new awards...

[Burke McCrory]

At 10:36 AM 6/24/97 +1100, you wrote:
>What's all the fuss over adding stuff to the Order of Precedence?  
>I haven't heard anything to indicate that the King's Battle Ribbon 
>confers any precedence as far as the O.P. is concerned (or did I 
>miss something?)
>
>The new banner is simply an honor, a motivator  - something to spark 
>interest in heraldic display, group pride and organized melee combat. 
>Surely those objectives override any negatives about making more 
>work for the heralds or keeping up with precedence stuff.  What's a 
>little paperwork if it means more new opportunities for involvement 
>(especially to those who might not excel at, or even be interested 
>in, tournament fighting).
>
>- Kat  >"<
>  (who knows well that true excellence often remains buried by
>    lack of motivation)
>
>********************************
>Katrionna MacLochlainn, Centurion
>Barony of Wiesenfeuer, Kingdom of Ansteorra
>********************************
>

Ok, The Kings Battle Ribbon is as follows.  It is to be given at the Kings
discretion to those groups that excel in the preparation for and the
participation in an official SCA interkingdom war.  The recipient that
receives the award gains the right to carry and display the Centurions war
banner until the next recipient comes along.  After that they can affix and
display a ribbon (tenetivly an or ribbon bearing in chief an Ansteorran
star sable and the name of the war it was awarded for in gules).  The only
book keeping would be to record what groups get the award.  It carries no
precedence.


Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald


mka Burke McCrory
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