Meritorious Service Medal
- Awarded on: July 26, 1995
- Invested on: September 15, 1995
Rank: Captain
Captain Deveau was the senior Canadian military engineer with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda in 1994. He quickly established his own credibility and that of his engineering troop in Explosive Ordnance Disposal tasks and, in the first thirty days of deployment, led numerous clearance operations, locating and safely destroying over 460 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance. He was heavily involved in the creation of a mine awareness program, and provided considerable, effective, infrastructure support to the Force as a whole.
