Prince Charles's medals

Service doesn't always mean action, but service is medal worthy as long as it was actually done

My father father had a couple of medals from the war. He travelled around alot with the RAF but never saw any action at all.

Nanability yes you're right about the other side of the chest - they do it for example on Remembrance Sunday. And they are real medals awarded for real service, battles, tours of duty etc. The wearing of unearned medals is an insult to all those who earned them serving us.

Ooooh, I tried on a VC won at Rorkes Drift, hanging my head in shame now, but it was fantastic , a mixture of so many emotions.

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Thank you for explaining NanaandGrampy

It's just a complete nonsense, and an insult to people who really have done something worthy of receiving a medal.

I see what you're saying Nanabilly but the problem is that for instance a battalion might be allocated a tour not everyone actually 'fights' . But as they are one 'unit' you could not give medals only to the fighting men , that would be divisive and the whole premise of the military is they act as one if you see what I mean ?

I think I'm right in saying that you can wear a family members medals but on the other side of your chest. I seem to remember hearing it on tv at some ceremony , maybe poppy day parade.
personally I think that medals should only be awarded to people who have fought in battles and not just given to people who are for example royalty. It annoys me when you see them wearing them and they have done nothing to deserve them .

n&g put it much better than I did!

The royals are figureheads, that's all. The decorations they wear are decorations for figureheads. That's how I see it anyhow.

Not all medals are awarded for gallantry, some are awarded for status, membership etc.

Some of them signify that he has been inducted by his mother and foreign sovereigns into various pseudo-knightly orders, such as the Order of the Bath. Note that the Order of the Bath, for instance, usually has had the Prince of Wales as the Grand Master.

Difficult Vampirequeen, I have heard of family members wearing medals awarded to dead relatives

No one should be allowed to wear a medal they haven't earned.

Well, you can hardly be colonel in chief without a bit of ironmongery on your chest can you?

I always think that about Princess Anne who has never served in the armed forces yet wears a uniform and a chest full of medals on ceremonial occasions. At least Prince Charles served in the Royal Navy and even commanded a ship for a short time.