The 1933 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1932.[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.
Field-Marshal Sir George Francis MilneGCBGCMGDSO Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery. Master Gunner, St. James's Park. Chief of the Imperial General Staff since 1926.
The Right Honourable Sir (James) Rennell RoddGCBGCMGGCVO Member of Parliament for Marylebone, 1928-32. His Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of the Quirinal, 1908-19. For political and public services.
Sir Walter RuncimanBtJP Senior partner of the firm of Walter Runciman & Co., Ltd. Chairman and Managing Director of the Moor line of cargo steamships and many other shipping organisations.
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
The Honourable John Greig LathamCMGKC Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs, and for Industry, Commonwealth of Australia.
Captain Henry David Reginald MargessonMCMP Member of Parliament for the Upton Division of West Ham, 1922–23; and for Rugby since 1924. Assistant Government Whip, 1924. Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1926–29 and Chief Whip since November.
Frederick Charles Allen, President of the Chamber of Shipping, 1931-32. Chairman of the National Maritime Board. Chairman of the National Council of Port Labour Employers. Chairman of the Shipping Federation.
Captain Sir George Edward Wentworth BowyerMCDLMP Member of Parliament for Buckingham since December 1918. Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1927 to June 1929. An Assistant Conservative Whip since 1925. For political and public services.
The Right Honourable (James) Ian MacphersonKCJPMP Member of Parliament for Boss and Cromarty since 1911. Recorder of Southend since 1931. Undersecretary of State for War, 1914-16. Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1916-20. Minister of Pensions, 1920-22. For political and public services.
Major Sir Robert Spencer-NairnTDJP President of the Scottish Unionist Association, 19S1-1932. For political and public services.
Percy Alden, Chairman of the British Institute of Social Service. Honorary Secretary of the Settlements Association. Bursar of the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust. A Trustee of the Halley Stewart Trust. Chairman of the Save the Children Fund.
Derwent Hall Caine, Member of Parliament for the Everton Division of Liverpool, 1929-31. For political and public services.
Cornelius Chambers JP For political and public services in Birmingham.
Major Frederick William Beresford Cripps DSOJPDL For political and public services in Gloucestershire.
Colonel William Warrington Dobson VDTDJPDL Chairman of the Stafford Division Conservative Association for the past 30 years. For political and public services in Staffordshire.
Harriss Firth Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
James Wilson Garner JP For political and public services in Bermondsey.
Major Alan McLeanMBEMP Member of Parliament for South-West Norfolk, December, 1923 to May, 1929, and since October, 1931. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Watkin Randall Kynaston Mainwaring CBEJPDL For political and public services in North Wales.
Michael Grieve Thorburn, Convener of Peeblesshire for thirty years. For political and public services in Peeblesshire.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Herbert William Gepp, Consultant to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and Chairman of the Consultative Committee advisory to the Commonwealth Government on development.
Alexander GrayKC President of the Law Society, Dominion of New Zealand.
The Honourable Walter Kingsmill, President of the Senate, Commonwealth of Australia.
John Lawrence McKelvey. For services to Surgery in the Commonwealth of Australia.
William Perry, President of the Royal Agricultural Society, Dominion of New Zealand.
General Sir Charles Harington HaringtonCBEKCBDSODCL Colonel, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Colonel Commandant, Army Educational Corps, Colonel, 4th/15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army, Aide-de-camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Aldershot Command.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Herbert Edmund Reginald Rubens Braine CMGDSO (late The Royal Munster Fusiliers), Commander, 12th (Secunderabad) Infantry Brigade, India.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) David Forster CMGDSO (late Royal Engineers), Commander, 13th Infantry Brigade.
Colonel Charles Reed DSO Indian Army, Inspector of Indian Army Ordnance Services.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) John Henry Foster Lakin CSIADC Indian Army, Commander, Delhi (Independent) Brigade Area, India.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) David Graeme Ridgeway DSO Indian Army, Commander, Allahabad Brigade Area, India.
Colonel Kenelm Digby Bold Murray DSO Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, The War Office.
