Edmontonian honoured with Medal of Bravery — 26 years after uncle also received it

An Edmontonian who saved the beingness of a man, and suffered superior injuries portion doing so, has been honoured with a medal of bravery.

What makes this other peculiar — his uncle received the aforesaid grant 26 years ago.

In May of 2021, Trevor Mills was driving successful Radium B.C. erstwhile helium encountered an erratic operator up of him who yet crashed implicit the broadside of the embankment.

Mills jumped retired of his conveyance and down the elevation 100 feet to propulsion the operator retired to information but erstwhile helium did, the vehicle past rolled implicit Mills, causing life-threatening injuries.

“I had unfastened publication pelvic fracture, breached sacrum, bleeding successful my chest, bleeding successful my abdomen. I had 2 broke breached ribs present (left side), 4 breached ribs connected this side, beforehand and back,”

For his heroics, Mills was honoured with a Medal of Bravery astatine Rideau Hall successful Ottawa past week.

“You don’t consciousness you are worthy of the recognition, but astatine the aforesaid token, you are precise appreciative of it,” Mills said.

The heroics tally successful the family. Mills’ uncle Robert Hawkins, who lives successful Nova Scotia, received the aforesaid honour successful 1998 for redeeming the lives of 2 radical from a burning house.

“They were some unconscious erstwhile I recovered them. I carried her and him retired astatine the aforesaid time,” Hawkins said.

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Hawkins is thrilled to stock the unsocial honour with his nephew, who is much similar a brother, who helium grew up with successful Atlantic Canada.

“I thought it was unthinkable due to the fact that I truly enjoyed the acquisition of it each (in Ottawa). It truly meant a batch and helium was truly deserving of it. It was rather heroic what helium did,” Hawkins said.

Mills said helium owes it to the mode his grandfather, Herby Hawkins (Robert’s dad), raised him, to ever assistance idiosyncratic successful need.

Both are truthful grateful to stock the uncommon honour.

“If you knew my gramps and everything helium did for us, it would marque sense,” Mills said. “Doing the close happening is important, whether radical are watching oregon not.”

Herby Hawkins was a occurrence main successful Fredericton.

“Dad was a peculiar antheral and a firefighter, and helium conscionable truly cared astir radical and I deliberation it was instilled successful america and a batch of recognition goes to him,” Hawkins said.

The communal thread for those who person received a medal of bravery successful Canada is selflessness, instinct and courage.