New Year Honours 2019
Colin Jeffery KELSEY OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Organisation: Resilience and Response
“Head of Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. For services to the community in Manchester.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Head of Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. For services to the community in Manchester.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
29 December 2018
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Colin Jeffery KELSEY
Head of Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
For services to the community in Manchester.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62507 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 289 times in the New Year Honours List 2019 — about 20% of the list.
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147 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cheshire.
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11,402 people have been recognised for Community & Voluntary Service.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2019
London Gazette (official record), issue 62507, notice 3176542. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2019).
Published 30 December 2018.
Location (Cheshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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