885 as the Lord Chancellor's Office with a small staff to assist the Lord Chancel ...

. * Jean MacLeod, Matron, Newcastle upon Tyne Mental Hospital. * David John Milne, First Class Officer,

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 ...

. * Lily Mary Monteagle, , lately Head Teacher, Percy Street Special School, Glasgow. * Charles Anthony Moorhouse, Assistant Postmaster, Manchester. * William Harris Myles, Senior Marketing Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. * William O'Shea, Assistant Superintendent, South Eastern Parcel Office, General Post Office. * Doris Winifred Pearson, Assistant Secretary of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...

. * Arthur St. John Phillips, Deputy City Commandant,

Special Constabulary The Special Constabulary is the part-time volunteer section of statutory police forces in the United Kingdom and some Crown dependencies. Its officers are known as special constables. Every United Kingdom territorial police force has a specia ...

, Derry. * Lancelot Rawes, Secretary, Surrey Education Conference. Formerly Head Master of the village school at

Send, Surrey Send is a village and civil parish in the Guildford borough of the English county of Surrey. Send acquired its name during the Great Vowel Shift from the word sand, which was extracted at various periods until the 1990s for construction and ...

. * Edgar Frederick Sewter, , Head Master, Halesworth Council School & Rural Pupil Teacher Centre, East Suffolk. * Annie Isabel Shackle, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Dominions and Colonial Offices. * John Shatwell, Staff Clerk,

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 ...

. * Alderman George Smith, , Chairman of the Doncaster, Mexborough & District War Pensions Committee, & also of the Children's Sub-Committee. * Lewis Henry Stroud, Contracts Officer,

. * Councillor Helen Theilmann, . For political and public services in

Kingston-upon-Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east o ...

. * Harold Godwin Trayfoot, Inspector of Telegraph & Telephone Traffic, General Post Office. * Alwyn Ieuan Tudor, Staff Officer, Home Office. * Mary Anne Twentyman, Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the Wolverhampton & District War Pensions Committee. * William Calderwood Walker, Public Assistance Officer for the Cumberland County Council. * Leonard Warren, Superintendent,

Berkshire Constabulary Berkshire Constabulary is a former Home Office police force which was responsible for policing the county of Berkshire in Southern England. Berkshire Constabulary was merged with four other adjacent police forces in 1968 to form the Thames Valley ...

. * Jennins Attwooll Watts, , Assistant Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland. * William Arthur Reginald Webster, Tax Officer, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue. * Clarence Faithfull Monier-Williams, Senior Intelligence Officer, Department of Overseas Trade. * John Edwin Woodford, Senior Staff Officer, Office of the Traffic Commissioners for the North Western Area. * William John Thomas Yates, lately Higher Grade Clerk,

Department of the 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 of ...

. * Mary Margaret Scholastica Brown, Translator at His Majesty's Embassy at

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

. * Bertie John Catton, British Pro-Consul at Mersin. * Alfred Coaster, Dredging Superintendent, Port of

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 han ...

h. * Ethelbert Farmer, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy, Bagdad. * Dorothy Lester Macdonald, member of the British community at Santiago, Chile. * Harold McCardell, British Vice-Consul at Santos. * The Reverend Arthur Francis Nightengale, , a member of the British community in

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

. * Leo Haydock Wilson, British Vice-Consul at

Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains ...

. * Mabel Elsie Wolff, Inspectress of Midwives, Sudan. * George Edward Ardill. For social welfare work in the State of New South Wales. * John Austen, Chairman of

Que Que Kwekwe ( ), known until 1983 as Que Que, is a city in the Midlands province of central Zimbabwe. The city has a population of 119,863 within the city limits, as of the 2022 census, making it the 7th-largest city in Zimbabwe and the second-most p ...

