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1521_23
Valangiman Krishnaswami Ayangar Aravamudha Ayangar, Indian Audit and Account Service, officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India, Commerce Department Sydney David Smith, Deputy Commissioner of Excise, Bombay George Edward Campbell Wakefield Police and Public Works Minister, Jammu and Kashmir State Raj Bahadur Badridas Goenka, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council Hugh Gordon Roberts Welsh Mission at Shillong, Assam John Augustus Voelcker of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
1521_24
Imperial Order of the Crown of India Her Highness the Senior Maharani Shrimati Chinkooraja Scindia, of Gwalior The Royal Victorian Order Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) The Rt. Hon. William Heneage, Earl of Dartmouth Major-General The Hon. Sir Cecil Edward Bingham Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Sir Hugh Percy Allen Sir Charles John Holmes John Marnoch , Surgeon Major Philip Hunloke Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) The Hon. Montague Charles Eliot Sir John Prosser, lawyer (d.1945) Charles John Dalrymple-Hay Alfred Bakewell Howitt (Dated 21 April 1928) Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO) Major Alexander Kilgour Macpherson, 10/2nd Bombay Pioneers Captain Herbert Pott Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO) James Atkinson William Henry Reed The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Military Division
1521_25
Civil Division Sir John Dewrance For public and political services. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Percy Maybury Director General of Roads, Ministry of Transport Sir John Hubert Oakley, Member of the Irish Grants Committee Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Sir William Grenfell Max-Muller lately His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Warsaw Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) Elizabeth Wordsworth late Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Eadith Campbell Walker For philanthropic and charitable services in the State of New South Wales Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith (retired) Army Major-General Walter Holland Ogilvie Indian Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Army Headquarters, India Major-General Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee General Officer Commanding Straits Settlements, Malaya Civil Division
1521_26
Alderman George Bevan Bowen For political and public services in Pembrokeshire Colonel Robert Arthur Johnson Deputy Master, Royal Mint William Maitland-Heriot For political and public services in Dumfriesshire Sir Edward Nicholl For political and public services. Sir Hugh William Orange Accountant General, Board of Education Nathaniel Francis Banner Osborn Director of Army Contracts, War Office Major Percival Reuben Reynolds Ex-President of the National Association of British and Irish Millers Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Josiah Crosby His Majesty's Consul-General, at Batavia Herbert Goffe lately one of His Majesty's Consuls-General in China Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Dominions Colonel Ernest Haviland Hiley late Chairman of the Rhodesian Railway Commission Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. James Anderson Murdoch Member of the Legislative Council, State of New South Wales. For public and charitable services.
1521_27
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Harold Baxter Kittermaster Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somaliland Protectorate William Peel Chief Secretary to Government, Federated Malay States Lieutenant-Colonel George Stewart Symes Chief Secretary to the Government of Palestine; Resident and Commander-in-Chief designate at Aden Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Military Division Royal Navy Captain the Hon. Arthur Charles Strutt Surgeon Captain James Herbert Fergusson Paymaster Captain Harry George Wilson
1521_28
Army Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Granville Arthur Battcock 4th Battalion The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Territorial Army Colonel Howard Ensor late Royal Army Medical Corps, Deputy Director of Medical Services, North China Command Colonel John Standish Surtees Prendergast, Viscount Gort late Grenadier Guards, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 4th Division, Eastern Command Lieutenant-Colonel Lancelot Noel Friedrick Irving King Royal Engineers, Senior British Commissioner, Jubaland Boundary Commission Colonel Alfred Sinclair Marriott, Indian Army, Director of Farms, Master-General of Supply Branch, Army Headquarters, India Lieutenant-Colonel Chilton Lind Addison-Smith 3rd Battalion The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) Colonel Harry Reginald Walter Marriott Smith late Royal Artillery, Director of Artillery, War Office
1521_29
Colonel John Lindsay Smith, Indian Army, Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport, Northern Command, India Principal Matron Catherine Geddes Stronach Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Colonel Douglas Vere Willoughby Indian Army, Officer Commanding 4th/1st Punjab Regiment, Indian Army Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Wright lately employed as Inspector of Army Catering, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office
1521_30
Royal Air Force Group Captain George Laing Civil Division
1521_31
Jameson Boyd Adams Divisional Controller, North Eastern Division, Ministry of Labour Frederick James Adye, Secretary, Pacific Cable Board Charles Francis Ball For political and public services in Letchworth Edward Gordon Beam, Chief Inspector, Outdoor Insurance Staff, Ministry of Health Sir George Menteth Boughey Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute William Allport Brockington Director of Education, Leicestershire William Henry Carter, Assistant Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty James Walker Clark President of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce John Clark Director of Education, Glasgow Education Authority David Davis Chairman of London Insurance Committee Gwendolyne Denton. For political services. Major Sholto William Douglas Chief Constable of the Lothians and Peebles Ernest Arthur Eborall, Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue John Rankine Finlayson Director of Manchester Chamber of Commerce since 1912
1521_32
Francis Russell Gosset, Deputy Sergeant at Arms, House of Commons Major John Harry Hebb Royal Army Medical Corps (Retired), Director of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions John Broughton Knight, Controller, Clearing Office (Enemy Debts), Board of Trade Cecil Howard Lander Director of Fuel Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Samuel Lithgow Chairman of the St. Marylebone & Paddington Local Employment Committee Robert Findlay Longmuir, For political and public services in Ayr and the West of Scotland Thomas William Houldsworth McDougal Chairman, of the Lothians War Pensions Committee Robert Lee Matthews Chief Constable of Leeds Alexander Millar, Secretary of the Antrim County Council Emily Alicia George Herbert Morrell For political and public services in Oxfordshire and Berkshire John Quirey, Vice President for Finance, London, Midland & Scottish Railway Councillor Gwilym Rowlands For political and public services in Rhondda, Glamorgan
1521_33
The Hon. Lockhart Matthew St. Clair Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary William Marshall Simpson, Postmaster-Surveyor, Liverpool William Arthur Sturdy, Auditor, India Audit Office Nathan Thompson Inspector General of Waterguard, Board of Customs & Excise Henry Weatherill Assistant Comptroller, National Debt Office Duncan Randolph Wilson Secretary of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board, Medical Research Council Harry Egerton Wimperis Director of Scientific Research, Air Ministry
1521_34
British India Charles Maclvor Grant Ogilvie, Indian Civil Service, late Deputy Commissioner, Lahore Joseph Terence Owen Barnard Deputy Commissioner, Burma, on special duty with the Triangle Expedition, Burma Raja Saiyid Ahmad Ali Khan Alvi of Salempur, United Provinces Pestonji Sorabji Kotwal, Second Additional Judicial Commissioner, Central Provinces Percy Albert Cory Honorary Treasurer of the Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association, Home Branch
1521_35
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Arthur Douglas Deane Butcher, Director of the Hydraulic Section, Egyptian Irrigation Department Charles Fortescue Garstin, His Majesty's Consul at Shanghai Colonel William Fanshawe Loudon Gordon, late Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps James Henderson, President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Italy Penrhyn Grant Jones, His Majesty's Consul at Harbin Major Cecil Stephen Northcote, Governor of the Nuba Mountains Province, Sudan Major Mervyn James Wheatley Governor of Bahr-el-Ghazal Province, Sudan
1521_36
