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Awards and decorations - how to wear

10.13.1.1 Medals 
All Scout award medals, including the Award for Merit and its Bar, Silver Acorn and its Bar and the Silver Wolf, are worn around the neck. Medals that are pinned to the uniform are worn above the Membership Badge on the left breast. 

10.13.1.2 Cloth badges 
Scout award cloth badges are worn on the uniform shirt in the following order from the wearer's shirt buttons to the wearer’s right shirt sleeve, left to right:  

  1. gallantry awards 
  2. meritorious conduct awards 
  3. good service awards 
  4. the Chief Scout's Personal Award 
  5. Commendation Award 
  6. Chief Scout’s length of service awards.   

If there is insufficient space on the shirt, awards may be arranged on multiple lines, maintaining this order.  

10.13.1.3 Bronze Wolf 
The Bronze Wolf (awarded by the World Scout Committee) may be worn on Scout uniform. The medal is worn around the neck and the cloth badge is placed above the line of other emblems.  

10.13.1.4 Cornwell Scout Badge 
The Cornwell Scout Badge and its emblem are worn above the line of other emblems.  

10.13.1.5 Wear highest Award 
Only the highest award received for good service and its emblem and the highest award for long service may be worn.

10.13.1.6 National and other Awards 
King's and Queen's medals (ie National Honour), war medals, decorations and orders, and decorations conferred by foreign governments may be worn on Scout uniform on appropriate occasions. They are worn above the Membership Badge on the left breast.

10.13.1.7 Decorations awarded by National Scout Associations 
Ribbons or decorations awarded by National Scout Associations in other nations are worn below the emblems of The Scout Association decorations. 

10.13.1.8 Lifesaving medals 
The life-saving medals of the Order of St. John and the Royal Humane Society, together with their ribbons, may be worn with uniform.

10.13.1.9 Brooches 
When not wearing uniform, the insignia of a Scout award is represented by a brooch with the same design as the cloth emblem and may be worn by award holders.