The King's Birthday Honours 1939 were appointments in many of the
Commonwealth realms of King
George VI 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 announced on 6 June 1939 for the United Kingdom and Colonies.[1]
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.
Major Sir
Herbert Robin Cayzer, Bt, Member of Parliament for
Portsmouth South, December 1918 to 1922 and since August 1923. For political and public services.
Herwald Ramsbotham, OBEMCMP, Member of Parliament for
Lancaster since May 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, November 1931 to June 1935, and to the Ministry of Agriculture, November 1935 to 1936.
Minister of Pensions since September 1936.
Thomas Lamb, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, and Senior Director of Messrs. Begg Dunlop & Co.,
Calcutta, Bengal.
Major Sardar
Muhammad Nawaz Khan, ITF, Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Proprietor of the Kot Estates, Kot Fateh Khan,
Attock District, Punjab.
Evelyn Arthur Smythies, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, United Provinces.
William John Jenkins, Indian Agricultural Service, Officiating Director of Agriculture, Bombay.
Walter Graham Lacey, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Governor of
Bihar.
Edmund Bryan Jones, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bengal.
John Thorne Masey Bennett, CBEMC, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Forrester Douglas MacGregor, MC, Indian Medical Service, Residency Surgeon,
Hyderabad (Deccan).
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Jasper Anderson, MC MBBS (London) LRCP (London) FRCS (Eng.), Indian Medical Service, Professor of Surgery,
Medical College, Calcutta, Bengal.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Francis Henry Kelly, OBE, Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras.
Charles George Hawes, MC, Indian Service of Engineers, Officiating Superintending Engineer, Northern Sind Circle, Sind.
John Edward Pedley, MC, Indian Civil Service, Collector,
Gorakhpur, United Provinces.
Herbert Tower Sorley, Indian Civil Service, Collector of Bombay.
Philip Crawford Vickery, OBE, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Punjab.
John Thomas Donovan, Indian Civil Service, Bengal.[2]
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Colonel Roger Errington, MC TD MD, Territorial Army, Assistant Director of Medical Services,
50th (Northumbrian) Division, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel (temporary Colonel) Alexander Hood, MD,
Royal Army Medical Corps, Deputy Director of Medical Services, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Colonel David Ogilvy Wight Lamb, OBE, Indian Army, Inspector, Quarter-Master General's Branch (Assistant Quarter-Master General), British Advisory Military Mission attached to the Iraq Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel
John Jestyn Llewellin, OBEMCTDMP, Dorsetshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) James Ogilvy Shepherd, MC TD, Territorial Army, Commanding, Royal Artillery,
51st (Highland) Division, Territorial Army.
Colonel Francis Peter Vidal, OBE, retired pay, late
Royal Army Pay Corps, late Command Paymaster, Southern Command.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Cradock Wickins, TD, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, Deputy Chief Signal Officer for Territorial Army duties, 1st Anti-Aircraft Corps, Territorial Army.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Harry Willans, DSO MC TD, Territorial Army, Commander,
2nd (London) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
Royal Air Force
Group Captain Ivor Thomas Lloyd.
Wing Commander Arthur Hyde Flower.
Civil Division
Cyril Bailey, MBEFBA, Chairman of the Oxford Juvenile Advisory Committee.
Albert Ernest Rudder, special representative of
Imperial Airways in the Commonwealth of Australia, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Qantas Empire Airways.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel John Seddon Barton, MC TD, late Officer Commanding 61st Carnarvon and Denbigh (Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Archibald Pennant Campbell, Royal Artillery, General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Headquarters, The British Troops in Egypt.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel John Campbell, MBETD, Officer Commanding, Air Formation Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Supplementary Reserve.
Major Peter Ranalphus Walter Carthew, late Officer Commanding Malvern College Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps (Captain, Regular Army Reserve of Officers).