Dominions Shirley Sales Assistant Imperial Secretary, South African High Commission Clifford Henderson Hay Under-Secretary and Permanent Head of the Premier's Department, State of New South-Wales Robert Noble Jones, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court and Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, Dominion of New Zealand George Shaw Knowles Assistant Secretary and Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman, Attorney-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia Mary McLean, lately Principal of Wellington Girls' College, Dominion of New Zealand Henry John Sheehan, Assistant Secretary, Treasury, Commonwealth of Australia Frank Stratum Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister's Department, Commonwealth of Australia
1521_37
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Edward William Baynes Colonial Secretary, Leeward Islands William Douglas Davis Bowden, Commissioner of the Central Province, Sierra Leone Walter Andrew Bowring, Treasurer, Gibraltar Harold Kennard Holmes, Crown Solicitor, Hong Kong. For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong Humphrey Trice Martin, Commissioner for Local Government, Lands and Settlement, Kenya Joseph Antoine Maurice Martin. Elected Member of the Council of Government, Mauritius. For public services. Mathew Alexander Murphy Director of Public Works, Trinidad Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Strathearn Warden of the Hospital of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in Palestine Robert Walter Taylor Treasurer, Tanganyika Territory George John Frederick Tomlinson, lately Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs, Nigeria Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1521_38
Military Division Royal Navy Paymaster Captain Bernard William Gillhespie Cook (retired) Commander John Fenwick Hutchings Lieutenant Commander Denys Arthur Henderson Engineer Commander Bertram Harvey Surgeon Commander Bryan Pickering Pick Commander Ernest William Swan
1521_39
Army Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Charles Agnew, Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Harold Wood Barker late 6th Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), Territorial Army Major Robert Boal Royal Engineers (Indian Army), Commanding Royal Engineer; 2nd Class, Loralai, India Major Edward Bertie Hartley Berwick Bossall School Contingent, Officers Training Corps Inspector of Works and Major John Barker Bradshaw Staff for Royal Engineer Services Quartermaster and Captain George Brown, 3rd Battalion City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers); Territorial Army Major Valentine Rodolphe Burkhardt Royal Artillery Captain Esmond Humphrey Miller Clifford Royal Engineers, Second British Commissioner, Jubaland Boundary Commission Major Leslie Charles Bertram Deed Royal Engineers, Military Engineering Services, India Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Everingham Retired pay, Recruiting Staff, Scottish Command
1521_40
Quartermaster and Captain James Henry William Ford The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers), Territorial Army Captain Alec Frankland, 1st/4th Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 3rd Grade, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India Major James Hebblethwaite Martin Frobisher Royal Army Medical Corps Lieutenant-Colonel John Maxwell Gillatt Regular Army Besecve of Officers, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), lately Commanding 4th Battalion Iraq Levies Captain William Angel1 Goddard, The Dorsetshire Regiment, late Assistant Superintendent, Physical Training, Aldershot Command Lieutenant-Colonel Huntly Fleetwood Gordon, Indian Army, Army Remount Department, India Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest William Grant, Staff Paymaster, Royal Army Pay Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Humphrey Francis Humphreys 143rd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army
1521_41
Captain Arthur Gwynne Kay, Royal Tank-Corps, Assistant Instructor, Tank Driving and Maintenance School, Headquarters Central Schools, Wool Major Chilton Gresham Lewis, Royal Engineers, Superintendent, Indian Survey Department, attached to the Turco-Iraq, Frontier-Delimitation Commission Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Achey Loftus, 6th Battalion, The Essex Regiment, Territorial Army Captain Ronald Tracy Alexander McDonald, Staff Corps, Australian Military Forces Captain William Douglas McGregor, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Bines, Indian Army, attached B Corps Signals Matron Lilian Emily Mackay Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Major Albert Edward Macrae Royal Artillery, lately Attached Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Woolwich Royal Arsenal Lieutenant-Colonel Otho Hugh Chartres Molony, Supernumerary List, Indian Army Commissary and Major Patrick Moore, Indian Army Ordnance Corps Commissary and Major Thomas Henry Naughton Military Engineering Services, Indian Army
1521_42
Captain Frederick William Ollis, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Chief Instructor, Chemical Warfare School, Porton Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Parbury, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, Inspector of Ammunition, Kirkee, India Captain Andrew Peffers, The Cameronians (Scottish Bines), Staff Captain 56th (1st London) Division, Territorial Army Major George Scott Nelson-Scott, 5th/6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), Territorial Army Lieutenant Evelyn Philip Servallis Shirley, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's), late Captain, Somaliland Camel Corps, The King's African Rifles Major Douglas Gordon Smith, Commanding 1st Battalion Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers Quartermaster and Captain Alfred Summersell, Extra Regimentally employed List, Chief Clerk, Headquarters, Eastern Command Major James Parry Swettenham Commanding Selangor Volunteer Corps, Federated Malay States
1521_43
Captain Douglas Rhys Thomas The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Adjutant 1st Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Tudsbery Tudsbery Essex Group, Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Companies, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army Major Gordon Wilson Royal Army Medical Corps Captain Bramwell Henry Withers, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), attached Sudan Defence Force
1521_44
Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Alan FitzRoy Somerset-Leeke Christine Cameron Matron, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service The Reverend Maurice Henry Edwards Chaplain, Royal Air Force Civil Division
1521_45
Alfred John Adams. For political and public services in Hertfordshire. Tom Wood Ainge. For political services. Captain George Frederick Alexander, General Secretary, Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust Milgitha Lettice Alcock, Clerk to His Majesty's Private Secretary William Gerald Allen, Principal, Home Office Frederick Nathaniel Bath, Accountant, Ministry of Health Cyril Bavin, General Secretary, Migration Department of the National Councils of the YMCA of Great Britain and Ireland Leslie Cecil Blackmore Bowker Chief Clerk to the Law Officers of the Crown Clifford Henry Boyd, Principal, Board of Trade John Carmichael, Chief Constable of Dundee The Venerable Archdeacon Harry William Carpenter Archdeacon of Sarum. For many years service on behalf of the troops quartered on Salisbury Plain. Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Horatio Chapell, Examiner, Technical Examination Branch, War Office Johanna Margaret Clay Principal Matron for Scotland, Ministry of Pensions
1521_46
Leonora Cohen Chairman of the Women's Sub-Committee of the Leeds Local Employment Committee Cecil Wharton Collard Commander, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Emily Jane Connor For public services in Ulster. Minna Galbraith Cowan, For political and public services in Edinburgh. Herbert William Crapp, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue Ernest Lionel Victor Crocker, Senior Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions James Crowther, Principal, Halifax Technical College Elizabeth Harley Cunningham. For public services in the Isle of Man. Daniel Nicol Dunlop, Director, British Electrical & Allied Manufacturers Association Sydney George Edridge. For many years Chairman of the National Association of Probation Officers Robert Elrick, Deputy Accountant General, Board of Customs & Excise Percy Alexander Francis Poultry Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries William Joseph Gannon, His Majesty's Divisional Inspector of Schools, Board of Education
1521_47
Evelyn Margaret Garner, Principal of Women's Staff, Board of Inland Revenue Christopher Hodson, Chief Constable of Blackburn Councillor Adam Horrocks Hollingworth For political and public services in Middleton, Lancashire Surgeon Commander Walter Kempson Hopkins (retired), Medical Officer, Board of Customs and Excise Stamford Hutton Chairman of the Gloucestershire War Pensions Committee Charles Joseph Jeffries, Principal, Colonial Office Robert Pierce Jones, Deputy Controller, Wales Division, Ministry of Labour Anthony Edward Killick Superintending Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue John Kirkland Architect, Board of Control Octavius Lance Director of Expense Accounts, Admiralty Tennyson John David Large, late Collector of Customs and Excise, Belfast Alexander Leighton Rector, Morgan Academy, Dundee Commander Frederick George Loring (Retired) Inspector of Wireless Telegraphy, Post Office Constance Mary Marwood, Superintendent, Money Order Department, Post Office
