The 1917 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 several editions of The London Gazette in January and February.
The 1 January list contained only military honours earned during the ongoing war, particularly for the Battle of the Somme, while political honours were delayed. The announcement was celebrated by The Times in its New Year's Day reporting:
"It is a welcome change to publish a list of New Year's Honours which have been earned altogether in the honourable service of the State. What are sometimes called 'political honours' – the results too often of personal and party manoeuvres – seem indescribably repellent in these days of national strain. We cannot, unfortunately, congratulate ourselves that their omission to-day is anything more than a postponement; but for the moment at all events we have a list confined entirely to sailors and soldiers and to civilians whose claim to distinction rests wholly on public service. We rejoice especially in the well-timed promptness with which the official report of the greatest battle in English history is followed by a large recognition of the men responsible for its success."
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
Viscount The Right Honourable Weetman Pearson, Baron Cowdray, by the name, style and title of Viscount Cowdray, of Cowdray, in the county of Sussex. President of the Air Board. The Right Honourable William Mansfield, Baron Sandhurst, , by the name, style and title of Viscount Sandhurst, of Sandhurst, in the county of Berkshire. Lord Chamberlain of the Household.
Baron and Viscount The Right Honourable Lewis Harcourt, by the names, styles and titles of Baron Nuneham, of Nuneham Courtenay, in the county of Oxford, and Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, in the said county of Oxford
Baron Sir William Maxwell Aitken, , by the name, style and title of Baron Beaverbrook, of Beaverbrook, in the Province of New Brunswick, in the Dominion of Canada, and of Cherkley, in the county of Surrey Sir John Alexander Dewar, , by the name, style and title of Baron Forteviot, of Dupplin, in the county of Perth The Right Honourable Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, by the name, style and title of Baron Stuart of Wortley, of the city of Sheffield Sir Edward Partington, , by the name, style and title of Baron Doverdale, of Westwood Park, in the county of Worcester The Right Honourable Joseph Albert Pease, by the name, style and title of Baron Gainford, of Headlam, in the county of Durham Sir Thomas Roe, , by the name, style and title of Baron Roe, of the borough of Derby
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division
Army General Sir William Robert Robertson, , Colonel, 2nd Dragoons Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh,
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Thomas Evans, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Royal Navy Vice-Admiral William Lowther Grant,
Army Major-General Sir Frederick Thomas Clayton, Major-General Frederick Ivor Maxse, Major-General Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle, Surgeon-General Hayward Reader Whitehead, Major-General Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh, Major-General Walter Norris Congreve, Major-General Charles James Briggs, Major-General Edward Arthur Fanshawe, Major-General Claud William Jacob, Major-General The Honourable Herbert Alexander Lawrence, Surgeon-General William Donovan, Major-General Frederick Charles Shaw, Major-General Herbert Guthrie Smith, Major-General Robert Dundas Whigham, Colonel (temporary Surgeon-General) Neville Reginald Howse, , Australian Army Medical Corps Major-General Charles Herbert Powell, , Indian Army
Civil Division Maurice Bonham Carter, Private Secretary to the late Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury Major John Norton-Griffiths, , 2nd Regiment, King Edward's Horse Colonel the Right Honourable William Heneage, Earl of Dartmouth, Honorary Colonel, North Midland Divisional Train, Army Service Corps (Territorial Force), President and Chairman Staffordshire Territorial Force Association Sir Frederick William Black, , Director General of Munitions Supply, Director of Contracts, Admiralty Arthur Newsholme, , Chief Medical Officer, Local Government Board Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray, , Assistant Secretary, Admiralty Sir Herbert Ashcombe Walker, Acting Chairman of the Railway Executive Committee Colonel The Honourable James Allen, Minister of Defence, New Zealand Stephenson Kent, Director of the Department of Labour Supply, Ministry of Munitions Arthur McDougal Duckham, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Ministry of Munitions Charles Ellis, Director General, Ordnance Supply, Ministry of Munitions Eustace Henry Tennyson d'Eyncourt, , Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty Major General Sir Charles Crutchley, , Governor of Chelsea Hospital
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division Royal Navy Captain Anselan John Buchanan Stirling, in recognition of his services with a Destroyer Flotilla during the Battle of Jutland (dated 31 May 1916) Vice-Admiral Richard Bowles Farquhar. Rear-Admiral Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy, . Rear-Admiral Henry Hervey Campbell, Rear-Admiral Edmund Radcliffe Pears. Rear-Admiral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee. Captain Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot, Engineer Rear-Admiral William John Anstey. Inspector-General John Cassilis Birkmyre Maclean, MB, Royal Navy (retired). Paymaster-in-chief William Le Geyt Pullen.
