New Year Honours 2010
“Chief Executive Officer, Codemasters. For services to the Computer Games Industry.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Chief Executive Officer, Codemasters. For services to the Computer Games Industry.
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“Chief Executive Officer, Codemasters. For services to the Computer Games Industry.”
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“Chief Executive Officer, Codemasters. For services to the Computer Games Industry.”
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 104 times in the New Year Honours List 2010 — about 11% of the list.
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153 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Surrey.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2010
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2010). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2009.
Location (Surrey) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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