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− | Military Decorations, Medals and Insignia are military awards which recognize service, position, and personal accomplishments of a soldier while a member of the [[ | + | Military Decorations, Medals and Insignia are military awards which recognize service, position, and personal accomplishments of a soldier while a member of the [[British Armed Forces]]. Together with military badges, such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career. |
Generally, a senior officer or cabinet member will approach the designer for new medals. Prominent politician and community member [[Malta_1990]] created all, if not most, of the ribbons up to and including the ''Amazon Campaign Medal'' ribbon, after which he became inactive enough that officer [[John F Baker]] took up the unoffical role. | Generally, a senior officer or cabinet member will approach the designer for new medals. Prominent politician and community member [[Malta_1990]] created all, if not most, of the ribbons up to and including the ''Amazon Campaign Medal'' ribbon, after which he became inactive enough that officer [[John F Baker]] took up the unoffical role. | ||
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Revision as of 21:20, 6 June 2013
Military Decorations, Medals and Insignia are military awards which recognize service, position, and personal accomplishments of a soldier while a member of the British Armed Forces. Together with military badges, such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career.
Generally, a senior officer or cabinet member will approach the designer for new medals. Prominent politician and community member Malta_1990 created all, if not most, of the ribbons up to and including the Amazon Campaign Medal ribbon, after which he became inactive enough that officer John F Baker took up the unoffical role.
Since the demise of the British Armed Forces, medals have generally not been issued, with the exception of the Azores medal of mid 2012.
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Insignia Rules of Usage & Display
Service personnel of the British Armed Forces may wear and display a ribbon rack, medals and rank insignia on avatars, wiki pages and other display platforms provided that:
- Rank Insignia: The serviceman currently holds the rank corresponding to the insignia, or held it before voluntary resignation. A serviceman may not wear the insignia of any other rank than their current.
- Military Decorations & Honours: The serviceman has been publicly awarded the decoration or honour. Display of the medal OR the associated ribbon is allowed at any one time.
- Service Ribbons: The serviceman has served for 30 consecutive days in the service branch corresponding to the ribbon.
- Campaign Ribbons: The serviceman has fought in at least one battle for the campaign corresponding to the ribbon as a part of and as directed by the British Armed Forces.
Ribbon Rack Order of Precedence
Ribbon-Racks follow an order of precedence as follows:
- Military Decoration Ribbons by importance, most important first.
- Victoria Cross
- Conspicous Gallantry Cross
- Distinguished Service Order
- Military Cross
- Service Medal Ribbons by order awarded, oldest first. Affix MID/KCVS pins to the service ribbon corresponding to the branch served in at the time of awarding. The service ribbon does not move position. If a MID and KCVS are both received for the same branch, only the KCVS is displayed.
- Military Campaign Medal Ribbons by order awarded, oldest first.
- Foreign Award Ribbons last (if multiple countries, country precedented by awarding), in that country's order of precedence.
Military Decorations
Military Service Medals
The following awards are given for military service of more than one continuous month in the corresponding branch of the British Armed Forces:
Currently operational
- File:Textured New Army service.png British Army Service Medal British Army Service Medal
- United Kingdom Special Forces Service Star*
*UKSF servicemen are eligible to wear the Special Forces star directly on their British Army service ribbon [wikicode: {{Ribbon Devices|type=special-forces|ribbon=File:Textured New Army service.png}} ]
Defunct Service Medals
- File:Textured United Kingdom Elite Forces service.png United Kingdom Elite Forces Service Medal United Kingdom Elite Forces Service Medal
- Royal Navy Service Medal Royal Navy Service Medal
- File:Textured New RAF service.png RAF Service Medal Royal Air Force Service Medal
- File:Textured UKSF service.png UKSF Service Medal United Kingdom Special Forces Service Medal
- File:Textured Army service.png British Army Service Medal British Army Service Medal
- File:Textured SAS service.png Special Air Service Service Medal Special Air Service Service Medal
- File:Textured Paras service.png Royal Parachute Regiment Service Medal The Royal Parachute Regiment Service Medal
- File:Textured SFSG service.png Special Forces Support Group Service Medal Special Forces Support Group Service Medal
- Royal Navy Service Medal The Royal Navy Service Medal
- File:Textured Air force service.png Royal Air Force Service Medal The Royal Air Force Service Medal
