Order of Merit "KMS", and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters "KMA". However, Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, advised against the new order, primarily because of its selection process. Victoria's son, King Edward VII, eventually founded the Order of Merit on 26 June 1902 (the date for which his coronation had been originally planned) as a means to acknowledge "exceptionally meritorious service in Our Navy and Our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service towards the advancement of Art, Literature and Science". All modern aspects of the order were
Order of Military Merit of the Companions of Artigas March 1985. In 1991, the government of Uruguay established the Medal of Military Merit as the highest military decoration of the Army of Uruguay.<ref name="469/997"></ref> It uses the same ribbon as the Military Order of Merit of the Companions of Artigas. The order was awarded in five different classes: Order of Military Merit of the Companions of Artigas The Military Order of Merit of the Companions of Artigas (Spanish: "El Orden Militar al Mérito Tenientes de Artigas"), was a military decoration of Uruguay. The Military Order of Merit of the Companions of Artigas was established by Law N° 14.955 on