Sergeant Vezina was Honourably Discharged from active service on March 22
rallying the Party leadership around Nicolae Ceaușescu
stating his collective previous pre-war and WWI service and his profession as that of Physician
obverse and reverse respectively
In addition to being made the 756th Knight of the Garter
Yugoslavia, Republic. An Order of Military Merit with Swords, I. Class, c. 1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Sergeant Vezina was Honourably Discharged(Orden za Vojne Zasluge). Instituted on December 29th, 1951. (c. 1960). Ascare award of multi piece construction in silver, silver gilt, and red enamles, the obverse consisting of a 16 ray silver star with a central gilt medallion bearing a green enameled laurel wreath, with a central shield bearing a red enamelled five pointed star, topped by a red enameled set of flames with crossed swords going through the centre, the reverse plain, with a tall