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The Royal  Honours system of The Commonwealth of Marie Byrd Land

In the  Commonwealth of Marie Byrd and the Member States Royal Honours are for  personal bravery, achievement, or service to the Crown are rewarded with honours.

 

The honours system consists of three types of award – honours, decorations and medals:

  • Honours are used to recognise merit in terms of achievement and service;

  • Decorations tend to be used to recognise specific deeds;

  • Medals are used to recognise service on a particular operation or in a specific theatre, long or valuable service, and good conduct.

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Appointments to the various orders and awards of other honours are usually published in The Kingdom Of Grant sland Gazette.

The Most Noble Order of the Kicked By a Mule 

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The degrees of Chief Commander, Commander, Officer, and Legionnaire are awarded only to members of armed forces of foreign nations under the criteria outlined Below.

  1. Chief Commander: Head of State.

  2. Commander: Equivalent of a Grant Island Defence Forces chief of staff or higher position, but not to a head of state.

  3. OfficerGeneral or flag officer below the equivalent of a Defence Forces chief of staff; colonel or equivalent rank (e.g., Navy or Coast Guard captain) for service in assignments equivalent to those normally held by a general or flag officer of State of Grant Island . military service; or military attachés.

  4. Legionnaire: All recipients not included above.

 

When the KBM – Kicked By a Mule is awarded to members of the Uniformed Services of the State of Grant Island, it is awarded without reference to degree. The criteria are "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements" and is typically reserved for senior officers at O-6 level and above, typically in connection with senior leadership/command positions or other senior positions of significant responsibility.

  • The performance must have been such as to merit recognition of key individuals for service rendered in a clearly exceptional manner.

  • Performance of duties normal to the grade, branch, specialty, or assignment, and experience of an individual is not an adequate basis for this award.

  • For service not related to actual war, the term "key individual" applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war and requires evidence of significant achievement.

  • In peacetime, service should be in the nature of a special requirement or of an extremely difficult duty performed in an unprecedented and clearly exceptional manner.

  • However, justification of the award may accrue by virtue of exceptionally meritorious service in a succession of important positions.

 

Removal Of from The Royal Order Of Grant island

Persons Can and have been removed from the order at the monarch's command.   

Royal Order of Grant Island

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membership in the Royal Order Grant Island is conferred by the reigning monarch without ministerial advice on those who have performed personal service for the sovereign  any member of his or her family, or any of his or her viceroys.

 All living citizens of any Commonwealth realm, are eligible for any of the five levels of the order, Foreign members will generally be admitted as honorary members of the Royal Order of Grant Island when the sovereign is making a state visit to the individual's country or a head of state is paying a state visit.

 

Ranks of the Order

  • Knight/Dame Grand Cross

  • Knight/Dame Commander

  • Lieutenant

  • Member

  • Medal

 

List of officers

  • Sovereign H.M The King, since 2004

  • Grand Master: HRH Prince Terentius, Duke of Begley , since 2004

  • Chancellor: HRH Prince Antonius Duke of Hurford Since 2018

  • Vice Chancellor: H.M The Queen Mouther Since 2010

  • Chaplain:

  • Lieutenant

 

Removal Of from The Royal Order Of Grant island

Persons Can and have been removed from the order at the monarch's command.

The Royal Order of Terrance I

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The order was instituted  as a royal family order is a decoration conferred by the head of a royal family to their relations. Such an order is considered more of a personal memento than a state decoration,

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Removal Of from The Royal Order Of Grant island

Persons Can and have been removed from the order at the monarch's command.

The Most Righteous Order of St David

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The order was instituted by the Crown in 2010 as an order to reward both noblemen involved in the Welsh links to the Royal Family and the Nation and to bind the remaining senior nobility to the new regime.

Its motto was 'Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd' - 'Do the little things in life' 

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 The patron saint of the Order is St David (patron saint of Wales)  and if there are vacancies in the Order, appointments are announced on St David's Day (1 March). 

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bars of the Distinguished Service Cross

  • Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross of the Most Righteous Order of St David (KGSOD or DGOSD)

  • Knight Commander or Dame Commander of the Most Righteous Order of St David (KOSD or DOSD)

  • Commander of the Most Righteous Order of St David (COSD)

  • Officer of the Most Righteous Order of St David (OOSD)

  • Member of the Most Righteous Order of St David (MOSD)

 

List of officers

  • Sovereign H.M The King, since 2010

  • Grand Master: HRH Prince Terentius, Duke of Begley , since 2010

  • Chancellor: HRH Prince Antonius Duke of Hurford Since 2010

  • Vice Chancellor: 

  • Chaplain if the Order: 

  • Lieutenant

 

Removal Of from The Royal Order Of Grant island

Persons Can and have been removed from the order at the monarch's command.

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