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1919 New Year Honours (MBE)
2026-11-16 01:25:55 · The Daily Ledger
This is a list of MBEs awarded in the 1919 New Years Honours.
The 1919 New Year 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 published in The London Gazette and The Times in January 1919.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
1st Engineer Frank Ablett
Chief Boatswain George Hamilton Alexander
Gunner Charles Palmer Bennett
Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Alfred Stephen Black, Royal Naval Reserve
Warrant Ward Master Henry Budge
Acting Paymaster Lieutenant Henry John Cary, Royal Naval Reserve
Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant James Michael Diver, Royal Naval Reserve
Lieutenant Duncan McAuley Gracie, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Quartermaster and Honorary Captain George Harrington, Royal Marines
Chief Skipper Ernest William Hovells, Royal Naval Reserve
Lieutenant William Edward Long, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Lieutenant Allan Macbeth, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Warrant Shipwright Ernest Charles Miller
Paymaster Lieutenant James Walwyn Gynlais Morgan, Royal Naval Reserve
Skipper John Ernest Shepherd, Royal Naval Reserve
Warrant Victualling Officer Alfred Charles Waugh
Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Hugh Brown Wilson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Skipper Walter Wooldridge, Royal Naval Reserve
Army