The 1919 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, and were published in The London Gazette from 3 June to 12 August.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] The vast majority of the awards were related to the recently ended
War, and were divided by military campaigns. A supplementary list of honours, retroactive to the King's birthday, was released in December 1919.[16]
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) awards
Military Division
For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Aden Peninsula —
Maud Anson, Comforts for the Troops Fund, North-West Frontier Province
William Staveley Armour, Superintendent Publicity Bureau, Allahabad, United Provinces
M. R. Ry. Rao Bahadar Tiruvalyangudi Vijayaraghava Achariyar Avargal, Diwan of Cochin, Madras
Rai Sahib Raj Bahadur, Chairman of the Etah\Municipal Board, United Provinces
Augustus Baker, Engineer, Bombay Mint
Christine Baldwin, Red Cross Assooation, North-West Frontier Province
Helen Balthazar, Red Cross Depot, Rangoon, Burma
Walter Cecil Bamford, Deputy Superintendent, Telegraph Engineering, Central India
Constance Bewley, Secretary, Ladies War Fund, Dacca, Bengal
Cissie Booker, Voluntary Worker, YMCA, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
The Rev. John Jennings Dingle Borlase Junior Chaplain, Indian Ecclesiastical Estab., St. Marks Church, Civil and Military Station, Bangalore, Mysore State
Sharnalata Bose, Dacca Branch of the Lady Carmichael Bengal Women's War Fund, Bengal
Second Lt. Charles William Bowles, Indian Defence Force, State Engineer, Patiala, Punjab
The Honourable Finetta Madeline Julia Bruce, Red Cross Association, North-West Frontier Province
Florence Buist, Red Cross Association, Rawalpindi, Punjab
Kathleen Byrne, Lady Superintendent, of the Dehra Dun Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, United Provinces
Sarah Cain, Secretary of the Dummagudem Red Cross Centre, Godavari District, Madras
Manijeh Sorabjee Capt., Bombay
Mary Cartwright, Red Cross Depots, Anantapur and Tinnevelly, Madras
Gertrude Caseon, Red Cross Depot, Ambala, Punjab
Babu Bishan Chand, Deputy Collector, Etawah, United Provinces
Lala Ram Chandra, Indian Civil Service, Assistant Commissioner, Lyallpur, Punjab
George Alfred Chapman, Station, Master, Quetta, Baluchistan
Ma Le Gyi, Red Cross Association, Amherst District, Burma
George Thomas Hall, Deputy Superintendent, Survey of India (retired), and Municipal Commissioner, Civil and Military, Station, Bangalore, Mysore State
William George Augustin Hanrahan, Acting General Secretary, St. John Ambulance Association
Maj. Harold Maitland Haslehust, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, Assistant Superintendent, Bombay Police, lately Divisional Recruiting Officer for the Hyderabad State, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Phyllis Hearn Monro, Soldiers Canteen, Amballa
Margaret Herbert, Red Cross Association, Shillong, Assam
Alice Hickley, Red Cross Association, Muzaffafpur District, Bihar and Orissa
Arthur Denys Salusbury Highton, Agent, Bank of Bengal, Lucknow, United Province
Ma E. Hmyin, Red Cross Association, Prome, Burma
Eva Hogan Monro, Soldiers Canteen, Saharanpur
Gladys Muriel Hunt, Honorary Secretary of the National Service Bureau, Bombay
May Imrie, Voluntary Worker, YMCA, Jubbulpore, Central Province
Capt. George Skinner Ingram, Business Manager, United Provinces War Journal, Allahabad, United Provinces
John Rajaratnara Isaac, Gen. Secretary, YMCA, Bangalore, Mysore State
Violet Jackson, Organiser, War Charities, Garo Hills, Assam
Edith Alma Johnston, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Fund, Bhagalpur, Bihar and Orissa
Rosalie Johnston, Secretary, Hyderabad Ladies War Relief Association, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Pandit
Satyanand Joshi, Assistant Editor, United Provinces War Journal, United Provinces
Khan Sahib Yusuf Kanoo, Merchant of Bahrein, Persian Gulf
Ruby Kempster, Honorary Secretary, Red Cross Association, Lucknow, United Provinces
Joseph Abner Kendall, Superintendent, Central Red Cross Depot, Cawnpore, United Provinces
Rose Alice Kenyon, Mateon of the Cumballa War Hospital, Bombay
Khan Bahadur, Muhammad Abdul Karim Khan ISO Kundi of Gul Imam, Provincial Civil Service, District Judge, Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province
Ali Sher Khan, District Assisting Recruiting Officer, Saugor, Central Provinces
Nawb Allahdad Khan, Alizai, of Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province
Khan Bahadur Mir Ahmad Khan Arbab, Provincial Civil Service, retired Extra Assistant Commissioner of Landi Yarghajo, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Qadir Khan, Munshi, Provincial Civil Service, Revenue Extra Assistant Commissioner at Dera Ismail Khan, North-West, Frontier Province
Khan Sahib Jangul Khan, late acting Sardar of the Belkhel Musakhelsi, Baluchistan
Khan Bahadur Sardar Mian Khan, Head of the Kurd tribe, Baluchistan
Khwaja Muhammad Abdul Majid Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Gurgaon, Punjab
Khan Bahadur Shakar Khan, Jamaldini, Sarhaddar, Kacha, Baluchistan
Kunwar Muhammad Ubaidullah Khan, Khan Bahadur, Honorary Magistrate of Dharampur in the Bulandshahr District, United Provinces
Zaka-ud-din Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Hissar, Punjab
Ethelred Mary Knollys, Indian Com forts for the Troops Fund, Delhi
Samuel Laver, Secunderabad, Hyderaabad (Deccan)
Ellen Laville, Red Cross Depot, Mysore State
