After the mob showed me the door as part of their "Options for Change" I spent many years with HM Customs & Excise in a post that required me to hold the Queens Commission. I would not for the life of me expect, nor would I wish for, anyone to refer to me as HM Customs (retd), Higher Executive Officer (retd) or any other such nonsense relating to what I once was rather than what I now am. My commission is printed on parchment, written in a very fine hand quoting archaic phrases only a classics scholar would understand. It sits in an envelope at the back of my sock draw with all the other detritus from previous careers.
Let it go! But do remember; the older you get the better you were.