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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 248

(x) Canadian Forces' Decoration, E.II.R. (Capt V Arslanian), good very fine

Vatche Arslanian was born in 1955 and was a Canadian-Armenian citizen who emigrated from Syria. He worked for the Canadian military for a number of years and moved to Oromocto, New Brunswick when he was transferred to CFB Gagetown to serve as Captain at the Artillery School. He was released from service in 1995 when he refused a transfer to CFB Shilo in Manitoba; he insisted on remaining in Oromocto to continue his efforts to reunite his family.

He was a member of the Canadian Red Cross and head of logistics for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq. One of the six I.C.R.C. delegates who chose to stay in the country during the 2003 Iraq war to continue helping local relief workers, he was tragically killed by gunfire in Baghdad on 8 April 2003 whilst travelling with two local Red Cross workers, both of whom were able to escape. He was posthumously awarded a Canadian Meritorious Service Cross.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20110709023645/http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=002796&tid=1 for further details.

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Sold for
£260

Starting price
£160