Possible Clues:

• Elected, one inside gains new badge of office
• Italy gains in strange badges
• In pain GI's nicely holding up decoration
• Distinguishing badge or emblem
• Is gain in place of Mark?
• A fashionable American soldier's turned up, succeeding in getting badges
• At home, authorise first-class returns, getting badges
• Indications of office sin: gin-swilling one on one
• Paganini is to be played without 'pop' symbols
• Distinguishing emblem or badge