1927 Birthday Honours

British government recognitions February 2016 February 2016 The 1927 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette on 3 June 1927.33280 y 3603–3620 3 June 1927 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. United Kingdom and British Empire Baron Sir Davison Alexander Dalziel GBR Bt MP by the name, style and title of Baron Dalziel of Wooler, of Wooler in the County of Northumberland. Member of Parliament for Brixton division 1910-28 and since 1924. For political and public services. Sir Gilbert Greenall GBR Bt CVO JP DL by the name, style and title of Baron Daresbury, of Walton, in the County of Chester. For political and public services. Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. George Frederick Stanley GBR CMG MP Member of Parliament for Preston 1910-22 and for Willesden East since October, 1924, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions since November, 1924. Comptroller of H.M. Household 1919-21; Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1921-22. Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs November 1922 to March 1923. Baronetcies Sir John Brickwood. For political and public services in Portsmouth. Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Cecil Congreve GBR RN son of the late Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta Ernest Craig GBR JP MP Member of Parliament for the Crewe division, 1912–1918 and since 1924 Sir William Henry Neville Goschen GBR KBE JP DL For public services. Reginald James Neville Neville GBR JP MP Member of Parliament for Wigan, 1910–1918 and Norfolk East since 1924; Recorder of Bury St. Edmunds since 1905 Sir Harry Benedetto Renwick GBR KBE For political and public services in connection with electricity schemes. Knight Bachelor Richard John Allison GBR CBE FRIBA Principal Architect to H.M. Office of Works Augustus Gordon Grant Asher GBR CBE WS County Clerk of Midlothian; Secretary of the Association of County Councils in Scotland Henry Edward Barker, For public services in Alexandria. Thomas James Barnes GBR CBE Solicitor to the Board of Trade George Albert Bonner, King's Remembrancer and Senior Master of the Supreme Court William Burrell GBR DL For public and political work and services to Art in Scotland. James Frederick Cleaver, For public services in Northern Ireland. Charles Clegg GBR JP Chairman, Sheffield Local Employment Committee. For services to the Board of Trade and Ministry of Labour. Alderman James Crooks GBR DL For political and public services in Lancashire. President of the Conservative Party in St. Helen's since 1918 Leybourne Francis Watson Davidson. For services in connection with Empire Settlement. Arthur George Dilley GBR MBE For political and public services in Huntingdonshire. Chairman of Huntingdonshire Conservative Association Edwin Evans (Politician) GBR DL For political and public services in Battersea William Claude Fawcett, Chairman of the Cleveland Conservative and Unionist Association. For political and public services in Yorkshire. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur George Ferguson GBR CBE H.M. Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland Thomas Edwards Forster GBR KC DL For political and public services in Middlesex. Chairman of the Chiswick Conservative Association for 15 years John Haslam GBR DL For political and public services in Lancashire. Lieutenant-Colonel Vivian Leonard Henderson GBR MC MP Member of Parliament for Glasgow, Tradeston division, December, 1918–22, and for Bootle since 1924 William George Lobjoit GBR OBE late Controller of Horticulture, Ministry of Agriculture. For public services. Thomas James Leigh Maclachlan, Chief Organising Agent of the Conservative and Unionist Party, 1922-26. Principal Agent of the Conservative and Unionist Party, 1927 John Larking, For philanthropic services. Charles James Martin GBR CMG DSc LLD DCL FRS Director of the Lister Institute in London Henry Mechan. For political, public and philanthropic services in the west of Scotland Martin John Melvin, For political, public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. John Robert Pakeman GBR CBE Past Chief Commoner of the City of London His Honour Judge Edward Abbott Parry GBR JP late County Court Judge John Prosser GBR WS Crown Agent in Scotland Alderman Walter Raine GBR MP Chairman of Section "B" of the Local Legislation Committee. Member of Sunderland Town Council since 1902 John Houldsworth Shaw, Solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue Alderman James Benjamin Slade GBR DL For political and public services in Leyton. William Calthrop Thorne GBR JP Honorary Secretary to the Dock and Harbour Authorities Association Dominions Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Edward Barnett GBR CMG MB CM LRCP FRCS Professor of Surgery, Otago University, Dominion of New Zealand John Abraham Jacob de Villiers GBR FRGS In recognition of services to the Government of Newfoundland. George Herbert Duckworth GBR CB Chairman of the Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust The Hon. Apirana Turupa Ngata, Member of the House of Representatives and formerly Member of the Executive Council, Dominion of New Zealand British India James Donald GBR CSI CIE Indian Civil Service, Vice President of the Executive Council, Bengal Justice Charles Gordon Hill Fawcett, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Bombay Justice Zahhadur Rahim Zahid Suhrawardy, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Calcutta Manmohandas Ramji Vora, Member of the Council of State Sultan Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor of the Patna University Padamji Pestonji Ginwala, Member and Acting President of the Indian Tariff Board Francis Colomb Crawford GBR CIE OBE Imperial Police (retired), lately Director-General of Police, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad (Deccan) Khan Bahadur Sheikh Abdul Qadir, Member of the Punjab Legislative Council Thomas Mackenzie Ross, lately Chairman, Madras Chamber of Commerce David Elias David Ezra, late Sheriff of Calcutta Sorabjr Bezonji Mehta GBR CIE Manager, Empress Mills, Nagpur U Po Tha GBR CIE OBE Honorary Magistrate, Rangoon Colonies, Protectorates, etc Edmund Davis, in recognition of his services in connection with the development of the mineral resources of the Empire. Anthony de Freitas GBR OBE Chief Justice of British Guiana Aubrey Gregor Graham, Chief Construction Engineer, and Divisional Superintendent, Transportation Department, Government Railways, Nigeria Ugo Pasquale Mifsud GBR LLD DLit Head of the Ministry and Minister for the Treasury, Malta Hippolyte Louis Wiehe du Coudray Souchon GBR CBE In recognition of his services to Mauritius. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath thumb|Civil star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson GBR KCB First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to The King Civil Division Alexander Albert, Marquess of Carisbrooke GBR GCVO Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Hubert George Brand GBR KCMG KCVO CB Army Major-General George McKenzie Franks GBR CB General Officer Commanding, United Provinces District, India Major-General John Ponsonby GBR CB CMG DSO Colonel, The Suffolk Regiment, late General Officer Commanding, Madras District, India Major-General Robert Archibald Cassels GBR CB CSI DSO Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Peshawar District, India Major-General John Henry Keith Stewart GBR CB DSO Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Aden Independent Brigade, and Political Resident, Aden Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham GBR CB CMG DSO AFC Civil Division Sir William George Tyrrell GBR GCMG KCVO CB Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson GBR KCMG KBE CB Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral William Douglas Paton GBR DSO MVO Engineer Rear-Admiral James Palmer Leahy GBR OBE Captain Edward Astley-Bushton GBR CMG RN Paymaster-Captain William Ernest Crocker GBR RN Captain Henry Douglas King GBR CBE DSO VD MP RN VB Army Major-General John Macfarlane Sloan GBR CMG DSO MB late Royal Medical