sentences:  The large sterling silver lapel badge was intended to be worn on civilian clothes.The decoration was introduced as an award of "King's silver" for having received wounds or injury during loyal war service to the Crown's authority.A secondary causation for its introduction was that a practice had developed in the early years of the war in the United Kingdom where some women took it upon themselves to confront and publicly embarrass men of fighting age they saw in public places who were not in military uniform, by ostentatiously presenting them with white feathers, as a suggestion of cowardice.