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War Honours - INDIAN HONOURS.

DECORATION FOR LADY WILLINGDON

ORDER OF THE BATH.

Announced:- The Times | January 1, 1917, p. 10

The King has been pleased to make the following appointments:-

ORDER OF THE BATH.

The King has been graciously pleased to give orders, for the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:-

K.C.B.

Vice-Admiral William Lowther Grant, C.B.

C.B.

Vice-Admiral Richard Bowles Farquhar.
Rear-Admiral Godfrev Harry Brydges Mundy, M.V.O.
Rear-Admiral Henry Hervey Campbell, C.V.O.
Rear-Admiral Edmund Radcliffe Pears.
Rear-Admiral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee.
Captain Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot, M.V.O., R.N.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert Southey Neville White, M.V.O., R.M.L.I.
Engineer Rear-Admiral William John Anstey.
Inspector-General John Cassills Birkmyre Maclean M.B., R.N. (retired).
Paymaster-in-Chief William Le Geyt Pullen, R.N.
John Temple, Esq. (of Warrington).

STAR OF INDIA.
India Office, January 1.

The King has been graciously pleased to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

HON. K.C.S.I.

Sir Bhim Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, K.C.V.O., Commander-in-Chief in Nepal.

K.C.S.I.

Claude Hamilton Archer Hill, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor General.
His Highness Raja Malhar Rao Baba Saheb Puar, Chief of Dewas (Junior Branch), Central India.
His Highness Maharaja Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, of Cooch Behar, Bengal.
His Highness Jam Shri Ranjitsinhiji Vibhaji, Jam Saheb of Navanagar, Kathiawar, Bombay Presidency.
His Highness Raj Ghamshyamsinhji Ajitsinhji, Raj Saheb of Dhrangadhra, Kathiawar, Bombay Presidency.
Lieut.-CoL Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, K.C.I.E., LL.D., D.Sc., Indian Political Department (retired).
Sir Theodore Morison, K.C.I.E., lately a Member of the Council of India.

C.S.I.

Richard Burn, Esq, I.C.S., Chief Sec. to the Govt. of the United Provinces and Oudh, and a Member of the Council of the Lieut.-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
John Henry Kerr, Esq., C.I.E., I.C.S., Chief Sec. to the Govt. of Bengal, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor for making Laws and Regulations.

Thie King has been graciously pleased to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India in recognition of meritorious services in connexion with the War:

ADDITIONAL K.C.S.I.

Maj.-Gen. (temp. Lieut.-Gen.) George Macaulay Kirkpatrick, C.B., Chief of the Indian General Staff
Maj.-Gen. Robert Charles Ochiltree Stuart, C.S.I., Director-General of Ordnance in India.

ADDITIONAL C.S.I.

Godfrey Butler Hunter Fell, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Finanical Adviser to the Govt. of India in the Military Finance Dept.
Col. (temp. Brig.-Gen.), Wyndham Charles Knight, C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C.,, Indian Army, Commanding Bombay Brigade.
Lieut.-Col. Cecil Kaye, C.I.E., Indian Army, Deputy Chief Censor in India.

ORDER OF INDIAN EMPIRE.
India Office, January 1.

The King has been graciously pleased to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire:-

HON. K.C.I.E.

Judha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, Commanding General of the Southern Division in Nepal.

K.C.I.E.

Robert Bailey Clegg, Esq:, I.C.S., First Member, Board of Revenue, Madras, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor for Making Laws and Regulations.
Henry Wheeler, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S., lately Secretary to the Govt. of India in the Home Dept.

C.I.E.