Harriet Louise Lee, Voluntary War Worker, Bangalore, Mysore State
Charles Lister, Bangalore Woollen, Cotton and Silk Mills Company, Mysore State
Diogo Xavier Lobo, Officiating Treasury Officer, Bushire, Persian Gulf
Francis James Loughlin, Postmaster, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Ethel Lowsley, Honorary Secretary to the Coimbatore Centre Of the Red Cross Association, Madras
The Reverend Bernard Lucas, Gen. Secretary, South India District Committee of the London Missionary Society, Mysore State
Agnes Edith Stewart Maclver, Red Cross Depot, Tinneveliy, Madras
William George Mackay, Engineer, Bombay Mint
Malcolm Ayers Mackenzie, Superintendent of Police, Hazaribagh, Bihar and Orissa
Edith Mary Madeley, Joint Secretary of the Ladies Recreation Club, Madras
Dinshaw Eduljee Mahawa, Superintendent, Parsi Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Bombay
Babu Kishen Lai Maheshri, Merchant, Dibrugarh, Assam
Rai Bahadur Lala Harji Mai, Khana of Peshawar City, Municipal Commissioner, Banker and Mill-owner, North-West Frontier Province
Babu Gangsin Marak, of Baghmara, Garo Hills, Assam
Jloraha Nusserwanji Marker, Superintendent, Cosmopolitan Division of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Bombay
Harry Ralph McHugh, Deputy Superintendent, Telegraph Engineering, 1st Class, Cawnpore, United Provinces
Rao Sahib Antony Simon Gabriel Michael, Shipping Clerk, Office of Deputy Controller, Timber Supplies, Burma
Lewis William Michael, Superintendent, Municipal Markets, Bombay City, Bombay
Edith Agnes Ida Mignon, War Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Herbert Minson, Indian Civil Service, Under Secretary to the Government of the Suited Provinces
Henry St. John Morrison, Deputy Superintendent of Police, First Grade, Bihar and Orissa
Second Lt. Abul Lais Saad-ud-Din Muhammad, Assistant Recruiting Officer, Sylhet, Assam
Lala Raj Narain, Executive Engineer, Etawah, United Provinces
Capt. Pandit Kashi Nath, Deputy Collector, United Provinces
Alice Elizabeth Maud, Newton, Secretary, Ladies Branch, Joint War Committee, Mhow Centre, Central India
Una O'Dwyer, Punjab
John Ninian Oliphant, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Lakhimpur, United Provinces
Rao Sahib Balkrishna Anant Palekar, District Assistant Recruiting Officer, South Ratnagiri, Bombay
Ronald Parsons, Personal Assistant to the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy
Babu Anirudha Patel, Superintendent of the Nayagarh State, Bihar and Orissa
Maude Marion Phelps, Indian Comforte for the Troops Fund, Simla
Mary Catherine de Rhé Philipe, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Fund, Larore, Punjab
Amy Pocklington, Secretary of the Kashmir Red Cross Committee, Kashmir State
Edith Powell, Red Cross Associations, Rawalpindi and Murree, Punjab
Lala Sheo Prasad, of Bareilly, United Provinces
May Pratt, War Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Rai Bahadur Lala Barkat Ram, Honorary Magistrate, Gujranwala, Punjab
Mary Ellen Rankin, St. John Ambulance Association, Darjeeling, Bengal
Richard Riley, Manager, Carnatic Mills, Madras
Lilian Muriel, Rivett-Carnac Voluntary Worker, Church of England Institute for Soldiers, Bangalore, Mysore State
Sister Janet Robertson, Nursing Sister, Cumballa War Hospital, Bombay
John Joseph Fisher Rodericks, Presidency Postmaster, Calcutta, Bengal
Honorary Capt. Rivers Thomas Rodgers, Indian Medical Department, Superintendent Indian Medical Department, Superintendent, Central Jail, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
Arthur Freakish Sells, Consul for Denmark and Head of the Bombay Branch of Messrs. Cox and Co., Bombay
Khan Bahadur Mian Musharraf Shah, Kaka Khel, of Ziarat Kaka Sahib, Peshawar District, North-West Frontier Province
Khan Bahadur Syed Mehr Shah Kharsin, Head of the Kharsins of Durg, Baluchistan
Lt. Cyril Hay Shaw, Deputy Controller of War Accounts
Maung Ba Shin, Barrister-at-Law, Rangoon, Burma
Winifred Simpson, Bengal Women's War Fund Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Rai Amarpal Singh, Taluqdar of Adharganj, Dalippur, Partabgarh District, United Provinces
Chaudhri Brij Raj Saran Singh, President, Sahanpur Recruiting Depot, Bulandshahr District, United Provinces
Chaudhri Dhiri Singh, late Honorary District Assistant Recruiting Officer, Mainpuri District, United Provinces
Honorary Ressaidar Chaudhri Nihal Singh, of Bijnor, United Provinces
Bhai Gurbakhsh Singh, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Buildings and Roads Branch, Lahore, Punjab
Subardar-Maj. and Honorary Capt. Hira Singh, Sardar Bahadur, Aide-de-Camp to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, Bihar and Orissa
Rai Bahadur Bhai Lehna Singh, Provincial Civil Service, District Judge, Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province
Mary Sladen, Red Cross Associations, Muttra and Bareily, United Provinces
Alexander Frederick Slater, Superintendent, Postal Workshops and Piess, Aligarh, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Una Soames, Red Cross Association, Darrang, Assam
Gertrude Stephenson, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Funds, Laiore, Punjab
Thomas Smith Sterling, Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta, Bengal
Lenna Mary Stratford, Chief Inspectress of Schools, Punjab
Anne Smith Tait, Red Cross Association, Mysore State
Mary Thaddeus, War Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Mary Powney Thompson, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Funds, Multan Division, Punjab
