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Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE/DBE; Knight Bachelor [note 3] Companion of the Order of the Bath CB; Companion of the Order of the Star of India [note 1] CSI; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG; Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire [note 1] CIE; Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO ...
Honours, decorations and medals are arranged in the "Order of Wear", an official list which describes the order in which they should be worn. [45] Updates to the Order of Wear are published in The London Gazette when necessary. The current Order of Wear was published on 11 January 2019. [46]
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Here is a look at the inner workings of the system.
If approved for wear, worn in order of date of award. Foreign Medals. If approved for wear, worn in order of date of award. Jubilee, Coronation and Durbar medals were worn before campaign medals until November 1918, after which the order of wear was changed, with them now worn after campaign medals and before long service awards. [2]
The New Year and birthday honours are awarded by the King following recommendations by the prime minister or senior government ministers. Members of the public can also recommend people for an award.
It was founded on the same date as the Order of the British Empire. [1] [2] The order was originally intended to be conferred upon a limited number of persons for whom this special distinction seemed to be the most appropriate form of recognition, constituting an honour dissociated from either the acceptance of title or the classification of ...
Most if not all new honours systems continued to permit recipients of British honours to wear their awards according to the rules of each nation's order of wear. Sri Lanka, whose defence personnel were eligible to receive the Victoria Cross until 1972, introduced its own equivalent, the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya medal.