1521_48
John Masterton His Majesty's Divisional Inspector of Mines, Mines Department Joseph Meller, For many years Chairman of the House Committee, Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road Teresa Merz For services in connection with the Newcastle Hostel for training boys for Oversea Settlement Alice Eva Marion Milnes, Secretary of the League of Mercy Henry Oliver Minty Principal Examiner, Patent Office, Board of Trade Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Murray, Secretary, British Empire League Albert Robert Myers Senior Architect, H.M. Office of Works Ellis Owen, Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, Cardiff Ivor Llewelyn Phillips, Secretary, Welsh Association of Insurance Committees Walter Bawden Pindar, Clerk to the Rural District Council of Hunslet Harry Pratt, For political services. George Ritchie Rice, Financial Adviser and Local Auditor with the Shanghai Defence Force Edward Salmon, Editor of the Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute
1521_49
Milly Gertrude Harry Selby, Chairman of the Bromley Division Conservative Women's Association. For political and public services in Kent. John Robert Sivess Deputy Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty Reginald Stagg, Headquarters Supervisor of Home Areas, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes Henry Claude Taylor, Assistant Director in the Exhibitions Division of the Department of Overseas Trade Frederick John Taylor Chairman, Neath Local Employment Committee Harold Victor Taylor Horticultural Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Samuel Robert Todd, Chief Inspector, Trade Boards Division, Ministry of Labour Major William Sansome Tucker Director of Acoustics at the Air Defence Experimental Establishment, War Office Captain Herbert Reginald Vyvyan, Chief Constable of Devon Frederick Porfeei Wensley Chief-Constable of the Metropolitan Criminal Investigation Department Percy John Wheeldon, Principal, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
1521_50
Richard Trefor Williams Chief Insurance Inspector, Welsh Board of Health William Williams His Majesty's Divisional Inspector of Schools, Board of Education Robert Humphrey Wilson, Clerk to the Belfast Board of Guardians Ronald McKinnon Wood Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough George Henry Wright Secretary of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
1521_51
British India M. R. Ry. Madhavan Nambiar Arachil Candeth Avargal, Indian Educational Service, Deputy Director of Public Instruction, Madras Major Frank Cook, Engineer, Nabha State Robert Foulkes, Member of the Madras Legislative Council, President, District Board, Madura Khan Bahadur Chaudhri Fazal Ali Member of the Punjab Legislative Council, Chairman, District Board, Gujrat Raj Bahadur Doctor Kishori Lai Chaudhri Assistant Director of Public Health, United Provinces Leon Williamson Amps Executive Engineer in charge of the construction of the British Legation Buildings at Kabul Khan Bahadur Chaudhri Rashicl-ud-Din Ashraf, Taluqdar of Karkha, Bara Banki District, United Provinces Terence Purves Dewar, Assistant Superintendent in charge of the Naga Hills Expedition, Burma Percy Mitchell Russell Leonard, Assistant Superintendent, on duty with the Triangle Expedition, Burma Joseph McGregor Cheers Officer Supervisor, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters
1521_52
George Campbell Devon, State Engineer, Kotah, Rajputana Matilda McGann, Mysore Mangaldas Vijbhukhandas Mehta, Medical Practitioner, Bombay
1521_53
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Mary Ethel Winifred, Lady Barton. In recognition of valuable services for the welfare of the Shanghai Defence Force. James Godfrey Lyon Brown For services in connection with the Emergency Volunteer Corps at Hankow Alphonse Busuttil. For valuable services to British interests in Tunis George Rammell Footner, Director of the Omdunnan Civil Hospital The Reverend Robert Frew, Chaplain at The Hague Cyril Havercroft, Deputy-General Manager, Sudan Government Railways and Steamers John Colville Hutchison, Acting British Vice-Consul at Hankow Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Hunter Logan, Shanghai Defence Force Archibald Colin Christian Deleto MacDonald, Director of the Equipment and Finance Department of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior Norman Lush Sparke In recognition of services in connection with the Shanghai Defence Force George Ronald Storrar Chief Engineer, Sudan Government Railways
1521_54
Dominions William Herbert Ifould, Principal Librarian and Secretary, Public Library, State of New South Wales Henry Charles Weatherilt, Member of the European Advisory Council in the Bechuanaland Protectorate Effie Io Wilkinson. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
1521_55
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Percy William Duncombe Armbrister, lately Receiver General and Treasurer, Bahama Islands William Frederick Becker, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Nigeria Professor Albert Victor Bernard Medical Officer of Health, Malta Harold Frank Birchal, Construction Engineer, Kenya and Uganda Railways The Venerable George Robert Blackledge, Archdeacon of Uganda Robert Sutherland Cooke, Inspector-General, Ministry of Auqaf and Honorary Director of Antiquities, Iraq Sydney Cuthbert, Unofficial Member of the Executive Council, British Honduras Thomas Robert Cutler, Collector of Customs, Trinidad Herbert George Dempster, Resident Engineer, Uganda Extension, Kenya and Uganda Railways Cecil Moore Dobbs, Provincial Commissioner, Kenya Duncan Elliott, lately Senior Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Nigeria Captain Bertram Alexander Francis, Collector of Customs and Harbour Master, Mauritius Edward Butler Home, Provincial Commissioner, Kenya
1521_56
William Hamilton Lee-Warner, lately District Officer, Federated Malay States Emma Pauline Manasseh. For charitable services in the Straits Settlements Arthur Stephen Mavrogordato, Commandant Department of Police and Prisons, Palestine The Reverend Canon Frank Darvall Newham, Director of Education, Cyprus Clifford Henry Fitzherbert Plowman, British Consul at Harar, Abyssinia. For services to the Somaliland Protectorate. Edward Reginald Sawer, Director of the Department of Agriculture, Palestine Nanayakkarage Don Stephen Silva, Justice of the Peace; for public and charitable services, Island of Ceylon Alice Sproule. For charitable services in the Straits Settlements. King'sley Willans Stead, Director of Customs, Excise and Trade, Palestine Robert Sutherland For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong Frank Edward Talland, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast Tso Shin-wan. For public services, Hong Kong.
1521_57
Bertram Tom Watts, Director of Land Registration and Surveys, Cyprus Major William Clement Francis Allan Wilson, Administrative Inspector, Ministry of Interior, Iraq John Woodman, lately President, Court of First Instance, Iraq
1521_58
Honorary Officers Tahsin Beg Qadri, Rais al Awul, Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the King of Iraq Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) Military Division Royal Navy Engineer Lieutenant Commander Alfred Dore Slatter Lieutenant Commander Instructor in Cookery Frank Pharoah Telegraphist Lieutenant Alonzo Boniface (retired) Commissioned Master at Arms Robert Henry Johnson Headmaster John Alfred Rowe Chief Skipper Peter Yorston Ordnance Lieutenant-Commander George Prideaux
1521_59
Army Deputy Commissary and Captain Arthur Ambrose, Superintendent, Adjutant General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India Captain Robert James Appleby, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry Sergeant-Major Instructor Frank Barber, Royal Artillery, School of Artillery, Larkhill Mechanist Quartermaster-Sergeant Clifford Barton, Royal Army Service Corps, attached Sudan Defence Force First Class Staff Sergeant-Major John Thomas Bevvs, Royal Army Service Corps, Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office Lieutenant Ashley Raymond Bond, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry Conductor George Joseph Flowerdew Brown, Indian Unattached List, Military Engineering Services, Indian Army Regimental Sergeant-Major Henry Nichol Close, The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) Captain Vivian Dykes, Royal Engineers, Staff Captain Department of the Quartermaster-General to the Forces, War Office Quartermaster and Captain Charles Edward Easterbrook, Royal Engineers
1521_60
Battery Sergeant-Major Ernest Francis Ferraro, Hampshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Henry Howard Fletcher, Supernumerary List, Coldstream Guards, attached Royal Military College, Sandhurst Superintending Clerk Herbert Benjamin James Franklin, Royal Engineers, Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office First Class Assistant Surgeon Edward Henry Gillson, Indian Medical Department Lieutenant Alfred Percy Green, Royal Artillery Staff Sergeant-Major Christopher Henry Hanson, Royal Army Service Corps, Department of the Adjutant General to the Forces, War Office Risaldar Hari Singh, Indian Army Service Corps, Cavalry Brigade, Transport Company Deputy Commissary and Captain William Harrison, Indian Miscellaneous List, Superintendent, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India Captain George Waddell Harvey, Forth Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