Sir Reginald Arthur Mant KCIECSI Member of the Council of India.
Companion (CSI)
Idwal Geoffrey Lloyd, Indian Civil Service, Acting Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma.
Bertrand James Glancy CIE of the Political Department, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India.
John Collard Bernard Drake CIECBE Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Commerce Department.
Charles William Aldis Turner CIE Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Political Department, and Reforms Officer, Bombay.
Charles Alexander Souter, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Board of Revenue, Madras.
John Austen Hubback, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Chota Nagpur Division, and now Officiating Member of the Board of Revenue, Bihar and Orissa.
Digby Livingstone Drake-Brockman CIE Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, United Provinces.
John Arthur Laing Swan, Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Calcutta Improvement Trust, at present Chairman, Bengal Retrenchment Committee, Bengal.
Arthur Ralph Astbury CIE Indian Service of Engineers, Secretary to Government (Electricity) and Commercial Manager, Hydro-Electric Branch, Public Works Department, Punjab.
The Honourable Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson, Member for the State of Victoria of the Senate, Commonwealth of Australia; formerly Premier of Victoria.
Professor Douglas Berry Copland Professor of Commerce, University of Melbourne. For services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
Lawrence EnnisOBE Constructing Engineer for Messrs. Dorman, Long and Company, Sydney Harbour Bridge, State of New South Wales.
Charles Joseph Flynn, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise.
Robert Sutherland Forsyth, Representative of the Dominion of New Zealand on the Empire Marketing Board, and Representative in the United Kingdom of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board.
James Marchbanks MICE lately General Manager, and Chief Engineer, Wellington Harbour Board, Dominion of New Zealand.
Arnold Edersheim Overton MC Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
Arthur William Street CIEMC Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
William James Uglow WoolcockCBE Chairman of the Committee of Non-official Advisers associated with the Industrial Advisers of the United Kingdom Delegation at the Ottawa Conference.
John Ernest William Flood, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
Colonel Will Hodgson Franklin CBEDSO His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in East Africa; and Commissioner in London for His Majesty's Eastern African Dependencies (Trade and Information) Office.
Walter Burford Johnson West African Medical Staff, Director of Medical and Sanitary Service, Nigeria.
Robert Walter Taylor CBE Treasurer, Tanganyika Territory.
Colonel Charles William Game Walker DSO Secretary to the Conference of Governors of the East African Dependencies, and Secretary to the High Commissioner for Transport, Kenya and Uganda.
Colonel John Chappell Ward CIEDSOMBE Port Director and Director-General of Navigation, Basra, Iraq.
Charles Lyall Philip, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Orissa Division, Bihar and Orissa.
Captain Sher Muhammad Khan MBE Member of the Legislative Assembly, of Jhelum, Punjab.
Edmond Nicolas Blandy, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Finance, Commerce and Marine Departments.
Noel James Roughton, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Central Provinces, Finance Department.
Charles Gerald Trevor, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Punjab and North-West Frontier Province.
Colonel John Norman Walker, Indian Medical Service (retired), Director, Medical Department, and Sanitary Commissioner, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Civil Division
Arthur James Dyke CBCBE Deputy Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Sir Gilbert Christopher Vyle, Past President of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, and one of the Industrial Advisers of the United Kingdom Delegation at the Ottawa Conference.
British India
Khan Bahadur Captain Sardar Sikandar Hayat KhanMBE Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the Punjab.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Louis Napoleon George Filon TD late Commanding University of London Contingent, Senior Division, Officers Training Corps.
The Reverend George Standing DSOMCKHC Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class, Royal Army Chaplains Department. Deputy Chaplain-General to the Forces, The War Office.
Civil Division
Oswald Barclay JPDL For benefactions and public services in Edinburgh.
Reginald Blunt Founder and Honorary Secretary of the Chelsea Society. Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Cheyne Hospital for Children for fifty years. Trustee, Carlyle House, since 1895.
Walter Willson Cobbett FRCM Compiler and Editor of the Cyclopaedic Survey of Chamber Music. Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity College of Music. Founder of the Cobbett Free Library of Chamber Music.