Corps, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India Colonel Herbert Cecil Potter GBR CMG DSO Brigade Commander, 3rd Indian Infantry Brigade, India Colonel Francis Adrian Wilson GBR CMG DSO Colonel, Royal Artillery, Eastern Command Colonel Edward Barnard Hankey GBR DSO Brigade Commander, 12th Infantry Brigade Colonel Harry Biddulph GBR CMG DSO late Chief Engineer, Northern Command Colonel John Harington GBR CMG DSO Inspector General of The King's African Rifles Major-General Richard Stukeley St. John GBR CIB DSO Indian Army, Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Northern Command, India Colonel Percy Langdon Beddy GBR CMG DSO Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 6th Indian Infantry Brigade, India Colonel Wilfrith Gerald Key Green GBR CMG DSO Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 1st Indian Cavalry Brigade, India Civil Division Frederick Carl Bovenschen GBR BA Assistant Secretary, War Office Frederick Phillips, Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury Eustace Beverley Shine, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Robert Gilbert Vansittart GBR CMG MVO Counsellor in the Foreign Office Frederick Rowland Williams Wynn, Principal Clerk, Committee and Private Bill Office, House of Commons Order of Merit (OM) thumb|The riband and badge of the Order of Merit The Hon. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons GBR KCB MA LLD DSc FRS In recognition of his eminent services in scientific research and its application to industries. The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India thumb|Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India Knight Commander (KCSI) Khan Bahadur Sir Muhammad Habibullah, Sahib Bahadur GBR KCIE Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council Companion (CSI) Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Lloyd Ferrar GBR CIE OBE Chief Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George thumb|Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir William Lamond Allardyce GBR KCMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Newfoundland Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell GBR Bt GCVO KCB His Highness Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak The Rt. Hon. Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley GBR KCMG CB His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Alwin Robinson Dickinson GBR CMG United Kingdom Member of the British Phosphate Commission William Charles Fleming Robertson GBR CMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Barbados Sir Herbert Nicholls GBR Kt Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, State of Tasmania Honorary Knight Commander His Highness the Amir Abdullah GBR GBEh of Trans-Jordan Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) John Fitzgerald Brenan, Acting British Consul-General at Canton Alan Cuthbert Burns, Colonial Secretary, Bahama Islands Henry Grattan Bushe, Assistant Legal Adviser, Colonial Office Professor Robert William Chapman, of the University of Adelaide, President of the Astronomical Society and of other institutions in the State of South Australia Joseph Robert Cahill, Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Paris John Thomas Collins GBR KC Parliamentary Draughtsman, State of Victoria Captain Gilbert Joseph Cullen Dyett, Federal President of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia George Lewis Hollingsworth Hughes. Chief Inspector of Parquet; Egyptian Ministry of Justice Major John Morton Fremantle GBR MBE DCM Senior Resident, Nigeria Harold Alfred MacMichael GBR DSO Civil Secretary, Sudan Government The Hon. Howard Unwin Moffat, Minister of Mines and Public Works, Southern Rhodesia Owen St. Clair O'Malley, Acting Counsellor at His Majesty's legation at Peking Eric Clare Edmund Phipps GBR CMG CVO His Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris Edward Hugh Dyneley Nicolls GBR OBE AMICE Director of Public Works, Gold Coast Colony Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong John Christian Ramsay Sturrock, Resident Commissioner, Basutoland Eric Teichman GBR CIE Chinese Counsellor at His Majesty's Legation at Peking Robert Neimann Thaine, Government Agent, Western Province, Ceylon Henry Wagstaffe Thomson, British Resident, Perak, Federated Malay States Arthur Francis Holme Wiggin, First Secretary at His Majesty's Residency at Cairo Charles John FitzRoy Rhys Wingfield, Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Rome The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire thumb|Riband, badge and star of the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Knight Commander (KCIE) Frederick William Johnston GBR CSI CIE Indian Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan Cowasji Jehangir GBR CIE OBE Member of the Executive Council, Bombay Companion (CIE) John Hugh Ronald Fraser GBR OBE Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province Lieutenant-Colonel John Cyril Holdich Leicester, Indian Medical Service, lately Officiating Surgeon-General to the Government of Bengal Charles William Charteris Carson GBR OBE Controller, Civil Accounts, India Jnanendra Nath Gupta GBR MBE Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Presidency Division, Bengal Geoffrey Ewart Soames, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam Henry Crawford Liddell, Indian Civil Service, Superintendent and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, and Judicial Secretary to the Government of Bengal Arthur George Edie, Chief Conservator of Forests, Bombay Joseph Benjamin George Smith, Officiating Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, Punjab Digby Livingstone Drake-Brockman, Indian Civil Service, Revenue Member, State Council, Jodhpur, Rajputana David Macfarlane Stewart, Indian Civil Service, Provincial Training Officer, Moradabad, United Provinces Richard'Littlehailes, Director of Public Instruction, Madras John Alfred Baker, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (Buildings and Roads), Central Provinces Lieutenant-Colonel Roderick William Macdonald GBR DSO Indian Army, Inspector-General of Police, Burma Charles Stanley Whitworth, Chief Mining Engineer to Railway Board, Bengal Arthur Beecham Briggs, Superintending Engineer, United Provinces Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold d'Estreville Lenfestey, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Superintendent, Rifle Factory, Ishapore, Bengal John Elliot Armstrong GBR OBE lately Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bengal, and now Director-General of Police, His Exalted Highness The Nizam's Government, Hyderabad (Deccan). Reginald John Hirst, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Bihar and Orissa Frank Priestly Vincent Gompertz, Director of Revenue Survey, Madras Major Alfred Geddes Tresidder, Indian Medical Service, Surgeon to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay Captain (temporary Major) Arthur Friedrich Rawson Lumby GBR OBE Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Army Headquarters, lately Secretary to the Indian Sandhurst Committee Percy Lancelot Orde, Senior Superintendent of Police, Delhi Bad Bahadur Janak Singh, Bahadur, Major-General in the Kashmir State Forces, Revenue Member of the Executive Council and Army Minister, Jammu and Kashmir State Diwan Bahadur Thakorram Kapilram, Mehta, Government Pleader and Chairman, Committee of Management, Surat, Bombay Presidency Imperial Order of the Crown of India Pamela, Countess of Lytton The Royal Victorian Order thumb|right|Insignia of a Knight / Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) The Rt. Hon. Edward Arthur, Baron Colebrooke GBR KGVO The Rt. Hon. Amelius Richard Mark, Baron Lambourne GBR CVO Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) George Francis Hugh, Earl of Eltham Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee GBR PRA Harry Lloyd-Verney GBR CVO Edward Farquhar Buzzard GBR MD Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Brigadier-General Montagu Grant Wilkinson GBR CB CMG MVO (dated 28 March 1927) Colonel Wilford Neville Lloyd GBR CB MVO Brigadier-General John