Military medals are a contentious subject. Given that rewarding the exceptional should be a positive thing, we do manage to ...

A senior officer in the police force that guards nuclear sites has kept his job after wearing military medal ribbons to which he was not entitled. Supt Glenn McAleavey wore the ribbons at a ...

"All the rest of his medal ribbons aren't there for World War Two, why?", he added. "Because he'd been captured and he had to wait until the end of the war to get them. "We know that it's not been ...

The medal itself was struck in bronze, with a diameter of 36 millimetres. The ribbon colour is blue. The medal's obverse side shows a veiled Queen Victoria profile, while the reverse side has a ...