Awards and medals are given to people on the queens birthday, in honour of their services mainly to sports and other things rendered by them.

Yes, Amelia earned many medals. Among them were the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, the National Geographic Gold Medal and the French 'Knight of the Legion of Honour.'

Honour is a noun. It is a quality of honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's actions or character.

The Russian Empire had a variety of medals and orders that would be awarded to different groups of people for different causes in the 1800's: There was no actual "Medal of Honour" but they did have the Order of St. George, which was awarded for "meritorious military service or bravery in Combat". For a complete list of Russian medals that existed pre-1917, see this website: http://www.medals.org.uk/russia/imperial/imperial-russia-text.htm

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