Cecil Wray GBR CB CMG MVO Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Walter George Cole GBR CSI OBE Henry Linnington Martyn GBR MVO FRCS Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO) Major Charles Alfred Lowry Howard GBR DSO MC Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Edward Packe GBR OBE Colonel Edward George Keppel Donald Alexander Matheson Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO) Herbert Ryle GBR OBE Thomas Hay David Robert Craig Tennant GBR FRCVS The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire thumb|right|Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, insignia 1917–35 Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, Viscountess Lascelles Dame Nellie Melba GBR DBE recognition of services to the Commonwealth of Australia Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Civil Division Sir Henry Frank Heath GBR KCB late Secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Lieutenant-Colonel the Rt. Hon. Sir Samuel John Gurney-Hoare GBR Bt CMG MP Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer GBR KCB Controller of Finance, H.M. Treasury Sir Richard Threlfall GBR KBE FRS DSc FCS For public services. The Right Honourable Edward Hilton Young GBR DSO DSC MP Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Currency British India Sir Henry Strakosch GBR KBE lately Member of the Royal Commission on Indian Currency Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) Emily Penrose GBR OBE MA LLDh late Principal of Somerville College, Oxford Helena Violet Alice, Countess of Stradbroke GBR OBE recognition of services rendered during her husband's Governorship of the State of Victoria, 1921–26 Edith Marion, Lady Antrobus, Honorary Secretary of the Overseas Nursing Association Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot GBR CB MVO (retired) Army Major-General Herbert Fothergill Cooke GBR CB CSI CBE DSO Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Sind-Rajputana District, India Major-General Archibald Buchanan Ritchie GBR CB CMG British Service, General Officer Commanding, 51st (The Highland) Division, Territorial Army, Scottish Command Lieutenant-Colonel Charlton Watson Spinks GBR DSO OBE Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Royal Artillery, Inspector General, Egyptian Army Civil Division Cyril Ernest Ashford GBR CB MVO LLDh MA Headmaster of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth Lieutenant-Colonel George William Humphreys GBR CBE MInstCE Chief Engineer to the London County Council Charles Haughton Rafter GBR CBE Chief Constable of Birmingham Colonel Herbert Stuart Sankey GBR CVO VD JP DL late Remembrancer of the City of London Kenneth Dugald Stewart, Delegate to the Special China Tariff Conference at Peking Ernest John Strohmenger GBR CB Accountant General, Ministry of Health Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dudley Williams-Drummond GBR CBE JP DL For public and political services in Carmarthenshire. Colonel Murrough John Wilson GBR MP Member of Parliament for Richmond Division of Yorkshire since December 1918. Chairman of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes British India Geoffrey Latham Corbett GBR CIE Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Commerce Department Diplomatic Service and Overseas List John Joyce Broderick GBR CMG Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy, Washington Captain Edward Colpoys Midwinter GBR CB CMG CBE DSO Controller, Sudan Government, London Office John Hope Percival, Judicial Adviser to the Egyptian Government Dominions Charles Percy Barlee Clubbe GBR MECS LBCP In recognition of services to the Commonwealth of Australia. William Smith Crawford, Member of the Empire Marketing Board and Vice-Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Board Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden GBR KCMG in recognition of public services. Charles Graham Waddell, in recognition of services to the Commonwealth of Australia Colonies, Protectorates, etc Major John Alder Burdon GBR CMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras Nana Ofori Atta GBR CBE Omanhene of Akim Abuakwa, Provincial Member of the Legislative Council, Gold Coast Colony Edward Brandis Denham GBR CMG Colonial Secretary, Kenya Colony Hayes Marriott GBR CMG Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Military Division Royal Navy Captain Sidney Robert Bailey GBR DSO Surgeon-Captain Alfred James Hewitt Commander Alexander Grant GBR DSC (retired) Engineer Captain Ernest Dickerson Sydenham, Director of Engineering, Royal Australian Navy Army Captain Leslie William Alexander, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, 1st King's Dragoon Guards, and local Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding lst/2nd Cavalry Regiment, Iraq Levies Colonel Henry Edwin Boxshall, Staff for Royal Engineer Services, Chief Inspector of Works, War Office Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Ian Maxwell Campbell GBR TD 8th (The Argyllshire) Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Akroyd Case GBR CMG DSO Retired Pay, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Dorsetshire Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 6th (Tanganyika Territory) Battalion, The King's African Rifles, and Officer Commanding, Troops, Tanganyika Territory Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, 1st Class and Colonel Percy George Davies GBR CMG MIMechE Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Assistant Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores, Quartermaster-General's Department, War Office Colonel William Bruce Dunlop GBR DSO OBE Indian Army, Director of Contracts, Master General of Supply Branch, Army Headquarters, India The Reverend Joseph David Samuel Parry-Evans GBR CMG KHC Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class Assistant Chaplain-General, Aldershot Command Colonel Alan James Gordon Moir GBR DSO British Service, Deputy-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Headquarters, Western Command, India Royal Air Force Joanna Margaret Cruickshank GBR RRC Matron-in-Chief, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service Group Captain Richard Williams GBR DSO OBE Royal Australian Air Force, in recognition of distinguished services rendered on the recent seaplane flight from Melbourne to the British Solomon Islands and back Civil Division Major Philip Francis Ross Anley, Chief Constable of Derbyshire Percy Ashfield GBR DL For political and public services in Flintshire Alexander Blair GBR FSI Chief Valuer for Scotland, Board of Inland Revenue The Reverend Thomas Burns GBR DD TD JP FRSE FCTB Chairman of Newington House, Scottish Institution for Scottish Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Albert Edward Carlyle. For public services. Robert Francis Cholmeley GBR OBE MA lately Headmaster of Owen's School, Islington George Frederick Clucas, Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man Colonel Jacynth D'Ewes FitzErcald Coke GBR CMG CVO Chief Constable of the West Riding of Yorkshire Stanley Lewis Duff, Chairman of the Approved Societies Consultative Council Alfred John Harding GBR OBE Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office Charles Joseph William Harris, Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to H.M. Treasury Major George Arthur Harris GBR DSO OBE TD Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland Wilfrid Appleby Gales. For political services. Edward Goldie Howarth, Director of Establishments, Board of Education John Jeffrey, Secretary, Scottish Board of Health Norman Kendal, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Colonel Frederick Joseph Lemon GBR DSO Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Thomas Frederick Lister, Chairman of the British Legion George William Buckham McLeod, Statistical Officer, Ministry of Health George Monro GBR MBE Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary George Frederick Plant, Secretary to the Oversea Settlement Committee Alfred Theodore Vaughan Robinson, Controller of Cost Accounts, War Office John Rogers GBR OBE Deputy Director of Dockyards