The 1926 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King on 3 June, but it was announced on 20 May that due to the national strike, the King had approved the Prime Minister's recommendation to delay the publication of the list until 3 July 1926.[1] The honours were effective to 5 June 1926. Per standard practice, Sir Paul Chater, who died 27 May 1926, still received the honour of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire as he would have received the honour if he had survived.[2]
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.
Henry Seymour BerryDL by the name, title and style of Baron Buckland, of Bwlch in the County of Brecon. For public, political and philanthropic services.
Privy Councillor
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Colonel John GrettonCBE JP MP Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire. 1895–1906; for Rutland, 1907–1918; for Burton since December 1918. For political and public services.
Sir Halford John Mackinder, Chairman of the Imperial Shipping and Imperial Economic Committees. First Principal of University College, Reading, now the University of Reading
Sir Arthur Shirley BennKBE MP Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Drake Division, since December 1910. President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce 1921–22 and 1922–23. For political and public services.
Colonel Henry Ferryman BowlesTD JP DL Chairman or President, Enfield Conservative Association 1885–1926; Member of Parliament for the Enfield Division, 1889–1906 and 1918–22. For public and political services.
Brigadier General Robert Gordon Gordon-GilmourCB CVO DSO JP DL of Liberton and Craigmillar. President of the Scottish Unionist Association. Convener of the Eastern Divisional Council of the Scottish Unionist Association. For political and public services.
James Augustus GrantJP DL MP Member of Parliament, Egremont Division 1910–18; Whitehaven Division 1918–22; Derby South since October 1924. For political and public services.
Colonel John Wakefield WestonJP DL Member of Parliament for South Westmorland, 1913–18, and Westmorland, 1918–24. Chairman of County Council from 1908 till present time. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Dalrymple WhiteMP Member of Parliament for Southport 1910–1923 and since 1924. For political and public services.
Alderman John Bickerstaffe DL Was Chairman and Leader of the Conservative Party in Blackpool for over 20 years. Member of the Borough Council for 46 years. For political and public services.
Major Archibald Boyd Boyd-CarpenterJP MP Member of Parliament for North Bradford 1918–1923 and for Coventry since 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour 1922-23; Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General 1923 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, July 1923 till January 1924. For political and public services.
Alexander Keith Carlyon JP DL President, Harrow Conservative Association, 1919–25. Chairman of the Hendon Bench. For political and public services.
Brigadier General George Kynaston CockerillCB MP Member of Parliament for the Reigate Division since 1918. For political and public services.
Alfred Henry Evans MRCS JP Member of the Unionist Association of the Tamworth Division since 1895 and President and Chairman since 1920. For political and public services.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Brabazon Heaton-Ellis CBE DL Chairman of the Hitchin Division Conservative Association for about 20 years. Member of Herts County Council 1903–19. For political and public services.
George Rowland Hill, for over 37 years Chairman of the Greenwich Conservative Association. London County Council (LCC) Member for Greenwich 1922–25. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Assheton PownallOBE TD MP Member of Parliament for East Lewisham since 1918. For political and public services.
Ernest Victor Buckley Rutherford OBE For public services.
George SheddenJP President, Isle of Wight Conservative and Unionist Association since 1922. For political and public services.
Andrew Thomas TaylorJP Mayor of Hampstead 1922–23. LCC Member for Hampstead since 1908. Vice-Chairman of the LCC 1919–20. For public and political services.
British India
Lallubhai Shamaldas Mehta CIE lately temporary Member of the Executive Council, Bombay
Justice Philip Lindsay Buckland, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Calcutta
Justice Cecil Walsh KC Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Allahabad
Ganendro Prosad Roy, Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs
Colonel Gordon Risley Hearn CIE DSO Agent, Eastern Bengal Railway
Robert McLean, Agent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Bradford LeslieOBE Royal Engineers, Chairman, Madras Port Trust
Raj Bahadur Purohit Gopi Nath CIE Member of the Jaipur Council of State
Brajendranath Seal Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University
Walter Stuart James Willson, Member of the Legislative Assembly
Khan Bahadur Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer, Member of the Council of State
John Walter Hose CSI Indian Civil Service (retired), attached Public and Judicial Department, India Office
Dominions
George Mason Allard, Representative of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia on, and Chairman of, the Amalgamated Wireless Company Ltd., in recognition also of his services to the Commonwealth Government in connection with banking and financial matters.