Town Management Board,

. * William Harry Bamford, lately Member of the Retail Bakers & Confectioners Advisory Committee of the Empire Marketing Board. * Maud Rose Bonney. For the first solo flight by an Australian woman from Australia to England. * Nellie Constance Morrice, Secretary to the Bush Nursing Association, State of New South Wales. * Jane Power, lately Matron of the Mental Diseases Hospital, State of Tasmania. * Sister Constance Stone, . For nursing services in the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

of the Commonwealth of Australia. * Ethel Mary Taylor. For social and rescue work at

, Southern Rhodesia. * Wallace Wyndham Waite, lately Member of the Food Products Committee and of the Retail Grocers Advisory Sub-Committee of the Empire Marketing Board. * Julia Barbara Waugh. For philanthropic services in the Commonwealth of Australia. * Thomas Wilkie, , lately Member of the Retail Grocers Advisory Sub-Committee of the Empire Marketing Board. * Annie Maria Greenwood, Matron, British Military Families Hospital, Hyderabad, Sindh, Bombay. * Sahibzada Haji Mohammed Dilawar Khan Abbasi, Army Minister,

Bahawalpur Bahawalpur () is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. With inhabitants as of 2017, it is Pakistan's 11th most populous city. Founded in 1748, Bahawalpur was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur, ruled by the Abbasi fa ...

, Punjab States. * William Arthur Beer, Assistant to the Director of the

Pasteur Institute The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines ...

Coonoor Coonoor, natively spelt as Kunnur (), is a Taluk and a municipality of the Nilgiris district in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. As of 2011, the town had a population of 45,494. Demographics According to 2011 census, Coonoor had a populatio ...

, The Nilgiris, Madras. * Harry Edwin Bloodworth, Officer Supervisor, Military Secretary's Branch, Army Headquarters, India. * Bertram Cahill, Officer Supervisor, Quartermaster-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India. * Thomas Carter, Manager, Government of India Press,

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...

. * John D'Sylva, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Retd.), Bombay. * Herbert Dudley, Director of Music, His Excellency the Governor's Band, Bengal. * Thomas Joseph Gateley, Superintendent, Waterworks, Delhi. * William Irwin Graham, Officer Supervisor, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. * John Alexander Gunn, Manager of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Rangoon, Burma. * Khan Bahadur Saiyid Hamid Husain Khan,

Taluqdar Taluqdars or Talukdar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: ; Perso-Arabic: , ; from ''taluq'' "estate/attachment" + '' dar'' "owner"), were aristocrats who formed the ruling class during the Delhi Sultanate, Bengal Sultanate, Mughal Empire and British Raj ...

and Honorary Magistrate,

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. * Khan Bahadur Abdul Jabbar Khan, Zaildar of Matta Moghal Khel, North-West Frontier Province. * Mukand Lall, Military Engineer Services, Sub-Divisional Officer. * Probodh Chandra Mustafi, Civil Engineer, The Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Bihar and Orissa. * Major Frank Hermann Otto, Indian Medical Department, Assistant Surgeon on the Port Health Staff, Bombay. * George Palmer, Head Clerk, Headquarters, Small Arms School (India). * Patrick Lawrence O'Toole Quinn, Superintendent, Visapur Temporary Prison, Bombay. * Ernest Cecil Rush, Inspector, Armed Police,

Darjeeling Darjeeling (, , ) is a town and municipality in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the easternmost province of Nepal ...

, Bengal. * Geoffrey Osmund Schmidt, Indian Medical Department, Assistant Surgeon, British Consulate, Kashgar. * William James Placid Sidwell, Foreman, Tobacco Manufactures (India) Ltd., Monghyr, Bihar and Orissa. * Rai Bahadur Babu Vikramajit Singh, , Advocate,

Cawnpore Kanpur or Cawnpore (Help:IPA/English, /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (Wikipedia:Media help, help·:File:Kanpur.ogg, info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one ...

, United Provinces. * Ernest John Lawrence Slynn, Personal Stenographer to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Arcot Jaganatham Veeraswami, District Commissioner, Secunderabad Local Boy Scouts' Association,

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...

