Originally Posted by
Old-Duffer
Going back to WWI medals,
. . . As to comments about 'pre-war GSM'. . . .
As to medals being worn the wrong way round, in 1975 I stood at the Cenotaph next to an old soldier wearing the DCM and MM, along with a shed load of others. When I asked why his MM was in front of the DCM he told me it was because of the date they had been awarded!
My grandfather was very specific on the order of his medals and as well as the two bars of 5 he wrote out the list too. He had his GSM after his MSM and before his Croix de Guerre.
Worcestershire medals were adamant that the GSM should follow the 1914-1919 Great War medal and before the Delhi Durbar. With the exception of the CdeG the medals were originally in date order with only the MC put at the front. Maybe this 'incorrect' order reflected a shortage of toilet paper.
Now one may have been historically correct whereas the other was correct for the time. To posthumously alter the order to the proper sequence is, I believe, wrong.