1915 Birthday Honours

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The 1915 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 [1] and in The Times on 3 June 1915. [2]

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Many of the honours were awarded for efforts in the war. The Times noted, "The lists of Honours conferred on the occasion of the King's Birthday reflect the mood of the time, and contain, for the most part, the names of those who have been engaged in forwarding the national cause, in one way or another." [2] A second list of birthday honours "for services rendered in connection with military operations in the field" was released on 23 June, with appointments to date from 3 June. The list included nine recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Four of the recipients of the Victoria Cross were killed in actions and received the honour posthumously. [3]

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

Privy Councillor

The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

Baronetcies

Knight Bachelor

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
British India

The Most Noble Order of the Garter

Knight of the Garter (KG)

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Army
Civil Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Army
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Vice-Admiral Edward George Shortland (retired).
  • Engineer-Commander Harry Lashmore RN
Army
  • Surgeon-General Thomas Martin Corker
  • Major-General Charles Irwin Fry, Indian Army.
  • Major-General Walter Charles Hunter-Blair.
  • Colonel Coventry Williams.
  • Colonel Edward Douglas Brown-Synge-Hutchinson VC
  • Colonel William Robert Stewart, Assistant Director of Fortifications and Works, War Office.
  • Colonel Reginald Salmond Curtis CMG DSO , Assistant Adjutant-General for Royal Engineers, War Office.
  • Colonel William George Hamilton DSO
  • Colonel Duncan Alwyn Macfarlane DSO
  • Colonel Alfred Horsford Bingley CIE , Indian Army.
  • Colonel Richard Henry Ewart CIE DSO ADC , Indian Army.
  • Colonel William George Lawrence Beynon DSO , Indian Army.
  • Colonel Edward Mabbott Woodward.
  • Colonel Alexander Beamish Hamilton.
  • Colonel Walter Coote Hedley, General Staff, War Office.
  • Colonel the Hon. Alan Richard Montagu-Stuart-Wortley DSO , Director of Movements, War Office.
  • Colonel Richard Wapshare, Indian Army.
  • Colonel Frederick William George Wadeson, Indian Army.
  • Colonel Claud William Jacob, Indian Army.
  • Colonel Arthur Edward Aveling Holland MVO DSO
  • Colonel Alfred Stokes DSO
  • Colonel Ricardo Dartnell Petrie.
  • Colonel Harry Neptune Sargent DSO
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edmund Howard Gorges DSO , Commandant, West African Regiment.
  • Colonel Owen Cadogan Wolley-Dod DSO
  • Colonel Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC DSO ADC , Indian Army.
  • Colonel Frederic James Heyworth DSO
  • Colonel Sherwood Dighton Browne.
  • Colonel Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell CMG
  • Colonel Sinclair Westcott CMG , Army Medical Service.
  • Colonel Robert St. Clair Lecky.
  • Colonel Robert James Geddes DSO , Army Medical Service.
  • Colonel Robert Wanless-O'Gowan.
  • Colonel Sidney Henry Powell.
  • Colonel Lochinvar Alexander Charles Gordon.
  • Colonel Arlington Augustus Chichester DSO
  • Colonel William Arthur Robinson.
  • Colonel Henry Joseph Everett.
  • Colonel Evan Eyare Carter CMG MVO
  • Colonel Maurice Percy Cue Holt DSO
  • Colonel James Meek , Army Medical Service.
  • Colonel Thomas Heron, Army Ordnance Department.
  • Colonel Samuel Henry Winter.
  • Colonel William Travers Swan , Army Medical Service.
  • Brevet Colonel George Richard Tyrell Rundle, Royal Artillery.
  • Colonel Howard Carr , Army Medical Service.
  • Colonel Edward Feetham.
  • Colonel Samuel Guise-Moores, Army Medical Service.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Laurence George Frank Gordon DSO , Royal Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Alexander Ormsby, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel James McCall Maxwell, Royal Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Philipps Lee, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George de Symons Barrow, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Twiss, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stewart Prichard DSO , The Northamptonshire Regiment.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Arthur Lewis Tagart DSO , 15th Hussars.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Hawthorn Ronaldson, The Highland Light Infantry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Maurice Wilson, Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Templer Widdicombe, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Annesley Dudgeon, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Fowler-Butler, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred William Ogilvy Beveridge DSO , Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Price CMG , Director of Army Postal Services, Royal Engineers, Special Reserve.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy de Sausmarez Burney, Royal Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Allan Roughton May, The London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) (Territorial Force).
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Wilmot Parker Herringham , Army Medical Service (Territorial Force).
  • Temp. Colonel Sir Almroth Edward Wright FRCSI FRS , Army Medical Service.
  • Temp. Colonel Frédéric François Burghard FRCS , Army Medical Service (Territorial Force).
Australian Forces
Canadian Forces
New Zealand Forces
Civil Division
  • Capt. William Reginald Hall RN
  • Commander (Acting) John Alexander Duncan RN
  • Eustace Henry Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty.
  • Colonel John Arthur Edelsten VD , late Secretary of the West Lancashire Territorial Force Association and formerly Commanding 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment).
  • Colonel Edward Hamilton Seymour, Deputy Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores, War Office.
  • Colonel the Hon. Francis Richard Bingham, Assistant Director of Artillery, War Office.
  • Colonel Francis Torriano Fisher, Superintendent of the Royal Gunpowder and Small Arms Factories.
  • Colonel Harold Stephen Langhorne, Army Ordnance Department.
  • Edwin John Cheney, Chief Agricultural Adviser, The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Edward Charles Cunningham, Secretary, The Board of Customs and Excise.
  • John Lamb, Assistant Under-Secretary, The Scottish Office.
  • Ernest Moon KC , Counsel to the Rt. Hon. Speaker of the House of Commons
  • Malcolm Cotter Caristou Setou, Judicial and Public Secretary, Correspondence Department, The India Office.
  • Guy Stephenson, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions.
  • William Arthur Robinson, Assistant Secretary, The Office of Works.
  • Charles Walker, Principal Clerk, The Admiralty.
  • Herbert James Greedy MVO , Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War.

