1932 Birthday Honours

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The King's Birthday Honours 1932 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 3 June 1932. [1]

Contents

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

Dominions
India
Colonies, Protectorates, &c.

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division
Civil 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
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

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)

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)

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)

Imperial Order of the Crown of India

Royal Victorian Chain

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)

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

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

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

Civil Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Civil Division

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
  • Colonel (temporary Brigadier) George Fleming, DSO, Commander, Shanghai Area, China Command.
Civil Division
  • Frederick George Bristow, General Secretary, the Commercial Motor Users Association.
  • Alfred William Clapham, OBE, FSA, Technical Editor on the staff of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries.
  • Ernest Salter Davies, MA, Director of Education for the County of Kent.
  • Albert Humphries, OBE, MInstCE, MIMechE, MISI, Chief Mechanical Engineer and Building Works Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich.
  • James Stuart Jones, MBE, Controller, Central Telegraph Office, General Post Office.
  • Eleanor Constance Lodge, MA, DLitt, FRHistS. Until recently Principal of Westfield College, University of London.
  • William Robert Maconkey, Comptroller and Auditor-General, Northern Ireland.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Pulteney Malcolm, DSO, MVO, Chief Constable of Cheshire.
  • James Arnold Newrick. Lately Chairman of the Approved Societies Consultative Council.
  • Joseph Sinclair Nicholson, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
  • Russell John Reynolds, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, DMRE, Honorary Adviser in Radiology to the Ministry of Pensions.
  • Robert Shirley Shuckburgh, Joint Assistant Public Trustee.
  • Albert Harry Smethurst, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
  • Helen Gregory Smith, RRC, President, Scottish Matrons Association. President, Benevolent Fund for Nurses in Scotland. For services to the nursing profession in Scotland.
  • Austin Edward Arthur Watt Smyth, Librarian, House of Commons.
  • Reginald George Stapledon, MBE, MA, Professor of Agricultural Botany, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Director of the Welsh Plant Breeding Association.
  • Elizabeth Ann Tweedale, ARRC, JP, Dame of Grace of the Order of St. John, Lady District Superintendent of No. 4 District of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
  • Robert Townsend Warner, Secretary, Development Commission.
  • Frederick Horton Wynne, His Majesty's Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines.
  • Henry Forster Handley-Derry, one of His Majesty's Consuls in China.
  • Rupert Edward Francis Fawkes, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Sudan Government Railways.
  • Alexander Knox Helm, OBE, one of His Majesty's Consuls, Levant Service.
  • Richard Valentine Laming, OBE, Commercial Secretary (Grade I) at His Majesty's Legation at The Hague.
  • Brigadier-General George Henry Dean, VD. For services to the Rifle Club movement in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Alice Mabel Maud Emmerton, OBE. For public and charitable services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • George McNamara, Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Brigadier-General John Jackson Paine, VD, Honorary Treasurer of the Commonwealth Council of Rifle Associations, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • William Joseph James Short, General Manager of the Bureau of Central Sugar Mills and Chairman of the Sugar Board, State of Queensland.
  • John Howard Vaughan. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Frank Arthur Verney, OBE, FRCVS, Principal Veterinary Officer, Basutoland.
  • Frederick William Wheatley, DSc, lately Senior Educational Officer of the Royal Australian Naval Service.
  • Norman Frederick Peck, Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bihar and Orissa.
  • Oliver Harold Baptist Starte, Indian Civil Service, Criminal Tribes Settlement Officer, Bombay.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Lethbridge, Indian Army, Deputy Inspector-General of Military Police, Burma.
  • Rai Bahadur Munshi Man Singh, Indian Police Service, Superintendent of Police, United Provinces.
  • Arnold Savage Bailey, Unofficial Member of the Federal Council of the Federated Malay States. For public services.
  • Douglas William Gumbley, OBE, ISO, Inspector-General, Posts and Telegraphs, and Director of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Economics and Communications, Iraq.
  • Percy James Kelly, MB, Surgeon General, British Guiana.
  • Keith Ravenscroft Tucker, Treasurer, Nyasaland.
