{"id":13219,"date":"2017-06-11T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2017-06-11T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:45:46","slug":"corporal-grigoriev-earns-the-mckean-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/corporal-grigoriev-earns-the-mckean-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporal Grigoriev earns the McKean Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
LCol Denis presenting the award to Cpl Grigoriev at the RMR on 30 April 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

Westmount, Quebec – 11 June 2017: The Royal Montreal Regiment is pleased to announce that\u00a0Corporal Alexei Grigoriev\u00a0<\/span>has earned the Captain G.B. McKean Trophy for being deemed as the RMR\u2019s best soldier in the 2016-17 training year.\u00a0<\/span>This award is only given to the most deserving soldier who displayed the best attendance, technical ability, leadership potential, relations with peers and superiors, dress, and the extent to which he\/she embodies the Regimental spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

THE CAPTAIN G.B. MCKEAN, VC, MC, MM TROPHY (BEST SOLDIER)<\/b><\/p>\n

The trophy is so named after George Burdon McKean, who <\/span>was born in northern England, and orphaned young. In 1902, at the age of 14, he moved to Alberta to join two brothers who had already emigrated. After working on a cattle ranch and farm near Lethbridge, he studied at Robertson College, an affiliate of the University of Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n

When war broke out, the 26-year-old, who was the assistant to the pastor at Robertson Presbyterian Church, tried joining up three times before being accepted and sent for overseas service.<\/span><\/p>\n

After serving as a Scout (now known as Recce Platoon) McKean had been promoted to officer when he led a raiding party April 27-28, 1918 near Vimy Ridge as part of The Royal Montreal Regiment (14th Battalion). He and his party were trying to dislodge a German garrison using Mills bombs, known as pineapples, but when those failed, he took a more direct route.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cwiry little whippet of a man,\u201d as he had been described, jumped into the trench head first, landing on a German soldier. He was then rushed by another soldier with a bayonet. He shot and killed both with his revolver before the rest of his party followed his example and swarmed the barricade.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was later made acting captain and a senior manager at the Canadian Khaki University in England, married a British woman, and settled in Brighton, where he operated a sawmill. After surviving four years of war, he was killed in 1926 when a circular saw broke and pieces flew into his head. He is buried in Brighton.<\/span><\/p>\n

Captain George McKean, VC, MC, MM is one of very few men to have ever earned three different awards for bravery under fire, and he is a RMR hero who led by example and set the highest standard for soldiering, leadership, and personal courage. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Westmount, Quebec – 11 June 2017: The Royal Montreal Regiment is pleased to announce that\u00a0Corporal Alexei Grigoriev\u00a0has earned the Captain G.B. McKean Trophy for being deemed as the RMR\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}