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

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Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

Knight Commander (KCSI)

Companion (CSI)

  • Alan Butterworth, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Stephen Meredyth Edwardes CVO , Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
  • Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell CIE Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Bengal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hardinge Eliott, Indian Army, Commissioner of the Irrawaddy Division, Burma.
  • Major-General Robert Charles Ochiltree Stuart, Royal Artillery, Director-General of Ordnance in India.
  • Herbert John Maynard, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of the Lahore Division, Punjab, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor General for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Reginald Pemberton Russell, Secretary to the Government of India in the Public Works Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
  • James Bennett Brunyate CIE , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Armine Brereton Dew CIE Indian Army, Indian Political Department, Political Agent, Kalat, Baluchistan.
  • William Malcolm Hailey CIE , Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of Delhi.
  • Hugh Trowbridge Keeling AMICE , Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Delhi, and a Member of the Delhi Imperial Committee.
  • Alfred Hamilton Grant CIE , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department.

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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Star of the 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)

  • His Honour Lieutenant-Colonel John Strathearn Hendrie CVO , Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
  • The Hon. Francis Henry Dillon Bell KC , Minister of Internal Affairs and of Immigration and Leader of the Legislative Council, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Colonel the Hon. Charles Preston Crewe CB , Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
  • Henry Leclézio CMG , Elected Member of the Council of Government of the Colony of Mauritius.
  • William Peterson CMG , Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal.
  • Colonel George Leuchars CMG DSO , Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa. Minister of Commerce and industries, 1911-1912.
  • Charles Louis des Graz, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Serbia.
  • Francis William Stronge, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile.
  • Lieutenant-General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell KCB CVO CMG DSO , Colonel, the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), General Officer Commanding The Force in Egypt
  • Major-General Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready KCB , Adjutant-General, British Expeditionary Force
  • Major-General William Riddell Birdwood KCSI CIE DSO , Indian Army, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force

