1931 Birthday Honours

The King's Birthday Honours 1931 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 2 June 1931.[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.

British Empire

Privy Councillor

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

Dominions
  • Charles McNess, of the City of Perth, Western Australia. For philanthropic services in that State,
India
Colonies, Protectorates, &c.

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Army
Royal Air Force

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Rear-Admiral Thomas Norman James, MVO.
  • Rear-Admiral Frank Forrester Rose, DSO.
  • Engineer Rear-Admiral Herbert Lyell Parry, OBE.
  • Surgeon Rear-Admiral Alfred James Hewitt, CBE, LRCP&S.
  • Paymaster Captain Frank Lankester Horsey, OBE, DSC.
Army
Civil Division

Order of Merit (OM)

Order of the Star of India

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

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

Additional Companions

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

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

Honorary Member

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

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

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Alfred William White Mackie, Indian Civil Service, Acting Commissioner, Central Division, Bombay Presidency.
  • Alexander Cameron Badenoch, Indian Civil Service, lately Director of Railway Audit.
  • Khan Bahadur Nawab Muzaffar Khan, Punjab Civil Service, Director, Information Bureau, and Joint Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Transferred Departments.
  • Henry Reginald Pate, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Madras.
  • Andrew McKerral, Indian Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Burma.
  • Charles Adolf Malcolm, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Claude Shelmerdine, OBE, lately Director of Civil Aviation.
  • John Anderson Thorne, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Madras.
  • Percival Clifford Bamford, Indian Police Service, Deputy Director, Intelligence Bureau, Government of India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Charles Temple, Chief Town Engineer and Administrator of Tata Iron and Steel Company, Jamshedpur, Bihar & Orissa.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Champion Garbett, Tea Planter, Assam.
  • Hattiangadi Shankar Rau, Indian Audit Department, Budget Officer, Finance Department, Government of India.
  • James Alister Pope, Indian Civil Service, Excise Commissioner in Central India and Adviser on Opium Affairs for Central India and Rajputana, Indore.
  • Captain Henry Aloysius Bruno Digby-Beste, OBE, Royal Indian Marine, Captain-Superintendent of the Indian Mercantile Marine Training Ship Dufferin, Bombay.
  • Henry Buswell Wetherill, Indian Educational Service, Inspector of Schools, United Provinces.
  • William Stewart Fraser, OBE, Locomotive Superintendent, Metre Gauge, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Ajmer-Merwara.
  • Charles Godfrey Chenevix-Trench, Indian Civil Service (retired), Settlement Commissioner, Mewar State, Rajputana.
  • Leslie Charles Coleman, PhD, Director of Agriculture, Mysore State.
  • Rai Bahadur Prabhat Chandra Bose, Pleader, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces.
  • Amir Sheikh Mahamadbhai Abdullabhai, Dewan, Junagadh State, Western India States Agency.
  • U Zaw Pe, Indian Educational Service, Inspector of Schools, Burma.
  • Alan Ross Leishman, VD, Manager, James Finlay and Company, Chittagong, Bengal.
  • Muhammad Yamin Khan, Barrister-at-Law, Landowner, United Provinces.
  • Charu Chandra Biswas, MLA, Vakil, High Court, Calcutta, Bengal.
  • Alexander Monro, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Lucknow, United Provinces.
Additional Companions
  • John Thomas Donovan, Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bakarganj, Bengal.
  • Herbert Ross Gould, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Poona, Bombay.
  • John Frederick Hall, OBE, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Madras.
  • Samuel Thomas Hollins, Indian Police Service, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces.
  • Cyril Templeton Brett, Indian Police Service, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bihar & Orissa.
  • Barry Charles Alfred Lawther, Indian Police Service, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Arthur Charles John Bailey, Indian Police Service, Officiating Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Southern Range, Belgaum, Bombay.
  • William Norman Prentice Jenkin, Indian Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Punjab.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Piers William North, DSO.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Bulmer Howell, MC.
  • The Reverend Trevitt Reginald Hine-Haycock.

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

  • Arthur Thomas Coombs.
  • Commissioned Gunner Walter George Collingwood Crouch, DSC, Royal Navy.
  • Commissioned Warrant Officer Samuel Mackenzie Hammond, Royal Navy.
  • Ernest Harry Lucking.

