Army major held over ‘medal fiddle’
Posthumous award of DFC
I after obtaining the full story, when their part remains were recovered in 2005, asked the Australian government to award him the DFC, which would have been fairly correct for his action.
I have been in the medal business for over 30 years and in my opinion retrospective awards are a real can of worms. Once you start going down that road, as Parabellum has already said,for every one you give out there will be a dozen hands shooting up saying "what about my dad/husband/uncle" or even "what about me". Best left I think, the system will never be perfect, but it's better than a lot of others I could think of.