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

  • Edward Gream Antrobus, Chief Accountant and Chief Clerk, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Arthur William Garrard Bagshawe , Director of the Tropical Diseases Bureau.
  • Frederick Bowes, Principal Collector of Customs of the Island of Ceylon.
  • Frederick George Augustus Butler, of the Colonial Office.
  • Hector Livingstone Duff, Chief Secretary, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Dr. Daniel Miner Gordon , Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
  • Reginald Charles Hare, late Secretary, Office of the Agent-General for Western Australia.
  • William George Maxwell, British Adviser to the Kedah Government.
  • Brigadier-General Dudley Howard Ridout, Royal Engineers, in recognition of services during the recent disturbances at Singapore.
  • Commander Richard Markham Tyringham Stephens RN , Chief of Staff, Department of the Naval Service, Dominion of Canada.
  • James Leslie Williams, Under Secretary, Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice, State of New South Wales.
  • Major Frederick Carkeet Bryant RA , for services in connection with military operations in Togoland.
  • Malcolm Arnold Robertson, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Rio de Janeiro.
  • Martyn Cecil Gurney MVO , His Majesty's Consul-General at Marseilles.
  • Harry Lionel Churchill, His Majesty's Consul-General at Havre.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Oswald Arthur Gerald FitzGerald, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War.
  • William Meyrick Hewlett, Acting British Consul at Shanghai.
  • Photius Philip Constantine Zaphiro, British Vice-Consul at Addis Ababa.
  • The Reverend John Morrow Simms KHC Principal Chaplain to the Forces. Army Chaplains' Department
  • Colonel Wellesley Lynedoch Henry Paget, CB MVO
  • Colonel Francis John De Gex CB
  • Colonel Charles Massy Mathew CB DSO
  • The Reverend Jacob Blackbourne , Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class, Army Chaplains' Department
  • The Reverend William Stevenson Jaffray, Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class, Army Chaplains' Department
  • The Reverend Ewen George Fitzroy Macpherson, Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class, Army Chaplains' Department
  • Colonel Ernest Reuben Charles Butler FRCVS , Army Veterinary Service
  • Colonel Colquhoun Grant Morrison
  • Colonel Henry Brooke Hagstromer Wright, Chief Engineer, Egypt
  • Colonel John Anderson Dealy
  • Colonel Herbert de Touffreville Phillips, Royal Artillery
  • Colonel Lancelot Graham, Royal Artillery
  • Honorary Colonel Henry Adeane Erskine CB , Northumberland Divisional Train
  • Colonel Francis Sudlow Garratt CB DSO , Retired Pay
  • Brevet Colonel Courtenay Bourchier Vyvyan CB , Retired Pay, East Kent Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Henry Joseph Walker Jerome CB , Retired Pay, Royal Engineers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Sidney Sheppard, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Algernon Edward Luke Wear , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Bentley Buckle, Army Pay Department
  • Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish, 5th Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Algernon Hamilton Stannus Goff, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Wickham, Northamptonshire Yeomanry
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Gustav Lewis, 13th Princess Louise's Kensington Battalion, London Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Anthony Howell, 3rd Battalion, London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Walker, 4th City of Dundee Battalion, Royal Highlanders
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun Scott Dodgson, Army Service Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Graham Stainforth, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Shoolbred, 16th Battalion, London Regiment, Queen's Westminster Rifles
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Sydney Hamilton, Army Ordnance Department
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Geoffrey Twining MVO , Royal Engineers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick George Langham, 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Slade Baker, Army Ordnance Department
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Murray, Royal Engineers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Aubrey Callender, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Tankerville Monypenny Reeve, Leinster Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Harry Finch Pearse, Cheshire Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hall Hayes, Middlesex Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell Coffin, Royal Engineers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Potts, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Henry Drake-Brockman, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Oates Travers DSO , Devonshire Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Burge Shipley, 9th Battalion, London Regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Owen Marden, Welsh Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Thornhill Ravenhill, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Patrick Cumberlege Hennessy, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Arthur Peyton Lindsay, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Walter Viscount Hampden, Hertfordshire Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David James Mason MacFarlane, 4th Ross Highland Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Wood, Royal Irish Fusiliers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Glyn Ouseley DSO , Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alban Randell Crofton Atkins, Army Service Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Harford Bowie-Evans , Indian Medical Service
