Decorations, Award and wearing

[macwil]

The following may prove useful to those seeking information on medals and awards and order of preference when wearing them.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/medals-c...nd-eligibility shows medals and ribbons, also gives eligibility for award.

Guidance Wearing of Orders, Decorations, Miniatures and Medals gives a full explanation of order of precedence. Subsection 12, right at the end is particularly useful.

There is a particularly helpful brief guide on the following site:- https://
mycollectors.co.uk/content/medals/Medals-Wearing-Mounting.aspx

[Pam Downes]

Hi macwil,

Excellent finds.

The simplest way to break the direct link is to split the www. or https:// bit from the main part of the URL.
A copy-and-paste link (as I've now amended it to) to a commercial site is permissible.

Pam

[macwil]

This link may prove useful for people searching for medals awarded to British service personnel from 1810 onwards. https://
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_campaign_medals

[Pam Downes]

Hi macwil,

Again, another good find, but because Wikipedia have 'fund raising' days each year, I've erred on the right side and made your link non-clickable. (Might not be necessary, but best to be cautious. )

Pam

[macwil]

Thanks Pam,
No problem, better to be safe etc.
Didn't realise Wikipedia was that commercialised.

Regards
Malcolm

[Peter Goodey]

Didn't realise Wikipedia was that commercialised.

Wikipedia is not commercialised. It is funded by voluntary donations and does not carry any advertising. I don't know what grounds Pam thinks she has for making the link non-clickable.

[Pam Downes]

Wikipedia is not commercialised. It is funded by voluntary donations and does not carry any advertising. I don't know what grounds Pam thinks she has for making the link non-clickable.

I never said Wikipedia was commercialised. I said I'd made the link non-clickable because Wikipedia asks for donations, and at one stage (possibly in the days when Pam Drake owned BG) I think direct links to such sites were forbidden.
Which is why I said I'd 'erred on the right side' and made the link unclickable.

If Admin say that I could have left the link as it was then I can only apologise that people will be inconvenienced by having to copy-and-paste the URL instead of just clicking.

Pam

[macwil]

. . .If Admin say that I could have left the link as it was then I can only apologise that people will be inconvenienced by having to copy-and-paste the URL instead of just clicking. . .

If admin do say it could have remained active. Couldn't you re-enable the link and add an edit note to say that it had been done?

[Pam Downes]

If admin do say it could have remained active. Couldn't you re-enable the link and add an edit note to say that it had been done?

You're not seriously expecting me to be capable of complicated techie stuff?

My limit would be 'linking' the two halves of the split URL.

Pam

[macwil]

You're not seriously expecting me to be capable of complicated techie stuff?

My limit would be 'linking' the two halves of the split URL.

Pam

OK! Maybe I should have said 'someone'