George Thorpe JP Elected a member of the Board of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 1898. President of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 1920-1924. For services to the Co-operative Movement.
Major (Commissary) Henry Joseph Cheetham MBE India Miscellaneous List, Officer Supervisor, Quarter Master General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India.
Major Edward Francis Gwynne Davies MC Officer Commanding Johore Volunteer Engineers.
Major Lowry Philip Payne-Gallwey MC 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Commanding 2nd (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Quarter-Master) William Macpherson, late Extra Regimentally Employed List, late Quarter-Master, Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
Captain Eric John Roderick Mitchell, Machine Gun Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.
Captain James Moffatt, 1st Kumaon Rifles, 19th Hyderabad Regiment, Indian Army, Chief Instructor, Kitchener College, Nowgong (to be dated 21 December 1932).
Major William Ronald Campbell Penney MC Royal Corps of Signals, Brigade Major, Shanghai Area.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Elwin Bishop Scrafton, Supernumerary List, Indian Army, Cantonments Department, Inspecting Officer, Military Lands and Cantonments, Northern Command, India (to be dated 21 December 1932).
Captain Douglas Stuart, 1st Battalion, 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Headquarters, Lucknow District, India.
Captain (Deputy Commissary) Arthur Edwin Ashton, Indian Corps of Clerks, Chief Clerk, Headquarters, Lahore District, India.
Lieutenant Lionel Attwell Beale, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Royal Corps of Signals (to be dated 21 December 1932).
Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Edgar Arthur Carter, Extra Regimentally Employed List, Clerk to the Overseas Defence Committee.
Honorary Captain Faujdar Singh, Cantonments Department, Executive Officer, Class II, Rawalpindi, India.
Captain Frederick Charles Trevett Lyall, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Station Staff Officer, 1st Class, Rawalpindi, India (to be dated 21 December 1932).
Risaldar Noor Ahmed, No. 13 Army Transport Company (Mule), Indian Army Service Corps.
Honorary Captain Peter Donald Pelpola, Assistant Adjutant, Ceylon Cadet Battalion, Ceylon Defence Force.
Captain (Deputy Commissary) George Archibald Richards, Indian Corps of Clerks, Headquarters, Western Command, India (to be dated 21 December 1932).
Major Percy Neil Sandways, India Medical Department, British Military Hospital, Trimulgherry, India.
Major (Commissary) Hector Walsh, India Miscellaneous List, Officer Supervisor, Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, Army Headquarters, India.
Second Lieutenant Harry Hector Adie Whitson, The Bombay Battalion, Auxiliary Force, India.
Civil Division
Frederick William Abbott MVOMBE Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police.
Robert Askew Assistant Chief Constable, Lancashire County Constabulary.
Alderman Charles Aveling JP Chairman of the Southport Local Employment Committee since its formation.
Alderman Francis James Ballard. Mayor of Dudley, 1927-28. For public services in Dudley.
The Reverend Alfred Barrett. A member of the Monmouthshire County Council. For services to local government in Wales.
Alfred Edward Baxter JP A member of the National Savings Committee.
Vivian Harry Boyse MBE Accountant, Dominions and Colonial Offices.
Thomas Chadwick MBE Accountant, His Majesty's Treasury.
Margaret Elizabeth Cleeve. A senior member of the staff of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Alfred Vincent Elsden MBE War Department Chemist, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
Helen Gower JP Chairman of the Women's Unionist Association, Pontypool Division. For political and public services in Monmouthshire.
John Hooper MBE Chief Technical Officer for Furniture, His Majesty's Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Alice Mabel Erskine Jackson MBE Convener of the Women's Committee of the Eastern Divisional Council of the Scottish Unionist Association. For political and public services.
Thomas Gwynfab James MBE A member of the National Savings Committee.
Edward Knox JP Chairman of the Frome Rural District Council.
Harry Wesson Longley, Director of Stamping, Board of Inland Revenue.
Alexander McCallum Senior Inspector for Agricultural Education, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
Alick Henry Herbert Maclean Secretary, Girls Public Day School Trust.