1521_61
Quartermaster and Captain Thomas Webster Hill, 5th Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), Territorial Army Lieutenant Reginald Thomas Hockey 96th (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Lieutenant Gilbert Daly Holmes, Royal Artillery, attached Somaliland Camel Corps, The King's African Rifles, lately attached 3rd (Kenya) Battalion The King's African Rifles and Officer Commanding Escort, Jubaland Boundary Commission Captain Frederick Ralph Honeyball, 4th/10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army Lieutenant Henry Richard Hopking, The Suffolk Regiment, Adjutant 2nd Battalion Lieutenant Harry Alfred Adrian Howell, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), Local Captain, Assistant Staff Officer to the Local Forces, Straits Settlements, Malaya Ordnance Executive Officer 2nd Class and Captain George Ernest Victor Howe's, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1521_62
Company Sergeant-Major Albert Murray Humphreys 26th (London) Anti-Aircraft Battalion (London Electrical Engineers) Royal Engineers, Territorial Army Acting Sergeant-Major Leslie Herbert Ives, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 48th (South Midland) Divisional Medical Services Sergeant-Major Frederick John Lionel Jeffery, Indian Unattached List, Embarkation Sergeant-Major, Burma Lieutenant Alfred Douglas Murray Lewis, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, temporary Captain Somaliland Camel Corps, The King's African Rifles Instructor John Patrick Loughlin, Army Educational Corps Quartermaster Sergeant-Instructor John George Maughan, Royal Tank Corps Regimental Sergeant-Major Thomas William Milner, 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) Company Sergeant-Major (Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major) George Mitchell 5th Battalion The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), Territorial Army
1521_63
Quartermaster and Captain Frank Moore, Royal Army Service Corps Regimental Sergeant-Major William Murray 2nd Battalion Scots Guards Lieutenant Harry Norman Newey, Army Educational Corps, late Instructor, Army School of Education, Belgaum, India Regimental Sergeant-Major Victor Charles Northover, Devonshire (Fortress) Royal Engineers, Territorial Army Company Sergeant-Major Thomas Coulthard O'Brien Royal Engineers, Chemical Warfare School, Porton Quartermaster Sergeant-Instructor Thomas William Pedley, Royal Engineers, Survey School, School of Military Engineering, Chatham Subadar-Major Piran Ditta late Hong Kong Singapore Brigade, Royal Artillery Commissary and Major Harry Pluck, Indian Miscellaneous List, Officer Supervisor, Master-General of Supply Branch, Army Headquarters, India Quartermaster and Lieutenant Frederick Preston, Corps of Military Police Quartermaster and Captain John Robinson, 8th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers, Territorial Army
1521_64
Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Felix Deeble Rogers, Indian Miscellaneous List, Chief Clerk, Burma District Battery Sergeant-Major Charles Lewis Ryan, 66th (South Midland) Field Brigade Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Aubrey Oswald Sibbald, Royal Army Service Corps Garrison Sergeant-Major Henry Arthur Singleton, Garrison Staff, Aldershot Regimental Sergeant Major William Stevenson 1st Battalion Welsh Guards Regimental Sergeant-Major Alfred Sutherland, Depot, Royal Tank Corps Surveyor of Works and Lieutenant Stanley James Templeton, Royal Engineers Battery Sergeant-Major Daniel Vigar, 51st (Westmorland and Cumberland) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Alexander Vingoe, Indian Corps of Clerks Company Sergeant-Major Alfred Frederick Warwick, 24th (Derbyshire Yeomany) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps, Territorial Army Commissary and Major Albert Waters, Indian Army Service Corps
1521_65
Battery Sergeant Major Charles William Edward Workman Hampshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army Sergeant-Major Instructor Arthur Worsley retired pension, late Army Physical Training Staff, Aldershot
1521_66
Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Hugh Nelson Sergeant Major 1st Class Reginald Arthur Howes Sergeant Major 2nd Class Herbert William Smith Honorary Member Rab Khaila David D'Mar Shimun, Aide-de-Camp to the Commandant, Iraq Levies
1521_67
Civil Division Charles Herbert Benson Abbot, Accountant Cashier, France, Imperial War Graves Commission John Frederick Anstead, Staff Clerk, War Office Benjamin George Arthur, Secretary of the National Leather Goods and Saddlery Manufacturers Association Gladys Bertha Attwood, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Mines Department Charles McKenzie Bell, Chief Superintendent, Durham Constabulary William Robert Bell Clerk of the Newry Board of Guardians and of the Newry Rural District Councils Paymaster Commander Thomas Robert Best Chief Superintendent, N.E. Coast District Mercantile Marine Office, Board of Trade Walter Robert Black Assistant Principal, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Ursula Henrietta Blackwood, Superintendent of Translators, War Office George Herbert Bowler, Chief Area Officer, Ministry of Pensions Agnes Bowley, Late Head Mistress of Medway Street Infants Department, Leicester John David Brown, Traffic Accountant, Pacific Cable Board
1521_68
William Alfred Bunner, Inspector of Stamping, Somerset House James Lawther Clark, Clerk of the Antrim Board of Guardians and Rural District Council Letitia Sarah Clark Matron, Whippa Cross Hospital Arthur Markland Clegg, Staff Officer, Mines Department James Craig, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Westlothian Francis Hoyland Crapper, Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary. For devoted and meritorious police service particularly in connection with the floods at Fleetwood in October, 1927 William Irwin Cunningham, Town Clerk of Portrush Urban District Council Cornelius Curran, Senior Staff Officer, Statistical Office, Board of Customs and Excise James Wright Dick, Acting First Class Clerk, Ministry of Health Edwin Page, Examiner of Dockyard Work, Engineer-in-Chief s Department, Admiralty James Donald Feely. Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions Walter Cecil Fenwick, Contract Officer, Air Ministry
1521_69
Robert Chesney Finney, First Class Examiner in the Companies (Winding-up) Department, Board of Trade Thomas Ogle Freeman (senior), Collector of Taxes, Newcastle upon Tyne Leonard David Gibbs, Clerk, Records Department, London, Imperial War Graves Commission Walter Gordon, Superintendent, Wigan Borough Police Rosa Forsyth Grant, Masseuse, Military Hospital, Edinburgh. For voluntary services. Albert Griffiths, Clerk to the Bridgend and Cowbridge Board of Guardians Robert William Hanna, Secretary of the British National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce Robert Harper, Chairman of the Medway Boroughs, Gravesend and District War Pensions Committee Amy Louise Hatch, Higher Clerical Officer (Divisional Superintendent), Ministry of Pensions William Henderson, Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise Eliza Mary George Henry. Retired teacher. For services to education in Banffshire and the Western Isles
1521_70
Edith Harriet Herbert, Superintendent of Royal College of St. Katharine, Poplar Dorothy Aileen Humphrey, Assistant Secretary to the Permanent Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office George Thomas Hyden Chairman of the Consett, Blaydon and District War Pensions Committee Jean Kennedy Irvine, Superintendent, South-Eastern Pricing Bureau. For meritorious service in connection with the National Health Insurance Scheme Charlotte Keeling Member of the Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea War Pensions Committee Alfred William Kingsland, Treasurer and Accountant to the Borough of Ramsgate George Thomas Knight, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Hertfordshire Constabulary Richard Knox, Superintendent, Hampshire Constabulary Robert Cecil Last, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue Janet Coghill Swanson Luke. For political and public services in Lanarkshire. The Reverend Joseph McKenna. For services during the floods at Fleetwood in October 1927
1521_71
Alexander Mackenzie, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Argyllshire Albert McLean, Organising Master, Carlton Street Senior Evening Institute, Bradford Councillor Patrick McNicholas. For services during the floods at Fleetwood in October 1927 Ernest William Moat, Superintendent, Middlesex Deeds and Land Charges Department, Land Registry John William Monson, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue Katharine Moore, Confidential Shorthand Typist to the Secretary of State, and Assistant to the Private Secretary, India Office John Reginald Nelson, Staff Clerk, War Office William Hastings Nichols, Superintending Clerk, Accountant General's Department, Admiralty William Ernest Noall, Staff Officer, Dominions Office Rosina Palmer Member of the Worcester, Kidderminster and District War Pensions Committee William George Paramour, Superintendent, Kent Constabulary George Henry Paxon, Accountant, Finance Department, Ministry of Labour