Major Charles Beevor Harty Delamain, MC, Royal Artillery, Brigade Major,
Tianjin Area, British Troops in China.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Douglas Alexander Fletcher, MCED, Reserve of Officers,
Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, late Officer Commanding Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Richard Cunningham Foot,MC TD, Officer Commanding, 35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Norman Scotson Henshaw, MC TD Officer Commanding, 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Henry Cecil Hope, TD, Officer Commanding, 4th/5th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) (52nd Searchlight Regiment) The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Drummond Inglis, MC, Royal Engineers, Commander, Royal Engineers, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Frank Hamer Lawrence, MC TD, late Officer Commanding, 68th (South Midland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Darell Kilburn Paris, MC, Royal Artillery, Military Attaché, Brussels and the Hague.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Howard Read, TD MEng AMIEE, Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Platt Readman, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services,
49th (West Riding) Division, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Owen Robinson, MC TD, Officer Commanding, 40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Reginald Herbert Ryrie Steward, MC, Royal Corps of Signals, Officer Commanding Signals, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Local Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Albert Strallen, Commandant and Chief Instructor, Chemical Warfare School, India (Captain, Ret'd, late Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Royal Engineers).
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Arthur Westfield Ward-Walker, TD, Officer Commanding, 45th (The Royal Warwickshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Thomas Edgar Weavers, Australian Staff Corps, Director of Mobilization, Rifle Associations and Rifle Clubs, Army Headquarters,
Australian Military Forces.
Major Walter John Williams, MC, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Godfrey Charles Wycisk, TD, Officer Commanding, 5th (Prince of Wales's) Battalion,
The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
No.5720606 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) Arthur Jenkins Burden, 4th Battalion,
The Dorsetshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
No.1850070 Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Frederick George Corder, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (Senior Assistant Surgeon) Eugene Avron Cotton, DCM, Indian Medical Department.
No.2554561 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Frederick Oscar Creighton, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Captain Thomas Holland Crowther, Glamorgan Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Frederick John Dean, TD, Devonshire and Cornwall Fortress Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Dean, DCM, 74th (Northumbrian) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army (Captain, retired pay) (Regular Army Reserve of Officers).
Major (Quarter-Master) Frederick James Diggins, MC, late 5th Battalion,
The Leicestershire Regiment, Territorial Army (Captain, retired pay, late The Leicestershire Regiment).
No.6392311 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Leonard Frederick Divall, 1st Battalion,
The Royal Sussex Regiment.
Captain (Quarter-Master), William Richard Drew, 47th (The Durham Light Infantry) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Captain Thomas Durrant, 57th (Wessex) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.29205 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Dudley Keith Edwards, The London Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
No.2202222 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), John William Ellis, 37th (Tyne) Anti-Aircraft Battalion (Tyne Electrical Engineers), Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Commissary) Horace Mays Fox, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
Major Ian George David Alastair Forbes, Ampleforth College Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps.
Lieutenant (Ordnance Executive Officer, 3rd Class), Alfred John Matthew Hunt, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (Quarter-Master) Thomas James, Extra Regimentally Employed List, Master-at-Arms,
Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot.
No.6697045 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant), Albert Edward Keen,
Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, Territorial Army.
Captain (Assistant Paymaster) William Edward Charles Loftus,
Royal Army Pay Corps.
Captain (Ordnance Officer, 4th Class) Hugh Fraser MacKenzie, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
No.2604337 Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major), William John Martin, 1st Battalion,
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Major Bernard Stuart Mead, 48th (Hampshire) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant Robert Keith Melluish, late Rossall School Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps.
No.1667767 Warrant Officer, Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major), Robert Murphy, 55th (Kent) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Risaldar-Major Manindra Nath, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Major Thomas Nettleton, TD, 66th (Leeds Rifles, The West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Captain David Nicol, New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, District Ordnance Officer, Southern Military District,
New Zealand Military Forces.
Major (Quarter-Master) Ernest Alfred North, MCDCM, late 5th Battalion, The
Lancashire Fusiliers, Territorial Army (Lieutenant, retired pay, late The Lancashire' Fusiliers).
No.1414455 Warrant Officer, Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) James William O'Neill, Royal Artillery.
No.T/31514 Warrant Officer, Class II (Mechanist Quarter-Master-Sergeant) (local Warrant Officer, Class I) (Mechanist Sergeant Major), Herbert George Onyett,
Royal Army Service Corps.
No.5/6401 Warrant Officer, Class I (Staff Sergeant-Major), Walter Paul, Royal Army Service Corps.
Captain Ronald Henry Pennefather, 2nd Battalion,
Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Singapore Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
Lieutenant Cyril Edgar Burton Pugh, , Royal Engineers.
No.6538547 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant), William James Reason, 10th (3rd City of London) Battalion (69th Searchlight Regiment),
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Territorial Army.
Major (Quarter-Master) Thomas Graham Roberts, DCM, 43rd (5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment), Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Commissary) Bertram James Robertson, India Miscellaneous List, Deputy Assistant Director, Adjutant General's Branch, Headquarters of the Army in India.