Order of the British Empire

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

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Civil Division

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

Military Division
Civil Division
  • Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, LLD. For services to women's education in Edinburgh.
  • Agnes Sybil Casson, LLD, (Sybil Thorndike), Actress and manager. For her services to dramatic art.
  • Her Highness Maharani Lakshmibai Sahiba Puar, of Dhar, President, Council of Minority Administration, Dhar State, Central India.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Army
Royal Air Force
  • Wing Commander William Wood Shorten, FRCS(E), LRCP.
Civil Division
Honorary Commander
  • Hassan Khalid Pasha Aboul Huda, lately Chief Minister of the Government of Trans-Jordan.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Lieutenant-Commander George Frederick Stevens-Guille.
  • Engineer Commander Robin Rampling, DSO.
  • Paymaster Commander Theodore Young Dobson, VD, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • Major John Melville Tuke, Royal Marines.
  • Brevet-Major Arthur Reginald Chater, DSO, Royal Marines.
Army
Royal Air Force
  • Squadron Leader George Frederick Law.
  • Flight Lieutenant Herbert William Heslop.
  • Flight Lieutenant Frank Woolley, DFC.
Civil Division
  • Frederick William Alexander, MRCS, LRCP (Edin.), DPH, formerly Medical Officer of Health for the Bromley & Poplar districts.
  • Wilfred Yorke Baldry, Librarian, War Office.
  • Major Jack Becke, Chief Constable of Shropshire.
  • Geoffrey Frank Braddock, an Assistant Director, Department of Overseas Trade.
  • James Charles Brampton, MBE, Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions, Representative of the Ministry of Pensions in Canada.
  • Edith Gladys Clarke, Principal, National Training School of Cookery & Domestic Science.
  • Piers Alexander Currie, Chief Clerk, Legal Division, Ministry of Health
  • The Reverend Edmund Dale, MA, DLitt, Headmaster, Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith.
  • Alderman William John Esmond, JP, President of the Carmarthen Divisional Labour Party. For public and political services.
  • Walter Pearson Fuller, MA, Chairman of the London Headmasters' Employment Committee.
  • Atherton Gray, JP, Chairman of the Clackmannan County Education Committee.
  • Harold Hadden, FCSI, Chief Property Adviser, Office of the Public Trustee.
  • John Hathorn Hall, DSO, MC, Principal, Colonial Office.
  • Peter Kydd Hanton, MBE, ARIBA, Senior Architect, HM Office of Works.
  • The Very Reverend Joseph Brewer Jobberns, MA, Dean of Brechin, Chairman of the Angus War Pensions Committee.
  • John Clague Joughin, MBE, Manager, Constructive Department, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth.
  • Thomas Kelly Liddell, Chief Conciliation Officer, North Western Division, Ministry of Labour.
  • William Thomas Matthews, MBE, Principal, HM Treasury.
  • Charles Middleton, Chief Constable of Stirlingshire.
  • Captain Ernest William O'Connor, DSC, Senior Captain, Sea Transport Service of the Board of Trade.
  • Grace Owen, MEd, Joint Honorary Secretary of the Nursery School Association of Great Britain.
  • Evelyn Maud Pennefather. For public services in Kensington. Chairman of the House Committee of the Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children.
  • Thomas Rogers, JP, first President of the Wednesbury, Tipton & Darlaston Labour Party in 1918. For public, political and social services.
  • John Ashwell Stirling, Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department.
  • Julia Varley, a member of the Work-people's Panel of the Birmingham Court of Referees and a member of the Birmingham Employment Committee. For public services.
  • Harold Decimus Vigor, MBE, Principal, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • William James Ward, Deputy Commissioner of Valuation, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
  • George Herbert Whybrow, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Thomas Marley Wood, Assistant Controller, Post Office Savings Bank Department.
  • William Henry James Cole, British Vice-Consul at Buffalo.
  • Wentworth Martyn Gurney, His Majesty's Consul at Lima.
  • George Bernard Humphreys, Compensation Officer, Egyptian Labour Corps, Egyptian Ministry of Finance.
  • Captain Erskine Knollys, MC, District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.
  • Eric Denholm Pridie, DSO, Medical Inspector, Sudan Medical Service.
  • Norman Vorley, Acting British Vice-Consul at Oslo.
  • Alice Caroline Franklin, formerly Secretary, Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.
  • Robert McFarlane, Member of the European Advisory Council, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Allister Mitchell Miller, Member of the European Advisory Council, Swaziland.
  • Frederick William James Moore, Member of the Fruits Committee of the Empire Marketing Board.
