1924 New Year Honours

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The 1924 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published in The London Gazette on 1 January 1924. [1]

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The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

British Empire

Viscount

Baron

Privy Councillor

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

India
Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
  • Major-General Denis Joseph Collins, CMG, MD, KHS, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, East Indies.
  • Colonel George Peabody Scholfield, CMG, CBE, Deputy Chief Engineer, Southern Command.
  • Colonel George Napier Johnston, CMG, DSO, Commanding Royal Artillery, 52nd (The Lowland) Division, Territorial Army.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Rowland Henry Mangles, CMG, DSO, Brigade Commander, Cairo Brigade, the British Troops in Egypt.
  • Colonel Lewis Francis Philips, CMG, CBE, DSO, Brigade Commander, 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel on the Staff) Henry Thomas Sawyer, DSO, Director of Veterinary Services, India Headquarters Staff, East Indies.
  • Major-General Harry Ashley Vane Cummins, CMG, Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Bombay District, East Indies.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) William Frank Bainbridge, CMG, CBE, DSO, Indian Army, Commander, Jullundur Brigade Area, Northern Command, East Indies.
  • Colonel Arthur Holroyd Bridges, CIE, DSO, Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, General Staff, Rawalpindi District, East Indies.
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
  • Engineer Captain Francis Evans Percy Haigh, Royal Navy (Retd.)
  • Colonel Commandant Picton Phillips, CMG, MVO, ADC, Royal Marines.
  • Instructor Captain John White, MA, Royal Navy.
  • Edward Rodolph Forber, CBE, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
  • Roland Venables Vernon, Assistant Secretary, Middle East Department, Colonial Office.
  • William Young, Commissioner of Customs and Excise.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

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

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

  • James Donald, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bengal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor, CIE, CVO, British Envoy at the Court of Nepal.
  • Ernest Sampson Lloyd, Indian Civil Service, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras.
  • Leonard Frederick Morshead, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Board of Revenue, Bihar and Orissa.
  • Henry Duffield Craik, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the Punjab.
  • Samuel Andrew Smyth, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Mandalay Division, Burma.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Hugh Jeffery, CIE, Indian Army, General Staff, Army Headquarters.
  • Colin Gurdon Adam, Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.
  • M R Ry Diwan Bahadur Thodla Raghavayya Pantulu Garu, Diwan of Travancore State, Madras.
  • Raja Ejaz Rasul Khan of Jehangirabad, United Provinces.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

  • Edward John Arnett, a Senior Resident in the Northern Provinces of Nigeria.
  • William Benjamin Chaffey, Councillor of the Borough of Mildura, State of Victoria, in recognition of his services in connection with irrigation settlement in the State.
  • Captain the Honourable Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, MVO, in recognition of his services as Secretary to the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.
  • Eric Rücker Eddison, Principal in the Board of Trade, in recognition of his services as Secretary to the Imperial Economic Conference.
  • The Honourable Richard Feetham, Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa, for services as Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner for South Africa.
  • John Cyril Douglas Fenn, Chief Secretary to the Government of Cyprus.
  • Edward Shaw Hose, British Resident, Negri Sembilan, Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Federated Malay States.
  • William Warren Kerr, CBE, formerly President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia and Chairman of the Royal Commission on Taxation appointed by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Thomas Luff Perkins, AMICE, ARIBA, lately Director of Public Works, Hong Kong.
  • The Honourable John Scaddan, Minister for Mines, Railways, Industries and Woods and Forests, and Member of the House of Assembly, State of Western Australia.
  • Henry Benjamin Shawe, ISO, Secretary for the Interior, Union of South Africa.
  • The Honourable Percival Donald Leslie Fynn, Treasurer and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Southern Rhodesia.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Marshall Hole, for service in the London Office of the British South Africa Company.
  • James Robertson, Secretary, Department of the Administrator and Clerk to the Executive and Legislative Councils of Southern Rhodesia.
  • Joseph Addison, Counsellor of His Majesty's Embassy at Berlin.