Second-Lieutenant (local Captain) William Robert George Smith, 8th (1st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Territorial Army.
Quarter-Master and Honorary Major Carl Rudolph Speckman, MC, Australian Instructional Corps, Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanization, Department of the Quarter Master-General and Master-General of the Ordnance, Army Headquarters,
Australian Military Forces.
Captain Walter Stewart, MB, Royal Army Medical Corps.
No.5485475 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant), Arthur Bertram Stone, 1st Battalion,
The Hampshire Regiment.
No.725964 Warrant Officer, Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major), Edward Ernest Taylor, 72nd (Hampshire) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.2605329 Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major), George Frederick Turner, DCM, 3rd Battalion,
Grenadier Guards.
No.6768260 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Sidney George West, 35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
No.2554559 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Leslie Abner Whittingham, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Captain (Inspector of Royal Engineer Machinery) Harold Ernest Williams, Royal Engineers.
Flying Officer (now Acting Flight Lieutenant) Morris Michael Kane.
Flying Officer William John Stephen Barnard.
Warrant Officer Clement Edgar Reed.
Warrant Officer William Sidney Arthur Stewart.
Warrant Officer Harry Fletcher.
Warrant Officer Stephen Edward Hearnden.
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Raymond Styles, Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division
Henry William Atterbury, Higher Clerical Officer, Colonial Office.
Aubrey William Baker. For political and public services in Hertford.
Robert Frederick Balls. For political and public services in Canterbury.
Alfred Thomas Barber, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise.
Alderman Ellen Elizabeth Bell, JP, Chairman of the Women's Sub-Committee of the Sunderland Local Employment Committee.
Sydney Leighton Ponsonby Bewsher, Technical Adviser, Rural Industries Bureau.
Muriel Bird. For political and public services in Chesterfield.
Norman Black, FAI, Superintending Estate Surveyor, HM Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Alderman William Micah Bolton, Chairman of the Willesden Local Employment Committee.
Albert Briers, Chief Clerk, Telephone Manager's Office, Cardiff, General Post Office.
Walter Clifford Burns, Motor Transport Officer, Class I, Engineering Department, General Post Office.
Major Henry Cavendish Butler, District Commandant, Special Constabulary, Northern Ireland.
Charles Edward Charlesworth. For political and public services in Barnsley.
John Elsey Chatterton. For political and public services in Horncastle.
Harold Sandford Clutterbuck, Manager, Technical Department, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Charles Cockram, Clerk and Steward, Rampton State Institution, Board of Control.
Arthur Cecil Cooper, Higher Clerical Officer, Offices of the Cabinet, Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
Frederick James Cox, Assistant Librarian of the London Library.
James Gumming, lately Chief Sanitary Inspector of the City of Aberdeen.
James Edward Daly, Superintendent (Postal), London Postal Region, General Post Office.
Marianne Bradley Dawson, Matron of Gateshead Children's Hospital.
Thomas Herbert Dyer, JP. For political and public services in Cornwall.
Henry Eastwood, Secretary of the
London Orphan School and Royal British Orphan School at Watford.
Charles Emerson, Higher Clerical Officer, Offices of the Cabinet,
Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
David Thomas Evans, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Breconshire Constabulary.
Arthur Owen Everard, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Birkenhead Borough Police Force.
Alan Leslie Greenway, Indian Medical Department, Medical Officer and Quarantine Medical Officer, Kuwait,
Persian Gulf Residency.
Sardar Mulsinhji Jibava, Thakor of Kuna,
Kaira District, Bombay.
Thomas Edward Jones, Technical Supervisor, Security Printing, India.
Charles Murray Ker, Indian Civil Service, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Labour.
Andrew Francis MacCulloch, FIC AMIChemE, Advisory Chemist, Medical Store Depot, Madras.
Lt. Colonel Sardar Naunihal Singh Mann of
Mughalchak and
Mananwala, Hony. Magistrate, I Class, Rais-i-Azam, Member of the Legislative Assembly (Punjab), Landowner, Mananwala,
Sheikhupura District, Punjab.
Agam Prashad Mathur, Private Secretary to the Auditor-General of India.
Charles Melmoth Bailey Mersh, Electrical Adviser to the Government of the Central Provinces and Berar.
