# Lists of knights and dames commander of the Order of the British Empire appointed in 1919 and 1920

The Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry. Established on 4 June 1917 to recognise civilian contributions to the British war effort during the First World War, it was expanded to include a military division at the end of 1918. While continuing to recognise achievement and service in the military, it has since become the main state honour for recognising achievements in public life in the United Kingdom. The order has had five grades since its inception. The top two, Knight or Dame Grand Cross (the most senior) and Knight or Dame Commander, confer the style of knighthood (for men) or damehood (for women) upon the recipient. The following is a list of knights and dames commander appointed from the beginning of 1919 to the end of 1920; at least 311 people were given the honour in this period, many for services relating to the war effort.

## List of knights and dames commander of the Order of the British Empire

| Date | Name | Notes | Division |
| 1 January 1919 | Temporary Colonel Sir Almroth Edward Wright, CB, MD, FRCSI, FRS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Major-General Rt Hon. Lovick Barnsby Friend, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Colonel (temporary Major-General) Samuel Hickson, CB, MB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Henry Worth Thornton | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Major (temporary Colonel) George McLaren Brown | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Temporary Honorary Colonel John Lynn Thomas, CB, CMG, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Colonel Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Florence Edith Victoria Leach, CBE | Controller-in-Chief, QMAAC. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Admiral Robert Nelson Ommanney, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Rear-Admiral Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield, CBE | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Rear-Admiral Edmund Radcliffe Pears, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | M |
| 1 January 1919 | Francis Theodore Boys | Principal Director of Meat Supplies, Ministry of Food. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Cecil Lindsay Budd, CBE | Member of Non-ferrous Materials Department, Ministry of Munitions; Chairman of the Copper Committee and British Representative on the Inter-Allied Non-Ferrous Materials Committee. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Edward Napier Burnett, JP, MD, FRCS, FRCP | Chairman of the Economic Committee of the Army Medical Department, War Office. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Geoffrey Butler, CBE | Director of the British Bureau of Information, USA. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | James Carmichael, JP | Chairman of the Munition Works Board and of the Building Materials Supply Committee; Member of the Surplus Government Property Disposal Board. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Thomas Clement | Chairman of the Cheese and Butter Import Committee, Ministry of Food. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, MP | For valuable services rendered in connection with the War. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Major Algernon Tudor Craig, CBE | Secretary, Incorporated Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Richard James Curtis | Food Commissioner for the Midland Division. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Percy Daniels | Head of Leather Purchasing Commission, British War Mission in U.S.A. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Alfred Eyles, KCB | Formerly Accountant-General of the Navy. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Herbert Gibson | Wheat Commissioner for the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies in Argentina and Uruguay. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Frederick Green | Of the League of Mercy. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Henry Rider Haggard | Member of the Dominions Royal Commission and of the Empire Settlement Committee. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Laurence Edward Halsey | Honorary Accountant, Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | William John Jones, CBE | Member of Iron and Steel Production Department, Ministry of Munitions. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | John McKie Lees, KC | Sheriff of Forfarshire and Convener of the Sheriffs of Scotland. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Norman Alexander Leslie, CBE | Transport Department, Ministry of Shipping; Organiser of British and Allied Shipping in connection with the convoy system. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Alexander Mackenzie | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | John McLaren, JP | Chairman Board of Control, National Ordnance Factories, Leeds, Ministry of Munitions; Chairman of Messrs. J. & H. McLaren, Midland Engine Works, Leeds. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Henry McLaughlin | Member of the Irish Recruiting Council. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel John Herbert Mansell, DL | Managing Director, Coventry Ordnance Works. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Captain William Maxwell | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War." | C |