George Fairbairn, Agent-General in London for the State of Victoria
Frank Fox OBE Secretary of the Fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition; in recognition of his services to the Empire
Charles Holdsworth, Managing Director Of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd., recognition of his services in the development of New Zealand
The Hon. Charles Ernest Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand
Edward Allan Grannum CMG Colonial Secretary, Mauritius
William Henry Himbury, General Manager, British Cotton Growing Association
William Morrison, Member of the Privy Council of, and Nominated Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica; in recognition of his public services.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division
Army
General Sir Claud William JacobKCB KCSI KCMG Indian Army, Military Secretary, India Office, late General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India
Brigadier-General Sir Gilbert Falkingham ClaytonKBE CB CMG For services rendered in concluding agreements with the Sultan of Nejd and for the conduct of a mission to the Imam of the Yemen
Charles Strachey CB Assistant Undersecretary of State, Colonial Office
His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald William GrahamGCVO KCMG CB His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome
His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Charles LindsayKCMG CB CVO His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Turkey
Sir Charles Murray MarlingKCMG CB His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague
The Hon. Francis Oswald LindleyCB CBE His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Oslo
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Lawrence Arthur AdamsonFRGS Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Member of the Council of Melbourne University; in recognition of his services to Education in the State of Victoria
The Reverend Ronald George MacIntyre OBE Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Andrew's College, Sydney University; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
John Sutherland Ross, of the City of Dunedin, Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dominion of New Zealand
Harold Livingstone Tapley, Member of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand, Mayor of the City of Dunedin, and a Director of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition
Edgar Wrigley Cozens-Hardy, General Manager of the Government Railways, Gold Coast
Edward Herbert Kealy, Indian Civil Service, Resident, Baroda
M. R. Ry. Tiruvalangadu Raja Sastri Venkatarama Sastriyar Avargal, Advocate-General, Madras
Miles Irving OBE Indian Civil Service, Financial Secretary to Government, Punjab
Harry Oliver Baron Shoubridge, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Bombay
Colonel Krishnaji Vishnoo Kukday, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces
Samuel Walter Goode, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chairman of the Calcutta Improvement Trust
Arthur Harold Walter Bentinck, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, Assam
Harry Llewellyn Lyons Allanson, Indian Civil Service, District and Sessions Judge, Bihar and Orissa
Khan Bahadur Pirzada Muhammad Hosain, late District and Sessions Judge, Delhi
William Henry Albert Webster, Commissioner of Police, Kangoon
Raj Bahadur Hementa Kumar Raha, Deputy Director-General of Post Offices, India
John Collard Bernard Drake OBE Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the High Commissioner for India
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Harley, Indian Medical Service, District Medical and Sanitary Officer and Superintendent, Medical School, Madura, Madras
George Clark, Director of Agriculture, United Provinces
Major Donald George Sandeman, Indian Army, North-West Frontier Intelligence Bureau
Hormasji Jehangir Bhabha, late Inspector-General of Education, Mysore State
Sardar Mir Masud Alum Khan, Nawab of Belha, Bombay
Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, Chairman of Dacca Municipality
Alfred Cooper Woollier, Dean of University Instruction, Lahore
Alfred Lawrence Covernton, Principal and Professor of English Literature, Elphinstone College, Bombay
Percy Saville Burrell, Professor of Philosophy, Allahabad University
Girja Shankar Bajpai CBE Indian Civil Service, Secretary of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
The Royal Victorian Order
Insignia of a Knight / Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Professor William Somerville FLS FRSE FSS late-Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy, University of Oxford. For services to Agricultural Education and Research
Sir Percy Woodhouse JP DL Chairman, Manchester Conservative and Unionist Association. For political and public services.
