1923 New Year Honours


The New Year Honours 1923 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 on 29 December 1922.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes and then divisions as appropriate.

British Empire

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

;India
;Dominions & Colonies

Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division
;Civil Division
;;Additional Member

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;Civil Division
;;Additional Members

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
  • Rear-Admiral Hugh Lindsay Patrick Heard,.
  • Engineer Rear-Admiral William Cory Sanders,.
  • Surgeon Rear-Admiral Jonathan Shand,.
  • Captain Hugh Gaultier Coghill Somerville,.
  • Paymaster-Captain Henry Horniman.
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
;;;Additional Member
;Civil Division
  • Captain Thomas Henry Roberts-Wray,, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
  • John Harper Narbeth,, Assistant Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty.
  • Francis James Henderson Coutts,, Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • Arthur James Dyke,, Junior Commissioner and Joint Secretary, Board of Customs & Excise.
  • Maurice Francis Headlam, Assistant Secretary, Treasury.
  • Edward Highton Hodgson,, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Herbert William Malkin,, Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign Office.
  • John Fitzgerald Moylan,, Receiver, Metropolitan Police.
  • Conrad James Naef,, Accountant-General of the Navy.
  • Reginald James Gresham Clive Paterson, Assistant Secretary, War Office.
  • Harry Mead Taylor, Assistant Secretary & Accountant-General, Board of Trade.
  • Arthur William Watson,, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
  • James Alexander Webster,, Principal Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
;;Additional Members

Order of the Star of India

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

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

  • Samuel Perry O'Donnell,, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
  • Edward Mitchener Cook,, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department.
  • Francis Charles Griffith,, Acting Inspector-General of Police, Bombay.

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)

  • His Highness Maharaja Tashi Namgyal,, Maharaja of Sikkim.
  • Lieutenant Meherban Chintamanrao Dhundirav, alias Appasaheb Patwardhan, Chief of Sangli, Bombay.
  • Major-General Gerald Godfray Giffard,, Indian Medical Service, Surgeon General with the Government of Madras.
  • Major Nawab Malik Khuda Bakhsh Khan, Tiwana,, Extra-Judicial Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab, and Revenue Member, Council of Regency, Bahawalpur State, Punjab.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

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 Frank Baines,.
  • Sir Harry Baldwin.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Waterhouse,..
  • Edward Denny Bacon,..
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Angel Scott,.
  • Arthur John Eagleston.
  • Frank William Hunt.
  • Major William Clive Hussey.

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

  • Commissioned Gunner David Russell Gordon, Royal Navy..
  • Arthur Preedy.
  • William Shackleton.
  • Commissioned Boatswain William Staples, Royal Navy..
  • Commissioned Gunner James Wood, Royal Navy..