Donald James Macleod Honorary Chieftain, Gaelic Society of Inverness. For services to Gaelic studies.
John Palmer Scott Main MIMechE Assistant to the Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Ministry of Transport.
Charles Henry Martin Late Assistant Registrar-General.
Winifred Mercier Principal, Whitelands Training College, Putney.
Charles James Mills, Superintending Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
William Cleverly Osmond, Deputy Director of Training, Ministry of Labour.
Fred Pickering MBEJP One of the Magistrates for the City of Bradford; Deputy Chairman of the Unemployment Committee; Chairman of the local Income Tax Commissioners. For public services in Bradford.
Edward Llewellyn Pickles MBE Assistant Director of Contracts, Air Ministry.
Ewart Watson Ravenshear Principal, Mines Department of the Board of Trade.
Violet Roberta Stewart-Richardson. Establishment Clerk, Treasurer's Office, Buckingham Palace.
John Robertson Chief Constable of Renfrew and Bute. James Charles Stibbs Assistant Accountant-General, India Office.
Frederick Henry Taylor, Chief Staff Officer, Board of Trade.
Florence Thorneycroft. For political and public services in Staffordshire.
Frederic Weston, Superintending Naval Store Officer, His Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport.
Commander Alfred James Windebank JPRNR (retired). Chairman of the Herefordshire War Pensions Committee.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Falconer Evans Crowe, Retiring President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland.
Agnes Gibson MBE Headmistress of St. Andrew's School for Girls, Alexandria.
Douglas Newbold, District Commissioner, Sudan.
Arthur Joseph Pack, Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Santiago.
Douglas Gerald Rydings, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Paris, lately serving at Monrovia, Liberia.
Robert Charles Owen-Wells MBE formerly British Agent and Secretary on the Anglo-Turkish Mixed Arbitral Tribunal.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Arthur Edward Victor Barton, Collector of Customs and Excise, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
Harry Blackmore VD Director of Education, Sierra Leone.
August Bolle, Loans Officer, Department of the Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia.
Wilfrid John Hewkley , Superintending Estate Surveyor, His Majesty's Office of Works & Public Buildings.
Percy Reginald Clive Hidden, Officer in Charge of Ministry of Pensions Archives Registry, Hollinwood.
William Frederick Jacobs, Superintendent, Hampshire County Constabulary.
Mary Eleanor Elizabeth James JP In recognition of her public service in the Borough of Bethnal Green.
Horace John Johns, Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Frederick William Judge, Rating Officer, Ipswich County Borough.
James Hamilton Kelly JP For political and public services in the West of Scotland.
Robert Ponton Kerr, Staff Clerk, War Office.
Walter Kettle, Clerk, Higher Grade, lately of the Joint Substitution Board (Treasury and Ministry of Labour).
Thomas Kidd AMInstCE Chairman of the Burton-on-Trent, Lichfield and District. War Pensions Committee.
Robert John Lawrence, Higher Executive-Officer (Acting), Export Credits Guarantee Department.
Thomas Smeeton Leah. For services in connection with the National Mark Beef Scheme.
Hilda Victoria Emily Hart Lupton, Clerical Officer, Board of Trade.
Sidney Alfred Lynn, First Class Clerk, Royal Courts of Justice.
Jane McDermont, FEIS, a Mistress at James Gillespie's High School for Girls, Edinburgh.
Angus Macdonald, lately Superintendent Relieving Officer, Camberwell Board of Guardians.
(Lorna) Eilidh Louisa MacDougall. For services in connection with the Mary Leaf Fund established for promoting the welfare of women and girls in the Metropolitan Police District.
Henry McLeod, Superintendent, Higher Grade, East Central District Office, General Post Office.
Mary Stuart Miller, Chief Juvenile Employment Officer of the Birmingham Local Education Authority.
Dorothy Newcombe. In recognition of her work for the patients at the Ministry of Pensions Hospitals in Newcastle.
Francis William Norledge, Securities Officer, Public Trustee Office.
Charles Petty, Shipping Master, Armament Supply Department, Admiralty.