Tolaram Khanch and Mirchandani, AMIE, Officiating Deputy Conservator of Forests, Bombay.
Kasi Sankar Mitra, ASAA (Lond.), Secretary, Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, Bengal.
Frank Morgan, Honorary Deputy Superintendent of Police and Principal, Constables Training School, Angul,
Cuttack District, Orissa.
Chaudri Naseer Ahmed (Provincial Civil Service, Punjab), Private Secretary to the Law Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, of Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province.
James David Paterson, Manager, Gouripore Jute Mill,
Naihati, Bengal.
Robert Arthur Pereira, District Board Engineer (Ret'd), Madras.
Kottakal Raman Narayan Pillai, Extra Assistant Conservator of Forests, Divisional Forest Officer,
Jubbulpore, Central Provinces and Berar.
Radha Krishna, MB BS DPH, Medical Superintendent, Silver Jubilee Tuberculosis Hospital, and Tuberculosis Clinic, Delhi.
James Robertson, lately Chairman, Bansbaria Municipality, Bengal.
Herbert Aloysius Rodrigues, Deputy Assistant Controller, Military Accounts Department.
Victor Gerald Rose, Chief Superintendent, Royal Indian Navy Office.
Khan Bahadur Saiyid Moshfique Saleheen, Honorary Magistrate of
Barrackpore and Titaghur, Bengal.
Mohan Lai Sawhney, Barrister-at-Law,
Sargodha, Punjab.
Khan Bahadur Zahir Gul Khan, Deputy Superintendent of Police, North-West Frontier Province.
Annie Baines, Matron, General Hospital, Bahamas.
Rowland William Cunningham Baker-Beall, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
Ethel Mary Brewer. For social and educational services in the
Uganda Protectorate.
John William Brown, Maintenance Engineer, Public Works Department, Palestine.
Bradley Martin Cameron, Manager, Government Stock Farm and Agricultural Station,
Acre, Palestine.
Jamshed Firoz Dastur, Deputy Registrar, High Court, Zanzibar.
Tudor Thomas Davies, Government Printer, Nyasaland Protectorate.
William Moir Mathews Duncan, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, Tanganyika Territory.
Edward Fernandez, Currency Officer, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
Edward John Gibbons, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, Nigeria.
Richard John Clyde Howes, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
Demetrios Kakathimis. For services to education in Cyprus.
Duloo Ram, Jemadar Chaprassi, Lower Chenab East Circle,
Lyallpur, Punjab.
Randhir Singh, Head Jemadar-Orderly, Government House, United Provinces.
British Empire Medal (BEM)
For Gallantry
Military Division
Frederick Christie Anderson, Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class, ON P/M28823.
For Meritorious Service
Military Division
Royal Navy
Daniel Archibald Lee, Petty Officer Telegraphist, ON P/J97353.
Arthur Ernest Ebsworth, Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor, ON Po/21920.
Army
No.4960071 Company Quarter-Master-Sergeant Charles Frederick Cooper, 40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
No.2974
Naik Mohamed Khan, 6th (Singapore) Anti-Aircraft Battery, Hong Kong Singapore Royal Artillery.
No.1414314 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Albert Henry Nankivell, Royal Artillery.
No.860319 Battery Quarter-Master-Sergeant Alfred Price, 94th (Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.2647544 Sergeant Christopher Robinson, Regimental Staff,
Coldstream Guards.
No.1412242 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) William Edwin Skelton, Royal Artillery.
No.761173 Sergeant-Clerk Ernest John Tompsett, 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.3589460 Colour-Sergeant James Milburn Wood, DCM, 4th/5th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) (52nd Searchlight Regiment)
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Territorial Army.
Royal Air Force
362958 Flight Sergeant Ronald Henry Abrook.
354836 Flight Sergeant Sidney Donald Daymond.
562270 Flight Sergeant John Simpson Robinson.
370981 Flight Sergeant Matthew Roe.
343342 Flight Sergeant Tom Gilbert Samuels.
356614 Flight Sergeant George Henry Wiles.
347405 Sergeant (now Flight Sergeant) Joseph Ronald Jackson.
The King's Birthday Honours 1939 were appointments in many of the
Commonwealth realms of King
George VI 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 announced on 6 June 1939 for the United Kingdom and Colonies.[1]
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.
Major Sir
Herbert Robin Cayzer, Bt, Member of Parliament for
Portsmouth South, December 1918 to 1922 and since August 1923. For political and public services.
