The 1916 Birthday 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 made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette and in The Times on 3 June 1916.
Owing to the ongoing War, the 50-page supplement to The Gazette included 3,880 names of recipients of honours, military promotion of rank and medals, including the Military Cross (708 people, among them the Prince of Wales), Distinguished Service Order (373) and 1,217 Military Medals.
In addition, more than 500 nurses from across the British Empire received the Royal Red Cross, a huge number noted by The British Journal of Nursing in its issue on 10 June: "The inclusion of so many members of the nursing profession (516) in the Birthday Honours' list is a unique event, and we most cordially congratulate those Matrons, Sisters and Nurses who have earned this distinction, while we bear in mind many others whose splendid work merits recognition."
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
Baron The Rt. Hon. Sir Savile Brinton Crossley by the name, style and title of Baron Somerleyton of Somerleyton in the county of Suffolk. The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Nicolson by the name, style and title of Baron Carnock of Carnock in the county of Stirling. Tonman Mosley by the name, style and title of Baron Anslow of Iver in the county of Buckingham. George Coats, by the name, style and title of Baron Glentanar of Glen Tanar in the county of Aberdeen. Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, by the name, style and title of Baron Roundway of Devizes in the county of Wiltshire.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Christopher Addison Charles William Bowerman Sir Gilbert Parker Sir Harry Samuel The Hon. Sir George Eulas Foster
Baronetcies Sir William Maxwell Aitken Sir Robert Hudson Borwick Arthur Philip du Cros Thomas Lane Devitt Thomas Dunlop Bertram Godfray Falle Major the Hon. Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Sir Edward Holt Sir Algernon Marshall Stedman Methuen Ernest William Moir Cyril Arthur Pearson William James Tatem
Knight Bachelor
James Tynte Agg-Gardner John Anthony of Dalmeny, Dumbreck, Glasgow George Thomas Beilby Arthur William Binning Thomas Collins, Chief Inspector, Board of Inland Revenue. Theodore Andrea Cook, Editor of The Field John Henry Corke, Mayor of Portsmouth George Doolette, President of the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux. Arthur Isaac Durrant Comptroller of the Supplies Division, Office of Works Francis Mark Farmer William Gallagher Chief Inspector, Board of Customs Eric C. Geddes, Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply. William B. Gentle, Chief Constable of Brighton George Greenwood William Peter Griggs Maurice Hill David Hope Kyd Robert Morris Liddell High Sheriff of County Down. Alfred Henry Herbert Matthews, Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture Commander Edward Nicholl John James Oddy Robert Pearce Alexander William Prince, managing director of the Navy and Army Canteen Board George Heynes Radford Archibald Tutton Salvidge Henry Smith, Deputy Lieutenant for the City of London. Jethro Justinian Harris Teall Professor Nestor Isidore Charles Tirard Glynn Hamilton West, deputy director, General of Munitions Supply Frederick Whitley Whitley-Thomson
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. The Hon. Marshall Campbell, Senator of the Union of South Africa The Hon. Wallace Graham, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia The Hon. Pierre-Amand Landry, Chief Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick The Hon. Frederic William Lang, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Dominion of New Zealand The Hon. Robert Furse McMillan, Chief Justice of Western Australia The Hon. Herbert Nicholls, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania Gilbert Kenelm Treffry Purcell, Chief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone Robert Frederic Stupart, Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada The Hon. Antonie Gysbert Viljoen, Senator of the Union of South Africa
British India Herbert Stanley Reed Editor of The Times of India Ratanji Jamshedji Tata Francis Hugh Stewart Charles William Chitty, a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal Robert Swan Highet, General Manager of the East India Railway
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir George Astley Callaghan
Army General Sir William Henry Mackinnon , Colonel, King's Regiment (Liverpool)
Civil Division The Rt. Hon. Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald Lt.-Col. The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Bigge, Baron Stamfordham The Rt. Hon. Sir Francis John Stephens Hopwood
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Army Major-General Launcelot Edward Kiggell Major-General George Henry Fowke Major-General John Philip Du Cane Major-General Charles Ernest Heath
Civil Division Bernard Mallet , Registrar-General. Robert Henry Rew , Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture. William Gibbs Turpin , Controller-General, National Debt Office.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Capt. Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair (Commodore, 2nd Class) Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot Rear-Admiral Montague Edward Browning Capt. George Cuthbert Cayley Capt. Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield Capt. Alfred Astley Ellison Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas Fleet Paymaster Walter Gask Engineer Capt. Donald Percy Green Capt. William Edmund Goodenough (Commodore, 2nd Class) Capt. Lionel Halsey (Commodore, 1st Class) Rear-Admiral Herbert Leopold Heath Engineer Capt. Fred Hore Fleet Surgeon Ernest Courtney Lomas DSO MB FRCSE Rear-Admiral Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier Lt.-Col. Cecil Alvend FitzHerbert Osmaston, Royal Marine Artillery Fleet Paymaster Montague Stephens Vice-Admiral Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper Capt. Drury St. Aubyn Wake (Commodore, 2nd Class)