Order of the British Empire

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

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army

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

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;Civil Division

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
  • Captain Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes.
  • Captain Robert Gordon Douglas Dewar.
  • Captain Henry Evans Freke Aylmer..
  • Engineer-Captain George William Baldwin..
  • Paymaster-Captain John Edward Jones..
  • Colonel Second Commandant Reginald Hallward Morgan, Royal Marine Light Infantry.
;;Army
;Civil Division
  • Brigadier-General Netterville Guy Barron,.
  • Julius Bishop, Lieutenant Bailiff of Guernsey..
  • Richard Francis Raleigh Cruise.
  • Captain William Young Darling, MC.
  • Robert Dunlop.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Rogers Durham,, Director of Works, Imperial War Graves Commission..
  • Captain William Jocelyn Ian Fraser. Chairman, St. Dunstan's Committee..
  • Colonel Frederick Henry Wickham Guard,.
  • George Bennett Heard.
  • Arthur Francis Hemming.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Robert Laurie,, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police..
  • Patrick Aloysius Marrinan.
  • Henry John Moore.
  • Pryce Peacock,.
  • Thomas Bailey Pearson, Director of Audit, Audit Office..
  • Francis William Rawlinson,, Secretary to the Royal Merchant Seamen's Orphanage..
  • Colonel Charles Walker Scott,, Disposal Commissioner in India..
  • Frank Edward Smith,, Director of Scientific Research, Admiralty..
  • Louis Herbert Hartland Swann, National Savings Committee..
  • James Wilbond.
  • Alexander Kemp Wright, Manager of The Royal Bank of Scotland; Deputy Chairman of Scottish Savings Committee..
  • Harry Owen Chalkley, Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Buenos Ayres.
  • Harry Leslie Sherwood, recently Inspector-General of His Majesty's Consulates.
  • Frederick Lewisohn, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma.
  • Herbert William Emerson, Deputy Commissioner of Multan.
  • Valentine Patrick Terrell Vivian,, Punjab Police.
  • Girja Shankar Bajpai, Indian Civil Service.
  • Diwan Bahadur Kashinath Ramchandra Godbole, President, District Local Board, Poona, and Member of the Bombay Legislative Council, Bombay.
  • Bernard Humphrey Bell, President, Court of Appeal, Iraq.
  • Arthur Ernest Booty, lately Treasurer of the Uganda Protectorate.
  • Henry Curwen,, lately Principal Medical Officer, Zanzibar Protectorate.
  • John William Evans,, Representative of the Colonies and Protectorates administered by the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the Governing Body of the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau.
  • Frederick William Fraser, Government Secretary, the State of North Borneo.
  • John Thomas Gosling, lately Officiating Treasurer and Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Kenya.
  • Edwin Richard Hallifax,, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Colony of Hong Kong.
  • William George John Hill, Assistant Superintendent, Staff, Railways & Harbours, Union of South Africa.
  • John Hampden King, Immigration Agent-General and Acting Colonial Secretary of the Colony of British Guiana.
  • Edward Daniel Laborde,, lately Treasurer of Grenada.
  • William Barr Montgomery,, Permanent Head of the Customs Department, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • William McNiven Muat,, Senior Medical Officer, Weihaiwei.
  • Henry Percy Pickerill,, in recognition of valuable services since the War in connection with facial and jaw operations on wounded soldiers in the Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Bernard Edward Howard Tripp,, Representative of New Zealand at the Red Cross Conference at Geneva, 1921.
  • Leo Weinthal,, for services to South Africans in London.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
;Civil Division
  • Lieutenant The Honourable Gerald Ralph Desmond Browne.
  • William Albert Egan.
  • William Henry Eggett,, Accountant, Colonial Office..
  • John Foster.
  • John Thomas Heggart.
  • Captain The Honourable Henry Edmund FitzAlan-Howard.
  • Eric Pearl Hyem.
  • Lieutenant William Howard Kerr.
  • Major John Victor Kershaw,.
  • George McConkey.
  • James Andrew McDonnell.
  • James Edward McGarry.
  • Hugh Morrison Metcalfe.
  • Captain Cornelius Banahan O'Beirne.
  • Francis John Harris Palmer, Member of the Liquidation Board..
  • Captain John Martin Regan.
  • Captain Bertram Benjamin Ridgwell Roberson.
  • James Francis Ronca,, Principal Staff Clerk, Board of Trade..
  • Walter Round, Local Auditor, War Office..
  • John Russell.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Forbes Sharp,.
  • James William Stafford,, Assistant Passport Officer, Foreign Office..
  • Lieutenant Richard Straker,.
  • Captain Henry Neville Grylls Watson,.
  • William Edward Young,, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary..
  • Frank Savery, His Majesty's Consul at Warsaw.
  • Frederick Watson, His Majesty's Consul at New York.
  • Herbert Kershaw, Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Legation at Stockholm.
  • Craven Howell Walker,, His Majesty's Consul for Western Ethiopia.
  • Major Michael Courtney,, Indian Medical Department; Superintendent, Central Jail, Montgomery, Punjab.
  • George Ernest Fawcus, Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, Bihar & Orissa.
  • Rai Bahadur Debendra Nath Chaudhri, Pleader, Central Provinces.
