Meritorious Service Decorations - Military Division
Meritorious Service Cross
Awarded on: 2023-11-14
Invested on: 2024-11-05
From October 2022 to April 2023, Master Warrant Officer Gratrix was deployed to Lask, Poland, as the task force sergeant-major and liaison to the Military Engineering Training Coordination Centre. With exemplary leadership and professionalism, he designed and implemented a highly effective training program for Ukrainian sappers, while providing critical mentorship to a team of instructors facing their first operational deployment. Master Warrant Officer Gratrix’s extraordinary efforts directly contributed to battlefield survivability for members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which brought great credit to Canada.