Amédéo Garrammone

Private Amédéo Garrammone, a military police officer of CFB Halifax, received the Cross of Valour, Canada's highest award for bravery, for risking his life and being injured coming to the rescue of a man who was being attacked.

Pte. Garrammone was off duty and returning to the base on 4 November 1978 when he saw the victim being pursued by three men, one of whom wielded a knife. The victim fell and was beaten and stabbed by the culprits. At the risk of his life Pte. Garrammone intervened and received a knife wound in the chest just below the heart. Bleeding profusely and barely conscious, he staggered to the gate of the base and was rushed by others to hospital where he underwent heart surgery. He survived, but the other man succumbed to his wounds.