  • The Honourable John Nicholson, Member of the Legislative Council, State of Western Australia. For public services in that State.
  • Khan Bahadur, Haji Amirali Lahori, Zamindar and President of Larkana Municipality, Bombay.
  • Edmund Mowbray Atkinson, Tutor and Guardian to His Highness the Raja of Faridkot, Punjab States.
  • Captain Robert Richardson Burnett, of the Political Department, Secretary to the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan.
  • Khan Bahadur Shams-ud-din Haidar, Bihar & Orissa Civil Service, District Magistrate and Collector, Bihar & Orissa.
  • Robert Hume, Indian Police Service, District Superintendent of Police, Madras.
  • Khan Bahadur Khan Hamidullah Khan, Indian Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Punjab.
  • Major Ronald Stuart Moberly, VD, 1st Battalion, The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Regiment, Auxiliary Force, Bombay.
  • Lucien Arthur Allen, British Adviser, Perlis, Malay States.
  • George Bonner, Member of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands. For public services.
  • Captain Alexander Thomas Gammon, MBE, General Secretary of the Ceylon Branch of the Comrades of the Great War.
  • The Venerable Archdeacon Arthur George Bernard Glossop, MA, Universities' Mission to Central Africa. For services in the Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Albert Montefiore Hyamson, Chief Immigration Officer, Palestine.
  • Tyabali Mulla Jeevanje. For services to Kenya.
  • Alfred Clarence Norman, MD, Director of the X-Ray & Electrical Institute, Baghdad, Iraq.
  • Hugh Morgan O'Byrne, Chief of Customs, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Basil Demetrius Sertsios, Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Cyprus.
  • Mabel Shaw, of the Mbereshi Mission of the London Missionary Society. For services in Northern Rhodesia.
  • Herbert Sandford Thorne, lately Police Magistrate, Barbados.
  • Reginald Acheson Webb, Engineer, Lagos Town Council, Nigeria.
  • Wilfred Murray Wigley, Crown Attorney and Magistrate, Presidency of Saint Christopher and Nevis, Leeward Islands.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Telegraphist Lieutenant-Commander Harry Simpson.
  • Lieutenant (E) Henry Richard George Brooking.
  • Wardmaster Lieutenant Reginald Francis, MSM.
  • Lieutenant Richard Frank Cornwall, Royal Marines.
  • Commissioned Royal Marine Gunner Harry Pearcy, Royal Marines.
Army
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major Hugh Baker, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Captain (Deputy Commissary) William John Ball, Indian Corps of Clerks, Indian Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Thomas Edward Brewer, 1st Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment.
  • Sergeant (acting Battery Sergeant-Major), Harold Gilbert Brooke, Royal Artillery, attached 54th (West Riding & Staffordshire) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant (acting Conductor), Edwin William Buffee, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Fred Butterworth, 6th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major, William John Carter, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major, William Cook, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Superintending Clerk, Harry Cooke, Grenadier Guards.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major, George Cressell, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant (Senior Assistant Surgeon) Alexander Nicol deGruyther, Indian Medical Department.
  • Lieutenant (Senior Assistant Surgeon) James Berchmans D'Souza, Indian Medical Department.
  • Company Sergeant-Major Robert John Everest, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Superintending Clerk, William Henry Finch, Royal Engineers.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant, George Henry Rogers Flynn, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major, William George Gingell, MM, 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment.
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Fred Josiah Godfrey, DCM, 4th/5th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Territorial Army.
  • Conductor Percy William Godfrey, Military Engineer Services (Barrack Department), Indian Army.
  • Conductor Albert Henry Heath, Indian Miscellaneous List, Indian Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major Artillery Clerk, Arthur James Sheaf Hinton, Royal Artillery.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, 1st Class Staff Sergeant-Major, Charles Ernest Ivory, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major, Donald Wilson James, MC, 229th Battery, 58th (Essex & Suffolk) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major, Charles Victor Jefford, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) James Henry Keech, MC, The East Yorkshire Regiment.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Mechanist Sergeant-Major, Sidney Edward Kennett, Royal Tank Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major, Ernest Frederick King, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), attached Sudan Defence Force.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant, William Wormall King, 11th London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant (acting Captain) Koh Keng Bock, Officer Commanding, Chinese Company, Malacca Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Squadron Sergeant-Major (acting Regimental Sergeant-Major), John Forbes Lorimer, The Northumberland Hussars, Territorial Army.
