
New Year Honours 2012
Neil Alexander BRUCE OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
“Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, AMEC plc. For services to Engineering.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, AMEC plc. For services to Engineering.
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“Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, AMEC plc. For services to Engineering.”
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How common is this award?
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 241 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 25% of the list.
In their area
189 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Oxfordshire.
How widely is this recognised?
1,920 people have been recognised for Science, Engineering & Technology.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2011.
Location (Oxfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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