The 1937 New Year Honours were appointments by King
George VI to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were the first honours of George VI's reign and were announced on 29 January 1937.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Field-Marshal His Royal Highness
The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, KGKTKPGCBGCSIGCMGGCIEGCVOGBEVDTD Colonel Grenadier Guards, Colonel-in-Chief The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), Royal Army Service Corps, and Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Colonel 3rd Battalion (Militia) The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 3rd and 4th Battalions (Militia) The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Field Brigade (Army) Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 6th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Army, 18th London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), Territorial Army.
Major-General His Royal Highness
The Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, KGKTKPGCMGGCVO Colonel-in-chief, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Honorary Colonel. Cambridge University Contingent, Officers Training Corps.
Honorary Major-General His Royal Highness.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, KGKTGCMGGCVO Colonel retired pay (Reserve of Officers) Colonel-in-Chief The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons).
Honorary Major-General the
Earl of Athlone, KGPCGCBGCMGGCVODSODCL Colonel, retired pay, Colonel The Life Guards, and 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Honorary Colonel, University of London Contingent, Officers Training Corps (Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle).
The
Earl of Harewood, KGGCVODSOTD Honorary Colonel 1st City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers), Territorial Army.
Major Sir
George Richard James Hennessy, BtOBEJP Member of Parliament for Winchester 1918 to 1931. Treasurer of H.M. Household. 1928-29 and in 1931. Vice-Chamberlain 1925 to 1928. Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury 1922 to 1924. For political arid public services.
Sir
Arthur Michael Samuel, BtMP Member of Parliament for Farnham since December, 1918. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, November, 1927, to June, 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade, November, 1924, to November, 1927. For political and public services.
Major
Cyril Fullard Entwistle, MCKCMP Member of Parliament for Bolton since October, 1931, and for South-West Hull, 1918 to 1924. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-General Sir
Charles John Cecil Grant, KCVOCBDSO (late Coldstream Guards), Colonel, The. King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Half-Pay, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command, designate.
Lieutenant-General
Oswald Cuthbert Borrett, CBCMGCBEDSO Colonel, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), Half-Pay. (Lieutenant of the Tower of London.)
Major-General Thomas Seymour Coates, (late
Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Physician to The King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Aldershot Command.
Major-General William Green, DSO (late The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), and The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)), Half-Pay.
Major-General
Henry Maitland Wilson, DSO (late The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)), Half-Pay.
Major-General Algernon Lee Ransome, DSOMC (late The Dorsetshire Regiment), Half-Pay.
Major-General
Alan Francis Brooke, DSO (late Royal Artillery), Director of Military Training, The War Office.
Major-General
Michael George Henry Barker, DSO Colonel, The York and Lancaster Regiment, Director of Recruiting and Organization, The War Office.
Major-General Dudley Stuart Collins, DSO (late Royal Engineers), Director of Fortifications and Works, The War Office.
Major-General Herbert Stuart Gaskell, DSO (late Royal Engineers), Engineer-in-Chief, Headquarters Staff of the Army in India.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Henry Coventry Maitland Makgill Crichton, CMGDSO (late The Royal Scots Fusiliers), Aide-de-Camp to The King, Commander, 14th Infantry Brigade, Northern Command.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier)
Charles Calveley Foss, VCDSO (late The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, and The King's Regiment (Liverpool)), Aide-de-Camp to The King, Commander, Rangoon Brigade Area, Burma Independent District, India.
Major-General Alexander William Montgomery Harvey, Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to The King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Northern Command, India.
Major-General Henry Lawrence Haughton, CIECBE Indian Army, Commander Kohat District, Northern Command, India.
Major-General
Arthur Brodie Haig, MC Indian Army, Deputy Adjutant and QuarterMaster-General, Eastern Command, India.
Major-General
John Dudley Lavarack, CMGDSO Australian Staff Corps, Chief of the Australian Section, Imperial General Staff.
George Hemming Spence, CIE Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.
John Frederick Hall, CIEOBE Indian Civil Service, Acting First Member, Board of Revenue, Madras.
Alexander Cameron Badenoch, CIE Indian Civil Service, Deputy Auditor-General in India.
Frederick Anderson, CIE Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Joint Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, United Provinces.
