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Awards and decorations - how to wear

10.20.1.1 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 award on the left breast. 

10.20.1.2 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: awards for gallantry, meritorious conduct, good service, the Chief Scout's Personal Award, Commendation Award, Chief Scout’s length of service awards. Awards may be placed on multiple lines following the same award order if they don’t fit within the space on the shirt as described.  

10.20.1.3 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 worn above this line of emblems.  

10.20.1.4 The Cornwell Scout Badge and its emblem are worn above this line of emblems.  

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

10.20.1.6 King’s and Queen’s medals (i.e. 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 on uniform above the Membership Award on the left breast.  

10.20.1.7 Ribbons of decorations conferred by National Scout Associations in other nations are worn below the emblems of United Kingdom Scout Association decorations.  

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

10.20.1.9 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.