9832 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 31 JULY, 1919.

CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS Commander (now Captain) Bernard William. OF KNIGHTHOOD. Murray Fairbairn, R.N. St. James's Palace, S.W., For valuable services as Executive Officer of H.M. Ships "Cochrane" and "War- 31st July, 1919. spite," and in the Naval Ordnance Depart- The KING has been graciously pleased to ment, Admiralty. give orders for the following appointments to Surgeon-Lieutenant George William Marshall the Most Excellent Order of the British Fmdlay, M.B., R.N. Empire in recognition of the services of the For valuable services as Medical Officer of undermentioned Officers during the War: — the Royal Naval Depot, Port Said. To be Commanders of the Military Division of Lieutenant Otto Barnes Patrick Flood, R.N.R. the said Most Excellent Order:— For valuable services as Resident Naval Commander (acting Captain) Ernest Edward Officer, Suez. Alexander Betts, R.N. Commander Geoffrey Herbert Freyberg, R.N. For valuable services as Senior British For valuable services as Navigating Officer Naval Officer, Suez Canal. of H.M.S. "Valiant.'" Commander (acting Captain) Arthur Edward Commander Malcolm Kenneth Grant, R.N. Dunn, R.D., R.N.R. For valuable* services in the Department For valuable services as a Commodore of of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Convoys, and on the Staff of the British Admiralty. Senior Naval Officer, New York. Engineer Lieutenant Harry Hunter, R.N. Engineer Captain Arthur Robert Grant, R.N. For valuable services in H.M.S. "Bar- For valuable services as Squadron ham." Engineer of the Fifth and Second Battle Lieutenant-Commander Robert Beaufin Irving, Squadrons. R.D., R.N.R, Captain John Knowles im Thurn, R.N. F'or valuable services as Naval Transport For valuable services in charge of the Officer in Charge of the Landing of Military W/T Experimental and Instructional Stores on the Palestine Coast. Department in H.M..S. " Vernon." Major Godfrey Herbert Jollye, R.M.A. Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Hugh For valuable services in H.M.S. Dermod Evan O'Sullivan, R.M.L.I. "Malaya " For valuable services as General Staff Lieutenant Isaac Jones, R.N.R. Officer and Naval Political Officer, Cairo. For valuable services as Route Giving To be Officers of the Military Division of the Officer at Baltimore, U.S.A. said Most Excellent Order:— Lieutenant Rupert Oswald Jones, R.N.R. Engineer Lieutenant William David Bisset, For valuable services in Charge of the R.N. Port Convoy Office, Suez. For valuable services in charge of repairs Commander Archibald Seaburne May, M.V.O., to Auxiliary Pa'trol Craft based at Malta. R.N. Paymaster Lieutenant Charles Briggs, R.N.R. For valuable services as Gunnery and For valuable services as Secretary to tbe Executive Officer, H.M.S. "Valiant." late Commodore Herbert Lyon, C.B., Paymaster Commander Charles Mortimore, R.N.R., Commodore, Escort Base, Malta. Meeson, R.N. Paymaster Lieutenant Victor George Butcher, For valuable services as Senior Accountant R.N.R. Officer, Royal Naval Depot, Port Said. For valuable services in the Office of the Ldeutenant-Clomniandter Ttom Lakin Mills, Commander-in-Chief, North America and R.D., R.N.R. West Indies Station. F'or valuable services in Charge of Defen- Engineer Commander Francis Arthur Chater, sive Armaments for Merchantships at Port R.N. Said. For valuable services in connection vith Lieutenant Richard William Mittell, R.N. V.R. the refitting of H.M. ships at the Piraeus. For valuable services as Secretary to Com- Commander William Eckford Cornabe, R.N modore Lionel de L. Wells, C.B., C.M.G., For valuable services as Squadron Navi- C.B.E., British Senior Naval Officer, New gating Officer in H.M.A.S. "Australia," York. Second Battle-Cruiser Squadron, and Commander Julian Francis Chichester Patter- H.M.S. " Barham," Second Battle Squad- son, R.N. ron. For valuable services as Gunnery Officer Lieutenant-Commander Philip Nelson Draper, of H.M.S. " Orion" and in the Navai R.N.R. 1 Ordnance Department, Admiralty. For "valuable services as Resident Naval i Lieutenant William Peterkin, R.N.R. Officer, Port Sudan. For valuable services as Route-Giving Paymaster Lieutenant Archibald Charles Officer at Tampico, Mexico. Mackay Edmonds, R.N. Lieutenant Malcolm Cecil Powell, R.N.R. For valuable services as Secretary to Com- For valuable services in H.M. Ships modore Aubrey C. H. Smith, M.V.O., East " Canopus " and " Barham." Coast of South America Station. Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander (Tsmpy Commander Alfred Englefield Evans, R.N. Paymaster-Commander) William Pearce For valuable services in command of des- Putt; R.N. troyers and as Flag-Lieu tenant to Vice- For valuable services as Secretary to Admiral Sir Arthur C. Leveson, K.C.B., Admiral Sir William L. Grant, K.C.B , when Rear-Admiral Commanding, Second Commander-in-Chierf, North America and Battle Cruiser Squadron. West Indies Station.