  • Major Andrew Barkworth Wright, MC, Chief Assistant Secretary, Cyprus. For services while acting as Colonial Secretary during the disturbances in Cyprus in October 1931.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
  • Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Desmond Harry Adair, The Royal Scots Greys, attached Sudan Defence Force.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quarter-Master) Arthur Barker, MC, DCM, Extra Regimentally Employed List.
  • Temporary Major Ernest Kenneth Campbell, MB, FRCS, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Temporary Major Hugh Davies-Colley, FRCS, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Reginald Curtis, TD, retired, late Territorial Army.
  • Major Richard Charles Earl, VD, late Officer Commanding, Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Frederick Ellison, 53rd (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Neville John Acland Foster, MC, Officer Commanding State Troops Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force.
  • Captain Harold Augustus Freeman, MC, 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Leslie Irvine Friend, MC, 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own).
  • Captain Frederick Richard Gifford, 2nd Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, Translation Officer, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters.
  • Lieutenant (local Major) Percy Travers Goodwin, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Company Commander, Trans-Jordan Frontier Force.
  • Captain Charles Grimshaw, Royal Army Pay Corps.
  • Captain John Theodore Harley, TD, The Leicestershire Regiment.
  • Major Benjamin Charles William Johnson, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.
  • Major Herbert Johnson, 61st Carnarvon and Denbigh (Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremy Taylor Marsh, CMG, retired pay, late Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Captain William Edward Parnell, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, attached Iraq Levies.
  • Major John Walter Julian Raikes, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Herbert Rogers, Surrey Group, Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Companies, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quarter-Master) Ernest Smith, MC, Extra Regimentally Employed List.
  • Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Frederic Sherman Steed, DCM, Quarter-Master, retired pay, Chief Recruiting Officer, Eastern Zone, Chelmsford.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Wiebkin, MC, retired pay, late Royal Artillery.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edgar William Wilkinson, TD, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.
Civil Division
  • Edmund Rushworth Abbott, lately Clerk to the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council.
  • Margaret Anderson, Lady Superintendent, East End Maternity Hospital.
  • William Austin Balls, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Bakers of the City of London. For public services.
  • Marion Brodie Blackie, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Council for Women's Trades, President of the Women's Friendly Society for Scotland.
  • Arthur Sparkes Cotton, Principal, Scottish Office.
  • Arthur Sambell Cox, Superintending Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade.
  • Charles Mortimer Cuttle, Superintending Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Arthur James Dawe, Principal, Colonial Office.
  • Edward Vincent Emery, Director of Printing and Binding, His Majesty's Stationery Office.
  • Frederick William Emery, FRCVS, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland.
  • Arthur Benjamin Hart, MIEE, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office.
  • Captain Reginald Haworth, Chief Accountant (France and Belgium), Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Edward John Hayward, Clerk to the Cardiff Justices. A member of the Probation Advisory Committee.
  • William Henderson, MBE, Controller, Statistical Office, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Albert Mayon Henshaw, MInstCE, MIME, JP. For many years a Central Examiner to the Board for Mining Examinations, Mines Department, and a member of the Safety in Mines Research Board.
  • Maud Mary Jeffery, Agent for the Commissioners of Crown Lands. Founder and President of the Octavia Hill Club. For services in the training of women for the work of estate management.
  • Ethel Mary Le Plastrier, Superintendent, Money Order Department, General Post Office.
  • Matthew Joseph Martin, Chief Constable of Perth and Kinross.
  • Eleanor Melville, JP. For political and public services in Warwickshire.
  • Ralph Stransham Oldham, MD, BCh, Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Major James Parsons, TD, JP. For many years Chairman of the Great Berkhampstead Urban District Council. For public services in Berkhampstead and district.
  • Thomas Hedley Phillips, MBE, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
  • Councillor William Alexander Platt, MBE, JP, Chairman of the Bury, Rawtenstall and District War Pensions Committee.
  • William Isaac Quinn, Secretary to the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners.