Alexander Kemp Wright CBE Vice-Chairman, Scottish National Savings Committee
British India
Nasarvanji Navroji Wadia CIE Mill-owner, Bombay
George Frederick Paddison CSI Indian Civil Service, Chairman of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Sidney BartonCMG His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai
Reginald Stewart Patterson CBE Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government
Dominions
The Honourable John Robert Bennett, Colonial Secretary, Newfoundland
The Hon. Francis Grenville Clarke President of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria
James Oswald Fairfax CBE of the City of Sydney, Chairman of the Australian Section of the Empire Press Union; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Captain Cecil Hamilton ArmitageCMG DSO Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Gambia
Thomas Alexander Vans BestCMG CBE Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Malta, lately Colonial Secretary, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
Sir Catchick Paul ChaterKt CMG In recognition of his public services in the Colony of Hong Kong (posthumous)
Honorary Knight Commander
Elly Silas Kadoorie, in recognition of his services in the cause of charity and education in Iraq and Palestine
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Military Division
Royal Navy
Head Sister Margaret Helen Keenan RRC Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Paymaster-Captain Frederick George Motton RN
Captain Charles Mahon Readhead DSO RD RNR
Captain George-Francis Hyde RAN
Army
Colonel Jacob Waley-Cohen CMG DSO TD Territorial Army
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Conway Dobbs DSO The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) and Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles
Colonel John Frederic Charles FullerDSO Military Assistant (General Staff Officer), Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
Chief Lady Superintendent Marion Domville Knapp RRC Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Richard Henry Palmer Landon DSO Commandant 10/20th Burma Rifles, Indian Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Charles Broughton Mackinnon, 2/2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), Indian Army
Colonel George Colleymore Sturrock, Director of Ordnance Factories and Manufacture Master General of Supply Branch, Army Headquarters, India
William John Gibson, Rector of the Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Edythe Mary Glanville The first woman to be elected Vice-Chairman of the Metropolitan Division of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. In 1920 elected to the N.U.A Executive and re-elected annually. For political and public services.
Haywood Temple Holmes MVO ISO Accountant, H.M. Treasury
William George Hunter, Deputy Accountant-General, Ministry of Health
Captain Fullarton James OBE Chief Constable of Northumberland
George Henry Kingston OBE Assistant Director of Army Contracts
John Lindsay Mackie, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise
William Owen Owen, Divisional Controller, Wales, Ministry of Labour
Philip Palmer OBE Manager, Constructive Department, Chatham Dockyard
James Martin Ritchie, Chairman of the Bridge ton Local Employment Committee
Sir George Royle OBE JP FRGS For voluntary services in connection with the National Savings Committee
Benjamin James Saunders JP Chairman of Brighton, Horsham and District War Pensions Committee
Andrew Donnan Smith, Chief Constable of Glasgow
William Alexander Valentine, Controller, London Telephone Service
Hilda Frances Zigomala. For services in connection with Lord Roberts Workshops
British India
Sir Deva Prasad Sarvadhikary CIE Member of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
Saiyid Raza Ah, Member oi the Council of State Member of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
Harry Tonkinson CIE Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Henry Salt James CIE Revenue and Judicial Commissioner, Baluchistan
Lieutenant-Colonel Wingate Wemyss Muir MVO OBE Indian Army, Comptroller, Viceregal Household
Captain Victor Felix Gamble CIE lately Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Burma
Victor Bayley CIE Superintendent of Works, Khyber Railway
Henry Joseph Trivess Smith, Engineer, Tansa Completion Works, Bombay Municipality
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Henry Montesquieu Anthony, Director-General of the State Domains Administration, Egyptian Government
Robert Allason Furnes, late Oriental Secretary at Cairo
Edgar George Jamieson, Acting British Consul at Shanghai
Claude Cecil Augustus Kirke, His Majesty's Consul at Swatow
Francis Alfred Oliver, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg
Dominions
Gertrude Drayton OBE Secretary of the Victoria League
Charles Samuel Nathan, of the City of Perth, Western Australia, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
