• Awarded on: October 25, 2006

Master Corporal Perry was deployed with 9 Platoon, C Company, 1st battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group during Operation ARCHER Rotation 1. On August 3, 2006, during combat operations in the Pashmul region of Afghanistan, he exposed himself to great personal risk to extract his comrades stranded in the open by sustained fire from a numerically superior enemy. Without prompting, and ignoring the threat from possible improvised explosive devices, he manoeuvred his light armoured vehicle to shield the casualties and those providing first aid and suppressed the enemy with coax machine-gun fire. Master Corporal Perry’s actions under difficult conditions were befitting of the highest standards of his regiment and the Canadian Forces.