Order of the Indian Empire

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

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

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Lancelot Graham, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, Legislative Department.
  • Crewe Armand Hamilton Townsend, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of the Punjab.
  • Edmund Willoughby Legh, Indian Civil Service, Acting Secretary to the Government of Madras, Revenue Department.
  • Herbert Philip Duval, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Judicial Department, and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, Bengal.
  • James Campbell Ker, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General and Educational Departments.
  • Frederick Fleetwood Bion, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, United Provinces.
  • Walter Sidney Bremner, Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government, Bihar and Orissa.
  • Percival Stanley Keelan, Chief Engineer, Mining, Bengal Coal Company.
  • Colonel William Menzies Coldstream, Superintendent, Survey of India.
  • Clement Wansbrough Gwynne, OBE, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
  • Robert Benson Ewbank, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Education, Health and Lands.
  • Behari Lai Dhingra, MD, Chief Minister, Jind State, Punjab.
  • Shrimant Jagdeo Rao Puar, Bhau Sahib Maharaj, Chief Councillor, State Council, Dewas State (Senior Branch).
  • Maulvi Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad, Nawab Nizamat Jang Bahadur, OBE, Minister in charge of the Political Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad State.
  • Sardar Sahibzada Sultan Ahmad Khan, Muntazim-ud-Daula, Member of the Gwalior State Council.
  • Philip Graham Rogers, Indian Civil Service, Postmaster-General, Bombay.
  • Charles William Dunn, Indian Civil Service, Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Burma.
  • Raymond Evelyn Gibson, Indian Civil Service, Collector, Hyderabad and Sukkur, Sind.
  • Major Guy Hamilton Russell, DSO, Commandant, South Waziristan Scouts, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Bertrand James Glancy, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Control, Kashmir.
  • M R Ry Diwan Bahadur Lewis Dominic Swamikannu Pillai Avargal, ISO, Secretary, Madras Legislative Council.
  • Hugh Byard Clayton, Indian Civil Service, Municipal Commissioner for the City of Bombay.
  • Ernest William Proctor Sims, Manager and Engineer-in-Chief, Junagadh State Railway.
  • Khan Bahadur Muhammad Abdul Karim Khan, ISO, MBE, Landowner and Provincial Darbari, of Gul Imam, Dera Ismail Khan District, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Maung Maung Bya, MBE, Assistant Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Burma.
  • Sardar Bahadur Sheo Narayan Singh, Honorary Magistrate, Jullundur District, Punjab.
  • George Deuchars, formerly Indian Public Works Department, lately Government Director of Indian Hallway Companies, India Office.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

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

  • Major Henry Angus Watson, CBE.
  • Thomas Fell Molyneux, OBE.
  • Frederic Stanley Osgood, OBE, MVO (5th Class).
  • Haywood Temple Holmes, ISO, MVO (5th Class).
  • George Slythe Street.

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

  • Frederick James Bailey, (dated 15 October 1923).

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

First Class, for Public Services in India

Order of the British Empire

Medal of the Order of the British Empire

Civil Division

King's Police Medal (KPM)

England & Wales
Police
Fire Brigades
Scotland
Ireland
India

His Majesty has also graciously consented to the King's Police Medal being handed to the nearest relatives of the undermentioned Officers, who were killed on duty on 18 August 1922, and who would have received the decoration had they survived:.

Bar to the King's Police Medal
British Oversea Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories

His Majesty has also graciously consented to the King's Police Medal being handed to the nearest relatives of the undermentioned Officers, who were killed on duty and who would have received the decoration had they survived;

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Promotions

Dated 31 December 1923.

Royal Navy
Commander to Captain
Lieutenant-Commander to Commander
Engineer-Commander to Engineer-Captain
Engineer Lieutenant-Commander to Engineer Commander
Surgeon Commander to Surgeon Captain
Paymaster Commander to Paymaster Captain
Royal Marines
Royal Naval Reserve
Commander to Captain
Lieutenant-Commander to Commander
Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander (Registrar Class) to Paymaster Commander
Royal Air Force
General Duties Branch
Air Commodore to Air Vice-Marshal
Wing Commander to Group Captain
Squadron Leader to Wing Commander
Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader
Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant
Stores Branch
Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader
Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant
Stores Branch Accountants
Squadron Leader to Wing Commander
Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant

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References

  1. "No. 32893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1924. pp. 1–10.