page_title: 1919 Birthday Honours
section_title: Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
hierarchical_section_title: 1919 Birthday Honours / United Kingdom and British Empire / Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
caption_attribution_description: Collage met de juiste gesp aan de bovenzijde van het lint
context_page_description: The 1919 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette from 3 June to 12 August. The vast majority of the awards were related to the recently ended War, and were divided by military campaigns. A supplementary list of honours, retroactive to the King's birthday, was released in December 1919.
  The massive list contained nearly 10,000 names, more than half of which were appointments to the Order of the British Empire. "The lists of awards to the Army are so long that only a part of the first section can be published to-day," reported The Times on 3 June. "This section fills 131 pages of the London Gazette." Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig were both appointed to the Order of Merit. As The Times noted, "The successful leadership of the victorious British Forces by land and sea is happily recognized by the award of the Order of Merit — which is limited in numbers to 24 — to Sir David Beatty and Sir Douglas Haig."
context_section_description: Capt. Wyndham Lindsay Birch MBE West Yorkshire Regiment
  Lt.-Col. Ernest Leslie Gossage MC Royal Artillery
  Capt. Roy King DFC Australian Flying Corps
  Lt.-Col. Cuthbert Trelawder Maclean MC Royal Scots Fusiliers
  Maj. Laurence Arthur Pattinson MC DFC Royal Fusiliers
  Lt.-Col. Charles Erskine Risk, Royal Marine Light Infantry
  Maj. John Cannon Russell, Royal Engineers
  For distinguished service in connection with military operations in the Balkans —
  Capt. Evelyn Hugh Barker MC King's Royal Rifle Corps
  Temp Lt. Edmund Francis Herring MC Royal Field Artillery
  Temp Maj. Basil Archer. Jackson MC Shropshire Light Infantry
  Maj. Denis Erskine Knollys, Indian Army
  Maj. John Arthur Claude Kreyer, Indian Army
  Temp Maj. Humphrey Francis Mason, Royal Garrison Artillery
  Temp Maj. Anton Peltzer, East Lancashire Regiment
  Temp Maj. Harold George Rickwood MC South Lancashire Regiment
  Lt. Ernest Monkhouse Rogers-Tillstone MC Royal Field Artillery, Special Reserve
  Temp Maj. Frank Vincent Shaw MC Royal Field Artillery
  Capt. and Bt. Maj. Percy Stanley Tomlinson, Royal Army Medical Corps
  Capt. Stanley Watson MC Cheshire Regiment
  For distinguished service in connection with military operations in East Africa —
  Capt. Edward Beckford Bevan, Norfolk Regiment and King's African Rifles
  Capt. Alexander Charles Masters MC South Wales Borderers, and King's African Rifles
  Capt. Charles George Phillips MC West Yorkshire Regiment and King's African Rifles
  For distinguished services rendered in connection with military operations in Eastern Russia —
  Temp Lt. Charles Dunlop OBE Scottish Rifles
  Canadian Forces
  Lt.-Col. Joseph Whiteside Boyle
  For distinguished service in connection with military operations in France and Flanders—
  Temp Maj. Douglas Charles Allen, Tank Corps
  Capt. and Bt. Maj. Henry Adair Allen, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
  Maj. Fearnley Anderson MC Seaforth Highlanders
  Temp Maj. William Arnold, Tank Corps
  Lt.-Col. Walter Arthy, Royal Garrison Artillery
  Capt. Ernest Arthur Ash, Middlesex Regiment, Special Reserve, comdg. Durham Light Infantry
  Temp Maj. Walter Hubert Baddeley MC East Surrey Regiment
  Capt. Basil Hume Badham, Royal Scots Fusiliers
  Lt. Colin Willoughby Baker MC Leicestershire Regiment
  Maj. John Arthur Ballard, Royal Field Artillery
  Acting Capt. Albert Methuen Bankier MC Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  Capt. Arthur Gordon Barry MC Manchester Regiment, comdg. Machine Gun Corps
  Capt. John Nelson Barstow MC Royal Field Artillery
  Maj. Miles Beevor, East Kent Regiment, attd. Middlesex Regiment
  Capt. Augustus Charles Herbert Benke MC London Regiment
  Temp Capt. Fred Roland Berridge MC Northamptonshire Regiment
  Capt. Frederick William Bewsher MC London Regiment
  Maj. Robert Bryan Bickerdike, Royal Field Artillery
  Temp Maj. Hugh George Bigg-Wither, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  Maj. William Birtwistle, Royal Field Artillery
  Capt. Norman Valentine Blacker MC East Yorkshire Regiment, attd. Machine Gun Corps
  Capt. Patrick James Blair, Royal Scots, attd. Royal Highlanders
  Maj. Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho, Royal Field Artillery
  Quartermaster and Capt. Francis Sydney Boshell MC Royal Berkshire Regiment
  Capt. Henry Kirk Boyle, West Yorkshire Regiment, attd. Machine Gun Corps
  Capt. Edwin Percival Brassey MC Coldstream Guards, Special Reserve, attd. 2nd Battalion
  Capt. Richard Hugh Royds Brocklebank, 9th Lancers
  Maj. Donald Brown, Royal Field Artillery
  Temp Capt. Herbert Compton Browning MC Bedfordshire Regiment
  Lt. John Nevile Buchanan MC Grenadier Guards, Special Reserve
  Lt.-Col. Stephen Darle Bullen, Royal Garrison Artillery
  Quartermaster and Maj. John Burke MC DCM Royal Dublin Fusiliers
  Capt. Charles Desborough Burnell, London Regiment
  Temp Maj. Richard Parry Burnett MC South Staffordshire Regiment, attd. Royal Fusiliers
  Maj. Stanilaus Burrell, Northumberland Hussars
  Capt. Henry Neville Burroughes  Royal Army Medical Corps
  Maj. Ivor Buxton, Norfolk Yeomanry
  Lt. Aylmer Lochiel Cameron MC Royal Field Artillery
  Capt. Gerald Goodwin Carpenter, Suffolk Regiment
  Maj. Sydney Carwithen, Royal Artillery
  Lt. James Reid Christie, Gordon Highlanders
  Maj. Dou
caption: Riband and Badge of the Distinguished Service Order
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