| 1 January 1919 | George Douglas Cochrane Newton | Assistant Secretary (unpaid), Rural Reconstruction Department, Ministry of Reconstruction. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Bernard Pares | Professor of Russian, University of London. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | John Pedder, CB | Assistant Secretary, Home Office; Member of the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic). "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | His Honour Judge George Bettesworth Piggott, CBE | Chairman of Special Military Service Tribunal for London and Deputy Chairman of the House of Commons Section of the Appeal Tribunal for London. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Colonel Thomas Andrew Polson, CMG | Chief Inspector of Clothing, Royal Army Clothing Department. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | William Jackson Pope, CBE, FRS, DSc, LLD | Member of the Chemical Warfare Committee, Ministry of Munitions; Professor of Chemistry, Cambridge University. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | George Archdall O'Brien Reid, MB, CM | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Duncan Rhind, CBE, TD | Chief Recorder, Ministry of National Service. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Ashley Sparks | Director-General of British Ministry of Shipping in U.S.A. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Commander Guy Standing, CBE, RNVR | British War Mission to U.S.A. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Aubrey Strahan, FRS, ScD, LLD | Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Geological Museum. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | William Thorn | Chairman, Blackburn Board of Management, Ministry of Munitions; Member of the Engineering Trades (New Industries) Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction; Director of Messrs. Yates & Thorn, Ltd. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | James Howard Warrack | Member of the Admiralty Transport Arbitration Board; ex-President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | William Alfred Waterlow | Managing Director of Messrs. Waterlow Bros & Layton. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Arthur Francis Whinney | Adviser on Costs of Production, Admiralty. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Colonel William Hale White, MD, RAMC | Chairman and Consultant, Queen Mary's Royal Naval Hospital, Southend. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Arthur Willert | Correspondent of The Times at Washington; formerly Secretary of the British War Mission in Washington. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | John Bowring Wimble | Chairman of London Shipowners' and Transport Workers' Military Service Committee. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | James Williams Woods | Director of Purchases, British War Mission in U.S.A. "For valuable services rendered in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1919 | John Wormald | Chairman of the General Service and Industries Committees, War Priorities Committee; Managing Director, Messrs Mather and Platt. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Albert William Wyon | Senior Partner, Messrs Price, Waterhouse & Co.; Government Accountant of Controlled Canals. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel Hector Travers Dennys, CIE | Indian Army, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Stanley Reed | Vice-President, Central Publicity Board. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Henry George Richards, KC | Chief Justice of the High Court of Allahabad | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel James Wishart Thomson | Agent to the Shipping Controller in India | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Colonel Edgar Edwin Bernard, CMG | Financial Secretary of the Sudan Government. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Rachel Eleanor Crowdy, RRC | Principal Commandant, VADs in France. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Henrietta Caroline, Lady Henderson | | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Lady Blanche Gordon Lennox | Director of HRH Princess Victoria's Rest Clubs for Nurses. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Giana Stephen, Baroness Mount Stephen | Queen Mary's Needlework Guild. | C |
| 1 January 1919 | William Ewen Stavert | Financial Controller, Ministry of Information | C |
| 1 January 1919 | Eric Hambro | Ministry of Information. | C |
| 1 April 1919 | Rear-Admiral Sir William Rooke Cresswell, KCMG | "For valuable services as First Naval Member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board". | M |
| 1 April 1919 | Surgeon Rear-Admiral George Robertson Turner, CB, FRCS. | "For valuable services as Consultant Surgeon, Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Commandant Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, CBE | | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Rear-Admiral Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee, CB | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Surgeon Rear-Admiral William Wenmoth Pryn, CB | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Surgeon Rear-Admiral Patrick Brodie Handyside, CB, MB | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Captain (Commodore, 2nd Class) Herbert Edward Purey Cost, CB, CBE, RNR (Admiral, retired) | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Surgeon Captain Daniel Joseph Patrick McNabb, CB, RN | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Surgeon Captain Arthur Stanley Nance, CB, RN | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Paymaster Captain Francis Cooke Alton, CB, CMG, RN | "For services in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Nawab Sir Bahrain Khan, KCIE | Mazari of the Dera Ghazi Khan District, Member of the Legislative Council of the Punjab. "For services in connection with the war". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Raja Daljit Singh, CSI | Chief Minister Jammu and Kashmir State. "For services in connection with the war". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel Sardar Appaji Rao Sitole, CIE | Amir-ul-Umra, Member of the Majlis-i-Khas, Gwalior State, Central India. "For services in connection with the war". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | The Honourable Mary, Lady Monro | "For services in connection with the war". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Una, Lady O'Dwyer, CBE | "For services in connection with the war". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Valentine Murray, CB, CMG | "For services in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major (temporary Colonel) Hamilton Ashley Ballance, CB, MD, FRCS | "For services in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Robert Hammill Firth, CB, FRCS | "For services in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major-General Sir Arthur Wigram Money, KCB, CSI | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Major-General) Sir Robert Whyte Melville Jackson, KCMG, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Major-General) Harry Davis Watson, CB, CMG, CIE, MVO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel (T./Brig.