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Crawford Murray, 9th Glasgow Highland Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert James Bridgford DSO , Shropshire Light Infantry
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hesketh Grant Moore DSO , Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Melhuish Comins Stevens, Indian Army
  • Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell DSO , Cameron Highlanders
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton Lyster Reed VC Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Dugdale, Oxfordshire Hussars Yeomanry
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Wall, Indian Medical Service
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert Stewart Crawford , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Orlando George Gunning, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Edmund Kerrich, Retired Pay, Royal Artillery (Indian Ordnance Department)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Treffry, Honourable Artillery Company
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Danvers Bayliffe, 12th Battalion, London Regiment, Rangers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Quintyne Winwood DSO , 5th Dragoon Guards
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Tom Molesworth Bridges DSO , 4th Hussars
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Worsley Worsley-Gough, 3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Royal Highlanders
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Spedding Swabey, Army Service Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Beresford Cecil Molyneux Carter, Liverpool Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Wright Alexander VC , Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Ross Marryat Church, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Basil Emery, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Bingham Hinton, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Theodore Kelly, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Henry Whalley Nicholson, Royal Artillery
  • Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel (Rear-Admiral, retired) Gerald Charles Adolphe Marescaux, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (Base)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Compton, Somerset Light Infantry
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Ogilvie, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Roberts Davidson, 10th Scottish Battalion, Liverpool Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Rodger Kirby, 6th Dragoon Guards
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Ramsay Sladen DSO , King's Own Scottish Borderers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Alexander Turner, West Riding Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alister Fraser Gordon DSO , Gordon Highlanders
  • Lieutenant-Colonel James Attenborough, 2nd Battalion, London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Stanley Thurston, Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Charles Green, 14th Battalion, London Regiment, London Scottish
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Stevenson Lyle Cummins , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Evans , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Ben Fawcus , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin DSO , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Baron Statham, Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Lisle Ambrose-Webb, Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Percival Monkhouse MVO , Royal Artillery
  • Major Reginald Salter Weston, Manchester Regiment
  • Major Percy Umfreville, Royal West Kent Regiment
  • Major James Hawkins-Whitshed Pollard, Royal Scots Fusiliers
  • Major Henry Ernest Walshe, South Staffordshire Regiment
  • Major Henry Thomas Caiitan, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  • Major Frederick Welsley Hunt, Army Veterinary Corps
  • Major Cranley Charlton Onslow, Bedfordshire Regiment
  • Major Hugh Norman Ramsay Cowie DSO , Dorsetshire Regiment
  • Major Julian Mayne Young, Army Service Corps
  • Major Evan Gibb DSO , Army Service Corps
  • Major James Fitzgerald Martin , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Major John Bartholomew Wroughton, Royal Sussex Regiment
  • Major Sir Edward Scott Worthington MVO , Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Major Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce, Indian Army
  • Major Louis James Lipsett, Royal Irish Regiment (attached Canadian Forces
  • Major Henry Page Croft, Hertfordshire Regiment
  • Major George Alfred FitzGerald DSO , Royal Artillery
  • Major Hew Francis Blair-Imrie, 5th Angus and Dundee Battalion, Royal Highlanders
  • Major Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs DSO , Royal Engineers
  • Major Cecil Howie Saunders, Army Ordnance Department
  • Major Erroll Mervyn de Smidt, Army Ordnance Department
  • Major Charles Glencairn Hill DSO , Royal Berkshire Regiment
  • Major Lloyd Newton Jones-Bateman, Norfolk Regiment
  • Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, Royal Artillery
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Gilmour Edwards Leckie, 16th Canadian Battalion
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Samuel Lampson Ford, Canadian Army Medical Corps
Honorary Companion
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Eugène-Pierre Maroix of the French Army, for services in connection with military operations in Togoland.