  • Doctor David Brainard Spooner, Deputy Director-General of Archaeology in India.
  • John Elliot Armstrong, Deputy Inspector-General of Police., Bengal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Christian Sinclair,, Superintendent of Post Offices.
  • Khan Bahadur Mohamed Abdul Rahman Khan, Commanding Bahawalpur State Forces, Bahawalpur, Punjab.
  • Major William Arthur MacDonell Garstin, Deputy Commissioner, Bannu, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Rai Bahadur Pandit Brijmohan Nath Zutshi, President, Council of Regency, Rewa, Central India.
  • Francis Colomb Crawford, Deputy Director-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad..
  • Mirza Mahomed Ismail, Private Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore.
  • Major Norman Napier Evelyn Bray,, Political Department, India Office.
  • Ronald Sinclair,, Punjab Police.
  • John Adams, Chairman of the Orange Free State Land Board, Union of South Africa.
  • Major George Croker Bayly, lately Commissioner of the Nicosia District, and Member of the Legislative Council, Island of Cyprus.
  • Emmanuel Joseph Peter Brown, Member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast Colony.
  • Arthur Ernest Charter, Office of the Administrator of the Transvaal, Union of South Africa.
  • The Honourable Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas, Senior Commissioner, Administrative Department, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Shirley Eales, Chief Clerk in the Office of the High Commissioner for South Africa.
  • George Finnimore, Inspector of Civil Gaols, Iraq.
  • William Henry Leader Foster,, Head Master of the Clyde Quay Primary School, Wellington, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Major Charles Hugh Gilson,, Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Swaziland Police Force, South Africa.
  • William Hudson,, Postmaster General, Palestine.
  • John Emery Casement Lawrie, of Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, in recognition of his public services.
  • Charles Edgar Littledale,, Commandant of Police, Arbil, Iraq.
  • Gladys Pott, for services on the Executive of the Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women.
  • Quah Beng Kee, of Penang, Straits Settlements, in recognition of his public services.
  • Herbert Charles Ransom,, Deputy Head of the General Department, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • Major Henry Rayne,, District Commissioner in Somaliland.
  • George Whitfield Smith, Commissioner and Judge, Turks & Caicos Islands.
  • Herbert Cecil Stiebel, Senior Commissioner, Administrative Department, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Herbert Torrance,, Medical Missionary, Scottish Hospital, Tiberias, for valuable services to the people of Palestine.
  • Henry William Watlington, Member of the House of Assembly of the Bermudas or Somers Islands.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
  • Chief Officer of Coast Guard Alfred Henry Futter.
  • Royal Marine Gunner Ernest George Thornton.
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
  • Flight Lieutenant Horace George Brown.
  • Flight Lieutenant Ian Cullen,..
  • Flight Lieutenant Wesley Howard Oakey.
  • Flying Officer Frederick Robert Wynne..
  • No.402325 Sergeant-Major 1st Class Percy John Jackson.
;Civil Division
  • Major Herbert Thompson Argent,, late Assistant Controller, the Contract Department, Disposal & Liquidation Commission..
  • Philip Attwood Andrew Barclay,, Glasgow District Delegate, the Scottish Savings Committee..
  • James Byrne.
  • Major Hallawell Carew,.
  • Captain Percy Walter Henry Carpenter.
  • Stephen Clifford.
  • Patrick Dillon.
  • John Stephen Doherty.
  • Captain Richard Eagle, Secretary, Works Department, Imperial War Graves Commission..
  • John Greally.
  • Harry Heath, Acting Deputy Accounts Officer, Admiralty..
  • Thomas Hunter Herriot.
  • Leslie Holbrook Kitton,.
  • Frank Knight.
  • Edward Harry Lawes.
  • Leslie Keith Lockhart,.
  • Alfred William Jarvis May, Supervisor of Copying, Colonial Office..
  • Timothy MacCarthy.
  • Jeremiah McCarthy.
  • William McGurk.
  • William Jackson Morton, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary..
  • William Noble.
  • Charles William Masters Paterson, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve..
  • Ernest Matthew Pearson, Senior Examiner, Passport Office, Foreign Office..
  • Thomas Hedley Phillips, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary..
  • James Gordon Singer, North East District Delegate to the Scottish Savings Committee..
  • James Sweeney.
  • Charles Henry Wilkins.
  • Ernest Edward Wilkinson, Clerk for Legal Instruments, Colonial Office..
  • Violet Napier Bell, Member of the Foreign Office Section at the Washington Conference.
  • William Alphonse Franck, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Catania.
  • Bernard Ponsonby Sullivan, Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Brussels.
  • Arthur Lister Compton Hands, Chief Clerk to the Government and Clerk to the Executive Council, Island of Saint Helena.
  • Ernest Arthur Harris, Superintendent, Mechanical Transport, Ministry of Communications & Works, Iraq.
  • Villiers Hart de Keating, Editor of the Mauritius News.
  • Helen Louise Iles, Acting Matron, New General Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
  • Leslie Thomas Pollard, Registrar, Secretariat of the High Commissioner for Iraq.
  • Moisis George Zarifi, Revenue Inspector, Treasury Department, Island of Cyprus.