Colonel Percy Thomas Owen OBE Director-General of Works, Commonwealth of Australia, Chief Engineer under the-Federal Capital Commission
The Hon. John Warburton Pennington, Member of the Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria, formerly Member of the Ministry of that State
Charles Speight, Vice-Chairman of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dominion of New Zealand
William Charles Frederick Thomas, President of the Flour Millers Association, Victoria, Chairman of the Commonwealth Dried Fruits Control Board; in recognition, of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey Bt Chief Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia at the British Empire Exhibition 1924-25
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Captain James Davidson, lately Senior Resident, Southern Provinces, Nigeria
Charles Cuthbert Harward AMICE Divisional Irrigation Engineer, Ceylon
Colonel George Wykeham Heron DSO OBE MRCS LRCP Royal Army Medical Corps, (Retired), Director of the Department of Health, Palestine
Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Frederick Gerald Peake OBE Officer Commanding the Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan
Temp. Captain William Bligh Royal Army Medical Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Stuart Pleydell-Bouverie DSO TD 52nd (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robert Brown, Indian Medical Service
Major William Egan DSO Royal Army Medical Corps (Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, Scottish Command)
Captain Rowland Eustace, 1/18th Royal Garhwal Bines, Indian Army
Captain Richard James Rolleston Freeth MC Royal Artillery, attached Iraq Levies
Lieutenant Francis Gordon Griffith MBE North Western Railway Regiment, Auxiliary Force, India
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Snowden Hammond DSO 11th London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), Territorial Army
Major Archibald Gordon Rainsford-Hannay DSO Royal Engineers
Major Charles Henry Hasler Harold Royal Army Medical Corps, Assistant Instructor, graded as Deputy Assistant Director of Hygiene, Aldershot
Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Arthur Heath MBE Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts, War Office
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lancelot Wall Henslow MC Commandant, Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot
The Reverend Walter Bertram Hughes Royal Army Chaplains' Department
Lieutenant-Colonel William David Kenny, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached Sudan Defence Force
Major Charles James Seward le Cornu MC 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army (Commandant, Army Signal School, Poona)
Captain Arthur John Rupert Marshall Leslie, Royal Artillery, late Commandant, Malay States Volunteer Regiment
Major John Jestyn LlewellinMC Dorsetshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel John Pemberton Heywood Heywood-Lonsdale DSO TD The Shropshire Yeomanry, Territorial Army
Major William Cecil Lowe FRCVS Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Captain Hubert Francis Lucas, Royal Engineers
Lieutenant William Gunn Mackay MC Royal Artillery, lately serving with the local rank of Major in the Somaliland Camel Corps, The King's Africa n Rifles
Captain John Wright Malcolm MC Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Iraq Levies
Major Bernard Culmer Page TD Territorial Army, attached Royal Engineers, London District
Major George Frederick Joseph Paterson MC Indian Army
Quartermaster and Major Walter Thomas Price MC Extra Regimentally Employed List
Major Edward Johnson Ross MC 1/8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
Captain Matthew Sheppard MC TD Yorkshire Dragoons (Queen's Own) Yeomanry, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel William Simpkins TD 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Steel, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, lately Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, Northern Command, India
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Joseph Tucker Stewart, Supernumerary List, Indian Army
Captain and Brevet Major Ernest John Bocart Tagg DSO The Durham Light Infantry, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, The British Army of the Rhine
Major John Brereton Owst Trimble DSO MC The East Yorkshire Regiment, lately Commandant, Machine Gun School, India
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Price Warlters MC 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
Royal Air Force
Flight Lieutenant Albert Wombwell
Civil Division
James Henry Avison, Chief Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise
William Archibald Basham, Principal, Ministry of Labour
George Albert Baxandall, Divisional Inspector of Technical and Continuation Schools, Board of Education Cadet
Lieutenant-Colonel Lancelot William Bennett VD Late Commanding Officer 1st Cadet Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's). For valuable services to the Cadet Force.