Thomas Bailey Tate, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, Punjab.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Hubert Frazer East. For services to ex-service men in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Professor Hugh Mackenzie, Foundation Professor of English Language and Literature, Victoria University College, Wellington, Dominion of New Zealand.
William Rupert McCourt, Clerk of the Legislative. Assembly, State of New South, Wales. Andrew Kidd McGaw. For public services in the State of Tasmania.
James Gray Moseley, one of the early pioneers and for many years a Member of the House of Assembly, State of South Australia. On the occasion of the Centenary of the State.
Henry Hewat Craw, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma, Burma.
Hiranand Khushiram Kirpalani, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Sind, Sind.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Alick Lindsay Mortimer Molesworth, Indian Army, Commander, Landi Kotal Brigade.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) John de Lisle Conry, Indian Army, Commander, Mhow Brigade Area.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Prince, OBE Indian Army (retired), Military Accountant-General in India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg, DSO His Majesty's Consul-General in the French Establishments in India.
Olaus Macleod Martin, Indian Civil Service, Additional Commissioner, Presi.dency and Burdwan Divisions, Bengal.
Harold George Dennehy, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Assam in the Transferred Departments, Assam.
Arthur Cecil Davies, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Judicial Department and Superintendent and Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, Bihar.
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Central Provinces in the Finance Department, Central Provinces.
Cecil George Freke, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Finance Department, Bombay.
Cyril Edgar Jones, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Finance Department, Madras.
Captain Charles Huskisson Corser, Royal Indian Navy.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Edward Flowerdew, DTM&H Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Prisons, Bengal.
Tyrrell Churton Orgill, Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, North-West Frontier Province.
Charles Edward Langley Gilbert, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Bombay Presidency, Bombay.
David Penman, FRSE Chief Inspector of Mines in India, and lately Principal, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
Raja Birendra Bikram Singh, Member of the United Provinces Legislative Council, Landowner and Chairman, District Board, Bahraich, United Provinces.
Austen Havelock Layard, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Delhi.
Albert Cyril Woodhouse, Madras Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Madras.
M. R. Ry. Rao Bahadur Tiruvadi Sambasivaiyer Venkataraman Avargal, Indian Agricultural Service, Sugarcane Expert, Imperial Cane Breeding Station, Coimbatore.
Herbert Leonard Offley Garrett, Indian Educational Service (retired), lately Principal, Government College, Lahore, Punjab.
John Monteath, Indian Civil Service (retired), Dewan, Junagadh State, States of Western India.
Graham Colville Ramsay, OBE Deputy Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Royal Victorian Order
Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Commander Charles Alfred Godfrey Nichols, RN (Dated 13 November 1936.)
Hugh Macrae Alfred Vigor Marten, MVO (Fifth Class).
Henry Alexander Russell
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)
Albert Barr Turner (Dated 15 July 1936)
Nicholas Percy Doyle (Dated 6 September 1936.)
Frank Harvey Evans
Gilbert Sidney Herlihy
Henry George Pinnock
Sidney Ernest Povey
Frank Gann Redward
Order of Merit
The Right Honourable
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, FRS Warden of New College, Oxford. In recognition of his eminent position as an Historian and of his services to Literature.
Order of the British Empire
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Colonel (honorary Brigadier) Compton Cardew Norman, CMGDSO Retired Pay, General List, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, late Inspector-General, Royal West African Frontier Force and The King's African Rifles.
Royal Air Force
Air Commodore James Bevan Bowen, OBE Royal Air Force.
Civil Division
Florence Maude, Baroness Ashton. For political and public services in Lancashire.
Henry Angley Lewis-Dale, MBEMInstCEMIMechE Deputy Director of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Boyle Hanna, Indian Medical Service, Officer Commanding, Indian Military Hospital, Quetta, India.
Major (Quarter-Master) James Hawke, Royal Corps of Signals (Indian Army), Officer in Charge, Records, Signal Training Centre, Jubbulpore, India.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Colonel) John Archibald Polwhele, VD General List, Auxiliary Force, India, late Officer Commanding, Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles, Auxiliary Forces India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Alan Potts, MC late Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding, 1st Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (Singapore Volunteer Corps).
Captain and Brevet Major Edgar Charles Priestley, Educational Corps, late Instructor, Kitchener College, Nowgong, India.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Laurence Short, The King's. Regiment (Liverpool).
Major Wilfred Bernard Whishaw, MC Royal Engineers, Staff Officer, Royal Engineers, 2nd Grade, Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, Headquarters of the Army in India.
Civil Division
Norah Augusta Juanita Annandale. For political and public services in Leith.
Paul Archer, MBE Principal Clerk, Manchester Branch, Office of the Public Trustee.
George Thomas Thorpe Bartram, JP For political and public services in Essex.
Carlyle Cecil Bensted, H.M. Senior Inspector of Taxes, Birmingham 1st District, Board of Inland Revenue.
Margaret Isabella Blackett. For political and public services in Fife.
Gilbert Carmichael, Senior Assistant Secretary, Office of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.
Clifford Chaffer, Principal Technical Officer, Compass Department, Admiralty.
William Alfred Richard Channer, Assistant Director for Cash Accounts, Air Ministry.
Sidney George West, recently Professor of English at Coimbra University, Lisbon.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
George Moncrieff Barren, FRACS Member of the Council of the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association. For social welfare services in the State of New South Wales.
Mary Daly. For charitable and social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
Sydney Letts Dawkins, For services in connection with the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the State of South Australia.
Colin Eric Duff, lately Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs, Southern Rhodesia.
Eileen May Duggan, For contributions to literature in the Dominion of New Zealand.
The Reverend
Samuel Forsyth. For social welfare services in the State of South Australia.
May Furlong. For services to ex-service men and their dependents in Newfoundland.
Percy Albert Gourgaud, Assistant Secretary, Works and Services Branch, Department of the Interior, Commonwealth of Australia.
Leslie Ferdinand Johnston, Government Printer, Canberra, Commonwealth of Australia.
Jane Evelyn McCallen, Education Secretary, Victoria League. For services in connection with hospitality for Dominion students in London.
Harry Bertram Adair McCarter, Deputy Resident Commissioner, and Assistant Commissioner, Northern District, Swaziland.
Rachel McGirr. For social welfare services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Adelaide Laetitia Miethke, President of the Women's Centenary Council, State of South Australia, for the Festival Year, 1936.
Conductor Thomas William Butcher, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, Headquarters, Southern Command, Poona, India.
Captain David Colville, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Adjutant, Malacca Volunteer Corps, 4th Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
1st Class Assistant Surgeon Eugene Duckworth, Indian Medical Department, Manager, Medical Store Depot, Lahore Cantonments, India.
Quarter-Master and Honorary Lieutenant Arthur Elgin Hunter, Royal Australian Engineers, Staff Officer, Engineer Services, 8th District Base, Australian Military Forces.
Subadar Payanda Khan, IDSM 10th (Abbottabad) Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery.
Warrant Officer Class I, Regimental Sergeant-Major Werkmeisder Denzil Muerling, Ceylon Engineers, Ceylon Defence Force.
Sub-Conductor Jabez Alfred Roberts, Indian Army Corps of Clerks, Headquarters, Peshawar Brigade Area, Northern Command, India.
Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major Raja Suleiman bin Raja Mohamed Sapian, Selangor Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force.
Major. William Powrie Lang Arnott, Chief Clerk, Central European District, Imperial War Graves Commission.
Albert Edward Baylis, Senior Quantity Surveyor, H.M. Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Charles Bennett, Acting Senior Contract Officer, Air Ministry.
Kate Janet Berry. For political services in the Epsom Division.
Jane Thorpe Booth, Matron, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport.
Margaret Agnes Bradford, Chief Supervisor, Counter and Telegraphs, London Postal Region, General Post Office.
John Hall Burden, Headmaster, The Downham Boys' Central School, Lewisham.
Ada Mary Butcher. For political and public services in North St. Pancras.
John Herbert Butler, Headmaster, South Wigston Boys' Council School, Leicestershire.
Walter Thomas Cockle, Borough Treasurer of Barking. Honorary Treasurer to the Barking Social Services Committee.
Henry Dalton, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police.
Councillor James Eden, JP For services to local government in Rainford and district, Lancashire.
Alderman Henry Eddy, JP For political and public services in Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
The Reverend Henry Every, Chairman of the Torquay Juvenile Advisory Committee.
Archibald William Fisher, Secretary, Scottish National Union of Allotment Holders.
Frank Fisher, JP Chairman of the Carlingford Lough Commission and a Member of the Newry Port and Harbour Trust, County Down.
Helen Galbraith, Deputy Chief Inspector, Department of Health for Scotland.
Margaret Galbraith, Headmistress, Rubislaw Special School, Aberdeen.
Alexander Gordon, Staff Officer, Tax Inspecting Branch, Board of Inland Revenue.
Councillor Alice Marie Juillerat Graham, Chairman of the Children's Sub-Committee of the Ealing, Acton, Southall, Uxbridge and District War Pensions Committee.
Alderman Thomas Everitt Hewitt, JP For political and public services in Southwark.
Alexander Gait Highet, Assistant Controller, Publicity, Public Relations Department, General Post Office.
Annie Maud Hodge, Headmistress of Osmondthorpe Senior Girls' School, Leeds.
Kate Stevenson John. For political and public services in Edinburgh.
Paymaster Commander Charles William Jones, RDRN (Retd.), lately Senior Chief Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office Service, Board of Trade.
John William Kybird. For political and public services in Thetford, Norfolk.
Robert Magowan, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Health.
John Charles Magrath, Accountant, General Post Office.
Mary Allan Muirhead, a member of the staff of the Conservative Central Office for many years. For political services.
Robert George Cockburn Nisbet, Assistant Accountant, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
William John Northen, Chief Relieving Officer, Public Assistance Department, London County Council.
Harold Bennett Old, Wireless Engineer, Nottingham City Police.
George Peebles, Detective Superintendent, Edinburgh City Police Force.
Frank Robinson, Deputy Superintendent, Bhagalpur Jail, Bihar.
Harry Royal, VD Assistant Secretary, Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Bombay.
Khan Bahadur Sultan Muhammad Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Indian Personal Assistant to the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
Rai Bahadur Kunwar Sultan Singh, Zamindar of Lakhnau, Aligarh District, United Provinces.
Arthur Reginald Tooke, Officer Supervisor, Headquarters, Royal Air Force, India.
Chumlal Varchand, British Indian resident in Addis Ababa.
Henry Charles Webster, Ferry Superintendent, East Indian Railway, Bengal.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Richard Brown, formerly Secretary, Wellington Hospital Board, Dominion of New Zealand.
Agnes Caroline Clarke, Matron of the Women's Hospital, Sydney, State of New South Wales.
Martin Gilbert Dalton, Master Mariner. Member of the St. John's Harbour and Pilotage Commission, Newfoundland.
William Fraser Donald, FCS For services to ex-servicemen and their dependents in the State of New South Wales.
William Groom. For public and social welfare services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Helena Henrietta Constance Hick. For social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia.
William Henry Lauder, Sub-Treasury Paymaster and Receiver of Public Moneys, Northern Territory, Commonwealth of Australia.
Stephen Richard Harricks Roberts, DSOVD Deputy Director in Western Australia, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
William James Sherbon, formerly Chief Clerk, 2nd District Base, Defence Department, Commonwealth of Australia.
Georgiana Gertrude Smith, Matron of the Western Suburbs Hospital, Sydney, State of New South Wales.
Harold Archibald Sommerville, Secretary, Auckland Hospital Board, Dominion of New Zealand.
Louisa Stacey. For social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia.
Edward Taylor, District Officer, Morobe, New Guinea.
Walter Cecil Vandenberg. For services to ex-service men and their dependents in the State of New South Wales.
Phebe Naomi Watson, Honorary General Secretary of the Women's Centenary Council, State of South Australia. On the occasion of the centenary of the State.
William Shakespeare Wharton, Secretary, North Canterbury Hospital Board, Dominion of New Zealand.
Joseph Edward Axisa, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Malta.
George Henry Chaundy, Education Officer, Kenya.
Samuel Abda Collins, Station Master and Yard Master, Haifa, Palestine.
Edward Thomas Cosgrove, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine.
Alexander Epstein, Administrative Officer, Palestine.
John Emmanuel Forde, lately Superintendent, Alms House, British Guiana.
Albert Fry, DCMMM lately Government Pharmacist, British Guiana.
Khan Sahib Hasan Muhammad Salih Ja'far. For public services in the Aden Protectorate.
Captain Frederick George Lancaster, Detective Inspector, Bahamas.
Nina Hope Lochhead. For charitable services in Gibraltar.
Donald Charles MacGillivray, Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant District Officer, Tanganyika Territory.
Charles Macquarie, Agricultural Surveyor, Medical Department, Tanganyika Territory.
Arthur FitzGeorge Mapp, Chairman of the Belize Town Board, British Honduras.
Nariman Dorabji Mehta, Cashier and Accountant, Judicial Department, Kenya.
Frank Selwood Passingham, Superintendent, Government Printing Office, Cyprus
Fanny Ada Caroline Peiris. For philanthropic services in Ceylon.
Anandan Nayar, late Constable, Madras Police. (posthumous)
M. R. Ry. Chelamalasetti Venkata Subbayya Nayudu, late Sub-Inspector, Madras Police. (posthumous)
Krishna Vishram Sawant, late Constable, Bombay Police. (posthumous)
Nathekhan Bhaikhan, late Constable. Bombay Police. Gilbert Wheeler Cole, late Indian Police, United Provinces. (posthumous)
Mir Zaman Yusafzai, late Subedaf, Frontier Constabulary, North-West Frontier Province Police. (posthumous)
For Distinguished Service
England and Wales
Major Jack Becke, OBE Chief Constable, Cheshire Constabulary.
Thomas Rawson, Chief Constable, Bradford City Police Force.
James Pool Ker Watson, Chief Constable, Preston Borough Police Force.
Walter Wilson Thornton, Chief Superintendent, Lancashire Constabulary.
David Leslie, Chief Superintendent, Liverpool City Police Force.
Stanley George Woodeson, Superintendent, Norfolk. Constabulary
George Thornton, Superintendent, North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary.
Frederick Ralph Williams, Superintendent, Manchester City Police Force.
Ernest Lancaster, Chief Inspector, Birmingham City Police Force.
Scotland
Arthur Johnston Mclntosh, Chief Constable, Dumbarton Constabulary.
Thomas Crawford, Superintendent, Glasgow City Police Force.
Northern Ireland
Henry Herbert Davidson, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Australia
John Richard Carter, Superintendent, 1st Class, New South Wales Police.
Thomas Joseph Lynch, Superintendent, 1st Class and Deputy Commissioner, New South Wales Police
Osborne Holmes Parker, Superintendent, 1st Class, New South Wales Police.
John Thomas Pattinson, Superintendent, 1st Class, New South Wales Police
John Thomas Wilkins, Chief Officer, Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board, Melbourne, Victoria.
Gaiberi, Senior Sergeant, Papua Constabulary.
India
M. R. Ry. Rao Sahib Poolaricheri Subramanya Ayyar, Jamburamaswami Ayyar, Avl. Deputy Superintendent, Madras Police.
M. R. Ry. Rao Bahadur Mayavaram Vandirar Japuram Sabhapathi Mudaliyar Vaidyanatha Mudaliyar, Avl. MBE Officiating Deputy Superintendent, Madras Police.
Saiyid Rahmat-Ul-la Saiyid Usman Sahib Bahadur, Inspector, Madras Police.
M. R. Ry. Kurapati Venkataramanujam Nayudu Garu, Inspector, Madras Police.
Norman Percival Arthur Smith, Indian Police, Bombay.
Surendra Nath Chatarji, Indian Police, Bengal. Abu Hamid Muhammad. Shamsoddoha, Indian Police, Bengal.
Percy Mortimer de Fontaine, Taxidermist, Raffles Museum and Library, Singapore.
Samuel Ramaswamy Saravanamuttu, Senior Lecturer, Police Training School, Ceylon.
Royal Red Cross
First Class
Evelyn Bertram Levay, Matron, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, in recognition of the exceptional devotion and competency displayed by her in the performance of her nursing duties in Military Hospitals.
Evelyn Moriarty, Lady Superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India, in recognition of the exceptional devotion and competency displayed by her in the performance of her nursing duties in India.