  • Conductor Robert Love, Indian Corps of Clerks (British Wing), Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Harold Percy Martin, Coldstream Guards.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant, Martin Thomas McDonald, 2nd Battalion, Royal Tank Corps.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Norman McIver, 4th Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major, David Miller, DCM, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major, Henry Patrick Munson, 2nd Battalion, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
  • Sergeant (local Company Sergeant-Major) Henry George Norton, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached Iraq Levies.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant, George Henry Peach, late The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  • Captain John Arthur Pring, Indian Army Service Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Company-Sergeant-Major (acting Regimental Sergeant-Major), Harry Pugh, DCM, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), attached 17th Battalion, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Hugh Rennie, 4th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Arthur Frederick Ruth, Depot, The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
  • Captain Richard Shrive, MC, Royal Artillery.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Bandmaster, Henry William Simpson, Royal Artillery.
  • Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary) David Stobie, Military Engineer Services (Barrack Department), Indian Army.
  • Conductor David Summerfield, Indian Corps of Clerks (British Wing), Indian Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant (temporary Warrant Officer Class I, Sergeant-Major), Albert Edward Taylor, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Fred Taylor, 4th Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), Territorial Army.
  • Warrant Officer Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major, William Jamieson Turner, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major, Douglas Grout Whisstock, 4th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment, Territorial Army.
Royal Air Force
  • Flight Lieutenant Frederick Ernest Bishop.
  • 1st Class Assistant Surgeon Richard Campbell Gale, Indian Medical Service (attached Iraq Levies).
  • No. 1382 Sergeant-Major, 1st Class, Glendor Godfrey Nicholas Marshall.
  • No. 202144 Sergeant-Major, 1st Class, James William Dunk.
Civil Division
  • Gladys Martin Allen, Chief Superintendent of Typists, HM Office of Works.
  • Lucy Sarah Begg, lately Matron of the Home for Incurables, Putney. Previously Matron of the Cancer Wing, Middlesex Hospital.
  • John Berry, Superintendent of Messengers, Prime Minister's Office.
  • James Walter Blyth, Superintendent, London Postal Service.
  • James Brames, Waterguard Superintendent First Class, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • William Fred Brown, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police (Criminal Investigation Department).
  • Captain Cornelius Carmody, Honorary Secretary of the National Association for the Employment of Ex-Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen, Manchester.
  • Norman John Wilding Cole, Chairman of the Folkestone, Ashford & District War Pensions Committee.
  • Frederick John Coleman, Staff Officer, Mines Department, Board of Trade.
  • Annie Mary Davies, Honorary Secretary to the North Wales Nursing Association.
  • Alys Mary Ealand, MA, JP, Chairman of the Bath Juvenile Advisory Committee.
  • James Forrester, Commander, Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
  • Alexander Fraser, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Dumbartonshire Constabulary.
  • John George, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Berwickshire Constabulary.
  • Cecil William Goldsmith, Staff Clerk, War Office.
  • Henry William Hobbs, Examiner, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Alderman Luke Hogan, JP, Vice-Chairman of the Liverpool Employment Committee.
  • Joseph Paxton Humphery, FSIA, Chief Sanitary Inspector Borough of Reigate and Honorary Secretary of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association.
  • John Preston Hytch, Chief Clerk of the Birmingham County Court.
  • William Edward Jones, Auditor of Accounts, County Courts Branch, Lord Chancellor's Department.
  • Harry Edwin Joyce, Engineering Clerk of Works to the Prison Commission, Home Office.
  • William Wilson Kelso, Chief Sanitary Inspector for Paisley, and the Senior Chief Inspector in Scotland.
