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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]
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 lowest knightly honour that can be conferred upon a woman is Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE), which is one rank higher than Knight Bachelor (being the female equivalent of KBE or Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which is the next male knightly rank above Knight Bachelor).
Here is a look at the inner workings of the system.
The design of such colours are white with the royal arms at the centre and the unit insignia and honours at the sides. Second order colours – regimental/wing guidons and banners: In Spain's Armed Forces, guidons and banners are second order colours, but are smaller (guidons are medium square shaped while banners are small square shaped).
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.
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