Army Major-General Reginald John Pinney Major-General Victor Arthur Couper Major-General Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent, Major-General Richard Harte Keatinge Butler Colonel Cecil Hill, Royal Engineers Colonel Lionel Norton Herbert, Indian Army Colonel Arthur Long, , Royal Army Service Corps Colonel James Murray Irwin, MB, late Royal Army Medical Corps Colonel Steuart Wellwood Hare Colonel Henry Brooke Hagstromer Wright, Colonel Godfrey Leicester Hibbert, Colonel Douglas Campbell Colonel Richard Lucas Mullens Colonel Edward Northey, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George McKenzie Franks, Royal Artillery Colonel Charles Guinand Blackader, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Peter Strickland, , Manchester Regiment Colonel Robert Lockhart Ross Macleod, MB, Army Medical Service Colonel Gerald Cree, , Army Medical Service Colonel Alexander Arthur Button, , Army Medical Service Colonel George Henry Barefoot, , Royal Army Medical Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Wilfrid Edward Bownas Smith, , Lincolnshire Regiment Colonel Alain Chartier Joly de Lotbinière, Temp Colonel Thomas Sinclair, MD , Army Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Philip Rynd Robertson , Scottish Rifles Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Thwaites, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Angus Tancred, , Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Webb Gillman, , Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Archibald Rice Cameron, , Royal Highlanders Major and Brevet Colonel Travers Edward Clarke, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Major and Brevet Colonel Charles Harington Harington, , Liverpool Regiment Major and Brevet Colonel John Humphrey Davidson, , King's Royal Rifle Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, , Rifle Brigade Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Edward Pereira, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Gustav Lewis, , London Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ford, , Army Service Corps Lieutenant-Colonel William John Napier, , Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Thomas Fairweather Birrell, MB, Royal Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force Colonel James Gordon Legge, , Council of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia Major-General John Burton Forster Surgeon-General William Wallace Kenny, MB Honorary Colonel Alfred Ernest Queripel, late Advanced Vehicle Depot Colonel Peter Henry Hammond Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Stephen Dickson Rainsford, late Royal Artillery Colonel John Edward Blackburn Colonel Arthur Gillespie Churchill Colonel and Honorary Brigadier-General Robert Theophilus Hewitt Law, late Royal Army Ordnance Depot Colonel and Honorary Brigadier-General Noel Montagu Lake Colonel James Henry Cowan Colonel Samuel Arthur Einem Hickson, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Bertram Percy Portal, , late 17th Lancers Colonel Henry Stopford Dawkins Colonel Francis James Anderson Colonel Edward North, , Army Medical Service Colonel Frederick Falkiner Minchin Colonel Frank Herbert Horniblow Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Herbert Alexander Chapman, late Royal Artillery Colonel Henry Lawrence Gardiner Colonel William Cyril Minchin, Army Pay Department Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Alfred Granville Balfour Colonel Stapylton Chapman Bates Robinson Colonel William Heaton Horrocks, MB, Army Medical Service Colonel The Honourable Henry Yarde-Buller, Colonel Donald James MacKintosh, MB, Army Medical Service Colonel James O'Hara, Army Pay Department Colonel Charles Cooper Reilly, Army Medical Service Colonel James Thomson, MB, Army Medical Service Colonel Arthur James Vavasor Durell, Army Pay Department Temp. Colonel Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel James Rawdon Stansfeld, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Alban Randell Crofton Atkins, , Army Service Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Herbert Stewart Browne, late Suffolk Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William St Colum Bland, Royal Artillery Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Johnson Freyer, MD, Retired, Indian Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel David Edward Wood, Remount Establishment Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Horrocks Openshaw, , Royal Army Medical Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Gilbert Barling, , Royal Army Medical Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Davy, MD, Royal Army Medical Corps Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Myles, , Royal Army Medical Corps Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, , Royal Army Medical Corps Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel James Swain MD, , Royal Army Medical Corps Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel William Aldren Turner, MD, Royal Army Medical Corps Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, MB , Royal Army Medical Corps Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Jones, , Royal Army Medical Corps Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Aloysius Byrne, late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, late South Staffordshire Regiment Colonel Charles Henry Selwyn, Indian Army Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Balfour Haig, MB, Indian Medical Service Colonel Richard Joshua Cooper , retired pay Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Ewen George Sinclair-MacLagan, , Yorkshire Regiment Commander Neville Frederick Jarvis Wilson, Royal Indian Marines Colonel Patrick Hehir, , Indian Medical Service Colonel George Francis White, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel John Constantino Gordon Longmore, , Royal Army Service Corps Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Bartholomew George Price, , Royal Fusiliers Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Egerton Dallas, Indian Army Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Percy Lionel Davies, , Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert William Studd, , Coldstream Guards Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert Southey Neville White , Royal Marine Light Infantry.
Canadian Forces Colonel Herbert Stanley Birkett, Canadian Army Medical Corps Colonel James Alexander Roberts, Canadian Army Medical Corps