Jabez Berry, Retired Principal, Board of Inland Revenue
Robert Thomson Birnie, Chief Constable of Forfarshire
Felix John Blakemore, Chairman of Wolverhampton and District War Pensions Committee
Harold Boughey, Deputy Divisional Controller, Midlands Division, Ministry of Labour
Beatrice Rachael Stirling Boyd, Founder and Honorary Secretary, Edinburgh Children's Holiday Fund
George Bryan, Senior Inspector of Audits, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland
Frederick Vango Burridge FRS Principal, LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts
James Christie, Chief Constable of Greenock
James Temple Cotton MBE Principal, Air Ministry
John Philip Cross, Collector, Board of Customs and Excise
Captain Rupert John Goodman Crouch, Head of Airworthiness Section, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Air Ministry
Beatrice Mary Cumington, Woman Staff Inspector of Technical and Continuation Schools, Board of Education
Edith Ellen Drysdale, Private Secretary to Commissioner of Metropolitan Police
Alfred William Edwards, Deputy Controller, Central Telegraph Office
Florence Dorothy Garner, Chief Superintendent of Women's Staff, Public Trustee Office
James Simpson Godden, Principal Officer, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland
Frances Ralph Gray JP High Mistress of St. Paul's Girls School
Walter John Haines, Superintending Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise
William Hayden, Principal (Acting), War Grace
Thomas St. Quintin Hill, Principal Clerk, Food Section, Board of Trade
James Jackson Superintendent, Salvage Department, Birmingham
Frederick James, Chief Constable of Hastings
William Hughes-Jones JP Chairman of the Anglesey Employment Committee
Mary Elizabeth King, Member of the London Advisory Council for Juvenile Employment
James Kirkwood JP Provost of Rutherglen. For public services.
John Corbet McBride MBE Accident Manager, Commercial Union Assurance Company. For public services.
Eric Machtig MBE Principal, Colonial Office
George Frederick Mansbridge, Vice-Controller, Stores Department, General Post Office
Arthur Killick Mayall, Chief Constable of Oldham
Captain Charles Leonard Miskin, Registrar, Imperial War Graves Commission
Henry Daniel Morgan, Chief Constable, 3 District, Metropolitan Police
William Jackson Morton MBE JP Group Commandant, L and M Divisions, Special Constabulary
William Suffield Felix Mylius, Assistant Secretary, Traffic Department, Metropolitan Police
William Newman MBE Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
Hedley Peters, JP Chief Officer of the Sittingbourne Fire Brigade. For public services.