Lilian Alice Annie Plincke, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Board of Education.
Anna Albertina Isabel Pollard, Chief Inspector of Midwives and Superintendent of Health Visitors, County Council of Middlesex.
Caroline Wingfield Raxworthy, Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the Guildford, Aldershot and District War Pensions Committee.
Charles Frederick Stuart, Inspector, Office of the Inspector-General of Waterguard, Board of Customs and Excise.
Robert Sweeney, Superintendent, Central Division, Glasgow City Police.
Alfred Ernest Thomas, Secretary, Middlesbrough Juvenile Organisations Committee.
William Henry Walton, Chief Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Board of Trade, Newcastle.
Thomas Skinner Ward In recognition of his services to the Ministry of Pensions Hospitals in the Glasgow area.
Maurice Arthur Willis, Clerical Officer, Dominions Office.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Bimbashi Alexander Dugald Fraser, Inspector, Cairo City Police.
Edward William Longworth Knocker, employed in the Department of the Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Rome.
Frederick William Shirley, British Consular Agent, Minia.
Mildred Walkley, a British resident, and worker for charity, in Khartoum.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Maurice Bookham, Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
Montague-Brown, Chief Clerk, Department of Agriculture and Forests, Palestine.
William Brown, Superintendent of Police, Gibraltar.
John Coelho, Assistant Crown Surveyor and Assistant Engineer, Public Works Department, Gibraltar.
May Evans, Senior Nursing Sister, Nursing Home, Baghdad, Iraq.
Thomas Richard Ginger MC Inspector of Water Supplies, Public Works Department, Kenya.
Georgina Rose Johnson, Superintendent of Female Education, Zanzibar.
Margaret Lowe. For social welfare work in Northern Rhodesia.
Evangeline Louise Peries. For social welfare work in Ceylon.
Thomas Irwin Potter. For public services in the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
Shankar Rao Eranna Furam, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Tanganyika Territory.
Aubrey Harris Silver, Bandmaster, Department of Police and Prisons, Palestine.
Subadar Kishen Singh, Medical Department, Kenya.
Robert Burnell Skinner, Treasurer and Collector of Customs, Antigua, and Federal Treasurer, Leeward Islands.
William James Walker, lately Town Clerk of Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica. For public services.
Henry Nevill Williams, Assistant Engineer, Irrigation Department, Iraq.
Herbert Frank Wilton, Head Keeper, Hamilton Gaol, Bermuda.
British India
Chamier Birch, Superintendent, Political Branch, North-West Frontier Province Secretariat.
Alfred Bux, Superintendent of Accounts, Office of the Private Secretary to the Governor of the United Provinces.
Richard Joseph Henry Fitzpatrick, Inspector-General of Police, Tonk State, Rajputana.
Joseph Leonard Jaques (retired), Deputy Collector and lately President of the First Class Bench Court, Calicut, Malabar District, Madras.
Rai Bahadur Sohan Lai, lately of the Punjab Civil Service, Secretary, Municipal Committee, Delhi.
James John Minto, Principal Foreman, Kirkee Arsenal.
Sheikh Faiz Muhammad MLC of Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab.
Charles Henry Francis Pereira, Assistant Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.
William Mathew Schutte Indian Agricultural Service, Agricultural Engineer to the Government of Bombay.
James Woolley VD Assistant Commissioner of Police, Headquarters, Lalbazar, Calcutta, Bengal.
Honorary Members
Michaelaki Shishmanoglou, Assistant Senior Medical Officer of Health, Palestine.
The Reverend Philip Thomas Byard Clayton MCFSA Vicar of All Hallows, Barking-by-the-Tower. Founder of Talbot House.
The Reverend John Scott Lidgett President of the Methodist Church. Honorary Secretary of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches of England and Wales since 1914. Vice-chancellor of London University 1930-31 and 1931-32. Warden of the Bermondsey Settlement since 1891.
Sergeant William Dunlop Carroll, Royal Army Service Corps, Military Headquarters, Shanghai Area.