Herwald Ramsbotham, OBEMCMP, Member of Parliament for
Lancaster since May 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, November 1931 to June 1935, and to the Ministry of Agriculture, November 1935 to 1936.
Minister of Pensions since September 1936.
Thomas Lamb, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, and Senior Director of Messrs. Begg Dunlop & Co.,
Calcutta, Bengal.
Major Sardar
Muhammad Nawaz Khan, ITF, Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Proprietor of the Kot Estates, Kot Fateh Khan,
Attock District, Punjab.
Evelyn Arthur Smythies, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, United Provinces.
William John Jenkins, Indian Agricultural Service, Officiating Director of Agriculture, Bombay.
Walter Graham Lacey, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Governor of
Bihar.
Edmund Bryan Jones, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bengal.
John Thorne Masey Bennett, CBEMC, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Forrester Douglas MacGregor, MC, Indian Medical Service, Residency Surgeon,
Hyderabad (Deccan).
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Jasper Anderson, MC MBBS (London) LRCP (London) FRCS (Eng.), Indian Medical Service, Professor of Surgery,
Medical College, Calcutta, Bengal.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Francis Henry Kelly, OBE, Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras.
Charles George Hawes, MC, Indian Service of Engineers, Officiating Superintending Engineer, Northern Sind Circle, Sind.
John Edward Pedley, MC, Indian Civil Service, Collector,
Gorakhpur, United Provinces.
Herbert Tower Sorley, Indian Civil Service, Collector of Bombay.
Philip Crawford Vickery, OBE, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Punjab.
John Thomas Donovan, Indian Civil Service, Bengal.[2]
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Colonel Roger Errington, MC TD MD, Territorial Army, Assistant Director of Medical Services,
50th (Northumbrian) Division, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel (temporary Colonel) Alexander Hood, MD,
Royal Army Medical Corps, Deputy Director of Medical Services, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Colonel David Ogilvy Wight Lamb, OBE, Indian Army, Inspector, Quarter-Master General's Branch (Assistant Quarter-Master General), British Advisory Military Mission attached to the Iraq Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel
John Jestyn Llewellin, OBEMCTDMP, Dorsetshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) James Ogilvy Shepherd, MC TD, Territorial Army, Commanding, Royal Artillery,
51st (Highland) Division, Territorial Army.
Colonel Francis Peter Vidal, OBE, retired pay, late
Royal Army Pay Corps, late Command Paymaster, Southern Command.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Cradock Wickins, TD, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, Deputy Chief Signal Officer for Territorial Army duties, 1st Anti-Aircraft Corps, Territorial Army.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Harry Willans, DSO MC TD, Territorial Army, Commander,
2nd (London) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
Royal Air Force
Group Captain Ivor Thomas Lloyd.
Wing Commander Arthur Hyde Flower.
Civil Division
Cyril Bailey, MBEFBA, Chairman of the Oxford Juvenile Advisory Committee.
Albert Ernest Rudder, special representative of
Imperial Airways in the Commonwealth of Australia, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Qantas Empire Airways.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel John Seddon Barton, MC TD, late Officer Commanding 61st Carnarvon and Denbigh (Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Archibald Pennant Campbell, Royal Artillery, General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Headquarters, The British Troops in Egypt.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel John Campbell, MBETD, Officer Commanding, Air Formation Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Supplementary Reserve.
Major Peter Ranalphus Walter Carthew, late Officer Commanding Malvern College Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps (Captain, Regular Army Reserve of Officers).
Major Charles Beevor Harty Delamain, MC, Royal Artillery, Brigade Major,
Tianjin Area, British Troops in China.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Douglas Alexander Fletcher, MCED, Reserve of Officers,
Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, late Officer Commanding Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Richard Cunningham Foot,MC TD, Officer Commanding, 35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Norman Scotson Henshaw, MC TD Officer Commanding, 55th (West Lancashire) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Henry Cecil Hope, TD, Officer Commanding, 4th/5th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) (52nd Searchlight Regiment) The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Drummond Inglis, MC, Royal Engineers, Commander, Royal Engineers, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Frank Hamer Lawrence, MC TD, late Officer Commanding, 68th (South Midland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Darell Kilburn Paris, MC, Royal Artillery, Military Attaché, Brussels and the Hague.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Howard Read, TD MEng AMIEE, Officer Commanding 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Platt Readman, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services,
49th (West Riding) Division, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Owen Robinson, MC TD, Officer Commanding, 40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Reginald Herbert Ryrie Steward, MC, Royal Corps of Signals, Officer Commanding Signals, British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Local Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Albert Strallen, Commandant and Chief Instructor, Chemical Warfare School, India (Captain, Ret'd, late Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Royal Engineers).
