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The Order of St Michael and St. George: Approvals and Recommendations for the Birthday...

Catalogue reference: CO 448/35/3

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Reference
CO 448/35/3
Date
1929
Description

The Order of St Michael and St. George: Approvals and Recommendations for the Birthday Honours, 1929.

For Grand Cross St Michael and St George: Sir John Cadman, KCMG.

For Honorary Grand Cross St Michael and St George:

  • His Highness, Sultan Ala'Iddin Sulaiman of Selangor, KCMG, Federation. Malay States.

For Knight Cross St Michael and St George:

  • Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron Delamere, Kenya; Sir F S James, KBE, CMG, Governor Windward Isles.
  • Lt. Col. the Hon. Sir Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykenham Fiennes Bart, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Isles.

For Companion St Michael and St George:

  • William Kirby Green, Esq. Provincial Commr, Nyasaland.
  • Dr William James D Innes, Esq, Director of Medical sanitary Services, Gold Coast.
  • Islay McOwan, Esq. Secretary for Native Affairs, seconded to Directorship of Education, Nigeria.
  • George Hemmant, Esq. Class 1A Officer, Malayan Civil Service, lately acting Colonial Secretary Straits.

British Empire Medal (Military Division): CBE:

  • Brevet Lieut-Col. (local Colonel) William Basil Greenwell, DSO, Commandant, Nigeria Regiment, RWAFF.

British Empire Medal (Military Division): For OBE :

  • Bt Major Ralph Havelock L Fink, MC, Cheshire Regiment serving with Iraq Army.
  • Capt Terence Marshall Brick, Supply and Transport Dept. (Kenya) King's African Rifles.
  • Capt. Geoffrey R King, MC, Leicester Regiment, 4th Bn King's African Rifles (Uganda).
  • Major James John Saunders, O C Penang Province, Wellesley Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements.
  • Major Arthur Alfred Lermit, VD, O C Malacca Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements.
  • Lieut. Claude Roland Smith, Late Captain and Quartermaster, Gold Coast Regiment, RWAFF.

British Empire Medal (Civil Division): For Hon. KBE:

  • Sheikh Ali Bin Salim, CMG, CBE, Chief Liwali of the Coast Kenya.

British Empire Medal (Civil Division): For CBE:

  • Patrick Nicholas N Jones; Esq. OBE, Director of Public Works, Bermuda.
  • Claude Hatherley Dobree; Esq. OBE, Treasurer Comm of Taxes, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Lt-Col. Frederick Johnson McCall, MC, MRCVS, Director of Vetinary Services, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Capt. Robert Sutherland Rattray, MBE, Prov. Commr. Gold Coast, for services as Anthropologist and in recognition solo flight in 'Moth' machine from Croydon to Accra.
  • Edward W F Gilman, Esq. Controller of Labour, Malaya.
  • Thomas Edward Dutton, Esq. General manager, Government Railway, Ceylon.
  • Bishop H Streicher, Head of the White Fathers Mission, Uganda.

British Empire Medal (Civil Division): For OBE:

  • Capt. Bertram William L Nicholson, Headmaster, Nairobi European School, Kenya, for educational services.
  • Major Arthur Tremayne Miles, DSO, MC and V G Glenday, both of the Kenya Administrative Service for services rendered during negotiations with the Abyssinian Government 1928.
  • The Reverend Father Christopher James Kirk, MBE, Mill Hill Mission, Uganda.
  • Frank Dixey, Esq. Director of Geological Survey, Nyasaland.
  • Alder James Beckley, Esq. Collector of Customs, Gold Coast.
  • Henry Carr, Esq. ISO, formerly Resident of the Colony, Nigeria. For services to education.
  • Capt Clinton Grieg, Esq. Commissioner of Police, Gambia.
  • Dr. Irving Daniel Ramsey, MD, Civil Surgeon, Iraq.
  • William Alfred Pover, Executive Engineer, Communications & Works Department, Iraq.
  • George Stuart, Asst. Director Laboratories, Department of Health, Palestine.
  • Louis Andrews, Administrative Officer, Palestine.
  • Louis Edmund Blaze, formerly Principal of Kingswood (Wesleyan) College, Kandy, Ceylon.
  • Henry Graham Yearwood, Member of House of Assembly, Barbados, Delegate to West Indies Conference.

British Empire Medal (Civil Division): For MBE:

  • Charles Robert Philip, Esq. Medical Officer, Kenya.
  • Miss Charys Elizabeth Begbie, Matron, Lady Grigg Maternity Hospital, Kenya.
  • Arthur Edward Hamp, Esq. Chief Storekeeper, Kenya and Uganda Railway.
  • John Archer, Esq. DCM, Superintendent of the Central Prison and Lunatic Asylum, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Berkley Morris Carter, Esq. Chief Storekeeper, Kenya and Uganda Railway.
  • Joseph Angel Chipulina, Esq. Chief Clerk, Post Office and Telegraph Department, Gibraltar.
  • Ernest William Davy, Esq. Assistant Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Joseph Briffa, Esq. Senior Clerk, Lieutenant Governor's Office, Malta.
  • John Howie Frew, Esq. Prison Superintendent, Jerusalem.
  • Abdul Karim, Hasanali of Aden, for services in connection with negotiations with the Imam in 1928.
  • R Sagarajasingam, Esq, for charitable services in Ceylon.
  • Mrs Selestina Rodrigo Dias, for charitable services in Ceylon.
  • Miss Evelyn Storrs Karney for work in the North Central Province of Ceylon.
  • Mrs Isabella Agnes Bannister, President of the Women's Social Welfare League, Barbados.
  • Mrs Rebecca Eliza Usher, for charitable services in British Honduras.

British Empire Medal (Civil Division): For Hon. MBE:

  • Bishara Effendi Saig, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine.
  • Habi Effendi Khuri, Vice Principal, Govt Arab College, Palestine.

For Knight Batchelor:

  • Michael Francis J Donnell, Esq. Chief Justice, Palestine.
  • Michael Henry Whitley, Esq. Attorney General, Straits Settlement.
  • Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis, CMG, CBE, DSO, Advisor to the Ministry of the Interior, Iraq.
  • Robert Howard Furness, Esq. Chief Justice, Barbados.
  • Nene Emmanuel Mate Kole, Konor of Manya Krobe, Gold Coast. Unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Colony.

For Imperial Service Order (ISO): Companions:

  • Fernand Ross, Esq. Deputy Inspector General of the Police, Mauritius.
  • William Anthony Baker, Esq. Surveyor General, Jamaica.
  • Charles Percival Bethel, Esq. Assistant Colonial Secretary, Bahama Islands.
  • Cheng Cheuk-Hin, Esq. Clerk, Public Works Department, Hong Kong.
  • Peter James Julyan, Esq. Clerk, Public Works Department, Hong Kong.
  • Henry James Norton, Esq. Chief Inspector and Storekeeper, Revenue Branch, Treasury, Gibraltar.
  • Ephraim Godman Taylor, Esq. African Assistant Treasurer, Sierra Leone.
  • John Rhodes Dickson, Esq. MB, Deputy Surgeon-General and Medical Inspector of Health, Trinidad.

File includes working Copies, telegrams to colonies and copies of the London Gazette entries

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
47211/1929
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10137139/

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