Zoe Lavallier Puxley, Principal, Ministry of Health
Florence Quick, Member of Oxford and District War Pensions Committee
Gilbert Scott Ram MIEE Senior Electrical Inspector of Factories, Home Office
Percy Christopher Rice MBE Chief Establishment and Finance Officer, Department of Overseas Trade
Mary Ritchie MBE Voluntary Worker under the National Savings Committee
John Scott MBE Voluntary Worker under the National Savings Committee
James Applegate Simes, Principal, Ministry of Pensions
James Andrew Short, Collector, Board of Customs and Excise
Robert John Smith, Head of Branch (Acting), Ministry of Health
Ethel Mary Spiller. For voluntary services in connection with the Victoria and Albert Museum
Edith Felicia Seymour Taylor, Private Secretary to the Attorney General
William Thomas Towler, Chairman of the Stratford Local Employment Committee
Edward White Wallis, Secretary of the Royal Sanitary Institute
Archibald Ure Wotherspoon, Chairman of the Perth and Kinross War Pensions Committee
British India
Sarclar Bahadur Sardar Haji Mahomed Khan, Sardar of the Shahwani tribe, Kalat State, Baluchistan
M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Saravana Bhavanandam Pillai Avargal ISO ex-Sheriff of Madras
Sardar Saiyid Ali El Edrus, Sardar of Gujarat, Bombay
Arthur Clement Sells, Principal, Robertson College, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
Anandrai Keshavlal Dalai FRCS LRCP Professor of Clinical and Operative Surgery, Grant Medical College, Bombay, and Surgeon, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay
Babu Bisheshwar Nam Srivastava, Vakil, High Court, and Chairman, Improvement Trust, Luck now
Captain Archibald Douglas George Staunton Batty MVO Army in India Reserve of Officers, lately Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor of Burma
Captain Ralph Burton, lately Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Viceroy
Babu Alakh Kumar Sinha, Superintendent of Police, Bihar and Orissa
Cecil William Kirkpatrick MBE Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department
Jessie Parsons, Principal of the Badshah Nawab Razvi Training College for Women Teachers, Patna
The Reverend Robert McCheyne Paterson, Church of Scotland Mission, Gujrat, Punjab
Lucy Angela White, lately Lady Superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Minas Stephen Peter Aganoor, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ispahan
Alexander Mann Alcock, Deputy Director-General of the Tanzim Department, Ministry of Public Works, Egyptian Government
Colonel Julius Guthlac Birch, Rhineland High Commission
John Wallace Ord Davidson, Acting British Consul at Kiu Kiang
William Gray MBE His Majesty's Consul at Oruro
The Reverend John Holman Taylor Holman Acting Chaplain at His Majesty's Legation at Peking
Harmood Victor Carruthers Johnstone, Resident Engineer, Gezira Canalisation
Reginald Marquand, Controller of European Administration of the Ministry of Education, Egyptian Government
Dominions
Edith Mary Cumings, for many years-Honorary Secretary of the Bulawayo Branch Of the Guild of Loyal Women; for her services in Southern Rhodesia
Mary Hewison, of St. Kilda, City of Melbourne; in recognition of her public and charitable services in the State of Victoria
Rebecca Mills, of Maffra, Gippsland; in recognition of her charitable services in the State of Victoria
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Robert Boyd, Chairman, Native Lands Commission, Fiji
Herbert Spanton Brain, Auditor, Palestine
The Reverend Canon George Burns, of the Church Missionary Society, in recognition of his services for many years in Kenya Colony
Hubert Michael Cones, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Iraq
The Reverend Alexander Cruickshank, of the United Free Church of Scotland; in recognition of his services to education in Nigeria
The Reverend Canon Edward Seabrooke Daniell, Principal of the Bishop Tucker Memorial College, Uganda Protectorate
Lionel Douglas Galton Fenzi, Honorary Secretary of the Royal East African Automobile Association, Kenya Colony
Albert Arthur Magnall Isherwood, Deputy Director of Education, Tanganyika Territory
Robert Frier Jardine, Administrative Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq
Alan Logan Kirkbride, Second Assistant to the Chief British Representative, Trans-Jordan
Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Administrative Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq
Digby Mackenzie Macphail CM Medical Officer, District, St. Lucia, Windward Islands
William Maclachlan McDonald MRCS LRCP Medical Officer, District 2, Antigua, Leeward Islands
John Dewar McKay, Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast
Norman Nairn, for services in connection with the organisation of the Trans-Desert Motor Route between Iraq and the Mediterranean
Captain Archibald Edward McDonald, Ordnance Executive Officer 3rd Class, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Captain Walter Henry Organ, 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles Thomas Pearson, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Lieutenant George Hamilton Charles Penny-cook, The Middlesex Regiment (The Duke of Cambridge's Own)
Staff Sergeant-Major Frederick Walter Price, Royal Army Service Corps
Captain Edward Cecil Roscoe AMIMechE Royal Army Service Corps
Captain Eric Bertram RowcroftAMIMechE Royal Army Service Corps, Instructor Royal Army Service Corps Training College, Aldershot
Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Albert Smith, 167th (City of London) Field Ambulance, Territorial Army