Medal of the Order of the British Empire">British Empire Medal">Medal of the Order of the British Empire

Dated 28 December 1922, unless otherwise stated:
;For Meritorious Service
;Military Division
;;Army
  • No.2310221 Signalman Herbert Botting, Royal Corps of Signals.
  • No.7245641 Staff Sergeant Frederick Albert Johnson, Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • No.5241057 Private Harry Edward Jones, The Worcestershire Regiment.
  • No.6837103 Company Sergeant-Major John Henry Sidney Francis,, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
  • No.7870859 Private George Holmes, Tank Corps.
  • No.M/16760 Private Charles Freeman, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No.M/18728 Private Charles Inions, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No.M/14459 Corporal Francis James McCann, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No.M/20508 Private Reginald Arthur Newman, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No.M/20178 Private William Henry George Sedgmond, Royal Army Service Corps.
  • No.1853394 Sergeant Walter Sidney Wallis, Postal Section, Royal Engineers.
;;Royal Air Force
  • No.1287 Flight Sergeant James Kemp Tough.
  • No.334286 Sergeant Frank Lowry..
  • No.60056 Corporal Herbert Sydney Allen..
  • No.331463 Corporal William Victor James Bancroft..
  • No.341282 Corporal Harry Bowick..
;Civil Division
  • James Patrick Feeney.
  • William George Higbee.
  • Patrick Lawrence Hollywood.
  • Charles Joseph Keeney.
  • John Loughrey.
  • Denis Mahon.
  • Valentine Mannion.
  • Patrick McDonagh.
  • Daniel McGrath.
  • William Mulholland.
  • Cornelius O'Sullivan.
  • Thomas Power.
  • Timothy Reddin.
  • John Began,.
  • Johnston Walmsley.
;For Gallantry
;Civil Division

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

;First Class, for Public Services in India
  • Dr. Robert Harper, Medical Missionary of the American Baptist Mission, Burma.
  • M.R.Ry. Diwan Bahadur Raghupati Venkataratnam Nayudu Garu, lately Principal of the Raja's College, Pithapuram, Madras.
  • Khan Bahadur Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Superintendent of Police, Bombay.
  • Rani Shri Kamribai, Rani Saheba of Jasdan, Bombay.
  • Sister Blanche Annie, Sister in charge of Nursing, Presidency General Hospital, Bengal.
  • Jessie Hopkins, United Provinces.
  • The Reverend William Scott, Scotch Mission, Sialkot, Punjab.
  • Nasarwanji Nowroji Parakh,, Medical Practitioner and Member of the Local Legislative Council, Burma.
  • Isabel Kerr, Lady Doctor in charge of the Leper Home at Dichpalli, Hyderabad..
  • The Reverend George William Sawday, Wesleyan Mission, Mysore.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

  • Flight Lieutenant Edward Rodolph Clement Scholefield,.
;Bar to the Air Force Cross
  • Flight Lieutenant Thomas Edward Barham Howe,.

Air Force Medal (AFM)

  • 314986 Sergeant William Charles Whitfield.