Edith Tonkinson, Honorary Secretary, Burma Labour Corps Comforts Fund and the Sagaing Red Cross Branch, Burma
Lucia Turnbull, Voluntary War Worker, Bombay
Constance Henry Turner, War Clothing, and Comforts for the Troops Fund, Harbanswala Tea Estate, Dehra Dun, United Provinces
Rao Sahib Govind Mahadeo Vaidya, Assistant Controller of War Accounts
Edith Mary Vanes, in charge of the Wesleyan Soldiers Home and Club, Bangalore Mysore State
Ardeshir Dosabhai Wadia, Bombay
Hellen Stuart Waller-Senior, Red Cross Association, Mysore, Mysore State
Margaret Jean Walter, Comforts for the Troops Fund, Dehra Dun
Winifred Edith Walter, Lady Superintendent, Nursing Staff of Civil Hospital, Karachi, Sind, Bombay
Edith Way, Secretary, Red Cross Association, Naini Tal, United Provinces
Ida Willmore, Secretary of the Sind Women's Branch of the Imperial War Relief Fund, Sind, Bombay
John Hughes Wilson VD Superintendent, Arrakan Commissioners Office, Burma
Norah Woodall, Red Cross Depot, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Dominion of New Zealand
Alfred Montague Adams, for services as Chief Executive Officer of the Munitions and Supplies Department
Rachel Mary Barton, for services in connection with patriotic organisations
Margaret Brown Blackwell, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Hilda Bloonifield, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and for the Victoria League
Annie Elizabeth Blundell, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Janet Bowie, for Red Cross services
Violet McConochie Brown, for services in connection with soldiers' equipment
Charles Hay ward Burgess, Mayor of New Plymouth, for patriotic services
Alexander Burt, Junior, for services in connection with the Motor Boat Section of the New Zealand Defence Forces
Edith de Castro, for services in institutions at Cairo and in Canteen at Ismailia, Egypt
Esther Charles, for patriotic services
Lydia Clark, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Ethel Mary Cooper, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John
Frances Zoe Courage, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Gertrude Alice Crawford, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Ethel Cuff, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Hannah Dawson, for patriotic services
George Finley Dixon, for services as Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence
Mabel Ellison, for service in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Harold Gerard, for services as Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence
Louisa Grace Charlotte Greenslade, for patriotic services
Thomas Gunnion, for patriotic services
Brenda Guthrie, for services as a voluntary worker at the Victoria Military Ward of the Wellington Hospital
Eveline Alice Marian Harcourt, for services on the voluntary staff at Base Records Office, New Zealand
Kate Harrison, for patriotic services
Henry William Harrington, for services as Censor
Heathcote George Helmore, for services as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand
Emma Carey Hill, for services in connection with the Victoria League
Margaret Mary Annie Hislop, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund
Ann Margaret Kitchen, for services in connection with Belgian Relief and the entertainment of New Zealand soldiers
Elizabeth Annie Holdsworth, for services on the voluntary staff at Base Records Office, New Zealand
William Godfrey Holdsworth, for services on the voluntary staff at Base Records Office, New Zealand
Lavinia Jano Kelsey, for patriotic services
Emma Ethel Maud Ford King, for patriotic services
Sarah Hannah King, for patriotic services
James Lovell for services in connection with Patriotic Funds
Ethel Constance Chapman Macassey, for patriotic services
Mina MacDonald, for services at the Aotea Home, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Mysie McDonnell, for services at the Aotea Home, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Agnes McDougall, for services in connection with patriotic undertakings
Pura McGregor, for services in connection with the Maori Expeditionary Force
Nesta Gertrude Maling, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Basil Arthur Marris, for services as Chief Clerk, Base Records Office, New Zealand
Alfred Andrew Martin, for services in organising supply of motor vehicles at Auckland for returning soldiers
Lieutenant Frederick Gwilliam Matthews, for services as Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence
James Dothie Millton, for services in connection with the Citizens' Defence Corps
Winnifred Moeller, for patriotic services
Janet Murray, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Leo Francis O'Neill, for services in the Chief of the General Staff's Branch of the Defence Department
Jessie Ellen Page, for services in supplying comforts to the soldiers at Featherston Military Training Camp
Lucy Philson, for patriotic services
Mary Ann Potter, for services in connection with the Red Cross and the Countess of Liverpool Fund
George Charles Rodda, for services as Officer in charge of War expenses Branch of the Defence Department
William Archibald Russell, for services in connection with patriotic undertakings
George Herbert Scales, for services in shipping matters, and other patriotic work
Annie Wilhelmina Smart, for services in connection with patriotic undertakings
Lilly Mary Smith, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Martha Spencer, for services in connection with the Maori Expeditionary Force
