Post by Administrator on May 24, 2014 11:15:18 GMT
Nearly 70 years after the Second World War, four Canadian veterans awarded the British Arctic Star were the first to be presented with their medals in Victoria Thursday. “While Canadians, the British and all Allied nations have long recognized your role in serving north of the Arctic Circle during the Second World War, it is still only right and proper that you should have our own military honour for such bravery,” Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino said to the men during a ceremony at the Lodge at Broadmead. The Arctic Star medal is a British honour announced in 2012 and granted to Commonwealth forces members for operational service north of the Arctic Circle from 1939 to 1945
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