King's Police Medal (KPM)

;England & Wales
;;Police
;;Fire Brigades
  • Smollett Montgomerie Eddington, Chief Officer of the Tottenham Fire Brigade.
  • Alfred Edward Sibley, Senior Superintendent, London Fire Brigade.
  • Raymond John Law, Fireman, Tottenham Fire Brigade.
  • William Peachey, Fireman, Tottenham Fire Brigade.
;Scotland
;Ireland
;;Police
;;Fire Brigades
;India
  • Arnold Jesse King, Assistant Superintendent, Madras Police.
  • Karumathil Krishna Paniker, Subadar, Madras Police.
  • Thondikulam Seshan Patter Ramanathan Ayyar, Acting Inspector, Madras Police.
  • Vellang Madathil Appu Nayar, Sub-Inspector, Madras Police.
  • Kinattinkara Karunakaran Nayar, Sub Inspector, Madras Police.
  • Vellat Karunakara Menon, Sub-Inspector, Madras Police.
  • Vengalil Krishna Menon, Sub-Inspector, Madras Police.
  • Kunnant Hodiyil Syedu, Head Constable, Madras Police.
  • Rishiyur Srinivasa Ayyar Krishnaswami Ayyar, Deputy Superintendent, Madras Police.
  • Khan Bahadur Villupuram Ghulam Ali Muhammad Khan, Deputy Superintendent, Madras Police.
  • Michael A. O'Gorman, Assistant Superintendent, Bombay Police.
  • Kalekhan Hamidkhan, Head Constable, Second Grade, & Acting Sub-Inspector, Bombay Police.
  • Bapu Sitaram Sawant, Constable, Bombay Police.
  • Wahidbux Allahjiwayo, Camel Constable, Bombay Police.
  • Sundersingh Kalusingh, Armed Jamadar, Bombay Police.
  • Syed Mahomed Syed Masitali, Constable, Bombay Police.
  • Daniel Healy, District Superintendent, Bombay Police.
  • John Court Curry, District Superintendent, Bombay Police.
  • Tahilram Dharamdas Vasvani, Inspector, Acting as Deputy Superintendent, Bombay Police.
  • Harold Maitland Haslehurst,, District Superintendent, Bombay Police.
  • Keramat Shah, Constable, Bengal Police.
  • Ram Chandra Upadhya, Constable, Bengal Police.
  • Frederick Douglas Bartley, Deputy Commissioner of Port Police, Calcutta, Bengal Police.
  • Ernest Albert Hartley, Assistant Commissioner., Calcutta, Bengal Police.
  • Manmatha Nath Sen, Inspector, Bengal Police.
  • Beni Madhab Chaudhuri, Sub-Inspector, Bengal Police.
  • Subadar Shankar Singh, Inspector, Bengal Police.
  • John Claude Thurlow Rivett-Carnac,, Officiating Superintendent, United Provinces Police.
  • Khan Bahadur Munshi Mohammad Baqar Ali Khan,, Deputy Superintendent, United Provinces Police.
  • Gauhar Khan, Head Constable, United Provinces Police.
  • Majid Singh, Head Constable, United Provinces Police.
  • Maurice Carmichael Tweedie, Deputy Inspector-General, United Provinces Police.
  • Herbert Ashley Emile, Assistant Superintendent, United Provinces Police.
  • Abdul Karim, Head Constable, Punjab Police.
  • Khaliq Dad Khan, Inspector, Punjab Police.
  • Ghulam Mohammad, Head Constable, Punjab Police.
  • Maula Bukhsh, Foot Constable, Government Railway Police, Punjab Police.
  • Nawab Din, Foot Constable, Government Railway Police, Punjab Police.
  • Major R. Tilly,, Commandant, Burma Military Police.
  • Captain Arthur Clarence Everett Caiger,, Assistant Commandant, Burma Military Police.
  • Captain James McKenzie Anderson,, Assistant Commandant, Burma Military Police.
  • Mahomed Yacoob Khan, Inspector, Burma Police.
  • Muhammad Ismail, Inspector, Bihar & Orissa Police.
  • Jagdeo Prasad Singh, Inspector, Bihar & Orissa Police.
  • Banchhanidhi Naik, Constable, Bihar & Orissa Police.
  • Sheo Lochan Singh, Constable, Bihar & Orissa Police.
  • Madhusudan Rao Deshmukh, Inspector, Central Provinces Police.
  • Gopal Singh, Sub-Inspector, Central Province Police.
  • Muhammad Sher Khan, Sub-Inspector, North-West Frontier Police.
  • Harri Singh, Officiating Sub-Inspector, North-West Frontier Police.
  • Faqir Muhammad, Head Constable, North West Frontier Police.
His Majesty has also graciously consented to the King's Medal being handed to the nearest relative of the undermentioned Officer, who was killed on duty on 24 September, and who would have received the decoration had he survived:
  • Christopher William Scott Coward, Assistant Superintendent, Madras Police.
;Bar to the King's Police Medal
  • Jack Elliot, Acting Superintendent, Madras Police.
;British Dominions Beyond The Seas
  • John Howe Carlisle, Chief of the Vancouver Fire Department, Canada.
  • Nicholas Moore, First Class Detective, New South Wales Police.
  • Francis John O'Donoghue, Constable, New Zealand Police.
  • Roger John Wilson, Constable, New Zealand Police.
  • Gurmukh Singh, Subadar, Straits Settlements Police.
  • James Harcourt Daniel, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Ceylon.
  • Herbert Theodore Thomas, Inspector, Jamaica Constabulary Force.
  • Captain Clive Selwyn Long-Innes, Superintendent, Kenya Police.
  • Captain Frank Douris, Assistant Commissioner, Gold Coast Police.
  • Theophilus McCain, Lance-Corporal, British Honduras Police.
  • Mehmed Ibrahim Effendi, Inspector, First Grade, Cyprus Police.
  • Frederick William Perryman, Acting Sergeant-Major, British Gendarmerie, Palestine.
  • Ali Ahmed, Private, Palestine Gendarmerie.
  • Alfred Whittaker, Inspector, Weihaiwei Police.
  • Frank Forcey, Inspector, Weihaiwei Police.