-Gen.) Michael Graham Egerton Bowman-Manifold, CB, CMG, DSO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major and Brevet Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Sarah Elizabeth Oram, RRC | Principal Matron (temporary Matron-in-Chief), QAIMNS. "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Temporary Colonel Charles Gordon Watson, CMG, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Italy". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Arthur Long, CB, CMG, DSO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Balkans". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Hugh David White Thomson, CB, CMG, DSO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Balkans". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet Colonel and temporary Brigadier-General) Arthur William Forbes, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General), Francis James Anderson, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Edward Hamilton Seymour, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Arthur Robert Dick, CB, CVO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Major-General) Dudley Howard Ridout, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major-General Hon. Charles John Sackville-West, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel (temporary Major-General) Frederick Cuthbert Poole, CB, CMG, DSO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Major-General) George Bradshaw Stanistreet, CB, CMG, MB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Henry Davy, CB, MD | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel German Sims Woodhead, OBE | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Shirley Forster Murphy, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel D'Arcy Power, MB, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel James Leigh Wood, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Mcllree Williamson Gray, CB, CMG, MB, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Sir Arthur William Mayo-Robson, CB, CVO, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major (temporary Colonel) Charters James Symonds, CB, M.D., FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Walker Mott, MD, FRCP, FRS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major (temporary Major-Gen.) Sir Robert Jones, CB, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Captain (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Archibald Douglas Reid, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Eversley Belfield, KCB, KCMG, DSO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel and Honorary Major-General (temporary Major-General) Francis George Bond, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (Honorary Brigadier-General) Robert Calverley Alington Bowicke-Copley, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Robert Megaw Ireland, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) George William Hacket Pain, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Brigadier-General) Sir Edward Raban, KCB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Arthur Granville Balfour, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Hill Godfrey Morgan, CB, CMG, DSO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major & Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Arthur Howe Browne | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major & Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Vernon George Waldegrave Kell, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Colonel) Robert William Edis, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Robert Campbell MacKenzie, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Herbrand Arthur, The Duke of Bedford, KG, ADC | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (Honorary Surgeon-General) Charles Snodgrass Ryan, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major-General The Hon. Sir James Whiteside McCay, KCMG, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Alice, Lady Northcote | | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Florence Rose, Countess of Darnley | | C |
| 3 June 1919 | William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts | "For services in connection with recruiting". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Henry Walter Hamilton Fowle, CBE | Commissioner of Enemy Subjects and Custodian of Enemy Property. | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Harry Hands | Formerly Mayor of Cape Town. "For services in connection with recruiting and other war work". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Senator Colonel Hon. Walter Ernest Mortimer Stanford, CB, CMG, OBE | Director of War Recruiting and Commissioner for Returned Soldiers. | C |
| 3 June 1919 | The Honourable John Chalker Crosbie | Minister of Shipping, Chairman of the Tonnage Committee (Newfoundland). | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Charles Calvert Bowring, CMG | Chief Secretary to the Government, East Africa Protectorate. "For services as President of the War Council and Acting Governor of the Protectorate". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Francis Charles Bernard Dudley Fuller, CMG | Chief Commissioner, Ashanti. | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel Raleigh Grey, CMG, CVO | Member of the Legislative Council of Southern Rhodesia. | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Sir Henry Francis Wilson, KCMG | Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute, Member of the Empire Land Settlement Committee and War Services Committee. | C |
