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Fresh calls for Walter Mittys who wear medals they have not earned to face charges

They said the deceitful wearing of medals is “insulting to the rightful recipients of these awards, damaging to the integrity of the military honours system and harmful to the bond between the public and the Armed Forces”.

There are so many impostors - both civilians fantasists and ex-military who embellish their records - that veterans have formed “The Walter Mitty Hunters Club” to expose them.

Until 2006 the wearing of medals by impostors was a criminal offence but this law, introduced after the First World War, was scrapped.

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The all-party committee backed an MP’s private bill which would make wrongly wearing military medals a criminal offence.

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