Promotions

The following promotions have been made, dated 31 December 1922:
;Royal Navy
;;Commander to Captain
;;Lieutenant-Commander to Commander
  • Harold A. Knight.
  • Percy R. P. Percival,.
  • Geoffrey S. Holden.
  • Victor E. Ward.
  • Ernest J. Spooner,.
  • Franklin Ratsey.
  • Arthur L. Jackson.
  • Ambrose T. N. Abbay,.
  • James V. V. Magrane.
  • John Brooke,.
  • Claude P. Hermon-Hodge,.
  • Frederic N. Attwood.
  • Piers K. Kekewich.
  • Ion B. B. Tower,.
  • Claud A. Merriman.
  • Gerard W. T. Robertson.
  • Arthur M. Peters,.
  • Victor H. Danckwerts.
  • John F. B. Carslake
  • Arthur J. Power.
;;Engineer Commander to Engineer Captain
  • Ernest D. Sydenham.
  • Herbert L. Parry,.
  • William H. Ham.
  • William R. Crawford,.
  • John W. Milner,.
;;Engineer Lieutenant-Commander to Engineer Commander
  • Samuel Duncan Charles W. Keats.
  • Edward J. Bedwell.
  • John G. Parry.
  • Henry J. Rampling.
  • Leslie Gregory,.
  • John Pattinson.
  • William A. Carlisle.
  • Thomas Spalding.
  • John S. Orr.
;;Surgeon Commander to Surgeon Captain
  • Robert J. MacKeown,.
  • Frank H. Nimmo,.
  • Richard F. Clark,.
  • Reginald St. G. S. Bond,.
;;Paymaster Commander to Paymaster Captain
  • Charles S. Wonham,.
  • Herbert A. D. J. Gyles.
  • Frederick G. Motton.
;Royal Marines
  • Major Maurice C. Festing,, Royal Marine Light Infantry, to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
;Royal Naval Reserve
;;Commander to Captain
  • William H. Kelly,.
;;Lieutenant-Commander to Commander
  • Robert B. Thomson,.
  • Hans Oppen,.
  • Frank Pattinson,.
  • Harold T. Dunn,.
  • George ff. Harford-Lloyd,.
  • Vincent S. Cottrell,.
  • Dunsley H. Casson,.
  • Robert L. Alexander,.
  • John Jenkins,.
;;Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander to Paymaster Commander
  • Hugh N. Page,.
  • Laurence Y. Barnby,.
  • Bernard H. Cooper,.
  • Charles C. H. Drake,.
  • Reginald R. Payne,.
  • William B. Everett,.
  • Frank Ward,.
  • Archibald B. Campbell,.
  • Farrant F. Aldridge,.
  • Harold E. Egleton,.
  • Sidney J. Marsh,.
  • James A. Withers,.
  • Arthur W. Fry,.
  • Percy S. Sykes,.
  • Anson V. Squire,.
  • Joseph G. White,.
;Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
;;Lieutenant-Commander to Commander
  • Robert C. Primrose,.
;;Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander to Surgeon-Commander
  • Robert Wilbond.
;;Honorary Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander to Honorary Surgeon Commander
  • Francis J. Hannan,.
;;Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander to Paymaster Commander
  • John F. Carson,.
  • William H. Cole.
;Army
Dated 1 January 1923, except where otherwise stated:
;;To Brevet Colonel
;;To Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
;;To Brevet Major
;;To Brevet Major on promotion to the substantive rank of Captain
;Royal Air Force
