and UK/China co-operation. Professor Patrick Salmon, Chief Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to British foreign policy. Nichola Jane Samuel, First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to the British government's legal service. Susan Barbara Speller, lately Consul General, Düsseldorf. For services to UK/German relations. Dr. Philip Neil Trathan, Head, Conservation Biology, British Antarctic Survey and Scientific Adviser to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. For services to southern ocean science and conservation. Barbara Wickham, British Council Country Director, Bangladesh. For services to UK/Bangladesh and UK/Pakistan cultural relations. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) Military Division Royal Navy Warrant Officer 1 (Communications Technician) David John Bagnall Major Kevin Charles Carter Royal Marines Colour Sergeant Daniel Gad Curtis, Royal Marines Major Edward Charles Malet Hall, Royal Marines Lieutenant Commander (now Commander) Richard Paul Hewitt Commander John Lea Lieutenant Commander David Francis McInerney Warrant Officer 1 (Seaman) Robert Ratcliffe Lieutenant Commander (Acting Commander) Stephen Eric Saywell-Hall Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Manish Tayal Lieutenant Commander David Nicholas Wilcocks Army Acting Lieutenant Colonel James Bain, Combined Cadet Force Major David Andrew Barringer, Corps of Army Music Major Adam Christopher Birley, Corps of Royal Engineers Acting Corporal Thomas Oliver Briggs, Royal Corps of Signals Captain Glen Paul Bullivant, Royal Army Medical Corps Corporal Craig Cardy, Corps of Royal Engineers Major Andrew John Carter, Royal Regiment of Artillery Major John Robert Chetty, the Parachute Regiment Staff Sergeant Louis John Cleary, Royal Corps of Signals Major Barry James Cooke, Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) Major Oliver Philip Butler Dobson, the Royal Regiment of Scotland Captain Martin Geoffrey Doherty, Royal Regiment of Artillery Warrant Officer Class 1 George Richard Douglas, the Royal Irish Regiment, Army Reserve Warrant Officer Class 1 Roy Paul Duffin, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Army Reserve Major Damian John Flanagan, the Rifles Lieutenant Colonel Richard Michael Garbutt, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Lieutenant Colonel Timothy John Gillies, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Major Paul Dennis Headington, the Parachute Regiment Captain Timothy Shanti Holmes-Mitra, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Staff Sergeant David Mark Jones, Intelligence Corps Sergeant Christopher Robert Jordan, the Parachute Regiment Captain Kevin Kirkham-Brown, Royal Corps of Signals, Army Reserve Major Edwyn Nicholas Launders, Welsh Guards Staff Sergeant Adrienne Richelle Lavery, Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) Major James Douglas Louther Leask, Scots Guards