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The British honours system comprises both dynastic honours, the personal gift of the Sovereign, and British state honours or decorations (known as imperial honours or decorations outside the UK), which are not. Dynastic honours continue to be conferred by the Sovereign across the Commonwealth realms, although outside the United Kingdom they are ...
Fijian honours system; Jamaican honours system; Orders, decorations, and medals of New Zealand; New Zealand Honours Order of Precedence; Orders, decorations, and medals of Papua New Guinea; Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom; United Kingdom Honours Order of Wearing; Good Conduct stripe; List of post-nominal letters
Honours and Appointments Secretariat (c. 2004). Order of Wear (PDF). London: UK Honours and Appointments Secretariat. Archived from the original (Adobe Acrobat) on 15 October 2012; London Gazette (7 April 2009). Dates for the Introduction of Medals as shown by the Royal Warrants Published in the London Gazette (Microsoft Word).
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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; Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE; Companion of the Distinguished Service Order DSO; Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order LVO; Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
While membership of the order confers no title or precedence, those inducted into the order are entitled to use the post-nominal letters CH. Appointments to the order are generally made on the advice of prime ministers of the Commonwealth realms. [2] For Canadians, the advice to the Sovereign can come from a variety of officials. [5]
After 1931, when the Statute of Westminster came into effect and the Dominions of the British Empire became independent countries within the empire, equal in status to the UK, the Order of Merit continued as an honour open to all these realms and, in many, became a part of their newly developing national honours systems. [12] The order's ...
British honours system (45 C, ... United Kingdom honours order of wearing. Orders, decorations, and medals of the Commonwealth realms ... List of post-nominal letters ...