1918 New Year Honours (MBE)

This is a list of people appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours.

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.

Unlike the 1917 New Year Honours, the 1918 honours was dominated by rewards for war efforts. As The Times reported: "The New Year Honours represent largely the circumstances of war, and, perhaps, as usual, they also reflect human nature in an obvious form. The list is one of the rare opportunities for the public to scan the names of soldiers who have distinguished themselves in service."

The recipients of the Order of the British Empire were not classified as being within Military or Civilian divisions until following the war.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by division (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Military Division

Capt. John Herbert Ashton, Superintending Ofc., Army Veterinary Corps Margaret Winifred Atkinson, Superintendent, Cookery Section, Women's Legion Capt. Albert Raymond Auger, Q.M., Base Depot, Canadian Forestry Corps Capt. William Edgar Aylwin, Royal Flying Corps Capt. John Baker, Royal Army Service Corps; Confidential Clerk to Assistant Director of Transport, War Office Lt.-Col. Harry Hyndman Balfour, RAMC; South African Hospital, Richmond Park Capt. Douglas Barnes, Commanding No. 2 Depot Battalion, Overseas Training Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces Lt. Harold Wilmot Barras, Royal Garrison Arty.; Assistant Inspector of Carriages, Ministry of Munitions Maj. Alexander Barron, Royal Army Service Corps Maj. David Ernest Bellaney, Remount Service Magrelinho (he used to enter in the war) Lt.-Col. William Joseph Bentley, Assistant Director of Dental Services, Canadian Forces Capt. John Augustus Blay, Q.M.-General's Dept., War Office Maj. Arthur Blennerhassett, Remount Service Capt. Lester Browning Booty, Inspector Auditor, Messing Accounts, War Office Capt. Ernest Bowles, South African Pay Office Capt. Henry Cecil Boys, Formerly Assistant Inspector of Gun Ammunition (Technical), Ministry of Munitions Capt. Frederick Henry Ewart Branson, Army Ordnance Dept. Capt. Edwin Brown, Assistant Inspector of Gun Ammunition (Technical), Ministry of Munitions Helen Grace Rae Brown, Administrator, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lt. Herbert Charles Stuart Bullock, Royal Flying Corps Maj. Charles Duncan Miles Campbell, Royal Flying Corps Lt.-Col. David Bishop Campbell, Forestry Technical Ofc., Canadian Forestry Corps Maj. Francis Henry Chalkley, Ordnance Ofc. in Charge of Salvage Depot Capt. Charles Joseph Charlton, Staff Capt., Canadian Headquarters Col. Sir John Maurice Clark Midlothian Territorial Force Association, Ministry of National Service Lt.-Col. William James Clarke, Royal Field Arty., Assistant Inspector of Carriages, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Thomas Coates, Superintending Ofc. (Q.M.), General Headquarters, Home Forces Maj. William Coley, Royal Arty., Q.M., Depot, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Maj. Henry Cooper, Commissary of Ordnance, Woolwich Sylvia Corner, Q.M., Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Lt. Gordon George Crocker, Military Intelligence Branch, War Office Maj. Roy Victor Cutler Commanding Australian Engineers Training Depot Capt. R. J. Durley, in charge of Gauges and Drawings, Canada, Ministry of Munitions Hester Mary Edwards, Administrator, Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps Maj. William Farraday, Reserve Mechanical Transport Depot Capt. Alexander Fenton, in charge of Technical Warehouse, Canadian Forestry Corps Lt.-Col. Alpin Ferguson, Deputy Assistant Director of Timber Operations, Canadian Forestry Corps May Finlay, Superintendent, Cookery Section, Women's Legion Capt. Harold Fortescue Flannery, Late Proof Ofc., Canada, Ministry of Munitions Lt.