1928 New Year Honours

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The 1928 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1927. [1]

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Unusually, only women were named as recipients of the Order of the British Empire in the 1928 New Year Honours. [2]

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 Colonies

Baron

Privy Councillor

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

Baronetcies

Aide-de-Camp

Knight Bachelor

Dominions
British India
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

The Most Honourable 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
Royal Navy
Army

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
  • Major-General James Stuart Gallie CMG DSO KHS late Royal Army Medical Corps, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Aldershot Command.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Frederick William Henry Walshe CMG DSO ADC Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Eastern and Western Commands, India.
  • Colonel Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy DSO Military Attache, Washington.
  • Colonel Claude Bussell-Brown DSO Chief Engineer, South China Command.
  • Colonel John Greer Dill CMG DSO Instructor Imperial Defence College.
  • Colonel Walter Mansel Parker CMG DSO Deputy Director of Transport, Army Headquarters, India.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Patrick Barclay Sangster CMG DSO Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 9th (Jhansi) Infantry Brigade, India.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Edward Currie Alexander CIE DSO Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 4th (Quetta) Infantry Brigade, India.
  • Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Richard Gardiner DSO Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade, India.
  • Colonel Charles Henry Kemble Chauncy CBE Indian Army, Deputy Director of Movements and Quartering, Army Headquarters, India.
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
  • Captain Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn OBE RN (Retired).
  • Commander Thomas Joseph Croker RN (Retired).
  • James Alan Noel Barlow CBE Principal Assistant Secretary, Industrial Relations Department, Ministry of Labour.
  • Arthur Stretton Gaye OBE Commissioner of Crown Lands.
  • William Thomas Leech, Director of Telegraphs and Telephones, General Post Office.
  • Henry Aufrere Leggett CBE Director of Establishments, Ministry of Health.
  • Lewis McQuibban CBE Permanent Secretary, Ministry. of Education, Northern Ireland.

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander (KCSI)

  • Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra KCIE CBE Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
  • Sir Samuel Perry O'Donnell KCIE CSI Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the United Provinces.
  • Sir Chunilal Vijbhukhandas Mehta, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bombay.

Companion (CSI)

  • Charles Cunningham Watson CIE Indian Civil Service, Political Secretary to the Government of India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Humphrey Keyes CMG CIE Political Department.
  • Robert John Sherwood Dodd. Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces.
  • Major Henry George Vaux CIE MVO Military Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

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

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

  • Major Robert George Archibald DSO Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum.
  • Henry Sinclair Campbell Budge, Official Secretary to the Governor and Clerk to the Executive Council, State of New South Wales.
  • George Craig, Comptroller of Customs, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Albert Fuller Ellis, New Zealand Member of the British Phosphate Commission.
  • Odin Tom Faulkner, Director of Agriculture, Nigeria.
  • Alexander Flint CB Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.
  • William Alfred Cecil Goodchild, Assistant Delegate and General Secretary of the British Delegation to the Reparation Commission.
  • Alexander William Keown-Boyd CBE Director-General of the European Department of the Ministry of the Interior, Cairo.
  • Percy Alexander Koppel CBE Counsellor in the Foreign Office. William Peters, late of His Majesty's Mission at Moscow.
  • Robert Frier Jardine OBE Administrative Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq.
  • Lewis Francis Mizzi Senior Member of the Bar, Malta, formerly Member of the Legislative Assembly; in recognition of his public services.
  • Herbert Phillips OBE Inspector General of Consular Establishments in the Far East.
  • Francis Graeme Tyrrell, Controller of Revenue, Ceylon.
  • Major Francis Walter Fitton Jackson DSO Provincial Commissioner, Eastern Province, Gold Coast.
  • Cyril Legh Winser MVO Private Secretary to the Governor, State of South Australia.
  • Edward Dudley Corscaden Wolfe, Captain Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong.
  • Ernest Charteris Holford Wolff, British resident, Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander (KCIE)

Companion (CIE)

