ABSTRACT
Medals are conferred on or awarded to members of the military, not ‘given to’ them. Civilians do not get ‘given’ a knighthood or a peerage, they receive them, or are made a peer or a knight or a dame. (As far as I know, there is no such thing as receiving a damehood.) People do not ‘get’ a CBE, OBE or MBE, they are appointed.