  • Ernest Alexander Rahles Rahbula, MC, FSA, ARIBA. A Senior Investigator on the Staff of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England).
  • Henry Alexander Russell, MBE, Principal, His Majesty's Office of Works and Public Buildings.
  • Lizzie Godwin Salt, MA, Headmistress, Bromley County (Secondary) School for Girls.
  • John Edward Scanlan, JP. For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • George Shearing, BSc, MIEE, Principal Scientific Officer, Naval Signal School, Portsmouth.
  • Fraser Story, FRSE, Education and Publications Officer, Forestry Commission.
  • Mary Beatrice Stuart, Chairman of the Scottish Women's Liberal Council. For political and public services.
  • Elizabeth Sarah Louise Thomas. For political and public services in South Wales.
  • John Edward Tory, FSI, Superintending Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • William Wilkinson, Principal, Blackburn Municipal Technical College.
  • Blanche Eleanor Anne Wright, Honorary Matron and Founder of the Wright-Kingsford Home for Children.
  • Edward Barclay, a British resident in Paris.
  • Herbert Alfred Newton Bluett, Commercial Agent at His Majesty's Consulate-General at Batavia.
  • Major James John Bramble, Royal Marines (Retired), District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.
  • Captain Henry Cecil Edward Jebb, Director of Stores and Ordnance, Sudan Government.
  • Arthur Henry William King, His Majesty's Consul at Lisbon.
  • John Charles Sidley, chartered accountant, Cairo.
  • Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith, Assistant Oriental Secretary to His Majesty's High Commission at Cairo.
  • Robert Connell, Commissioner of Police, State of Western Australia.
  • George Richard Hobson. For public services in Basutoland.
  • M. R. Ry. Rao Bahadur Mangalore Kesava Pai Avargal, Director, Tuberculosis Institute, and Superintendent, Tuberculosis Hospital, Madras.
  • Major Ronald William Barker, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Insein, Burma.
  • William Louis Barretto, Deputy Commissioner, Pyapon District, Burma.
  • U San Baw, President, Karen National Society, Tharrawaddy and Prome Districts, Burma.
  • Harry Ewart Flint, Indian Forest Service, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Burma.
  • Marcar Sheridon Gregory, MC, VD, Indian State Railways, Chief Personnel Officer, North-Western Railway, Lahore.
  • U On Gyaw, TDM, Indian Police Service, District Superintendent of Police, Tharrawaddy, Burma.
  • Khan Bahadur Risaldar Moghul Baz Khan, IDSM, Assistant Political Officer, Khyber, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Rao Bahadur Maneklal Lallubhai, Assistant Collector of Salt Revenue, Thana Range, Bombay.
  • Frederick Thomas Morehead, Indian Forest Service, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Insein, Burma.
  • Sardar Bahadur Balwant Singh Puri, Assistant Secretary of the Indian Red Cross Society and the St. John Ambulance Association, and Honorary Secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, Indian Council.
  • John Keith Stanford, MC, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Henzada, Burma.
  • Charles Winter Scott, DFC, Indian Forest Service, Forest Economist to the Government of Burma.
  • Clyne Garden Stewart, Indian Police Service, District Superintendent of Police, Burma.
  • Major David Rees Thomas, MB, ChB. (Edin.), Indian Medical Service, Chemical Examiner to the Government of the Punjab.
  • Eric Charles Bendyshe Walton, Hydro-Electric Engineer, United Provinces.
  • Arthur John Stanley White, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Thayetmyo, Burma.
  • George William Murray Woods, Indian Forest Service, Burma.
  • Cecil James Juxon Talbot Barton, District Officer, Kenya.
  • Seemampillai Francis Chellappah, Senior Medical Officer of Health, Ceylon.
  • Andrew Connal, MD, lately of the West African Medical Staff. For services as Deputy Director, Laboratory Service, Nigeria.
  • Altamont Ernest Da Costa, MBE, Elected Member of the Legislative Council, and Custos of Kingston, Jamaica. For public services.
  • Francis Dias, Nominated Unofficial Member of the Executive Council and Elected Member of the Legislative Council of British Guiana. For public services.
  • William Gemmel Fairweather, AMICE, Director of Surveys, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Captain Arthur Marlay Floury, Commissioner of Paphos District, Cyprus. For services during the disturbances in Cyprus in October 1931.
  • George Edwin Palmer Gentle, Superintendent of Public Works, Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Henry Joseph King, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Gibraltar. For public services.
  • Sydney Moody, Assistant Secretary, Palestine.
  • Hugh Brindley Owen, DSO, MB, East African Medical Service, Medical Superintendent and Principal, Medical School, Mulago, Uganda Protectorate.
  • John Robertson, Dredging Superintendent, Port of Basrah Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Iraq.
  • Reginald Edwin Robins, Assistant Superintendent of the Line, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours.
  • Major Alan Saunders, MC, Deputy Commandant of Police, Palestine.
