Decoration
Bar
A bar denotes a subsequent award of the same medal or decoration.
Awarded over time
Bar appointments by year, split by honours list.
honoria.co.ukHonours rounds
The rounds behind the chart - open one to see the recipients.
A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal. It most commonly indicates the campaign or operation the recipient received the award for, and multiple bars on the same medal are used to indicate that the recipient has met the criteria for receiving the medal in multiple theatres.
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About this honour
The Bar signifies repeat recognition for further distinguished service. It is conferred by the British Crown.
It is awarded to recipients of a previous award, recognising impact at repeat excellence level, in areas such as further distinguished service.
Candidates are put forward through subsequent nomination, assessed by the honours committee and approved by the Sovereign. Appointments are announced in the Honours lists. Recipients are invested at a royal ceremony.
The award carries no post-nominal letters. Recipients wear the additional bar clasp on ribbon.
It signifies multiple acts of merit or service, representing repeated excellence and enduring service.
Recipients
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Linked data
A bar (or clasp) added to the ribbon of a decoration to denote a further conferral of the same honour - for example a Bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross signifies the DFC awarded a second time. It marks a repeat award rather than being a separate grade.
- Canonical URI
- honoria.co.uk/id/honours/bar
- Wikidata
- Q3537204
- The Gazette ontology
- gaz:Bargaz:MultipleAwardBar
From the Honoria honours vocabulary (SKOS). exactMatch = Wikidata; closeMatch = The Gazette honours ontology (official but a 2008–2015 beta).