Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal
The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal (Médaille de pompiers pour services distingués) is a service medal created in 1985 by the Canadian monarch-in-Council. The medal recognizes 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.
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- Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal
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- 1985.
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- Canada.
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The Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal (Médaille de pompiers pour services distingués) is a service medal created in 1985 by the Canadian monarch-in-Council. The medal recognizes 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.
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The medal is awarded by the Chancellery of Canadian Orders.
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• Name — Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal • Presenter — The monarch of Canada • Type — Long service medal • Awarded For — 20 years' service in a recognized Canadian fire service • Status — Currently awarded • Established — 29 August 1985 • Higher — Corrections Exemplary Service Medal • Lower — Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal
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1985
Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal first recorded.
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. 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.
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- 1.The Governor General of Canada. Order of Precedence.
- 2.The Chancellery of Honours. FIRE SERVICES EXEMPLARY SERVICE MEDAL REGULATIONS. 2–7. 2006. 9781100540337.
- 3.Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal. www.alberta.ca.
- 4.McCreery, Christopher. The Canadian honours system desiderantes meliorem patriam. Dundurn Press. 271–272. 2008. 9781554880171.
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