William John Keith, Esq., I.C.S., Revenue Secretary to the Govt. of Burma and a Member of the Council of the Lieut-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
Henry Miller, Esq., a Member of the Council of the Chief Commissioner of Assam for making Laws and Regulations.
Robert Erskine Holland, Esq., I.C.S., Deputy Secretary (Political) Foreign and Political Dept., Govt. of India.
Lieut.-Col James Graham Hojel, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Officer Commanding, Lady Hardinge War Hospital, Bombay.
Lieut.-CoL John Farmer, F.R.C.V.S., Indian Civil Veterinary Dept., Chief Supt., Punjab.
Arthur James Warburton Kitchin, Esq., I.C.S, Deputy Commissioner, Lyallpur, Punjab
William Robert Gourlay, Esq., I.C.S., Private Sec. to the Governor of Bengal.
William, Strachan Coutts, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Registrar of the Patna High Court, Bihar and Orissa.
Khan Bahadur Muhammad Aziz-ud-Din Husain, Sahib Bahadur, I.S.O., Collector of South Arcot, Madras Presidency, and Special Agent, French Settlement, and Political Agent for Pondicherry
Maj. Westwood Norman Hay, Indian Army, Conmandant, Zhob Militia, Balnchistan.
Temp. Maj. Robert Scarth Farquhar Macrae, Indian Police, Controller of Native Craft, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, and lately Commissioner of Police, Baroda State.
Charles Augustus Tegart, Esq., . M.V.O., Indian Police, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.
Capt. Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, Indian Army, Political Dept., Assistant Political Agent, North-West Frontier Province.
Percy Albert Churchward, Esq., Managing Director Bank of Rangoon, Burma.
Diwan Bahadur Lala Bisheshar Nath, late Diwan of the Rajgarh State, Central India.
Rao Bahadur Appaji Ganesh Dandekar, Honorary Magistrate, Thana District, Bombay.
Charles Francis Fitch, Esq., of Mussoorie, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
Morris Yudlevitz Young, Esq., M.B., Medical Officer at the Oil-Fields, Persian Gulf.
Stephen Montagu Burrows, Esq., Secretary to the Oxford Delegacy for Oriental Students.
Philip Joseph Hartog, Esq., lately Secretary to Departmental Committees on the Organization of Oriental Studies in London.

MEMORANDUM.

It was the King's gracious intention to have appointed Sardar Bahadur Bhagat Singh, Wazir of Poonch, Kashmir, to be a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, had he survived.

The King has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire in recognition of the meritorious services of the following gentlemen in connexion with the War:-

Major (temporary Lieut.-Col) William Edmumd Ritchie Dickson, R.E., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Army Headquarters, India (temporary).
Major, Claude Bayfield Stokes, 3rd Skinner's Horse, General-Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Army Headquarters, India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Alan Cameron, R.E., Traffic Manager, North-Western Railway of India.
Lieutenant Edgar Clements Withers, Royal Indian Marine (temporary Major in the Army), Intelligence Officer. Persian Gulf.
Major Willaim Edmund Pye, 98th Infantry, Recruiting Officer for Jats and Hindustani Musulmans.
Major Sidney Mervyn Rice, 64th Pioneers, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Army Headquarters, India.
Major Edward Scott Gillett, Army Veterinary Corps, Personal Assistant to the Director-General. Army Remount Department, India.
Francis Sylvester Grimston. Esq., M.I.C.E., Superintendent, Rifle factory, Ishapore.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Henry Alfred Young, Royal Artillery, Director of Ordnance Inspection, India.
Lieut.-Col. Norborne Kirby, Royal Engineers, Officiating Commanding Royal Engineer, 6th. (Poona) Divisional Area.
Victor Bayley, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Railway Board and Superintendent of Munitions India.
Lieut.. (tempy. Capt.) Duncan William Wilson, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, Assistant Embarkation Staff Officer, Bombay.
Commander William Ramsay Binney Douglas Royal Indian Marine, Senior Military Transport Officer, Bombay.
William Alexander, Esq., Traffic Department, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bombay.
John Dillon Flynn Esq., Goods Superintendent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Wadi Bunder, Bombay.
Lieut.-Col John Herbert Dickson, Indian Army, Supply and Transport Corps, Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Bombay.
Capt. (temp. Major) Edmund Walter, Indian Army, Supply and Transport Corps, Deputy Assistant Director of Transport, Army Headquarters, India
Captain Dury. St. Aubyn Wake,C.B., R.N.(Commodore, 2nd Class)

THE CROWN OF INDIA.

The King has been graciously pleased to confer the Decoration of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India on : -

Marie Adelaide, Baroness Willingdon, wife of Sir Freeman, Baron Willingdon, G.C.I.E., Governor of the Presidency of Bombay.

IMPERIAL SERVICE ORDER.
Whitehall, Dec. 22, 1916.

The King has been pleased to make the following appointment :-
To be a Companion of the Imperial Service Order.

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.

Edward Evans Harvey, Esq, Chief Accountant in the Office of the Director of Ordnance Factories in India.