  • Gertrude Leeson, Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the Birkenhead, Wallasey, Wirrall & District War Pensions Committee.
  • David McNally, lately Director of the Information Bureau of the Edinburgh Education Committee.
  • John Dunbar McQuiston, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland.
  • Maude Leslie Martin, RRC, Matron, Queen Alexandra Hospital (Ministry of Pensions), Cosham, Hampshire.
  • Emily Louise Mason, Supervisor, London Postal Service.
  • Sarah Ellen Morris, Superintendent of the Lincolnshire County Nursing Association, and Inspector of Midwives.
  • Walter Philip Kerr Neale, Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
  • John Elliott Nichols, Accountant, Board of Trade.
  • Janet Campbell Papple, formerly Teacher of Domestic Subjects, Hampshire.
  • Hannah Mary Parkin, Headmistress, Drummond Road Girls' Modern School, Bradford.
  • George William Pierce, Headmaster, Owslebury Council School, Hampshire.
  • Trevor Lyons Relton, Senior Intelligence Officer, Department of Overseas Trade.
  • Martha Maria Roberts, Matron of the Walton Institution, Liverpool.
  • Thomas James Scanlan, Ex-Soldier Clerk, Grade A, War Office.
  • Robert John Sim, Sub-Office Postmaster, Lossiemouth.
  • Magdalene Glass Stenhouse, Clerical Assistant, Prime Minister's Office.
  • John Alfred Stockwell, Chief Visiting Inspector, Contract & Purchase Department, Admiralty.
  • Edward Twist, Architect, Works Division, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
  • Arthur Jonas Watts, Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Margaret Florence West, Higher Clerical Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Constance Wroughton, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Dominions Office and Colonial Office.
  • George Barnett, Superintendent of the Civil Veterinary Hospital at Khartoum.
  • Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Howard Stanley Bradbrook, RD, Royal Naval Reserve, British Vice-Consul at Boulogne.
  • Joseph Augustine Catoni, British Vice-Consul at Alexandretta.
  • George Darling. For services on the occasion of the loss of the R101.
  • Margherita Ashton Johnson, Assistant to the Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Bern.
  • Thomas Joseph Francis Kenny, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Rio de Janeiro.
  • Donald Neil MacDiarmid, Missionary, United Mission, Egypt.
  • James Wilson Robertson, Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.
  • Benjamin John Grove Wishlade, Administrative Official, European Department, Egyptian Ministry of the Interior.
  • Elinor Maud Must, Punjab Educational Service, Principal, Lady Maclagan High and Normal School for Girls, Lahore, Punjab.
  • John Ernest Baker, Engineer-in-charge, Water Works, Jaipur State, Rajputana.
  • Rodney Thomas Baldwin, Registrar, Political and Appointment Departments, Bihar & Orissa Secretariat.
  • Sardar Bahadur Subadar-Major Ganesh Bahadur Chettri, Eastern Frontier Rifles (Bengal Battalion), Dacca, Bengal.
  • Arthur Ferdinand Clarke, Bombay Police Service, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sholapur, Bombay.
  • William Francis Alfred Hamilton, Indian Police Service, Assistant District Superintendent of Police, Madras.
  • Captain George Douglas Hoskins, IARO, Bengal Excise Service, Superintendent of Excise & Salt, Midnapore, Bengal.
  • Anthony Isar, City Magistrate, Delhi.
  • Denis Charles Reiley Jones, Burma Police Service, Deputy-Superintendent of Police, Headquarters Assistant, Pegu, Burma.
  • Khan Mohammad Khan, Bahadur, IOM, Major in the Khairpur State Forces, Commanding the State Forces.
  • Shivram Wamanji Patil, JP, Medical Practitioner, Bombay.
  • Wilton Garnet Albury, Inspector and General Superintendent of Schools, Bahamas.
  • Barbara Geddes Allardes, Senior Health Visitor, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Emily Jane Baskett, Headmistress of the Bishop's High School, Georgetown, British Guiana.
  • Captain Conrad William Kerr Bovell, Superintendent of Police, Uganda Protectorate.
  • Jocelyn Maingard, Medical Officer, Mauritius. For services in the relief of sufferers from the recent hurricane.
  • Captain Charles Campbell Metcalfe, MC, Chief Transport Officer, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Roger Pilot, Medical Officer, Mauritius. For services in the relief of sufferers from the recent hurricane.
  • Frances Mary Plant, Matron, Dar es Salaam Hospital, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Tiruvilingam Sathasivam, Director of the Manipay Hindu College, Ceylon. For educational and other social services.
  • Caesar Shellish, Local Commandant of Police, Cyprus.
  • Herbert Thompson, Postmaster, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Claude Emile Wright, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone.
Honorary Members
  • Zahi Haddad, Medical Officer of Health, Haifa, Palestine.
  • Siegfried Hoofien, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Jaffa & District, Palestine.

