{"id":3064,"date":"2023-10-04T20:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2023-10-04T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:05:33","slug":"five-canadian-grenadiers-awarded-the-queens-platinum-jubilee-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/five-canadian-grenadiers-awarded-the-queens-platinum-jubilee-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Canadian Grenadiers Awarded the Queen&#8217;s Platinum Jubilee Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, in recognition for their individual roles each played in representing Canada and Her Majesty\u2019s Canadian Armed Forces at the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\u00a0\u00a0In the absence of a National Platinum Jubilee Medal, it was felt that those who played a direct role in Operation London Bridge, be recognized with this final honour of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n<p>This was the final medal approved by Her late Majesty, and is the last official honor created bearing HER effigy and Royal Cypher. \u00a0Four members received the Saskatchewan medal and one member the Nova Scotia medal.\u00a0 We thank the Department of National Defense for this recognition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3067\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3067 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Nunez-PJ-Medal-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Nunez-PJ-Medal-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Nunez-PJ-Medal-11x12.jpg 11w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joe-Nunez-PJ-Medal.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">34 Brigade Commander, Colonel Alen Cohen, presenting the Platinum Jubilee to the Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Joe Nunez, at Brigade Headquarters on September 12, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queens-Platium-Jubilie-Medals--300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queens-Platium-Jubilie-Medals--300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queens-Platium-Jubilie-Medals--16x12.png 16w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Queens-Platium-Jubilie-Medals-.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding, far right, presenting medals (from left to right) to Sergeant A. Hurtubise, Captain J. Lai and Regimental Sergeant Major, Chief Warrant Officer C. Stevens. Medal presentation took place at the Home Station on September 19th, 2023, one year to the day they participated in the State Funeral.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3072\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3072\" src=\"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-768x979.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-1204x1536.jpg 1204w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-1606x2048.jpg 1606w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-600x765.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-588x750.jpg 588w, https:\/\/cgg.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/bitton.png-scaled.jpg 2007w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding presenting the Platinum Jubilee medal to Corporal R. Bitton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations everyone and thank you for representing the Regiment at the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel-in-Chief of The Canadian Grenadier Guards.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Roving Guardsman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, in recognition for their individual roles each played in representing Canada and Her Majesty\u2019s Canadian Armed Forces at the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.\u00a0\u00a0In the absence of a National Platinum Jubilee Medal, it was felt that those who played a direct role in Operation London Bridge, be recognized with this final honour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-regimental-family","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgg.ca\/fr_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}