Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: May 12, 1980
• Invested on: September 26, 1980

On 17 May 1978 Cst. Terrance DeGrood of the Edmonton Police saved an eighty-year-old woman from drowning in the North Saskatchewan River. He was driving home from his duties when he saw the woman floating apparently lifeless in the river. He went to the embankment, took off his clothes and swam out to her. Numbed by the cold and forced to stem the current, he found her unconscious but still breathing. He then began to tow her to shore, but at some ten metres from the bank he stood up in shallow water and was stuck in the mud. Unable to go further, he applied artificial respiration until help came.