| 3 June 1919 | William Douglas Young, CMG | Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Mabel Danvers, Countess of Harrowby | "For services in connection with the entertainment of Officers of the Overseas Forces". | C |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert William Wilberforce, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major (temporary Brigadier-General) Sir George Bohun Macauley, KCMG, CB, CBE | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Major-General Edward Charles William Mackenzie-Kennedy, CB | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Balkans". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Walter Charteris Ross, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Balkans". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel Walter Coote Hedley, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel and Honorary Brigadier-General Thomas Heron, CB, CBE | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Sir Harold Jalland Stiles, MB, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel William Thorburn, CB, CMG, MD, FRCS | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Hon. Henry Yarde-Buller, CB, DSO, MVO | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 3 June 1919 | Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Newbury Thornton, CBE | "For valuable services rendered in connection with the war". | M |
| 27 June 1919 | Captain John William Alcock, DSC | "In recognition of distinguished service to Aviation, in connection with the successful flight from St John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Co. Galway, on 14th-15th June, 1919". | C |
| 27 June 1919 | Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown | "In recognition of distinguished service to Aviation, in connection with the successful flight from St John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Co. Galway, on 14th-15th June, 1919". | C |
| 5 December 1919 | Frederick Terry Rowlatt | Governor of the National Bank of Egypt | C |
| 5 December 1919 | Colonel Herbert William Jackson, CB | Acting Governor-Generial of the Sudan | C |
| 26 December 1919 | Captain Ross Macpherson Smith, MC, DFC, AFC | "In recognition of the valuable services rendered to Aviation by the recent successful flight from England to Australia". | C |
| 26 December 1919 | Lieutenant Keith Macpherson Smith | "In recognition of the valuable services rendered to Aviation by the recent successful flight from England to Australia". | C |
| 30 December 1919 | Francis Dundas Couchman, CIE | Member, Railway Board (India). "In recognition of valuable services rendered in India in connection with the War". | C |
| 30 December 1919 | George Sankey Hart, CIE | Imperial Forest Service. Inspector-General of Forests (India). | C |
| 30 December 1919 | Diwan Bahadur Day a Kishan Kaul, CIE | Foreign and Financial Secretary, Patiala State, Punjab. | C |
| 30 December 1919 | Sir Alexander McRobert | Managing Director, Woollen Mills, Cawnpore, United Provinces. "In recognition of valuable services rendered in India in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Rear-Admiral Harry Hampson Stileman, CBE | | M |
| 1 January 1920 | Rear-Admiral Edward Henry Fitzhardinge Heaton-Ellis, CB, CBE, MVO | | M |
| 1 January 1920 | Sir Ernest Frederick George Hatch, Baronet | Chairman of Council, "Beyond Seas" Association for the Reception of Officers and Relatives from Beyond the Seas. | C |
| 1 January 1920 | The Honourable Robert Heaton Rhodes | "For services as New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner in England, and in connection with the welfare of the troops of the Dominion". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain Harry Vesey Brooke, JP, DL | Chairman of Aberdeenshire and District Local Emergency Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 23 February 1920 | Temporary Major-General Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware, CB, CMG | "For valuable services rendered throughout the War as Director-General, Graves Registration and Enquiries". | M |
| 3 March 1920 | Temporary Honorary Major Auguste Charles Valadier, CMG | For "valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders". | M |
| 1 January 1920 | Alice Chisholm, CBE | Voluntary worker, Soldiers' Club and Rest Camp, Kantara West. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Janet Lucretia, Dowager Countess of Eglinton and Winton, LLD | President, Ayrshire Branch, British Red Cross Society. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Louise Beatrice Augusta, Countess of Gosford | President of the Central Workrooms, British Red Cross Society. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Una Constance Pope-Hennessy | Central Prisoners of War Committee, British Red Cross Society. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Catherine Reeve Hunt | Chairman of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Families.' Association and Honorary Secretary of the Local Wax Pensions Committee, Colchester. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Alice Emily, Countess of Leicester | President, Norfolk Branch, British Red Cross Society. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Isabel Charlotte, Baroness Talbot de Malahide | President, County of Dublin Branch of the British; Red Cross Society, and of the Irish Joint Red Cross and St John Executive Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Beryl Carnegy, Lady Oliver, CBE, RRC | Head of the Naval and Military VAD Department, Devonshire House. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Sybil Margaret, Dowager Viscountess Rhondda | Chairman of Women's Advisory Committee of National War Savings Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Clara Butt-Rumford | For ungrudging and patriotic service during the war. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Louise Victoria Samuel, OBE | One of the founders' of the War Refugees Committee in August 1914. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Ethel Mary Reader Shakespear, MBE, DSc | Honorary Secretary, Birmingham War Pensions Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Meriel Lucy Talbot, OBE | Director of Women's Branch, Board of Agriculture. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Sophia Gertrude Wintz | Superintendent of the Royal Sailors' Rests. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Westcott Stile Abell | Chief Surveyor to Lloyd's Register of Shipping. