1918 New Year Honours (OBE)

The 1918 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, February and March 1918.

Military Division Col. Augustus Mervyn Owen Anwyl Anwyl-Passingham, Recruiting Region Cmdr. Lt.-Col. Francis Logie Armstrong, in charge of Canadian Records Maj. Edward George Graham Talbot Baines, York and Lancaster Reg.; Sec., Nottingham Territorial Force Association Lt.-Col. Richard Bell-Irving, Instructor, Royal Flying Corps Maj. Lionel Oxborrow Betts, Australian Army Medical Corps Lt.-Col. Gerald Walker Birks, Ofc. in Charge of Canadian Y.M.C.A. Services Capt. Archibald Campbell Black, 7th Battalion, Royal Scots; Ministry of National Service Maj. Frederick Blakemore, Army Pay Dept. Maj. William Henry Booth East Kent Reg.; Deputy Assistant Director of Railway Transport, Scottish Command Capt. Francis Stewart Evelyn Boothby, Sec., Lincoln Territorial Force Association Maj. John Bowden, Royal Engineers, Late Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Munitions, No. 2 Area (North-West England) Capt. Arthur Boyd, Royal Army Service Corps; General Sec., Navy and Army Canteen Board Capt. William Burton, York and Lancaster Reg.; Member of Anglo-Russian Sub-Committee, New York, Ministry of Munitions Maj. Charles Ernest Alfred French Somerset Butler, Earl of Carrick, Royal Army Service Corps; Adjutant-General's Dept., War Office Capt. William Stephen Cauvin, Adjutant-General's Dept., War Office Maj. Henry Edward Chaney, Headquarters. Training Division, Royal Flying Corps Maj. Sir Jocelyn Brudenell, Earl of Chichester, 5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Reg.; Adjutant-General's Dept., War Office Capt. George Clark, Royal Arty., Superintending Ofc. in Arty. Branch, War Office Maj. Thomas Dudley Cocke, Royal Army Service Corps; Section Director, Finance Dept., Ministry of Munitions Capt. Charles Leonard Conacher, Late in charge, Perivale Filling Factory, Ministry of Munitions Lt.-Col. Charles Paston Crane York and Lancaster Reg. Maj. Francis Samuel Creswell, Park Cmdr., Royal Flying Corps Lt.-Col. Sir Charles Cuyler Commanding 43rd Reg.al District Recruiting Area Lt.-Col. Richard Frederick Drury, attd. Royal Flying Corps Lt.-Col. Earle Calder Duffin, Assistant Q.M. General, Canadian Forces Maj. Henry Stuart Ebben, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Flying Corps Col. Henry John Edwards Commanding Ofc., No. 2 Ofc.s Cadet Battalion Henrietta Christobel Ellis, Commandant of the Motor Transport Section, Women's Legion Capt. Edward George Robert Fairholme, Royal Army Veterinary Corps; Chief Sec., Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Capt. Charles Stanley Fisher, Acting Solicitor for Navy and Army Canteen Board Col. Walter Blunt Fletcher, Sec., Wiltshire Territorial Force Association Capt. Otto Tennent Eastman Freiligrath, Royal Army Service Corps; Staff Capt., War Office Maj. George Arthur Fulcher, Royal Arty., Deputy Assistant Director, Ordnance Dept., War Office Capt. Henry Game, Royal Field Arty.; Design Dept., Ministry of Munitions Lt.-Col. Jack Giffard, Royal Field Arty.; Member of Anglo-Russian Sub-Committee, New York, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Walter Brudenell Gill, Royal Engineers, Military Intelligence Branch, War Office Lt.-Col. Edward Shirley Godman, Dorsetshire Reg.; Assistant Provost-Marshal Lt. Ernest Goodwin, Technical Adviser on Explosives to Trench Warfare Dept., Ministry of Munitions Capt. Walter Herbert Lewis Goolden, Research Dept., Woolwich Capt. Gilbert Maxwell Adair Graham. Quarter Master-General's Dept., War Office Maj. James Alexander Green, South African Forces, Administrative Headquarters Maj. Francis Grehan, Norfolk Reg.; Sec., Norfolk Territorial Force Association Capt. Wilfrid Edward Hiley, Research Dept., Woolwich Capt. Archibald Vivian Hill, Cambridgeshire Reg.; Munitions Inventions Dept. Capt. William John Honey Hilda Horniblow, Deputy Commandant, Military Cooking Section, Women's Legion Maj. Cecil Harry St. Leger Howard, Recruiting Area Cmdr. Capt. Edward Maurice Berkeley Ingram, General Staff, War Office Arthur Godfrey James, Royal Army Service Corps; Ministry of National Service Maj. Charles Jarrott, Inspector of Mechanical Transport, Royal Flying Corps Maj. Harold Driver Jonas, Deputy Chief Valuer and Compensation Ofc., Directorate of Lands, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Thomas Athol Joyce, General Staff, War Office Lt.