Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: February 26, 2009
• Invested on: February 04, 2010

Gary Victor Brown, M.B.
Scott Lee Joseph Moody, M.B. (deceased)
Medal of Bravery

On July 13, 2007, river guides Gary Brown and Scott Moody saved a family of six after a boating mishap on the Bella Coola River, in British Columbia. The guides and the family had been travelling in two drift boats when one of the crafts was pulled under a log by the strong current and its five occupants were thrown into the water. When they resurfaced, Mr. Brown managed to get two of the victims to a nearby small island where the rest of the group had gathered. Mr. Moody then crossed the swift current to the river bank and set up a makeshift pulley system tied to their remaining boat. For the next two hours, Messrs. Brown and Moody shuttled the victims over the raging river, to bring them to safety.