-Col. John James Fry, Deputy Director of Transport, Canadian Forces Lt. William Henry Gregory Geake, Assistant at Munitions Inventions Dept., Experimental Ground Jane Margaret Francis Gibson, Superintendent, Cookery Section, Women's Legion Lt. Richard Jones, in charge of Materials, Mechanical Transport Depot, Kempton Park Lt. Herbert Alfred Joy, Royal Arty., Estimating Ofc., Coast Defence Armament Maj. Wybrants Judge, Q.M., Rifle Depot, Winchester Lt. John James Keene, Confidential Clerk, War Office Capt. Frederick Keough, Q.M., No. 4 Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Arty. Maj. Robert John Lapham, Army Service Corps Maj. Herbert Laurie, Remount Service Capt. James Lawrence, Royal Army Service Corps; Chief Clerk, Supplies Branch, War Office Maj. Clive Leese, Inspecting Ofc. to Mechanical Transport, Ministry of Munitions Maj. Edwin Philip Le Mesurier, Jersey Militia; Area Cmdr., White City, West London Capt. John Walter Litchfield, Assistant Inspector, Army Ordnance Depot, Woolwich Maj. Owen Lobley, Canadian Army Pay Corps Capt. Henry John Leicester Longden, Inspector of Army Schools Capt. Arthur Henry Lowe, in charge of Army Ordnance Depot, Aintree Capt. Dudley Owen Lumley, Wiltshire Reg.; Deputy Assistant Inspector of Recruiting, Southern Command Capt. Thomas Lyons, Deputy Assistant Director of Aircraft Equipment, Air Board Capt. William Charles McCutchan Adjutant, Australian Signal Training Depot Capt. Alexander McDonald, Assistant Inspector of Guns, Ministry of Munitions Maj. the Reverend John Howard MacDonald Canadian Headquarters Staff Lt. William Henry George Maton, Royal Arty., Ordnance Dept., War Office Lt. Thomas Matthews, Royal Garrison Arty. Lt.-Col. Henry George Mayes, Director, Canadian Army Gymnastic Staff Lt. Frederick George Middleton, Royal Engineers, Inspector, Royal Engineer Machinery, War Office Lt. James Edward Moberly, Assistant Engineer, Ministry of Munitions, No. 7 Area (Metropolitan) Capt. William Morgan, Royal Engineers, Q.M., Northern Command Lt. John William Mort Lt. Frederick Montague Augustus Morris, Assistant to Staff Capt., War Office Lt. James Thomas Morton Clarke, Q.M.-General's Dept., War Office Maj. George Alexander Stokes Nairn, Supervising Military Representative of No. 4 District; Assistant Inspector of Recruiting, Western Command Maj. John Arnold Neale, Australian Imperial Force, in charge of Australian Records Lt. Thomas Neame, Works Manager, Messrs. Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd., Birmingham Capt. Richard Trevor Tudor Owen, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry; Assistant Inspector of Small Arms, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Percy Frank Parker, Royal Army Ordnance Corps; in charge of Clothing Dept., Leicester Maj. Sidney Ernest Parker, Instructor, Royal Flying Corps Lt. Robert Halstead Porters, Sec., British Military Mission at Russian Headquarters Capt. Frederick Charles Prime, Royal Arty., Assistant Inspector of High Explosives, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Percy Thorndon Remington, Dental Ofc., Australian Army Medical Corps Capt. William Hoyles Rennie, Volunteer Musketry Instructor, for services in connection with the Royal Newfoundland Reg. Lt. William Rush, in charge of Stores, No. 2 Reserve Transport Depot, Blackheath Capt. Percy Rust, London Reg., Artists Rifles Ofc.s Training Corps Maj. William John Ryan, Royal Flying Corps Capt. Henry Sadler, Royal Army Service Corps; Riding Master, Buller Barracks, Aldershot Maj. Thomas Lewis Lindsay Sandes, South African Hospital, Richard Park Capt. Walter Richard Shilstone, in charge of Canadian and American Inspection Section, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Sidney James Smith, Royal Army Service Corps; Chief Clerk, Aldershot Command Brevet Col. Stanley George Drew Smith, Assistant Inspector of Carriages, Ministry of Munitions Lt. Charles Henry Hughes Spivey, Acting Q.M. and Superintending Clerk of Reserve Battalion, Scots Guards Lt. Leslie Norman Waldegrave Stone, Royal Garrison Arty.; Assistant Inspector of Carriages, Ministry of Munitions Capt. Arthur Fraser Sutton, Senior Dental Ofc., Australian Army Medical Corps Capt. Walter Benjamin Thorpe, Royal Army Service Corps; Chief Superintending Clerk, Northern Command Capt. Edwin George Thomas Tims, School of Instruction for N.C.O.s, Salisbury Maj. Walter Henry Tofft, Australian Army Medical Corps Maj. William Walker, Royal Army Ordnance Dept. Beatrice Gascoigne Ward, Deputy Commandant, Motor Section, Women's Legion Capt. William George West, Gun Contracts, Contracts Dept., Ministry of Munitions Lt. Percy Claydon Whitteridge, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Maj. Richard Charles Williamson, Recruiting Ofc., Greenock Sub-Area Capt. George Frederick William Willicot Staff Ofc., Royal Engineers Lt. Cecil Herbert Stanley Willis, Artists Rifles Ofc.s Training Corps Maj. Godfrey Harold Alfred Wilson, General Staff, War Office