-Col. William Kingston, Royal Engineers, Chief Inspector of Works, War Office Capt. John Learmont Sec., Cumberland Territorial Force Association Capt. James Arthur Leeming, Royal Engineers, Section Director, Trench Warfare Supply Dept., Ministry of Munitions Maj. Hugh Bennett Lewers, Assistant Director of Medical Services, Australian Imperial Forces Capt. Francis Vivian Lister, Trench Warfare Research Dept., Ministry of Munitions Violet Beatrix Alice Lambton Long, Late Sec. of Women's Legion, Military Cooking Section Lt.-Col. Cyril Douglas Hughes MacAlpine, Canadian Army Service Corps Maj. John McAughey, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Canadian Forces The Reverend Edmond McAuliffe, Chaplain, 3rd Class, Australian Imperial Forces The Reverend Angus MacDonald, Chaplain, 3rd Class, New Zealand Expeditionary Force Maj. Thomas McKibbin, Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, New Zealand Expeditionary Force Lt.-Col. Alexander Macmillan, Royal Garrison Arty. Capt. John McPherson, Adjutant, New Zealand Command Depot Capt. Henry Mansbridge, Sec., London Territorial Force Association Lt.-Col. Alexander Gordon Maxwell, Assistant Provost-Marshal Col. Charles Stuart Meeres, Royal Arty., Army Ordnance Corps Dept. Capt. George Metson, Ministry of National Service Maj. Alexander Montgomerie, Royal Newfoundland Reg. Capt. Harold Moreland, Section Director, Trench Warfare Supply Dept., Ministry of Munitions Capt. Arthur Lenox Napier, Yorkshire Reg.; Sec., Northumberland Territorial Force Association Capt. Walter Elphinstone Nevill, Nairobi Defence Force Capt. Richard William Alan, Earl of Onslow, General Staff, War Office Capt. Charles Phipps John Ovans, King's Own Scottish Borderers; Manager, Leeds National Projectile Factory, Ministry of Munitions Lt.-Col. Sydney Lewis Penhorwood, Director of Timber Operations, War Office Lt.-Col. Hugh Wharton Perkins, Deputy Assistant Director of Railway Transport, Southern Command Capt. Mansel Loudon Porter, King's Royal Rifle Corps; Sec., Berkshire Territorial Force Association Lt.-Col. Edwin Prismall Musketry Staff Ofc., Canadian Forces Capt. Alan Rae-Smith, Chief Accountant to Navy and Army Canteen Board Brevet Major John Wakefield Rainey, Army Veterinary Corps Lt.-Col. James Albert Reeks, Commanding 45th Reg.al District Recruiting Area Capt. Richard Gilbert Roberts, Instructor, Intelligence Corps Lt.-Col. Alexander Fowler Roberts, Director of Arty. (Field), and Senior Embarkation Ofc. Lt.-Col. Roddam John Roddam Maj. Robert Francis Ruck-Keene, Royal Arty., Sec., Yorkshire (North Riding) Territorial Force Association Edward John Russell Technical Adviser in the Food Production Dept.; Director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station Capt. Cecil Myles Serjeantson, Sec., Leicester and Rutland Territorial Force Association Maj. Eric James Sexton, Commanding Australian Machine Gun Training Depot Maj. Frederic Joseph Sharp, Remount Service Lt.-Col. William Constable Shepherd, Commandant of Great Yarmouth Maj. Philip George Moncrieff Skene, Late Deputy Assistant Director, Ordnance Dept., War Office; Assistant Sec., Russian Supplies Committee, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Rowland Hill Stainforth, Deputy Controller, Controlled Establishments Branch, Ministry of Munitions Lt.-Col. Thomas Heron Steel, Australian Overseas Training Brigade Lt. Valentine Beardmore Stewart, Late Manager, Messrs. William Beardmore & Company, Ltd., Glasgow Maj. John Stuart, Assistant Inspector of Recruiting Maj. Brian Gresley Elton Sunderland, Deputy Assistant Director of Arty. Lt.