Ernest William Rowntree, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Gibb Scorgie GBR OBE Deputy Controller of H.M. Stationery Office James Molony Spaight GBR OBE LLD Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry Henry Sparkes GBR OBE Controller of Stores, General Post Office Edwin Earle Stonham GBR OBE Collector, Board of Customs and Excise John William Todd GBR FAA Deputy Accountant General, Ministry of Labour Sidney Turner GBR FIA Accountant General, India Office William Reeve Wallace GBR OBE Chief Clerk, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council John Henderson Watson GBR OBE Chief Constable of Bristol British India Raj Bahadur Shyam Narayan Singh GBR OBE Member of the Legislative Assembly Lieutenant-Colonel Edward O'Brien, Resident at Kolhapoir and Political Agent, Southern Mahratta Country States, Bombay Major Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons GBR DSO OBE Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department Lieutenant-Colonel John Mackenzie GBR CIE Military Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bengal Gustav Weber Thompson, Chief Sanitary Officer to the Jharia Mines Board of Health, Bihar and Orissa Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Nigel George Davidson, Legal Secretary, Sudan Government Charles Vernon Dicken, Director of Finance of the Tangier Zone George Herbert Griffith GBR OBE Deputy General Manager, Egyptian State Railways James Alexander Jameson Fields, Manager of Anglo-Persian Oil Company Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham, Senior Consul Albert Martin Oppenheimer, Legal Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy, Berlin Arthur Claude Parker GBR MBE General Manager, Sudan Government Railways and Steamers Vivian Lee Osborne Sheppard, Surveyor-General, Survey of Egypt Dominions The Reverend John Walter Bethune GBR MA Headmaster of the Church Grammar School Launceston, State of Tasmania Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland Mortimer Daniel, Assistant Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate Daniel James Davies, Government Analyst, Department of Public Works, Newfoundland James Thomas Heathershaw, Secretary to the Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia Thomas William King, General Manager, Haymarket Stores; in recognition of services in connection with the marketing of Empire produce. George Jerningham Little, Private Secretary to the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand Neil Morrison Macfarlane GBR MD CM Principal Medical Officer, Basutoland Colonies, Protectorates, etc Major Albert Abramson GBR OBE District Commissioner, Northern District, Palestine Harold Thomas Creasy GBR MICE AMIME Director of Public Works, Hong Kong Charles Kenneth Dain, Treasurer and Controller of the Savings Bank, Uganda Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Ernest Gallagher GBR DSO Chief Commandant of Police and Inspector of Prisons, Cyprus William Marshall Philip GBR MB CM lately Medical Officer of Health, Colombo Municipal Council, Ceylon John Powter, Director of Government Railways, Jamaica Song Ong Siang, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements Arthur Lionel Forster Smith GBR MVO Inspector General of Education, Iraq George Moody Stuart, for services in connection with the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture Edward Samuel Bourn Tagart, Secretary for Native Affairs, Northern Rhodesia Howard Mark Woolley, lately Postmaster General, Nigeria Charles Rufus Marshall Workman, Colonial Secretary, Gambia Honorary Commanders Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Military Division Royal Navy Commander Ernie William Money Commander Thomas Parkinson, (retired) Engineer-Commander John Wisdom Surgeon-Commander Guy Leslie Buckeridge Paymaster Lieutenant Frederick Robert Joseph Mack Commander Ernest Edkin GBR RD RNR Army Major Alan Sauer Auret, 3rd Battalion, 10th Baluch Regiment (Queen Mary's Own), Indian Army Quartermaster and Captain Roderick Bailhe GBR MBE Royal Artillery Captain Richard George Forfeitt Beale, 6th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Strickland Beamish, Royal Artillery, Assistant Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores, Army Headquarters, India Matron Maud Mary Blakely GBR RRC Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Major Gustavus Glyn Spieker Brander, The Suffolk Regiment, late attached Sudan Defence Force Captain John Cabel Bray, 46th (North Midland) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army Major Noel Gordon Monad Browne, Staff Officer, Department of the Adjutant General of the Australian Military Forces Quartermaster and Major Ernest George Butler GBR MC Retired Pay, County Recruiting Officer, Newcastle-on-Tyne Major Iltyd Nicholl Clayton, Royal Artillery, Chief Instructor and Staff Officer, Artillery, Iraq Army Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Cooper GBR MC 63rd (6th London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Captain Reginald Charles Cummings, 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army The Reverend Henry Peverley-Dodd, Chaplain to the Forces, Senior Wesleyan Chaplain, Aldershot Command Captain Noel Walter Eastwood, 3rd The King's Own Hussars, attached Sudan Defence Force Major Charles Morgan Finny GBR MB FRCS Royal Army Medical Corps Captain and Brevet Major William Alexander Lovat-Fraser, 4th (Prince of Wales's Own) Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army, Brigade Major, Military Forces, Iraq Captain Alfred Joseph Gatt GBR MC Royal Malta Artillery Staff Paymaster and Major Harry Golding, Royal Army Pay Corps Major Vernon Robert Guise GBR MC Royal Artillery, lately attached Iraq Levies Captain Herle Maudslay Hordern GBR MC Royal Artillery Captain Eric Harold Howe, Indian Army Remount Department, District Remount Officer, Montgomery Area, India Captain Stanley Woodburn Kirby GBR MC Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colon el Robert Godfrey Llewellyn GBR MC 53rd (Welsh) Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army Major Alan Joseph McCarraher, Postal Section, Royal Engineers, Supplementary Reserve Captain James Eben McConnell, The Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) Major Eric Debonnair Theophilus Metcalfe GBR MC Indian Army Service Corps, Deputy Assistant Director, Mechanical Transport, Army Headquarters, India Captain William Edward Cuming Moore, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Hugh Morris GBR DSO Royal Army Service Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Lachlan Porter GBR VD The Nilgiri Malabar Battalion, Auxiliary Force, India Lieutenant James Malcolm Leslie Renton GBR MBE The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), lately serving with the local rank of major, as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Iraq Levies Major Robert Noel Girling Scott, 4th Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army; Officer-in-Charge Intelligence Bureau, Baluchistan District, India Quartermaster and Major Herbert Simpson GBR MBE MC Extra Regimentally Employed List, Private Secretary to the Adjutant General, War Office Major John Heatley Spencer GBR MD Royal Army Medical Corps Captain George Alexander Neville Swiney GBR MC Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Adjutant, Depot, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Gwynne Cecil Thomas GBR DSO Extra Regimentally Employed List, Quartermaster and Adjutant, The Duke of York's Royal Military School Quartermaster and Captain Thomas George Upton GBR DCM 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) Major John Raymond Warren GBR MC TD 4th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment Territorial Army Captain Alfred Edward Williams, 1st Battalion, The Great Indian Peninsular Railway Regiment, Auxiliary Force, India Captain Harold Williamson GBR MB FRCS Indian Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Wilson, 55th (Northumbrian) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Arthur Travers Harris GBR AFC Squadron Leader Arthur Trafalgar Williams Squadron Leader William Boston