Medal of the Order of the British Empire

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Leonard Arthur Leslie Reid, Chief Petty Officer Writer O.N. C/M 36823 (HMS Triad).
  • Raymond Arthur Johnson, Telegraphist, O.N. P/J 49346 (HMS Courageous).
Army
Royal Air Force
  • No. 364636 Corporal George William Emehy.
  • No. 365191 Corporal Robert Fairfax Lucy.
  • No. 510375 Aircraftman, 2nd Class, Charles Marsh.
Civil Division

For Gallantry

  • Reginald Rimmer, Sergeant, Police, Bombay, India. Sergeant Rimmer has shown on numerous occasions great courage and coolness. This officer's pluck and presence of mind have evoked the highest praise from his superiors, and he has consistently set a fine example to the Constabulary under him.
  • Joseph Baptista, Excise Constable, Sholapur District, Bombay, India. This Constable was Orderly to the Excise Sub-Inspector, Sholapur, when during the riots in May, 1930, both the Sub-Inspector and the Constable were completely surrounded by the mob, severely beaten and stoned. The Constable, although ordered by the Sub-Inspector to seek safety refused to leave his post and protected the Sub-Inspector who had been rendered unconscious. He stood by the Sub-Inspector continually blowing his whistle till police help arrived. His devotion to duty in the face of great danger undoubtedly saved the life of the Sub-Inspector.
  • Ghulam Mohirud-Din, Sub-Inspector of Police, Punjab, India. This officer, who has enjoyed a reputation for energy, courage, and strength of character throughout his seventeen years' service as a Sub-Inspector, has been called upon, since the inception of the civil disobedience campaign, to deal with many very dangerous situations arising from the presence of large and hostile crowds. On several occasions, while behaving with commendable restraint, he has taken grave risks and he has never been deterred from such steps as were necessary to maintain law and order and the prestige of Government.

