New Year Honours 2022
George Mccandless BEM
British Empire Medal (BEM)
“For services to Golf in Northern Ireland.”
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London Gazette notice
British Empire Medal
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
01 January 2022
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to award the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) to the undermentioned:
B.E.M.
George Ivor McCANDLESS
For services to Golf in Northern Ireland.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63571 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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New Year Honours 2022- Region
- Lisburn, County Antrim
“For services to Golf in Northern Ireland.”
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How common is this award?
The British Empire Medal was awarded 382 times in the New Year Honours List 2022 — about 24% of the list.
In their area
120 British Empire Medal recipients are from County Antrim.
How widely is this recognised?
2,830 people have been recognised for Sport & Recreation.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Source & provenance
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British Empire Medal · 2022
London Gazette (official record), issue 63571, notice 3957453. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2022).
Published 31 December 2021.
Location (Lisburn, County Antrim) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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