  • Andrew Gourlay Clow, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Industries and Labour.
  • William David Russell Prentice, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal.
  • Alan Hubert Lloyd, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Central Board of Revenue.
  • Arthur Terence Stowell, Acting Agent, North-Western Railway.
  • Hyde Clarendon Gowan, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to Government, Central Provinces.
  • Colonel (Temporary Colonel-on-the-Staff) Cecil Charles Palmer CBE Deputy Master-General of Supply and Director of Artillery, Army Headquarters.
  • James Hezlett, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner, Surma Valley and Hill Divisions, Assam.
  • George Townsend Boag, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to Government, Finance Department, Madras.
  • Charles William Aldis Turner, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the General, Educational and Marine Departments.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert Lindsay Dunn, Indian Medical Service, Director of Public Health, United Provinces.
  • Arthur Ralph Astbury, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Punjab.
  • John Nesbitt Gordon Johnson, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Delhi.
  • Major Claude Ernest Torin Erskine DSO MC Indian Army.
  • Major Richard Outram Chamier, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces.
  • Edward Henry Berthoud OBE Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of Excise and Salt, and Inspector-General of Registration, Bihar and Orissa.
  • Ralph Albert Horton, Superintendent of Police, United Provinces.
  • Walchand Hirachand Doshi, Bombay.
  • Dinshah Fardunji Mulla, Advocate, Bombay High Court.
  • George Morgan, Member of the Legislative Council, Bengal.
  • Rai Bahadur Mahendra Chandra Mitra, Vakil, Bengal.
  • Bao Bahadur Raja Hari Singh, of Mahajan, of Bikaner, Rajputana.
  • Kheng Beng Chong.
  • Frederick William Thomas, lately Librarian, India Office, London.

The 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)

  • Sir Frederick Macmillan.
  • Alexander Gordon Ingram CMG OBE (dated 6 July 1927).

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

  • Frank Herbert Mitchell CBE
  • Ex-Bailie William Brownhill Smith OBE (Glasgow).
  • Treasurer James Stewart OBE (Glasgow).
  • Bailie Peter Harvey Allan (Edinburgh).
  • Lieutenant-Commander George Griffiths RN (dated 7 August 1927).
  • The Revd. John Stirton (dated 4 October 1927).

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

  • George David Field.
  • Jocelyn Godefroi.
  • Basil Hinton Philpott.
  • John Gwyndeg Hughes-Roberts.

Order of Merit (OM)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Only women were named as recipients of the Order of the British Empire in this list. [2]

Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

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

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

  • Eleanor Martha Barker, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the St. Barnabas Hostels and Pilgrimage Fund.
  • Edith Broadbent, Member of East and Mid-Sussex War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
  • Isabel Brogden Carter, Member of the Cheshire Mental Deficiency Committee.
  • Jeannette Halford, Founder and Honorary Secretary of the National League for Health, Maternity and Child Welfare.
  • Essie Margaret Harris JP For public and political services in Swansea.
  • Rosalie Alice Jane Henderson, Vice Chairman, East Cumberland War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
  • Mary Mitchell Thorburn RRC Matron of the London County Mental Hospital, Horton.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

  • Agnes Jane Chalmers, Member of Bromley, Sevenoaks and District War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
  • Ada Davies, Lady Superintendent Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
  • Frances Isabella Hepburn, Secretary and Treasurer of the Edinburgh Branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
  • Margaret Elizabeth Shelton-Jones, Member of Warrington, Widnes and District War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
  • Jane Mottershead, Senior Assistant Matron, Cheshire County Mental Hospital, Macclesfield.
  • Florence Elizabeth Pearse, Inspector of Midwives and Superintendent of Health Visitors, Oxford.
  • Hannah Ada Turner, Member of Bristol and District War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
  • Margaret Sloan, lately Principal Matron. Government Medical Department, Hong Kong.

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

First Class

Air Force Cross

Air Force Medal

King's Police Medal (KPM)

For a Bar to the King's Police Medal
British India

His Majesty has also graciously consented to a bar to the King's Police Medal being handed to the next-of-kin of the undermentioned officer, who died on the 26th December, 1926, and who would have received the decoration had he survived:

England and Wales
Fire Brigade
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Australia
Union of South Africa
British India
Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories

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References

  1. "No. 33343". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1927. pp. 1–10.
  2. 1 2 "New Year Honours: Three Peers and Two Privy Councillors". The Glasgow Herald . No. 9. 2 January 1928. Retrieved 3 January 2016.