-Col. Arthur Sykes, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Inspector of Army Catering Capt. Kenneth Symes, Late Head of Armour Plate Section, Mechanical Warfare Dept., Ministry of Munitions Capt. John Barwick Thompson, Border Reg., Ministry of National Service Lt.-Col. Edward Newbury Thornton, South African Forces; South African Hospital, Richmond Park Maj. Edwin Ernest Enever Todd, Army Pay Dept. Edith Mary Trotter, Recruiting Controller, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lt.-Col. William Kington Tucker, Forage Dept., War Office Capt. Clement Vallange, Design Dept., Ministry of Munitions Capt. Henry Edward van den Bergh, Chief Inspector and Controller, Buying Branch, Canteen Board Maj. Francis Peter Vidal, Army Pay Dept. Maj. James Taylor Watson, Embarkation Staff Ofc., New Zealand Expeditionary Force Capt. Gerald Hamilton Wicks, Trench Warfare Research Dept., Ministry of Munitions Lt.-Col. Arthur Cecil Williams, Director of Inspection, Optical Stores, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Charles Edward Williams, Section Director, Raw Materials Dept., Ministry of Munitions Brevet-Col. German Sims Woodhead RAMC Lt.-Col. Anthony Hudson Woodifield, in charge of Ordnance Depot, Didcot Capt. Charles Bernard Besly Yule, Royal Arty., Design Dept., Ministry of Munitions

For services in connection with the War in France, Egypt and Salonika — Capt. John Herbert Boraston, Records Ofc., Operations Section, General Headquarters, France Capt. William Lawrence Bragg, Depot, Field Survey Company Maj. William Henry Clifford, Army Printing and Stationery Services The Reverend Edward Arnold Fitch, Royal Army Chaplains' Dept. Lt.-Col. Charles Edward Percy Fowler, RAMC Maj. Francis Arthur Green, Army Printing and Stationery Services Capt. Myles Higgin-Birket, Cipher Ofc., General Headquarters, British Salonika Force Maj. Percy Reginald Nelson, Assistant to Ofc.-in-charge of Expeditionary Force Canteens, France Capt. Marcus Niebuhr Tod, Intelligence Corps, British Salonika Force Lt.-Col. Edward Constable Wright, in charge of Expeditionary Force Canteens, France

Civil Division James Adam, Office Supervisor Edinburgh, Scottish Branch, British Red Cross Society Robert Adam, Late Assistant Director, Railway Materials Branch, Ministry of Munitions Thomas Martland Ainscough, Sec. to the Textile Committee and to the Standing Committee on Cotton Growing in the Empire Alexander Alcorn, Ministry of Shipping Evelyn Julia Allan, Honorary Sec., Chelsea Division, British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem James Allan Chief Engineer, Ellerman Lines Harry Allden Ofc.-in-Charge, Royal Naval Gun Factory, West Houghton John Allen, Chairman, Steam Cultivation Development Association, and Hon. Adviser to the Food Production Dept. Mary Sophia Allen, Chief Superintendent, Women's Police Service Oswald Coleman Allen, Secretarial Ofc., Ministry of Munitions William George Allen, Expense Accounts Ofc.; H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth William Henry Allen, Vice-Controller, Post Office Stores Dept. James Willcox Alsop Chairman, Liverpool Local Tribunal Amy Douglas Knyveton Anderson, Commandant, Waverley Abbey Auxiliary Hospital, Farnham, Surrey Lois Dessurne Anderson, Financial Expert Adviser to the Finance Section, Ministry of Blockade Lt.-Cmdr. Maxwell Henry Anderson, Royal Navy, Trade Division of the Naval Staff Thomas George Anderson, Superintending Clerk Naval Ordnance Dept., Admiralty Henry William Archer Manager and Sec. of the British Fishing Vessels War Risks Insurance Association, Ltd. Henry Armstrong, Sec. in Charge, North-Eastern Division, Y.M.C.A. Janet Stevenson Bennett, Lady Arthur, Vice-President of the Troon District, Scottish Branch, British Red Cross Society Cmdr. Edward Lindsay Ashley Foakes, Royal Navy, Naval Assistant to Director of Army Postal Services, and Nautical Adviser to the Post Office Peter Wilson Atkin Chairman of Salford Local Tribunal