1521_72
Kate Annie Popert, Accountant, Finance Department, Ministry of Labour Grace Alice Rees, Manager, Special Employment Exchange for Women, Girls and Boys, Great Marlborough Street Alfred James Richards, Chief Superintendent, Staffordshire Constabulary William Rowbotham, Superintending Clerk, Pensions Department, Ministry of Health George Ernest Russell, Head Master, Battle Council Mixed Department, Reading Wilfred George Sanders, Constructor, Department of the Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty John Thomas Savill, formerly Head Master of Bladon School, Oxfordshire Olive Letitia Scurlock, Chief Superintendent of Typists, Board of Trade Arthur Henry Shepherd, Head of Section, Superintendent of Lines Department, Great Western Railway Charles Henry Simonds, Clerk to the Recorder of Bradford Ernest Smith, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Smith Superintendent, Glamorgan Constabulary
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Henry Watson Stockman, First-Class Clerk, Ministry of Health Frederick Carey Stringer, Senior Staff Clerk, War Office Robert William Strugnell, Assistant Civil Engineer, Works and Buildings Department, Air Ministry John Taft, Governor of H.M. Borstal Institution, Feltham, Middlesex Alfred Edmund Taylor, Superintendent, Shropshire Constabulary Harry Robert Tooley, Acting Expense Accounts Officer, Admiralty Wallace John Turl, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health Stanley William Vaughan, Details Superintendent Clerk, Motor Transport, France and Belgium, Imperial War Graves Commission Arthur Edward Walker, Senior Executive Officer, Secretaries Office, Board of Customs and Excise Edmund Seller Wiggins, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health Mabel Agnes Wilde, Honorary Secretary of the Tunbridge Wells Committee of the Kent Association for Empire Settlement Barbara Edith Barber Williams. For charitable services in Southport
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Samuel John Young, Manager, Shoreditch Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour
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British India Francis Woodman-Wilson Executive Electrical Engineer, and Electrical Inspector to Government, Bombay William Henry King, Assistant Engineer, Posts and Telegraphs Service Edwin Harold Brandon, Assistant Secretary, Home Department of the Government of India William Norman Richardson Bombay Civil Service, Deputy Collector and City Magistrate, Karachi Arthur Matthews, Officer Supervisor, Adjutant-General's Branch, Army Headquarters Rao Bahadur Waman Ganesh Rale, retired Deputy Collector, Bombay Mark William Smith, Superintendent, Foreign and Political Department, Government of India James Henry Green, Superintendent, Department of Education, Health and Lands, Government of India Herbert Cyrill Marshall Upshon, Jailor, Presidency Jail, Calcutta Captain Frank Ernest Hitchin, Superintendent, Borstal School, Tanjore, Madras Henry Kelegher Penrose, Secretary, Municipal Committee and District Board, Peshawar
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Herbert Matthew Cameron Harris, Head Master, Government High School, Ajmer, Rajputana William Baker Cairns, Quarry and Stoneyard Officer, Delhi Alfred William Conolly, Works Manager (Production), Rifle Factory, Ishapore Ruth Young, Personal Assistant to the Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service, and the Secretary of the Funds under the Presidency of Her Excellency the Lady Irwin Pandit Ram Nath, Principal, Pandit Baij Nath High School, Amritsar Khan Sahib Ardeshir Ruttonji Mehta, Senior Hospital Storekeeper, British Military Hospital, Quetta
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Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Harry James Archibald, Editor and Proprietor of the Central China Post Joseph William Caruana, British Pro-Consul at Port Said Robert Diacono, President of the Maltese Community in Cairo James Lawrie Duncan, Master of Works, Khartoum Province Ernest Edwin Gabbetis, Superintendent of Works, Public Works Department, Sudan Government Martha Isabel Garvice, Senior Lady Medical Officer, Egyptian Ministry of Education The Reverend Bertie James Harper, Khartoum Meta Hunt, Social and Educational Worker, Khartoum Thomas Cornelius Sargent, British Vice-Consul at Santiago Frank Wicker, Secretary of the Hertford British Hospital in Paris Dominions Louisa Adlam, lately Matron-in-Chief of the Southern Rhodesia Nursing Service
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Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Captain Frederick Stanworth Adey. For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong. Mabel Winifred Mary Alabaster. For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong. Edward Bird, Chief Clerk in the Governor's Office, Kenya Leila Evelyn de Lisle Bowen, Honorary Secretary of the Naval Welfare League, Barbados. For services in providing entertainment and hospitality for men of H.M. Ships. James Frederick Corson Assistant Bacteriologist, Medical and Sanitary Department, Tanganyika Territory Francis Lionel Daniel, Justice of the Peace and Unofficial Police Magistrate, Colombo, Ceylon John Adolphus Songo Davies, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Sierra Leone Muriel Hanschell, President of the Naval Welfare League, Barbados. For services in providing entertainment and hospitality for men of H.M. Ships. Commander Fred Mason Jenkins, Marine Superintendent, Kenya and Uganda Railways
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George Maclean Sleeping Sickness Officer, Medical and Sanitary Department, Tanganyika Territory Nevile Southcote Mansergh, Commissioner of Police, Gold Coast Muriel Edith Miskin, Principal of the Deaf and Blind School at Mount Lavinia, near Colombo, Ceylon Augustus Rawle Parkinson, Headmaster of the Wesley Hall Elementary School, Barbados Alice Christabel Remington. For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong. John Goodwin Roberts, Public School Teacher in the Out-islands, Bahama Islands Lois Mary Roberts, Matron of the Public Hospital, Belize, British Honduras Beatrice Russell-Brown. For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong. Raymond Gustave Sargeant, Port Captain, Kenya Charles Henry Joseph Sheppard, Inspecting Officer of Police, Iraq James Godfrey Tetteh O'Baka Torto, Treasury Assistant, Nigeria Emily Mary Tull. For services in connection with the Baby Welfare Movement in Grenada, Windward Islands
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Agnes Catherine Wolfe. For services for the welfare of the troops in Hong Kong.
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Honorary Members Nejib Effendi Bawarshi, Assistant District Officer, Palestine Abdel Baszak Effendi Kleibo, Assistant District Officer, Palestine Yeshua Shami Medical Officer, Department of Health, Palestine Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) Professor John Scott Haldane Director of the Mining Research Laboratory of Birmingham University. For Scientific work in connection with industrial disease. Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
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First Class Winifred May, Lady Wilson, Bombay Rai Bahadur Sir Bipin Krishna Bose Vice-Chancellor, Nagpur University, Central Provinces Iris Goodeve Brayne, Gurgaon, Punjab Christian Frederik Frimodt-Møller, Medical Superintendent, Union Mission Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Madanapaller Chittoor District, Madras Ada Lee, Superintendent, Lee Memorial Mission, Calcutta Father Alphonse Fargeton, Superintendent, Rangoon Leper Asylum, Burma Annie Caroline Smith, in charge of the Zenana Hospital of the Church of Scotland Mission, Gujrat Robert Johnston Ashton Kachwa, Mirzapur District, United Provinces British Empire Medal (BEM) Military Division For Meritorious Service Corporal Kashi Mohanied, 3rd Battalion, The King's African Rifles Civil Division
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For Meritorious Service John Berry, Superintendent of Messengers, and Office Keeper John Britch, Constable, Lancashire Constabulary Thomas Jones, Fireman, Lytham St. Annes Fire Brigade Charles Adolphus Judd, Superintendent of Messengers in the office of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Henry Kirkham, Fireman, Lytham St. Annes Fire Brigade George Lament, Inspector, Lanarkshire Constabulary Francis Graham Marshall, Sub-District Commandant, Royal Ulster (Special) Constabulary Epbert Moore, Sergeant, Royal Ulster Constabulary William Burnett Smithwick, Market Constable, Liverpool Thomas Sumner, Constable, Lancashire Constabulary Military Cross (MC) Captain Christopher Ronald Spear, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 5th Battalion (late 58th Vaughan's Rifles, Frontier Force), Indian Army, in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in action during military operations in China in March 1927. Air Force Cross (AFC)
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Flight Lieutenant Thomas Stanley Horry Flight Lieutenant Robert Lyle McKendrick Barbour Flight Lieutenant David D'Arcy Alexander Greig Air Force Medal (AFM) Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Harry Walter Woods Leading Aircraftman Francis Thomas Arney
