• The Royal Canadian Regiment
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  • The Depot & Battle School
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  • Tour of The RCR Museum
    • Tour of The RCR Museum
    • The Colonel Lawson Foyer
    • The Centennial Gallery
    • The Regimental Memorials
    • The Colonel Weldon Library and
      The Museum Chapel
    • The Early Years
    • The Northwest Rebellion
    • The Yukon Field Force
    • The South African War
    • The First World War
    • The Interwar Years
    • The Second World War
    • The Korean War
    • The Cold War
    • UN and NATO Operations
    • The Infantry Gallery
    • The Ivey Medal Room
    • The Regimental Memorial
    • Vehicles of The RCR
    • Wolseley Hall
  • The Regimental History
    • The Regimental History
    • General Regimental History
    • 1883-1894: The Infantry School Corps
    • 1885: The North-West Canada Campaign
    • 1894-1900: The End of the Victorian Era
    • 1899-1900: The South African War
    • 1900-1914: The Edwardian Era
    • 1914-1919: The First World War
    • 1919-1939: The Inter-War Years
    • 1939-1945: The Second World War
    • 1945-1953: The Post War Period
      and The Korean War
    • 1953-1992: The Cold War
    • 1992-2005: The Peacemaking Era
    • 20 Questions: The Young Soldier
    • 20 Questions:
      Sergeants and Warrant Officers
    • 20 Questions: The Young Officer
    • 20 Questions: Operations
    • A Regimental Bibliography
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• Honours and Awards
• Image Gallery
• Recent Updates
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• Individual Submissions
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  • Beaver Island
  • Their Names Liveth For Evermore, by Capt M.M. O'Leary
  • Greatest Hardships: A Soldier's Memories of Sicily and Italy, by George Burrows
  • The Battle of Paardeberg, by WO Ross Appleton, CD (1RCR)
  • 460196 Pte C.R.P. Thompson, DCM and Bar, MM, by WO Ross Appleton, CD (1RCR)
  • 3RCR Wins World Overseas Pacestick Champions 2007, by WO Steve Gillis, CD
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The Gulf and Kuwait Medal recognizes the participation of CF members deployed or in direct support of the operations against Iraq during the Gulf war. The medal is awarded to those employed during the build up of troops before the beginning of hostilities, and a bar is awarded for those deployed during the actual war.

Source: DND Directorate of History and Heritage (Medal description)

1992 - Present
The Royal Canadian Regiment and the
Peacemaking Era