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Martin Arnold Abrahamson | Vice-President and Chairman of the British Red Cross Society, Copenhagen Bureau; Commissioner for Repatriation of British Prisoners of War. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Patrick Dalreagle Agnew, CBE | Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Central Prisoners of War Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Brigadier-General William Alexander, CB, CMG, DSO, TD | Director-General of Purchases, Ministry of Munitions, and Controller of Aircraft Supply. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | George Henry Ashdown, CBE, ISO | Director of Stores, Admiralty, and Admiralty Representative on International Petroleum Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Henry Walter Badock, CSI | Accountant-General, India Office. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Thomas Baker, JP | Formerly Mayor of Plymouth. "For valuable war work". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Isaac Bayley Balfour, LL.D , MD, DSc, FRS | Professor of Botany, University of Edinburgh, Regius Keeper of Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain Walter de Mouchet Baynham, RD | Master, SS Ormonde. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough, CBE | In charge of Australian Munition Workers. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | James Beattie | In charge of Jute Goods Department and Honorary Director of Flax Office at Dundee, Department of the Surveyor-General of Supply, War Office; Managing Director, Messrs A. and S. Henry and Co. Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Mayson Moss Beeton | "For services in connection with the Newfoundland Forestry Corps" and "services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Sir Thomas Henry Devereux Berridge | "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Walter Wheeler Berry, JP | Development Commissioner; representative of Board of Agriculture on the Hop Control Committee and on other Committees; Member of Agricultural Advisory Council. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Arthur Ernest Blake, JP | "For work in connection with War Loan Savings Banks and services on the Nottingham Parliamentary Recruiting Committee and Tribunal". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Henry Bragg, CBE, DSc, FRS | Quain Professor of Physics, University of London; Superintendent of Admiralty Experimental Station at Parkston. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Harry Samuel Bickerton Brindley | Ministry of Munitions. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Herbert Brown | Organiser of the British Farmers' Red Cross Fund. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Joseph Burn, CBE | Member of National War Savings Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Cyril Kendall Butler, JP | Chief British Representative, Inter-Allied Food and Relief Mission, Vienna. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Gordon Huntly Campbell | Chairman, Collections Committee, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Frederick William Chance, JP, DL | Chairman, of Committee for State Purchase undertakings in the Carlisle Area. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain James Thomas Walter Charles, CB, CBE, RD | Royal Navy Reserve. Master, SS Aquitania. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain Benjamin Chave | Master, SS Carisbrooke Castle. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Robert Waley Cohen | Petroleum Adviser to the War Office. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Henry Arthur Colefax, KC | "For services rendered in connection with the Ministry of Munitions and Admiralty" and "in connection with the war". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | James Currie, CMG | Director of Training, Ministry of Labour. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Stephen Demetriadi | Partner and Managing Director of Messrs Ralla Brothers; Assistant 'Secretary, Special Grants Committee, Ministry of Pensions. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Raymond Herbert Dennis | For "services in connection with the supply of motor lorries and fire engines" and "in connection with the war". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | James Lyne Devonshire | Managing Director of London United Tramways Ltd and London and Suburban Electric Traction Co. Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | John Dewrance | Member of Engineering Employers' Consultative Committee, Ministry of Munitions; Vice-Chairman, Managing Committee, Engineering Employers' Federation; Chairman, Messrs Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Henry Diamond | For "services in South Wales in connection with Recruiting, War Savings, etc." | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Lieutenant-Commander Charles Edward Down, OBE | Royal Naval Reserve. Marine Superintendent, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | George Keith Buller Elphinstone, OBE | Head of Messrs Elliott Bros, Westminster. For "valuable services in [the] design and manufacture of fire control apparatus for Navy" and "in connection with the war". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Commander Thomas Fisher, CBE, RN | Representative of Ministry of Shipping in USA. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Cecil Edwin Fitch | For "services in connection with [wartime] recruiting". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Philip Horace Freeman, CBE | Honorary Secretary, Officers' Families' Fund. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Major James German, OBE, JP | For "services in connection with recruiting propaganda and war charities". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gibbons | "Donor of a large number of Red Cross Ambulances to the British and French Authorities; Donor of Willesden Auxiliary Hospital". "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Philip Hamilton Gibbs | War Correspondent. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Henry Neville Goschen, OBE | "Prominent Member" and Chairman for 1918 of Joint Stock Bankers' Committee. For "valuable services on many Government Committees" and "in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Major Philip Lloyd-Greame, MC, MP | Conjoint Secretary, Ministry of National Service. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Arnold Babb Gridley | For "services as Electrical Adviser to Government Departments" and "in connection with the war". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Sidney Frederic Harmer, DSc, FRS | Director of Natural History Departments and Keeper of Zoology, British Museum. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Austin Edward Harris | Formerly Assistant Survey or-General of Supply, War Office; Chairman of the Contracts Advisory Committee and Contracts Board. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Ernest Maes Harvey | Treasury Representative with British Commission to Russia. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Walter Risley Hearn | His Majesty's Consul-General in Paris. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Sir Cecil Hertslet | His Majesty's Consul-General for Belgium; Chairman of Belgian Trade Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Major James William Beeman Hodsdon, CBE, MD, FRCS | Member of Medical Advisory Board, Ministry of National Service. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Alan Hutchings, OBE | Secretary of Department of Director-General of Voluntary Organisations. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | George Lawson Johnston | Member of Leather Control Board, Department of the Surveyor-General of Supply, War Office. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Bertram-Hyde Jones | Civil Assistant to Controller-General of Equipment, War Office. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Karl Fredrik Knudsen | Representative of Norwegian Shipowners on Neutral Tonnage Conference. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain George Edward Wickham Legg, MVO | Secretary of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Families' Association. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Frederick Lobnitz, DL, JP | Director of Munitions in Scotland. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Brigadier-General George Charles, Earl of Lucan, CB | Head of Wounded and Missing Enquiry Department, British Red Cross Society. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Thomas Callan Macardle, JP, DL | Chairman of the Louth Recruiting Committee, and pioneer of the Irish Tillage Movement. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Frederick Larkins-Macleod, CBE | Adviser on Foreign Iron Ores, Ministry of Munitions. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Hon. Malcolm Martin Macnaghten, KC | Director of the Foreign Claims Office. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Hector Murray Macneal | For valuable services rendered to the Ministry of Shipping. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Alfred Mansfield, CBE | Director of Oils and Fats, Ministry of Food. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Basil Edgar Mayhew | Secretary of Finance Department and Secretary of the Central Demobilisation Board, British Red Cross Society. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | George Metcalfe, CBE, JP | Representative of Stock Exchange on American Dollar Securities Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | John Joseph Mooney, JP | Member of Advisory Committee on Repatriation and Internment of Aliens. | C |
| 1 January 1920 | George Murray | Casualties Branch, War Office. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Thomas Drysdale Nicol | Controller and Financial Adviser, Aircraft Contracts, Ministry of Munitions, services in connection with Disposals Board. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Commander Franke Bartlett Stuart Notley, RD | Royal Naval Reserve. Marine Superintendent, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Charles William Chadwick Oman, LLD, MP | Chichele Professor of Modern History, Oxford University; services rendered to Foreign Office in connection with historical research. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Arthur Eugene O'Neill, CBE | For "voluntary services in Requisitioning Branch, Ministry of Shipping" and "in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Edward Hussey Packe | Private Secretary to successive First Lords of the Admiralty. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Alfred Vaughan Paton | President of the Liverpool Cotton Association. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Joseph Ernest Petavel, DSc, FRS | Chairman of Aero-Dynamics Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Petersen | Chairman of British Committee of the International Shipping Registry. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Percival Phillips | Senior War Correspondent on Western Front during the War. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | George Walter Prothero, LittD, LLD | Head of Historical Section, Foreign Office, and Editor of the series of Handbooks compiled for use at the Peace Conference. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain James Robert Rae, OBE | Master, SS City of Exeter. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Ernest Manifold Raeburn, CBE | Head of the Ministry of Shipping in New York. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Harry Benedetto Renwick | Formerly Director of Feeding Stuffs Department, Ministry of Flood; Chairman and Managing Director of County of London Electric Supply Company Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Harry Perry Robinson | War Correspondent of The Times. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Herbert Thomas Robson | President of the Board of Directors of the Wheat Export Co., New York. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Major-General Richard Matthews Ruck, CB, CMG | Vice-Chairman of Air Inventions Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Herbert William Henry Russell | War Correspondent of Renter's and the Press Association. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge, JP | For public services in Liverpool. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Edward Marlay Samson, OBE, KC | Recorder of Swansea; Chairman of South Wales and Monmouthshire Joint War Pensions Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Charles John Ough Sanders, CBE | Chairman of Shipbuilding Employers' Federation. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Schooling, CBE | Member of the National War Savings Committee. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Anker Simmons, CBE, JP | Agricultural Adviser, Ministry of Food. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Mortimer Singer, JP | Donor and Organiser, Milton Hill Auxiliary Hospital, Steventon, Berkshire. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Lieutenant-Commander Sampson Sladen, RN | Formerly Chief Officer, London Fire Brigade. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Thomas Smethurst, JP | Chairman of Manchester War Savings Committee; ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Malcolm Smith, JP | Formerly Provost of Leith. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Harold Edward Snagge | For work in connection with the Ministry of Information. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Arthur Munro Sutherland | Formerly Lord Mayor of Newcastle. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | John Swaish, DL, JP | Lord Mayor of Bristol, 1914–1915. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Major Robert William Tate, CBE | Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; Officer Commanding Trinity College OTC. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | William Beach Thomas | War Correspondent of the Daily Mail. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Percy Thompson, CB | Deputy Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Thomas George Owens Thurston | For "services in connection with Admiralty Inventions" and "in connection with the war"; Managing Director of the Forth Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain William Hugh Tomasson, CBE, MVO | Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Joseph Turner, JP | Managing Director, British Dyes Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel David Wallace, CMG, CBE, MB, FRCS | Organiser and Consulting and Operating Surgeon, Dalmeny House Auxiliary Hospital; Red Cross Commissioner and Military Inspection Officer to Auxiliary Hospitals. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Nicholas Edwin Waterhouse | Director of Costings, War Office; Partner in Messrs Price, Waterhouse & Co. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Lawrence Weaver, CBE | Commercial Secretary to Board of Agriculture. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Brevet Colonel Arthur Lisle Ambrose Webb, CB, CMG | Director-General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Captain Maynard Francis Colchester-Wemyss, CBE | County Director, Auxiliary Hospitals and V.A.D.'s, Gloucestershire Branch, British Red Cross Society; formerly Head of the Food Control for Auxiliary Hospitals; Deputy Chairman, Red Cross Central Demobilisation Board; High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Frederick James Willis, CB | Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Colonel William Charles Wright, CB | Director-of Baldwins, Ltd., and Port Talbot Steel Company, Ltd. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Catherine Leslie, Lady Wingate | President of Cairo and Alexandria Red Cross Committee and of the Empire Nurses Red Cross Clubs in Cairo and Alexandria. | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Harry Percival Densham | Chairman of the United Tanners' Federation. | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Drummond Fraser | "For valuable services in connection with the War Savings Movement". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | John O'Conor, MD | Head of British Hospital in Buenos Aires. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 1 January 1920 | Arthur Ritson, JP | Adviser on Shipping Matters to the Naval Staff, 1917–1919. "For services in connection with the War". | C |
| 15 March 1920 | Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) John Samuel Jocelyn Percy, CB, CMG, DSO | "In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in South Russia". | M |
| 16 April 1920 | Paymaster Captain Hamnet Holditch Share, CB, RN | "For valuable services as Secretary to Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa". | M |
| 5 June 1920 | Audrey Charlotte Georgina Buller, RRC | "For work as Administrator, War Hospitals, Exeter, throughout the War". | C |
| 3 August 1920 | Baba Sir Gurbakesh Singh Bedi, CIE | "For services during the Operations against Afghanistan." | C |
| 24 August 1920 | William Goodenough Hayter | Contentieux, Ministry of Finance, Cairo. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Hon. Henry Yule Braddon, MLC | Commonwealth Commissioner, United States of America. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | George Brookman | | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Professor Tannatt William Edgeworth David, CMG | | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Robert Gibson | Repatriation Office. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Thomas Henley | Member of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | William George McBeath, CBE | | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Hon. Alfred William Meeks | Member of the Legislative Council, New South Wales. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Arthur Rickard | | C |
| 15 October 1920 | James Joynton Smith | | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Reginald Andrew Blankenberg, OBE | Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner of South Africa in London for the Union of South Africa. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Hon. Albert Browne, CMG, CBE, ISO | Honorary Secretary, Governor-General of South Africa's Fund. | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Colonel William Dalrymple | "For services in connection with recruiting and general war work". | C |
| 15 October 1920 | Major-General Alfred Hamilton Mackenzie Edwards, CB, MVO | Commandant-General, Rhodesian Forces. "For services in connection with the East African campaign". | C |