Talk:Awards and decorations of the British Armed Forces

Alt text
As a quick expedient, I have added very basic alt text for the ribbon images ("Ribbon bar image refer to adjacent text"). Arguably to achieve the intent of alt text (WP:ALT, this description should be expanded to give a sense of the ribbon's design. This would take more time to achieve [an observation, not a reason for not doing it]. I am interested in other's thoughts on whether ultimately the alt text needs to provide a concise description of the ribbon's design. Cheers, AusTerrapin (talk) 02:11, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Order of wear for foreign medals
I think some earlier foreign medals like the Khedive's Star were worn among British campaign medals. Opera hat (talk) 10:17, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Or maybe not. Here's the Duke of Connaught wearing it last. I'll remove the "dubious" tag. Opera hat (talk) 16:55, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Medal Mounting
There are two ways of mounting medals, swing and court. When I finish my service in 1982 all three services used swing mounting for full sized and miniature medals. Even Royalty used swing mounting. On parades and at formal dinners, you could hear them tinkling against one another. Not any more. At some point this changed and medals (full sized and miniatures) are now almost exclusively mounted in court style. If an ex-serviceman of pre-82 vintage wanted to have his medals re-mounted, which style should they be done in? Is there a Queen's Regulation to govern this? Does it matter? And finally should it be mentioned? Kiltpin (talk) 18:26, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Last page of this doc makes reference to court mounting: . Cheers EricSerge (talk) 19:37, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Is this medal included?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-secretary-awards-new-medal-to-46-troops

GSM 08

Cantab1985 (talk) 11:47, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

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Op Shader Medal
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-medal-unveiled-to-recognise-the-fight-against-daesh

Sammartinlai (talk) 12:50, 19 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ Operational Service Medal Iraq and Syria EricSerge (talk) 18:41, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Campaign Medal (Oman)
The Campaign Medal (Oman) is a foreign award,as Oman is not part of the Commonwealth of Nations - (101.98.104.241 (talk) 13:35, 12 September 2018 (UTC))

Merge from British campaign medals?
Would there be any reasons not to? All other national articles that I know of seem to collect the information in one article only. PPEMES (talk) 21:59, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it would be too long so no. BlueD954 (talk) 03:52, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 15:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

medal of military merit
London Gazette Page 4894&emsp;SUPPLEMENT  TO  THE  LONDON   GAZETTE,    14   OCTOBER,    1949 Maj.  (temp.) Wilfred  BYFORD-JONES  (150240),  General List What is it? 49.147.194.6 (talk) 10:24, 2 December 2022 (UTC)