  • Harry Chapman Sinderson, MD, Dean, Royal College of Medicine, and Physician, Royal Hospital, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq.
  • Thomas Whitfield, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast Colony. For public services.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
  • Paymaster Lieutenant (S) John Patrick Canty, DSM.
  • Commissioned Wardmaster Garnet Hughes.
  • Superintending Clerk Samuel Halliwell, Royal Marines.
Army
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) William Henry Albutt, DCM, Depot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Albert William Andrews, DCM, Depot, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment).
  • Margaret Ashmore, Sister, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve).
  • No. 1851264 Warrant Officer, Class I, Superintending Clerk, John Henry Barton, Royal Engineers.
  • No. 7868331 Warrant Officer, Class II, Quartermaster-Sergeant Instructor, Reginald Horace Arthur Beales, Royal Tank Corps.
  • Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Samuel Cecil Bell, late Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps.
  • No. S/8842 Warrant Officer, Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major John Richard Boxall, DCM, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No. 3511072 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant William Henry Christy, DCM, 5th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant and Assistant Inspector of Armourers Francis Thomas Comerford, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • No. S/753 Warrant Officer, Class I, 1st Class Staff Sergeant-Major James Macrow Connolly, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) John Cook, Depot, Scots Guards.
  • No. 6837400 Regimental Sergeant-Major Instructor William Crofts, Indian Unattached List, Army School of Physical Training, Ambala, India.
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) Clifford Roland Davis, 5th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), Territorial Army.
  • No. 724545 Warrant Officer, Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major Samuel Joseph Denchfield, DCM, 249th Field Battery, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • No. 1402438 Warrant Officer, Class I, Sergeant-Major Artillery Clerk Charles Henry Eaton, Royal Artillery.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Alexander Gibb, Depot, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).
  • No. 1660464 Warrant Officer, Class II, Battery Sergeant-Major Harry Girling, Suffolk Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • No. 6972774 Warrant Officer, Class I, Bandmaster Charles William Griggs, 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • Captain Hubert Arthur Hamilton, Royal Artillery, Commandant, Bermuda Militia Artillery.
  • No. 536864 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Frederick Albert Hannam, DCM, 15th/19th Hussars.
  • No. 7109095 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major (acting Regimental Sergeant-Major) Francis Hargadon, The South Wales Borderers, attached The Monmouthshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • No. 7245432 Warrant Officer, Class I, Sergeant-Major Robert Edward Harvey, DCM, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • No. 1401020 Warrant Officer, Class I, Sergeant-Major Artillery Clerk, now Lieutenant (District Officer), Albert Edward Hazell, Royal Artillery.
  • Captain Bertram Lawrence Herdon, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, employed Signal Training Battalion, Signal Training Centre, India.
  • Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major John Higgins, Iraq Levies.
  • No. 1852195 Warrant Officer, Class I, Staff Sergeant-Major Albert James Martin Hill, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No. 2972002 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant James Hosie, 9th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) James Henry Hunt, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army.
  • Lieutenant Arthur James Jarman, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire).
  • Gwendoline Maud Jones, ARRC, Sister, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
  • Subadar-Major and Honorary Lieutenant Kehar Singh, Indian Army Service Corps, Instructor, Mechanical Transport, Depot, Chaklala, India.
  • Major Henry Joseph King, Special List of Quartermasters, 10th Battalion, 20th Burma Rifles, Indian Army.
  • No. 5877142 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major William Langton, 4th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • No. 4435229 Warrant Officer, Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Cyril Herbert Makeham, late 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry.
  • No. 7574452 Warrant Officer, Class I, Sub-Conductor Henry Arthur Miles, Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
  • No. 1407197 Warrant Officer, Class I, Experimental Sergeant-Major Frederick Peck, DCM, Royal Artillery.
  • Major (Commissary) Joseph Piper, Indian Miscellaneous List, Officer Supervisor, Military Secretary's Branch, Army Headquarters.
  • No. 1852658 Warrant Officer, Class II, Company Sergeant-Major (acting Regimental Sergeant-Major) Harry Alfred Poole, late Royal Engineers, attached, Royal Engineers Supplementary Reserve.
