The 1919 New Year 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 published in The London Gazette and The Times in January 1919.*
Reclassification of Civilian to Military Division of Order of the British Empire:
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
Baronetcies Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge Secretary to the Board of Education Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen formerly His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Vienna The Right Honourable Judge John Ross, Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, Chancery Division
Knight Bachelor His Honour Judge Edward Bray, Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court; Chairman of the Council of County Court Judges Thomas Willes Chitty, Master of the Supreme Court of Justice, King's Bench Division Sigmund Dannreuther, Controller and Accounting Officer, Ministry of Munitions Patrick Quinn Robert Blyth Greig Scottish Board of Agriculture Lucas White King William Leslie Mackenzie Medical Member of the Local Government Board for Scotland Hugh William Orange Accountant General, Board of Education Alfred Walter Soward a Commissioner of Inland Revenue; Secretary, Estate Duty Office Richard Stephens Taylor, President of the Law Society; Chairman of Law Society Advisory Committee; and Chairman of Civil Liabilities Committee. George Danvers Thane Principal Inspector under Cruelty to Animals Act Home Office
British India Justice Ernest Edward Fletcher, a Puisne Judge of the High Court at Calcutta George Cochrane Godfrey, Coal Controller in India Robert Herriot Henderson Assam William Arthur Beardsell, Sheriff of Madras Prafulla Chandra Ray late Provincial Educational Service, Bengal Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad, Vice-Chancellor, Bombay University Joseph Henry Stone Director of Public Instruction, Madras
Dominions Leicester Paul Beaufort lately Judge of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia The Honourable Worley Bassett Edwards, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of New Zealand Walter Edwin Gurney, lately Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa Thomas Wagstaffe Haycraft, the Chief Justice of Grenada John Hewat Lieutenant-Colonel, South African Defence Force, Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa and Assistant Director of Medical Services of the said Union Samuel Hordern, of the City of Sydney, President of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales Henry Jones, of the City of Hobart, in the State of Tasmania Joseph James Kinsey, of the City of Christchurch, in the Dominion of New Zealand James William Murison Judge of the Court for Zanzibar Boshan Wei Yuk formerly Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Acting Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden
Army General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro
For valuable services rendered in connection with the military operations in France and Flanders: General Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson General The Honourable Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Eric Campbell Geddes First Lord of the Admiralty
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Trevylyan Dacres Willis Napier Rear-Admiral Arthur Cavenagh Leveson Rear-Admiral Sydney Robert Fremantle Rear-Admiral William Edmund Goodenough Rear-Admiral Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair Rear-Admiral Walter Henry Cowan Paymaster Captain Francis Harrison Smith
Army Major-General George Joseph Hamilton Evatt Major-General Charles Harington Harington Lieutenant-General Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin Army Medical Service
For valuable services rendered in connection with the military operations in France and Flanders: Major-General Cameron Deane Shute Major-General David Graham Mushcet Campbell Major-General Charles Henry Burtchaell Army Medical Service Major-General Reginald Byng Stephens Major-General William Charles Giffard Heneker Major-General Evan Eyare Carter Lieutenant-General Sir Claud William Jacob Major-General Archibald Armar Montgomery Major-General Gerard Moore Heath Major-General William George Bertram Boyce Major-General Arlington Augustus Chichester Major-General John Humphrey Davidson Major-General Travers Edwards Clarke
Canadian Forces Major-General Archibald Cameron Macdonell
Australian Forces Major-General Charles Rosenthal
For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt: Major-General Sir Walter Campbell Major-General Sir Louis Jean Bols
For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Salonika: Major-General George Townshend Forestier-Walker
Royal Air Force Major-General Frederick Hugh Sykes Major-General William Sefton Brancker Major-General John Maitland Salmond
Civil Division Robert Elliott-Cooper, Chairman of the War Office Committee on Hutted Camps James Thomson Currie, Personal Assistant to the Surveyor-General of Supply William Henry Beveridge Second Secretary, Ministry of Food John Westerman Cawston Deputy Master of the Mint Malcolm Delevingne Assistant Under Secretary of State, Home Office Joshua Albert Flynn Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Munitions Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes Permanent Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office George Fottrell, Clerk of the Crown and Peace for County and City of Dublin Albert Gray Counsel to Chairman of Committees, House of Lords Sir Esmé William Howard His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stockholm James Edward Masterton-Smith Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Munitions Ernest Robert Moon Counsel to the Right Honourable The Speaker William Arthur Robinson Secretary to the Air Ministry Malcolm Cotter Cariston Seton Secretary to the Judicial and Public Department, India Office William Sutherland, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Graeme Thomson Director of Transport, Ministry of Shipping John Charles Gabriel Sykes, Secretary to the Liquor Control Board