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Arthur Westfield Ward-Walker, TD, Officer Commanding, 45th (The Royal Warwickshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Thomas Edgar Weavers, Australian Staff Corps, Director of Mobilization, Rifle Associations and Rifle Clubs, Army Headquarters,
Australian Military Forces.
Major Walter John Williams, MC, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Godfrey Charles Wycisk, TD, Officer Commanding, 5th (Prince of Wales's) Battalion,
The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
No.5720606 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) Arthur Jenkins Burden, 4th Battalion,
The Dorsetshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
No.1850070 Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major) Frederick George Corder, Royal Engineers.
Lieutenant (Senior Assistant Surgeon) Eugene Avron Cotton, DCM, Indian Medical Department.
No.2554561 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major) Frederick Oscar Creighton, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Captain Thomas Holland Crowther, Glamorgan Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Major Frederick John Dean, TD, Devonshire and Cornwall Fortress Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Dean, DCM, 74th (Northumbrian) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army (Captain, retired pay) (Regular Army Reserve of Officers).
Major (Quarter-Master) Frederick James Diggins, MC, late 5th Battalion,
The Leicestershire Regiment, Territorial Army (Captain, retired pay, late The Leicestershire Regiment).
No.6392311 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Leonard Frederick Divall, 1st Battalion,
The Royal Sussex Regiment.
Captain (Quarter-Master), William Richard Drew, 47th (The Durham Light Infantry) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Captain Thomas Durrant, 57th (Wessex) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.29205 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Dudley Keith Edwards, The London Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
No.2202222 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), John William Ellis, 37th (Tyne) Anti-Aircraft Battalion (Tyne Electrical Engineers), Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Commissary) Horace Mays Fox, Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
Major Ian George David Alastair Forbes, Ampleforth College Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps.
Lieutenant (Ordnance Executive Officer, 3rd Class), Alfred John Matthew Hunt, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Captain (Quarter-Master) Thomas James, Extra Regimentally Employed List, Master-at-Arms,
Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot.
No.6697045 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant), Albert Edward Keen,
Queen Victoria's Rifles, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, Territorial Army.
Captain (Assistant Paymaster) William Edward Charles Loftus,
Royal Army Pay Corps.
Captain (Ordnance Officer, 4th Class) Hugh Fraser MacKenzie, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
No.2604337 Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major), William John Martin, 1st Battalion,
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Major Bernard Stuart Mead, 48th (Hampshire) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Lieutenant Robert Keith Melluish, late Rossall School Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps.
No.1667767 Warrant Officer, Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major), Robert Murphy, 55th (Kent) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Risaldar-Major Manindra Nath, Royal Indian Army Service Corps.
Major Thomas Nettleton, TD, 66th (Leeds Rifles, The West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
Captain David Nicol, New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, District Ordnance Officer, Southern Military District,
New Zealand Military Forces.
Major (Quarter-Master) Ernest Alfred North, MCDCM, late 5th Battalion, The
Lancashire Fusiliers, Territorial Army (Lieutenant, retired pay, late The Lancashire' Fusiliers).
No.1414455 Warrant Officer, Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major) James William O'Neill, Royal Artillery.
No.T/31514 Warrant Officer, Class II (Mechanist Quarter-Master-Sergeant) (local Warrant Officer, Class I) (Mechanist Sergeant Major), Herbert George Onyett,
Royal Army Service Corps.
No.5/6401 Warrant Officer, Class I (Staff Sergeant-Major), Walter Paul, Royal Army Service Corps.
Captain Ronald Henry Pennefather, 2nd Battalion,
Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Singapore Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
Lieutenant Cyril Edgar Burton Pugh, , Royal Engineers.
No.6538547 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant), William James Reason, 10th (3rd City of London) Battalion (69th Searchlight Regiment),
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Territorial Army.
Major (Quarter-Master) Thomas Graham Roberts, DCM, 43rd (5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment), Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
Major (Commissary) Bertram James Robertson, India Miscellaneous List, Deputy Assistant Director, Adjutant General's Branch, Headquarters of the Army in India.