Florence Johanna Stevenson, for work for the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Bernard Tripp, for work for the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the- Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Charles James Tunks, for services to the St. John Ambulance Association
The Rev. Harry Ernest Thompson, Secretary of the Governor-General's Fund Committee, Bloemfontein
Gilbert Watson, Member of the Central Wool Committee, Port Elizabeth
Margaret Janet Wallace, Matron of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospice, Congella
Erne Way, for general war services at Grahamstown
Newfoundland
Charles Pascoe Ayre, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Alfred Charles Blackburn, for patriotic work
Agnes Clift, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Mildred Clift, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Lillian Maud Facey, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Janet Aitken Fisher, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Henry Frederick Fitzgerald, for services in connection with recruiting
Ethel Harvey, for Red Cross services
Emily Hannah Hollands, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Henrietta Palfrey Holloway, for services in collecting and preparing Spagnum Moss
Reuben Horwood, for patriotic services
Helen Kennedy, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Elizabeth Shaw Lauder, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Flora Emma McDonald, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Richard McDonnell, Magistrate of Bay St. George, for services in connection with Pensions and other matters
Margaret McPherson, President of the Daughters of the Empire and one of the Reception Committee for Soldiers
George Frederick Moore, Treasurer of the Patriotic Fund at Heart's Content
Eliza Petten, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
John Alexander Robinson Postmaster-General; for patriotic services
Organiser of the Tobacco Fund for the Newfoundland Regiment
Carolina Augusta Somerton, President of the Committee of the Women's Patriotic Association at Trinity
Charles Robert Steer, for services in raising funds for aeroplanes
Ernest Swaffield, for patriotic work, Labrador
Sarah Ann Thompson, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Effie Morris Tulk, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Crown Colonies, Protectorates, Etc.
Ina Cameron Ainsworth, for services on behalf of the East Africa Expeditionary Force
Dorothea Anne Harvey Aldworth of Kuala Lumpur, for services on behalf of British and Allied War Charities in the Federated Malay States
Hubert Arrnbruster, District Resident, First Grade, Nyasaland Protectorate, for services in connection with the recruitment of carriers and the supply of native foodstuffs
Edgar Arrigo, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Lieutenant Governor's Office, Malta
Captain Francis John Bagshawe, Assistant Political Officer, Mbulu, German East Africa
Blanche Bancroft, for war work in Barbados
William Bartley, for services as Secretary to the Food Control, Shipping and other Committees, Straits Settlements
Charles Frederick Belcher, Magistrate, Uganda Protectorate, for sendees as Custodian of enemy property
Agnes Bennett, of Umtali, Rhodesia, for services in connection with war funds
Albert Victor Bernard for services in connection with hospital and nursing work in Malta
Maud Bettington, for services in connection with hospital work, Gold Coast
Robert William Bryant, Mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, for general war work
Augusta Margaret Bucknor, for services in aid of the Gold Coast Red Coast Fund
James Arthur Edward Bullock, Chief Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Department, Hong Kong
John James Bushell, services in connection with the Red Cross, Bermuda
Lewis Borg Cardona, for services as Secretary to the Supplies and Prices Board and the Wheat Board, Malta
Henry Casolani, for services in connection with the importation of foodstuffs into Malta
Louise Chataway, of Umtali, Rhodesia, for services in connection with war funds
Albert Henry Cipriani, Member of the Liquidating Committee for winding-up alien enemy businesses in Trinidad
Percival Herbert Clarke, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, East Africa Protectorate, for services on behalf of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John
Marie Penelope Rose Clementi, for services in connection with Queen Mary's Needlework Guild in British Guiana
Ada Blanche Pierce Conyers, for services in connection with Queen Mary's Needlework Guild in British Guiana
Percy Charles Cookson, Magistrate, Northern Rhodesia, for services in connection with native carriers
Edward Arden Copeman, Magistrate, Northern Rhodesia, for services in connection with native carriers
Manuel Gregory Corsi, for services as Member of the Food Supply Committee, Gibraltar
Alexander Percy Cowley, Chairman of the Agricultural and Commercial Society of Antigua, for services in connection with war charities
Attilio Critien for medical services during the war, Malta
Edmund Clarke de Fonseka, for services in support of war charities in Ceylon
Dora Florence De Freitas, for Red Cross and other war work, Windward Islands
Mary Margaret de Soyse, for services in connection with, war charities in Ceylon
Florence Grace Drew, for services in connection with Red Cross funds, Northern Rhodesia
Maude Ellefred Evans for general war work, Gibraltar