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Imperial Service Order (ISO) Home Civil Service Frank Ernest Allum, Deputy Master of the Branch Mint at Perth, Western Australia Arliss Hayden Carter, Accountant, Ministry of Health David Crombie, Secretary and Inspector, Prison Commission for Scotland Henry Charles Glaysher Senior Staff Clerk, War Office David Allan Gracey Superintending Chemist, Government Chemist's Department Albert Thomas John Lister Guest, Clerk in charge of Registration and Muniments, Charity Commission Arthur Hogan Senior Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department Albert Edward Laslett, Engineer Surveyor-in-Chief and Inspector of Testing Establishments, Board of Trade Donald Macleod, Sub-Inspector, Scottish Education Department Edward John Metters, Chief Clerk, Children's Branch, Home Office Edward Parkes Technical Assistant in Consular Department, Foreign Office George Slater, Controller, Money Order Department, General Post Office Walter George Twort, Chief Inspector, National Insurance Audit Department
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William Vickers, Senior Staff Officer, Exchequer, Edinburgh
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Dominions Harry Blinman Under-Secretary, Secretary to the Premier and Clerk of the Executive Council, State of South Australia Captain John Bollons, Master of S.S. Tutanekai, Marine Department, Dominion of New Zealand Joshua Dyson Farrar, Chief Electoral Officer, Department of Home and Territories, Commonwealth of Australia Henry Latimer Walters, Secretary, Department of Works and Railways, Commonwealth of Australia Basil Hale Warner, lately an Assistant Commissioner in Swaziland Indian Civil Service Khan Bahadur Hafiz Muhammad Wilayatullah, Deputy Commissioner, Bhandara, Central Provinces Khan Bahadur Ahmed Bakhsh, Assistant Residency Surgeon, Personal Assistant to the Administrative Medical Officer in Central India and Superintendent, Central India Agency Jail, Indore Ardeshir Edalji Servai Acting Under Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Revenue Department Jogindra Chander Ghose, Punjab Civil Service, Secretary, District Board, Ludhiana, Punjab
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Colonial Civil Service Cecil Molesworth Bunbury, Chief Engineer, Kenya and Uganda Railways Henry Casolani Superintendent of Emigration, Malta Charles Herman Vidal Hall, lately Collector of Revenue, Jamaica George William Knapman, Establishment Officer, Secretariat, Kenya Philip Thomas Lamble, Superintendent of Staff and Works, Sanitary Department, Hong Kong Hugh McLaren, Principal of the Accra Technical School, Gold Coast Robert James Pereira, Extra Office Assistant to the Government Agent, Western Province, Ceylon Amaro John Reed, Accountant, Post Office, Hong Kong Ratu Deve Toganivalu, Member of the Legislative Council, and Provincial Commissioner, Fiji Leslie Tucker, Federal Inspector of Schools, Leeward Islands Imperial Service Medal (ISM)
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Baroda Behari Banerji, late Senior Compositor, Press of the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy Sargonath Coomar, late Record Sorter, Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India Pandit Salig Rarn, Jamadar to the Chief Justice, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Muhammad Moideen, late Duffadar, Legislative Council Office, Madras Saidai Khan of Yarkand, late Consulate Postman between Yarkand and Kashgar Hardwar Tiwari, late Reserve Warder and Orderly to the Inspector-General of Prisons, United Provinces References Birthday Honours 1928 awards 1928 in Australia 1928 in India 1928 in New Zealand 1928 in the United Kingdom
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The following is a list of 2008 rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, by Hamas and Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. This was part of a rapid escalation of attacks by Hamas on Israel. Until the ceasefire on June 19, 2008, 2378 rockets and mortars were launched. This is more than the 1,639 attacks launched in all of 2007, the rate of fire per month had increased more than 240%. A six-month 2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire was agreed to by both sides and began on June 19, 2008. Sporadic attacks continued during the cease-fire at a vastly diminished rate; a total of 20 rockets and 18 mortars were launched from the signing of the ceasefire until the beginning of November. This represented a 98% reduction in rocket fire -month period prior to the signing of the ceasefire during which over 1,800 rockets were fired from Gaza. On November 4, the Israeli military attacked a cross-border tunnel on the Gaza side, killing two Hamas gunman. The resulted in rocket and mortar attacks and
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subsequent Israel Air Force strikes on launching sites and killed an additional four Hamas gunmen. Israeli officials allege Hamas was constructing a tunnel to be used to abduct Israeli soldiers. Following this event the number of rockets fired from Gaza escalated, 125 being launched in the month of November. This page lists rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian terrorists. According to the Israeli military's count on December 27, 3,000 rockets hit Israel since the beginning of the year.
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A total of eight people were killed by Qassam rocket, Grad rocket and mortar attacks on Israel in 2008. Four of these deaths occurred between 27 and 29 December. Visual summary
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January January 3, 2008 Palestinian terrorists fired a long-range Grad Iranian-supplied Katyusha rocket at northern Ashkelon, the longest reach of a Palestinian rocket (16.5 to 20 km). This rocket landed further north than any rocket since the rocket fire began seven years ago - . No one was hurt in the attack, though the missile landed only some 50 meters (55 yards) from a residential neighborhood. The Katyusha rocket fired at Ashkelon, a Grad model 122 millimeters (nearly 5 inches) in diameter, was the fifth such rocket fired towards Ashkelon. The use of the Katyusha rocket could bring a quarter million Israelis within rocket range (International Herald Tribune). Israel sent aircraft and tanks to hit buildings used by rocket launchers, killing twelve Palestinians including two to four civilians.
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Palestinians responded to Israel's strikes with a barrage of seven Qassam rockets, one of which hit the yard of a house in the town of Sderot. 25 other rockets were also fired by Palestinians at Israeli towns and forces in the Western Negev. January 4, 2008 Eight mortar shells were fired by Palestinians at southern Israel. Palestinians operating from Gaza launched six Qassam rockets at the western Negev on Friday, one of which struck the yard of a home in the town of Sderot, causing damage. One boy was lightly injured and evacuated to a hospital. Several residents suffered from shock. Meanwhile, a Qassam rocket hit a western Negev open field Friday morning. No damage or injuries were reported. January 9, 2008
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At least ten Qassam rockets and twelve mortar shells were fired into Israel. Two of the twelve Qassam rockets "directly struck houses" in Sderot. This attack, coincided with the arrival of US President George W. Bush for a three-day visit. One of the missiles slammed into a house, landing in a young child's bedroom. The three-week-old baby had been taken by his mother to the shelter as soon as the Red Color alert siren sounded. The Israel Air Force targeted an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell that was firing mortar bombs from Beit Lahiyeh in northern Gaza, killing two terrorists and wounding six others, according to both Israeli and PA sources. January 10, 2008 At least one Qassam rocket was fired into Israel hitting the Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in the western Negev about "100 meters from the cafeteria." January 13, 2008Eight mortar bombs were fired at Israel, including one that exploded in Netiv HaAsarah, just north of Gaza, causing damage to a building.
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January 15, 2008 – January 18, 2008 Twenty-eight rockets hit the western Negev on January 15. One scored a direct hit on a home, wounding five people, including Lior Ben-Shimol, age 5, from Sderot, and a 19-year-old boy who was lightly injured from shrapnel. On January 15, terror emanating from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip sharply escalated. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that than 100 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza on the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon on January 15. More than 120 Qassam rockets and 65 mortars were fired towards the Western Negev, in a 72-hour period. The attacks injured more than eight Israelis, and two of the rockets struck near a kindergarten, which was full of children at the time of the attack. January 18, 2008 – January 28, 2008 There were 30 identified rocket hits from January 18 to January 28 (Hamas claimed responsibility for most) and 83 mortar shell hits.