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Francis Spurstow Miller Captain Sir Malcolm MacGregor Captain Michael Henry Hodges Captain Hugh Justin Tweedie Captain Douglas Lionel Dent Captain Frederick Aubrey Whitehead Captain John Donald Kelly Captain Henry Tritton Buller Captain John William Leopold McClintock Captain Berwick Curtis Engineer Captain Edward John Weeks Commander Archibald Bertram Watson Higginson Commander Edward Altham Paymaster Commander Bertram Cowles Allen
Army Temp Major-General Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware General List Colonel Chailes Henry Cowie Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel James Gurwood King-King late Royal West Surrey Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert James Ross Staff Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Geoffrey Herbert Anthony White Royal Artillery Major and Brevet Colonel Walter Mervyn St. George Kirke Royal Artillery Colonel Charles Kenyon Burnett late 18th Hussars Major and Brevet Colonel Charles Parker Deedes Yorkshire Light Infantry Lieutenant-Colonel Fernaud Gustavo Eugene Cannot Royal Army Service Corps Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Olver Royal Army Veterinary Corps Colonel Arundel Martyn
For valuable services rendered in connection with the military operations in France and Flanders: Colonel Charles Edward Baddeley Colonel John Cecil Wray Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Ogilvie Gordon Highlanders Colonel Charles Augustus Young Army Medical Service Temp Colonel Andrew Fullerton Army Medical Service Colonel Neil Wolseley Haig Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Ernest Wright Alexander Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Harry Stebbing Bush Royal Army Ordnance Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Arthur Wharton Peck 25th Cavalry, Indian Army Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Francis John Duncan Royal Scots Major and Brevet Colonel Gerald Farrell Boyd Royal Irish Regiment Major and Brevet Colonel Percival Otway Hambro 15th Hussars Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Samuel Jocelyn Percy East Lancashire Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Arthur Solly-Flood 4th Dragoon Guards Temp Colonel Gerald Charles Adolphe Marescaux Special List (Royal Navy, Retired) Temp Colonel Hamilton Ashley Ballance Army Medical Service Colonel Thomas Edward Marshall Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Henry Basil Freeth Lancashire Fusiliers Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell Scottish Rifles Colonel Theophilus Percy Jones Army Medical Service Colonel Archibald Buchanan Ritchie Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Clifford Coffin Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Aktley Cubitt Royal Artillery Major and Brevet Colonel John Cartwright Harding Newman Essex Regiment Major and Brevet Colonel Harold Whitla Higginson Royal Dublin Fusiliers Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Kenneth John Kincaid-Smith Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Arthur Durham Kirby Royal Artillery Major and Brevet Colonel Harry Hugh Sidney Knox Northamptonshire Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John William Fraser Lamont Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Percival Monkhouse Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Patrick Eric Newbigging Manchester Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Arthur Montagu Perreau Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Herbert Sanders Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Herbert Cecil Sheppard Royal Artillery Major and Brevet Colonel James Bruce Gregorie Tulloch Yorkshire Light Infantry Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Danvers Waghorn Royal Engineers Colonel Douglas Edward Cayley Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Donald Raynsford Watts Royal Army Ordnance Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh John Males Marshall Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Nathan Whitley Royal Field Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Jenkins Brock Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Willie Andrew Christie Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Stawell Jenour Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Bruce Bainbridge Royal Army Ordnance Corps Lieutenant-Colonel William Robarts Napier Madocks Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Mildren London Regiment Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert McDounall East Kent Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Gabbett Parker East Lancashire Regiment Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Faber Aspinall Royal Munster Fusiliers Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Ellershaw Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Topping Royal Field Artillery Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lacy Challenor Leicestershire Regiment Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Ross John Finnis Hayter Cheshire Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel William Lushington Osborn Royal Sussex Regiment Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Weyland Martin Powell late Royal Artillery Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Clifton Inglis Stockwell Royal Welsh Fusiliers Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Robert White late Royal Welsh Fusiliers Temp Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Aubrey Blacklock General List Temp Lieutenant-Colonel Brodie Haldane Henderson Royal Engineers Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Algernon Cautley Jeffcoat Royal Fusiliers Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Warren de Vere Sadleir-Jackson 9th Lancers