The 1919 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, and were published in The London Gazette from 3 June to 12 August.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] The vast majority of the awards were related to the recently ended
War, and were divided by military campaigns. A supplementary list of honours, retroactive to the King's birthday, was released in December 1919.[16]
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) awards
Military Division
For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Aden Peninsula —
Maud Anson, Comforts for the Troops Fund, North-West Frontier Province
William Staveley Armour, Superintendent Publicity Bureau, Allahabad, United Provinces
M. R. Ry. Rao Bahadar Tiruvalyangudi Vijayaraghava Achariyar Avargal, Diwan of Cochin, Madras
Rai Sahib Raj Bahadur, Chairman of the Etah\Municipal Board, United Provinces
Augustus Baker, Engineer, Bombay Mint
Christine Baldwin, Red Cross Assooation, North-West Frontier Province
Helen Balthazar, Red Cross Depot, Rangoon, Burma
Walter Cecil Bamford, Deputy Superintendent, Telegraph Engineering, Central India
Constance Bewley, Secretary, Ladies War Fund, Dacca, Bengal
Cissie Booker, Voluntary Worker, YMCA, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
The Rev. John Jennings Dingle Borlase Junior Chaplain, Indian Ecclesiastical Estab., St. Marks Church, Civil and Military Station, Bangalore, Mysore State
Sharnalata Bose, Dacca Branch of the Lady Carmichael Bengal Women's War Fund, Bengal
Second Lt. Charles William Bowles, Indian Defence Force, State Engineer, Patiala, Punjab
The Honourable Finetta Madeline Julia Bruce, Red Cross Association, North-West Frontier Province
Florence Buist, Red Cross Association, Rawalpindi, Punjab
Kathleen Byrne, Lady Superintendent, of the Dehra Dun Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, United Provinces
Sarah Cain, Secretary of the Dummagudem Red Cross Centre, Godavari District, Madras
Manijeh Sorabjee Capt., Bombay
Mary Cartwright, Red Cross Depots, Anantapur and Tinnevelly, Madras
Gertrude Caseon, Red Cross Depot, Ambala, Punjab
Babu Bishan Chand, Deputy Collector, Etawah, United Provinces
Lala Ram Chandra, Indian Civil Service, Assistant Commissioner, Lyallpur, Punjab
George Alfred Chapman, Station, Master, Quetta, Baluchistan
Ma Le Gyi, Red Cross Association, Amherst District, Burma
George Thomas Hall, Deputy Superintendent, Survey of India (retired), and Municipal Commissioner, Civil and Military, Station, Bangalore, Mysore State
William George Augustin Hanrahan, Acting General Secretary, St. John Ambulance Association
Maj. Harold Maitland Haslehust, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, Assistant Superintendent, Bombay Police, lately Divisional Recruiting Officer for the Hyderabad State, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Phyllis Hearn Monro, Soldiers Canteen, Amballa
Margaret Herbert, Red Cross Association, Shillong, Assam
Alice Hickley, Red Cross Association, Muzaffafpur District, Bihar and Orissa
Arthur Denys Salusbury Highton, Agent, Bank of Bengal, Lucknow, United Province
Ma E. Hmyin, Red Cross Association, Prome, Burma
Eva Hogan Monro, Soldiers Canteen, Saharanpur
Gladys Muriel Hunt, Honorary Secretary of the National Service Bureau, Bombay
May Imrie, Voluntary Worker, YMCA, Jubbulpore, Central Province
Capt. George Skinner Ingram, Business Manager, United Provinces War Journal, Allahabad, United Provinces
John Rajaratnara Isaac, Gen. Secretary, YMCA, Bangalore, Mysore State
Violet Jackson, Organiser, War Charities, Garo Hills, Assam
Edith Alma Johnston, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Fund, Bhagalpur, Bihar and Orissa
Rosalie Johnston, Secretary, Hyderabad Ladies War Relief Association, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Pandit
Satyanand Joshi, Assistant Editor, United Provinces War Journal, United Provinces
Khan Sahib Yusuf Kanoo, Merchant of Bahrein, Persian Gulf
Ruby Kempster, Honorary Secretary, Red Cross Association, Lucknow, United Provinces
Joseph Abner Kendall, Superintendent, Central Red Cross Depot, Cawnpore, United Provinces
Rose Alice Kenyon, Mateon of the Cumballa War Hospital, Bombay
Khan Bahadur, Muhammad Abdul Karim Khan ISO Kundi of Gul Imam, Provincial Civil Service, District Judge, Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province
Ali Sher Khan, District Assisting Recruiting Officer, Saugor, Central Provinces
Nawb Allahdad Khan, Alizai, of Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province
Khan Bahadur Mir Ahmad Khan Arbab, Provincial Civil Service, retired Extra Assistant Commissioner of Landi Yarghajo, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Khan Bahadur Ghulam Qadir Khan, Munshi, Provincial Civil Service, Revenue Extra Assistant Commissioner at Dera Ismail Khan, North-West, Frontier Province
Khan Sahib Jangul Khan, late acting Sardar of the Belkhel Musakhelsi, Baluchistan
Khan Bahadur Sardar Mian Khan, Head of the Kurd tribe, Baluchistan
Khwaja Muhammad Abdul Majid Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Gurgaon, Punjab
Khan Bahadur Shakar Khan, Jamaldini, Sarhaddar, Kacha, Baluchistan
Kunwar Muhammad Ubaidullah Khan, Khan Bahadur, Honorary Magistrate of Dharampur in the Bulandshahr District, United Provinces
Zaka-ud-din Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Hissar, Punjab
Ethelred Mary Knollys, Indian Com forts for the Troops Fund, Delhi
Samuel Laver, Secunderabad, Hyderaabad (Deccan)
Ellen Laville, Red Cross Depot, Mysore State