Regimental Sergeant-Major Arthur Patrick Spackman, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Sudan Defence Force
Lieutenant William George Tibbies MC 5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army
Conductor Frederick William Tolley, Indian Miscellaneous List
Quartermaster and Captain George John William Townsend, 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), Territorial Army
Captain Bernard Henry George Tucker, 1/10th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Alexander Turner, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Regimental Sergeant-Major Alexander Twohey, Depot, The East Surrey Regiment
Captain Vereker Willoughby Hamilton Venour, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Staff Captain (Movements) Inter-Allied Railway Commission, The British Army of the Rhine
Regimental Sergeant-Major Edward George Walker, Iraq Levies
Quartermaster and Captain George Henry Wall MC 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Quartermaster and Captain Alexander Watt, Lieutenant, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, and 7th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) Territorial Army
Conductor Tom Harris Webb, Indian Army Service Corps
Quartermaster and Captain Samuel Whan, County Recruiting Officer, Durham
Royal Air Force
Flying Officer John Henry Amers
Flying Officer Charles Dollery
Flying Officer Robert Ritchie Greenlaw
Flying Officer William Henry Jinman
Civil Division
James Anderson, Accountant, General Post Office, Edinburgh
James William Anderson, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
Joseph William Ansell, Ex-Superintendent, London Fire Brigade
Elizabeth Apps, Member of the Baling, Acton and District War Pensions Committee
Ernest Bacchus, Superintendent, B Division, Metropolitan Police
Harold Eustace Baker, Commandant, Special Constabulary
John Joseph Septimus Barker, Clerk to-the Lanchester Board of Guardians
John Patrick Barrett, Clerk, Office of Assistant Director of Military Transport, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
William Henry Boucher, Acting First-Class Clerk, Ministry of Health
William Stanley Brown, Assessor and Collector of Income Tax
Joseph Browne, a founder of the United Kingdom Pilots Association
James Kennedy Bryson, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise
William Henry Bushill, Assistant Accountant, War Office
Hugh James Campbell, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland
Olive Campbell, of Inverneill JP Member of the Argyll, Renfrew and Bute War Pensions Committee
Annie Bindon Geoffrey Carter, Founder of Painted Fabrics Disabled Soldiers and Sailors Mutual Association
Ethel Catherine Mary Gates, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health
Albert Henry Coates, Clerk of Accounts, H.M. Land Registry
Arthur Richard Cotton, Clerk to the Epsom Rural District Council
Bertie Gibson Crewe, Principal Staff Officer, Industrial Property Department, Board of Trade
Elizabeth Winifred Cronin, Deputy Governor, Hollow ay Prison
Thomas James Dale, Accountant
Finance Department, Ministry of Labour
Gwendolen Florence Davies, Member of the Prime Minister's Clerical Staff
William Michael Reuben Davis, Superintendent, Odiham Division, Aldershot, Hampshire County Police
Alfred Ernest Dean, Honorary Secretary, Swindon Savings Committee
James Elphinstone For voluntary services to the Scottish Savings Committee
Alfred Vincent Elsden FIC Deputy War Department Chemist
Thomas William Faulkner, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
John Laird Fitzhenry, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland
Arthur Folkarde For voluntary services to the Scottish Savings Committee
Joseph Gould, Surveyor, Board of, Customs and Excise
Arthur Powell Guest FRHS Honorary Secretary, Taunton Savings Committee
John Milbanke Hamilton, Manager, Tavistock Street (Building Trades) Employment Exchange
Leonard Bennett Bayley, Divisional Traffic Superintendent, Sudan Government Railways
John Preston Beecher, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Havre
Mulla Muhammad Aln Sharaf AH Harravala, His Majesty's Legation, Addis Ababa
Robert Knight Hartley, Rhineland High Commission
Philip Ingleson MC Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Government
Robert Carl Thorburn Jobson, His Majesty's Ex Vice-Consul at Warberg
Georgina Loinaz, British Library of Information, New York
William Studart, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ceara
Edmund David Watt, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Port-au-Prince
William Calderwood Young MC Inspector of Agriculture, Sudan Government
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Alfreda Louisa Allen, Principal of the Gayaza School for Girls, Uganda Protectorate
Katherine Ross Cameron, Matron of the Zomba Hospital, Nyasaland Protectorate
The Reverend James Denton DCL Principal of the Pourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Major Joseph Turner Dew VD formerly Officer Commanding the Defence Force, Antigua, Leeward Islands
Charles Peter Dias, Headmaster of Wesley College and Member of the Municipal Council of Colombo, Ceylon
Henry David Grant MC lately Head-Constable-Major, Palestine Gendarmerie
The Reverend William Edward Horley, Headmaster of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, Perak, Federated Malay States
The Reverend Mother Superior Joseph, of the Catholic Mission of the Congregation of St. Joseph of Cluny; in recognition of her long services in the Gambia.