(Deccan). * Antonio Alcoser, District Commissioner,

British Honduras British Honduras was a British Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,

. * Joseph Antoine Hermann Andre, , Superintendent, Leper Asylum,

. * John Beresford Beckles. For public services in

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) ...

. * Walter Elias Broadway. For services to education and agriculture in Trinidad. * Ernest Frederick Bryan, Assistant Engineer, Public Works Department,

. * Norman Brandreth Casey, Superintendent of Prisons, Fiji. * John Robert Dyer, Assistant Superintendent of Police,

. * Arthur James Field, Assistant Establishment Officer, Kenya. * Albert Edward Gardner, , Transport Officer, Police Department, Somaliland Protectorate. * Gowardhan Lai, Clerk, Railways & Harbours, Kenya & Uganda. * John Edward Seaton Griffiths, Assistant District Officer, Tanganyika Territory. * Frederick George Harcourt, Curator of the Botanical Gardens and Agricultural Superintendent, Dominica, Leeward Islands. * James Domone Kennedy, Sylviculturist, Nigeria. * Frederick William Lane, Superintendent of Public Works,

St. Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constit ...

. * Andrew Buchanan Macdonald, . For devoted work in the treatment of lepers in Nigeria. *

Nanji Kalidas Mehta Nanji Kalidas Mehta, MBE (17 November 1887 – 25 August 1969) was an industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat. He founded the Mehta Group of Industries in British East Africa, now having its head office in India. His son Mahendra Mehta, ...

. For his contribution by commercial activities to the development of the

. * Alfred Nicholls, Superintendent of Police & Prisons, St. Helena. * Joseph Lennox Donation Pawan, , Government Bacteriologist, Trinidad. * Stanley Prosser, Inspector of Immigration, Palestine. * Edmund Reimers, Archivist and Librarian, Ceylon. * James Macrae Simpson, Assistant District Officer, Nigeria. * Salem Subbukrishna Subrahmanyam, Examiner of Accounts, Treasury & Customs Department, Somaliland Protectorate. * Sowani Puamau, First Native Medical Practitioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Western Pacific. * Thomas Henry Stone, Chief Draughtsman, Engineering Department, Railways & Harbours, Kenya & Uganda. * Albert Emeric Tuboku-Metzger, , President of the Sierra Leone Section of the National Congress of British West Africa. For public services. * The Reverend

George Turner Waldegrave The Reverend George Turner Waldegrave MBE (18 March 1889 – 15 May 1966) was the son of Reverend Samuel Edmund Waldegrave and Alice Millett. He was the Colony Commissioner of the Boy Scout Association, Hong Kong Branch from November 1921 ...

, . For services in connection with Missions and in developing the Boy Scout movement in Hong Kong. * Lawrence Timothy Yearwood. For public services in Barbados. ;Honorary Members * Abdel Rahman Bey el Taji, Member of the Supreme Moslem Council and of the Citrus Fruit Committee of the General Agricultural Council, Palestine. * Dhalla Bhimji. For charitable services in the Tanganyika Territory. * Yusuf Hajjar, , Medical Officer in Charge of the Government Hospital at Jerusalem, Palestine. *

Moshe Smilansky Moshe Smilansky ( he, משה סמילנסקי; February 24, 1874 – October 6, 1953) was a pioneer of the First Aliyah, a Zionist leader who advocated peaceful coexistence with the Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, a farmer, and a prolific author ...

, Chairman, Jewish Farmers Federation, Palestine.

Medal of the Order of the British Empire

;Military Division :; For Meritorious Service ;;Royal Navy * Sidney George Marsh, Leading Seaman O.N. C/J. 22855 ( HM Submarine ''H32''). * William Frederick Spurging, Chief Petty Officer Writer O.N. C/M. 5285 ( HMS ''Shoreham''). ;;Army * No. 56 Sergeant Bulasio Zake, Supply & Transport Corps, Northern Brigade, The King's African Rifles. * No. 1026472 Sergeant James Harrow,

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 ...