For Meritorious Service

Appointments & Promotions

Honorary Captain

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Home Civil Service
  • Alfred John Daniel, Chief Ship Surveyor, Board of Trade.
  • Robert Charles Dickie, OBE, Technical Assistant, Consular Department, Foreign Office.
  • John Pearce Hancock, Inspector of Taxes, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Clarence Oldham Hanson, MBE, Divisional Officer, Forestry Commission.
  • Charles Henry Hunt, MBE, Clerk in Charge of Accounts, Department of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
  • William Henry Moorby, MSc, MICE, Assistant Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty.
  • John Robert Phillips, OBE, Director of Accounts, National Savings Committee.
  • Alexander Rae, Senior Depute Clerk, High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh.
  • Patrick Riordan, MBE, Superintendent of the Registry, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
  • William Francis Shinn, Divisional Inspector, Outdoor Insurance Inspectorate, Ministry of Health.
  • Arthur Sirett, Postmaster-Surveyor of Sheffield.
Dominions
  • Edward Alexander Ernest Cullen, MICE, Chief Engineer, Department of Harbours & Marine, State of Queensland.
  • Charles Berkeley Rushton, Secretary, Office of the Agent-General in London for the State of Western Australia.
  • George William Simpson, Public Service Commissioner, State of Western Australia.
Indian Civil Services
  • M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Aaron Appadurai Pillai Avargal, Madras Civil Service, Director of Industries, Madras.
  • Kenneth Cyril Woodward Brown, Senior Judgment Writer and Secretary to the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar & Orissa.
  • Allan Grant, Chief Inspector of Offices, United Provinces.
  • Major Edward Francis Hottinger, LMSSA (London), Indian Medical Department, Civil Surgeon, Punjab.
  • Ralph Noel McMorran, Registrar, Office of the Chief Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Stephen Pereira, Senior Stenographer, Special Duty Branch, Finance Department, Government of India.
  • Ghulam Rasool, Indian Corps of Clerks (Indian Wing), Superintendent, Medical Branch, Headquarters, Northern Command.
  • Jyotish Chandra Ray, Personal Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, Bengal.
  • Albert Edward Smith, Stenographer and Confidential Clerk to His Excellency the Governor of Burma.
  • Rao Bahadur Raghunathrao Narayan Tawde, Bombay Police Service, Divisional Superintendent, City Police, Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, &c.
  • Bahadur Ressaider Haji Haroun Ali, lately Native Officer and Head Interpreter, attached to the Somaliland Camel Corps, King's African Rifles.
  • Captain Herbert Alfred Anderson, Commissioner of Police, Kelantan, Malay States.
  • Duncan Hamilton Hall, Second Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk to the Privy Council, Jamaica.
  • Herbert Allan Otway, Commissioner of the Carriacou District, Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Lorens Arthur Prins, Inspecting Medical Officer, Ceylon.
  • John Brooke Scrivenor, Director, Geological Survey, Federated Malay States.
  • George William Sturgess, MRCVS, Government Veterinary Surgeon, Ceylon.
  • Frank Vardon, lately Registrar, Divisional Court, Sekondi, Gold Coast.
  • James Rogers Wright, Master and Registrar of the Supreme Court, Sierra Leone.

Imperial Service Medal

  • Shaik Roshan Ali, Jemadar, Chief Secretary's Office, Government of Bengal.
  • Nihu Angami, lately Head Interpreter, Naga Hills, Assam.
  • Thakar Das, Head Orderly to the Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, Punjab.
  • Luqman Khan, late Head Orderly to the Deputy Commissioner, Multan, Punjab.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

  • Gertrude Beckett, Chief Lady Superintendent of the Lady Minto Indian Nursing Association.
  • Audrey Chitty, Honorary General Secretary, All-India Girl Guides Association.
  • Rachel Edith Howard, Principal, Sarah Tucker College for Girls, Palamcottah, Madras.
  • Sister Lois Eliza Mary Hudson, Superintendent, St. Michael's English High School, Maymyo, Burma.
  • Hilda Keane, MD, Medical Superintendent, Victoria Zenana Hospital, Delhi.
  • Her Highness The Dowager Maharani Kamal Kunwar, of Ajaigarh, Central India.
  • Adelaide Woodard, Doctor-in-Charge American Presbyterian Memorial Hospital, Fatehgarh, United Provinces.
  • Ian Ross Anderson, Medical Officer-in-Charge of the Kalna Mission Hospital of the United Scottish Churches Mission, Bengal.
  • Rai Bahadur Captain Ram Rakha Mai Bhandari, Barrister-at-Law, Public Prosecutor and Honorary Secretary, St. John Ambulance Association, Punjab Centre, Punjab.
  • Henry Herbert Strutton, Missionary, lately Acting Criminal Tribes Settlement Officer, Bombay.

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

  • George Herbert Frank, in recognition of gallant conduct on the occasion of an explosion which occurred at Castleford on 4 July 1930.

King's Police Medal (KPM)

  • George Douglas Horsman, Chief Officer of the Castleford Fire Brigade, in recognition of gallant conduct on the occasion of an explosion which occurred at Castleford on 4 July 1930.
  • John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower, Special Superintendent of Police, Indian Police Service.
  • Thakur Bisheshwar Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, United Provinces Police.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Air Force Medal (AFM)

  • 912 Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Henry Thomas Inglis.
  • 349707 Sergeant (Pilot) Charles Tompkins.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

First Class
Second Class
  • Dorothy Vincent Mansell, Sister, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. In recognition of special devotion and competency displayed in the nursing and care of the sick in Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Hospital, Halton, during the recent outbreak of cerebro-spinal meningitis.

References

  1. ^ "No. 33722". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1931. pp. 3623–3638.