Army Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Frederick Gore Anley, Essex Regiment Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Colin Robert Ballard, Norfolk Regiment Col. Reginald Walter Ralph Barnes Surg.-General Walter George Augustus Bedford MB Col. Thomas Arthur Hastings Bigge Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. James Frederick Noel Birch Royal Artillery Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Wilkinson Dent Bird Col. Edward Humphry Bland Col. David Graham Mushcet Campbell Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. George Glas Sandeman Carey, Royal Artillery Lt.-Col. Beresford Cecil Molyneux Carter , The King's (Liverpool Regiment) Col. Charles Marling Cartwright Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Skipton Hill Climo , Indian Army Lt.-Col. George Kynaston Cockerill Col. Francis William Henry Cox, Indian Army, Assistant Quartermaster-General, Burma Division Lt.-Col. Charles Chevin Cumming MB, Royal Army Medical Corps Col. Henry Rodolph Davies Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Frank Seymour Derham Col. Lionel Dorling Col. Lionel Charles Dunsterville , Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Peshawar (Infantry) Brigade Lt.-Col. Frederick Kendall Fair, Royal Engineers Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Geoffrey Percy Thynne Feilding , Coldstream Guards Col. Herbert Cokayne Frith Col. Henry Edward Fane Goold-Adams Lt.-Col. John Lewis Randolph Gordon, 15th Sikhs, Indian Army Col. Henry West Hodgson Col. John Hotham Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Charles Patrick Amyatt Hull, late The Duke of Cambridge's Own, Middlesex Regiment Temp. Col. George Gillett Hunter , Egyptian Government Service Col. Oliver Richard Archer Julian Col. Hugh Kennedy, Indian Army Col. Edward Ranulph Kenyon Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Geoffrey Chicheley Kemp, Royal Engineers Col. Algernon D'Aguila King Col. Richard Harman Luce MB Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Arthur George Marrable, The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) Col. Frank Broadwood Matthews Lt.-Col. and Brevet Col. Frederick Lansdowne Morrison, Highland Light Infantry Col. Edward Alfred Moulton-Barrett Col. Lewis Loyd Nicol Surg.-General Thomas Joseph O'Donnell Lt.-Col. Ralph Glyn Ouseley Royal Artillery Col. St. John William Topp Parker Lt.-Col. Ernest Moncrieff Paul, Royal Engineers Col. Hugh Whitchurch Perry Col. Arthur Phelps Surg.-General Robert Porter MB Col. Ernest St. George Pratt Lt.-Col. Richard Thomas Incledon Ridgway, 33rd Punjabis, Indian Army Lt.-Col. Godfrey Walker Robinson, 27th Punjabis, Indian Army Col. Acton Lemuel Schreiber Lt.-Col. Charles Hamilton Seville, S. and T. Corps, Indian Army Col. Cameron Deane Shute Col. Arnold Frederick Sillem Col. Sydenham Campbell Urquhart Smith Col. Edward Taylor Lt.-Col. Henry Fleetwood Thuillier , Royal Engineers Col. Julian Dallas Tyndale Tyndale-Biscoe Lt.-Col. Henry Osman Vincent, Royal Artillery Australian Imperial Force Lt.-Col. and Hon. Col. John Paton, 25th Battalion Lt.-Col. William Walter Russell Watson, 24th Battalion Lt.-Col. John Lamrock, 20th Battalion
South African Defence Forces Brigadier-General Henry Timson Lukin
Civil Division William Henry Beveridge, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade Col. Alfred Percy Blenkinsop, Assistant Director-General, Army Medical Service Col. William Frederick Cleeve, Retired, late Royal Artillery Col. Charles Frederick Close, late Royal Engineers, Director-General, Ordnance Survey Lt.-Col. and Honorary Col. Cecil Hodgson Colvin , Special Reserve (Capt., retired), The Essex Regiment Acting Capt. Thomas Evans Crease (retired) Surgeon-General John Jeffreys Dennis MD RN Col. William Elliot, Retired, late Royal Artillery Engineer Rear-Admiral Ernest Frank Ellis Norman Fenwick Warren Fisher, deputy chairman, Board of Inland Revenue William Henry Gard . (Royal Corps of Naval Constructors) Lt.-Col. Vivian Henry, Special Reserve (Major, Reserve of Officers), Commanding 5th Battalion (Reserve), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Major-General Hugh Palliser Hickman, late Royal Artillery Lt.-Col. Norman Mackenzie Hemming, Royal Engineers, Superintendent of Building Works, Royal Arsenal Thomas Beaumont Hohler, H.M. Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico Major Percy Samuel Lelean, Royal Army Medical Corps, Assistant Professor, Royal Army Medical College George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary to the Post Office Col. Charles Edwin Nuthall, Deputy Director-General, Army Veterinary Service Edmund Bampfylde Phipps, Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Education Capt. John Franklin Parry Capt. Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair Capt. Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey, late Royal Engineers The Hon. Arthur Stanley Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart Lt.-Col. Sir Richard Carnac Temple David James Shackleton, Member of the National Health Insurance Commission (England) Lt.-Col. John Frederick Stenning, Officers Training Corps (Oxford University) Aubrey Vere Symonds, Assistant Secretary, Local Government Board Col. Sir Courtauld Thomson Basil Home Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Police Thomas Mitchell Williams Ulick Fitzgerald Wintour , Director of Contracts, War Office
Order of Merit (OM) The Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI) Alexander Gordon Cardew , Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George, Madras. Lt.-Col. Sir Hugh Daly , Indian Army, lately Resident in Mysore and Chief Commissioner, Coorg.
Companion (CSI) Lt.-Col. Stephen Lushington Aplin, Indian Army, Commissioner of the Mandalay Division, Burma. Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay , Indian Civil Service, lately Private Secretary to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India.