Harriet Louise Lee, Voluntary War Worker, Bangalore, Mysore State
Charles Lister, Bangalore Woollen, Cotton and Silk Mills Company, Mysore State
Diogo Xavier Lobo, Officiating Treasury Officer, Bushire, Persian Gulf
Francis James Loughlin, Postmaster, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Ethel Lowsley, Honorary Secretary to the Coimbatore Centre Of the Red Cross Association, Madras
The Reverend Bernard Lucas, Gen. Secretary, South India District Committee of the London Missionary Society, Mysore State
Agnes Edith Stewart Maclver, Red Cross Depot, Tinneveliy, Madras
William George Mackay, Engineer, Bombay Mint
Malcolm Ayers Mackenzie, Superintendent of Police, Hazaribagh, Bihar and Orissa
Edith Mary Madeley, Joint Secretary of the Ladies Recreation Club, Madras
Dinshaw Eduljee Mahawa, Superintendent, Parsi Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Bombay
Babu Kishen Lai Maheshri, Merchant, Dibrugarh, Assam
Rai Bahadur Lala Harji Mai, Khana of Peshawar City, Municipal Commissioner, Banker and Mill-owner, North-West Frontier Province
Babu Gangsin Marak, of Baghmara, Garo Hills, Assam
Jloraha Nusserwanji Marker, Superintendent, Cosmopolitan Division of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Bombay
Harry Ralph McHugh, Deputy Superintendent, Telegraph Engineering, 1st Class, Cawnpore, United Provinces
Rao Sahib Antony Simon Gabriel Michael, Shipping Clerk, Office of Deputy Controller, Timber Supplies, Burma
Lewis William Michael, Superintendent, Municipal Markets, Bombay City, Bombay
Edith Agnes Ida Mignon, War Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Herbert Minson, Indian Civil Service, Under Secretary to the Government of the Suited Provinces
Henry St. John Morrison, Deputy Superintendent of Police, First Grade, Bihar and Orissa
Second Lt. Abul Lais Saad-ud-Din Muhammad, Assistant Recruiting Officer, Sylhet, Assam
Lala Raj Narain, Executive Engineer, Etawah, United Provinces
Capt. Pandit Kashi Nath, Deputy Collector, United Provinces
Alice Elizabeth Maud, Newton, Secretary, Ladies Branch, Joint War Committee, Mhow Centre, Central India
Una O'Dwyer, Punjab
John Ninian Oliphant, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Lakhimpur, United Provinces
Rao Sahib Balkrishna Anant Palekar, District Assistant Recruiting Officer, South Ratnagiri, Bombay
Ronald Parsons, Personal Assistant to the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy
Babu Anirudha Patel, Superintendent of the Nayagarh State, Bihar and Orissa
Maude Marion Phelps, Indian Comforte for the Troops Fund, Simla
Mary Catherine de Rhé Philipe, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Fund, Larore, Punjab
Amy Pocklington, Secretary of the Kashmir Red Cross Committee, Kashmir State
Edith Powell, Red Cross Associations, Rawalpindi and Murree, Punjab
Lala Sheo Prasad, of Bareilly, United Provinces
May Pratt, War Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Rai Bahadur Lala Barkat Ram, Honorary Magistrate, Gujranwala, Punjab
Mary Ellen Rankin, St. John Ambulance Association, Darjeeling, Bengal
Richard Riley, Manager, Carnatic Mills, Madras
Lilian Muriel, Rivett-Carnac Voluntary Worker, Church of England Institute for Soldiers, Bangalore, Mysore State
Sister Janet Robertson, Nursing Sister, Cumballa War Hospital, Bombay
John Joseph Fisher Rodericks, Presidency Postmaster, Calcutta, Bengal
Honorary Capt. Rivers Thomas Rodgers, Indian Medical Department, Superintendent Indian Medical Department, Superintendent, Central Jail, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
Arthur Freakish Sells, Consul for Denmark and Head of the Bombay Branch of Messrs. Cox and Co., Bombay
Khan Bahadur Mian Musharraf Shah, Kaka Khel, of Ziarat Kaka Sahib, Peshawar District, North-West Frontier Province
Khan Bahadur Syed Mehr Shah Kharsin, Head of the Kharsins of Durg, Baluchistan
Lt. Cyril Hay Shaw, Deputy Controller of War Accounts
Maung Ba Shin, Barrister-at-Law, Rangoon, Burma
Winifred Simpson, Bengal Women's War Fund Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Rai Amarpal Singh, Taluqdar of Adharganj, Dalippur, Partabgarh District, United Provinces
Chaudhri Brij Raj Saran Singh, President, Sahanpur Recruiting Depot, Bulandshahr District, United Provinces
Chaudhri Dhiri Singh, late Honorary District Assistant Recruiting Officer, Mainpuri District, United Provinces
Honorary Ressaidar Chaudhri Nihal Singh, of Bijnor, United Provinces
Bhai Gurbakhsh Singh, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Buildings and Roads Branch, Lahore, Punjab
Subardar-Maj. and Honorary Capt. Hira Singh, Sardar Bahadur, Aide-de-Camp to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, Bihar and Orissa
Rai Bahadur Bhai Lehna Singh, Provincial Civil Service, District Judge, Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province
Mary Sladen, Red Cross Associations, Muttra and Bareily, United Provinces
Alexander Frederick Slater, Superintendent, Postal Workshops and Piess, Aligarh, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Una Soames, Red Cross Association, Darrang, Assam
Gertrude Stephenson, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Funds, Laiore, Punjab
Thomas Smith Sterling, Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta, Bengal
Lenna Mary Stratford, Chief Inspectress of Schools, Punjab
Anne Smith Tait, Red Cross Association, Mysore State
Mary Thaddeus, War Depot, Calcutta, Bengal
Mary Powney Thompson, Red Cross and Comforts for the Troops Funds, Multan Division, Punjab
Edith Tonkinson, Honorary Secretary, Burma Labour Corps Comforts Fund and the Sagaing Red Cross Branch, Burma
