| Citation: | New Year Honour. BEM for services in BATUS Canada. 23542566 Staff Sergeant (Acting Warrant Officer Class 2) Brian Manton, RMP. 2 October 1976 - 30 May 1978.Citation: Since October 1976 Staff Sergeant (local WO2) Manton has been the only member of the Corps of Royal Military Police on the permanent staff of the British Army Training Unit, Suffield. During the training season he is supported by a small monthly changing, staff of one sergeant and four corporals. From November to April each year he has had to work without assistance. Throughout his tour of duty and particularly in his last six months here, he has worked very long hours to maintain a very accurate assessment of all that goes on in this community of nearly two hundred families and transient population of up to eleven hundred. He has worked up and continued an extremely efficient and friendly liaison with all the local provincial and federal police agencies and with some in the United States. Through hard work, extreme devotion to duty and a proper application of his mature intelligence, sympathetic manner and full participation in all aspect of community life he has gained the confidence and respect of all sections of the community and in this way policed most effectively, usually by prevention and timely advice in the very best traditions of the "village bobby". As a result of his efforts joint patrols have been run with Medicine Hat City Police and Royal Military Police members working side by side, and this has led to Royal Military Police Non Commissioned Officers making arrests of Canadian civilian criminals. By his hard work and selfless commitment to leadership by example Staff Sergeant Manton has maintained and enhanced the good name of the British Army in Western Canada and is most deserving of recognition for his achievement. His performance has been far beyond that expected from a man of his rank and experience.Recommended by: Col. Commanding BATUS. Brig. ?. Gen. Commander in Chief, UKLF |
