Talk:Star of Military Valour

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Private Jess Randall Larochelle received this medal as of October 12, 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.71.224.226 (talk) 13:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Order of Precedence

Is the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador really the next higher honour? Shadesofgrey (talk) 07:50, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it's not. And if one were to be true to the "Order of Precedence", the ONF wouldn't even come close to being the next highest honour in the Canadian honours system (first of all, because it isn't Canadian - it's a Newfoundland award!). I'll need to do some more research to triple-check, but in the meantime, perhaps the creator of this page could explain and/or correct? Wikig39 (talk) 20:31, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it is higher. It is a provincial order. The Order of Precedence as distributed the Office of the Secretary of the Governor General, the office of authority on Orders, Decorations and Medals in Canada lists it higher than the SMV. The order of precedence lists the top decorations for military valour, then the top decoration for bravery, then the order of Canada, then the various national orders, then the provincial orders, then the lower precedence decorations for military valour and bravery. The OofP can be found on the Governor General's website, at http://www.gg.ca/honours/op/index_e.asp. --JMesh (talk) 16:36, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Indeed; and Wikig's logic is somewhat flawed in that the Canadian order of precedence also includes British honours, meaning the list is not limited strictly to federal Canadian honours. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 06:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Imperial Soldier was killed August 6th, 2011

http://freedomremembered.com/index.php/cpo-seal-thomas-a-ratzlaff/

I don't know when he recieved the award though. Ancholm (talk) 09:34, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Second highest medal?

I'm confused. This article claims that, "The Star of Military Valour is a decoration that is, within the Canadian system of honours, the second highest award for military valour." But the article for the Star of Courage claims that, "The Star of Courage is a decoration that is the second highest award for bravery within the Canadian system of honours."

What's going on here? Are they both second highest? On closer inspection I see that one article refers to "military valour" and the other to "bravery", but to me those words are interchangeable. Maybe not to the Canadian military? Some clarification is needed in both of these articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.140.99 (talk) 02:11, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

It appears to be either a mistake, or an out of date acknowledgment of the fact that the British Victoria Cross was not "within the Canadian system of honours", which fails to reflect that Canada adopted its own Victoria Cross in 1993, replacing the British one. According to the article Canadian order of precedence (decorations and medals), the Cross of Valour is second only to the Canadian Victoria Cross, and then the next awards for valour are the Star of Military Valour (i.e. the subject of this article) in third place and then the Star of Courage in fourth. I can't see any reason why the SC should be second, and it's probably just an error.

The lead paragraph of this article does cite a source for the SMV being the second highest award for valour "within the Canadian system of honours", but it's no longer possible to see what that source said because it's now a dead link. But I suspect that either some editor misunderstood whatever it said, or it was out of date. Richard75 (talk) 18:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)