1919 New Year Honours (OBE)

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:

Military Division Royal Navy Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Henry Charles Anstey Lieutenant-Commander Harold Gordon Atkinson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant William Atkinson, Royal Naval Reserve Commander Arthur Douglas Barff Lieutenant John Holderness Bartlett, Royal Naval Reserve Surgeon Commander Richard Francis Bate Lieutenant-Commander Henry Baynham Paymaster Lieutenant Norman Hugh Beall Lieutenant Arthur Bean, Royal Naval Reserve Commander Edward Morden Bennett Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Martin Gilbert Bennett Lieutenant Louis Charles Bernacchi, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Commander Frank Birch, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Commander Arthur George Hayes Bond Lieutenant Commander Charles Kirby Borissow, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Percival Bowen Commander Duncan Tatton Brown Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander John Edward Ambrose Brown Commander Harold Ernest Browne Engineer Lieutenant John Robertson Buchan Paymaster Commander Wilfrid James Bull Commander Charles Thomas Alexander Bunbury Commander Arthur Stanley Burt Lieutenant-Colonel James Frederick Cable, Royal Marines Lieutenant Christopher George Carr, Royal Naval Reserve Commander James Thomas Walter Charles Royal Naval Reserve Engineer Commander James Sandford Constable Lieutenant Alexander James Cook, Royal Naval Reserve Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Archibald Frederick Cooper Acting Lieutenant Frederick James Harold Corbyn, Royal Naval Reserve Commander William Henry Cottrell Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Herbert Spencer Cox, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander Charles Henry Davey Lieutenant-Commander Roderick Wilson Day, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Douglas Harry Dibben Engineer Commander Horace Edward Dowling Lieutenant Commander Edward Dumerque Drury, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Robert Ewart Dunn, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Thomas William John Dunning, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Thomas Eachus, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Robert Edmond, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Herbert Denham Emery, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Paymaster Lieutenant William George Ewart Enright Engineer Commander James Risk Farish, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant-Commander John Phelips Farquharson Engineer Captain John William Figgins, R.N. HMS Glory Commander Thomas Roderick Fforde Paymaster Lieutenant Reginald Bertram Ford, Royal Naval Reserve Engineer Commander Benson Fletcher Freeman Captain Henry Vincent Fuller, Royal Marines Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander John William Edward Gilhespy Engineer Commander Andrew Gillespie, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant John Gillies, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant William Glegg-Smith, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Norris Goddard, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Chaplain Reverend Christopher Graham Honorary Engineer Commander William Air Graham, Royal Naval Reserve Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Charles Greenwood, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Commander George Gregory Royal Naval Reserve Commander Alfred William Gush Lieutenant Herbert James Hanson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Surgeon Commander Robert Hardie Lieutenant Commander Edward George Godolphin Hastings Captain Gerald Fenwick Haszard Royal Marine Artillery Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Robert Haves Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Gambler Haynes Royal Naval Reserve Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Charles Howard Heaton Lieutenant Thomas Mann Heddles, Royal Naval Reserve Engineer Commander Edward Owen Hefford Lieutenant Gerald Dudley Hill, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Stephen Leonard Hoare, Royal Naval Reserve Commander Berkeley Home-Sunnier Lieutenant Charles Frederick Horne, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Henry Mowbray Howard, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Acting Schoolmaster Lieutenant Samuel Louis Hutchings Surgeon Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Iles Lieutenant-Commander Harold Isherwood, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Commander Harold Gordon Jackson Lieutenant Commander Thomas Norman Jenkinson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander David T. Jones, Royal Naval Reserve Major Hubert Louis Jones, Royal Marine Light Infantry Engineer Commander John Kelly Lieutenant C. W. King, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Acting Paymaster Lieutenant Herbert Victor Lee, Royal Naval Reserve Engineer Commander Arthur Ellis Lester Engineer Commander Andrew Graham Liston, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Olive Lyttleton Lieutenant Leander McCormick-Goodhart, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Commander Redmond Walter McGrath, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant William MacPherson McRitchie, Royal Naval Reserve Commander Robert Henry Ramsay MacKay Lieutenant James Charles Newsome Macmillan Commander Frederick William Mace, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant John Martyn, Royal Naval Reserve Shipwright Lieutenant Commander James Ress May Paymaster Commander Grenville Acton Miller Lieutenant Joseph Alfred Minter Engineer Commander Albert John Campbell Moore Commander Hartley Russell Gwennap Moore Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Leslie Miles Morris Acting Schoolmaster Lieutenant Richard Mountstephens Commander Edwin Mansergh Palmer Lieutenant Gladwyn Parry, Royal Naval Reserve Surgeon Commander Herbert Lloyd Penny Commander Herbert Mosley Perfect Engineer Lieutenant Cyril Harold Lee Pilditch Lieutenant John Maurice Barbes Pougnet, Royal Naval Reserve Engineer Commander Thomas Pierce Pover, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant William Alfred Price Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Cunningham Prior Lieutenant John Osment Richards, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Gerard Brook Riley Engineer-Commander Francis John Roskruge Lieutenant William Mill Ruxton, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Walter Thomas Ryan, Royal Naval Reserve Engineer Lieutenant John Sandieson Engineer Lieutenant James Alfred Seabrook Surgeon Commander Ernest Albert Shaw Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander John Siddals Major James Simpson, Royal Marine Light Infantry Major Charles Wynne Slaney, Royal Marine Light Infantry Lieutenant-Commander John Ambrose Slee Lieutenant Harold Nevil Smart Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Major Frederick H. Smith, Royal Marines Lieutenant-Commander Norman George Fowler Snelling, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Quartermaster and Honorary Major William George Sparrow, Royal Marine Artillery Commander Martyn Frederic Stapylton Acting Chaplain the Rev. Richard Swann Swann-Mason Quartermaster and Honorary Major William Symes, Royal Marine Light Infantry Lieutenant-Commander Reginald Molière Tabuteau Engineer Commander John Charles Talbot Lieutenant-Commander William Charles Tarrant, Royal Naval Reserve Honorary Commander John Howard Temple, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant-Commander James Henry Thorn Commander Frank John Thring Lieutenant Henry William Cossart Tinker, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Reginald Brooks Townshend, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Paymaster Lieutenant John William Upham, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Bertram Vigne Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander Charles Rogers Vincent Engineer Commander Charles James Mitchell Wallace Lieutenant Tacy Millett Winstanley Wallis, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Charles Bertram Ward, Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Alexander Watchlin, Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand) Lieutenant William Robert Watson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Commander Robert Lewis Way Commander Godfrey George Webster Commander Hans Thomas Fell White Commander Wallace Edgar Whittingham Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant Charles Howard Windle, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant Edward Charles Wrey Lieutenant Stanley Harris Young, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Lieutenant-Commander Thomas Wallace Young, Royal Naval Reserve

