12/04/2025
Will you be wearing your relative's medals this Anzac Day? We think it's a fantastic idea, and you should wear them with pride! Their service should be remembered and honoured, and wearing their medals on a day of national remembrance allows them to be on parade one more time. However, there are a couple of dos and don'ts to keep in mind.
🎖 Only wear YOUR relative's medals, and only on specific occasions - Anzac Day being one.
🎖 They need to be mounted on a medal bar (full-size or miniature).
🎖 Do not wear neck badges, sashes, sash badges, rosettes, and breast stars - they can only be worn by the recipient.
🎖 Wear your relative's medals on your right side. Only your own medals are worn on the left above your heart.
🎖 It is absolutely okay to wear replicas, and in some cases it is the best way to honour a relative and protect their taonga.
🎖 A medal bar should not be “broken up”; some say to do so negatively impacts the mana of the medal bar and the story of their service.
Don’t have your relative’s medals to wear? That’s okay! Just turning up for an Anzac Day service or wearing a poppy shows respect and honours their service. See you on Anzac Day for our 11am Civic Service!