- File:Textured Guards service.png Royal Guards Service Medal The Royal Guard Service Medal
- File:Textured Marines Service.png Royal Marines Service Medal The Royal Marines Service Medal
Campaign Medals
The following ribbons are given to all those soldiers who have fought in the respective wars and battles of the military campaigns which the UK Armed Forces have participated in:
Beta
Belgian Unification Campaign Medal | Belgian Unification Campaign Medal | Belgium-United Kingdom War | |
North American Campaign Medal | North American Campaign Medal | USA-Canada War | |
Australasian Campaign Medal | Australasian Campaign Medal | Indonesia-Australia War | |
Alpine Campaign Medal | Alpine Campaign Medal | France-Switzerland War | |
First Eastern European Campaign Medal | First Eastern European Campaign Medal | Germany-Poland War | |
African Campaign Medal | African Campaign Medal | Indonesia-South Africa War | |
Southern Scandinavian Campaign Medal | Southern Scandinavian Campaign Medal | Second Sweden-Germany War |
World War I
First Central European Campaign Medal | First Central European Campaign Medal | World War I |
World War II
French Toast Campaign Medal | French Toast Campaign Medal | ATLANTIS Invasion of France | |
Belgian Independence Campaign Medal | Belgian Independence Campaign Medal | Brussels Rebellion | |
South American Campaign Medal | South American Campaign Medal | Brazil-Argentina War | |
First Asian Campaign Medal | First Asian Campaign Medal | Romania-Indonesia War | |
Czech Campaign Medal | Czech Campaign Medal | British Takeover of the Czech Republic | |
Turkish Resistance Campaign Medal | Turkish Resistance Campaign Medal | Greek & Israeli Independance Wars |
World War III
North Atlantic Campaign Medal | North Atlantic Campaign Medal | PEACE invasion of North America | |
Nordic Campaign Medal | Nordic Campaign Medal | British Invasion of Norway/Conflict with Sweden |
World War IV
Second Central European Campaign Medal | Second Central European Campaign Medal | Hungarian Invasion of Slovakia | ||
Second Asian Campaign Medal | Second Asian Campaign Medal | American Invasion of Asia | ||
New England Campaign Medal | New England Campaign Medal | British Invasion of the USA | ||
Second Eastern European Campaign Medal | Second Eastern European Campaign Medal | Polish Invasion of Germany | ||
Western European Campaign Medal | Western European Campaign Medal | Spanish Invasion of France | ||
Great British Campaign Medal | Great British Campaign Medal | EDEN Invasion of the United Kingdom | ||
Ulster Campaign Medal | Ulster Campaign Medal | Northern Ireland Resistance War | ||
Amazon Campaign Medal | Peru-Brazil War | |||
Valhalla Campaign Medal | Valhalla Campaign Medal | Second British Invasion of Norway | ||
Ireland-Canada Campaign Medal | Ireland-Canada Campaign Medal | Ireland/Canada conflict | ||
East Asian Security Medal | East Asian Campaign Medal | Defence of Liaoning & Eastern Siberia September 2010 | ||
Second Great British Campaign Medal | Second Great British Campaign Medal | Canadian & US invasion of the UK (+ 20px* for participation in the battles of London) | ||
*Type {{Ribbon Devices|number=3|type=award-star|ribbon=Textured Second great british.png}} for star |
World War V
UK-Terra 5th Great War Medal | World War V: February 24th - April 25th, 2011 | ||
Second Invasion of Ireland Campaign Medal | Second UK-Ireland War: 11th May 2011 - Present | ||
Colonial Expansion Campaign Medal | Newfoundland June 30th, Prince Edward Island July 2nd or Midtjylland July 5th 2011 |
TWO Campaigns
Azores Campaign Medal | Azores June 20th 2012 - Ongoing | ||
Falkland-upon-Sherwood Campaign MedalNamed for the site of the first target of Argentinian agression) | UK April 2013 | ||
Maintenance of Union by Force & Conflict 2013 Ireland Campaign Medal | Ireland April-May 2013 |
Honours & Gallantry Awards
The following medals are awarded exclusively by the Military Honours and Decorations Board to soldiers for distinguished service in the UK Armed Forces and also carry post-nominal letters:
Victoria Cross (VC) Victoria Cross 100px File:Textured VC-Ribbon.png |
Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC) Conspicuous Gallantry Cross 100px File:Textured CGC-Ribbon.png |
Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Victoria Cross 100px File:Textured DSO-Ribbon.png |
Military Cross (MC) Military Cross 100px File:Textured MC-Ribbon.png |
* King's Commendation for Valuable Service (KCVS) King's Commendation for Valuable Service |
* Mentioned In Despatches (MID) Mentioned In Despatches |
*Only one of each awarded King's Commendation for Valuable Service or the Mentioned in Dispatches ribbon, which it overrides, may be displayed and then only on the branch a soldier was a member of at the time of receiving the award.
(wikicode: {{Ribbon Devices|number=UK|type=mid|ribbon=INSERT_RIBBON_FILENAME.PNG}})
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Civilian Awards
Serving military personelle that recieve any level of the Order of the British eRepublik Empire as issued exclusively by the Honours Committee or Prime Minister are entitled to wear an Order of the British eRepublik Empire military ribbon:
- 100px Order of the British eRepublik Empire (military division)