Cushion Civil Division James William Allen GBR FSAA For services to the Prize Court Registry Franklyn Leslie Barnard GBR AFC Pilot under Imperial Airways Ltd Henry Cecil Boys GBR MBE Assistant Superintendent of Design Royal Arsenal, Woolwich Oswald Edward Beecher Brigden, M District Auditor, Ministry of Health Elizabeth Miriam Burgwin. For services to Education James Thomas Burns, Chief Officer of the Birkenhead Fire Brigade Major Frederick Lawrence Stanley Clarke, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire James Cook, Principal, Board of Customs and Excise William Walter Coombs GBR MBE Chief Clerk, Companies Department, Board of Trade George Frederick Cotton GBR MVO MBE Principal Admiralty Henry Albert Cox, Education Officer, Air Ministry John Crompton. For service to textile education. Charles Francis Wolley-Dod. Pilot under Imperial Airways Ltd. Henry Richard Evans, For public services. William Anthony Faux. Chairman of the Salford Local Employment Committee Walter Ernest Ferguson. Senior Inspector, Board of Inland Revenue Macleod Barker Frere, Clerk of Accounts, Metropolitan Police Office Henry William-Garrett, Principal, India Office James Stanley Pool Godsell GBR MBE Principal, Ministry of Transport William Gordon, Chief Constable of Dumfriesshire Richard John Halford GBR MBE Chief Superintendent, City of London Police Major Bernard Charles Hartley, Secretary of the Army Sports Central Board Alfred Hawkins. For public services. Joseph Cornelius Holmes. For public services. Herbert John Hutchinson, Principal, Board of Trade Robert Jackson, Secretary to the British Trawlers Federation Thomas Johnson, H.M. Inspector of Elementary Schools Ernest Livingstone Johnston GBR AFC Assistant Royal Airship Works, Cardington Lieutenant-Colonel Albert George Lee GBR MC MIEE Staff Engineer, General Post Office Sydney Walter-Herbert Long. For public services. John James Moynihan, Divisional Inspector, Ministry of Health Eliza Grace Musgrove, Matron of the Devon County Mental Hospital Frank Pacy, City Librarian of Westminster, Secretary of the Library Association William Dawson Paterson, Assistant Chief Constable, Edinburgh City Police Force Major Rupert Ernest Penny, Principal Technical Officer, Air Ministry Thomas Joseph Pey, Chief Constable of Wigan James Pimlott, Chief Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland Frank Popplewell, Secretary of Trade Boards, Ministry of Labour Victor Edward Pullin GBR BA BSc Director of Radiological Research, War Office Francis William Purssell GBR MBE Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary, Reserve William McCulloch Ramsay GBR DL For services to Education in Edinburgh Nicholas Serge Reyntiens, Assistant Director, Department of Overseas Trade Lawrence Richmond, Clerk to the Sheffield Board of Guardians Hugh Roberts, Member of the Carnarvon Insurance Committee Elizabeth Sanday, Woman Superintendent, Accountant General's Department, General Post Office Richard Jefferson Simpson, Principal, Ministry of Health Frederick Harry Stafford, Secretary of the Worcester Training Ship Ethel Steel GBR MA Lady Principal, Royal School for Officers Daughters, Bath Leo Taylor, Chief Commoner of the Corporation of the City of London Henry Vincent Victor Thompson, Principal, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland Edward Trotter For public services. Philip Corbett Turnbull, Commander, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Alexander Turner For public services. George Herbert Valentine GBR MBE Divisional Commander, City of London Special Constabulary John Waller GBR MBE Assistant Chief Constable of Durham Robert William Wharhirst, Superintendent of Armament Supply, Admiralty Arthur Stuart Williams, Chief Constable of Sussex West In recognition of the conspicuous ability and courage displayed by the under-mentioned Officers of the S.S. Sunning in recovering their vessel which had been captured by pirates off the coast of China on 15 November 1926 — Thomas Parke Beatty, Chief Officer Joseph William Hurst, Second Officer British India Thomas Forster Main, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Bombay Hasan Suhrawardy, Major, Indian Territorial Force Medical Corps, Medical Practitioner, Bengal Cecil Douglas Rae, Presidency Postmaster, Calcutta Commander William Lamb Kelly GBR RNR (retired), Personal Assistant to the Presidency Port Officer, and Agent for Government Consignments, Madras Captain Mahomed Fazal-ud-Din, Indian Medical Service, Agency Surgeon at Jandola, South Waziristan John Slattery, Assistant Inspector-General, Government Railway Police, Punjab Herbert James Mitchell, Burma Frontier Service Albin Richard Rebello, Assistant Accountant General, Punjab Richard Wybrants Coryton, Superintendent, Governor's Estates, Bengal Frank Ludlow, lately Head Master, Tibetan School, Gyantse Sardar Bahadur Jiwan Singh, Honorary Magistrate, Padhana District, Lahore The Reverend Thomas Watson Gardiner, Principal of the Hislop College, Nagpur, and Chairman of the Nagpur Mission Council of the United Free Church of Scotland Khan Bahadur Qaai Khalil-ud-Din Ahmad, Dewan, Bijawar State, Bundelkhand, Central India Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Robert Vickers Bardsley GBR MBE Deputy Governor, Blue Nile Province Laurence Bolton, Chief Town Surveyor, Khartoum Geoffrey Bramall, District Traffic Manager of Sudan Government Railways Henry William Burnett GBR MBE Vice-Consul at Maldonado William Peter Dunham Clarke, Assistant Financial Secretary (Second), Sudan Government George Norman Croker GBR MC Deputy Chief Engineer, Sudan irrigation Department George Walter Grabham, Government Geologist, Khartoum Cedric Vincent Wild Grose, Head Master, English School, Cairo The Reverend Wilfred Langton Kissack GBR MA late Consul for Surinam and French Guiana Edmund Lloyd GBR MBE MB Church Missionary Society, Sudan Walter Randolph Lucas Bey GBR DSO Governor of Tura Prison, Egyptian Government Austin William Medley, British Expert to Japanese Ministry for Foreign Affairs Major John James Munro, Deputy Inspector-General of Telegraphs, Egyptian Government Alwyne George Neville Ogden, Acting Consul at Kiukiang Robert Parr, British Vice-Consul at Damascus Charles Henry Saxby, of Messrs. Lawrence and Mayo, Opticians, Cairo Macduff Frederick Simpson, Controller of Secondary Education, Egyptian Government William Percy Whitford Turner, Acting Consul and Legation Accountant at Peking Dominions Frederick Hugh Dutton, Director of Education, Basutoland Alice Mabel Maud Emmerton, of Melbourne, in recognition of charitable and social services in the State of Victoria Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin, Member of the House of Assembly and President of the Education Board, Barbados, represented Barbados at the West Indies Conference Arthur William Bluck, Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, Member of the House of Assembly, Bermuda Katherme Hyde Bourne; in recognition of her public and social services in Jamaica Thomas Gordon Buckley, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory Attilio Critien GBR MBE MD Chief Government Medical Officer and Superintendent of Public Health, Malta Robert Edward Harold Crosbie, Assistant District Commissioner, Southern District, Palestine Dimitrios Nicholas Dimitriou, Member of the Executive Council of Cyprus, and President of the Municipal Council of Larnaca Charlotte Elizabeth Ferguson-Davie GBR MD recognition of her services in the Straits Settlements Thomas Fitzgerald, Postmaster General, Kenya Colony Richard Wolfe Gordon, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory Daniel Meinerts Hahn GBR MICE MIME Assistant Director of Public Works, Trinidad Bertram Evelyn Hanson, lately Auditor, Nigeria Walter Frederick Hedges GBR ARIBA Chief Architect, Public Works Department, Gold Coast Colony John Bruce Howell, Manager of the Government Savings Bank, Barbados Seymour Wylde Howes, Unofficial Member.of the Executive Council, Montserrat, in recognition of his services to the Government of Montserrat William Joseph Johnson, Deputy Treasurer, Palestine E'udblf Franz Mayer, Chief Proprietor of The East African Standard, in