1919 New Year Honours (MBE)

This is a list of MBEs awarded in the 1919 New Years Honours.

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.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division Royal Navy 1st Engineer Frank Ablett Chief Boatswain George Hamilton Alexander Gunner Charles Palmer Bennett Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Alfred Stephen Black, Royal Naval Reserve Warrant Ward Master Henry Budge Acting Paymaster Lieutenant Henry John Cary, Royal Naval Reserve Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant James Michael Diver, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Duncan McAuley Gracie, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Quartermaster and Honorary Captain George Harrington, Royal Marines Chief Skipper Ernest William Hovells, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant William Edward Long, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Allan Macbeth, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Warrant Shipwright Ernest Charles Miller Paymaster Lieutenant James Walwyn Gynlais Morgan, Royal Naval Reserve Skipper John Ernest Shepherd, Royal Naval Reserve Warrant Victualling Officer Alfred Charles Waugh Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Hugh Brown Wilson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Skipper Walter Wooldridge, Royal Naval Reserve

Army

Quartermaster and Captain Robert Frank Adams, Royal Army Service Corps Quartermistress Doreen Allen, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Captain Rowland Alison Alston, 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment Lieutenant William Daniel Chamberlain Balls, 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers Quartermaster and Lieutenant John Henry Adolphus Banger, Extra Regimentally Employed List Captain Benjamin Croft Bayley, London Electrical Engineers Captain Arthur Tetley Beazley, Gun Ammunition Filling Department, Ministry of Munitions Temp Quartermaster and Captain John Evitt Bishop, Royal Field Artillery Lieutenant Frederick Laurence Broad, Depot Officer, Central Stores Department, Ministry of Munitions Quartermaster and Lieutenant Walter Peaston Britton, Extra Regimentally Employed List Temp Lieutenant Henry Arthur Brooks, Special List Temp Lieutenant John Rowe Brooks, Special List Captain Arthur Walter Brown, 6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment Temp Quartermaster and Captain Charles Budd, Royal Army Veterinary Corps Temp Lieutenant James William Budge, Special List Captain Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones, 6th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Unit Administrator Marie Langslow Chapman, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Unit Administrator Beatrice L. Clay, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Cooper, General List Lieutenant Noel Harwood Cope, 5th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment Captain Alexander Henry Cowan, General List Reserve Recruiting Controller Muriel Craigie, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lieutenant Edward Curry, Royal Field Artillery Temp Captain Samuel Cursley, General List Lieutenant Arthur Edward Desmond, Royal Engineers Lieutenant William Edwards, Royal Dragoons Captain Arthur Evelyn Paul Ellis, 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade Lieutenant Thomas William Emerson, General List Reserve Captain Robert Forrest, 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment Lieutenant Percy Tom Freeman, Royal Engineers Lieutenant Cecil Murdoch Gamage, Royal Engineers Captain Alan Parry Gamier Northumberland Fusiliers Temp Captain Randolph G. Gethin, General List, late South Irish Horse Quartermaster and Captain Robert Thomas Gough, Royal Engineers Captain Donald Ernest Grant, Section Director, Gun Manufacture Department, Ministry of Munitions Major Percy Christopher Gallimore Hayward, Assistant Director of National Service, Norwich Captain Sidney John Heath, Welsh Regiment Honorary Temp Lieutenant Graham Hetherington, Royal Army Veterinary Corps Captain Francis Holland, 10th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment Temp Lieutenant Charles Geoffrey Holme, Royal Army Service Corps Temp 2nd Lieutenant Hubert Jack Holmes Special List Captain Vernon Grove Horton, General List Reserve Captain W. F. Hutchings, 29th Battalion, London Regiment Captain Horace Swales Johnson, West Yorkshire Regiment Quartermaster and Captain Harry Beresford Jones, Royal Defence Corps Captain Edward William Kirkby, Special List Temp Lieutenant Adrian Bernard L. Klein, Norfolk Regiment Lieutenant E. C. Knapp, 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Whittington Landon, Unattached List Captain Francis Henry Lawrence, Royal Garrison Artillery Lieutenant John Boyd Lawson, Royal Engineers Unit Administrator Mary Lenegham, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Temp Lieutenant George Lister, General List Unit Administrator Ethel Vernon Lloyd, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lieutenant James Keith Macleod, Royal Field Artillery Temp Captain John Newton Martin, Royal Army Medical Corps Captain H. A. Meredith, Territorial Force Reserve Quartermaster and Captain James Mitchell, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Lieutenant Rhys Hopkin Morris, 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Temp Captain Hugh A. Moutray-Read, Royal Army Service Corps Captain James Calder Muirhead, T.F. Reserve Temp Lieutenant Alexander Gordon Wynch Murray, Cambridge University Officers Training Corps Temp Lieutenant Francis Clement Prideaux Naish, Royal Engineers Quartermaster and Captain Thomas George Hull Nightingale, Royal Artillery Temp Lieutenant Edward Joseph O'Kelly, General List Quartermaster and Lieutenant Richard Oliver 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment Temp Quartermaster and Captain Richard Owen, Royal Army Veterinary Corps Quartermaster and Lieutenant John McDonald Patrick, 3rd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders Captain Abraham William Pegrum, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Captain William Gilbert Popplestone, Special List Captain Donnell Shepard Post, General List Reserve Captain George Henry Rayner, Royal Army Ordnance Corps 2nd Lieutenant Walter John Rayner, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Temp Quartermaster and Captain Robert John Reeder, Royal Engineers Lieutenant William Edgcumbe Rendle, Director of Experiments, Mechanical Warfare (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions Lieutenant George Rennie, Special List Reserve Captain Dudley Gerald Rix, Special List 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Saul, Royal Garrison Artillery Captain James Scrimgeour, Special List Captain John Gilson Shield, Special List Quartermaster and Lieutenant William Solly, Royal Engineers Lieutenant Albert Edward Springate, Royal Artillery Lieutenant Herbert Alfred Stallan, Royal Artillery Captain Hugh William Stirling, General List Reserve Major John Stirling, Reserve Lieutenant John William Storey, Reserve, General List Recruiting Controller Gertrude M. H. Streeter, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Temp Lieutenant Herbert Alfred Stringer, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Lieutenant Arthur Herbert Taylor, Army Gymnastic Staff Captain David Inman Tod, Section Director, Accounts Department, Ministry of Munitions Major Wyndham Frederick Tufnell, Voluntary Official, Canterbury, Ministry of National Service Captain Lionel Arthur Frederick Verge, Assistant Inspector, Gun Ammunition (Supervisory), Woolwich Arsenal Captain Edward Joseph Waldron, Inspector of Army Schools Temp Quartermaster and Captain Laurence Whattaker, Royal Army Medical Corps Temp Captain William Wigham-Richardson, General List Quartermaster and Captain John Wingfield Willsher, Royal Army Medical Corps Temp Captain Thomas Woombell, Rifle Brigade Overseas Military Forces of Canada Lieutenant Joseph Harold-Watkins, General List Lieutenant Sidney George Webb, Quebec Regiment Australian Imperial Force Honorary Major Arthur Cressy Barry, Australian Comforts Fund Captain George King, 15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Captain Eric Alfred Lee, 20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Lieutenant Rupert Livingstone Mayman, 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Quartermaster and Honorary Captain Clarence Robert Murphy, General List Quartermaster and Honorary Captain William Andrew Perrin, General List Lieutenant William Price, 47th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Captain William Henry Prior, General List Captain James Edmund Savage, Australian Army Service Corps Administrative Headquarters of New Zealand Quartermaster and Captain Henry Eastgate, New Zealand Rifle Brigade Captain Gordon Harris Forsythe, New Zealand Field Artillery Captain Norman Joseph Levien, New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps Captain Donald Archibald McCurdy, New Zealand Army Postal Services Captain Henry Edward McGowan, Canterbury Regiment Captain Christopher Robert Alexander Magnay, New Zealand Rifle Brigade Quartermaster and Captain Richard Charles Staples-Brown, New Zealand Medical Corps Union of South Africa Temp Captain Edmund Charles Kean Jamieson, South African Pay Corps Temp Captain Eric Bolingbroke Walker 1st Battalion, South African Infantry and General List Temp Captain James Cunningham Whyte, South African Native Labour Corps

