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How do you wear an operational service badge?
As such wearing both the RASB, and similar badges such as the Operational Service Badge (OSB), at the same time as wearing medals is not appropriate. 23. The Returned & Services League of Australia badge is to be worn on the left breast on either the lapel of a jacket or suit or the mid position of a blouse or jumper.
What is the protocol for wearing medals?
Medals are worn side by side unless there are more than five in which case they are overlapped with the first one (to the centre of the body) fully visible and subsequent ribbons being only partly visible. The medals themselves are overlapped in the same way with the obverse (often the Sovereign’s head) to the front.
What side do I wear my grandfather’s war medals?
The medals should be those of a direct relative, for example, should have belonged to a brother or sister, dad or mum, grandfather or grandmother. In all cases these are worn on the right chest. Only service medals and decorations mounted on a medal bar (full-size or miniature) can be worn by a relative.
How do you wear the Australian Defence medal?
Current serving members wear their medals in accordance with their Service dress manual. This is generally on the left breast. Medals are worn in order as notified by the Governor-General in The Order of Wearing Australian Honours and Awards.
When can I wear my service medals?
The RSL recommends that although there are no rules about when and where you can wear the medals, that they should not be worn lightly and that the choice to wear should be dictated by the occasion and the decorum of the event.
Can I wear my fathers and grandfathers medals?
When is OK to wear my relatives medals? War medals and service decorations of any sort may be worn only by the person upon whom they were conferred, and in no case does the right to wear war or service medals, or their ribbons, pass to any relative when the recipient is dead.
Can you wear medals at a funeral?
Service medals are worn at appropriate ceremonial functions such as parades, presentations, general meetings and funerals. All service medals must be worn over the left breast, in order of precedence from the centre of the body outwards.