Canadian Forces' Decoration
Canadian Forces' Decoration | ||
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Clasps Bars awarded for every 10 years thereafter | | |
Status | Currently awarded | |
Established | 15 December 1949 | |
First awarded | 7 June 1951 | |
– 12 years – 22 years | ||
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The Canadian Forces' Decoration (
The first governor general to receive the CD was
Criteria
The decoration is awarded to officers and non-commissioned members of the Regular and Reserve forces, including honorary appointments within the Canadian Armed Forces. However, time served while on the Supplementary Reserve List does not apply. The medal may be awarded to persons in possession of any long service, good conduct, or efficiency decoration or medal clasps, provided that the individual has completed the full qualifying periods of service for each award and that no service qualifying towards one award is permitted to count towards any other.
Service in the regular and reserve or auxiliary forces of the Commonwealth of Nations is counted towards the decoration if the final five years have been served with the Canadian Armed Forces and no other long service, good conduct, or efficiency medal has been awarded for the same service.
Appearance
The medal is decagonal (ten-sided, representing the ten provinces), 36 millimetres across the flats, with raised busts.
A clasp, also known as a bar, is awarded for every 10 years of subsequent service.[1] The clasp is tombac and is 1⁄4 inch (6.4 mm) high, has the Canadian coat of arms in the centre surmounted by a crown, and is gold in colour. This is indicated on the undress ribbon by a rosette.[1]
Recipients of the Canadian Forces Decoration are entitled to use the post nominal letters "CD". This post-nominal is not affected by the awarding of clasps.[1]
Notable recipients
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 5 clasps[4]
- Air Commodore Leonard Birchall, 5 clasps
- Queen Elizabeth II, no clasps worn by choice
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 5 clasps[5]
- King Charles III, 3 clasps
- Major-General James George Ross, 95; enrolled 1879, First World War veteran, honorary colonel of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps from 1948 to 1955, invested with the insignia in 1956 as the oldest member of the Canadian Forces to receive the CD
- Ranger Abraham Metatawabin, 92, served as a Ranger from 1963 to 1971. He re-enrolled in 1995 and as of 2015[update] remained a member of the Fort Albany patrol. He is a former chief of Fort Albany.[6]
Notes and references
Explanatory notes
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f "Canadian Forces' Decoration (CD) – Canadian Honours Chart – Directorate of Honours and Recognition". Department of National Defence – Government of Canada. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 March 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2009.
- ^ "Efficiency and Long Service Decorations and Medals – Canadian Forces Decoration – CD". Veterans Affairs Canada. 2001. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ ISBN 9781550025545.
- ^ McCreery
- ^ "The Duke receives a 5th Clasp to his Canadian Forces Decoration for 62 years' service in The Royal Canadian Regiment". Twitter. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ 12 Jan 2015 story accessed 5 December 2023, https://wawataynews.ca/home/longest-serving-ranger-honoured
General and cited references
- OCLC 779682934. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
External links
- "Canadian Forces' Decoration". Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- "Canadian Forces' Decoration; A History". Department of National Defence. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
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