Civil Division
For Gallantry
Mirghany Ahmed Mohammed. Citation: "On September 18th, 1932, at the height of the Nile flood, and at a point where the stream is particularly dangerous even for the strongest swimmer, Mirghany Ahmed rescued three girls, the eldest fifteen years of age, from certain death by drowning."
For Meritorious Service
Charles Crunden Phelps. Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve.
Thomas Lister. Civilian Clerk to Commander, Royal Artillery, 47th (2nd London) Division, Territorial Army.
Harry Whent. Clerk, War Department Experimental Establishment, Shoeburyness.
Frank Ray, Head Gardener and Caretaker, Imperial War Graves Commission, France.
Mir Alam Khan. Sub-Inspector of Indian Police, Admiralty Dockyard, Hong Kong.
Osman Suleiman. Permanent Way Foreman, Sudan Railways.
Saleh Allagabo. Chief of Wan Town, Sudan. Lately Bash Shawi'sh (Sergeant-Major) Ba-hr el Ghazal Province Police Force.
Hamid Effendi Abdulla Sol (Warrant Officer) Kordofan Province Police, Sudan.
Mahmoud Effendi Abd El Karim. Assistant Superintendent of Customs, Sudan.
Frank Fletcher. Reserve Inspector of Police, United Provinces, India.
Frederick George Peters DCM Reserve Inspector of Police, Nagpur, Central Provinces, India.
Oliver Alexander Chidgey. Messenger and personal attendant to successive Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1921, and Principal Messenger to the Federal Cabinet.
Raymond John Tracy. Chauffeur to the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Previously Chauffeur to Ministers of the Commonwealth since 1919.
Joshua Constant. Lately 3rd Class Officer, Prison Service, Trinidad.
Savvas Papanicolaou. Mukhtar of Stroumbi, Paphos District, Cyprus.
Captain Eugene Daniel McCarthy OBE Burma Military Police.
Boota Singh, Jemadar, Burma Military Police.
U Tun Tin, Sub-Inspector, Burma Police.
Rai Sahib Ajit Kumar Ganguli, Inspector of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bihar and Orissa.
Khagendra Nath Chatterji, Sub-Inspector, Bihar and Orissa Police.
Ram Bahadur Singh, Constable, Bihar and Orissa Police.
Clarence James Creed MC Superintendent, Bihar and Orissa Police.
Frank Herbert Graham Taylor, Superintendent, Central Provinces Police.
Vernon Thomas Bay ley, Assistant Superintendent, North-West Frontier Province Police.
Mohammad Nazir Khan, Sub-Inspector, North-West Frontier Province Police.
Abbas Ali, Assistant Sub-Inspector, North-West Frontier Province Police.
Abdul Rauf, Officiating Assistant Sub-Inspector, North-West Frontier Province Police.
Mir Afzal, Lance Head Oonstable, North-West Frontier Province Police.
Rab Nawaz, Constable, North-West Frontier Province Police.
Gul Badshah, Head Constable, Baluchistan Police.
Basil Churton Taylor, Inspector General, Indore State Police.
Bhagwan Singh, Superintendent, Patiala State Police.
Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories
Stanley Charles Sinclair, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast. (for gallantry)
Adolphus Harry Leeves, British Inspector of Police, Palestine. (for gallantry)
Audu Zaria, First Class Constable, Nigeria Police Force.
Douglas John Gerrard Hennessy, Superintendent of Police, Ceylon.
Eustice Forbes Lanyon Penno, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast.
Peter Grant, Chief Inspector of Police, Hong Kong.
Wilfred Edmund Power, Inspector of Constabulary and Superintendent of the Port-of-Spain Fire Brigade, Trinidad.
Philip Nathaniel Kendall, Sergeant Major of Constabulary attached to the Port-of-Spain Fire Brigade, Trinidad.
Qaid Sudqi Bey Qasim, Commandant, Belqa District, Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan.
His Majesty has also graciously consented to the King's Police Medal being handed to the next-of-kin of the deceased officers whose names appear below, and who would have received the decoration had they survived:
Narathoo, lately Jemadar of Peons in the Foreign and Political Department, Government of India.