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

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Riband, badge and star of the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

Knight Commander (KCIE)

  • Prabhashankar Pattani (Prabhashankar Dalpatram Pattani) CIE , Temp. Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay.
  • Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandy of Kasimbazar, Zemindar, Murshidabad, Bengal, an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Ramsay CSI CIE , Indian Political Department, Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.
  • William Maxwell CIE MVO , Indian Civil Service, Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Faridoonji Jamshedji CSI CIE , Assistant Minister, Political Department, to the Government of His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad.
  • Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya CIE , Dewan of Mysore.
  • His Highness Maharaja Bir Singh Deo Bahadur, Chief of Samthar, Bundelkhand, Central India.
  • John Stuart Donald CSI CIE , Indian Political Department, Resident in Waziristan, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Molesworth Sykes CMG CIE , Indian Political Department, Consul-General, Kashgar.

Companion (CIE)

  • Cecil Bernard Cotterell, Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
  • Alfred Wyndham Lushington, Imperial Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, Northern Circle, Madras.
  • Sardar Sahib Suleman Haji Kassim Mitha, Justice of the Peace, Bombay.
  • George Prideaux Millet, Indian Forest Service, Senior Conservator of Forests, Bombay Presidency.
  • Babu Ram Charan Mitra, Vakil of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, Bengal, and Law Officer of Government.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Thomas Grice VD , Commandant, 1st Battalion, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Travers Dennys, Indian Army, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab.
  • Selwyn Howe Fremantle, Indian Civil Service, Collector and Magistrate of Allahabad, United Provinces.
  • Ziauddin Ahmad , Professor in the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, United Provinces.
  • Abdul Karim Abdul Shakur Jamal, Rangoon, Burma.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Charles Stewart Barry, Indian Medical Service, Medical Superintendent, General Hospital, Rangoon, Burma.
  • John Frederick Grunnig, Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Shahabad, Bihar and Orissa.
  • Brigadier-General Benjamin Holloway, Indian Army, Secretary to the Government of India in the Army Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
  • Capt. Cyril Mosley Wagstaff, Royal Engineers, General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Army Headquarters.
  • Arthur Robert Anderson, Member, Railway Board.
  • Colonel Charles Henry Cowie, Royal Engineers, Agent, North-Western State Railway.
  • Kunwar Maharaj Singh Barrister-at-Law, Provincial Service, Senior Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, Education Department.
  • David Petrie , Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Punjab.
  • Godfrey Charles Denham, Indian Police, Superintendent of Police, Bengal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Windham, Indian Army, Indian Political Department, Resident, Western Rajputana States.
  • Herbert George Clark, Commercial Adviser to the Resident in the Persian Gulf.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder DSO , Royal Engineers, Deputy Superintendent of Survey of India, and lately in charge Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, Survey Detachment.
  • Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency, Indian Civil Service, Personal Assistant to the Chief Commissioner, Delhi.
  • Raja Partab Singh, Chief of Ali Rajpur, Bhopawar, Central India.

Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Home Civil Service
Colonial Civil Service
Indian Civil Service

Victoria Cross (VC)

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Victoria Cross Medal

'"On 26th April, 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both Brigadier-General and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieutenant-Colonel Doughty-Wylie and Captain Walford organized and led an, attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd-el-Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. The enemy's position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine-guns and pom-poms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two Officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory."

"On the afternoon of 25th April, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Ypres, when in charge of an advanced dressing station in some farm buildings, which were being heavily shelled by the enemy, he directed under heavy fire the removal of the wounded, and he himself carried a severely wounded Officer out of a stable in search of a place of greater safety. When he was unable alone to carry this Officer further, he remained with him under fire till help could be obtained During the very heavy fighting between 52nd and 25th April, Captain Scrimger displayed continuously day and night the greatest devotion to his duty among the wounded at the front."