, Malta. * No. 950 Lance-Sergeant Ndandala, ,

Police. * No. 7868001 Staff Sergeant Instructor Walter Thomas Puplett,

Royal Tank Corps The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War. Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as t ...

, Tank Driving & Maintenance School. * No. 7682190 Sergeant Albert Edward Smith, Corps of Military Police, Egypt. * No. 1859054 Corporal Harry Miller Thomson, Royal Corps of Signals, India. * No. 2309447 Company Quarter-master Sergeant (Foreman of Signals) William Arthur West, Royal Corps of Signals, China. ;;Royal Air Force * 91023 Flight Sergeant Charles Edward Tucker. * 246359 Flight Sergeant John Christopher Marshall. * 357218 Corporal Edward Francis Hancock. ;Civil Division :; For Gallantry * Abdus Samad Abdul Wahid Golandaz, Landlord, Property-owner and Sand Contractor, Bombay. :"Mr. Golandaz owns a fleet of boats and trained boatmen which he places at the disposal of the authorities whenever Surat, Rander or the surrounding districts are threatened by floods, and on frequent occasions he has risked his own life in leading his men to works of rescue. He has shown conspicuous personal bravery on several occasions. In particular on the 16th of September 1933, when the

Tapti River The Tapti River (or Tapi) is a river in central India located to the south of the Narmada river that flows westwards before draining into the Arabian Sea. The river has a length of around and flows through the states of Maharashtra, Gujara ...

had swollen to such proportions that one of the sluices in the city wall had been damaged and water was pouring in through it, threatening to flood the city, he volunteered to dive into the flooded river and ascertain the nature and extent of the damage. He accomplished this brave feat successfully and blocked the sluice with sandbags at considerable risk to his own life. In 1930 he had also performed an act of conspicuous bravery in rescuing the boys of the Government High School and the family of the Excise Inspector, whose bungalows had been cut off by the floods." :;For Meritorious Service * William Bunn, Office Keeper, Stormont Buildings, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. * Frederick Charles Cartwright, Head Assistant in the Investigation Branch of the Post Office. * Frederick George Clark, Head Office Keeper, India Office. * Charles Croft, Foreman at the School of Artillery. * George Patrick William Keay, Head Messenger to the

Postmaster General A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having a government official responsib ...

. * Hector James McLennan, Sergeant, Royal Corps of Signals. Instructor, Wireless Group, Burma Military Police. * Alfred Robert Henry Miller, Constable, Metropolitan Police. For courage and determination in arresting armed criminals. * Wilfrid Ivor Randolph Wilkins, Constable, Metropolitan Police. For courage and determination in arresting armed criminals. * Reginald Cyril Victor Mott, Constable,

Palestine Police The Palestine Police Force was a British colonial police service established in Mandatory Palestine on 1 July 1920,Sinclair, 2006. when High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel's civil administration took over responsibility for security from Gener ...

. For services during the disturbances in October and November 1933. * John Murray, Constable, Palestine Police. For services during the disturbances in October and November 1933. * Cyril Albert David Savory, Constable, Palestine Police. For services during the disturbances in October and November 1933. * Thomas Opie, Head Gardener and Caretaker,

, France. * John Montagu Pocock, Assistant Commander, Metropolitan Special Constabulary. * Suleiman Gereis, Senior Instructor of Manual Training, Gordon College, Sudan. * Abu Bakr Hassan, Assistant Locomotive Inspector,

Sudan Railways Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railways. The main line runs from Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to Khartoum and southwest to El-Obeid via Sannar and Kosti, Sudan, with extensions to Nyala in Southern Darfur and Wau ...

. * Bida Sule, Master, Grade I, Nigerian Marine.

