Meritorious Service Decorations - Military Division
Meritorious Service Cross
Awarded on: 2023-04-21
Invested on: 2024-11-05
Since arriving in Ukraine in August 2019, Colonel Foster rose to every challenge and earned a reputation as an extraordinarily effective, influential and trusted defence attaché. With an international impact spanning from the tactical to the strategic, he demonstrated absolute calm, clarity of mission and purpose, personal leadership and consummate teamwork in the thick of several crises, including the outbreak of war in 2022. Colonel Foster has made a vital contribution to the success of Canada’s mission and objectives in Ukraine.