"For most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on April 20th, 1915, when he was commanding a company of his battalion in a front trench on "Hill 60," which was subjected to' a most severe bombardment throughout the day. Though wounded in several places, he remained at his post and led his company in repelling a strong German assault. During a lull in the bombardment he had his wounds hurriedly dressed, and then insisted in returning to his trench, which was again being subjected to severe bombardment. Towards evening, his company being dangerously weakened, he went back to his battalion headquarters, represented the situation to his Commanding Officer, and brought up reinforcements, passing backwards and forwards over ground swept by heavy fire. With these reinforcements he held his position throughout the night, and until his battalion was relieved next morning. This young Officer was one of the few survivors of his company, and showed a magnificent example of courage, devotion and tenacity, which undoubtedly inspired his men to hold out till the end."

"On 24th April, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Ypres, when a wounded man who was lying some 15 yards from the trench called for help, Company Sergeant-Major Hall endeavoured to reach him in the face of a very heavy enfilade fire which was being poured in by the enemy. The first attempt-failed, and a Non-commissioned Officer and private soldier who were attempting to give assistance were both wounded. Company Sergeant-Major Hall then made a second most gallant attempt, and was in the act of lifting up the wounded man to bring him in when he fell mortally wounded in the head."

"On the early morning of 13th May, 1915, when in charge of a portion of an advanced breastwork south of the Wieltje-St. Julien Road during a very fierce and continuous bombardment by the enemy, which frequently blew in the breastwork, Lance-Sergeant Belcher with a mere handful of men elected to remain and endeavour to hold his position after the troops near him had been withdrawn. By his skill and great gallantry he maintained his position during the day, opening rapid fire on the enemy, who were only 150 to 200 yards distant, whenever he saw them collecting for an attack. There is little doubt that the bold front shown by Lance-Sergeant Belcher prevented the enemy breaking through on the Wieltje Road, and averted an attack on the flank of one of our Divisions."

"On 23rd April, 1915, in the neighbourhood of St. Julien, he went forward with the machine gun, of which he was in charge, under heavy fire, and most gallantly assisted in covering the retreat of a battery, losing four men of his gun team. Later, after obtaining four more men, he went forward again to the firing line and was himself killed while bringing his machine gun into action under very heavy fire, in order to cover the advance of supports."

"During a violent thunderstorm on the night of 22nd May, 1915, he left his trench near Cambrin, and crept out through the German wire entanglements till he reached the emplacement of a German machine gun which had been damaging our parapets and hindering our working parties. After climbing on the top of the German parapet he threw a bomb in under the roof of the gun emplacement and heard some groaning and the enemy running away. After about a quarter of an hour he heard some of them coming back again, and climbed up on the other side of the emplacement and threw another bomb among them left-handed. He then lay still while the Germans opened a heavy fire on the wire entanglement behind him, and it was only after about an hour that he was able to crawl back to his own trench. Before starting out he had requested a serjeant to open fire on the enemy's trenches as soon as he had thrown his bombs. Rifleman Mariner was out alone for one and a half hours carrying out this gallant work."

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Citation — The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following appointments to the Distinguished Service Order in respect of the undermentioned Officers, in recognition of their services with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force:

Citation — The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the following rewards for gallantry and devotion to duty in connection with the operations at the Dardanelles (Mediterranean Expeditionary Force):

Additional Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Canada
British India

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

The King has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following award of the Distinguished Service Cross in respect of the undermentioned Officers, in recognition of their services with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

Military Cross (MC)

Canada
British India

Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (CGM)

Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)

Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM)

Citation —His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award to the undermentioned Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men, for acts of gallantry and devotion to duty whilst serving with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders:

Indian Order of Merit (IOM)

"His Majesty the KING-EMPEROR has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned Rewards to Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Indian Army for gallantry and devotion to duty whilst serving with the Indian Army Corps, British Expeditionary Force:"

2nd Class

Indian Distinguished Service Medal (IDSM)

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve)
Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Territorial Force Nursing Service
Civil Hospitals Reserve
British Red Cross Society
Australian Nursing Service
Canadian Nursing Service

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  2. 1 2 "His Majesty's Birthday: List of Honours". The Times . 3 June 1915. pp. 9–10.
  3. "No. 29202". The London Gazette . 23 June 1915. pp. 6111–6116.