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

;First Class, for Public Services in India * Lena Adell Benjamin, Superintendent, American Baptist Mission Hospital for Women & Children,

Nellore Nellore is a city located on the banks of Penna River, in Nellore district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of the district, as well as Nellore mandal and Nellore revenue division. It is the fourth most p ...

, Madras. * Jeenabai Duggan (wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Jamshedji Nasarvanji Duggan, , Professor of Ophthalmic Medicine & Surgery,

Grant Medical College The Grant Government Medical College, Mumbai, is a public medical college, affiliated to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. Founded in 1845, it is one of the oldest institutions teaching medicine in South Asia. Its clinical affil ...

, and Superintendent, C. J. Ophthalmic Hospital), Bombay. * Doris Louisa Graham, Medical Missionary,

Krishnagar Krishnanagar (; also spelled Krishnagar) is a city and a municipality. in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarter of the Nadia district. History Krishnanagar municipality was established in 1864 and is one of the oldest municipali ...

, Bengal. * Eileen Mabel Holliday (wife of Honorary Brigadier J. C. H. Holliday, , Indian Army (Retd.)) * Srimati Phulpati Kuer, Proprietress, Goldenganj Estate,

Saran District Saran district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Indian state of Bihar. The district, part of Saran Division, is also known as Chhapra district after the headquarters of the district, Chhapra. It is considered as one of the richest Zamindar ...

, Bihar and Orissa. * Gladys Elizabeth Littlewood, , Indian Educational Service, Inspectress of Girls' Schools,

. * Reverend Mother Mary Columba Sullivan, Superioress, St. Joseph's Presentation Convent,

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of ...

, Baluchistan. * Millicent Vere Webb, Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service, and Secretary of the Funds under the Presidency of Her Excellency the Countess of Willingdon. * Sidney Lionel Marwood, Indian Civil Service, District Magistrate and Collector,

Champaran Champaran is a region of Bihar in India. It is now divided into an East Champaran district and a West Champaran district. Notable people * Manoj Bajpai – Indian film actor * Dinesh Bhramar – poet and noted figure in Hindi and Bhojpuri l ...

, Bihar and Orissa.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Home Civil Service * Murdoch Beaton, General Inspector, Department of Health for Scotland. * Alfred Graham Bell, Senior Examiner, Patent Office. * John Lockton Bryan, , Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. * David Alfred Chart, , Principal, Ministry of Finance, and Deputy Keeper,

Public Record Office The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as ''the'' PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was ...

, Northern Ireland. * Hugh Annan Corbet, Deputy Master of the Branch of the Royal Mint at Perth, Western Australia. * Frank Coucher, Chief Accountant, Supreme Court Pay Office. * Aubrey Culley, Assistant Principal Clerk, Office of the Controller of Stamps, Board of Inland Revenue. * Alphonso William James Davies, , Clerk in Charge, Greenwich Hospital Department, Admiralty. * Alfred Featherstonhaugh, First Class Officer,

. * Alec Robert Gibbs, , Superintending Civil Engineer,

. * William Gladstone Gilbert, Deputy Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office. * Frederick Mayes, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Health. * Charles Scott Nicoll, Assistant, Librarian's Department, Foreign Office. * Alfred Leonard Screech, , Director of Accounts,

HM Stationery Office The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom. The OPSI is part of the National Archives of the Un ...

. * James William Simmons, Inspector, First Class,

. * Ernest Graham Williams, , Senior Staff Officer, Mines Department. ;Dominions * Lewis Findlay East, Secretary, Marine Branch, Department of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia. * John Henry Osborn Eaton, Engineer-in-Chief, State of South Australia. * Charles Herbert Palmer Robinson, lately Principal Parliamentary Reporter, Commonwealth of Australia. * Ward George Wohlmann, Commissioner of Police, Dominion of New Zealand. * Arthur Herbert Wright, Secretary and Accountant, Office of the Agent General in London for the State of Victoria. ;Indian Civil Services * M.R.Ry.