recognition of his services to Kenya Colony Edward Ebbert Mifsud GBR MBE Private Secretary to the Governor of Malta and Clerk of the Executive Council, Nominated Council and Privy Council of the Island John Randall Phillips GBR MB Senior Member of the Legislative Council of Barbados John Prichard, President of the Court of First Instance, Baghdad, Iraq Edward Keith Roach, Deputy District, Commissioner Jerusalem District, Palestine George Freeman Royds, Director-General, Tapu Department, Iraq Joseph Mario Smith, Chief Veterinary Officer, Palestine Ho Kom-tong, for public and charitable services in the Colony of Hong Kong John Frederick Wilkins, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Iraq Herbert Pinckney Winslow, Manager of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, Hong Kong Haji Hafiz Mehmed Ziauddin, the Mufti of Cyprus Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) Military Division Royal Navy Ordnance-Lieutenant Alexander Humphrey Workman Lieutenant Samuel George Davis Engineer-Lieutenant Percy Robert Brooker Paymaster-Lieutenant Arthur George Webley Headmaster Arthur William Holland Lieutenant William Edward Petley GBR RM Army Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Albert Aston, Grenadier Guards Sergeant Major Artillery Clerk Alfred Ernest Ball, Royal Artillery Lieutenant George Francis Bancroft, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Warrant Officer Class I Bandmaster William Bartlett, 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders Quartermaster and Lieutenant William George Laurence Beattie, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) Regimental Sergeant-Major Joseph Bradburn, Royal Army Service Corps Staff Sergeant-Major Walter John Brooks GBR DCM Royal Army Service Corps Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant John Bryce, Indian Miscellaneous List, Superintendent, Headquarters, Western Command, India Lieutenant John Leitch Charman, Army Educational Corps Conductor Harry Alfred Clarke, Indian Army Service Corps Regimental Sergeant-Major Reginald William Cole, Royal Army Medical Corps Quartermaster and Captain James Connor, Royal Army Service Corps Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Albert Cook, Indian Army Ordnance Corps Lieutenant William Harry Noel Dent, Royal Corps of Signals, Iraq Signal Section Superintending Clerk Edward James Drumm, Royal Engineers Company Sergeant-Major John Ferguson, The Gordon, Highlanders, attached Sudan Defence Force First Class Staff Sergeant-Major Archibald William Flood, Ebyal Army Service Corps Lieutenant James Stead Garrett, 4th (Prince of Wales's Own) Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army Lieutenant Walter Bramwell Valder Henry Paul Gates, Royal Army Service Corps Sister Winifred Mary Gedye GBR ARRC Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Quartermaster and Captain George Giddens, 8th (Isle of Wight Rifles, Princess Beatrice's) Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Army Quartermaster and Lieutenant Albert Gill, 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment Sub Assistant Surgeon Subadar Gurditt Singh, Indian Medical Department First Class Staff Sergeant-Major William Joseph Hart, Royal Army Service Corps Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor Ernest Humphries, Gunnery School, Royal Tank Corps Conductor Saville Britain Jackson, Indian Miscellaneous List, Superintendent, Adjutant General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India Conductor Thomas Morland Johnson, Indian Army Ordnance Corps Regimental Sergeant-Major Alexander John Keen, Army Physical Training Staff, Army School of Physical Training, Ambala, India Company Sergeant-Major Joseph Robert Kilgour GBR DCM 5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army Staff Sergeant-Major Percy George Lomax, Royal Army Service Corps Captain John Alexander Longmore, 1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army Company Sergeant-Major Alpiri Macgregor, The Gordon Highlanders, lately local Regimental Sergeant-Major, Iraq Levies Captain Cuthbert David Marley, 5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army Deputy, Commissary and Captain Percy Harold Marshall, Indian Miscellaneous List, Superintendent General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India Veterinary Assistant Surgeon Noor Mohamed, 2nd Cavalry Regiment;, Iraq Levies Lieutenant Ernest Vincent Packer, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Essex Regiment, lately serving with the local rank of captain, as Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Iraq Levies, and now attached Iraq Army Quartermaster and Lieutenant Arthur Pugh GBR MC 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) Quartermaster and Lieutenant Joseph Edward Pugh, Royal Army Medical Corps Captain Arthur Maxwell Ramsden, 8th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), Territorial Army Lieutenant Wilford Norman Reeve GBR MC 4th/7th Dragoon Guards, Assistant Controller of Labour, British Army of the Rhine Captain William Herbert Ridgewell, 5th Battalion, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Army Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Robert Rowan GBR DCM 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), Territorial Army Lieutenant Albert Rumbelow, The Suffolk Regiment First Class Staff Sergeant-Major Arthur John Ryan GBR DCM Royal Army Service Corps Jemadar Sayed Gul Akber Shah, Sub Assistant Surgeon, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Iraq Levies Quartermaster and Captain Gilbert Scofield, 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers Lieutenant Raja Sher Muhammad Khan, 1st Battalion, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army Quartermaster and Lieutenant Francis John Snell, 4th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), Territorial Army Sub Conductor Francis William Speare, Indian Miscellaneous List Company Sergeant-Major Robert Stuart, The Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) attached The Lovat's Scouts, Territorial Army Quartermaster and Captain Charles Starkey Sykes, Royal Engineers Staff Sergeant-Major Herbert Tovell, Royal Army Service Corps Quartermaster and Lieutenant Ernest John Meno Van Walwyk GBR MM 28th London Regiment, Territorial Army Regimental Sergeant-Major John George Venning, attached Iraq Levies Captain William Warr, 48th (South Midland) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army Company Sergeant-Major Harold Wheeler, The Worcestershire Regiment, Senior Officers School, Belgaum, India Company Sergeant-Major Cyril Arthur George Wilde, attached Iraq Levies Assistant Surgeon Henry Carlyle William Windsor, Indian Medical Department Royal Air Force Flying Officer Allan Lanman GBR AFC Flying Officer Graham Stuart Smith Flying Officer Frank Henry Whitmore GBR DSC Sergeant-Major William Webster Civil Division Millicent Fanny, Amor, Headmistress, St. Pancras Church Girls School William George Appleyard, Superintendent, Middlesbrough Special Constabulary Frederick John Barton, Local Accountant, Ministry of Labour Kate Barnard Blaikley, Accounting Clerk and Lady Superintendent, Imperial War Graves Commission Thomas Davidson Boyd For public services. Richard Bradshaw, Clerk, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich Walter Henry Brett, Superintendent, Sussex (West) Constabulary Charles Strutton Brookes, Food Inspector, Port of Harwich Augustus Tares Clarke Campbell, Superintendent, Derbyshire Constabulary Thomas Carruthers, Superintendent, Durham Constabulary Captain John Edward Carter, Ex-Soldier Clerk, War Office George Henry Chapman, Superintending Clerk, War Office Richard Clayton, Chief Clerk to the Commandant, Royal Military College, Sandhurst Major Richard Charles Cole GBR TD Commander, Honourable Artillery Company Division, Metropolitan Special Constabulary, Reserve John William Connaway, Waterguard Superintendent, 1st Class, Board of Customs and Excise Bridie Maureen Copeland, Sister, Kent County Mental Hospital Violet Caulfeild Cottell, Superintendent, Secretary of State's Clerical Staff, Foreign Office George Cox, Collector, Board