Medal of Bravery

• Awarded on: February 28, 2013
• Invested on: June 07, 2013

Lieutenant-Colonel David D. Johnson, M.B.
David Garnet Mills, M.B.
Marilyn Marion Mills, M.B.
Medal of Bravery

On March 15, 2009, Marilyn Mills, her father David Mills, and Lieutenant-Colonel David Johnson, of the United States Air Force, rescued a couple whose snowmobile had broken through the ice on Trout Lake, in North Bay, Ontario. David and Marilyn Mills heard the victims' cries and ran on the fragile surface to help. Ms. Mills fell in the water trying to pull one of the victims closer but her father quickly got her out. Unable to pull out the unresponsive male, they lifted him halfway up onto the ice. Meanwhile, Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson had manoeuvred a canoe to reach the female victim who was on a piece of floating ice. Despite the weight of her wet clothing, he pulled her aboard, and directed the canoe towards the Mills who helped him bring the woman to the shore. Sadly, the male victim did not survive.