The 1918 Birthday 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 made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, 3 June and were published in The London Gazette on the same day, followed by a supplement. (KCB, CB, KCMG, CMG, DSO, MC, RRC, DCM)(CB, CMG, DSO, MC, RRC, DCM ) (CB, CMG, DSO, MC, RRC, DCM, MSM) (CB, CMG, DSO, MC, RRC, DCM, MSM) (CB, CMG, DSO, MC, CMG, MSM) (CB, CMG)(DSO, DFC, AFC, DFM) (Viscount, Baron, KG, KSP, PC, Bt, Kt, KGB, KCB, CB, GCSI, KCSI, CSI, GCMG, KCMG, CMG, GCIE, KCIE, CIE, GCVO, KCVO, CVO, MVO, CH, ISO, Kaisar-i-Hind, RRC)(GBE, KBE, DBE, CBE, OBE, MBE (6717-6749)
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.
United Kingdom and British Empire
Viscount
The Rt. Hon. Sir John Wynford Philipps, Baron St Davids. For continuous public services in the following capacities: Lord Lieutenant of Pembroke; President of the Pembrokeshire Territorial Force Association; First Chairman of the Flour Mills Control Committee; President of the Organisation for the Employment of Retired Officers. The Rt. Hon. David Alfred Thomas, Baron Rhondda. For conspicuous public service as Food Controller, 1917–18.
Baron Sir Matthew Arthur by the name, style, and title of Baron Glenarthur, of Carlung, in the county of Ayr Sir William James Tatem by the name, style, and title of Baron Glanely, of St Fagans, in the county of Glamorgan George Denison Faber by the name, style, and title of Baron Wittenham, of Wallingford, in the county of Berks
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
William Adamson Sir William Bull John Robert Clynes Sir Edward Alfred Goulding Sir Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of Donoughmore James Ian Macpherson Sir Archibald Williamson
Baronetcies Sir George Washington Baxter For public and local services. Major Frank Beachim Beauchamp For public services. John George Butcher For public and Parliamentary services. Guy Calthrop. For public services as Controller of Coal Mines, and as Head of the Department of the Board of Trade which has control of the coal mines of the United Kingdom. Sir Edwin Cornwall For Parliamentary and public services as Minister for National Health Insurance. Robert Leicester Harmsworth For Parliamentary and public services. Robert McAlpine For continuous public and patriotic service for many years in the provision of Workmen's Dwellings and the creation of Garden Cities, and for meritorious war work in the construction of Shell Factories in Scotland and England. William James Peake Mason For public and local services. Colonel Sir Herbert James Francis Parsons. For public and patriotic services. Sir Charles Petrie. For public and local services. Colonel Edward Pryce-Jones For public and parliamentary services. Robert Thomas. For public services in founding the Welsh Heroes Memorial Fund, and in supporting the British and Foreign Sailors Society and Bangor University. Lieutenant-Colonel Rhys Williams For public and local services as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the last 12 years.
Knight Bachelor
Frank Baines For important and valuable services rendered to the Office of Works, Ministry of Munitions, Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry, and other Departments. Harry Baldwin For service as Dental Surgeon to His Majesty for a number of years and as head of the Kennington Facial Hospital; and also for scientific studies pursued in connection with the War in France. James Benjamin Ball. For eminent services as Controller of Timber Supplies since 1917. Charles Henry Burge For active leadership in local patriotic work. Alfred Butt, Theatrical Manager. For generous and useful contributions to War Charities and war work. Thomas Octavius Callender For active leadership in local patriotic work. Colonel Charles Chalmers For public and local services. John Charles Lewis Coward, For long continued public services. Archibald Davis Dawnay. For local and patriotic services in the extension of allotments, the training of men, and the Chairmanship of War Funds Harry Seymour Foster For public services for many years. W.E. Foster For public and local services. John Meadows Frost For public and local services. Walter Matthew Gibson In 1880 he entered the Privy Purse under Queen Victoria, and in 1888 was appointed Secretary of the Privy Purse. Park Goff. For services rendered to the Foreign Office during the War, in the course of which he received severe injuries. Major Archibald Gilbey Gold For public and patriotic services. James Hacking. For active leadership in local patriotic work. John George Harbottle For active leadership in local patriotic work. A. G. Jeans, Editor of The Liverpool Post. Thomas Lee-Roberts. County Councillor for Bedfordshire. For public and local services. John Merry le Sage. Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Thomas William Lewis. For services rendered as Stipendiary Magistrate for 20 years, and as Senior Wreck Commissioner. R. B. D. Muir. For services rendered as Treasury Counsel Peter Peacock. For active leadership in local patriotic work. George Peters For public and local services. John Reid For public and local services as Director of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. Mayo Robson For services rendered as Honorary Consulting Surgeon at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Windsor. Gerald Walter Roffey. For services rendered in the Ministry of Food since 1917, and as Chairman of the Home-Grown Cereals Committee of the Royal Commission on Wheat Supply. Edgar Christian Sanders. For services rendered as Clerk for many years to the Liverpool Justices. Ernest Shentall. For public and local services. Peter Wyatt Squire. For services rendered as Chemist, for 50 years, to the Royal Family. The Rt. Hon. William Alexander Forster Todd For public and local services. Alfred Warren For public and local services. Ernest Edward Wild For public services. Percy Woodhouse For public and local services.