Lucia Turnbull, Voluntary War Worker, Bombay
Constance Henry Turner, War Clothing, and Comforts for the Troops Fund, Harbanswala Tea Estate, Dehra Dun, United Provinces
Rao Sahib Govind Mahadeo Vaidya, Assistant Controller of War Accounts
Edith Mary Vanes, in charge of the Wesleyan Soldiers Home and Club, Bangalore Mysore State
Ardeshir Dosabhai Wadia, Bombay
Hellen Stuart Waller-Senior, Red Cross Association, Mysore, Mysore State
Margaret Jean Walter, Comforts for the Troops Fund, Dehra Dun
Winifred Edith Walter, Lady Superintendent, Nursing Staff of Civil Hospital, Karachi, Sind, Bombay
Edith Way, Secretary, Red Cross Association, Naini Tal, United Provinces
Ida Willmore, Secretary of the Sind Women's Branch of the Imperial War Relief Fund, Sind, Bombay
John Hughes Wilson VD Superintendent, Arrakan Commissioners Office, Burma
Norah Woodall, Red Cross Depot, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Dominion of New Zealand
Alfred Montague Adams, for services as Chief Executive Officer of the Munitions and Supplies Department
Rachel Mary Barton, for services in connection with patriotic organisations
Margaret Brown Blackwell, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Hilda Bloonifield, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and for the Victoria League
Annie Elizabeth Blundell, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Janet Bowie, for Red Cross services
Violet McConochie Brown, for services in connection with soldiers' equipment
Charles Hay ward Burgess, Mayor of New Plymouth, for patriotic services
Alexander Burt, Junior, for services in connection with the Motor Boat Section of the New Zealand Defence Forces
Edith de Castro, for services in institutions at Cairo and in Canteen at Ismailia, Egypt
Esther Charles, for patriotic services
Lydia Clark, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Ethel Mary Cooper, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John
Frances Zoe Courage, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Gertrude Alice Crawford, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Ethel Cuff, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Hannah Dawson, for patriotic services
George Finley Dixon, for services as Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence
Mabel Ellison, for service in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Harold Gerard, for services as Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence
Louisa Grace Charlotte Greenslade, for patriotic services
Thomas Gunnion, for patriotic services
Brenda Guthrie, for services as a voluntary worker at the Victoria Military Ward of the Wellington Hospital
Eveline Alice Marian Harcourt, for services on the voluntary staff at Base Records Office, New Zealand
Kate Harrison, for patriotic services
Henry William Harrington, for services as Censor
Heathcote George Helmore, for services as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand
Emma Carey Hill, for services in connection with the Victoria League
Margaret Mary Annie Hislop, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund
Ann Margaret Kitchen, for services in connection with Belgian Relief and the entertainment of New Zealand soldiers
Elizabeth Annie Holdsworth, for services on the voluntary staff at Base Records Office, New Zealand
William Godfrey Holdsworth, for services on the voluntary staff at Base Records Office, New Zealand
Lavinia Jano Kelsey, for patriotic services
Emma Ethel Maud Ford King, for patriotic services
Sarah Hannah King, for patriotic services
James Lovell for services in connection with Patriotic Funds
Ethel Constance Chapman Macassey, for patriotic services
Mina MacDonald, for services at the Aotea Home, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Mysie McDonnell, for services at the Aotea Home, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt
Agnes McDougall, for services in connection with patriotic undertakings
Pura McGregor, for services in connection with the Maori Expeditionary Force
Nesta Gertrude Maling, for services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Basil Arthur Marris, for services as Chief Clerk, Base Records Office, New Zealand
Alfred Andrew Martin, for services in organising supply of motor vehicles at Auckland for returning soldiers
Lieutenant Frederick Gwilliam Matthews, for services as Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence
James Dothie Millton, for services in connection with the Citizens' Defence Corps
Winnifred Moeller, for patriotic services
Janet Murray, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Leo Francis O'Neill, for services in the Chief of the General Staff's Branch of the Defence Department
Jessie Ellen Page, for services in supplying comforts to the soldiers at Featherston Military Training Camp
Lucy Philson, for patriotic services
Mary Ann Potter, for services in connection with the Red Cross and the Countess of Liverpool Fund
George Charles Rodda, for services as Officer in charge of War expenses Branch of the Defence Department
William Archibald Russell, for services in connection with patriotic undertakings
George Herbert Scales, for services in shipping matters, and other patriotic work
Annie Wilhelmina Smart, for services in connection with patriotic undertakings
Lilly Mary Smith, for services in connection with the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Martha Spencer, for services in connection with the Maori Expeditionary Force
