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3558 Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 June, 1934 3558 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 4 JUNE, 1934 Lieutenant-General George Alexander Weir, Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Betham Wilkins C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel, 3rd Cara- Shuttleworth, Indian Army, Commander, biniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), Ferozepore Brigade Area, Northern Com- General Officer Commanding, The British mand, India. Troops in Egypt. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Lionel Peter Lieutenant-General Antony Ernest Wentworth Collins, D.S.O., O.B.E., Indian Army, Aide- Harman, C.B., D.S.O., retired pay, Colonel, de-Camp to The King, Commandant, Indian The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Military Academy, India. late General Officer Commanding, 1st Division. To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the To be an Ordinary Member of the Civil said Most Honourable 'Order: — Division of the Second Glass, or 'Knights Colonel Percy Reginald Owen Abel Simner, Commanders, of the said Most Honourable D.lS.O., D.L., Territorial Army. Order: — Honorary Colonel Francis Killigrew Seymour Metford, O.B.E., V.D., T.D., D.L. (Lieu- Brigadier-General Richard Beale Colvin, C.B., tenant-Colonel, Retired, Territorial Army), T.D., President, Territorial Army Associa- Chairman, Territorial Army Association of tion of the County of Essex. the County of Gloucester. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the said Most Honourable Order: — CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS Major-General Patrick Hagart Henderson, OF KNIGHTHOOD. D.S.O., M.B. (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Physician to The King, St. James's Palace, S.W.I, Director of Hygiene, The War Office. 4th June, 1934. Major-General Baptist Barton Crozier, C.M.G., The KING has been graciously pleased, on the D.S.O. (late Royal Artillery), Half-pay, occasion of His Majesty's Birthday, to give General Officer Commanding, designate, orders for the following promotion in, and ap- 43rd (Wessex) Division, Territorial Army, pointments to the Most Honourable Order of Southern Command. x the Bath:— Major-General Octavius Henry Lothian To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division Nicholson, C.M.G., D.S.O. (late The King's of the Second- Class, or Knights Commanders, Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) ), Colonel, of the said Most Honourable Order: — lst/4th Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army, Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, John Jeffrey, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Permanent designate, Deccan District, Southern Com- Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. mand, India. Sir John Loader Maffey, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Major-General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill, C.S.I., C.I.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of C.M.G., D.S.O. (late The Loyal Regiment State, Colonial Office. (North Lancashire) ), Colonel, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Major- To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division General in charge of Administration, of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Southern Command. said Most Honourable Order :— Major-General Llewellyn Isaac Gethin Alfred Richard Ainswortn, Esq., Principal Morgan-Owen, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Assistant Secretary, Board of Education. Colonel, The South Wales Borderers, Major- William Barrowclough Brown, Esq., C.B.E., General in charge of Administration, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Eastern Command. Crawfurd Wilfrid Griffin Eady, Esq., C.M.G., Major-General Andrew Jameson McCulloch, Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of D.S.O., D.C.M. (late 14th King's Hussars), Labour. General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Low- Wing Commander Eric John Hodsoll, land) Division, Territorial Army, (Scottish Royal Air Force, Assistant Secretary, Com- . Command. mittee of Imperial Defence. Major-General Percy Ryan Conway Reginald Edward Stradling, Esq., M.C., Commings, C.M.G., D.S.O. (late The South D.Sc., Ph.D., M.Inst.C.E., Director of Build- Staffordshire Regiment), Half-pay, General ing and Road Research, Department of Officer Commanding, designate, 56th (1st Scientific and Industrial Research. London) Division, Territorial Army, London Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ralph Verney, C.I.E., District. C.V.O., Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills and Taxing Officer, House of Commons. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Frederick Acting Secretary to the Speaker. Gordon Spring, C.M.G., D.S.O. (late The Lincolnshire Regiment), Commander, Poona To be an Additional Member of the Civil Divi- (Independent) Brigade Area, Southern Com- sion of the Third Class, or Companions, of mand, India. the said Most Honourable Order : — Major-General Ernest Alexander Walker, Major the Honourable Alexander Henry Louis M.B., F.R.C.S.Edin., Indian Medical Ser- Hardinge, C.V.O., M.C., Equerry and vice, Honorary Surgeon to The King, Assistant Private Secretary to His Majesty Director of Medical Services, India. The King since 1920..
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