Meritorious Service Medal

• Awarded on: May 3, 2021
• Invested on: June 21, 2023

Ralph McLean, M.S.M.
The Pas, Manitoba

For more than two decades, Ralph McLean has been dedicated to commemorating soldiers killed in war and peacekeeping missions. His self-funded Canadian and international travels have allowed him to identify unmarked war graves, which has helped expand the documentation of British Commonwealth military history. He has also ensured the required maintenance of graves, corrected personal information on thousands of memorial inscriptions, and submitted more than 200,000 photographic records to various databases, including the South Africa War Graves Project, which he created.