1919 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)

The 1919 King's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of King George V, were appointments made by the King on the recommendation of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on or dated 3 June 1919.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Knight Bachelor George Fenwick – of Dunedin; founder and for over 30 years director of the New Zealand Press Association. For public services.

Order of the Bath

Companion (CB) Military division, additional Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert Ernest Hart – Wellington Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier-General) William Meldrum – New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier-General) Charles William Melvill – New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier-General) Robert Young – Canterbury Regiment

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion (CMG) Additional Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Shepherd Allen – 2nd Battalion, Auckland Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Esau Avery – New Zealand Staff Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel George Cruickshanks Griffths – Canterbury Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel James Neill McCarroll – Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Hugh Stewart – Canterbury Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Brigadier-General) Alexander Edward Stewart – New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

Order of the British Empire

Commander (CBE) Civil division Ethel Mary Burnett – of Wellington. For services in connection with the New Zealand War Contingent Association, London. James John Clark – ex-mayor of Dunedin. For services in connection with patriotic undertakings. Albert Cecil Day – Official Secretary to the Governor-General. For services to the New Zealand Government during the war. James Henry Gunson – mayor of Auckland. For services in connection with patriotic undertakings. Henry Holland – ex-mayor of Christchurch. For services in connection with patriotic undertakings. Ranald Macintosh Macdonald. For services in connection with the New Zealand War Contingent Association, London. William Hugh Montgomery – of Wellington. For services as assistant director of base records. Iris Brenda Rolleston – of Lowry Bay. For services in organising the Taumaru Hospital (Lowry Bay) for Wounded and Convalescent Soldiers, and for voluntary services as matron.

Military division Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson Robert Dillon Carberry – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel D'Arcy Chaytor – Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment Colonel James McNaughton Christie. Colonel Percival Robert Cooke. Colonel Charles James Cooper . Major and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Henry Dawson – Auckland Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Robertson Falconer – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Norman FitzHerbert – Wellington Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel George Edward Gabites – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel George Thompson Hall . Colonel Ernest Haviland Hiley. Lieutenant-Colonel George Home – New Zealand Medical Corps. Colonel John Edward Hume. Lieutenant-Colonel and Temporary Colonel James William Hutchen . Lieutenant-Colonel John Patrick Daunt Leahy – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Colonel) Charles Ernest Randolph Mackesy – Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. Colonel Charles Thomas Major . Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Haldane Makgill – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Thomas McKibbon – New Zealand Medical Corps. Temporary Colonel Thomas Mill – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Pilkington – New Zealand Artillery. Colonel David Pringle . Colonel James Robert Purdy . Colonel Charles John Reakes – New Zealand Veterinary Corps. Colonel John Ranken Reed . Colonel The Honourable Robert Heaton Rhodes – New Zealand Territorial Force. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fowler Roberts – New Zealand Military Forces. Lieutenant-Colonel James Herbert Graham Robertson – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel James Lewis Sleeman – New Zealand Military Forces. Colonel Edmund Robinson Smith . Colonel William James Strong . Major and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel John Studholme – Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment. Mabel Thurston – matron-in-chief, New Zealand Army Nursing Service. Colonel Russell Tracy-Inglis – New Zealand Medical Corps. Colonel Thomas Harcourt Ambrose Valintine – New Zealand Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Walton – New Zealand Medical Corps. Colonel Gerard Arnold Ward. Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) James Taylor Watson – Auckland Regiment. Colonel David Storer Wylie – New Zealand Medical Corps.

Officer (OBE) Civil division Thomas Noel Brodrick – of Wellington. For services as under-secretary of the Lands and Survey Department. Frederick James Burgess – stipendiary magistrate; of Auckland. For services as a member of a military service board. James Burnett – of Wellington. Donald George Clark – of Wellington. For services as commissioner of the Land and Income Tax Department. The Right Reverend Henry William Cleary – Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland. For services as chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Daniel George Arthur Cooper – stipendiary magistrate; of Wellington. For services as a member of a military service board. Victor Grace Day – stipendiary magistrate; of Timaru. For services as a member of a military service board. Frederick Earl – stipendiary magistrate; of Auckland. For services as a member of a military service board. James Sim Evans – stipendiary magistrate; of Nelson. For services in connection with a military service board. George Cox Fache – commissioner of pensions; of Wellington. For services in connection with war pensions. Frederick Chandos Courtenay Fell – of Nikau Bay, Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere. For services in connection with patriotic organisations. James Findlay – of Wellington. For services as chairman of the Overseas Shipowners' Committee, Wellington. Malcolm Fraser – of Wellington. For services as government statistician. James Hislop – of Wellington. For services as under-secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, the department in charge of war funds. William Barr Montgomery – of Wellington. For services as comptroller of customs. Thomas Moss – of Eketāhuna. For services as a member of the National Efficiency Board. Vera Anita Myers – of Wellington. For services as head of the voluntary staff at the Base Records Office. John William Poynton – stipendiary magistrate; of Palmerston North. For services in connection with a military service board. George Edward Rhodes – of Christchurch. For services in connection with the New Zealand branch of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem. Thomas Sheriff Ronaldson – assistant public trustee; of Wellington. For service as chairman of the Financial Assistance Board. The Reverend William Shirer – of Wellington; senior Presbyterian chaplain to the New Zealand Military Forces. Guy Hardy Scholefield – of London. George Shirtcliffe – of Wellington. For services in connection with the New Zealand branch of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem. The Right Reverend Thomas Henry Sprott – Anglican Bishop of Wellington. For services in connection with the selection and allocation of chaplains to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Kīngi Tōpia – of Taihape; high chief of the Whanganui and Tūwharetoa tribes. For services in connection with recruiting and in securing land for returned Māori soldiers. Thomas Wilson – of Wellington. For services in connection with the Financial Assistance Board.