Second-Lieutenant (local Captain) William Robert George Smith, 8th (1st City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Territorial Army.
Quarter-Master and Honorary Major Carl Rudolph Speckman, MC, Australian Instructional Corps, Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanization, Department of the Quarter Master-General and Master-General of the Ordnance, Army Headquarters,
Australian Military Forces.
Captain Walter Stewart, MB, Royal Army Medical Corps.
No.5485475 Warrant Officer, Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant), Arthur Bertram Stone, 1st Battalion,
The Hampshire Regiment.
No.725964 Warrant Officer, Class II (Battery Sergeant-Major), Edward Ernest Taylor, 72nd (Hampshire) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.2605329 Warrant Officer, Class I (Regimental Sergeant-Major), George Frederick Turner, DCM, 3rd Battalion,
Grenadier Guards.
No.6768260 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Sidney George West, 35th (First Surrey Rifles) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
No.2554559 Warrant Officer, Class II (Company Sergeant-Major), Leslie Abner Whittingham, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.
Captain (Inspector of Royal Engineer Machinery) Harold Ernest Williams, Royal Engineers.
Flying Officer (now Acting Flight Lieutenant) Morris Michael Kane.
Flying Officer William John Stephen Barnard.
Warrant Officer Clement Edgar Reed.
Warrant Officer William Sidney Arthur Stewart.
Warrant Officer Harry Fletcher.
Warrant Officer Stephen Edward Hearnden.
Flight Lieutenant Arthur Raymond Styles, Royal Australian Air Force.
Civil Division
Henry William Atterbury, Higher Clerical Officer, Colonial Office.
Aubrey William Baker. For political and public services in Hertford.
Robert Frederick Balls. For political and public services in Canterbury.
Alfred Thomas Barber, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise.
Alderman Ellen Elizabeth Bell, JP, Chairman of the Women's Sub-Committee of the Sunderland Local Employment Committee.
Sydney Leighton Ponsonby Bewsher, Technical Adviser, Rural Industries Bureau.
Muriel Bird. For political and public services in Chesterfield.
Norman Black, FAI, Superintending Estate Surveyor, HM Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Alderman William Micah Bolton, Chairman of the Willesden Local Employment Committee.
Albert Briers, Chief Clerk, Telephone Manager's Office, Cardiff, General Post Office.
Walter Clifford Burns, Motor Transport Officer, Class I, Engineering Department, General Post Office.
Major Henry Cavendish Butler, District Commandant, Special Constabulary, Northern Ireland.
Charles Edward Charlesworth. For political and public services in Barnsley.
John Elsey Chatterton. For political and public services in Horncastle.
Harold Sandford Clutterbuck, Manager, Technical Department, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Charles Cockram, Clerk and Steward, Rampton State Institution, Board of Control.
Arthur Cecil Cooper, Higher Clerical Officer, Offices of the Cabinet, Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
Frederick James Cox, Assistant Librarian of the London Library.
James Gumming, lately Chief Sanitary Inspector of the City of Aberdeen.
James Edward Daly, Superintendent (Postal), London Postal Region, General Post Office.
Marianne Bradley Dawson, Matron of Gateshead Children's Hospital.
Thomas Herbert Dyer, JP. For political and public services in Cornwall.
Henry Eastwood, Secretary of the
London Orphan School and Royal British Orphan School at Watford.
Charles Emerson, Higher Clerical Officer, Offices of the Cabinet,
Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
David Thomas Evans, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Breconshire Constabulary.
Arthur Owen Everard, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Birkenhead Borough Police Force.
Alan Leslie Greenway, Indian Medical Department, Medical Officer and Quarantine Medical Officer, Kuwait,
Persian Gulf Residency.
Sardar Mulsinhji Jibava, Thakor of Kuna,
Kaira District, Bombay.
Thomas Edward Jones, Technical Supervisor, Security Printing, India.
Charles Murray Ker, Indian Civil Service, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Labour.
Andrew Francis MacCulloch, FIC AMIChemE, Advisory Chemist, Medical Store Depot, Madras.
Lt. Colonel Sardar Naunihal Singh Mann of
Mughalchak and
Mananwala, Hony. Magistrate, I Class, Rais-i-Azam, Member of the Legislative Assembly (Punjab), Landowner, Mananwala,
Sheikhupura District, Punjab.
Agam Prashad Mathur, Private Secretary to the Auditor-General of India.
