Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal | |
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Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal with bar obverse and reverse | |
Awarded by the Queen of Canada | |
Type | Long service medal |
Awarded for | 20 years' service in a recognized Canadian fire service |
Status | Currently awarded |
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Established | 29 August 1985 |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | Corrections Exemplary Service Medal[1] |
Next (lower) | Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal[1] |
The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal (French) is a service medal created in 1985 by the Canadian monarch-in-Council to recognize members of recognized Canadian fire services who had served for 20 years, ten years of which have been served in the performance of duties involving potential risks. A bar, bearing a maple leaf in silver, is given for each additional 10 years served.[2]
Description[]
The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal is circular medal made of silver coloured metal. The obverse of the medal depicts a fire hydrant with crossed axes and a Maltese Cross centred on a stylized maple leaf. Circumscribed around the maple leaf are the words EXEMPLARY SERVICE • SERVICES DISTINGUÉS. The reverse bears the Royal Cipher. The Medal is suspended by a ribbon of five equal stripes three red and two gold.[2]
Subsequent awards of the medal are denoted by a plain silver bar with a maple leaf in the centre, attached to the medal's suspension ribbon. When worn as an undress ribbon individuals who have been awarded a bar to the medal indicate this by wearing a silver maple leaf on the centre of the ribbon.[3]
See also[]
- Canadian order of precedence (decorations and medals)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Order of Precedence". The Governor General of Canada. http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=14979. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 FIRE SERVICES EXEMPLARY SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS. Ottawa: The Chancellery of Honours. 2006. pp. 2–7. ISBN 9781100540337. http://www.gg.ca/pdf/FIRE_Regulations.pdf.
- ↑ McCreery, Christopher (2008). The Canadian honours system desiderantes meliorem patriam. Toronto: Dundurn Press. pp. 271–272. ISBN 9781554880171.
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