For services in connection with the War in France, Egypt and Salonika — Lt. Andrew Buchan, Royal Engineers Gladys Mary Collins, Deputy Administrator, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Capt. Francis Robertson Gladstone Duckworth, Sec., Claims Commission, British Salonika Force Lt. George Ingle Finch, Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Base Ordnance Depot, Salonika Mary Sophia Frood, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Area Controller, Abbeville Lilias Ida Gill, Unit Administrator, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Gladys Alicia Jones, Assistant Administrator, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps Margaret Kilroy Kenyon, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Area Controller, Calais Maj. William F. Lench, lately Ofc. in charge of Egyptian Expeditionary Force Canteens Alice Low, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Area Controller, Boulogne Frances Mary Parker, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Area Controller, Havre Edith Mary Pridden, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Area Controller, Étaples

Civil Division

Ethel May Abram, Commandant, St. Luke's Auxiliary Hospital, Reading Margaret Acland Hood, Organiser of Recreation Clubs, Munition Workers Welfare Committee, Y.W.C.A. Maud Florence Addington, Superintendent, Lady Clerical Staff, Ofc.s Casualty Branch, War Office William James Addiscott, Assistant Collector of Fishery Statistics at Plymouth Florence Bessie Affleck, Assistant Organiser and Administrator, High Wycombe Auxiliary Hospital Andrew Aikman, Sec. and Engineering Manager, South-Eastern Midlands Munitions Board of Management William Aitkenhead, Shop Manager, Messrs. G. & J. Weir, Ltd. Ernest Charles Aldridge, Travelling Inspector, Central Stores Dept., Ministry of Munitions Samuel Kendrick Aldridge, Assistant, Director of Finance, Ministry of Food Stroma Alexander-Sinclair Charles Hugh Alison, Acting Paymaster, Army Pay Dept. George Macdonald Allan, Naval Sea Transport Branch, Ministry of Shipping Ida Allan, Commandant, Hornbrook Auxiliary Hospital, Chislehurst Thomas Easton Allan, Messrs. Robey & Company, Ltd. Thomas Cuthbert Allchin, E.G. Powder Company, Ltd. William Barnes Alloock, Superintendent, Perivale National Filling Factory, Ministry of Munitions Alan Bruce Allen, Inspector of Furs and Skins, War Office Frank Allen, Chief Special Constable, Doncaster Alfred Amos Chairman of the Kent Farmers Club Capt. Henry Leonard Herbert Andrews, Ministry of National Service Malcolm Percival Applebey, Acids Supply Branch of Explosives Supply Dept., Ministry of Munitions Lt. Alfred Henry Arnold, Sec. to Mediterranean Commission, British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem Florence Evelyn Arnott, Commandant in Charge, St. Michael's Auxiliary Hospital, Brampton, Cumberland Olive Inana Arthur, Vice-Convenor and General Manager, Red Cross Comforts Depot, Ayr Lt. Robert William Ascroft, Head of Spraying Organisation, Food Production Dept. Harry Hales Ashbridge, Works Manager, Churchill Machine Tool Company Limited, Manchester Ernest Gilman Ashley, Commercial Steel Section, Iron and Steel Dept., Ministry of Munitions