Army Major Alexander Cecil Adair, Royal Scots Fusiliers Major William David Allan, Royal Highlanders Temp Captain Roy Dunlop Anderson Middlesex Regiment Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Havard Arnold, Royal Arony Ordnance Corps Controller Alice L. Atkinson, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Captain Thomas John Day Atkinson, Unattd. List, and General List Temp Major Ralph Bagnall, Special List Temp Captain George Joseph Ball, Special List Major Harold Douglas Barnes 7th Battalion, London Regiment Lieutenant Walter William Beale, Welsh Horse Yeomanry Temp Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Frank Beatson, Labour Corps Captain Morris James Bell, 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry Major Alexander John Munro Bennett Territorial Force Reserve Temp Major Cecil Bevis Bevis, Special List Brevet Colonel Maurice William Palmer Block, late Royal Artillery Major Arthur Reade Braid, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps Major Arthur John Breakey, late Royal Artillery Temp Captain Phillip John Broadley, late 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Arlhui Roile Bryant, 4th (Res) Battalion, Essex Regiment Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Tovmsend Bucknill, Surrey Yeomanry Colonel William Henry Bull Army Medical Service Major Sydney Collard Burton, Special List Brevet Colonel Arthur Lewis Caldwell, late Royal Army Service Corps Quartermaster and Major Aquila Clapshaw, Royal Army Medical Corps (ret. pay) Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Joseph Cooke, late Cheshire Regiment Temp Lieutenant Francis Wellington Corbet, Special List Temp Lieutenant Peter Hood Cowan, Special List Major Joshua John Cox Royal Army Medical Corps Reserve Temp Major Cecil Reginald Dibben, Special List Captain William Swart Dittman, Royal Garrison Artillery Quartermaster and Major Charles John Dixon, Extra Regimentally Employed List Major Wilfred Chatterton Dumble, late Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel William Arnold Eaton, East Kent Regiment Temp Major James Logan Ellis, Special List Quartermaster and Major Philip Ellis, late Royal Engineers Captain Maurice Woodman Emley, Royal Engineers Colonel Charles Ernest English, late Royal Artillery Captain Charles Edward Etches, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Captain Edward Leyland Cooke Feilden, late Highland Light Infantry Temp Lieutenant David Forrest, Special List Lieutenant-Colonel Sinclair Gair, 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick James Gavin, late Royal Irish Regiment Temp Captain Edward Christian Griffin, Royal Berkshire Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haddon late Unattached List Major John Cyril Giffard Alers Hankey Royal Artillery Major William Richard Monyns Hartcup, Durham Light Infantry Deputy Chief Controller Winifred S. Haythorne, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Brevet Colonel Arthur Beaumont Helyar, late Royal Artillery Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Thomas Higgins, Royal Army Service Corps Captain Henry Hincks 3rd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment Controller Edith Marjory Hornblow, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Bt Colonel Randall Charles Annesley Howe, 3rd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment Temp Lieutenant James Irvine, Special List Temp Lieutenant Maximilian Jackson, late 16th Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Major Charles Maurice Jickling, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment Captain Raymond Johnson Royal Army Medical Corps Major Frederick Arthur Kelley, Royal Defence Corps Temp Major Hugh T. Ker Royal Engineers Captain Francis John Lambert, 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry Lieutenant-Colonel John Irvine Lang-Hyde late Royal Engineers Temp Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Lascelles, Rifle Brigade Major Carteret de Mussenden Leathes, 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (Special Reserve) Captain George Lee-Evans, 21st Battalion, Manchester Regiment