of Inland Revenue Joseph Cravos, Superintendent, Cardiff Special Constabulary James Crawford, Superintendent of Lithography, General Staff, War Office John William Critchley GBR MA Rector of Dumfries Academy Mary Cudworth, Member of the York, Selby and District War Pensions Committee John William Davidson, Senior Staff Clerk, Ministry of Health John Davies, Superintendent, Glamorgan Constabulary Lawrence Victor Dawe, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Paymaster Commander James Godfrey Dendy GBR RD RNR Senior Chief Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Board of Trade William Duffus, Superintendent, Ayrshire Constabulary Captain Richard Embleton GBR MC Inspector, Newcastle Special Constabulary Adolphus Sydney Francis, Superintendent, Essex Special Constabulary Robert Gardiner, Superintendent, Durham Constabulary George Goodchild, Clerk and Steward, Hertford County Mental Hospital Robinett Grandy, Collector, Board of Inland Revenue Charles William Grant, Principal Foreman of Storehouses, Admiralty Herbert William Gunston, Headmaster, Long Ashton School, Somerset William Thomas Hall, Chief Clerk in the Prison Commission William John Harris, Civil Assistant, Royal Air Force Stores, Kidbrooke John Frederick Hayes For public services. John Hepworth, Assistant Accountant, Ministry of Health Edward John Hill, Late Warship Production Superintendent, Admiralty Frederick Newman Hoare, Staff Clerk, Ministry of Labour Samuel John Holloway, Postmaster of Bromley and Beckenham Major Edward Marshall Holmes GBR MC TD Sheffield Special Constabulary Flight Lieutenant (retd.) Frederick James Hooper, Technical Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment Thomas West Horton, Superintendent, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary Edward Harold Howell, Clerk for Legal Instruments, Colonial Office David Hutchinson, Superintendent, Northumberland Constabulary Flora Elizabeth Jefferies, Member of the Southend-on-Sea War Pensions Committee George Ernest Johnson, Chief Superintendent, Bradford City Police George Oxton Kirkham Jones, Headmaster, Tennyson Street Council School, Battersea George Ernest Kendall GBR ARIBA Assistant Architect, Board of Education William George Kershaw GBR FSIA MRSanI Senior Sanitary Inspector under the Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council Claude Henry Klyne, Assistant Electrical Engineer, Admiralty Joseph George Lansberry, Superintendent, Manchester City Police Arthur Samuel George Lovell, Superintendent, Dorsetshire Police Sarah Lovell, Head Nurse, London County Mental Hospital, Claybury Mildred Shirley Lowe, Superintendent Health Visitor and Inspector of Midwives in Warwickshire Charles George Maby, Superintendent, Bristol City Police William John McCaghey, Deputy Chief Inspector, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland Patrick Joseph McGlade, late Senior Inspector, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland William Millerchip GBR JP Manager, Vauxhall Employment Exchange Joan Mitchell, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Health Thomas Mitchell, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue William Charles George Moger, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions Annie Newman, Head Nurse, London County Mental Hospital, Horton Edward William Norris. For public services. John Walker Oldfield, H.M. Inspector (Immigration), Home Office James Orton, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Mildred Florence Paget, Clerk in the Foreign Office John Palmer. For public services. Bertram Park, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reginald Thomas Parkin, Assistant Director, Passport Control Department, Foreign Office Henrietta Peeke, Headmistress, Church Girls School, Hadleigh, West Suffolk John Lewis Rees, Superintendent, Glamorgan Constabulary John Ross, Deputy, Chief Constable and Superintendent, Ross and Cromarty Constabulary Dane Wilding Salter, Deputy Victualling Store Officer, Admiralty Mary Gaskell Seed, Superintendent Health Visitor, Manchester John Francis Shelswell, Superintendent, Gloucestershire Constabulary Benjamin Skinner, Headmaster of Strichen Higher Grade Public School Georgie May Smith GBR MA General Secretary, Official Medical History of the War Vera Alexandra Paton-Smith, a Controller of Women's Staff, General Staff, War Office Walter James Smith, Senior Staff Officer, Board of Trade Lawrence Hubert Spendlove, Superintendent, Monmouthshire Constabulary George Arthur Grantham Stanley Senior Staff Officer, Board of Trade Frances Stevenson, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Board of Customs and Excise Harry Rawlings Taylor, Accountant, Ministry of Labour Willie Taylor, Member of Chester, Runcorn and District War Pensions Committee Francis Tucker, Chief Superintendent, Staffordshire Constabulary Percival Ernest Wagstaff, Head of the Bethnal Green Men's Institute John Randle Walker GBR AIA Assistant Registrar-General, Northern Ireland Prank Llewellyn Warren, Divisional Commander, City of London Special Constabulary William Henry Welsh, Superintendent, Lanarkshire Constabulary Edward Wheeler, Technical Assistant, Directorate of Artillery, War Office In recognition of the conspicuous ability and courage displayed by the under-mentioned Officer of the S.S. Sunning in recovering their vessel which had been captured by pirates off the coast of China on 15 November 1926 — George Cormack, Chief Engineer British India Captain Francis Maxwell-Lawford, Administrative Commandant, Madras University Training Corps Honavar Harischandra, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bombay Felix Lawrence Newman, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab William Benham Moorman, Superintendent, Quartermaster-General's Branch, Army Headquarters William John Rades, Superintendent, Military Secretary's Branch, Army Headquarters Pestonji Bezonji TaJati, Advocate, Government Pleader, Dehra Dun, United Provinces Purushottama Padmanabha Pillai, Member of the League of Nations Secretariat, Geneva George Edwin Moore, Extra Assistant to His Majesty's Consul for Sistan and Kain, East Persia Joseph Balthazar de Silva GBR ISO Superintendent, Office of the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay Edwin Alfred John Barnes, Senior Inspector, Harbour Police, Aden. Claude Stanley Ricketts, Personal Stenographer to His Excellency the Viceroy James Eyan, Secretary, Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore Peter Sydenham Paulit, late Assistant Registrar, English Office, High Court, Calcutta Edith, Lady Heald, Rangoon Helen King, Bengal Kobad Dhunjibhai Mugaseth, Medical Practitioner, Calicut, Madras Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Ewen Campbell GBR MC Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Government Hilda Conquest, Private Secretary to Financial Adviser, Egyptian Government Samuel James Dawson, Superintendent of Soldiers and Sailors Institute, Alexandria William Seymour Dean, Inspector of Customs, Sudan Government Angus Faulkner, Vice-Consul at Croix Leveson Gerrish, Finance Inspector, Sudan Government Agnes Gibson, Head Mistress of Scottish School for Girls, Alexandria John Edwin Harris, Inspector of Surveys, Sudan Government Joseph Tetley Hirst, Manager, Gordon College Instructional Workshops, Khartoum Walter Frederick James, Pro-Consul at British Consulate-General at New York John Joannidis, Vice-Consul, Laurium, Greece Herbert Montague Johnson, Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Sudan Telegraphs Captain Herbert Frederick Kidd, Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service Harriet Lassell, Matron of Kasr el Aini Hospital, Cairo John Manly Lee, Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Government Raleigh le May, British Consul at Memel Frederick Sampson Sillitoe, Superintendent of Government Gardens, Khartoum Sidney Duncan Stowe, Mercantile Marine Service, Board of Trade, acting British Vice-Consul at Port Said William Edward Laxton Sweet, Manager of Rengo News Agency Office, London Charles Edward Joseph Walkley, Inspector, Civil Department, Sudan Government