British India Logie Pirie Watson, Partner in Messrs. Cooper, Allen & Co., Cawnpore, United Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations Deba Prosad Sarbadhikari Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University, Bengal Nilratan Sarkar Medical Practitioner, Calcutta, Bengal Gordon Fraser, Managing Director, Messrs. Best and Co., Ltd. Madras Hormasji Ardeshir Wadia, Barrister-at-Law, Bombay Robert Aitken, Secretary and Treasurer, Bank of Bombay, Bombay Raj Bahadur Seth Sarupchand Hukamchand, Banker, Central India Edward Denison Ross Principal of the School of Oriental Studies
The Most Noble Order of the Garter Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG) Henry John Brinsley Manners, Duke of Rutland
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle (KT) Brigadier-General John George Stewart-Murray, Duke of Atholl
The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick Knight of the Order of Saint Patrick (KP) Geoffrey Henry Browne, Baron Oranmore and Browne
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss
Army General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett General, Indian Army
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon-General Humphry Davy Rolleston
Army For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders — Major-General Hugh Sandham Jeudwine Major-General Colin John Mackenzie Major-General Reginald John Pinney Major-General Arthur Binny Scott
Canadian Force Major-General Henry Edward Burstall
Civil Division Sir Howard George Frank, Director-General of Lands, War Office, Ministry of Munitions and Air Ministry Lieutenant-Colonel The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse, and Extra Equerry to His Majesty
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Capt. The Hon. Hubert George Brand (Commodore, First Class) Rear-Admiral Edward Francis Bruen Capt. John Ewen Cameron Capt. Charles Douglas Carpendale (Commodore, Second Class) Capt. Henry Montagu Doughty Vice-Admiral Seymour Elphinstone Erskine Capt. Cecil Henry Fox Surgeon-General Patrick Brodie Handyside Deputy Surgeon-General Robert Hill Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Richard Hamilton Hutchison Royal Marine Light Infantry Capt. Edward Buxton Kiddle Capt. Robert Neale Lawson Rear-Admiral James Clement Ley Rear-Admiral John Scott Luard Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Lumsden Royal Marine Artillery Capt. Crawford Maclachlan Capt. Vincent Barkly Molteno Paymaster-in-Chief James Elliot Vowler Morton Rear-Admiral The Hon. Victor Albert Stanley Engineer Capt. William Toop Capt. Edwin Veale Underhill Capt. Lionel de Lautour Wells (Commodore, First Class)
Army Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox Indian Army Lieutenant-General Havelock Hudson Indian Army Colonel Philip John Miles, Indian Army Colonel Leslie Waterfield Shakespear, Indian Army Lieutenant-Colonel John Blackburn Smith Indian Medical Service Colonel Edward Langford Sullivan Indian Army
For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders —
Temp Major-General Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby Army Medical Service Temp Major-General Cuthbert Sidney Wallace Army Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Fortescue John Nason Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Charles Bell Watkins (late Royal Artillery) Colonel and Hon. Brigadier-General John Burnard Edwards Labour Corps Colonel John Charles Basil Eastwood Lieutenant-Colonel and Hon. Colonel Charles William Trotter Yeomanry Colonel George Barton Smith Army Pay Department Colonel Charles Godby Royal Engineers Colonel Frederick James Parker Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Wykes Gibbard Army Medical Service Colonel Stuart Macdonald Army Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Allan James Macnab Indian Medical Service Colonel Charles Richard Jebb Griffith Bedfordshire Regiment Colonel Thomas Owen Marden Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel James Hawkins-Whitshed Pollard Royal Scots Fusiliers 1st Colonel and Brevet Colonel Frederick Courtenay Longuet Hulton Colonel Valentine Murray (late Royal Engineers) Colonel Edgar Montague Pilcher Army Medical Service Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Bain Richardson Sandys Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Richard Ashmore Colley Wellesley Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Philip Gordon Grant Royal Engineers Major and Brevet Colonel Gwyn Venables Hordern King's Royal Rifle Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Charles Levinge Gregory (Indian Cavalry) Major and Brevet Colonel Louis Ridley Vaughan Indian Army Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Alexander Edwin de la Voye Army Service Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Lyons David Fraser Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Bertram Richard Kirwan Royal Artillery Major and Brevet Colonel George Darell Jeffreys Grenadier Guards Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Garnett Braithwaite Royal Welsh Fusiliers Colonel George St. Clair Thorn Army Medical Service Colonel Frederick Potts Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel William Duncan Conabeare Trimnell Army Ordnance Depot Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lionel Kirwan Campbell Lancers (Since deceased. To date 30 March 1918.) Major and Brevet Colonel Kenneth Wigram Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army Temp Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Lewis Wedgwood Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Sydney D'Aguilar Crookshank Royal Engineers
Canadian Force