CtahhR Wrote:Those Orders Of The British Empire look rather ugly on the chest like that. I suppose the aspirational commanders were saving their neck for the Marshal's Star.
I suspect that actually wearing the foreign neck orders around the neck would have seemed too Imperial, too much a throwback to the Tsarist era. Ans since there were no Soviet neck awards, it also might have been viewed as disrespectful to wear a foreign award above the medal bar with Soviet awards. The foreign awards in the photos do all seem to be positioned beneath the Soviet awards.
