New Year Honours 2020
William Colin HAMON BEM
British Empire Medal (BEM)
Organisation: South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
“Lately Paramedic, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the community in South West England”
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British Empire Medal (BEM)
Lately Paramedic, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the community in South West England
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British Empire Medal
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the British Empire Medal (Civil Division) to the undermentioned:
B.E.M.
William Colin HAMON
Lately Paramedic, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
For services to the community in South West England.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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The British Empire Medal was awarded 333 times in the New Year Honours List 2020 — about 24% of the list.
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200 British Empire Medal recipients are from Devon.
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Where this record comes from
British Empire Medal · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3455649. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 30 December 2019.
Location (Exmouth, Devon) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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