Florence Johanna Stevenson, for work for the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Bernard Tripp, for work for the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the- Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Charles James Tunks, for services to the St. John Ambulance Association
The Rev. Harry Ernest Thompson, Secretary of the Governor-General's Fund Committee, Bloemfontein
Gilbert Watson, Member of the Central Wool Committee, Port Elizabeth
Margaret Janet Wallace, Matron of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospice, Congella
Erne Way, for general war services at Grahamstown
Newfoundland
Charles Pascoe Ayre, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Alfred Charles Blackburn, for patriotic work
Agnes Clift, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Mildred Clift, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Lillian Maud Facey, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Janet Aitken Fisher, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Henry Frederick Fitzgerald, for services in connection with recruiting
Ethel Harvey, for Red Cross services
Emily Hannah Hollands, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Henrietta Palfrey Holloway, for services in collecting and preparing Spagnum Moss
Reuben Horwood, for patriotic services
Helen Kennedy, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
Elizabeth Shaw Lauder, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Flora Emma McDonald, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Richard McDonnell, Magistrate of Bay St. George, for services in connection with Pensions and other matters
Margaret McPherson, President of the Daughters of the Empire and one of the Reception Committee for Soldiers
George Frederick Moore, Treasurer of the Patriotic Fund at Heart's Content
Eliza Petten, for services in connection with the Women's Patriotic Association
John Alexander Robinson Postmaster-General; for patriotic services
Organiser of the Tobacco Fund for the Newfoundland Regiment
Carolina Augusta Somerton, President of the Committee of the Women's Patriotic Association at Trinity
Charles Robert Steer, for services in raising funds for aeroplanes
Ernest Swaffield, for patriotic work, Labrador
Sarah Ann Thompson, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Effie Morris Tulk, for services on behalf of the Women's Patriotic Association
Crown Colonies, Protectorates, Etc.
Ina Cameron Ainsworth, for services on behalf of the East Africa Expeditionary Force
Dorothea Anne Harvey Aldworth of Kuala Lumpur, for services on behalf of British and Allied War Charities in the Federated Malay States
Hubert Arrnbruster, District Resident, First Grade, Nyasaland Protectorate, for services in connection with the recruitment of carriers and the supply of native foodstuffs
Edgar Arrigo, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Lieutenant Governor's Office, Malta
Captain Francis John Bagshawe, Assistant Political Officer, Mbulu, German East Africa
Blanche Bancroft, for war work in Barbados
William Bartley, for services as Secretary to the Food Control, Shipping and other Committees, Straits Settlements
Charles Frederick Belcher, Magistrate, Uganda Protectorate, for sendees as Custodian of enemy property
Agnes Bennett, of Umtali, Rhodesia, for services in connection with war funds
Albert Victor Bernard for services in connection with hospital and nursing work in Malta
Maud Bettington, for services in connection with hospital work, Gold Coast
Robert William Bryant, Mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, for general war work
Augusta Margaret Bucknor, for services in aid of the Gold Coast Red Coast Fund
James Arthur Edward Bullock, Chief Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Department, Hong Kong
John James Bushell, services in connection with the Red Cross, Bermuda
Lewis Borg Cardona, for services as Secretary to the Supplies and Prices Board and the Wheat Board, Malta
Henry Casolani, for services in connection with the importation of foodstuffs into Malta
Louise Chataway, of Umtali, Rhodesia, for services in connection with war funds
Albert Henry Cipriani, Member of the Liquidating Committee for winding-up alien enemy businesses in Trinidad
Percival Herbert Clarke, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, East Africa Protectorate, for services on behalf of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John
Marie Penelope Rose Clementi, for services in connection with Queen Mary's Needlework Guild in British Guiana
Ada Blanche Pierce Conyers, for services in connection with Queen Mary's Needlework Guild in British Guiana
Percy Charles Cookson, Magistrate, Northern Rhodesia, for services in connection with native carriers
Edward Arden Copeman, Magistrate, Northern Rhodesia, for services in connection with native carriers
Manuel Gregory Corsi, for services as Member of the Food Supply Committee, Gibraltar
Alexander Percy Cowley, Chairman of the Agricultural and Commercial Society of Antigua, for services in connection with war charities
Attilio Critien for medical services during the war, Malta
Edmund Clarke de Fonseka, for services in support of war charities in Ceylon
Dora Florence De Freitas, for Red Cross and other war work, Windward Islands
Mary Margaret de Soyse, for services in connection with, war charities in Ceylon
Florence Grace Drew, for services in connection with Red Cross funds, Northern Rhodesia
Maude Ellefred Evans for general war work, Gibraltar