  • No. S/27003 Warrant Officer, Class II, Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Walter Wilson Rixon, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army.
  • No. 1850797 Warrant Officer, Class II (Education), Edmund Reginald Rogerson, Army Educational Corps.
  • Captain (Quarter-Master) Peter Shaw, 2nd Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
  • No. 1851053 Warrant Officer, Class I, Superintending Clerk Alfred Robert Shearman, Royal Engineers.
  • The Reverend William John Sym, BD, Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), Royal Army Chaplains Department, Territorial Army.
  • No. 4736064 Warrant Officer, Class II, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant, Fitz Walter Turton, The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment, Territorial Army.
  • No. 2306288 Warrant Officer, Class I, Superintending Clerk, John Thursby Wigglesworth, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • No. 1851489 Warrant Officer, Class I, Superintending Clerk, George Alfred Woolgar, Royal Engineers.
  • Major (Commissary) Alexander Wyatt, Indian Miscellaneous List, Officer Supervisor, Adjutant General's Branch, Army Headquarters.
Royal Air Force
  • Flight Lieutenant Andrew MacGregor, DFC.
  • Flight Lieutenant Bernard William Hemsley.
  • Flying Officer Thomas Ewart Guttery.
Civil Division
  • Councillor George William Allinson, Vice-Chairman of the Kettering Local Employment Committee.
  • Kathleen Mary Lottie Barrett, Superintendent, Typist Staff, War Office.
  • Sydney Charles Bartholomew, MIEE, Assistant Staff Engineer, General Post Office.
  • Jean Evelyn Batten, Chairman of the Juvenile Advisory Committee of the Borough Employment Exchange.
  • Ethel Mary Bennett, JP, Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the Salisbury, Trowbridge and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Robert Ivor Brenton, Chief Registrar, Air Ministry.
  • William Yabsley Bridgman, Staff Officer, Civil Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty.
  • Albert Robert Harris Cass, Assistant Postmaster, Bristol.
  • Frederick James Caswell, Superintending Clerk, Board of Control.
  • Edward Leopold Cheeseman, Clerk to the Right Honourable Sir William Allen Jowitt, KC, lately Attorney General.
  • Charles Robert Clark, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
  • Herbert Edgar Clark, Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Frank Stride Collins, Clerical Officer, Cabinet Secretariat. For services in connection with the Round Table Conference.
  • Temperance Davey, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Labour.
  • Thomas Richard Evans, Inspector of Meat and Foods under the Cardiff City Council.
  • Albert Victor French, Registrar, Clearing Office for Enemy Debts, Board of Trade.
  • Frank Grant, Staff Officer, Empire Marketing Board.
  • Edgar Gunning, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland.
  • Captain the Honourable Ivan Josslyn Lumley Hay, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary.
  • Winifred Howard, Organiser to the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes (Central Area).
  • Reginald Bray Hunter, Officer, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • William Richard Johnson, ASAA, Higher Executive Officer, Registry of Friendly Societies.
  • Charles Percival Keenan, Inspector, London County Council Mental Hospital at Bexley, Kent.
  • Horace Thomas Knott, Controller, Horsham Centre, Observer Corps (West Sussex Special Constabulary).
  • Alderman Thomas William Lack, JP, Chairman of the Chesterfield and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Blanche Langton, Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the Shoreditch and Bethnal Green War Pensions Committee.
  • Robson Leonard Layfield. His Majesty's Inspector of Horses in Mines.
  • Henry George Lewis, Examiner of Technical Accounts, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty.
  • Duncan Livingstone, Second Class Officer, Ministry of Labour.
  • George McDiarmid, Waterguard Superintendent, First Class, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • John Leslie MacGregor, Assistant Engineer, Grade I, His Majesty's Office of Works and Public Buildings.
  • Alfred Mitchell, Staff Clerk, War Office.
  • David Phillip Parry, Superintendent, Montgomery County Constabulary.
  • Walter Richard Perks. His Majesty's Immigration Inspector at Dover.
  • Lucy Agnes Ratcliffe, Superintendent, West Sussex County Nursing Association.
  • Francis Rayment, DCM, Headmaster, Hertingfordbury Church of England School, Hertfordshire.
  • William James Rich, JP, Chairman of the Barrow, Ulverston and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Robertson, Royal Naval Reserve (Retd.), Clerk to the Traffic Commissioners for the Southern Area of Scotland.
  • Alexander Ramsay Ross, Staff Officer (Taxes), Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Robert Ross, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Albert James Southam, JP. A member of the National Savings Committee. Honorary Secretary of the Ashford, Kent, Local Savings Committee.
  • Major John Stewart, TD, FRIBA, Architect to the Lanarkshire Education Authority.