Charles Melmoth Bailey Mersh, Electrical Adviser to the Government of the Central Provinces and Berar.
Tolaram Khanch and Mirchandani, AMIE, Officiating Deputy Conservator of Forests, Bombay.
Kasi Sankar Mitra, ASAA (Lond.), Secretary, Medical College Hospitals, Calcutta, Bengal.
Frank Morgan, Honorary Deputy Superintendent of Police and Principal, Constables Training School, Angul,
Cuttack District, Orissa.
Chaudri Naseer Ahmed (Provincial Civil Service, Punjab), Private Secretary to the Law Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, of Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province.
James David Paterson, Manager, Gouripore Jute Mill,
Naihati, Bengal.
Robert Arthur Pereira, District Board Engineer (Ret'd), Madras.
Kottakal Raman Narayan Pillai, Extra Assistant Conservator of Forests, Divisional Forest Officer,
Jubbulpore, Central Provinces and Berar.
Radha Krishna, MB BS DPH, Medical Superintendent, Silver Jubilee Tuberculosis Hospital, and Tuberculosis Clinic, Delhi.
James Robertson, lately Chairman, Bansbaria Municipality, Bengal.
Herbert Aloysius Rodrigues, Deputy Assistant Controller, Military Accounts Department.
Victor Gerald Rose, Chief Superintendent, Royal Indian Navy Office.
Khan Bahadur Saiyid Moshfique Saleheen, Honorary Magistrate of
Barrackpore and Titaghur, Bengal.
Mohan Lai Sawhney, Barrister-at-Law,
Sargodha, Punjab.
Khan Bahadur Zahir Gul Khan, Deputy Superintendent of Police, North-West Frontier Province.
Annie Baines, Matron, General Hospital, Bahamas.
Rowland William Cunningham Baker-Beall, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
Ethel Mary Brewer. For social and educational services in the
Uganda Protectorate.
John William Brown, Maintenance Engineer, Public Works Department, Palestine.
Bradley Martin Cameron, Manager, Government Stock Farm and Agricultural Station,
Acre, Palestine.
Jamshed Firoz Dastur, Deputy Registrar, High Court, Zanzibar.
Tudor Thomas Davies, Government Printer, Nyasaland Protectorate.
William Moir Mathews Duncan, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, Tanganyika Territory.
Edward Fernandez, Currency Officer, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
Edward John Gibbons, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, Nigeria.
Richard John Clyde Howes, Colonial Administrative Service, District Officer, Kenya.
Demetrios Kakathimis. For services to education in Cyprus.
Duloo Ram, Jemadar Chaprassi, Lower Chenab East Circle,
Lyallpur, Punjab.
Randhir Singh, Head Jemadar-Orderly, Government House, United Provinces.
British Empire Medal (BEM)
For Gallantry
Military Division
Frederick Christie Anderson, Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class, ON P/M28823.
For Meritorious Service
Military Division
Royal Navy
Daniel Archibald Lee, Petty Officer Telegraphist, ON P/J97353.
Arthur Ernest Ebsworth, Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor, ON Po/21920.
Army
No.4960071 Company Quarter-Master-Sergeant Charles Frederick Cooper, 40th (The Sherwood Foresters) Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
No.2974
Naik Mohamed Khan, 6th (Singapore) Anti-Aircraft Battery, Hong Kong Singapore Royal Artillery.
No.1414314 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) Albert Henry Nankivell, Royal Artillery.
No.860319 Battery Quarter-Master-Sergeant Alfred Price, 94th (Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.2647544 Sergeant Christopher Robinson, Regimental Staff,
Coldstream Guards.
No.1412242 Staff-Sergeant (Artillery Clerk) William Edwin Skelton, Royal Artillery.
No.761173 Sergeant-Clerk Ernest John Tompsett, 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
No.3589460 Colour-Sergeant James Milburn Wood, DCM, 4th/5th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh) (52nd Searchlight Regiment)
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Territorial Army.
Royal Air Force
362958 Flight Sergeant Ronald Henry Abrook.
354836 Flight Sergeant Sidney Donald Daymond.
562270 Flight Sergeant John Simpson Robinson.
370981 Flight Sergeant Matthew Roe.
343342 Flight Sergeant Tom Gilbert Samuels.
356614 Flight Sergeant George Henry Wiles.
347405 Sergeant (now Flight Sergeant) Joseph Ronald Jackson.