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 , ...

Kanthadai Rangaswami Ayyangar Avargal, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Madras. * John Carter, , Personal Assistant to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India. * Mohanlal Kahandas Dalai, Head Clerk, Office of the District Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad, Bombay. * Cyril Brook Duckworth, Superintendent, Office of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bihar and Orissa. * Babu Manindra Gopal Ghosh, Judicial Head Assistant, Commissioner's Office, Bhagalpur, Bihar and Orissa. * William Robert Hewitt, Office Supervisor and Personal Assistant to the Quartermaster-General in India. * Albert Victor Jones, Assistant Secretary to the Government of Assam, Finance and Revenue Departments. * Charles Reginald Nicholas, Personal Assistant to the Commissioner,

Sagaing Division Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lo ...

, Burma. * Rai Sahib Lala Ram Sahai, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Residency Hospital,

Indore Indore () is the largest and most populous city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and is the only city to ...

, Central India. ;Colonies, Protectorates, &c. * Charles Francis Bristow, lately Superintendent in charge of Stores & Accounts Branch, Police Department, Kenya. * John Francis Fernandez, lately Book-keeper, Treasury,

. * Walter Mortimer Fraser, lately Treasurer,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. * Gordon EastLey Greig, , lately Senior Warden of Mines, Federated Malay States. * Gordon Edward William Jansz, Chief Accountant, Government Railway, Ceylon. * Magnus Johannes Oyedele Macauley, Under Sheriff of the Colony, Sierra Leone. * Arthur Robert Sutherland, , Inspector of Schools,

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 Delta i ...

. * James Pogson Turner, Chief Registrar of the Colony, and Registrar of Antigua, Leeward Islands.

Imperial Service Medal

;In recognition of long and meritorious service in the Indian Civil Services * Masukhan Bijarkhan, Retired

Havildar Havildar or havaldar ( Hindustani: or (Devanagari), (Perso-Arabic)) is a rank in the Indian, Pakistani and Nepalese armies, equivalent to sergeant. It is not used in cavalry units, where the equivalent is daffadar. Like a British sergeant, ...

in the Office of the Chief Engineer in Sind, Bombay. * Chowdhury, Retired

Jemadar Jemadar or jamadar is a title used for various military and other officials in the Indian subcontinent. Etymology The word stems from Urdu (), which derives through Persian ''jam'dar'' from Arabic ''jamā‘a(t)'' 'muster' + Persian ''-dār' ...

of the Office of the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy. * Isaac Whitten, Home Service, late Messenger to the High Commissioner for India, London.

King's Police Medal (KPM)

;For Gallantry * Hassan Mohammed Effendi Khatib, Assistant Superintendent,

. * Alan Edward Sigrist, British Inspector, Palestine Police. * Constable Abdallah Shibley Zaher, Palestine Police.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

* Margaret Alice Wilson-Green, Lady Superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India, in recognition of the special devotion to duty and competency displayed by her in the performance of her nursing duties in India.

Honorary Chaplains to His Majesty

* The Reverend Marten William Shewell, ,

Chaplain to the Forces The Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) is an all-officer department that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army. History The Army Chaplains' Department (AChD) was formed by Royal Warrant of 23 September 1796; until the ...

, 1st Class * The Reverend Howard Gabb Marshall, , Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class ;Additional Honorary Chaplain to The King * The Reverend Joseph Firth, , Staff Chaplain, Royal Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

* Squadron Leader Francis Joseph Fogarty, . * Flight Lieutenant Guy Lloyd Carter.

Air Force Medal (AFM)

* 973 Flight Sergeant William Robert McCleery. * 364249

Sergeant Pilot A sergeant pilot was a non-commissioned officer who had undergone flight training and was a qualified pilot in the air forces of several Commonwealth countries before, during and after World War II. It was also a term used in the United States A ...

Edward Norman Rooms.

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