  • Louisa Le Teller Swann, Headmistress, London County Council, Columbia Road Juniors Girls School, Bethnal Green.
  • Arthur Tattersfield, Superintendent, Wakefield City Police.
  • Amelia Susan Thompson, LLA, Headmistress, Cowley Girls Council School, St. Helens, Lancashire.
  • James Arthur Barnard Townsend, Clerk to the Attorney General.
  • Hannah Weir, State Registered Nurse, Superintendent of Health Visitors in Northumberland.
  • Richard John Wood, Chairman of the Central Schools Committee at the City of London Employment Exchange.
  • Robert Wallace Wright, Parliamentary Clerk, India Office.
  • Hugh Albert-Boyle, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Sudan Medical Service.
  • Dorothea O'Neill Daunt, British Subjects in Russia Relief Association.
  • Bimbashi Frank Harvey, Inspector, Suez Police.
  • Mary Christian Howden Archivist at His Majesty's Legation at Berne.
  • Alexander Marshall, Superintendent, Bacteriological Laboratories Section, Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum.
  • John Kingston O'Donoghue, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Berlin.
  • Francis Michie Shepherd, His Majesty's Consul at Hamburg.
  • David Fisher, Member of the Retail Grocers and Retail Bakers Advisory Sub-committees of the Empire Marketing Board. For services to Empire Trade.
  • Gladys Grace Maasdorp. For Child Welfare services in Southern Rhodesia.
  • Joseph Anthony Croning, Confidential Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
  • Stanley Clifford Davies, Deputy Assistant Controller of Military Accounts, Eastern Command, Meerut, United Provinces.
  • Douglas William D'Silva, Burma Forest Service, Extra Assistant Conservator of Forests, Burma.
  • U Kyan Hlaing, TDM, Burma Police Service, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Northern Range, Flying Squad, Meiktila, Burma.
  • Otto Eric Conrad Judd, Deputy Director of Surveys, Bihar and Orissa.
  • Walter Kaing, Officer in charge No. 2 Karen Irregulars, Burma.
  • Henry Kavanagh, Timber Assistant, Forest Department, Burma.
  • Regimental Sergeant-Major Frederick Charles Lay, MC, 25th Indian Mountain Brigade, Royal Artillery.
  • Roland Frank Leitch, Burma Frontier Service, Assistant Superintendent, Tharrawaddy, Burma.
  • Thomas Henry Norris, Station Master, Peshawar Cantonment, North-West Frontier Province.
  • U Paik, TDM, Burma Police Service, Sub-divisional Police Officer, Tharrawaddy North, Burma.
  • Charles Sigismund Schmit, lately Chairman, Municipal Council, Kodaikanal, Madura District, Madras.
  • Subedar Bhim Singh, Malwa Bhil Corps, Indore, Central India.
  • Honorary Major Hoshiar Singh, Bahadur, Senior Vice-Chairman, District Board, Ludhiana, Punjab.
  • Cyril Sherrard Smith, Postmaster, Cawnpore.
  • Cissie Cooray. For social welfare services in Ceylon.
  • Cyril Eugene Corry, Inspecting Officer of Police, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq.
  • Joseph Oliver Cutteridge, Assistant Director of Education and Chief Inspector of Schools, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Peter de Abrew. For services to education in Ceylon.
  • St. Yves Daniel de Verteuil, Warden, Eastern Counties, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Michael Christofi Kareklas, Local Commandant of Police, Cyprus. For services during the disturbances in Cyprus in October 1931.
  • The Reverend Charles Athanasius Everett Macaulay, African Assistant Director of Education, Sierra Leone.
  • Hannah Florence Skinner, Headmistress of Belilios Public School, Hong Kong.
  • James Sowray, late Chairman of the Portsmouth Town Board, Dominica, Leeward Islands. For public services.
  • George Edward Thornton, Commissioner of Income Tax, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Esmailjee Jivanjee Yusufali, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Zanzibar. For public services.
  • Zacharias Constantinou Zardis, District Medical Officer, Second Grade, Cyprus. For services during the disturbances in Cyprus in October 1931.
Honorary Members
  • Aref Effendi el Aref, District Officer, Palestine.
  • Nagib Habash Collector of Customs, Palestine.
  • Hugh Martin Kayamba, Chief Clerk, Provincial Administration, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Mohamed Said Bey el Yusef, of the Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan.
  • Sheikh Tahir bin Abu baker el Amawi, Kathi (Arab Judge), Zanzibar.

Medal of the Order of the British Empire

For Meritorious Service.

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Royal Air Force
Civil Division

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Home Civil Service
Dominions
Indian Civil Services
Colonies, Protectorates, &c.

Imperial Service Medal

In recognition of long and meritorious service.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

For Public Services in India.

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Royal Air Force
Royal Navy

Air Force Medal (AFM)

King's Police Medal (KPM)

India
Colonies, Protectorates, &c.

Promotions and appointments

Rear-Admiral
Major-General
Air Vice Marshal
Honorary Air Commodore-in-Chief of the Auxiliary Air Force
Honorary Air Commodore

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References

  1. "No. 33831". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1932. pp. 3567–3584.