For services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders: Acting Sister Isabella Eugenie Marie Barbier Civil Hospital Reserve Temp Lieutenant Henry Edward Beresford, Royal Engineers Temp Quartermaster and Lieutenant James Ballentyne Binnie, 9th Gordon Highlanders Temp Lieutenant Erie Bergo Brand, Royal Army Service Corps Temp 2nd Lieutenant James Waugh Butters, General List Unit Administrator Louisa Maud Chase, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Unit Administrator Ethel Robin Clowes, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lieutenant Charles Dilworth, Officers Training Corps Temp Lieutenant William Frederick Dobson, Royal Engineers Temp Lieutenant Alan Gordon Dunell, Royal Army Service Corps Unit Administrator Mary Sanderson Faviell, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lieutenant Frederick Richard Gale, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Temp Lieutenant Geoffrey Goodyear, Machine Gun Corps Temp Lieutenant Herbert John Gough, Royal Engineers Lieutenant Lionel Havercroft Green, 3rd South Wales Borderers Temp Lieutenant Charles William Halliday, Royal Engineers Temp Quartermaster and Lieutenant Charles Sweet Hampton 2nd Welsh Regiment Temp Lieutenant Joseph Lawrence Harrison, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Temp Lieutenant Roland John Heath, Royal Army Service Corps Temp Quartermaster and Lieutenant Arthur Hill, General List Assistant Administrator Cicely Lamorna Kingston, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Temp 2nd Lieutenant William Hogg, General List Temp 2nd Lieutenant Harold Hopkinson, Royal Army Service Corps Unit Administrator Elizabeth Houghton, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Temp 2nd Lieutenant John Archibald Hughes, General List Unit Administrator Ethel Vivian Hyde, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Unit Administrator Annie Emily Blanche Johnston, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lieutenant Francis Matthew Joyce Royal Field Artillery Quartermaster and Lieutenant William James Keery, 6th Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Assistant Administrator Miriam Constance Lambert, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Assistant Administrator Margaret Ruby Lutwyche, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Temp Lieutenant Murdo Mackenzie, attd. Cameron Highlanders Temp Lieutenant Frank Charles Mallet, Royal Army Service Corps Unit Administrator Clara Neale, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Temp Lieutenant William Albert Plowman, Labour Corps Temp Quartermaster and Lieutenant William Proud, Manchester Regiment (late Durham Light Infantry) Temp Lieutenant John Henry Rowlatt, Royal Army Service Corps Assistant Administrator Molly Saunders, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Assistant Administrator Flora Murray Scott, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps