The King's Birthday Honours 1938 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight the meritorious work of his subjects in those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the King's official birthday and for the United Kingdom and Colonies were announced on 7 June 1938.^[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.

United Kingdom and Colonies

Viscount

• The Right Honourable John Lawrence, Baron Stonehaven, GCMG DSO JP DL. Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, Commonwealth of Australia, 1925–30. Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party Organisation, 1931–1936. For political and public services.
• The Right Honourable William Douglas, Baron Weir, GCB DL. For public services.

Baron

• Vivian Hugh Smith. For political and public services.
• Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, GCB GBE FBA. For public services.

Privy Councillor

• Sir Donald Bradley Somervell, OBE KC MP. Attorney-General since 1936. Solicitor-General, 1933–36. Member of Parliament for the Crewe Division of Cheshire since 1931.

Baronet

• Sir William Alfred Churchman, VD JP DL. For political and public services in Suffolk.
• The Right Honourable Douglas Hewitt Hacking, OBE MP. Member of Parliament for Chorley since December 1918. Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party Organisation since 1936. For political and public services.
• Major Sir William Henry Prescott, CBE MICE JP DL. Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board. For public services.
• Sir Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, OBE JP MP. Member of Parliament for Bradford, North Division, 1924 to 1929 and since 1931. For political and public services in Yorkshire.
• Major Samuel Strang Steel, TD JP DL. For political and public services in Scotland.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (William Ernest George) Archibald Weigall, KCMG JP DL. Chairman of the Royal Empire Society.

Knight Bachelor

• Andrew Agnew, CBE. Managing Director, Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd.
• William Girling Ball, FRCS. Surgeon and Dean of the Medical College, St Bartholomew's Hospital.
• Kenneth Ralph Barnes, Principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art since 1909.
• Henry Howarth Bashford, MD BS MRCP MRCS. Chief Medical Officer, General Post Office.
• John Alfred Arnesby Brown, RA. Artist.
• Colonel Edward Geoffrey Hippisley-Cox, CBE TD DL. Secretary of the Parliamentary Agents' Society.
• Alderman Arthur John Edward Craig, JP. For political and public services in Peterborough.
• Arthur Edwin Cutforth, CBE FCA. Member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. For services to Agriculture.
• Ronald Conway Davison, a member of the Central Council of the National Labour Organisation. For political and public services.
• Francis Netherwood Dixon, CB. Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department.
• Walter Newman Flower, Managing Director of Cassell & Co. Ltd.
• William John Handfield Haslett, MRCS LRCP JP. For political and public services in the Spelthorne division of Middlesex.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Vivian Holbrook, CBE JP DL. For political and public services in Rugby.
• Alderman Arthur Newton Hollely, JP. For political and public services in Plymouth.
• Arthur Jackson, Managing Director of Sir John Jackson (Singapore) Ltd.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Conway Lloyd, MC JP DL. For political and public services in Breconshire and Radnorshire.
• Stephen Philpot Low, Solicitor to the Board of Trade.
• Alexander MacIntyre, Chairman and Managing Director of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd.
• Alderman Albert Martin, JP. For political and public services in Southend-on-Sea.
• Alderman Ernest Arnold Mills. For political and public services in Lambeth.
• John Moxon, OBE. For public services in Newport, Monmouthshire.
• Allan Hume Nicholl, CBE. Chairman of the London Safety First Council and of the National Executive of the National Safety First Association.
• Sydney Hugo Nicholson, MVO FRCO. Warden of St. Nicholas College, Chislehurst. For services to church music.
• Cyril Norwood, . President of St. John's College, Oxford.
• John Rowland, CB CBE MVO. Chairman of the Welsh Board of Health.
• George Leighton Seager, CBE JP. For political and public services in South Wales.
• Alderman Albert Smith, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire.
• Charles Herbert Smith. For political and public services in Birmingham.
• Francis Edward James Smith, president of the Council of the Law Society.
• Louis William Smith, MP. Member of Parliament for the Hallam Division of Sheffield since 1928. For political and public services.
• Henry Toy, JP. For political and public services in Cornwall.
• Samuel Turner, JP. For public services in Lancashire.
• Sydney Richard Wells, MP. Member of Parliament for Bedford since 1922. For political and public services.
• Frank Henry Cafaude Wiltshire, MC. Town Clerk of Birmingham, vice-president of the Society of Town Clerks.
• James Lockwood Wood, JP. For political and public services in Bradford.

Dominions

• Harry Percy Brown, CMG MBE MIEE. Director-General of Posts & Telegraphs, Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Harold Crisp, Chief Justice, State of Tasmania.
• Albert Fuller Ellis, CMG. New Zealand Member of the British Phosphate Commission.
• Thomas Stewart Gordon. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable James Ross Macfarlan, KC . Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, State of Victoria.
• Robert Blakeway Wade, MD FRACS. President of the Medical Board, State of New South Wales.

India

• John Francis William James, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar.
• Sajba Shankar Rangnekar, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
• Sarat Kumar Ghose, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
• Rai Bahadur Jai Lai, lately Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab.
• William Alexander Cosgrave, CIE, Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Hugh Byard Clayton, CIE, Indian Civil Service (retired), Chairman of the Public Services Commission for the Provinces of Bombay & Sind, Bombay.
• Major-General Arthur Mordaunt Mills, CB DSO. Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian States Forces.
• Benegal Narsinga Rau, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Officer on special duty, Reforms Office, Government of India.
• John Frederick Hall, CSI CIE OBE, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Madras.
• Hugh Bomford, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces, and lately Acting Governor of the Central Provinces & Berar.
• John Rutherford Dain, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Revenue Commissioner, Orissa.
• Khan Sahib Adamjee Hajee Dawood, Merchant, Calcutta, Bengal.
• Dewan Bahadur Harilal Nemchand Gosalia, Dewan and President, Barwani State Council, Central India.
• William Roberts, CIE. Manager, British Cotton Growing Association Farm, Khanewal, Multan District, Punjab.

Burma

• U Paw Tun, Barrister-at-Law, Minister of Home Affairs.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Llewelyn Chisholm Dalton, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Tanganyika Territory.
• Cyril Gerard Brooke Francis, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Northern Rhodesia.
• Robert Hormus Kotewall, CMG . For public services in Hong Kong.
• Hadji Mohamed Macan Markar. For public services in Ceylon.
• George Edouard Nairac, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Judge, Mauritius.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Military Division

• General Sir William Edmund Ironside, KCB CMG DSO, Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall, KCB CMG CBE AM, Royal Air Force.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Vice-Admiral Sidney Julius Meyrick, CB.
• Vice-Admiral Noel Frank Laurence, CB DSO.
• Paymaster Rear-Admiral Arthur Foster Strickland, CB OBE.

Army

• Lieutenant-General Maurice Grove Taylor, CB CMG DSO, late Royal Engineers, Deputy Master-General of the Ordnance, The War Office.
• Lieutenant-General Bertie Drew Fisher, CB CMG DSO, Colonel, 17th/21st Lancers, Half-Pay.
• Lieutenant-General Charles Clement Armitage, CB CMG DSO, late Royal Artillery, Master-General of the Ordnance, Headquarters Staff, India.

Royal Air Force

• Air Marshal Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté, CB CMG DSO.

Civil Division

• Honorary Colonel Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, CB DSO TD, President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Denbigh.
• Air Vice-Marshal Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft, CB CMG DSO AFC, Royal Air Force (Ret'd), President of the Aerodrome Board.
• Leonard Browett, CB CBE, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Sir William Barrowclough Brown, KCMG CB CBE, Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Sir Cyril William Hurcomb, KBE CB, Chairman, Electricity Commission.
• Sir Arthur Charles Cosmo Parkinson, KCMG OBE, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Rear-Admiral Reginald Vesey Holt, DSO MVO.
• Rear-Admiral William Jock Whitworth, DSO.
• Rear-Admiral Bertram Chalmers Watson, DSO.
• Rear-Admiral Arthur Ninian Dowding.
• Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Schomberg Arbuthnot, DSO.
• Engineer Rear-Admiral Harold Hepworth Perring.

Army

• Major-General George Alfred Duncan Harvey, CMG (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Physician to The King, Deputy Director of Medical services, Western Command, India.
• Major-General Geoffry Francis Heremon Brooke, DSO MC (late 16th/5th Lancers), Major-General General Staff (Cavalry), Headquarters Staff, India.
• Major-General Geoffrey Taunton Raikes, DSO (late The South Wales Borderers), Half-Pay.
• Major-General William George Holmes, DSO (late The Royal Welch Fusiliers, and The East Lancashire Regiment), Commander, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Territorial Army.
• Major-General Pierse Joseph Mackesy, DSO (late Royal Engineers), Half-Pay.
• Major-General Desmond Francis Anderson, CMG (late The Devonshire Regiment, and The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)), Major-General in charge of Administration, Eastern Command.
• Major-General Francis Poitier Nosworthy, DSO (late Royal Engineers), Half Pay, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Headquarters Staff, India, designate.
• Major-General The Honourable Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, CSI DSO MC (late Irish Guards and Extra Regimentally Employed List), Colonel, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment, Indian Army. Commander, 1st Division, Aldershot Command.
• Major-General Henry Guy Riley, Royal Army Pay Corps, Chief Paymaster at the War Office and Inspector of Army Pay Offices.
• Colonel (honorary Brigadier-General), Lewis Pugh Evans, VC CMG DSO, retired pay (late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)).
• Major-General Frederick Gwatkin, DSO MC, Indian Army, Commander, 2nd (Sialkot) Cavalry Brigade, Northern Command, India.
• Major-General George de la Poer Beresford, MC, Indian Army, Commander, 4th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade, Southern Command, India.
• Major-General Nigel Maitland Wilson, DSO OBE, Indian Army, Director of Personal Services, and Pay and Pensions, Headquarters Staff, India.

Royal Air Force

• Air Vice-Marshal Hazelton Robson Nicholl, CBE.
• Air Vice-Marshal Lawrence Arthur Pattinson, DSO MC DFC.

Civil Division

• Honorary Colonel Frank Garrett, CBE TD DL, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Suffolk.
• Colonel John Balderstone Muir, DSO TD DL, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of the City of Dundee.
• John Jacob Fox, OBE DSc FIC, Government Chemist.
• Herbert William Sidney Francis, OBE, Director of the Local Government Division, Ministry of Health.
• William Kenrick Gibbons, Principal Clerk, Public Bill Office, and Clerk of the Fees, House of Commons.
• David Taylor Monteath, CVO OBE, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Burma Office.
• Otto Mundy, Secretary and Commissioner, Board of Customs & Excise.
• Frederick Abraham Slee, Commissioner and Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Arthur Egerton Watson, CBE, Principal Assistant Secretary, Unemployment Assistance Board.
• Thomas Moffat Young, lately Deputy Public Trustee, Manchester.

Order of Merit (OM)

• Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, FRS.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander (KCSI)

• His Highness Maharaja Shri Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsinhji, Maharaja of Bhavnagar, States of Western India.
• His Highness Maharaj Rana Rajendra Singh Bahadur, Maharaj Rana of Jhalawar, Rajputana.

Companion (CSI)

• Satyendra Nath Roy, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Communications.
• Noel James Roughton, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Financial Commissioner, Central Provinces & Berar.
• James Douglas Hardy Bedford, Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable William George Arthur, Baron Harlech, lately Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Sir Howard William Kennard, KCMG CVO, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary at Warsaw.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

• Dougal Orme Malcolm, president of the British South Africa Company and Member of the Executive Committee of the British Council.
• The Honourable Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas, CMG OBE, Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas.
• Douglas James Jardine, CMG OBE, Governor & Commander-in-Chief of Sierra Leone.
• Henry Bradshaw Popham, CMG MBE, Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands.
• Arthur Dickinson Blackburn, CBE, Chinese Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in China.
• Harry Owen Chalkley, CMG CBE, Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
• Charles Michael Palairet, CMG, until recently His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna.
• Herbert Phillips, CMG OBE, His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai.

Additional Knight Commander

• Admiral Alan Geoffrey Hotham, CB CMG (Ret'd), Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

Honorary Knight Commander

• His Highness Sultan Hisamund Din Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, Federated Malay States.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Charles Fenwick Crosby, President, Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian Association, State of Victoria.
• Richard Oliver Gross, a prominent sculptor in the Dominion of New Zealand.
• Rear-Admiral Guy Waterhouse Hallifax (Ret'd), lately Secretary to the Governor General of the Union of South Africa.
• Roy Hendy, Town Clerk of the City of Sydney, State of New South Wales.
• William Richard Howley, KC, Registrar of the Supreme Court, and formerly a Member of the Commission of Government, Newfoundland.
• Professor Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson, , Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, Commonwealth of Australia.
• John Wood, MICE, Under-Secretary and Engineer-in-Chief, Public Works Department, Dominion of New Zealand.
• John Clague, CIE, Adviser to the Secretary of State for Burma.
• Arthur Henry Cox, Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Uganda Protectorate.
• Arthur James Dawe, OBE, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Colonel George Wykeham Heron, CBE DSO, Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Palestine.
• Arthur Harris Hodges, Treasurer, Jamaica.
• Gwilym Arthur Jones, Commissioner of Agriculture, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad.
• Frederick Joseph Morten, Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Education, Straits Settlements, and Adviser on Education, Malay States.
• Walter Evelyn Pepys, Colonial Administrative Service, General Adviser, Johore, Malay States.
• George Ritchie Sandford, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Tanganyika Territory.
• John Wyatt Spiller, MICE, Chief Engineer, Designs Branch, Crown Agents for the Colonies.
• Ralph Marcus Meaburn Worsley, MC, Colonial Administrative Service, Officer of Class I, Ceylon Civil Service.
• John Bailey, His Majesty's Consul General at Bangkok.
• Eric Grant Cable, His Majesty's Consul at Copenhagen.
• Anthony Hastings George, Commercial Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy in China.
• Edmund Leo Hall-Patch, Financial Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokyo and His Majesty's Embassy in China.
• Major (local Lieutenant-Colonel) William Alexander Lovat-Fraser, OBE, Military Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy in China.
• Eugen Millington-Drake, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at Montevideo.
• Humphrey Ingelram Prideaux-Brune, OBE, one of His Majesty's Consuls in China.
• Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, an Acting Counsellor in the Foreign Office.
• Miralai David Johnston Wallace Bey, until recently Deputy Director-General of the Frontiers Administration, Cairo.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander (KCIE)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons, CBE DSO, Indian Political Service, Agent to the Governor-General, Resident & Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan.
• John Carson Nixon, CSI CIE, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
• Cecil Fabian Brackenbury, CSI, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras.
• Major-General William Louis Oberkirch Twiss, CB CBE MC, Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Army in Burma.

Companion (CIE)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Denholme de Montalte Stuart Fraser, Indian Political Service, Officiating Resident for Central India.
• Mead Slade, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Commerce Department.
• Eric Thomas Coates, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
• Arthur de Coetlogan Williams, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department and Secretary to the Governor General's Executive Council.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Gerald Edward Collins, MC, Indian Army, lately Director of Remounts, Army Headquarters.
• Joseph Ernest Parkinson, Indian Educational Service, Educational Commissioner with the Government of India.
• William Cuthbert Dible, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, United Provinces.
• Edmund Richard John Ratcliffe Cousins, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of the Patna Division, Bihar.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Cumine Robson, OBE, Indian political Service, Resident for the Eastern States.
• Hugh Otway de Gale, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, North-West Frontier Province.
• Harold Samuel Eaton Stevens, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Agriculture & Industries Department, Bengal.
• Charles Beaupre Bell Clee, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Sind in the Finance Department.
• Rabindra Nath Banerjee, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Governor of the Central Provinces & Berar.
• Jaigopal Bhandari, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, lately Accountant General, Punjab.
• Tirunelveli Sellamier Sankara Aiyar, Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Director of Finance to the Government of India in the Railway Department (Railway Board).
• Colonel Stanley van Buren Laing, DSO MC, Indian Army, Commandant, Army School of Physical Training and Inspector of Physical Training, India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Nilkanth Shriram Jatar, DSO MRCS, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Prisons, Central Provinces & Berar.
• Thomas Alec Whitehead, Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Madras.
• William Grieve, Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, Bombay.
• Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Huntingdon Stable, Central India Horse, lately Military Secretary to the Viceroy.
• Herbert William Waite, Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Punjab.
• Geoffrey Stephen Bozman, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health & Lands.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Humfrey Vere Hodge, MRCS FRCP, Indian Medical Service, Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Calcutta, and First Physician to the College Hospitals, Bengal.
• Alexander Robert MacEwen, MC, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate, Madras.
• Thomas Henry Gilborn Stamper, MC FSL, Consulting Surveyor to the Government of Bombay.
• Frederic Edwin Grist, Secretary, Financial Department, India Office.
• Robert Ernest Montgomery, Secretary, General Department, Office of the High Commissioner for India.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Colonel Arthur Claud Spencer, Baron Templemore, DSO OBE.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Charles Reginald Byrom, OBE (dated 20 May 1938).
• Commander Jameson Boyd Adams, CBE DSO, Royal Naval Reserve (Ret'd).
• Lawrence Franklin Burgis, CMG MVO.
• Thomas Hay, MVO.
• Captain Charles Alexander Lindsay Irvine, MVO OBE.
• Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar.
• Frank Owen Salisbury, LLD RI RPS.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)edit

• Vera Elinor Whishaw, OBE (dated 26 April 1938).
• Rosalind Culhane.
• Captain Stephen Hugh Van Neck, MC.
• The Reverend Jocelyn Henry Temple Perkins, DCL.
• Eric Humphrey Savill, MC.
• Reginald Harry Short, MVO.
• Major Arthur Noel Skinner, Royal Artillery.
• Major Charles Mervyn Hunt Wingfield.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)edit

• Alexander Ritchie.

Order of the British Empireedit

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)edit

Civil Division

• The Right Honourable Richard William Alan, Earl of Onslow, OBE, Lord Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords since 1931. For political and public services.

Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)edit

Civil Division

• Irene Frances Adza, Marchioness of Carisbrooke.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)edit

Civil Division

• James Alan Noel Barlow, CB CBE, Under-Secretary, Treasury.
• Frederick Carl Bovenschen, CB, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, War Office.
• Harold William Stannus Gray. For political and public services in Cambridgeshire.
• Brigadier-General Ernest Makins, CB DSO MP, Member of Parliament for Knutsford since 1922. For political and public services.
• Arthur William Street, CB CMG CIE MC, First Deputy Under Secretary of State, Air Ministry. Lately Second Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.
• Cecil McAlpine Weir, MC JP, Convener of the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, and Chairman of the Administrative Committee.
• Robert Calder-Marshall, CBE, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai.
• Lewa Thomas Wentworth Russell Pasha, CMG OBE, Commandant of the Cairo City Police and Director of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, Cairo.
• Alfred Charles Davidson, General Manager, Bank of New South Wales. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Professor Thomas Easterfield, PhD FIC, formerly director of the Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research, Nelson, Dominion of New Zealand.
• Sir Samuel Hordern, President of the Royal Agricultural Society, State of New South Wales.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)edit

Civil Division

• Katherine Elizabeth, Countess of Elgin & Kincardine, MBE, Chairman of the Women's Section, Empire Exhibition, Scotland.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)edit

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Colonel Second Commandant John Melville Tuke, OBE, Royal Marines.
• Captain Douglas Davenport-Jones, RD ADC, Royal Naval Reserve.

Army

• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Walter Headfort Brooke, MC, Territorial Army, Commander, 130th (Devon & Cornwall) Infantry Brigade.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Norman Robertson Campbell, MC TD, Territorial Army, Commander, 157th (Highland Light Infantry) Infantry Brigade.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Norman Douglas, TD, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Territorial Army, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, Territorial Army.
• Major (local Colonel) Charles Christopher Fowkes, MC, The South Wales Borderers, Commander, Southern Brigade, The King's African Rifles.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Godfrey Morgan Giles, MC TD, Territorial Army, Commander, 2nd (London) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
• Colonel Lionel Denham Henderson, MC TD, Territorial Army, late Officer Commanding The London Scottish, The Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Army.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Lennard Charles Mandleberg, DSO MC TD, Territorial Army, Commander, 164th (North Lancashire) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
• Daisy Maud Martin, RRC, Retired pay, late Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
• Colonel Robert Cecil Milliken, TD MIEE, Territorial Army, Honorary Colonel, 29th (Kent) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.
• Colonel Philip Henry Mitchiner, TD FRCS, Territorial Army, Honorary Surgeon to The King, Assistant Director of Medical Services, 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, Territorial Army.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Arthur Leslie Walter Newth, DSO MC TD, Territorial Army, Commander, 144th (Gloucestershire & Worcestershire) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Roderick George Fenwick-Palmer, Retired, late Officer Commanding, 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial Army (Major, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Life Guards.)
• Colonel Robert Brindley Pitt, MC TD BA AMInstCE AMIMechE, Territorial Army, Honorary Colonel, 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Engineers, Territorial Army.
• Colonel Frederick Dudley Samuel, DSO TD, late Territorial Army Reserve, late Honorary Colonel 10th (3rd City of London) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers), Territorial Army.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Oliver Daniel Smallwood, TD, Territorial Army, Commander, 143rd (Warwickshire) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Tozer, TD, Officer Commanding, The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment, Territorial Army.

Royal Air Force

• Wing-Commander Oswin George William Gifford Lywood, OBE, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• John Beard, Member and Past President of the Council of Agriculture for England. Formerly President of the Workers' Union and of the Transport & General Workers' Union, President of the Trades Union Congress in 1930.
• Mary Emily Percy Birley, JP, Chief Commissioner for England, Girl Guides Association, and formerly County Commissioner for North West Lancashire.
• Harold Bishop, MIEE MIMechE, Assistant Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Isabella Edith Phillips Brocklehurst. For political and public services in Lancashire and Cheshire.
• Robert Henry Charles, HM Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, Board of Education.
• Henry Williamson Clothier, Director of Accounts, Air Ministry.
• Major Ernest Radcliffe Cockburn, OBE, Chief Constable of Hampshire.
• Ruth Frances Darwin, Senior Commissioner, Board of Control.
• William Dunn, JP. For political and public services in North West Devon.
• James Fenton, MD MRCP DPH, Medical Officer of Health, Royal Borough of Kensington.
• Louis Fleischmann, Chairman of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.
• William Gladstone Gilbert, ISO, Deputy Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office.
• Harry Andrew Bennie Gray, MIMechE MIChemE JP, Chairman of the Huddersfield & District Local Employment Committee and of the Juvenile Advisory Committee.
• Elizabeth Hurdon, MD, lately Director, Medical Services & Research, the Marie Curie Hospital, Hampstead, and now a member of the Advisory Council of the Hospital.
• Bennett Melvill Jones, AFC, Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering in the University of Cambridge.
• Major Cedric Llewellyn Longstaff, TD JP DL. For political and public services.
• Major Cyril Clarke Boville Morris, MC MIMechE, lately Chief Officer, London Fire Brigade.
• Cecil Oakes, Clerk of the East Suffolk County Council.
• Lady Muriel Evelyn Vernon Paget, OBE, Founder of the British Subjects in Russia Relief Association. For welfare and charitable work in various foreign countries.
• William George Pearson, JP. Member of Parliament for Jarrow, 1931–35 For political and public services in Jarrow.
• William Percival Robinson, MICE, County Engineer & Surveyor, Surrey County Council.
• Humbert Anthony Sabelli, secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association.
• Clarence Thomas Albert Sadd, JP. For political and public services.
• Ethel Walker, Artist.
• Charles Redwood Vachell Wallace, Second Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Edmund Basil Wedmore, MIEE FInstP, Director & Secretary, British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association.
• Robert William Wharhirst, OBE, Chief Superintendent of Armament Supply, Admiralty.
• Councillor George Williams, Chairman, National Industrial Development Council of Wales & Monmouthshire. For public services in Wales.
• James Laidlaw Maxwell, a British subject resident in Hankow, General Secretary of the International Red Cross Committee for Central China.
• William Donald Campbell Laidlaw Purves, Governor of the Northern Province, Sudan.
• Charles Aubrey Smith, a British subject resident in South California.
• Arthur Ernest Tipper, Chairman of the British Municipal Council, Tianjin.
• Edward Sheldon Wilkinson, a British subject resident in Shanghai.
• The Honourable Margaret Mary Best, OBE, Honorary Secretary of the School Empire Tours Committee.
• Captain Edward Thornton Fox, OBE, Secretary to the Treasury, Southern Rhodesia.
• George William Frederick Holland, State President, Victorian Branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia.
• Annie Elizabeth Kelly, a prominent artist in the Dominion of New Zealand.
• Augustus Leo Kenny, MB ChB FRACS. For social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
• William Sanderson La Trobe, formerly Superintendent of Technical Education, Education Department, Dominion of New Zealand.
• Lewis Richard Macgregor, Trade Commissioner in Canada for the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Gregan McMahon. For services to the stage in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Alderman Ernest Samuel Marks, of the City of Sydney, State of New South Wales. For public services.
• The Honourable Ernest Christian Sommerlad, MLC. For public services in the State of New South Wales.
• Khan Bahadur Ali Buksh Mohamed Hussain, Member, Council of State.
• Albert Henry Byrt, Special Correspondent and Director, Times of India, Bombay.
• Frank Samuel Grose, Burma Frontier Service (Ret'd).
• Major Eric Aldhelm Torlogh Dutton, OBE, Colonial Administrative Service, Principal Assistant Chief Secretary, Northern Rhodesia.
Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=1938_Birthday_Honours
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