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February February 5, 2008 An 8-year-old boy and his older brother were seriously wounded Saturday when a rocket from Gaza slammed into the Israeli border town of Sderot. Their mother and a third brother were brought to the hospital suffering shock Israeli aircraft had earlier in the day struck twice in Gaza in an effort to thwart the launchings, the army said. One terrorist was seriously injured, medics said. February 6, 2008 Two girls, aged twelve and two, were injured when a Qassam rocket fired from northern Gaza landed near a kindergarten in a kibbutz in the Eshkol Regional Council in the western Negev. Their mother suffered from shock. A house in Sderot was also damaged. The Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the attack. February 25, 2008 Palestinian terrorists fire five Qassam rockets at Israeli towns. One of which fell near a school in Sderot, 10-year-old Yossi Chymov, was critically injured in the attack. February 27, 2008
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About 50 Qassam rockets were fired towards the Negev, one of which struck a parking lot near Sapir Academic College, killing 47-year-old student Ron Yahye. Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad carried this rocket barrage. In addition, they fired for the first time six Iranian built Grad missiles (also known as Katyushas, which actually refers to the original launcher) at the industrial city of Ashkelon. While only a few people were lightly injured, this longer distance attack on a larger Israeli city had a major psychological effect. The Israeli Prime Minister and several other minister vowed a tough response. The IAF retaliated with more airstrikes in Jabalia camp and the northern part of Gaza Strip. About seven killed in the attacks, most of whom were terrorists, however a six-month-old baby was also killed after a missile struck a house in the camp. February 28, 2008
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A 13-month-old Gaza girl was killed by flying shrapnel when a Qassam missile launched from Gaza at Israel fell short and landed near her home.
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March March 1, 2008 About 50 rockets were fired in a span of 12 hours. One Israeli 8 year-old had his leg amputated in a rocket attack. One Israeli civilian was killed in a rocket attack in Sderot. A much larger number of civilians were wounded or treated for shock. March 13, 2008 A Qassam rocket was shot at Ashkelon from Gaza. The rocket, the first in two days, landed in an open area in southern Ashkelon. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular left-wing group, claimed responsibility. March 19, 2008 Two rockets were fired at the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. March 20, 2008 A rocket landed within the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council limits during the Jewish holiday of Purim.
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April April 17, 2008 Seventeen rockets were fired at the western Negev near Ashkelon. April 18, 2008 Sixteen Qassam rockets were fired at Israel. One rocket hit power lines and another hit a residential block in Sderot. April 21, 2008 Palestinian forces operating out of the Gaza Strip on Monday fired at least nine rockets and mortar shells at communities in southern Israel, wounding a four-year-old Israeli boy (light injuries from a piece of shrapnel) and damaging a number of homes. April 22, 2008 One missile fired from northern Gaza hit the southern industrial zone of the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. April 29, 2008 More than 15 Qassam rockets and 20 mortar shells were fired on Israel throughout the day, with two of the Qassam rockets and eight of the mortar shells landing within and around western Negev towns. April 30, 2008
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At least two rockets fired by Gaza-based Palestinian forces slammed into the southern Israel town of Sderot while local residents were attending a Holocaust memorial ceremony on Wednesday evening.
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May May 1, 2008 Terrorists from Gaza fired at least 10 rockets at Sderot and neighboring communities. One rocket landed next to an Israeli high school. A number of students suffered from shock. May 9, 2008 On Friday a 48-year-old Jimmy Kdoshim was killed by a mortar shell while working in his garden in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Palestinian terrorists from the Islamist group Hamas, who regularly fire rockets and mortars into Israel from Gaza, claimed responsibility. May 10, 2008 Two rockets land in Ashkelon; one near a school at 7 AM, shortly before the children would arrive May 11, 2008
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On Sunday afternoon, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades fired two Qassam rockets at the western Negev. One of the rockets landed at the parking lot of Sapir College, causing a woman to suffer shock and damaging some vehicles. The other rocket landed in Sderot near a bus carrying schoolchildren. Three children suffered shock and were treated by Magen David Adom paramedics. The bus' windows were shattered and a fire broke out nearby. May 12, 2008 Shuli Katz, a 70-year-old resident of Kibbutz Gvaram was killed early Monday evening from a Palestinian Qassam rocket which crashed into the backyard of a residential home in Yesha – a small community belonging to the Eshkol Regional Council. A 50-year-old man was treated for shock. The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. May 13, 2008 Five Qassam rockets are fired at Israel. May 14, 2008
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A Katyusha rocket (also referred to as a Grad) was fired into the Israeli city of Ashkelon, it struck a clinic in the third floor of the Huzot shopping mall at 6:00 pm. This attack resulted in three people seriously injured (one was an eight-year-old girl), two moderately injured and eleven people suffered minor wounds. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command said its fighters launched the rocket. May 15, 2008 Hours after President Bush's arrival for a state visit a rocket launched by Gaza terrorists landed on a shopping mall in Ashkelon, Israel's southernmost city on the Mediterranean coast, injuring more than 30 people. May 18, 2008 Some 15 rockets hit the Sderot area on Sunday. May 19, 2008
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A 35-year-old woman was killed and two others wounded Monday evening when a Qassam rocket struck a car in the western Negev town of Sderot. The woman, Shir-El Friedman, was standing next to the car at the time of the strike and was taken to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Hospital spokeswoman Lea Malul said she died on the way to the hospital. According to the IDF, a total of 15 rockets were fired at the area on Monday. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility. May 24, 2008
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Four rockets fired towards western Negev on Saturday, two of them confirmed as longer-range Grads. Residents awaken to first barrage at 6:40 am as the Red Color alter sirens blared. The first two rockets landed in the Nahal Oz region. The two remaining rockets were longer-range Grads. One landed in Netivot and other near Ma'agalim. No injuries or damage reported. Throughout the day barrages of mortar shells were fired from Gaza, most towards IDF forces operating along the border fence. May 31, 2008 Palestinian terrorists fired five Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip. No casualties or damage were reported. A sixth Qassam wounded two migrant workers from Thailand, one moderately and the other lightly, on Saturday morning when a Qassam rocket hit the western Negev greenhouse in which they were working.
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June June 2, 2008 Seven Qassam rockets and four mortars hit the western Negev desert. Five people were hurt, including two Bedouin farmhands, a farmer and two Thai migrant workers. June 5, 2008 Hamas fired three mortar shells from Gaza which landed in the Nirlat paint factory in Kibutz Nir Oz killing Amnon Ronsenberg, a 52-year-old father of three on Thursday. Five additional Israelis were injured. Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the firing of the mortar. June 6, 2008 A barrage of Kassam rockets slammed into the western Negev city of Sderot and the surrounding area on Friday afternoon. One of the Kassams exploded near Sapir College, damaging a building on the campus as well as six cars. Nine mortar bombs were fired at the western Negev in several attacks earlier in the day. A building was damaged, but no one was injured. June 8, 2008 The Al-Quds Brigades fires four rockets toward southern Israel, lightly injuring a Thai foreign worker. June 10, 2008
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Hamas fires 18 mortar shells toward Israel. The mortars, which were fired in two separate salvos, landed in open areas near Nahal Oz. Another four mortar shells and four Qassam rockets were fired later the same day. June 11, 2008 Factory workers were evacuated from the area after a fire erupted as a result of two mortars from Gaza landing. One man was lightly wounded from shrapnel. June 12, 2008 Israel's Gaza-vicinity communities were hit with dozens of mortars and rockets, apparently as cover to infiltrate the country with an explosives-laden bulldozer. The attempt was stopped.
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A 59-year-old Israeli woman was lightly-to-moderately wounded in the Yad Mordechai area on Thursday afternoon as Palestinian terror groups launched a barrage of mortar shells and Qassam rockets against Israeli communities near the Gaza border. At least 40 mortars and 25 Qassams landed in Israel, primarily in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, a number of fires have broken out as a result. A member of Kibbutz Nahal Oz told Ynet that residents have currently been instructed to remain in bomb shelters and fortified rooms. One of the mortars landed in Palestinian territory near the Erez crossing, lightly injuring a Palestinian. Magen David Adom paramedics asked to treat the wounded man but were denied access. In addition, a missile, apparently of a type "Grad" landed near Ashkelon. No injuries were reported but a number of people suffered from shock. June 16, 2008
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A Grad-type rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an Ashkelon cemetery leaving one person lightly to moderately wounded. Another rocket exploded inside the city. The victim suffered shrapnel wounds to his neck. Several other people suffered from shock and were treated by emergency medical staff at the scene. Gaza's Hamas rulers took responsibility for the strike. June 17, 2008 On Tuesday night, terrorists launched up to 10 rockets at Israel. Several fell in open areas around the Israeli border town of Sderot, a military spokeswoman said. June 18, 2008 More than 40 rockets and mortar shells were launched from Gaza towards Sderot. Several hit the town, causing some damage June 23, 2008 A single mortar shell was also fired from Gaza late Monday night and landed on the Israeli side of the border fence. No organization claimed responsibility for the attack. June 24, 2008
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Three Qassam rockets fired from Gaza on Tuesday struck the Israeli border town of Sderot and its environs, causing no serious injuries but constituting the first serious breach of a five-day-old truce between Israel and Hamas. One rocket landed in a backyard garden of a house while another landed in open ground. Two people were treated for shock. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack and said it had been a response to an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus at dawn on Tuesday, in which a senior Islamic Jihad operative Tareq Abu Ghali, 24 and another Palestinian university student Iyad Khanfar, 21 were killed. An Israeli Army spokesman said that Abu Ghali had been involved in terrorism and that he was "killed in an exchange of fire." The man killed with him was armed, the spokesman said.