Colonies, Protectorates, etc Robert Barker Crusher, Assistant Inspector, Department of Surveys, Palestine Bertie Harry Easter, Headmaster of St. Mary's College, St. Lucia, for services in combatting the recent fire at Castries, St. Lucia Frank Tate Ellis, lately Headmaster, Bishop Gobat's School, Jerusalem Samuel John Forster, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Gambia Joseph Trousell Gilbert, First Assistant Secretary and Clerk of Councils, Zanzibar George William Hatchell, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory John Marcus Knight, Chief Clerk in the Office of the Governor of the Windward Islands, Clerk to the Executive Council of, the Island of Grenada Major Charles Lionel Grey Matthews Matthews-Donaldson, Aide-de-Camp and Private Secretary to the Governor of the Windward Islands, for services in combatting the recent fire at Castries, St. Lucia Robert Moffatt, Assistant Engineer, Posts and Telegraphs Department, Palestine Oliver Nugent, lately Additional Magistrate and Deputy Coroner, Antigua, Leeward Islands Antoni Papapetrou, Assistant. Registrar-General, Land Registration and Survey Department, Cyprus Charlotte Harriet Pidsley, Principal of the Annie Walsh Memorial School, Freetown, Sierra Leone Captain Frederick Brooke Sharp, Inspector of Police; St. Lucia, for service in combatting the recent fire at Castries, St. Lucia Alfred Thomas Sumner, Senior Master, Njala Agricultural College, Sierra Leone Honorary Members Matheus Placido da Costa, Head Asiatic Clerk in the Secretariat, Uganda. Zaki Hadefi, Mayor of Tiberias, Palestine Ahmad Effendi Khaledi, Principal of the Men's Training College, Department of Education, Palestine Shawki Effendi Fatallah Saad, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine Samuel Tolkowsky, of Tel Aviv, Palestine, in recognition of his public services. Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) thumb|right|The riband and badge of the Companions of Honour The Reverend John Daniel Jones GBR MA DD Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1909–10 and 1925–26 Royal Red Cross (RRC) Second Classi In recognition of-the special devotion and competency displayed by them in their nursing duties with the British Forces in Iraq Emily de la Hoyde, Matron, Indian Nursing Service Catherine Annie Waugh, Nursing Sister, Indian Nursing Service Kaisar-i-Hind Medal First Class The Reverend Caleb Davies, Medical Superintendent, Sonthal Mission Hospital, Sarenga, Bankura, Bengal Ethel Adelaide Douglas GBR MB BS Medical Officer in charge of the Kinnaird Women's Hospital, Lucknow Doctor Carl Fredrik Kugelberg, Church of Sweden Mission, Tirupattur, Ramnad District, Madras The Reverend David Beid Gordon, American Presbyterian Mission, Gurdaspur District, Punjab The Reverend Luigi Carlo Perfumi, Church Missionary Society, Muzaffarnagar, United Provinces Mary Isabel Buddie, Madras Bachel Piggott, Zenana Mission, Hyderabad, Sind, Bombay British Empire Medal (BEM) thumb|right|The British Empire Medal for meritorious service Military Division For Meritorious Service Sapper John Wilfred Archer, Royal Engineers Corporal Henry Bellringer, Royal Corps of Signals Sergeant Walter Thomas Bristow, 19th (Survey) Company, Royal Engineers Company Sergeant-Major Dan Daura, late Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force Sergeant Harry Sandle, Royal Engineers Sergeant George Wallace Hepple GBR RAF Corporal William Joshua Leslie Brown GBR RAF Aircraftman William Howson GBR RAF Civil Division For Meritorious Service Edward Bastable, Chief Officer, Wandsworth Prison Isaac Bayles, Constable, Durham Constabulary Alan Bent, Inspector, Gloucestershire Constabulary Robert Boone, Inspector, Manchester City Police Sidney Clarke, Acting Sergeant, Glamorgan Constabulary William Cooper, Sergeant, Lancashire Constabulary John Gunn, Constable, Durham Constabulary Thomas Egerton, Inspector, Lancashire Constabulary Fadl Musa, Sergeant, Darfur Province Police Frederick Norman Perry, Temp. Constable (First Reserve), Glamorgan Constabulary David Tudor Picton, Acting Sergeant, Glamorgan Constabulary Biehard Pryor, Inspector, Plymouth Police William Edward Bees, Inspector, Glamorgan Constabulary John Beid, Constable, Durham Constabulary Mark Thompson, Inspector, Durham Constabulary John Turner, Inspector, Derbyshire Constabulary Edwin Walbyoff, Sergeant, Monmouthshire Constabulary Elizabeth Kate Woods, Chief Officer, Holloway Prison Alexander Young, Inspector, Northumberland Constabulary George Woodworth, Sergeant, Lancashire Constabulary Air Force Cross (AFC) Bernard More Troughton Shute Leete, (Flying Officer, Reserve of Air Force Officers), in recognition of the distinguished service rendered to aviation by his recent flight in a light aeroplane from London to Delhi. Flight Lieutenant Gerard Stephen Oddie GBR DFC Flying Officer Ardley George Pickering Squadron Leader Harry George Smart GBR OBE DFC Thomas Neville Stack (Flying Officer, Reserve of Air Force Officers), in recognition of the distinguished service rendered to aviation by his recent flight in a light aeroplane from London to Delhi. Awarded a Bar to the Air Force Cross (AFC*) Flight Lieutenant Ivor Ewing McIntyre GBR CBE AFC Royal Australian Air Force, in recognition of the distinguished services rendered on the recent seaplane flight from Melbourne to the British Solomon Islands and back. Air Force Medal Sergeant (Pilot) George Edward Lowdell Corporal Leslie Joseph Trist, Royal Australian Air Force, in recognition of the distinguished services rendered on the recent seaplane flight from Melbourne to the British Solomon Islands and back. Imperial Service Order (ISO) Home Civil Service William James Anderson, Staff Officer, British Museum Arthur Carwithen, Principal Clerk, Paymaster-General's Office Wallace John Elvy, Principal Ship Surveyor, Board of Trade William Field, Clerk in Charge of Accounts, Civil Service Commission David Frizzell, Accountant and Controller of the Finance of Local Education Schemes, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland Andrew Froude, Secretary and Chief Clerk, General Registry Office, Scotland Ernest Leslie Holland, Senior Examiner, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue William Rees Jarman GBR BA Actuary, Government Actuary's Department Claude Reynolds Leak, Principal, Ministry of Pensions Charles William Lumley, Staff Clerk, Privy Council Office Charles Henry William O'Brien GBR MBE Registrar, Audit Department, National Insurance Hugh Ritchie GBR OBE Technical Assistant in Treaty Department, Foreign Office John Sankey, First Class Officer, Employment and Insurance Branch, Ministry of Labour Thomas Elias Tutton, Director, Investigation Department, General Post Office Dominions Charles Hay Dewhirst, Secretary to the Commissioner of Public Works and to the Minister of Railways, State, of South Australia Frederick James Jones GBR MVO Chairman of the Government Railway Board, Dominion of New Zealand Edward Joseph Mulvany, Secretary to the Department of Markets and Migration, Commonwealth of Australia Louis Edward Shapcott GBR MVO Secretary of the Premier's Department and Chairman, of the State Gardens; Board, State of Western Australia Indian Civil Service John; Jebaratnam Hensman, Manager, Office of the University of Madras Bhai Ram Dyal, Superintendent, Deputy Commissioner's Office, Gurdaspur, Punjab Colonial Civil Service Caddie Augustus Bartlett, lately Police Magistrate and Coroner, Barbados Henry Dixon, Superintendent, Money Order Office, General Post Office, Hong Kong Henry Alexander Martin, Accountant and Financial Assistant, Treasury, Ceylon Charles James Perkins, Assistant Surveyor-General, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States John Henry Stanley Robbin, Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Nigeria Imperial Service Medal (ISM) Natha Jiva, Naik in the Office of the Executive Engineer, Kaira and Panch Mahals Division, Bombay References Category:Birthday Honours Category:1927 awards Category:1927 in Australia Category:1927 in India Category:1927 in New Zealand Category:1927 in the United Kingdom Category:June 1927 in the United Kingdom Category:George V