Alexander Menzies Macfarlane MRCVS Government Veterinary Surgeon, Malta
Kenneth Mackenzie, late Superintendent of Stores and Government Bookshop, Ministry of Education, Iraq
Donald Kirton Macwilliam, Revenue Officer and Harbour Master, St. Kitts, Leeward Islands
Jane McCotter, Senior Nursing Sister, Nigeria
Elizabeth McKey, Senior Nursing Sister, Civil Nursing Service, Iraq
The Reverend Father John Meehan, of the Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost Fathers; in recognition of his services in the Gambia
The Reverend Father Joseph Georges Edouard Michaud, Principal of the Kisube Boys School, Uganda Protectorate
Ahmode Hajee Ahlanian Suhawon, in recognition of his services to Education in the Savanne District, Mauritius
Foonyee Catherine Woo, Headmistress of St. Paul's Girls School, Hong Kong
Honorary Members
Abdin Effendi Husheimi, Assistant Superintendent Of Police, Palestine
Abdullah Effendi Kardus, Administrative Officer, Palestine
Ahmed Seif Ed Bin Effendi Husseini, Mayor of Lydda, Palestine
Asher Ben-David, Instructional Officer, Police Training School, Palestine
Halim Abu Rahmeh, Medical Officer, Department of Health, Palestine
Rank Bey Beydun, Administrative Officer, Palestine
Sheikh Suleiman bin Nasur el-Lemki, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Zanzibar, in recognition of his public and charitable services.
Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
Florence Amy Hodgson, Chief Lady-Superintendent, Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association
Agnes Scott Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service, and Secretary, Countess of Dufferin's Fund
John David O'Donnell MBE VD FRCSE LRCP Chief Medical and Sanitary Officer, Kolar Gold Fields, Mysore
The Reverend Charles Walker Posnett, Chairman and General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission in His Exalted Highness the Nizams Dominions, Medak, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Major Joseph Alexander Hercules Holmes, Indian Medical Department, Senior Assistant Surgeon, British Station Hospital, Quetta
Rose Greenfield, Murree, Punjab
The Reverend Edward Sherman Oakley, London Mission, Almora, United Provinces
The Reverend James Alexander Drysdale, Minister, Scots Church, Rangoon
British Empire Medal (BEM)
The British Empire Medal for meritorious service
For Gallantry
Staff Sergeant Reginald Harry Maltby, 11th Armoured Car Company, Lahore, in recognition of the heroism he displayed in saving a child from drowning in a disused well.
For Meritorious Service
Corporal William Watson Denton MM British Section of the Palestine Gendarmie. For consistently good work during his service.
William James Ferguson, Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. For long and meritorious service of an exceptionally high standard.
Staff Sergeant Harold Player, British Section of the Palestine Gendarmie. For loyal and devoted service as Orderly Room Staff Sergeant and Chief Clerk.