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The rocket attack occurred hours after Olmert met President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik to discuss the next steps in the tenuous Egyptian-mediated truce and the renewal of efforts to resolve the case of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli corporal held by Hamas in Gaza since June 25, 2006. Israeli Defense Ministry decided that Israel would keep the Gaza border crossings closed Thursday, except for special humanitarian cases, in response to Tuesday's Qassam rocket attacks June 26, 2008 A rocket hit an open area of the industrial zone outside Sderot. There were no reports of injuries or damage, according to army sources. The Fatah-affiliated Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. In a text message sent to reporters, it said "the truce must include the West Bank and all sorts of aggression must stop."
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On Thursday morning, Hamas accused Israel of violating the terms of the Gaza cease-fire a day after Israeli Defense Ministry decided that Israel would keep the Gaza border crossings closed Thursday, except for special humanitarian cases, in response to Tuesday's Qassam rocket attacks - "If the crossings remain closed, the truce will collapse", Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Thursday morning. June 27, 2008 Early on Friday, two mortar shells were fired at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip. One landed near Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, and the second one hit an open area. There were no reports of injuries or damage in the latest violation of the fragile ceasefire. Following yesterday's rocket attack by Aksa Martyrs Brigade a spokesman for the Hamas government, Taher al-Nunu, called Fatah's actions "unpatriotic". He said Hamas was considering the possibility of taking action against those perpetrating the attacks against Israel.
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Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called Friday on Palestinian factions to adhere to the Gaza Strip lull agreement with Israel. "The factions and the people accepted the lull in order to secure two interests – an end to aggression and the lifting of the siege. Therefore, we hope that everyone honors this national agreement", he said following Friday prayers. June 28, 2008 Mortar shells were fired at the Karni crossing. No one claims responsibility for the attacks. Israel blocks all shipments into Gaza except fuel, in response to the rocket and mortar attacks. June 30, 2008 A rocket falls near the town of Mefalsim. Nobody claims responsibility for the attack. In response Israel once again closes the crossings that had previously been reopened on June 29, 2008.
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July July 2, 2008 There were no rocket or mortar attacks so Israel reopens the four Gaza crossings on Wednesday July 2. Since a truce began June 19, Israel has closed the passages a total of six days in retaliation for rocket attacks. July 3, 2008 A rocket lands in an open area north of Sderot. A previously unknown organization calling itself the "Badr Forces" claims responsibility for the attack. In response Israel temporarily closes the crossings on July 4, 2008. July 7, 2008 A mortar shell is fired at Israel from Gaza on Monday and lands near the Karni crossing. July 8, 2008 Two mortar attacks from Gaza were aimed at the Sufa crossing. One fell just inside Gaza and the other at the crossing. Hours later, terrorists fired another shell into Israel, causing no casualties or damage, the Israeli military said. No Palestinian group immediately claimed responsibility. July 10, 2008
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Two Qassam rockets were fired at Israel, but caused no damage, after an unarmed Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades infiltrator was killed at the Kissufim crossing. An Israeli Army spokesman said they fired warning shots and when the man did not stop they killed him. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades vowed revenge and claimed responsibility for the rocket attack. July 12, 2008 A rocket lands in an open area in Sha'ar Hanegev regional council. Nobody claims responsibility for the attack. July 13, 2008 Two mortar shells are misfired and they land on the Gaza side of the border security fence in the Nahal Oz region. Nobody claims responsibility for the attack. Israel responds by only closing the Nahal Oz and Sufa crossings. July 15, 2008 A mortar hit is identified. July 25, 2008 A rocket misfires and lands in Gaza near the Kissufim crossing. July 29, 2008 Another rocket is launched from Gaza and mistakenly lands in Gaza. July 31, 2008 Again, a rocket misfires and lands in Gaza.
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August August 1-31st In the month of August 7 rockets and 12 mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel. September September 1-30th The month of September represented a considerable lull in the number of rocket and mortar attacks. In this month, 3 rockets and 2 mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel. They caused no injuries or deaths. October October 11 A single rocket was launched from Gaza into Israel resulting in no injuries or deaths.
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November November 4 Hamas fires 30 Qassam rockets at Israel after an Israeli operation on 4 November to close a 250 meter cross-border abduction tunnel in Gaza. During this operation, 7 Hamas militants were killed. November 6-12th Given the increase in cross-border fire, the truce agreed to five months ago is starting to flounder. Between November 5th and November 12th, 22 rockets and 9 mortars were fired into Israel. November 12–19 In this week 62 rockets and 26 mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel. The results of these attacks were that 16 people were wounded, 13 from shock and 3 from light wounds. November 21 A rocket hit the Ashkelon industrial area. November 22–23 Four Qassam rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel over the weekend. November 24–25 Two Qassam rockets landed in Israel. November 26–27 Four Qassam rockets landed in the western Negev, one damaging a house on a kibbutz.
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December December 3 At least four Qassam rockets and 15 mortar rounds were fired from the Gaza Strip at the western Negev. Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility. One mortar attack damaged an Israeli power cable being used to transfer electricity to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. December 6–7 At least 20 Qassam rockets and mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip hit the western Negev over the weekend. One Qassam landed near a Sderot school. December 12 Two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip hit open space in Israel a week before a truce is set to expire. The Qassam rockets launched Friday landed in open areas and caused no damage. December 16 At least six Qassam rockets and a mortar shell hit Israel hours after Israeli troops killed an Islamic Jihad commander in the West Bank. One of the rockets fired landed in the soccer field of Sderot's Sapir College. Several people were treated for shock. December 17
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A Qassam rocket struck the parking lot of a shopping center in Sderot, injuring three Israelis. At least 18 rockets and 6 mortar shells were fired this day on southern Israel, 48 hours before the truce between Israel and the Hamas expired. December 18 Hamas declares the end of the 6 Month Truce with Israel. Three rockets are fired at Israel by the Al-Quds Brigades. December 21 At least 50 rockets and mortars struck southern Israel since a cease-fire with Hamas ended on December 19. Rockets landed in Ashkelon's industrial zone, near an elementary school, a youth cultural center in the western Negev and a home in Sderot. A foreign worker was injured. In response, Israeli forces struck at least two rocket launchers in Gaza. December 22 Three Qassam rockets were fired at Israel on Monday afternoon and evening, while Hamas had mostly stopped launching rockets at Israel for 24 hours at the request of Egypt. December 23
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At least five Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip struck the western Negev. December 24 More than 60 Qassam rockets and dozens of mortar shells struck homes, factories and a playground in southern Israel. Two longer ranged Grad-type missiles struck a public area in northern Ashkelon. Homes in Kibbutz Shaar Hanegev and Sdot Negev suffered serious damage from direct hits. A rocket also struck next to a playground in Netivot. One factory in the western Negev was hit twice. Several people in those areas were treated for shock. Two Palestinians were hurt when a rocket that did not clear the security fence at the border landed on a home in a northern Gaza town. December 26 A dozen rockets and mortar bombs were fired from Gaza into Israel, one accidentally falling short and striking a northern Gaza house and killing two Palestinian sisters, aged five and twelve, while wounding a third December 27–31 (See Gaza War (2008–09)#Israel.)