Catalogue description Colonial Honours List, New Year, 1938: Gazette notification, draft copies and...

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Details of CO 448/50/10
Reference: CO 448/50/10
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Colonial Honours List, New Year, 1938: Gazette notification, draft copies and recommendations for awards in the Order of St Michael and St George, list of awards by country for 1938, awards for the King's Police Medal.

Order of St Michael and St George, For KCMG:

  • Arthur Francis Grimble, Esq, CMG, Seychelles.
  • Sir Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, KBE, CMG, Gambia.

Order of St Michael and St George, For Honorary KCMG:

  • His Highness Sultan Salih bin Ghalib Al Qu'aiti, Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, Aden Protectorate.

Order of St Michael and St George, For CMG:

  • William Denis Battershill, Esq, Palestine.
  • Herbert Laurence Bayles, Esq, Nigeria.
  • Major Claude Henry Dale, OBE, Commissioner for His Majesty's Eastern African Dependencies Trade and Information Centre.
  • Kenneth Lambert Hall, Esq, Nyasaland.
  • Philip Henry Mason-Bahr, Esq, DSO, MD, FRCP, Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office.
  • Albert Rutherford Paterson, Esq, MB, Kenya.
  • Reginald Edwin Robins, Esq, OBE, AM.Inst.T, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Charles Henry Sansom, Esq, Federated Malay Sstates.
  • Major Hubert Craddock Stevenson, OBE, MC, Gold Coast.
  • John Douglad Tothill, Esq, DSc, Uganda.

Order of the British Empire, (Military Division), for CBE:

  • Lieutenant Colonel Francis Robinson, DSO, Aden Protectorate Levies.

For OBE:

  • Major Maurice Alfred Johnson, MM, Hong Kong Defence Corps.
  • Major Frederick Kennedy, King's African Rifles (KARs).
  • Captain Edward Blyde Millwood, Royal West African Frontier Force.

For MBE:

  • Lieutenant Rahmat bin Abbas, Straits Settlements Volunteer Corps.
  • Lieutenant Frederick Julian Laughlin, Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers (TLIV).
  • Sergeant Major Horace Rapsey, Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers (TLIV).
  • Regimental Sergeant Major, John Anson Thompson, Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps.
  • Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Francis Alexander Pickford Wright, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force.

Order of the British Empire, (Civil Division), for KBE:

  • William Hannah McLean, Esq, PhD, M.Inst.CE.

Honorary KBE:

  • His Highness Tuan Syed Alwi ibni Al-Marhum Syed Safi, CMG, CBE, Raja of Perlis, Malay States.

For CBE:

  • Husein Husanally Abdoolcader, Esq, Straits Settlements.
  • The Right Reverend David Williams Bently, DD, Barbados.
  • Chau Tsun-Nin, Esq, Hong Kong.
  • John Dewar, Esq, Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements.
  • Frank Dudley Evans, Esq, M.Inst.CE, Nigeria.
  • Seiyid Bubekr Al Kaf, Aden Protectorate.
  • Herbert Charles Ransom, Esq, OBE.
  • William Humphrey Smith, Esq, Kenya.

For Honorary CBE:

  • Ibrahim Pasha Hashem, Trans-Jordan.

For OBE:

  • Malcolm Burnett Gardiner Austin, Esq, British Guiana.
  • Aw Boon Haw, Esq, Straits Settlements.
  • Frank Leslie Brown, Esq, MC, Jamaica.
  • Commander John Oswald Buckler, RD, RNR, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours.
  • Frederick Raymond Charlton, Esq, Fiji.
  • Arnold Kirtland Cole, Esq, Bahamas.
  • Arnold Harold Dickinson, Esq, Federated Malay States.
  • The Very Reverend Father John Joseph English, BA, B.Sc, Trinidad.
  • Robert Alexander Farquharson, Esq, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Alexander Stewart Folkes, Esq, Uganda Protectorate.
  • The Reverend Canon Robert Mortimer Gibbons, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Louis Despilly Antoine Jorre de St Jorre, Esq, Seychelles.
  • Hugh Morley Oliff Lester, Esq, MRCS, LRCP, Nigeria.
  • James Douglas McKean, Esq, Kenya.
  • Nicolas Ioannou Nicolaides, Esq, Cyprus.
  • Stead Pope, Esq, Gold Coast.
  • Owen Gordon Price, esq, AMICE, FSI, Sierra Leone.
  • Harry Rich, Esq, Northern Rhodesia.
  • Miss Hilda Ridler, Palestine.
  • William Henry Smith, Esq, Gibraltar.
  • Khimji Katau Sualy, Esq, MBE, Zanzibar.
  • Henry Harrison Vaskess, Esq, Western Pacific.
  • William Llewellyn Wall, Esq, Leeward Islands.
  • James Watson, Esq, Federated Malay States.
  • The Reverend William Paulin Young, MC, DCM, Nyasaland.

Honorary OBE:

  • Georges Colin, Esq, St Helena.
  • Abdullah Kardus, ESq, MBE, Palestine.
  • Mr Itta David Yellin, Palestine.

For MBE:

  • George Amos, Esq, Gambia.
  • Abdul Aziz, Esq, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Khan Bahadur Sheikh Ali Ba-akza, Aden Protectorate.
  • Miss Amy Barclay, Cyprus.
  • Samuel Alexander Bill, Esq, Nigeria.
  • William Bruce Mortimer de Grasse, Esq, Leeward Islands.
  • Miss Mildred Earl, Nigeria.
  • Miss Rita Fenoulhet, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
  • George Andrew Grieve, Esq, Kenya.
  • John Maxwell Hall, Esq, MRCS, LRCP, Jamaica.
  • Mehmet Raif Hussein, Esq, Cyprus.
  • Sydney Baber Isaacs, Esq, Windward Islands.
  • Peter Jones, Esq, Nigerian Railway.
  • Major William Knaggs, VD, ED, Trinidad.
  • Walter Augustus Knight, Esq, Windward Islands.
  • Diego Salvador Montiero, Esq, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Miss Pauline Versfield Murray, MB, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Raja Ratman Nalliah, Ceylon.
  • Alan Kenneth Park, Esq, Palestine.
  • William Quansah, Esq, Gold Coast.
  • Charles Elliot Gordon Russell, Tanganyika Territory.
  • George William Sindle, Esq, Palestine.
  • Albert Edward Spencer, Esq, Uganda.
  • Miss Mary Strickland, Sierra Leone.

For Honorary MBE:

  • Alexander Avelyn D'Alburquerque, Esq, Zanzibar.
  • Sheikh El Abd El Muntassr, Aden Protectorate.
  • Harrison Kachingwe, Esq, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Jacob Kisselov, Esq, Palestine.
  • Michel Youseef Samaha Esq, AMI.Struct.E (Lond), Palestine.
  • Gotthilf Wagner, Esq, Palestine.

Order of the British Empire: Declined:

  • Husni Effendi Khalifa.
  • Donald Gilbert Kennedy.

For Knight Bachelor:

  • Henry Isaac Close Brown, Esq, Jamaica.
  • Bernard Arthur Crean, Esq, British Guiana.
  • Lambert Wifred Alexander De Soysa, Ceylon.
  • William Edgar Hunt, Esq, CMG, CBE, Nigeria.
  • Harry Herbert Trusted, Esq, Palestine.

Date: 1937
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 26290/11/1937
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Closed For 50 years

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