Military division Major Leopold George Dyke Acland – New Zealand Army Service Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Oswald Andrew – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Charles Eric Andrews – New Zealand Staff Corps. Captain Gilbert Edward Archey – New Zealand Field Artillery. Major Cyril Victor Baigent – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major George Bertram Banks – New Zealand Staff Corps, Lieutenant-Colonel George Barclay – New Zealand Engineers. Captain Eric Hamilton Beamish – Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ferdinand Bernau – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Samuel James Bolton – New Zealand Army Pay Corps. Major Frederick Thompson Bowerbank – New Zealand Medical Corps. Captain (Temporary Major) John Falconer Brown – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Meredith Buchanan – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Edmund Harry Colbeck – New Zealand Medical Corps. Captain Leofric Pearson Davies – New Zealand Dental Corps. Major Peter Maxwell Edgar – New Zealand Veterinary Corps. Captain David Eardley Fenwick – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major George Ernest Oswald Fenwick – New Zealand Medical Corps. Captain Charles Ingram Gossage – New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. Captain Reginald Ronald Gow – Otago Regiment. Major Charles Ernest Hercus . Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Wilson Hogg – New Zealand Medical Corps. Captain Gordon Hovey – Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. Major George Rowland Hutchinson – New Zealand Army Service Corps. Major Arnold Woodford Izard – New Zealand Medical Corps. The Reverend Archdeacon John Attwood Jacob – New Zealand Chaplains' Department. Major William Kay – New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Major Thomas Lawless – New Zealand Army Pay Corps. Major Norman Joseph Levien – New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel William Little – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Eric Lachlan Marchant – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Thomas McChristell – New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps. Major David McCurdy – Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment. Major Donald Archibald McCurdy . Major Charles Edward May – New Zealand Army Service Corps. Captain (Temporary Major) James Edward Hedley Mewett – Auckland Regiment. Major John Mounsey – New Zealand Military Forces. Captain Allan Stanley Muir – of Wellington. Major Neville Newcomb – New Zealand Military Forces. Captain (Temporary Major) Harry Oram – Wellington Infantry Regiment. Major Francis Edward Ostler – New Zealand Army Service Corps. Major Henry Peacock – New Zealand Staff Corps. Major Henry Percy Pickerill – New Zealand Medical Corps. Major Harold Avery Reid – New Zealand Veterinary Corps. Major Thomas Duncan McGregor Stout – New Zealand Medical Corps. Captain (Temporary Major) Kenneth Edwin Tapper – New Zealand Medical Corps. Captain Charles Archibald Lawrance Treadwell – Wellington Infantry Regiment. Major William Henry Turnbuli – New Zealand Army Service Corps. Major Francis Parnell Tymons – New Zealand Dental Corps. Major Hugh Vickerman – New Zealand Railway Engineers. Captain Herbert Horatio Spencer Westmacott – Auckland Regiment.

Member (MBE) Civil division Alfred Montague Adams – of Wellington. For services as chief executive officer of the Munitions and Supplies Department. Rachel Mary Barton – of Hāwera. For services in connection with patriotic organisations. Margaret Brown Blackwell – of Kaiapoi. For services in connection with the Countess of Liverpool Fund for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Hilda Bloomfield – of Auckland. For services in connection with the New Zealand branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem and for the Victoria League. Annie Elizabeth Blundell – of Wellington. For services in connection with the New Zealand branch of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem. Janet Bowie – of Milton. For Red Cross services. Violet McConochie Brown – of Napier. For services in connection with soldiers' equipment.