The undermentioned officers are promoted to the ranks stated, with effect from 1 January 1923:
;General Duties Branch
;;Group Captain to Air Commodore
;;Wing Commander to Group Captain
;;Squadron Leader to Wing Commander
;;Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader
;;Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant
  • James Humphrey Butler.
  • Charles Ronald Steele,.
  • Cyril Fraser Brewerton,.
  • Philip Herbert Mackworth,.
  • John Mecredy McAlery.
  • Malcolm Dent Nares,.
  • Robert Sydney Pearce Boby.
  • Gilbert Formby Smylie,.
  • Louis George Paget,.
  • Gerald Ernest Gibbs,.
  • John Whitworth Jones.
  • George Oswald Venn.
  • Sylvester Lindsay Quine,.
  • Edgar Theodore Carpenter,.
  • Cedric Walters Hill.
  • Paul Richard Tankerville James Michael Isidore Camille Chamberlayne,.
  • Charles Robert Davidson,.
  • Lance Harold Browning,.
  • Ralph Edgar Meek.
  • Lee Roy Lowerison Brown,.
  • Edric William Broadberry,.
  • John Potter.
  • Tom Oswald Clogstoun.
  • Henry Dunboyne O'Neill,.
  • Cuthbert Joseph Stanley Dearlove.
  • Kenneth Cromar Tilman.
  • Harvey Lancelot Macro,.
  • Walter George Peeston,.
  • Edward Irwin Bussell.
  • James Huddart Dand,.
  • Henry Basil Pett,.
  • Henry Edward Walker,.
  • Arthur Harold Beach.
  • Leslie Millington Iles,.
  • Jack Cottle,.
  • Anthony Lauderdale Paxton,.
  • Albert Oliver Lewis-Roberts,.
  • Charles William Attwood.
  • Gerald Mornington Bryer,.
  • Guy Yelverton Tyrrell,.
  • David Craik,.
  • Albert Frank Lang,.
  • William Elliot,.
  • Frederick Robert Wynne.
  • Kenelm Arthur Lister-Kaye.
  • Ivor Morgan Rodney.
  • Claude Vernon Aristides Bucknall.
  • John Whitford.
  • George Stairs Napier Johnston.
;Stores Branch
;;Squadron Leader to Wing Commander
  • William Robert Bruce,.
;;Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader
  • William Edgar Aylwin,.
  • Henry Lumsden Crichton,.
;;Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant
  • Henry Edwin Thomas Crocker.
;Stores Branch Accountants
;;Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader
  • Arthur Geoffrey Nevill Belfield.
  • Herbert George Jones.
  • Herbert Francis Fuller.
  • James Leask Robertson.
;;Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant
  • Ralf Harry Cleverly.
  • Percy Jack Farmer.
  • Harry George Bushell.
  • Frank Owen Hall.
  • Frederick William Arthturton.
  • Geoffrey Noel Simon.
  • Percival Hay,.
  • Walter Rodgers Westcombe.
  • Kenneth Robertson Money,.
  • John Sullivan.
;Medical Branch
;;Wing Commander to Group Captain
  • Henry Cooper,.
  • Martin William Flack,.
;;Squadron Leader to Wing Commander
  • Harold Edward Whittingham,.
;;Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader
  • Joseph Mary Aloysius Costello,.
  • John Hutchinson Wood,.
  • Arthur James Brown,.
;Director of Music
;;Flying Officer to Honorary Flight Lieutenant
  • John Henry Amers.